The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-17
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' CASE IS
CITED
William Hard Explains His
Success by Analysing His
Mastery of "Details"
By WILLIAM HARD

A diligent listening to the con-
tinuous underground surging COS.
sip of Washington shows now
that our great and good ruler in
the White House has gone and
given himself a terrific new
problem.
It is for him now apparently to
try to persuade the Washingtonian
world that he is not in fact al
ways and forever engaged in
some sort of deep plan or plot
which he evolves out of dark
magic, and which he carries for
ward from an unseen start to a
secure. irresistible finish with an
incredible craft and guile which
we must now all spend our time
trying to fathom.
A Distinct Surprise.
Yes. Calvin Coolidge, Esq, the
~erstwhile well-known dumbbell and
half-wit, who, according to his
enemies in town. would never be
able to think fast enough to come
In out Of the rain. has now such a
reputation for cleyerless that the
poor man cannot twiddle his fingers
or look out of a window at a rose
bush without making half Washing.
ton think that he Is eending ont
secret signals or trying to Gull tho
gardens vote.
All, how much happier for him
were those recent days when dis
tinguished statesmen here in Wash
ington were telling rs that if Cal
win Coolidge were sonly left alone
with the rope of his own mentality
he presently would strangle himself
to death with it!
Then they did leave him alone
and he did his stuff-with some
considerable success-without obser-
walton or hindrance.
Now they all watch him with the
keenness of starving hawks; and
every motion of his-or lack of
motions examined and scrutinised
and analysed and psycho-analyZed
for its very last ounce Of supposed
hidden sublety and dangerousnsss.
So Mr.. Coolidge comes to be in
much the same position with the
British Ambassador.
Popular View Changes
In days gone by, the British am
bassador. whoever he might be.
could put across almost anything
because. everybody was convinced
that every Britisher was a bone
head The comic papers were full
OF jokes about Britishers who could
not see jokes. Then somebody
made the running discovery that
Britishers not only see jokes. but
make them, and that British diplo-
mats are the most devilishly clever
diplomats in the whole world. Ever
since that time, the British am
bassador in Washington cannot
offer us a wreath for the Wash
ington monoment withoot leading
many of us to suspect that there
will be a clause in the wreath by
which the monument itself will be
taken to London.
Mr. Coolidge is now in just about
the same sort of fix. Whatever he
does, he is supposed to do ii for
some cute reason that will bear
all the watching that can be given
to It,
Compare. for instance. the politi-
cal dinner-table comments which
have greeted his appointment OF
Mr.. Kellogg to be Secretary of
State with the comments which
greeted his appointment of that
same man to be ambassador to
London only really a short time
since.
Then people said:
Did you ever see such a bone
head play? Can't anybody tell the
President anything? No. He's got
lock on his lips and ear-muffs on
his ears. He's deaf. dumb and
suffering from galloping petrifac-
ton
Now they say:
do you see his little scheme?
Pretty soon he's going to have a
Cabinet all of people with no pc.
litical power Of their own. Have
you noticed it? Curtis from Cali
fornia for the navy! No political
power there! Then Stone Of New
York for Attorney General No
political power there! Then War.
rem If Michigan for Attorney Gen.
eral! Again no political power:
Able man, Warren, but no political
power Of his own in his own State
Never could get elected to anything.
Dependent entirely on appointment
Now Kellogg. Isn't it clever
Kellogg got licked in his own State
OF Minnesota for United States Sen.
ator even by a Farner-Labonite.
No political power.
mo political skill
"A pure appointee. Able man,
but a pure appointee. See! The
President will do all the politics
done in the Cabinet. He will have
all the political power. He is going
to be everything. You have to
hand it to him. He's deep as a
well. He's cute as a needle. Watch
him. Watch him.
So there he is. II he appoints
somebody who is politically strong
Il shows his cuteness. If he ap
points somebody who is politically
weak it shows his cuteness. If he
acts promptly it shows his cuteness.