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Show SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. It is stated that James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, will remain in the piesidcnt's cabinet for a time after the inauguration of Mr. Taft and will thus establish a new high record for length of service in the cabinet; and that he will then resign, making it necessary to find a suoccs-sor. suoccs-sor. Thcnc has been comparatively little discussion of names likely to be considered for the place. While Secretary Wilson has 'been an efficient officer yet wc are convinced con-vinced tlwt for the good' of the service ser-vice he should not continue his service ser-vice in the cabinet. We believe that a younger man should be at the helmi and that the Department of Agriculture should undergo a complete com-plete reorganization. There is too much duplication of work in the department de-partment itself an4 there has been for years a tendency to create position posi-tion and then find work rather than to select men to solve certain prob lums. . We believe there arc two men in this country cither of whom would effect such a reorganization and ;nak,c the work of the Department of Agriculture of real service to the farmers of the country. The two namcis wc would suggest arc Gifford Pinchot, of the Forestry Burca or F. D. Coburn, Soretary of the Kan-sns Kan-sns Board of Agricultur Either of these men would make u most valu-jiiljlo-smcmabQir of the President's Cabi- iHWHHBaHHI |