Evening star., 1920-10-27
NOT TAKING IT TOO SERIOUSLY
Some Angles of the Passing Show That May Have
Escabed the G1ooms and Grouches.
: By
BY KIRK MILLER.

With less than a week to linger
the campaign is what some folks cail
convaIescent Both patients made
noble fight for their lives. Each has
been in a train wreck that WASH
scheduled. If the railroads had put
the collisions on the itinerary, they
wouldrt have happened.
Normally, the democrats should win
but they are never normal. In good
times the republicans should crawl
away with the glad news, but times
are always hard The politicians
never felt worse nor had more; never
talked more, nor said less.
Rumor has it that Gov. Cox wlreo
for March reservations at one OF
Washington's most exclusive boafd
ing houses. but this rumor person Is
dizzy old buzzard. Same party IN
forms the deponent that Senator
Harding bought up the hat-boy con .
cessions at Union station. III ooth OF
these statements are true a Steaih
calIiope will have 10 lead the IN
augural cortege up the Avenue ~hi1e
the orchestras play where Is MY
Wandering Boy Tonight?
After all. there isn't much differ
ence between the tickets. one is
round trip coupon with stopoVer PRIV
IleEeS
rate to Washington good for tour
years with no return stub. VINO VIII
draw the lucky ounce is not for you
nor me to say. but the victor comes
to Washington with the understand
ing that he does as all OF MS pre-
decessors have done-get out the oes'
way he can.
They always come in by request ana
leave 4he same way. Fortunate Tor
the White House membranes. the
architect made front door and
back one. Again strength conquers
over brute science and necessity is Ine
mother-in-law of invention me
south fire escape to the Executive
Bungalow is the one by which the re-
tiring monarch evaporates. The ban
listers are equipped with non-Skld
chains and a pneumatic door mat says
Bon Voyage" instead of ..eWelcome-'
But we don't have to ring out the
old before we ring in the new, so let's
talk about the present and try to for
get the past, if possible. Democrats
concede the republicans a fine ma
jority. So fine you won't be able to
see it with a naked microscope. After
translating the speeches of the demo-
Gratis into English. the republicans
admit they have lost the foreign vote.
1t loks like Mesopotamia won't cast
g. single vote for Harding.
Reading the electric signboards
down the Avenue and up 9th street
after moonrise it's easy to forecast
that the Cox-Roosevelt poll in the
Balkans will be the lightest in the last
four years. 1t is simply amazing
what inconsequental gossip yea ca n
hear if you gaze at the incandeseent
Gull; boards long enough.
Vote the straight demipullican
platform; 5000 miles guaranteed"
Eventually the league of nations,
why not now?
Smoke Harding Coolidge dope: a
pleasant mixture"
Wear article X suspenders and feel
secure"
The handwriting is as plain as the
stage magicians can make it. Rent
yourself a stool in some church belfry
and take the message from the air
Wireless telegraphy is antequated
compared to the modern method of
roof gymnastics after all the cops are
asleep on their beats. You can tell
from the treetops whether the pact
has tonsilitis or just plain adenoids.
This is country of free thought
and looser speech. Because the Con-
stitution guarantees US an easy jaw
is no reason why we should talk our
selves blindfolded. Everybody has
spread on sthe' minutes Of the cam
paign his unadulterated opinion of
the candidates hut did il ever occur