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reat Lakes Member a Fighter -- Former Shipping Board Counsel Declares War on the Cor- ruptionist in Public Office--Is Republican Appointee HOSE intimate with Col. Guy D. Goft, general counsel for the United States shipping board un- til his cievation to the board by Presi- dent Wilson, readily testify to the ironclad rules of conduct he has laid down fur himself--and adheres to--and insists upon enforcing in public life. Those not personally acquainted with the colonel may judge from his state- ment when it was intimated that there was personai rottenness within the shipping board. "When men sworn to uphold the in- tegrity and honor of their state barter away its sov- ereignty and view a public trust, as alo private = snap, they are simply conspiring rene- gades ready to violate their coun- try's confidence and to betray its secrets," he de- clarede) (Suctia man, 00° mater what his position in official life, is too. wretchedly craven to be a traitor. Such a man has lost his worth in. the hab- its of treachery. * * * by compari- son Judas _ Isca- Lidt.is. a. 8 aie and Benedict Ar- nold a - patriot. It is and wil! be my one and sin- gle purpose to run to cover ev- ery person who is guilty of corrup- tion and to prose- cute them to the fuliest extent of the law." There in one paragraph you have . Col... Golt through anid through. rt 38 claimed by i friends--and there seem ta be enemies to dis- pute it--that no other man in of- ficial life today in C.D. no GOFF---GREAT LAKES Washington has purposely made his personal path straighter or narrower. It has been said of him that he is old- fashionedly honest. Perhaps this out- look upon official life is bred in the bone, as Col. Goff's official ancestry is illustrious. His father, Nathan Goff, was a brigadier general in the civil war, secretary of the navy in the Hayes ad- munistration and later represented West Virginia in the United States senate. Although actively in touch with public life since first engaging in the practice of law, Col. Golt's frst feale onicial counection came when he was made / REPRESENTATIVE ON SHIPPING 19 district attorney for the city and coun- ty of Milwaukee, in 1905. In this post he continued until 1909. Two years at his practice ensued and, in 1911 he be. came federal district attorney for Wis- cousin. This post he held also for four years, The call to war came and, in June, 1917, Coi. Goff entered the army, be- coming assistant to Gen. Enoch Crow- der, who worked out the first draft. It was Col. Goft, who laid down the in- tricatc iuies governing the procedure of joca! and district draft boards. Within a year--in 1918--he was made executive officer in the judge ad- vocate general's office, went to Europe and served on. the staff of General Pershing, at Cha tm ot France. Return- ing: to : Parison the signing of the armistice, General Goff served with the division of rents, requisitions and cjJaims. In this capacity ihe aided largely in disposing of all claims and requi- sitions against the A. E. F. This task completed, Colonel Goff fol- lowed the army of occupation to Coblenz, Ger- many, and took charge of the military courts instituted there by the army. Returning to the United States in June, 1920, he became general counsel for the shipping' board and the Emer- gency Fleet cor- poration. On Nov. 13 Colonel Goff was selected as a Republican member of the board to serve BOARD a one year terin.