Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1924 — Page 4

PAGE FOUR

EDITORIAL

ll.l,iI-erIY T? 18 P';w'd every Friday by The Fiery Cross Pub-ir.-n. a ,? yi lndl"P'- d will maintain a policy of stauncH, Protestant Americanism without fear or favor. in uS'.1"1! ?0t ? makr, op P?op1' minds, but to ehake up people's minds; to live in -tlve public opinion which will make America a proper place .11 .?PW" of lTutn kI1,s moro false news nl shrivels up more "bunk" than rllinV. .JXfLYF""""? in the world. Truth helps to clarify opinions on serious questions by serious people. llsl,J1h.?.ui!i.?IriHOSS W.U1 .?trtve lve th American viewpoint on pubof the day Parate the dross from the pure gold in the current news

Tae Fiery Crosa Fablihins

in.imVi?1'?"'- econd-class matter. July 20. 1922. at the postofflce at Indiinapolia, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Ailvrrtlfttasr n.ln will Be Snbserlptlea Rate, by

Bend all Rew, itP an(1 A,,dre. all Inqulrle. to 578 and 580 Centary BuildIna;. lelepbonea Lincoln 5351 and 5352.

KLAVS PROGRAM FOR 1924 1. Militant, old-fashioned Christianity and operative patriotism. $r, 2. Back to the Constitution. r

8.

E4".f?w?,n,et,"L lhe Eighteenth Amendment so long as It Is a part the Constitution. Enforcement of present immigration laws and enactment of more Klringvnt laws on immigration.

I Warp -Minded? Maybe So f In a bitter attack on the Ku Klux Klan, on the floor of the House during debate on the Johnson immigration bill. Congressman La Guardia, Italian, member of "The Sons of Italy," in whose lodge rooms must be spoken nothing but the Italian tongue, said among other things-that the editor of The Fiery Cross Is "warp-minded." Congressman La Guardia quoted freely from the editorial columns of The Fiery Cross and came to the conclusion the editor Is warp-minded because, among other things possibly, the editor declared that New York, with Us millions of foreign-born and children of foreign-horn, did not represent the true sentiment of America on immigration. Mr. La Guardia declared that he read that editorial to show the "warp-minded-Tiess." The editorial in question also took issue with the Brooklyn Eagle, which had declared with much emphasis that the Johnson immigration ; bill was dead and had been shoved to the end of the House calendar never to be resurrected. The Fiery Cross just as emphatically declared that the bill would soon come up in the House. The editor of The Fiery Cross Is not going to even deny he is "warpminded," declare the prediction that the Johnson immigration bill would (Boon come up In the House to be true, or attempt to show how far wrong the Brooklyn Eagle was when it made such a foolish statement. All of those things are unnecessary on last Saturday the Johnson immigration bill passed the House by a vote of 322 to 71. The bill not only passed, but retained the section fixing the quota at two per cent and basing it on the ISflO census. Of course, the bill has yet to go to the Senate wherein there will no .doubt be a terrific battle to change the quota and the year on which to base it. but for the time being the editor of The Fiery Cross is willing to take his place alongside the three hundred and twenty-two "warp-minded" (according to Mr. La Guardia, Italian) congressmen. Also to let the

Brooklyn Eagle have whatever thrill it might have gotten out of "killing" the Johnson immigration bill in its editorial columns. In the meantime let every staunch and true American remember that the victory in the House Is of great magnitude, and that the advantage already gained should not be lost by any temporary laxity. The battle in the Senate now looms. The alien and Dro-alien forces a.r dennerato

tier, that the battle is not tor posterity as well.

Mr. Brisbane Slips

In a two-column editorial, Arthur Brisbane, popularly known as the liighc;;t paid editorial writer in the world, lauds Australia, and among ; oilier tilings declares "there is no civilization more truly democratic than (that of Australia at this moment." Because of that statement, which few persons would attempt, to contradict, another statement made by him Is of great interest. Mr. Brisbane also says in his editorial that ninety-seven

,ler cnt of the population of Australia is Anglo-Saxon. This statement Is true. But. Mr. Brisbane is writing for William Randolph Hearst, bitter opponent of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Therefore, Mr. Brisbane must temper his writings to the winds of Hearstism. The Klan is Anglo-Saxon and Mr. Brisbane, in saying that "no civilization is more truly democratic" than a country wherein ninety-seven per cent of the population is Anglo-Saxon, must "make amends" before closing his editorial. In so doing, the world's highest paid editorial writer evidently became very much contused as he contradicted himself and appears to be writing from two t ntirily different angles; one from what one might conclude were his own feentiments, and the other with the thought in mind that he is drawing his s;il;iry from Mr. Hearst. j After saying in the editorial that America "unwisely excludes" immigrants from Europe, Mr. Brisbane, in reference to Australia, says: "As for sentimentalists who say 'The world should be free to all God's children' it may be pointed out that, as a rule, each of them keeps the interior

of bis own home free for himself and for his particular children. He doesn't throw open his door to 'all God's children' from the street. "Ami what the individual may do in his own house, the nation may rightly do within its own boundaries. The question involved, as Mr. Hughes truly said it. is: 'Simply the right of the nation to say who shall come into itterritory.' " The foregoing words might well have been spoken by a Klansman or any other American who would stop the influx of undesirables from Europe. However, it was Arthur Brisbane who, editorially, writes of ''the mass of high-grade, ambitious emigrants" from Europe and who, he Bays, the I'nited States should not exclude. These "hlgtr-grade, ambitious emigrants" of whom he speaks are the same whom the American Legion, efter an exhaustive investigation, declares are the chief offenders among illicit narcotic peddlers; the same immigrants who are filling our insane asylums and penitentiaries, according to many authorities on such matters, including Secretary of Labor Davis; these same immigrants who horde together in big cities with such low living standards that American laborers are forced to deplorable living -wages; these same "ambitious" immigrants who send millions upon millions of dollars back to Europe

each year and who are now demanding that foreign languages be taught in our public schools. In speaking of Australia, Mr. Brisbane also says: "Except for a few mawkish sentimentalists and a few selfish industrialists that would gladly bring in cheap labor from Asia to lower their payrolls, Australia will have the sympathy of every American who knows anything about the movements of population on this earth, and the speed with which one cation can crowd out another." In view, however, of the many editorials written by him, wherein he advocates the flooding of America with the riff-raff of Europe, it was 'necessary that Mr. Brisbane "temper" his word's. In one short paragraph he says that in his opinion the ninety-seven per cent of Anglo-Saxon population "might be made stronger by a mixture of Latin and other White races." It is very doubtful, however, that his weak alibis appealed to Mr. Hearst, and it is most probable that it will be some time before Mr. Brisbane again Kings the praises of the Anglo-Saxon race and proves by his own words Ita superiority over other races. It is pleasing, however, to read in a Hearst newspaper the truth about the Anglo-Saxon and the admission that the people of a country have a perfect right to say "who may and who hall not come into it."

l o. Inc.. Publisher..

FUralnhed Ipon Rrqaear. Mall, $2.00 Per Year.

id-Cverwhelmingly in the first tet of strength. ?"

only for the Americans of today, but

The Faith of Freedom

From the National Reform Association There are many organizations and agencies of civic and social character into which Protestants have been invited to cohere their purpose to maintain the Christian ideals and the Christian institutional life of this country. Protestants have an indisputable right, as they have the appointed duty, to protect the foundations of this republic. It is. built upon the commandments of Almighty God. It was' dedicated in the prayerful purposes of the founders, to the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings Jesus Christ the Saviour and the Ruler of this world. We have sublime authentication of their right and their duty. Protestants have no need to cover their affirmation position with any cloak of concealment; they have no need to obtain any earthly permission. The supreme right is the right of the Divine King Himself. And the assertion by His followers ought to be their proudest and most open claim. What has caused the scattering of a definite Protestant purpose into the mists of so-called toleration? That is a question which every Protestant Christian and every citizen of Protestant antecedents ought to ask himself rebukefully. First it came from a lack of sympathetic affiliation among Protestants, due to fear of rival denominational advancement. And this has been followed by a feeling that assertion of the right of Jesus Christ and the right of the Protestant religion in this country, might be an intrusion upon the privileges of other citizens or an injury to their feelings. And piled upon the condition thus created, has been the solidifying of anti-Protestant purposes, and vociferous demand for the destruction of Protestant institutional life. In plain words, the enemies of Christianity in the United States can get together, claiming all and more than all their civil rights. And non-Protestant Christians can all get together to make definite battle against anything which seems to be antagonistic to their faith or their organizations. But Protestant Christians seem to be afflicted with a timidity, or an indolence, that is quite unworthy of American citizenship and that is an insult to the Lord who reigns on high. This nation is His. The fathers were inspired to come here and to build for H.im. No clearer tracing can be found in history than is shown in the establishment of the Protestant institutional lKe in the United States. The time has come for a closer communion among Protestant citizens. At the very outset it must be understood that union of church and state, directly or indirectly, in any form, is impracticable, unjust impossible. But, in avoiding nnlon of church and state for the Protestant faith and the Protestant adherents, wAdo not heed to rush to the mad extreme of allowing other church and nonchurch influence to dominate the state by their improper intrusion. And we have no need to remain as at present seventy millions of people, scattered in purpose and therefore easily defeated in our efforts to protect the ordained character of this nation. Every Protestant ought to be allied faithfully with his church for the maintenance of the Protestant religion. And every Protestant ought to be allied with The National Reform Association for the maintenance of the Protestant civic ideals in this Republic. These ideals are of vital importance even to non-Protestants, since they are vital to the perpetuity of the nation. -It was because of the maintenance of the Protestant ideals in practice, that people of all lands and all beliefs came crowding here to find the safety and liberty which had been denied to them under other institutions. - The freest countries in the worldj are the Protestant countries. Indeed it may be a reasonable declaration that the only free coun try in the world is a Protestant country. And in our land, this righteous freedom reaches its highest splendor, What need the non-Protetsant fear under the Protestant Institutional life of America? The Catholic has more freedom here than he has in Rome. The Jew has more freedom here than he has in Jerusalem. The infidel has more security here than he has in Russia. For the sake of all these; for the safety of America; and for the blessing of the whole world, Protestants must unite in a glorious purpose to preserve what the fathers founded under the guidance of Almighty God a Christian Protestant nation. Romanizing America "We want to make America Catholic, because without Catholicism America can not lfve," declared Dr. PaMon, a professor in Fordham College, N. Y., in a recent address. This is a straage prophecy, in view of the Tact that America has lived over a century and a half without Catholicism, and has gTown in that time from a dependency of another country to one of the most powerful and influential nations on the globe. As the Catholics only claim 15 per cent of the population at present, they are indeed "confronted by a great problem" in their desire to "make America Catholic." Countries where the Protestant position prevails are prosperous and growing. Where Catholicism is in power they are priest-ridden and decaying. We say to Rome "Hands off" from any attempt to Romanize America. History proves what you hare done to other nations. We want none of you in this country.

THE FIERY CROSS

Sparks from the Fiery Cross By JOHN EIGHT POINT "The noblest motive is the public good." virgil

"When America spoke," said John Ireland long ago, "there was no one in the land who waa not an American." WTould to God that were true today! j . Every Klansman, as a voter, exercises a public trust. He dare not vote for himself alone; he dare not choose for himself only. He must vote for the benefit of the entire commonwealth, and that is why his choice must be governed by sound principles of selection. The plan of this commonwealth was laid on the shores of the blue Lake of Galilee, when the Saviour of the ''world made clear that in God's sight all human beings come under the same laws of common fairness and spiritual equality. Shut the Gates And don't forget that the Roman hierarchy is dumping immigrant nuns into this country as rapidly and conveniently as possible. According to the recent ruling of Judge Winslow, Pope Pius can put every Catholic priest and nun in the old country upon American soil without the slightest interference from the government. Never was the need more imperative than now that Klansmen do their duty toward their country and their religion. - The true' Klansman is the one within whom the organization's practices, truths and suggestions find a resting place at blossom time. Unostentatiously and naturally these interior influences shape and quicken his life and character until he stands forth among the citizenry as a patriot and servant of his family, his nation, and his race. Just as surely as we follow the precepts of our Master, Klansmen, we shall lead men, and in leading them teach them. The French franc is sick. If it were not for Klannish physicians the American dollar would be sick in a similar way. The currency of a country gets sick when the government shows traces of feeling ill in its relations to its own people and its neighbors. The Magic Wnnd The magic wand of the Klansman touches the green fields of the spirit and the living waters of life flow forth education of all the children in things true, good, and beautiful; clean government by the people, for the people, without caviling or so phistry; and, here there waa want, care, immorality and self-seeking with all their camp-followers of crime, cruelty and fear, a new land where all the universe may see the fine faces of the free. The Klan Will Last When the counsels all are said, And the ultimatum's given. And the demagogues are dead, And the earth with woe is riven; When upon the printed page You've perused the final bleat Of the prophet and the sage, You'll be very apt to meet The old Klan still on the street! When the earthquakes shake the sod, And the oceans roll and thunder. When the nations cry to God, And the planets crash and blunder, When old Kronos feels the jar Of the last hour's hail and sleet, In the final judgment's war, You'll be very apt to greet Faithful Klansmen on -the street! When the shouting dies away, And things go back to the Giver, YVhen the day is no more day. And we meet beside the River, You will find the Klan has stayed On the job; upon its feet, It will face God unafraid, Faithfully, its work complete. It will march on up the street! The Turning From Romanism The collapse of the Russian Catholic church has had a greater effect toward Protestantizing Europe than appears possible at first glance; but statistics upon the subject are very satisfying. Surveys of the religious situation In Europe show that the world is really turning from Romanism to Protestantism with incredible speed. In 1922 more than 2,000,000 Russian Catholics Joined various Protestant churches; in 1923 about the same number threw off the papal yoke of servitude and united with Protestant organizations. It is said that millions of peasants who were almost serfs, so far as religious opinion was concerned, and who had Deen forced by the late czar to bow to Roman rule, quit the church when the Soviet killed compulsory religions law. These figures, pleasing though tney be to American Klansmen, should nevertheless be a new and clarion call to arms tor two reasons. In the first place, Romanism is so strongly entrenched that the loss of a few million communicants in Europe will serve only to madden the papal hierarchy and drive it to demand ever- increasing efforts on the part of its servitors to retrieve ground that has been lost. In the second place, it is very apt to accentuate the battle that is nqw on in America. Signa are not wanting that all the working posts in this country are being recruited as rap.idly as possible end that the greatest effort Is yet to be made toward papal domination In this country. No single loophole must be left unguarded by our workers. Roman propaganda and Roman workers stand, ready to seize every available

opportunity to win America. Some of the efforts are so insinuatingly clever and unobtrusive that senti

mental people are apt to forget that they are dealing with a power whose craft and cupidity have no limit, and that kindness in a given instance, as for example, the ruling to let the immigrant nuns into this country, may often be a dangerous thing whereby militant Rome can take a strategic point and score a victory if the soldiers of the cross do not arouse themselves to true conditions and provide themselves with sufficient courage and power to take the steps necessary to this country's welfare. Pnnlshim? Judges Judges do sometimes do their diitv When they do there is freauentlv an attempt at the ballot box to punish mem. mis is an unfortunate American practice. It shows that we still have some distance to go before we acquire perfect Doise and judgment. One of America's ereatest lawyers, Horace Binney, wrote a philippic against the slaughter of judges who tried to do their duty. Among otner tnings he said, "We are now under the direction of a fearful mandate, which compels judges to enter the arena of a popular election for their offices. That puts a cord around the neck of every One of them during the whole term of his office." Horace had ah idea that judges should go on the bench, under good behavior, of course for life. And, maybe he was right. His word didn't travel very far, and his voice, echoing down the corridor of sixty years is not listened to or even heard. Shall we go on scaring the judges, making them believe that i they decide rightly and justly we shall take them out and whip them? Shall we go on playing to our baser ideas and put an extra hoodwink over the eves of Justice? How shall we treat the judges who are deciding law inter preting the people's united conscience as they think best? The Horace Mann Type The whole of a personality is more effective as a working unit than any of ita parts, though each is essential in its place. Any educational program which centers its attention upon some few phases of personality, as technical schools and liberal colleges usually do, is at fault. The Klan proposes an education that limits ou.- young people along no true line of development. Stressing naturally a better knowledge of religion and of governmental fact, it nevertheless demands a broader and more complete training in art, science, history, and the grade fundamentals. It does not hold itself to be especially qualified to dictate just how the various curricula shall be modified, leaving such matters to those who are experts and qualified to make progressive changes. But it does stand to take obstacles out of the way of educators who are trying to make progress in spite of the limitations that are thrown about the free school by selfish politicians and papal schemers. And it does assert its fixed intention to throw its whole influence in the direction "of better, more easily administered schools schools with more helpful tendencies; schools that actually teach the true principles of American govern ment; schools where the word of God is really reverenced and taught. The Klan does not believe in atheistic biologists at the head of school boards. It does not believe in freethinkers as teachers, who covertly drill atheistic thought into unformed children's minds. It holds now, and forever will hold, that our schools should be conducted upon the same ideal lines as those visioned by Horace Mann and our other early educators who sacrificed their lives in loving service to the children of united America. A KLANSMAN'S CREED believe in God and in the tenet of the Christian religion and that a godless nation can not long prosper. I believe that a church that is not grounded on the principles of morality and justice is a mockery to God and to man. I believe that a church that does not home the welfare of the common people at heart is unworthy. I believe in the eternal separation of Church and State. I hold no allegiance to any foreign government, emperor, king, pope or any other foreign, political or religious power. 1 hold my allegiance to the Start and Stripes next to my allegiance to God alone. I believe in just laws and liberty. I believe in the upholding of the Constitution of these United States. I believe that our Free Public School is the corner stone of good government and that those who are seeking to destroy it are enemies of our Republic and are unworthy of citizenship. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in a free press uncontrolled by political parties or by religions sects. I believe in lata and order. I believe in tin protection of our pure v:omanhod. 1 do not believe in mob violence, but I do believe that laws should be enacted to prevent the causes of mob violence. I believe in a closer relationship of capital and tabor. 1 believe in the prevention of un warranted strikes by foreign tabor agators. I believe in the limitation of for eign immigration. I am a native-born American cititffl etni I believe my rights in thil toumtry are superior ta those of forttgnert. 1 fc"

The Criminal

The United States Is by way of becoming the criminal's millennium. The man who commits rim in the United States can, if he have the i means or influence to invoke all the resources which legal practice has placed at his disposal, almost surely escape full punishment; not infrequently he goes scot free. It is a serious situation. It has enlisted the attention and aroused the grave fear3 of the nation's ablest lawyers. It has been the subject of serious discussion at the annual conventions of the American Bar Association, which recognizes that the condition is intolerable. A painstaking study of the question was made by a committee consisting of Chancellor Hadley of Washington University, John G. MHburn of New York and Dean Mikell of the University of Pennsylvania. Those conclusions trace the historical genesis of many, legal conventions and CUSt0m3 which, however Rnimrl originally, are no longer competent Many of them were designed as offsets to the tyranny of the monarchial state. They constitute in their entirety an almost invulnerahle armnr for the criminal. The solution of the problem, seemingly, is a system of court practice by which the man accused of crimA can have a prompt and fair trial. vvnen convicted at such a trial he should pay the penalty imposed. It Should not be Dossihlp for him tn postpone the reckoning endlessly by cue numerous devices by which he now evades settlement. And when it is pointed out to us ns it in variably is by authorities like Mr. tiauiey, that the English court practice, which once was as badly cluttered UD With tpf-hniralitTr aa ours is, has been stripped of those Zangwill a Disappointment The Glory of Israel, organ of the New Covenant Mission, has this to say of the recent visit to America of Israel Zangwill: "Zangwill, the noted Jewish leader, has come and gone. His was not wholly a case of 'Veni, vidi, vici.' All Judaism was aroused by his pronouncements concerning Zionism and he succeeded in stirring up a whole crop of antagonism. Friends of a Zionist Free State were appalled by his utterances in opposition to their plans and purposes. They hailed him as a friend, and found him to be an enemy. He declared that the establishment of Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people was impossible of execution and to attempt it would mean continuous conflict with the Arab majority now in that country. He declared the land to be unfit for a large influx of Jewish immigrants and that mnch of it was incapable of being tilled. In a word, he disappointed all the hopes of those who had hailed his coming." The Glory of Israel carried the following sentences in the same issue of Zangwill's utterances for the press as he boarded the ship to leave the scores of America: "Israel Zangwill, the playwright and Jewish leader, sailing on the Paris, for his home in England after several months in this country, continued up to the last moment to voice his opinions most of thera nn- : favorable of 'typically American' things. "Some of the asperity seemed, however, to have departed from the rapid-fire condemnation of this country's institutions, customs and laws. ne admitted ft, and ascribed it to 'two pleasant surprises in one day a policeman who refused a tip, and a little girl who kissed me.' Discussing his own people, Zangwill said : "'If the Jews had shown more pluck aud had more luck, they would have a Vatican at Jerusalem today, and Catholicism would never have known its See at Rome. " 'I once thought America might become the land of the chosen people.' He explained be meant 'those who bring God's kingdom upon this earth. Later he said: " 'America regulated against alcohol, the Jews regulated against ham. it makes little difference what is regulated. The regulation generally is for the good of the greatest number.' " Fewer, Better Congressmen The way to make it possible to get men of first-class ability to serve at Washington as senators and representatives is to double their present salaries and reduce their numbers by one-half, says A. T. H. B. in the New York Times. All men in the prime of life feel that it is their first duty to provide for the future of their families, and It goes without saying that the salaries now paid our Washington lawmakers are not even sufficient to meet their living expenses there, to say nothing of putting by a surplus. There are too many of them any way. One senator from each state would be sufficient, and the whole country knows that among the small army of mediocrities who compose the House there are but few who could be classed as men of outstanding abil ity. Think of the absurdity of it ali the greatest nation in the world, whose stupendous affairs are in the hands of men who axe not highly regarded by their neighbors at home and who are not looked tipon as able enough to take part in the management of local institutions. And such are the men who have the direction of the affairs of this great natioB. The rfghi sort of man won't come out and say he would be willing to run for Congress if the salary were adequate. But If the salary were really adequate we should be sure of having a government in Washingtoa that all men would respect.

Friday, April 18, 19U

Millennium barnacles that the man charged with crime in England is tried and, if convicted, pays the penalty promptly when we are told that in England punishment for crime is swift and sure the natural question is why can we not have the same system of court practice here? We could, of course, if we were content to respect the limitations of law as the English do. Unfortunately, that is not our attitude. The American people today are fairly obsessed with regulating everything by law, leaving scarcely anything to the judgment, discretion and character of the citizen. This mania for law-making has invested the government with powers which could quickly develop into medieval tyranny if there were no strategic defenses againt it. The one justification to be pleaded for the technicality which today so often defeats justice is the fact that the multiplicity of our laws and their steady encroachment upon the intimate manners and customs of the people would make us a law-ridden people, with only the shell of liberty left, if all the laws were truly enforcible and enforced. The reform of this condition, therefore, which has brought our courts into popular contempt, and which makes crime a profitable and reasonably secure profession, can not be affected by sweeping away the undue advantages which court practice has constructed for the criminal. That is a necessary step, to be sure. But that step can not safely be taken until an enlightened public opinion demands, as a corollary, the repeal of the obnoxious, repressive inhibitions which have no place in the statutes of a dignified, self-governing people. Goodbye, Mr. Billboard For many years protests against the signs and billboards that mar the looks of all thickly populated districts of the United States were put Torth by organizations and individuals incensed by the ruin of landscapes by commercial display. All this was without effect. As if encouraged by opposition, signboard advertising developed into a great industry. Its enemies, save Joseph Pennell. became hopeless or weary. The public resigned itself to lettering on every skyline. Then, after the subject had been generally dropped, a group of New York city merchants decided to improve the appearance of their street by taking down all except electric signs. The movement spread and was next heard of in the Minnesota legislature, where a law was passed limiting displays along the railroad tracks. Now it "has broken out among manufacturing companies, headed by the Standard Oil companies of New York and California, and is indorsed by Kirkman & Son, the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, the Pillsbury Flour Company, the Washburn-Crosby Company, the Champion Spark Plug Company, the Goodyear Rubber Company, the Hood Rubber Company, the Ajax Rubber Company, the Sun Oil Company, the Gulf Refining Company, the Ward Baking Company, Dodge Bros, and me r ieiscHiuann company. Perhaps there is an economic explanation of this sudden victory for a lost cause. Has some delicate test of crowd reactions convinced big business that the highway sign evokes more antagonism than it is worth in sales suggestion? Am the billboards dying of their own ugliness or have they ceased to be effective because there are too many of them? Whatever may lie behind this unexpected good turn of fortune, we shall be glad to see them go if they do. Brooms, New and Old In an address delivered at New Orleans, Pierrepont B. Noyes, former United States commissioner in the Rhineland, gave voice to what he asserted to be a prevalent feeling of disgust with political conditions. Both parties and most public leaders fall, he declares, under general condemnation. He perceives in his travels through the United States a "growing demand for a brand new deal in politics." It appears that we must have a presidential candidate who will "clean up and revitalize our national life"; a real leader of the most towering intellectual and moral stature in short, a political genius or superman'. What he would need to do would be merely to formulate and get adopted a scientific tariff, a sound and businesslike system of taxation, and a wise and successful foreign policy. Mr. Noyes admits that there are "other major problems," but he is willing to leave those to the great hero and the perfect political party which he is certain the nation is ardently desiring to see appear. Obviously, it is in this spirit that the American people are moving forward toward this year's presidential election. They do not expect it to create a new earth. But they cherish the hope that it may make the old earth a little more habitable and agreeable. SO TBEE FOR LENOE WASHINGTON, April 12. Washington authorities have refnsed a request that a memorial tree be planted on Sixteenth street for Nikolai Lenine. The request was made in the name of J. BentleyM&lfnril tF Aah-ni-v PiV M T mutA . be a member of George JSTashisgton post, American Legion, of this ctty. Trees in memory of Washington veterans are now planted on the street and many protests against the Lenine move were received, including one from G. W. Powell, director of the America alia tloa "commission f

the legion.