Evening star., 1921-02-27
MARCH4GREATDAY.
EVEN IF POMPLESS
Hardine's Simple Induction Into Office to
Be Impressive Lesson on Workings
of American Democracy.

services, with due regard to the good
OF the public service. He has not
forgotten his friends, neither has he
disregarded the good of the country.
There is not a man in the cabinet who
does not measure up to a high stand
ard of character and efficiency. The
heads of the great departments will
select their own subordnates and the
same efficiency is counted upon to run
through the lesser offices.
Taking the President-elect and the
members of his cabinet as the "ad-
m nistration" and considering their
personalities, it is evident thas no
charge can be truthfully brought that
the new administration is dominated
py an interest" that much abused
and very elastic word. The President
himself certainly is not typical of an
interest. whether inaHcial. agricul-
tural, reform, labor or what not. He
is very plain American citizen, and
OF type widely prevalent
He is big enough and brave enough
TO consult with interests, however,
realizing that they have a stake in
the great game and are entitled to be
heard. He confers with labor inter-
ests, with agricultural. with banking.
with manufacturing and with the run
of the mill of merchants and business
men generally.
He is also keen on politics, a be-
Hever in government by party in this
country, and will never be found in
the role of a ''mugwump." Which en-
dears him to most democrats. as well
as republicans, on that point.
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Your new President bids fair to be a
likable man and accessible to people
having real business with him. Don't
gather from this that every Tom, Dick
and Harry can breeze into the White
House, slap him on the back and call
him wat" He is very much like other
men in his hours of relaxation, likes a
good game of golf or of whist, smokes
his cigar, enjoys a good dinner and a
good story-but he has mountain OF
dignity behind which he can retire when
the time comes
He is hard worker and will be
at his desk many a night in the next
few months when the rest of us are
sound asleep.
The new President however fol-
lowing one bent in his nature, is not
likely to aspire to attention to every
minor detail of executive business.
He is like the centurion of Holy Writ,
who could tell man go, and he goeth,
and come and he cometh. He will
not start out by trying to carry the
whole country upon his shoulders.
He is sociable man and will be
found seeking to Tighten the duties Of
his arduous position by commingling
with his fellow men and getting their
viewpoint, as well as relaxation from
the harrow.
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If the extraordinary session of Con-
gress is called for April 4, as now re-
ported probable, the President will
have thirty days in which to formu-
late his address to the Congress upon
the work for which it will be sum-
moned.
That address will of necessity be
the key and guide to the new Con-
gress in taking up either tariff re-
vision or taxation revision first The
President will be besieged by advo-
Gates of both projects in the mean
time, but his announced choice of
precedence of the subjects will prob
ably rule.
Harassed business, the country over,
will look anxiously toward the Ma
tional Capital constantly from March
4. Business expects relief by legis.
lation, and the combined intellect OF
Congress and the administration"
will be bent upon measures aftording
relief.
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