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THE CALDWELL TRIBUNE
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MARY PICKFORD.
It in said of movie celebrities as well
as politicians that critical publicity is
preferable to no publicity. We doubt,
however, if Mary Pickford, the most
advertised of all movie actresses, rel
ishes the rays of light now envelop
inK her.
To ha\e been granted a divorce and
to remarry almost before the ink on
the document of separation is dry is
bad enough but to have obtained .1
divorce under circumstances which
have prompted an • investigation is
worse. It is understood that steps
tnav be taken to annul the divorce de
cree.
Briefly the situation is this: Mrs.
Owen Moore (Mary Pickford) was
Kranted a divorce in Nevada. Two
weeks later she jnarried Douglas
Fairbanks, who also recently ohtaine I
a divorce. According to the best in
formation obtainable, Mrs. Owen
Moore resided in Nevada about three
weeks before the decree was granted.
Slate law now requires a year's resi
dence. She was granted a decree
when, in actuality, the court was not
even aware of her true identity. It
has been said that because of the
shabby clothes she wore, the presid
ing judge even enquired if she did nor
care to ask for alimony.
Perhaps similiar circumstances
surround numerous othet divorce
cases. But the fact that Mary Pick,
ford lia* a world wide audience who
almost worships her lends this par.
ticular case an especially unsavory
taste. Newspapers will "play up" ev
ery feature of the investigation. dej.
siminating through the length of the
land a story that will react in mil
lions of Americans. Instances like
this one make the most liberal mind
cd cry out against the prevalent
practice of lightly disregarding ma'
riage vows, the true basis of civiliza
tion.
Upon the children of America such
a spectacle as Mary Pickford h^s giv
en us can have only permanent effect.
If we would wreck the nation by des
troying its homes, let us continue to
sanction j ust such things.
BRASS TACKS.
Whatever criticism we have exprès
sed regarding President Wilson's for
eign policy and general practice of
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CALDWELL IDAHO
treading in aisles not of a church,
as \mcrican* we applaud his stand H
demanding that the Turk vacate Eur
ope. One of the avowed objects of
the war. in the event of allied sue.
cess, was to forever wipe Turkey's
name from the map of Europe.
I hat it has riot been done and >s
now not even seriously contemplated
speaks no good of European diplo
matie procedure It seems that j<*l.
ousy. demand and counter claim have
paved the way for the Mohamenidan
government to maintain a foothold in
Europe.
Perhaps, after all, even this matter
is no more the business of the United
States than is the Euime controversy
or the Irish problem, fîut that can
not prevent expression of general ap
probation of Mr. Wilson's request
that this particular phase of war pur
pose be explicitly carried out.
Europe is too small to house a
scoundrel of Turkey's type. So long
as the nation is permitted a foothold
on European soil, just so Ion* will
she be a menace to peace. fty all
means put the Turk where he be
longs; in Asia.
PRESIDENT WILSON.
Recent snapshots of President
Woodrow Wilson, reproduced in
newspapers ami magazines, have
served to bring home more forcibly
than physicians' statements or poli
ticians fears that the chief executive
of the United States is far from a we'l
man His face is haggard .shrunken
and obviously pallid. The well known
facial features portraying a forceful
character lack their old distinctness.
Serious question has been recently
raised regarding. Mr. Wilson's sanitv.
\ T o one believes that Mr. Wilson has
lost all his iradionally able mental
faculties; recent #otes to foreign na
tions belie any stich possibility. Of
his possible affliction with paranoia,
however, many medical men are
agreed.
Perhaps no president of the UniteJ
States will leave the White House
with morç universal criticism sine
the administration of JamcF Ruchana 1
than will Woodrow Wilson. From
heights which not so long ago looked
down upon a worshipping world,
President Wilson has seen his pres.
tage and popularity wane until today
' e stands, almost like a tiger at bay,
facing an antagonism that has spread
until it penetrates not only America,
but I'ranee, Italy, Greece and some
South American countries. Demo
cratic senators have asserted upon the
floor of the senate but that for loyalty
to. Iiis wish and will would have a!
most unanimously voted with Repub
licans for adoption of the league cov
enant with Lodge reservations.
Recent arts by Mr. Wilson partie,
ularly the curt and. ilncalled for dis
' inissal of Robert Lansing, have le n't
.'olor to the belief that Mr, Wilson i-.
so saturated with the senic of self
ufficiency as to approach being
.
paranoiac; that is, a person of such
exaggerated ego as to be classed vviMi
those mildly unbalanced mentally.
t may not be true. Loyal Ameri-1
cans persevere in the hope that it is
not. But if it is, nothing can prevent
Mr. Wilson attempting once more to
become a presidential candidate. For
that is where the disease ridden mind
would direct him.
Mr. Wilson has suffered enough.
Let us hope his tragedy is not mad;
gruesome through comedy.
HOOVER'S DRAMATIC COUP.
That Herbert Hoover had added an
unexpectedly dramatic element to 'he
campaign by announcing himself a
Republican is becoming vividly clear
Not only has his action caused con
sternation amonit the canny Demo
crats of high degree who were plann
ing to make him the candidat" of their
party, but it has distributed violently
the balance of power among the Re
publican candidates.
Those who were predicting that
Hoover cotild not be taken seriously
because he had no party behind him
Will be compelled to revise their views
somewhat. It is too early to say that
Republican sentiment will coalesce
about him, but even the least pers
picacious can see that there is apt to
be a third party if he fails of the nom
ination. Thus an entirely new factor
is injected into the contest and »ne
that the party managers will not fail
to reckon at its true value.
Leaving aside the partisan view
point and striving to vision the future,
all of us can see that Herbert Hoover
j has suddenly become a figure of tre
mendous importance and will create
some surprising transformations "i
the political line ups.
What Democrats, for example,
could hope for victory if Hoove
should be selected as the Republican
nominee ' \'ot that Hoover would I).'
as strong among Republicans as Gen
eral Wood. Hiram Johnson #r Gover
nor Lowden, but undoubtedly he
would make prodigious inroad-,
among the Democratic voters. The
women voters especially would be at
tracted toward his candidacy.
I'f Herbert Hoover were a lesser
man his eleventh.hour declaration
would not worry the candidates, but
they recognize him as a dangerous
opponent because he is not merely a
rat able lnisiivss man. but a student
of industrial and economic conditions,
a thinker at once progressive and con
servative, one of the best informed
among us concerning international af
fairs and. perhaps most winning of all,
young .energetic and tireless.
Whether we are for him or against
him, we expect to be hugely enter
tained by him during the next few
months.—The Citizen.
I
AWE OF WHITE HOUSE
"Patriotism unohscured by partisan
bias or prt-soual interest," in the opin
ion of the Philadelphia Public Ledger
an independent newspaper, would
have prompted Democratic Senators
to repudiate President Wilson's lead
ership and align themselves with their
Republican colleagues in ratifying,
with necessary reservations, the Lea.
gue of Nations covenant.
It was the patriotic thing to do. ob
. viously. Hut courage lacking to do
j that patriotic thing, obviously,
! Awe of the White House explains
I this lack of courage.
It is and for months has been an
| open secret that these Democratic
I senators, a sufficient number of them
to make up the necessary two-thitds.
j vote to ratify a safe-guarded treaty,
were unalterably opposed to the cov
mailt in its original form and, :
heart, in full and robust sympathy
with the Lodge reservations. But the*
could not summon the courat'e to'
break w ith the author of the Versai!! -
past. They wanted t do it—to a
sert their patriotism md independent
but—
Let the Public Ledger di^gno-'. tin
situation.
(hey feared, accord tig to this en
lightened journal—a pro-league nov.
pap. r of which former President Wil.
liam Howard Tat't is an editorial cor-'
respondent or contributor—that if th"!
president were to "pocket the treaty";
he. with his mixed following of very I
I ractica! office holders and very im •
practical dreamers, would split, th
Democratic party throughout the na
tion and so imperil their several re
elections in their different states."
Hence they preferred "keeping the to.
cal party together, even at imineas
urable cost to the nation and the
world."
Refusing to vote for ratification
with reservation what is accomplished
by these Democratic senators who
lacked the courage of their convictions
—and patriotism?
In the language of the Public Led
ger it served only to "protect the
president from t I te necessity of prov
ing once more his egotism, his stirb
borness, his utter failure to follow
the first principles of the Democrac
he is always talking about—'obedience
to tlve plain will of the people."
Therefore the Public Ledger ap
pealed to the Democratic senators to
call his bluff. But it appealed in vain.
The Louisville Courier-Journal and
the New York World stalwart Demo
cratic organs, and the New York
Evening Post, pro,administration thru
out the Wilson regime—all three ar
dent advocates of the League of Na
tions—likewise urged, even demand
ed, concurrence in the proposed res.
I ervations, but with like futility.
Egotism and stubbornness at the
White Ijouse and Democratic coward
ice in the senate combined to produce
the deadlock. And the administra
tion's former champions are making
that fact clear—as clear as day.—P'-ott
C. Rone.
WIT AND
WISDOM
A bee in the hive is worth two in
the bonnet —Columbia Record.
The public is getting a trifle ouija
bored.—London Free Press.
The Germans have taken off their
Kapp to Ebert.—Florida l imes l"n
ion.
Germany is threatened with a seri
ous attack of ingrowing rutlilessness
—Washington Star.
When a movie is O. IC. it is passed
by the censors, but when it is not it
is sensed by the pastors.—Dayton
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Governor Edwards, of New Jersey,
o il i run for president on a platform
demanding reclamation of all arid re.
'»us.—Arkansas Gazette.
Chirago's new daily paper is to pub
i-h no news of crime or scandal. It
a >n't have much local news.—Newark
Advocate.
And now Mr. Hearst may run for
president. We hope he is in good
training, tor he will have to run a
I oig distance.—Portland Oregonian
\ great embarrassment to private
ownership is that when the railroads
iyre returned the four Rrotherhood
were also returned—Financial Amer
ica.
\"<t Pait,Germany butPand^mon
ium.—London Ont. Free Press
One way to keep your friends is not
to give them away.—Savannah News
Meat Prices Declining.—Head line
1> dining to decline, apparently.—
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New York World.
Maybe Germany is like the man
thro wing a fit to frighten off his deb
tors.
It used to be that two could live as
cheaply as one. Now one can live
as expensively as two.—St. Paul Non
Partisan Leader.
The suffragists are eagerly awaiting
the day when they can proclaim to
the world they have a perfect 36.—
Washington Herald.
Everybody knows what ought to be
done with the Turks, but it doesn't
look as if anybody was going to do it.
—Philadelphia Press.
The supposition now is that since
the peace dove set out to find that
olive branch, she must have got hold
of a ripe olive.
That United States aviator who
went seven miles up into the air and
then came down again, should make
an excellent 1-ecruit for one of the
new political parties.— Manitobia Free
Press.