The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-16
DAILY NEWS LETTER
General News and Gossip From Staff Members at Home and Abroad.
RUNNING GOVERNMENT TRYING JOB; HARDING
 SHOWS NERVE STRAIN.

:, Washington. Sept. 16.-Running the | On!ted states Government under con- | d1tions that have prevailed for the l last two months is no joke of a job.
 The strain of it has begun to show | on President Harding. There are 1 a year ago, and to those who see him frequently it appears his hair is a little more silvered than it was a few months ago, and there is a little more droop to his sh builders.
 Beset on every side by the gravest industrial problems in years, and with Congress showing a none too keen desire to be helpful in this year of politics. the President has battled with his problems for the most part alone at least the responsibility has been his.
 President Harding was forced to forego his vacation entirely because or the industrial situation. He had planned series of weekend trips Washington Summer, with probably a few weeks thrown in at Bar liar Dor for good measure, but one by one his vacation plans went into the dis card as fresh problems arose Tn con nection with the strikes.
 Now he is beginning to show it. He still keeps up his daily golf, going out sometimes at o'clock in the morn Washington gets going for the day.
 Frank Kellogg of Minnesota; Joe Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey; "Fred- dy' Hale. of Maine; Truman H. New berry, of Michigan: Speaker GtIett, Lawrence Phapps. of Colorado. and Walter Edge, of New Jersey-nnen with whom he was particularly intim- ate during his Senatorial days-usu- ally make up his golfng company.
 No appointment that President Harding has made in the nearly two years he has been in the White House gave him such una1loyed personal satisfaction as that of his old friend George Suth erland. of Utah, to the Supreme Court bench.
 This was attested by the fact that within an hour after the resignation of Associate Justice Clarke was re ceived at the White House MT. Fsard- ing accepted 1t, and announced the app ointment of Senator Sutherland by the informal method of summon1ng newspaper correspondents to his of fee and telling them of it. They knew it long before senator Sulher- land himself did.
 Many men have Ibeen described as
 'tcloee'' to MT. Harding during the campaign; Some were ere ana sn1,r sGmf that were was George Sutherland. It is
 probably true that of all the advice that was blown about the front poncn at Marion during the Summer or lszo Sntherland's was followed most close
 Quiet, unobtrusive and not partfcu-
 1arly distinguished looking Senator Suth erland worked day in and cay out in a little office near that Of Mt. Harding in Marion, and save for those immediately attached to headquaftefs
 he was to a great extent unknown. Incidentally sutherland's apipoint- has led to a good deal of private crlu- cism among Democrat in washing ton. The Democrats feel that a Democrat should have been app olntea ts a to fill the vacancy created py tIie resignation of Justice Clarke. Dem onraf and a Wilson appointee.
 We're it not for Sutherlands popu- ,aritv and his unquestioned fitness for the position it is probable thaf so1ne open criticism would be Voleeu oNei the appointment.
 When Sutherland takes his seat the political lineup of the court VIII pc seven Republicans and two beIlo- crats. It has been many years since one party was so predonlIlaLlt oH 1I,,t I highest bench. While Supreme Court Justices are not supposed to nave any nolitics after gaining the oench, the common practice has neVertheless been to keep thet two parties aoous even in order to escape any tlhse oi narth hsanshjyo in the court When MT. Harding became Presl, the Iineuup was five Republicans ana four Democrats. Chief Jusuce s1u | ward Douglas White' Itees 11a anpointed former President W1llaIii l Howard Taft That suited the Dem l ocrats because Taft had maus w LI d., 1 Chief Justice during his PresloeneS l and 1t was cons dered nIting t,aao nae should step into the Chief Justlce- ship. ~ Out; nan- | ocJat. resigned and afforded PresIoen. :.
 Harding an opportunity 10 ap P n
 Senator Sutherland, a lifelong he-