The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-20
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lLBy Herbert Kaufman
TXTRA! Henry and Wall
Street at last agree. Both
are convinced that pros
perity can only be preserved by
leaving Calvin Coolidge in the
White House.
However, Roy Harrup, of
Omaha, head of Nebraska
third party, willy-nilly pushes
convention plans and prepares to
offer Caesar a third chance at
the crown.
Republican leaders, who be-
hold a million "flivvers" loaded
with votes, are prematurely en-
thnsiastic.
Should Ford again refuse to
run, Western farms won't back
Coolidge, with whom they were
through the moment he notified
them ITO work out their own
salvation"
Meanwhile the nation may
congratulate itself on FOrd's de-
cision to keep his hat on. Four
years hence, he'll be a much
more desirable candidate.
Just now he's too warped and
provincial. Time and contact
will inevitably temper and steady
certain immoderate trends.
Although this man has come
further within a given period
than any human of record, we
dare not yet entrust him with
national administration. The
general manager of a great
democracy perilously carries
class and racial bias into office.
Left to ripen, the shrewd-
ness and mental balance that
so remarkably manifest them
selves in special industrial
problems, must gradually ex-
tend to extraneous affairs, and,
by 1923, provide the country
with a much more matured and
seasoned piece of Presidential
timber.
Take one wild deuce out of
the deck.
Hush! Hush! Here Comes
the BOgy Man.
w. v. COWEN, of sacra-
w mento county, sets up a
bogy and Immediately knocks
It down. Prosecuting /. w. w.
agents under the California
syndicalism act, he discovers
that thousands of nonunion
workers have Joined the 'wob-
bl;es," because they're afraid
of beatings if they don't.
In the next breath, he would
have US believe the power of
these radicals over unskiIled
labor cannot be overestimated.
There's nothing to be feared
from an organization whose re-
cruiting officers are brass
knuckles and black jacks. In
limitation is the confession of
. lost cause.
Industrial Workers of the
World are obviously in despair
ate straits when they must re-
sort to murder and violence to
obtain converts.
As witness the case of Frank
Smith, a BLANKET stiff" club
bed to death near Stockton.
simply because he wouldn't
acknowledge William H. Hay
wood the best friend of the
masses.
You're Right and You're
Wrong, Dr.. Crapsey.
TIME was, however, when
l. even princes of the church
upheld such PROSECUTING. An
English lady writing from the
Spanish court several centuries
ago, relates how the king and
queen attended auto do fes
detailing with much gusto Her
Majesty's amusement at the
antics of a young girl as she
danced amid flaming fagots.
Lucky for certain dissenting
Episcopalian and Presbyterian
ministers that live in an age
when honest doubts may be ex-
pressed without risk of inquisi-
ton.
DR.. Crapsey, read out of the
pulpit seventeen years ago for
heresy, says that no thinking
person nowadays, credits Ba-
lam's ass with the gift of speech
or accepts the creation Of the
world in six days. Which is
doubtless correct. But few will
agree with him that Christi
anity is doomed to extinction by
the spread Of scientific knowl-
edge.
HGekeI Didn't SOlUe the
Riddle.
HOWARD KELLY, of Johns
AAHopkins, is probably our fore.
most genealogist and lay
preacher.
Faculties Of all important mi
versities include noteworthy de-
tenders of the faith. Agnosti-
cism and knowledge are seldom
team mates.
Confidence in a Supreme Being
tntensifies as one probes into
the mysteries of existence.
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