The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-07-11
Colonel Golf Of the Assistant Cabinet"


to Washington. "Reorgan-
ization'' has been travel
ing through the departments with Il
quick step, and the changes of per-
sonnet have been quietly effected in
places where the policy of the work
lis more or less established. But
there has been considerable Of a
turnover in the Office of the Attor-
Iney General, and the public has
shown a live interest in the changes
that have been made. Doubtless
the early opposition to the nominal
Ition Of Attorney General Daugherty
was in a measure due to the fact
that Mr.. Daugherty and President
Harding were known to disapprOve
certain policies that had prevailed
FOR a long time in the Department
of Justice. Obviously the natural
order Of events has brought about
big changes In the methods as well
has the personnel of the Department
lof Justice, and unbiased observers
Iof affairs in Washington believe
that most Of these changes have i'm
proved the character Of the service
rendered to the country by this
great branch of the government.
Attorney General Daugherty has
frequently been described by news
paper writer's as a Strong, positive
and aggressive character. He has
shown hal he recognizes the ire
mendors tasks Of his department as
beyond the powers Of any one mai
to shoulder, and he has surrounded
himself with lawyers and other as
is.stants who are capable of reliev-
ing him OF many of the major tasks
pf his department.
aColonel Guy D. Golf, assistant to
the Attorney General, is often re-
ferrcd to In Washington as Mr..
Daugherty's "law- partner" They
ARE couspicuously fitted ito team it
together, as each is literally the
complement of the other. Colonel
{Goff is IL denial iii the flesh of the
pibel hat public service kills indi-
vidual initiative. He was a United
States District Attorney from Wis
~iconsin under the Taft administra-
ltion, the principal assistant to Gen
iernl Crowder during the war and
upon Its conclusion he was made
the general counsel of the United
States Shipping Board to represent
the Great Lakes" President Will
soE afterwards appointed him as
lone of the members of the board.
At the beginning of the present adj
kninistration he became assistant
TO the Attorney General"
, Rumor has 1t that Colonel Golf
declined a proposition to engage
IN the practice of law in New York :,
City under an arrangement which {
would have yielded him $4,000 a I
year and accepted instead the $4,000
post which he now holds. "a year
ago / would have swan the Atlantic
for $50, OO0,' he explained. "but now
/ do not need the money" And be-
caase he Goes Mt need the money {
he Is able to give mis- time and tai 1
euf to tile public service and in con- t
sequence occupies the position of I
assistant to The Attorney General, z
he throws into his work the q
mercy and skill which caused ]
him to 1e regarded is a $4,000 man {
" the business and legal world. il
Root and many great h
men entertained the same view Of t
life and It's duties and seized its OPP 0
portunities to give their energies b
their brains to the public serv- 0
&c. Colonel Golf is among those o
whom Leigh Hunt, in "Abou Ben
Adhem," describes as zone who G
owes his f~ellowInen." No one ever G
lsks whether Golf will make good. b
is accepted that "Goff always Of
makes good" 1t was he who wrote r
no opinions for the War Depart Ct
nent relating to the conscientious D
and his pen defined the in Of
lea1 and meaning of the law relat- 81
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for sacramental purposes, ii
nd b. sisS prepared the rules and to
andAr which the selec- w
tve <rN{t arf vas enforced. He to