The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-11
W iide
World
by Herbert Kaufman

UHE little concern which
George Washington, John
Adams and Thomas Jeffer-
son successfully directed trans
acted 10000 per cent less bust
ness than the enterprise Calvin
Coolidge manages.
United States overheads have
increased hundredfold within
q single century. Fair play
asks You to bear such facts in
mind while contrasting the
quality of late and early Presi-
dents.
Running this country is by
all odds the stiffest job on
earth. Mr.. Coolidges budget
message shows the extent of
Executive responsibility and in
dicates how widely our inter-
ests have spread since the Lib
erty bell cracked.
Federal expenditures exceed
ed forty billion dollars in the
past seven years. Civilization
hasn't yet counted forty billion
clock ticks.
The national debt is four
and . half billions lower than
IN 1910. More than the total
sum France owes us! The saw
ing was largely effected by re-
auctions IN military and naval
establishments, restraint of
bureau extravagances and con-
centrating civic energy on pro-
ductive tasks.
ID. Poincare, anxious to learn
how his people can possibly
meet their local obligations, is
herewith presented with the
formula.
Put EN- IN the PilIoryl
WHITE House determination
TO quit furnishing the press
with advance copies Aof impor-
tant Federal documents, is not
only justified by circumstantial
evidence, but should be prompt
" followed with investigation
and exposure of any paper
found guilty Of betraying public
interest and journalistic faith.
Patriotic publishers welcome
and demand probe. News as
sociations whose integrity may
have been violated by proxy, are
especially eager to discover IL
there are franchise holders un-
worthy Of service.
But, it is by no means estab-
lished that the information, of
which stock brokers boosted
possession and scandalously util-
lied il 10 line their tawdry
pockets, was obtained from edi-
tors or their correspondents.
Various Government employees
had access to proofs Of the an
naal message. Politicians of all
parties reputedly possessed
drafts.
Wall Street has repeatedly ex-
plotted leaks traced TO blabbing
department clerks. The nastiest
market sensation Of q decade
revealed q cotton statistieian in
eoIlusion with market operators.
Holmes, the guilty steward,
wss indicted and prosecuted and
his fellow conspirators piIloried.
The next move is up to Attor-
nev General Daugherty. Let
him do his duty by the Govern
ment and the Fourth Estate,
which pledges itself to denounce
and ostracize its proven black
sheep.
Please Page Solomon.
ExPERIENCE continually
II sharpens the teeth Of old
saws.
That ssNo one is q hero to
his own valet" is again sub
stantiated. Criticising the am
orous second childhood of
notorious old beau, an un-
named New York servant de-
Iivers the following aphorism:
ssThe record of love affairs
after fifty is written on check
book stubs"
James A. Goodrich, aged
eixty-seven, viii doubtless en-
dorse the sentiment should
Manhattan courts award Miss
Louisa Dodge, spinster, the
$4,000 worth Of heart balm
she demands in default of
orange blossoms.
Beverly Harris, formerly vice
president Of the Guaranty Trust
Company, also contributes food
for thought to this matrimonial
symposium.
He is convinced that no one
should marry woman half his
age.
Grandfather Sprayberry di-
vorces a fourteen-year-old
spouse because she ABUSED and
annoyed him. Dispatches don't
indicate the discarded damsePs
reflections on May-November
matings. There are no fools
like 'em.
More or Less Important
People.
WITH $4,000 trillion marks
w outstanding, the Reichs-
bank is so hopelessly shattered
that readers will wonder why
cables bother to report that
three Americans have just