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Show HUES Til Hi pr,pmT Mru bflonil ll'itl Playing Now. Despite Appeais. But Announcements Will Come Fast In December MV M IRK M !.?. Ui Vatlonal Polltfonl I orrt'spoi idenl f the w Torh Evening Pnsl WASHINGTON. Nov 2Z. It Is no secret that Senator Harding In his speeches in New Orleans Just before he sulled for the canal zone, was expected ex-pected to pay something about the financial fi-nancial and huslness situation. It hn-1 been sinnounced In the dispatches that he would I have Just returned from Xew Orleans, where I was In touch with Mr Harding and his party, and I suspect those announcements had no more fundatlon than the wish on the part of some th;it Mr Harding would do thls. Undoubtedly a good many passionate, passion-ate, mesotges have been golnsc to the vacation party suggesting that the president-elect sny something that would be soothing to persona rithlng In the pains of deflation. Some of the suggestions have gone1 s.' far as to prim out that it would help if Mr Harding would appoint at least his secretary of state and his scrtary of the treasury at once and let them announce an-nounce their plans for the new administration's admin-istration's foreign and fiscal policies HARDING N OT HURRIED. Doubtless it would help to slaMlize things If business men could know Just what the program is to be as re-fcpects re-fcpects foreign trade and international taxation At the same time to ap- point these two members of the cabinet cabi-net would he an obviously hurried and excited thing to do, and excited and hurried things are exactly the things that are most unlikely to come from Senntor Harding. I suspect that all the recent predictions predic-tions and hints that Senator Harding had done certain things or was going j to do other tilings nbout various subjects. sub-jects. Including Mexico. hae had no relation to anything that has really I gone on In his mind He is In a hh- rious mood, hut nevertheless a vocation voca-tion mood. The people who are with j him on his vacation are his playtlmi Buddies" rather thin the advisers who will be most to the front when I he is acting officially for the Republican Repub-lican party or for the now administration, administra-tion, although one or two of these with him are hard-headed, surefooted surefoot-ed men nulte capable of gllurf him sound advice In raise of emergency, but I doubt If anything important or conclusive hju parsed through the! sc-nator's mind about public policy since he, started on his recreation trip. NOTHING ABOrt- OABINEJF. I doubt also whether anything whatever lias materialised about this cabinet, I doubt equally whether anything will happen either as re-gardi re-gardi his program or cabinet until Senator Harding Is back in Marlon on December H For the present the public must be satisfied with what will be the chronicle of purely recreation recre-ation trip. After the return to Marlon on December De-cember 6 wc may expect to see a succession suc-cession of conferences with the Republican Re-publican leaders and others, and out nf ihee conferences a steady flow B) wmmmm i g of decision and public announcements about polld) and personnel. The senate meets in Washington on the same day that Mr Harding returns re-turns tO Marion and we may expect to see the senate working hand in hand with the president-elect, the various va-rious committees getting ready and even perhaps ionie pi ogress on the now program for taxation and for oth-r subjects of public policy. The program will movo as fast oa It can be made to move but there never will be epeed at the expense of soundness Senator Harding makes Increasingly tho impression of sure-footedness. confidence, and the mastership that is Inseparable from a right conception of M.s office Copyright. l!20, l the New York Evening Post, Inc.') |