Life — December 18, 1919 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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“1 WONDER IF HE'S COMING SOUTH FOK THE WINTE the Great Lawgiver regards it not without amusement, and if we really know its history, we may sometimes smile at it, too. But, inasmuch as the Constitution deposits our hopes of being helpful in the great world, so considerably in the keeping of the Senate, and inasmuch as the Senate is what it is, and there is no prospect that it will ever be much better, will not the churches please concentrate on the Senate, and suppli- cate the spiritual powers to open a path through it, by which we may proceed to the accomplishment of such duties as we owe the world? If there must be a miracle, let us buck up and try to get one, Let us try even to save the Senate, which begins to be in danger of abatement as a world-nuisance. Moses stretched forth his hand over the Red Sea and got his folks across, and the Red Sea is there still, It wasn’t nec- essary to abate it permanently. Elijah smote Jordan and got across, and Jor- dan still rolls on. If only we can think of a y to smite the Senate so that treaties can pass through it, it won't be necessary to abate it alto- gether. It may still roll on, and dis- charge as heretofore into the Dead Sea of the Congressional Record. Why not amend the Constitution, and give the Senate forty days to pass a treaty, and if it fails, send the treaty to the House? 1021 Forty days is long enough for sen- atorial and erwauling, quite long enough for a treaty to stay in quaran- tine HE World and the Globe, and other papers doubtless, were grieved about the visit of Senator Fall to the White House with Senator Hitchcock, to see the President and confer with him about Mexico. The World called it a spying trip, and scolded hard about it Yet it fortunately, for Senator Fall came away convinced that the President had full use of his mental faculties and was competent to make decisions. Any permitted ilson that harm, does good. It has been necessary to keep him so closely secluded that great unea: turned out inspection of Mr. does not do him ness about his condition resulted The Senate especially needed to know from someone whom it would believe, what order he seemed to be in, and the information Mr. Fall brought have cased its mind. must 'HE House of Commons is to be envied for the intrusion of Lad Astor. She is one of the liveliest be- ings now in commission in this world, a woman with rapid-firing wits, a kind heart courage. If the must needs have visible evidence that woman suffrage has won in England, it is in luck to have Lady Astor. Would that some lady of like quali- ties and fasci and House ations would carry sun- shine and pep into our House of Rep- resentatives, still more into our Senate. A few women of the right sort might do Congress much good in both its branches. Men get almost all discipline from women, and women are not, discipline usually falls below the safety woman with knitting can sit out almost their where line. Moreover, a any degree of tediousness without col- lapsing. Think of La Follette making a three-day speech in the Senate, be fore two or three knitting lady-sena- tors! If any of them were like Lady Astor, he would gather experience