The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-05
WILSON CABINET
 MEN TO RESUME;
 PREVIOUS WORK

WASHINGTON, March (by Asso-
 ciated Press) Most of the cabinet officers who retired yesterday will
 resume the work they gave up to become members of Woodrow Will sons official family. One or two of them, however, have not yet made definite plans for the future. Lawyers predominated in the out going cabinet. numbering six. There also were two publishers and one college professor.
 Bainbridge Colby, who retires after
 one years service as secretary of state, will return to the practice of law in New York City, and Washing ton ia partnership with Ex-President Wilson, but before he settles down
 to that work he may visit Scotland. Newton D. Baker will turn from the , direction of the war department, to the practice of law in his home town of Cleveland. He has had five years service as secretary of war and also
 has served as chairman of the fed eral power commission and the coun- cil of national defense.
 A, Mitchell Palmer, retiring at torney general, will resume his law practice with offices in his home city of Stroudsburg, Pa, and also in Washington. He will retain his home in Pennsylvania, but will re- side in Washington a considerable portion of each year and will have as his law partners three lawyers whoI have been closely associated with him in his public work: Frank Da- wis, Jr, formerly as assistant attor- ney general; Robert R. Scott and Sci forde M. Stellwagen.
 Josephus Daniels, one of the four Wilson cabinet officers who remained on the job the full eight years, will leave tomorrow for Raleigh, North Carolina, to resume his duties as editor and publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer. The former naval secretary will arrive home Sun day morning and says his first act will be to go to church and repent of all my sins" He announces as his motto charity to all and malice to. ward none"
 David F. Houston, former secretary of the treasury, has not made definite plans for the future, but has several offers under consideration. He was university professor before enter ing the cabinet in 1913 as secretary of agriculture but has not decided whether he will return to educational work or enter the commercial field. He has been head of the treasury for a year and also a member of the federal reserve board, chairman of the board of vocational education and member of the council of national defense.
 John Barton Payne, who has been secretary of the interior for a year plans to make his home in Washing ton, but will devote some of his time to the Chicago park project in which he was a moving spirit before he was called to Washington early in | the war as general counsel for the shipping board emergency fleet cor. poration. He also has been a mem- Der of the federal power commission and director general of railroads.
 Albert Sydney Burleson will go back to Austin, Texas to practice law and to look after his private in. terests there after eight years as postmaster general.
 Edwin T. Meredith, who succeeded MT. Houston as secretary of agricul- ture a year ago, will return to Des Moines to look after his farm maga. | zine and other interests. He also has been member of the federal power commission. Joshua w. Alexander, after two years service as secretary of com merce, will go to his old home at l Gallitan, Missouri, to resume the | practice of law and, as he says, tol do a little farming on the side"
 William B. Wilson, another of the original Wilson cabinet officers, will return to his farm near Blossburg, Pennsylvania, for a rest before fin ally making a decision with regard to several business offers which have been rendered him.