The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-19
Presidential Boom Promoters :
Discover Few Plums ~
for Disposal i" ~: III. -" +,
NEW JOBS PROPOSED Y
FOR BIG CONTRIBUTORS
Secretarys Galore Have Been
SUI sxested by the =. =,
Prime Boosters ~, y: :
BY Raymond Clapper :;

UNITED Press Correspondent. -:
Washington, March 19.-Suggest-
ing certain of new cabinet posts is
one of Washington's indoor sports
which is now furnishing as promoters
of the many presidential booms now
rolling along discover that there are
so few OF these plumbs to distribute
among so many heavyweight contrib
utors.
But in view Of the fact that Con-
gress has added only six cabinet jobs
to the four originally established, it
is not likely that all Of the dozen or
so suggested portfolios will be Great
ed in the near future, though 1t is
possible that one or two may be add
ed.
New Jobs Proposed.
The new cabinet jobs more fre-
quently suggested are those of Secre-
tary Of Aviation, Secretary of For
eign Trade and Merchant Marine and
Secretary of Education. The latter
post is being widely favored through
women and school teachers through
out the country as Offering g. chance
for a woman of national reputation
to enter the presidential cabinet. And
in view of the tremendous pol1ticsa
power of. women voters from now on
many, co11gressmen and senator's have
already decided that as soon as this
demand grows loud enough. they will
have to bow to it, reluctant as they
are to see a woman invade the sacred
circle. - ;-s.~ ~ ~ .,' '"'.
that have been proposed Officially or
unofficially or at least discussed IN
the cloak rooms of congress or over
teacups in the Washington "drawtnk
rooms" to which Franklin X. Lane re-
ferred, when he retired from the cab
met recently:
Secretary Of Education.
Secretary of Education: To pro-
mote public instruction, wipe out
iliteracy, educate aliens, and aid
states in vocational training.
Secretary OF Transportation: To
supervise operation Of the railroads OF
the country, proposed chiefly IN con-
nection with government ownership
! or operation.
Secretary of Merchant Marine: To
combine all government activity re-
llatfng to foreign trade and shipping,
develop. an American merchant ma
rine,. supervise ocean freight rates,
administer steamship regulations and
assemble activities pertaining to
ocean traffic now in charge of the
| Treasury, Commerce, Labor and State
Departments.
Secretary of Aviation: To co-ord'
mate aviation activities of the army
navy and post office. department air
mail service, and promote the aviation
industry as a preparedness measure.
Secretary Of Public Works: To
com bine all activities relating to riv-
ers and harbors, public buildings
road building, and development OF
public lands, waterpower sites and
mineral resources now scattered be-
tween the Treasury, War and Inter-
Tor Departments.
| Secretary of Science and Invention:
To promote scientific research, de-
velop Industrial chemistry and sci
ence as Germany did in the dyestuffs
and chemical industries, search fo1
new implements of warfare, encour-
age individual inventors and scient'
lists, administer patent laws.
Munitions Secretary.
| Secretary Of Munitions: To be de
voted entirely to the job of supplying
l the army and navy with all ordinance
equipment, and supplies with the par
ticular job of keeping the nation pre-.
pared to switch it's entire industrial
Organization to production of war ma
terials in event of war, leaving INC
war and navy departments free to
concentrate on the actual job or ngnt-
ing. NJ
Secretary of Public Welfare: Io
4 combine the activities Of the public
health service, study diseases and cpl
denies, administer laws relating to
1 dangerous industries, enforce all leg
islation regarding sanitation, protec'
ton of women and children In 1ndus,
try, and steer aliens to the path TO-
ward American citizenship.
Secretary Of Intelligence
| Secretary of National Intelligence:
To combine the burdens OF secret ser
vice now maintained by the Depart
Ime1it OF Justice, the Treasury, Wal
and Navy Departments, to obtain data