The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-03-03

THE
Ing for good weather. They all intend
TO turn out To catch q glimpse Of the
President and the President-elect as
they whiri along Capitolward, and as
they whirl In the other direction, the
President. elect then being the Presi-
dent and the President being an ex-
President
Almost Immediately following inau-
guratloD day proceedings there VIII
be proceedings" in every big build
ing Of the government In which q cab
met officer makes his headquarters.
These proceedings will mark occasions
participants. The various new cabinet
officers will take the onths OF office
In the presence Of the chiefs OF
bureaus some Of whom, within little
time after the swearing-in operation,
must take their belongings and HE
themselves hence.
Among those present" on these
swearlng-in occasions will be men who
either have been promised. or who ex-
poet to be- promised. the places OF
those who are metaphorically TO fold
their tents and steal away probably
as silently as any Arab ever did.
There will be few fortunates among
those present. men who have held
bureau chieftalnships through many
an administration and whom the tides
Of politics cannot shift from rheir
moorings. In the State department
there are men who have gone on
through tire 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
trepidatlon, unless perchance some OF
the bureau chiefs are tired Of the
Washington life 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
n 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
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
main brace; while the army officers,
stagnating in stuffy 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 administra-
ton changes no longer Is In force
Years ago whenever the White House
changed party hands" there was q
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.
IL the old system were In vogue
there Is not Republican senator OF
representative today who Is supposed
to have any influence with the admins
tratlon. 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
sehemers Work Against France.
Commander +. w. Galbraith OF tn,
American Legion ordered from his
room in Washington a day or two ag'
man who was trying 10 induce hin
to influence the members of the lie
gion TO help In a scheme which, II sue
cessful, would tend to break the ira
ditional friendship between the Uni
ted States and France and break tn
tie of affection which exists betweeel
the American soldiers and thei
French comrades In arms.
II Is known to Legion members tina
attempts OF this kind are constant!
being made today. They are being me
and frustrated. Members of congress
and members OF the American Legion
have been suspicious for some tint
that certain elements In the American
community were trying TO find SOM
means TO make the American peopl,
forget the days Of Lafayette, forge
that their soldiers fought twice sid
by side with the French, and to turl
American friendship frs; into suspl
ciop of the French and then into en-
nifty.
The leaders of the movement ar
known for the most part as men VIII
were not sympathetic with the caus
OF the United States In the war tina