The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-09
MACHINERY OF WAR
RUNNING WELL NOW
BIG THINGS ARE BEING DONE
AND SUCCESS OF TROOPS IS
CHEERING.
PENRosE HAS AN OUTBREAK
His Desires Thwarted, the Pennsylva-
nian Stirs Up Things in the Senate
Women Asserting Their Rights TO
Official Positions.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

~hs~iNi ESoiAiSitS-
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington.-War work is going |
more smoothly. 1t has taken long |
time to get the immense amount Of !
military machinery in motion, but APP
parently everybody about the war de- |
partment is now satisfied with the way !
1t is running. There is a hitch now
and then, and some little criticism of
unimportant matters, but the big
things are being done and the main
fact is that there are over a million
soldiers in Europe and that every
month sees many thousands more add
ed to the number. There Is some ques-
lions as to whether the methods pur-
sued are the best, but upon the whole
the results speak for themselves and,
what is more, the conduct Of the Amer
lean troops, their fighting qualities, the
successes they have achieved, wipe out
everything in the past in regard to
mistakes and Encouragement.
Even though the weather has been
all that could be asked, cool and COM
Portable, it did not prevent the rising
of temperatures in congress, particu-
larry in the senate. There has been a
considerable display of temper, one of
the principal outbreaks being by SEN
ator Penrose. The big Pennsylvania
senator wanted a recess; but he did
not want the bill passed for govern
ment control of telegraph and tele-
phone lines; he was very much OPP
posed to the prohibition provision in
the agricultural survey bill. Not hav-
ing his way, he expressed his opinion
very forcibly, and when Penrose goes
on the warpath he generally bags
something. With a strong personality,
imperyious to criticism master of him
| self, with a command of language
either yindictive or sarcastic, he can
generally make the fur fly" when he
| decides to start something in the
| senate. There was no more interesting
occasion during the present session
than when Penrose went on the war
/ path after the recess fiasco. Severa
4 VI Ills OIpOuEAIS WEIG Wt1SGA
his onslaught.
AS the woman suffrage program ad
vances there is every indication tina
women are going to assert their right
to official positions. A recent state
ment from the National Woman
Trade Union league, announcing tn
appointment of woman as the assist
ant chief of the new woman's bureau
in the department of labor, pointed GU
that until traditions are broken, ant
men acquire the habit of putting won
en- in administrative and consultive pc
sitions as readily and as frequently a
they put men in such places, the won
ans bureau has big work cut out TO
it," The new appointee also insist
upon equal pay for equal work b.
women and men. That has been tn
general rule in employment in the gov
eminent departments.
Senator Borah of Idaho did not lik
the way business was proceeding lat
in the afternoon on the day the senat
| NUEGu " ldhC u 1NNCSSs AAC Gel4n LILO
if they did not get order he would tax
the floor and hold it until order wa
restored. Il do not propose to sc
legislation pass in this way" he salt
I'VE are holding caucuses, double cal
, cuses and joint caucuses here in tn
/ aisle and considering the question of
recess while legislation of vital impo
lance is being pushed through in til
confusion. One of two things mu,
happen. We will either legisIate in o
der or we will not legislate at all"
? And then Senator 0verman of Mort
I Carolina, chairman of the committt
on rules, considered that it was GOO
time to shut up shop and moved q
executive session.
Congressman Hersey of Maine mat
some observations in the house wht
T the census bill was up, which We're d
scriptive of the feelings of ''treasul
Watchdog" Hersey was acting as OIL
at the time and was barking at Il
expenditures provided for in the bi
/. He remarked that President wills,
was under an lawful responsibility
and that "today, in another room
this capitol, sits the great commit
on ways ana means to provide for q
largest revenue bill ever enacted. O.
= responsibility of the Democratic lea
y er, Mr.. Kitchin, is tremendous, but t
i responsibility of the president or of
= great leader is not so great and i
- portant as that of the humblest rep
NJ sentative who honestly attempts
this time to be watchdog of the trei
ury.'" So that is how it feels to
one of the pack.
No one has mentioned the clio
shave by which recess was defe,
ed. 1t really hung upon a decisi
OF Speaker Clark and it mig
Just as wen have been made the 9th
ts way. In fact, the speaker at one til
decided the question the other WI
= but upon parliamentary inquiry
"