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FEBRUARY 11, 1926 “While there is L VOL. 87. 2258 fe there's Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY $98 Ma Cranes Dana Ginso Cia Laxcuorwe ( RES Bedi F. D. Casey, Art Editor HERE is still noth- ing doing about coal at this writing; noth more, that is, than gestures and pourparlers, Various people have tried to get us hard coal but so far without What mething success do we do in case of needing forbidden ? That is a secret, but people who feel hard ci need of al are very likely to apply to the bootleggers. One ling the papers that those unruly patriots are good hands to get folks what they want in times of strain. Really it is time that some more obstreperous talent was employed in the coal difficulty, a strong may infer from rea [8 some other things there is prospect of increased supply. For example, in war memoirs and materials of his- Colonel Ho: say, is to reveal the real Wilson in the Sunday Herald Tribune, and Secretary Houston is presenting what the same picture from a different id's Work, illustrious . So advertisements tory former me angle in the Hc These gentlemen must have a great deal to communicate f Mr. Wil- hands entirely mightier than the and in such hands the story of two about the crowded years son's administration. great the swor the ris: tion of Colonel House should make one pen is progress and political culmina- of the most amazing political narratives ever written. Colonel House worked in New York and in Europe and, as everybody knows, never h c, but merely had power. Dr. Houston was in Mr. Wilson's Cabinet from the be- ison Avenue, New York . President Maxwett, Vice-President Bson, Secretary ond Treasurer ginning to the end and his undeviating supporter—not by any means a me-too for he is a man of and them to rest upo supporter, strong ample knowledge for and he doubtless dif- fered with Mr, Wilson's judgment on matters. But he as President and just as con- Of all the believers in pretty opinil many supported him steadily st ntly backed him as a man. surviving thick-and-thin Mr. Wilson, Dr. Houston is well the foremost Persons who still speculate on the reasons for Mr. Wilson's final aliena- tion from Colonel House will sit up at the report that Mrs. Wilson won't let her husband's letters to Colonel House appear in House’s memoirs. a = a y CARDINAL MERCIER probably improved his circumstances by d ing. He was very highly thought of in this world, but his digestion had given t having he has gone he out, at a good time. 1 probably he was Where should find everything cheerful, and if it is any advantage in the next world to Saint in this world he is likely in due time to get whatever profit there is out of that. Of all the reputa- tions that were made in the war (and vastly more were damaged than im- proved), Cardinal M was the be declared a cier's One of his dearest wishes was purest for unity of the Christian churches, but in himself he represented it. If there was anything on earth that all churches and denominations and religionists gen- erally could agree upon it might well have been on Cardinal Mercier, and on the fact that he had the root of the matter in him , that old man; very He was splend lovely, fearless, and as little daunted by Popes as by Germans The World, in its account of him, says “He taught that Catholic dogma did not ‘constitute an ideal which it was forbidden to attempt to surpass, or a frontier defining the activities and lim- its of the mind,’ and this, in direct opposition to the tenets of the con- servative clement of the Holy See, oc- casioned great surprise. He was sum moned to Rome, but argued his case so strongly there that Pope Leo de- cided in his favor and later made him Bishop of Malines.” That is important. It means that he insisted that the lid should not be bolted down on intelligence and spiritual as- piration, but one reads that with the hard-boiled Catholics he had his share of trouble. HESE are fairly hard times for hard-boiled people. The Senate seems to be going to let us join the World Court. The Volstead law gets it on the point of the jaw every morn- ing. Mussolini is reported to have®an ulcer in his stomach, and the farmers, speaking by the voice of Senator Cap- per, insist, in spite of Mr. Coolidg protests, on being interested in the tariff. When the Kansas Senator says that the producer of food must accept prices when he sells and pay American prices when he buys, it looks very much as if he were speaking the truth. Fast fares towards ¢ ¢ the land to grouch a prey When tariff makers grab and farmers pay. Ask William Allen White (of Kan- sas) if that’s not so. Somchow the farmers have got to have a better deal and it is as well that should have it reasonably while there still are some. Perhaps they will get it out of the resurrection of the Democratic Party and the election of a Democratic President. Perhaps they will get it some other way. Perhaps they won't get it at all, but feeling blighted will turn to and send a Demo crat to the White House. Mark Sul livan insists that McAdoo and Smith are both out of the race. One hears that Governor Ritchie of Maryland, the eloquent Wet, may be a candidate. though it seems unlikely that Prohibi. tion in its present phase will last as long as the next presidential election E. S. Martin, world they soon comicbooks.com