The Washington times., 1921-06-18
HAPG0OD BELIEVES
| HARDING REGIME
| IS DOING WELL
Points Out, Howsver, Two Poii.
cies on Which Administration
Il Reversed ltsek.
NJ Hon.rAr HAreooD.

than questions about the local base
ball nine or Carpentisr's chances,
and ea&Aar to answer.
Z FINDS TT DOING WELL.
atvsys reply that II n On The
shows . just spirit on my part. stncs
IN the tuo policies which have par
lticuiarly at heart tho Adnninistration
has reversed its policiea. It stated
that We were to trade with all
countries with which we were At
peace and then decided to wage =
I1ropagsnda campaign against Rus
na-
Also II st.ted that It was going to
.get rid OF Palmerism right away and
Get 1t once on the cases Of Debs and
lothers Imprisoned ~ . result Of war
mania 1t advertised this with the
IGpectaculAr trip OF Debs to Washing
ton. Nevertheless 1t heard from cer-
tain sources and went back to Palm
ers policiea
AN UNBIASED WITNESS.
When. therefore. say that the
administration has done wen II Is
the testimony Of an unbiased wit
mass / have to admit that tie pub
hes emotions are not always mine.
care comparatively little about
the case of Georr. Harvey. about
which SO many pulpits are thunder
ing, and so many newspapers pull
minating and everybody talking. I
care q lot aboIt the restoration Of
peace Psychology. about which tho
majority seem indifferent.
The Rev. John Haynes Holmes IL
. friend sof min-, whom greatly
admire. In a letter he says:
~The work drags discouragfngiy.
does 1t not? The quality Of mercy
within the understanding heart
seems to have left tho world"
DR.. Holmes was referring to tho
amnesty work. 1t does drag and It
IL discouraging. but here are q few
encouraging reminders:
Burning at the stake was prac-
ticed on Englishmen by Englishmen
until 200 years ago.
Torture was practiced In England
In the seventeenth century.
F1ogging to death, or nearly to
death lasted into the nineteenth
In i7ss Parliament voted Pitt
down when he tried to abolish the
slave trade
As history goes. It was only yes
terday that women and children
worked in chains underground In
the mines.
The highest officers in England
took bribes in the eighteenth cen
tury. a. a-l 81.
The following is from an old
chronicle: .The gallant and pious
knight left none but illegitimate
issue"
MAN ALONE PROGRESSES.
Man does progress. however slow
ly. and he IL the only animal that
progresses at all. Huxley tells us
that shivering apes will huddle
around an abandoned fire, creeping
closer as the embers die, but never
in all the centuries did 1t occur to
any ape to throw on a log of wood.
Another friend of mine, whom /
must not mention because he is on
the bench. writes thus: ,
'I pay the exorbitant price OF
three cents each day for the privi-
lege of reading your brief comments
on things in general i am Begin
nink to wonder when this aggrega-
tion of our best minds Is going to
do something.
About year ago we were as
sured that we should have peace as
soon as the incoming President could
sign his name to a resolution declar-
ing peace. 1t is over three months
and we have got no peace: business
has all gone to -, and l am pes
tered with applications for receiver
ships. I cannot wind UP those / have
got because nobody can reorganize
anything. / think you are all afro
phied down there"
RESOLUTIONS TO BE PASSED.
I hope to send my judicial friend a
COPY of Huxley's essays for his
Christmas present. Three months is
not long in the story of this planet
The Knox resolution or the Porter
resolution will be passed very soon.
The Admins tration has already ac-
complished a good deal in the way of
successful reorganization. The coun-
try Is prosperous at bottom and the
present disorganization is due to the
collapse of our exports.
The Administration recognizes that
fact and Is doing. what it can to rem
edy the condition It's task Is made
more difficult by those who imagine
that our prosperity can be not sepa-
rated from the prosperity of Europe.
Ciye the Admir- of ,b,no.