The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-05-18
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
By MILDRED MORRIS
Federated Press Staff Correspondent.

Washington-The all-year around
show playing here, Hornswoggling
the Voters, has taken merry turn,
with the presidents world court plan
as an added attraction.
"Whatsit" is the title of a sldt in
which the team of Harding and Lodge
explain what it is and what it amt.
The Hearst papers, assisted by the
Democratic organs in high tremolo
and the Republican organs in low
tremolo, sing a chorus with sad re-
frain which tells of "Casbianca"
Harding leftlon the burning deck with
only Hughes ticklish whiskers and
BERTHE HOover's none too strong chin
to sling to, as all his other heartless
shipmates flee. The Republican
machine will split-the flowers do
bloom in the springtime tra-la! tra-la!
Where will the splitters go asks Mr..
Bones, the funny man. He's a scream
as he pictures old "Pop" Lodge and
Brother Jim Watson jazzing to he
tune of Hi Johnson Blues and the La
Toilette Lope.
Sporting gentlemen here are laying
wagers that soon Messrs. Harding,
Watson, Lodge, ct al will be singing,
'We're good fellows together" If the
presidents plan is presented to the
next congress, Lodge and Watson may
rant and rave against it; but, accord
ing to t he best lunches, only by way
of doing their bit to keep congress so
upset on Europe that the TROUBLESOME
Progressive-Labo bloc will be pre-
vented from raising thunder about
big domestic issues like the railroads
tax revision, coal and the high tariff
and Taft's $4,000 a year from the
steel trust.
La Follette's analysis of the presi-
dents new world court complex
pressure from the international bank
ers and a desire to make the people
forget national issues-is now gener-
ally accepted here. Some circles are
inclined to the explanation that, urged
by his political advisers to take firm
as the only thing on which he could
stand on something. he chose Europe
stand without exposing the admins
tration's weak underpinnings.
Anyway, it's a great show While II
lasts. ATTORNEY General Daugherty
who went to Florida to recover from
Washington and to North Carolina tC
recover from Florida, is sufficiently
recovered to resume his strenuous
duties and is expected to add to the
gaiety.
The president allows the world is
Gin pretty bad way" In an address
here before the American Society OF
Newspaper Editors he opined that the
social order connot be overturned; civ
ilization cannot be revised.
"But nevertheless" he added, "civ-
ilization is in very critical stage"
"Don't you see how important it is
to tell the simple, comforting truth
about things when there is a simple
comforting truth? Don't you see how
/ important it is to omit the things that
tend to destroy the faith in society
Don't you see how essential it is that
you preach faith in the justice of the
republic rather than the suspicion tha-
| justice cannot abide under our pres
ent social system ?"
After this plea to the newspape,
editors to suppress unpleasant truths
our president-in perfect seriousness
added:
'In the present regime in the pub
LEGATION of newspapers there is indeet
a call for a strict code of ethics il
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profession in the world"