The Washington herald., 1920-11-09

President-elect Harding will not
approach the consideration of Euro
pean problems devoid of personal
knowledge of the Old World. Be-
fore the war he visited Europe
twice. touring Great Britain and
Ireland. France. Italy, Belgium, Hol-
land and Switzerland. Mr.. Harding
is an omnivorous reader and his
literary diet has always included
liberal rations of history. Reading
in bed at night, just before falling
to sleep. is one of the President
elects pastimes. Sometimes, he
says, he overdoes it, for a particu-
larly interesting book often keeps
him awake long past the hour he in
tended to turn in.
Inaugurates 10th Year Here.
NJ. Jusserand, the accomplished
French Ambassador, who will soon
be back from Paris with his gov
ernment's views on league revision,
will inaugurate his nineteenth sue
Icessive year as Frances envoy to
the United States. He has been in
the diplomatic service of his coun-
try since attaining his majority
cycle of thirty-four years, and is IS
now. His friends credit him with
the desire to complete a full quarter
of century at Washington and to
cap a distinguished career by achiev-
ing a formal treaty of alliance and
friendship between the worlds fore
most republics.
Cabinet to Pick Up Former Posts.
Nearly all of President Wilson's
Cabinet ministers are preparing to
resume pre- administration activities
after March next, Secretaries
Colby, Baker and Payne will go
back to their respective law prac-
tices in New York, Cleveland and
Chicago. Josephus Daniels will re-
turn to his editorial sanctum at the
Raleigh News and Observer. Sec
retary Meredith will carry on"
where he left off, in the conduct of
his big agricultural newspapers in
Iowa. Attorney General Palmer.
while continuing to hang out hrs
law-office shingle at Stroudsburg. is
expected to join an important firm
in New York City. Secretary Hous-
ton is a univers>E executive by pro-
fession and may re-occupy the post
he resigned to join the Wilson Can
inet-the Chancellorship of Wash
ington University, at st. Louis-un-
less he accepts an offer to join a
great New York financial institu-
ton Postmaster General Burleson.
the plutocrat of the Wilson Cabinet.
will probably lead the life of a
Texas country squire. Joshua w.
Alexander. Secretary of Commerce,
is credited with an ambition to be
chairman of the Shipping Board.
The plans of William B. Wilson,
Secretary of Labor. are not known.
KitchIn Looks Like "Best Bet,
Claude Kitchin. health permitting.
is considered the best bet for the
minority leadership in the House.
Champ Clark's Disappearance from
the scene makes the hard-hittine
North Carolinian. and former Ways
ana Means chairman, the logical
choice for the chieftaincy of the
opposition. Kitchin is pretty much
recovered from the paralytic stroke
which overlook him in 1918 while
speaking in the House. He is only
81 years old and retains plenty Of
punch and pep. He and Speaker
Gillett are bosom friends and pas
sages-at-arms between the minority
and the chair would always be con,
Quoted with punetilious courtesy.
Another man on the orner side of
the House of whom Kitchin Is spe-
cially fond Is Representative Mich
olas Longworth.
There's likely to be an occasional
mix-up' In the mail Of the Presi-
dent-eieet when he settles down in
Washington. for the capital con-
tains another Harding. In high once