The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-03-06
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1919.
McADOO IN THE MOVIES.

movies! That is all right. He
couldn't raise a family on what the
government paid him and he got out
while the going was good. Some say
his political friends told him that he
had nothing to gain and possibly
much to lose by forcing bonds upon
an unresponsive public and piling up
railroad deficits for the people to
meet. We should call that sound
judgment, viewed from any angle
Even though his father-in-law should
become the first President of the
World, the prestige thus acquired by
the family will hardly suffice to over
come all of the obstacles which con
front Mr.. McAdoo IS candidate for
President Of the United States. There
path and, as he himself is wont to OBJ
serve, Mr.. McAdoo is no politician.
Moreover, despite his excellent work
as Secretary Of the Treasury, he is
not regarded universally as a states
man of the first order. Nevertheless
our perspicacious neighbor the Her
aid is already picking his prospective
cabinet, to wit:
Secretary of State. Charles Chaplain
Secretary of Treasury Mary Pickford
Secretary of War. .......W w. S. Hart
Secretary of Navy. .............
...... ."Fatty" (ROscoe) Arbuckle
Secretary of Interior. =. Bessie Love
Secretary of Agriculture. .......
....DO Douglas Fairbanks
Il is not bad-that is, as compared
with the present aggregation. The
elements of popularity are there at
any rate and varied abilities not to
be sneezed at The principals have no
occasion to borrow money; they
simply reach ont and take it at never
less than 100000 per; and Mr. Nc
AdOo goes in at par. That he will be
d NdludDle acquisition LllcIC 'SH pC
no particle of doubt He is both YER
satile and speedy and has u reputa-
ton.
Alt ough no announcement to that
effect has yet appeared in the Official
Bulletin, we gather from the public
prints of the far West that Mr.. Fair
banks is to assume charge of the poll
'tical department under the general
supervision of Secretary Tumulty and
Mr.. Wilson-not the Mr.. Wilson, but
Mr.. Frank r. Wilson. pictorial direc-
tor of Liberty loan publicity. SO at
least we read in Los Angeles paper,
which says:
Douglas Fairbanks is going to be
the governments official fool killer
and defend the United States in the
movies. He has been asked to take
this role by Joseph Tumulty, secretary
to the President, and Frank X. Will
son national director of Liberty Loan
publicity
Douglas has consented to appear IN
a film to be used as propaganda TO
stem the tide of popular criticism
which Tumulty and Wilson admit
amounts to a storm of attack against
the national administration.
In telegram to Fairbanks, wilson
says in part: "There are possibilities
of short picture in which you would
start out some morning as the official
fool killer and as you hear complaints
uttered by various individuals, you
turn upon them, giving them lecture
on real Amercanism and then Wallop
them as you did the Kaiser"
Assuming that Mr.. Tumulty and Mr..
McAdoo are cooperating in this de-
termined effort to defend the United
States" we have to anticipate dire
distress for the Republican party and
much exploitation. Of the candidates
of the movies as opposed to all others
even Of Democratic persuasion. 1t
impresses us offhand as an exception
ally clever plan. The films will con-
tinue to be under government control
until the President proclaims peace,
and Heaven only knows when that