Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-09
a KR. WARREN G. HARDING.
M Marion, Ohio, Dear w. g.:
wv About wks. ago I wrote
u vn,, 1offor onnlvfncr fov tho

, you letter applying Ior the
position as secy. Of state in your cab
met and haven't reed. no reply to
same but from what 1 been reading
In the papers 1t looks like you had
made it up in your mind to give this
position to either Chas. Hughes OF
nothing to say VS.. neither one OF
these men and believe they would
| both make you good man as Ell
has held the position before vile
Chas. mind should ought to travel
right along with yours as he was
! president himself a whole night.
| Speaking about chas. he reminds
me something like q busher on a
baseball club Washington drafted
him from the N. Y. State League and
all he done was set on the bench
! till the Senators needed a run and
/ out on a close decision and in the
mean vile they had signed up an
other bench warmer and it was back
| to the bushes for Chas. and when
! say bushes l am not makeing no vul-
gar reference to his disguise.
But laying all jokes to ! side. what
am getting at its that l wanted a
portfolio in your cabinet though I
| have all ready got a portfolio that
! 1 use it to bring my play manu.
scripts back home in, but no joke
Il Ing Gamaliel, vile 1 said l would
| got a man in mind for that position,
why I would just as leaf take one of
the other places like for inst. post
master gen.
Now i know that some of my enc
mys will probably tell you that
| am not eligible for this portfolio as
l once served on turn as substitute
mail carrier in Niles, Mich, and know
some thing about how the mail serv-
! ice should be ran, but between you
and l, Gam, l don't recall nothing
about the ms and outs Of the BUSH
| ness and as far as technical knowl-
edge Is conserved I would enter the
new birth with that blank mind 80
| nessary to a cabinet member.
But I have got some idears in re-
cards to the improvement of the
present fncumbrants has made a
| start, in the right direction. still ]
don't feel like he has grasped all the
possibilities. Like for inst. II an
! other war come up in France and
our boys was sent over there and
their wives and mothers mailed xmas
! presents to them, why instead OF
dumping all these packages on q ship
| bound for Honolulu I would open
| Inem up at 1OkODeu ana nave d IuNi.
age sale and send a certain per cent
| Of the receipts back to the wifes and
mothers to keep them going till the
| war dept. got around to sending them
part of their last April's allotment.
But the thing would get after
! Is our stamp system which 1t looks
| to me like 1t was one of the silliest
things connected with the govt Az
soon as you promised me the port
| folio I would go right to work and
get up some stamps with some sense
to them. Like for inst. instead Of a
picture of a boy riding bicycle on
the special delivery stamps. would
have q picture of the Shamrock or
a fivver with a wheel Off.
1t is my idear that the stamps that
is used the most oftenest like the
and 2 cent stamps should ought to
have q picture on them that will give
the person to who tho letter is adj
dressed some sort of hint as to
what the letter is about, so as If they
are not interested they don't half to
open the letter. OF course II you
write to somebody to inform them