Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-03-04

they WhlrI along CapltolWafd, ana as
they whirI in the other direction, the
President-elect then being the Presi-
dent and the President being an ex-
President.
Almost Immediately following inau-
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 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 to fold
their tents and steal away probably
as silently as any Arab ever did.
There will be q few fortunates among
those present, men who have held
bureau chieftainships through many
an administration and whom the tides
of politics cannot shift from their
moOrings. 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 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
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-
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 or
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,
schemers Work Against France.
Commander f. w. Galbraith of the
American Legion ordered from his
room in Washington day or two ago
a man who was trying to induce him
to influence the members of the Lee
gion to help in a scheme which, if sue
cessful, would tend to break the ira
ditional friendship between the Uni
ted States and France and break the
tie of affection which exists between
the American soldiers and their
French comrades in arms.
1t is known to Legion members that
attempts of this kind are constantly
being ms.de today. They are being met
and frustrated. Members Of congress
and members of the American Legion
have been suspicious for some time
that certain elements in the American
community were trying to find some
means to make the American people
forget the days of Lafayette, forget
that their soldiers fought twice side
by side with the French, and to turn
American friendship first into suspi-
ciop of the French and then into en-
nifty.
The leaders of the movement are
known for the most part as men who
were not sympathetic with the cause
of the United States in the war that
it fought for the liberty of the world.
1t would seem that the motives which
actuate them in their amity-breaking
endeavor would be SO apparent that
they would defeat their own ends, but
the Legion men who have been meet
ing here say that SO subtle are some
Of the methods employed by the prop
agandists that many people have been
deceived by them.
Substitutes for Genius.
There can be no real substitute for