The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-09

contributive. Now there is scarcely
q day in which the mail does not
include at least one communication
that excites interest or conveys facts
that might well be the basis for
ban article.
Stereotyped or .rubber-stamp CORE
spondence from Washington or any.
twhere else is like the existence of a
squirrel in a cage or a mule in a
treadmill. What makes journalism
an interesting and worthwhile labor
Is to keep in touch with real people,
reproduce their thoughts, comment
on their hopes and welfare.
u Value of Unity.
This mornings mail brings a letter
from an able and thoughtful liberal,
who says:
do not mean to make an appeal
for the Woman's Party or to ask
sympathy on account of its few num-
beers. I am thinking Of the classified
ton Of people as those who want to
make things better as against the
majority who want to hold what they
have, or who don't care.
WHO was the brilliant Englishman
who said that II twenty genuine lib
erals would for once agree among
themselves they could overturn any
government?
Il think the liberties Of both male
and female are too far gone on the
way to extinction for it to be worth
while Quibbling as between the sexes
The general fight seems to me SO
J much more important"
Many Of my friends feel the same
way about the loss of liberty since the
! war. One OF them, a leader in liberal
work for twenty years, tells me with
amusement, but also with a touch Of
sadness. that even the Vice Presidents
series Of articles against allowing any
thought in women's colleges is not
wholly without effect.
Daugherty on Debs.
For example, he knows a young
woman who was to enter Wellesley this
month. Her parents. after reading
the profundities and alarms of Mr..
Coolidge, decided that Wellesley was
too dangerous a place for their child.
So they sent her to Sweet Briar Col.
lege instead.
The head Of the largest university
in America is widely known as Nicho-
las Miraculous Butler Within a few
days he has declared that there is no
longer any reason to fear the ruling
the horrible minority.
The Attorney General Of the United
States has also within a short
time delivered himself of a speecb
in which he said that people who
think and suffer for themselves. like
Eugene Debs, are as bad as thieves,
or worse.
Doubtless ought to be discour.
aged about liberty in these cfrcum-
stances, as are many Of my friends.
cut I trust the intelligent minority
90 M 70
time, and to have it's legitimate in
fluence on the direction in which
moves the glacier-like mass Of the
majority.
r. Value Of MediOcrity.
Butler, Daugherty and Coolidge
are not the only persons whose |
speeches have been reading. There
lies on my desk also an address,
now issued in pamphlet form by one |
of the great minds of this country; |
one of the outstanding living schol- |
ars of the world. In this address |
Dean Pound says:
oIadle in hand, the teacher stands |
beside a bowl Of chemically pure
dope which the wisdom and expert |
ence Of the past have prescribed |
. 1t contains everything which |
organized zeal and organized interest |
legislative wisdom and 1t is free from |
anything which the latest wave of |
propaganda has been able to induce |
the lawmakers to exclude.
I'm this spirit the president Of our
greatest university, in point of num-
bers, has told us that all we need |
in teaching is laborious, steady.going |
trnediocrity."
But Professor Pound is not discour-
aged. He notices that engineering ad.
vafices, medicine advances, architect |
ure is alive; agriculture makes new |
discoveries, Why may not the |
methods Of governing men also |
improve?
Socrates was put to death. and so
was Jesus: but history is only a few
thousand years old. Nineteen twenty /
one Is but ripple. On the whole,
the direction Of man is forward.