The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-03-31
To ASK FOR NEW
CABINET PLACE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
AND PUBLIC WELFARE IS
PLANNED BY HARDING.
WOMAN WILL GET POSITION
Activities Planned for Or. Sawyer Have
Close Connection With Plan for New
Oepsrtment-Doetor's Army Appoint
ment 10 Cause Of Gossip.
BY EDWARD q. CLARK.

BY EDWARD q. CLARK.
Neutrality-suspicious. OF the next
congress seem convinced that Presi-
dent Harding will submit a plea for
legislation to create new branch Of
the government service to be known
as the department Of education and
public welfare with a woman at Its
cabinet.
There Is some opposition developing
to the plan and the chances are that
1t WIN be voiced on the floors of the
two houses of congress If the plan for
the new department is submitted.
There seems to be feeling In both
political parties, however. that, II the
President makes specific recon-
mendation which of course amounts
to request for the Legislation, the
party majority in congress will heed
his words and pass the legislation nee
essary to make the new place In the
cabinet.
Ii has been known for long time
that some of the elements in the pop
ulation were opposed to the creation
of this new branch of government
Some of the churches have feared that
under the new dispensation education
in church schools might be interfered
with and that. in effect, teaching might
be wholly secularzed.
Recently. however, some Of the lead
| ing churchmen have said that their
churches cannot be put in position
of opposition To anything which looks
| like tile educational welfare of the
country, and so it is possible that a
part of the opposition has passed
from the field.
All Will Be Heard.
Representatives and senators have
said that everybody is to be given
chance to be heard by the committees
when the hearings on the measure
creating the department are held. 1t
is promised that the legislation will
<ot be passed hurriedly. If the Presi-
dent shall ask that the department be
created, the measure for its creation
when first formulated for committee
consideration will be open TO sugges-
lions for amendment, and 1t Is prob
able that a good many amendments will
be brought forward.
The recent appointment Of DIR. Z. h.
Sawyer of Marion. o., as a brigadier
: general in the reserve corps Of the
, United States army has close con-
nection with the plan for depart
ment of education and public welfare.
General Sawyer is TO make survey
of the field of things related to the
public health and the public welfare.
. and under the direction of the Presi-
dent Is to make report thereon. This
report, In part at any rate, Is likely
to be used as a basis for the new leg
, islation. II also will contain many rec
concentrations based on DIR. Sawyer's
study, concerning the activities which
should be undertaken by the various
: bureaus which will be brought within
the new department. Service for the
maintenance of the health of the pub
lie Is closely connected with much of
the work which the government is now
, doing In rather scattered form.
If the new department is created,
the wOmans bureau and the children's
bureau Of the Department of Labor
the bureau of education and the De
partment of the Interior, and the wal
! risk insurance bureau and the public
, health services Of the Treasury de
' partment. will be. transferred 10 the
Jurisdiction of the new cabinet officer
1t is also expected that the federal
! board for vocational education aud all
other governmental agencies dealing
with soldier relief will be concentrated
In one bureau OF the newly created de
partment.
Gossip About Sawyer.
There has been good deal OF Cos
sip In Washington over the commits
sioning of DR.. Charles Il. Sawyer OF