Evening star., 1921-03-04
RETIRING CABINET
ANNOUNCE PLANS
Several Will Resume Law
Practice-TWo Are
Publishers.

MOST or the cablnet o111cerS VINO re-
tired today will resume the work
they gave up to become members of
Woodrow Wilson'S official family. One
or two of them. however, have not
yet made definite plans for the future.
Lawyers predominated in the out
going cabinet. numbering six. There
also were two publishers and one col
lege professor.
cambridge Colby, who retires after
one years service as secretary OF
State, will return to the practice OF
law in Washington and New York CITY,
in partnership with former President
Wilson. but before he settles down TO
that work he may visit Scotland.
Newton u. Baker will turn from the
direction of the War Department to
the practice of law in his home town
of Cleveland. He has had five years
service as Secretary of War. and a!so
has served as chairman of the Fed
eral Power Com .ssion and the Coun-
Gil of National Defense.
A. Mitchell Palmer. retiring Attor-
ney General. will resume his law prac-
tice. with offices in his home city of
Stroudsburg, Pa. and also in Wash
ington. He will retain his home in
Pennsylvania, but will reside IN
Washington a considerable portion OF
partners three lawyers who have been
closely associated with him in his
public work-Frank Davis. jr.. for
merly assistant attorney general:
Robert r. Scott and Seiforde NJ. Stell-
wagen.
Daniels on Job Eight Years.
Josephus Daniels. one of the four
Wilson cabinet officers who remained
on the job the full eight years. viii
leave tomorrow for Raleigh, n. c.,
to resume his duties as editor and
publisher of the Raleigh News and
Observer. The former Naval Secre-
tary will arrive Sunday morning. and
says his first act will be to go TO
church and repent of all my sins He
announces as his motto Charity to
all and malice toward none"
David F. Houston. former Secretary
of the Treasury, has not made dehnlte
plans for the future. but has several
offers under consideration. He was n
university professor before entering
the cabinet in 1913 as Secretary of
Agriculture. but has not decided
whether he will return to educational
work er enter the commercial field.
He has been head of the Treasury
for a year and also a member of the
Federal Reserve Board, chairman of
the Board for Vocational Education
and a member of the Council oc Na-
tional Defense.
JOnn barton fdSne. WHO IlstS p'ei
Secretary of the Interior for a year,
plans to make his home in Washing
ton. but will devote some of his time
to the Chicag go park project. in which
he was a moving spirit before he was
called to Washington early in the war
as general counsel for the Shipping
Board Emergency Fleet Corporation.
He also has been a member of the
Federal Power Commission and di-
rector general of railroads.
Goes Back to Texas.
Albert Sydney Burleson will go back
to Austin, Tex, to practice law and
TO look after his private intcres,s
there after eight years as Postmaster
General.
Edwin T. Meredith, who succeeded
Mr.. Houston as Secretary of Agricul-
ture a year ago. will return to Des
Moines to look after his farm maya
zine and other interests. He also has
been a member of the Federal Power
Commi ssion.
Joshua w. Alexander. after two
years service as Secretary of COM
merce. will go to his old homo at
Gallatin. Mo. to resume the practice
of law and. as he says, to do 4 lit
tie farming on the side"
William b. Wilson, another OF the
original Wilson cabinet members, has
accepted appointment to the interna-
tional joint commission, which has to do
with disputes arising between the United
States and Canada The salary is $500
q year.