' (3vKia- jwbulo; XEDisjs-iLDEy.pmA, 'n&TUWfo " ''ttBPTisMBEgCgr jW"1 jj F ,.,.. ii, ( n.i -i.., u,,. . ii i. . .MM i . 1 1 I.. tt' '- - " . r V" 1 , -O. f RffiWEfflrs:AlMS DUE" Bf f&ANCIENT THINKING 1 . XF7Zso7f, Calmly Urging League as People Fight H. ,W ilk C. of L., Lontt to Admit Public Mind " ! Is Altered Ily CLINTON W. GILBERT SUIT Cormpendent of the rrnlnc rabllo l4ttr Covvrtoht, Itlt, by Pabllo Leiotr Co. Washington, Sept. 0. The faliurc of Tnrls Is roticaljng Itself nt Washington. 'Tli6 blindness of Paris Js'thc blindness if Wnsliiugton. The lack of leadership of I'arls Is the, lack of leadership of Washington. Same ninn, same essen tial nroblem. snino result. j The war lias changed the world In I vtnyn that no ono yet fully understands. L President Wilson not only does not I y fully understand the changed world, but j it seems that lie can only be brought j with difficulty to see that It has been J changed and he stands before the new ' ll -At u.1 t .A1a 1 At ta All ining rcsenuui nun iininiuiuuj, mi Jhto,stock of old formulae rendered use- fs. Ic failed in Europe because he went OTer there to Chart tnc new -norm Which the war had created and found that ho did not know thcnew world vnen nc met it. The people of Europe wanted a They hailed him as a Moses. hvf examined the contents of his mind and regretfully turned their backs upon M Glad to Get Home Again 1C . .. .t ..... 1 -! --1 f ,1.. p Alter me nurrieu compromises ui ur "est days were effected witli lndiner ene Shantung, the French alliance, he Saar Valley, reparations me President came home'wltli a sigh of re lief to a rjcorjle he thought he under stood, whom he supposed had got back Ito the pre-war naDits oi lire ana tnougnt. ' He was homo n month when the Wst men in the Democratic party, Senator Cummings, Senator Hitchcock tnd soTeral others, felt It their dis- igreeable duty to call upon him and 11 him how little he understood the leonle he had come back to. To inter- hrtp to him in short the "state of the public mind." Now the "state of (he public mind" is the Washington equivalent of the niandwriting on the wall. And the pro fession or uamci is one oi inc raosi numerous' professions in the world. For many months the "stato of the Dublic mind" has received unusual at tention. Senators and representatives- have read their morning's mail and tele- 'grams with exceptional carc.v Agents looking lor the puoiic minu oniracKer barrels, in smoking cars, at crossroads and in the cornfields, bare reported Tolumcs. Fubllc Mind Is Dynamic L The public mind has been voluble; t has been volcanic; it has been men acing; it has been energetic; it has been fascinating; it has been trcmen- ;dous. Men have trembled before it or 'rejoiced. Alone of all men in Washington the '."President has been compatible, not knowing tuat tnc state oi'tnc pudiic mlndcxisted, or believing that it was the old pre-war state, of public mind, which listened to his Words and was approved. He had come from Europe hinking that here at lcasr he could ount upon the state or public mind as Jtejhndxounted upon ih v v iQmvelrvthe seven JJanlclses, headed; v Homer Cummings, told the President f the state of the public mind thafc ded no good to him personally nor to he .Democratic party. .Mt.- -l.ll- ll.t .1 - t 'i AOe puunc iiuutf tvua re-iiena uuu ir ritable, The people were saying that he. President was too much ot a czar; hat be had bis head in the clouds qp-la urope and did not Know tueir neeas t home: that the President had been too radical; that the public had out- Lf&on;4hat the h.gh postDf-Hvtoff inter- M. iU,l ilinM or test ti tinta i linn tit a laaffiln litTBLCU LelClla IUUV.I1 IllUib vaiuu wv avuMuv ' of nations, and so far as they could see I interested tmr President not at all ' SnnprflrlMl. Tint Tmnpratlve "VClcarly a sketchy and superficial pic 1 ture of the state of the public mind, Idrnwn by men who did not understand lit fully themselves, but could read its Mangerous portents, for a manwho 'topped Seeing anything when lie saw I.Ms fourteen pointB and who had to lie told 'what his own people were fiinking. ' , I Qne cannot lead people unless he b hows them and Wilson hod ceased to Kitaow his own people before InU election. v he had known them he wottld not V've committed1 the blunders that he en did his failure to put his own case them or to have anyone competent ito put nis case to tnem, aqu ins nnai presumptuous request for support as a personal right, the master stroke of lurleson that elected a Republican Sen- ,te and 'House of Representatives. Bee Only Pre-War Status There is no leadership without vision. tnd Wilton has shown no vision into tho. social future. When the armistice Fas signed the President saw a swift 'IretUrn to pre-war conditions. 'tit is surprising " he exclaimed, i,l.... ..nl At.AnHAAne 9 .Afr.Bn tft a fc IlUn 1UOI. UV piv.aa ul u,u vw lnri fnntlmr has moved in the three weeks since the fighting has stopped!" 1 And he proceeded to.scrap all the. war (.organizations, tho food and fuel ad- ministrations and the war industries aboard, to"st the country, as he put it, "out of leading strings. ' i In a slmilcr way he played a large &$ America as the only country "un changed" by the war. They talked con fidently of how labor in England was restricting production and at the same time forcing Up wage. America, they thought, was an industrial Arcady, where labor never troubled. , Read the story of more than 100.000 additional employes on the railroads. costing $200,000,000 a year extra wages, with a reduced output. The thing is true not pnly of tho government operated railroads it is true generally. Wilson foresaw none of these things. Ho, foresaw none of the factors which have contributed to the state of the pub lic mind, so brutally described to him the other day. He did not even see the state of the public mlcd ItsMf until he had it forced upon his attention. Victories Have Been Minor Grant him a couple of victories since his return, the temporary silencing of the labor agitators and the forcing of the foreign relations committee of the Senate to come to him and afford him an opportunity to get his case on the treaty before the country, 'hcycre mere local gams and minor. They leave lm where he was. with the stnte-o the public mind where it was when the seven uanieises inter preted it for him", the seven conservative Danielses to whom his heart turns now for peace after seeing what radicalism comes to in Russia and hearing radical ism shout rowdily under bis White House windows at home. The exploit of Messrs. Plumb and Stone was a dream of three clever but over-imaginative young press agents. It failed because they understood the state of 'tho public mind no better than anybody else. The President spoke. The people listened to him instead ofto tho demonstrators. , in disorganizing the interallied war combinations, a step vwhich added to the dimculties otntrarand eastern Europe and destroyed his own peace of mind later at Paris. Ho afterward re- ,tracei his step" in Europe, Now he is 'obtaining legislation,, in Washington lt?perinlttlng hlinto retrace his seps in JAmerpa. -That Is np'. vision. It Is blindness, ;, Ho and his advisers failed utterly to re&Tiow deeply tho war had affected the MxiMai structure in America. They talked'1 cheerfully iat Paris of v V -' Gompers Held as Hostage But nothing is settled and the labor radicals have a hostage in the person of Mr. Wilson's good friend. Mr. Gom pers. Mr. Wilson achieved delay, not leadership. As for hii constructive program, if he can be said to have one, you cannot find a man in Washington who thinks that the President's high cost of living proposals will accomplish anything sub stantial toward mitigating the condi tions which inflame the state of the public mind. It was not statesmanship. It was not leadership. It was minor politics which took advantage ot the embarrassment jof the opposition, who, though in control of Congress, had done nothing to relieve the high cost of living and who were evenon the -point of going on a vacation when Mr. Wilson sharply reminded them that the public was not happy over the steadily mounting prices. Tho Republicans could not raise an issue on the high cost of living. To raise one was to play into the hands of Plumb and Stone to stir up the radi calism which the Republicans fear. The President was the beneficiary of a conspiracy of. silence and ot the weakness and incompetency of the op position, His little victory was easily On the lower level of party leader ship there is the same uncertainty. To blunder from the hands ot Burlo son into those of Cummings is uot lead ership. It is floundering. It may be lucky floundering. But it is still floun dering. 9 , And of that floundering the unwise half surrender on reservations before the Senate committee, the Pittman reso lutions, the excessive number of spokes men the President has in the Senate, the insecurity any agent of his feels and his incapacity to act with con fidence, are all a part. .Puzzle: Find the Leadership Nor is leadership discernible else where. Certainly not among the dis organized Republicans, whose only policy is "watchful waiting,'-.' avoiding issues unless Mr. Wilson forces one upon them and then deciding upon that, regarding the state of the public mind with intcresthone and fear, but with inability to understand It or 'guide It. France is governed by an anachro nism, Clemenceau, eighty years old, who has no real conceptions of the social 'problems of bis country today. People have been saying .for months that he has outlived his usefulness. But who else is better? No one. Wilson belongs to the past just as much as Clemenceau. It he did not he would not have had to be told what Homer Cummings told him a few days ago. The world is 'not being led; it 1s leading. The students of the state of public mind would like to know where. But they have too much of the past in their own minds to understand the pres' cnt. It is a large 'contract to furnish lead ership in such a time of changers this. But a democracy is entitled to leader ship. The man in Wilson's position who hasn't it fails. The party that hasn't it fails'. That is how the failure of Paris is being repeated at washing ton. With what consequences ndone can yet see. . But every one regards anxiously the state of the public mind. v STRAWBRIDGE CLOTHIER All ' Philadelphians and the Strangers Within Our Gates Are Cordially Invited to This Store Which Will Be in Gala Attire on Monday, the Occasion of the Autumn Fashion Exposition MUSIC I ..(.. Uill.C'onMmi-orjr ot Mule., Inc. Leetton-niiie Murit iron, irnident. AM. JlHANCHESilF MU8IC rum.ic school music supervision IBI.H rheatnnt Ht rhlllldttphla. 110EHCH IIUIUHNO. Oak Lane. Pa. Itropfiii for Rcalitratlon Hpt. 15th. THE STKHNBEIIO SCIIOOT., OF M08IO 10 So. 18th St. (Fuller Building), reapena Stptcmbcr 10th. Complete mualcal iducar tlon. Teacnr' claiae. Call or writ for catalog. Offlca,open aftir September 8th. -ST. CECILIA MtfSICAI.. ACADEMT rlANO-JVIOL.IN-Z.-CKLI0 THEORY 1803 CHESTNUT ST. ."N t jVlorltz Emerjr PHILADELPHIA STUDIO 1530 WALNUT STRFET fAWrvi 'rV-.. ,4 . W, Hour) SATUn'DAYfl INNKW'YORK j ' 9 to 10 A. M. Phone Spruce' 2&93 titty-Minute Recitals Now Booking Ll wm ' m N MONDAY and all next week we shall have a complete, all-inclusive Exposition of the new Autumn Fashions which means, an attractive display in every department which provides apparel, dress accessories, furnishings, fabrics and trimmings: New Paris Millinery Rich Tailored Costumes Day and Evening Dresses Coats, Wraps and Furs Waists, Lingerie, Negligees Lovely Apparel for Girls Silks and Dress Goods Lace$, Robes, Trimmings Neckwear, Gloves, Hosiery Shoes, Bags, Jewelry, etc. " ' The various displays especially those of women's apparel are more fascinating than such displays have been for years in fact, unprecedented in beauty u and variety. W . ..- ." u.i- I ... L,f Hi HI i ' Boys' Autumn Clothing Ready Xn almost unlimited variety of smart autumn styles and fabrics in school and dress apparel for the growing youth. Becoming new Sjiits for tiny lads of 3 to 8 years. efSmart-looking new plaited ef fects, single- and double-breasted, for boys of 7 to 18 year3. School Suits of mixed cheviots and corduroys, to withstand hnrd schoolyard play. Now Top Coats, with tho belt all around and in other trim styles. Strawbrtdt-e k Clotlilir Second Floor. East I Semi-Annual Sale Pictures, Mirrors, Lamps and Shades Pictures and Mirrors one fourth under price. Lamps and Shades of many kinds at sav ings of 10 to 50 per cent. Stranbrlda-e & Clothier fourth Floor,- Eaat Sheeting and Pillow Casing Under Price Marked at less than regular prices far enough in' advance of the season so housewives can have their bed muslins all made and ready for the opening of the winter home: Pillow Casing, 45-inch 15c a jd. Sheeting, .63-inch 65c a yard. Sheeting, Bl-inch 78c a yard. Btrawbrldge b Clothier Alale 18, Centre The Semi-Annual Sales of China, Cut Glass Housekeeping Helps Saving Thousands of Dollars for Thrifty Philadelphia Housewives Never were substantial savings more afPeflntha," "i now. Practically every item for dining-room, Wchra and laradiy, can be purchased here this month at worth-while "" g?" Strawb&ge & Clothier's fair first prices. HmMe wiOi proper regard for-money can materially reduce household " by anticipating their needs for the whole coming season from tho wide assortment in these bales: Hundreds of Dinner Sets at an average saving of 20 per cent. All our "open stock" Dinger- warc.rcduced 10 per cent.. Over lf.OOO pieres of thin-blown Table Glassware at' average half price. - Cut Glass in great variety at re ductions averaging io per ceni. and I?.-., china. Art Wares "". "-' -: - ..j.. Kitchen aarinenwnrc unut. price. TTnnuifiirnlahinea. Kitchen and .Laundry Supplies, hundreds of different items, at an average saving of 25 per cent. X-nA mnnv others. (S-. Strawbridge t. Clothier Basement An Early Showing of Personal Christmas Greeting Cards! For those who appreciate, tho convenience of leisurely selec tion from complete stocks, with full assurance of having the cards on'hand when, wanted. Prices Range frotn 50c to $2.75 a Dozen For.artistie well chosen ef fects, in thorough good taste. Many new and distinctive de signs. A nominal extra charge js made for placing your name on the cards' from engraved plate. " Strawbrldre k Clothier Alilt 19, Centre Linens the Remainder of a Purchase Made Last Year And, therefore, marked at prices that present exceptional oppor tunities for economy. At these prices housewives can wisely antici pate their needs for the next two years: Irish Table Damask, 68-inch $2.50 a yard Scotch 'Double Damask, 70-inch $3.50 yard Scotch Dinner Cloths, 68-inch $7.00 each Double Damask Dinner Cloths, 72-inch $9 Huck Face Towels, 18x36 inches $7.50 doz. Huck Hand Towels, 13x21 inches $3.75 doz. Scotch Toweling', all-linen 30c a yard Scotch Toweling; extra heavy 50c a yard ISt-V StrAwbrldsa Clothier Aisles 11 and IS. Centra Sale of Oriental Rugs The opportunity to secure Oriental Rugs at reductions of 10 to 20 per cent, from our fair re- fl tail prices based on cost to us at time of purchase i (which was long ago when prices were lower than at present) is arare one indeed nowadays. Pro fessional decorators and home-furniBhers should inspect this great under-'price assemblage as early as possible. )5ti-( Strnwbrllc Clothier Fourth Floor. Wait A Shipment of Rugs at Savings of 30 to 40 per Cent Just arrived in the new'Department of Lower-priced Floor Cover ings. They are to be sold nt 30 to 40 per cent, less than the regular prices because of slight irregularities in the matching of the colorings nothing more. The fact that we sell them is sufficient guarantee of their desirability and wearing qualities: Seamless Tapestry Brussels, 9x12 $15.00 Axminster Rugs, 9x12 feet $32.50 Seamless Velvet Rug;s, 9x12 feet $35.00 Seamless Wilton Velvet, 9x12 feet$38.50 Heavy Axminster Rugs, 6x9 feet-$20.00 Seamless Velvet Rugs, 6x9 feet $20.00 Tapestry Brussels Stair Carpet, 27-in., 90cyd. Velvet Stair Carpet, 27-inch $1.55 a yard Printed Linoleum 65c and 75c square yard Inlaid Linoleum $1, $1.25 and $1.65 sq. yd. !-. Strawbridie t Clothier Fourth Floor. Filbert Street a 2Bteplap of iHasfomcJetoelrp Including Charms, Pins, Rings a.id Buttons, some set with jewels. For Blue Lodge Chapter Comniandery Consistory Shrine Strawbrldse & Clothier Aisle D, Market Street Golden Special for Men Men's & Young Men's Brand-New All-Wool ' Suits New Autumn Styles At $2'8.50 MONDAY A remarkable early-season purchase of severAl hundred snic-arjan new autumn Suits fresh from the "Alco" shops. kSmartwew single- and double-breasted styles and distinctive new BELTED-ALL-AROUND EFFECTS, as well as a plentiful repre sentation of the always desirable clfim-cut conservative designs. The fabrics are standard every thread wool and are in a variety of correct autumn patterns and colorings. Men of good taste, quick to recogniie rare value when they see it, will be gathered about the illuminated GoWen Special Bign in force, on Monday. Come early I if you -Can. I-Vi Strawbrldsa A ClothierSecond Floor, East STRAWBRIDGE' & QjOTHIKR MARKET STREET r-EIGHTH STREET FILBERT STREET mSPBGlALffluJ Men's Soft Hats at $3.85 Spic-span, brand-new Autumn Soft Hats, from one of Philadel phia's leading hatters, made to sell at almost double, but marked at this price because rigid inspec tion revealed slight irregularities in -weight or finish. Nothing to affect wear or appearance. All in autumn's newest shapes and col ors. While they last $3.85. Htrawbrlde k Clothier Second Floor. Market Street, Eaat Time for Warm Comfortables And tho foresighted housewife anticipating her Bedfurnishing needs in advance of the season, can choose from a truly wonderful variety. Some at special prices Cotton - filled Comfortables', silk mull top special at $5.85. COTTON-FILLED Comfortables, cambric top $3.50. Silkoline covering $5X0 WOOL - FILLED Comfortables, satino covering, 72x80 inches, at $10.50 and $15.00. Novelty silk top and back. 72x78 inches, at ?20.00. DOWN-FILLED Comfortables, satine covering, 6x6 feet, $12.60. English chintz covering,, 6x7 feet, $18.60. CRIB COMFORTABLES, cotton-filled, 45x54 inches, silkoline covering, satine border, $2.60; silk mull top, silk muslin back, $5.00. Down-filled, figured tatine, cover ing, 45x54 inches, $7.50, 8trawbrlde Clothier Al!a ll, Fllberl ptrt 'A r Jf -i -VJ fl M VI 1 M -u l m M 4 j '? Si I ti M S t; s -i 'w . ,'1 ' a I: tii m & ' T H ftfl" ,J. ; t '"a 1- I 1 cs, .' A 1.1 ' '. 4 v'' & V lVJ. ) ,f x $f. , sh V F , i (W ri Jit e ui,- n ft . -M r-?f,f .fi - i 'frT ;5r!WnPft m ft1 11 At 1 &, T t.ufcl V V, k.T. m s . it. -'yfi d. '"
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