President in His Own Right; Counselors ' jprejict&rii and tfstfunet JaA- I9&S <2>A*LS-rfa k" e?rin? His Own Choice By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN OOLIDGE and his cabinet ! Here's a subject that is stirring official Wash ington to the uttermost limits of sur mise, conjecture, speculation and plain everyday gossip. And the rest of the country is mightily interested. There is no speculation of course as to the makeup of the Coolidge cab inet, for that is known. At this writ ing but one appointment remains to be made ? that of secretary of the Department of Agriculture. Secretary Hughes of the State department goes. Attorney General Stone has been named for the Supreme court bench. The others all stay by request of President Coolidge ? Mellon, Weeks, New, Wilbur, Work, Hoover and Davis. Should the bill for the reorganization of the ex ecutive department be passed tljere would be cre ated a new department with a cabinet member ? tfiat of the department of education and relief. The coming changes in the cabinet can be most easily visualized by reference to the accompanying reproduction of a photograph taken at the cabinet meeting of January 2. At the head of the long table, of course. Is President Coolidge, who became President upon the death of President Harding, August 2, 1923. At the President's right is Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes of New York appointed by President Harding March 5, 1921, who will be suc ceeded by Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota. The foii^ next In order to the foot of the table will all stay In the cabinet. They are: Secretary of War John WIngate Weeks of Massachusetts (March 5, 1921), Postmaster General Harry Stew art New of Indiana, Secretary of the Interior Hu bert Work of Colorado, and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Clark Hoover (March 5, 1921). On the left of President Coolidge is Secretary / of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon of Pennsyl vania (March 5, 1921). He stays In the cabinet. Next Is Attorney General Harlan Flske Stone of New York, who was appointed by President Coolidge to succeed Harry M. Daugherty, resigned. He has been named an associate Justice of the United States Supreme court to succeed Justice Joseph McKenna, resigned. Charles Beecher War ren of Michigan has been named to succeed him. At this writing opposition in the senate to both appointments may result In recess appointments after ?Iarch 4. Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. 'Wilbur: of Cali fornia, next in order, succeeded Edwin Denby, re signed, by appointment of President Coolidge. He will stay. ? The next man Is Howard M. Gore, who was as sistant secretary of agriculture under the late Hen ry C. Wallace and succeeded him by appointment of President Coolidge. Secretary Gore Is gov ernor-elect of West Virginia and goes March 4 to assume office, leaving a place to be filled. Secretary of Labor James John Davis of Penn sylvania (March 5, 1921) will stay. In the cabinet. The place at the foot of the table is of course vacant, as there la no vice president. Mr. Coolidge used to sit there when he was vice president. It is reported that it will remain vacant and that Vice President Charles G. Dawes will not partici pate in cabinet meetings, the Harding innovation .not having found favor in the eyes of President ?Coolidge. ? "I told you so !*' arises In chorus from those who J\ave been predicting a "new Coolidge." For. many ihave been proclaiming from the housetops ever since the election that the President in his own right instead of the official heir of Harding woul I Increase bill over the Presidential veto seems to [j have had a pronounced effect. Statesmen stopped telling of what they were and were not going to do and congress got busy passing appropriation bills. And the sudden resignation of Secretary Hughes and the appointment of Kellogg; the appointment of Warren In the face of the opposition of the Michigan delegation in congress, and other appoint ments made by the President without consultation with his intimates took the breath away from many people Important In their own eyes. And a lot of other things out of the ordinary have taken place. So the gossips ? and Washington is justly cele brated as a gossiping city ? are busy predicting a clean sweep of the Inherited members of the cab inet. They also predict a new foreign policy to be dictated by the President himself which contem plates entrance Into the world court and recogni tion of the Soviet government of Russia. And iasft ly they are predicting that President Coolidge will be a candidate to succeed hlmsefPin 1928, point ing to the speech of Leslie M. Shaw, former secre tary of the treasury, before the Nebraska State Bar association, in which he argued that the Pres ident would not then be running for a third term. Now all this seems largely far-fetched to the average American, especially to the millions who voted for Calvfn Coolidge last November. This average American has not been In the least aston ished by President Coolldge's independent and de cisive handling of his cabinet problems. He thinks the whole record of Mr. Coolidge has been one of courage and action when action was needed. He Is amused at any effort to represent Mr. Coolldge's course as that of a weak and Ineffective leader whom congress delighted to rebuff. He simply sees In the White House a strong and vigorous leader, reaching his own decisions regardless of the politicians, master In his own right. Nor does he take any stock in the notion that Mr. Coolidge means to rule alone, in autocratic fashion. He has sized up the Vermont Yankee as a believer in the American system of government which looks to teamwork and continuity of policy. This average American is supported In his views by information officially put forth from the White House. This Is to the following effect : That the President is satisfied with his cabinet and expects no further changes in its personnel. That the retirement of Secretary Hughes from the cabinet does not Involve impending changes In the administration's foreign policy. ' President Coolidge sees no teason tQ alter the general course he has been pursuing with regard to foreigq relations, according to this White House pronouncement. While he expects the American foreign policy will develop and enlarge to keep pace with the march of world events, there Is do prospect that the principles governing the attitude of the Washington government on specific ques tions will be subject to change during the admin istration beginning March 4. The President au thorized a denial of reports that his Russian policy will undergo a change by virtue of the retirement of Mr. Hughes, who opposes Soviet recognition un til' Moscow agrees to compensate American citi zens despoiled by the Communists, to recognize the war debt owed the United States, and to cease efforts to undermine the American form of govern ment. The effort to make a mystery out of the resigna tion of Secretary Hughes seems unnecessary. It is believed that he has long intended to resign when the opportunity offered lp his letter of resignation Mr. Hughes mentioned only one reason for wishing to retire? the wish to return to private life after virtually 20 years of public service. In his talks with his bureau chiefs, Mr. Hughes laid stress on the necessity he felt of getting back into the practice of law, so that he could accumulate ? competence, Why did ht resign now? Becauae he found that for eign relation* were lb anch a atatna aa would permit him to leava on March 4, wherttii If ha stayed long er he might become ao wrapped up la big queatlona of foreign policy aa to prevent hla resignation alto get her. Washington goaalp, however, pre dict* that, Mr. Hughes, after a peri od of practice of law, will be found back In public aervlce, tbla time on the Supreme bench. It la expected that Justice Holmea will retire ahortly, but gossip Is more Inter ested In the fact that Chief Justice Taft'a health has been such that none of his friends would be sur prised ut his early retirement, thus opening the way to the chief Jus ticeship for Mr. Hughes. The uppolntnient of Mr. Kellogg does not coll for great expression of surprise. Mr. Coolldge consult ed Secretary Hughes as to his suc cessor and Hughes named Kellogg. And as a matter of fact* Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Kei logg became close friends after Mr. Coolidge came to Washington as vice president. Hence the ap pointment to the Court of St. James. Moreover, Ambassador Kellogg has made good In the eyes of the President. And he's hnd good training. As ambassador to London he has had to extend the office all over the continent. He has been more than ambassador ? he has been diplomat, mediator and intermediary. The position of the United States in respect of European affairs, In being in and yet not officially in, has required of him fine discretion and patience. . Should congress pass the bill for the reorgani zation of the executive departments ? and the Pres ident favors the bill ? there would be many changes in the activities of the several secretaries. Chief among the recommendations of the Joint commit tee on reorganization is the establishment of a new department to be known as the department of education and relief and the concentration un der that department of the scattered agencies which now per/orm work in the fields of public health, public education and the care of veterans. Specifically these are : The bureau of pensions, the bureau of education, St. Elizabeth's hospital, How ard university and Freedmen's hospital, all now in the Interior department ; the public health service, now in the Treasury department ; the vet erans' bureau, an independent establishment; the federal board for vocational education, and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers! C. Bascom Slemp is to retire as secretary to the President and will be succeeded by Everett Sanders, a former member of congress from Indi ana. It will be remembered that the country was surprised at the appointment of Mr. Slemp, who had the reputation of being a practical politician of the deepest dye. Behold one result of that ap pointment. Secretary Slemp, upon retirement, is bble to show that he has "exploded" the popular supposition? which seemed to have a foundation In fact? thjt the Presidency of the United States Is a man-kllllng job. Exhibit A of the evidence is the record of the Presidential weighing machine, which discloses that President Coolidge has gained eight pounds in the eighteen months he has served the Ameri can people as Chief Executive. Said Mr. Slemp: "President Coolidge takes exercises early in the morning and retires early at night. His working schedule Is arranged so that his job Is not a twen ty-four-hour drive. The matter of maintaining the health of the President Is a question of syste matic work, relaxation, and rest, and I think that we have, to a certain extent, found a solution.** The present congress Is a "lame-duck" congress. The next congress President Ccolldge will presum ably find more responsive to his wishes. He has a "teamwork" cabinet, with some strong men in it. But whatever does' or does not happen. It is sure that the "new Coolidge" will be for economy and thrift In national affairs. They are a part of his blood and tradition ? a sort of Puritan dis taste for extravagant expenditure and debt He Is a Simon-pure Yankee and Simon-pure Yan kees run almost invariably true to type. As to type, it is a most astonishing one. The Yankee is a seemingly impossible combination of apparent ly irreconcilable traits. He is ambitious, efficient, practical and materialistic. At the same time he is idealistic beyond the comprehension of the average man of the materialistic type. His ideals are high, his loyalty to them sincere and his service unstinted. , ^ So In all human probability the "new Coolidge" will be simply a further revelation of the "same old Coolidge," acting in his own right and under more favorable conditions. Dress Harmonizes With Complexions The manufacture of rouge has de veloped Into an art and artists, real artists, of the type that might hare taken up painting and sculpture had they not adopted the no less esthetic profession of making women beauti ful, are engaged in the ^rork,- says the New York Herald-Tribune. In the past artists designed the fash ionable woman's frocks, her hats, her shoes, her stockings, her fans, her jew t elry. everything that she wore and carried, but the manufacture of rouge, as rouge is now known In Paris, re quires something more than long ex perience. For years specialists in one of the largest perfume houses In France have been studying the color effects of clothing and light upon women's skins. Fifteen shades of rouge have been perfected. They cover the various tints which the well dressed woman needs to keep her com plexion In harmony with her costume and environment. . True pastels they are, pure colors In powders, compact In form.'- Art in the laboratory has made it possible for the chic Parislenne to harmonize her complexion with her gown, the place, the occasion. Appreciating There stands the tree in all its sum mer glory. Will you really know It any better after you have laid bare every root and rootlet? ' 'i There stand Homer, Dante, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. Read them, give yourself to. them, and master them if you are man enough. -The poets are notv to be analysed; they are to be enjoyed; they are not to be studied but to be loved; they afe not for knowledge but for culture. . All the mere facts about s poet's work are as chaff ss compared with the appreciation of one line or fine sentence.? John Burroughs. A &ikf L&? s MJ&K ?? SitiiiaSfaii Governors Island Intimately Associated With Record of Men and Events. * New Yorkl? When MaJ. Gen. Charles P. Summerall asanmed command of the Second corps area recently, succeeding MaJ. Ge6. Roberf Lee Bullard, and set up his headquarters ^it Governors Island he took over one of the most historic post 8 In the United .States, one that has associated with It the names of America's famous generals, past and present Generals Hancock, Schofleld, How* ard, Miles, Merrltt, ChaiTee. Corbln, Grant, Wood, Bliss and Barry, all of whom have made history In this coun try, have at one time or another lived In the old colonial house on Governors Island that Is the home of the com manding general of the Department of 5 the East. Though Governors Island hug long . since outlived its use fulness us a part of the defenses of New York city, two Important events have occurred Within recent years that, emphasize Its value. * The first blow struck by American troops when the United States entered the World war was launched from Gov* erpors Island when at 3:30 a. m. on Good Friday, April 6. 1917, less than half an hour after congress declared thut a state of wafr existed between the United States and the Imperial German government, a battalion pf the One Hundred and Twenty-second infantry embarked on boats of the revenue service and seized all the German ships and their crews In the harbor. v The other event In which troops from Governors Island partlcpated was one of vital interest to New York city, and. In fact, to the whole country. The Wall street explosion occurred about noon on September 16, 1920, and ten minutes later the commanding general at Governors Island received a tele phone message at bis headquarters from the assistant secretary of the treasury asking fot troops to protect government property at the sub-treas ury and other places. T roops Soon Appeared. In 20 minutes* time the troops were under arms and they arrived at the sub-treasury In a little over half an hour from the time the call -for help was sent In. The effect of the soldiers upon the enoimons throng that bad been attracted to the financial district by the explosion was of vital Impor tance, and many prominent bankers and financiers afterward said that scenes of violence and panic were averted thereby. From the din past of Indian occupa tion down throigh the Dutch period of Van Twiller and Peter Stpyvesant and the days of the English governors, right up to the present time. Governors r Island has had ?n unbroken history of sfflcial governrient occupation. The Indian name for, . Governors sland was "Fa^gganck," referring to the abundance of nut trees with which it was clothed. The Dutch translated it to "Not ten" and on June 16, 1637, the director and council of New Netherlands, residing on the Island of Manhatas, In [he Fort Amsterdam? bowling Greet ?published the order ccording to wiicli two Indians of the land of PaKganck did "transport, give over and convey to the be ? oof of Wonter Van Twiller, director >f New Netherlands, this island In con deration of certain 'parcels of koods/ " ' , "V V ? In 1698 the Island was set aside by the assembly ai part of the "Denizen of His Majestle s Fort at New York for the benefit of His Majestle's Gov ernors" and sc it became known as Governors island. The English held Governors islacd until the evacuation In 1783, antfduilng the period the vari ous governors-held the Island as a per quisite of office * The records Ihow that Sir William Peperill's regiment was on the island In 1755, and later the Twenty-sec ond, Forty-fourth and the Royal Amer ican regiments law service there. The last named regiment afterward became and Is still knovrn as the King's Royal Rifle corps, of which King George V of England Is the honorary colonel. In January, 1921, Field Marshal Lord Grenfell, colonel in chief of the King's Royal Rifles or the K. R. R. as they are commonly k oown, presented In the names of the oftcers and men of the regiment, the ancient regimental colors Plan Campaign Against Insects I MB ? rail IrOrnHii t ,jys *,& \ >rjl\ * *J*. \ f U ^ s *'' ^V 4i/ -V*'- S'A\ .V. s Left to right above are shown C. C. Balrd of Massaci luaetts, A. S. Hicker son of St. Louis, Fred A. Hoyt 6f Atlanta, Dr. H. W. 0>le of Massachusetts and Herbert G. Sidebottom of ^ew York, prominent in the conference of the National Insecticide and Disinfectant association at the Various chemicals for the extermination o| roaches and a thorough study of the fight against cancer and typhoid Hotel Astor, N. T. bugs are tested and was made. CRIMES ARE SOLVED BY USE OF THE SUPER-MICROSCOPE French Police Scientist Detect* Mur der Clues in Dual Left in * Clothing.* New York. ? Centuries ago It was considered good police practice to beat a prisoner until he confessed In France today the same result ts achieved by beating his clothing. In Paris recently a man was fonnd dead' In a desefted gpq$. He had been killed by a blow, on the head, and all about the place where the body was discovered <.were evidences of a ter rific struggle. A few daya after the body was found the police arrested a man who, they ascertained, was an enemy of the dead man. The prisoner stoutly denied his guilt, and the police were unable to shake his story. Then, according to the Popular Sci ence Monthly, Dr. Bdmond Locard, di rector of the police technical labora tory at Lyon, took the suspect's coat. Forgotten River, Now ' Sewer, Beneath London London. ? An almost forgotten stream, the River Walbrook, flowing through the city of London, Is giving the builders of the new Bank of Eng land something to think about It Is thirty feet or so below. the surface, and as long ago as 1598, ac cording to historians, It was vaulted over with hoyses above It. In the days of William the Con queror it was' described as "a brook of sweet water," but has since de veloped into something of a sewer. Its course Is through the wall pf London to Moorgate eastward, then In the direction of the Mansion hoipse, and it Is believed that when the 'ex cavations are made for the new Bank of England engineers will have somfe trouble. Although so far underground, the stream Is still tidal. The high tide in the Thames presses water up along f the beds of shingle as far up as Cheap side, if not actually under the bank itself. placed it In a tack and beat It thor oughly. This h4 did also with the coat of the dead man. Then he pho tographed the dist he had collected with a microscopic camera of his in vention, which magnified 229 diame ters, or more than 60,000 times. The photographs showed that the two san> pie s contained wood fibers and chars c of soil that corre with specimens of t eristic particles spooded Exactly the ducejd went the murdered girl eral small dust obtained from the place where the murder was committed. Intro ln court, these photographs s long way toward convicting the prisoner. An even more dramatic use of the microscopic camei * sent to the guillo tine i young Lyon bank clerk for the murder of his sweetheart, who had been found strangled In her apartment. Doctor. Locard examined the body of and discovered sev on her neck. THRILL HEN IS 23 YE*i<$i e in . owned by Miss t * ""HI HI. This undent f? M ^ ty-thlrd year. and ,;is ^ egg by the n?!!(.r, ,v!l(| J1' to furnish absolute :,r(l0f * of this long-live, i t,lhj 1 life of a chicke n is Old Lmly." her is almost blind but h:is tite and bids f:ur t?? live'^ two longer. * of the regiment. T:,< Hir ,i with imposing e?-n i,;oni,.s ia chapel of St. Cornelia t|.tV where it now hanpi <,n the rij line of historic American batj A Memento cf Joint a :ti*1 In his letter of |.n-s.n:aB(|J Grenfell described tin- 1, * memento of the fact that thti American regiment and tl.e of New York fought Elmulder toi der not only during the manj, of warfare which ended in quest of New France and tion of Indian tribes bordering ^ Great Lakes, but also, after of a century and a half, against i? mon enemy in a more terrible] pean conflict." With the evacuation of the forces In 1783 the American anrj) possession of the island and ela the defenses until the existing Jay was finished in 1S01. To ^ It remains a fine example of a* fortification, with moat, sail drawbridge and postern gate, m with 100 guns. The name was ch to Fort Columbus and the fort * tirely completed in its present % five years afterward. The name I Jay was restored by direction of* retary of War Elihu Root c* Jan 20, 1904. Many old New Yorkers,! ever, still recall and use the naoefd Columbus, which It bore for uwrtjj century. Part of Governors island ^as to the United States by the legislia of New York state on February 1800. The area ceded was fflJS in This was found inadequate for .military needs of the department! quarters and the military garrison, i so in 1880 a further cession of acres was made by the legislate 7,026 Characters on < Japanese Type\ Seattle, Wash.? Japanese writers here have only one key, print 7,026 characters. The op often writes sixty word9 a which is doubly faster than is when printing the characters t The machine prints from the borj of the page to the top and fron right-hand side to the left. In addition to the Japanese aeters the quaint typewriter bn English alphabet tucked away corner. The typing characten single bits of steel adjusted In i a able tray so as to be pushed contact with a ribbon above the p placfd in readiness for the writing made by thfe finger nails of the &?? derer. Next he obtained a of dirt from beneath the rjsprtH Soger nails. * When this dirt speck was graphed under the microscope, *fl ceedlngly minute bits of ton were disclosed. Also, there blood corpuscles. Most Imports* all, though, there were small rrrfllB which Doctor Locard established those of the face powder habltsB used by the murdered girl. In another case a counterfeiter coiivlcted when microscopic p*B graphs of s bit of wax from disclosed telltale streaks of priitrtB Ink, particles of dust from a graphic stone and traces of the c* ? acterlstlc crystals of a chemical by engravers. , ' Train Robbers in Japan Tokyo, Japan. ? The train rotu* made his first appearance in W when a bandit boarded u mail csr ? the Togane line, held up three clerks with a gun and escaped booty valued at 10,000 yen. world, Joined In the holdup of a sas City drug store. Just f<>r the tli"1 He was caught and sentenced toft* ten to1 twenty-one years in pris?l Use Catnip in Canada to Aid Fight on Coug?1 Victoria, British Columbia.?^ * periment In the extermination cougars- In British Columbia nip bas been begun by tbe profit** game copservatiop board. A bott]e an extract declared capable ot tag tbe big cats into places banters could easily kill tbeo ** received from Washington. Czar Described Self / as Master of Ru5^ Leningrad.? The Revolution ? aeum has received nn interes document from the Moscow ment. It Is the census rt-turn was filled In by the czaristlc f*?"j In 1897. The answer of the then & and csarina to the question, , If your profession r was: "Master^ mistress of tbe Busalan euiyifft is** 1 ;/4; f \