Evening star., 1933-10-08

In the banking field J. p. Morgan
slipped the vast ramiflcations of his
banking business at his death onto the
shoulders of his son, who has carried
on The Roosevelt family has served
constantly through the years. each
generation equipping itself with life
of public service and fulfilling actively
the duties which come its way. There
are two generations of serious minded
social CONSCIOUS Rockefellers. And there
is the long line of Adamses. marching
from Revolutionary leadership through
the White House, through 1t again, and
down the years IN scholarship and
politics, with the undying talent and
energy transmitted In the blood stream
applied by each new generation for the
benefit of others. And. representing
agriculture. the Wallaces have passed
on the virility and power. the obliga-
tionS and skill of the founders to sue
ceeding generations.
When I visited the Department OF
Agriculture to see Secretary Wallace
Washington was sweltering in heat
through which the administration was
working frantically over the fabulous
details Of sweeping new plans. Secre-
tary Wallace is keeping almost farmers
hours in his new job and arrived at his
Office at $50, after a three-mile walk
from his home to the Agriculture
Building. The complexities of the do
mestic allotment plan were before him
How many thousands CT acres of the
cotton crop already planted should be
deliberately destroyed: and what to dc
about wheat acreage; and could whole
salers and retailers be stopped from the
prof1teering plans New Deal had sug-
gested?
Farmers Look to Him.
The descendant of the Scot peasants
who buried the guineas in the wall had
billion dollars in his hands to release
to agriculture. And so ardent Calvin
lists on the moors of Scotland ever put
more fatalistic faith in a just God than
the 26,000,o00 hard-pressed American
farmers who fastened their frayed hopes
on the administrative ability Of Henry
A. Wallace.
AS the brown. paneled door into his
large. carpeted private Office was swung
open the young Secretary of Agriculture
was revealed seated at a desk, his back
to the windows that opened upon the
Capital panorama OF white marble and
granite and rich green shade trees. Ht
faced large Gil painting OF his father
who died in the Office the son now
holds.
MY first impression was of youth and
energy. Henry Wallace. the youngest
member Of President Roosevelts cabi.
net, Is As. He does not look his age
He Is wiry young man with wiry red
dlsh-brown hair that bristles in all d;.
rections from the part on the left side
OF his long head. In his gray-blue ewes
serious purpose seemed to have won
only slight victory over a quick un-
.derstanding that is the mother of
humor. Despite a pleasant. natural
and infectious smile, seriousness was
the order Of his tanned face.
Spurns High Society.
He was the same young editor who
preferred informal, earnest discussion
groups duly organized in church base
ment and parlors of members to less
purposeful stag parties. and who saw
more fun in gathering with a few
cronies to sing cowboy ballads than he
found In the frothy, pseudo-s -sophisti-
Gated parties of an Iowa country club
He draw his chair off center of the
desk and toward the side on which !
sat Can associate of the Secretary told
me that Wallace felt too ostentatious
pontif1cally enthroned in the exact