Life — April 15, 1920 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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DOCTOR FECKHAM 1S AN HT YOU CONSIDERED HIM AWFUL ASS. XTREMELY CLEVER.” “| USED TO, BUT He's JUST ORDERED ME TO GIVE UP SMOKIN tions. Neither does he need the sidential salary nor the advertise- nt that goes with it. He has money ugh and a large over-supply of re- wn. What he does need is the ap- val of a Quaker conscience that is him that when a man has put his 1 to the plough he ought not to rn back. He put in all that was in 1 for five years to save Europe alive, d she is not saved yet. Like the big ngshoreman in the poster, he wants Ww to go on and finish the job. \nd not Europe only, but the United ites is on his mind and on his heart hese States are not saved yet, either: tm When cy finally got into the war they did stroke for righteousness, but they lly nor economically. Nei- ther can they retire from world-busi- ness and live on their income. Ii they try to, they won't prosper. They are great cog in a great machine, and they must turn with the other cogs. cannot live indefinitely on that HATEVER else Hoover has done by signing on as a candidate for the Republican nomination, he has ad- vertised the League very large as an issue of the campaign. No Republican 705 candidate was talking about it or wanted to talk about it, except perhaps Johnson, who was going up and down in the land, saying that the very idea of it was an abominable intrusion on American privacy. Now he will have to say so more than ever, and Gov- ernor Lowden will have to fetch it into liis speeches on the budget system, and General Wood will have some pleasant generalities abou: it with his homilies on work, saving and edu- cation, All that will be quite a trial, but the cause is good Some of the Republican masters who to mix in are not themselves candidates are with- The suspi- the world, is sus out enthusiasm about Hoover Providence Journal, the most cious newspaper in picious of circumstances attending his Boies Penro Parsons have hunted up the candidacy and Herbert bottle the came out Hoover candidacy say that" Wo was not bl kind of grumbling as was noted in the par in the glass. There is the same ble when the all-day laborers weved about the eleventh hour men. Of course it is doubtful what backing Hoover in the were can be produced for convention, and, of course, there are those y he should have acted sooner, or that he should have taken uy with the Democrats, but at least who s: he has accomplished what he aimed do in that he has given the Repub- as who want the League a repre- sensative candidate. Hoover has been a rolling stone. Chairman Porter (Republican) of the Foreign Committee of the House expressed himself as “ everlast- ingly against him or any other man who has spent so much of his life out- side the United States.” But rolling stones have curious and there is a Bible story about one inst the Relations uses sometimes, that dashed so violently clay feet of a tall and glorious image that it all fell down in a heap. Without doubt Hoover cares vastly more for the welfare of the world than he does for the prosperity of the Re- publican party. If he can lead the party he can make it do some good If it declines his guidance, as it seems likely to do, another convention that will meet shortly after in San Fran- cisco will consider, of course, how best it can take advantage of such a sit- uation, comicbooks.com