Evening star., 1925-03-04
Only -Four Of Original Harding
Cabinet Garry On With Coolidge
Sia designations and One Death Result
in Seuen Ne,C Faces in Advisory
Group for President.


sPresident. Coolidge opened nev
edm ministration today with compost
cabinet. only four of whom took the
rNajns under President Warren G. Hard
inxs four years ago.
six, resigned and one was taken by
death, so that seven new faces will have
entered the Official family of the Chief
Executive. At least two, and perhaps
three, may take their oaths today. The
list is complete save for an Attorney
General, a contest In the Senate hav-
ing arisen over the nomination of
SO Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts,.
under his own right. by record vote
Of the American people succeeds him
self with a group of men as his cabi-
net widely varied in talent, not OF
single type, not picked because of
Personal sympathy with the Chief.
hnt representing, in his mind, the best
ability to help him execute the al
fHfrs OF the Nation.
- Variety Of Occupations. ~
oAme rican opportunity is well repre-
seHted as is the diversity, of Ameri-
can life. There are two bankers, one
Jf, whom was a graduate of Annapolis
Naval Academy, and the other, one of
Americas richest men; one physician,
one engineer, one college president.
formerly cow-puncher; one frater-
nal organizer, formerly an iron pud-
dleF: three lawyers. one of whom had
been a Senator and later an smbassa-
der to the Court of st. James. at Lon
don; one an ambassador to. Japan and
to Mexico OF Mr.. Warren lie confrmed);
the third. a Judge. and former Sen
atnr, who had been a newspaper man.
Most of the changes in the cabinet
Of four years ago have occurred with
in the incumbency Of President Cool
idge. only two new faces having en-
tered the group before the admins
tration, by sudden death, was tossed
from the falling hands of Warren G.
Harding, August ., 1923, in Califor-
MIA, to Vice President Coolidge, then
On vacation at the Coolidge farm in
Vermont.
At least two new Secretaries take
their posts today-Secretary OF state
Frank B. Kellogg and Secretary OF
Agriculture William Nd. Jardine.
i:- -Four Held Over From 1921.
The four original Harding cabinet
officers who carry over into Presi-
d4nt Coolidge's own administration
are. Secretary OF the Treasury An
drew W. Mellon. Secretary OF War
John w. Weeks. Secretary of Com
merce Herbert C. Hoover and Secre-
tary of Labor James J. Davis.
The Harding cabinet began to shift
one year after II took office, the first
bleak occurring when Postmaster
General Will H HAYS resigned. sf-
newly created position Of president OF
the Motion Picture Producers and
Distributors of America. Inc. pop
ularIy Eknown as the "czar of the
movies" Hubert Work of Colorado
hecame Postmaster General. serving
for. one year. when, Secretary. OF the
Interior Albert B. Fall resisnins
that post, Work was shifted TO the
Inferior Department, March 4. 1928,
and Harry 9. New. former Senator
from Indiana, was made Postmaster
General. These posts still are held
by the incumbents.
r. Resignation After Probe.
Storms broke out Sin d congressional
HTestigating committee concerning the
administration Of oil lands by former
SesStary of the Interior FAN. resulting
IA Pre- famous Teapot Dons" scandal,
ahd' eventually bringing sbout the resis-
nktion of Edwin Defey, As Secretary
OF the Navy, February IS, 1924 He
x$s succeeded March "a. 1s24.-by Cur
tis-D. Wilbur of California; no car,
rfes his responsibilities into, the new.
Coplidge regime.
2 At about the same time further
storms broke over the Department of
Justice from a Senate committee IN
vestigating the department. After
much sensational airing of charges
and couutercharges the resignation of
Harry NJ. Dsugherty of Columbus,
Ohio as Attorney General resulted
lafe in March. A few days later.
ApriI Z. Harlan Fiske stone of New
YORK was named Attorney General
and took over the Department Of
fustice., ....
aThis post however was vacated
again when stone was appointed to be
associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the United states. The non1i-
nation Of Mr.. Warren OF Detroit to
slicce ed stone m the Department Of
Justice has been held up on charges
that he had been associated with the
big sugar interests of the country.
pz Jsrdine Enters Cabinet. -,
Secretary Of Agriculture A Henry c.
wallace died October %. 1924, after
asbrief illness, and his post was filled
temporarily by Assistant Secretary
Gofe, who was elected Governor Of
west Virginia at the November cleo
Kansas State Agricultural College,
was named by Coolidge. and takes
the oath today as Secretary of Asri-
culture.
Secretary of state Charles Evans
Hughes, the only original Harding
cabinet member TO serve the full four
years and resign. leaves to resume
the practice of law, turning over the
'premiership" of the cabinet to Mr.
kellogg OF Minnesota, who within the
past week returned from England,
Where he was Ambassador to the
Court of st. James.
7es Has Personal Insight.
eThe new Secretary OF State, coming
direct from the ambassadorship at
London, brings to this important post
a fresh personal insight into the
problems which confront Europe and
tAec world. Having served In the Sem
ale prior to that time Secretary Kell-
oEg also has obtained a grasp of ma
tfsnal affairs. which add materially to
ms capacity for the post.
sThe Secretary of State is sS years
old having been born in Potsdam,
NJ y, moving to Minnesota when
Young, and educating himself for the
law He was successively city and