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ETORIAL q&O OCTOBB 24 c23
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The March
of Events
HE Italians do not like the
French, to put it very mildly,
and being a demonstrative
people they ar not slow to show
their sentiment when anything
French is een in Italy. The French
military mission, sent to join the
ceremonies in honor of Italy's dead
,soldiers, was hooted and jeered in
Venice and had to be protected by
police and soldiers. Everything
French is anathema all over Italy,
at present.
Naturally, this has aroused the
French, and now they are clamoring
in Paris for a boycott of everything
Italian, beginning with Italian
banks and businesses and including
Italians employed by French houses.
The growing bitterness between
the two principal Latin people does
not cheer those who still hope that
Europe will have a long period of
peace.
Practically no news comes from
Anatolia, from which it may be sur
mised that the Powers are exerting
persuasion and threats to bring
about an end of the war. It cannot
come too soon, for the Turks have
undoubtedly had the best of it, and
further Turkish victories would
start another Balkan war, if the
victors pressed their advantage too
far.
The war in Anatolia was one of
King Constantine's bad inheritances
and was practically certain to be a
failure from the beginning. Whether
the Greek King can retain his pop
ularity after this costly failure re
mains to be seen.
The French Communists will cer
tainly not aid Sacco and Vanzetti
by murderously attacking our Am
bassador and consuls.
An examination of their trials
and the sources and character of the
evidence leaves an impartial mind
open to grave doubt of these two
convicted men's guilt, and a number
lof Americans have been exerting
themselves to obtain pardons for
1both.
But these efforts are found to be
fruitless if the French Communists
keep up their senseless attempts
,to kill American representatives
pbroad.
That is the surest way in the
'world to seal the fates of Sacco and
Vanzetti, whether they are guilty or
-not.
Strenuous efforts are being made
to have the two hostile.' Chinese
Governments present a united front
at the Washington conference.
The Pekin Government is merely
a tool of Japan. The Canton Gov
ernment represents what is left of
the Chinese Republican Congress.
The Pekin Government is anti
American. The Canton Govern
mient is pro-American. For some
reason not apparent to plain Amer
ican minds, the anti-American and
Japanese-owned Government at
Pekin has been invited to attend
the Washington conference, while
the pro-American and anti-Japanese
Government at Canton has been left
to cool its heels outside the door.
The American Relief Commission
in Russia is rapidly undoing much
of the mischief wrought by the
sorry policies which cut off comn
3nunication between Russia and the
Mnited States for so long a time.
The friendship of Russia will be
wn asset of incalculable value when
ever Japan feels like striking for
the mastery of the Pacific. That
such a powerful potential ally, in
case of war with Japan, should
have been deliberately insulted,
harassed and attacked by America
Is one of the sad proofs of the in
finite capacity of the last admin
istration to see everything in the
wrong light in its dealings with
foreign affairs.
The money to finance the Ameri
can Relief is the best investment we
have made since Europe went crazy
in 1914.
A . L.
Bottled-Up
Memories
reent meeting of sientists
Edinburgh ach interest
was aroused by the discus
sion on the practical uses of psy
chology in the oure of disease.
This is n't a revival of the old
superstitions in which wizards were
supposed to control matter by magic
means, nor is it any sort of fad. On
the contrary, the use of mind for
the prevention and cure of disease
rests upon the facts of experience
and of proof, quite as solid as the
use of drugs.
One of the scientists referred to
what he called "bottled-up mem
ories or emotions," some of which,
he suggested, might date from days
before the child speaks.
The theory he presented was that
when a person is engaged in a
mental conflict the mind is weaken
ed and all sorts of weakening sug
gestions rise up from the subcon
sciousness and these bad auto-sug
geptions result in very marked
symptoms.
One case was reported of a girl
of nineteen who had lost the use of
her logs for no apparent reason. The
doctor asked the girl whether she
was engaged. She wept and told
him she had been forced by. the
man's unworthiness to break off the
engagement, but she could not re
strain her own affectionate thoughts
of him.
This was the first time she had
told of her affair and the very tell
ing of it brought about an almost
immediate eure of several severe
physical symptoms. One of the best
remedies for many suffering people
is confession. That is to say, the
frank and full telling of all their
repressed emotions and desires to
some sympathetic person.
One physician went so far oa to
say that many paralyzed people
would be walking about if they had
told their troubles earlier.
One of the chief tasks of the in
telligent and scientific psychic heal
er is to help the patient to review
the past; perhaps some forgotten
hate, or perverse love toward fath
er, mother, or other individual, and
to help him fix his mind upon it.
and, so to speak, +ring it out into
the light and air.
Much of the value of psycho
which we must grasp by our intelli
lectualise the mind of the patient.
That is to say, many of our morbid
conditions are due to the dominanoe
of bottled-up memories and desires
which we must grasp by our intelli
gence and subject to reason.
So Say They All.
ENERAL THOMPSON of the
British army has just return
ed to London from a tour of
investigation in Russia. He says:
"I knew Russia well under
the old regime, and I have no
hesitation in saying that the
population as a rule is happier
under the present government.
In the old days, 30 per cent of
the population lived at the ex
pense of the remaining 70 per
cent.
"The need of Europe is a
strong Russia, sympathetically
inclined toward the western
nations. At present, the tend
ency is to drive her into sa
allance with Turkey. That
should be prevented as a most
serious menace to the peace of
Europe."
It may be said that General
Thompson 's observations concern
ing Russia are the observatione of
nearly every intelligent, qisinterest
ed man capable of observing, who
has had an opportunity to observe,
and dares to tell the truth.
In the 'years to come, the world
will be amazed when it sees the
record and the success of the lying
propaganda which has been poured
forth into the ears of a credulous
humanity concerning the Russian
people and the Russian Government
duri=g the last four yar
GRAE
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Bl kd~niW ettUoL.1 RLoLAYUji WithOUt CAP)
Everybody wants business revival.
Yet Government, as Mr. McCay's stri
tive capital, leaving the plate of business
That gluttonous tax appetite will have
HEY'RE HUMAN
E illiam Athertlon Du Puy
"Wature." says Dr. L. 0. Howard, entomologist
for the Government. "is constantly trying experi
ments. mostly unsuccessful. The mastodon was
one of nature's experltrentl creatures that failed
to survive. So was the dodo. and so were a! of
those animals that once lived upon the earth but
are now gone. They have passed because their
qualifications were such that they could not keep
themseves going. They lacked competence to
survive.
"Man is one of nature's most phenomenal ex
periments, the success of which is yet a matter
of doubt. Many small Insects are given by na
ture sets of tools with which to earn a living
much more complete than those given to man.
Man, however, ham bepn given the peculiar qual
ity of creating tools not a part of him. Man in
constantly in a state of change and that change
in the recent history of the world has been in d
velopment. He may. one of these days, take the
back track.
"The cockroach is much more firmly estab
lished. 80 perfect an organization in the cock
roach that It has remained virtually unchanged
in the world for an Inordinate length of time.
which fact is evidenced In the fact that very
old rock formations reveal the cockroach virtu
ally as it exists today.
Miss Temple Bailey, whose "Trumpeter Swan,"
the fifth of her novels, appeared last year with
Its great appeal for the dreamers of the world.
tells of an interesting occurrence In connection
with the publication of that hook.
Th~ idea of the story catme to Misn Bailey when
she ~as shown a stuffed t rumpeter swan, one of
a private collection, the liird' having long been
alleged to be extinct and was told Its history, the
story of how the flocks used to fly low over the
northland and send forth their trumpet calls so
distinctly that they could be heard at a great
distance with a charming effect.
Almost simultaneously with the appearance
of "The Trumpeter Swan." however, a flock of
the birds for whisih it was named was reported
froni the North, flying law as of old, the sound
of the trumpet coming clearly to those who li.
t*ned.
Marion. Ohio, where the President comes from,
has just announced that it Is to have a brand
new humdinger of a hotel with servidors in the
doors 'noverything. It is to be known as Hotel
Harding.
All of which calls to mind that some thirty
or forty years ago the present Marion Hotel was
built in that town and at the time there was a
plump young man around there who was trying
to make a living by writing insurance. After
much effort and no success h' shook down the
big plum, the policy for the Marion Hotel. His
commissions on this policy were enough to car
ry him for a year.
His name was Warren 0. Harding.
Copyright, 1921.
THINK OF THE OTHER FELLOW.
Iiy 5. .1. MUNOVY.
Just because you have set aside a certain suim
to be used. for a rest and vacation is no reason
why you should withhold that sum if the ones in
volved are af proper age and choose not to take
the rest when you expect It.
There Is a chance that , certain things areI
coveted by one member of your family which
have never been put Into words and only the feel
ing of perfect freedom and the power to do It,
would bring out the expression of longing.
If you are afraid to put this power Into the
hands of the one nearest and dearest then you
do not trust and love them as you should.
If your method of living is such that you can
not really get one another's point of view from
observation, little, family conferences at con
venient erosare desirable for the perfect un
derstn g qnd sympathy of the Individuals.
Don't be se beat on a certain form of pleasure
that me oMae me anything else tI It ht o
BING IT'
tal. That is obvious.
It means work, wages, e(
king cartoon shows, contini
bare.
to be halted if business in
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the back lap of an
American daily In blood
cousin to sending an infant
on an adult's errand. Or
putting a fifteen collar
a r o u n d twelve-and-e,-half
tonsils.
Tpinch hit for the Bug
obear is an easy an strik
Ing out for B. Ruth. The
Bug got a start on southpaw
thinking by being born in
Philadelphia and escaping as
soon an he was old enough
to understand the tragedy
which had entered his home.
HIS running leap in world
of wierd mental maneu
vers has crowded all orthodox
brain hieroglyphics plumb
off the tongue-and-groove
runway. He never ran a race
but what he finished first,
second and show. Asbestos
heels India-rubber knees and
aluminum legs.
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By K. C. B.
K. C. B.-It lb certainy a pity that your
sentimental gush is given so much promi
nence. You relate in your column, printed
In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of October
8, the tale of woe of a thief who stole to
give his 'wife and child pleasure! Truly a
noble and dignified ptirpose-one that, in
your estimation, justifies any action.
A man. whose first duty toward his child
is to instil principles of honor, truth, cour
age, virtue and justice, weakly, laments his
inability to give themn what other children
have-or his wife the foolish trappings that
all snobs desire and will sell their souls for,
and you ask our sympathy for him, on the
weak, sloppy plea that he could not give
them what they wanted on any other terms!
Do you -know that it's not' what peoole
want and get In this world that makes char
acter? It's what they do without that puts
backbone into them and makes men and
women that the world needs to'day.
M RS. E. E. S.,
720 Nob Hill, Seattle, Wash.
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The Private Soldler's
Magna Charta
UCENT numbar of the American Legion Weekly eon
tans an artile by a junior offler in the regular
aSy who saw serdes in the great war. The author,
remarking the vastly improved status of the enlisted man
at the army, points out that the change is due to the refor
mation of the cruel oourt-martial system that obtained dur.
ing the war.
The fact of the reformation is stated but not its history. I
Both should be of interest not only to ex-service men, but to
citisens generally. The young officer says:
It Is atemly iff it . e. . wh eea o .s... erof . i
days, ale, to put a soldier in (usesy as offiear rngng the
Z r e - how eherAW ) ast isasnes the -am
We st have gad nue and bdwo -. ut w- him th
abosisn but they are mere nar. anything he says will be used
esy tha ee might believe against him, must hear all wit
q F~iMagna Charta' of the en. nd only then, a my bring
listed man was adopted after the charges. And when he de
war. This is a new Court-Mar- bring thoe charges, he must
tial M Under the terms of swear that they ae tre to the
this man any officer or sol- bet of his knowledne or that
dir may bring charges against he has Iformatiem that leas
any other member. In plain him to believe that the char-e
words, this means that, if I will be sustained.
abuse a private in my company, "No more secret inquisitios
be has the right to bring charges by the D. 0. I. No mwe beat
agint eand the manual pro- ingn byhr-oldtg. No
yU i thai e s* -'s .'all more aged con vs.*'",..
'not be dsmisadd until they have verdicts and seret assitemes.
bo eensiiad by the *om- The court-martial must announce
manding genera!. . . its sentence in the open, and
"Before a man can tried at' these things are as they Abeuld
all, the officer who I charred be." )
Thanks to a War Department that fought with all its
power every effort to humanize court-martial practice and.
persecuted every one who made the effort, the reformation of
the barbarous system was not completed until the Act of
of Congress of June 4, 1920.
The fight was begun, however, at the beginning of the
war, in September, 1917, when Samuel T. Ansell became
Acting Judge Advocate General. He was ably supported, in
his effort to prevent Baker's and Crowder's continuation of
a system of crystallized cruelty, by a half-dozen other law
yers, who were temporarily in the military service.
At a private conference called by General Ansell at the
suggestion of Maj. Roy D. Keehn, they formulated the
military reforms mentioned and others that have had a
salutary effect, later presented them to the Senate, and
fought for them up to the moment they became law. The
names of these men ought to be known to the American
Legion and to .the American people at large. They are:
Maj. Roy D. Keehn, Chicago.
Maj. F. W. Ashton, Grand Island, Neb. S
Col. William S. Weeks, Bound Brook, N. J.
Maj. Stephen J. Cwley, Great Falls, Mont.
Col. I. M. Morgan, New Haven, Conn.
Maj. Robert Redfield, Chicago.
Maj. Harry 0. Palmer, Omaha, Neb.
Maj. Thomas I. Parkinson, Babylon, N. Y.
Baker and his minions never forgave Ansell and found
their chance for calumny in the incident of the Bergdoll
escape, with which it is now known that Ansell had not the
slightest connection. It is further known that the escape
was due to the stupidity of the War Department and that
the failure to apprehend him immediately was due to depart
ment neglect, if nothing worse.
Members of the Legion who have been misled into critiz
ing General Ansell for acting as counsel in the Bergdoll case
would do well to remember that his conduct in that case
has been shown, by the report of a committee of distin
guished lawyers, who judicially considered all the facts, to
have been above reproach and in strict accord with the
ethics governing counsel; and they will also remember that g
he and the other officers mentioned served as counsel for
every enlisted man in the army at a time when it required
considerable courage to do so.
The Hearst newspapers were foremost in the aggressive
fight that was made for these humane reforms.
Water
By Angela Morgan
WONDERFUL wateri You are a splendor and a perplaity to
Flui1 nti adle common for the use ofma
I see you spr~gwhite and slender from the face in y kitub.
I hear you bapand sudden at my window,
Your needles broe against the resisting 'glass.
I see you driving through the roads and pavementa,
While dust lies down In reverence before you.
I find you hoarded in the cups of morning ~loures
You are quicksilver on the puckered green oI maple leaves,
Fresh and delightful after storm.
I sem you bearing up the graceful bodie of sportive swimmes,
Yet in that hour you drown a hundred men at sea.
You span with lovelness the tall doorway of heaven,
Holding suapnded the prismatic passion of the sun.
I find you fahing from a million coronets
Within the sublime democracy of the meadow.
Water. you are a marvel of the Creator's genius;
My eyes would measure and behold your beauty.
Oh, you are slim and sinuous,
You are seductive, water you are very fair.
Curling your happy way across the continent,
Leaping all barriers with laughing coumage,
Shaking your tresses out upon the rock hillside,
Fringing a beaded robe to hide your nakedness.
You are a woman, water
One whose entrancing ways my heart should understand.
Nay you are more than woman-you are Niagara,
Urging your steeds to goals of danger and despair.
I see their white manes flowing down the mountain fastrsem,
I hear the trampling of their hoofs, their thunder;
see hemitiless upo the frantic ocean,
are giant ships like petals are whirling In the gale.
Oh you are mighty in your majesty and strength, water'
You are a devastation ahd a sustenance in one.
Unconquered, you are a devil, you are a wanton;
Tamed and adored, you are a necklace round the' throat of Natases
You are Niagara, chained and attentive to the world of man.
How can you be so huge a thing and yet so tiny?
How can you beso black and trrible upon the ocean,
Yet tremble like atear dr5a em therore within mg hand?