Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-07
BY Frederic J. Haskln

Washington, u. c. Sept The
no politician will be a hero to his con
stituent.-when in fact, no public fig
ure- dead or alive. will be hero to
any one who reads
Instead OF considering presidents,
senators. diplomats and generals great
men. remote and different from our
calves. We viii know more about their
wsa knesseE and failinEs than about
any one elseA certain public man.
for example. has impressed tho whole
world with his dominating manner. He
seems to regard himself almost as a
god 4 certain writer who has studied
psychoanalySiH, among other things.
writes a piece about him and shows
that he is really "A timid fellow with
an inferiority complex. and that all hi1
lordly manner is a desperate effort to
pump I'D HIS own courage and make
himself believe that he IS OF some &C
count.
The writer may not be wholly cor
rect. but at least he has offered a
plausible theory. Heretofore our pub
lie men have hcen sold TO uH hy cam
paiEu oratory and Journalism. A voter
rniEht costly have read five years ago
in tho magazines and heard in Epeoche' .
a million words about leadlu. public
mon, and have known less about them
than ha did before no started. The rea-
son was that nearly every word he
read or heard had a political bias He
could read an article on tho prcgtdcn-
tial candidate. prslsinE hun TO the
rkieE, comparing him to Lincoln aud
Boov.valt and an the other party gods.
showing a picture OF him with his nine
children and explaining what a model
family man no was. setting him w AZ
nothing lea5 than unmitigatcd perfcc-
tinn
with equal oase this man could find
articles in which tho r.,me prcsidon-
ttal candidate was shown up as an in
competent and tool OF tho trusts. n
would he proved by documents that
his Ere.t-rreat era ndnother was an
Indian horse thief and that hc him
ralf once went to Atlantic City for
a weekend with hl7 cook.
a MIsINFoRMED PUBLIC
what should tho voter believe. n a
stupid and partisan man he would
agree with what supported hiH party.
and N an intelligent and open minded
fellow he would believe nothing He
would admit that ~ was Impossible for
him TO get. any real estimate OF the
men for whom he had TO vote, that
9s rcr cont Of everything writer n ana
ssid about our public men has been
juHt ~ much sand In tho voters eye
There have been = few exceptions, Of
course. The brilliant journalist. sam
uel G Blythe. wrote a long serie1 oi
sketches Of public men which were dis
tinEuiahed by a tatirical and cnmp1ra
lively unbiased point of view He Dc.
uroysd more than one mcrotrtCiour
reputation, and politicians feared him
a. darkey fears the devil But hc
wa a lono and exceptional figure, and
I Furthermore ha wnH a crica turist I'M
words rather than n competent analyst
/ Of men and events
Tho honest and scientific Analysis Of
/ public men n an art which has come
3 into being within tho past few ysar1
I and which is just now getting a foot
I hold in this country Beyond a doubt
/ n derives itH strength and so method
Z from the prience of pHychoanalvsts
/ however much sone Of ito r-artltlon.
| ers may try to deny tho fact
/ Its most conspicuous example 30 fai
| in the anonymous book Mirrors Of
I Washington which has made Ern.
| aatiou in the capital city. II iz model,
| cd after n HimiiRr book. Mirrors oi