Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1923, Page 7

Present Period Seen to Lack wh; Real Political Leadership Without Great Outs { tanding Personality Capable of Swaying Opinions of the Millions, It Is Declared. BY the talk we engage next year's presidential situation end all the activity going on have to do almost wholly with fac- tions and with organized effort—with the fact that the New Jersey leader 1s for one man, the Illinois leader for unother; that the rallroad workers are for McAdoo and® many of the farmers for Ford; that the “irrecon- cllables” are for Johnson, and so on, &nd so on. % One whose work is to record all this sort of thing cannot help wishing it were a case of great, unselfish issues, or a case of great personalities. But the truth is none of the men now b ing mentioned for either party nomi- nation is of really first-rank size in the broad sense. The same was true in the 1920 situa- tion. The pr nt writer was talking once with one of the two party candi- Jdates of 1920 (it not matter which one) much along the lines of what is here being when the candidate remarked, with an engag- ing tolerance and candor of appralse- ment ,of himself and others: “You must bear in mind, brother, that in 1920 both the parties had to the ‘bush league’ for their dates.” MARK SULLIVAN, Al in about does said, candi- 1920 the Dividing Line. This was literally true. Nineteen- Twenty was a dividing line in Amer- ican political history. For twenty- Jour years preceding, our politics had centered about immense personalities. ‘There had been Jioosevelt, Wilson and Bryan. (For the purposes of the present article, und for the purpose of American poltics, the word “great” can be used conveniently and, probably, also ‘ustly, to describe a man whose size is greater than his party, who the ability to carry groups of voters from one party to another. Each of these men had this power, and no other man of their generation had it But it is also true that each of these | three men, in different ways and at different phases of their careers, ade- quately justified the word “great” in 1's broader sense.) In any event, by 1920 each of these men had recently passed off the stage. Roosevelt had died, Wilson had brok- en down in health and Bryan had be- come “shopworn"—had been a little too long on the shelf without ever echieving a sale In the sense of an actual election to the presidency. Becomes a “Different Thing.™ And by the passing of these three American politics ceased to be what 1t had been for a quarter of a cen- tury—ceased to be a matter of domi- nating personalities, and became a Qifferent thing. If any proof is need- ed of the extent to which these three men had dominated politics, the ex- “tent to which the people had relied on them to express thelr ideas, it can be provided by a simple state- ment. g In every presidential election since 1896, and including that year. one or more of these men were candidates Tn 1896, Bryan was a candidate; in 1900, Bryan and Roosevelt were candi- dates: in 1904, Roosevelt was a candl- | date: in 1908, Bryan was a candidate; in 1912, Wilson und Roosevelt were candidates; in 1916, Wilson was a candidate. That is a rather impres- sive showing for a quarter of a cen- tury, not respect, in American history. even in the years when any one of these men was not actually among the candidates he was always a big figure in the situation. With their passing our politics entered a new stage Theorles The theorles about great Are Contradictory. men-—the manner of their coming, their effect | human events and whether they the cause or the effect of the tides of history—are various and con- tradictory. To merely récite these theories would make a fascinating book. But the present article has merely to do with their presence ot on @ go to! three great figures: | has | previously equaled, in this | And | of God, and is not to be found by painful seeking When he comes it is silently and “without advertise- ment, and his own people commonly | know him not. i See a “Clowe Approach.” ! And vet as to some qf the figures lin the current politics of both parties lone is able to see, if not clear great- iness, vet so cluse an approach to i adequate bigness that you keep wish- | ing. almost with pain, that they had hat little more that makes, such {leagues of difference.” You keep | wishing you could combine pairs of | them iInto one, or certain parts of | some with parts of others. If only {you could combine some of the per- i sonalitles in the field, you might get results that would move the world, { figures that would measure up to i those personalities that cross the { world once in #o often and affect its ! destinies profoundly. If you could |take Borah's capacity for clear | thought and ringing expression of it, i his facility in the world of abst ! ideas. and if you could add to | Harding's capacity for getting men { to march in step; if to La Follette's | evangelical zeal you could add Hard- ing's patience and tolerance; if to McAdoo's impetuous energy — the qualities that make him an engaging “go-getter"—if to that you could add Underwood's surefooted steadiness; if to Cox's rare efficiency and plugging tenacity in pursuit of his purposes you could add Justice John H. | Clarke's education and elevation of | taste! « Ford Classed As “Geniun.” Among all the merr mentioned for { the presidency, probably the one who { comes closest to having a title to the | term “gentus” is Henry Ford." But it Ts a restricted kind of genlus, and a | kind which is not only not political and not statesmanlike, ‘but {s prob- ably the opposite of political | statesmanlike. Ford ts a mech: | gent But s what the world longs for and needs? Ford is a genfus of organisation, but maybe the thing that makes the world restless and rebellious Is pre- clsely the restraints of too.much or- | ganization. Ford, probably without | knowing it or meaning it, is largely {the German superman type. It Is a type that has entirely tentlons toward the world, but inten- | tions that flow from a self-assumed | nosition on high. Those German { supermen always intended to organ- ize the world thoroughly for the world's good, but they always thought of the world's good as identi- cal with their own_notions. They fancied themselves as directing things from above. They pictured the world organized finto compact marching regiments. but they never pictured themselves among the marchers. Al- ways they thought of themselves as officers at the top bawling out orders to the marching puppets. readily organize America as the Ford factory i3 organized, with each of us Ketting ood wages. good housing and plenty to eat and wear, but always with the sense of doing what we were told—a sense of submerged individuality. The ideal of Ford's genius might make America a bée- I Kive, a compact industrial organism { which looks like a democracy, but is really ther rigid kind of autoc- {racy. Ford's conception of things {might leave no room for the common man’s impulse to lay off and go fish- | ing once in a while: | ‘World of Difference.” And yet. unhappily, it is just Ford's sort of thing that America seems 10 think it wants A person of deep ur a I this that the world needs. Between what the country, in fts deeper heart, actually wants and needs and, on the other hand, what it thinks it wants {and what it clamors for—between | those two three may be & world of i differenc But any survey of tife jactual things that groups and fa tions are fighting for would reveal them as the kind. of economic ad- vantag of material objects, that I's genlus for business organiza- n and factory production seems to promise. | ""A" political philosopher who the other day. undertook to set down a list_of the factions. blocs and_what list of the fuctions hiocs and vt i or | anleal | mechanical genlus | benevolent in- | derstanding might say it is not really | Ford might | - THE not which seem to have power in America today, together with their purposes, arrived at something llke tht The farm bloc—Platform: We want higher prices for our stuff. The labor unions—Platform: We want higher wages and shorter hours. The “wets"—Platform: We want our booze. The manufacturing east—Platform- We want protection The agricultural west—Platform We want lower freight rates. The coal consunters—Platforr want cheaper coal. ‘The shipping interests—Platfo, We want a subsidy. The democratic party—Platform: We want the offices. The republican party We want to keep the offic ‘Ihe force of this lttle irony mixht be Increased by an allusion to, the part played in present American poli- tles by ‘the Ku Klux Klan, which, while not selfish in the economic sense, is hardly an influence toward making our natlonal spirit more Geuerous or more tolerant. The meaning intended to veyed hy the. person who frony was that politie the momer case of “we want ours ymething. And the remoter mean- 15 Intended to be hinted was that t be happy, and that Ameri- an politics won't be as elevated as it might be, until some leader comes lonk with enough personality and noukh idealism to sweep all this sort of thing away with a gesture like a cleansing wind. When vou think in terms lke this it s inevitably the league of nations that comes to mind: not necessarily the lteral league of natfons, but some altrulstic kesture on the part of America looking toward healing the world and toward generous Inter- natlonal co-operation for those pur poses of peace which are in every- body’s heart. The possibility of some leader —arlsing able to electrify America with some such appeal as | this Is always uneasily in the minds of the politicians who, lacking the imagination for blgger things, make | capital out of their pettier issues. | Wherever politiclans gather and have | lelsure for an easy-running flow of | talk one of the things they most Yre- | quently discuss is, What would hap- | pen If by some whim of fate Wood- row Wilson should suddenly be re- stored to the health and vigor.he had in. let us say, 1517, and should set out to work America once more into | the state of exalted emotion he once had us in? The posstbility of America starting oft on “a spiritual | jamboree,” as they plcturesquely call | it. about helping the world is always in the heads of those who most fear ft. And among the most frank snd honest partisans of a policy of isol: tion and national self-interest there is always the apprehension that We Fm: Platform be con- compiled American chiefly a of wanting ARTHUR ! the analogy between this cy almost any day they may have to run to cover. Only a Remote Possibility. And yet if we are to deal in politi- cal realities as distinct from political 1deals or political prejudices or politi- cal hopes, it must be sald that the chance s remote of America doing anything soon in the direction of in- ternational disinterestedness. The people who belleve we should do something are leglon. And they are the salt of the land. They include colleke communities and what the politicians call “church folks." But in the absence of leadership they make but little progress. It must be accepted as almost a political axlom that it Is going to be easier, so far as the masses of the people are con- cerned, to stir up susplelon and fear of Burobe than to stir them to zeal for: helpfulne 1t m post-war ecycle of a kind that fre- quently follows wars. A year or so I an old New York journalist, Jumes L. Ford, wrote a ook of Te fections. La it he said that follow. tng the civil war America went through three distinct phases. The first was one of selfishness, of greed, of speculation, of fortunes made by gamblers, of excitement and erime. This was the perfod when conspicuous - speculators like J Gould and Fisk made their fortunes and enlisted public public desire to emulate them. This was followed by a second period of ars marked by intense -de- pression—depression both in the busi- ness and economic sense and also in the spiritual and moral scnse. Fi- nally, sbout ten years after the civil war,' there arose the third phase, which was idealistic to the extent of hein angelistic. The conspicuous marks of this last phase were the carance of evankelists like Moody and Sankey, and high places in th public attention given to clergymen like Henry Ward Beecher and Tal- mage. here may possibly comfort in cle after the civil war and what we are now going through. . SUES FOR MAINTENANCE. Wife Charges Husband Has Failed to Support Her and Child. Mrs. Claudia K filed suit for m be McCorkle yesterday itenance in the Dis- trict Supreme Court against Harry A MeCorkle, @ overnment cmploye They were murried Sepiember 16, 1910, in Baltimore. Md.. and have one child. The couple scpirated last N vember and since that time the wife states her husband has not contrib- uted to her support. Attorney John . Mackall appears for the plaintiff. JORDAN PIAND companr ¥ be that we are In a definite | certain | admiration and | SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. "APRIL 15, 1923-PART " 1. U. S. ASTRONOMER |U. S. Mail Force | PRAISED FOR WORK, In Control When | Leviathan Sails Prof. Michelson’s Theory Asso- ci.ud With Tht 0‘ E!n“ein United States postal clerks for the first time will be in complete charge on Relativily. of the sea post office aboard the XL 8 Leviatl at | The confirmation of Prof. Albert |shi watis Jnie 4 from e aore ot Einstein’s theory of relativity made l"rh.‘m'u and England Iby the Lick Observatory expedition | Formerly United Staten and Ger- at the eclipse of the sun 1 Sde a.._\- St on e ‘:V.?”(.E\“ i'l": now announced by Director Campbell |office will be the largest post office | of the observatory, Tecalls the recent | kfloat, Dost Office Department offh observations made by Prof. A. 8. Ed- | 40 g ypsterduy. B dington, director of the University !the sea office. Owing to the size ana of Cambridge Observatory, in award- | speed of the Leviathan, officials say ing the gold medal of the Royal As-|the ship will be of great service to tronomical Soclety to Prof. A. A.lthe Post Office Department. SCHOOL PUPILS SELECT 47 DIFFERENT VOCATIONS versity, for his discovery on “appli- catlons of Interference methods to as- tronomical problen This observation, made at the time of thls honor puld to an Amerlcan sl astronomer, makes the achlevements| 5 - il Forty-seven vocations are desired of American astronomy an assoclaie by the young people of the Distriet | according to a survey recently com- pleted by the sceretaries of the com- munity centers of the schools of divigions 10 to 13, The survey of the Einstein theory. Prof. Eddington_said “that the fa- was made under the direction of M Gabriello Peltam, one of the assist: mous Michelson-Morley experiment, for which’ the Copeley” medal of th ant general direotors of the com- munity center department, assisted Royal Astronomical Soclety was awarded in 1907, though not speci by Mrs Cora G. Wilke D M erson’and J. T. ly contemplated in the present award, might be considered as coming with- As a result of the survey the secre- tarles decided to confine the work of in its terms, for the measures were made by Interference methods, and the question whether the movement of the earldh through lhre ehthe{‘c?‘uld be detected was one of the highest | fUCT o . astronomical Interest, and that the| . ng patrons of the community Whole of the ayatem of relativity had | for '\, 2[ing four Hnes of activities been founded upon it,” ete. romics, hand and art crafts. design- Prof. Elnsteln says he owes the|ing and costume making. The f basts of his new theory to Prof. A. 8. | (F S15 tofitime making | The four Fddington. director of the Cambridge | FUFCHG U VILIer 107 the boys were centers has fts achievement clubs Cleveland-Phelps, Birney, Deanwood, Miner Normal. Lovejoy, and West Washington. At the monthly me avant first made Einstein known to ings of the groups, the parents of the the English-speaking world by his re- port on tivity theory In 1918, achievement members are invited xnd at least one of the activities is and after the memorable eclipse in 1319 Prof. Eddington announced the confirmation of the predicted amount of flbf;'erlflvn of the rays of light ]‘)l!fl] ing through the sun’s gravitational | Gamonetrotod > field an calied by the Einstein rela- | siowing TR T tivity theory. along the I ot ‘W locton The Einstein theory of relativity. | exnisitir, ¢ ©f. 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