Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-01-23

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A Weekly Panorama of Events in the
National Capital
(By PETER KEEGAN)
CHANGES in the personnel of the
Government have taken place
with such rapidity of recent date that
the observer is reminded of nothing
less than change of Administration,
when Cabinet officers drop off like
apple blossoms and it keeps one busy
to remember just who is who. 1t all
started with the retirement of Nc
Kenna from Supreme Court. This
took Stone from the Department of
Justice to fill the judicial vacancy,
leaving a Cabinet hole to be occupied
by Charles Beecher Warren, former
Ambassador to Japan and Mexico.
Then, like a bolt out of a clear sky
came the announcement of the resig-
nation of Secretary Hughes, the recall
of Ambassador Kellogg from London
to become Secretary of State, the
transfer of Ambassador Houghton
from Berlin to London and the resig-
nation of Bascom Slemp as the Presl-
dents secretary, this vacancy to be
filled on March by Congressman
Sanders of Indiana, who, but for the
objections of Senator Watson of In
diana, would now be the Vice Presi-
dent elect in place of Dawes.
THESE are only part of the i'm
portant changes which are eX-
pected to occur before March when
President Coolidge will formally be-
gin his elective term as the Chief EX-
ecutive. 1t is apparent already that
he is now engaged in making over the
personnel of the Administration to
suit himself; slowly divesting himself
of officials left over from the Harding
regime. Some of these officials, of
course, will remain, but the President
is making an effort to gather around
him an official family from which
harmonious work and constructive
achievements may come during the
next four years. Instead of making
all these changes abruptly after he
takes the oath of office in March, the
President is announcing his intention
piecemeal, thus giving the country
time to understand what is going on
here in Washington, besides giving
the newly designated officials an op-
portunity to learn something Of their
new jobs.
THE most surprising of all the pres
idential appointments has been
that of Ambassador Kellogg as Sec
retary of State. Kellogg first came
into prominence during the Roosevelt
administration when, as an United
prosecuted some of the big trusts
which Roosevelt was intent upon ruin
ing. In the Senate he was known
behind his back-as nervous Nellie"
probably because his extreme eXcit-
ability and his inclination to remain
in a state of indecision on important
public questions. 1t is known here
that Kellogg was about to retire as
Ambassador when Coolidge decided to
bring him back here as Secretary of
Foreign Affairs. In view of the feel
ing that Kellogg, in comparison with
| Hughes, will be weak" Secretary of
State, there have arisen reports that
the President henceforth intends to
run the Nations foreign relations
himself and that Kellogg will merely
| sit in the State Department to hold
up the social end of the Government
in its relations with the foreign en-
voys stationed here
THE outstanding event information
ally of the week has been the
breaking down of the aloofness of the
United States with regard to Euro
pean politics through the agreement
concluded in Paris for the operation
of the Dawes plan. Under this agree
ment, the United States will receive
percentage of the reparations pay
ments made Germany and is bound
in the view of European statesmen,
to assist in any effort, armed or
otherwise, to compel Germany to pay
in the event that nation breaks down
economically and defaults. Secretary
Hughes holds that the Paris agree
ment is not treaty and does not re-
quire ratification by the Senate, but
strenuous objections at the Capitol to
that point of view would not be sur
prising.
A tomb of pink Minnesota limestone
= has been built for the remains of
Woodrow Wilson in the National
Cathedral at Mt. st. Adams. 1t is
the plan of the Episcopal Church,
which built the Cathedral, to make it
an American Westminster Abbey,
where the nations leading citizens
may lie for all time. Wilson is the
first to be inferred there, although
stonemason working on the Cathedral
tried to conceal his wife's body in the
foundation while the building was un-
der construction.
THE Chief of the Washington Fire
Department has started an inves
tigation to find out where his smoke
eaters are getting so much liquor
Two of them have been arrested for
drunkenness in the past week-one
while on duty at fire which wreck
ed big department store, while the
other, driving fire engine, ran into
parked car.
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