The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-03-28
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
AND PUBLIC WELFARE is
: !. PLANNED BY HARDING.
+! WOMAN WILL GET POSITION
Activities Planned for Or. Sawyer Have
Close Connection With Plan for New
Department-Doctors Army Appoint
ment 10 Cause Of Gossip.
By EDWARD 3. CLARK.

the government service to be known
as the department of education and
public welfare with a woman at its
head who is to have q place in the
cabinet.
There is some opposition developing
to the plan and the chances are that
it will be voiced on the floors of the
two houses Of congress if the plan fox
the new department is submitted.
There seems to be feeling in both
,political parties, however, that, if the
President makes specific recon-.
mendation which Of course amounts
to request for the legislation, the
+ party majority in congress will heed
his words and pass the legislation nec'
essary to make the new place in the
cabinet.
1t has been known for long time
that some Of the elements in the pop.
ulation were opposed to the creation
of this new branch Of governments
Some Of the churches have feared that
under the new dispensa1ion education
IN church schools might be interfered
with and that, in effect, teaching might
be wholly secularized.
Recently, however, some OF the lead'
ing churchmen have said that their
churches cannot be put in a position
Of opposition to anything which looks
like the educational welfare OF the
country, and so it is possible that 4
part OF the opposition has passed
from the field.
All Will Be Heard.
Representatives and senators have
said that everybody is to be given a
chance to be heard by the committees
iwhen the hearings on the measure
icreating the department are held. 1t
is promised that the legislation will
mot be passed hurriedly- If the Presi-
dent shall ask that the department be
created, the measure for its creation
when first formulated for committee
consideration will be open to SUCCESS
itions for amendment, and it is prob.
liable that a good many amendments will
be brought forward.
The recent appointment OF DR.. c. p.
Sawyer of Marion, O., as a brigadier
tgeneral in the reserve corps Of the
United States army has Il close con-
Injection with the plan for depart-
iment Of education and public welfare.
General Sawyer is to make a survey
Of the field of things related to the
:public health and the public welfare,
and under the direction Of the Presi-
dent is to make Il report thereon. This
,rcport, in part at arc7 rate, is likely
ito be used as a basis for the new leg
lislation. 1t also will contain many rec
Concentrations based on DR.. Sawyer's
istudy, concerning the activities which
,shOuld be undertaken by the various
bureaus which will be brought within
1.-THE new department.. Service for the
maintenance of the health of the pub
Tic is closely connected with much Of
1.-The work which the government is now
;doing in rather a scattered form.
If the new department Is created.
the wonan's bureau and the chillren's
bureau Of the Department Of Labor:
the bureau of education and the De-
partment Of the Interior, and the war
risk insurance bureau and the public
health services Of the Treasury de-
partment, will be transferred to the
Jurisdiction Of the new cabinet officer.
1t is also expected that the federal
board for vocational education and all
other governmental agencies dealing
with soldier relief will be concentrated
in one bureau Of the newly created de-
partment.
Gossip About Sawyer.
There has been good deal Of Cos
sip in Washington over the commits
sioning Of DR.. Charles e. Sawyer Of
Marion, O., as Il brigadier general
In the reserve corps of the United
States army. 1t should be said that
DIR. Sawyer's appointment will not in
any way interfere with the promotion
Of other officers in the medical corps
Of the regular army.
One bit Of gossip about the matter
has its medical connection" Genera.
Sawyer Is a homeopathic and most
of the medical officers Of the army are
Of the school Of allopatlIy. In fact, it
might be said that the basis of prac-
tice in the regular army is allopathic.
1t is not to be supposed that there
will be any trouble, but everybody
knows that there is feeling between
the two schools and that it never has
been entirely kept under cover.
Near Scott Circle in Washington
there Is a statue Of Christian Friedrich
Sam-l Hahneman, the founder of
/ homeopathy. Back Of the figure of the
doctor is a multi-colored stone which
seems to throw a nimbus of light about
the head. The curious have asked,
why the halo?' The answer of the
faithful has been, 'Mne will tell"
i So in way it may, be said that
time has told and homeopathy SEEM
ingly has gained high place. in the
!uAdical corps CT the United States.
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