Evening star., 1933-06-22

say there is no problem too difficult
for him to solve and when he brings In
the solution, it is couched in simple
and beautifully written words.
In his 81 years he has lived the life
of a Richard Harding Davis hero, sand
wiching in distinguished Army career.
originating the selective draft during
the war, writing books and essays
and stories, learning about and then
becoming one of the foremost experts
in the country on finance, agriculture
and industry and climaxing with the
gigantic task now before him Of re-
organizing the industry Of the United
States
Speaks His Mind BIuntly.
The general is a powerfully built
man of medium height He has large,
very heavy -lidded eyes. His manner
Is abrupt, his speech blunt. If he has
anything on his mind he says it. Be-
meath this gruff exterior he is a sin
gularly understanding man with a
vision Of the problems confronting the
average and the lower -than-average
families. He came down to Washing
ton this Winter from New York, where
he works with Bernard M. Baruch, on
the instigation Of Raymond Moley,
Assistant Secretary of State.
Mr.. Moley knew him and had worked
with him during President Roosevelt's
campaign when the general was fre-
quently called in to advise on financial,
agricultural and industrial policies. In
fact, the general was part of that or
ganization called the brain truct"
which the President used in an advisory
capacity last Summer and Fall. Mr..
| Moley asked the general to come down
and study the bills and suggestions to
organize industry that were pouring
into his Office. Like an octopus, the
general settled on the confusion. He
pulled all the ideas into his NAV. elm
mating what was impractical, sorting
and building up what was workable.
The President likes and has great
confidence in the general, so when the
time came and legislation was passed
by an act of Congress which reads: To
encourage national industrial recovery,
to foster fair competition. and to pro-
vide for the construction OF certain USE
full public works he was the
unquestioned choice for administrator.
West Point Graduate.
The general started his military
career when he was very young. He
was graduated from West Point in 1908
as second lieutenant IN tnc ISL Cav
airy. The next year he married Miss
Helen Kilbourne. daughter of Col. H.
S. Kilbourne In 1911 he became a
first lieutenant and in 1916 captain.
In the meantime he had been studying
| law besides other activities. which
ranged from serving as quartermaster
/ general for refugees in the San Fran
/ cisco fire in 1906 to being superin-
/ tendent Of the Sequoia National Park
! His career in law was brilliant one,
( particularly in the study Of constitu-
| tional law In 1907 he became major
/ Judge advocate, in January, 1918, he
| was made colonel and in April of thai
! same year he was promoted to the rank
| of brigadier general. He resigned from
! the Army in February, 1919, keeping
| the rank of brigadier general in the
| Officers Reserve Corps.
During his Army progression he went
/ to Mexico, serving as judge advocate
/ in Gen. Pershing's punitive expedition
/ in 1916 In 1917 and 1918 his activi-
ties were mammoth. He was appointed
colonel on the general staff in March
1918, also brigadier general and CHIEF
of the Purchase and Supply Bureau
member Of the War Industries Boarc
and assistant chief Of the Purchase