The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-02
THE ROOSEVELT CABINET.

As Byron Price, Associated Press political expert commented recently President-Ele Roosevelt cer- tanly made good his promise to surprise the news paper correspondents with his Cabinet selections How much of surprise is clearly shown by the fact that only one of the entire list was included in the original guesses by the political writers. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, veteran Senator from Montana picked for Attorney General by Gov. Roosevelt was mentioned for that post by almost all commentators when the Cabinet was under discussion
 Of course within recent weeks the names of sev- eral of those chosen by the President-Eect crept into newspaper predictions. That was inevitable. Frequent conferences between them and Gov. Roose- welt pointed to their choice And few days before the list was officially announced the Associated Press gave the of every person in it, quoting an unnamed Washington authority for the source of it's information
 While there may be disappointment that such leaders as Newton D. Baker Owen D. Young, Gov Alfred E. Smith Gov. Albert O. Ritchie, B. M. Baruch and others of that coterie of Democratic leaders were included it will be generally con ceded that the Cabinet membership is composed of able men and is worthy of the countrys confidence It is evident that Gov Roosevelt has in mind recognition of all the forces that supported him last November and made possible his election by VI nous, ever given any other Presidential nominee except Washington.
 Three Cabinet posts of especial interest to Alaskans due to the many in the Territory under their administrative control The one most intimately connected with the Territory s of course, the Secretary of Interior. Under him, the Governor of Alaska holds office and links the Territorial Gov ernment with that of Washington. The Interior Department, too, has control of unappropriated public lands agricultural and mineral, of mineral resources, administers for the aboriginal races in schools, medical relief and problems arising from the reindeer herds of the north
 Harold L. Ickes, named by Gov. Roosevelt for that portfolio is Chicago attorney and progressive leader. He leader in the Bull Moose move ment in 1912 in Illinois In 1916 he followed Roose- welt back into the party camp and campaigned among progressive strongholds for Hughes Since 1920, he has veered away from the Republican organization He connected with the progressive candidates of the elder LaFollette and Hiram w. Johnson, and active last year in the Roosevelt Progressive activities. His political philosophy ought to make him regard Alaska's problems sympathe- tcally.
 The Secretary of Commerce, Daniel c. Roper, is a Southerner a resident of North Carolina He has long and excellent record in public service Start ing clerk for Senate Committee about a quarter
 
 master General during the first Wilson Administra- ton, and in the second one was Commissioner of Internal Revenue He is said to have worked out the plan whereby the Department of Agriculture estimates annual crop yields on the basis of surveys of crop conditions at regular intervals during the growing and harvesting seasons
 Under his Department is the Bureau of Fisheries which has absolute power of administration over Aaska fisheries industries There other bureaus of the same Department with agencies in the Terri tory, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey the Lighthouse Service, and the Bureau of Mines.
 Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture is the son of the late Henry c. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture in the Harding Administration He is nationally prominent editor of Wallaces Farm CT, writer on farm economics and a deep student of that subject. He is a native born Iowan and resides at Des Moines. The Forest Service which has jurisdiction extensive holdings in the Terri tory, the Biological Survey, Weather Bureau Bureau of Public Roads and the Alaska Game Commission are the local agencies under his control.