The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-05
OUTLINES
INTERIO R
POLICY
Issues Statement After Taking
Oath As Secretary-Re-
tains Falls Rules.

DIR. Hubert F. Work took the oath
as Secretary Of the Interior at 1855
a. m. He was sworn in by w. B
Acker, an attorney for the depart
ment. Work succeeds Albert B
Fall, of New Mexico, resigned.
Immediately after being sworn in
Secretary Work issued the following
statement concerning the policy to
be observed in the conduct OF the
Interior Department under his direc.
torship:
''For many years I have lived
among the great domestic problems
that come within the province of
the Department OF the Interior in
the West, but have no financial in.
terest in any of them.
1.-THE natural resources Of our
country today are boundless in their
scope, and 1t is the duty of the
Government and those officials in.
trusted with administrative author
ity to preserve with jealous care
those rights Of Government and the
people and with the same solicitude
that might be exercised in purely
personal obligations.
1.-The various, bureaus and semi
independent agencies co-ordfnated
into the Department of the Interior,
exercise an influence of tremen-
dous magnitude upon our national
life. Our public lands problems,
and our reclamation and irrigation
problems, deal with the prosperity
of millions of our citizens through
out the western part of the country,
and these problems, perhaps not
always fully understood or appre-
ciated in the east, nevertheless are
fundamentally the problems of all
Americans.
1T have no panacea for the estab-
lishment Of perfectly balanced gov
ernmental institutions, nor any for
mula for the inauguration OF a
millennium among the workers Of
this department.
But I do sense the completely of
the problems confronting govern
ment today, and feel, perhaps with
a justifiable sincerity, that the
problems Of tomorrow, will be more
complex and require more ingenuity
and energy # we are to attain sub
stantial progress.
/ Views on Problems.
II believe that the work done
and the problems confronting the
Government should be placed
frankly before the American PEG
pie. The American Government
should advertise with all the en-
ergy of which it is capable to thu
end that it's millions of wage earn
ers, it's citizens of both sexes anC
of every class, might enjoy a bet
ter understanding Of public institu
tons. what they stand for ant
what they seek to accomplish II
the interest of the public.
Education Of the proper kind II
the most powerful weapon know
/ to civilization, and such education
combined with honesty and fidelity
to idealistic purposes, will make fai
better Americans and better
America.
$50, in the conduct Of the Depart
ment of the Interior, there shall b.
no submerged or camouflaged poll
cies, no issues tucked away behind
smoke-screens. but an open an(
frank exposition of all actions
deemed essential to the public in
terest.
! 1.-THE same strictly business meth
DDS that prevailed in the Postoffict
Department during my incumbenc5
as Postmaster General will be ap
! piled to the Department of the In
| terror to the end that it's functions
may be exercised with the same eft
| ficiency that characterized the Ad
ministration of my distinguished
predecessor.
~"I will continue the 'open-dool
policy Of the department adopted
for the Postoffice Department Sc
that the public may look IN, If i
wishes, to see its business trans
actions"