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12 TITE SUNDAY 'OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAY 13, 1921 ANNUAL MAY FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, AT FOREST GROVE, AND QUEEN WHO WILL BE CROWNED NEXT FRIDAY. , TO HOLD IK FETE Alumni Will Join Seniors in Great Celebration. PAGEANT TO BE STAGED Pdffres of Pilgrim Spirit From Plymouth Rock to Northwest Central Tbonffht of Rebels. Graduates and cx-students of Pa cific university at Forest Grove are greatly interested in the annual May festival community celebration which will take place on the campus of the university next Friday, and hundreds of persons are planning1 to visit their alma mater on that occasion. The Progressive Business Men's club has accepted the invitation at the univer sity to attend and the Forest Grove chamber of commerce will act as hosts to the visiting business men. ' The Progress of the Pilgrim Spir it." an elaborate pageant, will be the chief attraction of the celebration. The central thought of the pageant has to do with the western trend of democracy, the development of re ligion and education and its gradual spread to the Pacific coast, culminat ing with the establishing of Pacific university. Beautiful costumes, in cidental music, interpretative dances and tableaux make up the story which will be presented. The spectacle will be staged before Queen Kvelyn I, the queen of the May day revels. Following'is the cast of characters: Father Time, Herbert Duel!. (Spirit of Religious Freedom, Francis irinklater. Spirit of T mac racy. Nellie- "Walker. Spirit of Education Kthel Topper. Spirit of Patriotism, Dorothy L.inklater. Spirit of Autocracy. Charles Trachsel. ' Heralds, Albert Schneider and Harold Seller. Pilirrims, Messrs. ApostolEdes, Bump, Duyck. Fowler, Hawke. Hammer. H. Jack. A. Schneider. H. Seller, F. Wolf. Misses Riibrey. Crabtree. Kenepa, M. Johnson, Krankel. Le Cerf, Martin, E. Johnson, Paine. Stewart. Indians Messrs. Bates. B. Roe and C. Roe and Misses Allenf Marsh and, Taylor. John Harvard, Jack Ralph. Congresw of Colonial Nations, Pilgrims, Irene Bilbrey and Kenneth Hawke: Qua ken. Edith Wood apd Robert McKeever; cavaliers. Hazel Jones and William Harri son; Dutch. M area ret Henderson and Mor gan Hip-by; Swedes. KiMn Anderson and Frank Broderson; French. Lucille Higby and Paul Austin; Spanish, Mary Baker and Joseph Ruiz; Father La Salle, James Be noft. " Signing Declaration of Independence. John Hancock. Willis Cady; Benjamin Franklin. Robert McKeever; Thomas Jef ferson. John Stoval; boy messenger. Trn Tut tie: states. Bert Sparks. Henry Ftsk, Kenneth Hawke. Robert McKeever, John Stoval and others. CA-andma Brown's school. Grandma Brown, Ernestine Brown ; Harvey Clark. Profensor Tuttle asuinted by town children. Minuet. Cleo Howell. Glen Schlely, 1 Johnson. Paul Austin. Arthur Jonea, Thom as Fowler. Henry Fisk. William Harrison. Oertrude La nriing:, Vivian Hippie, Hazel Push lack. Maud Barret. Marian Bates. Florence McGcehan, Hazel Jones, Annette Payne. Wave dance. Verretta Perry. F.thel Johnson. Marraret Morcan. Kdtth Samuels, SJ rile Flrn, Dorothy Jones. Florence Rates. LI la Short. Doris Alcorn, Marie Gat lasher. Nancy Moore. Margaret Ber nurd a Lois Armstrong. Vera Johnson, Ar dell Regress. Ruhy McCture. Spirit of the Went,- Charlotte Allen. T ina Volker. Martha Rltchey. Katherlne CUr'te, Ann McKay, lone Baldwin. Kvelyn Adler, HHen Stewart, uoroiny 'aincK, Roma Pollock. Gladys Fish. Kllnabeth Lew t Katherine Buchanan. Lenora Conner, Kathleen Mitchell, Rita Pollock, Jewel Whltehoue. Dance of the- Setting Sun. Martha Bar twr Pioneers. Carl Johnson. Read Greenwood, T.eMter Halstead. Kdwln .Sranton, Grant Bnvd. Wilbur Anderson. William Forbis, Virgil Lilly. Ruth Halstead. Svea Ander aon Etha Ocleshy. Bertha Ferni. Violet Ktnkcl. Carrie Bamford, Rita Sunning, Margaret Curtis. Oilmen. F.velvn Patton. Maids. Lucille Robinson. Mabel Fattnn, Fdlth Weaver. Maxlne Shannep, Lillian Vrt t iriii SIMMS. . The closing feature of the festival will be the presentation of the three act comedy "A Rival by Kequest," by members of the sophomore class. Fol lowing is the cast of characters: Walter Pierson, a young bachelor, Har old Seller. Winthrop Smytbe, his friend, Francis Ltnkiater. Robert Burnett, retired business man, Albert Schneider. Benjamin Briggs, retired farmer, Henry rii-k. Lord Albert Anthony McMuIlin, friend of Smyth. Glen Shecley. - Alexander Muggins, Smythe's servant. Leslie Hoar. Mrs. Burnett, wife of Robert Burnett, LI la Short. Phyllis Burnett, her daughter. Hazel jones. Mrs. Brtargs. wife of Benjamin Briggs, Thelma Mi'ls. Eilna Briggs, her daughter, Annette Pa ne. Mis. 'hat ten on. housekeeper of "Cos- pfiopole," Lucy Moorea. A tC'- -15 - t VT ' ' ' k hats, maroon-colored robes with white DAUGHTER OF SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO BE HONORED BY NAMING OF NEW PORT' Above The Slaypole dunce nn ibr cnnipun. Below Queen Kvelyn Ml Urn KvelyiJ Pallon), fnled io center, anil five of ker maid, (from left to 'right) .MiKsen Ada SteveoM, Lillian Vo st, .Mabel ration, .Maxlne Shannep and Luelle Robinson. WIDOWS AND ORPHANS GET STRONG Sl'PPORI. in Pclcrminrd Flglit to Be Made fcUt.r-rve-mh C'onsrcs to Kc , store Feature of Henyon Bill. WASHINGTON. D. C. May 1t. The American l.epion is determined to make a fight in the 67th congress to obtain vocational 'education for widows and orphans of men killed in France, according to John Thomas Taylor, vice-chairman of tho legion's national legislative committee. ' Vocational education for widows and orphans of all ex-service men who died overseas during; the war was trovidtd in the Kenyon bill passed by the United States senate at the last session' of congress. The same Kill, introduced by Representative Fess of Ohio in the house did not fa?s. but was favorably reported by the house committee on education, with, however, the provision for vo cational education for -widows and orphans str'eken out. Senator Ken yon has reintroduced his bill, with the widow and orphan education feature included. The American Legion is backing the Kenyon bill. There are approximately 14.000 widows and 18,000 orphans of Amer ica's war dead. If the government were to provide vocational education for all of them, the cost 'would be J 112.000.000. an estimate based upon ihe present cost of vocational educa tion, as given by the federal board for vocational education, which is $125 a month per man for maintenance and ?35 per month for books, equipment, tuition and incidentals. Avenue to Be Memorial. . VICTOniA B. C. Empire avenue is to be laid out here as a memorial to . the Victoria men who lost their lives in the world war. Nanes of the men are being gathered ly the Vic toria Chamber of Commerce. LIMA CELEBRATES HOLY WEEK IN NO HALF-HEARTED MANNER AH Business in Peruvian Capital Suspended for Easter Festival Cere monial Government Shares in Demonstrations. BY LUCILE V. SACSDKIIS, Former Member Oreconlan City News Staff LIMA. Peru, April 17. (Special.) Wall Street might send its- best financial writer to Lima for the avowed purposp of sizing up business and financial conditions, but if that individual happened into tho capital of 'Peru .d-urintj holy week he might just as well decide to "shut up shop" for the next ten days. That is what practically everybody else does. It seems inconceivable to a north erner, whose ideas of church consist mainly in being present there on Sun day mornings, contributing his mite to the support of the institution and occasionally attending some of its social functions, that both business and government could be so wrapped up in so demonstrative a fashion in what to the average American is a means of expression of faith, a strictly private matter solely con cerning, himself. So complicated are the church forms of Latin-America and so much are they a matter of public celebra tion and display of pomp and cere mony that the casual visitor, tlrough he be a Catholic and count himself capable of comprehending the signifi cance of Kasler festivals, finrls him self perplexed and unable to do much explaining. To the Protestant be liever the whole affair is a hopeless maze, a weird display that at times suggests fanaticism. Mml F.aater IVorth V hllr. All in all. Easter in Lima is worth while. - Business houses in the city observe holidays on the Saturday before Palm Sunday and on the following Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, thus put ting a damper on business. The approach of the great "occasion is indicated by the sudden conversion ol the corner sweets venders to the bakery art. Their little portable stores, that the carried on .their heads as they fnove about from place to place and set on a camp-stool ar rangement when they find suitable anchorage, are heaped up with the Peruvian version of hot cross buns. large lumps of crusty bread, about three times the length of a bun and stuck all over with almonds. Thursday is a big day. for on that day takes place the ceremony of washing the beggars' feet, and the whole government turns out to help by lending its presence. About 9 i "clock in the nforning the streets about the cathedral are aliva with marching men. as the Peruvian array I stations- itself around the plaza it faces. This place has on the south side the old presidential palace, built on the site of the one wherein Ftzarro was killed. The catiieurai itself is very ancient and Is tne one which rose on the spot chosen by the conqueror. It succeeaea me iirsi cathedral, which was destroyed by an earthquake. In it are kept Pizarro's bones. , Event Somewhat Military., Bv 10 o'clock the army is all in place, with l'ght -field artillery set uu. machine guns in position and am munition neatly stacked in the streets. Infantry is on one side, artillery on another and cavalry . fills in on the side near the palace. Two squads of municipal police, those chaps who usually wear rumpled uniforms of khaki-colored coverall cloth, appear on the scene and station themselves at the church entrance. They are clad in all the glory of dark blue uni forms with white braid, blue helmets. polished billies, white gloves and, yes. white spats. One or their particular duties is to keep excited by-standers off the scaffolding around the old church, which is being repaired for the centenary celebration this sum mer. Boys get as enthusiastic as taey do when they cllaab telephone poles ana sigaboards in Portland in order to get good views of the Kose res-tival- Two files of soldiers line the street on either aide between the palace and the eathriral, their fixed bayonets., like lances sparkling in the sun. forming a glittering wall of st.c-l. The crowd packs itself around this small stretch of broad avenue and along the elevated space in front of the grimd old edifice thaL is the cen ter' of all this' activity. Three bands are stationed about the plaza, and when the president is at last ready a bugle call signals to them and they strike up -the national anthem, which is played continuously until the official, is inside the church. From all over the plaza comes this blare of misic and great cheering is heard as the prpcessicn progresses with measured step. Dignitarlea Lead Parade. First come the silk-hatted and frock-coated dignitaries, followed by the president and his bodyguard, the executives being distinguished b.v a red sash. Behind come elaborate gen erals and admirals, some plumed like Knights Templar and otherj with fancy .cockades and gold epaulets. There is an assortment of colors, the last group in red and blue being fol lowed by the battalion de gendarmes and 'its national band of about 60 pieces. The battalion and band have been trained by French officers and look much like men from the conti nent in their white puttees, tight red i breeches, pearl gray jackets, white! epaulets and pouches and red caps with chin straps and red and white barefooted friars in broad black-straw cockades.- The insignia of the bat talion is in red on their right sleeves. The music has a long, heavy drum beat, with heavy brass instruments alternating with tliewailing of flutes and clarinets. While the main procession enters the church the band ana a group of soldiers fill in around the entrance, crowding or rather pushing out the spectators. Here they stand until a trumpet shortly after the noon hour announces the fact that the president will once more appear. The crowd that had scattered through the plaza rushes back to poinrs.of vantage, the bands" once more strike up the anthem and the execulive is escorted back to his palace. In ten minutes the dark blue soldiers with white cockades and six buttons down the backs of their jackets have with their gloved hands stowed away the machinery, of war and are on the way to their barracks. The next morning the same pro cedure is repeated 'with equal dignity and bfore an equally large crowd. Entire City Turn Out. Thursday afternoon was given over to the pilgrimage to seven churches and the entire city apparently turned out to make this journey. Every woman was in a oiack lace mantilla or the more sombre black manta, and even the tiniest child had its head covered with a scrap of white net. Aside from the barring of hats there was no attempt to curtail dress and many a vivid color and extreme style was paraded before the gaze of the universally curious masculine gender. Whole v convents and monasteries turned out and church schools with groups of little girls, all clad in pre cisely the same fashion and all march ing by twos. One of the most pic turesque groups to be seen on the streets was the Franciscan monks or cords and barefoot sandals. Mingling with all this display of re ligious fervor was another show put on by the government, airplane stunt flights over the cathedral ana palace, and at night an electrically Uluminat- j ed machine flew over the city, a strikingly beautiful performance against -the background of a deep in digo moonlit sky. Good Friday in South AmerUa is the day on which the images of the saints are taken from the churches and car ried in a procession. Half a dozen of these ceremonies were held in and around Lima, at the nearby summer resorts and in the suburbs, the main one, of course, being around tne ca thedral. Frlr Garden Picturesque, The writer chanced to be strolling with a camera, through the pic turesaue garden of the Barefooted Friars on the right bank of the river Ritnac, where for half a mile the cen ter of a broad avenue has been .con verted Into a park adorned with plants and trees, handsome urns, marDie benches and 12 statues representing the signs of the zodiac. At the end is a fountain and near it the convent of the friars and the church. From tho latter a small procession was -form ine. led by several unwashed young sters in purple with white embroidery smocks. They carried white crosses on poles aflc were followed by more with various lantern-like objects on long sticks. The main figure, the crucifixion painted in gaudy colors on a plaque and surrounded by candles ana now ers. was followed by an amateur band playing a funeral march and pausing every time the carriers oi tne Dig figure tired. Women and children at tired in either black or purple robes with white cords about the waist and men with bared headta made up ths solemn procession Meanwhile in the heart of the .city people were gathering to witness the principal event of this type and the greater part of Lima's population had flocked to the streets surrounding the Plazaade Armas. It was a black crowd, for no woman wore aught but garments of this sombre hue and she wore all she could get. upon, her person. Dominican Monks Lead A slight parting of the crowd in the street was the only indication that the parade had actually arrived. A cordon of police carrying two ropes to mark the passageway pushed the spectators back so there was a ten foot opening through the jam of hu manlty. Several Dominican monks in white and carrying crucifixes led the way, followed by two files of.promi nent men and women carrying long green canaies guaraing tne goia cas ket in which, reposed a bruised and bloody and -entirely gruesome image of Christ. The casket was made with glass sides and top and lined with white satin,-- The whole heavy affair was placed upon a support of ebony wood and carried by a dozen elderly citizens. Immediately behind them was the band playing a funereal air written on pieces .of paper pinned to the back of each 'player so that the one behind .might read it So eager were the spectators to see the glorified figure that they pressed in upon the' cordon of guardians. An almost insane frenzy, seemed to pos sess them and they followed the cof fin down the street jostling the can die-bearers and musicians. This fig ure had Iain in state in the church from 7 A. M. and was destined to be there until 12 P. M., guarded by two prominent citizens relieved at half- hour intervals by another pair. TOInhop of Mml Follows. 'Plowing through the crowd, next came several more Dominicans and student priepts carrying swinging nil vcr censors' from which a heavy in cense rose and perfumed the air." They led the way for the bishop of Lima and two priests pacing beneath a pur LAND KOSE. J, -roar -s s J -j. , -- Y V V V ; w f w t v V" - - . ' . i. . ? - s. i "1 Y "' . . . v - ' . -A v . I IV is V 1 - Sw v ' VV ' V - V ' ' ' It v "S- It I l til i - t- 3--" '',1 - ' -j I - t 1 1 ' - --? : A J . VN . . '. ! I " y Vv ; : 'fN : 4. . . ."--ri . v ? t : i & . ! ' ' ih A 1 ? ' .-v V; . v V X i J t - J t 'S ' v ', , , -a- S- .V'. rJk.-A t , jlc ; ' rfjj.- s y iiyyy Miss Marv Wallace, attractive daughter of the secretary of agriculture, will lie honored at the Hokc Fertivsl by having the ne w rose produced by. Dr. W. Van Fleet christenod for her. Kfi'orts are bring made to have MIkh AVallace, secretary Wallace and Lr. van v icei. wno is tne ccieoraicu pian i un-t-o'-r oi no- mm,-,i p - partment of agriculture, here for the Festival. Special invitations have been extended to them through .Mayor Baker. . The christening of the new rose was turned over to Portland at the request or .li sse A. Curr . raciric coant director of the American Rose (society. The department of asric-ult lire named Mayor i'.ukci. Judge It. S. Uiun and Mr. Currey as the committee to determine a name fur Ihe beautiful new bloom. Miss Wallace Is now in Washington. D. C with her parents. She was graduated from Va.-s.ir college last June and has entered with" her characteristic spirit into the social and intellectual life of the capital city. IRISH MOVEMENT COMPARED WITH U. S. CONFEDERACY PLAN Much in Common Found Between Quarrel of North and South in America and. in Ireland. BY G. K. CHESTKRTON. (Copyright by the Chicago Tribune, fub- i:Fna ny arrangement, t ISTORV is an eternal tangle of cross-purposes; and we couid not take a clearer case, or rath- H" er a more complicated cse. of such pie canopy. The bishop carried in his a tangle, than the facts lying behind hand a crucifix inside of which is a political parallel recently mentioned supposed to be a bit of the true cross. I by many politicians. I mean the par- More women carrying green candies aiipi hetween the movement for Irish passed and then'the last figure, that independence and the attempted se- of the Virgin Mary in black velvet southern confederacy robes with a gold headdress and a . handkerchief In her, hand. . She was ln America. surrounded by lilies and beneath her ' Superficially, anyone might say platform walked a group of men, un- that the comparison is natural able to look out and of necessity enough: and that there is much in guided by four others stationed out- common between the quarrel of the side on the corners of the big square , d , jrcand and the of wood. The battalion band, play- , , j ...i, i ing steadily for three hours on the Quarrel of the north and south in same piece of music, brought-'up the America. Tn both cases the south was rear. on the whole agricultural, tne norm Sunday the president goes to church on the whole industrial. True, the again, accompanied by the usual cere- comparison magnifies the proportions mony. society gets it over witni , t maL it fit we must early and adjourns to the beaches. ,.' . . ,,ji ,.,,, ... The afternoon is quiet and by night suppose the whole federal s stbm con all vestiges of' the fiesta have disap- centrated in Pittsburg. In both the peared. Lima is ready for business side that was more successful was political firmness and fidelity: but it does not follow that that fidelity will stand every shock. And at this moment, and in Ihis matter, of all things in the world, our politic! propagandists must try to bolster British imperialism up. by kicking southern secession when it is down. The Knglish politicians eag erly point out that we shall he Jus-, tified in crushing Ireland, exactly as Sumner and Stevens crushed the most cient cxaninl on Monday. felt by many to be less attractive. In both the same political terms were used, such as the term "union" and unionism." An ordinary Englishman comes to America, knowing these main lines ARRIVAL AT CHICAGO. Census Taken in India. , DELHI. The total population British India and the native states as shown by the census taken on March of Amerjcan history, and knowing lb. tne results oi wnicn nave just I ,h..t it... American knows the similar been announced is slightly over lmaj lines of Irish history. He knows 319.000,000, as against 315,150,000 inL, there are strong champions of I'll-. Ireland in America: possibly he also knows that there are gene:n cnam PORTLAND'S DELEGATES. TO FOREIGN TRADE CONVENTION AT CLEVELAND SNAPPED UPON pios p'sgfbie' h'SstoHcafanauTgy, he would naturally expect to tinu me nro-lrish in the south and -tie pro- English in tne norm. As a matter of fact, he tinas aimosi exactly the opposite. He finds Boston iroverned bv Irishmen and Nashville containing people more pro-Knglish than Englishmen. He finds Virginians not only of British blood, like George Washington; but of British convic tions almost worthy of George the Third Rut I do not say this, as win oe seen in a moment, as a rrmciain oi the comparative Toryism of the soiitn. I say it as a criticism ot ine superla tive stupidity pf English propaganda. In a recent article 1 remarked on the need for a new sort of English propa ganda: a propaganda that should be reallv English and havo some remote reference to England Now if It were a matter of making foreigners feel the real humors and humanities of England, there are no Americans so able or wining io ao n as the Americans of the southern tates. As I have aireaay hinted, some I of them are loyal to the English hu manities, but they think it their duty to defend even tne .cngnsn innu- inanities New England is turning into New Ireland. But Old England can still be faintlv traced in Old Dixie. It con tains some of the best things that England herself has had. and there- fore, of course, the tnings mat Eng land herself has lost, or is trying to lose. . Rut above all. as 1 nave said, mere are neople in these places wnose nis toric .memories and family traditions really hold them to us, not by aniance but by affection. Indeed, they have the affection in spite of the alliance. I They love' us in spite of our compli ments and courtesies and hands across the sea; all our ambassadorial salutations and speeches cannot kill their love. They manage even to re spect us in spite of the shady stock brokers we send tnem as ngnsn en voys, or the "efficient" men. who are sent out to be tactful with foreigners because they have been too tactless with trades unionists. This type of traditional American. north or soutn. reaiiy nas some iraai tions connecting him with England and though he is now in a small miimriiv. I cannot imagine why Eng- i r. rfh. m. It- K. William. Walter H. Rrena. F runic Ira White. Mrs. J. M. Andcroon. J. .!. Anderson ana i anu should wish to make it smaller. tl. r. Wllllaina. front row H. L. Hudson. A. 1.. link and inrmtlan iwrnra. England Once sympamizea wnn ine Sr.ni, ir. tv h i t f in charrre of i h foreisrn-com inures a .1 i v i i ies a t t h C ham her of Commerce. heAde'd the city's Isouth. The south still sympathizes trario. itfl.rratinn in the C'leve and convention. Since Portland lias made great strides in torelgn commerce i"e wiun i-.ii,. ion. , -re,,. ..... . ....... : .J ..-. ,Ha liloa I'ltv thnill.l crr-flnn- H..lcrulton at It... t-n r VP Tl T n. ine. DtlL'lidlCD I flirgill, vr, mmiu - - pasi ,w,, ,i , v , v. , .,u, e ...w T . - Knrt rather the advantage of us In r-r. ti.t.f Pi tn re I tl I'll I fl -i"1 U fl.: II 17 IlL'JtT HEL IV. .1 - - - If ,mut-: n stS-t-.f. 1 iL-ir; Wplu , i H x:YrFX -X??1 If, wtfi" ' f V; ,H : II " a v f I v Ki , fc ' ;1l hi , - - - J y - h r - I . Kntrlit-'h part of Amrrira. It docs not srni to on ur to lliPtn tlint th is rfnip;trison bit wot'ii the unionist triumph in Amrrira and a unionist triumph in Kritnin in rathrr hnrd upon our particular synipatl.iz erft. who did not triumph. When line land exults in Lincoln's victory over hfs foes. hUv is exulting in liin vic tory over her own friend. Jf her diplomacy continues as delicate and chivalrous as It is at present, they mny noou bo her only frienoV Knts "land will be defendins lIerNcl.at the expense of her only defenders. Hut. however this may be, it is as well to bear witness to some of the elements of my ow n ex perience; and .1 can answer for ft. a,t least, that there are some people in the pouth who will not be pleased at being swept into the rubbish heap of his tory as rebels and ruffians; and who will not. I recret to say. by any means enjoy even be i hit classed with Fenians and Sinn Koine rs. Now 1 ouch i us the act uh 1 compari son between the conquest of the con federacy and tin- conquest of Ireland, there are. of course, a pood many th in pa to be said w Inch pol it ieja n cannot be expected to understand. trance to say. it is not certain that a lost oauso was never worth win ning; and it won Id be easy to a rgue that the world lost very much indeed when that particular cause was Inst. These are not days in which It if ex actly obvious that an agricultural so ciety was more dangerous than an in dustrial one. And even southern slavery lind this great moral merit. that it was decadent; and has this great historic advantage, that il is dead. Northern slavery, industrial slavery. or what Is called waee slavery, is not decaying but increasing: and the end of it is not yet. It still remains a question whether the bones -of the brave men scattered in the wilder ness may toot have reason to rise from their graves, to point at the final establishment of the servile state. But in any case, it would be well for us to realize that the reproach of resembling the coo fed c racy does not ring in all ears as an unanswerable condemnation. It is scarcely a self evident or sufficient argument, to some hearers, even to prove that the English are as delicate and philan thropic as Sherman, still less that the Irish are as criminal and lawless as Kee. Nor will it soothe every single soul on the American continent to say that the English victory In Ireland will be followed by a reconstruction, like the reconstruction exhibited in the film called "The Birth of a Nation." And, indeed, there is a further infer ence from that fine panorama of the exploits of the Ku-Klux Klan. Jt would be easy, as I say. to turn the argument entirely in favor of the confederacy. It would be easy to draw the moral, not that the southern Irish are as wrong as the southern states, but that the southern states were as right as the southern Irish. But upon the whole. I do not Incline to accept the parallel in that sense any more than in the opposite sense. For reasons I have already given elsewhere. I do believe that in the main. Abraham Lincoln was right. But right in what? If Lincoln was right, he was right in guessing that there was not really a northern nation and a southern na tion, but only one American nation. And if he has been proved right, he has been proved right by the fact that men in the south, as well as the north, do now feel a patriotism for that American nation. His wisdom, if it really was wisdom, was Justi fied not by his opponents being con quered, but by their being converted. .Sow, if the English politician must insist on this parallel, Ihey ought to see that the parallel is fatal to them selves. The very test which proved Lincoln right has proved them wrong. The very Judgment w hich may have justified him quiJe unquestionably con d cm ns them. We lia ve again and ana in eonouercd . I nla nrl. and tlav never come an inch nearer to con vert i n e Ireland. We have had not nn tiettsliurc. but -0 ic( t nburgs ; but ut! hu.e had no un'on. Ami that is w here, as I have ' remar k ri. it la relevant l remember that flying fan tastic vision on the films, that told so man people what no hfMorici have toNJ them. I have beard in America today ru mors, of the local reappearance of tho Ku-Klux Klan; but the smallne:s and mildness of the manifestation, as eontpa red with 1 he old sou t hern or the new Irish case, in alone a suffi- f tlu iception that proves l tie rule. in a pprnx una ! io h n rose nib la ivo to recent Irish events, we must imagine 'he Ku-KlUK K la n riding a ca in in more than t hn terrors of that vision, wild as tho wind, white as the moon, terrible as an army with banners. If there were really such a revival of t lie southern action, there would equally be a re vival of t In sou t hern argument. It would be clear that Lee was right and Lincoln was wrong; that the southern Mate were national and were as indestrucl ihle as nut ions. If the south were as rebellions as Ire html, the north would be as wrong a England. But I desire a new English diploin acy ihat will exhibit, not the things in which England is wrong, but the things in which England is right. And Eng I a nd is ritrht f n Engla nd, Just as she is wrong in Ireland; and it is ex actly that i ightnes i of a real nation in itself that it is at ice more diffi cult and moM dcMr.ihle to explain to foreigners. Now the I rtshma n. and to some, extent tlie Ameriran. haa re mained alien to England, largely be cause he does not truly rralisr (hat th- Eim I ihhma n h n Enc land ; t tl I toss ca n he rea I ly iiuhkuic w hy lh Eng isli ma u loves England. That is wh I insist on the stupid ity of i gnori u tr and in mi It i n z I ht opinion of thnxe fow Virvinians and other sou t h fliers who rea 1 1 y ha vrf some in her ft ed not inn of why En g lishmen love England, and en love it in soinrt h inir of the same fashion t he nisei ves. I 'olit iela ns who do not know the English spirit h-n they see it at home cannot, of course, expected to recognlxe it abroad. Pub lic) st s a re ohm uent ly pra if j ing A bra ham Lincoln, for all the w'rong rea sons; but f unda uient s 11 y for that worst and vilest of all reasons, that ho succeeded None of them seema to have the b ast not ion of bow to look for Engla nd in England : and they would see Homothing fantastic: tn the figure of a traveler who found it elsewhere but in New England. And It is well, perhaps, that they have not yet found England where il Is hidden" in England; for If they found It, they would kill it. Hut the diplomatists we really need are thosa who can tell the world that England is not heartless, becaufo thy them selves have been in the heart of England. TREES HONOR SOLDIERSj 4 Plan to Lino Iligliwajs Willi Living .Monument- Approved hy Legion INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., May 1 4. . Trees alone the great new American highways would honor everv Unlta4t States soldier, sailor and marine. If a proposal put forth by a Chicago news paper is carried out. The project haa the backing or t"o American uegon und other civic and patriotic organ, izat ions. A permanent marker would be placed on each tOc, hearing the name of a service man and bis organization, without indicat Ion of rank. Special markers would honor those w ho died In service. Full success of tho scheme would mean that the gnat Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco and the Dixie h mhwav from t'hi ago to Florida would be fringed with shade trees. Between 60 and 7" maples are to be planted along the Lincoln highway in Northern Indiana bv American Legion pouts at South Bend and Laportc. I 'resident Harding has expressed hl Hpproal of the plan and the L'nited Stales rorcatry bureau has promised its aid.. 1