Show HAYS SOON TO LEAVE CABINET postmaster GENERAL ACCEPTS OFFER TO HEAD MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY ponner former chairman of iloan party to enter picture business Buel nee soon enormous Enor moua salary la Is tendered Tend rd washington announcement that postmaster general alays will hotly retire from the cabinet was made at the white house saturday the president personally personal gave out oat the the yenema and I 1 have e been discussing at considerable lengan the proposal which has been made to him to become the head of a national im of motion picture prodoc ers ere and distributors if the arrangement proves to be when the details ure tire worked out what it seems to be I 1 cannot wen well interpose tiny objection to mr hays has 3 retiring from the cabinet to take up a work so important it Is too great an opportunity for a helpful public service for him to refuse I 1 shall be more t than hall r sorry to have hini him retire from the cabinet where he has already wild made 0 so fine a record but we have agreed to look upon the situation front froni the broa broadest deit viewpoint and sock seek the highest public good mr hays made this statement with the presidents consent I 1 have decil ded to under undertake tako the work hy by life motion morion picture pro dubers and distributors no contract has hoen heen exe executed cutell us its yet 1 I all assuming of course that a satisfactory contract will bo be possible and one chic will make inake certain the currying out of the high lo contemplated by this griat great industry mr air hays in further discussing tho the proposition propos idon ex pressel confidence that arrangements coull could lo lie 10 worked out by him with alrh tile the motion picture interests he said that ws a soon its a possible ho he would confer probably y in new york with of it the motion mation picture industry who have hae been negotiating for his ser services vicos mr hays refused to discuss the salary which he would receive recede in ili his now pos position tUon but it has haa been reported as upward of a ye year ar postmaster general hays flays was said by his friends however not to reg regard rard the salary as the controlling factor in his decision while it was stated at the white house that the question of a sor to mr hays had not been considered by the president and would not until he had definitely made hw hh decision immediately there sprung forth various ro ri ports orts these include the tha names of harry S new senator from froin indiana mr hays hay a horne homo state dr hubert work present first assistant pott postmaster imster general wither walter S kansas olty city manufacturer and cepro senta tentative tive of minnesota chairman of the house post postoffice office corn coin |