Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Almost on the very day last week
that President Hoover promoted DR..
Julius Klein to the assistant secretary
ship of the Department of Commerce,
Klein's new book, Frontiers of Trade, "
left the press of the Century Co. To
it Mr.. Hoover contributes the first
preface he has written since his cleo
ton to the presidency. 1t is HoovereSque
in its brevity and pointedness. This
Is what it says: "Since the beginning
Of the World War the trade relations
of the world have passed through a
great crisis and in many ways great
revolution. Our country came through
this ordeal stronger in its foreign trade
than ever before. There is no single
man in our country who has contributed
more to this wonderful accomplishment
than DR.. Julius Klein. He has given
to this service nearly eight years of his
life at large personal sacrifice. There
is no one so able to present this record
or whose Judgment Of plans for the fu-
ture Is, so well grounded" Mr.. Hoover
wrote and dated the preface aboard
the U. S. s. Maryland on December /,
1928. while he was off the west coast
Of South America. Frontiers of Trade
Is a keen exposition of the whole field
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One Of the differences among the
farmers themselves" to which President
Hoover attributes present trials and
tribulations in Congress, has not been
specifically mentioned by him. This
observer has reason to believe 1t is one
OF the basic causes of the turmoil. 1t
springs from the fears of many CO.
operative marketing organizations that
the Hoover farm-relief program is going
to. rob them of present independence
and subject them to pretty rigorous
Government control. Cooperative
marketing Is the fundamental thing in
the administrations scheme. In his
message to Congress last week Presi-
dent Hoover mentioned that nearly
2.000.0 900 farmers are now members of
their own marketing organizations, dis
tributing about $4,000, 000,00 worth of
farm products. Hitherto they've run
these tremendous affairs by themselves.
Now, some of their leaders are afraid,
Uncle Sam is going to run them.
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Curtis D. Wilbur of California, former
Secretary of the Navy, whom President
judgeship OF the ninth circuit, was
asked, on the eve of his departure from
the Coolidge cabinet, what he thought
about 1t. well, it's Rays turn now"
he said, meaning that his brother, Ray
Lyman Wilbur, was about to enter the
Hoover. cabinet as Secretary Of the In
terior.e The bench is Judge Wilbur's
first and dearest love.
From Joliet, Ill, there comes a sug-
gestion, which this writer is asked to
pass along to Vice President Curtis. 1t
reads as follows: please tell Mr.. Curtis
from me that have solved his problem,
so he won't have to bother Secretary
Stimson with the ordeal. Mr.. StimSon
certainly has many more serious prob
lens to bother his head. Here it is.
Marry an honest-to-goodnes Indian
princess royal of great Indian lineage,
FROM Kansas or Oklahoma, who should
by right divine rule as first lady of her
own country. If it should ever become
necessary for Vice President Curtis to
enter the White House, his wife would
then be the real first lady of her own
land, with the accent on the 'own.'"
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Speaking of Indians, not very much
attention has been drawn to the identity
of Charles j. Rhoads Of Philadelphia,
who has been appointed commissioner
Of Indian affairs. He is the first Quaker
to be given high Office under the Quaker
administration. Since the days of VIII
liam Penn. the Indians have been
prominent In the concerns of Friends,
and. Mr. Rhoads. carrying out ancestral
traditions, has for years been treasurer
of the Indian Rights Association. He
came under Herbert Hoover,s ken in
Europe during the World War. when
lief and reconstruction work In France.
Previously Rhoads was governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank at Philadelphia.
He is q man of large means, a leader
in Quaker activities in Pennsylvania,
and at present q partner in the inter-
national financial house OF Brown
Brothers q Co.