TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 30,' 1921 HOT STALKS in iiinmr.rrvn mi m mm b o ji a President-Elect Is Ready Pay Political Debt. to CABINET PCST IS AWARDED rrc-Comciition Manager or Xcsl Executive Regarded as Unfit '. Jo Be Attorney-General. BY MARK SCLLIVAK. (Copyright lv the New Tnrk Evening Pot, Jnc Published by Arrangement.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. tSpecial.) Jt i taken for granted that President-elect Harding will orfer-lhe post of attorney-Reneral to Harry M. Dauirherty of Ohio. The question remaining seems to be merely whether Daugherty will take it. A year aso or more, when Daugh erty lie can his effort to make Hard inir president, he told Harding that if the attempt were successful he'would iot take any office But this attitude on Daugherty's part seems to have gone the way of many other things that politicians sav when the contingency seems re mote. Those who are best Informed now believe that Daugherty wants to accept the offer. At times he has yeemed to be of two minds about it, faying one day that he could not af ford to take it. and that he could not move his family to Washington. Friends Say He Will Accept. More recently, however. Daugh erty's friends have been saying he will take the appointment for the purpose of hanging it around his neck as a decoration, eo to speak, and to be able to walk down main street in Columbus and shout a malev olent defiance to the political ene mies who have been crying him down and belittling him Tor the larger part of a fairly long lifetime. It would be characteristic of Daugherty to take a step so vital to himself, to the success of Harding's administration, and to the country, and base the decision solely on his relation to an ancient Ohio political f'tid. The minute you try to arrive at any estimate of Daugiierty's plans in the world, and his fitness or un fitness for the particular job of attorney-general, you instantly run into those Ohio feuds. For this reason it is difficult to appraise the mass of things that are said against Uaugherty in Ohio. Knrmira Drrlile Davcherty. Toil quickly find that the bulk of them come from political enemies, between whom and Daugherty there is not a great deal to choose. L'ut you can dismiss everything that is said about Daugherty by his political I enemies. You can accept Daugherty's own account of his career and take erty's vote for Sherman a against Koraker on that occasion, although undoubtedly that old tale, as well as other more recent investigation in which Daugherty has figured, would be dug up if he were made attorney- general. Daugherty was exonerated on that occasion, but he never since has been able to get an elective office in Ohio, although he has run for governor, for senator and for other offices. His persistency in seeking office gives the impression of an uneasy, restless seeking after Justification. Maybe he ought to have justification it is hard to tell. , Gold-Platlng for Mad Spots. You can't now the merit of the many charges that have been made against him without painstaking weighing of evidence. It is believed that much of his motive for wanting a cabinet post, now is the desire for Justification and rehabilitation. As one of his enemies put it, "Harry wants a gold plating to cover the mud spots." t It doesn't matter much how well deserved or ill-deserved those mud sports are, nor to what extent they Ml II CABINET . REMOTE POSSIBUTK Time Believed Not Ripe So High Elevation. for OTHER PLACES DISCUSSED PACIFIC COI.I,F..K CONTEST IS AVON BY CO RE AN. I 4Ti - Si i :: " i ' .1lMiiVi-i..ii-iii ! iinir rnnit i nrn I Federal Department of Education Including Welfare Bureau Sow Seems Only Chance. Chi Sods; PH. XEWBERG, Or., Jan. 29. (Special.) In a preliminary or atorical contest held in Wood mar hall last night, with six Tacific college students striv ing for the honor of represent ing the college In the state contest to be held at Eugene March 11. a Corean student, Chi Sung Pil, was the winner, his subject being "A Cry of an Oppressed Nation." Others who took part in the contest were: Miss rtelen Hes ter, "Chinese Aid"; Ellis Beals, "Japanese in America": Miss Marjory Brown, "A Vacant Chair": Cecil Pearson, "The World-Wide Search for Peace"; Miss Mary Mills, "The Only Road to Teace." Second place was awarded Cecil Pearson and third place to Miss Brown. quickly arrive at the conclusion that jf Harding makes Daugherty attorney-general he will have no rea son for doing so except the payment of an obligation to an old political friend. if Harding were choosing his attorney-general on the same basis 1 think lie is choosing his secretary of state, his secretary of the treasury, his secretary of the interior and his Sftcretary Of agriculture, namely, on the facts of record, and confining j fierce fjehting and biting and gouging ou..-e.i m ...use i su.uj j "'" that constitute Ohio utilities. In no event should so exalted an office as a.ttor'ncy-general be given to any man for any such personal reason as this, nor in satisfaction of such political obligation as Harding may feel be owes Daugherty. ' Neither Ilanaa Nor Houne. All the talk about Daugherty being the Mirk HannJ of the Harding ad ministration, or the Colonel House of it, is sheer nonsense. Daugherty is the basis of picking one of the three ot no sucn caliber as that. He has it four leading men in his line, then I neither the- force and weight of in that case there arc several hundred lawyers in the United States who vould come to his mind before Daugherty would. Seldom Appear In Courts Hanna nor the scholarship and dis interestedness of House. And Daugh erty's relation to Harding, is of no such character as this sort of talk implies. Harding may feel that certain prim- of lawyers whose names would sug test themselves to any open-minded Iirson picking an attorney-general vn the sole basis of legal achievc ' D.cnts and standing in the profession Daugherty has a law office in Co lumbus and two minor partners, but, as someone expressed i V if the Amer ican Bar association should choose to look into Daugherty's career and make a mathematical calculation of tlie number of hours he has spent cvguing before judges in court, or studying the law books in his office, or otherwise in anything that consti tutes what persons mean when they think of the practice of the law, the result would be pretty damaging to Daugherty s chances of appointment. The practice Daugherty has is chiefly representing big public serv ice corporations before the public utility commission of the state, l'.ttcrty's enemies say that he has rr.aiP his political career and his practice of the law help each other; that. he. gets his clients as a lawyer by virtue of his standing as a politi cian. There may be something In this, but 1 doubt if it is wholly fair to Daugherty. rnlltica Han Not Helped. As Daugherty at the age of 61 re views -his career, appraises his for tunes and his present standing as a lawyer, he- must be compelled to re flect that the time and energy he has devoted to politics are now dust and ashes and that he would have a bet ter place in the world if he had de oted himself to the law. Polities has not helped Daugherty; it has been a handicap to him. Daugherty as attorney-general would be a deplora ble appointment, but it is necessary to be fair to him, nevertheless, and it is hardly fair to conclude that Daugherty is in politics for the sake of tliemoney he makes as a lawyer. Daugiierty is a perfect example of tiie politicians who play the game for the love of the fighting, because the rough and tumble and intrigue of it it a p.irt of his nature. Probably Daugherty's- principal en emy in Ohio is a man who happens to be the owner of the leading two out ot the three papers in Columbus. Frod Cover Many Yearn. It takes courage to carry on a, life t me fight against an enemy who has the enormous advantage of owning both the leading morning paper and the leading evening paper of Jour home city. In a way, regardlera of ' the merits of the fiyht as a whole, or of patticular episodes in the fight, you can't help admiring the boldness and intrepidity of a man who will keep up a fight year after year un der such circumstances. These papers always have made the most of anything that could he said of Daugherty and tirey probably ac count lor a good deal of the odium that Daugherty has in his home state. Hut you cannot say that without also raying at the -same time that, dis counting all this part of it. the fact remains that Daugherty's career does not fit him for attorney-general and that, the appointment, 1 made, will justify the protests which undoubt edly arise. Daugherty is not even in the class, itive decencies in human relations for bid him to ignore a man who has spent a full year of his time working to make Harding president. He may shrink from being called an ingrate, not merely by party workers, but by the public at large. And there may be more than the reformers, would concede in this theory that the pub lic expects in its leaders such human qualities as gratitude and loyalty. but gratitude and loyalty cannot. make square pegs nt into round holes. The attorney-generalship is a very great office. No man should be put into it who is.not big enough and un impeachable enough in reputation to be made a Justice of the supreme court Two of the present Justices McKenna and McReynolds came to the bench from the attorney-general's office. Office Requires II I g Lawyer. Jn Roosevelt's administration, Attorney-General Moody was similarly elevated. Only the biggest of men and the greatest of lawyers should be made attorney-general. It is a post for such a man as Hughes. To give an office with ihis sort of tra dition to a man whose chief place in the world Is that(of an old-fashioned stand-pat party politician is unthinkable. It would really be no kindness to give this office to Daugherty. The protests that would arise on the an nouncemint, and the tragedy of lack of sure fitness that would be sure to come sooner or later, would not only be the worst of unkindness to Daugh erty, but would injure Harding as well. It is all very well to talk of the requirements of loyalty from Hard ing to Daugherty. But that obliga tion runs both ways. If Harding is decent enough to offer the attorney- generalship to Daugherty, Daugherty should be decent enough to refuse The rules of the roughest sort of a political code ought to suggest that Appointment Held tnthlnkaMe. Daugherty has intelligence enough totknow how embarrassing this one aspect of cabinet-making must be to Harding's secret soul. If Daugherty's service be recognized, let it be done in almost any way but this. Of course, all this talk of compensation is for Harding and Daugherty and the party leaders to consider. From the point of view of the pub lic, the case has but one aspect; that is. that to make Daugherty attorney general wou'.d be utterlyvdeplorable. For that matter. ttTe same point of view is shared by most of the more responsible republican leaders. They view the possibility of Daugherty as attorney-general with dismay. BY ELIZABETH, KING .STOKES. (Copyright. 1921, by The Oregonian.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. (Special.) President-elect Harding may create a new position of responsibility in the government to be filled by a woman, but It is not likely to be a cabinet position. Members of congress who have talked with Mr. Harding say that a separate department of public jyelfare is improbable. Therefore, the" Idea of having a woman In the. cabinet in connection with this department has .lost ground. On the other hand, the proposed federal department of edu cation has made headway and the inclusion' in such a department of a bureau of public welfare has been favorably considered. There may be a woman in charge of a public welfare division in the , department of education but there will not be two new departments. This much is stated with assurance. Walt Adda to Mimriving. Moreover, the long waft for Senator Harding's final decision upon the established cabinet posts has only added to the misgivings about cre ating a place for a woman or any new departments until the new con gress is well along with Its pro gramme of work. Propositions that have hung over from' a democratic regime, though strong in Themselves, are not popular pieces of legislation with any incoming republican admin istration anxious to have .the credit of constructive changes accrue when & republican occupies the executive' chair.. The bill for the formation of a department of education is still un reported by the senate committee on educatioh and labor, where it bears a democratic label in behalf of the senate. Doubtless the Smith-Towner bill will be brought forth again next session in all-republican form. The idea of avoman in the cabinet flourished here, particularly in suf frage circles, after Senator Harding made his speech to the delegation of social workers who went to Marion on October 1. He then said, in ef fect, that in one thing he would add to the platform of his party; namely, in the creation of a department of public welfare. Washington then visualized the new department as the only one, with the possible exception of labor, adaptable at present for a woman secretary, and the capital en tered upon a season of speculation, serious and facetious, regarding the innovation. Tea Scaaloaa Feared. Prominent in the minds of those who dwelt upon the possibility were the picture supplement displays of the Lenine and Trotzky round tables, where the face of the woman member was usually in the foreground. It seemed to some staid republicans a tittle bolshevistic to propose a woman member of the cabinet so early in the experience with equal franchise. If a woman secretary were appointed, they argued. , thereymight be untold difficulties in satisfying even tlje feminine political factions that have sprung up. This prospect seemed more troublesome than the possible an tagonism of the "woman vote", by Ignoring the claims of representation. Moreover, it ..was said, when a woman cabinet member took her seal, she would change the whole atmos phere of the weekly conferences with the executives, and the cabinet meet ing would tend toward the British institution of stopping official busi ness of any nature or importance -for afternoon tea Washington never en tirely recovered from the sight of the tea equipment that accompanied international delegations at such for mal assemblies as the international labor conferences last year. The English delegates went behind the screen every afternoon, no matter what the parliamentary tangle on the floor. Englishmen have been aghast at such American intensity as Arthur Brisbane's traveling editorial office stowed away in his automobile, bit Americans look upon afternoon tea as feminine no matter how much polit--J ical atmosphere surrounds it. Question Is Complicated. Senator Harding, in the opinion of some republicans, has been brave to go- as far as he has in discussing a possible secretaryship for -women. William i Howard Taft smiled when the subject was broached. The suc cess of such matters often depends on slow but steady progress. In congress Senator Kenyon, a consist ent advocate of recognition of women In public work, has laid aside -for the present his- bill creating a department of social welfare. But he is also one of the group interested in the Smith Towner bill for the education department. The whole question of new depart-I . t- Anmnii.ata fnr several rea- I sons. First, it is tne repuoucan. iau to take up general reorganization ot government departments. Moreover, those who have been working for years to effect concentration of all educational functions of the federal gofernment in one department, went to Marion soon after Senator Harding began o talk about a department of public welfare. They argued that the education department was of primary consideration and, as planned, would be broad enough in scope to include public welfare. They contended that public welfare, in a great measure, was education. To this. Senator Hard ing listened favorably. So much so, it Is now confidently stated, that he will not sanction the creation of both departments. They may be combined, as a department of education and public' welfare, or taken care of by the bureau of public welfare and education. . This would more nearly parallel what has been done :n Europe. MJUIY M HELD ILLEEALLY justices of peace commit Score to state hospital. Law Cnacted in 1903 Repealed In 1913; Counfy-Judgps Alone May Rule In Insane Cases. DEATHS KEY TO MYSTERY FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT MAY v CLEAR WITIIERELL CASE. Disappearance of Los 'Angeles Woman Linked With One Vic ' tint'of Collision. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Jan. 29. The mystery of the disappearance Tusday of Mrs. Gladys Witherell, wife of O. S. Witherell, investment company head, was somewhat nearer a clearing up, police and private dtectives said late today. The police declined to state whether they considered the deaths of Charles Beverly, former business associate of Witherell. and Mrs. Elda Westrem Tenney, Witherell's stenographer, in an automobile accident early today had any bearing upon the case. Beverly and Mrs. Tenney lost their lives when the machine in which they were riding hit a streetcar and was overturned. Following this car in an other were several private detectives employed by Witherell. Nick Harris, head of the private detective 'agency, adimitted Beverly had been questioned about the disap pearance of Mrs. Witherell, but said there never had been the slightest reason to follow the movements of Mrs. Tenney or of Harry Glazier or Many Wifthenberg, who were injured in the accident. SALEM, Or.. Jan. 29. (Spscial.) Possibly a score or more payents in the state hospital for the insane are held there under illegal commit ments. This was discovered today when, following a habeas corpus ac tion, judge Bingham held that George Huber of Brovvnsville had been delivered from the custody of Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner, superintendent of the state hospital, for the Reason thathe had been committed by a jus tice of the peace and not a county judge. During the legislative session of 1905 a law waj enacted whereby, in the absence of a county judge or his inability to act. a Just4ce of the peace could be called by the circuit court to serve in his place. During the legislative session of 1913 this act was inadvertently repealed in the process of repealing some other statutes. .' . With authorities generally .unaware that the act had been repealed, jus tices of the peace have continued since 1913 to commit persons to the state hospital when called to sit in the absence of county judges. .Judse Bingham's decision in the habeas cor pus action today, affects all patients committed by justices of the peace since the lawa of 191U became effec tive. Huber. plaintiff in the action today, is considered by Dr. Steiner to be dangerousfy insane, and immediately p.fter the decree was announced, j neighbors ol the Huber family at Brownsville, a delegation of whom came to Salem to protest against his being given his freedom, swore out another insanity complaint on which he will be tried a week from today. The move to obtain his freedom grew out of a letter written to his mother, by a hospital attendant, who said Huber was not insane. 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Mr. Yoran says that a few per .sons and firms have subscribed who have not yet signed .and these may a 'd $400 or $500 to the total. A sec retary to direct the development work for the coming year is expected to be ejected by the directors in the near future. WOMAN DIESJIM FLAMES Mrs. Augusta Moot Caught and At tempted Rescue Fails. -ROSEBUrtG, Or., Jin. 29. (Special.; Mrs. Augusta D. Moot, aged 73 years ; and a resident of Oakland, 20 miles ! north of this city, was burned to I death this, morning when her home ! was destroyed by fire. Marshal K. C. Powell attempted to rescue the aged i woman but was unsuccessful. It was I believed an overturned lamp caused ' the fire. Until bout five months ago Mrs. Moot was a patient at the state hos pital for the insane, but her condi- tion became so improved that she was discharged. - She is survived- by a niece living in New York and a son-in-law at Cottage Grove. Country Home Site Taken. IteSEBUKG, Or.. Jan. 29. (Spe cial.) 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