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NAMED AS EMPLOYES’ REPRESENTATIVE ON RAIL LABOR BOARD ‘ - 1 r—- ■ ———:—— r.v ,■ 1 r::rs— ft ’ ; * ■ *•' ; *• ' - Hoover or the Bosses. j From the New York World. Mr. Hoover's latest statement In regard to his presidential candidacy ■as a republican embraces two outstanding paragraphs: I had no expectation that my entrance into this situation would be welcomed by a type of person who conceives that fitness for office, patriotism and citizenship depend upon placing the sheer partisanship above national interest er who requires years of dem onstrated participation in work with mechanical politicians. I cannot assist these people with explanations trying to prove that 1 belong to their class. Some people of this sort feel great trouble of mind that in a letter addressed to a friend last year I expressed my alarm at the • hen growing partisanship and pressed the need for unity of action l^eiween the legislative and executive branches .of the government . ^ . 'v MH we were still faced with the problems of war. it was ob viously my duty as an important war official to support the presi dent without thought of any political interest to myself from the day I entered the administration until I left it, and I put no qualifi cations upon or apologies for loyalty to one s chief in office. Thousands of excellent republicans in every section of the country wift applaud these words, but to the elder statesmen, the bosses, the contributing interests, and especially to the party as organized and led in the United States Senate, they are as hard a saying as has ever been addressed to them. in most places the choice of delegates to the national convention is In the hands of "mechanical politicians” whose sheer partisanship rarely yields to any other influence. Wherever and for whomsoever they are operating they are conducting their campaigns by the main strength of ttvney and organization. A candidacy, like that of Mr. Hoover, arising from the spontaneous approval of the people, they belittle and do not understand. 1’utUng no qualifications upon and offering no apologies for “loyalty to one’s" chief in office” in dealing with the problems of war, Mr. Hoover illustrates a kind of republicanism which we believe to be widely prevalent, but which In official republican circles was sunk without trace when the , present congress met, almost a year ago. In the presence of a distracted world eager for some assurance of peace and Justice, republicans at Wash ington have seen no need for unity of action except in the partisan sense, ami they have obeyed no call to duty that rose above their personal and political ambitions and jealousies. Mr. Hoover's appeal therefore, goes over the heads of republicans mechanically organized and financed and is intended to reach the rank and file. If our primary system were in any respect the reform its authors promised, there would be little doubt of the result As matters stand, the Hoover movement, by its leader’s own direction, resolves itself into a dem onstration of the popular will in the presence of a convention already packed, perhaps, by dependable representatives of standpatism or blatant reaction. In this way the one candidacy having voluntary and devoted support and owing nothing to the favor of mechanical politicians will be presented at the convention with nobody In Its advocacy but the people and with every adherent of the old order protesting on doubting. Declaring himself a republican, Mr. Hoofer at the same time pronounces hostility to the group that rules the party. The Issue Is plainly stated. It is Hoover or the bosses. LANE’S DAUGHTER AN APRIL BRIDfi with all Its power is an existing and In tolerable monetary and price Inflation. The gold mine Interests are Imitating the sliver mine Interests of 20-odd years ago. They are raiding the power of government for Its special favor to a special Interest. They will have to bo headed off. They won out of that other cheaper money struggle an exclusive mohopoly of the monetary demand for metaL Is that not enough? The Small Town. Will lam Pelley, In People's Magazine. la there a better chance for success and thorough enjoyment of life In an average American stall town, meaning the town of from 5,000 to 15,000 people, than there Is In the great overcrowded cosmopolitan centers? I believe there is, absolutely. I base my contention on the fact that I am a city man, born and bred. I was 25 years old» married, and had two children before I deliberately turned my back on the ’’maddening throngs of the brick-and-asphalt can ons” and moved to a smaller town. And never for a moment have I regretted the change. Neither was It because I had made a failure in a big city that I did so, for I had not. And visiting now and then some of my cronies of the old days and observing how they live and how they have fared, I contend that the Joke is on them. I am enjoying life in a way which they will never know and cannot understand. Underneath their raiUey I detect a note of wistfulness and envy. I have some thing they have not- I have the order ing of my own life, the opportunity to enjoy the world as 1 go through it. They think they have these things. I know they have not. Else they would not talk to me as they do when I visit them or they visit me In return. And they are not broken down failures, either. By worldly standards many of them are succesful. But they are chained to their successes as to a wheel. They are living the life of gold fish In a globe. And they cannot escape. They do not possess themselves; the city and what It stands for posesses them. And they have paid dearer for their success than I have for mine—for which they received no com mensurate return. Miss Nancy Lane. Miss Nancy Lane, daughter at Franklin K. Lane, former secretary tof the interior, is to be married to Phillip Kauffman, also at Washing ton, April 20. She is eery popular to capital social circles. Lodge, Wilson and Treaty. From Milwaukee Harold (German). If the clumsy work of Versailles Is re jected so far as America is concerned, certain senators ought not to take too much merit to themselves. Politics were their main point of view. That the treaty of Versailles does not mean any thing else but a diabolical scheme for bringing about new wars was a matter •f indifference to them if they did not even find It advantageous. All that they were out for was to pick a hole In the coat of Mr. Wilson because they did not want him to get the benefit of having -founded the League of Nations and be cause he did not take them—certain senators—earlier into his counsels. Thus sven Senator Lodge never uttered one syllable of criticism of the terms of •peace. It Is Indeed great luck for Ger many that Senator Lodge did not play a role in tile Paris negotiations as a representative of the United States, be sides President Wilson. Lodge would surely have fulfilled all the desires of the French and would not only have conceded the left bank of the Rhine but possibly the right one as well. That the retention of the territory to the left «f the Rhine was assured to Germany from the beginning Is due to the fact that'Wilson did not want to abandon his principles before the world com pletely and that he resisted In Paris the demands of the French militaristic party With Marshal Foch at the head, and frustrated an annexation of the right hank even If he could not prevent the temporary occupation of the left bank. Gold Mines Ask Subsidy. Venm tVo Mow "V nr to WnrM Bryan s nnivrer. W. J. Bryan. In The Commoner. During the last few weeks I have re ceived an Increasing number of let ters asking me to become for the fourth time a candidate for the presidency. As it is Impossible to make personal answer to these letters, I give this one reply to all. I recognise It to be the duty of the cltisen to respond to the calls of his country in peace or war. Therefore, if the situation became such that my nomination was actually de manded. as in time of war a soldier’s life is demanded on the battlefield, 1 would feel it my duty to consider it, but I hope no such situation will arise, and I do not now see any probability that such a situation will arise. For 30 years I have taken so active a part in public life that the demands upon my time have, to a large extent denied me the pleasures of the fire.e.de and the companionship of my family. I have been rewarded as few public men have been—not with office, which is the least of rewards—but with the satisfaction of seeing nearly every reform I have ad vocated written into the unrepealable law df the land, and now I see my peace plan made the chief cornerstone of the League of Nations. This is reward enough for any man. Who could desire more? I desire quiet and rest, and look What Mexico Sold Us. From the Los Angeles Times. The states included in the League of the Southwest are Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Okla homa, Texas and Utah; having a com bined area of more than 1,000,000 square miles—a third of the United States proper and considerably larger than all that part of our country east of the Mississippi river. With the exception of Oklahoma we acquired the greater part of this territory from Mexico, pay ing for it the sum of 316,000,000; although, according to historians, the total cost to us. Including the expense of the war, Mexico’s debts assumed and the Gads den purchase, was about 3190,000,000. While much of the area included within the league is semi-arid and some of it strictly arid, it is a region of almost boundless natural resources. Powder Puff Age. From tlis Birmingham Age-Herald. "Do you suppose the suffragists will ■knife’ any of our party leaders when they get the ballot?" asked the old fash ioned politician. " ’Knife,’ sir?” replied Mr. Dubwalte. “1 hardly think so. but I’ve heard sev eral belligerent ladies say they had hat pins out for certain statesmen who op pose the ratification of the suffcage amendment," _ ___ The mint price of gold Is J20.E7 a fine ounce. It has no other price in this country, and this price Is a mere figure of speech created by law. Its value In relation to other commodities Is en tirely another thing. Hence the present demand of the gold miners for a bonus or subsidy from government to stimu late their production, which Is declin ing—declining because an ounce of gold £111 now buy only about half the labor ■ food or mining material It would buy before the great war. Their proposition is what might be called “nervy." It Is to Impose a tax of tlfl an ounce on all gold sold for us In manufactures and the aria The pro ceeds of this tax of GO per cent, on the mint price would go to the miners as a bonus to stimulate production. This would operate to Increase the Inflow and reduce the oatgo of the monetary gold supply. It is all written down In a bill Intro duced In the House at Washington by JMr. McFadden. of Pennsylvania, and Is paid to have the Indorsement of the American Bankers’ Association. Thus the avowed object and admitted consequence of UJs bill is greater mone tary Inflation when what the country particularly suffers from and what the federal iswerve board la working against Bert M. Jewell. Bert M. Jewell, who has represent ed railroad employes in different ca pacities since 1907, has been nomin ated with A. O. Wharton to serve on the railroad labor board. During the time Wharton served on the railroad administration’s wage adjustment board Jewell acted as president of the affiliated unions. Say* Wood I* Sound. From the New York World. Two distinguished physicians. In ths most remarkable document yet put out on behalf of any presidential candidate, testified to the mental and physical soundness of Gen. Leonard Wood. Dr. Harvey Cushing of the Peter Bent Brigham hospital of Boston who per formed the operation, described a "per fectly benign tumor,” of which the gen eral “has since had no symptoma what so ever.” Dr. Alexander Lambert cor roboratjji Dr. Cushing, announcing that the reim>val of a tumor (which had affected General Wood’* left side) was complete; that there was no danger that the general would become fnsane from It, and that there had been no mental deterioration of any kind. It was the late Colonel Roosevelt's sister, Mrs. Douglas Robins^ , General Wood’s loyal supporter, .o >ok the inltlathre in offering thi- evidence publicly, through Dr. Lambert, at an overflow meeting at her home. Her drawing rooms were Jammed to the doors with fashionable and wealthy women In the Wood following when, without pre amble, Mrs. Robinson said: Our first speaker Is one who has, per haps, the most important message to give about the mait-whom both he and 1 so ardently desire to see president of the United States. Several things are constantly said about General Wood, aa things have been said about other can didates. in the light of handicaps. One of the things brought home to me essen tially is that many people appear to feel that his health is not what it should be. So 1 have asked his friend and my friend and the friend of Colonel Roose velt to tell from his physlclas's stand point of his fitness to' be president of the United States. "The question of General Wood's health,” said Dr. Lambert, ”has come up at odd times for a long time. I knew him before and after the Spanish American war—after his lameness, after his operation—and was his medical ad viser for a number of years. From my professional knowledge of his condition I told General Wood he must come out frankly on this question; that the truth never hurt any man. To refresh my memory I wrote Dr. Harvey Cushing, of Boston, who did the operation. “When General Wood was In Cuba," said the doctor, "his desk was Imme diately beneath the large knob of a chandelier. Jumping up in a hurry he struck the middle of his head on the knob of the chandelier. Though he was hurt he thought nothing of it and con tinued his work.” It was later that the cyst developed and years before the general attributed the trouble in his left leg to any serious cause, when Dr. Cushing’s operation brought him full relief. Dr. Lambert was at pains to explain how the cells of the right hemisphere of the brain con trol the motor activities on the left side. He then read Dr. Harvey Cush ing’s statement of the operation, which was subsequently sent to Senator Fen rose. Dr. Cushing wrote: At the operation a cyst was removed from the foot center of the right hem isphere. It had been there many years. It was a perfectly benign tumor and he has since had no symptoms whatso ever. The stiffness and awkwardness of the left foot, which were there before the operation, will be permanent, llis mentality, however, was not affected in the slightest and, so far as any one can tell his physical condition, he is in absolutely perfect health and enjoys such health as few of us have ever en joyed. He is the most vigorous and sound human bing, physically and men tally, that I ever saw. "In plain words," said Dr. Lambert, “a cyst was taken out. of the general's head about the size of a mandarin orange and it didn’t bother hlin any more than a broken leg. There is no danger of his becoming insane from it. There has been no mental deterioration or any Kina. Diamond Imports Climbing. From the Topeka Journal. As a means of throwing further light on the high cost of living it may be cited that our importations of diamonds from Paris increased from $59,000 in 1918, to $2,149,000 in 1919. We doubled our im portations of feathers; and our importa tions of all kinds of hides and skins increased from a little more than $1,000. 000 In 1918, to $16,000,000 in 1919. Of imita tion stones there was also a notable in crease, the importations of 1918 being $932,000 as compared with $2,590,000 in 1919. Genuine precious stones increased more rapidly than imitation, for In 1918 the Importations were $143,000 while in 1919 the purchases from Paris alone had Jumped to $6,000,000. Joy Killer. From the Dallas News. Our Idea of a pessimist is a person who can’t admire orange blossoms for thinking of the lemon crop. The Hypocrite. From the Houston Post. “I find that my husband has been having the office boy call me up and mumble terms of endearment. That’s a nice way to fool his wife. 1 must say! 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