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UNREST, SUMMER
HEAT, COMING ELECTION
HARASSING WASHINGTON
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES
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WASHINGTON, Sept. Now is
the Autumn of Washington's discon-
| tent.
The National Capital is filled with
hay fever germs. dusty tourists, late
/ summer heat, and even more danger
| Gus things-such as issues on when
| Senators and Representatives would
lust as soon avoid definite commit
ment prior to the November elections.
The desire of Congress to get away
!. from Washington and to get pack
| home to look after political renee
! mending is almost pathetic. Less thah
/ eight weeks now intervene before
| MANY political fates are to ne declded
at the polls, and there remains much
missionary work yet to be done among
| the folks back home.
4 Chained to the Capital by the criti-
cal industrial situation, which is 'iiKe-
y, IN require legislation at any time;
by the tariff bill now tied up in con-
! terence. by the undecided fate of the
| bonus bill; by kindred other worries,
| CONGRESS- fumes and swears in Wash
1 ington these lazy Autumn days and
/ has bad dreams about what may hap
| ren in November
1 Like small boys playing truant from
] school the members slip quietly out OF
Washington when they can, spend a
few days looking things over in their
districts or states, and then chase
madly back to the Capital in response
to kilograms from leaders. or in tre-
pidation that something is happening
! ono IN hn in
The Eastern members have their
old advantage over those who come
from the Western State---they can go
home and be back in three or four
days. whereas the members from the
4 far West cannot contemplate round
trip home under three or four weeks.
1t has led to a lot of grumbling and
| revival of talk that the National Capt.
tai should be located somewhere near
er the central part of the United
States. instead of in one of the most
inaccessible places Imaginable.
Whenever Washington-and that
includes political, official, social and
just plain workaday Washington
runs out of conversational topics 1T
can always fall back on the old stand
bN-StitCllIlBf liC" JOb lOi JohlL -
Pershing, General of the Armies OF
the United States.
More jobs have been selected for
J General Pershing in the nearly three
years he has ben home from France
than could possibly be filled by one
| of his regiments. They're always pick
ing new jobs for him-the latest being
that of a sort of industrial Dictator
| ~ r I,
strikes do not yield to adjustment.
| The exact nature of his duties In
this connection appears somewhat ne
| bulous. Government director" of the
railroads in case President Harding
| ultimately finds is necessary for the
! Government to take over the roads
| is about as far as the takers have
| gone in defining such o job.
| Most of the talk concerning Cen
eral Pershing's future hinges around
! the fairly well established fact that
he is not happy in his present post
even though it carries the magnificent
designation of General of the Armies
of the United States" and carries with
it a salary of about $25 900 year.
An ecenomy-mad Congress cut the
armies of the United States" down
almost to corporars guard, in an A.
E. F. sense, and there is little ahead
of the Army apparently but some long
years of paper work.
This is not very appealing to a
man of John ]. Pershing's tempara-
ment He has always managed to be
around where there was considerable
doing-from the sun-kissed islands of
the Pacific to the muddy trenches of
Flanders and the fire-seared trees of
the Argonne-and advancing age has
not killed in him that desire to be
where the shoOtin' is" whether it be
in the army or out of it.
There are those who insist that
General Pershing will cut a figure in
the next Presidestial campaign, al
though the difficulty of Warren G..
Harding and socend term presents
itself to the more discerning. Those
who believe in Pershing's political
future base their belief largely on
history having produced a military
President after every great war the
country engaged in-after the Reyo-
luton came Washington, after 1912
came Andrew Jackson, after the In
dian wars came Zachary TAYLOR, after
81 came L. s. Grant, and after saS
came Roosevelt. the most conspicuous