Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
Favorable atmosphere
Is Created by President
In First Three WeekS
BY ROBERT r. SMALL
Leased Wire Service to The Journal,)

Copyright 1929
WASHINGTON, March 26.-TheI
real achievement of the first three
weeks of the Harding administration
unquestionably has been the crea-
ton Of what might be called favor
able atmosphere. The definite and
noteworthy acts of the administra
ton have been few as yet for things
have been more or less in q settling
down process, but there has been a
broad, human touch in all that has
gone on at the White House, and
it has created a country wide impress
sion which should prove one of Mr..
Hardlng's greatest assets in time of
need.
There is every reason to believe
Mr.. Harding will have the machinery
al his end Of Pennsylvania avenue
working smoothly by the time con-
gress comes to town two weeks
from tomorrow. What congress, Wit-
it's unwieldly Republican maiorities
in the house and senate, will do after
the gavels fall at the capitol re-
mains to be seen. Mr.. Harding hopes
that it, too, will create a favorable
atmosphere, but the congress has
not been in a particularly happy
frame of mind the past two years,
will be interesting to see how the
shift from obstruction to construc-
ton will be worked out.
A great deal of the favorable at
mosphere about the White House has
been due to the open door policy i'm
ding, and the complete reversal of
the policies Of inaccessibility and
aloofness of Woodrow Wilson. The
Republican congress will have to Gre
| ~. /,
| capital by reversing some of Its own
ways of transacting business.
Many Failures
Congress during the last two years
| has gone on the theory that any
! thing favorable it might do would be
! credited to the Wilson administration,
| and that by the same token its fail
ures would just as readily be set
| down by the people as part and
| parcel of the same regime. The
weight Of influence therefore was in
| favor Of the word fail.
| All of this is abut to be changed
| however. Congress now becomes an
| integral part of the Harding admins
| tration and so long as the presidents
| own party controls the legislative
branch, the president will have to
| stand or fall by the records made on
| Capitol Hill.
| The indications are that congress
| in the near future will work as hard
| to please Mr.. Harding as it labored
| to displease Mr.. Wilson and to draw
| the fire of his frequent vetoes. AL
| ready the new drift is noted. Lead
| ers Of the house and senate have
| been in constant consultation with
| the president and have shown that
they will look to him for final de-
| csions in all matters affecting the
| legislative program.
| One of the lessons of his first three
weeks in the White House has left
Mr.. Harding with the knowledge
| that he is as supreme in the legisla-
tive branch of the government as in
the executive 1t is always so when
| the White House and capitol are in
| the control of the same political
| party. 1T is all very we'll to talk
| of letting congress go it's own way,
! but it is never done until an upset at
| the polls throws the entire con-
| gressiona1 machinery out Of gear
| with the White House.
| Real Tests to Come
| The real tests of the administra-
ton as whole are still to come.
| Thus far Mr.. Harding has encounter
| ed no opposition and very little crit
| cism. The talk of Colonel George
| Harvey as amba ssador to London
| has not beeen taken kindly in some
| quarters. but otherwise it may be
| said no poisoned darts have been di-
| rected a the. White House, Mr.. Har-
I ding. has made a few appointments
other than personal ones, and he has
been liked for his :, loyalty to. old
| friends. He has discussed policies