| Show N kr I BY Sr TilE THE WAY IN WASHINGTON Politics Doesn't Do t Worry the Average erate Washington Resident Clerk Hot Clerk Hot Weather Seather Bootleggers and Police Shakeup In Limelight DY BY RODNEY BUTCHER DUTCHER Writer NEA NE Sen Service Ice WASHINGTON July 27 When 27 When you read that Washington Is all agog or that Washington believes bell eves that that that-n dont don't you believe bellevo it Such assertions of or massed community community community ity thought are erroneous They may apply to the minority of politicians lobbyists and correspondents here but bul not to the 95 per ocr cent of or ordinary The Wash Wash- is a government clerk The point is that Washington Itself itsell doesn't take any marked interest in iii polities politics poll ties large national issues or the sectional troubles of the rest of or the country The main concerns of the government workers are to do their jobs satisfactorily to have hame as good a time as possible and to bear up under the heat They dont don't even pay much attention to Congress which for all its importance is one of or the best shows on earth is La di divided di- di divided The Washingtonians OPinion opinion vided to whether a a. majority or minor minor- minority ity ItY show show an unfortunate attitude to toward to- to toward toward ward the act but here as elsewhere there are arc wets and drys dry's among the citizenry and there are so many churches that the drys put up upa a formidable front This city like any other is primarily primarily marily manly interested in its local affairs The fact that It is less interested in politics may be partially explained by bythe bythe bythe the fact that Its people have no vote and that it is governed by congress and a board of or commissioners ap appointed ap- ap appoInted appointed pointed by the president The people of or the city do o seem to have a more affectionate regard for President Coolidge than many of the higher officials and politicians They laughed their heads off orr at their movie theatres when the news newsreels newsreels reels showed Mr Coolidge in irs his new cowboy outfit The president it was wasat wasat wasat at once obvious had shown all the makings of a game sport when he put on those pants for he was obviously obviously obviously not designed for such ments The spectacle of or the president descending the steps after changing his clothes of his experiences with the horse which he did not ride tIde and his other poses gave ample cause causa for merriment although there was every reason to believe bell eve that Mr Coolidge fully appreciated the humor of or the occasion Other topics of or current interest here are the time likelihood of an air mall mail stop at the capital alleged inefficiency inefficiency inefficiency of the th police force and the withdrawn now-withdrawn libel suit against the presidential pastor astor the Rev Jason Noble Pierce Pierce never never forgetting of or course the intermittent scorching weather It seems s ems likely that Washington will become an air mall mail stop on the New York-Atlanta York route although Balti Balti- Baltimore Baltimore more threatened to take the honor away It is expected that landings will willbe be made made- for a time Ume at nt Boiling Field pending establishment of or a satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory landin field There was a row for a time when the army sought to persuade local business men to put up to establish night landing facilities at Boiling The business men me me refused and took the attitude that the army was trying to hold them up for its benefit Army finally relented The Rev Dr Pierce was in Europe when he learned that the 50 libel suit brought against him by Howard T T. Cole a shipping board en engineer en- en engineer had been dismissed Pierce had sought Coles Cole's dismissal from the board on charges of or moral turpitude involving a a. girl member of or Pierces Pierce's flock In the face of or the suit he withdrew the charges Coles Cole's friends claimed complete victory but the pas pu- tors tor's followers claimed a draw A policeman shot and killed a boy speeder the other night and was whitewashed by a coroners coroner's Jury n Seni Senator nat i ator at r Edwards of or New Jersey threat- threat threatened I ened a senatorial investigation and heads of the department and promised to deal out punishment Meanwhile a series of or unsolved robberies has piled up Along with occasional murders Major Ed Ed- Edwin Edwin Edwin win B. B Hesse superintendent of po po- po police lice has just issued an ultimatum to the force promising a a. shakeup if more robberies weren't solved and the tho police pOllee didn't shoot fewer citizens Most of the promiscuous police shooting has occurred in automobile chases after alleged bootleggers |
