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April, 1922
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The Man You Send to
Congress
At the forthcoming congressional
elections 43 5 representatives and 32
senators will be chosen. But as a
voter you have before you not merely
the task of choosing between two par
ties, of designating men who fall neat
ly into political grooves and so keep
the legislative machinery grinding on.
The grooves have all but disap
peared. Organization, as it was
known in previous Congresses, no lon
ger exists. Senator Penrose was the
last of a long line. Leadership re
mains, but only in name. Whatever
of it Senator Lodge exercises is due
chiefly to his ability in threading a
parliamentary maze; and Mr. Mondell
is more often pulled and hauled by
his unwieldly majority than the ma
jority is guided by him.
Nor are there any overshadowing
‘issues” to mark a division between
majority and minority. In both
. House and Senate the majority and
minority arc little more than groups
held loosely together by convention.
Southern Democrats and Western
Republicans sit down together at the
same table to shape the program of
the farm bloc. President Harding’s
appeal for the regeneration of party
government was not a mere fugitive
thought. Doubtless the President has
better reason than anyone else to
know that the propensity to steer
one’s own course without regard to
party beacons is steadily growing in
congress.
On the majority as well as on the
minority side of both houses are
groups and divisions, wheels within
wheels moving with no relation to the
old party mechanism.
In the new congress, therefore, per
sonal qualities will weigh heavily. The
individual member will not be of im
portance simply as a party unit. He
• must shine by his own light. It is
not enough that he vote as a “reg
ular” or an “irregular.” Those terms
are now almost without meaninng. His
usefulness to his constituents and
to the nation will depend on his own
courage and initiative. Never in the
memory of the oldest congressman has
the way been so open to individual
achievement. Even the rule of sen
iority is held in no great reverence.
We make no prophecy that the days
of organization in congress are num
bered; but we do say that the only
basis of useful and intelligent organi
zation is an intelligent membership,
which rests in turn upon intelligent
voting.
The men and women who will do
this year’s voting must take respon
sibility for the kind of congress they
elect. They cannot shift that respon
sibility to the shoulders of either par
ty.—Collier’s.
LET “DAD DO IT”
207 Whitehall St.
A Sensible List.
Miss Alice Young, of Indiana, has
won a prize in England for the best
suggestions as to how to improve
London. Why stop with London?
Miss Young says nothing to Lon
doners that could not be considered
with profit in cities nearer home. Here
are some of her prize-winning sug
gestions:
“Brighter, cleaner stations, with
good warm waiting rooms and good
restaurants. First impressions count.
“Electrify all railways within 20
miles of London, eliminating the pres
ent smoke and noise, allowing sta
tions to be kept clean.
“Central heating on American prin
ciples, or gas fires, or smokeless fuel,
or coke.
“More attractive window dressing,
with good lighting after closing hours.
Introduce district competition by of
fering prize for smartest business sec
tion.
“Lots of good music and entertain
ments of all kinds.
“Clean, light, modern offices on the
American plan.
“Eliminate refuse on streets in all
parts of city. Introduce wastebas
kets on bottom of lamp-posts. Knock
down all walls hiding gardens or green
plots, and plant trees in the wide
streets wherever possible.” — Col
lier’s.
With grains and other farm prod
ucts selling at their present levels,
farmers will realize much more from
their 1922 operations than they could
have expected when this year began.
In turn, they will be much better
customers of the manufactured arti
cles which, in their period of real ad
versity, they refused to buy.
While the prices paid to the farmer
have been going up, the prices of
other commodities have been coming
down. An outstanding example is the
fact that the farmer can buy a good
tractor today for $395, as compared
with practically twice that amount
some months ago.
Millions of farmers, coming into the
market to buy all the things which
for many months they have gone with
out buying—farm tools, clothing, fur
nishings, everything which they and
their families need and use—will have
a far-reaching effect on our factories
and our retail stores. That will touch
all of us; an important customer has
returned, ready and able to buy.
Confidence in the future has to a
considerable extend been restored.
There is evidence that the business
pendulum swings too far to the side
of pessimism. While the relative value
of the price the farmer receives and
the price he pays for the things he
must buy is still unsettled, much prog
ress is being made in the right direc
tion.—Collier’s.
“A TRIFLE TOO.”
She was a.pretty little sprite,
My dinner partner Tuesday night;
A trifle old for sweet sixteen—
In manner and in speech, I mean.
Her waist was cut a trifle low—
They’re wearin gthem that way, you
know;
Her skirt, perhaps a shade too high.
(Such length of leg as met the eye!)
Her cheeks were just a bit too red—
The rogue had been , too thickly
spread;
Her nose too white; her eyes too
black;
A color sense she seemed to lack.
Her voice was pitched a little loud|
To make it heard above the crowd.
She told me things that, really!—well,
I blush to think of, much less tell.
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It may be I am getting old—
I’m just about eighteen, all told;
But the young girls I’ve lately seen
In social haunts where I have been,
Seem, as I pass them in review,
Each one to be a trifle “too.”
G. K. D.
PLATITUDES.
Vanity never goes hungry. It
feeds on itself.
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As a rule, women who do fancy
work don’t fancy- work.
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strongest drink.
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