The Arizona copper camp., 1920-01-31
COMMON SENSE is
IN GREAT DEMAND
AT PRESENT time

jof common sense, the plain, ordinary
domestic variety that means so much,
says Edward D. Jones in the Daily
News Record IN. W AS it was born
in him, he carried it TO the presiden-
! tial chair, and nothing stands out in
all his wonderful record more prom
inently than that common sense view
of men and affairs which he invari-
ably expressed, and in accordance
with which he acted.
| We have had an era of hys-
terical outbursts concerning condi-
tions abroad, conditions at home, with
predictions of hell breaking loose in
most communities, while suggested
remedies for unrest" have in most
cases lacked common sense. Prob
ably every business man, who read
Herbert Hoover's statement of Euro
pean needs, was refreshed by the
common sense that pervaded it. He
voiced the best opinion when he took
emphatic exception to the exaggera-
tions of the volume of European
needs and American aid, evidently
taking a crack at Sir George Paish),
and made the blunt statement that
the bulk of Europe's needs can be
met by ordinary commercial credits.
Then he goes on to discuss our
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that we should fund interest on the
debts of our Allies to us, and then
| tells the big truth when he says that
Great Britain has ample assets for
anything she wants, and France has
sufficient unpledged foreign assets to
cover most of her important needs.
| Undoubtedly these few simple state
ments tell the real truth of the situ-
alton. Of course we shall have to
help by sending foodstuffs, on credit,
| to some of the weaker nations, and
of course our bankers will have to
devise a system Of long term credits
to finance our exports, but the people
who buy those goods have ample re-
sources, and their credits are good.
What the Europeans want is plenty
of work, raw materials to work on
and these they must have, on credit,
until they can sell the manufactured
product. He puts it that we need to
help out the bread supply of less than
| 5 per cent of the population of Eu-
rope. His concluding words are SO
| full of common sense that they de-
serve to be Illuminated:
"The world needs to get away from
the notion of governmental help, both
internally and externally, and get
back to work, and to business"
In those words is a whole volume
against this government interference
with business through unwise taxes,
attempts to regulate prices, and this
recent Federal Reserve board discrim-
ination as to loans. The business men
OF this country can straighten out
| CAACA1 IQASo4CO 1AluNI1 OOCIC1 IL AOO1 SOf-
ernment interference is eliminated.
The beauty of the Hoover state
ments is that of all men in the world
he is perhaps best qualified from his
experiences to make them.
There is another man, Governor
Allen OF Kansas, who acts like a busi-
ness man, and not like a politician, and
on the question of strikes and gov
ernment regulation thereof makes this
statement full of common sense and
which probably 80 per cent of Ameri-
cans thoroughly endorse!
amy minority which has secured
control of product upon which hui
man life depends, and which under
takes for the purpose of affecting
wages or profits to withhold that prod
uct from the public until the public
shall freeze or starve, has in effect
tsuperceded government, and has ar
rogated to itself the control of the
destiny of human lives which gov
ernment alone may have the power 10
safeguard"
What brilliant thing it would be
if business men of this country would
only get together with all their or
/ ganizations and make such arrange
ments as would insure the nomina-
tion of common sense business man
for the presidency in place of soldiers,
doubtless good men but not business
men, thorists like Bryan, lawyers who
are compelled because of their edu-
cation, to bubble, politicians who
never know their own minds because
they are continually trying to hear
the voice of the people, and never
hear it, or some dark horse" like
Rutherford B. Hayes, or Benjamin
Harrison.