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MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
President Harding Names James
Secretary of Labor
E. J. Henning, P. S. D., is in Turn
Named Assistant Secretary
J. Davis,
gree Team exemplified the Ritual in an excellent manner. Addresses by the Director General and visiting members concluded a very pleasant evening.
Director General Takes Oath
On Saturady morning in the private office of the Secretary of Labor, located on the seventh floor of the building occupied by the Department, on G Street, west of 17th, Brother Davis assumed the oath of office surrounded by a large party of friends and well-wishers, including the Canton Degree Team. His office was beautifully decorated with plants and flowers, many designs coming from Lodges and individuals who were unable to be present.
After the ceremony Brother Davis received congratulations from his predecessor, Hon. William Wilson, United States Senator Philander Knox of Pennsylvania, Mayor Babcock of Pittsburgh, Pa., and many others. The bureau chiefs of the department were then presented personally to their new Chief.
Assistant Secretary
Second only to the interest and pleasure in witnessing the induction into office of Director General Davis, was the ceremony of taking the oath by Brother E. J. Henning, Past Supreme Dictator, as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor. All of those present congratulated Brother Henning, while the Moose representatives congratulated Brother Davis in having obtained the services of one so well qualified to assist him in performing the duties of his high office.
Brother Henning had eight years’ experience in Washington in an official capacity; then served the Government as Assistant United State Attorney and later as United States District Attorney for Northern Wisconsin. As a lawyer he is known to possess an unusual amount of knowledge of national laws, having had considerable experience also in practicing in the United States Supreme Court. When one is informed that the Assistant Secretary of the Department is designated by law to act for the Secretary in his absence, one can realize how fortunate was the selection of Brother Henning.
Moose Activity to Continue
As concrete evidence of Brother Davis’ statement that he could not nor would not give up his interest in the Order, it is hereby recorded that within thirty-six hours from the time of his inauguration he was attending a meeting of the Moose in Philadelphia Lodge No. 54. The occasion was the formation of the Eastern Pennsylvania Mooseheart Alumni Association, and a visit by the Canton Degree Team. Twenty-five hundred Moose had the opportunity to greet the Director General just a few hours after he had been made a member of the Cabinet.
A life-time of energy and effort for an ideal has been rewarded first, by the wonderful success attained by the organization which he fathered, and, second, by recognition of his ability to fill one of the most important positions in this great Government.
liam A. Morgan, from Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Director General Davis, accompanied by Mrs. Davis, attended the inauguration of the President with the other members of the Cabinet and their ladies. Later in the day our
party attended a reception given by the President in the East Room of the White House. Mrs. Harding assisted the President in receiving the guests.
True to form on Friday evening Brother Davis piloted his party to a meeting of Columbia Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose, where the Canton De-
Carl P. Berger and James Quinlan. Immediately upon their arrival they proceeded to transform the suite of rooms occupied by the Director General into a bower of flowers.
Among the prominent members of the Order whose presence was no-
ticed were E. J. Henning, P. S. D., William F. Broening, P. S. D., Albert Cassidy, S. C., A. P. Entenza, S. C., Fred W. Jones, Assistant Director General, Theodore Miller, from MOOSEHEART, William J. Davis, District Supervisor, Governor Cole Blease, from South Carolina, and Wil-
While attending a meeting of the Supreme Council, Mooseheart Governors and Regents of the Legion at New Orleans, La., on January 9th, Director General James J. Davis received a telegram requesting him to visit Marion, Ohio, for a conference with President-elect Warren G. Harding. Brother Davis rejoined his party at Spartanburg, S. C., having concluded a very satisfactory interview with the President-elect. This interview developed that Brother Harding recognized in Director General Davis the kind of a man whom he desired to have as his adviser in his Cabinet. It was understood by the President-elect that Brother Davis would continue as head of the Loyal Order of Moose, should he accept the appointment tendered.
The Supreme Officers unanimously and with one accord recommended the Director General to accept the appointment, each member pledging that he would do everything in his power to assist Brother Davis in the work of the Order.
When the President-elect announced at Miami, Florida, that James J. Davis, Director General of the Loyal Order of Moose, was being considered for appointment to the Cabinet, business men, labor organization, Moose lodges and friends immediately wired the President-elect from all sections of the country. The writer was informed that more endorsements were received by the President-elect for Brother Davis than for any other contemplated appointee.
Inauguration Day
March 4th, 1921, will go down in history as one of the most important days in the annals of the United States. It will mean the beginning of the reconstruction period. Big things must and will be done. A new party with new policies has come into power by the overwhelming vote of the people of the country, and much will be expected of those who have been selected to steer the Ship of State at this critical period.
The Department of Labor is destined to play an important part in the adjustment of business relations between capital and labor, and the industries of the country are the most important factors in placing the nation on a solid, substantial basis. Six hundred thousand Moose, and many thousands of other men, believe that James J. Davis will measure up to all that is expected of this important office.
The headquarters of Director General Davis at the Shoreham Hotel was the Mecca for hundreds of visitors from Thursday, March 3rd, until Saturday evening, March 5th. Many business and professional men, as well as members of labor unions and Moose, called to offer congratulations and to express satisfaction and pleasure with the appointment of Brother Davis to the Cabinet. The first delegation to arrive was a committee composed of officers of Philadelphia Lodge No. 54, including John W. Ford, Dictator; Harry W. Mace, Vice Dictator; Albert H. Ladner, Great North Moose; and Past Dictators William Abrahams,
E. J. HENNING, Past Supreme Dictator Assistant Secretary of Labor
Director General’s New Job, Its Duties and Responsibilities
immigration, with the welfare of the children of economically oppressed wage-earners and the protection of wage-earning children, and with the care for the relations of women wage-earners to their several occupations.
Of course the Secretary of Labor does not, he could not, execute all these official functions personally. He is helped by an Assistant Secretary, by a Solicitor, by a Chief Clerk, by other executives and advisers in the office of the Secretary; by several Chiefs of Bureaus, several heads of
:r Assistant Secretary of Labor
It is his duty to prevent labor quarrels and to pacify those that cannot be prevented. He must direct a nation-wide distribution of wage-earning labor. He must deal with racial complexities generated by the relation of Negro workers to employment opportunities. He will encounter problems left over from the war with reference to the housing of war-workers. He is charged with the gathering and distribution of labor statistics, with the whole subject of
By LOUIS F. POST, Fori
as well as administrative, international as well as domestic, which the President may encounter. In this connection also, he is particularly charged with responsibility for advising the President on all matters, national and international, that relate to the welfare of American wage-earners.
In addition to those advisory responsibilities, Secretary Davis is invested with difficult as well as highly responsible administrative functions.
The job to which President Harding has called James J. Davis, the second man in its history to hold the office of Secretary of Labor (Wm. B. Wilson having been the first), is no “child’s play.” In the loftiest sense of a familiar phrase, it is “a man-size job.”
As a member of the President’s cabinet, Secretary Davis is iharged, along with his nine associates, with the delicate responsibilities of general adviser to the President of the United States on all the varied problems, legislative