Life — April 19, 1928 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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VE APRIL 19, 1928 VOL, 91. 2372 “While there is Life there’s Hope” HE World considers that Senator Walsh of Montana is the most formidable rival of Governor Smith for the Democratic nom- ination and that the Governor's opponents have shown sense in concentrating on Mr. Walsh. Senator Walsh is more than a respectable man. He is a high grade public servant. His character is good; so are his mind, his zeal and his information. We all know he is a Catholic and he is plenty of other thi but not really a candidate for President. There is no visible reason for selecting Mr. Walsh as a Democratic candidate ex- cept that he would be a handy man to beat out Alfred Smith with. That is not enough. Mr. Walsh is for the Eighteenth Amendment; Alfred Smith is against it. Alfred Smith is a candidate in spite of being a Catholic, but Thomas Walsh would be a candidate largely because he is a Catholic. He is a good man, true and sound, but as a candidate for President he is bogus. If nominated he would not run across the street. As a candidate he is an artificial spectre projected on the political screen considerably by the efforts of Comrade Callahan of Louisville. Perhaps so. It is funny how strong the pro- pensity is in political mix-ups to project spectres on the screen. Take even Mr. Davis, a first-class man with great abilities, great talents, admirable character, but as a can- didate, a spectre. His predecessor, Mr. Cox of Ohio, was another spec- tral candidate, though an able man enough and quite rich. Jim Reed, though very objectionable as a can- didate, would present a much livelier appearance of reality than Senator Walsh of Montana. But who doubts that Mr. Hoover or some one else will beat anybody the Democrats put up! Their only chance is to fight the Amendment. If they do that they may make a campaign of it and if they are licked it may be a glorious and constructive defeat. But they could not do that with Thomas Walsh as a candidate. A STATESMAN of Ohio has a son at Harvard and a son at Yale. The Yale son was ar- rested in this neighborhood for driving a motor car which hit a workman in the street, and then attempting to run away. There was a suggestion of alcoholic stimu- lation about his proceedings. The Harvard son, hearing of his brother's predicament, came on from Cam- bridge to rescue him and fell afoul of the regulations on the New Haven road by attempting to sit in a smoking car that required a special ticket which he did not have. He was turbulent, it seems, in his attitude to the trainmen, and he, too, was ar- rested. What is the matter with these Their misconduct cannot be ‘ged to the colleges with which they are connected. Is there some- thing in the atmosphere of Ohio that gone to th heads or is it that the job of raising boys somehow does not mix well with parental ac- tivity in Ohio politics? T HE papers also tell of a good boy, possibly from Ohio, who has cer- tainly come to light through Ohio association. His name is Richard Riedel. He was the favorite Senate page of the late Senator Willis. Papers publish his telegram of con- dolence to Mrs. Willis in which he says among other things, “How small a place the Presidency of the United States would have been com- pared to the exalted position he now occupies.” It is filial of Richard in a way to think that Senator Willis has been immediately projected into a first- class job in the au dela, but one would like to know on what he bases such an opinion. Are the Ohio poli- ticians preferred for advancement not only in this world but in the world to come? CSCCSESE ISSATISFACTION is disclosed over various matters in our little world. Mussolini’s objections to the Roman Catholic educational methods in Italy are distasteful to the Holy Father. Bombing incidents in Chicago suggest that government in that ambitious city is so far from being equal to its job that something quite drastic needs to be done about it. In New York a decision by the Health Commissioner that sleeping arrangements by various rough-and- ready charities for the unemployed were unsanitary resulted in turning out a large number of distressed persons into the streets on a cold March night, which was felt to be serious exhibition of over-zeal. Mr. Brevard Nixon, Democratic leader in North Carolina, has ap- plied to have his name removed from the rolls of the First Methodist Church in Charlotte on the ground that the Methodist Church has de- generated from the evangelical tra- dition into a fighting political organ- ization. The earthquake in Smyrna accom- panied by an electrical display and violent disturbance in Mediterrancan waters seems to help out Wilhelm Boelsche, a German scientist and philosopher, who predicts tremen- dous geological disturbances ac- companied by the rising of new ents in the Pacific, to result ally in considerable improvement in the climate of our planet. Very well. Our planet needs im- provement. A spell of shakes may do it good. Meanwhile the stock market continues active. The efforts to penetrate the mystery of the Queens County sewers still continue, as also the efforts in Washington to locate and measure the oil scandals. So things keep going on, but March is over and the usual modifications of climate due at this time are pro- ceeding. E. S. Martin. comicbooks.com