El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-12-21
GOOD AMERICAN PHIL OSOPFIY BEING
OUTLINED BY TWO STRIKING TYPES


CENATOR HARDING and governor Coolidge are both
saying the right things in the right way, these days
With dozen opportunities daily to make embarrassing and
dangerous mistakes thr public declarations and the
views ana policies and judgments they voice receiving
aPprecative commentary from political opponents.
Both, but especially the p1ssdenteect being watched
abroad with exceptional keenuess Of interest Harding is
real American type that he is harder for Europeans
70 meorze about than schost who Is familiar them
through museum specimens. Of thing the Europeans
ny e very sure ana taL IS Lnat Harding IS not gong to
hand over the United States to any pawnbrong firm He
IS going to find out If he can what the great majority Of
The American people want him to do, and then do It
The process Of finding out is what interesting Amer
leans Just now It is something new this holding Of daily
conferences With Of all factions and without the
party questions Of broad national policy and not merely
On prospective appointments and minor administrative
matters
We have had enough of the inspired prophet the voices
IN me ar and the people Of the United States VIII enjoy
once more having degree Of human contact between
me Wte house and the 100000 other houses in the
country.
In his address before the senate the other day. Harding
made many new friends One less sincere, less tactfu less
wise less honest than he might have committed grave
error On such an occasion, error IN exercise Of good
tasl ana Lat IS SOMETIMES crime But even the severest
critics could not pick flaw In Hardings modest and simple
invitation TO senators and all Americans to realize their
responsibilities vel his plea for cooperative con
structve action, It might vel as a pledge.
Hardngs formal invitation to the vice presidentelec
to SIT with the cabinet in the government is acnowl-
edged BY governor Coolidge IN public statement marked
y me ooesy ana reserve but also BY broad statesman
Ike recognition Of the importance Of the innovation Most
OF the statement Is IN the third person and about
Harding. Says Coolidge in part;
HHe Is determined to secure a real unity Of ua-
tioua effort that shah dispace al possibilities of
fac1onal and partisan difference, and eager to make
the recent vote the pledge Of Of good feel
ing and national unaHnlity He Is plainly bringing
the national mind to agreement as 30 course that
nay Be followed IN our foreign policies with
aHos that It VII have the support Of the whole
psople.H
declaration that Harding made to gathering Of 5000
voe1 the subject of federal department Of public
welfare has received less notice than It deserves BY reason
Of the proposal itself, but perhaps more Of the way
he states T. Pledging himself to practical policy Of
social welfare and social Justice he goes 70 say:
@The social justice that I conceive is not pster-
nahsm- We do not want government to suppress
expression Of f1ee VII, by beueTolence, but we
90 san 70 preserve in America equal opportunity
aul preparedness for self expression therein
social justice, the other hand, Is not mere
sentiment To ny mind social justice policy in gov
eminent cannot and should not be confined to a pro
gran for the flow Of benefits from some uncertain
and magic source at the seat Of government
y could not consider policy Of social Justice
which Is conceived, many Missionaries conceive it.
as right Of mankind. VIII only consider It as an
obligation to mankind Even citizenship is based
upon Obligation, not rights
In creating federal departments for the admins
uaton Of social justice and social welfare we must
avoid the fearful results Of bureaucracy I an IN
c1nsd to think that as between bureaucracy of
-1llLaIg power which paid little attention
regulating Of domestic affairs, and bureaucracy of
social rules and regulations the latter would ounrss
me soul OF country more, We VIII not have either
IN America.
SThere is grave danger at hand when centralized
expression begins to take from local communities all
the burdens OF social conscience The best that hu-
sanity knows comes up from the individual and
woman through the family and the home in the com
1nunry where lie is personal and where there is
an attempt to cut men and women TO pattern and
ueat mankind as a wholesale commodity"
In al this there is the germ Of real American social