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FREE AIR." SAYS COOLIDGE.
WHAT AILS THE CHURCH?
UNCERTAIN, COY, AS USUAL.
MOTHER, FIRST, LAST.
THE BANKERS SING.
BY Arthur Brisbane
THE BANKERS SING.

President COOllQge HOCilleS Cno
world in general, including would
be monopolists of radio privileges,
that nobody will be ALLOWED to
monopolize the air."
That's welcome. Ordinary mo-
nopolies the people recognize as
national American institutions
electric light, railroads and other
things. But they WOULD like the
air to remain free, if possible.
Even in front Of gasoline stations
you see the sign Gree Air" The
President should be congratulated
on having put that sign up out
side the White House.
What is the matter with the
Church? Many old fashioned
preachers ask that question. Cler-
gymen, secure in their pulpits,'
ike the distinguished Dean Inge,
of St. Paul's, in London, calmly tell
YOU that one of the great Apostles
was not inspired; he only had cpl
leptic fits. All this isn't new.
CIergymen are making every eff,
fort to restore religious enthus-
iasm.
In New York's Cathedral of ST.
John the Divine, sixty Bishops,
magnifcently robed in brilliant col
ors, accompanied by "Honorary
Canons" the clergy Of the cathedral,
the choir, ETC., recently paradcd
through a building that cost mill
lions of dollars. That was most
impressive.
But perhaps half dozen fisher
men, sitting in a rowboat that cost
less than 500, discussing religion
earnestly, might dc. more for falth
than any ten-million-doliar catile-'
dral.
Woman, in her hours OF. ease,
continues to be coy and uncertain.
In Paris, she is having her Shout
ders rouged. In London, artists
paint artificial freckles on wons7
ems faces. necks and arms.
There is meaning in all this
petty puzzling feminine NONSENSE
Olympias, mother of Alexander,
doing wild dances with snakes
wrapped around her, no other
clothing, and your great graul-
mother with her hoop skirt trail-
ing on the ground and syAe.llig
salts, both represent progress IN
some mysterious way.
Woman is a being more corrli-
Gated than man. Her eYalQt.3z@ 3
longer, more intricate.
Anatole France dies, calling f3r
his mother. The great French
writer had lived so years, achieved
fame, a great name. All that
seemed small in the last minute Of
the 80 years. The memory OF his
mother stood out above al the
rest.
At the beginning and at the end.
the mother comes first. In BE-
tween, others haze their tuGn.
The big Zeppelin ZR-3 sl
for America to the /
.Ijal,s.c bland ueber Alle /:
Tia, rs unwieldiy gas bag can
leave ( arnlany o1l a Monday morn
ing and land in Lakchurst, four
thousand miles away, on the fol-
lowing Wednesday morning, how
long do you think it will take high
powered, heavier than air ma
chimes to cross the Pacific or the.
Atlantic with TINT and poison gas
a few years from now?
Big bankers, thousands of them,
gathered in Chicago recently, quite
happy. They sang songs waiting
for the speaking to start, and told
each other, Business is fine" But
one little crumpled rose leaf is in
the soft financial mattress. "There
is among the bankers uncertainty
over social unrest"
Sorry to disturb bankers, but
that uncertainty is good thing.
1t makes bankers and other i'm
portant men think, it always has
made them think, and it's about
the only thing that DOES make,
them think--about the little peo-
pie. Who notices a mule that
doesn't kick?
There was much uncertainty
among the "better element" in the
days of the Gracchi before Christ
was born. There has been more
or less of that uncertainty ever
since. And where the uncertainty
has been LACKING there has been
trouble.
You can't change anything IN
this world suddenly. You can't
even change a caterpillar into a
butterfly in five minutes. Argu-
ing with a caterpillar, begging him
to be "class conscious" won't do,
it. Setting a match to one end Of
the cocoon may ruin that cocoon,
but it won't bring out the butter
Ely.