Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
REAL PROBLEMS ARE
AHEAD Of HARDING
BY w. ROBERTS MAYLoR
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
DOWNRIGHT 1921 \

WASHINGTON, Aug. POT know
the Silesian situation Is in a terrible
fix, but what handicap is President
Harding going to get?"
"There is no doubt that Lloyd
George wants the United States to go
into an alliance with Great Britain
and Japan, but is it fair to keep the
members of the senatorial oligarchy
out of the tournament?
ayes, I was at the White House
today and the president, while dis
cussing the legislative program aft
er the recess said he thought he
ought to be second from scratch, for
ninety something and recently broke
all his own and other presidential
records by negotiating Chevy Chase
in a tidy 88.'
These are typical bits Of CONVEX
sation overheard where statesmen
and journalists gather together in
these busy, days at the national cap
Men of affairs and writer's who a
month ago didn't know a niblick
from a joint resolution and to whom
the uses of mashie we're as I'M
of the League of Nations, are dis
cussing nothing but the Warden style
Of overlapping grin, the differences
and the diverse advantages of the
open and the square stance, while
some are even seeking a patent on
short handled hoe as. the best club
to get a ball out of the high grass
in Potomac park.
The world may be sitting on 8
volcano, but that doesn't matter in
Washington any more.
There is to be an eruption of golf
in this vicinity next Thursday, with
clouds of dust rising from the sun
parched fairways that will make We
suvius look as yaporless as an anti
cigarette crusader.
The public prints may we'll record
the fact that "news is scarce" from
Washington this week. Next week
or UP until the dusk of Thursday
evening, it will be worse, or If not
that, it will at least be less. The
Washlngt on correspondents have lit
tie time to write. The press CALLER
les of senate and house wear q de-
serted look until late in the aftSr-
noon when the gentlemen of the pI eNs
come in to compare their scores in
the practice rounds.
The regular White House confer
cree on FRIDAY afternoon was TAX
en- up almost wholly with a discus
sion of the tournament
It all started out in quiet little
way, few enthusiastic young news
paper golfers having dinner down
their respective drives, puts, ap-
proaches ana most Of all, their slices
and their inability to get eternally
perverse golf clubs to do what is
expected of them. A former Wash
ington correspondent, George M.
into more or less affluence since
he stopped writing pieces for his
valuable papers, allowed that he
would give a cup for tournament,
to be Participated in by the active
newspaper men of the capital city.
so we'll and good
Then some one suggested the
president, having presented the ma
tional open championship cup to long
Jim Barnes, of Pelham, recently,
could do no less than confer such an
honor upon the champion scribe Of
and good.
But a complication ensued. The
president denurred. He said it would
be unfair to ask him to present.
tended to play in the tournament:
but to win the cup, provided the
Democratic members of the handicap
committee did not rate his golfing
ability too high and his handicap too
low.
Since that time Washington has
been buzzing with nothing but the
tournament. 1t is to be held next
Thursday with medal play through
out and nandicaps running all the
way from zero to 70 strokes on Is
holes. The beginners are demand
ing this maximum allowance. 1t
will be the first time q president
ever has participated in tourna-
ment. A group of newspaper own
ers and editors among the senators
will be invited to serve as officials.
Chief Justice Taft has sent regrets
that he will not be here to act as
judge. He wired the correspondent
at the White House saying he would
have been delighted to start his new
judicial career with a decision in
matter CT such supreme Importance.
Doubt as to why congress has de-
c;ded to recess is swept away. The
correspondents are too busy at golf
to write anything about the pro-
ceedingS