Evening star., 1923-07-06
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

Representative AswelI is deter
mined TO Introduce a bill at the next
session Of Congress providing for the
withholding of the federal road funds
from any state indulging in license
Tag &C oiscriminatlon: .Sdi He says he
In hearty sympathy with such a
| course.
The idea that any state line should
deinernetiate en In the rights of Amer
| spirit which forbids a state from
levying a tariff on commerce be-
tween states. Travelling by automo-
| bile across state boundaries Is inter
the Jurisdiction of the federal gov
ernment. not Of state legislatures.
President Harding persists in max.
| ing a mechanic out of "a perfectly
good President" His latest stunt IL
| that of a motorneer on an electric
| train running through the mountains
Of Idaho.
President Garfield was a mule driv-
er. and could twist the tail OF the
liveliest mule and jump back at thu
psychological moment. President
Washington was an engineer-but
not an electric one. He did not try
to fly Ben Franklin's electric kite
President Grant was a tanner. He
tanned the hides of cattle and-peo-
pie. But he served an apprentice
ship first. We have had a rail-split-
ter, a cow-puncher and q printer In
the White House. But SO far as his
! tory relates, they confined their elec-
tioneering methods to kissing babies
| rather than trying to beat every me-
chanic at his own trade. Somehow
the regular motorneers and cow
punchers seem to enjoy II all, though
probably many mother Is repeating
the famous criticism of Grant: why
my son Johns a bigger man than old
Grant"
Senator Royal s. Copeland demo
craD OF New York has been convert
ed to the cause of the wheat raisers
of America. and has become an ad-
vocate of protection to that Infant
industry" The Minneapolis millers
sent out some statistics a few days
ago and asked that all Americans eat
an extra slice of bread per day, in
order to add to the consumption of
the surplus wheat. Senator Copeland
says that at first he objected to that
on the ground that IL we all ate more
not eat so much of the farmers 9TH
er products.
But, he says, further thought has
convinced him that while the extra
slice of bread would mean eating
150,000.000 bushels of wheat extra, II
would require also 100000 extra
bushels of corn to make the yeast
100000 bushels Of corn to fatten the
| extra 100000 hogs, to produce the
| lard. and a lot of cornstarch to make
| cakes. The bread would require IAN
ocean of milk"-as much as New
York city now consumes in 22o days
and a billion pounds of butter, to
spread the extra slice. Sugar and
jams would be added. besides a mil
lion yards of cotton to make the -four
| sacks.
1t is to be presumed that most folks
eat now as much as they need The
question naturally arises as to what
will happen to public health when
everybody oyereats to the extent Of a
total Of millions of bushels of every
thing. But the astute health officer
| who does not have to feel responsible
any longer for the health of the null
titude, has nothing to say about the
demoralized digestions of the masses,
bent on making the farmers and mill
erS prosperous at the expense of the
stomachs of the surfeited multitude.
y
All, ha! The National Council of
Health finds a way of testing man
kind and soaring so per cent into
chasing doctors. The farmers, mill
ers and doctors conspire to betray the
other 40 per cent into gluttony! We
are ruined by our stomachs.
This is no party question. 1t affects
democrats and republicans alike. 1t
affects all parties except the Il won't
works" The latter can't even get the
first slice, much less the extra SLICE
1t will play into the hands-or stom-
achs-of the Il. w. VS." and soon
they. and they alone. will govern.
Senator Copeland does not realize the
far extent of the influence of his
measure. for he Is a baby senator, new
in major statesmanship. Give us
less bread or give US DEATH
Copyright. 1923, by P. V. Collins.)