Show Liberals Are Given the Edge By New Nev Cabinet Forecasters By Dr RODNEY DUTCHER Nea Service Writer V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dec Dee 26 26 If If half the he advance dope is true Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt is going to present us us with an interesting cabinet Tho The dope flies thick and fast It Its Is s not to be taken too seriously but butic the ic preponderance of prediction Indicates indicates in- in a likelihood that the Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose- Roose velt elt cabinet will contain several members distinguished for their liberalism or lack of orthodoxy Instead Instead In- In stead tead of the stifled stilled yawns which greeted announcement of the Hoover cabinet abinet the Roosevelt list may create considerable excitement Roosevelt has said he wouldn't actually ac- ac ch choose ose anyone before February February ary ry so so his d decisions thus far may maye be e considered tentative e B But t among recent apparently authoritative revelations rev rev- lations bearing on the business of making cabinet are First your old friend Colonel Edvard Edward Edward Ed- Ed ward vard M. M House who is credited with picking icking most of Wilsons Wilson's cabinet Isnow Isnow is islow now low actively engaged in helping Roosevelt select one Second the shrewd Roosevelt's policy will provide for appointment of f an intimate acquaintance in every department either as the tho cabinet member or the official second in authority Third Roosevelt believes th the tho Democratic Democratic Dem- Dem cratic party should be liberal to the ho extent of steering left leU of the center enter and selection of ot the cabinet will be the first official act in which he ic may demonstrate what he means by y that 0 00 Everyone t takes kes it for fOl granted that Democratic Chairman James A. A Farcy Far Far- Because Because Be- Be Icy ley cy will vill be postmaster cause ause of its political responsibilities the ho job is the job for Farley and nd FarIcy Farcy Farley Far Far- Icy ley cy is the man manfor for the job But you dont don't hear much more about bout such distinguished gentlemen I as s Newton D. D Baker Owen D. D Young and nd John W. W Davis as possibilities for secretary of state Now the rumors strongest rUl strongest to towo two wo Roosevelt friends Norman H. H Davis avis and Frank L. L Polk who were little ittle cabinet members with Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose- Roose velt elt in the Wilson administration Davis avis a Democrat has a great wealth ot of f experience in the financial and economic phases of diplomacy and is I now Hoovers most important representative representative in Europe Then theres there's Senator Carter Glass I of ot Virginia now a favorite for secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary of the treasury over Barney Baruch and Melvin Molvin Traylor Glass is the outstanding Democratic authority on banking and finance Although sound and conservative ho breathes fire inmany many of his at attacks attacks attacks at- at tacks on the practices of Wall WaIl Street and the stock brokers Glass is getting getting getting get get- ting along in years and has had the job once but feels so strongly about abou the necessity of or a new deal in that field that he probably could be persuaded persuaded persuaded per per- to take the job 0 00 The name of Pro Prof Felix Frankfurter Frankfurter Frankfurter Frank Frank- furter of the Harvard Law school pops up as a likely attorney general taking precedence over Governor Ritchie of Maryland who doesn't doesn want the job and perhaps couldn't couldn have it and Senator Tom Walsh o of Montana who has four our more years I in the Senate which he would rather I serve Frankfurter is a brilliant thoroughgoing thoroughgoing thor thor- thor thor-i ough-going ough liberal and was one o othe of the chief defenders of the anarchists I Sacco and before their exe I exe-I cution He is Roosevelt's friend Progressives Progressives Progressives Pro Pro- are pulling for his appoint appoint- ment H Hardly any appointment could be bemore bemore bemore more revolutionary th than n that of Frances Perkins New York state commissioner of labor as ns secretary of labor Not only because Miss Perkins is a w woman man but also because selection of a person of her experience experience exper exper- lence and progressive viewpoint would be an entirely new departure Leaders of the American Federation Federation Federation Federa Federa- tion of Labor are campaigning for Daniel J. J Tobin head of the teamsters teamsters' teamsters teamsters' teamsters teamsters' team team- union whose chief claim to fame is his recent position as head of the Democrats' Democrats labor bureau inthe in inthe inthe the recent campaign The A. A F. F of L. L supports Tobin on the ground that the secretary must be a trades unionist Roosevelt Roosevell is said to favor Miss Perkins because of her excellent New Nork record I under his administrations and A Al Smiths I Roosevelt emissaries have been consulting liberal groups groups groups' as to their preferences for the labor post and Miss Perkins is still regarded as a good bet |