Show POLITICAL SATIRE Dy By L. L A. A Hollenbeck There was a 3 persistent demand for Cor Henry Ford for president Ford didn't know what his politics was He was supported by Democrats in MIchigan In his fight for the senate against Newberry and since he has said uncomplimentary things of J both parties and he didn't know where he was at although a third party was willing to form torm and back him up He attacked attacked th the Republican can administration because it sold out the Gorgas plant at Muscle Shoals and It was plain that the big busIness of the country was lighting fighting him But coolidge in bia ls message to advised congress con on- gress to build ano Gorgas plant Ilant and anel to turn Ius lo l Shoals over oyer to Ford and since Vien l J Ford ord h has s de- de dared aled that h ba vii not run president dent d 1 t and the cot 01 try to E indorse in- in n- n dorse Coolidge for Cor because he Is a safe sare man or 01 the country and all the b big of f the cut ll n- n try try applauds applauds him I Bitt D t Hiram Johnson wants to run for for president on the Republican Uc ticket and of course he is trying to buck Calvin oft off the track and in a public speech he pays his respects to I Ford He says that Ford was for Woodrow Wilson when he was Vas president I dent that Ford was for tor Harding when he was was' president and now Ford Is for Coolidge when lie he Is president then Hiram says Ford FordIs Is' Is a marvelous busIness man That is a cutting piece of satire It If you rou lie about a man in the papers that is called libel If you tell the truth about a man and also put a alot tot lot of Irony or o sarcasm in the truth that Is called satire saUre If you libel a al all nail l hh he is angry because it is a lie f e pre are satirical with a man hegis heg is angry because it is the truth We Wedo I Ido do not know whether Ford was angry 01 fot ot but at any rate Hiram dis- dis r p played ayed a considerable ability In II satire s Jre and that makes fair reading rOT the sensational public I Ford certainly is a wonder as 9 t business man but as a student of f hU human lan nature he seems to be slow to comprehend He is a man of great II business bu force but he seems to lack I cleverness a man who h hopes pes to be president must be clever I HE must b bP a past master in human nature nature-a ture-a ture philosopher with a sense I of humor and a sympathy that I takes in all the walks of lire life Great Great- j ness in one line might be y narro I ness neBS In another but se le people will not long follow such a man He must be an all around man perhaps riot not extraordinary in in any line but big and yell rounded out It seems to take a whole epoch to produce a Shakespeare or a Lincoln We will have to he be satisfied with a lesser light but the final choice will be for a man with mental balance and easy poise |