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Men like Heflin, of Alabama, a survivor of the ancient school of flowery spollbinding, revel in situations like the Teapot Dome affair. Sharpshooters of “Jim" Reed’s skill enjoy such oppor tunities for sniping, too. There was an amazing dis inclination on the part of senators in both parties to concentrate on essentials. There was also a universal tendency to go over the same ground interminably. Not for months has such a Niagara of words rolled over the congressional cliffs. Two men maintained silence during the oil talk fest—La Follette of Wisconsin and Borah of Idaho. Each would have contributed something real to the discussion. It was "Fighting Bob” who early in 1923 blazed the trail which, he claimed, would lead to oil iniquities if it was followed long enough. Borah, the ^ilver-tongued crusader of congress, is at his best when battling over moral issues. He Is certain to be heard from before the air is cleare4 of the petro liferous stench that now pollutes it. Representative Victor L. Berger, Socialist, of Wisconsin, thinks Ramsay MacDonald’s achievement of the British premiership mak?s it timely to restore Eugene V. Deb’s status as a patriotic an4 high-minded citizen of the world. To that end, Berger has nomi nated Debs as a candidate for the 1924 Nobel peace prize. Tho Wisconsin socialist says he 11 entitled to do so because it was through him that Debs joined the socialist cause. Debs has a claim on the Nobel - prize money. Berger avers, "because for over 30 years he has never wavered in his belief of universal peace and human brotherhood and has been tireless in his ef fort and service of that idea." Bergr r’a mautafoso on Deba’ behalf narrates that there are 23 members *\nura, helped Saburi to become a capable and well ilke.l official of Nippon in the highly charged atmosphere of \Yashing ton. Saburi was a member of the Japanese delega tion at the Paris peace conference the diplomats who talked less and achieved more than any mission gathered around the council table. Francis J. Kilkenny, investment banker of Chi cago, who served as confidential secretary to thres comptrollers of the currency and later was associated with General Dawes during the first year of the budget, renewed Washington ties this week. Kil kenny has become a fervid apostle of thrift, lie rejoices that a careful New Englander is now presi dent of the United States, it is mainly in Calvin Coolidge's neck of the national woods that savings deposits are biggest. “In the New Knglaud states and theic eastern neighbors,” says Kilkenny, "there are little more than 10,000,000 savings-bank depositors with approximately $i;,:t00,000,000 to their credit. Tha thrift of the Now Englander is proverbial, and, as money is power, the New England states wield a mighty influence in strengthening the American 15* i nancial structure." Personal Liberty. Huxley. It Is a necessary condition of social existence that men should renounce some of tReir freedom of action. There is no country or nation In which an adult man has exclusive possession of himself. In fact, the very existence of so ciety depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits that he is not the exclusive pos sessor of himself and that he ad mits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act to some extent as his master. Alabama Law. From the Chattanooga News. That legislative enormity adopted by the general assembly of Alabama with the consent of Mr. Underwood, which was expected to guarantee the senator the vote of that state, has been properly characterized by At torney-General Harwell G. Davis ui [ Alabama. He says: “It will be noted that this law does not leave to the organization of the political party or those duly author ized to act in behalf of the organlza- | tion, the privilege ot determining whether or not the party should hold a primary election. The act makes the political party amj those duly authorized to speak in its behalf sub servient to the wish and will of one citizen of Alabama in whom is vested no authority to act for such politl- , cal organization. Reduced to the greatest possible absurdity, this law permits one person to compel a po litical party of 200,000 voters to hold a primary election against the wishes ot 200,000 of the members of tna party. Such ait act clearly makes primary elections compulsory and is unconstitutional.” This law was a travesty on democ racy and Americanism. In agreeing to its passage in his own Interest Mr. Underwood gave an insight into his own fundamental conceptions. ■The law provides that “whenever a citi zen of the state of Alabama is a can didate” no matter if he got but one vote, he might take precedence over a candidate from any other state and had the right to name the delegation. Mr. Davis has refused to instruct the officers to put the law into effect. The chairman of the Underwood committee announces that the pri mary will be held nevertheless. Any candidate for the presidency, be he from Alabama or any other state, who accepts it in order to se cure a delegation to the national convention is putting himself on a platform of toryism and autocracy. An Admit able Crichton. From an article in Dni, Berlin. Few of his relentless enemies know that besides being a poet, a novelist, a dramatist ami a satirist, the volcanic Strindberg was a deep thinker, a chemist, a geologist and a linguist. His erudition was uni versal. He wrote a history of the Swedish people, a work on Chinese linguistics, another on the mutual re lations of Sweden and China and on Sweden and the Tatar natlonaltles. This latter work was given serious consideration by the Paris Academy of Science. Strindberg was a highly trained gardener, an expert natur alist, and he possessed a remarkably rich and complete aquarium and her barium. He worked something like 18 hours out of 24- His brain seemed to ignore fatigue, _ Excepting one man, Lenin, antlth cs: - of Woodrow Wilson, in every thing, Mr. Wilson is first of the really conspicuous to go. His hook of life Is close,d, although thousands of books yet to be written, will record his fame and his deeds. His last word on this earth Jtas been spoken, although millions will speak of him, for many years to come. The land credits for farmers, free ing the farmer from “respectable" us ury, In many directions, had his in tense care and devotion, in many directions he worked for the public welfare, efficiently, before the de vastating war broke upon the world. Strange is tha destiny that selects him, first of all, the great figures of that war, to leave this earthly scene. Men much older than he, on both sides of the right, survive the man ( .;.r v.as first to summon the nations to peace. ^ , * v Signing Contracts “Not Understood” is Poor Showing of Official Efficiency From the Milwaukee Journal. It is kindly to think, as Secretary Denby told the investigat ing committee, that the leases which developed the oil scandal were “too technical” for him. But this testimony alone makes it unthinkable that he should continue as secretary of the navy. For the record of the Senate investigating committee shows that Mr. Denby had a decisive hand in the transactions which resulted in depriving the public of its reserve fuel lands, considered vital to national defense. Mr. Denby concurred in the transfer of the oil reserves to the inferior department, despite the fact that congress had by spe cial act confirmed the placing of this public property in the care of the navy department for safekeeping, and the supreme court of the United States had put its seal of approval on congress fore sight. Mr. Denby recommended the transfer over the protests of Rear Admiral Griffin, who was in charge of the reserves, and of other naval officers. Admiral Griffin was retired in advance of his time; other'protesting naval officers were transferred to other duties, where they could not interfere; and Secretary Fall wrote to Oil Magnate Doheny that he could deal directly with Mr. Do heny’s representatives, “since I have got that navy crowd off my back.” Moreover, in his testimony, Mr. Doheny was quoted as saying that Mr. Denby stiggested the terms of the lease from which Mr. Doheny boasted he expected to make $100,000,000. Be that as it may, Secretary Denby at least signed the leases with Fall, although when pressed for the reasons why he did so, the secretary of the navy pleaded that he did not fully understand them because that they were “too technical.” Pressed further to name one naval officer who approved the transfer, he said he could not. And this is the man who now says that “I would do it again tomor row.” Guardian of Poor Sees President Miss Adelu Mercer, city council man of Westminister. Eng., and I Guardian of the Poor of the city of j London, was received at the White 1 House by President Coolidge, with whom she discussed the new labor . ministry in England and child wel fare. _ Two letters written by Abraham Lin coln to his Secretary of Navy, Gideon Welles, brought *1250 each at’ a recent auction of civil war documents. In one of the letters relating to the gunboat ; Monitor, Lincoln said that he was "de cidedly of the opinion that she should not go skylarking up to Norfolk." for, ! he wrote. Lieutenant Gordon had told him the Monitor could be easily board ed and captured. -- ♦ ■ . Negotiations for a loan of $100..0d» to the Mexican government by a group of American bankers are under way, according to newspaper reports here. The loan will be divided into four in- I stallments. The one thing disliked by the big ! corporations, especially the sort that hands out cash in large lumps to government officials Is public opin ion. Yo*» will hear ths legal corporation jackals begin to talk about "hound ing'* and "public clamor” and they will demand "orderly Investigation t* ths properly constitute courts.” THE HERALD CRANE. Oh! say you so, bold sailor In the sunlit deeps of• sky! Dost thou so soon the seedtime tell In thy Imperial cry, As circling in yon shoreless sea Thine unseen form goes drifting by? I cannot trace In the noonday glare Thy regal flight. O crane! From the leaping might of tho fiery light Mine eyes recoil in pain, But on mine ear, thine echoing cry Falls like a bugle strain. The mellow soil glows beneath my feet, Where lies the buried grain; The warm light floods the length and breadth Of the vast, dim. shimmering plain. Throbbing with heat and the name less thrill Of the birth-time’s restles* pain. On weary wing, plebeian geese Push on their arrowy line Straight into the north, or snotvy brant In dazzling sunshine, gloom and shine; But thou, O crane, save for thy sovereign cry, At thy majestic height On proud, extended wings sweep'st on In lonely, easeful flight. Then cry, thou martial-throated her ald! Cry to the sun, and sweep And swing along thy mateless, tire less course Above the clouds that sleep Afloat on lazy air—cry on! Send down Thy trumpet note—it seems The voice of hope and dauntless will, And breaks the spell of dreums. —Hamlin Garland. Nothing For Them. From the Chicago News. An old Scotch pilot professed to be able to tel) the home port of any In coming vessel within a reasonable dis tance by what seamen still call ‘ the cut of her jib," meaning thereby her general appearance. To lest hfs powc/s an onlooker called his attention to un» in the far distance. 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