The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-03-25
Dozen More
Cabinet Posts
Promoters of Many Presidential Booms
Looking for Plums With Which
to Reward Helpers.
Bv RAMONA cLAPpER

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent.
Washington. Suggesting creation
of new cabinet posts is one of Wash
ington's indoor sports which is now
fourishing as promoters of the many
presidential booms now rolling along
discover that Their are so few of these
plums to distribute among so many
heavyweight contributors.
But in view of the fact that congress
has added only six cabinet jobs to the
four originally established, it is not
likely that all of the dozen or so sug-
gested portfolios will be created in the
near future, though it is possible that
one or two may be added.
The new cabinet jobs more frequent
ly suggested are those of Secretary of
Aviation, Secretary of Foreign Trade
and Merchant Marine, and Secretary
of Education. The latter post is being
widely favored by club women and
school teachers throughout the coun-
try as offering chance for woman
of national reputation to enter the
presidential cabinet. And in view of
the tremendous political power of
women voters from now on, many Con-
gressmen and Senators 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
woman invade the sacred circle.
Positions Discussed.
The following cabinet positions that
have been proposed officially or unoffi-
cially, or at least discussed in the
cloak rooms of Congress or over tea
cups in the Washington drawing
rooms" to which Franklin K. Lane
referred when he retired from the
cabinet recently:
Secretary of Education: to promote
public instruction, wipe out illiteracy,
educate aliens, and aid states in voca-
tional training.
Secretary of Transportation: to SUI
pervice operation of the railroads of
the country, proposed chiefly in con-
naction with government ownership
or operation.
Secretary of Merchant Marine: to
combine all government activity relat-
ing to foreign trade and shipping, de-
velope an American merchant marine,
supervise ocean freight rates, admins
ter steamship regulations and assemble
activities pertaining to ocean traffic
now in charge of the treasury, COM
merce, labor and state departments.
Secretary of Aviation: To co-ordi-
nate aviation activities of the army,
navy and postofice department air
mail service, and promote the aviation
industry as a preparedness measure.
Secretary of Public Works: To COM
bine all activities relating to rivers
and harbors, public buildings, road
building, and development of public
lands, waterpower sites and mineral
resources now scattered between the
treasury, war and interior departments.
Secretary of Science and Invention:
To promote scientific research, develop
industrial chemistry and science, az,
Germany did in the dyestuffs and
chemical industries, search for new
implements of warfare, encourage in
dividual inventors and scientists, ad-
minister patent laws.
Secretary of Munitions: To be devot-
ed entirely to the job of supplying
the army and navy with all ordnance,
equipment and supplies with the par
ticular job of keeping the nation pre-
pared to switch its entire industrial
organization to production of war
materials in event Of war, leaving the
war and navy departments free to con-
centrate on the actual job of fighting.
Secretary of Public Welfare: To
combine the activities of the public
health service, study diseases and cpl
denies, administer laws relating to
dangerous industries, enforce all legis-
lation regarding sanitation, protection
of women and children in industry,
and steer aliens to the path toward
American citizenship.
Secretary of National Intelligence:
To combine the bureau of secret SER
vice now maintained by the department
of justice, the treasury, war and navy
departments, to obtain data of any
nature desired by any government
agency, report daily conditions the
world over regarding political, econo-
mic, trade and military conditions.
Many of these proposals, Of course,
are scarcely given serious considera-
ton by any considerable number in
Congress and several overlap or al
most duplicate entirely existing agen-
cies. The fact that they are put forth
means little except that many people
are thinking out loud as to how the
government can be made of more service
to the public or more economical and
logical in it's organization.
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