Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1929, Page 37

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, B. C. JANUARY 13, 1929—PART 2 5 W Picking a New Cabinet 4n an uncomplimentary way, and clothe it in a new shell more in harmony with 4ts surroundings. The next President has been advised that the strange combination of French, @Greek and Gothic architectures incor- rated into the State, War and Navy | uilding is illegal, any That is to say, Congress intended the structure to a counterpart of the Treasury Building and so ordered it in the act suthorizing its construction. The archi- tect, so the story goes, had ideas of his own, however, and apparently without asking Congress anything about it pro- ceeded to take all kinds of liberties with the law—and with good taste, Liberties Were Taken. The fact that such liberties were taken was unearthed about three years #go. At the same time it was discov- ered that so far as the interior arrange- ment goes, the State, War and Navy Building matches that of the Treasury. Mr. Hoover thinks it would cost only a moderate sum, as building appropria- tions go, to remove the fanciful ex- terior of the State, War and Navy Building and remodel it into another Treasury-type Structure. It is said there are no serious engineering obstacles to such a plan. The “face lifting” opera- tion would restore architectural balance to the Treasury-White House-State, ‘War and Navy group of buildings with- out the necessity for tearing down the whole structure and putting up a new building at a cost of ten or twelve mil- Yions of dollars. The cost of the re- modeling probably would not exceed a million and a half dollars, according to ®ough estimates. Desires Permanent Buildines. entually the President-elect Moves, the N: €hipping Board buildings and all other temporary structures erected during the war to house expanding governmental activities must be vacated in favor of Permanent buildings designed to fit into the general plan of public building de- velopment. The time will come, more- over, when the drab gray granite Post- office Departmental Building, another tliscordant splotch, must come down. Mr. oover thinks it may take 50 years, owever, before an outraged public reaches a state of indignation sufficiont to induce it to dig into its pockets for the money with which to erect a new post office edifice. Until that day arrives and until steps are taken to improve the appearance of the north side of Pennsylvania ave- nue, the Nation's parade ground will find itself losing the spotlight under competition to be offered by its nea: neighbor, B street. Mr. Hoover expacts B street to become one of the world's most magnificent boulevards, lined throughout its length by imposing pub- lic buildings with gleaming colonnadas and colorful landscaping. He has walked over the site of this great development time and again and envisioned the grandeur of the scene which succesd ing generations will enjoy. As Secrs tary of Commerce, he took a deep per- sonal interest in the triangle project, with special reference to the location, design and construction of the huge new Commerce building This structure, to cost some $15,000.000, will be the dargest of the group and will be located @t the western side of the triangle. Ideals in Private Building. ‘The next President is said to feel that private building interests should take just as much pride in maintain- ing the dignity and beauty of the Na- tional Capital as do the officials in eharge of Federal construction pro- @rams. There should be wholehearted, €d-operation between public and privaie be- Department-Munitions- | ital shall not be de- stroved or interfered with. He recog- nizes the fact that this spirit of co- operation already has been manifested voluntarily on more than one occasion, that private builders have shown an in- clination to adapt their enterprises to the esthetic treatment sponsored by the Fine Arts Commission and other pub- agencies. He believes, for instance, that the new National Press Building is an example of what private interests may do in the way of co-operating in the movement to make Washington more beautiful. Numerous other private buildings might be mentioned in this connection. Pleased With Memorial. Federal authorities, he contends, would do well to incorporate into all | new public structures the charactcl | found in the Capital and the stately | beauty, the awesome simplicity of the Lincoln Mem Incidentally, Mr. Hoover is positively enthusiastic over that memorial. He claims, with others, that it is perhaps the greatest example of pure Doric architecture erected since | the ancient Greeks built their marvel- | ous temples, 4 . President-elect Hoover is of the opin- jon that Washington affords a perfect natural setting for the National Capital. A lover of the out-of-doors, he finds Washington parks and driveways a never-boring source of _relaxation. Thanks to Congressional generosity, the city has been provided with a system of Federal parks, playgrounds and boule- vards rivaling those of any city in the | world, and he is duly grateful. He favors the improvement and expansion | of this program wherever and when- ever possible. Cuitural Possibilities. Aside from the purely physical de- velpoment, Mr. Hoover wants the | National Capital to develop to the fullest extent its cultural possibilities. Washington should be the art, literary and scientific center of the Nation, according to these views. The National Gallery, the Freer Gallery, the Corcoran Gellery, the Library of Congress, the National Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and the many other public and private facilities along these lines combine to give the city advantages possessed by no other capital in the world. As for Washington's system of local government, Mr. Hoover has no com- ment to make, but his friends are of the opinion that he regards the present commission form of municipal admin- istration without a peer. Nor has he | had anything to say with respect to | the campaign of the citizens for repre- | sentation in Congress. Those close to | him claim, however, that as a patriotic | American citizen he sees no reason the residents of the District of | Columbia should not have the same rights of congressional representation as any cther citizens. Will Be Ready to Help. Mr. Hoover is going to make his home in Washington for another four years, at least. He appears to have no intention of relinquishing owner- ship of his handsome S street home. It probably will be leased durkg his occupancy of the White House. After that there seems little doubt that he will again become a private resident of the Capital, but perhaps dividing his allegiance between Washington and Palo Alto. Never, however, will he lose his interest in the Caiptal of the Nation, and during the next four years it is a safe prediction that Washington will find the President of the United States cver ready to listen to its problems, eesist in its needs and further its pardonable ambitions cf claiming un- disputably the right to be called the Interests to the end that the harmonious motif intended to dominate the appear- world's most attractive seat of Govern- ment. World Cruiser Situation (Continued From Third Page.) type of vessel, which has assumed major proportions in public interest because | of the fisht in and out of Congress that is going forward around the ques- tion: “Shall Uncle Sam build 15 eruisers at this time?: “Next in value 10 the battleship for sea operations is she light cruiser. The modern light eguiser is a vessel of great speed, rea- mnhly heavy guns—though not as vy as those on battieships—slight armor protection and a considerable eruising radius. Her duties are, when with the fleet, 1o guard the fiset's govements as a scout and to act as a protective screen. In action cruisers ere necessary to attack on their own rt the cruisers of the enemy, to break wn destroyer attacks and to help | carry in to the enemy our own de- stroyer attacks. “If the fleet is to operate away from #ts base, cruisers are nacessary to guard the lines of communications and to esoort convoys. Away from the flect | they are the vessels primarily used to break the enemy’s lines of commurica- #6h, to protect our cwn commerce and $0 destroy the en=my’s commerce.” Cruisers are capable of making more than thirty knots an hour, compared with the battieships, which make only about nty knots. Apart from the | crulsers’ value in actual warfare, when | they steam ahead of the mein baitle fleet, spot the enemy and engage its | vanguard in actual combat, they are ‘considered important in times of peace, for their great speed makes them of smuch greater use in times when speed 38 a vital factor—such as in msglng gelief to stricken areas. Vessels in Construction. The newest cruiser of the American Navy now in commission is the U. 8. 8. Memphis, which was scen by countless Washingfonians whon that vessel brought Col. Charles A. Lindberg back | from Europe after his triumphal fligh Now being consiructed are the cigh cruisers of 10,000 tons each—the Pen- | sacola, Salt Lake City, Northampton, Chester, CL 28, Chicago, Houston and Augusta. The designation “CL" stand- dng for “cruiser, light,” is arbitrarily given to cruisers before they are offi- clally named. The Salt Lake City, the first of these %o be commissioned, it is cxpected, will be ready late this year or early in 1920. No cruisers are how appropriated for as a future program. The British Empire has these cruisers mow being built—the London, Devon- shire, Shropshire, Sussex, Dorsetshire, Norfolk, York and Exeter—eight in all, The first six are of 10,000 tons each end the two latter are of 8300 tons each. In addition, two more have been appropriated for. Japan has building the Myoko, Ha- uro, Ashigara, Atago, Ta and Cho- ai, six cruisers of 10,000 tons each, and the Maya, also of 10,000 tons, has been eppropriated for. France has building the Suffern, Col- bert and C-2, of 10,000 tons each. and has appropriated for the cruiser school- s building the cruisers Trieste, lberto da Gilussano, Alberico ano, Bertolomeo Colleoni and the Giov. Della Bande Nere, the first two being of 10,000 tons each and the rest of 5000 tons each. In addition, Mussolini has appropriated for the Fiume and the Zara, both of 10,000 tons y's naval construction is ¥ limited by the Versailles treaty and so the fatherland now cuts litt figure in the prevailing intcinational nraal fashion show. How Nations Line Up. A summing up of the intcrnational cruiser situation shows that, considering has 16 of 139,379 and Italy hes 20 cruisers of 127,370 tons grand total. ‘The United States possesses the old-, est cruiser of any of the major na- tions, the U. S. 8. Rochester, which was laid down in 1890 and completed in 1893. She is of 8,150 tons displace- ment. The U. 8. S. Olympia, laid down in 1891 and compjeted in 1894, noted as Dewey's flagship &t the battle of Manila | Bay, is still on the roster of American naval ships. 8he is of 5,865 tons dis- placement. The oldest cruiser the British na: now has in commission is the H. M. Dartmouth, which was laid down in 1910 and completed a year later. She is of 5250 tons displacement. Japan’s oldest cruiser is the Asama, of 0,885 tens, which was laid down in 1896 and completed in 1899. France's oldest cruiser is the Jeanne d'Are, of 11,126 tons. which was laid down in 1895 and completed in 1903. Italy’s oldest cruiser is the Ferruccio, laid down in 1889, with a displacement of 7,234 tons, and com- pleted in 1904, From 1905 to 1918 the United States Navy laid down not a single cruiser of | any kind, while the navies of Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy all constructed cruisers during that period. Cruisers of the Second Line, Cruisers of the second line that are over 20 years cf age appear in the fol- lowing line-up: United States, 22; British Empire, none; Japan, 9; France, 6, and Italy, 1. Calling the roll of thes: ships, one finds that American cruisers over 20 years of age are the Rochester, Olmpia, New Orleans, Albany, Cleve- land, Denver, Des Moines, Chattenooga, Frederick, Galveston, Huntington, Pitts- burgh, Pueblo, Charleston, St. Louls, Beattle, Huron, Birminghem, Charlotte, York, Missoula and Salem. These vet- eran cruisers have played a colorful part in American history and have witnessed the advance of the Nation they serve to a position of premier world importance. | American naval officers insist that the bill to authorize construction of 13 Tul the measure that is the un- finish=d business of the Senate—is a replacement program to permit retire- ment of these antiquated vesse!s of an- other goneration that are still doing service. The 15 new cruisers, if au- thorized, will replace 15 of the 22 vet- eran cruisers, the naval officers say. The tonnage of these seccnd-line cruisers shows that the 22 of the United States total 119,425 tons, the 9 of Japan total 71,434 tons, the 6 of France total |64,7TD and Italy’s lone veteran cruiser has a displacement of 7.234 tons. Has Two Aircraft Carriers. Examination of the construction that has gone forward since the Washington Arms Conference shows that the United States has built 2 eircraft carriers, the U. S. S. Lexington and Saratoga. the 8 rs mentioned above, 3 sub- marines of all classes and the 6 river gunboats that are doing duty in China. Great Britain's construction of naval craft since February, 1922, when the Limitation Conference convened, in- cluding the whole of the British em- pire, shows that 2 battleships have been aid down, the Ne d the Rodney, completed in 1927 and specifically pro- vided for under the Washington naval ipact: 2 alreraft carriers, 17 crulsers, mine layer, 20 destroyers of all cl 21 submarines of all classes, 4 gunboats, 5 river gunboats, 2 submarine tenders and 2 mine sweepers Figures for Japan show that since the Arms Conference here 2 aircraft car- riers have been lald down, 16 cruisers, 2 mine layers, 51 destroyers of all classes, 33 submarines of all classes, 2 gunboats, 4 river gunboats, 6 mine weepers, 2 submarine tenders, 3 tank- e 2 heavier-than-aircraft tenders, 1 supply ship and 3 auxiliaries and n cellaneous. France’s naval construction since the Washington naval pact comprises 1 air- craft carrier, 9 cruisers, 1 mine layer, | ships of effective pge—less than 20 ears old—built and building, the nited States has 18 ships of 155.000 tons as a grand total, the British Em- s has 64 of 397,140 tons grand total, apan has 33 of 213,055 tons, France 44 destroyers of all ciasses, 57 sub- marines of all classes, 2 gunboats, 1 river gunboat, 1 submarine tender, 3 tankers and 1 heavier-than-aircraft tender. Italy's construction consisis of 8 cruisers, 32 destroyers of all classes, 27 submarines of all classes, 10 mine sweepers, 4 tankers, 1 heavier-than air- craft tender and 1 auxiliary vessel. U. S. Has Kept the Faith. In the opinion of those that have watched this so-called “raze in naval armament,” despite the Washington pact, which was designed to be a car- dinal factor in ending competitive building, the United States is repre- sented as having lived within the spirit and letter of the Washington treaty, while the other nations have gone for- ward in putting vessels other than first- line capital ships on the ways. American naval officers assert that Great Britain has a mighty potential cruiser fleet in her merchantmen, which can be mounted, they say. with 6-inch guns. What England fears most, they insist, is that if the United States builds a number of cruisers equipped with 8-inch guns, they will render impotent the 6-inch guns of Eng- land's naval-merchant fleet. If the United States desired to build cruisers of 6-inch guns' capacity, the of- ficers declare, international agitation against their construction would sub- side. Consideration of the armament of the vessels that are now being built shows that the Pensacola and Salt Lake City will have main batteries of ten 8-inch guns, and for anti-aircraft, four 5-inch guns. An 8-inch gun will ac- commodate a shell 8 inches in diam- eter. The other new cruisers Uncle sam is bullding will have nine 8-inch guns, with four 5-inch guns to combat aircraft, and the eight cruisers under construction will each have six torpedo tubes. Of the eight cruisers the British empire i building six will have main batteries of eight 8-inch guns and two ships will have six 8-inch guns. All will have four 4-inch anti-aircraft guns. The six vessels will have eight torpedo tubes and the other two will each have six torpedo tubes. Japan's armament for her new fight- ing craft is represented in ten 8-inch guns for her six new cruisers, which will each have four 4.7-inch anti-air- cn{lt batteries and 12 torpedo tubes each. France's three new cruisers will each have eight 8-inch guns in the main battery and eight 3-inch guns for hos- tile aircraft. Each will possess six tor- o tubes. Batteries have been ascertained for only two of Italy’s six new cruisers— the Trieste and Trento, which will each have eight 8-inch guns and four 4-inch anti-aircraft guns, with four torpedo tubes each. At the present time, naval officers ex- plain, the United States is without modern cruisers mounted with 8-inch guns on the seas. Both England and Japan possess cruisers with 8-inch guns, completed within the past couple of years. Because the charge has been brought forward that construction of the 15 cruisers asked for in the pending legis- lation will endanger the success of the Kellogg multilateral treaty and the peace of the world, due to the oft- repeated assertion that American for- eign trade and an adequate Navy are closely related, and the assertion that after all the prime purposes of the Washington Conference for the Limi- tation of Naval Armament have fallen far short of realization and a new con- ference to limit cruisers is necessary, the interest of Mr. Average Citizen in the American cruiser situation is in the ascendant. (Continued From Third Page.) have been making the weal of the American Navy and the prestige of more than one responsible individual its especial care. One or two Mexican machine guns ambushed on any of the wharves could have smitten scores of marines and sailors dead and wounded in the boats before they could have protected themselves or been shiclded by the covering guns of the war vessels. oOur landing party—naval officers ‘who participated have acknowledged it to me—went into the port as a boxer might front his opponent with his open fists hanging by his sides, leaving him- self open for & knockout hook to the jaw. I am merely recording the fact, not criticizing. So far as Fletcher was concerned he had in good faith relied upon the myth that the Mexicans would not fight, which came to him from sources which he had every rea- son for believing reliable. Prisoners Freed and Armed. Maas did scurry from the city, as he had told the consul he would, when he assured himself that the Americans would land. His rear guard had scarcely marched out of the barracks when the Americans swarmed into the custom house, the post office and the rallway terminal, which were strung along the waterfront for an eighth of a mile, and into the cable office, a square inland to the rear of the con- sulate. But before he fled Maas did this: He told his soldiers that those who desired might remain in the city and fight the gringoes. Several hun- dred of them did so. He caused to be freed the prisoners in the jail and the guard house. Rifies and cartridges were served out to them and to numerous civillans. This is why the occupation was transformed from a parade into a two-day battle, causing that night the President’s agitation when he learned of how things had gone wrong in Vera Cruz and brooded over the casualty list. Sniping_at the Americans started within a few minutes after they came ashore. Our wounded began to drop. Here was a situation that had not been forecast nor forseen. The Mexicans were fighting! Despatched by a hor- rified consul, a messenger slipped out from the city to find Maas and entreat him to stop the Mexican fire. Maas pleaded that the situation was beyond his control. Our men held themselves in check until several of them had been killed. Then orders came from the flagship for them to engage, and the battle was on. But the Americans were fighting with one arm, for Fletcher's orders were explicit. He was charged to confine his offensive to a mere occupation of the custom house, ete. He had no au- thority to go in with everything he had and clean up the job in a hurry, and with few casualties on either side, which he might easily have done on the first day, had it been left to his discretion. Captain Refused to Withdraw. When darkness forced a cessation of the fighting, the Americans for their day's work had nothing to show for it save nearly a score of dead, and a hold on the waterfront, which extended no further than one or two squares into the city ftsclf. in a triangle. All of the fighting on the Mexican side had been done by snipers, with the exception of the organized opposition offered by the cadets of the naval school, who from the bullding which was far beyond the custom house to the south, harassed the Americans with damaging riflery. With dusk came orders from Fletcher to Capt. Rush of the battleship Florida, in command of the landing expedition, to withdraw his men for the night to the railway terminal. Rush protested to Fietcher that his men had been fighting all day and had sustained serious losses, that they had gained appreciable ground and that it would be ridiculous for them to relinquish what they had won and be forced to retake it again on the mor- row. That looked too much like a res treat to suit the truculent Rush. "Il be damned if T go bdck,” he said to me, RI?{: hadh his way. rough the night cable and wirel messages clicked and sputtered betwc:‘r} Vera Cruz and Washington, back and forth. The situation was as plain as a pikestall. We had the bear by the tail, and we could not let go. Washington told Fletcher to go ahead and get through with it, no matter to what ex- tremes of force he might have to resort to bring the city under the fiag. Mexicans Slew Mexicans. By midmorning the next day the Americans—who then did whet should and could have been done 24 hours be- fore—had bored in with precision and energy. and the city was theirs. A few shells from the smaller guns aboard the war vessels wrecked the Naval School and caused heavy losses among the youngsters who Wwere fighting from there. Otherwise the city suffered lit- tle damuge. Of the American comba- tants 18 were killed end 70 wounded. The official Mexican loss was 126 killed and 185 wounded. Probably not a life would have been lost on either side had we gone at the job properly and had not too much credulity been rested upon Maas’ intentions. Fully half of the Mexicans were slain by their own people. The irresponsible criminals and civilians whom Maas had armed hid themselves behind roof parapets and in windows and doorways and fired in- discriminately at whatever human tar- gets offered themselves in the streets. I saw this. ‘Tampico was not occupied. In the storm of wrath—which to the credit of the Mexicans spent itself largely in cursings, threats, parades and oratory— that swept over Mexico with the spread- ing of lie news of what had gone on in Vera Cruaz, the American population of Tampico experienced an anxious and peril-fraught dey or while they were heing transferred uUnder German auspices to ships which took them to the United States. Arms Landed Anyway. ‘We took Vera Cruz to withhold from Huerta the war munitions aboard the Ypiranga. That was the official gloss- ing over with which Washington finally provided the adventure. If that was the reason, we wasted our time, our money, our bicod and our powder, Admiral Fletcher Absolved of Blame By Inside Story of Vera Cruz Capture | cargo_that belonged to him, down to Huerta got every ounce of the ship's the ultimate cartridge. The Ypiranga approached Vera Cruz during the first day's fighting. Her master was warned by Fletcher to stay out of the harbor; that we were in control of the port and had closed it to commerce. After a week, dogged by a brace of our cruisers, which were muzzled by Washington she steamed down the coast to Puerto Mexico. Whiie we looked on and the Germans laughed, she landed her freight unmolested. It was loaded upon sp2- cial trains and sped to Mexico City, in readiness to be turned against our sol- diers had the Vera Cruz show devel- oped into a general campaign of inter- vention. Huerta Driven Out. After Vera Cruz it was only & ques- tion of time when the moribund gov- ernment of Huerta would yield up the ghost. Huerta was through from the minute the first Marine leaped ‘ashore. The United States not only had shown its teeth to the dictator—it had barked and bitten, Mexico read the handwrit- ing on the wall. The people shivered and drew away from Huerta, who, egged on by Great Britain, Germany and Wall Street, had defied the “Colossus of the Worth” and brought down chastisement 1pon himself and Mexico. State after ttate, city after city, garrison after gar- vson slid from Huerta to the Carran- eistas. Huerta managed to keep open a 4ne of escape by rail from the capital to Puerto Mexico, whither he fled in July. A German cruiser ferried him across the Gulf of Mexico to Havana. Wilson had won. He drove Huerta from the Palacio Nacional, as he warned him he would do. But the task had busied him for 15 months and engaged the United States in an enterprise which looked, smelled and had the effect of war, the earnest protestations of official Washington to the contrary notwith- standing. Mexico's salute to the flag, in ex- piation of the Tampico insult, was never exacted. In the roar of the can- non, the crack of the rifles and the blood-letting at Vera Cruz, and the con- fusion of Huerta's exit it went by the board. Vera Cruz after seven months was evacuated by the Americane in No- vember, 1914, conveniently to provide Carranza with a capital pro tem in which to establish his peripatetic gov- ernment, when the discords of Carranza and Villa rent the Carrancistas into two major factions and bled Mexico with seven more years of revolutionary ture moil. Huerta a few years later died in El Paso, whither he had come from his exile in Spain at the behest of certain American and Mexican interests who enticed him with promises of support for a counter revolution against Car~ ranza, (Copyri apil Mother Has Problem As a rule, milk is about the best food for children, but there are times when they are much better off without it. It should always be left off when children show by feverish, fretful or cross spells, by bad breath, coated tongue, sallow skin, indigestion, biliousness, etc., that their stomach gnd bowels are out of order. 1In cases like this, California Fig Syrup never fails to work wonders, by the quick and gentle way it removes all the souring waste which is causing the trouble, reg- ulates the stomach and bowels and gives these organs tone and strength so they continue to act normally, of their own accord. Children love its rich, fruity flavor and it's purely vegetable and harmless, even for babies. Millions of mothers have proved its merit and reliability in over 50 years of steadily increasing use. A Washington mother, Mrs. B. H. Stewart, 1248 Florida Ave. N.E., says: “My little girl, Ottlelie’s tendency to constipation was a problem to me until I began giving her California Fig Syrup. It helped her rlght away and Soon her stomach and bowels were acting gertectlv. Since then I've never ad to have any advice about her bowels. I have also used California Fig Byrup for her colds and upset spells, with equal success.” ‘To be sure of getting the gen- uine, which physicians endorse, always ask for California Fig Syrup by the full name. CALIX JRNI FIG SYRUP]| ’ (Continued From First Page.) trouble; both were later indicted and tried for crime. * A third, whose appointment was due partly to personal friendship, partly to political considerations and partly, be it added, to solid fitness for the job, was John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, whom Harding made Secretary of War. ‘Weeks had become a friend of Harding while both were in the Senate; Weeks ‘was also one of the active managers of the campaign that elected Harding; but, in addition, Weeks had political and other high standing in his own right— Weeks had actually been a fairly for- midable contender for the presidential nomination in 1916. A fourth member of the Harding cabinet, Will Hays, was appointed for political services wholly. Harding was not really fond of Hays, but Hays had managed the presidential campaign that resulted in putting Harding in the White House and had made for him- self a spectacular reputation as a cam- paign manager and national committee chairman. Probably the four of the Harding cabinet already mentioned—Daugherty, Fall, Hays and Weeks—were the first four he concluded to name. Probably these were the four he had appointed when there dawned upon him the c::nge of view and of heart quoted above. Stars of His Cabinet. In his new spirit Harding looked about for the best men available and arrived upon the three who became the outstanding stars of his administration. These were Charles E. Hughes for Sec- retary of State, Andrew Mellon for Sccretary of the Treasury and Herbert Hoover for Secretary of Commerce. Two other members of Harding's cabinet were selected on a basis differ- ent from those already mentioned, When Harding came to Agriculture and Labor he surveyed the farming and labor field to find two men who were out- standing in their respective spheres and had the other elements of availability. For agriculture Harding picked out an outstanding editor of a farm paper with whom he had had long acquaintance previous to his campaign, the late Henry Wallace of Des Moines. For Labor he picked out a man conspicuous in the unions, James J. Davis, whose work had been familiar to Harding and whom Harding had known personally. The last member of the Harding cabinet to be appointed was Edwin Denby of the Navy. It was character- istic—and happens rather frequently— that a President arrives close upon his inauguration with one post of his cabi~ net still unfilled. Selection of Denby. About a week before March 4, 1921, Harding, in a spirit of being tired of the job of cabinet picking and rather at his wits' end, asked John W. Weeks if he knew anybody who would make & good Secretary of the Navy. Weeks recalled that Edwin Denby of Detroit had been a volunteer in the Navy dur- ing the Spanish War, had served in the lower house of Congress with Weeks and had made a good impression there, and, finally, at a time when he was a man of 47 and an ex-Congressman, had enlisted as a private in the Marine Corps. In the Marine Corps Denby had had a unique record and had made a fine impression on the morale of the corps. On this record and on Weeks’ rec- ommendation, Harding completed his cabinet making by inviting Denby in, within a few days of the inauguration. Methods May Differ. This story of the last cabinet t was selected as a whole is told for \J light it throws on the process of selec- tion. - Actually, it throws veéry little, because there is no faintest analogy, and probably will be no resemblance whatever, between the curiously dis- jointed method of Harding and the method of Hoover. To tell how Harding did it is probably to tell precisely how Hoover will not do it. The men are diverse in temperament and their needs are different. Among other distinctions, Harding was obliged to pick all his cabinet out of the air, because the preceding administration, Wilson's, was Demo- cratic. Mr. Hoover can, if he chooses, use some of the material already in the cabinet. ‘While this story is told to illustrate one process of cabinet making, some irrelevant reflections occur. Harding's cabinet, according to common judg- ment, will be conspicuous in history because of the unprecedented fact that two members of it were subsequently indicted for crime. But the fact is that Harding, when he turned to the neces sity of fing good men, found very good ones, in . Let any one today survey the country and see whether it is possible to find three new equivalents of Charles E. Hughes, Herbert Hoover and Andrew W. Mellon. Assuming that Mellon were not already in the cabinet, assuming that Mr. Hoover were obliged to find three new equivalents for these, where would he look for them? A good many persons have considered this mat- ter and they:agree the search would be difficult. Period of Listening. The present stage of Mr. Hoover's cabinet making is accurately described as the period of listening. By the ac- counts of some who call on him to urge themselves or others for cabinet portfolios, the President-elect ean be on cccasion” fully as competent a listener as Mr. Coolidge. When the circumstances suggest that course, Mr. Hoover's willingness to let the other fellow have ample opportunity to do all the talking is not exceeded by the present occupant of the White House. The subject-matter of these usually one-sided conversations is not confined to cabinet posts. There are many recommendations for the secondary of- fices in the cabinet, the assistant secretaryships. There are also numerous recommendations for the diplomatic service, for Ambassadors and Ministers. Some of the urgings that always go on at this stage are extremely earnest. There have been in the past men who permitted their State delegations or their friends to say on behalf of them that such and such a man must have precisely one specific post, that he will accept no other, and that it not given the one he wants, he will sulk. Other recommendations merely take the form of reminding the President-elect that a given man would make a valuable cabinet member and that his record and his party services entitle him to con- sideration. Yet other reccmmendations g0 no further than the sound and] proper assumption that Mr. Hoover should be told that such and such a man is willing and available, provided Mr. Hoover wants him. Man Who Is Mentioned. Yet another class of recommenda- tlons falls into the wholly different category of the man who never ex- pected to be able to change a hundred- dollar bill but appreciated the com- pliment of having it said that he might be asked to. To be actualy giv- en a cabinet post is nearly the highest of political prizes. Short of that, to be mentioned in the newspapers as & possibility is publicly useful and pri- vately delicious. As the political game is played, the process is recognized and harmless and may even have public value. National mention in con= nection with the cabinet is alwys em- phasized in the local press of a politi- clan’s home State. It gives opportunity for the local papers friendly to him to call attention to his public serve ices and to print editorials about the eminence of his standing in the Na- tion. In that last sentence the pro- noun need not always be “his”; it sometimes, in the modern age, be “het Let no one suppose, however, that the period of listening through which every President-elect must go is merely perfunctory on his part or that it is without public value. Intimate detailed examination of the capacity and avail- ability of a man proposed for the cabi- net is of value to every President-elect. Furthermore, the mention of a possi- bility in the newspapers serves to bring out every potential argument for and against. So obvious is this last mentloned process that the late President Harding stimulated it and made use of it. Hard- ing found ways, by means of hints from him or otherwise, to initiate mention of cabinet possibilities so that he could get the benefit of what he called the newspaper and public “reaction.” The process is called “putting up a trial balloon.” The listening stage of the cabinet making will last some little time yet. Out of it will emerge some potential cabinet material. (Copyright, 1929.) —-— ‘There are more than 1950 college ’Srt“:em“y buildings in the United ates. STO FALLING HAIR BumsteadsWormSyrup “To children an angel of mercy,” Where direet; are followed, IT NEVER FAILS. Despite scarcity and_enormous '.“Ml!x?s Nl:\".n’w:finnn‘-s sixty years' fest. everywl or by mail. 50c a bottle. SR Est. C. A, Voorhees, M. D.. 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