Judge — February 24, 1923 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Stirring the Pot in Washington by Herbert Corey, VERY ONE knows, of course, that it K possible to be too good. One van become so completely moral that one jazzes to march time and puts moth balls in the glass instead of rock candy. It occurs to me that it is also possible to become too free. Too un- hampered. ‘Too unshackled. Too un- fettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed and unmuzzled. Too utterly unpre- vented. The Republican party in Congress is if you feel that way, the majority party. It has more members in both houses than has the Democ arty. But they are free men. ‘They are not bound by the caucus chain. Yow their convictions, and ‘They wear no man’s collar. They can- not be forced by any corrupt boss whose forehead resembles a coon pelt to obey abhorrent orders. They cannot, as Mr. Blanton of Texas so sapiently says, be “short-potted.” If Mr. Blanton had never before deserved well of his country he won its gratitude for that glowing word. Hence the Republican party in Con- gress sometimes acts with the crisp de- cision of a flock of spring lambs on a green hillside. Some of its members— especially the fly-offs, and will Senator McLean of Connecticut accept. thanks for that acid description of the newer recruits?—bound - stiff-legged over the of discipline. A party conference is only held by definitely absolving those who attend from any obligation to obey the majority decision, The reason why Graham—rather than Longworth—may be made party leader of the next house is that he represents the spring lambs. Having thrown off the caucus bonds they now plan to oppose the Administration. It is fine and manly and knocks the system of party gi ment galley west, because a party can hard “pt responsibility for a bound- ing hillside full of bucking spring lambs. Because ofthis superb freedom the poor old budget got a hearty kicking around, although it is the outstanding achieve- of the Harding Administration. With a glad cry the beneficiaries of the Rivers and Harbors bill put back in the pot the $19,000,000 which had been pain- fully pared off the budget allowances on all the other bills. Chairman Madden of the Appropriations Committee wailed that this will improve creeks that hardly carry water enough to wet a frog, but what will you? The majority party members are free—free—free Meanwhile the Democrats are still bound by the outworn but. strangely effective caucus plan. T! have as much freedon their frie across the aisle but they are as efficient as a ripsaw. When you add caucus ruk by a minority party to the votes of fly- offs whose strength is as the strength of ten because their hearts are pure the in- dications are that there is heavy trouble ahead. From a Republican point of view the cheering circumstance is that it is mighty hard to co-ordinate a spring lamb and a caucus. rp ses= who love the tiful even more than they reverence the good are depressed by the prospect that the Rogers bill will p: If this instrument becomes law broken arches will not de- bar a bright young man fror i the State Department. It } jey to wander through the corridors atch the young diplomats conifer in sibilant whispers. No longer am I compelled to rely upon the crass and sometimes jaundiced judgment of ) jasher. Ten minutes in the State Department informs me on matters of ties and ere Our young diplo- mats are so beautifully be-spatted that the ardent tears start to m Their insteps are round, so. gracious, opulently curved that one would think, sometimes, that they were chosen for their insteps. One would especially think so when it develops, as it did develop when Secre- tary Hughes took charge of the institu- tion, that while information from all the world had reached the Department, it had been so carefully filed away that none of lately one so so so to the President of Haiti on the occasion of peace again becoming rampant there. It wooed our brunette neighbor lik letter-writing Romeo. There is a mpdel in the State Department for notes like this which has not been changed since the Second Battle of Bull Run. There is also an expert who prescribes the pants one must wear on occasions of state. The only thing that one could have wished altered in that note was the name of the prospective recipient. It appears that some time ago the present president of Haiti passionately chased his prede- cessor into the bush, and it was to this dweller in the tangled recesses of the wildwood that the note was addressed. One feels that perhaps the current official might have burst into patois if that note had ever reached him. Yet it is such little oddities as this that cast an aura of ay adventure over the practice of state- aft. One feels that diplomacy is not the cautious, the dry as dust, the almost Ithy profession one has revered after atching the young men whisper together in picturesque doorw One feels that perhaps Mr. Hughes attaches too much importance to mere efficiency in a world from which romance is being ruthlessly extirpated. He seems to have persuaded Congress that the Rogers. bill will open the diplomatic i from the consular burea stricting it to those who in letters. Decent salaries will be so that our young men need not carry fried chicken in shoe boxes when they go traveling. Mr. Hughes seems to believe that men may be both well to do and capable, but that under the prevailing system many reached the State Depart- ment who were only well to do, 24 One feels that perhaps Mr. Hughes attaches too much importance to mere efficiency. search and seizure I? LIKE to get the s privileges in the White House attic. y-product of the re- port that the White House is full of fir traps, that in the attic have been gathere« the presents made to the long line of Presidents and put aside by them with It develops, as at cries of pain. ‘There are woolen anti- macassars and steer horn chairs and sets of dishes with “Souvenir of Benton Har- bor” painted on them, and oil paintings in which especial stress was laid on white eyeballs. Tradition rules against dis- posing of the gifts of a grateful people. Theodore Roosevelt. once gave away a golden oak sideboard and there are old ladies in Ohio who still believe that this was a deliberate slam at the memory of Rutherford B. 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