The New York herald., 1922-09-17

way back to normalcy. People are COM
ing back and one hears constantly of
others who will be here In few days.
II seems as II pretty nearly everybody
except the Congressionals--wil be back
by October 1. Congress is planning to
get away by the end of next week and
do little feyerish work on it's neg
leceted fences before possible electoral
frost early in November. Probably most
OF the Cabinet will get into the cam
paign---certainly all who are at all con-
vincing speakers will. AS to whether
the President viii give up his plan for a
trip to Detroit and 20 Cleveland next
week to take part in Masonic cere-
monies here has so far been no word.
Probably he will. for, as l remember il.
1t was Eight In the beginning of the
week that those engagements came, and
unless Mrs. Harding makes a wonderful
recovery IL doesn't seem as IL he could
get away, Certainly she will not be able
to go with him, and IL looks Ii the
postponed visit to Mooseheart which he
had hoped to be able to make en- route
from Detroit to Cleveland would have to
be once more postponed. II does seem
pity that he has not been able to carry
out a single plan for anything that looks
at all like an outing since he went to
Gettysburg to review the marines and
see their reproduction of the fight of
1864. and then home to Marion for it's
centennial celebration. 1t was while he
was there that he paid Mrs. Harding
what must have been one of the sweetest
compliments she had ever~had. when he
introduced her once more to their old
neighbors as ''the hest scout any man
ever had" And certainly she deserved
IL. For with her II has not been merely
a case OF growing old along with him.
Her indomitable spirit has enabled her
to keep young with him. During these
days OF anxiety and dread the current
news revealed quite casually that she
was her husbands senior by "A few
years. and one understood again how her
devotion to him had kept her young.
The Vice. President and Mrs. Coolidge
probably will not return until after
election. They had expected when they
started ON their western trip about the
first Of August to be back before the
end OF the month, but there has
scarcely been a week when 1t didn't
look as II Congress would adjourn, and
with 1t would vanish any reason for
the vice-President's being In washing
ton, when he seemed to be greatly
needed elsewhere. He Is in great de-
mand as a campaign speaker Certainly
he's no "jollier," and no one would call
him garrulous. But there seems to be
the feeling about these silent men that
when they do speak they have some
thing worth while to say. Mr.. Coolidge
Is no orator az Bryan is, but he's
listened to. Early In the week he was
in Massachusetts,, having just returned
from speaking engagements which took
him as far west as Sioux Falls. n. D..
voting In his State primaries. helping
to roll up. by example as well as pre-
cept, the tremendous majorities which
renominated Lodge and Gillett and Cox,
and served as an Endorsement of the
Administration, of which he is a part.
Secretary Hughes Returns.
II Congress really adjourns this week
there is no reason why he should return
al this time. He can throw himself into
the campaign, wherever he is most