The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-29
NEXT PRESIDENT !
WILL FACE MANY
PUzzLES--WATSON
To Confront a Disorganized
Country, Says Senator
News of Washington.
BY W. r. PoUNDSToNE.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29-'Tt Is en-
urely too early in the season to name
the next presidential candidates, but
1t Is not too early to state that the
next president of the United States
will encounter the greatest tasks ever
confronting a chief executive in the
history Of the nation" Senator James
E. Watson informed a Washington
interviewer.
I'm nearly thirty years OF public
life," the Indiana senator continued,
Il have never seen any period ap-
preaching this for momentous issues
and puzzling problems. While there
Is no gainsaying the fact that many
difficult situations arose during the
war, the president had the country
solidly at his back, advancing IN
compact phalanx to meet and van
Qu1sh the common foe.
THE next president will be con-
fronted with the task of uniting q
country split into many rival factions,
each pulling in direction calculated
to benefit itself Capital and labor
questions must be settled. The high
cost of living must also be definitely
settled. Great international questions
will be constantly arising, calling for
the utmost skill in handling. The
Mexican question is still demanding
solution and must be dealt with.
These are roughly some of the big
things the next president must deal
with, and no one can forecast what
may arise during the next four years.
1T is a foregone conclusion in my
mind, that the next president will be
a republican, and 1 am confident that
he will SO handle the difficult and
dangerous problems of the reconstruc-
ton period that American will go on
to greater and more glorious future.
BETTING the first nation of the earth. "
There will be q time when it will
be in order for an appreciative govern
ment to erect lasting memorials in
honor of the patriotism and valor OF
the sons of the republic who served in
the world war, but, in the opinion OF
Representative Richard N. Elliott of
Indiana, before that time comes some
thing of more substantial and bene-
fetal nature must be done for the
America soldier by the congress. Rep
resentative Elliott so expressed him
self few days ago at a meeting of
the Public Buildings and Grounds
committee of the House, of which COM
mittee he is a member, when bill
appropriating 100000 for the cree
ton of triumphal arch in the ma
tional capital was up for considera-
ton. Up to this time, it Is recalled,
the only reward the gallant doughboy
has received from his country has
been a paltry bonus of $50.
Before we begin to spend millions
Of dollars on victory arches 1 want
the men who fought our battles to
receive more generous treatment at
the hands of the government. These
boys cannot live on victory arches"
Elliott said.
Among the recent callers at Repre-.
sentative Elliott's office were P. H.
Wolfard, deputy secretary of state OF
Indiana, and Lieut.. r. l.. Strain, both
of Newcastle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Amos and Mr..
and Mrs. A. L. Winship, both Of Rush
vile, who have been on a month
motor trip through the east and are
now enroute home.
Phillip Schenkel, of Connersville,
who IS in Washington visiting his son
Harry, who is employed at the Blu
reau of Standards.
mond, has just returned to the U. S
Naval Academy, where he is a student,
after a months furlough spent in
Richmond; and Herbert S. Weed, for
merly secretary of the Richmond Y. M
G. A, has recently returned from
France after long service as Y. M
G. A. worker with the famous First
Division, A. E. F.
Mr.. Weed marched with the First
Division in its triumphal parade re
Gently held in Washington. The par
ade was led by General John J. Per
shing. Weed is no sojourning with
relatives in Connecticut but expects tc
return to Richmond in the near future
The utilization Of water power In
France has increased by more than
80 per cent since the commence OF