The Delta independent., 1923-06-15

They are experts in handling legal
problems and where legal problems
are chiefly to be met they ought to
be entrusted with management. Law
yers are not always poor business
managers, for there have been some
notable exceptions.
The Harding Administration is a
business administration. Harding
himself was trained in the school of
practical experience in the business
world He worked first on a farm
and learned nearly all phases of ag-
ricultural industry. While he was
yet but a boy he began business for
himself by taking contracts at paint
ing. He began his life business while
still youth by the purchase Of a
few pounds of type and an old print.
press and built decadent newspaper
into a prosperous publishing business.
He made great success of editing
and publishing a newspaper without
catering to sensationalism on the one
hand or to ultra-conservatism on the
other. He made a paying enterprise
out of paper that is fit to be read
by every member of every family.
Along with that he aided in the de-
velopment of many industrial enter
prises.
Turning to a consideration of men,
the Department of State a former
Justice of the Supreme Court-a law
yer in a position where knowledge Of
international law is highly important
In the Treasury Department, which
has supervision Of finances, we find
banker who has had large practical
experience in industrial enterprises
In the Department Of War we find a
business man who was trained in the
Naval Academy, who served in the
Spanish-American War, and who was
also distinguished by service in both
the House and Senate. In the De-
partment of Justice, which deals en-
tirely with legal problems, we find a
lawyer, of course. In the Postoffice
Department we find a publisher who
earned his way to success by begin
working his way up to the editorial
chair and part owner of one of the
well-known newspapers of the coun.
try. At the head of the Navy De.
partment we find a man who began
his active career in the Customs ser
vice but distinguished himself chief
ly by his service in the navy during
the war with Spain and during the
war in Europe. Although a member
nS fhn ho~
was peculiarly fitted for his position
| at the head of the navy. At the head
of the Department of the Interior we
find a physician who not only attain
ed eminent success in the practice OF
his profession but established and
conducted the business affairs of q
large hospital. participated in the ad
ministration of the business of State
Boards, and had charge OF admins
tration of medical features of the
draft law. Long residence in a pub
lie land and mining State peculiarly
qualities him for problems relatinf
to his Department. The Secretary o
Agriculture is not lawyer but q
practice farmer and publisher of an
agricr fural paper. The Secretary oi
Commerce is not lawyer but a prac
tical and successful business man
long engaged in mining. railway con
struction, and the highly Difficult.
work Of supervising American relief
in Europe. The Secretary of Labor
began life as puddler in iron and
steel works and later reorganized and
placed on a substantial basis the
business of a fraternal insurance
order which was on the verge OF fail
ure when he took charge.
The present administration has not
gone to the extreme that some ad-
ministration might of shutting out
lawyers entirely wherever needful
and has called to public service men
OF successful experience in private
life qualifying them for administra-
tion OF public affairs.