The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-22
HARDING WILL PUT | CARES ASIDE NOW
Proposes to Forget Entirely Important Duties Ahead for
 Next Two Weeks
Rx Associated Pres.


 On Board President-elect Harding's
 Train, January A.-President-elect liar
 ding put his cares out of mind tonight
 as he neared Florida and told his com panions on his vacation jaunt\ that he proposed to forget entirely for the next two weks the important duties that are
 ahead of him.
 Except for short time during the aft ernoon, when he worked on correspond ence that had been crowded out in the final preparations for leaving Marion, he rested and deported himself as an ordi- nary tourist during his days trip south ward across Kentucky and Tennessee. His private car, attached to regular passenger train, attracted unusual atten- ton at only one or two stations along the way.
 Arriving at St Augustine shortly oe- fore noon tomorrow, Mir. Harding eN- poets to get into his vacation clothes at l once, and after a game of golf, to go aboard the houseboat selected as ms home during the fishing expedition tnse will occupy his first two weeks in tns south In his talks with newspaper ccr respondents and other members or ms party today he re-emphasized his desirs to cut himself off during this period l from all thought of the subjects ne nas had under consideration in his marioh conferences.
 MT. Harding is taking full advantage or the prospect of his respite. and although he looked more careworn than when ne passed through Kentucky and Tennessee | in October on a campaign trip, he greeted with smile the groups that gathered around his car at various stops | to shake his hand. At Oakdale. Tenn.' where there was delay of 15 minutes | to change engines, he got out and enter tained a grinning audience of railway switchmen by walking rail with tne spryness of a 15-year-old.
 1 Despite his efforts to get away from l his worries, however, speculation apout | the cabinet situation increased, rather than diminished, among those about nm on his trip south. \ At the same tune indications multiplied that the whois problem still is influx and that final de. cision on every one of the 10 capInet places must he reached during MT. Hai dng's stay in Florida. It was said authoritatively that sucn tenders of cabinet places as the Presi- dent-elect has made are conditional, anu l that many clements of the situation re- main to be harmonized before there can ! be actual selections. The latest susses ton heard among those close 10 MI. Harding is that Charles Evans dugnes' generally regarded as leading possi- l bilty for Secretary of State, might pc offered the attorney generalship instead, l and that the state portfolio might pe given to Elihu Root, whose friends are understood to be bringing strong pressure l to bear in his behalf.
 Tn the same quarters it has been pro posed that Charles G. Dawes Of Chlcaso, urged prominently for Secretary or she Treasury be given the position Of gov ernor of the federal reserve board, ieav- inc inc treasury post for A. w. Mellon 1 of Pittsburg So far as MT. Hard'iis himself is concerned, however, ne 's maintaining silence and IS putting .he he returns to St. Augustine from his | fishing trip.