The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-03-19
By the National Editorial Association
Especial to The Herald)
The Gold" Dust Twins
In Presidents Cabinet

senate has been temporarily aDand
oned. Everybody anticipates a re-
sumption of these tests between the
legislative and executive branches
of the government when the regular
session in December. Mean
while, great changes have been in
augurated in the federal departments
without creating a ripple of public
interest.
Meet the "Gold Dust Twins" of the
present Observation-Disclosures. Jar
dine and Hoover! Though they have
been at work only ten days, the re-
suits of their plans are easily APP
parent. Mr.. Jardine, as secretary of
agriculture, with Secretary of Com
merce Hoover as his chief advisor,
has started a housekeeping which
was predicted a few days ago.
In overhauling the mechanism of
the agricultural department in the
interest of efficiency, the axe has fall
len first upon the bureau chiefs.
Their designations were requested,
or suggested, within a few hours
after Mr.. Jardine took the oath of
office. On the theory that a new
broom will sweep clean, it is ex-
pected that the personnel of the i'm
portant bureaus will also be altered
in due course. Jardine, as a men,
Der of the presidents agricultural
mission discovered evidences Of
bureaucratic domination.
Mix With Farm Organizations
These drastic measures are not at
all to the liking of the individuals
known as professional farmers" or
farm organizations representatives
in Washington and other localities.
According to impartial observers,
these organizations have placed their
agents in strategic posts in the fed
eral service. While Secretaries Jar
dine and Hoover favor cooperative
action among farmers, and are not
hostile to legitimate cooperative
work, it is known that they resent
dictation from these groups. The
story is coming into Washington
that certain national organizations
of co-operatives are protesting with
the cry THAT "there is too much
Hoover in the government"
1t was understood that Mr.. Jar
dine met with the approval of Mr..
Hoover before he was finally invited
into the cabinet by the president.
Mr.. Coolidge and Mr.. Hoover share
the opinion,it is said, that new meth
DDS of administration must be in
troduced in the department of ag-
riculture, to assure the highest eff
fciency. Owing to the fact that the
late Secretary Wallace differed with
Mr.. Hoover on reorganization Of the
federal departments, changes of this
kind were necessarily deferred. The
new secretary and his cabinet col
are not at odds over juris-
liction. AS a consequence, the team
work is directed primarily to making
he department more useful to the
and the consuming public.
The two cabinet officers are in gen
raj agreement that the farmer must
Jay more attention to the improved
marketing methods.
Jardine's Ideas
In an interview today Secretary
'ardine summarized his position
cry briefly when he said: "What
~ III -ood ~ IL ;e ~ +o1l1 1ae- Tow
.yrot and throw fewer monkey
trenches into other peoples machin-
ry. w want to stop trying to line
p one group against other groups.
We want to work together. Ameri-
ans should be cooperating, not :
uarreling with each other over the
interests of this group or that. If
in the right way, co-opera-
on can make of American farming
big, voluntarily unified, perdna-
emily and dependably profitable
usiness, in a way that no paterna-
site legislation could possibly do"
-e implies that the farm organiza- a
ons fight among themselves too b
luch. t
The airing of the political linen in p
lie senate has produced interesting a
ews stories and editorial comment u
lroughout the country. Nobody S
GEMS to know just what will really t
.ppen when congress settles down il
business next winter. The War
n matter has taken some of the t,
ind out the sails of the admins a
1t appeared for a time 81
it'll the apparent majority of votes, tt
nothing could stem the express n
d wishes, of the executive branch Il
the government. Those whose
publicanism was more or less tt
Chilly questioned united with the
,mocrats and programs were sud tt
My revised to meet the emergency. st
he control was shown up a paper" u
ID not an actual majority. The w
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