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A Prediction on the Treaty Millions of words remain to be spoken by President Wilson on his proposed tour and by
senators before the peace treaty is finally acted
upon. Weeks will pass, and tremendous efforts
will be made throughout a hot, muggy summer to shape developments in this way or that. Finally, when everyone has had his say and now we come to the prediction the senate will ratify
the treaty with reservations or interpretations
about as suggested by Charles E. Hughes and
former President Taft.
Then, when the dust has subsided, we shall find that we are in the League of Nations, but that the league cannot interfere with matters like
the tariff or immigration, that it cannot have any
chance to say yea or nay as to our administra
tion of the Monroe doctrine. We shall be able to
leave the league when we like, and congress can
do as it likes about entering any new wars that
come along.
Friends of the administration will say that these reservations merely elaborate and make
more definite terms already in the covenant of the league. Opponents will say that by standing
out they have kept the United States in an abso
lutely independent position, so that it can do exactly as it likes in the future, as it has done in the past. There is merit in both contentions. What the league will amount to will depend entirely upon the spirit of future American administrations. If Washington in the future is disposed to act with the other powers and help keep the world on an even keel, the league will be a success. If forthcoming administrations are inclined to tell the rest of the world to go hand, the league will collapse. The world needs steadying very badly. Conditions everywhere are dangerously tfhaky. America is today richer and more powerful than any three other nations, and her influence as a stabilizing force can be of incalculable benefit to the rest of the world if she chooses to say, in a business-like way: "Let us have peace." The Need of a National Budget In an era when an unprecedented price level has set the whole world agog and made us wonder
when the apex will be reached, the national congress could make no better move than to establish a national budget, so that appropriations could be made on a scientific basis instead of on guess work. Henry L. Stimson, in an article in the World's Work, presents many of the inconsistent features characterizing the making of revenue bills and appropriation measures. He says in part: If congress is to attempt the work of formulating the budget at all, one would expect that it would so organize itself as to accomplish that almost impossible task as conveniently as possible. If a program is to be prepared by which the money to be expended is to be simultaneously raised by intelligent taxation, one would expect that the appropriation bills would be considered in connection with the revenue bills. They are not. They are handled by entirely different committees which have no organization for conference. Again, if congress is to assume the function of initiating a program for the executive to follow, one would expect that it would model its committees according to the organization of the executive so that each executive department
would have a special committee looking after its appropriations. It has not. , When I was secretary of war I found, to my astonishment, that the appropriations for the support of the war department were contained in several quite separate appropriation bills handled by six or seven different committees and subcommittees of the house of representatives alone, and when I prepared a rough, tentative budget for the use of these committees and presented it to several of them, I was told that it was the first time that these different commit
tees had had brought to their attention items of
appropriation which were under simultaneous consideration by other committees. Many of those items overlapped. Appropriations for field artillery ammunition were, being made by two entirely different committees. One committee had charge of the construction of military barracks in the United States while another committee had charge of the construction of military barracks in Hawaii. One committee had charge of the construction of barracks in an army post while the hospital at that same post was being constructed under the supervision of a different committee. Emplacements for guns in the canal zone were being supervised by one committee and emplacements for guns in the Philippines by another committee. The result of such a lack of co-ordination is inevitable. There is no comparison of similar costs, and congress is at the mercy of any private interest which can get before one of these committees and on an ex parte hearing impress them with the desirability of an appropriation.
Condensed Classics of Famous Authors
The Forward Movement of the Friends Considerable emphasis is being placed on the Forward Movement of Friends by speakers and leaders of the Friends church who are attending the young Friends conference at Earlham college. Almost every denomination in the United
States was stimulated into aggressive action by
the World war. The energizing influence of the war was manifested not only in efforts to raise big funds for the prosecution of denominational work, the Friends having set a goal of $5,000,000,
but also in an enlarged vision of service and per
sonal responsibility.
The program of the Friends is an ambitious one, but quite within the realm of attainment.
The selection of a man, trained in executive res
ponsibility and with administrative ability, shows
that the church as an institution, is beginning to see the necessity of selecting experts and trained workers for the execution of special tasks. The
selection of Levi Pennington to direct the For
ward Movement illustrates the point.
Leaders of all denominations realize that
changed conditions demand changed methods in
attaining ends and are adapting their organiza tions with that end in view, all of which will re dound to the growth of the church.
THACKERAY III. Unless one knows the rollicking humor of Thackeray as it lives In his burlesque and ballads, his whole genius can scarcely be appreciated. His early successes, signed by Tltmarsn and TeUowplush. sparkling through the pages of Punch, with pungent satire and abounding butfoonery, con-
BSflraPraffiSSSi els. Parodies of famous contempormmMmmmmmmM aries Disraeli. Bulwer and others-
made merriment for Londoners In "Punch's Prize Novelists." "The Legend of the Rhine" burlesques a novel of Dumas', but his masterpiece In this field is "Rowena and Rebecca," the brilliant and matchless burlesque of Scott's "Ivanhoe." It not only ripples along with broad roaring fun, but it is touched as well with pathos and genuine humor. Scattered through it are some of the best songs of .their kind in English literature. Thackeray's ease in rhyming was incomparable. While he possessed true poetic feeling, he particularly excelled in rollicking verse and in ballad-making. In this his characteristic pathos, bis indignation, at wrongs, and his distinctive sallies of fun especially shine. "The Willow Tree," "The White Squall," "The Mahogany Tree" and "The Sorrows of Werther" will always be dear to many. All true Bohemians will relish the "Ballad of Bouillabaisse." No doubt many of our boys "over there" have tasted the famous dish itself a s well as the joys of fellowship and the pangs for comrades "gone west.'
' so sympathetically sung in this bal-
NO. 2, PALACE GREEN,
Sensing-ton, where Thackeray llve lad.
irom 1863 until his death.
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THE NEWCOMES
BY WILIAM M. THACKERAY
Condensation by Mr. Charles K. Bolton, Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum
Colonel Thomas Newcome, the hero
of Argom, and of Bhartpour, had loved the beautiful Leonore de Blols, but having incurred the wrath of hla stepmother he fled to India to carve out
his career. There he had married the widow, Mrs. Casey, and a few years later sent their son Clive to England.
He regaled the ladies of the regi
ment with Cllve's letters; sporting young men would give or take odds
that the Colonel would mention Cllve's name once before five minutes, or three times in ten minutes. But those who laughed at Clive'sfather laughed very kindly. At last the happy time came for which the Colonel had been longing, and he took leave of hla regiment. In England, he had in his family circle two half brothers, Sir Brian, who had married Lady Ann, daughter of the Earl of Kew, and Hobson Newcome. One morning at breakfast while Sir Brian chumped his dry toast, Barnes the son, said to his sister Ethel: "My Uncle, the colonel of sepoys, and his amiable son have been paying a visit to Newcome." "You are always sneering about our uncle," broke In Ethel, "and saying unkind thinks about Clive. Our uncle is a dear, good, kind man, and I love him." At Hobson Newcome's and elsewhere the family party often assembled, the Colonel, his friend Mr. Binnle and Binnle's Bister Mrs. Mack-
WIFE WILL AID OFFICIAL EISTEKTAINKK OF PRINCE OF WALES ON TRIP TO CAPITAL
motherless children of her brother Barnes, and found comfort In devot
ing herself to them. Clive married his Roeey, and his father determined
to become a member of Parllment in place of Sir Barnes. One sight the Colonel, returning from his electionerlng, met Clive, candle la hand. As each saw the other's face. It was so very sad and worn and pale, that Colonel Newcome with cjulte the tenderness of old days, cried "God bless me, my boy, how 111 you look! Come
and warm yourself, Clivy" I
"I have Seen a ghost, father," Clive said, "the ghost of my youth, father, the ghost of my happiness, and the best days of my life. I saw Ethel today." "Nay, my boy, you mustn't talk to me so. You have the dearest little wife at home, a dear little wife and child." "You have a wife; but that doesn't prevent other1 other thoughts. Do you know you never spoke twice in your life about my mother? You didn't care for hef." 1 "I I did my duty by her," Interposed the Colonel. "I know, but your heart was with the other. Bo Is mine. It's fatal, It runs in the family, father." The shares of the Bundelcund Banking company In which the Colonel had made his fortune now declined, and
at last the crash came, wiping out all the Colonel's money and with It all
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Breckenridge Long, assistant secretary of state, and Mrs. Long. To Breckenridge Long, assistant secretary of state, falls the duty of carrying out and in some' measure, suggesting the entertainment for the Prince of Wales during his stay in Washington. Mrs. Long will be an able aid to her husband. She is one of the most charming of the diplomatic hostesses.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
YOU NEVER CAN TELL, OLD CHEP1 Cleveland Plain Dealer. Englishmen visiting the United States declare that prohibition would be impossible In England. Uh-huh. And a lot of Americans used to declare that it would be impossible in this country.
NOW LET'S HEAR FROM HIS WIFE Indianapolis Star. Queen Wilhelmina's German husband says Holland will not give up Herr Hohenzollern, but, of course, he may not be running the country.
HUH! GUESS THAT NEEDS NO PROOF Washington Post. The senate has reached the point where it Is willing to admit that it has a copy of the treaty, but It denies that it has read the document
COULD ANYTHING BE SIMPLER? Philadelphia Press. All that seems necessary to please the president is to do as the president says, and ask no questions.
The National Race Crisis
From the Chicago News. "r-"r t HOEVER has read a magazine or a newspaper printed for the colored race in this country or has talked with leading men of that race or has listened to public addresses made by such men is aware that there has been awakened in the American negroes an intense, a passionate desire to possess and enjoy rights and privileges equal to those possessed and enjoyed by their white fellow Americans. The sense of outrage which they feel when some member of their race is lynched on suspicion that he has committed a crime Is shown by the care with which their publications habitually rerrint the revolting details of the lynching from the newspapers of the neighborhood. The remarkable movement of southern negroes to the north during recent years has not been due solely to economic causes. It has been inspired largely by the race's longing for surroundings in which the negro's rights as a citizen may be freely exercised. Chicago in particular has been regarded with favor, largely because its dominant political faction for years has assiduously cultivated the negro vote and has made special claims respecting its affection for the negro. It is lamentable that the men who have profited by the negro's vote have shown no real interest in helping him solve such vital problems as that of securing a suitable home or of keeping him free from the reproach cast upon him by those of his race who conduct vicious resorts. However, many colored Cbicagoans have labored earnestly to reduce the evils of Ignorance and vice among their people. Had they been properly supported by the authorities the murderous feeling that has now shown itself in this city by white and black mobs would not have developed. How intense is the feeling of the race In regard to
its wrongs is indicated by the following quotation from a speech by Bishop Hurst of Baltimore, appearing In the August number of W. E. B. DuBois' magazine, the Crisis: "The people of color and their friends who believe in absolute justice must bring forth every vestige of wisdom and courage and energy at their command and hurl it against this colossus of race hatred upon which is based this systematic robbery and damnable Injustice to the negro. The colored people especially must resolve to make a sacrifice of their means, yea, of all they have, to back up their contention and employ the most capable and conscientious counsel that the bar affords. If need be, they must be ready to offer their lives for their free
dom and the things that make life worth living. As a
race, we gave the country 400,000 of our best sons to
make the supreme sacrifice in order to make the world
free from German oppression. These same boys should
be willing to make this country free from American oppression against their race. I know they are willing and ready. Some may say this is madness. If it is, let me
reassure them that the entire race must be mad, for
this Is the language they speak today and the only thing
they will listen to."
There are more than 10,000,000 negroes in the United
States. Their desire for Justice surely is not to be
crushed or vindicated by armed mobs or by lone men dying under torture. The best thought of the nation must be brought to bear upon the problem. Every sniper's bullet, every knife thrust, every thrown brick contributed to the race war makes the matter worse than
It was before. Are not the people of America capable of
devising and applying a real solution? From Chicago's terrible outbreak ot race hatred must come Justice and applied wisdom if the nation is to atone for this disgrace.
enzie with her daughter Rosey, Sij'Rosey's fortune. The impoverished
Brian ana juaay Ann, ana uuve wno had become a painter. From one of these parties Clice and I, his friend Arthur Pendennis, walked with the usual Havanna to light us home. "I can't help thinking," sld the astute Clive, "that they fancied I was in love with Ethel. Now I suppose, they think I am engaged to Rosey. She is as good a creature as can be, and never out of temper, though I fancy Mrs. Mackenzie tries her. Time passed and our Mr. Clive went to Baden, where he found old Lady Kew with her granddaughter Ethel. "You have no taste for pictures, only for painters, I suppose," said Lady Kew one day to Ethel. "I was not looking at the picture," said Ethel, "but at the little green ticked in the corner. I think, grandmamma." she said, "we young ladies in the world ought to have little green tickets pinned on our backs, with 'sold' written on them." Barnes Newcome, too, was at Baden, for he was to marry pretty little Lady Clara Pulleyn, free at last from that undesirable Jack Belsize, Lord Highgate's son. Lady Kew hacf plans which Cllve's growing regard for his cousin Ethel put in jeopardy.
"My good young man, I think it is
Newcomes settled down first at Bou
logne, and then In London, the Colonel weary, feeble, white haired, Mrs. Mackenzie a perfect termagant, Rosey pale and ailing, and little Tommy, the baby, a comfort and a care to the hard-worked Clive. The Colonel, no longer able to live under the same roof with Mrs. Mackenzie, found a home with the Grey Friars, and here I saw him. His dear old head was bent down over his prayer book. He wore the black gown of the pensioners of the hospital of Grey Friars. , "When the Colonel's misfortunes were at their worst, Ethel In reading an old book, found a letter from the Colonel's stepmother between the covers. It was a memorandum of a proposed bequest to Clive. Ethel at once determined to carry out this intended bequest, and so she and I hastened to Cllve's home; but not even good news could soften Mrs. Mao kensie's evil temper. That was a sad and wretched night. In which Mrs. Mackenzie stormed until the poor delicate Rosey fell Into the fever to which she owed her death. We soon repaired to the Grey Friars where we found that the Colonel was In his
time vou were off." Ladv Kew said to laBt illness. He talked loudly, he gave
ujs wuiu ui uummana, spokq jtiinaoetanee as if to his men. Then he spoke words in French seizing a hand that was near him, and crying, "tou jours, toujours!" Ethel and Clive and the nurse were in the room with him. The old man talked on rapidly for awhile; then again he would sigh and be still; once more I heard him say, hurriedly, "Take care of him when I'm in India;" and then with a heartrending voice he called for the love of his youth "Leonore, Leonore!" The patient's voice sank into faint murmurs; only a moan now and then announced that, he was not asleep. At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bad feebly beat a time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, "Adsum," and fell back. It, was the word he used at school, when names were called; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had anewered to his name, and stood in the presence of the The Master. Co. (The Boston Post.) All rights reserved. (Published by special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved.)
THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK THE PLANNING ROOM In every man's mind should be one great room, let apart and reserved as the place where all good things should originate This should be called the Planning Room. And It should bo kept In order, with every scrap of detail and knowledge within Quick and easy reach. Into this Planning Room no destructive thoughts should enterno disturbing elements. Around its walls should be placed picture of beauty, In themselves ot an Inspirational nature. There should be an atmosphere of quiet and order everywhere about this Planning Room. This room should not be used as a place of entertainment or Jollity or ot Jest. It should be the most serious meeting place in your whole mind's day. Only worth-while Ideas and people should be allowed to enter: Of what value would the Planning Room be with outsiders constantly interrupting with Irrelevant subjects and wasteful words? Every big man has his Planning Room. I once heard a story of a great American financier who considered his time worth $100 a minute. I can imagine that that man had a Planning Room, into which no one ever entered excepting for a purpose! Into your Planning Room you should enter during the first hour of your day. You should gather every adviser of merit there. Your Judgment, your sense of proportion, your imagination, your self-control are a few of your secret advisers that should enter your Planning Room to aid you in starting your day aright. As I walk along the streets and see men and women aimlessly standing about, I know they are people who have no Planning Room. This world would move pretty smoothly, accurately and soundly did every one of us have a Planning Room into which he daily went. Perehaps happiness might come to you if you would install such a room, today, in your mind. What do you think?
Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON
Clive with great good rumor. "I have
been to see that poor little creature to whom Captain Belsize behaved so cruelly. She does not care a fig for him not one fig. She Is engaged, as you know, to my grandson Barnes; in all respects a most eligible union; and Ethel's engagement to my grandson, Lord Kew, has long been settled. When we saw you in London, we heard that you too were engaged to a young lady in your own rank of life Miss Mackenzie." Clive's departure led to more flirtations by Ethel than old Lady Kew could countenance, but Ethel had found out how undesirable a man Lord Kew was, and broke the engagement so dear to her grandmother's heart. When Clive heard that the engagement was over between Kew and Ethel
he set out in haste for London. L
was installed as confidant, and to me Clive said: "Mrs. Mackenzie bothers me so I hardly know where to turn, and poor little Rosey is made to write me a note about something twice a day. O Pen I 'm up another tree now '. " Clive met his cousin Ethel at a party or two in the ensuing weeks of the season, and at one of their meetings Ethel told him that her grandmother would not receive him. It was then that Clive thought Ethel worldly, although much of her attitude was due to the keen and and unrelenting Lady Kew. The Colonel and James Binnie during all this time put their two fond heads together, and Mrs. Mackenzie flattered both of them and Clive as well. Meanwhile the Lady Clara was not happy with her Barnes. All the life and spirit had been crushed out of the girl, consigned to cruel usage, loneliness, and to bitter recollections of the past. Jack Belsize, now Lord Highgate, could stand the strain no longer, and took Lady Clara away from her bullying but cowardly husband. The elopement of Clara opened Ethel's eyes to the misery of loveless marriages, and the mama of her new love, the Marquis of Farintosh, already distressed over the unpleasant notoriety of the proposed Newcome alliance, received a letter from Eethel which set her son free. Ethel then turned to the lonely;
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," by Jules Verne, as condensed by James B. Connolly, will be printed tomorrow.
Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Taylor announced their marriage which had taken place six months previously. Invitations were received by local mall carriers for the annual state convention of mall carriers, Sept. 6. William E. Toms, local moorcyclist left Richmond for a trip to Buffalo, both trips to be made by motorcycle. Almost 2,000 members of the Chaxnness family attended the" Chamness reunion.
NO. WE DONT CARE FOR ANYTHING JUST HAD LUNCH Dear Roy After reading your column for the last tew weeks I have finally decided that you're not bad. You certainly put over some good poems. Are they really yours? George. JAY 60RE ON HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW? Lem Stone sold Jay Wilkins his bay horse, Saturday. It is the same one that ran away and killed Mr. Stone's mother-in-law last February. Bennvllle (Ohio) Banner. One of our delightful contribs wants to know whether a Shavian drama is one that takes place in a barber shop. Will somebody have the heart to answer?
"It's a hard come-down," says Wal-;
ter Pulitzer, "that the country that produced William of Orange should have to continue to harbor William the Lemon."
Our idea of an optimist is the
Brooklyn saloonkeeper who closed his place and hung out a sign:
CLOSED DURING DEMOBILIZATION." Demobilization is going to last a
long, long time.
It isn't the heat that we notice so
much as the stupidity.
Thread is selling at $9 a spool in the Balkans. In other words, a stich in time saves nine bucks. We don't wish to worrv rnnrrn n
these busy times, but we do wish the
commute eon domestic relations would send us a hired girl.
Brandeis Home After Tour Of Palestine (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. Ausr. 1 .Tnotin Ti.
is D. Brandeis of the United States su
preme court, has completed a tour of Palestine and now Is enroirtA in pri
according to word received here today
oy ine Zionist organization of America. The Jewish colonies were reported in a "flourishing condition." The American Jurist, who Is honorary head of the Zionist movement in this country, accompanied by Jacob de Haas, executive secretary, and Professor Alfred Htm mom r,f tho
University of Wales, a former Brtt-
lsn ioreiirn unaer-secretarv. visited
Jaffa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and more
than twenty Jewish colonies in Judea, Galilee and Samaria. Arrival of the visitors, it was said, was the signal for a public holiday in most of the citien snrl fnwnx tha en.
tire population led by the picturesque
Bnomerm. tne jewian constabulary. marchinr out tn trust thatm unii ftns
and receptions were held in their hon
or. The American Zionist medical unit and hundreds of soldiers from the Jewish legion participated in the festivities.
Dinner Stories
"Germany," said a lawyer of New York "Germany now declares her pacifism. She wants to participate la the League of Nations. Our parlor Bolshevists would welcome her, too. "But the rest of us know well that Germany's presence In the League ot Nations would e- like Wash White's presence at the. yed ding." "'What caused the wedding to breakup in a fight V asked the magistrate. ; "'It was Washington White's faultj yer honor.' said the bride. De weddin guests -was frowln, ole shoes afci us from de gallery, and Wash, wot was Jealous, kase I Jilted him, hestarted frowin ole boss shoes " . William J. Burns, the detective. taid3 fn a Scranton lecture; j "To &. Well-traineri dAuHn
incident Is pregnant with sienlfteanr
ea, every incident is as full of
meaning as well, I am reminded ot a story: i
'A youner man nt fn a norim ,
To him a beautiful girl entered. There! upon the young man arose, took sir cigars from his upper waistcoat pock et, laid them carefully on the piano.,
anu men aavanced toward the glrli passionately, his arms outstretched. T . . A iL . r . m m .
dui tae gin grew DacK. " 'You have loved before,' she said." PROTEST ACTION OF OMSK LEADERS (By Associated Preas) VLADIVOSTOK. Aug. 1. The interallied railway commission here dispatched a formal protest yesterday to the Omsk government of Admiral Kolchak against violations of the interallied agreement regarding the operation of railways. The communication demands that the Russians live up to the agreement which they signed, and are a party to, if the government expects allied aid. The removal of General Semenoff from the tone where he can Interfere with railroad operations also is asked. The violations have chiefly been through the military station commandants, who sell tickets, allot cars and attempt general supervision of traffic, a duty assigned to the technical board of the American railway commission to Russia under the chair manship of John F. Stevens. The chief disturber is alleged to bet General Semenoff, who appears to ba the dominating figure in the TransBaikal sector.
PREPARE TO EMIGRATE
(Br Associated Press) BALTIMORE, Aug. 1. Fully 20,000 residents of Baltimore, most of them foreigners, are making preparations to emigrate from the United States and to once more take up their homes in their birthlands, it was disclosed today, following a visit to tha offices of sev era! steamship agencies.