The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-19
FEW CHANGES OF POLICIES
 INAUCURATED
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

WASHINGTON, April 19.-(Special espondence). With the pressure of many legislative plans for the session of the Sixtyseventh con- gress, and the horde of office seek CTS that flood the White House and the government departments daily, the Harding administration has had little time to consider the really big problems that must be taken up and solved.
 A beginning has been made on some of the more pressing of these problems, and when anything comes up that must be attended to without delay the administration drops other business in hand and snatches the time. to attend to the immediate ne- cessity.
 In general it may be said that many of the policies left over from the Wilson administration have not been changed and will not be for some time. Democrats flatter them selves that MT. Harding is leaving some of the most important Wilson | policies in status quo, and are much gratified thereby, but are mistaken, 1 for the president has not approved any of the previous administration policies-he simply has not had time to consider these old policies. There | fore the Democrats have no real cause for rejoicing or qualification. When the president does find time to consider all the old Wilson poli- 1 cies no doubt he will retain those that have merit and scrap those that are not satisfactor
 One of the most important policies of the Wilson administration from polical standpoint-is the order ap- plying, to civil service rules for op- 1 pointment of postmasters. Unless this Wilson policy is overturned and the bars let down for appointment of Re publicans in place of the Demicrats who are now serving as postmasters there will be great and wide dissatis- | faction among the Republican party workers. The pOstmasterships are the bulk of the patronage and the pressure from every Republican con- gressman and from every Republican referee in states where congressmen are Democrats, has bcome tremen- dous. Postmastr General Hays and the president are faced with this problem right now.
 Aside from this matter no radical changes have yet been made or con sidered by the Harding administra- tion in the Wilson foreign or do- nestle policies; and the postmaster business is not yet settled.
 Some of the Wilson policies will be continued by the president and his cabinet. One is the conservative plans that have been@ in operation for some time by the federal reserve system. The treasury, under the able direction of Secretary Mellon, him self a banker of great experience in international and domestic finance, will continue to consider the plan to refund the $10,0O0,00O 900 debt owed to the United States by foreign ma tions which was incurred oy the World war The treasury wiu also continue the plan of r1ising m Oney by the system of short term notes,
 which was started by the Wilson ad- ministration. This policy is already
 in operation by MT. Mellon.
 A department of justice policy of former Attorney General Palmer is
 not harrassing "big business" aud the
 corporations have not yet been dis
 turbed by Attorney General Daugher- ty and probably will not be. MT. Daugherty will make "big business" observe the law, but there will be
 no persecution of "big business" by
 the department of justice just be.
 cause it is "big business"
 The navy department has already announced that 1t will adhere to lhe
 policy of building up the navy be-
 gun and urged by Secretary Daniels.
 Secretary Denby believes the United
 States should have the greatest
 navy in the world, and he is a man
 who causes the hearts of the advo-
 cates of national defense to rejoice.
 Incidentally Denby has approved the
 wine mess order of Secretary Dau-
 iels which caused such hullabaloo
 when it was first put in operation,
 but which has undoubtedly increased
 the efficiency of the officer person.
 nel of the navy
 No changes have made in the de.
 partment of agriculture or the in.
 teriOr and no announcement has