Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-06-28
SHENANDOAH PASSES.
TOO FEW OWN HOMES.
A LADY VICE-PRESIDENT.
THE PEOPLES INDEPENDENCE.

The airship Shenandoah, sailing
toward Albany, above the Hudson,
last week, passed the Twentieth
Century, the fastest New York Cen
trail train, coming from Chicago.
The airship carried 120 human
beings, the express train many
more. The passengers on the fast
train bent their necks looking up
ward, and thought how strange it
was travelling up there in the air.
In a few years that well-ap-
pointed express train will be out of
date as the stage coach is now.
The young Vanderbilt boys and
George F. Baker, real boss of the
New York Central, would do well
to begin planning now for trans
portation through the air. They
have the terminals, can raise money,
and should see the warning written
in the sky by smoke from the ex-
haust pipes OF the big flying ship.
President Coolidge tells real es-
tate men he wants to see this coun-
try homecoming nation. That's
better than Henry Navarre's wish
that every Frenchman should have
chicken cooking on the stove.
La Poule, au poto.
Frenchmen, seven millions of
them, own the soil of France,
thanks to the revolution.
That's what helped them to hold
Verdun.
The peasants own Sweden. That
enabled Charles XII. to march with
only 10000 of them through Peters
great armies.
Too few own their homes and the
lan1, in this country.
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The Agricultural Department re-
ports the worst crops in many
years. That's bad news for those
who eat the crops, but may mean
better prices for farmers not able
to make a living recently.
The Chicago Board of Trade ex--
poets higher prices for grain, and
with the wheat crop cut more than
fQrtv million bushels something
ought to happen.
Federal District Judges Carpen-
Ger and Wilkerson set aside Presl-
dent Coolidge's pardon of Philip
Grossman, in Chicago, denying the
Presidents power in civil cases and
adding: ITO allow such power to
the Executive is to strike death
blow at the independence of the
Judiciary"
That's a good saying and coura-
geous. All Federal judges depend
on the President for appointment
and promotion.
It's also a saying for the people
to remember in case they happen,
some day, to get rulers that repre-
sent them, and nobody else.
At present our system "Allows
such power to the judiciary as to
endanger the independence of the
people" You see it when the cast
ing of one single appointed Su-
preme Court vote, in the majority,
has power to over-rule an elected
Congress. And when Congress is
ruled by bare majority, in court
beyond the peoples control, that is
not democracy.
If there exists any power
greater than the peoples power,
then what we call self-government
is a joke, as when farmer lets
his baby "drive the horses" the
farmer, however, holding the reins,
while the baby only thinks he is
driving.
Well thought out power to recall
every one of their public servants,
whether elected or appointed by an
elected official, is what the people
will have eventually. That will
come when they really take an in
terest in their government and thus
prove their fitness to govern them
selves.
Mrs. Genevieve Allen, of San
Francisco, suggested that some
woman be nominated for Vice
President. 1t isn't necessary to say
what old politicians think of that.
Nevertheless, young politicians will
live to see things in politics more
surprising.
The time hasn't come yet, how
ever, for, strangely enough, at this
moment more women than men
would be shocked at the idea of a
woman on the Presidential ticket.
Perhaps, some day, the world will
bless the big war, although it did
cost $50 billions and 20 million lives.
Poison gas will do more good
than it has ever done harm; it has
been used to destroy the boll,weevil.
And now, in the Ukraine, Trotzky
orders his army fiers to use gas
against locusts and field mice.
We could use it here, heavy
variety, to destroy prairie dog COL
onies, snakes in their breeding
places, and rats in city sewers.