The Washington times., 1925-01-10

URGE Eel. I
FORAEA[)S
TOTAL
Deadly Dizziness of Adminis-
tration Pals on Roman
Holiday Element
BY WILLIAM HARD


All the people who have come
here and bought houses and set
tied down to see the national cir
Gus are exclaiming: where is the
circus 2"
It is fashionable in certain quar-
tiers to say: ibid you ever see
such a dull Administration 2"
All the. people who have been
trained for years to expect the
Government to give them free
thrills are in gloom.
Some of them write indignant
pieces to our more lively weekly
and monthly magazines of sensa-
ton and of fancy and deplore the
steady stupidity" of existence in
contemporary Washington under
the rule Of Calvin Coolidge.
Want Something to Happen.
They demand, in effect, that
something shall happen. There shall
be motion,a There shall be change.
Heads shall fall. Nav fortunes
shall be made. New faces shall
appear. The presidential court
shall have revolutions in it.
That is the cry from the Roman
Holiday part Of Washington, which
Is a large part Of Washington.
1t finds no conversational con-
diments added to its dinner parties
by learning that 'Mr. William M.
Butler, junior Senator from Massa-
chusetts, conferred today again with
the President or that Mr. Frank
w. Stearns, of Massachusetts, slept
at the White House again last
night" or that "Mr. Bascom Slemp,
the Presidents political secretary,
was at his desk again this after
noon" or that mir. Edward I.
Clark, the Presidents private sec
rotary, has been prevailed upon by
the President to refuse an appoint
ment in the service OF the Elmer
gency Fleet Corporation and will
continue to be the President pri-
Vate secretary" SIT 8ssf
These pieces Of news are highly
unsatisfactory to Washington 8
great horde Of political play-goe1's
for whom the Eatipvial Capital has
been in late years a continuous
blood-and- thunder drama.
Settled as the Monument.
Now Calvin Coolidge in the Presf-
dents room in the Executive wing
of the White House turns in his
chair from his cleared desk and
stares through the long French
windows at the Washington monu-
ment, and it is difficult to tell
which of the two LOOKS more settled
The monument has no frills, and
the President in a neat and trim
dark suit, and neat and trim dark
shoes. and neat and trim dark tie
and neat and trim stiff rundown
collar, is the least frilly and most
exact looking thing among the
public men of the town.
He is frivOlousIy said to like to
sit and look at the monument. lind
ing It cOnversati0nalIy the COM
plete equivalent Of conference
with Mr.. Butler.
He turns back around and sees
Mr.. Stearns sitting in corner
graveIy and siIently-and yet some
how genialIy and Notwithstanding
y cigar.
He then sfrOIIs into Mr.. SIemp's
room, and there MIR. Slemp is, just
as he was before. So that's all
right.
Corridor is o. X.
He then strOIIs out into the CORR
dor and passes Mr.. StearnS, who
room and is performing his GUS
tOmary continuous patrol Of the
Executive wing. So the corridor
is all right, as usual.
The President then takes a little
I0nlx sV1fn tho R-nnVT1 VEynara Mr. Clark
his private secretary, and Mr.. Wei
liver. his literary 'chief clerk" are
situated. There they both are at
their desks, just as they were yes
terday. Nothing wrong there. No
change.
In Mr.. Clark the President has
a private secretary about whom 1t
can be said that If there is any
Yankee more Yankee than Mr..
Coolidge it is Mr.. Clark.
In Mr.. WeIliver the President has
a literary "chief clerk who is d
Middle Westerner with old in
veterate Western progressive lean
ings.
SIemp Master at Politics.
In Mr.. Slemp the President has
political secretary who is a
Eoutherner with a perfect mastery
of those personal arts of politics
that come to their perfection. in
the South.
1t is a team.
Each of the three members of
IL has doubtless many favorable
opportunities elsewhere. Yet here
they all are. The Roman-holiday
part of Washington demands that
they be promoted, or shifted. OF
executed-or something. THE Presi
d~nt is not moved.
He goes into the Cabinet room
and is presently joined by Stearns
and presently they summon Butler
for a joint contemplation of thu
monument.
While they stand and look at i
in one of those silences which thu
Democrats have now come to regart
as more dangerous to them thar
all the words IN the @'~>'~Darv. thu
dramatic populace OF Washington
howls outside imploring the Presi
dent to change at least the cas-
{ In the play.
Politicians Fear Change.
The purely political part Of Wash