The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-03-04
RETIRING CABINET
MEMBERS SCATTER
WILSON'S OPTICAL FAMILY
BREAKS UP, EACH MEMBER
RETURNING HOME

Washington-(By A. P.)---Most Oh
Inc cabinet officers who retired today
will resume the work they gave up tl
become members of Woodrow Viii
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 col
lege professor.
cambridge Colby, who retires after
one years service as secretary of
state, will return to the practice of
law in New York city, 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
Federal Power Commission and the
Council of National Defense.
A Mitchell Palmer, retiring attor-
ney 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 reside in
Washington considerable portion of
each year and will have as his law
partners three lawyers who have been
closely associated with him in his
public work; Frank Davis Jr., former
ly assistant attorney general Robert
r. Scott and Seiforde M. Stellagen.
Joseph Daniels, one Of the four
Wilson cabinet officers who remain
ed on the job the full eight years,
will leave tomorrow for Raleigh,
North Carolina, to resume his duties
as editor and publisher of the Ra-
leigh News and Observer The for
mer naval secretary will arrive home
Sunday morning and says his first
act will be to GO to church and re-
pent Of all my sins" He announces
as his motto charity to all and NAL
ice to ward none." y
David F. Houston, former secre-
tary of the Treasury has not made
definite plans for the future, but has
several offers under consideration.
He was a university professor before
entering the cabinet in 1918 as secre-
tary of agriculture but has not de-
cided whether he will return to educa-
tional work or enter the commercial
field. He has been head of the Treas
ury for year and also member of
the Federal Reserve Board, Chairman
of the Board for Vocational Educa-
ton and a member of the Council of
National Defense.
John Barton Payne, who has been
secretary of the interior for 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 Corporation.
He also has been member OF the
Federal Power Commission and Di-
rector General of railroads.
Albert Sidney Burleson will go back
to Austin, Texas, to practice law and
to look after his private interests
there after eight years as Postmaster
General
Edwin T. Meredith, who succeeded
Mr.. 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
CALLAHAN, Missouri, to resume the
practice of law and, as he says, to
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 final
y making decision with regard to
several BUSINESS offers which have