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MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1920
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AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Daily Times takes a pardon
able pride in the complete and accu
rate account of the proceedings of
the Republican national convention at
Chicago which it furnished its read
ers. in addition to the reliable report
jpf the Associated Press, through the
courtesy of our townsman, George G.
Hazelet, we were enabled to publish
some sidelights as well as authenti
cated forecasts which proved most in
teresting and enlightening to our
clientele.
Mr. Hazelet was one of the delegates
from Alaska to the convention,, and
also held the proxy of J. C. McBride as
national committeeman, thus giving
him access to the “inner workings” of
the greatest political body that has
ever assembled in the history of the
country. That he was at all times
in close touch with the situation was
evidenced by his daily despatches to
the Times and for the service rendered
the paper and the public we are truly
grateful.
OUR NEXT PRESIDENT
The Republican national convention
•at Chicago on Saturday nominated its
candidates for president and vice pres
ident of the United States and made
a wise selection in the party’s stand
ard bearers, in selecting United States
Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio,
and Governor Calvin Coolidge, of
Massachusetts, respectively, for these
high honors. There never was a time
when the country was more in need
of a “big man,” with constructive
ideas, as its chief executive, and Sen
ator Harding may be truly said to pos
sess the necessary qualifications to
give the people the kind of an admin
istration that will result in general
prosperity and at the same time be a
credit to the nation. No better selec
tion for his running mate could have
been made than in naming Governor
Coolidge for the vice presidency. He
has risen from the ranks of the
masses, step by step, until today he
stands forth prominently as one of
the greatest exponents of American
ism. And the keynote of the coming
campaign is the single wrnrd “Amer
icanism;” upon this simple platform
the Republican party ean confidently
stand.
Americanism means, as Lincoln de
clared in his first political announce
ment, the protection and development
of American industries and American
resources.
It means the development of an
American merchant marine, not as a
government charity, but as a business
enterprise carried on by American ini
tiative and enterprise.
It means the holding of all the terri
' tory now beneath the American flag
not merely because of what that may
mean to this nation commercially and
from a naval and military standpoint,
but because of the blessings that flow
from American government to all the
peoples who yield allegiance to the
American flag.
It means the establishment of the
authority of the national government
in industrial relations rather than the
dictatorship, real or attempted, of any
one class or element in industry. It
means turning the thought and effort
of the American people away from Eu
ropean problems of which they know
little, to the solutoin of home prob
lems which heretofore they have so
successfully solved that this republic,
Through the mere power of successful
example, has been the most powerful
influence in world politics.
Americanism means the restoration
in practive as w'ell as theory, of the
three independent and co-ordinate
branches of government established in
the American constitution. It means
an end of executive dictatorship, real
or attempted, and the resumption of
orderly, constitutional government
through the congress and the execu
tive, with their powers limited by the
constitution under its interpretation
by the supreme court.
It means a real return to “that sim
plicity and economy befitting a dem
ocratic government,” as mentioned in
the Democratic platform of 1912 and
never thought of by Democratic leader
ship since.
Americanism means the abandon
ment of all the schemes of political
ized industry, of state socialism, of
either the Prussianized or Russianized
scheme of the exaggerated state, un
der which citizenship is only a form
of slavery to government.
Americanism means a restoration,
in public affairs, of the doctrines and
ideals of Washington, Lincoln, McKin
ley and Roosevelt.
Great national campaigns deal with
fundamentals, and no question more
fundamental in our national life has
been raised since 1860 than this ques
tion of whether America is to become
a mere European annex, a patch in
Europe’s crazy quilt.
In his determination to make the
un-AmeriCanized covenant a campaign
issue President Wilson has thrown
down the gage of battle, and it again
becomes the duty and the privilege of
the Republican party to make the
fight for American ideals of nation
ality.
As the minute men at Lexington
said: “The fight may as well start
here.”
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
The American Library Association
was established forty-four years ago
and is an organization made up of
4,000 librarians, all working to bring
books to the public and the public to
good books. When the war came, our
government requested the association
to take charge of furnishing reading
matter to the army, the navy and the
marine corps, and to all who had any
part in the war, at home or abroad.
Soon libraries appeared, quietly and
unostentatiously, with branches in the
Red Cross houses and in the huts of
the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M.
C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the Jewish
welfare board, the Salvation Army and
the War Camp Community Service.
Every arm of the United States ser
vice was supplied with books for rec
reation and books for study. Books
were carried close to the front line
trenches and into the rest areas. Over
7,000,000 volumes were distributed by
this association of library workers.
Just pause a moment, and think -what
this service must have meant to the
men in France, on the transports and
the men in hospitals, to say nothing
of those detained in camps on this
side. There are men today using the
libraries of the country who never be
fore realized the pleasure and the
profit gained from a book, as thou
sands of letters from ex-service men
will testify. So deeply appreciated
by the government has this service of
the American Library Association
been that its book service has been
taken over as a basis for permanent
library advantages to the army and
navy.
aiiu now uie association is seeKing
to widen its scope and help the 60,
000,000 people in our country who have
no access to books by library service
or but a limited one. A sum of $2,000,
000 is being sought by the association
to carry on its enlarged program.
This fund is designed to last, three
years and is being raised not by an
intensive drive but by the efforts of
librarians, library trustees and those
who realize to the fullest what a force
for better citizenship the libraries of
the country can be made to be.
Probably it won’t be many years
until some foreign foe will try to
mine New York harbor, with hard
liquor.
Dowrn in Mexico the defeated
statesmen are taken out and shot.
In the United States they go out
and get themselves half shot.
Advocates of the unexpurgated now
•all the oponents of the thing “sel
fish little Americans.” Well, better
be that than no American at all.
Having gone Democratic in 1916 it
is only retributive justice that Cali
fornia be worried with the Demo
cratic national convention this year.
David Lawrence, White House press
agent, writes in a recent news editor
ial: “Both Democrats and Republi
cans now are convinced that a third
party is inevitable.” Sure thing, the
only doubt being whether the honor
of being the third party will go to the
Democrats or to the Socialists.
A man who swallowed three tacks
in his soup in a New York restau
rant has just been awarded damages
of $25,000. After seven years of Dem
ocratic simplicity and economy we
presumed everybody was reconciled
to finding some tax in everything.
[SHORT-ARM
JOLTS
Down in Kentucky the night rider
has been displaced by the dande
lion raider.
You can tell the man who works
by the hour nowadays by the quali
ty of his silk shirt.
Probably more bullets than Dallots
will be wasted in nominating the
next Mexican president.
Villa says he is willing to rid
Mexico of bandits, which may mean
that he is preparing to move to
Germany.
The railway situation in a nut-,
shell is that the trains don’t seem
to get there at the right time
often enough.
Switzerland has endorsed the
league of nations, which may par
tially explain why it is known as
the land of cheese.
Remember the old-fashioned pres
idential candidate who used to sit on
the front porch at home and let
the people come to him
The league of nations cocktail is
said to be a very popular drink in
Cuba just now. It is composed of a
little bit of everything.
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Georgia Democrats have the tem
erity to speak what is in their
hearts because they know they can
carry their state anyhow.
The government is now prepared
to buy all your silver at a dollar
an ounce and still Bill Bryan
does’t appear to be satisfied.
The automobile which has the
most cylinders is not always the
best one and the same applies to
the platform thai has the most
planks.
In order to protect their members
from wood alcoholism it is report
ed that a number of prominent
hotels are considering employing pro
fessional liquor tasters.
In objecting to congressional con
trol of government publications may
be President Wilson was afraid it
would curtail the output of a. “firm
and vigorous notes.”
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