Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27
Figures Revealed in PubIica-
ton of Presidents Relief
Associates.
COMMISSIONS REPORTED
TO BE FUNCTIoNING WELL
Groups Unsupported by Govern
ment Funds Are on Child Health
and Social Trends.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

At least 100000 has been found,
without any draft whatever on Govern
ment money, to support various COM
missions of investigation appointed by
President Hoover. Statements to that
effect have just been made in highly
authentic quarter-the "A. r. A. Gamer
lean Relief Association Association Re
view," official organ of the Hoover as
sociates." These are the hundreds of
men and women who co-operated with
'the Chief" during World War activi-
ties between 1914 and 1919. The COM
mission figures are disclosed by Edgar
Rickard, who was Mr.. HooverS right
hand man in Belgian relief, at the
United States Food Administration IN
Washington and in postwar relief work,
and who ranks as the Presidents closest
personal friend
81 know definitely" says Mr.. Richard,
writing in the July number of the A. r.
A. Association Review, "of at least So
100000 which has been appropriated,
without calling on Government funds,
to support the commissions which the
President has created. I know that
these commissions are functioning with
extraordinary ability, and are securing
exact and heretofore unobtainable in
formation to guide him in his efforts to
make his administration effective. !
need not ask the Hoover associates to
be patient. They know full well from
their experience that, as the world is
constructed today, it does not applaud
it does, not record-actions which can
not be condensed into big-type head
lines or magnified into columns of
laudatory praise. Yet the very actions
which were the basis of bringing the
A. r. A. Association men together and
the accomplishments of the President in
the White House are of the same char
acter. They observe our vote of conf
dence, because our group knows and APP
preciates that sound preparatory work
is necessary basis for really effective
job
Private Support Raped.
1t will be recalled that on the eve
of the adjournment of Congress, Presi-
dent Hoover publicly threatened to OBJ
tain from private sources the funds
necessary to enable his National Com
mission on Law Observance and En-
fofcement to pursue its work, if con-
gressional appropriations were with
held There was a desultory attack on
the Chief Executives right thus to
finance the commissions activities, but
the objection was not pressed or sus-
tained
The two Hoover commissions, the ex-
penses of which are being entirely de-
frayed by private contributions from
friends of the President, are the White
House Conference on Child Health and
Protection and the Research Committee
on Social Trends. The expenses of three
of these bodies are met by congress
sional approprlations-th Law Observ-
ance and Enforcement Commission:
the National Advisory Committee on
Federal Activities in Education, and the
Commission to Investigate Haiti.
Five Hoover commissions, which en-
tail no expense to the Government, or
presumably to anybody else, are these
Commission on Conservation and Adj
miniStration of the Public Domain, San
Francisco Bridge Commission, the
White House conference with various
business, financial and industrial lead
erS, relative 10 general business and
employment conditions; Interdepart-
mental Committee on Overseas Mail Con-
tracts and Commission on Development
of Water Resources In California.
Believes in Committees.
Numerous committees and boards of
inquiry, such as every administration
has appointed literally by the score,
have been loosely described as more
Hoover commissions" when in fact they
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