Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-22
ABOUT RIOTING PRIDE AND
MARSHALl'S JlTNEY CIGAR
sve, We Shall Have 70 Turn
and Go Backward?

ways and means committee Of the House.
He rose to say that what the country really
needed was good five cent cigar
\ mcmontary stiffness then fell unon this
land. There was an interval Of startled
quiet like that which comes suddenly in a
play or in tho car Of balloon when tho
passengers muster courage for first look
over tho side The country realized aImo't
for tho first tim" that il had n Ncc prcSj
dent aud that hr "as man Of acumcn al
most profound. For il was clear that Mr..
Marshall was not thinking only of good
five cout cigar. lie was thinking Of tho state
OF mind that accompanied il. That is what
le wanted to return to.
In a good many minds there rose sud
denly the feeling that the Vice President
should have been at Paris. His suggestion.
coming as 1t did like q contradictory and
revealing line in a blazing drama, was in its
way as revolutionary as anything suggested
in tn" covenant OF the League of Nations.
lie might have told tho people OF Europe
that they need fewer two dollar kings. fewer
thirty cent state ,mrn. f"wrr billionaircs AMI
moro food for tho multtudcs. less mlitarism
and more work. larger number OF leaders
content to mind their own business aud to
let other people follow the same almost for
gotten rule.
l
lis vanity and vcxatiou Of spirit" And
SO it really is the world over Millionaires
used to bo contcut with twenty five cent
| cigars. Now they feel that they must
| perish misorably without cigars that cost
a dollar each. Men who onco were delighted
to drive dorcndahle fivvcrs progress in
| evitHbly through the various stages Of tho
rodorn mania of ac0usitivcncss until. hy
| fair means or foul, they can get possession
of rolling CathcdralS with rubber tires aud
! n motiyatng engine. The Senate used TO
| be content to be tho Senate. Now it yearns
| tn bc the government Of the nitCd States
! Politician, us"i 10 b" made happy hy five
| minute interview with the President. Now
| these same men are consumed with rage il
| they aren't permitted 10 issue orders !" the
| chief executive
In the period to which Mr.. Marshall
turned ycarnirg gaze virtue was supposed
| 10 he its own reward and good people were
| content to BE- good. More recently they have
! com" to insist upon their right t" rrcrcatn-
! hv violence II uPcCsSarv--Hli other people in
| thoir own Likeness. Yet they have only fol-
| lowed examples rlaboratclT provided for
! them in the exalted places of the earth For
| in the day of jitnCy cigars governments were
! content TO govern. \"w they ore dominated
| by men who believe that they have u divine
right to direct the affairs of all peoples who
do not speak their language.
| Most people can still remember n period
when children were not sophisticated and
| even blaSc at fourteen. They were accus-
| toned, if memory >,ryrs to read in the
| nursery library during the iutor' al between
! dinner aud bedtime. They weren't insiStcnt
| on tho rights and privilege, that have caused
| something like organized anxiety among
! parents cvorywhcrc in th" country. and they
didn't 60 forth into III" night in the habjli
monts that az last hay" inspired a movement
for dress reform among IL" very young.
Jaz. i tho new ju'oxran', and it isn't
prohibited by tn" Vol.trad act ,,,I it il by
no means limited t., mu,ir. Iiuuuoc aud
! politics and great d"ai ~ common reason
! ing are thoroughly JaG2oi-tuorough'v dis
ordered. We move in n sort ot mad pro-
| ccssior beaded 10y th" sp"nd"r> tho felix
whose ailliction it is - believe that happi-
| ness can be bought with money and that
! only hy shameless waste cGn ecstasy hc at
taincd. Tho Wild pageant moves ovor tho
most ancient oi roads. 1t tops or" hill only
70 confront Lgbcr one demanding to be
! climbed. l. moves in Il vast rircl" and cads
whor" it began aud tu"re lou die because
it j. o." a'c ~ y" anything else
Mr. Marshal. wanted to do 4 ,eusb"
thing lie wsutod 70 rght-atoIt face and
60 backward e. tho days of order and com
mon -cu," and normal discipline. Un,l a
very nuus s.drraho n"mhc- of influential pr0-
r'. r,.,ogal2o tho wisdom ~ his sIggo~tion
.n,"ran-louai covenants and tho downfall Of
ug~ vii, 30 of Ilttlo good 10 III" world
,,lEAauon will hlv" 20 b. d"ja,4"d.
Tlns, qul'o A. astonishing and almost as
,l..uoI, H. the war .'>Ht have bron happen.
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