Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-03-04

President and the President elect as
they whirl along Captolward. and as
they whirl in the other direction. the
President-eIect then being the Presi-
dent and the President being an ex-
President.
Almost Immediately following inaa
guration day proceedings there will
be proceedings" in every big build
Ing of the government in which cab
met officer makes his headquarters.
These proceedings will mark occasions
either of pain or of pleasure for the
participants. The various new cabinet
officers Will take the oaths of office
in the presence of the chiefs of
bureaus, some of whom, within a little
time after the swearing-in operation,
must take their belongings and HE
| themselves hence.
Among those present" on these
swearing-in occasions will be men who
either have been promised, or who ex-
pect to be promised the places of
those who are metaphorically 70 fold
their tents and steal away probably
There will be a few fortunates among
those present, inen who have held
bureau chieftainships through many
an administration and whom the tides
of politics cannot shift from their
mornings. In the State department
there are men who have gone on
through the years doing their 'inter-
national duty" without any regard to
the political complexion of the powers
that happen to be.
War and Navy Changes Due.
In the War and the Navy depart
ments. particularly, there will be no
trepidation, unless perchance some of
| the bureau chiefs are tired of the
Washington lie and are glad of the
| opportunity once more either to sail
the ocean blue or to take station at
some army post where they can drill
a bit, act as officer of the day, and re-
/ learn thereby some of the things
which. perhaps, the study of depart
mental methods has made them forget
Things in the army and navy. how
ever, are not as they were in the old
1 days when some of the officers of the
two services managed through political
/ pull to stay in the Capitol city year
after year, the sailors forgetting in
the meantime the difference between
starboard and larboard, but never for
getting. probably. how to splice the
nam brace; while the army officers,
stagnating In stufTy rooms, were In a
way TO forget the right flank from the
left flank.
No one probably is so grateful to-
day as are the Republican senators and
representatives that the ancient rule
of firing everybody employed by the
government every time an admnistra-
tion changes no longer is In force.
Years ago whenever the White House
changed party hands" there was a
pretty clean sweep in all the depart
ments of the employees of all kinds
who owed their appointments to the
political enemy. This thing is done
away with for good, and unquestion.
ably the Republican powerful ones OF
today rejoice thereat.
If the old system were in vogue
there is not Republican senator OF
representative today who is supposed
to have any influence with the admins
tration, who would not have his hands
so full of petty patronage matters that
he could not do any of the work which
the government pays him for doing
/ C%ha
Commander f. w. Galbraith of tht
American Legion ordered from his
room in Washington a day or two agC
a man who was trying to induce hin
to influence the members of the lie
glon to help in scheme which. If sue
cessful. would tend TO break the ira
ditional friendship between the Uni
ted States and France and break III,
tie of affection which exists between
the American soldiers and thei
French comrades in arms.
II is known to Legion members thai
attempts of this kind are constantly
being made today. They are being me
and frustrated. Members of congress,
and members of the American Legion
have been suspicious for some timt
! that certain elements in the American
community were trying to find som,
means to make the American people
forget the days of Lafayette, forge
shat their soldiers fought twice sid,
, by side with the French, and to turn
I American friendship first into suspi
5. clor of the French and then into en-
: nifty.
, The leaders of the movement ar,
! known for the most part as men VIII,
2 we're not sympathetic with the Gauss
4 of the United States in the war tina
I { fought for the liberty of the world
4 Ii would seem that the motives which
! actuate them IN their amity-breakini
: endeavor would be so apparent tina
a they would defeat their own ends, bu
I the Legion men who have been meet
+ ing here say that so subtle are som
e of the methods employed by the prop