The President A As Traget

One of the most disgraceful features In our modern style of journalism ia that the President of the United States, whose very station should command respect for him, is made a constant target for disrespect, writes Edward W. Bok in the Ladies' Home Journal. It makes not the slightest difference whether we admire or do not admire the man who occupies the Presidentlal chair. He is placed there by the expressed suffrage of the people, and when he is so placed and is the occupatie of the high office, he has a right to the respect of the people of the country over which he presides. But this is denied our President. The decent respect which we mete out to ordinary men is refused him. We excuse this by 8aying that he was not our cholee, or that he holds the po3itlon by accident. No man elected to the office of President of the United States can be an accident. He is placed there because of his fitness for that office. And although we may not agree always that he is as able as some other man, it is only pure justice that we glvs him the benefit of the doubt.