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Taking a Committee's Orders
notwithstanding the surprised in
tion over the bald application
of the recall principle contained in
tli ? Mint ion of the Socialist
V rty tin idea it expresses is old.
In democratic commonwealths many
nc an elected officer is an
.-'. Edmund Burke argued the
q lostion heatedly with the electors i
< f Bristol.
American political history records
y demands for resignation. The
? ; many states provide for the
ting of elected officers. The i
? rag? i a1 .lehn Tyler when he
?icd oui to be a Democrat und the .
blicans at Andrew Johnson
i he sought to undo the results ;
the Civil War. "Embezzlers of ;
?"?this has been a charge of ten j
!ed at public officers who violated |
sed or implied pledges,
liut though the principle is old
will be admitted that the ap
ion of it in the Socialist con
?on is extreme. The method of
ring it is offensive to the vast
ly of Americans, as are other rules
Socialists?for example, the
? ? that prescribes that a Socialist,
. . i ain < f expulsion, must vote for a
w dog it' eii his ticket.
Whence comea this obnoxious rule?
1 ' ?m countries which have had little
cpericnco with free institutions,
; trii s wherein the government is
led an enemy and not an
it to ! ' cooperative work. In
ard countries agitators for
? have been coerced into be
,'.?- conspirators, and a con
. naturally takes on the char
tralized autocracy. The
'.' tli?. -o-called popular par?
ut' Continental Kurope have
vvn this bias. An ex?cu?
t?e controls. Witness the I
f the Russian nihilists, j
? g? ? ? ii ?? body possessed life- ?
? leath authority. L?nine spon- ,
? ?? inks in terms of a dicta- '
? whole bias of his educ??
is that way. The defect pro
from a total misconception of
? government is?a
.-? ption due to the assumption
?: ???.-' ernment is necessarily a
? i? This notion is not only
re? oi ; n Socialist rules, but
at 1 of the friendliness
aliei to revolution.
\-,.t I the Socialists clean
i?e, but it would be proper to re
lire, .. ? test of eligibility, that a
public agent be forbidden to have
Kiiy allegiance, express or implied,
to any committee or coterie. Politi
cal allegiance is not something that
can he divided. Fealty must be sin
gle, The law in many indirect ways
already recognizes this principle. A
judge may not engage in business,
an . ? officer can trade with the pub
Hut the law as it now stands
not cem to forl id an oflicor rec?
io ' oup as his master, and
for good r? post fac'O laws
are forb So il does not appear,
unie? ret: I in the manu
fac " - judice, why Speaker
?; '. is concerned in exploiting a
? .- ? ?nent i ue before the As
y Judiciary Committee.
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The Fiume Tragedy
e Italian Adriatic proposal
h Jugoslavia rejects was to
? harbors of Fiume and
nor'..-, under the league of
-, while assuring to the cities
the statua of free, self
; to yield the Dalma
d except Liasa and Lussin
? . v. I ile demilitarizing
? ? northern
?? der Jugo Slav rule, with
H ! a] an mandate in the rest of the
-x ry.
Invctved considerable
i'M'y's part. If last May
*? ?> of the Croats with
ity could accuse Italy
'and, tht? position to
? '??!. It i-- the N'itti gov
? exhibits eagerness to
an i con riliate, while the gov
?r Belgrade a?iumes n
r" attitude. The Jugo?
slav pretei ??? to ignoro the Treaty
>f i??'?-? "-ak plainly, rub
I enU-red tha war -one, of
' ' - ? to save Serbia Imm
fcjrtrtjctfoj on t.ho basis of that
pact. To-day Italy is ready to re- j
nounce most of the advantages to i
which she was entitled by it. If the
Jugo-Slavs are not satisfied with that
it means simply that thoy do not see
the wisdom of moderation in states?
manship.
But, after all, the real significance
of the Fiume problem has to-day
little to do with its settlement either |
way. With the league of nations a
mere shadow and the disinclination
of America to assume European re?
sponsibilities becoming more evident
every day. the insurance of Euro
pean stability would naturally de- ?
volve upon an alliance of Great '
Britain, France and Italy. If such
a combination to-day is a remote
hope it is due, above all, to the quar?
rel about Fiume. For this quarrel
,-i good portion of responsibility
rests upon President Wilson. His
handling of the Fiume situation was
altogether unhappy. His position
involved monstrous injustice to Italy
?it ran counter to the very prin?
ciple of self-determination whose
champion he regarded himself. It
brought discord when concord was
essential. Nor is this all. If to-day
the new Triple Alliance of Britain,
France and Italy is not an accom?
plished fact the lack is due to the
reactions of the row the President
started. There was a chance to pre?
serve harmeny, and thus to show
true allegiance to future peace, but
when harmeny was trembling in the
balance it was tumbled down and j
smashed. This is the Fiume tragedy. ]
Hungary as a Monarchy
It is reported from Budapest that
at the elections held on Sunday an ?
overwhelming majority was returned !
in favor of a restoration of the mon- ?
archy.
The polling was not under the con?
trol of representatives of the Allies !
or any other impartial agency,
it was bossed by the Huszar gov?
ernment, a regime to which suspicion j
attaches. It was not improbable j
that the election was of Mexican j
quality and marked by the tech?
nique of L?nine and Trotzky when
they wish to go through the motions ;
of consulting a particular electorate. :
Those who believe there is a middle
ground between Bolshevism and mon- :
archism, and who abominate the
tyranny of the one as much as of ?
the other, arc justified in waiting ?
for further information before con
clnding that the Hungarians sigh for !
a return of their old masters.
Ugly stories are published con?
cerning the recent events in Hun
gary. Men, it is said, are impris-1
oned, tortured and hanged on flimsy j
pretexts. There is news of the in?
ternment of 20,000 men and women I
in the concentration camp atHojmas- j
ker, not because they are Bolsheviki, j
but because they arc anti-royalists.
French and British officials have i
protested again Huszar's acts, but !
in vain.
The outside world has no favorite [
color with respect to Terrorism, j
White is as bad as Red to all of lib- j
oral minds. Only the pseudo-lib^
erais of the parlors of Great Britain
and the United States have so lost,
their sense of proportion as not to !
object to Terror if it wears a hue j
pleasing to them.
It may be the Hungarians were so ;
familiarized with Bolshevism by
Bela Kun as to want a monarchy, i
Bela was surely a great propaganda
agent for counter-revolutionists, just
as L?nine and Trotzky are. In his?
tory men have found it more toler?
able to live without liberty than
? without order. But few will accept
i at its letter the news that Hungary
i in any real sense has voted for a
' kingship.
"Peculiarities"
i The following "thoughts for the
' day" were yesterday given such cir?
culation as our neighbor The World
commands:
"The 'peculiarities of our Consti?
tution' to which The Tribune refers
have no existence. The United
States assumes no obligations under
Article X which other countries do
not assume, and there are no re
strictions on the war-making power
of the United States which do not
exist in respect to the war-making
power of every other parliamentary
government.
"The United States cannot go to
war without the consent of Congres:,,
nor can Great Britain go to war
without the consent of the House of
Commons or France without the con?
sent of the Chamber of Deputies.
The limitations 'inherent in our con?
stitutional system' to which The
Tribune refers arc limitations that
arc inherent in the system of every
self-governing people. The nations
that have, already ratified the treaty
know'perfectly well that these limita?
tions are pniirtically universal and
thai the covenant must be interpreted
in accordance with them.
"Tho claim that the Lodge reserva?
tion to Article X is necessary in
order to safeguard the constitutional
powers of Congress and 'Americanize*
th?? covenant is 100 per cent fraudu?
lent. N'obody knows it better than
The Tribune and Henry Cabot Lodge."
?So there aro no "peculiarities of
our Constitution" with respect to
j the subject discussed. The President
is not an officer, possessing indepen
: dent powers, who serves for a fixed
term of four years. He is a Prime
Minister, who can be turned out of
office by a "no confidence" vote of
! th?; parliamentary body. What copy
i "f tho Constitution has our neighbor
boon reading?
Y???, there ihr* "peculLnrities" io
1
li?rent in our government. A Presi- j
dent, acting as he pees fit and not:
subject to parliamentary direction
in this, recommends action to Con- '
gress. Congress, also acting as it
sees lit, accepts or rejects the recom?
mendation. Now the trouble with
Article X is that it upsets or ig- j
nores the necessity for joint action. ,
It apparently assumes that our aov
ernment is like that of other courts
tries?that a President, whose action
is approved because he is in power,
plays the r?le of Prime Minister;
and thus speaks the voice of Con?
gress.
Inadvertently The World has ex?
posed the reason why a reservation
is required?that notice needs be
given thai a President, touching
war and peace, is not the United
States. If an American newspaper
i does not know a most obvious fact
concerning our institutions, foreign?
ers cannot be expected to know it.
I But the guess may be hazarded
that our neighbor is not as ignorant
as it pretends to be. We have, re
1 spect enough for its information to
I believe that it needs no instruction
| concerning this matter from The
Tribune. It is merely engaged in an
old game, one to which partisans are
addicted?namely. 100 per cent mis
! representation. Hard necessity
I drives. To state the salient facts
in regard to the reservation to Arti?
cle X would make, it plain that the
reservation is needed. The reserva?
tion, rid of surplusage, merely is
that obligations to go to war arc not
assumed vuless Congress consents.
Who can honestly object to this if
the Constitution is to rule?
The Real issue in the Navy
Representative Byrnes's attack on
Admiral Sims not only shows that
the attacker is wide of mouth but
re?mphasizes the necessity* of a
searching investigation of the Sims
charges. If the admiral has been
making all sorts of reckless state?
ments, as Mr. Byrnes says he has,
he should have a chance to defend
himself on the stand, as well as to
support his own views as to what
was wrong with the Navy Depart?
ment's conduct of the war. Pre?
sumptively Admiral Sims has opin?
ions of greater value than a South
Carolina partisan.
The country is not so much inter?
ested in an exchange of epithets as
it is in correcting any faults of
direction or administration which
have developed in the navy. The
main point must be whether the pol
icy pursued by Secretary Daniels
and Admiral Benson was up to the
best professional standards. We !
have a Naval War College at New?
port, R. T. Is the navy getting the
full benefit of the work done there?
Was the conduct of naval operations
in accord with the teachings of;
best, and broadest minds in. the'
service?
Representative Byrnes says: ".Mr.
Daniels may have made many mis?
takes, but his greatest mistake was
the appointment of Sims." Didn't
he necessarily make a still greater
mistake, from the Byrnes point of
view, in subsequently recommending
Captain Sims for promotion to the
rank of admiral? Apparently the
department and its champions in
Congress had no fault to find with
Sims until he wrote his memoran?
dum on the lessons of the war.
Let the country have the facts
about the navy's share in tiie war.
They alone, are of value for building
up moral?? and leadership.
Lincoln Across the Seas
The exact degree of relationship
between England and America is
one of those touchy family matters
which cannot be mentioned but to
stir retort and irritation. Much
more sensible is it to ignore the blood
I tie, now greatly weakened by the
mingling of racial strains here, .and
'stress, as does that amazingly mov
j ing work "Abraham Lincoln," the
' play by John Drinkwater, the bond
; of language, custom and ideals. The
very fact that an English poet who
knew nothing of America at. first
hand could write of Lincoln with
such complete sympathy and under?
standing argues more than a forest
of family trees.
As for language, there were a very
few Briticisms in the original text
of Mr. Drinkwater's play which were
.expunged for the American produc?
tion, we believe. The general run of
the text, written in a rather simple
' and old-fashioned English of the
..British Isles, jars not a whit when
.spoken in the Lincoln homestead in
Springfield, Illinois. It will be argued
j that the slang of the two countries,
their constantly altering small talk,
'is always far apart; their lan?
guage of literature, especially when
colored by imagination and high pur?
pose, is practically identical. The
speches of Mr. Lloyd George and of
! Mr. Wilson needed no glossary in
?any English-speaking country. Nor
is it hard to understand just how
.this unity of written language has
1 been maintained. Not onlv the older
.literature but the current literature
of the two countries has been and is
interchangeable. As it was in the
I days of Dickens and Tha?'keray and
j Meredith, so it is to-day of Wells,
Shaw and Conrad. Even 0. Henry
becomes the rage in England, and
nobody has to annotate the, text.
I But language? Is, after all, super
i fVial ns compared to the question of
I national fnit,hn an embodied In na
tional heroes. There were many |
Americans who feared the worst
when news of Mr. Drinkwater's play j
arrived. Here was an effort, to make
art of our greatest figure, almost
before we ourselves were ready for
such a task of generalization. Could
any foreigner comprehend the es- '
sectial truth of Lincoln, American
to the marrow? There was Lord
Charnwood's excellent biography to
point the way, and no viewer of the
Drinkwater play can question, we
think, the amazing success of his
\ dramatization of the great events ?it'
? the Lincoln story. Not only in ex
| ternals, but in the heart of the mat
I ter. The truth i- thai when, an
Englishman speaks of liberty he
i means what an American means.
When he writes of the whole fabric
j of our laws and customs he writes
\ of a system so closely akin to his
| own that, he compreheuiis without
I any effort of imagination.
We think Mr. Drinkwater has done
! a very great service to the cause
; of ,<\nglo-American understanding.
He lias done it not by preaching but
I by demonstration. There will doubt?
less be irritations between the two
| nations in the future, as in the past.
'What "Abraham Lincoln," this
' American play by an English poet,
I can do for the whole country is to
1 reveal in most moving fashion how
i deep and sure is the basis of common
i faith and common purpose under
I lying our surface rivalries and
| disputes.
Imitating the President
An Appeal to Senator Lodge m
the Name of Common Sense
To the Lditor of The Tribune.
Sir: The position taken by The Trib?
une in its editorial yesterday- "Jmitat
i ing the President"?-is everlastingly
right. If Senator Lodge and Ins asso?
ciates continue to insist that the Lodge
reservations t?i the treaty must not be!
?modified in the slightest degree they
iwill be guilty of a colossal blunder. If
their persistence in this uncompromis?
ing attitude should result in killing i
j the treaty they will have mail" a lam?
entable mistake, not only from a
?party standpoint, but in a larger and
I more important way, as regards the
welfare of the country and the world.
They will have thrown away the tac-:
t?cal advantage they have held since:
President Wilson gave out his Jackson
Day letter. His attitude, as revealed
in that letter, has been almost univer- j
sally condemned. The groat majority
of the people want, the treaty ratified,
with reasonable reservations, and want
it ratified at once. If it is not, their
indignation and disgust is guing to be
profound and far-reaching.
Why, in the name of common sense..
should Senator Lodge pay the slightest
attention to the views of Borah, John- '
son and their little group ?if irrecon
cilables? Everybody knows they arc
cut. to defeat the treaty by fair means ?
or foul. If their advice is followed it ',
would spell disaster i'^r the Republi?
can party, as well as humiliation anil
trouble for the country. Ignore them
and let them do their worst. The sen?
timent of the people is unquestionably
against them.
Let tho Republicans preserve the ]
general principles laid down in the
? Lodge reservations; adopt a more cour?
teous phraseology in some o\ the res?
ervations. Be a little more conciliatory
| toward the Democrats and give them an
opportunity to save their face and find
a common ground where it is possible
for both sides to meet and compose
i their differences.
The people want an end to this
? wrangling" in the Senate. C, 11. !..
New York, Jan. 2S, 1920.
Bonds of the "Irish Republic"
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Although sympathizing with tho
Irish people in their movement forsclf
Idetermination, it seems to me that the
Hoard of Aldermen this afternoon made
i a serious mistakii in appearing to ap
i prove the so-called "bonds" of the
"Irish Republic."
It. seems to me unfortunate that, t? c
treaty negotiated by the Democratic
! President of the United States should
be, in spirit, opposed to self-determi?
nation for Ireland; but, on the other
i hand, it seems improper for the Hoard
of Aldermen to pledge officially its sup?
port to the drive now in operation, The
approval is almost certain to be mis?
construed by many people as an actual
; indorsement of the so-called bonds
"i and may lead many persons who can
ill afford it to subscribe, without re?
alizing that they are merely making a
gift.
Furthermore, i; seems to me unwise
for an official body of this sort to take
, a position which appears to be hostile
?to a friendly nation. R. S. ALLYN.
New York, Jan. 27, 1920.
Weeping Alice
' To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: I!' Hartlett and Stedman both, ..
! you say, vouch ("or Thomas Dunn Eng?
lish's assertion that Alice "wept with
, delight when you gave her a smile," thai
! appears to settle it. and I am six bits
i in through your declining to accept my
wager.
In thinking over the many Alice types
on whom I have smiled, I fail to recall
one who "wept with delight" when I
smiled upon her. but scores of them
! blushed delightfully. That is why I
i always have felt that the author of
: "Ben Bolt" minie Alicu "blush," but tho
proofreader, who knows best about
these things, made her "weep."
Sir Oliver Lodge, being now nmong
those present, might suggest to us a
mean? of getting In touch with T. D. K.
and satisfying ourselves as to whether
he himself or tho proofreader was r??
sponslble for making Alice "weep with
delight" when a blush would hnve been
more becoming, to say nothing of tho
j logic of the thing.
MILTON NOBLES.
I Brooklyn, Jan. 27, 1920.
The Conning Tower
Mr. Gompers on his seventieth birth?
day says ti'.at constant work keeps men
from growing old; and our prayer is
that, it' we are important enough to be
interviewed at the age of seventy we
shall be courageous etiough to say that I
the only times we felt young were
when we had no work to do; and it
was only work that made us realize
our mortality
The effect of influenza upon the
quantity of contributions is not to de
crease them. A patient confined to his
bed has time for contemplation of the
Higher Thing.-, ynd such contemplation ;
leads to expr? ? sion.
"I Remember, 1 Remember"
Of my fust ?lay at school I re?
member only my apparel. A clean,
crisp fiock of blue and white percale,
a tiny bib apron edged with Cash's
Dimity Ruffling, a Gipsy straw hat
trimmed with daisies, and a scarlet
merino cape, with tassels.
The last two items being hung on
?i nail, 1 spent the ?lay in the en?
grossing occupation of keeping the
others unspotted from the world of
jostling girls and boys. C. W.
We do our poor best to cooperate
with tile newspapers m their alleged
I effort to save paper, but. our faith in
'ihoir sincerity is shaken daily. The
Sun, jubilant, perhaps, at the prospect
..;' the paper saving the merger of the
Sum and the. Herald will mean, printed
in contiguous columns yesterday as
follows :
FRANCE HONORS PENFIELD
Sevres Vase Presented to Former
Vmbassador at His Home
Presentation was made in New York
yesterday to Frederic Courtland i'en
lield, former American Ambassador to
Austria-Hungary, at his home, 7?7 Fifth
' Avenue, by the French Consul-General
-., New "fork, Gaston Liebert, of a
superb Sevres vase, sent to Mr. Pen
lield by the French Government in
token of the gratitude of Franco for
ervices he rendured when Ambassador
m French interests in the dual mon?
archy. At tlie beginning of the war
.Mr. Penlield, then the American Am?
bassador, with the approval of the
United States Government, took up the
representation of French interests, as
he did of nearly all tin' nations at'war
v. iih the Cent ral Powers.
FRENCH GIFT TO PENFIELD j
'
Vase in Recognition of Aid in 1917
as Ambassador to Austria
A sevr?s vase almost four feet high
with an inscribed bronze liase was pre?
sented yesterday by directors of the!
French Government to Frederic C. Pen- ?
field, 787 Fifth Avenue, for services j
rendered the French as American Am- |
bassador in Austria-Hungary until the i
severance of diplomatic relations with \
the United Slates in 1!'17. Mr. Pen-!
lield represented trie interests of near-!
ly all tlie Allied Powers m Vienna for I
a considerable, period, securing liberal
treatment for French and British in?
terned civilians and military prisoners.
He received the French Cross of the
Legion of Honor many years ago for
his writings on international affairs.:
The presentation of the vase was made
by Gaston Fiebert, French Consul-j
(?enera!.
??A' tin last meeting of tlie Copy
Readers' Guild," says B. L. T. in the j
Chicago Tribune, "it was whereased
that influenza i-* nicely abridged to
'ilii,' and ther? Cored that pneumonia |
and tuberculosis be headlined as 'pneu'j
and 'tu,' respectively." Nonsense! TTie
('. R. ??. already calls pneumonia "flu,"
and tuberculosis is "T. B."
"Awaiting Sentence in Filthy Book
Case," headlines the Evening Journal;
and C. Pugh considers it cruel and un
usual.
ft
Tho Happy Hypocrite ?
Sir: Please aci.l to your list of tennis
players awaiting punishment the name of
my friend, Flooey, who has the pleasing ]
habit of consoling Ilia opponent every time I
li.' makes a slippery ace or a -well placed i
return, by saying with a natural r-mile, I
"I'm sorry." Axel.
A gentleman from Philadelphia,
whose name we did not catch, tele?
phoned yesterday to ask whether we
would make a speech in Philadelphia
im February 11. So he asked where
i Irvin Cobb was. Ho was informed that
Mr. Cobb was on a speaking tour in
ho Sou;!-,. "Look hero, Adams," he
said, with the freemasonry of one
| stranger to another, "find me the fun?
niest man ?n town, We've had Job
Hedges and Butler and that crowd."
The name of Mr. Frank Ward O'Malley
vas suggested. 'I knew," said the
gentleman from Philadelphia, "you'd
.come across, Adam.-. I know O'Malley.
What time does he come in the office?"
"What office?" we asked bashfully.
"Your office," was his reply. "He's
never been here yet," we said, "but he
may come any minute." "Oh, isn't ho
1 on Tho Tribune'.'" "No." "Where can
I get him?" "I can look him tip in the
telephone directory." we offered. "Oh,
no," said th<? gentleman from Phila-j
delphia, "I don't want to bother you. ?
I can look him up. Thanks. I'll lock'
in on you some time."
in the event that Mr. O'Malley, who
?a easily the funniest speaker that ever j
kept us awake from 12:30 a. in. to :i:45 i
a. in., has another ineradicable engage- j
ment for February 14, who should ad?
dress the Philadelphia gentleman's au?
dience'.' Nothing was said about remu
' neration, but that, if a man be really
the funniest man in Neu- York, wouldn't !
interest him.
_
"Don't," runs the line in "Ruddigore,"
"do it as if you were administering a
bowl of deadly nightshade." "Don't,"!
Mr. William Danforth "improves" Gil?
bert, "do it as if you were administer?
ing a bowl of wood alcohol." Which
is nlmost as cheap as the substitution
of "Youkers" for "Basingstoke."
Tl a Day Managing Editor, a waggish
parson in his mure serious moments, sug?
gests as n slogan for our Wood Plank
ticket, "A strong 'and at. the Vim."
They can't put a landlord In jail for
not having; the sidewalk in front of
hi i apartment house cleaned
: If you doubt it, look at the sidewalk?.
F. P. A. |
There's Liable To Be a Lot of Extra Work for the Membership Clerk
of the Soviet Society When the News Gets Around
Books
"For the enlightenment of your cor?
respondent, Aloysius OToole, who pro?
nounces my ?iuotation from Strabo
a 'fabrication forged out of whole
cloth' (sic)," writes Oliver Herford, "I
am glad to cive him chapter ann verse
so he may look it up for himself. In
Book IV, chapter 5, paragraph 5- on
page 200 in Casaubon's edition of 1620
-or in Vol. I, page 209, of the Bohn
translation, he will find the following:
"'There aro other small islands
around Britain: but one of great ex?
tent, lerna, lying parallel to it toward
the north, long or rather wide; con?
cerning which we have nothing to re?
late, further than that its inhabitants
are more savage than the Britons, feed?
ing on human flesh and enormous eat?
ers, and deeming it commendable to
devour their deceased fathers'?
"The rest of the paragraph is un?
printable, so I have omitted it.
"As I pointed out onco before in an
essay in 'McClure's Magazine,* the cel?
ebration known as the Irish Wake un?
doubtedly took its oriirin from this
custom, modified through the introduc?
tion of Christianity so that the 'de?
ceased parent," no longer a feature of
the menu, was retained as an orna?
mental feature, like the pineapple at
an English dinner party."
For our part, whenever we consider
Ireland we become an Anglophobe, but
reading English novels makes us an
Anglophile again. The supply of nov?
elists in Great Britain seems to be in?
exhaustible. Within the last three
weeks wo have read two new novels
from England which seem to us of the
first, order, and both authors have
hardly been heard of in America. Al?
fred Knopf is the publisher who intro?
duces these writers to the American
public for the first time. We have al?
ready spoken of A. P. Herbert's "The
Secret Battle," which seems to us the
best of all the novels dealing directly
with the war. Moro than that, as a
study of the sources of fear and cour?
age it seems to us as wise and as in?
teresting as "The Research Magnifi?
cent."
We hopo to be able to ?lev?te some
space to Mrs. C. A. Dawson-Scott's "The
Rolling Stone" In to-morrow's book sec?
tion of Tho Tribune. This is not so
soundly plotted as the Herbert novel,
but the central figure is a magnii'iccnc
characterization. Mrs. Dawson-Scott
has created a truly romantic person.
He is, of course, like all true adventur?
ers, entirely without realization of the
force which urges him on. His ro?
manticism has nothing to do with
strumming on a mandolin and talking
of yellow moons and purple seas. It
is much deeper and more robust than
that.
Stacy Aum?nier has tried to explain
th?3 dogged, inarticulate romanticism
of the Anglo-Saxon in his novel, "The
Querrils," in which he writes:
"A curious race the Anglo-Saxon,
restless, not quite knowing what it
wants, with the genius of dissatis fac
| tion more acutely developed than in
any other race. He must crawl all
over the earth and see what's doing.
He has an uncontrollable impetus to
see over the ridge. He must, go and
look at the North Polo and tho South
Pole, and wade through malarial for?
ests in Central Africa. He doesn't
know why, but he just has to do this.
Then he returns homo and after a long
timo thinks ?bout it all -he's rather
slow in tho up-take. And then one day
-or more probably one night some?
thing starts worrying him. Thosa
women who threw their babifi In th?
Hcyrpood ?roun
i Ganges as a religious offering. Malay
! slaves working in salt mini f ? i
nese masters. People who
themselves. And one night when the
Teuton, and the Slav- and . . n
Latin is sleeping soundly m his bed
he wakes up and thinks:
" 'No, but, damn it all! bab es
: Ganges! a bit thick! '
"And he finds thai this distu
? nights. And one day it gets bej
him. lie suddenly packs up and goes
oft" to interfere. li?> takes '? ...
! clubs: and his ridiculous cloth .
zinc chapels, his gramophoni s, an
evening dress. And being a pract
man, he thinks:
"'Well, as I'm going, I might as well
take a few pounds of tea to
nat ?ves."
"And of course the ma volent p son
will say:
"'Ali! yes. that's what he goce for!'"
If it were not for the very viv? !
j description of the wreck in one of the
j final chapters of Grant. 0?erton's "Mer?
maid" we should find little to com?
mend in the new novel by the former
literary editor of "The Sun." i
ever, we th ink thai the fa 11
! chiefly in the fact, that Mr. Ov?
has not yet had time to forget all tin
books he was forced to read during
his service as critic. Any lean wl
goe3 from such a job to writing mus
live through an imitative period
fore he begins on his own. Und
edly Overtoil has realized the
jthat he wrote with the ghost of man;
! a best-seller at his elbow. Indeed, we
I rather fancy that he said to himself,
j "I ought to know the formula for a
j popular novel by now and as I have
I nothing to do next month I think I'll
write one."
Accordingly, he brings a waif from
the sea into a company of gruff o d
lifesavers on the Long, Island beach. It
is entirely possible that Mr. Overton
has written a best seller. The s ory
moves along briskly enough and ha -
elements of mystery and business ad?
venture and child life and just i
j of Freudian philosophy to savor it all.
f Ton or twelve different sorts of no el
j are represented. Outwardly it. .seems
i to us just, as good as several of the
' best sellers, but we think it. is rather
I more synthetic than usual. Thei
I less than a grain of sincerity in the
i whole book, according to our analysis.
j and we doubt if that is ? n >ugh
We have 1 ittle sympai h> foi the of
| repeated theme that a little bao;.- brin
charm and cheer ; o the rougl
groups of men. F>.c< pt for
im.th.ers and grandmothers, al n? I
the persons who lavish admiration on
any child less than one year of ag ? are
faking. As a matter of fa? I only . n
expert can tell one from another. 11
course, when the child begins to ? .
and talk, no matter how ?mperfi
his charm increases prodigiously, but
by that time he has become a pers n
?
Indefinitely Postponed
(Fron The Cincirt \at\ Cot tnercial Ti hi I
Suggestion that the peace
and league covenant be ratified by
compromise with conservative reser
vat .ms having been favorably received
by the people has logicnlly brought on
more talk in the Senate, the n uli
ing that ratification is now reson 1
until some time in February and no?
body knows how much longer.
flie Distinguishing Mark
(From The Savannah Morning \'ewn)
You can tel' * "Red" by his yellow
streak.
A r "t rom Central
The* \ of Abnormal Con?
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murder, an.I each country who ? '?"
sens he murdered in violation ot ':>*
ternational law has a right, in justice
to h r citi i'!i-, to demand hist rial '',r
murders an ! to be r? pi '?'
at that trial. G. B C
Brooklyn, Jan. 26, IP20.