The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
COOLIDGE LAIDS
 FIRST PRESIDENT
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and laws to meet changing conditions and better appreciation of the broad requirements of humanity. We have ex- tended and increased the direct power oi the voter. But the central idea of self-goyernment remains unchanged. While we realize that freedom and in dependence of the individual mean in creased responsibility for the individ- ual, while we know that the people do and must support the government and that the government does not and cannot support the people, yet the protection of the, individual from the power, now represented by organized numbers and consolidated wealth, re- quires many activities on the part of the government. Many laws are neces- sary for this purpose both in the name of justice and of humanity. Efforts ia this direction are not for the pur- pose of undermining the independence oe the individual but for the. purpose of maintaining for him an equal op- portunity. They are made on the theory that each individual is entitled to live his own life in his own way, free from every kind of tyranny and oppression.
 We have not yet reached the goal of Washington'se s ideals. They are not yet fully understood. He was prac- tical man. He suffered from no delu- sions. He knew that there was no power to establish system under which existence could be supported without effort. Those who now expect anything in that direction are certain , to be disappointed. He held out no promise of unearned rewards, either in small or large amountsi On the other hand, if no one ought to receive gain except for service rendered, no one ought to be required to render service except for reasonable compen- sation. Equality and justice both re- quires that there should be no profiteer- ing and no exploitation. Under the is neither any peasantry or any order and socially, service and character are to reign, and service and character alone.
 "Such is the meaning of the life of George Washington, who came into be- ing nearly two hundred yearslago. He left the world stronger and better. He made life broader and sweeter."
 Says Daugherty Not Aiding Him
 In connection with the agitation for the removal of Mir. Daugherty from the cabinet, Senator Walsh said he might call attention that, altrough the depart ment of justice had a well organized and disciplined bureau of investigation, there had come to him up to this time no hint even of any available witness in the oil inquiry and no suggestion tfat might be of aid in the inquiry. E. l.. Doheny who obtained from Fall the lease to Naval Reserve Number l in California, also may appear before the committee again. Senator Walsh said he had promised to find and de- liver to the committee the signature to the note which Doheny says Fall gave him as evidence of the unpaid loan of $100,000 which he made to the cabi- net officer before the lease was granted. Doheny, ina letter addressed to Chairman Lenroot, and made public here tonight on his behalf, demands that Senator Walsh be called before the committee for questioning regarding statements made in the senate last Tuesday to the effect that everybody knew Attorney General Daugherty twas the friend of Doheny" and that it ap- peared his name was mixed in" the oil scandal.
 Chairman Lenroot said tonight he had not received the letter, which was dated at New York yesterday. Doheny wrote that Mir. Wheeler's remarks related directly to the subject matter under in vestigation by the oil committee-''far more directly than anything" Frank A. Vanderlip had to say in his now famous Ossining speech.
 Wants Wheeler to Testify
 Following the precedent set when Mir. Vanderlip was called to testify" the letter said, II respectfully suggest that the committee should summon Sena- tor Wheeler and call upon him to testify to any facts that he may know to SUD- pert his statements.
 If his own testimony develops that Mir. Wheeler does not know any such facts, suggest that he be asked to give the committee the name of any person who can support the allegation"
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