The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-10-02

happy ever after. We are running
round in circles now, and the next
president must be man, who can
break out of them and blaze the road
Ito peace and prosperity. Congress no
doubt, between its stretches of piffle
and gable, is doing its best to relieve
the present situation. But that best
is not good enough. The measures
being taken are temporary and super
fetal. Congressional ears incline to-
ward the loudest noise. The distress
of the eight-hour, dollar an-hour city
workman is being partially relieved at
the expense of the twelvehour, thirty
cents an-hour farmer.
But it is a topsy-turvy world and a
hard one for the most willing presl-
dent and congress to help. The ideals
for which men died have apparently
gone stale and sour, for the govern
ments that professed them are grabb-
ing at shadows of empire Half the
world has been sulking and stacking,
and the other half has been stacking
and jazzing. Labor has been on
new joy-strike every morning. The
railroad brotherhoods have been rails
ing their wages and incidentally the
carpenters and bricklayers' costs OF
living. The carpenters and bricklay-
ers have been boosting their own pay
and incidentally the brotherhood's
rent. Capital has been lacking the
new costs on to prices, and sometimes
a trifle more for luck. Bootblacks
are making more than clerks, walters
more than professors, and cooks more
than teachers. Everyone has been
letting down little, wasting little
and saving mighty little. With the
crowd accepting any new theory OF
society that disregards the hard facts
of life, this is no year for rah! ran.
politics and bush league messiahs.
Also this is an off year for military
candidates. Granting their worst
fears, duty calls them, but to the
front. In their chosen work they can
command respect and admiration. In
politics they become its he-dolls, used
to draw crowd, but posed by the
director behind the camera. Besides,
the biggest generals of the war were
not generals at all, but tired business
men. The army red tape made them
tired.
Emphatically this is an off year
for professors. For some time we
shall be concerned with making a liv-
ing rather than with theories about
life.
Lawyers, too, are out of season.
This time we must go through, not
round. Two and three-quarters per
cent craftsmanship may be either too
much or too little. We do not know
and apparently the courts do not
know; but it is out of the running.
A politician of any kind, breed or
business is persona non grata." The
reasons are given in Daniel v, 1921
Of course Colonel House is barred
by the no-third-term tradition.
We need a business man for presI-
dent.
Our problems are first and last
economic-that is, straight business
problems-concerned with production
and greater production, |
better distribution. Only broad
gagged sympathetic, common-senSe,
to- ground man, understand
ing farming and it's problems, manu- :
featuring and it's problems, selling
and its problems, will fit the issues. |
He must be man who will play no
capitalistic favorites for the sake of
friendship, and who will give short |
shrift to anyone who plays it heads-I- |
win, -you-lose. He must believe |
in profit sharing and loss sharing too. |
He must not be afraid to go after |
anyone who tries to assume power |
without responsibility or accountable |