The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-03
COOLIDGE TO
 BE ACTIVE IN
 OFFICIAL, LIFE
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES


 to make use of the services of the vice president has caused some specu- 1ation in Washington concerning the broadened field of activities of the gentleman who heretofore did nothing but preside over the senate, make speeches, and in rare instances sue was so unlucky as to die in office.
 Vice President Coolidge has already sat rin cabinet meetings, on invitation of President Harding It would be interesting to learn if MT. Coolidge took a prominent part in the discus sions of the august body headed by the president. Nothing has yet been reported from any of the cabinet meetings concerning MT. Coolidge's activities of that sphere.
 It is understood, that MT. Harding plans, with of course the co-opera- tion of congress, a complete reorgan- ization of the huge and complex fed eral government machine in Washing ton It has been suggested that the vice president could be used as the congress in the big reorganization undertaking. This is a wise plan MT. Harding has let it be known that he intends to develop the closest and most cordial cooperation between eX- ecutiVe and the congress. By so dO- ing he will avoid one of the principal mistakes of the Wilson administra- tion, which seemed to consider con greSS as merely a sort of national high school which had to be kept in fear of the presidential rod and told what to study and what to do. This glaring error, which was hard to understand in a man with President Wilson's intelligence, will not be re- peated by President Harding. Presi- dent Wilson, when he wanted to con sent Postmaster General Burleson to the capital, and Mr Wilson often made use in his second term of Sen Iator Carter Glass, of Virginia, at that time minority leader in the senate. Mr Wilson's wishes conveyed to con- gross by these men, not in the shape of requests, but nearly always in the form of commands.
 From everything that can be learned of the situation at this time it seems to be MT. Hardings plan to use MT Coolidge as an official and unofficial adviser, much as Mir Will son used the celebrated Col. House, of Texas, who gained his White House 'pull' because he had been largely instrumented in securing Wilson dele gates to the Baltimore convention which first nominated Mr Wilson for the presidency, and because the Texas Statesman" also assisted materially in financing the first Wilson pre- nomination campaign.
 In passing it may be stated that Col Houses title was not really a military title, for the Colonel had never served in any war, though he was young enough when the call for volunteers for the war with Spain was issued. "ColoneP' House got his title by serving on the staff of one of the forgotten governors of Texas. The Colonel" Harvey title had some such beginning, too
 l According to information obtained i from sources close to the president, MT. Harding plans to enlarge the scope of vice presidential activities in three ways. These include making : MT. Coolidge a valued counselor in 1 the cabinet meetings, making him an unofficial counselor in patronage mat. | ters, using him as an aid to the White House in securing legislation from congress. In this last capacity he would be a sort of high class and special envoy of MT Harding D con- gress, Such activities on the part
  of MT. Coolidge will of course not only increase the usefulness If the office of vice president, but it will certainly add new dignity, power and influence to an office that has been for many years a source of jokes be- cause of its comparative uselessness, except as the highest office in the senate.
 Under such circumstances the vice president undoubtedly will become a powerful figure in the administration, and will really rank next after the president in authority, and particular ly in influence.
 There is also some talk that MT. Harding when the plans for reorgan- izing the departments are started, will make the vice president a sort of