Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-26
Washington Briefs

WASHINGTON. April 2s-Dawdle
dilly and daily continue to be the irwin
chile aspects Of things on Capitol Hill.
| Optimists who were predicting adjourn
ment of Congress by July 1, with the
tariff. and tax bills and lesser woes
! signed, sealed and delivered are revising
| their prognostications. With n sigh of
lament, statesmen now talk OF Sept. l as
a far more likely date for the expiry of the
Sixty Seventh Congress 1t Is a dreary
| outlook with a Washington summer in
| prospect The least enamored of the out
| look is President Harding who sees his
second annual hope Of an expedition to
Alaska gone glimmering, for he will not
leave the helm while Congress is in SEES
sion.
The approach of the congressional cam
/ paign is bound to spur members of both
Houses into action, for re election fences
will be clamoring insistently for repair
( as the ides Of autumn approach, and
! Washington Is no place for that kind Of
work Another goad to action is the
| business worlds impatience with delay
on the tariff bill.
One Of the society fads popularized, Of
all times during the recent Lenten season
was pugilsm, with the debutantes Of
washington IS Its most ardent devotees.
Prize fights are banned in the District OF
! Columbia, but are legal across the
/ Potomac, so the younger society set
/ focked between Ash Wednesday and
| Easter to Fit Myer, Va. There, under the
auspices Of the Army post, soldiers
/ staged semi weekly contests with Wash
/ ington upper tendon as onloOkers. The
/ bouts were conducted to raise funds for
/ post benefits and were as friendly as
/ eght-ounce gloves permit, but capital
! beauties thrilled over their first chance TO
i see the manly art under Queensberry
rules.
! Sinclair Lewis, newest recruit to Wash
ington's ever growing colony Of resi-
Dental literatr viii return to America
in May from an all winter sojourn In
/ England He is bringing with him the
! manuscript Of a sequel to Main Street.
1t is called Rabbit" and Will blossom
forth in The autumn.
/ Somebody asked Mrs. Harding not
long ago what her chief ambition In
life is. She ia reported to have replied:
"To be president Of some organiza-
ton dealing with kindness to animals.
The first lady shares that prediction
with the President, whose fondness for
dogs horses and birds Is proverbial.
Elephants are included among Mr.. Hard
! ing's animal fancies-a liking dating from
the time he had an elder sister working
as a missionary IN Burmah and who
used to spin tales at Marion OF the 10y
atty Of elephants as beasts OF burden
/ and the affection their masters bore
/ them.
I An unheralded act OF graciousness at
/ tributed 10 Mrs Harding Is her recent
lntercession on behalf Of an Italian boy
held at Ellis Island because his entry
would have just tipped the immigration
quota scales the wrong way
BEHIND the Mirrors" by the enony-
nous author OF bestseller with a some
what similar title, will come forth from
! the publishers press at the outset Of
summer 1t VIII deal as It's prototype
did, with Washington, but In less
personal sense, though It is a composite
of present-hour life and times here.
Guessing as TO the Identity Of the oriB-
nal mirror-duster continues to be a pas
time in the capital with many wiseacros
claiming positively to hold the secret,
I the name differing IN each case.
I Washington IS the most studious com
munity in the republic That at least
is the deduction Of a statistician who
has ascertained that there are more II
brarlans employed In the capital Of the
Nation than In any other city OF equal
size in the United States. From that
fact the specialist In question draws the
inference that the ratio Of knowledge
per capita outranks that Of all other
American communities"