The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-26
RoweH Says
By CHESTER H. RowELL


son for not wishing to sit in the presi-
dents cabinet, which proves either too
much or too little.
He thinks it is bad precedent to
put an official in the cabinet who is
not selected by the president, and who,
in some future administration, might
not have his confidence.
If the precedent were once establish
ed, the failure to invite some future
vice president would be embarrassing.
If this proves anything, it proves
that we ought not to have vice presi-
dent at all.
A vice president out of harmony
with the elected president ought not
to be in position to succeed him, at
any moment, by pure accident.
If it were known that the vice presi-
dent was to be an active part of the
administration, there would be less
temptation to choose him merely to
placate some discordant faction.
Unquestionably, President Coolidge's
training in the cabinet was one ele-
ment in. his instant grasp of the reins
when he succeeded.
A vice president who cannot be trust
ed with this opportunity to prepare
himself for the succession ought not
to be trusted with the succession it
SELF
1t is not at all sure that we need a
vice president. But if we have him,
we should use him.
CO-Education. a
The Germans have invented unique
excuse for opposing co-education.
They have finally yielded to it, in
the universities, but in the Prussian
secondary schools they abolish it, on
the ground that the girls are so much
brighter than the boys and that it is
not fair to subject the boys to the
competition.
After 16, they say, boys are as
bright as girls, but before that, the
more mature girls outstrip them.
Of course, like many bad arguments,
it works both ways. One of the ar
guments against co-education, in the
old days of women's supposed infer
iority, was that the women in the
universities would hold back standards.
Now, in the high schools, it is that
they will put them too far forward.
The only thing absolutely certain is
that the women shall do whatever is
best for the men. Are the Germans
alone in that absurdity?
Turning Out Cannon Fodder
France is still increasing the bonus
for babies.
There are people enough in France
to do all its work-or, if there were
not, there are plenty of decent and
able-bodied immigrants, or assimilable
races, who would be glad to do it.
The only thing France has not
enough of is soldiers for "the next
war"
Cannon fodder for the future,
French mothers are bribed to produce.
And probably it is quite justified,
in the world as it has been and APP
parently still is.
But how civilized is a world in
which it's most civilized nation can ra-
tionally adopt such a policy?
The national immigration law, and
the local speed laws. have produced an
epidemic of lawlessness." Nobody
feels very disgraced at being arrested
for speeding. Bootlegging in illegal
immigrants is an organized and in
creasing industry. Making these things
artificial crimes has increased the
statistics of crime, while decreasing
the recognized Nervousness of it.
Therefore-or is it therefore? Does it
follow, after all, that laws which pro-
duce these results must necessarily be
repealed?
Our Standardization Threatening
Europe?
The most striking thing about Amer
lea is its uniformity.
Travel across the country, from side
to side and from corner to corner,
and you find people speaking the same
language, wearing the same clothes,
having the same manners, ideas, pref
udiccs and education.
A grammar school graduate, or a
high school graduate, in ,one part of
the country has studied about the
same things, and about the same
amount of them, as in any other part
of the country.
Everybody has seen the same movies.