Evening star., 1923-01-09
Washington Observations
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Attorney General Dausherty has
betaken himself to Tom Taggarts
celebrated rest-cure for oyerworked
democrats at French Lick Springs.
Ind, to lay UP for general repairs.
Barring a brief soJourn in the south
last year, Mr.. .Daugherty has been un-
interruptedly on duty At the Depart
ment of Justice since March. 1921.
His physicians and friends Joined In
persuading him that it was his priv
iiege and duty to take a rest. He has
been at French Lick a. week and VIII
remain there the better part of this
month, Few regimes at the Depart
ment of Justice have weatfered more
strenuous times than those which At
torney General Daugherty has had to
face. Between the throes of patron
age. federal prosecutions and I'M
peachment threats. his days have
been long and weary. The chronsc
| illness of Mrs. Daugherty, TO whom
the Attorney General Is deeply devot,
ed. has weighed upon his thought and
spirit. too.
Rumblings reach this observer that
a storm may presently break around
the worthy head Of Maj. Gen, James
G. Harbord. who has just relinquished
the deputy -chiefship OF staff OF the
United States Army. Gen. Harbord
abandoned his military career to be-
come president of the Radio Corpora
ton of America at an emolument
richly in excess OF his Army income,
There were rivals for the radio post.
From those quarters. II appears, the
attention of Congress has been called
| to the fact that since 1896 the navai
appropriations have prohibited any OF
fcer who leaves the sea service Tor
private employment from receiving
retirement pay if the new connection
involves business relations with gov
eminent departments. For some uh-
/ accountable reason no such provision
was ever applied to the army. AS
| the Radio Corporation Is q large pur-
veyor of apparatus to both the Army
and Navy, certain authorities ho!d
that the regulations ought to be mage
operative in Gen. Harbord's case. II.
as threatened, the Navy rule Us mace
! applicable 70 the Army. Cen: Harnord
may be cut off from his $4,000 annuai
| retirement pay.
| y X X
On one Of his recent preparedness
crusade tours across the country Cen
Pershing was accompanied by his SIS
| ter, who is well known in Washing
ton. While the generalissimo OF the
A. e, p, was addressing the multitude
in a certain middle west community, q
local celebrity beguiled Miss PershiRs
with compliments for her gallant
, brother. "You ought to be exceeding
| lv proud of the general" he remarked
"Out here we think he's the greatest
man in the United States our folks
never tire of recalling that wonderful
speech of his the day he arrived in
| Paris: Lafollette. we are here.
y y y y
Ira Nelson Morris, American minis
ter to sweden. is slated for retirement
this spring from the post he has oc-
cupied at Stockholm continuously
since July, 1914. He will be one OF
the last Wilson administration diplo-
matte holdovers to make way for a
Harding appoiRtee. Mr.. Morris has
been In the United States on leave for
several months. and will probably re-
turn to Sweden shortly TO present his
letters of withdrawal. Plunged into
1 the thick of world war diplomatic
| snarls at the outset of his mission in
Stockholm, Mr.. Norris made a credt-
| table record In connection with tick
J lisn affairs intFusted to his care. A
| son of the late muiti-millienaiFe Chi
| cago packer and a Yale man, he has