The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-12
DAILY NEWS LETTER
MANY ASK PRESIDENT
 FOR APPROXIMATIONS |
By GEORGE R. HOLMES international News Service Staff Cor.

l respondent
 | Washington Dec. l2 - The e-rea
 American voter n1ay-and frequentIv 1 does-express somewhat cynical dis | daln for those he (and she) eIevates
 to public office. but he nevertheless | entertains a profound respect for the ! power that office wields This is particularly true of the Preside ency. ~ | The power wielded by one who sits
 In the White House undoubtedly is great, but if 1t were as monumental as literally tn ousands of Americans | believe it to be, the President of the
 United States would be something like 1 a combination of Mohammed Solo
 mon. Confusius and Alexander the | Great.
 The White House mail bags dunn
 an interesting assortment of letters on the Presidents desk every day.
 They range from profound disserta-
 tions on tAe Einstein theory clear
 down toAand including letters from six-year-osds who believe the Presi- dent of the United States is a cross
 between The Deity and Santa Claus.
 There are always requests for procIa- nations. President Harding confess ed the other day, in talking with call CTS, that he has been literally amazed
 Presidential Proclamation is the heir to.
 There apparently is something in the a1literative ring of the words that make Presidential Proclamation sound omnlpOtent- Consequently when John Doe notes something is going in a manner that pleases him not he takes his pen in hand and proceeds to ask MT. Harding to set it right by the issuance of a Presi- dential Proclamation.
 me ralo or presentations issued and requested is about one to 500, ac- cording to the White House.
 
 quested, for instance, to issue a proclamation prohibiting women smoking in public places.
 He has been blamed for someone's | inability to get his beer and asked 1 to proclaim the saloons open at once
 He has been urged to declare war l on the Turks for their maSsacres of | Christian Armenians TO give a. testi- monial for Dr. Blanks Little Liver | Pills, to abolish Congress, and to set | aside existing laws in great numbers all by Presidential Proclamation.
 All of the requests receive a court eous answer-it keeps a consid era ble staff busy. But the President sighs consult the Constitution of the United States and it's limitations on his power before they deIuge him with requests he has no authority to grant.
 The Senate of the United States has a new sartor3al display.
 Senator Thomas F. Bayard (D.). of Delaware. who has succeeded T. Cole man duPont (R), has produced the first flowing Windsor tie seen in the Senate in years. Nor is it an affec- tation since his coming to the Senate. either. The Delaware solon. whose grandfather was Secretary of State and whose father was in the Senate before him, has worn the flowing black ties for years and intends going right ahead doing so.
 It gives studio atmosphere to the Senate that is not lost upon the gal ieries.
 Senatorial habits in dress are a ire quent source of comment among the visitors in the galleries.
 Senator Tom Hefiin (D). of Ala oanla, has a fondness for white waist coats and statesman's black coats He seldom wears anything else, except in '