Show dispelling THE FOO FOG L by charles charie 0 o Mc M chelson belson some of my eol colleague league colum columnists lave bave been in ili a serious state of mind conC TIlIng the sale to newspapers and magazine azinef of Pres prudent dent Rs valt beus 9 notes in connection co 10 alth witha all the books I 1 that are arc to be issued as aed containing his ha messages to congress announcements noun cements of policies and the speeches bpck caca he be has made however it lias has been formally announced that thai the die proceeds of this sale would be devoted to some unnamed useful public purpose obviously the administration critics must find it difficult to criticize that disposition of the proceeds 0 of these syndicated aTti articles Cleg according to their sacred tenet that whatever the president emt does musi be wicked priced so they the questioned the girao ty of the statement quoting that in response to a previous inquiry the white house secretariat secretarial had bad stated that the presidents share ln in the proceeds would go to tc win hm it might a seem eem obvious blat the checks would come to the P rS eident Es dent it maht seem equally obvious jbv ous that lie he would devote thorn to falch pubic purpose as jle ie though best but such an ac obvious explanation never occurred to such lucli I 1 antill commentators as mr I 1 frank kent or mr air david lawrence other instances now kow it runs in my mind that Pres president dent harding was the owner i d f the maron mar on star which earned lim bin b in the year before lin lic came to the white house this big was larg ly because of his cand dacy and the general belief that lie would be elected his wat first year in fit the pres deacy ncy lifted his income front from the ittle country paper papal to after a time the newspaper was waa sold to a group at a price which was rather astonishing in the light of the marion stars normal circulation arid and position in the newspaper world among the terms ot of that sal sale was wag a provision that president harding would receive a year tor for fifteen years tor for a 9 column a weekly column it I 1 recall correctly corre cUy which naturally bo be syndicated so that the tee fee could not be considered in any way exorbitant I 1 do not recall that any of the columnists now so caustic in their comments found the slightest fault with president harding for contracting tr to write rite a cur current bent column while lie he was in III the white house in fact it was apparent to all news newe that the purchase price paid for the marion star was due to the well founded belief belet that the publication ot of such a column by the president would give vast prestige to the paper and perhaps result in such syndicate Prok profits fits from the distribution ot of that column as aa to justify the big price so according to the philosophy ot phe the 0 antei ata columnists it was was quite according to II 11 hye yle for a republican president dent to do the ithe stunt even though more was no suggestion that any aart ot of these profits would go to charity or public s service race bui but it is ely invidious tor to a demacro ti president to sell his words appertaining illg to closed ep encodes bodes mr mi tay franklin I 1 a bit mysteriously 99 tes that dorit cool ado naked ray long of t the coar nic pol tan magazine tor lor T toni am his dow dour pres dentral pen e and added it is a fact th that at president der A cooldige Cool dge wrote magazine zine ploce 16 fr for money while ip the whits icus na live is issue sue it would seem to be e a very lavt issue as long as the 1 proceeds of the newspaper arid and mu eions aria are to be donated to some public par purpose pose nevertheless some of these columns columnists ts gravely announce that no to other explanation is possible i than that there was so much criticism aroused by themselves alid t nd hy by some born e hostile newspapers that the president changed lis ba mind in deference to public opinion that Is mr kents idea mr lam lawrence on oil the other hand figures agures out that the newspaper per and ana magazine purchasing price was not high bough nough to make worth willis while the Pres presidents licad lic on oil to it both the these se hypotheses are in natural accord with the general principle that the president of the states slates never does anything irom from a worthy motive but then a 1 crusading columnist anxious to lo make a point Is not going to be hampered either cither iby by probabilities or consistency or even by facts facia |