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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1920 THE MASON COUN'rx'Jv .......
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HIS PLEDGE TO THEM
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ME AND THE CAMPAIGN
BY STK[KD GILIJLA
Jk lervqus and fretf"" world Is latarklng time with what pa,
tlenee tt can until I announce my preference for the presidency.
Here It goce--I am for Harding! I say this with the full knowl-
edge of the falling off this may cause In the Harding vote, among
my hordes of bitter enemies everywhere. But that's that.
I voted twice for Woodrow Wilson. This Is uo boast. It
is a confession. Republican though I naturally was. having been
reared aDemocrat, I was so carried away with the high Intellect-
uality Of the Princeton wonder that I voted for him. We admire
in others the qualities we ourselves do not possess. Cripples
always attend prize-fights. S0 I voted for Woodrow Wilson be*
cause lie had brains. ' I Im a stubborn cuss in the matter of
frtendshlps, a an adherent and a camp follower I am tenacious
and hard to lose. As a henchman I have the best-known glues
of commerce distanced and detached. My tenacity in such cases
made and provided Is equalled only by Mr. Wtlson'e effectiveness
as a solvent for etery form of m¢llage that attaches human
beings to him Despite my efforts to remain coupled, he pulled
a draw-bar and was gone! I believe I was the last friend, outside
of holders of postolfioee, that President Wilson had.
I was more anxious for the league of Nations to go through
Ill its essentials than he was. He was more anxious to get his
' own way and conquer the United States Senate with the help of
the people, than he was for anything connected, with the peace
treaty he had gone to help enact. When he sald it would frac-
ture the mundane heart to reject his treaty, he meant he would
• hae a fit and gum up the works if he dldh't get his own Way.
His superiority to the Dinted States Inate0 which had been for
so long an accepted ;,fact wtth him, should be maintained at any
cost. His proneness to attach the tubular tinware to any of his
: cabinet-members caught red-handed in the act of independent
and indivldua 1 cerebration had been getting on my nerves for
quite a while. It was growing harder and harder for me to
argue against a brother-in-law of mine who had always detested"
the Wtlsonlan personality. And when the skein of . state affairs
.became so may-I-netted that Lansing let go and was urgently
permitted to.depart, there was a sound of rending cordage and
my goat, freed at last, bleated away into the distance.
It seemed to me that whenever the Wilson eye detected any
body in a state of mlnd to stand loyally and trustfully by him,
he sent to the pharmacy for some chlorine gas and charged the
al in hie vicinity. His friends did not desert him. He deserted
them. All a fellow had to do was to find out what seemed to be
the desire of the president's heart and come out for it. Then
the president, through the introduction of some wild and weird
and arbitrary method of attaining that heart's desire, went and
stood on a pRinacle where there was no fast room tar a friend
beside.
So, finding myself alone where I thopght the president was
---on a platforni for the enactment speedily of an effective peace
treaty that should embody the essentials of the league---while
he wandered elsewhere and sought an l-undotted and t-uncrossed
ratification of a specific and dubious document, I gave right up.
I said to myself:
"He is a wonderful man. He has amazing mental ability.
But land sakes, he isn't brighter than everybody else in the
United States put together. And even if he were. himself is not
the person from whom this idea should be bulletined out. If
he thinks so, he can't be! The world has never been such a
stickler for rhetoric as to insist on this literal acceptance of
something even the president himself had to have forced upon
him in Europe. Ooodby, Woody, I worshipped a long time at
your shrine. I am going to take up my prayer-rug and go home.
And i shall vote for the man who is least in sympathy with you,
in the next presidential campaign."
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CANDIDATE COX, THE UNDIGNIFIED
By E. 6. VAN ZILE
From the time of George Washing-
ton to the present moment it has been
,characteristic of the American people
to demand dignity as an absolutely
• .essential quality in the make-up of a
President: The instances have been
so rare in which an occupafit of the
White House has forgotten the obliga-
tion he is under to the nation to main-
tain his poise under all circumstances
that it requires close historical inveS-
tigation to come upen them. Our
Presidents have heen, no matter what
may have been their shortcomings as
executives, W0rthyin their outward
bearing of'the 'eminence to which they
sd attained.
It Is a serious handicap ts lames M.
Cox that he has displayed,, in his
Presidential campaign,' a lack of dig-
ni'ty that has been, in some of .its
AMERICAN COLONY
IN FRENCH TOWN
VARIETY OF TYPES
J.
an aspirant for the Presidency, for the
great physical and mental strain that
he is undergoing. But there is a limit
beyond which its patience and sym-
pathy may safely be tried, and Gov-
ernor Cox has repeatedly passed that
limit.
Of course, it may be too much to ex-
pect that a candidate who owes his
nomination to tim fact that he was the
®nly one of many aspirants who was
thoroughly a persona grata to men like
Murphy, Nugent, Taggart and Bran-
nan should possess that sensitiveness
to the proprieties that has safeguard-
ed the dignity of our Presidents as a
class. But even after making due al-
lowance for the fact that a man's man-
ners are influenced by, the company he
keeps, it.is not too much to say that
Governor Cox, in his recent public ut-
terances and in certain cheap appeals
manifestations,actually shocking. It he has made to people lacking in good
is not demanded, of course, that' a taste, Ires placed himself outside the
Presidential candidate shall go about Ipale fl.om which alone an occupant of
his campaign activities with a book of I the White House should be chosen.
etiquette in One hand and a box ef As President them is every reason
sedative pills in the*, other. The Amer.to believe that the undignified Cox
lean public, with its usual ense of would offend against a precious tra-
Justice, mhkes' dUe allowance always, I dlflon that is, as it should be, dear to
when Judging the words and deeds of the hearts of the American people.
H. BINNS CLOSES HIS SERIES
OF LETTERS TO THE
JOURNAL
Grenoble, France, Sept. 11, 1920.
Contrary to all the established ]les
for learning" the French language
and the ways'-of the French people,
we are living in a colony of Amer-
icans representing many parts of our
country and many shades of wealth
and opinion. We" find it very inter-
esting, for an American abroad is a
I ver" different person from the same
[Ame]can at home, or at least he
shows up in a different light.
i First of all there is Jumbo. Jumbo
is five feet tall and a Bolshevik. He
teaches Romance languages at some
little middle Western college, but is
rather ashamed of it, and spends
most of his time explaining to us the
futility of culture. And no one ever
stops to define culture, the discus-
sions are noisy rather than convinc-
ing. .But in spite of his size, Jumbo
has an outdoor voice and usually
comes out on top. He tells us that
if he had had the strength for t, he
he would have entered a coal mine
instead of a college. Meanwhile, he
is putting in about ten hours a day
on his French, which is a
of the popular idea that a Bolshevik
never works. For the rest, he is
fond of playing the piano and but-
ting into conversations, and, strang-
est of all, believes that all art should
serve a moral end. Now do I explain
the union of all these characteristics
m a single person, and one so small
at that? I don't. Try it yourself.
All I'm willing to do is swear that he
exists.
Then there is Ikey. lkey is not
swish, as one might think. He mere-
has a surname that sounds like
rot. He has ust graduated from
two years in the ranks of a New
York regiment and four years in a
college which has a much bigger
name than it deserves. His father
sent him over in July, just for the
trip, with enough money to last a
year. He expects to be home for
Christmas, owing to lack of funds.
Ikey is not ambitious; he is happy-
go-lucky and has the sweetest smile
in the world. He declares that his
idea of happiness is to have a chicken
ranch and just enough money to live
on. In support of this idea of Eden
he talks of a couple he roomed with
when he was in college. They were
poor, didn't make more than $75 a
week at the outside, but they were
justas happy on their little income
as other folks are on plenty. In
fact, they were the happiest couple he
ever knew. Ikey, Ikey, it is hard
for you to realize that those poor
folks rank among the wealthiest one-
third of the American people.
Tommy ,has just left us. Tommy
commanded a submarine chaser during
the war, and was the youngest com-
manding officer in the U. S. navy.
He admits it himself. He was sent
eye, shore by a big firm of silk man-
ufacturers to )earn technical weaciug.
The man who came with him ,knew
French, and went right to wct'k in
a factoT. Tommy didn't know
French so le came up here to learn
it. He had a fine time, for he has a
mrsonality, "isn't afraid.of be-
.d at, and plays wonderful
All the Italians and Rou-
manians at the university were crazy
over him. But the day of reckoning
came. His employers' agent asked
Tommy around to dinner the other
evening, and pretended to discover
that his French was progressing
backward. So Tommy has left us
to work. But they haven't
a bit of the p.aint off him.
As he remarked jauntily when they
passed sentence on him: "Well, I
ot away with it for a month, any-
ow." I prophesy a great future for
that boy m the silk business.
You will be surprised to learn that
Van Whoop, the New York
society leader, and her son Eddie
are living at our modest little pen-
,sion, and actually take' their meals
with us. In fact, they are the life
and soul of the .party. But things
have changed since 1917. Eddie
didn't wait for a commission, but
enlisted in a ..ugh reg!ment which
saw much servace. He even admits
that he learned to chew tobacco. And
Mrs. Van Whoop spent a year in a
Y. M. C. A. canteen in France, mak-..li
_ ing lemon pies £or the boys. (S2e/,
used to make as many as 150 a
and in spite of the society leadership,
Fm willing to bet they were good.
But the war is now over. ]h'om
Grenoble Mrs. Van Whoop goes on to
Nice for the winter. Nice is a warm
place, but Mrs. V. H. looks well in
furs, so she has four set along, one
in each of her four wardrobe truks.
But we are not all Americans.
There are three young Dutch stu-
dents in our midst. But you'd never
know that they weren't Americans,
except that they have better man-
ners. They all speak good English,
for in Holland every educated man
En hsh F]ench, and German
learns g ' , "
in addition to his own language, be-
ginning one or more of them at
eight years of age. We had always
thought of Hollanders as short and
round, but two of these fellows arc
tall and slender; the third is tall
and perfectly built--an ideal end or
tackle.
Altogether we are a happy family,
though, as is the case in most fr
tiles, argument runs high at times.
With this article I must bid fare-
well to my readers. My university
work for the coming year is so heavy
that I do not feel able to continue
them. I have received many words
of friendly encouragement from read-
ers in Washington, which have made
my task much easier. In another
year I shall be liome again, and
hope to see everyone I knew before
I left, and' to meet all the friends I
have made through these columns.
J. H. BINNS.
PAGE ELEVEN
MEN AND WOMEN
OF MASON COUNTY
If you don't register on or before
,October llth, you can't vote at
the general election November 2nd
The issues are momentous---awaken to call of your
American citizenship
REGISTER AND VOTE
Republican County Committee
UsEDT. W. Little's cARPers°nallYsALEC°nducted
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I am putting on a REAL sale to sell REAL CARS. I am running this
sale myself and I will tell you why, I HAVE $60,000 TIED UP IN USEI
CARS AND I NEED THE MONEY.
During the month of October I will 'dispose of every one of these ma-.
chines regardless of price. The object is to make a clean sweep before Nov.1.
NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED FOR ANY USED •CAR IN
THE HOUSE. We are positively determined, and are prepared, to make a
sacrifice in order to dispose Of this number of cars. Prices will sell anything,
and PRICES WILL SELL THESE CARS.
If you contemplate driving a car now, or next spring,' you would better
step up and get a first choice from these "Little" Used Cars at practically
your own figure and on ON YOUR OWN TERMS.
From the following list pick out your favorite car, make a small de-
posit and pay the balance as you enjoy it. ALL EQUIPPED:AND READY
TO GO--
One Fine Apperson
, Dort
. , ' Harroun
:i " Hupmobile
:. ', Mitchell
' ' ........, , Oakland
Scripps Booth
, ' ' : " :, Pullman
....... Several Chevrolets
Several Overlands
Seven Maxwells
Two Cadillacs
Two Saxons
Several Fords
Chalmers "
Oldsmobile
Dodges
Metz
Briscoe
And a splendid lot of late model Studebakers, Fours and Sixes, includ-
ing Roadsters and Big Sixes.
• CARS FROM $100 UP
Sale will continue until the evening of October 31st. Sales rooms will
be open evenings and Sundays during the sale.
Every car carries the usual T. W. Little Company's guarantee. The
fact that we are one of the pioneer automobile dealers in Tacoma, have
been selling new and used cars for 13 years, is your protection.
Look for the big signs, you know the place.
T, W. LITTLE COMPANY
712 Broadway
TACOMA, WASH.