The realignment of parties in Britain is confusing to the electors, but also to some politicians. It’s more than a little unclear what party or party splinter Prime Minister David Lloyd George is representing or leading. Will he create a new Center Party? (Spoiler Alert: he won’t). Churchill (in bed recovering from appendicitis surgery) says he will “stand as a Liberal and a Free Trader, but I shall ask the electors to authorize me to co-operate freely with the sober-minded and progressive Conservatives in defending the lasting and central interests of this realm and its wide empire against the very dangerous attacks now about to be leveled upon them by the Socialist and Communist forces, as well as against the almost equally serious menace of downright reaction from the opposite quarter.” We’ll see if the good people of Dundee want to be represented by a member of the Liberal/Free-Trader/Free-Cooperater-with-sober-Tory Party (Spoiler: they won’t). Within a couple of years he’ll rejoin the Tories, performing the rare death-defying double-ratting (having left the Tories for the Liberals in 1904).
And no one knows how strong the Labour Party, which not having been part of the Coalition doesn’t face the messy splits in the Lib & Tory parties, might be, and it’s creating a lot of anxiety. They’ve won a lot of by-elections, suggesting they’re much more popular than in the last election, they’re much better organized, and they plan to put up candidates in 400 constituencies.
Seven hooded and masked Ku Kluxers invade the First Baptist Church in Paterson, New Jersey and ask the pastor to read their platform – patriotism, pure womanhood, etc. Which he does. After they leave, the pastor says he agrees with the Klan platform and is fine with the incursion.
Samuel Rzeschewski, 10-year-old chess prodigy, is arrested as a juvenile delinquent for taking part in a Sunday entertainment, a benefit for the National Hebrew Orphanage in which he was to play 5 opponents simultaneously.
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