The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-04-01
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NEW CHIEFS WANT nFIRsT-HAND
} INFORMATION ABOUT ACTIVE
TIES IN DEPARTMENTS. IF
SECRETARY DENLY STARTS IT
Made His First Trip to Guantanamo as
Gunner's Mate on the Yosemite
Now Makes His Second Trip, but
This Time as Secretary r
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

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= BY EDWARD 3. CLARK. .
! Washington Secretary Of the Navy
Edwin DENLY is paying his second visit
to Guantanamo, Cuba. 1t is, however,
the first visit which he has paid as
secretary of the navy. The first time
he was there he was gunner's mate
on board gunboat, the Yosemite.
r The understanding in Washington Is
that the present cabinet is to be-
travelling cabinet, when travelling Is
necessary for the 'good Of the seIv-
lice" Most Of the cabinet officers have
said that they want to follow the lines
Of the activities of their departments
in the field, and to learn at first hand
where it is necessary to apply rene
dies. $780,. -
! Secretary DENLY, on his former trips
on battleships or cruisers, swung his
hammock and slept with the ENLISTED
men. He also messed with the enlist
ed ones. and the word is that he not in
frequently took a hand at scrubbing
decks. 1~" = t'-.. .;...'
: Now things are different. The flag
of the secretary of the navy flies from
the peak, and the secretary himseif
has cabin "all by his lonesome" but
The, like the captain of war vessel,
frequently will invite the officers from
captain down to share his table. 1t
can be taken for granted that as for
the enlisted men on board, including
the Marines, the secretary will have
kindly eye upon them, or an eye which
will be quick to note signs Of anything
which may call for Improvement.
= It is the intention Of Secretary OF
| War Weeks to visit the various army
posts Of the country. The war secre-
tary has "sea legs" but he soon Will
learn to keep step with the land lub-
bers. AS a, matter of fact, the midshlp-
men at the Naval academy, where the
secretary of war was educated, are
given infantry drill constantly, and SO
in a way their early training in part
can be classed with that Of the cadets
at West Point.
|; Get 1t First Hand.
Il Will II. Hays, before he has been In
Office very long, will board train car
rying the mails. Moreover, he will
visit some Of the greater post Offices
OF the country and, being country
boy himself, lie probably will extend
his tour of investigation, inquiry or
"visualizaton" even into the lanes
along which drive the rural route car
4 riers.
The secretary Of the interior always
has had more or less travelling to 90
Alaska comes within the purvieW OF
his department., and all the secretaries
since Stewards time have paid at least
one visit to the Northwestern posses
sion. It can be taken for granted that
before long Secretary Fall will star,
for the Alaska land.
| There is some reason for the secre
tary to 20 to Alaska just about this
time. 1t is understood that congress
is going to express 4 marked Interest
in the government-built, government
owned and government-operated rail
road in Alaska. This venture on the
part of the government was intended
to prove the entire feasibility and the
certain success Of government railroad
| operation and ownership.
Recently in congress, when the Alas
kan railroad item came up for consld
Grafton, there were several attacks or
the whole project. 1t was said in eft
feet that, while the road was remarka
bly, well built, the line Of its route was
badly chosen and that it never can bt
| paying venture.
| Whether or not these things are true
OF course, remains to be seen, but 1t II
| known that the secretary OF the Ill
terror feels a responsibility in the case
for the building of the road and the Sc
I lection of the routes and of the ports
| were placed within the department o.
| which he is the new chicftain.
/. Hoover viii Travel.
+ Commerce suggests travel. Herber
!, Hoover is secretary of commerce ant
he has expressed a wish that the scope
!! Of the activities of his Office shall b.
4 much extended. Mr.. Hoover alway:
has been believer in the plan of look
ing on the scene of actual labor. In hi:
work abroad, and his work in the FOOT
administration, he undertook to direc
nothing at all until he had found on
| by actual personal investigation how
his directing best might count Ill
probably will be something of tray
eler. .. .s
The secretary Of the treasury, tn
attorney general and the secretaries o
agriculture and of labor will not hav'
to do as much travelling as the othe
members OF the cabinet. OF eourS
every cabinet officer is in demand as I;
public speaker, and as rule they ar
willing to comply with the demand
unless the travel interferes with thei
/ public duties. Neither the secretary o
the treasury nor the attorney genera
thus far has outlined any marked de
parture from the lines followed by nj
! predecessor In Office, and so far as TIL
secretary of the treasury is concerne
the present taxation problems an
other things are likely TO keep bin
| pretty tightly chained TO his Washing
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