Evening star., 1923-03-10

of their complaint that they cannot
live elsewhere on $625 month. and
their demand of an increase of pay
from $500 to $4,000 a year? Give
them Communication of quarters" on
the same basis as Army officers. or
| supply them. as If they were briga-
diers, with six-room apartments and
commissary stores at 10 per cent
above wholesale cost. Statesmen
come high, but we must have 'em.
There is a great weakness in the
Borah postal card campaign for the
presidency. The new Postmaster Cen
eral, Harry New, is the political wire
puller Of President Harding, and ru-
NOR has II that no is reading all the
Borah postals. It's a hundred to one
| that he tells President Harding the
secrets of Borah strategy.
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Senator Ladd is wrestling with the
soviet government of Russia to gain
the assurance that its invitation for
a party of congressman to visit Rus
sia at the soviet governments ex-
pense is given without any strings
to it. The senators and representa-
tives are willing to be the guests of
Russia, if, after partaking OF the hos
pitality, they are to be permitted to
tell the world that their recent hosts
are failures and. q bad lot. Senator
Borah has declined the invitation to
be one of that party, saying he has
arranged to go and pay his own ex-
penses.
Ill,
Ladd party that they will be free to
talk, but so would any host assure
his guest, with tho mental reserva-
tion that he would show his bad
breeding If. after partaking of the
salt Of hospitality, his free talk failed
to be complimentary. IL the United
States needs an inspection OF Russia.
is not the United States able to pay
the freight?
Wireless telephone waves make hair
grow on bald heads, according to a
cabIegram from London, but what
suffering world wants to know is
what Is the effect of the oscillation
it stimulate the brains, as we'll az the
hair?
Possibly the idea is like the old one
that eating fish stimulated brain
growth. When an aspiring young
writer sent a specimen of his effusionsE
to Mark Twain and asked him how
much fish he should eat, Mark advised
him to eat a whale. Would 400 am
plifiers in the House be enough to
start with? We should not stop at
mere whiskers.
All the radicals, alias "progrss-
sives," in the Senate are going to sit
together, like birds Of a feather, in
the next session. They will not use
amplifiers. but seismographs, to mark
| the earthquakes they will produce
with their gigantic landsiides and
upheavals. Maybe d tidal wave will
follow their every move.
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DR.. Royal S Copeland. senator elect
from New York, announces that he
does not intend to bother his head
about international finance, nor any
thing highbrow, but he will treat
the body polite with all the emetics
needed. One joy of his life is the
thought that he is to serve in the
Senate even while Senator Lodge is
still there, for he wants to get
whack at him"
Senator Copeland is not the first
man with that most laudable ambi-
tion. A big bruiser from Boston
| travelled all the way to Washington
for that very purpose. about the time
Germany wanted America to paint
| all her ships like barber poles, so
| that she would not sink any, by mis-
take. He too took his chances in
| taking d whack" at Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge. After he got out of
the hospital. he apologized. saying
| he didn't know it was loaded.
Copyright. 1923. by 2. v. Collins)