Arizona republican., 1921-10-02
By HERBERT COREY

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1-Sartorial note from the nations capital: Cabi- net members are wearing their resig- nations longer this fall.
 Maybe that sounds abstruse, not to gay recondite, not to say dippy. But khe meaning of it is that every now and then some faithful reporter, watch Jogging about the national premises, hears that cabinet mem ber is about to up and quit President Harding cold. Whereupon he goes out and prints the story. He is not to be blamed, for no important public man cares to resign his office through the first page of the opposition press. So that if the cabinet member did harbor the desire to abandon the wild delights of Washington and flee as a bird to the sagebrush, it isn't likely that he would say as much to the reporter.
 Furthermore, the average reporter is cynical and cold-eyed when he talks with or without public men. The a. r. has just changed for the Worse since the beginning of the late var.
 There Was a time when the aver agS reporter hereabouts was on fairly.
 
 resident great men. They talked to- gether with reasonable freedom, and the reporter knew that he was get- ting the low-down on the situation, and the great man knew the reporter would not turn states evidence in print But too many of the average reporters had dealings with European statesmen during the great war and 1t scured them. That is, it soured the reporters. They got even with the statesmen, though. When you read nowadays that such-and such Government hes given out "diplo- urHatic statement" you know what the Gporter thinks that statements is. Eou know just what he thinks it is. All thls is to explain why the resig- yations of cabinet members get into 1he press quite blamelessly now and fhen. Almost every cabinet member has resigned in this fashion within z the last few months. The first to resign this was was Secretary Mellon. He has. it seems, the bankers liking fer being the boss of his own busf- ness. He needed a man of certain type 10 run a certain desk, and knowing the man he appointed him yhereupon, according to the stories the cabinet took day off from the job of considering the Hide Your Cur Farley and Lasker's salt water agonie. and began to reproacl Mellon
 How the Mellon Story Goes
 You musn't do it that way" th' cabinet is supposed to have to1t him Tt isn't done. Play politics darn it''
 T won't" said Mellon, according t the stories. I'll resign first"
 v<r,x-, fI,f,aL f1,oro I the slightest bit of truth in the yarr save and except that Mellon did nam the men he wanted to the bankin jobs in the treasury and that no on has ever found out from him wha the politics of the appointees migh be because he doesn't know an very ringingly does not care. Hoove was the next to be discovered at tn large desk. with his pen poised owe a first draft of his letter of resigna ton. He had been notified, said tn gossips. that he could not run tn whole administration and in his rag at being deprived of this privilee he had determined to resign o Tuesday week. Weeks have gone b and Hoover's resignation has bee forgotten.
 Davis ,oidn't Resign Either
 He isn't running the administrs tion. but in all fairness it may 1 said that he is running consider able slice of it. His latest step fol ward is to plan a labor conferenc which some folk think really b, longs in Secretary Davis's depar ment. But no one has heard tn Davis is going to resign over
 When the reorganization bill is o fered to the house by the Smo committee it will be discovered tn Hoover's department of agricultu has taken large bites out of t cherry belonging to Secretary WalIa of Agriculture
 Hence the report gained circuIati that Wallace was about to resie Wallace is an enthusiast. If he h his way he would gobhle as large part of the administration for the q partment of agriculture as Hoov who is likewise an enthusiast, wol for the department of commer Give the pair free rein and they wol take over all the work of all the otf departments and then fight each ol