Evening star., 1923-09-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM FTLE

! Conspicuous league of nations ad-
AFFIRM the time has not yet come to
pronounce judgment on recent events.
John Hessin Clarke. former associate
/ justice of the United States Supreme
| Court, now president of the League
of Nations Non-Partisan Association,
says: Il regard the incident as not
yet sufficiently settled for final COM
| ment Perhaps I may have some
thing to say of 1t later on" A. Law
renee, Lowell. president OF Harvard
University, an earnest coadjutor Of
of Mr.. Clarke in league advocacy,
says: Before expressing an opinion.
1, should prefer TO wait until the
outcome of the controversies be-
tween Italy and Greece and Jugo-
slavia is known, and until it is clear
whether the league will take any
further action or not" Col. House.
one of the architects of the covenant,
in what is probably the only exhaust
i've interview he ever gave in his
( life. claims that the actual settle
ment of the Greco-Italian crisis was
accomplished by the council of am
! bassadors, but the league was behind
| it"
| Senator Borah has unique talent
for getting the ear of Washington
and the country. His return from
| prolonged absence in the west re-
stored Big Bill" at a leap to the
| front pages of the newspapers and
the thoughts OF politicians of all
hues. Instantly the issue Of farm re-
lief, the thing now nearest to Borah's
heart, vaulted into the limelight. Per-
| haps IL was a mere coincidence that
the day he arrived in Washington the
cabinet devoted its entire attention
| TO rural woes. The silver-tongued
Idahoan dimes at the White House.
1 and Immediately the possibility of
| President Coolidge's summoning Con-
| gress in special session becomes
| afresh the theme of national dis
cussion. Borah spent the summer In
| Idaho inspecting his 1924 senatorial
| fences and found them In satisfactory
condition. His desk in the Senate
office building is piled sky-high with Wit!
| communications that customarily
reach Borah from every state in the
Union.
| One of, these days, sooner than the
country may expect the ku Klux
Klan may disturb the state of Indi-
ana as ominously as it now istagi-
| tating Oklahoma. One of the sub
jects on which Senator James E.
Watson wakes most fervent is the
| growth and invisible power of the
Klan in Hoosierdom. Few southern
states, it is declared, possess as form
| liable an organization as the klans-
men boast in Indiana. They are
said to number, 400, 900 regular mem
/ bers At the 1922 elections they DEM
ability to overthrow candidates whom
they consider Objectionable. The
Klan confidently expects to name the
next Governor of Indiana. Both re-
publican and democratic leaders are
| frankly concerned over a situation
| which, they fear, 10 going from bad
| to worse.
Senator Pat Harrison OF Mississippi.
back from the west, where he has
! been serving on the Senate's re-
forestation committee, visited Presi-
! dent Coolidge on Thursday. The
democrat whom President Harding. a
| few months before his death, pleas
antIy dubbed the chief trouble
maker" had the most cordial kind of
a pow-wow with Mr.. Coolidge. After
| they'd been talking while the Presi-
dent, in a moment of reminiscence
over Senate days, said: Pat do YOU
know what's the most familiar thing
=