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<f
be a very different President. And they point
with pride ? some of course view with alarm ? to
recent events in which President Coolidge has dem
onstrated Independence, assertlveness, firmness tad
a determination to have what he wants when he
wants It. They would appear to be right, to the
extent that these events have set official Washing
ton gasping with their suddenness and unexpected
ness. 0
The failure of the effort to pass the postal pn> 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**
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