Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-27

President Hoover is maintaining
hands-off policy in the feud between
the Federal Reserve Board ana wall
Street. But he has a peculiarly close
tie-in with the board because one OF
its oldest members, Adolph Caspar
Miller of California: is memn ash o, tl,n
Hoover inner circle OF washington
friendships. When the President was
Secretary of Commerce and lived on
s street he and Miller were almost
next-door neighbors. The Federal Re
serve official was appointed to the
board originally by President wilson IN
1914 and reappointed for another ~
year term in 1924 by President C1o,-
idge. Mr.. Hoover regards his. brother
Californian one of the, financial best
minds in the country. At innumerable
breakfast parties in pre-White House
DAYS he and Miller were wont TO dis
cuss the economic state OF the Union
as events affected 1t from time to
time. Mr.. Miller is a university profess
sor by occupation. He has taught
economics, history and politics at vari-
o,,s times at the Universities Of Cali,
| fornia, Chicago, Harvard and Cornell!
lust before going to the Federal Re
serve Board Miller was Assistant Sec
rotary of the Interior under FRANKLIN
K. Lane.
Still another American has been
drafted into the service OF European
government. The latest is Arthur P.
Davis of California, director OF the
| United States Reclamation Service from
| 1914 to 1928. Mr.. Davis has been en-
gagged by the Russian Soviet govern
ment to organize reclamation service
| throughout the vast desert acres OF
Turkestan, the former TranscaSpian
kaAy
Soviet Socialist Republic. The main
occupation of the population is agri-
culture, based mainly on irrigation. The
| Moscow authorities believe that a sys-
| tenn of irrigation such as Is in opera
ton on the plains of the American
West can turn Turkestan into land
flowing with milk and honey. Davis
| embarks upon the task with enthu-
siasm, though he Is in his sixty ninth
year. He explored the irrigation pos
sibilities OF the country in 1911. Until
recently Davis was chief engineer and
general manager of the Oakland
lCalif) municipal utility district.
| Il X
| Instead of being Hooyerized. the adj
ministration is being steadily Harvard
| ICED. On May "a, at one fell swoop, the
President bestowed major appointments
upon three sons of Cambridge-Joseph
p. Cotton of New York, as Under
secretary Of State; Col. Theodore Roose-
Welt of New York, as Governor of Porto
| Rico, and Charles p. Cisson OF Rhode
Island as Assistant Attorney General.
Previously three cabinet portfolios were
beoueathed to Harvard men-Col
Henry L. Stinnson (Harvard Law, Sec
rotary of State; Charles Francis Adams,
Harvard '8a and treasurer OF the uni
versity, Secretary of the Navy, and
Walter F. Brown, Harvard '92. Post
master General Last month DR..
Julius Klein, Harvard 10, was named
Assistant Secretary of Commerce. and
a day or two ago Dwight F. Davis,
| Harvard 90 became governor general
of the Philippines.
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Many Washingtonians mourn the
passing Of Mrs. Julius RosenWald OF
Chicago, wife of the multi-millionaire
mail-order merchant prince and PM
| lanthropist. During the war, when Mr..
Rosenwald was chairman OF the COM
| mittee on supplies, branch OF the
advisory commission OF the National
Defense Council. he and his wife main
tanned a hospitable home In Wash
ington. Mrs. Rosenwald herself was an
indefatigable worker In all sorts Of
war activities, and a generous donor
of money to hosts OF worthy objects.
She was a lifetime coadiutor Of her
husband in his innumerable far-dung
philanthropies, especially among the
Negroes of the South. Her chief inter-
which she actively supported for many
years and Of which she was national
vice president. Mr.. and Mrs. Rosen-
valid were intimate friends Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hoover and frequently stayed at
the Hoover home In Washington.