Produced by David Edwards, Jason Isbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Transcriber's Note: The following inconsistent or typographical errors were corrected: Page 27: to-day corrected to today Page 63: type-writer corrected to typewriter Page 67: Hooved corrected to Hoover Page 85: Pekin corrected to Peking Page 150: praccally corrected to practically Page 169: frans corrected to francs Page 331: progresively corrected to progressively Page 364: necessary corrected to necessity ] HERBERT HOOVER THE MAN AND HIS WORK BY VERNON KELLOGG AUTHOR OF "HEADQUARTERS NIGHTS," ETC. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEDICATED TO MY COMPANIONS OF THE C. R. B. PREFACE No man can have reached the position in the public eye, can have had such influence in the councils of our own government and in the fate of other governments, can have been so conspicuously effective in public service as has Herbert Hoover, without exciting a wide public interest in his personality, his fundamental attitude toward his great problems and his methods of solving them. This American, who has had to live in the whole world and yet has remained more truly and representatively American than many of us who have never crossed an ocean or national boundary line, is an object of absorbing interest today among the people of his native land. He is hardly less interesting to millions in other lands. He has carried the American point of view, the American manner, the American qualities of heart and mind to the far corners of the earth. He has no less revealed again, as other great Americans have done before him, these American attributes to America itself. Many questions are being asked about the life and experiences of this man before he entered upon his outstanding public service and about the details of his personal participation in the work of the great wartime private and governmental organizations under his direction. This book is the attempt of an observer, associate and friend to tell, simply and straightforwardly, the personal story of the man and his work up to the present. V. K. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE vii I. CHILDREN 1 II. THE CHILD AND BOY 10 III. THE UNIVERSITY 31 IV. THE YOUNG MINING ENGINEER 59 V. IN CHINA 80 VI. LONDON AND THE REST OF THE WORLD 102 VII. THE WAR: THE MAN AND HIS FIRST SERVICE 124 VIII. THE RELIEF OF BELGIUM; ORGANIZATION AND DIPLOMATIC DIFFICULTIES 140 IX. THE RELIEF OF BELGIUM; SCOPE AND METHODS 165 X. AMERICAN FOOD ADMINISTRATION; PRINCIPLES, CONSERVATION, CONTROL OF EXPORTS 199 XI. AMERICAN FOOD ADMINISTRATION; GENERAL REGULATION; CONTROL OF WHEAT AND PORK, ORGANIZATION IN THE STATES 225 XII. AMERICAN RELIEF ADMINISTRATION 256 APPENDICES APPENDIX I 283