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The Knox Resolution
The Knox resolution might well have
distinguished more clearly between that
which is abstractly desirable and that
which is actually attainable. As the
proposed declaration is drawn the two
things are intermingled.
Mr. Knox argues that the covenant
should have been a separate instrument.
Agreed. Peace has been delayed by the
efforts to dovetail elements that do not
mortise well?.by time wasted in labors
to mulsify the naturally immiscible.
But it has been done. With the con
sent, if not the approval, of representa?
tives of other nations the President's
plan to negotiate the peace and the
covenant together, and to use the peace
part as a hammer to drive through the
covenant part, has been accepted.
. In the presence of this fact, of this
fdit decompli, will it be profitable to dis
cuss the wisdom of the union? The mar?
riage has occurred. The ceremony has
been held; the milk is spilled; the water
is over the dam.
It is true, as explained by Senator
Knox, it is still possible for the peace
conference to decree a divoree. A few
lines saying that any nation may, with?
out prejudice, reserve for future con
sideration the question of a league of
nations would do it. But will the con?
ference insert such a provision? Is
there reasonable prospect of inducing
it so to do?
The conference as to covenant matters,
for obvious reasons, assembles beneath
the President's hat. It is not likely to
amend as asked. It can; but indications
are that it won't. Its members are con
strained to recognize the President as the
spokesman of America, and so accepting
him it follows that his advice will be
taken.
Is there probability of reaching the
conference by first persuading President
Wilson? Senator Knox will doubtless
admit the chance is negligible. Not to
speak of stubbornness and self-suffi
ciency, nor of legitimate arguments that
there is little prospect for a league un
. less established as a part of the peace
treaty, the President is perhaps not un
willing to go to the country on the issue
of league or no league. Many of his
friends secretly pray that the Senate
ghall blunder into a course which will re
- vive drooping partisan hope and excuse a
third term candidacy.
Should the Senate pass the Knox reso?
lution and it is ignored, what then? The
choices are two. By a majority vote
there can be formal amendment. But
amendments will be to the treaty as
a whole, and the usual procedure would
be to refer them to the other powers.
Such reference would suspend, it would
seem, the whole peace treaty and per?
haps call for a reassemblage of the con?
ference.
The alternative is to ratify and insert
. reservations in the ratifying resolution.
!f- not objected to the treaty would then
be in effect at once. Not by accident has
it become the American habit to make
' reservations when ratifying. The method
: has the merits of simplicity and direct
ness, of precisely attaining the end
sought. Though in practical effect a
reservation often amounts to an amend
"? tnent, it has a different status in inter?
national law.
Mr. Knox is willing to have this coun?
try go to the aid of civilization if again
* gravely imperilled, but is unwilling to
assume the duty of acting in every petty
quarrel. This matter could be covered
by a reservation easily drawn.
The reservation method has not only
the advantage of bringing peace speed
ily, but saves the good parts of the cove?
nant.
Disgusting Carranza!
Jn>,t when the executive officers at
'.Vashington are developing a holy zeal
for such propositions as that Japan must
not have a special position in China, or
Italy on the Adriatic littoral, or Greece
:n Asia Minor, along comes Carranza to
compel them to avow that the United
States must continue to claim cpecial
position in Mexico. It is most disgust?
ing.
The Jatent unwelcome rerninder is
'Aguilar. son-in-law of the First Chief,
who has appeared in Washington to say
"he does not understand why Mexico has
not been invited to become a member of
tb? league of nations; that he is told the
reason for the ?xelnjion was this eoun
trj'f vsto, and how about lt? Moreover,
he brings the distressing information
that the First Chief feels his honor is
drawn in question and that he is hurt
and grieved. Senor Carranza finds it
comports with his honor to confiscate
the property of Americans who were
cajoled into making investments there on
express agreements that their defined
rights should }>e respected; but to be
left out?this is an intolerable affront.
Sacre!
The fifteenth point might well have
been the one declaring that no country
should complain when the complainer did
in principle what it found fault with
in another. This power to see ourselves
as others see us, as one Burns remarked,
would rid us of many a foolish notion.
The American who can see why America
occupies a special position in regard to
some questions and can't see that any
other country should be given preference
as to other questions has an imagination
active in but one lobe of his brain.
Discouraging Crime
Mayor Hylan's suggestion that the
newspapers discourage crime by not re
porting successful burglaries and hold
ups was excellent, but he has not yet
taken the next step. Xl crime is in?
creased by propaganda which presents
New York as a Beulah land, may it not
be decreased by a contrary propaganda?
We hope his honor will enlist the news?
papers in'a vigorous campaign to dis?
courage the influx of criminals.
It should not be difficult. The Mayor's
committee on public information?we
trust its ci'eation will not be long de?
layed?should send to all yeggs in the
country full reports of our heat waves,
including a complete list of prostrations.
Daily comrnent also might be sent out
on the overcrowded condition of hotels,
the subway stress, high rents and the
weakness of the Yankees in right field.
This general propaganda should go to
all undesirables who have not yet come
to New York.
There also might be more specialized
publicity. Thus, there might be a warn?
ing to safe robhers of the likelihood of
a cracksman's having his pockets picked
while on his way home from a hard
night's work in the greater city. Like
wise, pickpockets might be informed of
the precarious condition of all savings
in New York owing to the prevalence of
safe robbers. Perhaps as a climax might
come the announcement that no criminal
can remain outside the clutches of the
New York police force for long, with
accompanying figures of the daily ar?
rests for failure to keep the tail lights
aglow, heedlessness of traffic signals
and neglect of dimmers.
New York's Example
Governor Smith again has shown
his alertness and good sense in prompt?
ly calling a special session of the Legis?
lature to ratify the suffrage amend?
ment. His action sets an example which
other states_ should be quick to follow.
Meantime attention centres on Penn?
sylvania, where the Legislature still is
in session, with but a few days remain
ing before adjournment. It is to be
hoped that the issue will be brought up
there promptly and a vote obtained. To
delay consideration now will postpone a
decision until 1921, unless a special ses?
sion is called. The sentiment of Penn?
sylvania can hardly be doubted. At the
first referendum, four years ago, suf?
frage came within 60,000 votes of adop
tion. Pennsylvania has now the oppor?
tunity to be the first Eastern state to
ratify this great reform, and no eleventh
hour congestion of legislation should be
permitted to obstruct a vote.
The swing of the country is unmis
takable. Sentiment seldom has gathered
in such overwhelming force for any
change of such importance. Ratiflcation
by the states is a grave constitutional
duty calling for the best judgment of
our state legislatures. They are en?
titled to be heard, and heard promptly,
on this measure. affecting thc rights of
one-half of our population and the wel*
fare of the entire nation.
Potash
Before the Ways and Means Commit?
tee witnesses say it costs $5 a unit to
produce potash in this country, whereas
it can be imported from Germany or
from the soon-to-be French mlnes of Al
sace for $1.50. Protection to equalize
the difference is asked?said to be indis
pensable if an industry in which $30.
000,000 has been invested is to survive
and to attract new capital.
The question of what is to be done with
respect to the potash infant raises many
old issues. Which should be the first
consideration?to establish a basic new
industry for the benefit of thc future or
allow our present farmers and truck
raisers to get fertilizer where they can
buy it the chcapest? At the interroga
tory brain cells that have not functioned
for a long time stir into action. Many
reminiscences come.
Whether or not the infant is to be pro?
tected probably depends on the evidence
of the prospect for it growing to self
sustaining manhood. If there is prom?
ise of this, if America can be insured
against finding hcrself again without an
indispensable article, doubtless the agri
cultural interests and consumers of food
will be willing to pay more. On the
other hand, if it shall appear that high
priced fertilizer will permanently bafflc
ua in international competition, strong
will be the demand to purchase potash
v/hero it can bo obtained at the lowest
price.
The witnesses shed no light on this
question. All they did was to lift up the
familiar cry that if the protection asked
was not accorded they would bo ruined.
This would be enough, lf established, to
win for the affirmative in most instances,
but is hardly enough when in the back
ground is the bigger matter of conserv
ing soil fertility.
The Prussian Way
As is generally known, since last No?
vember the Germans have developed an
extremely keen sense of the'sanctity of
international agreements. There is no
end of their complaining that the peace
treaty violates the fourteen points of
President Wilson, on the basis of which
the armistice was concluded. The follow?
ing editorial utterance of the Tdglicfie
Rundschau of Berlin is, therefore, doubly
welcome as an indication of how the Ger?
mans, purified by defeat and suffering,
conceive the, to them, formerly so un?
usual achievement of living up to an
obligation:
"Aceording to the Wilsonian peace
programme, those regions of our eastern
marches which had an indubitably Polish
population were to be ceded to Poland.
By our acceptance of the fourteen points
we undertook to comply with this condi?
tion, and this we could readily do, be?
eause there are no parts of Prussia with
indubitably Polish population."
This may not be straight thinking, but
it is certainly plain speaking. Also, if
this be the way to fulfil a treaty, it looks
almost honorable to break it. One shud
ders to think what interpretation the
Germans, had they the chance, would
have put on the Wilsonian clause about
the freedom of the seas, for instance.
Out of his own mouth we learn about
the modesty and good faith of the Prus?
sian in defeat. It is, indeed, a benign
Providence that has spared the world
the experience of Prussian morality tri
umphant.
Mr. Taft complains rather testily (the
i weather makes campaigning teniper
! wearing on even men of small avoirdu
I pois) that his opponents use antithetical
i arguments?one element "declaring there
! must be no oligarchy of nations and an?
other offering suggestions that if there
| is no oligarchy the league is toothless."
I And, not to be outdone, Mr. Taft parades
j the antithesis that the league does not
: impair national sovereignty and that it
| is necessary to impair national sover
i eignty if there is to be any organization
i for peace maintenance.
The Jonkheer Hohenzollern. who is
spending some time at Wieringen, Hol?
land, while his wife sues for divorce,
predicts another war in ten years. His
former Highness ought to know?he is
a specialist in war launching. But per?
haps he does not know for the same rea?
son that he could not see that the war
he fostered could not succecd. His mind
is attuned to a kind of political leader
ship which is gone, we may hope, forever.
The Pro-Wet Mother Goose
(From The Chicago Evening Post)
Sing a song of sixpence, a pockeb full of rye.
It will mean a hefty fine, starting next July.
The death of John C. Spooner, for
three terms a Senator of the United
States from Wisconsin, removes a man
who was long recognized as one of the
ablest public servants of America. A
constitutional lawyer of high attain
ments, a man of wide experience in af- I
fairs, who united the culture of the
schools to Western energy and practi
cality, he placed all he had at the dis
posal of his country. He was rich in
mind, and even richer in character, and
his services in the Senate leave a great ;
legacy.
Why not put Burleson into thc dic
tionary as a nonn and a verb. Lots of
men have been thus immortalized. There
was Captain Boycott, for instance.
How about offering a prize for the
letter that has been longest in travelling
from one part of New York to another?
Federations and Teachers
(From Thc Topeka State Journal)
Time was when it seemed incredible that
school teachers would ever find it neces?
sary to organize in order to obtain fair
pay and fair working conditions, but when
the teachers of some cities discovered that
the garbage collectors, aided by labor
union nffiliations, were getting better
wages than the teachers and wore in line
to obtain more favorable pension con?
sideration than teachers could hope for, the
teachers began to see the necessity for
organization. They discovered, at length,
says "The Christian Science Monitor,"
I what the entire social body, usually re?
ferred to as "thc middle class," is begin?
ning to find out, that in a highly organized
| world ho is a rare Individual indeed who
j can hope to get his rights unless by joint
action with others situated and equipped
like himself.
Time Tells
{From The Detroit News)
lf it is true the peace conference has
leaked, maybe age rusted it.
If all the. world were apple pie,
And all the sea were ink,
That state of things were not much worso
Than having naught to drink.
There was a man of our town,
And he was wondrous wise.
He went into a polling both
And voted with1 the drys.
But when he Baw tho drys hnd won,
With all his might nnd mnin
He fillcd his cellar with a stock
Of whiskey and champagno.
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown
?nd JiU cwne tumbling after.
Served 'em right!
The Conning Tower
Immortality
I would not live always, live always below;
Oh no, I'll not linger when bidden to go.
But I should like to tarry in this vale of
grace
Until they finish that escalator they are
building in the subway station at
Park Place.
It is astonishing that the puritanical
have not crti3aded against daylight saving.
Under daylight saving, golf and tennis are
games for bachelors. No wife, if she be
the cook, wants to wait until 9 o'clock for
dinner; and no other cook will. Marital
felicity and daylight saving are incongru
ous. Why, then, says the bachelor, get
married?
Tp-morrow will be Friday the 13th, and
anybody who must read some comment on
that coincidence is at liberty to consult the
filea of this department, especially from Oc?
tober, 1904, to January, 1914.
In Response to Edar*s "Call to Duty"
I have a lot of things to do?
An office to attend to;
Committee meetings ; one or two
Reports to make an end to;
Unanswered letters?quite a pile?
(I pray their writern' lenience,)
Addresses, cards and things to file
All waiting my convenience;
Two trip3 on which I have to fare
Betwixt this date and Monday;
A Sabhath lesson to prepare
Against the coming Sunday;
And l'm to help a fellow-suf
Ferer on this well known sphere:
Move all her livestock, books and stuff;
(I am some charioteer.')
All these and then enough beside
To fill this blooming column
1 thought upon at breakfasttide,
And waxed a trifie solemn.
Then, for diversion eruditc,
I turned to this here page,
And Edar's versea met my sight?
Forgotten was my rage
'Gainst Time, and Tide, and Fate, and sueh
"Away," I cried, "Away
With everything I don't like much!
I'll work for F. P. A. 1"
Stlvanu.
Mr. H. P. Davison's claim to fame is not
based on his having given a copy of the
treaty to Senator Root. He is the gentleman
to whom in March, 1918, we gave up our
stateroom on the Leviathan; and the gentle?
man who got a call down from an enlisted
man for throwing a cigar butt into the At?
lantic Ocean. But Mr. Davison is a skilled
and good-natured mechanic, too. He used to
repair our briquet a dozen times a day.
Variety's Golden Days
Sii-: Anybody remember Tony Pastor
singing his own song about the tattered
old flag? I have a fairly clear mental'
picture of him on thr stage in his famous
old palace of delights on Fourteenth
Street. He was slipping into old age then
and his voice was a bit shaky and piping
when he reached Tor high notes, but he
had quite a way with him, a sort of vulgar
ftair if you know what I mean. I can
see him now in evening clothes, with a
i top hat perched rakishly on the side of
his head and holding a ragged flag in his
hand the while he sung rcgarding it as
follows, to wit: ?
" "lis but a tattered. old torn piece of bunting
'Tis but. a red, white and blue colored rag;
But horoes have died in defence of its honor
And hallowed with glory that old tattered flag."
And why has no one vecalled Lydia Yea
| mans Titus, whose specialty in those days
; was the impcrsonation of insufferably fresh
! children? She used to sing songs in a
| childish bib and tucker, while friend hus
, band (as 1 remember him he wore a flossy
set of whiskers) used to preside at a grand
i piano.
Doesn't any onc rccall .Toe Maxwell, who
; used to sing illustrated songs? He hada
partner (I can't recall the name) who made
i tlie slides and operated the projection ma?
chine. 1 can hear Joe's minstrel tenor
now taking the high spots in that old
"Darling Sue" song.
And the funniest act of all hasn't been
, mentioned Hayes and Lytton in "A Wise
; Guy." He was a roughneck piano mover
| or something of the sort who invaded a
i fashionable domicile presided over by the
lady Miss Lytton. Who that saw it will
j ever forget the cataclysmic effect of his
; familiar response to a flattering remark
i on her part'.' He used to slap her broad
and extremely decollete back with such
a resounding whack that every one nearly
jumped out of his or her seat. And for
gastronomic delic?cy Charlie Chaplin cer
tainly never excelled his attack on a sup
per served in his honor. These were cer
tainly thc g. o. d., all right, all right.
JOHN P. TOOHEY.
"lt was always my wish," confesses Ear
j nest Guy, "that they would cut out every
I thing except the monologue artists, comedy
teanis, sketches and an occasional song.
There were lots of good acts I had to sit
through to hear James J. Morton?acts
like Latina, the lady contortionist; the
Girl with the Auburn Hair, and Jap jug
j glers." And then Earnest Guy's memory
I misses, for it was neither Ward and Cur
i ran nor Ward and Vokes who sprang "Those
; were the hapny days." lt was, we believe,
Howard and North, a comparatively recent
j team.
Mr. Gerald K. Rudolph of the Buffalo
Courier inform3 whom it may concern that
he who once rocked us with mirth as Har
rigan, the Tramp Juggler, is in thc lumber
business in Buffalo, and one of thc Park
Ciub's best golfers.
"To Help Other People at All Times"
Sir: With the odor of Salvation doughnuta
still Hngering and the aroma of Scout fried bacon
getting stronger on Boston Common, it is evi
dent that a modern drive needa every ucent.
W. W. E.
Constable Stephen Constable, the police
force of North Wales, Pa., has resigned.
His name affords too much amusement, he
says, to the citizens. Which gives us a
chance to wonder whether Captain Cedric
Major would have declined a promotion.
Why, wo wondored yesterday morning,
does the right shoelace always break iirst?
And then the left one, with precisely tho
same mileage, broke. And another para
graph was ruined.
Our desk is only ten feet away from the
telegraph instruments, and the prospect of
a strike worries us only nltruistically.
"Tho body is so arranged on the chassis
that the springs are completely covered,"
which, of course, makes the hearse low and
easy riding," says the Sun'a automobile de?
partment. Oh?no, itll do for a 1. 1.
Oh d., where is thy a.T F. P. A
JAPAN, SUPPLIANT OR DEFIANT?
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This cartoon from the Tokio "Jiji" protests against Japan's position at
the peace conference. The caption reads: "It's there, the empty seat. Why
doesn't he take it?" This comment is added: "We have heard of five great
powers of the world, and we are to be treated above the average. There is
something strange in our delegate, who assumes the position of a petitioner
begging to be treated as an equal."
"Selling" the Army
By Theodore M. Knappen
"VT THEN I read in a proof of one of the
yV new era newspaper recruiting ad
vertisements that one of the induce
ments to join the regular army is the op
portunity to nieet "nice girls," I tried to
imagine what a "hard boiled" of the Ind?
ian campaigning days, the Philippines or
Cuba would say and do if he were to be
told that by joining the regulars he would
got a" chance "to come up with nice girls."
His remaiks of surprise and incredulity
would certainly not be "nice."
Times do, indeed, mutate, when you join
the army to meet good society, and you are
invited to do so through the medium of an
honost-to-goodness, paid-for newspaper dis
play advertiscment, paid for, too, by the
governmert of the United States. Even the
decorous General Staff, which conceives of
life as a succession of cold, impersonal or?
ders with nd omotional trimming3 what?
ever, ronlizos that things are not as they
were. It seemed incrodible that that ag
grogation of human icebergs and profes
sional critics had passed on tho "nico girl"
advertisement. but on investigation it was
found to be the fact.
Grourkicst Army in the World
"Why, would you believe it," remarked
an officer associated with the new idea in
recruiting, as woll as the new social age in
the army, "that the solomn old boys laid
down only on" rule ir. regard to eopy, after
we had persuaded them that the way to get
tlie right kii cl of soldiers in the year A.
D. 1919, having in mind that the grouchiest
army i:i the world is being simultaneously
demobilizcd, was to advertise? They insisted
that. we must tell the truth and promise
nothing we could not deliver. Well, now,
with the Y. M. C. A. and the Knights of Co?
lumbus and the Y. W. C. A. and so on, it's
a cinch that any rookie we tako on will
meet nice girls. So the grave and revered
soniors of the staff stood for this and a lot
of other up-to-date, human stuff in our
eopy."
lf you don't believe it look at the re?
cruiting ad in tho Sunday papers and read
it through. Xow remember that that ad?
vertiscment is remarkable not only for the
kind of eopy- for a government advertise
ment?but also for the fact that it i3 an
advertiscment. Your Uncle Samuel has
started a real, live, up-to-the-minute adver?
tising campaign in the newspapers to sell
army service to the young men of the coun?
try, and he is no "piker," either, for he has
put $185,000 into a two weeks' campaign and
he takos pages and 1,100-line. space at that.
This eopy wasn't written by any spurred
gentleman between other duties, either. The
army called in an advertising agency, took
its advice, had it write the eopy, choose the
"mediums," place the advertising and direct
the campaign, just as any business house
would. I saw the rough proofs when they
came back from the agency and I can tes?
tify that the only blue-pepcilling that was
done to them nround the War Department
was some minor changes to make the state
ments of the eopy artist ndhere scrupu
lously to the facts?not that he had pur
posely misstated, but beeause through in
complete information he was inaccurate.
The Sandtcich Sign
In the good old days when theatres used
to refuse admittance to men in Uncle Sam'a
uniform the advertising usually consistcd
of a Biindwich sign and n flag or perhaps a
smail postor and mayhnp a want ad in the
newspapers. A recruiting sergeant, as ini
mobilo aa n stutue, stood in front of the
recruiting office and would barely deign to
take some notico of the man. who was de
termined to get into thc army. But now all
is changed. No more of this "Men-wanted
for-the-United-States-Army" stuff. Oh, no!
Now comes your Uncle Samuel with eeveral
thousand grand poaitiona which He want* to
i "sell" to an equal number of ambitious
youngsters, and he just "up and tells them"
what an attractive proposition he has to
offer.
Pay, $30 a month? Not a bit of it. The
$.30 a month is simply free pocket money.
Everything that the civilian needs for life
and has to pay for out of his cash receipts
is furnished to the soldier by the govern?
ment. The $30 is nothing more nor less
than velvet. So, say the ads. Army service
in these day:; is pictured as a sort of ex
alted personally conducted excursion and
Chautauqua combined. "Good Pay?Foreign
Service?Free Education," says one of the
j head lines at the optical centre of the page.
[ Want to see the world ? Take your choice.
J Shall it be on the Rhine, in Siberia, in the
Philippines, Panama, Hawaii? You can have
| any one of them. You don't go into prison
j when you join the army, according to the
advertisements. Not a bit of it. You have
regular hours for work and time for play.
There are dances, the movies, the theatre,
; baseball, football and those "nice girls"
again in the hours of leave. Even the work
| itself is interesting. lt makes your body
hard as nails, your mind quick and your
I will strong. Any way you look at it, the
i army is a great school for civil life. But if
i you want to make a career of it, there's a
j commission waiting for you, straight up
from the ranks or via West Point, if you
are the stuff that officers are made of. These
are all true. legitimate data for advertise?
ments and they are being used in this pioneer
1 campaign.
Placihp thc Advertisements
Some of the best newspapers ln tho coun?
try are not going to get any of this good
: copy, and the Publishers' Association has
| warned members not to complain or at?
tempt to resort to any politieal pull to get
1 an order. This is a straight business propo?
sition that the army is trying; and, under
the best export advice in advertising and
I selling, it is putting it out in the most ap
; proved way. Its sales agencies are its main
recruiting offices. There are only forty-six
eilics that have them. Your uncle doesn't
purpose to waste his good money advertising
! where he has no stores. Tho advertising
, agents explained to him that that was a good
I way to part with his money for nothing, and
| he believes them. So, if the best advertising
medium in the United States happens not
to be located in a recruiting centre, there
will be no army space for it at regular "run
of-the-paper" rates, but with "indicated po?
sition.-'
Psychology Sergeants
And the salesmen-the recruiting squads?
They aro being taught more tricks than a
; fake stock salesman learns in the broker's
| school--only they are fair tricks. They are
taught a regular "canvass" and filled full of
j answers for possible questions. They are
! encouraged to look on their job "as a
I straight selling undertaking and are stimu
I lated to think of new ideas, original adver
tising stunts and new devices for attracting
1 attention. They are taught to be press
j agents and are made post-graduatea in the
art of beguiling reporters and editors. They
are even introduced to those most ad?
vanced courses in press agency which teach
how to make news. They learn how to luro
the local merchants into window displays
that boost the gamo while the advertising
is running in the newspapers, and they
cover thc wholo psychology of advertising
and selling from attracting attention to
j arousing interest, attaining conviction and
j preempting the dotted line.
Hardly
tFrom Tha Detroit Journal)
Save your American flag. It m?y be
needed as an argument in the 1920 cam?
paign.
Books f
By Heywood Broun
THE notlon that there ahould be a spe.
cial sort of book known as "Bonnaej
reading- 1b curious. We are incllnej
to think it a deluslon. There ls no reason
why peopie should put off history and biog.
raphy and serious novels in favor of wide
meshed fiction with the approach of warm
weather. There may be a few readers who
instruct their bookseller on June lst to send
"something suitable for a summer cottage
with a mean temperature of eighty-fonr."
But on the whole it is'fair to expect more
reading and heavier reading in summer thaa
in winter. Most of us have more time in.
summer and, in addition, we desire diversion.
With few exceptions this is not to be found
in so-called light fiction. We would not be
wooed away from thoughts of heat and
humidity by such a paragraph as the fol?
lowing one, for instance, from a recent bit
of summer reading:
"With breath coming short. and eyes that
tried to locate and register the doings of th*
train, and could not beeause everything swata,
before her in a kind of black mist, Hilda.
quickened her pace. She caught her toe in.
an ugly root and fell headlong across a fur.
row, striking her knees against a stony spot
and grinding her chin into the earth. . . t
In imagination she could already see the met
with Schwartz at their head, pursuing her,
and the train moving off without her. If
she did not get that train she had no refuge.
They would catch her, for they were met^
and powerful, and she was almost at the limit
of her Etrength already."
This, we think, is no way to cool off conv
muters.
A friend of ours used to choose books of
orthodox theology and turn to the chaptert
on eternal punishment whenever the weather
grew unduly warm. We cannot recommend
the plan, beeause we happen to know that
he caught a severe cold last August while
engrossed in a treatise on infant damnation.
Our summer suggestions, with few excep?
tions, would be books which stimulate
thought. This is much the easiest of all
forms of hot weather exercise. An exhaae.
tive study of back newspaper files will reveal
the fact that heat prostration is unknow*
among chess players.
Accordingly, if we were asked to recoa*
mend six recent books to vacationists we
would suggest Theodore Dreiser's "Twelre
Men"; "The Undying Fire," by H. G. Wells;
Whi.lock's "Belgium"; "Reading the Bible,"
by William Lyon Phelps; Merrfck's "Conrad
In Quest of His Youth" ("new at least it
editiont, and possibly Gerald Cumberlanda
"Set Down In Malice." Of these only the
Merrick novel is light beyond question and
it is recommended not on that account, but
rather beeause the book is fresh and joyfnl
and imaginative, which are by no means tha
usual characteristics of light fiction or sum?
mer reading.
Le t the League Dolt!
To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: Some months ago the National Se?
curity League commenced to be deluged
with requests from all parts of the coun?
try for material to be used in high r.thool and
college debates on universal military trauv
ing. State-wide discussions have been held
by interscholastic and intercollegiate debat
ing societies in Oklahoma, North Carolina
and Texas. Checking up on the results of
these debates and those held in other states,
the league has learned that universal mili?
tary training was defeated at the ratio ef
practically two to one. The reasons gtrea
for this were various and interesting.
A. C. Scott, director of the Extension Ser?
vice of the University of Oklahoma, writes
the league: "My personai opinion is that e
very heavy reaction will set in?probably
has set in now?against military tr_.ir.ing,
and that it will take very vigorous propa*
ganda, indeed, to hold our peopie to it."
E. Selke, superintendent of schools ol
Paynesville, Minn., writes: "The negatiTO
won beeause their points were stronger, Ti*,
fear that the United States would becoms
a militaristic nation under a system of eom
pulsory training; that returned soldiers mim?
mize the value of military training; that
the ideals of the nation are opposed to any
extensive system of military training and
the feeling that this war was waged t< pre?
vent future wars and that there are to e no
more wars."
William F. Acree, a participant in * con?
test in Tuttle, Okla., writes: "The negative
won on the argument that universal military
training violates American ideals nnd would,
therefore, brutalize American youths."
Alfred J. Maryott writes from East
Providence, R. I.: "Our negative won hy
stressing the lack of military necessity. the
possibility of obtaining the benefits tr ..-?
iruriividual in other ways, and the untime
of the proposition beeause of the ter. i of
the peace conference and the possibilities of
a league of nations."
Merrit Gibson, of Hallsville, Tex., writes:
"We were beaten by the negative stressing
the league of nations idea, and the ide_i tnat
we are entering upon a new era in history?
an era of so-called peace on earth ard good
will toward men."
Miss Pamela Bynum, of Wir.ston-Salem,
X. C, writes: "The league of nations -dea
aa a substitute for military training is **f
popular."
Practically the only encouraging conijsew
received by the league in the reports
from Stuart Wagner, a member of a tes*
from Harrisburg, Penn., which had su
fully upheld the affirmative side. He writes!
"Previous to the debate there was not
member of the affirmative team who resflf
believed in the things which they were
prove. After a careful study of the literaW*.
sent us by the National Security Long**
our nttitudes changed. Not only dui we
ceed in proving to. the judges that univcrtW
military training is essential, that it
American in principle, and that the Inft"
States would prove herself undemocrntic i
un-Amcrican if she did not accept it,
also to many other persons who were p'
ent."
The league considers the results in thsl
debates and the comments thcreon
illuminating as an exposition of an enoriw
sentiment against universal rqilitary tr*|
ing which will have to be overcome.
trust that you will keep up the fight.
E. L. HARVEY,
Publicity Director. the National Security
League.
Now York, Juno 8, l?*t.