New Britain herald., 1929-07-19
Farm Board, Besieged By Office 'Help," Turns Deaf Ear to Pleas
 And Gets Down To Organization
Agricultural Experts, In Shirt Sleeves Tackle Knotty
 Problems With Glsto-Press Used to Broad cast Decisions Already Reached

Washington, July 19 F)-Laying the ground work for their task of organizing American agriculture, the federal farm board is moving delib erately, as it promised.
 Using the press as medium of contact with the farmers and the public generally. the board has broadcast it's policies as they have been determined around the table presided over by Alexander LeGee Chicago business man of d firm but good natured disposition,
 Campaign For Education
 Chairman Legge thus has launch cd a campaign of education, and joined by Vice Chairman Stone has made it's high point clear with an appeal to the farmers to organize into cooperative marketing associ- ations, on a broad and more inten- sive scale than ever before. The board interprets the farm relief act as confning it's activities to dealings with such associations, and wants the farmers 10 organize so it can help them most effectively.
 Meanwhile, the Neritable army of job hunters and the host Of those who would dip into the S500,000, GOO loan fund provided by congress have knocked in vain at the board room doors while the members, in their shirt sleeves, have been get ting acquainted and getting started.
 Only one man has been hired by the hoard-Chris l.. Christensen, cooperative marketing expert of the department Of agriculture. who will serve as the secretary. Christensen. too, has gone behind the closed doors with the board, leaving to the outer guard of stenographcrs draft ed from the department of agricul- ture the heavy task of dealing with the scores of job seekers. So flr, the soft spoken words Of Miss Paul. inc Puhr, South Dakota girl an department of agriculture workers. have turned aside the hosts.
 Williams Press Agent
 Carl Williams of Oklahoma. the cotton representative and veteran newspaperman, has been the inter- medary between the board and the press, It was MT. Williams who in- lntervened, therefore, when the good natured chairman, who has been in the habit of avoiding personal pub- licity, raised an outcry against the headlines which appeared on some of the farm board stories. MT. Will Hams explained that each neWspa per had it's own headline writer. that the men who wrote the stories didn't write the heads. and that this ac- counted for the occasional variance.
 That satisfied Mir. l.egge, whose sense of humor has prevailed throughout the early board sessions to preserve good feeling. The chair man is credited with the slogan, Let Chris Do It." So frequently were routine problems turned over to Secretary Christensen, in the early sessions, that Legge was prompted to suggest in a jocular mood, Let Chris do it." when some of the knot tier problems came along.
 James c. Stone of Kentucky, the vice chairman and representative of the tobacco industry had 8 tendency to get in his share of ioshing at the expense of his colleagues in their moments of relaxation at the start, but he has been silenced. The other members of the board now refer to Mir. Stone as the best dressed man in agriculture
 All Farm Veterans
 All of them veterans of farm life the board members are beginning tt show some uneasiness about the lux uriousness of the sumptuous hote quarters which have been placed temporarily at their disposal. anc they are giving serious thought t' inding permanent. more business like offices Meanwhile, they arr pursuing their study of the agricul tural act which gives them their au thorty and some problems thus raised are already before the attor' ney general for consideration.