Americans We Like: Governor Byrd of Virginia.

Governor of Virginia, Harry F. Byrd, has received an unusual amount of national publicity since he became chief executive of Virginia in January, 1926. This has come to him, because of his extraordinary success in reorganizing the State government on a business basis and in advancing the interests of the Old Dominion University educationally, industrially, and in other ways. In all the publicity accorded him, however, surprisingly little has been said about one of the most noteworthy aspects of his career; namely, his willingness to buck the trusts, specifically the oil trust and the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. In addition he has done more to bring new industries to the State than any of his predecessors. Certainly the system of taxation he has devised for the State is successfully designed to appeal to outside capital.