The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-02-01
MANY PLUMS ARE
YET UNPLUCKED.
HARDING UPPORTER S
SHOULD GET BUSY AND
SECURE FAT JOBS
ANTI LYNCH BILL
Is The Black Mans Share OF
Victory OF RascaIIy Repub-
licanism Over The Party
OF The People.


Writing to the Dispatch from
Washington, d. c., under date of
January both, Mr.. Wallace Bassford,
our regular correspondent at the
national capital, says:
Economy is wealth." said the Golf
Player of the White House, "and |
will gently inculcate a lesson in thrift
for the benefit of those poor people
out in Kansas who are so misguided
as to be holding county mass meet
ings on the subject of high taxes"
and the "best-dressed President in a
generation" carefully Tapped his left
hand around the shaft of the machine,
then wrapped his right fingers about
the stick, exercising care that the two
minor digits of the right overcast the
thumb of the left. Bing! "Smithers,"
lover his shoulder) "when we return
to the White House gather up my
worn shoes and send them to that
worthy cobbler at Emporia, Kansas,
Mr. Spady, for repairs. We, at the
head of the nation, must teach the
people a lesson in economy" Mag
nifcent leadership-or cheap bunk,
unworthy of a President of the United
States and showing very low estim-
ate of the intelligence of the people.
The news about the batch of old shoes
was given out at Emporia by f. A.
Spady, shoemaker, on one day, and
the following day the New York pa
pers contained the news of Mrs. Hard
ings new wrap "of finest Russian
ermine, with collars and cuffs of white
fox, trimmed with ermine tails and
lined with white Roman crepe over
Harding blue chiffon velvet, made
especially for Mrs. Harding and sent
to the White House last week.
Worth $4,000, at least.
If the President saves a few small
ooiEs on his old shoes, what does he
permit and endorse when it comes to
spending money from the peoples, I
Treasury--money wrung from empty /
pockets, sometimes called "banpers of
Republican prosperity? ?" Here is a
sample: The Congressional Record
of Jan. q contained the official fig
ures on salaries paid by the Shipping
Board, and all the while most of the
vessels of the Board are lying at
anchor, as idle as painted ships upon
a painted ocean. Under the Board 2
men are paid $4,000 each; is paid
$4,000; get $4,000; Z attorneys
provided at from $4,000 10 $4,000
each; 7 Commissioners and Chairman
at $4,000; (after this all single sal
aries will be omtted) Is at S11 900
each; 10 at $4,000; 7 at $4,000; at
$500; 2 at $4,000; 2 at $500; %
at $500; z at $6,500; 40 at $4,000;
at $5,5OO; at $5,4O0; AZ at $4,000;
18 at $4,000; as at $4,000; 81 at S4,-
200; 8 at $4,14; 18 at $4,000; 70 at
$4,000; 142 at $4,000; at $780, and
"A at $4,000.
Here are hundreds of jobs in one
subdivision of the Government at I
figures ranging from $4,000 up to t
S35, 900, and they are not under the
Civil Service either! You hungry /
who worked hard for q
Harding and now find yourselves in }
financial difficulties, out of a job or
deserving or recognition, get busy! :
You can hold these jobs and perform C
the duties as well as those now get re
ting the fat salaries. Some Of them s
admitted before an investigating a
committee that they never made 81 a
500 a year in their lives before get b
ting their present snaps. Many Of r
them have little political pull back of c
them. Letters and kilograms to your
and senators should
land you a plum; have all your friends i,
get busy-if your republican congress Ii
men can't get you something, they n
are not the proper kind and should L
be replaced with better job-getters. H
The figures above are offcial-and a
there are other commissions, boards, d
bureaus and departments that have h
places and the republican leaders W
should have them. The Democrats ri
believe in party government and they II
believe that the higher places should m
90 to the leaders Of the party in con- b,
rol, so that there can be no divided K
If they don't go to Il
he republican leaders in the states h
hen the republicans in congress arc b,
nj