The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-29

President Coolidge is reported as
being decidedly angry at the course
Of the Shipping Board in defying his
policies and ignoring him. Let US
hope so.
Not merely because the president
is right on this issue-the writer en-
phatically thinks he is; but it is
honestly debatable and there are. in
formed persons who think otherwise
but because anger in the president
is decidedly public asset, for other
reasons. ts +-r
President Coolidge would rather
cling to certain old-fashioned no.
tions Of the proper relation of the
president and Congress. He does
not like to use the "big stick
Nevertheless, it is extremely desir-
able that he do so. Anger, even at
something else, is a good stimulant
to a vigorous policy.
So, if the president can get angry
enough at the Shipping Board to un-
leash the big stick, that weapon will
then be in shape for bigger game.
Radical papers in Germany are
agitating for the demolition Of the
"Sicgesallee," the absurd avenue
of statues of all the Hohenzollerns
leading across the Tiergarten to the
Column of Victory.
The column itself probably no one
will pull down unless it is victori-
Gus French army. 1t is the most
| raspingly arrogant of all the monu-
| ments of victory in the world, and it
now seems like CHASTITY joke, but it
at least commentaries real achieve
| ment, and it is dedicated "from the
thankful fatherland to the victorious
| army"
But the long row of monuments
| leading up to it commentaries moth
ing but the stuffed pride Of two en-
perors, one of whom is the only Ho-
henzollern whose statue will never
grace any Victory Alley.
There they are, the great and the
small the sane and the insane, those
who rendered great service to Prus-
STA and those who rendered less than
none, each monument like every
other-the Hohenzollern on a pedes-
tai, and on bench behind him two
of the advisers who furnished his
brains.
There are thousand years of
them, but the statues are all of one
pc Rod, and that the most recent and
worst. They stand, not for the glory
of a nation, but for the arrogance of
a family, and of the two last of the
| family at that. The purpose is to
| impress the people with the idea
that it was the Hohenzollerns that
made Germany great.
| The easiest lesson to draw now
would be that the last Of the tribe,
William the Least, had more than
his share of making Germany poor.
At any rate, this Victory Alley has
neither artistic, historic nor senti-
mental title to preservation.
Doubtless German conservation
will keep it; but it would be better
gone and gorgotten.
We are still conservative pco-
pie. Everywhere else the labor
movement is the center Of radical,
economic and political theories.
| In America, the widest demonstra-
ton Of enthusiasm at the meeting of
the American Federation of Labor
was at the declaration of President
| William Green against any dealings
with Russian organizations SO long
as they adhere to their present
philosophy of opposition to free
democratic government.
The whole long rule of Samuel
Gompers was a protest against eco
nomic radicalism. The administra-
ton of President Green continues the
same policy. And the elected dele
gates gave him an ovation for saying
so.
American organized labor is not
only a good thing for the workers,
who, under its methods. are much
the best off of any workers in the
world, but it is good thing for all
the rest of US, too.
1t is our most potent stabilizing
force. It makes for sound economics
and good government.