New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-15
NEW CABINET A
TRAVELLING ONE
NEW CHIEFS WANT FIRST-HAND
INFORMATION ABOUT ACTIvl-
TIES IN DEPARTMENTS.
SECRETARY DENNY STARTS IT
Made His First Trip to Guantanamo as
Gunner's Mate on the Yosemite
Now Makes His Second Trip. but
This Time as Secretary.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

n Time as secretary.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
Washington.-Secretary of the Navy
Edwin DENLY is paying his second visit
10 Guantanamo. Cuba. 1t is, however,
the first visit which he has paid as
secretary of the navy. The first time
lie was there he was a %gunner's mate
on board a gunboat. the Yosemite.
The understanding in Washington is
that the present cabinet is TO be a
travelling cabinet, when travelling is
necessary for the good Of the serr-
ice" Most of the cabinet officers have
said that they want to follow the lines
of the activities of their departments
in the field, and 10 learn nj first hand
where it is necessary to apply RENE
dies.
Secretary DENLY, on his former trips
on b~attleships or cruisers, swung his
hammock and slept with the enlisted
e lie also messed with the enlist
ed ones, and the word is that he not in
frequently took a hand at %scrubbing
decks.
Now things are different. The iag
of the secretary of the navy flies from
The peak, and the secretary himself
has a cabin "all by his lonesome but
he, like the captain of ii war vessel,
frequently will invite the officers from
fHl main HnAln IN GhnrsA hiG tnhln ii
can be taken for granted that as for
the enlisted men on board, including
the marines, the secretary will have a
kindly eye upon them. or an eye which
will be quick to note signs of anything
which may call for improvement.
1t is the intention of Secretary of
War Weeks TO visit the various army
posts of the country. The war secre-
tary has "sea legs" but he o 10 will
learn TO keep step with the land lub-
bers. As n matter of fact, the midship-
men at the Naval academy, where the
secretary of war was educated, are
given infantry drill constantly, and so
in a way their early training in part
can be classed with that Of the cadets
AT West Point.
Get II First Hand.
VIII ii. Hays, before he has been In
office very long, will board a train car
rying the mails. Moreover, he will
visit some of the greater post offices
of the country and, being a country
hon hftnGnlf no nrnhnhlu will nNtanI
his tour of investigation, inquiry or
"visualization" ever into the lanes
along which drive the rural route car
riers.
The secretary of the interior always
has had more or less travelling TO do.
Alaska comes within the puryiew OF
his department, and all the secretaries
since Stewards time have paid at least
one visit to the Northwestern posses
sion. II can be taken for granted that
before long Secretary Fall will start
for the Alaska land.
There Is some reason for the secre-
tary TO go TO Alaska just about this
time. II Is understood that congress
is going 10 express a marked interest
in the government-built, government
owned and acknowledgement rail
road in Alaska. This venture on the
part OF the government was intended
TO prove the entire feasibility and the
certain success of government railroad
operation and ownership.
Recently in congress, when the Alas
kan railroad item came up for cOnsid-
Grafton, there were several attacks on
the whole project. II was said in eff
feet that, while the road was remarka-
bly, well built, the line of its route was
badly chosen and that it never can be
a paying venture.
Whether or not these things are true.
~ course, remains to be seen, but it is
known that the secretary Of the In
terror feels n responsibility In the case,
for the building of the road and the Sc
lection Of the routes and Of the ports
were placed within the department OF
which he is the new Chieftain.
Hoover viii Travel.
Commerce suggests travel. Herbert
Hoover Is secretary Of commerce and
he has expressed a wish that the scope
of the activities Of his office shall he
much extended. Mr.. Hoover always
has been a believer in the plan Of look
ing on the scene Of actual labor. In his
work abroad, and his work in the food
administration, he undertook to direct
nothing at all until he had found out
by actual personal Investigation how
his directing best might count. lie
probably will be something Of a trav-
eler.
The secretary of the treasury, the
attorney general and the secretaries of
agriculture and of labor will not have
to do as much travelling as the other
members Of the cabinet. OF course
every cabinet officer is in demand as a
public speaker. and as a rule they are
willing TO comply with the demands
unless the travel interferes with their
public duties. Neither the secretary of
the treasury nor the attorney general
thus far has outlined any marked de-
parture from the lines followed by his
predecessor in office. and so far as the
secretary Of the treasury is concerned
the present taxation problems and
other things are likely to keep him