The Cordova daily times., 1922-06-16
FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1922
WILLIAM G. M'ADOO AND HIS "sHIRT TAIL DIPLOMACY''


 Accordino to less parsonage than the Hon. William Gibbs McAdoo, former Secretary ot the Treasury and past, present and prospect i've candidate for the Democratic nomlnatlon for President the United States IS Tn terrible blight so far as it's diplomacy IS concerneo,
 MT. McAdoo declares that under PreSldehI Harding we have abandoned shirt sleeve TOT shirt tail diplomacy, that our enVoys take no manly part in any discussion Ill Europe, put clink in and out of the courts spylng aoouC but incurring no responsibility. No wonder, he declares we have gained the contempt and t(istrust of all the world. ~
 The Hon. ex-Secretary does not say eNplcl'- 1v what shirt tail diplomacy IS but ayers tlaI our "envoys now sit mee1ly on thelr shlrt tails and take no manly part, instead of repre- epntino America with the vigor and dlrectness which distinguished our diplomacy In more honorable days" In the humble communities where most of us originate, however, man only goes about in his shirt tail, only sits at the table-poker or otherwise-When ne mas bAen divested of his other garments
 If roust follow therefore that at some tune or othor Uncle Saam has lost his diplomatic coat. vest and pantaloons, so 1t might De prol- itabIe to consider just when this misfortune occurred Diplomacy is something like poker' and there is a game popular Ill New Aoih' Los Angeles and other more or less sportlVe social centers of which MT. McAdoo has been or is now a resident, called strip poker MT. NcAdOo may have had this game Tn mlnd when he made his reference to shirt tall d. Dlomacv. In this game when Q player loses a hand he is compelled by the rules to remove some nortion of his garments. The length of the game is usually limited by the amount ot cjOthine the players possess, the severity o1 inc weather or the hardihood of the contest ants.
 The last international strip poker game In which Uncle Sam took part was held at Yer sailles and his cards were handled by the distinguished father-in-aw of MT. McAdoo. Practically all of the known world except America was divided up all over again, in demnities were fixed, for everybody but the United States, Germany lost everything and Uncle Sam barely escaped with his shirt, after his distinguished representative assured the other players that we would not even begin to talk about even the interest they owed us for twenty or thirty years.
 The people of the United States were glad IlldG Ollcle odHl eoCdpco NIUil LID oiAi o AAAoJ had expected no territory and no indemni- ties, just wanted to be left alone in the fu- ture When MT. Wilson brought with him a new game of chance which was calculated to deprive Uncle Sam not only of his shirt, but perhaps of his whiskers, the people $ representatives in the Senate rebeled and kicked the thing into the discard. Then when they got chance the people made it x.o1~, 3o ,,+1 into the discard too. Therefore if MT. Me- Adoo is just man let him give credit for this shirt tail business where it belongs.
 But Mr. McAdoo will have hard time proving that our representatives slink in and out of the courts of Europe. Our representa- tives have sat in no conferences into which they were not invited. They have only re- fused responsibilities in instances where Uncle