CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
[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 andDiplomatic 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; GeneralRegulation; Control of Wheat and Pork,Organization in the States]225
[XII.][American Relief Administration]256
APPENDICES
[Appendix I]283
[Appendix II]291
[Appendix III]311
[Appendix IV]334

HERBERT HOOVER

THE MAN AND HIS WORK

CHAPTER I

CHILDREN

It was a great day for the children of Warsaw. It was a great day for their parents, too, and for all the people and for the Polish Government. But it was especially the great day of the children. The man whose name they all knew as well as their own, but whose face they had never seen, and whose voice they had never heard, had come to Warsaw. And they were all to see him and he was to see them.