The Washington times., 1922-05-31
Today
They Are Very Dead.
Ford for President?
Poor BondeIzwarts.
Pinchot's Good Money,
y ARTHUR BRISH
Copyright. Is22.

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Copyright. 1922.
Decoration Day has gone.
The number of graves is great
er; the story about the same.
Some went motoring, others
fishing or golfing. some stayed
home. Ninety per cent played;
the others worked or decorated
graves.
How dead they are that are
gone. except In the hearts of
few that remember; how dread
fully and completely dead. They
might as well have died 1000
years ago. No lesson is learned.
More wars are Matching; the
preparation that prevents war
Is ignored. We drift along and
celebrate the decorating of
graves with a holiday.
Henry Ford for President
clubs are to start in, every Con-
gressional district, and arrange
ments made for signatures
enough to put Ford's name on
the Presidential ballot every
where. -.
Mr.. Ford would make an in
teresting rum. and cause agi-
tation. His product is known
to everybody, approved by
everybody. He pays the high
est wages, charges the lowest
prices, and SUCCEEDS, which
is most important. \
But there are "buts." He en-
lploys no union men. He has
virulently, uniustly, and igno-
rantly attacked the Jews. a most
useful part of the citizenship,
and efficient when it comes to
politics. or anything else. He
has suggested substitutes to be
used as money, in place of
"gold. gold, yellow and cold"
Imagine how that wosld worry
The bankers. They have some
thing to say about elections.
Imagine a Presidential order:
"Throw out all that gold in the
Treasury. We don't need it,"
Ford's candidacy is not i'm
probable, and let no man
laugh at it. You might see
bankers, union labor, and vari-
GUS other things, including the
Democratic and Republican
parties, uniting on a candidate
to beat him, as Democrats and
Republicans united unsuccess-
fully to beat "Golden Rule
Jones" of Toledo, or Berger of
Milwaukee.
We are to see strange things
J in this country, and one may be
the two old parties hunting for
= man strong enough to beat
Ford. { Y.
~ Clifford Pinchot reports that
BE spent 500, ,562.14 on his
victorious primary campaign
for governor of Pennsylvania.
His virtuous, vanquished oppo-
nent, Mr.. Alter, with bosses,
administration, high finance,
and the old Pennsylvania ma
chine back of him, spent only
$1,131.80. He says so himself.
Perhaps he and his hackers
thought they had it all ar
ranged, and did not need to
spend money-perhaps he did
not know what his friends
really spent for him. In any
case, it shows that laws for
bidding LEGITIMATE use Of
money in campaigns might help
the machine and hurt the peo-
pie.
Pinchot spent his own money
for the chance to serve the
people honestly, and had he
NOT spent it, he could not
have won the nomination.
The Bondelzwarts, Hottentots
of Southwest Africa, start a
rebellion against English rule,
and are on the warpath, waving
their assegais, crouching fierce
ly behind shields Of dried cow
hide, and telling each other
they will win-poor, deluded
Bondelzwarts.
Their assegais had little
chance against England when
bar machine guns were on the
ground and subject to ambush.
Now the machine guns come
flying through the air, with
dropping bombs and poison gas
AZ needed.
She fliers only laugh at the
poor savages, but remember or
ders not to kill too many. They
are needed in the mines.
This country could be made
as safe against Europe and
Asia as England is rsie against
those benighted Tottentots.
With an ocean on each side,
the power to raise an army of
100000 in six weeks, we need
only trained gunners. officers,