Life — April 24, 1924 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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APRIL While there is Life there's Hope Publi LIFE Cartes Dawa Ginson, President PUBLISHID by 3 COMPANY Le Rov Mitten, See’y and Treas 98 Madison Avenue, New York English Offices, Rolls H SENA PEPI to Maine and consent of President Coolidge and made a key- said that the by their investigations into TGR ER went with the note speech there. He Democrats. the oil matters and the concerns of the Department of Justice, with the pur pose of dam had “in fact ging the Republican party succeeded in discrediting both the great parties to such an ex tent that an irresponsible and_ highly dangerous third party is actually sug gesting itself to some extremists as a practical possibility.” “In other words,” Democrats have aimed at America,” view, the safety of the Republic de- he said, “the us and hit since, in his pends upon having two great political parties continually contending with each other in an effort to win and keep then the Democrats had done public confidence. Because activities of the damage to the that a third party was threatened, Sen ator Pepper affirmed his belief that the so much Republicans Democratic party had recently forfeited whatever claim to public confidence it had possessed He said other things in his speech, but that was his main point. It has been received with only moderate en- thusiasm. It does not look to average though the could make a good fight on the basis the selfish irresponsibility of the Dem. ocrats in showing the Republicans up. observers as Republicans nator Borah does not see a good Re- tblican issue in that at all. He made a speech a couple of nights after Sen- ator Pepper had spoken, He made it in Washington in a Baptist church, and announced himself as “not one of those who complain of the Democrats because they have the revelation which ha of anything been brought contributed to” Breams Bldgs., E. ( about.” He said that if one party did not make it its business to show up the other party conditions would soon be when it needed doing, the intolerable in He said that both parties took campaign contributions from any this country body that offered them, often from the same person, and that neither party has said anything about it. He thought that great evil, which tended to give polit- ical control and influence to sinister and selfish interests It is evident that Mr marks beat Mr. Pepper's. They washed better and they scem to be ceptable to the public mind. The great exploit of the present administration the Far-Eastern Borah’s re more ac and dis- armament—was instigated by Mr. Borah. He seems to be the best mind the Republicans have—if they have it —but he has not been conference invited yet to make their keynote speech. It is curious ‘or Pepper is a highly respectable cter and a notable lawyer and layman of high influence in the Episco- pal Church. He recommended to the bishops at Dallas to put out that letter which made such a disturbance between the Modernists and the Fundamentalists. He is doubtless concerned f of the spirit, but with his lawyer's mind he sees their mechanisms big, whereas Borah, with 1 chai r the things record for picty, also seems concerned for the things of the spirit, but sees mechanisms much than Mr, Pepper does. Mr. Pepper, however, seeing the need that the Republicans should start something, proposes now a world conference for the consideration of questions affecting the peace of the world. Perhaps Sen- ator Borah will have something to say about that. He is a good hand on con ferences and has a creditable achicve- ment on that line and Mr. smaller in his record, and though he Pepper were both opponents of the League of Nations, Mr. Borah nowadays seems more minded that ypen. even about than Mr. Vepper is. Somehow the Republicans have got before clection that will offset the charge that they have impeded the return of peace. Mr Harding's plan was the World Court. It languishes at present in the custody of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate. A large section of the Old Guard is opposed to it. There remains the necessity of doing something that will look like helpful co-operation with Europe, and there is Senator Pepper to do something trying to put it over, and there is Sen- ator Borah watching him and quite ready to puncture any illusions he may disclose Really it is a hard job this spring to But Mr. Stone seems a first-class successor to Mr. Daugherty. Mr. Coolidge has done that. be the Republican administration. > @ « ARVARD UNIVERSITY has come out with an invitation to its hackers to produce a fund of ten million dollars for the props istry, tion of chem- fine arts. It finds its chemical plant in a state of pitiable destitution, business and_ the and its school of business and fine-arts department suf- fering from undernourishment. It laboratories, a bigger art museum, and better means of training young men wants more useful in business. The effort to raise ten millions for these purposes shows, especially to be in Bishop Lawrence, an audacious confidence of belief that still money left somewhere in the country there is some loose About the importance of chemistry in current life there is no doubt at all That we should be waked up and trained to more regard for beauty and more intelligent proceedings about it is be- yond dispute. Business has usually heen left to struggle along on its own hook, but probably a good business man is better than a bad one in any com munity and if the Harvard Business School makes good business men, busi- ness will probably support it. Mean- while, just to give the public a line on its capacity, the Harvard Art Depart- ment might put out an opinion on the portrait recently done of Mrs. Coolidge, and printed in the papers. E Martin. comicbooks.com