Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
ECONOMIC SURVEY
STUDIED BY HOOVER.
Presidential Confers With
Members of Committee
Drafting Report.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,


BELLE ISLE, MIAMI BEACH, Fla,
February 14.-President-elect Hoover
today concluded series of conferences
on the economic situation in this coun
try from 1922 to the present time.
which revealed to him an engaging pic
ture of the conditions that have existed
during that postwar period and which
probably will be made public early in
May.
These conferences, which were held
yesterday afternoon and this morning.
were with Edward E. Hunt. formerly
Clarence NJ Wooley of the National
Radiator Co., and A. w. Shaw, eco
nomist and publisher Of Chicago, repre-
senting a committee appointed by Mr..
Hoover more than year ago to make
complete survey Of conditions.
Report to Be Ready in May.
1t was said by the members of this
committee after concluding their con-
ference with Mr.. Hoover that their
survey was conducted with the aid of
more than 100 economists, engineers,
StatiSticianS and experts. The COM
mittee informed Mr.. Hoover that it
will not be able to place a complete
report in his hands before May. The
committee members intiniated that the
country generally is in very healthy
state.
The members of the committee said
that the facts to be set forth in the
report will be interesting to the country
as well as valuable, and that these
facts necessarily will suggest changes,
readjuStmentS and remedies for dis
covered economic errors.
1t was said that the committees re-
port will be based on survey Of con-
sumption and the standards of living,
the growth of new and old industries,
technical changes in manufacturing
marketing, labor, arrangements, agri-
culture, price fluctuations, banking, for
eign markets and loans, the naticr.;l
income and its distribution.
National Experts Furnish Data.
The experts associated with the "
tional Bureau of Economic Research G.
ready have been before the commit.
and other economists of national rep
| resentation have likewise furnished data.
Published reports today that Secretary
| of Agriculture Jardine had eliminated
| himself as a possible member of the
Hoover cabinet by announcing that he
| had accepted a position as counsel for
the Federated Fruit and Vegetable
! Growers, were received here by some of
| Mr. Hoover'S vacation party with cor
siderable surprise. Mr.. Hoover had To
| comment to make.
Possible Successors Discussed.
The unofficial cabinet makers lc-o
| no time in their attempt to arHoi.ll
Mr.. Jardine'S successor. In ca-ting
about for names they recalled, araong
those formerly prominently mentioncd
for this post, Senators Capper of Kan
sas and McNary of Oregon, Thomas
Campbell of Montana, former Gov Sam
| uel McKelvie of Nebraska and Dante
Pierce, agricultural editor OF Des
| MoineS, Iowa.
Mr.. Hoover put in an exceptionally
busy forenoon today, preparatory TO
| leaving early tomorrow for a two-d2y
inspection trip through the Lake Okee-
! chobee flood AREA. He started hiSsday
| by sitting half an hour for George B.
Torrey, an artist, who has been COM
missioned by the Union League Club or
New York, to paint portrait Of the
| next President. Others received 50 Mr.
Hoover during the morning were: James
M. Cox, publisher of Dayton. Ohio, and
| Miami, Fla, the Democratic presiden-
tial standardbearer in 1890: T. p. AbSf
of Wisconsin, George w. Chamberlain
of the Minneapolis Journal, William
Muse. editor of Mason City, Iowa; Mrs.
Elizabeth Terry and Mrs. Evelyn Brown,
prominently identified with the Repuh-
licar organization in New Jersey. and
Tien Lai Huang. Chinese flyer. Frank
B. Noyes, president of The EveniN9
Star ana the Associated Press, was
| luncheon guest. n