Pueblo chieftain., 1921-06-25
MULTIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES
ARE HEAPED UPON HARDING
Demands Being Forced Upon Him Would Put Him In
Position Of Assuming Leadership Of the
Universe

F, ident Harding would like to confine
himself within the constitutional
boundaries of his official job as Pres
| dent of the United States, but he is
besousht by score of powerful aEen-
cies 10 accept responsibility for many
other things.
The pressure which is Just now most
acute ON him is in a field in which he
Is most reluctant to yield. bly,
there has hardly been day this week
when members of his cabinet and other
Republican party leaders and business
men have not been clamoring for him
TO take the leadership which Congress
does not haxs within itself. 1t is a
| hnal conclusion on the part of these
advisors that unless President Hard
| ing takes leadership of it Congress will
more or less disintegratc into a num-
Der OF groups. blocs and factions out
of which n" speed or compactness of
! action can - expected
PRECEDENT Harding is also besought
10 accep. responsibility for the for
| tunes of the Republican party. Many
of the best of President HardinS's
appointments, and some of the wisest
an6 most forward looking. of his ac-
lions. have rested on a non-political
! basis. When President Harding spends
weeks in search and finally selects the
nest man he can possibly find for a
post he has to NIL. the Republican par
ty organizations in the various states
remind him that while these appoint
ments arc splendid. they don't help
to keep the party workers in line. The
local party machines, especially in
! some of the southern states were par
tculariy displcascd over President
Harding's refusal to throw some 10000
post Offices open to the party workers.
President Harding is also besought to
accept resons' 'birity for the economic
: nj he rat
These conferences President Harding is
holding with bankers arc not n nor
NAL part OF the Presidents job. They
arise out of the demand that he snail
acccp. leadership and responsibility for
carl ifuorovemcnt in business condi-
tons. These conferences arc pool
ing OF wisdom under his leadership as
to what can be done toward making
. business better.
Along vita all this President Hard
| Ing Is III der steady pressure and SOL
icitatior 10 accept responsibility for
the normal and economic recovery OF
thar part Of tho world which lies out
side the United States. In some ways
this pressure is thr most powerful OF
| all. 1t comes not merely from impor-
tant persons both here and abroad.
hut II also comes from circumstances.
Again and again. when something is
attempted that applies to the United
s''A'7 af'l's7 " 'uA intt
country can mako no progress until .hc
whole unrld is stabilized.
Anybody who watches President
Harding as he goes thru al this pres
sure from day to day Is likely to get
sympathetic feeling for the Presi-
dents uphurrted and unrufncd pa
ticrcc. There Is never a sign OF those
snap decisions with which mon OF "A
different temperament occasionally
disposc Of crowded affairs. President
Harding Ii not that kind of an exc
cutivc- He gives real thought to every
thing that passos over his desk.
Hc has markedly that kind of sd-
ministrativc ability which consists in
dclcSatinS authority and responsibility
To others. and he has around him. not
merely In his cabinet but also In tho
men whom he has appointed TO other
important positions. "A group Of per-
sonaliticS who arc able to live up TO
high degree Of responsibility.
Copyright, 1921. by the New York
Evening Post. irc.t