"T" fJwi-'pn'j v'"! 'if &,-' t Stf EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERt- PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1910 to. ?ti i ft' .. n i jft, - aw 4 'tfttening public Ule&ijer "f PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY I r V. ilJT,,UB " " cu CTJIUS H. K. CURTIS. rurmniNT W J'5.r'"i.Srftry and Trea m. vic vrr i.int: Joan c. Treasurer! Thlllp S, Collin". M- .v wpnh vxiuums .lonn j J Fpurceon, inrectcirs. tAHTOniAL DOAHO: Cibci II. K. CctTll. Chairman .- r- i v-inci ll. is, fc ".PAYID r. BMILr? M "JOIIK C. MAHTIN.. .Oencral Huslncta Manager 7'5tTubllfht4 dallr at Pcario Lrtuita Itulldlnr, .- f'jr. . lnaopcnilinco Square. 1'iiUailetchia. 'HIV m rrrts-Unten Dnlldlne UmioiT ZOO Metropolitan Toner Sl S.. ''""la.. .. lima nulerton Iiultdin f V i ClllCiOo. 130? Tritium IlulUIng ' ,;., news nrncvus: ar TVianixoTov ntnc. v. 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All rights of republication of special Ji pafcAc.i 'icein arc aim reserved. i'hllndrliilill. MnnHiij. AuciiBt 4. mil GIVE THE BOY A CHANCE TN TWO years twelve boys have lost -- their lives white swimming in a pond in an abandoned brickyard in Nicetown, one of them on Friday lat-t. As the municipal authorities have been vainly urged to have the pond filled the city i.s mprally to blame for the los of life. The pond should be tilled. And when it is filled the children should be pio vided with a decent swimming pool. A boy will swim when he gets a chance. He ought to have the chance under safe conditions. RUSSIA, THE WORLD BALANCE HHHE failure of Kolchak, admitted now even by the supporters of that rigor ous conservative, docs not simplify the Allies' problems in Russia. It is appar ent that behind the veil in the land of the Bolsheviks events are quickening to some sort of denouement. I.enine, too, seems to be in difficulties. The rumor of his in tention to quit became general with the news of his enemy's reverses. This is significant to any one who has even a superficial knowledge of present day Russia. Kolchak and Lenine were both extremists. Lenine may hnve been the first to see the light. There uppears to have been a consistent drift upon his Bide toward a better relationship or actual co-operation with the powerful class of conservative Socialists men whose status in the Russia of today is not greatly different from that of liberal democrats in the United States. In a sphered and unified Russia obedient to liberal impulses in politics Kolchak would vb.aye had no chance at all. Trotsky the Wild seems now to be merely a generalissimo of the Bolshevik armies. What this means it is hard to say. The fact remains that extreme bol shevism has collapsed nt one end of the country, while the reactionary Kolchak was being beaten at the other. In neither case ;can the Allied diplomatists claim anycredit. If Russia is settling down she ia settling down unaided, and opportuni ties to win the masses of the people to the support of a league of nations and world peace vanish one by one and day by day. "SOME ONE DOES CARE" TUIERE are nraiseworthv and intn.iest- l - ing features about the new club for ilU"nesies" established in St. Stephen's Church, Tenth street above Chestnut. The boys, after enjoying "free eats," decided the club was worth paying for and a flat rate of five cents for a sand wich and a cup of cotTee was established. It will startle restaurant patrons to learn that this is slightly above cost, and the excess is going into a sinking fund to provide a feast of pie at a more or less distant date. There will be movies, talks, games and shower baths, and all four are designed to promote clean citizenship. The work of the club, which has for its motto "Some One Does Care," will be watched with sympathetic interest by the community. A MODIFIED DRAFT LAW THE Chamberlain-Kahn compulsory universal military training bill will be bitterly attacked by all opponents of preparedness and by all pacifists. It will The, regarded with indifference by all those weary with war and those who do not want to think about an army for years to come. Theie is grave danger hat the army will suffer from dry rot, as it did after the Civil War. It was this dry rot which made the army a feeble instrument in the Spanish War in com parison with the navy. Yet those men who realize the neces sity for an adequate military force will do their utmost to secure the pass age by Congress of some law which will put, th,e 'young men of the country in bet ter condition to serve the nation than they were found to be by the draft boards. AKnufc four million vounir men wp K (1 rafted into the armv and navv. Morn K' jth,in four hundred thousand of those ox amined were rejected for physical or Hfental defects. h: . Many of the young men who went into if " iM-tralnlng camps are convinced that no fMr, prepuiauu" lur nic cun ue JOUIIU ttWvwas found in the camps. The mili- ' training improved the physical con- i of qvery man, and the contact with (fmen forced the youths to acquire Of sell-reliance wh'nli they could icqulied in po other way. T)ie Chamberlain-Kahn bill provides all youths shnll receive six months' ry training at some time wjthln eighteenth, nineteenth and twen- yars, rvyo months a year would lap: requirements ui me pian, spo ts allowed to those who bul4 be exeused. W " MBkC lW? imht ttMyMMntog would be useful to the young men, nor Is there any doubt that it would provide material from which to recruit an army in case of war. Two or three years apo it would have been safe to prophesy that Congress would never consent to univer sal military training. But Congress con sented to the draft, and it may agree, after it discovers the sentiment of the country, to an annual draft of the young men into military camps. The present bill is far from perfect In all details, but it will do no haim to have the subject fully aired in Congress. SEARCH FOR A CANDIDATE WHO CAN BE "OWNED" But the City Need3 a Mayor Who Is His Own Master and Will Give Orders to the Bosses AS THE time approaches for naming - the men between whom the voters are to bo poimitted to choose at the mayoralty primary it may be pertinent to consider the qualifications which the selector-: .rem to think the candidates must have. There is no seciet about the derfirc of the Vare organization for a mini who will exercise all the powr of the office to keep the Vare oigaiiizatinn intact and in con trol of the city. Some of the independents har been repiesented as paying that they would not support an candidate unless he wn. "owned" by them and committed to wage waifarc early and late upon the Vare organization. This i meie factionalism, the rugrle of the in.s to -tay in and the hunger of the outs to get in. Hut if theie is nothing more than this in the approaching campaign it will be a fane, and whatever the outcome may be there will be no material change in the conduct of affairs in the City Hall. There may be a change of personnel, but that is about as far as it will go. There aie people in the city who would like something ladically different from this. They would like to see a candidate selected for the mayoialty not because he is a factionalist, but because he is a man of force and initiative, of undoubted in tegrity and strong enough to be his own master. They would like to have the center of authority in the city govern ment located in the City Hall. They would like a Mayor who would give or ders instead of obeying them. We have had Mayors who would flout the bosses up to a certain point and then deal with them. What we want is a Mayor who will deal with the bosses up to a certain point and then tell them to go about their business. There is a funda mental distinction between the two methods. The little men always adopt the first one and the big men always adopt the second. The most conspicuous example in recent political histor of the second method is that of Theodore Roose velt. He dealt with the bosses of his party and used them, but he declined to permit them to use him to put over any of their schemes. While every one dissatisfied with local conditions hopes that a man who will be his own master may be chosen as the mayoralty candidate, every one also realizes that it is difficult to persuade such a man to enter the race. The mayoi's office in all large American cities is a political burying ground. Only one man who has held the office in Philadel phia since the consolidation act was passed in 1854 has politically survived his term of office and that one is Edwin S. Stuart. The record in New York is even worse. The men v ho have run for the office and failed have had better luck than those who have won. Abram S. Hewitt defeated Roosevelt years ago. Hewitt served out his tetm, but was politically dead at its end. Roosevelt became national civil seivice commissioner, police commis sioner, assistant secietary of the navy, governor of New York, Vice President and President. He might have survived a term us mayor, but, fortunately for him, he was not put to that test. A mayor is unfortunately, and perhaps inevitably, a target for continual abuse. The things he has to do touch the daily life of the people. He is in close contact with them. It is impossible for him tu please every one. The men against whom he enforces the law are aggrieved. The political leaders to whom he does not give patronage enough to satisfy their yearnings conspire to undermine his in fluence and to discredit everything he does. And the thoughtless, when the at tacks begin, join in the orgy of brick throwing. The kind of man who ought to sit in the mayor's chair does not like to subject himself to four years of vilification. He would rather conduct his business in a businesslike manner and go home to his family at night undisturbed by a thou sand and one opponents who, as the men on the street corner would say, are trying to get his goat. No man can be mayor successfully who is not willing to sacrifice his ease, his comfoit and his peace of mind, and who is not willing and able to put up a fight for what he believes ought to be dune. There are things crying out to be done in this city. The right kind of a man could take hold of the problem as Colonel Goethals took hold of building the Panama canal and could make such a clearing up of old abuses as would cause us all to wonder why we had submitted so long. But such a man would have to be equipped with a thick skin and a firm will and a pugnacious jaw. He would have to be a regular two-listed he-man. Then he could get away with it and could snap his fingers at the political graves of his predecessors and rise to higher positions of public service. But he would have to be a man with a gift for politics as well as a man with administrative ability. One or two men of this type have been mentioned in connection with the office, but up to the present moment the, men who arc selecting the candidate are seek ing for some one who will pledge himself to stand by their faction to the exclusion of the other faction. That is, they seek a factional candidate, and the two-fisted man does not intend to sel) himself out in the beginning toanybody-. There are llttlt.mn willing to toko the nomination who think they can succeed where others have failed. They are per suaded that they will be the exception which pioves the rule and are willing to run the risk. Indeed, they arc flattered by the mention of their name in connec tion with the office. We shall know in a few days who has been selected to make the race and whether we are to have the same oil thing again or whether there is to be something better. A JOLT FOR CONGRESS TNTO the aimless brawl that the House. - and the Senate have been making of the piesent session the cool demand of the railway engineeis and the hurried order from Mr. Wilson for a realistic policy that may ease or explain the pressure of living costs fell like a bomb. We may now expert a quick, if not an actually hasty, settlement of the league-of-nations business. Congress hns been jolted back to earth, back from Shantung, back from the clouds. It has been shocked out of the fienzy of partisan bickering that has been making a national scandal out of a national crisis. The collective mind of Washington is at last made aware of the United States. A few days ago it was generally under stood in Washington that the economic crisis reflected in the intolerable cost of necessities was to be made a party issue. Today there is talk of a "coalition com mittee" of one or both houses, with au thority to put needed restraints upon the lawless gamblers everjwheie who are threatening the foundation-, of economic order in the United States. It is difficult tn say how the general situation may be appioached. The condition is one that should have had impartial and scientific consideration long ago. The government has to ileal hugely with a national state of mind. The get-rich-quick mania is general all over the country. But it ought to he possible for Confcicss and the federal departments to break the spell and avert further confusion. If the representatives of both parties in ashington can lift the whole question out of politics Congress may yet atone, in part at least, for its previous reckless ness. Abroad politicians have had no trouble in temporarily adjusting their difficulties to meet similar issues wisely and effectually. They have been willing to forget party ambitions in any pinch that inolved the inteiests of the whole nation. Mr. Wilson and his party, on the one hand, and the Republicans on the othei cannot be blamed in this instance for anything worse than prolonged absent-mindedness. We are dealing with the aftermath of war and with thousands of speculators Intoxicated with war profits and unwilling to accept less.' The profiteering habit is not exclusive to any class. Wage-earners themselves have a touch of it. It was a tiades union which demonstrated in the past its willingness to be ruthless that again issued an ulti matum to the government. If Congress had not been in a state of hopeless ab straction it would have seen the approach of some such crisis. It was thinking of 1!)2U. Now the leaders who cannot for get 1020, for a time at least, will invite the contempt of the country. f!iniii".tir 'it. V. .T.. Praitii.'il (raliliulo is in luiw n lin-pital as a liii'iiiniiiil In ln'i Mililici-s who fmislit in tin- war. The town nrii;innll. 1 l.ui u ! a inoiiaini'iit, lint the wmiK'ii of the -oiniiiiiiiit ili'frati'il the miive iiinit in f.mir of Miinclhini; mori' practical. Who was it sn'nl that women are iloinitiutcil who!! b sentiment? A lMiihuleljiliia woman last week created a siir in Atlantic Cits Weill fur Itulilier XecKs li appearing on the I'eianlunlk without slm kiijs. She would luiw caused just as mueh exeitement by appenriiiK I a dies of the iutiiise of 'S7 that swept the giniind. It is the unusual that excites coiiuuent. The Hedleville fire demonstrated that eerj fireman uurIiI to he a koimI swimmer. Mm he the imrease m the pi ice of milk due to the increased cost of ifraziiiR. Then aie "Nationalists" in liermauj it iil sufferini; fimii "delusions ol Krauileur." Al the thought of cniifrri ssinnnl in esti mation we limy expect old II (' of 1,. slRM some piotit learn. Incideiitall.i, deln. in riitifjins the peace trout is nut iiupioMux the industrial situa tion. lltinKtiriaiis Inning jumped from the tire i ii I ii the fr.WuK pan. there is hope that tome bciioticenl cool, will lift the pan. The aftermath ol war. industrial unrest, hits the ncutial cnuiitriis as hard as it hits the ricenl helligeients Can inu'siignlois who tuitriiiiir with men being hicstii;atnl lie eousideied true to their trust': Humors of Mi ike aie eei bit an dis ipiietiug a the leal tiling though, of courne. not so disiistlolls. Time liaa its loiapeiisatioiis. Some day we hall all hae foigotteu Postmaster (ion era I Hurlesoii The idea of the I'micd Statoa .Senate appears to be "llulf a league, half a league, half a league onward !" l'l-esideut Wilson iinij address the Knights Templar in Independence Square on September N. He ought tu bnic an lutervst lug story to tell bj that time . When wagoM go up and prices come down thai slid dog. The World, may be able tn connect his Industrial trousers with ills financial suspenders ; but he'a having a deuce of a stiuggle in the meantime. Ohio and Michigan are co-operating in food-price, investigations conducted by grand juries throughout the two states. After tliev have returned a true bill against the prof iteers they ought to drop them iu tho lake. Drras experts In convention in Chicago, say the price of women's gowns will double In the fall. Will, that a what happened In the first fall; nnrt Adnmjiviu have to Itaud unffwil for It soiv as he did the THE CHAFFING DISH "Women, Children and Field Officers" A ritlKNI) of ours, a lieutenant just re turned from France on a transport, tolls humorously of the trlali of ovrr 4000 soldiers packed In a vessel Intended to accommodate about half that niiiiibfr. The experience was far from entertaining at the time, but It jtlvcs him pleasure to recall some of Iti nmiisliig aspects. The younger officers mostly lieutenants were packed down In the holds, whore tlioy could linrdlj sleep on account of the suffo cation. When the lined up with their mess kits for whnt our friend describes as "very sorr chow," the fiieue extended all round the ship and kept them in Hue an hour waiting to reach the grub. They wore gicn blue dentin overalls to wear so ns to keep their uniforms clean. Most of thoin. In protest tigatnxt their discomforts, refused to shave, and we are asked to contemplate the unnnjanoe of the West Point colonel in com mand on bsorin this bristli and bucolic sight. A Hold officer, we understand, is one of the rank of major or above, and the humor of the passage was at Its best when the ciowd of much enduring lieutenants used to shout In unison, during boat drill. "Women, thildrcu and Held officers first I" Frum de Beannery to de Fo'c'sle HOWS' In Old Man Jones's hash joint, Ware de pass mown' de chow. W. erkt a gerl wot' raw Id Alfreed. Hut she's in de Naiy now '. She pot tiied of warsliin' dishes. She col tired of biggin' beans. Weai led of starvashuii wages, I.awuxed for more I'xiltin" scones Wun day, wadilllu' down past llrawd Street, Siiddintly she spide a, sine, wiMMnx wfXTi:t) ri:it hi: vavy wawk kiti: in yisi: t;i:iu.s an" jini::" v Now Alfreed ii a Vuiiin - Awl drosf up in snjlors close. Taps the kes for Mister Pan oil.. Chews Itcd Man an' wears silk hne; 1'ut down in Old Man Jones's rcMrawnt, Things is nortny on the blink. If Han.M'lIz don't releese Alfroedy. The pline'll fale tint's wot I think' s. kicmm; (iloucester N'iim . Prognosis On Unenins ANOTMIIU llwl, of Poems for Hevlew . Hefore we turn a single leaf Of what this pole has brought to meet us, We can prognosticate, iu brief Just how, and wlioie. alas, hi "II treat us: The deiliuilion (see page I I Refers to "Time's oblivion." "Itathe liners twain." upon page :'. Will "blitlielj print the vernal lea." And "haul athwart the lethal St" Will welcome us about page (. On 17 "a charm -ed spell Of aiuarautli and asphodel." On '.'.', "a gibbous moon Paths the luru sky iu siliern sUonn." "Amoral flushes." "anod.ine," "Life's guerdon," gleam from 311. On 14 "the pipes o' I'an Itlow high emprise 'neath chaste Diau." The page beyond, bis "soul is fain Hotlines to dare some writhen main." I,i ."II. "soi row's balelul "tar," "Shag glut," and gods! "what avatar"! We do not have to turn a leaf Intelligent! to leview it Such ancient song' and never brief; How can a huuuiti being do it? ci.i:mi:.nt wood. Mooning Out of Philly (On the 7:00 p. m. for N'Yawk) So I i halleiiged the moon to a race with me '(ialnst steel stieil to keep pace with me, Kor I was spurning tho countryside (A lerin that will rlijme with "ride" or "biide" i On a mission iulte audacious. Hut the faster we sped the slower ho rode On the topa. ways of his high abode, Yet never a milestone did lie miss. lA wind that will iiuitih with "bliss" or kiss"1 And the biggar wa most loquacious. "I In : ha!" said he. "and a gruff 'ho! ho I' "Think jini that mil mortals have beaux'; "I'm rolling along with equal glee ("A unit that will mate with 'lieavenly'l "To keep a dale witli Venus." TONY. Maids, Wives and Widows 'the It omit nee of m, Easterner Emm the Weal By Harry Levenkrone CUAI'Tl.'It (i. "QV MJJIE ..i fonun I found a trmwloor mud vrmurinir near It Mi iirouud and (Mmrr.1 u luiiun rtiul whine t a i,i,vk moved away nm! llshi fro-,, ,i,e out.M, ., one? more .nl?yu. Tint nlnht I li.iwime.1 i r-, nmure lhi bag h h ...nlKlnid 111- steel l, ,,na made our esenpe. It'll II llOle triHIlklllL' llioni tfnr ,hut ......I iitimnt hut I . dm Ii had written the n.ilo d. 't heMve Ine. Hk ! in... . !,. i(, imi, auaresa lr )uu "'II i I h rlu-hl .xi i J, ' Welt If UU SM) n,i I- lntMhlnirl. Ml lie must he rtfflit ' I ,n,l- I .nihil VMil utrr l" lTi'l Hi- .il J -' r in li.--a h jd urn e llu u .r I hr nil " eorner and w Ms- and endlnir up In ur slater and tell she weU-ed .r .mi i a it to hpr aluer. her Muli-r laijuhlnic and 'aid Well 1 don't know juur name hat Mabel t.,ltl nn um the eon of the man who eaud her from u i...ndll tile y,oe mm and ou sHln her .li oil,. r day wo wilt aoon haw a eddln when tlo.h it take place?" "W'hobe renin marrlM' ' ntUed Jlrute. " ar." came from Mahej and I In the fcania time "Coneraiulailuna me In. ' nid Ilmee. endlnir uo with "Wlh ou bnih iu, U and proaprlty with ell mi heait ' He araiped my hand a he waa Hnlahlne hU speech and uulkrd over to Mabel and klaaed her. W'hat'K the bU !! " laid i in a solemn tone "Well tin my (Utom 'Kxcuaetl ou ale air ITo be inrUuded) The ('hading Hisli Is auxlous to (tot into rotnmunlciulnu with .Miss Dorothy Furmun of Oiiinue, N J., we believe who wrote to tut about a your or more ago. If Oils should ifiiae to her attention will she Until write? It is lo bo supposed that about this date the Kaiser may full into a reminiscent mood, thlukluif of live ears ago. lie is wild to bo a grout Ilible reader, and we woudor if be over turnn to Iacleslustes, where ho. will find perhaps the Uncut bit of war cor respondence ever written; There was a little iij. and few men within It, am' there 'anie a Krcat king agalnat It. and besieged u and built Breat bulwarks against It .Vow there was found In It a poor wlae man. and he by nis wisdom delivered tho city; yei no man remembered; mat same poor man. NO m(JA &-ifnS:jr...eA$:ti.- SJ.T - TIfflr,Ki,:,w - LliW?SKri' t M ' JMlW BBSS 5SKk, MTS jSi.F fTTTY TTTi'f ff-iX . '7 -pIer",i '' Mf f F TT Uffil I"Hlw Km tgiiP&5 - iff fajM jrtiWi 'W 1 i, - w .. i f i N iji -v '. :-H4wwc-rfcV j i VOICE WAS INTERNATIONAL: ' MIND WAS CIRCUMSCRIBED Opinion Expressed That the President Had the JForld at His Feet When He Put His Ear to the Ground (Thii ii the fiiU of tuo articles by the brilliant cinrispomlent who covrreil the I'eacc Confrrcnrc for the Evcniii'l 1'ithlie Eettncr. and uho hat Jttit ictiiinril tu (A is co nil (ii after ciyht month in Frnurr. The accoiid irilJ ajijicur on this page tomorrow. J Ky CLINTON W. (UMIKKT ftatf Correaiiondent of the Kenlnc I'ubllc l.edeer Wasliliigton. Aug. 4. COMING from l'limee to the Cnitcil States Is coining from an atmosphere of politics to an atmosphere of politics. What has been doing at l'aris those many months has been electing a Democratic President in l'.l-O, electing l.lojd (ieorgo to succeed l.lo.vd George u a labor onndidato or as a middle-of-the-road moderate radical andiilatc and keeping the extreme Trench Nationalists as represented b M. Clomon ceau lu power after peai e finally comes. One of tin- loading Aineiieau economic representatives nt Paris said : "It is a misfortune that the treaty bad to be made to suit the political exigencies of Prance and England." He forgot to mention the political exi gencies of the I'nlted States. Tho Paris conference ilemonst rated one thing, and that is that international gov ernment is not half so interesting- as na tional government. No one thought half so much of the league of nations as he did of his own party and Ills own political future at homo. Wilson's Mistaken Polk It is common to logret tho making of groat affairs the footbill of polities. Hut Mr. Wilson began it nt Paris. When you write of the President it is always iu the "just for a liaudful of silver he loft us, just for a ribbon to tie on bis coat" vein. Ho might have kept peace out of politics. Ho might have lifted tho league of nations out of partisanship. Had he made It Impos sible by his actions for the English Libernls to say of mm. lie talks like oiip ot tne niiijor prophets and acts like IJojil (ieorgo," lie would luiM' made It less possible for his Itepubllcau opponents iu the Senate, to treat the, league as a part issue. He bad all Europe at his feet when he arrived there. Had be been bold lie might have liiul anything he wanted. Hut ho traffleknli ho trailed and hn bargained, Ho kept his onr to the ground. The expedients for Informing iilinseu auom me stale oi public opinion In this country and the. activities of his party fois revealed tho President's fears. The cables were so crowded with comments from newspapers, with public speeches, and with reports coal ing from the t'llitod States to Mr. Wilson that It w"s impossible for the newspaper correspondents nt Paris to toll the country adequately about the Ponce Conference, fifty thousand words u day wont to the President at Paris. In addition, every polit ical back tn the country wrote, him let ters. "What was the attitude of the Ameri can people'" "Why o and no" ami you recognized the name of some Kepublican of the remote past "had writtou that there would not he trn votes axalnst the treaty In tho Senate." Moving alwajs timidly, with one eje on !' political opponents, Mr. Wil son steadily came donu from being the great man of Paris to being merely onii of the triumvirate, Clemenceau, Moyil (ieorgo ami Wilson, ami so he has returned to Washing ton, not the Motes ot mankind, but thq leader of the Democratic party. Europo'i Attitude Changes RECESS FOR THE WEARY .f3z,rw.. . - ' - - T.akiHS.-v -, - s .'7 .P!el '.. ",u-- "W:Tl. frMtoP .-.. -ja V... .- . af .-n TTlTi III ! Ill ! I 4 M f ," - W M m&zsi . rj I M WW? son is the only international figure here." He seemed to bo the only international niinil. The Euiopenn politicians were jealous and afraid of the man talking a language thnt went straight to the hearrs 'of men every where without regard to race or govern ment. Hut the European politicians tested him. They found that the diffeionce be tween him and them was one of words, not one of deeds. He was in fact an interna tional voice, but not an international mind. Match against Elo.wl Gooige's "Which was it. upper or lower Silesia, that we liave just given Poland'" and 51. Cloineneeuu's remark to the protesting Kinall nations, "we (the big powers) have 112,000,000 men under anus." 51r, Wilson's action jn reaching the Shantung agreement with Japan without letting the representatives of the Chinese, a nation of 400.000,000 people, even see it. Why, it was like log-rolling for postoflioos or deepening creeks in Congress, Paria failed fur just this reason. Mr. Wilson was look ing after his district, .Mr. I.lnjd George was looking after his district, and Mr. Clomou ceau. with singular oflieirncy, just because he did not talk one, wnj and act another, was lookiug after his district. League on Knees ot the Gods One of the common charges against our own government is that we do not develop men with national minds. Congress is weak because it Is bo busy with local concerns. The Executive perhaps has o.os that take in tho whole land. Well, there is not any one whoso view sweeps over the whole world, l'aris proved that. It is one of the weaknesses of the league of nations. It is the reason why the best that can bo said for that instrument is that the future may make it something. The league Is on the knees of the gods, who may some time give us men who will not trade off -100,000,000 people for a vote, the way a congressman trades off' $400,000,000 on 5lud creek for a vote for a postoflice at Hrown town. Still we have entered definitely itito an international something, if it is only Into International log-rolling. That is why only a handful of people talk of rejecting out right the leaguo of nations, The groat ad venture of golug to 1'uris to elect a Demo cratic President proves. If nothing else does it. that we no, longer have the simple this- .side-of-thc-Atlnutlo-oecancousoIotisiiesKthat we had before the war. Then and Now . formerly wo used to line un our candi dates for President and ask them "What Is the capital of Euglaud?" If a man answered "Dublin" ho proved to the universal satis faction a sufficient lack of those entangllni; mental alliances which endangered the spirit of our free Institutions. Hut now tho world hns narrowed into the compass of our most provincial vision. You can see Paris as easily as you can see Oshkosh, London Is the county seat In th,e district of another political boss, Foundations of Democratic success were laid In Paris, to bo torn up or built upon in Wiuhlugton, The President saw the political possibili ties of Paris sooner than anybody else. The credit of making a tuccessfiil war would not be enough to assure Democratic Success. That would bo forgotten when 1020 cama around. The country wonlil he looking into the future. The military heroes would not be remembered. The statesman who could jodd the nation forward In its new course among the nations of the, world would com mand the attention of the people. The President'! Vision The President had a big vision flattering to the popular' consciousness by organising tho whole world upon the nlodel of tho !i!J' t h.M tf F Vs. ll jf Jet' & of the Americnn democracy. To succeed In J having his vision accepted might bo a good thing for the world and would certainly be a hopeful thing for the Democratic party. It would shift tho voter's attention from the costs of the war, the taxes, the wrench to our institutions, the. doubts and uncertain ties which our enforced departure from our old policy of Isolation entailed. To go before tho voterH as the conductor of a successful war is to ask the public to pay gratefully for dead horses. To offer them a peace which added greatly to the national prestige, which increased the nation's in fluence and opportunities and which held out the promiso of security for the future, was to show them substantial advantages in re turn for their expenditures ami sacrifices. Tho President doubtless bad loftier than purely political motives when he went to Paris. Hut the sense that there and thorn alone might a Democratic successor to him self bo elected grew upon him every hour that he spout in the hnusn on the Place des ' Etats I'nls. Thnt is why coming from Pari' to Washington is a transition from politics to politics. (Tomorrow Mr. flllbcrt tcilt discuss the problems facing Congress, mid parlicuiarlj (7in dilemma in tchich the Republicans find themselves). What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Where is Tobago Island? 2. What is a bight? .1. Jn what celebrated work of fiction does Duleliiea appear? 4, What is a roorback? 0. What is canaster? 0. What Is Kismet? 7, When and by whom was the Salvation Army founded? 8. When did China become a republic? !). Who was prime minister of England wnen mo great war Drone out.' 10. What Athenian statesman was known as Onion Head? Answer to Saturday's. Quit 1. A "cabal" is a secret intrigue; or a clique or faction, The name comes , from the Initials of the names of the members of the committee of foreign affairs under Charles II of Ensland Clirford, Arlington, Huckingliam, Ash ley and Lauderdale. 2. A "canard" is an absurd and sensa tional story, The present application of tho word Is said to be derived from the French phrase "yendeur do canard a moltre," literally, one who tells half a duck that is, pretends to sell a duck, but cheats during the transac tion. Others attributo its origin to a talc told by Cornelisseu of a limn who killed off nineteen out of twenty ducks, one nt a time, feeding the remains to the diminishing survivors, till the on; remaining duck had actually eaten his nineteen comrades. 3. A protocol is the original draft ot a diplomatic document, especially the (terms of a treaty agreed to la confer ence and signed by the parties. 4. AVashlugtoa's Farewell Address waa de livered September 17, 1700. 5. The Republic of Colombia gained Its In dependence ot fipaiu In 1R10, 0, The Portuguese were the first Europeans to vi?lt India and acquire territory there. The first settlements wero es tablished 1502. 7. Flavius Claudius Julianas (831.0,1), Roman emperor, was known as Julian tho Apostate because of his renounces ment ot the Christian faith for pagan ism. 8. Carlyle said "Literature U the 'thought of thinking souls." 0. Ex cathedra, literally "from the chair" the thronn of the PwUtlft-means "with authority." The phrase is sometimes used ironically to self.uffl-' clant, dosmatlcel assertions. 1 "il I When niep first went to Parts tbey looked I tho whole world upon the model of tho iq. Arthur Henry Kallewwaathe wibject! V SQOIUTISg. l0v the gathsciaj there Dd6aia,'51r,,Wll. United BUtw nud iwlrlaltiwitaMdwUj, ' o Twoywa' a MwwUau! ,,, ' rt -'friiiMi- "'iflr a'T m'ili iV'-mii '"'v'"-'i Ti't in nil' iV ' ' - - i'm'"' ' in'ini'liiii'1"'' "t"t ' - t'- ' j, ,.A., . ' ,jJ ( 'O1 . 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