Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-09

cry of hiring tall Joseph c. Grew
as his undersecretary, young Mel
son Rockefeller, businessman Will
Clayton and esthete Archibald
MacLeish as his undersecretaries
and paved the way for the resig-
nations of A. A. Berle, Breckin-
ridge Long and G., Rowland Shaw.
Many more changes are on the
way.
He bounced out to see Mr.. Hull
at the naval hospital at Bethesda.
Md, a few days after becoming
the youngest secretary of state
since Edmund Randolph, and had
a long chat with the wise old man
who is his friend and fond booster.
HULL APPROVES
~ think he'll approve of the
changes I've made and the
changes 1 have I'm mind" he
said. He hasn't suggested a
thing to me, but when 1 took
my problems to him he was
more than generous In helping
me. He's a great old man."
Stet welded himself to the
world social phase of the New
Deal when he worked here for a
year in 1888 under Gen. Hugh
Johnson. He came back in 1899
as chairman of the War Resources
Board. BY May. 1910, he was COM
missioner in charge of industrial
materials of the advisory COM
mission to the Council of National
Defense.
More simply. he had the job
Of beginning to build up stock
piles of materiel for the approach
ing war. He lived half his time
sitting before congressional COM
mittees, hollering for funds and
is credited with the IVA expan-
sion that gave us enough alumni
mum. among other things.
From that job he ruled priori-
ties, and when lend lease went
into effect he became its head in
September, 1871.
"He was a good one" an old
state department hand told us.
"He was charged with giving
everything away that he could
lay his hands on-and the thing
did amount to about S15,000,-
100000 over the years.
But nobody appreciates the
cost Of war. Stet was almost
tight-fisted. He made certain
that what the Allies wanted
they absolutely needed and had
no way of building for them
selves"
AS il Is, his tastes are rather
simple. and he doesn't have too
much patience with the fripperies
Of life-night clubs. for instance.
That could be the German side OF
| his background. Stettinius' ances-
tors came from Stettin, Germany,
from Scotland, Ireland and Hun
gary.
BORN IN CHICAGO
He himself was born in Chicago
on Oct. %. 1900. 80 years after
the first Stettinius-Samuel En-
dredy Stettinius-settled in what
/ is now Washington, d. c.
He gets up at 7 and makes his
own cup of coffee. About 8 o'clock
he gets to the New York. Wash
| ington. Baltimore and Philadel-
phia newspapers.
Then he shaves himself, takes
shower and has breakfast with
his wife and his children, Edward
Reilly III and the 11-year-old
twins. Wallace and Joseph.
BY the time he has finished
breakfast his waiting room Is half
filed with his battery Of young
assistants and male secretaries.
He dictates for about 20 minutes,
hands out his scrubbed notes and
makes phone calls to ambassadors,
generals. admirals and cabinet
members.
GETS TO OFFICE AT 8 A. NJ.
He lives at the Shoreham and
refuses 10 have bodyguard (Hull
had one). He gets to the office
shortly after 9 o'clock. goes
through a digest OF the overnight
cables and begins to dictate to two
girl stenographers.
He meets with his staff from
$50 TO 1920. and sees a stream
of visitors. mostly diplomatic, from
1870 to u, when he has a press
conference.
His analysis of how to keep
neaco in the world.
"All countries have a place In
the world. The most primitive
countries need only the SYM
pathetic know-how OF a techni-
cally more advanced man TO
bring about the miracles we
here have known.
"The worlds resources must
he pooled. That's no wild,
idealistic dream. It's just hard
boiled sense"
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