Waihout referring directly to the tion of Philippine independence, question of re-examining the ques-
which he advocated two years ago, Mr. McNutt indicated that the wise course for the United States would be to maintain its status as a Far Eastern Power.
Mr. McNutt said that the adoption of a militant foreign policy in the Far East does not necessarily imply the establishment of new American frontiers in the Pacific.
"Our possessions in that mighty Ocean," Mr. McNutt said, "extend from the Aleutian Islands through Hawaii to Samoa and from the mainland on the last through Hawaii io Wake, Guam and the Philippines.
"The great cross formed by these islands is our mark upon the Pacific."
Mr, Wallace was born on a farm in Adair County, La, on October 7, 1888. Following the usual farm boyhood and graduation from Iowa State College, where he studied agricultural economies, he eventually succeeded to the editorship of the "Wallace Farmer." widely-read farm journal founded by his grandfather, Henry Cantwell Wallace.
Young Wallace became famous for his diligence in figuring out any number of problems which his readers sent in—and he was known among farm people for his large-scale experiments in cattle and plant breeding. He was among the first exponents of a planned programme of soil conservation, "Less corn, more clover, more money." was the slogan he framed.
His ability to concentrate on any problem has shown itself in his private as well as his public We. One of his least publicized accomplishments is throwing a boomerang—the deadly weapon of the Australian bushman.
Completely sold on the idea of close United States-Latin American ce-operation, Mr. Wallace applied himself to learning Spanish. Within a year he spoke it so fluently that he was able to make a speech in Spanish to a meeting of American scientists—much to their surprise, and that of many of his close friends.
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