The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-11-14

facrurer OF automobiles, says every
body in France ought TO have his OWN
automobile. The trouble is: In Amer
lea the workman, saving one days
pay per week, can buy an automobile
with the money at the end of a year.
IN France it would take a Frenchman's
ENTIRE SALARY for two years"
II you want a good crop, put water
and fertilizer on the land. If you want
a prosperous country, put good wages
in the pockets of those that work.
It all comes back to the big people
ten dollars for one.
II you are a radio enthusiast, and
understand such things, you will be
interested in the latest announcement.
A message. receiving its only impulse
on this side of the ocean, made the
"trip of 5000 miles to Warsaw and
back twenty times, a total distance OF
100000 miles. That is almost twice as
far as light and electricity travel in
one second. II amazes US now. We
see it, and work it, and know nothing
about it. Some day well send less
ages to outside suns, ending with
please answer" knowing that at 1885,
600 miles a second the answer will not
be back in time for our grandchildren
to read it.
Eugene V. Debs says prison didn't
brighten him. Right now he would
hang for an idea" That's noble,
onee in a while, although you must
first be sure that your idea is sound.
For one mar hanged for a good idea,
ten thousand have been hanged for
ideas thoroughly bad.
j.. II you have a sound idea, don't hang
for it. Publish it. repeat it, persuade
others to accept it. Voltaire opposed
torture of witnesses, breaking, every
miserable judge in one famous case,
after a fight OF many years He de-
fed Frederick the Great and greater
powers, and finally died peacefully in
his bed, nearl 4 -.
rich In money, adored By the people
that drew his carriage through me
streets. He showed the right way TO
deal with an idea. That was better
than poor John Brown. Of Harpers
Ferry, never living to see anything
accomplished.
1t takes one kind of ability to hang"
III Ill lQtdt anu II AahCG a AASANA
to convert or hang those that oppose
the idea when it is right.
McAdoo let it be known that he is
in the race for President Of course
he is. being the most conspicuous
Democratic candidate.
Hiram johnson will be in the ring
also. This is a free for all. and Hiram
Johnson probably can get more votes
in Presidential primaries than any
other Republican. Albert Lacker will
work for Johnson as he did for Hard
ing. He's a hrst-elass dynamo.
One of Mr.. Ford's secretaries says
he wouldn't accept the nomination for
the Presidency. But it isn't Liebold.
the real secretary, and probably
doesn't mean much.
Mr.. Ford has his days for Presiden-
tial running and his days for forget
ting all about it. # the nomination
should come on the right day he would
probably take it. Meanwhile he's star
ting a plant near Philadelphia. to cost
twenty or thirty millions. and hire a
few thousand men at high wages.
That's no bad politics.
Bonar Law lies in Westminster
Abbey. American tourists fifty years
from now will lock at his grave and
ask: Who in heavens name was
that" as they pass on to the place
where Pitt and his father, Chatham,
lie in the same grave.
Bonar Laws family is pleased.
That's <hat the burial was for.
They dug up Cromwell and stuck
his head on a spear for every \ 10
laugh at and let il gradually go to
pieces. They dug up and scattered
the dust of NoItaire- But men Of that
kind. real men. don't need burial IN
Westminster Abbey. There wouldn't
be room in any building for anne as
big as theirs.
The Government learns that taxes
on sales OF jewelry haven't been paid.
Careful watch is being made, also
with regard TO household furniture.
| libraries and musical instruments.
Could you imagine anything more
b~arbarous. more worthy Of a Congo
savage than putting a tax or the sale
of household furniture, and especially
on the sale Of Libraries and musical
Instruments
Why not tax a child Two cents every
time it says its prayers? Reading q
good book or hearing good music IS
the next best thing 10 praying.
The son OF the former Kaiser, once
Crown Prince, has obtained permits
sion 10 leave Holland. The dispatch
SAYS that he is talking OF a trip to
Switzerland ITO enjoy the winter
sports"
Germans. wondering how their chill
dren will be fed this winter, win read
that with interest.
nov SCOUT MEETINGS.