The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1911-01-06
There Is Little Likelihood That
He viii Make Changes.
MISS TAFT IN SOCIAL SWIM.
Presidents Young Daughter Is Enter
tanned More Than Her White House
Predecessors-UnoIe Sam Has Many
and Various Petty Foreign Troubles
to Keep Him Worrying
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, Jan. Especial. Flor
some reason there have been from the
beginning Of President Taft's admins
tration constant rumors Of cabinet
changes. The newspaper men have
been wrong more times on this sub
ject than any other. They have con-
stantly made changes which the presi
dent has not confirmed. In Roosevelts
administration a cabinet change was
good guess, for he was constantly
making changes, but Taft s not 50
accommodating.
| Suggestions are made from time TO
time to the president that he ought to
get this or that man into his cabinet
or get rid of this, that or the other
member Of his official family. He gen.
orally receives these suggestions with
a quizzical expression and Will then
sarcastically ask, 80 you would like
to remodel my cabinet for meT'
That generally floors the best of
them, and no man hearing that ques-
ton ever again ventures the sugges-
ton that Mr.. Taft should make
changes in his cabinet.
While 1t is possible that there may
be cabinet changes, the present indi
cations are that the president is very
well satisfied, and while that satisfac-
ton lasts there is little prospect of
such changes.
Rivals For ChlIe's Trade.
When we get our Panama canal
completed we will find that Argentina
has made bid for the trade of Chile,
which we expect to take through the
isthmus. To the transcontinental roads
already built our enterprising South
American neighbor is just about to add
two more, which will cross the Andes
and have terminals on the Pacific.
They seem to be doing things in the
south as we'll as in the north.
A Cry For Help.
The suggestion that each member Of
congress be provided with an as
sistant will not be adopted any more
quickly than the recent effort to IN
crease the clerk hire above $1,000 a
year. 1t is true that few congressman
obtain men at that salary who are
equal to the task Of representing them
before cabinet officers and other high
officials
There is a vast difference IN secre-
taries as in everything else. For the
most part the average secretary of a
senator and representative is a good
shorthand man and never gets out Of
the office, but there are men IN con-
gress who have such expert assistants
that they never go near a department
or look after any details whatever re-
lating to their congressional work.
Such secretaries, however, get more
than the $1,000 allowed a senator's |
clerk or the $500 allowed a repre-
sentative for clerk hire.
Miss Taft In the Social SWIM
No other young lady, not even Alice |
Roosevelt, has been 80 feted, dined
and danced as Miss Helen Taft the
young daughter Of the president who
made her debut early in the season.
Alice Roosevelt received as many
invitations, but she confined her social
reign as a debutante to a smaller and
more exclusive set She did not know
as many young girls as Miss Taft, nor
was she so willing to accommodate
them by becoming the magnet at en-
tertainments they gave.
Day after day 1t is announced that
"Afiss Taft was the guest Of honor"
etc. and many a young girl and even
the older women Of Washington have
made their parties a success on ac-
count of the presence of the daughter
Of the president
Miss Taft is really popular in her
own right and would be well liked
even If she were not surrounded by !
the glamour of her fathers position I
Our Little Troubles.
Out in the Philippines there rs a
bugaboo about japanese arms being ,
in great number 70 be used
against our government when oppor-
unity offers. .
Down in Mexico American inter
,sts are threatened from time 30 time. !
md there is danger that some OF our
,itizens may be victims OF a revolu- ,
ionary mob. ,
Having taken upon ourselves the con- ,
rol of the finances OF Santo Domingo !
We are naturally concerned about the 4
between that country and
Haiti.
Then there are the earthquake reports
rom Panama. which give uneasiness
bout the safety of the canal. for one
-iolent quake would destroy nearly
the government has done
n the isthmus.
Not For Senator cVlloul- q
well. there is one thing settled re s
marked Senator Cullom earnestly 30 a r
riend as he laid down a paper con- c
aiming accounts OF the killing OF many .
remen in different cities. TIL not be G
ONE a fireman when / retire from this &
Db.~ He is now eighty-four years old d
nd is the oldest man IN either house n
I congress O