The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-01
McKELVIE FILLS GAP
in FARM BOARD
Hoover Appoints Former Ne
braska Governor as Wheat
Representative
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Washington, July 30-With ap-
pointment today of former Cover
nor Samuel r. McKelvie, of Ne
braska as the wheat representa-
tive, President Hoover completed
the membership of the new Fed
eral Farm board.
McKelvie's appointment is for one
year only, by his own stipulation,
largely because of his i'll health.
Alexander II. Legge, chairman of
the board, made a similar stipula-
ton when he accepted the job.
It was said at the White House
today that the President hopes ap-
pointment of the former Nebraska
governor will meet with the favor
of the many quarreling wheat
growing and marketing factions,
whose inability to get together on
recommendation has been re-
sponsible for the long delay in
naming the wheat representative
While there is no indication that
the wheat factions have smoked the
peace pipe so far as McKelvie is
concerned, there is a suggestion in
the brief White House statement
that McKelvie has been urged by
Mr.. Hoover for sometime to accept
appointment.
Governor McKelvie has not hith-
erto felt that he could accept MEM
bership," the statement said, "but
has consented with the reservation
that he may need to withdraw at
the end Of a year."
BY agreeing to the appointment
to this ticklish post, McKelvie is
said to have joined the ranks of
Mr.. Hoover's drafted patriots" a
group of successful business men
who have accepted federal posts at
financial sacrifice to aid the Pres
ident in his experiment of running
the government like business en-
terprise. 49,.
McKelvie's duties will be ardu-
GUS, for the wheat situation is gen.
orally regarded as the most seri-
Gus problem confronting the farm
board. One of his first duties will
be in assisting other members of
the board in planning the co-ordi-
nation of existing farmers. grain
marketing organizations. into an eff
fective national, central marketing
service with capitalization of
$20,000,OOO.
Politically, McKelvie is classed
as a conservative Republican. At
the office of Senator George w.
Norris, of Nebraska, progressive
leader, McKelvie is classed as "dis-
tinctly reactionary." He is of the
political school which Norris has
fought so successfully for many
years in his own state.
At the time Mr.. Hoover was Sc
lecting his cabinet there was some
speculation upon McKelvie for Sec
rotary of agriculture, but there
was never any indication Mr.. Hoov-
er seriously considered his name.
McKelvie was not acceptable, for
one thing, to the westerners who
battled through thick and thin for
the McNary-Haugen bill, for he OPP
posed the bill, lauded President
Coolidge for vetoing it, and fought
the debenture plan.
He was educated in business col
lege and at the University Of Ne
braska, and engaged in newspaper
work for several years on the Oma-
ha Bee. He is now president of
The Nebraska Farmer. His first
political post was member of the
Lincoln, Neb., city council in 1908,
and after serving as member of the
state legislature and lieutenant
governor, served as governor from
1919 to 1923.