The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-12-28
THE KALEIDOSCOPE
By |. C. McCUMBER

ed in their hands, the inuumerable
small broken colored pieces of glass
formed myriad of wonderfully beau
tiful forms. The prisms of light as
they were reflected to the eye as it
gaZed through the Kaleidoscope, fired
the imagination and aroused the Curl
osity of the childish mind Even to-
| day we find that as the child of some
few weeks since, now grown to wom-
anhood and manhood, STILL in the es-
timation of many men who hold high
public office, retain the childish mind,
and as the political kaleidoscope re-
wolves, they, the politicians, will be
portrayed as the personification of all
| that which is good, holy beautiful and
correct. In selecting a title under
which to impart the thoughts of the
one who writes under the above cap
ton, have selected the word "kaleid-
oscope." AS that instrument por-
trayed millions of varied designs in
beautiful alignment, it is my hope
that, in reviewing the various phases
of our complex diversities, there may
be some which will have had an OPP
portunity to see themselves through
their political representative and the
daily press as others see them.
Some few years ago we had the.
opportunity to take off our hat as we
entered the city where the seat of
American government sits in soft
cushioned upholstered chairs. AS we
entered the city of Washington, our
mind reverted to George when he
crossed the Potomac river adjacent to
Valley Forge Here | am away off
Some people never could quite asso-
ciate George Washington with Valley
Forge And yet the two names are
Synonymous. The line of demarcation
has grown in more recent years, and
there are some politicians who tenn
porarily make Washington their head
quarters, who aver that Valley Forge
and George Washington are quite as
far apart as Wayne B. Wheeler and
the back door to a South Dakota blind
tiger. Be that as it may, we WILL
weather permitting, tell you from
time to time the inside story, many of
which are camoufiaged, in the daily
press as news stories" Understand
that these news stories are written up
by paid employe of a publisher who,
above all things. tries to print the
unvarnished truth, regardless of how
it hits the end of the paper which
interests the owner of the stock
holder. You do not want to take this
too literal, for it has been said that
we as Americans are quite too literal
in accepting many things which
might better be termed illiteral or
inconsequential until the time comes
when you are asked to pay taxes,
and then you find that you are up
against the material side of this ex-
istence as against the immaterial.
Congress has gone into session, and
for the past several days Nick Long
worth, congressman from Cincinnati,
Ohio, has been very busily engaged in
trying to show the Matchmaker who
stood still" that time did not and
does not mean anything in his quiet
life. Nick, according to a few news
papers, has made mark for himself,
and is now trying to have the pattern
woven into a fabric which will stand
without having the solors run. A
washerwoman who never put her
hands into tub of suds, known as
Mrs. Big Business, decided that Nick
would make the best kind of a boss
of washerwomen ever since the days
of Boss Reed Now you need not
trouble yourself as to the late lament
ed Mr. Reed, for according to Mrs
Big Business, when he handed over
the reigns of the congressional wash
tub to Champ Clark, Mrs. Big Busi-
ness decided that her children were
sufficiently numerous, that the people
would stand for any kind of washing,
and now Nick Longworth has been
Ginning with several of his colleagues
as to what kind of soap will be used
in washing such new legislation as
may be permitted to be placed in the
congressional washtub. Nick AYERS
that it is absolutely essential that
Mrs Big Business have a say as to
what kind of soap shall be used. And
the individual, outside of Nick, who
has the last say as to the kind of soap
to be used, is the chairman of the
committees. Thus you, my dear read
er, can readily understand the point
of view of Mrs. Big Business. She
says that if the working people, the
farmer, the shopkeeper, the printer,
the candlestickmaker, the blind pigger
will only leave Mrs. Big Business
alone, that Nick Longworth, the mas
ter washerwoman, will select the kind
of soap that will wash the goods for
the people without leaving any kind
of an aroma. Now, an aroma is
something which no good washer
woman cares to have about her
clothes. And Nick will see to it that
no kind of an aroma remains when he