The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-22
HARDING LEAVES
 MARION FOR TRIP
 INTO SOUTHLAND
Vacation In Florida Gives Him Surcease From Job Hunt CTS and Time to Ponder
 Over Cabinet Positions
Fly ROBERT T. SMALL

En Route to Florida With Senator Harding, January 21.- Special. )-- President-elect Harding is taking to randa on many subjects. As he speeds away to the southland this material is carefully slowed away in cedar chests aboard his private car One or two of the chests will be taken aboard the houseboat Victoria" which has been waiting at St. Augustine for some time for its distinguished guest, but it is doubtful if the memoranda will be unpacked for several days to come.
 Senator Harding wants at least brief breathing spell from all the cares and trials and tribulations that Ire crowding fast upon him as he hears the White House portals. He wants to forget cabinet making and cabinet gos- sip for a time. He wants to make believe that there are no such things in the world as office-seekers or job hounds" This is impossible apparent ly only when he is in transit. The senator's last day in Marion was marked by the appearance of score
 
 headquarters. An engagement had been made for only one, however, and MT. Harding positively refused to see the others.
 HAD TO PACK UP"
 In the first place, the uninvited callers had no right to trespass upon his last day at home, and in the sec ond place, Mrs. Harding had sent h:ni peremptory orders to come over to the house and pack his trunk Once in the White House he will have a per sonal messenger to do all that sort of thing for him, but just now the sena- tor gets along very happily by doing It himself. He is not much of a hand at carrying tune, but he huns away in lively fashion while tossing his be- longings into trunks and suitcases. and at the other end of the line he has the advantage of Knowing just whei c he put a favorite necktie or pair of stocks.
 The leavetaking at Marion was not a very gay affair to say the least. The day was dark and gloomy with rain falling most of the time and d murky sort of fog settling down like pail early in the afternoon The Harding home; in Mount Vernon ave- nue. with its broad and famous front rorch, wore a very dejected air outside as well as in. It seemed very bare
 
 curtains were drawn and one could look into the almost bare interior. For several days furniture vans have been hauling goods away, some or if going to friends and some to storage It4 has been said that no man can feel exalted after seeing his household goods and chattels exposed to public gaze on moving van, and the next President of the United States prob ably was no exception to the rule T1le Harding house has been rented and ii IS doubtful if the senator and Mrs. Harding ever will live there again.
 OUTLINE INAUGURAL
 When Mrs. Harding said goodby 10 Ter husband at the train in Marion Ihursday at midnight it was the first time she had been separated from him since hls nomination and election Wherever he went during the cam paign Mrs. Harding was always at his side. While the Presdent-eIect IS cruising for two weeks on the houseboat, Mrs. Harding will be doing some belatcd shopping in New York and attending to some matters at the Harding residence in Washington which has not yet been disposed of She will join her husband at st. Au- gustlne some time after February 1
 nile houseboating t is doubtful if Senator Harding will devote much Of ms time to work. although he rather expects to sketch an outline of his inaugural address. He also will non- der considerable amount of the memoranda he has accumulated re- specting cabinet material, and may reach decision as to some of the still doubtful places on the cabinet slate They include the portfolios of labor. interior navy and agricul- ture. There are more conflicting in- terests at work concerning labor and agriculture than nearly all the other cabinet posts combined. However, for the moment Senator Harding is away !. from It all and is sllnre1neIv ha nnx.