Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03

1t isn't very often that members of
the little cabinet"-undersecre
and assistant secretaries of executive
! departments-get such a chance as
| UnderSecretary of State Castle and
| Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills
| now have to do their stuff. Probably
never before have understudies Of cab
| met officers functioned on so critical an
occasion as the debt holiday negotia-
lions with France and other govern
ments. BY general consent, both Castle
| ard Mills are equal to the job. Each
has a substantial background of ex-
perience and ability Bill Castle has
been in the State Department only IL
years, but he had responsible service at
Red Cross headquarters during the war
| and for IL. years previous was in the
administration of Harvard University,
his alma mater. When President Hoo
! yer needed some one to act as special
| Ambassador in Japan during the 1880
London Naval Conference, Castle was
designated for the job. and got away
| with it handsomely. His recent promo
ton to the undersecretaryship of state
| was in the nature of a reward for his
| astute service in Toxic year ago.
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Ogden L. Mills, Secretary MELONS
| right bower, was born with several
golden spoons in his mouth. He first
saw the light of day in aristocratic
Newport, r. T. Like Bill" Castle, the
! Undersecretary of the Treasury is a
Harvard man. Mills is lawyer by pro-
| fession, but his active business inter-
estS haye occupied him more in the
world of high finance than in the law.
Previous Ito entering the Treasury in
1927, his name adorned the directorate
of half a dozen mighty corporations
like the American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. Mills saw active fighting
service with the A. E. F. in France
throughout the war. He seemed to be
! headed for definite political career
| until an unsuccessful race for the New
York governorship against AL Smith
| interviewed. -Four years in the Treasury
Department, have established Mills as
| one of .the real powers in the Nations
| financial 1affairs. He has the gift of
cogent exposition of the most intricate
| fiscal problems and brings to their So
luton asdeep understanding. If Uncle
Andy takes a notion to quit some day,
Presidents Hoover's eye is bound to rove
| in Ogden Mills direction.
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Chairman James C. Stone of the Fed
eral Farm' Board Is bearing up smiling
| ly under, the .slings and arrows coming
his way in consequence of the boards
decision to get rid of its Sterilization
wheat on the monthly stagger system.
Stone, expected brickbats, but. on the
whole, finds that just about as many
| bouquets are being hurled at the board.
| too. It's from the grain-commission
trade, which always sees red when it
thinks or talks of Chairman Stones out
fit. that yowls about the wheat-selling
program are mainly forthcoming. mas
much as the entire stock on hand ac-
counts for. only seventh Of this years
prospective crop, the Farm Board fails
to understand how it can be charged
with dempralizing the market when it
plans to sell its wheat at an average of
5000, 900 bushels month.
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For. the. job of helping to keep the
country safe for Herbert Hoover in 1882
the Republican; National Committee has
drafted former member of the House
Of Representatives and veteran Jour-
naliSt,. Charles IF, Scott. of Kansas. Be-
tween 1901 and 1907 MIR. Scott was a
Representative at large from the Sun
flower State, and from 1907 to 1911 sat
for the second district. His assignment
at G. o. P. headquarters is to edit a
weekly letter for small dailics and coun-
try weekly newspapers. He speaks the