Evening star., 1923-08-30
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS

all. Anyhow, Miss Gne is worried
about the motherhood of men. as
much as she is about all her big
brothers. for she announces of the
mothers:
"It is their sons who fight Why
should they not unite against war;"
But Miss President Giles-head
brother. ."-elucidates by announcing
that: Wisdom brings brotherhood
brotherhood brings understanding
understanding brings love and toler-
peace"
1t is just one link after another
just like that. So is sausage.
Furthermore. the whole thing leads
directly to the movies. 1t seems like
Will Hays propaganda. Maybe he
is the big brother.
They are going to show by ceIlulose
next to INT the highest ex-
plosive-that after the Brotherhood
of Man Foundation will have raised
| the needed $3.50, 900. and everybody
will have seen the first film, Reality
all Will be so enthused and lovely that
| there will be no more wars in all the
world.
Does that explain clearly why the
budget commissioner cut $40, 200, 900
off of the estimate of needs for the
! Navy. which Acting Secretary Roose-
Welt Is trying to restore? Apparently,
he is not even d cousin of the presi-
| dent of this brotherhood of man.
X X -
Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania
announces that he favors the uncon-
ditional pardon OF twenty-five of the
thirty-four remaining prisoners in
| there for attempting to defeat the
| cause Of the American expeditionary
forces in the world war.
He insists that the men should be
given unconditional" pardons-not
pardonS on condition that they
pledge no more to play traitor to the
government, and promising faithful
and patriotio~ upholding of the Amer
lean armies facing the nations enc
mics. The senator says: "Annexing &
conditions seems to me to be incou-
sistent with the theory on which
pardon Is recommended. The men
ought to be either In or out. and in
either alternative without ifs" and
butts
n X 4
To a loyal citizen, what are the
ifs" and butts" in a. promise to
continue loyal? To one who takes
an oath of allegiance what are the
| mental reservations which he may
patriotically hold in his unex-
pressed mind?
The American Legion seems to be
under the impression that every
slackening of the measure of culpa-
bility of the criminal slackers and
active traitors Is at the expense OF
popular or official appreciation of the
merit of patriotism as manifested by
the soldiers.
A letter TO President Coolidge from
the official spokesman of the Amer
lean Legion, John Thomas Taylor,
vice chairman national legislative
committee. says;
Because the average American has
been deceived regarding the issues
involved, through the propaganda of
apologists and advocates of pacifism,
an Intelligent public opinion has
never been aroused in protest against
the amnesty for these traitors who
attempted to stab our country in the
back when we were at grips with the
enemy. These traitors. land
the initiated of their intercessors,
have as their object the overthrow
of our Constitution. which they pre-
tend to defend. The legion has
contended this continually, and has
finally had ii affirmed by the re-
fusal of sixteen of the twenty seven
convicts to accept the Executive
communication of sentence rendered
last June because the conditions re-
quired that they become abiding
citizens during the period of their
unexpired sentences.
$50, by their own actions, these
enemies of our country have proved
that Ii is not freedom from prison
walls which they and their friends
desire for them. but rather Execu-
tive permission for freedom to con-
tinue their battle to overthrow our
present form of government by the
class revolution. and freedom again
to stab our country in the back should
another emergency arise"
X X
Brig. Gen. Hines announces that
by next year he hopes to have hos
pital capacity open to all veterans,
regardless of what their disabilities
might be-" but that tine real prob
lem confronting the Veterans Bureau
Is the finding of employment for re-
habilitated soldiers"
Copyright. 1923. by Paul V Co!lins.)