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is WELL SUITED
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Analysed as Industrious
Group Who Will Work
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eral reduction Of internationa
trade barriers. His appointment
virtually serves notice on the world
American industry and agriculture
that the next President considers
cut in tariff duties to be essential
to world recovery.
1t emphasizes the President-elect' s
conviction that debts, tariffs, trade
arrangements and economic ques-
lions will be the principal problems
confronting his administration in
foreign affairs.
Bid Made to Progressives
AS prosecutor of alleged trusts
and an advocate of rational toler-
ance in the field of civil liberties
Senator Walsh will bring an entirely
new spirit to the department of
justice after three Republican re-
gimes.
Nevertheless, he is one of the
sanest men in public life and, basic
strained view Of things
Woodin, as a leading industrialist
is expected to run the treasury
along conservative lines in a time
when there are insistent demands
for radical changes n banking, cur
rency and financial methods.
Mr.. Roosevelt's apparent desire
for an amalgamation of Democrats
and certain Progressive groups is
believed to be reflected in the selec-
ton of Wallace and Ickes.
Although President Hoover picked
out two Observation-Disclosures
eral Mitchell and Charles F. Adams
secretary of the navy-neither man
had been as active in politics as
have Mr.. Roosevelt's mavericks.
Old-Line Democrats Absent
WalIace's father the later Henry
c. Wallace, was secretary of agri-
culture under President Harding
and a bitter foe of Mr.. Hoover, by
the Way-while Ickes was a Bull
Moose manager in 1912, and has
been prominent in the Republican
Progressive family since.
Woodin was a Union League Re-
publican from Pennsylvania until he
enlisted under AL Smiths banner in
1923, and kept marching along with
Mr.. Roosevelt
Daniel 9. Roper of South Caro-
lima, who will take Mr. Hoover's old
post as commerce secretary, was a
Hoovercrat in 1928 The only old
line Democrats of the type are Sem
ators Hull, Walsh and Swanson
all erstwhile drys, incidentally.
big Jim" Farley is the nearest
TO a representative of the old
fashioned, gas-house, urban Democ-
racy of the northeaSt-of the kind
that blooms on the Sidewalks of
New York" The absence of party
elders like Smith, John w. Davis,
Albert c. Ritchie, James M. Cox,
ETC., is commented on wherever poll
ticians gather.
Society Life Means Little
1t is a peculiarly undemonstrative
uneXcitable group-Which may be an
asset in these troublous times. The
most ebbulient figure is bustling,
hustling Jim" Farley, and even he
rarely raises his voice above con-
Versational tone.
Senator Walsh's falsetto often
REACHES high c" and cracks under
legal strain or argument, but nor
mally he is a mild sort of man.
There seems to be no ripsnorters in
the group, but there rarely are in
cabinets.
Social activity undoubtedly will
cClnt for little with these nine men
and one woman.
Mr.. Roosevelt, for obvious reasons,
is expected to reduce formal recep-
tions to minimum. though the
White House probably will be the
center of informal meetings with
cabineteerS and congressional mem
berS.
Industrious, Conscientious
II hardly is to be expected that
they will make a happy, hilarious
family, but it will be an industrious,
conscientious group.
Almost without eXception-"Jim"
Farley being it again-they are a
serious, studious breed.
AS acknowledgement, patronage
distributor and political mechanic,
Farley possesses the qualities needed
for his special task in eminent de-
gree.
With the possible exception of
Roper, none of the others can be
classed as active, practical poll
ticianS.