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"3 THE EVENI NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1921, RETRINGCABINET | HERE' ARE MEN CHOSEN FOR HARDING CABINET ANNOUNGE PLANS Several Will Resume Law Practice—Two Are Publishers. Most of the cabinet officers who re- tired today will resume the work they gave up to become members of Woodrow Wilson's official fam or two of them, however, have not yet made definite plans for the future Lawyers predominated in the out- €0ing cabinct, numbering six. There also were two publishers and one col- lege professor. Bainbridge Colby. one year's service as Secretary State, will return to thi law in Washington and New York city, in_partnership with former Fresident Wilson, but before he sett that work he may visit Scotland. Newton D. Baker will turn from the direction of the War Department to the practice of law in his home town of Cleveland. He has had five years’ service as Secretary of War, and also has served as chairman of the Fed- eral Power Com~ :ssion and the Coun- cil of National Defense. A. Mitchell Palmer, retiring Attor- ney General. will resume his law prac- tice, with offices in his home city of of Stroudsburg, Pa. and also in Wash- ington. He will retain his home in Fennsylvania, but _will reside in Washin cansiderabla portion of d wi lawyer hav wh each ve s law partners thr have s iate with him in public work—Frank Davis, jr.. for- merly istant attorney g ral; Robert R. Scott and Seiforde M. Stell- wagen. Daniels on Job Eight Year Josephus Daniels, one of the four ‘Wilson cabinet officers who remained on the job the full eight ¥ Jeave tomorrow for Raleigh, 1 1o resume his duties as editor and publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer. The former Naval Secre- tary will arrive Sunday morning, and says his first act “will be to go to church and repent of all my sins” He announces as his motto “Charity to all and malice toward none.” David F. Houston. former Secretary of the Treasury, has not made definite plans for the future, but has several offers under consideration. He was i university professor before entering the cabinet in 1913 as Secretary of Agriculture, but has not decided whether he will return to educational work er enter the commercial fi He has been head of for a year and also Federal Reserve Board, ch the Board for Vocational and a member of the Council 0f Na- tional Defense. John Barton Payne. Secretary of the Interior for a year, plans to make his home in Washing- ton. but will devote some of his time to the Chicago park project. in which ‘he was a moving spirit befors he was called to Washington early in the war as general counsel for the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. He also has been a member of the Federal Power Commission and di- rector general of railroads. Goes Back to Texas. Albert Sydney Burleson will g9 back to Austin, Tex., to practice law and to look after his private interesis there after eight years as Postmaster General. Edwin T. Meredith, who succeeded Mr. Houston as Secretary of Agricul- ture a year ago, will return to Des Moines to look after his farm mawa- szine and other interests. He also has been a member of the Federal Power Commission. Joshua W. Alexander, years' service as Secretary of Coni- merce. will go to his old homa at Gallatin, Mo, to resume the practice of law and, 48 he says, to “do a lit- tle farming on_the side.” William B. Wilson, another of the original Wilson cabinet members, has accepted appointment to the interna- tional joint cammission, which has to do with disputes arising between the United States and Canada. The salary is $7,500 a year. who i after twyo —_— GREAT VARIETY IN LENGTH OF INAUGURAL ADDRESSES Fillmore Omitted Speech, But William Henry Harrison Made One of 8,578 Words. President George Washington's first fnaugural address was made up of 1.300 words, his second Inaugural ad- dress comprised 134 words. John Adams addressed the American people in his inaugural speech with 2,31t words. Thomas Jefferson spoke in his first address 1,526 words, and 2123 in his second address. James Madison used 1.170 words in his frst {naugural address. and only 142 {0 his second. James Monroe made quite a long address to the people In 1517, using 3,322 words, and in 1821 he used 4,446 words in his inaugural address, just one hundred years ago. John Quincy Adams used 2,944 words_in" his inaugural in 1825; An- drew Jackson, 1.116 in his first inaugu- ral and 1,107 in_ his second; Martin Van Buren, 3,884; Willam Henry Harrigon, 8578, the most voluminous of all the presidents. John Tyler, in succeeding Harrison, addressed the people in an address of 1.643 words; James K. Polk, 4,904; Taylor, 1,09 Fillmore made no address in his s cession to the presidency. Franklin Pieros used 3319 words and Buchanan ,772. Abralam Lincoln, in_his first in- augural address. fn 1861, employed 2772 words, and 088 words in his second. in 1365. Andrew Johnson, his successor. Lad occasion for only 362 words. President Grant's first ad- dress had 1,139 words, and his second Precident Hay 4, 2.949; Arthur, 431 in_his first address, em- ployed 1688 words, and 2,029 in his second addrees. President Benjamin Harrison made his address to the nation as chief ¢ ecutive in an address of 4.58% words, President McKinley began his first term with an inaugural address of 2975 words, and his second with 2,223 words. President Theodore Rossevelt began his second term of servica as chief executive In an address of only 977 ‘words. President Taft addressed the people in an inaugura! speech of 2.500 word: President Wil inaugural 1 dresses, first a cond terms, con- sisted of about 4,500 words. —_— VITAL POINTS IN LIFE OF PRESIDENT HARDING ‘Warren Gamallel Harding, twenty- pinth President of the United States, Born - in Blooming Grove, Morrow eounty, Ohio, November 2, 1565 Student Ohio Central College, 1879~ 1882, Entered newspaper business, Mar- fon, Ohio, 1884, and publisher Marion, Ohio, Star since that time. .l.nrrmi Florence Kling, Marion, 1881, Member Ohio state senate, 1899 to 1903. Lieutenant governor of Ohio, 1904 to 1%06. Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio, 1910 (defeated). Elected to United States Senate, No- vember 3, 1914. Elected President November 2, 1920, Baptist, home Marion, Ohlo. PLACED ON RETIRED LIST. Second Licut. Albert A. Matthews, Philippine Scouts, has been placed on the retired iList as a first lieutenant, on account of disabllity incldent to ihe service, One who retires after down to practice of ¢ WHO WILL GUIDE DEPARTMENTAL DESTINIES | CHARLES E. HUGHES, | Secretary of State. Charle: ans Hughes, the Secretary of State, fift years old, a lawyver by profession. and a native of New York state. He attained his first great success in the investigation the management of the New York in- surance companies, which fame laid the foundation of the illustrious career which was to follow. He first served two terms as governor of New York, then ¥ is nine signing from that high office to become the republican candidate for the presi- . Defeated by Woodrow Wil close election, the outcome of W not definitely known for sev afterward. Mr. Hughes returncd rivate lifc and the practice of law. = looked upon as one of the coun- foremost investigators and jurists. Born in Glens Falls, N. Y. Judge Hughes was born April 11, heen | 1562, in Glens Falls, N. Y. His father was a Baptist minister. In his child- hood the Hughes family moved to Newark, N. J., where the boy received his elementary education in the pub- lie schools. versity at the age of fourteen and re- mained there two years. He went to Erown University in 1881 graduated when he was years old. He then took the law course at Columbia Law School and was admitted to the New York bar in 1884, He did not at first devote all his time to the practice of law, but for three years held a prize fellow- ship in the Columbia Law School. It was in the offices of Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower, where he be came a clerk, that Mr Hughes really began his legal activities. Tn 1888 he married Antoinette Car- ter, daughter of the senior member of ‘the firm, and he later became a member of the firm under the changed name of Carter, Hughes & Dwight. He became a professor of law at Cornell in 1891, in which capacity he served for two years. He then returned to active practice, but continued as spe- cial lecturer at Cornell and the New York Law School. Enters on Public Career. 1t was while serving as counsel for the Stevens Gas Commission that Mr. Hughes' public career started. He made numerous sensational disclosures. This work was followed by his employment as special counsel and investigator for trong investigating committee e A ew York legislature, which was conducting an inquiry into life Insur- ance companies. He made a great rep- Utation as a result of his fearless work in this case and, because of his popu- larity and demonstrated ability, he was nominated and elected governor of New York. ‘This was in the fall of 1906 He officiated with much vigor and gained great favor among the masses. fie was easily elected to a second term. President Taft appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1910, where he re- mained until he answered the call of his party, in 1916, to be its standard- bearer. The family of Mr. of a son, Charles E. three daugh{or, - and universities have ) lleges o Sapon Mr. Hughes the degree of doctor of laws. ANDREW W. MELLON 1 l Secretary of Treasury. Andrew William Mellon, the Secre- tary of the Treasury, is sixty-nine years old and a native of Pittsburgh, Pa. He is a banker and has been prominent in the development of finan- cial, coal, coke and oil industries and is one of the wealthiest men in the United States, being many times a millionaire. It is reported that he pays the largest individual income tax in the state of Pennsylvania. . Mellon was born in Pitteburgh nn%rrecclw»d his education there, be- ing graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. His father, Judge Thomas Mellon, was one of the early ploneers of western Pennsylvania and was the founder of the Mellon fortune, and at the time of his death was one of the most prominent and richest men in that part of the state. Father Started Frick. 1t was Judge Mellon who loaned Henry C. Frick $20,000 which started him on his illustrious money-making career.. Andrew Mellon learned the rudiments of business and finance during his early assoclation with his father's bank, and through his ac- quaintance with Frick he became as- sociated with him in a number of big concerns. At Mr. Friok's death he succeeded him as one of the directors of the Pennsylvania railroad. The three big Mellon banks—the Mellon National, the Union Trust and the Union Savings—are mot only the largest of their kind in western Pennsylvania, but they have numer- ous financial connections throughout ihe state and in Ohio and other sec- tions of the middle west. Mr. Mel- lon has always followed the policy of refusing to permit any of his banks to engage in international banking and he has confined his ac- tivities upon strictly American lines. and was nineteen Hughes consists Hughes, Jr., and Lifelong Republiea: The new Treasury head is a life- Jong republican of the so-called “stand-pat” variety, and although he has always contributed to and oth- erwise aided the interests of his par- iy, he had never been active In_poli- tics. He has devoted much study to the subject of Eovernment econom- jos. He is a patron of art and is as- gociated with the Carnegie Institute, the great libraries and other edu- cational projects in and around ittsburgh, for which purpose Mr. Carnegie gave many milllons. He was one of the organizers of the Gulf Refining Corapany. and personally built and nan:ed the town of Donora, Pa., which now has a population of more than 16,000, ) of | 3 as associate justice of | 2 i the United States Supreme Court, re- He entered Colgate Uni- | HARRY M. DAUGH Attorney General. SRTY, | KEYSTONE V& WILL H. HAYS, Postmaxter General. JOHN W. WEEKS, Secretary of War. JOHN W. WEEKS, Secretary of War. Secretary of Agriculture. T WILL H. HAYS, | Postmaster General. || | John Wingate Weeks, Secretary of War in President Harding's cabinet, is sixty-one years old, and served sentatives and six years in the Sen- ate, representing the state of Massa- chusetts. He was born in Lancaster, H., is @ member of one of the lead g banking firms in New England and has been prominent in local and national politics for more than thirty years. In 1916 he was a candidate for the republican nomination for President. Mr. Weeks was born on a farm and worked as a farmboy until he was sixteen years old, when he became teacher in a country school. He grad- uated from the United States Naval Academy in 1881 and served as a midshipman for the next two years, when he resigned. He later served in the Massachusetts Naval Brigade, and for six years was commanding officer of that organization. In Spanish-American War. When the Spanish-American war started. he promptly volunteered, and was brevetted a lieutenant in com- mand of the second division of the auxiliary fleet. Preparatory te en- tering public life he was elected as a member of the board of aldermen of Newton, Mass., and later as mayor of that city. About this time he had attained a position of great promi- nenec in the banking circles of New England as a member of the banking firm of Hornblower & Weeks of Bos- on. It was in 1305 that he was elected to the House of Representatives and his reputation as a banker caused him to be immediately placed on the im- portant committce on banking and currency. He was elected to. four terms in that body and in 1913 was elected to the Senate, where he I camo one of the dominant figures of the upper house and one of the lead- ers of his party. During his service in both branches of Congress he de- voted much attention to naval and military matters as well as to those | pertaining” to the finances of the na- tion. He was prominent in advocat- ing expansion of the Navy, the crea- tion of an adequate military and naval reserve, better coast defenses, the up- building of a merchant marine and similar projects. Man of Rare Judgment. In politics, as well as in business, he is looked upon as a man of rare judgment and one possessing great executive and organizing ability. During the last eight years he has been in the higher councils of his party organization and during the last campaign was one of Chairman Hays' principal assistants. 'HARRY M. DAUGHERTY, | Attorney General. l Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney Gen- eral in President Harding's cabinet, is sixty-one years old, a native of Ohio, and a lawyer by profession. He has been a practicing lawyer in Co- lumbus, Ohio, and is looked upon as one of the foremost and most su cessful attorneys in the middle west. For forty years ho has been active in politics, and for a score of years he has been active in national as well as state and local politics. Mr. Daugherty has been for many years @ close personal friend of War- ren G. Harding and for a long time has been his political adviser. He handled Senator Harding's pre-elec- tion campalgn. and directed the fight which brought him up from behind and secured the nomination. It is known that he was a moving spirit in_making Senator Harding a can- didate for the nomination. Early Political Career. The history of Mr. Daugherty's na- tional political career begins back in the early days of Mark Hanna. He was defeated for the nomination for governor in 1839 and later was forced to sidetrack his ambition to go to the Senate. He has been a delegate to four national conventions, in all of which he took an important part. He has been a delegate to twenty-three state conventfons and he served two terms in the Ohio state legislature. Harry Daugherty was born Janu- ary 26, 1860, in Washington Court House, Fayette county, Ohio. His father was John B. Daugherty. He attended the public schools and it was necessary for him to work on a farm during vacations to complete his edu- cation. He was graduated from Ann Arbor Law School in 1882, and began the practice of law in Washington Court House. He later moved to Co- lumbus, and soon became prominent politically and in his profession, he- 3 eight years in the House of Repre-| | Harrison Hays, the Postmaster | General, who has been at the helm of the republican party for four years as chairman of the national commit- | Wil tee, is a lawyer by prof He | was born in Sullivan. Sullivan county Ind, November 5, 18 His father, ohn T. Hays, who was of Scotch- Irish stock, practiced law for forty years. Subsequently Will H. and Hinkle Hays took possession of their father's law busine Born in the Presbyterian faith, Mr. Hays went to Wabash College, Cr fordsville, Ind., where he received the degree of A. B. and M. A. On the day he’ was twenty-on irs old Nr. Hays voted and wi mitted to Ui bar in Sullivan county, which was democratic stronghold. ‘He was a ¢ didate for prosecutor in 19¢ but w defeated, the fact th hi uther been elected to the me office as s republican back in 1872 failing as precedent for Will. He became' re- publican county chairman in 1903 and displayed such zeal as an organizer that James Goodrich, whil of Indiana, soon called him to In¢ apolis to conduct the speakers' bured of the state. In 1906 he became the county chai man and succeeded in member to the general as: the sgheriff of the county. district chairman for his party four y. making many house visits in his personal canva: in the interest of his ticket. In 1914 the state chairmanship was conferred upon him, in which capacity he con- tinued throughout the campaign of 1916, carrying the state for Hughes by 7,000 Votes, despite the excellent organization of the democrats at that me. When for house-to- America went to war Mr. Hays, failing of acceptance for the Army. because he did not weigh enough, became c¢hairman of the ate council of defense and organ- ized the Hooslers in the fight against Germany. By this time he had attained na- tional prominence, and when Chai man Wilcox of the republican n tional committee resigned and it was found impossible to land John P. Adams of Towa in his place, the posi- tion went to Mr. Ha n his record as an organizer and a harmonizer. During the congressional campaign in 1918 he had a record of fifty-ni nights_in a Pullman sleeping coach. Mr. Hays is a church-going person and for fifteen years has been a Sun- day school teacher and lately was elected a deacon. He marricd Helen Thomas, the daughter of Judge Thomas of Indiana. He was recently elected president of the I’hi Delta Theta Fraternity. EDWIN DENBY, Secretary of Navy. Edwin Denby of Michigan, the new Secretary of the Navy, is one of the younger members of Mr. Harding's cab- net, being fifty-one years old. He is a lawyer by profession, a former mem- ber of Congress and a veteran of the Spanish-American and the world wars. When his father, Charles Denby of Indiana, was appointed minister to China, Secretary Denby, who was then twenty-five years old, accompanied him to the orient and for more than ten years served in the imperial maritime customs service of China. He gradu- ated from law school at the Univer- sity of Michigan in 1894, and was ad- mitted to the bar in Defrolt, Mich., in Enlisted as Gunner's Mate. During the Spanish war he enlisted in the Navy as a gunner's mate, and was assigned to the U. . S. Yosemite. He was elected to the Michigan house of representatives in 1902 and 1903. Two years later he was sent to Congre: from the first Michigan district, where he served six years. Upon his retire- ment from Congress he returned to the practico of law in Detroit, and shortly afterward became identified with the automobile industry The fact that Mr. Denby was forty- scven years old when this country entered the world war did not throw a damper upon his patriotism and desire for active service, and he en- listed in the United Sfates Marine Corps and shortly afterward was made a sergeant and was retired at the close of the war as a major. Wan College Athlete. Denby was an athlete in his days and is fond of sports, Mr. colle and his principle work in the Marine |- Corps was devoted to the develop- .| publican e EDWIN DENBY, Secretary of Navy ment of morale by daily lectures to the incoming recruit During his service in the House, be- cause of the experience in the Navy and his in t in that branch of the government, he was placed on the committee on naval affairs, and at the time of his retireinent was chairman of that important com- | mittee. | “Though for Theodore Roosevelt in his pre-convention campaign of 1913, he supported Taft when the split came and has remained a regular re- r since. He was pr | dent of the Detroit charter commi sion in_1913. He married Mis Marion Thurber of Detroit March 18, 1911. | ALBERT B. FALL, Secretary of Interior. | = SE SR Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of In- terior, was drafted into DPresident Harding’s cabinet from the United ates Senate, where he had served . gtate of New Mexico since 1912 fifty-nine years old, a lawyer by profession and was born in Ken- He was one of the leaders of Bis party in the Senate and is looked upon as one of the foremost authori- ties on foreign affairs and interna- tional law in the United States, Senator Fall was born in Frankfort, Ky., Novembe 1861, He was edu- cated in the county schools and be- tween the ages of eighteen and twenty years taught school and read law. Being imbued with the pioneer spirit and posscssing the youthful ardor he migrated to the great southwest domain, finally se ting in New Mexico, which was then a territory. Saw Frontler Thrills. During those early days young Fall went through all the thrills incident to life on a cattle ranch in frontier times. He also worked as a farm land and for a time toiled as a miner in that section. He became interested in the development of mines, lumber lands, ranches and railroads, and up to tho present time has been promi- nently identified with these interests. He owns and operates one of the t stock farms in New Mexico. ator Fall, in those early days, alwavs more or less active in local politics, but it was not until his_ele tion a8 a member of the New Mexico legislature that he started on @ poten- tial political carcer. He was elected to the legislaturo several times and also was a member of the constitutional con- vention which drafted the basic law for statehood. He afterwards elect- ed an assoclato justice of the supreme court of New Mexico, and was twice attorney general of the territory. Helped Organize Volunteers. At the outbreak of the Spanish- American war he helped organize the |1st Territorial Volunteers, and was made captain of Company H of that organization. He was elected to the United States te by the New Mexican legisl on March 1912, and was re-ele on Janus 1913, for the term end ing March 3, 1919 At the expiration of this term it was the intention of Senator Fall to retire from public life, but he was prevailed upon to again be- L for the term ending March 3, 1925. At the time of his resignation from the Senate, Mr. Fali was chairman of the committee on Facific Islands, Porto Rico and the Virginia Islands, and was a member of several important com- mittees, such as fo gn relations, judi- public lands, privileges and elec- tions, Indian affairs and irrigation and reclamation of arid lands. I | HENRY C. WALLACE, [ Secretary of Agriculture. Henry C. Wallace, the Secretary of Agriculture, is an editor and publisher, wractical farmer, former professor of dairyi and an extensive breeder of live stock. He is fifty-four years eold and a native of lowa. Mr. Wallace's most notable achieve- ment recently, and brought him in closest touch with President Harding, was his authorship of the agricultural plank in the repub- lican platform as it was adopted in the Chicago convention. He also has furnished Mr. Harding with consider- able data which was used by the lat- ter during his campaign speeches. Aside from being an editor of note and an instructor in the science of agricul- ture, Mr. Wallace is sald to answer in | every way the qualifications of a “dirt farmer.” Born Rock Island, 1L He was born in Rock Island in 1866. His father, well knowa throughout the k. ndidate and he was re-elected | which probably | HERBERT C. HOOVER, Secretary of Commerce. JAMES J. DAVIS, Secretary of Labor. miadle west as “Uncle” Hen lace, was one of the pioneers of t section, and was the founder of W lac Farmer, which is today one of the most successful and widely circu- lated farm journals in the middle west. He spent his boyhood in Rock Isiand, attending the public schools, and after | graduation from the high school en- fered the agricultural college at Ames, Jowa. It was during his sophomore year there that he met May Broadhead, a freshman, whom he married a few years later. The first five years of Wallace's married life he spent on a farm in Adair county, and it was while thus engaged that the new agricultural head obtained his first-hand know edge of the hard work and vic tudes of farm life. At the end of these five years Mr. Wallace re-en- tered the agricultural college, grad- uating two years later. He then b came an assistant professor of dairy ing at this institution, and later was § promoted to professor. Brillinnt Success as Editor. Wallace's Farmer, of which Mr. ‘Wallace is now editor, has its head- quarters in Des Moines, and from a small farm paper, in the fifteen years Mr. Wallace has been its directing head, has grown in importance and circulation. Throughout this period Mr. Wallace has made it his business to know what the needs of the farm- ers are today, and to further, as he expresses it, “good farming and good thinking on problems connected with food production and distribution Ampico Reproducing Piano WEEK at the big Knabe Store Tomorrow ‘ Will Be Godowsky i Day PROGRAM i Etude de Concert, No. Major. Waltz, Op. 42—A Flat Major. l’r;phet Bird, Op. 82—No. Waltz, Op. 6+—No. 2. k] | ALBERT B. Secretary of the FALL. HERBERT HOOVER, i Secretary of Commerce. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com- merce, is forty years old, a native California, and a mining engineer by profession. lle came into world prominence during the war through his work as commissioner for relief in Belgium, then as United States food administrator and finally as food direc- tor of the war-torn nations. He used to sign his name Herbert C. Hoover, but he dropped the middle initial in 1914. Mr. Hoover was born in To August 10, 1874, Ho went to Califo nia when a youngsi sradu- ated as a mining engineer from Leland Stanford University in 1 Before his graduation he had worked in the field with the United States geological survey, and following his graduation he spent a year with the survey in the Sierra Navada mountains. He then looked to foreign fields for his endeav- ors as an engineer, and two years after graduation he went to Australia. Two Nocturne, Op. 37—G. years later he went to Chira as chief engineer of the Chinese imperial bu- reau of mines. A year later he took part in the defense of Tientsin against the boxer uprising, manning a machine gun during the fighting. | oes to London. Mr. Hoover then went to London, where he organized a mining com- ¢ to develop concessions in Chin: venture proved highly success- fter spending several vears the head of these operations he be- ame director of a dozen mining com- panies in Siberia, the Alps, Asia Mi- nor and Burma. Mr. Hoover organized and headed the American Relief Commission, which helped stranded Americans in Europe at the outbreak of the world war. He then headed the Belgian relief work, which _involved the handling of millions of dollars, hun- dreds of thousands of tons of sup- plies and a_big fleet of relief ships. Then the United States entered the war, and the cry was everywhere Food will win the war,” and Mr. Hoover was called to this country to ake charge of the food regulation ere. After the war he went again to Europe as a_member of the supreme council and began the work of feed- ing the peoples of central Europe. Long before the national conven- tions last summer Mr. Hoover was continually being mentioned as a pos- sible presidential candidate. Little seemed to be known of his party affili- ations. He was at firs vanced by Some democratic leaders, but he final- ly settled the issue by pub nouncing that he would accept the republican nomination. An active campaign was started in his behalf, but his candidacy never reached a formidable stage. Mr. Hoover is a trustee of Stanford University and is president of the American _Society of Engineers. {1859 he marricd Miss Lou Henry of | Monterey, Cali ho was a student 'at college with him. h ful, and W THIS IS L new S [¥ | Brown’s Mill. he | ~ JAMES J. DAVIS, Secretary of Labor. | James J. Davis of Pittsburgh, the retary of Labor, is a native of Wales, having been born in Trede. gar on October 27, 1873. The elder Davis sailed for America in 1880 and his wife and six children followed a ar later, settling in Sharon, Pa. It was there that at the age of eight the future cabinet officer got his first job, which was taking care of five cows belonging to a local hotel, and |shining shoes and selling papers. When nine years old h started to school, but lef at the age of eleven | to become a nail picker at a steel mill in Sharon. Ran Puddier's Furnace. When fourteen years old Mr. Davis became a puddler’s belper in the mill and the following year he was given the task of running a puddler's fur- nance. It was at that time he joined the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, to which he still belongs Mr. Davis was sixteen years old | when he moved to Pittsburgh and en- the employ of the Kevstone ing Mills and later he entered Leaving Pittsburgh the »ung iron worker worked for a time in Birmingham, Ala, and then re- turned north to Elwood. Ind. Here he began to turn his attention to things political and he became city clerk at the age of twenty-three. Goes to Business College. During t time in Elwood Mr. Davis went to business college and at the close of his term as city clerk was elected recorder of Madison county. On his birthday in 1906 Mr. Davis joined the Loval Order of Moose, then just organized, being the 247th mem- be initiated. The next year he came director general of the order. He was chairman of the Moose war relief commission and spent part of the years 1918 and 1919 with the American expeditionary force in con- nection with that work. Mr. Davis began his career as a business man and banker in Indiana and later returned to Pittsburgh, where he has amassed a comfortabis fortune. His wife was Miss Jean R. Rodenbaugh. They have two children, James J, jr. aged four, and Jane Elizabeth, aged one. —_— PRESIDENT HARDING IS FIRST PUBLISHER IN HIGHEST OFFICE Warren G. Harding is the first newspaper publisher to serve as President of the United States. He is the twenty-ninth chlef execu- tive, reckoning Cleveland's two terms as scparate ones, because he was the only President serving twice who was not re-elected. Nineteen Presidents were law- yers at the time they were elect- ed. Three are classified as states- men, two as soldlers, two as farm- ers, one as a public official. Mr. Harding might also fall within the class of statesman, as he had served six years in the Senate when elected, and was the first senator to be elected President. Virginia leads in the nativity of Presidents. Light of her sons— i Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor and_ Wilson—have held the highest office in the gift of the nation. Ohio has given seven native sons to the presidency—Grant, Hayes, Garfleld, Benjamin Harrison, Mc- Kinley, Taft and Harding. Eighteen Presidents have been college men; one was graduated from West Point, nine had no col- lege education. CONGRESS LIBRARY OPEN. Exhibition halls and corridors of the Library of Congress will be open until 10 p.m. tonight to the publi The several divisions of the librar: excepting the Sunday and holida service, are closed all day. The di- visions comprising the Sunday and holiday service are to be open from 2 to 10 p.m. e e GOES TO CAMP MEADE. Maj. Henry H. 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