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A PRETTY MUDDLE
IF WE did not have e idence to tfie con
trary it would lie d.tlicint to escape th?
conclusion that the members cf the Xw
York Legislature who nre doing their best
to unseat fie Socialists are children in a
kmitergarten.
The fiv.c Soctali-ts. under u ppnion
nnd trial, took the oatn to supnort the
constitution when they ' ore first admit
ted to their scats. But it is chn 'ged
against them that they took the oath with
a mental reservation to disregard it when
they saw fit. On this assumed mental res
ervation the whole ease of the prosecu
tion rests.
Now it is announced that if the men ace
unseated, and the prosecution is confident
that they will be, the districts which
elected them in the first place are net to
be allowed to send them back. In p'der tn
prcyent this it is planncu to amend the
election laws in such a way that the name
of no candidate mav appear on any ticket
who lias not swoin to suppo-, th- con
stitution and who has not also sworn that
be is not controlled by any organization
which include- aliens among its members.
This, 't u-r.cd, will effectually bar
the five Soenint. But what 1. to prevent
them fro. . 'ng the requited oaths with
the mental reservation w ith which they
nre accused of having taken the oath of
pffice as assemblymen '.' The statesmen
framing the bill do not seem to have
thought as far as this. They hae got
themselves mto a pretty muddle and they
will do a lot more floundering before thev
get out of it.
OLD-TIME OCEAN FURY
A LTHOUGH the Atlantic has of recent
" car-- been formidably reasserting
its Tiowers. hinnnn rnm-nn-o nn,l cl.-ill 1,".o
il-aJso risen -n.spinngly to tnep- obligations.
U.he latest instance is the lescue of the
passengers of the old Dominion liner
Princess Anne, which stranded perilously
at Rockaway Point in last week's violent
(snowstorm.
If this vessel also k saved the case will
thrillingly parallel the Northern Pacific
and Powhatan epics. The latter was per
haps tire most pulse-tingling and the
work of the relief crews in the Nova
Scotian tempest quite outmatched Clark
Russell fiction. If the Princess Anne is
restored to service rtcv testimony to the
durability of modern ships will be avail
able even though our respect for the sea's
furies will have increased since those
days when the ante-bellum racing grey
hounds used to tussume that nothing could
harm them save fog.
The latest indications are that the At
lantic's wintry rages are still a test for
seamanship.
ITALIAN COURTESY
PREMIER NITTI, of Italy, has ideas
- about the propei icspect that should
be shown to President Wilson that differ
from those entertained in our own Senate.
Som Benelli, Italy's distinguished poet,
a dramatist and librettist of proved abil
ity, who sits in the Italian Chamber of
Deputies, remarked on Saturday that it
was reported that "the austere' philoso
pher who rules Ameiica, or at least part
of it, on the same day that he denied
Fiume to Italy went with his wife and
daughter to inaugurate a music hall in
Taris." Premier Nitti immediatelv nro-
P tested "against such disrespectful lan-
guage towaid the bead of the great
American democracy.
But this language- was innocent and
harmless in comparison with that which
is frequently beaid on the floor of the
ITnited States Senate. Only last Thursday
f-enator Sherman made as his own a re
mark by an English w nter that "it was
harder to dcbamboozle the old Presbyte
rian who represented us (in Paris) than it
was originally for Lloyd George to bam
boozle him," and no one protested, not
even Senator Hitchcock.
Yet we liave been led to believe that
Italy has a serious grievance against Mr.
Wilson. But in spite of it not even a poet
18 to be permitted to talk- of him in the
Italian Parliament save in terms of the
profoundest lespect. We do not suppose
that Mr. Wilson 13 seriously disturbed in
pitlier case, but it must be admitted that
the standard of courtesv in Italy has
much to commend it
A CENSUS SURPRISE
UNSCIENTIFIC observers may be in
clined to fix the center of population
of the United State at Forty-second
street and Broadway on Saturday night
' ir at Broad and Chestnut streets on a
parade day or at a trolley-entrance door
n tho rush hour.
, But the census experts are not fooled
iJiy- the superficial. They have the facts,
! uucsi Hccuinuiuuuu ux wiiii-n is Fata
to -forecast that our population radiates,
,, speak, from a point in Indiana.
1118 noes noL mean mm uiu M.ue oi
fbwleB Warren Fairbanks, Thomas R.
HarshaU- -Jnnics Whitcomb Riley and
BuKjtJi Tarklngton is congesto with hu
nWnlty, celebrated or otherwise. The little
trnroe wmen mid buihbuchmis jmoj every
" -j t...l .. l...A41..-l. IL.L
'"I VfL C '" lu1 "KS?T' ' "C!
t iy minm5.i4 "v vivi. .,a n.c
hanie weight and that the ccntci of popu
lation is the point about whichAmorican
continental territory, conceived as a plane,
balances perfectly. .
In 1700 this gravity maik was fixed in
Maryland twcntyitluee miles cast of Bal
timoic. Progression westward was steady,
at the rate of about five miles a year,
until a spot near Bloomington, lnd.,.was
attained in 1010. An eastward swing; is
now said to be discernible, for the fiist
time in our lecords.
Whether this is the lesult of the war
industries on the Atlantic seaboard, or of
any check in western development, due
to immigration conditions or to other con
sequences of the general conflict, is yet to
be explained.
In any event the Census Bureau has a
novelty to exploit and a mild sensation
to examine, even if the public does remain
eompaiatively calm.
MR. COMPERS IN POLITICS
IS A BIT TOO EXCLUSIVE
Should Modern Statesmen Worry About
All Workers or Only About a
Few of Them?
TT IS doubtful whether Mr. Gompers
really believe.-, in his heart that men
rlecte-l to high offices solely because of a
pledged devotion to trade-union principles
and causes would be able to lender the
best possible service either to the country
or to those who work for a living. Yet
today's call from Washington for a con
certed labor movement in national poli
tics seems to have been written to dis
may all candidates who are not "true
and tried friends of organized labor."
What, precis-civ , ae organized labor
interests? How tiall they be defined?
Who actually knows does Mr. Gompers
actually know how they may be best
conserved in these mercurial times? Ale
oiganized label's causes different from
the causes to which Mr. Wilson and Mr.
Taft, Mr. Hoover or the militant Senator
Hi Johnson give their energies in their
various ways? Are they, in a word, differ
ent from the causes of the mass of toiling
humanity?
Ceitainly the chief of the federation
and his colleagues would not pretend that
they aie. Mr. Gompers and his advisers,
if they were confronted by the necessity
of choice between any able progiessive of
the hour end a man whose only claim to
recognition lay in his union affiliations,
would find it extremely difficult to square
their own best beliefs with the terms of
their call for a trades union "block" in
American politics.
v It is fairer to the federation leader to
support that he is playing his own inevi
table game of politics with his supporters
and doing a good service to the public
meanwhile. His summons to the unions
will bear analysis and invite approval only
when it is viewed as wholesome political
rriticism in a realistic form. It ought to
have a stimulating $Tcct in quarters
whete mental and spiritual stimulants
arc greatly to be desired. It may go far,
for the time at least, to make bunk less
fashionable among seekers after conspic
uous offices.
A more alert political intelligence
among all people who work is sorely
needed in the United States. -A better gen
eral habit of political thinking is all that
is needed to settle two-thirds of our
tioubles. If an body can work towaid
such ends be ought to be applauded and
encouiaged. And only a very stupid poli
tician will fail to recognize the very real
trend of feeling that lies below the.appeal
to the unions and the recent movement in
tended to mobilize the sentiment of
workers in thisstate in a new and ex
clusive voting organisation.
Such groping about for a new means of
expression was inevitable not only in
trade unions but in the vast majority of
people who work which means the larg
est part of the population. It is due to
many causes. And it is one of the results
of the blunders, the ignorance, the lazy
mindedncss and the flagrant hypocrisy of
those routine politicians whose failure to
deal constructively or rationally with
the complications left by the war has been
almost as depressing as the war itself.
Even Mr. Gompers appears to realize
that the complications of the hour are too
general and too difficult to be settled by
any one party or through any new code.
He. too, is temporarily floundering.
The cry for union partisans in office is
an easy way around an obstacle. Yet it
may prove to be unfortunate.
Voters are asked to believe that union
leaders in Washington and elsewheie
have a monopoly of the social virtues.
They will rfbt believe this, though in fair
ness to the men who wrote the appeal to
the unions it may be assumed that they
hoped to help all workers by helping
themselves. They risked the announce
ment of a policy that may drive other
powerful voting units to defensive action
against them.
The text of their program seems like a
wide departure from sound logic and
sound political doctrine.
To nppeal for labor is right and just,
since to do so is to appeal in the inter
ests of nine-tenths of the population of
the country-
To appeal in the name of a small and
exclusive part of the working majority
which has new and untried doctrines
which it desires to force into effect is a
different matter altogether.
Yet the question of sincerity cannot be
l aised against those who now captain the
labor unions. The question that mav rise
to trouble them is one of political wis
dom. It is not necessary to go far back
ward into history to prove that they are
not always wise in their choice of men.
Mr. Gompers and his group anpioved
Mr. Foster
and for that icason they
mav properly be charged with rcsponsi
bility for the loss of the steel strike. 'If
Mr. Foster was misunderstood and lied
about it was his own fault. In the final
analysis he proved to be a young man who
had vibrated like a straw in the wind be
tween various radical political beliefs and
who, after infinite travail and experiencA-,
was unable tovmake up his own mind
nhciut anything of importance. The steel
strike was lost primarily because of Mr.
Foster's leadership, which happened to be
erratic and emotional.
The coal strike was lost by leaders who
insisted on steering the minors into vio
lent conflict with the government at a
time when the government was properly
determined to protect the nation against
methods of-aggression tolerable only in
warfare. .....
t..viu .vmnnthv was lost to the unions
I . lev tr ed to reeze and Parve the
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EVENING PUBLIC LEDttEl
country. What justice was in their cause
was forgotten in the shadow of the
menace which they created. The error was
not due to the men, It was due to their
leaders.
The intetests of working humanity aid
identical with the interests of the country.
To assume that a man can benefit by
laws and rules that impoverish his boss
is to cherish an infantile delusion.
The fitness of a man for important
work in politics is to be judged hot by the
narrowness of his interests but by the
scope of his knowledge; not by the limi
tations of his vision but by its breadth.
If all the money in 'the country wero
suddenly divided evenly it would provide
a hardly discernible addition to weekly
wages.
Prosperity is not a question of special
legislation. It is a question of production
and national efficiency.
Justice similaily cannot bo expected to
come with laws enacted for the benefit of
special sections of the population. It is
attainable only through the more intelli
gent genenvjexercise of the voting priv
ilege. The question now is whether lcadeis of
the Federation of Labor, or the farmers
whose support they seek, arc foolish
enough to think differently and whether
the unions actually would, if they could,
repeat in Congress the disastrous mis
takes made by the spokesmen who have
been misieprescnting them in recent
strikes. ,
THE GERMAN INDEMNITY
QUTSIDE the Senate, whose particular
intei est in the peace treaty is centetcd
in the League of Nations, criticism of the
pact with Germany is largely confined to
the alleged haishness of the indemnity
piovisions.
I-'iank A. Vanderlip, a recognized au
thority on American finance, both in
theorv and piactice, told a Philadelphia
audience that Germany simply could not
pay the sums demanded from her by the
Allies. His reasoning, echoed in several
quarters here and in England, has the ap
pearance of soundness until that neglect
ed document, the treaty itself, is reopened
and reread.
The text does, indeen, specify the sum
of the equivalent of 0,000,000,000 gold
marks to be fixed by the rcpaiation com
mission this year. The commission is also
empowered to compel the issuance forth
with by Germany of 40,000,000,000 marks'
worth of gold-bearing bonds. Beyond
the 60,000,000,000 marks, equal on the
par value basis to about $14,000,000,000,
payment by Germany for the havoc she
wrought is to be arranged for by the
commission.
It is particularly set forth that this in
ternational body shall be "guided by jus
tice, equity and good faith" and that no
further German bond issues can be made
until t life commission is "satisfied1' that
Germany can meet the interest and sink
ing fund obligations.
"Questions of determining the amount
and conditions of bonds," declaies the
treaty, "or other obligations to be issued
by the German Government and of fixing
the time and manner for selling, negotiat
ing and distributing such bonds," shall be
the result of unanimous vote by the lep
aration commission. The same proced
ure applies to the question of postponing
the payment of installments beyorid cer
tain dates. In other words the huge in
demnity which has been so much criti
cized is not yet a fixed sum. The commis
sion, moreover, has a wide latitude in
making its rulings. It "shall give to the
German Government :. just opportunity
to be heard."
It is not therefore so much "revision"
of the peace treaty as sane decisions on
the part of the reparation commission
which is necessary to pi event internation
al financial stultification. The many sub
jects lequiring unanimity by the com
missioners makes it imperative that the
United States should be speedily repre
sented in the vastly important machin
ery. Is it a" square deal to predicate in
justice or insanity by mo reparation
body? Is it indeed as fair as to condemn
the peace tieaty for provisions which it
does not contain and to ignore its plain
provisions ?
David Hunter Miller, legal adviser of
the American peace commission, recently
exposed in the New York Evening Post
some of the contagious misconceptions of
the financial clauses of the treaty of Vei
sailles. His claritv of .uuboning although
welcome is no w ise abnormally keen. Sim
ilar sound conclusions can be reached by
any ordinary individual who will take the
trouble to examine the pact signed by
Germany last June. Chronic public igno
rance of the tieaty is by far its worst
foe.
LANE HAS HAD ENOUGH
RUMORS that Secretary Lane was to
ictire from the Department of the
Intel tor are at last officially confirmed.
His lesignatlon is to take effect March 1.
Mr. Lane has been an efficient secre
tary and has been one of the ablest ad
visers of the President. But it is general
ly understood that he has been out of
sympathy with many things done or left
undone by the administration and that if
the nation had not been at war he would
have resigned a year and a half ago, just
as Secretary Garrison resigned from the
War Department.
Mr. Lane has patriotically remained at
his post as long as it has seemed to him
that any good ends could be served by
preserving the solidarity of the admin
istration. Ho is now to engage in private
business where he will doubtless win the
success that he deserves.
Dr Alonzo K. Taylor
Must lleip'IhemselvesMys that Herbert
Hoover used the food
! supply a a einb tn make Kuropenn nations
snnwucr ui,-u uiui i '-Hijuiirniiiiurp. ioinf
Pitch club, some such combination of business
nnd philanthropy, is necessary today, wlVile
Europe is at the one time hinting at n can
pollution of her indebtedness nnd spending
large i-uins on navnl and military equipment.
And the ope club available is membership
and participation in the League of Nations.
Dr. I.ouis A. Bauer "ays Philadelphia
is paying $50,000,000 an ounce for light. At
that, the city has no grievance unless it ran
prove that it is being given nhort weight.
Point liii bepn given to the old pong,
"That's the way the money goes: pop goes
the weasel " I'np lias gone up from five to
teveiiienls '
There hag been more thnn one Indies
tion that in certain diplomatic nnd financial
circles the pimh of Paih invoke a Pish,
Pid or did not Grundy eatJJrow?
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUAKY 9,
MILLIONAIRE AND MAMMOTH
Albert E. Turner Talks of a Bright
Young Man Why Major Starr
Fired a Press Agent for Fall
ing to Grasp an Idea
H.v GKOriGE NOX McOAIN '
ALB
rt. ar
LBKUT E. TURNER'S reminiscences
o nlnnys intcrcstine nnd insiiirine.
One which he recalled tended toward con
firmation of the nilnpp that "What n ninn
dcirrtli flint shall he receive."
He cited the case'of a young mnn, whoe
name for obvious rensons is withheld, for
lip is today very prominent in financial cir
ples in New York, who left n country village
in the Middle. West ten years ago with the
definite purpose of milking n million in the
metropolis.
His only experience lind been n clerkship
in n eountry hank.
For months after leneliing New York lie
spent ills spare time EHtlierluc nil the mall
able information about the vlilm. hobbies.
ambitious, domestic nnd soelnl I'elntions nnil
life history of great men in the world of
finance, with whom, some day. lie hoped to
establish 'n connection. One instance will
i-erve.
A MEMBER of a ceita'm family. I.iugo in
the finnncinl world nnd princes of plii
Inntluopy, vvns, with his family, a eon
sistent member of nrf uptown rliurch. With
out thrusting himself into amine prominence.
the young man made it his business to attend
erviee twice a week nt that elinrrli Within '
the spare of a month or two he rented n pew
directly behind that occupied by the finan
cier. Naturally, they became acquainted ;
but for six jnonths llie newcomer confined
himself to pleasant hut formal greetings
each Sunday.
A few, months later he inady it n point to
call nt the office of the gentleman in ile
tln'n to institute a iasii.nl innuirv upon n
matter not connected with finance or reli
gion. That visit hroKe the ice.
A jenr or so subsequently, for he deter
mined to piocecd with care and circumspec
tion, after he had made progress along Mm
ilar lines with other npitnlists and when he
lind n solid financial proposition with con
vincing facts nnd figures, he appealed to the
greni investor.
lie was accorded n cdurteoiis hearing, his
idea caught on, and out of thnt grew other
transactions which carried the shrewd and
far-visfoned young western man far along
toward the goal of his nmbition.
cnT
M-:
AJOU tiEORGE O. STARK, wliom
older newspaper and theatrical men re
call, was for years the confidential represen
tntive and personal friend of P. 'I' Barnum
Major Stair died since the beginning of the
world wnr. In nceordance with his deire.
oxiiro-.'-cd in his will, his remains were cre
mated nnd his ashes scattered in the wake
of a steamship in midoccan upon which his
wife was coming to this country on busmen
connected with his estnle.
When the Bnrnum & Bailey corporation
decided to invade Europe. Major Starr went
in advance. It was his duly tn prepare the
way for the great undei taking, whose initial
performances wer,e to be given in London.
AND this is apropos of Mr. Turner's
-"- reminiscence.
There vvns one. particular editor of n great
and influential London daily newspaper who
had the well-established reputation of being
h.vperr rilical of American invasions, both
theatrical and commeicial. All .else was
comnarativoly clear sailing; so Starr set
Lhimseif, ns lie subsequently told me, to win
at nil hazards tins man s lnuoiemcm oi uie
Barnum enterprise.
Like the shrewd young man described bv
Mr. Tinner, Starr, on his arrival in Eug
land. gathered all the information he could
concerning this gentleman. Among other
thing- he learned that he was thp author of
several novels which had achieved but a mod
erate success.
Starr immediately purchased ropier of all
of them, and for days assiduously devoted lii
attention not only to reading, but to fixing
characters, incidents and parages firmlj in
his memory.
He called upon the journalist, only, ns he
had anticipated, to receive a courteous but
indifferent reception.
After n while he managed to drift their
conversation to a medical subject, for he had
been a practicing .physician in his cailier
days. This opened the way naturally for
him to mention a character who wtft a physi
cian in one of the editor's novels.
With well-assumed interest he mentioned,
with literal disregard of the fact, having read
the novel in New York.
When he left the editorial rooms he car
ried vvitb him the unmistakable evidence
that his visit had been a success. The Bar
num & Boilcy pnte.rpnse had no more gen
erous critic than the author-editor.
But Starr never revealed his secret until
years after.
AFTER the unfortunate collar of the
English corporation which undertook the
exploitation of the big show on the Conti
nent, Major Stair took up his residence in
London, no was elected managing director
of the Crystal Palace, the largest and most
dignified permanent enterprise of its kind in
the world at that time. It was n 'national
institution.
The last time I saw bun was at the palace
ten years ago We were recalling old mem
ories, at luncheon, when the chief of his pub
licity staff hurried in with the announcement
that Mme. Tetrazzlni and her husband were
on the grounds and were wandering around
without a guide.
Instantly the young man was sent off with
an invitation nnd instructions to bring them
to luncheon.
Starr was. a princely entertainer, and one
of his profuse apologies for not having been
apprised sooner of her presence when the
diva appeared with her husband la rather
young man of nonimpresslve personality),
was that hlb "Field Piess Agent," who was
charged with tho care and direction of dis
tinguished visitors, was a new man.
THE circumstance which led to the change
of press agents, as lip related it to the
luncheon party, vvns that fen days before
the Zoological Garden had received a rare
specimen of a dwail eiepnant t hroke
loose the first night and the attendants had
quite a search before thev lmaled it in a
remote part of the grounds.
As a press agent's srory it was properly
embellished nnd given tn the newspapers. It
elaborately described the wild hunt of the
attendants with torches, ropes and chains
for the missing beast
The day following its publication that par
ticular member of the publicity sta was
fired. .
Rrectcd at vauous points on the extensive
acres surrounding the palace were life-size
leproductlons in plaster and siucco of pie
historic monsters, among thorn a mammoth.
"It was ridiculous." said Major Starr;
"the fellow lind no brains. Instead of de
scribing a night hunt for the elephant, if
only be had told how ut dnj light they had
found it-huddled up close to the plaster ast
of the mammoth il would have been worth
while. If he iiad pointed out that the in
utinct of the little animal, which had sur
vived through unknown nges of ancestry,
had led It to seek the company of itN pre
hlst'iJc kind. It would have made a storr
that Would have traveled aroivhd the world."
Tl? ifwVuirffiiitl.n.w .. Mi".-r.-. " ,-ai"-WrHrri5
-iLm..rdmiirtauu...j
FROM DAY
PRESIDENT WIL
SOX 1ms. his nrirnte
Grey Breaks Tradition
Deserves Thanhs Therefor
Swapped Whisper for Shout
President Gave Precedent
Now the Truth Is Known
Old Pun Loses Point
reasons for being nngry
at Lord Grey.
But why should the
icst of us be 'otherwise
thnn glad?
The Rritish ambassa
dor has broken down a
rather silly diplomatic
ir.iililinn that dates bark
to barbarous times; namely, that an ambas
sador might whisper in the ear of the sov
ereign of the country to which he whs ac
credited, but that he might not talk to the
people of that country.
Whispering in tbc ears of sovereigns and
not talking to the people has been the cause
of many wars.
You have the authority of Mr. Wilson
himself for this.
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IT IS easy to see why the rule that an am
bassador must talk only to sovereigns
csmc into being.
In the early days, to be different nations
was to be nlmost permanently in a state of
hostility or at least suspicion.
Yet communication between nntions was
necessary.
For this purpose the ambassador was in
vented. ,
It was a ticklish business, being au am
bassador. So that theie should be no mistake, he
went directly to the person of the sovereign
of the country he had business with.
If be had stopped on the way to talk to
gpntlemen of the press, ns BernstorfE did or
Reading or all modern ambassadors do, some
one would have run a spear through him.
The person of the sovereign was sacred.
Itepresenting one sovereign and going di
rectly' to the pre-ence of another sovereign,
the persou of the ambassador acquired . cer
tain sacredness.
The perfume of thejdivinp right of kings
clung to the man who got his words directly
from the mouth of one king and whispered
them directly into the ear of another king.
And the ambassador needed in his business
every bit of sacredness he could pick up by
sticking prcttv closely to the kings.
Moreover, this was his function; a nar
rowlv defined and jealously guarded function.
If'he did nnything else, if he stopped on
the street and talked to the masses or did
not keep, eyes front seeking always the divinn
presence of the sovereign, somebody would
think he was doing a little spying on the
side and run him through.
If be went o' nights and collogued with the
pretender, with the Lodge of those days 1
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rnHE last bit of the divine right of kings
-L surviving today Is the right to have the
only ear in which an ambassador may prop
erlv whisper
When Mr. Wilson gets angry at Lord
Giey's letter he gets angry because the divine
right of kings has been invaded, and this in
spite of all lie hn said about open diplomacy
nnd about the right of the pcoplo to know nil
about the diplomatic relations of their gov
ernment with foreign governments?
But in these dayR you cannot run a spear
head through an nmbasndor who forfeits his
sacredness by talking into other than the
sacred ear.
All you can do is to call in the gentlemen
of the press, the lord high executioners of
modern society, nnd tell them that you are
displeased.
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a Mil: thing that has ruined tne etiquee of
diplomacy is the thing that has de
stroyed so many nnelent polite forms, the
errival of tho peorle ns Jbe main factor in
government.
It -is all very well to whisper in the ears
of sovereigns, but what all governments want
to do today is tn shout in the markct-plnces
in the cars of each other's people
Mr Wilson began it when his nmbnssndor
extraordinary fold tho gentlemen of tho Brit
ish preis that his ranster was insistent upon
a unified command of the allied forces on
the wctTn Jrout
'To be jure, be did with tle.approral
'1920
"IF IT JES' SUBSIDES A LITTLE"
... tWiL, c"f
"jZj!i(Z Lri$SSrr
- TO DAY
of the British Govern
ment, Lloyd George, but
then Lloyd George might
not have been the Brit
ish Goverument on the
morrow it Mr. Wilson's
ambassador had not
talked to the British
people.
And Mr. Wilson kept
up the practice when he
went to Kurope nnd toured England nnd
Italy, whispering not in the ears of Lloyd
George and Orlando, but talking, in the
market-places to the masses.
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AND the gain in this instance of Lord
Grey's addressing himself not tn the
President, but to the American people, is
that the American people have now the
truth.
Mr. Lodge was saying that the allied gov
ernments would not object to his reserva
tions. Mr. Wilson was implying very strongly
that they would,
England settles the issue by laying,
through Lord Grey, the facts before the
American people.
If there is virtue in truth and frankness
between, let us not say governments, but
peoples, the Lord Grey way is the way to
arrive at it.
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THERE is nn old pun which defines an
ambassador as n "man. who lies abroad
for his sovereign."
Sir William Temple, Swift's patron, nn
ambassador of -distinction, tried to turn it
into a Latin epigram, but there is no one
word in Latin for "lie" in both its English
senses, and he had the usual trouble of a
translator.
The forgetfulness into which this old joke
has fallen shows how the character of an
nmbassador has changed.
You might almost say now that an am
bassador, nt least a special amhassa'dor, is
n man who tells the truth abroad for his
people.
When he does so some one is sure to call
in the press and remind him that his real
function is the historic one that Sir William
Temple tried to put into a Latin epigram.
THE BUGLE
TF KNAVES beguile, by felon art,
-L The shifting favor of the hour ;
If civic rule from right depart,
, And brazen impudence has power ;
If low ambition buy his place
While mfcrlt waits in half-disgrace,
Still undecided sways the fight :
The bugle still to charge commands ;
There is no truce of tongues or hands,
No quarter, while one focman stands
. Tn mock eternal Right !
Bayard Taylor,
George Sylvester Viereck does not ap
piove of Herbert Hoover ns a presidential
candidate. Hoover continues to play in
luck.
Western farmers who remember trouble
they have bad with the T. W. W. will be
chary ohout banking n movement indorsed
by the Wobblies.
The dickering for jobR suggests that
CouncU is in some respects a board of
"trade,"
Mr. Wilson cannot, at least, be charged
with talking too much.
Bryan, however, Is not suffering from
aphonia.
,
Seventeen hundred optimists applied for
liquor licenses last week,
A financial League of Nations may yet
be the first to arrive.
hA hpftt Mr. Hf-vim fan hnnm f f .-
add tw hU list of presidential dcfwta,
j A Canadian Cure
FATHER LEGERE had a strong stubbly
chin.
And piercing brown eyes into which would
steal in ,
A glint of old Adam's original sin.
His cassock was. tumbled, his collar was
mussed,
His black shovel beaver was spotted with
dust,
But his flock, not his clothes, were the good
father's trust.
To beat them at tennis he panted and tore,
No man pulled more stoutly, no boy shouted
more
On the first of July in a good tug-of-war.
"We French nre vlveurs, but you English
can play,
And' that's what I'm trying to teach, how
you say
When the body is healthy the soul cannot
stray.
"And de same wid my women, I teach them
to sew
In one great big room, then each circle will
know
Dey are not tho whole thing, and slowly will
grow
"New friendship and pity and dey'll under
stand Dat we nil are alike in de palm of God's hand.
And dat He has chosen no people or land."
PHOEBE HOFFMAN.
In order to make a contractor use a Enow
shovel it is sometimes necessary to use a
club.
Of course, 'the rest of the country msy
"in wrong," in which case the President
'Arm" rather than "obstinnte."
What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. Name three' victories won by Washing-
Vin in tbc RevolutionaryWar?
2. What isfhc population of tho earth?
3. What kind of animal is a hyrax?
4. What is a palmer?
R. What is a joss?
(J. What is the meaning of the Latin phrase
"non sequitur"?
7. What is a suffragan bishop?
8. What Vice Presidents of the United
States became Presidents?
ft. Wjliere are the Olympic games to be
'held this year? ,
10. What was the grand total of men in
, the American army on November 11,
1918?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. Kurt von Lersner is the German dele
gate who refused to transmit from
Paris to Berlin tbo list j)f Germans
demanded by the allied governments
for trial for alleged criminal offenses.
2. Helium is a transparent gas, inferred as
existing in the sun's atmosphere in
1S08 and first obtained In 1805.
S, The government has announced that It
will sell the former German liners at
auction.
4. The Obi is a great river of Sibcris.
flowing north nnd east into tho Gulf
of Obi, an arm of the Arctic ocean.
tV .Tohn U. Walter was 'tho architect of
the national Capitol,
C. Oliver Wendell Holmes said "a cauli
flower is only a cabbage that has gone
.to college."
7. The gesture of biting one's thumb at a
person indicates contempt with in
tention to offend or defy.
8.' Three American generals of the Mexi
can Wur were Scott, Taylor and Fre
mont, '
0, Ecilrtn is a game of enrda for two per
sons, In French cenrto bystanders
urn nitrtnlf toil in mlvlfio. lind the
player lolne leaves the table at
adviser taken hie place. ,
10, "Kclat" (flwMld be urontuHced as tboiisb
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