Show C CI I NATIONAL MEN AND AFFAIRS Meager Preparations for Inauguration Make Old Timers Sad Splendor of Day Gone Forever I Sanders Protests Having His Pay Raised I I t Rf By nO ROBERT T SL LL S SI Special ClaI Copyright 1925 by Consolidated Press Association P Is something ineffably a sail about the tho meager prep preparations being belne made mado in WashIngton Washing ton ton for the Inauguration The Tho spectacle Is 13 particularly poignant nt toone one who has 1 followed ed and senti senti- sentimentally senti- senti sentimentally sentimentally mentally for three decades 1 Iho I ha he saddest sight of o all 1111 Is the tiny lIttle reviewing stand 01 ol box bo bo- bo bolog bo In log erected In front ot of the and from which I r resident Coolidge Is expected e 1 to watch ath the march of at tho the abbreviated parade It Is not much larger It If as large as tho the Judges Ju stand at arace race track And the stand across tho the lIe lIe- ave avenue nue flue from the tho White House for the tho public Is little mote moio than llan a fey e stats slats arranged lions llong tho the side sidO- sidO sidewalk I walk alk nil It 11 Is all just a II si S cobol of oC simplIcity In keeping with the pres president's ident's s wishes The most Imposing In Is la the ono erected by congress cong on the tho east t front of at the capitol 1 hore Mr is to take the tho oath or-I or of- of fice fico and nd deliver er his bilet Inaugural addres The congressional stand has a semblance o ot of and suggestive 0 of at tho the structure structUre structures ture tures ot of o the past But leaving leas log tho c all sem- sem semblance blanco sem-blanco blance biance to the In of at the tho past Is lq I gone cone The Tho spectacles o of other da s sere were ere gorgeous affairs a fairs 1 heIr pomp and ceremonies filled the e 00 0 and give ve ono one Q a a mental menIal picture of oC the tho glory and tho the ces of o the tho thoI country The attracted I from eer c er section of ot the United States and every visitor Is It or lei felt eit t stirred and repaid rep tor for his sojourn at the Iho I heart O of the tho nation The contrast of oC today ts is 1 most noticeable In front rant o of tho the White Whitehouse house It was WIS there thero the festivities by day centered There vas I as the tho great groat court of at honor moro more gorge gorge- gorgeous gorgeous ous In Its 1 waving a Ing color than thon any any- anything any anything thing the Mardi Gras has evo known Thel Thele e was the wonderful House reviewing stand stand-a land great glass structure I hOI e eIho ethe the Iho president and end his cabinet the supreme court ourt and nod hundreds of at In Invited In- In sited guests assembled The Tho stand was vas Quip equipped pOll with a kitchen and 1 vias isas as sen served sered Ed to the nel ne president and hi hl guests as theY re i the tho long lone parade Often OCten It was tas necessary to serve supper as aswell aswell aswell well so o splendid was BS as tho the military and ch civic chIc Ie Then would auld cone one the tho hurried departure tho change Into evening clothes and the attendance at the magnificent Inaugural ball bolI But Dut nil all of o these things are arc mere merely I ly I memories now The tumult and nn and 1 the tho shouting aro are banned The Tho ha hate hava 0 been bl Tile official ball bait has gono gone to Its Ita lt doom under the pres pressure uro of ot thumbs i do don doon n Thie e Is la an undeniable HUnt In ton thu tb after the coup de grace the old time tiros Inauguration Inauguration can never come came come back Pretty soon soon the fourth of oC March may mo mean n something lo io an occa- occa president nt but It will nih III be Jut jU Ju Manda Monday or Tuesday or to the man In the eel cot Colonel John C ho v ho played the tho t next to the leading role when his hia son Calvin first I took the oath of office ao a dent president o of the Iho United States Slates has I boen hilt reluctant to tl take talce the time awa away from the tho ferns farm arm up In I i l Vt to 10 go all the tho WAY wey to 10 to t ashington for tor a ceremony In I which he WAS to have hae 0 no official rt pirt whatsoever er To the colonel Iho time the tho presidency came lo to the I Coolidge family faintly will ili always b be le- le le as a that sultry night of August 3 1923 when hen by the tha lIght lamphe lamph of at the tile faithful old lamp h he took look out the tho family BIble and pledged his only son f to I uphold and defend the tho constitution tion ot of the he United s 1 against a all aJl enemies without and within Iet I Next t Wednesday the tile oaths oath once oneo more will II be bo administered to the th 1 thirtieth president but this time the tho win be beI I behe bethe I the he distinguished chief justice or of the United 1 States William Ilo 1 aft I who eho ho sixteen years ago stood here here Mr Coolidge will nih 11 stand anda and I a as himself s orn In ax ns president Toda foda Mr r Taft Tatt is the tho only ex cx president I Washington llon has not et recovered recovered recovered ered from tho shock of ot tre ti-c cle cie ce ot of a public official rising In hi and protesting both botti vigor vicor o and earnestly against Ing log Ing an Increase ot of government go pay The occasion was made all the themore themore I moro more notable by the fact that the tho public official In question probably alit III be tho the poorest man ever to tobol i toi hold bol 1 his high position knew whon I E Sanders rs of oC Indiana pleaded I with his hh hI colleagues of at the tho I thoI of at representatives es cs not to In in- in increase crease ht his pay as tho the ne next newt t seem secre se secretory ro- ro rotary tory tai to tho the president from front In a year to a n year hO h meant I hat he said But Slut congress always has Ihas I regarded the secretary to the tho president as nl on the same salary plane pIano with representatives o e and senator and so 80 having voted thom thom- men selves the to the tho themen men of at Capitol Hill voted In a n moro more or less loss belated manner manlier to Include Representative RO e Sanders In the tho now scale scalo Tho The house passed the tho amend amond amendment Inc ment over 0 er his hia protest But Rep Rep- Representative Representative Sanders succeeded by persistent effort In having hating the tho In- In Increase crease ln-crease crease stricken out Mr Sanders sought a 11 few months ago to retire from from Washington life liCe because he could not stand stanl the tho e expense opense pense Then tho president requested his servIces cervices and he hc decided to 10 m mike make the tho further for the tho president lIe Ie neither expected nor M wanted a to- to re reward ward 11 ard from congress These Them aro are In Indeed deed strange dasIn dais In Washington |