THE CABINET: All-Star

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Students of history and admirers of great men were thrown a bone of contention last week by the Independent (liberal weekly). Arguments raged over the Independent's selections for an "allstar all-American" Administration.

GEORGE WASHINGTON was chosen for President, and not Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or Calvin Coolidge.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT was chosen Vice President, and not John Adams, John C. Calhoun, Calvin Coolidge or Charles Gates Dawes.

JOHN HAY was chosen Secretary of State, and not John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, Hamilton Fish, Richard Olney, Elihu Root or Charles Evans Hughes.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON was Secretary of the Treasury, and not Andrew W. Mellon. ELIHU ROOT was Secretary of War, and not Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Taft or Newton D. Baker.

WILLIAM COLLINS WHITNEY was Secretary of the Navy, and not Gideon Welles (Civil War) or Josephus Daniels (World War).

ROGER BROOK TANEY was Attorney General, and not William M. Evarts or Harry M. Dougherty or Harlan F. Stone.

AMOS KENDALL was Postmaster General, and not John Wanamaker or Will H. Hays.

FRANKLIN KNIGHT LANE was Secretary of the Interior, and not Thomas Ewing, Carl Schurz, Cornelius N. Bliss, James R. Garfield or Albert B. Fall.

JAMES WILSON was Secretary of Agriculture, having only eight to compete against, including David S. Houston and Edward T. Meredith.

HERBERT CLARK HOOVER was Secretary of Commerce, having only six to compete against, including George B. Cortelyou, and Oscar S. Straus.

The Independent did not choose a Secretary of Labor, in which office James J. Davis has had but one predecessor—William B. Wilson.