Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
LESS PUBLICITY DESIRED
BY ATTORNEY GENERAL
BY ELIZABETH KING STOKES
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1929

Copyright, l92l.)
WASHINGTON, June 18.-"WeI, ]
suppose you, too, want to be ap-
pointed a federal Judge"
This was hurled at the tenth per-
son to arrive in the outer reception
room of the attorney general within
five minutes. The aspiring judge
sat down and began to speculate with
his lounge mates as to what was
on the attorney generals mind re-
garding supreme court appointments
The room was like a beehive, with
all the corners buzZing about the
diverse responsibilities of the attor-
ney general-patronage court ap-
red" agitation, prohibition and this
latter subject was more or less &C
tive all over the room.
According to some of his friends
the attorney general thinks that pro
hibition opinions of the department
of justice can be written better o3
a man than by woman, and tna'
henceforth that phase of the WORE
of his office should be entrusted tc
a male assistant who will take over
the duties formerly assigned to MISS
Adams, the first woman to hold the
position Of assistant attorney gen.
eral. Miss Adams place still is va
cant; the attorney general is not vel
ready to announce her Republican
No index Of View
But the fact that Mr.. DaughertS
thinks the country has had enough
of the feminine viewpoint of pro
hibition is no particular index to the
new attorney general now at worl
on the sixth floor of the department
of Justice. Some officials in Wash
ington and opponents of the Vol
stead act, say that Miss Adams bore
down on the liquor question VIII
the "wet" leaders expressed 1t, the
lady in the department OF justice
always was after US.
The picture and the atmosphere OF
the attorney generals office today Is
one of reorganization, hustle ane
change; change not only In the meth
DDS of work but in the head or the
department himself, who every DAY
since his arrival at the capital has
shown the effect of a growing sense
of the large responsibilities of his
office. A flash of the attorney gen
eral work by which the country
could most easily gauge him woulo
be that of a man so submerged In the
organization Of his department ano
in settling the Republican party III
office, as to be able barely to look uE
from his task and find a free moment
More placid and less harassec
countenances of former attorney gen
erals-Wayne MacVeagh, Philandel
c. Knox. George w. Wickersham-
look down from the walls, but Mr.
Daugherty mops his brow and con-
tinues to canvass the duties and as
signments of his staff with view
to readjustment, and, almost at the
same time, cope with the pressure
upon him to settle the. patronage
questions saddled upon him.
Mr.. Daugherty had not been here
long before his mind was made w
that the country had had enough
of the wide publicly which the de-
partment had courted under Mr.. Pal
what we need now is to sto1
agftating the agitators," he said the
other day, referring to rumors o.
radical outbreaks. The phrase is be-
coming a by-word around the CAPT
tai.
His face was set as he said it. His
manner was sharp and emphatic
above all, business like, and showing
considerable restraint. He appeared
canny, thoughtful, searching and far
sighted to a large degree. Yet eV'
cry move he made revealed him al
entirely unpretsntious and ready Y
seek advice.
A congressman and senator were
ushered in, after waiting an hour
They had an appointment in theil
briefly. The incumbent back hom'
was Mr.. so and SO. 1t would be ad
visable, indeed highly necessary, tha'
Mr.. so and so be relieved Of hi
post and another gentleman. whom
they described, appointed.
The attorney general pushed a but
ton. A stenographer appeared. HI
dictated rapidly a few sentence, ant
| the thing was done. No discussion
seemed to be necessary, no changes
or hesitations in the letter wer
made The case was settled in faVol
of the visitors. That is the way HI