The daily star-mirror., 1923-11-05
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don't know how. There has been
reason to think the past few months
that Henry would like to run the gov
ernment Before the job is turned
over to him, it might be well to take
his specifications and determine
whether or no he would make more
that a fliyver president. He is
wonderful success as a manufacturer
of automobiles, but there is slight
difference between doing that job and
running the government.
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The interview with Congressman
Burton L. French, which appears
elsewhere in this issue of The Star
Mirror, portrays pretty well the act
ivities of a congressman during the
vacation months-a real working
congressman. Mr.. French is such
congressman, being all the time at
the service of his constituents, and
keeping closely in touch with their
needs, so far as they can be met
through his efforts. 1t is this persis-
tent, honest, work, coupled with
mind which thinks straight and
thinks rapidly, which has made him
one of the leaders in congress, and
has brought him most important COM
mittee assignments.
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And now Bula Edmonson Croker,
widow of Richard Croker, former
Tammany chief, is back in New York,
offering the Croker fortune and her
own services to Tammany, with the
idea, especially, of putting Governor
AL Smith over for the presidency. The
lady even wants to take the stump for
Smith, if he is nominated. Just what
argument anyone could make before
an intelligent American audience,
outside of New York City, for Smith,
we cannot conceive. The great ma
jority of the American people, who
respect their homes and love their
children, would simply see in any eff
fort to put Smith over, an effort on
the part of New York City, and the
liquor interests of other large cities.
to drop America once more back into
the old regime.
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IF YOU CAN'T BEAT EN-, JINE EN-
At recent conference of farms |
and banking interests the representa-
tives of the farmer organizations who
attended were told that instead of
criticizing the methods of successful
and big business to such an extent,
the thing to do is to use the methods
which have contributed to the sue
cess of big BUSINESS, which is organi-
zation. a 8I
Cooperative marketing and busi-
ness methods in selling are quite the
question of the day and are not to be
downed by critics of the plan, who
pretend to see nothing but disaster
and failure in the plan or idea of the
man on the farm having business
ability sufficient to take care of him
self and protect his own interests.
There has been an open season so
long on farmers, and the result OF
his effort and labor, that it is re-
yelation rejected with indignity that
hat producer and man on the farm
will no longer tamely submit to hav-
ng what he has earned devoted to the
Use of someone else.
Orderly marketing through the
means of cooperation will not be had
without great deal of effort, lost
notion and expensive experience and
and without a great
many mistakes being made which will
all down condemnation. There will ,
,e attracted to the movement many {
men whose sole interest will be to use S
he organization for personal gain
r POLITICAL preferment, but those :
ypes will soon be found out and :
brown out, and from it all will come t
set of plans that will work for the !
enefit Of those for whom they are
man on the farm.
Too much time has been spent in G
ain criticism Of the methods of sue =
essful men and institutions. The big '
1ing to do is to benefit by their ex- .
erience and do as they do. Emulate
1e words and actions of the far fam f.
1 Champ Clark of Missouri who once !
pom time when talking of those to .
hom he was opposed, said the thing b