Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
FARM BOARD READY
TO TACKLE AID TASK
Hoover to Address Group at
First Meeting Monday
at White House.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associaten Press.
For the hrst time in nearly a decade
Of political agitation, congressional dis
puteS and legislative stalemates, the
Federal Government Il ready to attack
the problem OF agricultural relief on q
basis Of concrete reality.
The Federal Farm Board, complete
except for one member, will hold its
first meeting on Monday at the White
House. President Hoover will attend
and start the new governmental agency
on its way with q short address-in-
trusting to it the task Of leading the
farming industry from the slough Of
depression that for years has held 1t.
Hoover Has Acted Carefully
Mr.. Hoover frankly considers the
board the most important body ever
established to assist single American
he has given particular care TO the Sc
lection Of its members, has scanned
long lists Of recommended appointees
and consulted the wishes Of farming
organizations representing every section
of the country
He has, however, found it impossible
to make his selections with q view TO
the geographical distribution Of the
boards members because the new farm
relief law requires that each of the
major branches of agriculture shall be
represented. He draws considerable
satisfaction from the fact that all Of
the appointees were born and reared
on farms and that all but one, the
representative Of business and finance,
have been actively engaged in farming
for many years.
AS it will meet on Monday, the board
will be composed Of Alexander H Legge
Of Chicago chairman, representing gen.
eral business; James G. Stone of Lex
ington, KY, vice chairman, representing
tobacco; Carl Williams Of Oklahoma
City, cotton; c. B. Denman Of Farming
ton, Mo. live stock; Charles I. league
Of Los Angeles, fruit growing; william
F. Schilling of Northfleld, MINI, dairy
ing; Charles S. Wilson Of Hall, N. Y,
spokesman for the miscellaneous ag-t-
cultural interests Of the Northeast, and
Secretary Hyde, who holds membership
by virtue of his position as head Of the
Agriculture Department.
Two Already in Capital.
Hegge and Williams already have ar
rived in Washington and conferred at
length with President Hoover. Most Of
the others are expected to reach the
city by tomorrow night, with all present
when Legge calls the meeting to order
on Monday morning.
Although facing as its most momen-
tous task crisis IN the wheat marketing
situation, the board will be without
representative Of that phase of farming
at the first session. The President ex-
poets to announce the appointment Of q
wheat spokesman within a few days
thereafter, however. He has been hav-
ing considerable difficulty in the selec-
ton Of a grain man, due, it is said, to
a difference of opinion among the farm
ers' organizations, as well as to his own
tnsistence that the appointee be quail
fed in every way to represent this
branch Of agriculture.
The attitude of the board toward its
task, as reflected in what its members
have said, is that 1t must help the
farmers to help themselves, that it can
lend guiding hand, but that agricul-
ture must not look upon it as an unfail-
ing panacea for all its ills.
Already, Secretary Hyde and others
have noted what they termed psyche
logical effect" upon farmers, and the
administration is confident that the
newly constituted agency will ac-
conplish the task Get for it.