Evening star., 1933-03-05
BY VILLIAM A. MILLEN.
Underwood Il Underwood.

-HE Fourth Estate will be supreme in
the White House secretariat this ad-
mini tration. The erstwhie editor OF
the Harvard Crimson who has just
become President Of the United
States has chosen a trio from the
writing craft to share the burdens OF White
House detail with him.
different set-up from that prevailing under
the Hoover administration is in prospect.
Herbert Hoover introduced these latter years
the plan of having three secretaries In the
Executive Mansion, but he was but following
the policy laid down by Grant years before.
While three secretaries will be the rule in this
administration, another arrangement for DEAL
ing with the public, politicians and the press
has been worked out, and the Democrats say it
will function far better.
President Franklin d. Roosevelt's choice for
his three secretaries has long been Louis Nc
Henry Howe, his old crony and confidante
since the days when the new President served
in the State Senate at Albany, N. Y, and won
his admiration; Marvin H. Mcintyre, protege
of Secretary Josephus Daniels during his regime
at the Navy Department, who first contacted
with the Nations newest Chief Magistrate 70
years back, and Stephen T. Early another
Washington, d. c., newspaper man. who came
to know the worth Of "F. D. R." when he sat
at the desk Of the Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy.
Today these four men stand upon the
threshold of eventful times The yesterdays
can tell that the secrtariat Of the White House
leads to high places in business, in politics. in
public life Such is the lesson of history.
Cabinet Office has come to some Of the former
secretaries of Presidents. Some have become
magnates in industry. Others have piloted one
Of the major political parties.
When the quartet delves into the White
House archives it will find that a number OF
newspaper men have held the post Of secretary
to the Nations leader. Like the procession Of
figures in Macbeth, the march Of former Secre-
taries emerges-in the vanguard the venerable
Tobias Lear factotum of Gen. George WASH
ington. Men who have sat through the years
at the elbows Of Chief Executives in the White
House. patterned after the residence OF the
Duke of Leinster in Dublin, plotting the daily
course caring for the tedious details, cOnferring
with the Secret Service men, keeping the job
hunters and the grafters off the Presidents
back arranging the speeches, preparing the
cOnferences-doing the real work OF drudgery.
but stripped Of the glory that is born Of it.
The years are long since Louis McHenry
Howe as a reporter covering the Albany, N.
Y, Legislature for the New York Herald, struck
up an acquaintance with promising young
State Senator named Franklin D. Roosevelt
from Dutchess County-Hyde Park N. Y. That
must have been around 1910. For % years now
Mr. Howe has been devoted utterly and COM
pletely to Mr. Roosevelt's welfare" to use the
words Of a mutual friend.
The "sere the yellow leaf" has come on
apace The quondam State Senator Is President
of the United States now. The New York
Herald reporter Of yore Is his right-hand man
shrewd. small, but q Warwick, . President
maker And Howe does not hesitate to talk out
his mind to the Chief Executive. He Is no
trucking "yes man." With . political sagacity,