The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-20

 TASK AWAITS
 WHITE HOUSE,
Problems of '78 and '61 Are Mere Bagatelles Compared
 to Those With Which Presi-
 dent Harding Must Grapple
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

dents, with perhaps the exceptions of Washington and Lincoln, have had to face greater domestic or foreign problems than President Harding. This is evident to every Washington observer who knows what is going on in Washington, the hub not only of the United States but of the world. In the western hemisphere the re- public, in wealth, power and popula- tion completely overshadows Canada, South and Central America. In debt ridden Europe the nations look to the United States for aid, if not in settl- ing their wars in paying for these wars, and in feding the starving peo- ples. In Asia millions of perishing Chinese are being saved by Ameri. can charity. Japan, envious of and hating the United States, can not keep pace with our naval construc- tion and has already seen the hand writing on the wall, which means that the Oriental will never dominate the Pacific. The United States, as vast only great nation with more than a hundred million people all living in the same country and all knit to- gether closely by the same language, laws, and republican institutions. This country is the greatest on the face of the globe, and Washington, it's capital, is in more ways than one the capital of the world.
 For these reasons, and because most of the other world governments are still distracted and suffering from the results of the great war, the nations look to Washington not only for assistance but guidance in their affairs This situation ex- plained the almost frantic desire of the European nations to have the United States enter the League of Nations It explains the desire of these nations for this country, the league having failed to enter an other similar scheme, such as the proposed Association of Nations"
 Just as Rome in ancient days die tated to the remainder of the then civilized and barbarian world so Washington has become the modern Rome, but a more humane, peaceful, and enlightened world capital. The inhabitants of the United States do not seem, in the mass, to realize the tremendously commanding position their country has obtained, and the pre-eminent position among all the cities of the world that Washington has obtained.
 For these reasons and also because the bankrupt European nations owe this country ten billions of dollars, the Harding administration has in herited a national and an internation- al power and responsibility never be- fore held by any other administra- tion.
 
 of the then infant republic seemed momentous to the people and states men of that day During and after the Civil war the national problems under Lincoln seemed so great as to be practically impossible to solve, yet they were solved, just as Wash ington and his aides solved the prob lens of his time. But the problems of '78 and '61 were mere bagatelles, comparatively speaking, to those that MT Harding must grapple with.
 The great problem for MT. Harding to solve, in brief, is to preserve for future American generations the com manding world position won by the United States in the altruistic cru sade which crushed the German men, ace of despotic dominion of the glObe-a crusade which was as un- selfish and unrewarded as any which set out in the Middle Ages to conquer the Holy Land from the Saracen. This, in a nutshell, is the stupen- dous task that awaits the man in the White House. It is believed he will measure up to that task, and when he leaves Washington he will leave behind him a country as great as when he took the reins of it's government.
 Briefly summed up these gigantic problems fall into two grand divi- sions-domestic and foreign.
 At home taxes must be reduced and those that remain must fall more equitably upon wealth and not bear so heavily upon the masses. With this must go great economies in gov ernment, with nothing done that will decrease efficiency of government, but rather increase efficiency. Busi- ness must be encouraged rather than