The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 12, 1924, Page 6

he Seattle Star Sven 4 Tribune Bide. th, 3 months $1.60, 6 montne $2.00 | office, New Tork His Majesty or The President? SENATOR LODGE ; contention that there ought to be a senate rule pro- tecting the president from attack by senators won't get very far with the American people. Whether the attacks which stirred up the sedate and solemn senator from Massachusetts were wise or foolish, just or unjust, or even outrageous, has nothing to do with the case. is attacked or by what senator. Every president is entitled to proper r holds,” as Senator Lodge puts it. That i Nor does it make any difference what president spect “by virtue of the office he the office is entitled to respect. If the president is not treated with respect by a senator, the burden of proof is upon the senator that his criticism is justified by the facts; for the peo- ple will assume that any president is entitled to respect until convinced that he isn’t. But there is no such nonsense as lese majeste or the divine right of kings, or presidents, in this republic. When the American colonies cut loose from Great Britain and set up a democracy of their own, they also cut loose from such superstitions as that the king can do no wrong. No president nee¢ ous attacks by senators. ay rule protecting him from vicious or even seandal- His own conduct is all the protection any president needs, and there is enough general respect for the office to make an unjust attack much more dangerous to the senator who makes the attack than to the president who is attacked. But while there is no danger to the president without such a rule, there would be real danger to popular government with such a rule. The right to criticise public servants is a wholesome right, even tho at times it be abused. When a democracy begins to sanctify presidents, congressmen and judge we will be headed in the wrong direction—back toward autocracy. of these are public servants, not maste Senator Lodge, himself, was within his rights when he bitterly hated and viciously attacked the late President Wilson, but Wilson’s conduct and char- acter were all the protection he needed in public esteem from all the viru- lence of Lodge's assaults. If President Coolidge is as high-minded and noble-purposed as Wilson was, he has nothing to fear even tho the senate were full of democratic Lodges. Anyway, they can't say that Ned McLean took that dollara-year job as a 17th assistant Burns sleuth because he needed the money Stone Blind N turning down the Filipino plea for independence, Coolidge got off a good one, to-wit: “One who examines the grounds on which are based the protest against the present situation is forced to con- clude that there has not been thus far a full realization of the fundamental ideals of democratic-republican gov- ernment.” We suggest that Daugherty, Doheny, Sinclair, Denby, Fall and Ed McLean get together in the supreme court chambers and have a laugh over Filipino stupidity. With a red hot example of democratic-republican government shining for them at Washington, for 25 years past, those dense, dark Filipinos haven't got anywhere near realiza- tion of what.it means. Heaven help them! They'll never be fit for independence until they’ve struck oil. Mr. Stery says those Porto Ricans, determined to prevent election frauds, are sharing off a pateh of hair from every voter to mark him. Only ‘for “repeaters,” it appears, will be among the bald-headed men. Talking About Fiction HE supreme court of Nebraska has handed down and out a decision announcing that “the idea that man is the head of the family is a common fiction of law. To those of us who are mere hall-racks on which dis- criminating families have draped themselves and depend, there is nothing startlingly new in this decision. We have been reticent about it, but we knew this sad thing long before the Nebraska court enunciated it. The women— the wives and mothers—let us know about it, delicately in some cases and rudely in others. Back in the dear, dead days of the stone age, or the glacial period, or the cave-dwelling epoch, perhaps, cus- tom and a club made man the head of the home cave or hole in the ground. Then refinement, or a shortage of fuel, or something, caused the club to be discarded, and right there man began to slip and skid. Never was he able to get back to the head place. He lost out com- pletely in the end. The detailed history of the metamor- phosis is poignant, but it is unnecessary here. It is sad enough to be compelled to admit that he who once was head of the house is now a mere household utensil that may be used on occasion and told where to head in always. Fiction of the law? Yes, and more and worse. It is a family fiction, and that is where decisions are ren- dered that are superior to all law. Nothing can restore us but a cave-man rénaissance, and maybe that will not come. Ramor No. 3,765,908,762,354, going about in Washington today, Is that they have found another unususpected public official. It is not con- firmed. Smoot---Lenroot---Fall T has become known that Senators Lenroot of Wisconsin and Smoot of Utah paid a secret visit to Fall, last De- cember, to discuss the latter’s evidence before the Walsh committee. The visit took place about three days before the committee received a written communication from Fall explaining that he got that $100,000 from Edward B. McLean of the Washington Post. This letter Fall afterward admitted to be a lie, and Doheny proved it to be ‘so. Lenroot says there was nothing unusual about their visit to Fall and adds that he and Smoot went there to urge Fall to “confess.” The public will not agree with Lenroot. That visit was just as improper as would have been a visit. by the judge trying a case to a wealthy defendant. Members of this committee were sitting, in a judicial capacity, supposedly investigating publicly a matter of great. public interest. No single member nor any two members of the committee had a right to visit the accused to consult as to the lat- ter’s defense, confession or alibi. As a matter of fact, the public has no confidence in Smoot. He is a self-con- fessed defendant of everything reactionary. The public used to believe in Lenroot, but has rapidly lost confidence in him. During the early days of the oil inquiry, Len- root acted as an obstructionist and defender of the ac- cused. Only after the satchelful of money and bribery seandal came out to shock the public did Lenroot change his tactics and pretend to help Senator Walsh in prosecuting the inquiry. The Walsh committee has had its own internal troubles all thru this investigation. As the McLean telegrams show, not only ex-Attorney General Mitchell Palmer, but “other !nfluences” were brought to bear on Walsh and other members of the committee in the hope of diverting the investigation. Judging by the way that he baited the oil hook for Senator Walsh, Dough-heeney must have taken Walsh for just another sucker. ‘aa as well as cabinet members should be well shaken before ene QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS YOU can get an answer to any Question of fact or informa- tion by writin, Editor, reau, 1 ton, ; stamps for reply. apd iarital advice given, nor can exten undertaken, L quests canpot be EDITOR A. The pine. There are kinds, some confined to the and some to the West, many Q. What doce the “infra dig," mean? ‘Failure of Dawes Would Spell German Collapsg East men. but every | God stato has pine forests of some kind. | sciousness THE SEA TLE AR Fellowship of Praper Lenten America. WEDNESDAY Kingdom Builders With God Read Mt nense God, of self, nh Coming into the presence necessitates a clearer con) of men, for men are God's great concern. It gives a new expression.| significance to all life.” MEDITATION: The true disciple A. This i» an abbreviation of! secks to live his life in harmony one's position. see infra dignitatem, which means. “be-| with the life of God. | neath: one’s dignity,” unlecoming to| above Q. What will break me of dting my nails? A. Wrap bandages, help you your finger and perhaps t to remember. tips in will Careful manicuring will help, for you will certainly not care to destroy the ef- | fect of prettily manicured nails, * - Q. How should celery be eaten?) A. With the fingers, but the stalk should not be dipped into a dish of salt. on one side purpose, nt the eee Q. How did the expression, “ the mountain sill not come to 3M homet, Mahomet mountain,” originate? A. Mahomet made the law. The people assembled. Mi A bit of salt is placed plete for this with all Thy children of good will./ | May }make me strong and confifent, in must go to the| ! people | believe that he would call a hill to| House him, and from the top of it offer|Fall-McLean his prayers for the observers of his, Wo demand that homet called the hill to come to him, again and ngain; the hill stood still, he abashed, but sald: not come {9 was not | will go to the hill.” “THE BIG QUESTION” BY HERBERT QUICK | (OTHE big question,” says Mr. Doheny, “in, ‘Are these oll leases good for the government or bad for the government?” It sounds plausible—at first reading; but {t will not deceive people long, or many people A burglar blows a safe, and finds that the cash has been re. moved, Can © heard to say that the big question is whether or not he got any money? No, ho was the burglar and he ex- pected to get the money. An assassin runs a sword thru the heart of a fellow man. When on trial for murder, can he de mand acquittal if he can show that his victim was at death's door with disease and could not have lived thru the night? No, he is a murderer and took away all the life the man had. A swindler by bribery and false pretenses steals the farm of a fellow citizen. Can ho be heard to say that the farm was not as good as he thought it was, and therefore the big question is not whether he cheated tho man or not, but whether the farmer is not better off without the farm? No. Such a claim ts not only dishonest but silly. If the oll leases were made by overriding the law, in illegal se- crecy, thru bribery or what amounts to bribery, the big ques- tion is the names of tho guilty A THOUGHT | Behold, T come quickly; and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be, —Kev, xx. Sere | DOUBT if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, over yot hurt anybody.—Lord stanley, and when/the Teapot was put on? “If the hill wrt) Mahomet, Mahomet) pot is too hot for favorite sons ai | t Ho desires all elso that his own will shall be ao under the influence of the will of God that his life and work shall be to further God's will among men. God does not com- mand us, but permits us to be co- workers with Him, Human person. ality is vitally enriched when the right chotee in made. PERSONAL QUESTION: Am 1 as anxious that God should have His way with me as I am that He should control other men? j PRAYER: Almighty God, let me realize the leading of Thy Spirit this day, that I may do Thy will Let me move in the way of life ave Lost Art of Friendship BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON life thir phonen, elect good roads and Oveans of acquaintance ours; men and women with whom we enjoy a fittd? visit, whose opinions we cherish, and whose accomplishments we ad- mire, but we seldom seek out now friends, or what {s sadder still, never spend a day with those old companions of our youth who have stood the test of time and circumstances and upon whom we know n rely when trouble comes. Every woman whose life is full of duties and diversions has a few persons outside her immediate family circle upon whom she is sure she can ever depend, but how many give to them an b of time, or show any eviden of affection to- wards them? We may speak of them with longing and think e, but we are getting on in 4 that we can't waste ne just being friends, ume our leisure run- ning after people who can give presti help us along financially until the best years of our lives have slipped gone and we we have neglected most have showered our smiles our tal upon strangers do saved our tears for friends. We have danced to the piping of the allen a ignored the true heart beating steadfastly for us And #0 those placid grand- mothers of ours may have been more fortunate than we think, for th y Mved not superficially, but truly and deeply, They did not have all the wonderful ac- Uvities with which we fill our days, but they had time to cul- tivate thelr friends and enjoy them. When old age overtakes us, {t is not our social triumphs nor our pleasures which will bring us fondest memories, but those few hours when we had the companionship of those pitifully fow disintegrated men and ‘women who expected néthing or us but @ little time, and to whom we did not give even that. ue Px: collapse of Germany } the Dawes committee rest in the jment of Germany, now would seem | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 » 1944, a HIGH OFFICIAL TEL OUTLOOK OF EUROPK Editors Note: William Philip Simms, foreign editor of The Star's Washington Bureau, is en route home after several weeks conditions in Europe, This article ix the first of three in whieh marizes the high spots in European polities and economics BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS he inevitable of expert of the highest officials in Berlin told me “The first thing that would happen,” he went on, % be the final annihilation of an currency. Her money, the renten-mark, now worth the pre or nearly 25 cents, would not just depre explode. One day it would be money. The paper. “The next thing would be social Their mg gone, people could buy nothing, not even food. There waa be intense suffering. Farmers and 1 and clothes to sell, would hold on,pay Fr to them for want of anything re motely ey. erable un- people are They | almo What Folks Are Sayi and Germany w j LOUIS A. COOLIDGE, wa oi |e “We are trying ths aovealled reve: nedize edgeation. That le wha + of many did until her people stepped into one of the greatest of history. There are things) you can standardize, but you standardize human souls.” * Ge Tt woud | | chaos. There is already jand. But + new collapse of Ge would mean, fall to pieces. ‘There would almost surely be a the kaiser to Ho y been no rev many to date. Jt very little shooting ¢ “The most likely thing ts GERTRUDE A’ x, untry will fall apart into virtual-| >) ‘4 autonomous units, as it was | "lemance js beautiful, antal prior “to the federation. The peo-| Honbitheecty § Doorer a Batacs ike too kindly to li out it, but, unbridled and y 4 “ 2 ae ang | 4 uw. c! present system of centralized gov-|'t 18, the curse of moder | tion.’ " ernment, anyway, for it ts far more centralized now than under the} THOMAS A. EDISON, sage ext | ventor—"It ts not the I said, “if what France's! Cap: enemies are saying is true, and she| “ches that counts: it's the which produ hemp is really seeking the dismember-| shat is Leaer-oee! —— to be the psychological moment, J. ADAM BEDE, ‘Minneseta| would it not?” congressman: “The world , "No," said the official aryly. “Alrickets. Its body has o be! ismembered Germany would never | soul.” NO. 25 (Warning: Read the text before attempting to do the test.) H™. quick are you in catching an idea? This test requires a brain that knows at once what a ] means. a Follow the directions and see if you cannot complete the test a cessfully in less than TWO MINUTES. The rows of rectangles in them a certain arrangement of x's or of x's and o's, In J find what the order of x's or x's and o's fs and carry out the ex order in putting thex’s ang o’s In the rectangles that remain, blab TTT) ct L SCmCRCCHCH ORAS! SCORORSLOLCNNNE [Knrwore: fie soos a Beatie a taeieec ests xoxo; 4M x x blank; 5. blank x o blank. (All Rights Reserved, Sclence Service) | | | | | | | | the Inspiration of thy grace Ppadisieacisia Se cradiw Telling It to Congress | |] Gexcerpts from the Congressional They've Discovere@ that the White | Record) tolegrapher manned the Ng Siesta s Hat] WHAT CHEWING COSTS US ee tee | The Wrigley Co. manufactures ; United States, Here is what Mr. Wrigley claims for his two factories, Jone in Chicago and one in Brooklyn. | Hin plants have a daily capacity of nd 7,000,000 packages of gum. These | }two plants turn out a product which jsells to the ultimate consumers of tho United States for $250,000 every |day in the year.—Rep. Rainiey (D), m. Amen. L. Fagley) Christ's namo. You Have to admit that the Tea- other presidential "poasibilities.” NOT A GOOD PRECEDENT The federal government under- | |pays all of its employes, from the | |members of both houses of congress | up or down, as you may have It.| But that {s no reason why we/| |should not pay every man adequate: | |ly when we are establishing a new | department.—Rep. Chindblom (R), | men and thelr punishment, They expected to make mil- Hons and millions. Probably all this talk about the failure of the ofl fields to measure up to the expectations is false. But if there were not a drop of oil in the ground, the crime was the same. The safe was blown and eee the burglary committed. What I. C. OF PROHIBITION matter even if it wi empty? The total payroll (of the prohibl- The hypocritical plea that it |tion enforcement burean) for the didn't pay the burglar or the | year 1921 was $4,029,130. The total swordsman is made apparently 1 for the year 1922 was $6,- because they have no better plea 3. The total payroll for the But it does not excuse the crime r 1923 was $5,846.582.—Senator if there was one, Edwards (D), New Jersey. LETTER F \V RIDGE PiAr OBSEQUESSIONAL (Oh, Mr, Kipling—excuse us, please’ The tumult and the shouting die The campaign speakers all depart— Still stand the anclent alibis The world has learned to know by heart. But handbills that we used to get Are with us yet—are with us yet! The ballot boxes melt away— A calm supplants election ire Lo, all our romp of Yesterd Is one with Nineveh and But. still, the bird who won tho bet Is with us yet—is with us yet! Oh, well! Election's over now— For those who vote and those who shirk— We've settled all the civic row; Today we've gotta get to work! But placards that we once have met Are with us yet—are with us yet! 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