Show j 1 I Sitting Tight I It i t r rc c 5 S S 'S r Andrew VV W. Mellon l S Mellon Observes Observes' I Birthday I Treasury Secretary Says S Taxes Will Be Cut CutS This Year S WASHINGTON March 24 AP 5 Apparently in m excellent he health and andas as determined as ever to stick to the post he has held for seven even stormy and eventful years Andrew W. W Mellon secretary of the treasUry treasury trea trea- sury today observed his birthday birthday birth birth- S day Entering the Harding cabinet atthe atthe at atthe the age ag of 57 67 1 as a s second ond choice for the appointment the distinguished distin looking ool pittsburg millionaire millionaire million million- aire alre banker r and and business b man mali soon soon found himself the butt buttof of rr repeated attacks from Democrats and arid and Republican lican irregulars in hi congress but through It all he calmly calmy steered the nation through the trying period of postwar financial reconstruction tion Today alter after weathering 1 verbal barrages over his policies on t ta ta of prohibition enforcement soldiers soldiers' soldiers soldiers' sol aol diers' diers bon bonus bonu s war wai ar deb debt s 's settlements and farm relief the shy and retiring cabinet officer was waif sitting right in his plainly furnished office core close to to the White House unflinchingly y waiting for tor the next net s scene in the Continued on p page ge 6 6 Mellon Observes Birthday Continued from page 1 latest drama on Capitol hill hm revolving revolving ing around his official head That Tha Thatis t is the move made mad e by Son i ator Couzens of Michigan nn another another an an- other millionaire Republican Republican- and long a n foe of the oldest member of ot the official family from pont of ot age to place the senate on record as favoring oring the r resignation nation of MV 1 Ir Mellon lellon A An old od complaint over ta taxation Uon and other things but dressed up with impressions from CrOm the secretary's secre seere- tary's recent testimony In the oil Investigation In it it like lUte all the rest Is expected to be ignored by the quiet little man in the gr gray y stone building at the other oCher end of the avenue whom some call the tho fi financial financial fi- fi I- I genius o of the age |