The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-08
There Is Little Likelihood That
He Will Make Changes.
MISS TAFT IN SOCIAL SWIM.
Presidents Young Daughter Is Enter
tanned More Than Her White House
Predecossors-Uncle Sam Has Many
and Various Petty Foreign Troubles
to Keep Him Worrying.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.


Washington, Jan. 5.-[SpeciaL 1-For
some reason there have been from the
beginning of President Taft's admins
ira ton constant rumors of cabinet
changes. The newspaper men have
been wrong more times on this sub
tect than any other. They have con-
stantly made changes which the presi-
dent has not confirmed In Roosevelt's
administration q cabinet change was
a good guess for he was constantly
making changes, but Taft is not so
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
sarcasttcally ask, $50 you would like
to remodel my cabinet for me?'
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 it 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.
pty-in E.n HL:IaF. Tr-Ia
When we get our Panama canal
completed we will find that Argentina
has made a 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 well 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 81 800
year. 1t is true that few congressman
obtain men Mt that salary who are
equal to the task of representing them
before cabinet officers and other high
officials
There is vast difference in secre-
taries as in everything else Tor the
most part the average secretary of
senator and representative is Il 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 q senator's
clerk or the $1,000 allowed repre-
sentative for clerk hire.
Miss Taft In the Social Swim.
No other young lady, not even Alice
Roosevelt, has been so 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 debutante to 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
"Miss Taft was the guest of honor"
etc, and many d young girl and even
the older women Of Washington have
made their parties a success on ae-
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.
Our Little Troubles.
Out in the Philippines there is
bugaboo about japanese arms being
concealed In great number to be used
against our government when oppor-
tunity offers.
Down in Mexico American inter-
ests are threatened from tirae to time,
md there fl danger that some Of our
citizens may be victims Of reyolu
tionary mob.
Having taken upon ourselves the con-
trol of the finances of Santo Domingo
we are. naturally concerned about the
outbreak between that country and
Haiti
Then there are the earthquake reports
from Panama, which give uneasiness
about the safety Of the canal, for one
violent quake would destroy nearly
everything the government has done
on the isthmus.
Not For Senator cuiIom.
.'Wel1, there is one thing settled" re-
marked Senator. Cullom earnestly to a
friend as he laid down a paper con-
tanning accounts Of the killing of many
firemen in different cities. I'll not be-
come fireman when retire from this
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