Life — August 30, 1928 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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PRESSES SR ER RA If LIFeE who was a pro-League Republican in 1920 and no Republican at all in 1918. And perhaps some “spokesman for Mr. Hoover” may tell the governments of Europe that he did not really mean it, as a spokesman whom Mr. Hoover later re- diated told the newspapermen at Palo Alto that he did not really mean what he said about nullification of the Eighteenth Amendment. But it is conceivable that the French Government, for instance, might not be so eager to be convinced as were the wet Republican newspapers of New York City. Mz. Kettocc appears to regard these treaties as the crown and culmination of his diplomatic career. Fortunately he need not rely on any such perishable laurels. In his carly years at the State Department his performance was, to put it mildly, not impressive. But the dubious and danger- ous Mexican policy of a few years ago has given place to an attitude, embodied in Mr. Morrow but apparently shared by the whole administration, which deserves the highest praise. In China, through a deli- cate and difficult period, our government has behaved, on the whole, more sensibly than any other foreign government. Even in Nicaragua our policy could be de- fended on grounds of national interest, if the administration could be persuaded to give up the pretense that we are spanking the Nicaraguans with reluctance, and solely tor their own good. To what extent Mr. Kellogg is person- ally responsible for all this the general public does not know; but he got the blame for the doings of his subordinates and his superiors when things were going badly, and it seems no more than fair to give him some share of the credit when things are going well. Two detectives swore upon the witness stand, in a New York trial, that they had tcught a pint of whiskey from a woman defendant for fifty cents. Inasmuch as a single drink of whiskey costs more than that, in most parts of New York, counsel for the defense called the witnesses per- jurers. Whereupon, after the verdict, the Judge (a visitor from Texas) remarked: “In my section of the country, had you made such an accusation against an of- fer of the law, he would have smashed you before you got out of the courtroom. 1am saying this in order to obtain, if Possible, in this court that fine, genteel, sportsmanlike demeanor which should characterize the courts of our country.” It is hard to see what more His Honor could have done to promote gentility and Carrying on the Glorious Traditions of the Party Hersert Hoover as AsranaM Linco. ANp Trteovore Roosevent THE HECKLER Pouitician (making a speech): I re- peat that I have always voted dry and always shall vote dry. Now has anyone “Waar'’s the difference between a|nything to say on this subject? Democrat and a Republican?” Booreocer (in back of hall): Yeah. “None at all. They both have the same] You still owe me for that liquor you size Campaign Fund now.” bought last month. sportsmanship in the courtroom, unless he had stepped down from the bench and smashed ie learned counsel himself. Elmer Davis. comicbooks.com