NOTICE
This is a transcript of a tape-recorded interview donated to the Harry S. Truman Library. The reader should remember that this is essentially a transcript of the spoken, rather than the written word, although some editing was done.

Numbers appearing in square brackets (ex. [45]) within the transcript indicate the pagination in the original, hardcopy version of the oral history interview.

RESTRICTIONS
All uses of this manuscript are covered by a legal agreement between the Regents of the University of California and Dillon S. Myer and Jenness Wirt Myer, dated July 7, 1970. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to Dillon S. Myer and Jenness Wirt Myer until January 1, 1980. No part of the manuscript may be quoted for publication without the written permission of the Director of the Bancroft Library of the University of California.

Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, 486 Library, and should include identification of the specific passages to be quoted, anticipated use of the passages, and identification of the user. The legal agreement with Dillon S. Myer and Jenness Wirt Myer requires that they be notified of the request and allowed thirty days in which to respond.

Opened July, 1970
Harry S. Truman Library
Independence, Missouri

MANUSCRIPT HISTORY

The following manuscript by Dillon Seymour Myer, government official in the areas of agriculture, the relocation of the Japanese during World War II, federal public housing, inter-American Relations, and Indian affairs, came to the attention of the Regional Oral History Office in the spring of 1968. At that time Mr. Myer was engaged in tape recording his recollections of his many years in government service, a task he took on after completing the writing of The Uprooted Americans on his work in the War Relocation Authority. Mrs. Helen S. Pryor , a friend and retired government employee, was serving as an interested listener and questioner (for Mr. Myer soon found that talking to a tape recorder alone was an awkward and unrewarding process), and Mrs. Pryor had heard of the Regional Oral History Office through Dr. Thelma Dreis, the Office’s Washington, D.C., interviewer. The question was raised as to whether The Bancroft Library would be interested in having a copy of the completed manuscript so that it could be made available there for scholarly research.

Mr. Myer had served as director of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946, largely a California problem. His work as Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs brought him into western U.S. history. As an agronomist, county agricultural agent, and Extension Service supervisor (although in Indiana and Ohio), his career directly complements interviews being carried on by the Regional Oral History Office on agricultural history. The Bancroft Library indicated that it would be delighted to have a copy, and would like to encourage the completion and distribution of the manuscript in every way possible.

Over the following two years letters and several meetings took place between Mr. Myer and Mrs. Pryor, and Mrs. Willa Baum and Mrs. Amelia Fry of the Regional Oral History Office. In the meantime, Mr. Myer completed his painstaking tape recording. He could have stopped there, but he didn’t. With admirable persistence, he undertook to find a transcriber, who materialized in the form of his daughter, Margaret Myer McFaddin. Still a do-it-yourself project, he carefully edited the manuscript with full cooperation from Helen Pryor, had it retyped and indexed, provided photographs, and sent a final typed version to The Bancroft Library in June of 1970 that was so clean and complete that none of it had to be redone before photocopying it. His work is now available in The Bancroft Library as well as other research libraries which will be requesting copies. In addition, Mr. Myer has given valuable assistance in suggesting and locating other individuals who can give information on other aspects of the wartime Japanese relocation.

The previous November Mr. Myer also recorded with Mrs. Fry an extensive interview on his War Relocation Authority experiences in California and this manuscript will appear as part of the series of interviews in the Earl Warren Oral History Project. The original draft of The Uprooted Americans (University of Arizona Press, 1970), which contains some materials that were deleted from the final publication, has also been donated to The Bancroft Library.

Willa K. Baum, Director
Regional Oral History Office
20 June 1970
Regional Oral History Office
486 The Bancroft Library
The University of California at Berkeley

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD - A BRIEF FAMILY HISTORY

Chapter

I GROWING UP ON THE FARM IN THE 1890s AND EARLY 1900s 1

The Country School 4
Family Life 9
Household and Farm Chores 13
The Miracle of Free Gas 17

II FARM OPERATIONS 19

Threshing 27
Corn Harvest and Storage 28
Potato Raising 31
Butchering and Meat Preparation 33
The Catfish Ceremony 37
Off -Season Work 45
Community Road Repairing 47

III PLEASURE AND RECREATION 54

Memories of Visits to Grandmother Seymour 56
A Country Quartet 58
Marooned by a Storm 60
Plans To Become A Farmer 63
More About Fun During The Days On The Farm 64
The Coming Of The Interurban And Related Items 66
An Expansion Of Business 72

IV GROWING UP DURING THE TEEN YEARS AND MY FIRST JOB 73

High School 75
My Early Courting Days 76

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Innovations And Transition 77
College Years 81
My Years At The University Of Kentucky The First Job 85

V. MATURING AS A YOUNG COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT IN INDIANA 89

More About Kentucky 91
My Only Scientific Publication 92
Soil Fertility Theories 93
Back To Vanderburgh County; Getting Acquainted 96
Making An Impression By Demonstrating Know How 98
Field Demonstrations And Dealer Cooperation 100
War Gardens And Aphids 103
Interest In The County Agent’s Politics 104
Newspaper Experience And Relations 105
Early Meetings 107
Learning The Importance Of Remembering Faces And Names 108
Get Acquainted Meetings 110
The Soy Bean Story 112
Hybrid Corn 117
Wintertime Meeting In Scott Township 120
Summer Time Meetings 123
A Return Visit After Twenty Years 124
Women On The Farm 125
Four H Club Work 129
Interesting Adult Demonstrations 132
Armstrong Township And Henry Kissel's Hog Cholera 135
Army Worm And Grasshopper Control 139
The Process Of Change 143

VI COUNTY AGENT SUPERVISOR AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY AND A MOVE TO OHIO AS A COUNTY AGENT AGAIN 145

A Second Job As A County Agricultural Agent 149
A Move To My Second Supervisory Job As District Supervisor Of The Agriculture Extension Service 151

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Supervisory Techniques 154
A Crucial Decision 155
Facing The Problems Of The Depression 156
A Bit Of Back Stage Lobbying 157
Adding To My Farm Experience, 159
I Met The Most Wonderful Girl 159

VII THE COMING OF THE NEW DEAL AND A CHANGE OF WORK 161

The Move To Washington 164
Another Job Change 166
Another Proposed Move 167
Initiation Of Aerial Land Surveys 168

VIII A BRAND NEW JOB IN THE SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE 170

Origin Of The soil Erosion Service In The Department Of The Interior 171
The Battle To Secure Passage Of The state Soil Conservation Districts Act 175
A Promotion To Assistant Chief 177
An Attempted Take Over 177
A Proposal To Move Some Regional Offices 178
The Pearl Harbor Attack And A Change In Status 179

IX THE MOVE FROM AGRICULTURE TO THE WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY IN 1942 183

The Evacuation Authorization And Initiation 185
Agricultural Labor - The First Relocation Move 187
Student Relocation Committee 188
First Steps Toward A General Relocation Policy 188
The Army Assembly Centers 190
The Move To Relocation Centers 191
The Policy Conference And Its Importance 192
The Dies Committee Moved In 193
The Posten And Manzanar Troubles 194
A Second Policy Conference 195

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Relocation Field Offices Established 196
A Senate Sub-Committee Holds Hearings 197
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team Was Launched 197
Baseless Rumors 198
Our Letter To Secretary Stimson Recommending A Change In The Exclusion Order.199
Mrs. Roosevelt’s Visit To Gila River And A Luncheon 200
The Dies Sub-Committee At Work 202
The Tule Lake Incident And Resulting Turmoil 204
A Date With The American Legion 208
A Follow Up Of The Tule Lake Incident 210
Reinstitution Of The Draft Of Nisei 210
A Change In Status - The Move To The Department Of The Interior 211
The European Refugees 212
Back To The Problem Of Japanese-Americans 216
The First Closing Of A Relocation Center 217
The Lifting Of The Exclusion Orders 218
Final Relocation Problems 219
Supreme Court Decisions 220
More Final Relocation Problems 221
An Award For Work Well Done 224
The Wind Up Of W.R.A. In 1946 224

X A PERIOD OF CHANGE 225

More About My Good Boss Secretary Ickes 225
The Offer Of A Governorship Of Puerto Rico 227
An Interim Interlude 228
A Battle Over Senate Confirmation 229

XI A MOVE TO HOUSING AS COMMISSIONER F. P. H. A. 231

A Visit From The Mayor Of Minneapolis 238
My Last Days In Housing 239

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XII A DECISION TO MOVE TO THE INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS AS PRESIDENT 240

A Try For A New Charter 242
Another Offer To Head The Bureau Of Indian Affairs 244
A Successful Appeal For More Funds 245
A Middle East Interlude 246

XIII ANOTHER MOVE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AS COMMISSIONER OF THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 252

Resistance To Change In An Old Government Bureau 256
The Program 257
Schooling For Indians 261
Health And Sanitation 265
Welfare 267
Roads 268
Relocation Problems 268
Summing Up The Indian Program 270
Lack Of Public Understanding Of The Indian Problem 284
Many Indians Are Still Primitive 286
The Future For American Indians 288
Indian Claims 291
Are The Indians A Dying Race? 292
Five Hundred Years Hence 294
Looking Back At The Indian Affairs Assignment 295

XIV CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATION AND I LEAVE THE GOVERNMENT 299

I Become A. Civil Service Retiree 300
Congressional Friends And Political Contacts During My Career In Government 300
Senator Carl Hayden 301
Senator Clinton Anderson 302
Senator Richard Russell 304
Senator Mike Mansfield 305
Congressman George Mahon 306
Congressman "Chet" Holofield 307

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Congressman Charles Levy 309
Congressman Norris Poulson 311
Relations With Congress 313
Attitude Toward Congress 318
Politics 321

XV SOME PEOPLE AND EXPERIENCES THAT WERE IMPORTANT IN MY LIFE 323

University Life 325
Dr. Arthur McCall 325
George Roberts and Edwin Kinney 326
G. I. Christie 329
Harry Ramsower 330
Howard Tolley 331
Milton Eisenhower 332
Paul Appleby 334
M. L. Wilson 336
Henry Wallace 337
Hugh Bennett 339
Harold Smith 340
Harold Ickes 340
Matters Of Importance That I Have Learned From Experience 342
Supervisory Techniques 344

XVI THE YEARS AFTER 1953 347

A Temporary Retirement 347
Group Health Association 347
The Hand Of Fate Intervenes 348
A Move To The United Nations 356
And To Venezuela 356
Difficulties In Modernizing The Government 363
Social Life In Venezuela 366
Travel Through The Country 368
Reflections On The Venezuela Experience 371
Back Home 372
A Graduate School Seminar 373
Other Assignments And "Near" Assignments 374
A Temporary Assignment 376
Temporary Assignment In Korea 380
A Stop Off In India 383

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Chairman Of A Personnel Review Board 385
A Change In Directors 386
A Position With The Organization Of American States 387
A Travel Interlude Then Further Assignments 392
I Do Some Writing 393

XVII POSTSCRIPT - SUMMING UP 395

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The following narrative was started in 1967 as a result of the encouragement of many friends including Helen Pryor who spent many hours over several months serving as the interviewer during the taping period and editing the typed script.

At an early stage of the taping process I weakened and debated whether to continue. My good wife Jenness Wirt Myer urged me to continue, because she wanted the record completed for our three daughters.

We were also encouraged by Mrs. Amelia Pry and Mrs. Willa Baum, of the Regional Oral History Office of the University of California General Library, to complete the taping and the typing of the manuscript.

So it is thanks to my wife Jenness, to Helen Pryor, our good friend, and all of those who urged that we complete the task, that it has been done.

Thanks also to our daughter Margaret Wirt Myer McFaddin for spending many long hours typing the taped story.

Dillon S. Myer
1 June 1970
3025 Daniel Lane
Washington, D.C.

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FOREWORD - A BRIEF FAMILY HISTORY

Like many Americans, my interest in and curiosity about my family’s history lay dormant until my later years, when, unfortunately, no one of an earlier generation is left to question about the family tree. From the scanty information available, I know that my father’s great-great-grandfather was a German tutor, who left Germany with his wife and two sons for the United States. One can only conjecture that this was in the middle or late eighteenth century.

According to family legend, their ship - a sailing vessel, of course - was wrecked somewhere off the coast of Maryland and the father and mother were lost, along with the gold that they had. The two boys reached shore, and being destitute, they bound themselves out, a customary procedure in those days. The duration of their servitude is unknown; in fact, the interim history is unknown to me until my Grandfather Myer and his brother migrated from Allegheny County, Maryland, to Licking County, Ohio, during the early eighteen thirties. In 1834 they bought farm lands on the banks of what is now Buckeye Lake.

The land was owned by the U.S. Government and the sheepskin deed bearing that date was signed by President Andrew Jackson. A portion of the land purchased at that time is still a part of the John Hyson Myer estate and the sheepskin deed is still a Myer keepsake. The land is now owned by the third generation heirs of my father, John Hyson Myer.

My Grandmother Myer was Mary Oldaker. She was born in Virginia in the upper part of the Shenandoah Valley which is now a part of West Virginia, in 1818, and she and her family moved to Ohio by horseback when she was just a girl. We still have some of the antique dining room chairs in the family that were brought to Ohio by horseback. My Grandmother’s father and my great Grandfather Oldaker was a millwright and evidently traveled about to build mills and mill wheels in different locations.

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My Grandmother married Jacob Myer, my Grandfather, at age forty-two. She was his second wife and she must have been several years younger than he was. My father, an only child, was born in 1861 when Grandmother was forty-three years old. His father Jacob Myer died in 1866 when Dad was only five years old. My widowed Grandmother was left with a young son and a farm to look after. It seems that portions of the farmland were still swampy and undeveloped. At the time my father, as a young man, took over the management, debts had accumulated due in part to poor management and in part to post-Civil War depression.

Consequently when he was married in 1887 at the age of twenty-six he and my mother took on the debts and added to them the cost of remodeling the house. The remodeling job was largely a new structure built around and encompassing a portion of the old house which was originally a log structure.

My Mother was Harriet Estella Seymour before her marriage. She was born in 1864. Her parents were Bruce and Elizabeth Seymour.

When her father and mother were first married they moved to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, near Lafayette which was frontier country in the early eighteen fifties. Their first son was born there but they moved back to Ohio in about 1856 and built a log house on the raw land that had been secured from the government. They later built a frame house and as a child during the 1890’s I remember the old log house which was far back on the farm and was then used to shelter livestock.

Mother had two sisters and four brothers, all of whom, with one exception, lived to be eighty-two years of age or older.

My Mother lived to be ninety-four years and ten months of age and an older sister Aunt Mate who lived with us during her late years lived to be one hundred and two.

The Seymours were of Scotch-English descent but I know very little about the family before my Grandfather except that they were early settlers in Licking County, Ohio and lived not far from Newark, Ohio.

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My Grandmother Seymour was a Lees and her parents were English. Evidently my great Grandfather Lees was Cockney English and still had the cockney accent when Mother was a girl.

My Father died in 1941 at age eighty.

I have one brother who manages the home farm and estate who is now eighty-one and two younger sisters, Mrs. Don Tobin of Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. George Eikenberry of Cambridge, Ohio.

Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment Administration, 179, 182, 183
Agricultural Adjustment Administration, (A. A. A.), 161, 164, 165, 168, 170, 181
Alpha Zeta Fraternity, 82, 85, 325
American Legion, 197
Americanism Commission, members Homer Chaillaux and Jimmy O Neil. 208, 209
Anderson, A. E., Agricultural Extension Supervisor, 149
Anderson, Clinton, Senator P., 252, 281
Appleby, Paul, Administrative Assistant to Secretary U. S. D. A., 176, 178, 332, 334, 339
Armour, Norman, Assistant Secretary of State, 242

Baker, John, Information Officer, W. R. A., 202
Barrows, Leland. Executive Officer, W.R.A., 207, 250, 301, 316
Barrows, Professor, O. S. U., 82, 83
Baum, Mrs. Willa, x (Acknowledgement)
Bankhead, John, Senator, 177
Beatty, Willard, Chief of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 256
Beeson, Keeler, Extension Agronomist, 116
Bell, Francis, Co. Agricultural Agent, 154
Bell, Sam, Farmer, 141, 142
Bendetsen, Colonel Karl, Civilian Affairs Western Defense Command, 186, 187
Bender, Congressman George, 311, 312
Bennett, Hugh, Chief of Soil Conservation Service, 171, 172, 174, 176, 177, 179, 180, 320, 335, 339
Benson, Mr., Four H Club Founder, 129
Best, Ray, Director Tule Lake, W.R.A. Center, 204, 207
Biddle, Francis, U.S. Attorney General , 211, 216, 217
Black, Dr. Albert, U. S. D. A., 162
Black, Dave, early auto owner, 8
Blandford, John, U. N. Expert, 359, 360, 361
Bledsoe, Sam, Assistant to Secretary of Agriculture, 180
Boettiger, John and Anna 201
Bolley, Dr., Plant Pathologist, 94
Bronson, Ruth Muskrat, Congress of American Indians, 296
Brown, Harry, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, 177, 178
Brown, Mac, quartet member, 58
Brown, Mr., Engineer, 168
Byrnes, James, F. 179, 212
Buckeye Lake Park, Ohio, 7, 26, 45, 65, 66, 68, 69, 73, 77, 80
Bullock, Mr., Newspaperman, 112
Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. D. A., 178
Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. D. A., 113
Butler, Hugh, Senator, 253, 254

Caine, Harry P., Senator, 230
Calkins, Hugh, Reg. Conservator, (SCS), 303
California, Humbolt County, 90, 91, 186
Campbell, J. Phil, Section. Chief Soil Conservation Service, 173, 177
Carmody, John, Horticulturist, 96
Castianos, Dr. George Sol, Pan-American Union, 388, 389, 391
Chandler, A.B. (Happy), Senator, 197, 201, 209
Chapman, Oscar, Assistant Secretary and Secretary of the Interior, 229, 251, 252
Chavez, Dennis, Senator, 304
Chipperfield, Robert, Congressman, 243
Christgau, Victor, Division Chief A. A. A., 163, 165, 334
Christie, Prof. G. I., 145, 146, 147, 149, 320, 329, 330
Civilian Conservation Corp., C. C. C., 172
Clapp, Gordon, Chief of Near East U.N. Mission, 247, 248, 249, 250
Coffey, John, Congressman, 309
Coffin, Frank, Deputy Administrator, A. I. D., 392
Cohen, Felix, Indian Attorney, 279, 280, 283
Coleman, T. A., County Agent Leader, 88, 89, 145, 146, 148
Collier, Charles, Soil Conservation Service, 168
Collier, John, Commissioner of Bureau of Indian Affairs, 255, 283
Columbia University, 160
Columbus, Ohio, 63, 66, 67, 74, 76, 147, 149, 150, 158, 165
Connelly, Matthew, Presidential Assistant, 244
Connelly, Tom, Senator, 294
Cordier, Andrew, Executive Assistant to Secretary-General of U. N., 247, 249, 250
Cordon, Senator Guy, 281
Corey, Andy, Department of State, 241
Cornell University, 93
Costello, John, Congressman, Chairman of Subcommittee of Dies Committee, 193, 202, 203, 209


and Robert Stripling staff member, 209, 307
Coudert, Fredrick, Congressman, 231
Cozzens, Robert, W.R.A. Assistant, 207, 311
Craig, Doctor, Veterinarian, 109
Craig, Stephen Jim, Co. Agricultural Agent, 148
Crane, George, Assistant Director of Agricultural Extension, 156
Creel, Cecil, Agricultural Extension Director, Nevada, 177
Crocheron, B. H., Agricultural Extension Director, California, 90, 91
Cuban Refugee Program, 375, 376
Cullum, Robert, W.R.A. Relocation Officer, 224
Curry, James, Indian Attorney, 278

Dakin, E.S., W.R.A. Relocation Officer, 154
Daniels, Paul C., Acting assistant Secretary of State, 242
Davis, Chester, Chief of A. A. A., 163, 164, 165, 166, 169, 170, 171
Davis, Elmer, Chief of O. M. I., 183
DeWitt, General John L., 185, 186, 187, 190, 193
Dirksen, Everett, Congressman and Senator, 317, 318
Doty, Dale, Assistant Secretary of Interior, 252
Drier, John, Department of State, 240

Edmonds, John, Farmer, 140
Eisenhower, Milton, 167, 171, 176, 178, 183, 184, 186, 188, 322, 333, 339
Eisenhower. President Dwight D., 299
Egan, John, Acting Commissioner P.H.A., 236
Ellis, Ray, Fertilizer Plant Officer, 102
Embray, Nick, 33
Emerich, Dr. Herbert, 359
Engle, Chester, Fraternity brother, 82
Ennis, Edward, Department of Justice, 216
Ensminger, Douglas, Ford Foundation, India, 383
Erspine, Billy, Farmer, 114
Esman, Dr. Milton, University of Pittsburgh, 372, 374
Evans, “Spike”, Chief of A. A. A., 179, 180
Evansville, Indiana, 89, 95, 113, 117, 120, 139, 145, 147, 150, 320
Evansville Courier, 90, 105, 106, 107, 112

Fahy, Charles, Solicitor General, 220, 221
Farrel, George, U. S. Agricultural Extension Service, 129
Federal Chemical Company, Louisville, Kentucky, 95, 100
Ferguson, Clarence, Poultry Specialist and Director of Agricultural Extension Service, Ohio and National, 165
Foley, Raymond, Director of U. S. Housing Agency, 234, 236
Forest Service, U. S. D. A., 178, 179, 226
Fortas, Abe, Under Secretary of Interior, 225, 226, 341
Frank, Judge Jerome, 165
Frier, “Doc”, Agricultural Extension Specialist, 123
Fry, Amelia, x (acknowledgement)
Funchess, Dean, Auburn State University, 339

Gas, Natural, 79
Gallagos, Dr. Lopez, 365, 366, 367
Garrison, Mr., Fertilizer Salesman, 100, 101
Gaston, T. L., Section Head Soil Conservation Service, 174
George, Frank, Executive Director of Congress of American Indians, 283
Georgia, Atlanta, 179
Gibson, W. A., W.R.A. Employee, 307
Gilbert, Prof. A. H., Botany Department, University of Kentucky, 92, 93
Glick, Philip, Lawyer, 166, 394
Graham, A. E., Former Agricultural Extension Director, Ohio, 129
Graham, Willie and Harry, “Fresh Air Kids”, 74
Grandstaf, George, Capt. 222
Gray, Dr. L.C., U. S. D. A., 167
Griffenhagen, Kroeger MC, 360
Grossman, Edward, Four H Club Leader, 130
Group Health Association Inc., 347, 348, 349, 354, 355
Guerrero, Dr. Manuel Perez, Chief of Venezuelan Office of Coordination and Planning 360, 364, 367

Haas, Mr., school teacher, 132
Hahn, E.R., 135
Halle, Louis, Department of State, 246
Hamilton, Fowler, Director of A .I. D., 386
Hearst Press, 193, 206, 308
Hebron, Ohio, Hometown, 66, 67, 68, 75
Heilman, John, Deputy Director of I. C. A., Mission in Korea, 383
Heldt Seed Co., Evansville, Ind., 114
Henry, Clarence, County Agricultural Agent 81, 89
Hepler, William and David, Farmers, 99
Hill, Grover, Assistant Secretary of Agricultural, 181, 182
Hoeing, Agnes, and Four H Club 128
Holland, Tom, Employment Division W.R.A., 189
Home Owners Loan Corporation, 348, 349
Horn, Miss Lottie, school teacher, 4
Hoover Commission, The U.S., 357
Hopkins , Harry, Presidential Assistant, 201
Hopkins, Professor, Soils Department, University of Illinois, 94
Howell, William, Executive Officer of International Bank, 356
Hughes, John B., Radio Commentator, 186
Humphrey, Hubert, Mayor of Minneapolis and Senator, 238

Ickes, Harold, Secretary of Interior, 211, 221, 225, 227, 340, 342
Institute Of Inter-American Affairs, 371
Interurban Line, Columbus, Newark, and Zanesville, Ohio, 66, 68, 79, 80

Jackson, Andrew, U.S. President, xi
Jacobs, J. S., Associates, 360
Jardine, William, Secretary of Agriculture, 332
Jenson, Congressman Ben, 231, 233, 237, 254
Johnson-O'Malley Act, 260, 265, 277
Jones, Marvin, Judge, Court of Claims, 181, 182
Jones, Prof. S.C., Soils Department, University of Kentucky, 86, 88
Jump, William, Budget Director, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 178

Kansas State College, 83
Keller, Congressman Kent, 317
Kennedy, John, U.S. President, 385
Kenny Ralph, Fraternity Brother Agronomist, 83, 84
Kentucky, 77, 85, 91, 177
Key, Congressman John, 243
Kigan, Dr. L., Veterinarian, 138
Kinney, Edwin, Professor of Agronomy, 86, 87, 92, 326, 327
Kirchof, Mr., Farmer, 110
Kissel, Henry, Farmer, 99 135, 136, 137, 138, 139
Korea, 380, 382
Krug, Julius, Secretary of Interior, 227

LaForge, Oliver, President of the Association of American Indian Affairs, 295
Labouisse, Henry, International Bank and Director of I. C. A., 364, 375, 376, 379, 380, 385, 386, 387, 392
LaVergne, D.G., Director of Mission Tunisia I. C. A., 380, 381
Lawton, Fred, Director U.S. Bureau of the Budget, 245
Lee, Congressman Clarence, 308
Lee, H. Rex, Relocation Officer W.R.A., Deputy Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 219, 248, 249, 253, 268, 314
Lee, Robert E., E. C. C. Commissioner, 231, 233
Lewis, Fulton Jr., Columnist and Commentator, 254
Lewis, Orme, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, 299
Lichtenberg, Dr. Henry, Medical Director G. H. A., 350
Lippman, Walter, Columnist, 154, 186
Livingston, Jack, Professor, of Agronomy, 83
Loew, Michael, H. H., U.N. Training program, 359, 363
Losada, Dr. Benito Raul, Executive Director of Venezuelan Public Administration Commission, 359, 365, 368
Loudermilk, Mr., Contractor, 304
Lovett, Robert A., Acting Secretary of State, 243

McCall, Dr. Arthur, Prof, of Soils, 84, 325
McCarran, Senator Pat, 314, 315, 316
McCarthy, Joseph R., Senator, 230
McKay, Douglas, Secretary of the Interior, 299
McCloy, John, Assistant Secretary of War, 200
McConnell, Dr., Veterinarian, 137, 138, 139
McCray, Warren, Hereford Breeder and Governor of Indiana, 102
McFaddin, Margaret, x (acknowledgements)
McGee, George. Assistant Secretary of State, 246, 247, 250
McGranery, James P., Department of Justice, 216
McGuffey's Reader, 3, 5
Mclntosh, Cal County Agent, 89
McNarney, General, Joseph, 301
Magana, Senor Alvaro, Pan-American Union, 387, 389, 390, 391
Mansfield, Mike, Congressman, 243
Markley, Allen, W.R.A. Inf. Officer, 210
Marshall, George, Sec. of State, 243
Marshall, Roy, County Agricultural Agent, 89
Martin, Joseph, Congressman, 318
Martin, Joe, Twp. Trustee, 136
Masaoka, Mike, J. A. C. L., 394
Merrill, Lewis, Regional Conservator S. C. S., 180
Miller, Doctor, Soils Department, University Of Missouri, 339
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 179
Missouri, 176
Mitchell, James, Brookings Institution, 348, 393
Mitchell, William, Commissioner Social Security Board, 375, 376, 377, 378
Mitchem, Mr., Farmer, 98
Monroe, Owen, seedsman, 114, 115
Morris, Doctor, Agronomist, U. S. D. A., 113
Mossman, Mac, school teacher 4, 5, 8
Moyer, Dr. Roy, Director of Mission Korea, I. C. A., 383
Myer, Jenness Wirt, x (acknowledgement)
Myer, Jacob, Grandfather, xii
Myer Relatives, 1, 6
Myer, Mary Oldaker, Grandmother 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 41, 52

Neel, Bert, Neighbor, 3
Newark, Ohio, 66, 67, 68
New York Times, 210

Ohio State University, 81, 82, 84
Ohio Wesleyan University, 81
O'Mahoney , Joe , Senator, 201, 291
Organization of American States, 387
Orr, Harvey, school teacher 5, 6, 7, 323
Osborn, Doctor, Professor of Entomology, 82
Oswego, New York Refugee Center for Europeans, 212, 213, 214, 223
Outland, George, Congressman, 308, 309

Paris, Enrico Tehera, Governor of Sucre, 369
Parish, Alf , Quartet Member, 58
Park, Chung Hi, General and President Korea, 381
Pauley, Edward, Recommended for Secretary of Navy, 227
Pearson. Drew, Columnist, 237, 254
Pence, Ruth, boyhood girl friend, 76, 77
Perez, Juineny, Venezuelan Dictator, 356
Phillips, T. G., Professor and fraternity brother, 325
Pickett, Clarence, Executive Officer of the Friends Service Committee, 188, 246, 249
Pierce, Homer and Elmer, farmers, 131, 343
Ploeser. Walter, Congressman, 231, 233
Posey County, Indiana, 111
Pratt Bros., seedsmen, 115
Price, Homer, Dean of Agriculture O .S .U. 84
Province, John, Ass't Commissioner of Bureau of Indian Affairs, 253
Pryor, Helen, x (acknowledgement), 394
Public Administration Service, 360, 368, 369
Public Health Service, 265, 266, 276
Purdue University, 88, 90, 102, 107, 116, 123, 130, 145, 147, 149

Raglund, Floyd, County Superintendent of Schools, 89, 107
Ramsower, Doctor H. C., Director of Agricultural Extension Service, Ohio, 151, 155, 156, 330, 331
Reese, Gladys, friend, 82
Reines, William, G. H. A. board member, 354
Ribicoff, Abe, Senator and Secretary of H. E. W., 376
Richards, James P., Congressman, 243
Roberts, George, Professor of Agronomy, 84, 86, 8?, 88, 92, 94, 95, 326, 327
Roby, Mr. and Mrs. and family, neighbors, 38, 39, 43, 49, 50, 51
Rockefeller, Nelson, Governor of New York, 240
Roeder, Cornelius, farmer demonstrator, 32, 134
Roosevelt, F. D., President of U.S., 200, 201, 211, 212, 217, 302
Roosevelt, Mrs. Eleanor, 200, 201
Rosebraugh, Sam, quartet member, 58, 59
Rothamstead Experiment Station England, 94
Rule, Glenn, friend and employee, 152, 153
Rural Free Delivery, 78
Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State, 387

San Francisco Chronicle, 210
Salisbury, Morse, Information Officer U. S. D. A., 332
Schindler, Miss Lena, County Clerk's Office, 105
Schlendsher, John, farmer and fertilizer dealer, 101, 102
Sedwitz, Dr. Walter, Pan American Union, 387, 389, 391
Seymour, Grandmother and family, xi, 37, 38, 51, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63
Shakespeare, Works of, 6
Shanklin, Fred, State Four-H Club Leader, 123, 130
Shepard, William, I. C. A. Regional Director, 380
Shields, Bob, Assistant to the Secretary of Agricultural 180
Smith, Harold, Director of the Budget, 211, 212, 340
Smith, J. D. M., British Finance Expert U.N., 359
Smith-Lever Act, 129
Soil Conservation Service, U. S. D. A., 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 178, 179, 182
South Carolina, Spartenburg, 179
Spelling Bee, 9
Spicer, Dr. E. H., University of Arizona 394
Stahl, O. Glenn, U.S. Civil Service Commission, 360
Stanley, David, Brookings Institution, 392
Steelman, John, Presidential Assistant., 235
Stimson, Henry, Secretary of War, 187, 197, 199, 200
Stone, Don, Dean of School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, 373, 374
Stand, Mike, Chief of Bureau of Reclamation, 227
Stripling, Mr., Staff Member of the Dies Committee, 309

Taber, John, Congressman, 232
Taft, Robert, Senator, 229
Taylor, Ted, Administrative Assistant 256
Texas, 176
Toledo and Ohio Central Railway, 66
Tobey, Charles, Senator, 230
Tolley, Howard, Chief of Planning Division A. A. A., 166, 177, 331
Tozier, Morrill, W.R.A. Information Officer, 202, 207, 394
Trent Grover, Production Division A. A. A. , 163
Trueblood , Fred , Newspaper man, 106, 107, 344
Truman, H. S., President of the United States, 215, 223, 227, 229, 231, 235, 244, 245, 323
Tugwell, Rex, Under Secretary of Agricultural, 167, 171

United Nations, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 365, 368, 371
United States Information Agency, 393
University of Kentucky and Agricultural Experiment Station, 83, 85, 89, 91, 93, 107, 113, 145, 320
Utz, Edwin, Ass't Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 253

Vanderburgh County, Indiana, 89 ,90, 91, 95, 96, 102, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 116, 117, 120, 124, 125, 128,

130, 132, 135, 136, 139, 141, 150, 395
Venezuela, Caracas, 179, 355, 356, 357, 361, 362, 366, 368, 371
Verse, Father (Priest), 111
Vivian, Dean Alfred, Ohio State University, 156
Volkman, Chris, farmer, 121, 122

Wagner,  Senator Robert, 229
Wallace, Henry. Secretary of Agriculture 177, 178, 179, 226, 334, 335, 337, 338
Wallgren, Senator Mon., 197
Wallenmeyer, John, 145
Walker, Jake, farmer, 97
Walsh, Sir David, U.N. British Personnel Expert, 359
War Relocation Authority, 183, 184, 185, 187, 216, 223, 228, 377, 379, 395
Warburton, Dr. Clyde, U.S. Director of the Agricultural Extension Service, 326
Warne, William, Assistant Secretary of Interior, 252
Warren, Earl, Attorney General, and Governor of California, 186
Waters, Frank, Administrative Officer, Housing Agency, 234
Waterston, Albert, International Bank, 372, 387
Watkins, Senator, 281
Wegel, George, farmer, 104
Welsh Chemical Co., 101, 102
Welsh, Congressman Dick, 309
Whitehead, John, farmer, 123
White, George, Governor of Ohio, 158
Whitney, Professor, U.S. Department of Agricultural, 94
Whitten, Congressman Jamie, 231, 232
Wickard, Claude, A. A. A. Division Head and Secretary of Agriculture 169, 179, 335
Wilbur General, Civilian Affairs Western Defense Command, 218
Wilson, M. L., Under Secretary of Agriculture, 166, 175, 178, 336, 337
Wirt, Jenness, (Mrs. Dillon Myer), 159, 160
White, Mastin, Solicitor U. S. D. A., 170, 171
Wolcott, Congressman Jesse, 232, 233, 237
Wolfron, Joel, Assistant to Secretary of Interior, 255
Wood, George, Proposed Director of A. I. D., 386
Wood, C. Tyler, Mission Director A. I. D. India, 384
Wyatt, Wilson, Director of Housing, and Home Finance Agency, 227, 234

Yellow Tail, Bob, Crow Indian, 254

Zimmerman, William, Assistant Commissioner of Bureau of Indian Affairs, 253

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