| Show V Pre Prevailing V a i I i n g 0 Opinions p i ni 0 n s J V Comment of the American Amerie n Press McGroarty Made to fo Order By long odds John Steven McGroarty McGroarty Mc Mc- Groarty is the right man to head the Townsend presidential ticket He is a kindly well meaning man a confirmed idealist He is sincere we believe in all he does It would be bo hard to charge him with taking taking tak tak- ing ingup up the Tow Townsend nd plan m merely to ta get votes It would never neve occur to John Steven McGroarty to tomake tomake tomake make empty grandstand empty grandstAnd plays plays' to hook Towns Townsend nd support On that basis alone the Town Town- senders have amongst the politicians clans cian practically lly no DO other chol choirs choice e etor for tor a a candidate How tar far Mr McGroarty's sincere sincere sincere sin sin- cere idealism includes a sense of responsibility may be nother another matter But it is II not a a question so far is s Mr McGroarty is concerned con con con- He Ho Is Ls a a. poet and he has hu said laId himself that responsibility IB is riot not to be expected of poets Th They y yare are not to be judged by com common on rules That dictum should find a sympathetic echo amongst the who insist that their plan too is not to be judged by common rules Mr McGroarty has still another another er qualification that makes moke him stand out as a candidate for tor Townsend Townsend Town- Town send suffrages He is a dreamer mer He has haa always been beena a dreamer He lie has lived his whole life Ute in dreams gentle friendly dreams we may be bo sure ure And he dreams dream the same lame dream that the tho Town Town- senders sender do and does not know that it Is Ss a dream What more could the Townsend Townsend- en ers u. ask in a candidate John Steven McGroarty the poet of the Tujunga is 18 su surely ely a a sent heaven-sent answer to the quest of ot a candidate by the Townsend Townsend- ers erl beleaguered as they are by self seeking eking politicians who would use un them while laughing at them up their sleeves san San Francisco Chronicle If Jf Was a Handsome Offer Although David Lloyd George is not running the British government gov gov- he caused many alarmed statesmen in Europe to leap to the tho doors and throw the tho bolts when he proposed a redistribution of ot colonies taking them away from the little fellows who had too many and giving them to the big fellows who were restless because be be- cause caUl they did not have havo enough enouch The Tho British have displayed great firmness in rejecting suggestions sug lug that some compensation for tor the defaulted American debt could be found in a transfer of West Vest Indian possessions They have never weakened in saying no Conscientious Conscientious' as they are in I money matters they'd rath rather r pay nothing at all than han settle in ira jm- penal real c estate Lloyd Ge George Gergo rge propos proposed d to give the colonies colonl s VOt of ot Holland Belgium and nd other little fellows to satisfy the land hunger of such underprivileged wider under der- der privileged big fellows as Ger Ger- many That was a f fine ne burst of generosity but it could S go no further The little fellows are arc not meeting tho the offer Ina lna commendable corn com mend ble spirit They are unwilling unwilling unwilling un un- un- un willing to match the British gen gen- The Netherlands will wUl never voluntarily cede one square yard of of colonial territories to meet the tho expansionist needs of other ether nations the Dutch foreign minister told his parliament and was loudly cheered The B British lUsh may only raise their eyebrows eyebrows eyebrows- at such intransigence and leave the matter on the conscience conscience con- con science of the people who will not be touched by the tho need of others otherl Great Britain made a handsome offer and can do no more except possibly agree that the little fellows fellows fellows fel fel- fel- fel lows should be despoiled by force Chicago Tribune Noble Experiment Mexico is ls making diplomatic overtures to Yo Ye Editor Every week the tho department of ot foreign relations sends sends' us weekly a news newssheet sheet The latest issue bue advises us of the a al l cobol cohol carried on all over the Ithe re repUblic republic republic re- re public by the tha department nt of ot public pub pub- lie lic health As alA one symptom m showing the interest ar aroused by the tho drive against ruth rum says lay the news sheet the Railway Workers' Workers union has joined forces with the leaders of the tha fight against intemperance as asan asan asan an endemic evil Forty five thousand thousand thou thousand sand railroad men mon will from now second this noble work It is pleasant to observe that Mexico pr profiting fiting b by oUr our slid sad experience experience ex ox- confines it its noble ex experiment ex- ex to education in beh behalf of temperance Th That is Ii wiser wiler far ar wiser than resorting to I tion Cleveland Cleveland News New i H California's Ban Ben on Transients Sp Speaking Iii in the idiom California California Califor Califor- nia ida particularly Los Angeles can give it but she cant can't take it She can accept all the advantages of ot the most remarkable booster camI campaign campaign cam cam- I ever carried on in the the history history history his his- tory of tho the world but when the advertisement of her sun and soft Boft air brings poor transients as na well as New York bankers and Iowa farmers she stations armed policemen po po- po- po along her borders Certainly Car Cor- thinly if It California piles plIes up the transients on her borders and Washington does the same Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon cannot but do likewise and then such action would swell across the mountains mountain like Jlko a wave That is Ii clear from tram history Perhaps Per Per- haps hap th the most notorious poor law ever over enacted in England aside from the workhouse test was the settlement act of 1662 which sought to hold the poor to their original parishes It hindered the search for employment It demoralized demoralized demoralized demor demor- English labor for ce tury Such laws came into existence because England had its little which did not want to accept the good with tho the bad They were we're were a a. lo logical cal climax and yet even they failed Morning orning Oregonian V Plain Words on on British Scrap crap When any realist on this Ii side de deot of ot the Atlantic asserts that British Brit ish motives In up upa a near- near row with Italy were somewhat less than angelic he is instantly accused of Anglophobia But bear hear Baron Mottistone on the subject In a speech in the house of ot lords Mottistone made thO the Japans Japan's Invasion of ot Manchuria Manch anch ria provided a better test for Ifor the League of Nations than the Italian invasion of Ethiopia except that It it did not suit us Great Britain to quarrel with J Japan p n He continued c came m to Italy we knew we e had them bottled up The whole thing seems to me sanctimonious sanctimonious sancti sancti- us humbug We Ve are arc strainIng straining strain strain- Ing at a gnat and swallowing a camel V Perl Perhaps aps Baron Mottistone is an Anglophobe to too o. o Philadelphia Record V |
