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i TEN PAGES EDITORIAL, SPORTS ' " ' ;"' ' '''' -- PORTLAND OREGON, SUNDAY, MORNING, JANUARY 29. 1&22. :M ' '-- - J , fly fiy STAN N ARE) BAKER J :CHAmElik JJ'1 JJ-- u-2l Jeemel kverwta the fifth IraneThneat af IU7 gtanmrd Bakafa etorj rr".Tl7.?"','p . toilielUi petmnal wmblialMd mn. wMeh 4K. 'Um vtti a paeiib4 la The Joaroal t-- - tCrerrlht lt:. tr ""Pam Co. PoblfaM by special Amuseraaat with ' um MiClm Krapapar BjadxUte.) . CHAPTER V ' ' QNB evening late in May, at a critical moment of the peace conference (I find It .recorded In my notes of that time), I found the president ( landing alone before a large-scale map of Southeastern Europe. It hung ou lot wau or ms study, where the Big- Four held their dally meetings. It was a warm evening and the window tood partly open. In the bit of driveway outside paced an American sentinel. , Vor some moments after I came In the president continued to study the map with deep absorption. It was plain to see that he had had a hard day of It; for he showed it In the drawn lines of his face. It was. Indeed, a trying time for everybody. While the German treaty had been finished and delivered, it was doubtful whether the Germans would ever sign' it They were attacking it bitterly. No one in the world seemed satisfied with anything that had been done, and now that the council hail turn a1 It ea 4a-4. a 4.-1 Kay RUssard Batar Z . J T mrm or new Problems relating to the crumbling em pires of the East and Southeast Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Russia assailed them. nevoiuuen was still smoldering in Hungary, end brush firea of national conflict or cMl war were burning over bsji or Eg rope. It seemed at the time a veritable race of peace with anarchy. The president's case was still further oiTtpllcated by home problems. He had Just finished nobody knows how be managed It a long message to congress, working ft out in spare moments on his typewriter before or after the meetings ef the four; an Irish-American com mittee recently come to Farts was mak ing It hot for Mm and everybody else; and finally, the attacks upon him and Moon the league covenant Itad-broken out with new bitumens In congress. SECRET YirtrrKS OTf -WIX80X f thought of the enormous difficulties that this maa faced s trying to work out Just settlements In this ancient hot-bed nf strife with the Austrian fretting t that moment at Saint Germain for an unf iniahed treaty trying to work out Just settlements when there was no good mill anywhere to be found! And It was a spirit of good will, mutual help fulness., which the president had sought 'to Inspire; and upon which his settle-meats-. If they were to be effective, must rest. It was no wonder. thought, that ,( these bitter weeks were wearing him ut that eometlmes of an evening, after the cnnferenee had ended and he had re stated. Ms fee looked like death r and sometimes one side of it, and bis eye. would" twitch painfully. Tet he never i rave Over trying. In that stew of prob , Ums, to keep Ms principles tn the fore greimd and. If be ooald not realise them In their entirety, to prevent or mitigate . far as povslbl. propossls which con trnvened them. Ills assocjatss. and es- 'i1illy riemetMreati. no matter how hjird. Ihey fought him. recognised the utter sincerity of his purpose. . Occa sionally this feeling slipped out. as on May II, when Clemenceau said: (this i from the secret minutes of the Council of TOur) : ; ."President Wilson had corns to Eu rope with a program of peace for all men. Ilia kieel was a very high one. but 1t Involve great difficulties, owing to the centuryold hatreds between some race," "We have been studying the new boundaries of Austria,- he said to me finally. -The Auatrlans are at swords points with the Juro-HUva here In the Ktaganfurl Baa In. We have been trying to arrange for an early plebiscite.'' "They prefer to flsht." I mid J. .J1 M' "thry Pwfer to right. Oemenceau told us the other dey that here In Instrla both sides were pelting ua barbed wire and preparing for war. Up here the Roumanians and Hungarians are fighting; nd the Csechs and the roles.' JTOCmTTtgw WARS I rs.OOB.FS9 I told, him thst we had rotinted up 14 mall wars going on In various parts of lJurope. , , "I do not doubt It." he said. -Ve hsve beenironaklerlng the limitation of armament ef these restless small states bK how oen-tbe great powers Impoee wisarraaiBea upon them when they will not Impose It upon themselves T' A few days later he put the same euestioa, even mere bluntly, tor his as sociates ef the Big Fvur. ! said (minutes ef June 4. OxiaeH ef four) "The prlnclpel rowers might find it embarrassing if they were asked (by the entsll atatrs whether they Intended to Import e limitation of armaments on tbemnelves. Th reply would be. 'Tee, the Council ef the Lea rue of Nations Is te present a plan." To this the repre sentative of the small states would re ply : 'Are you bound te accept Itr and the principal powers would have to re ply. He.' Te this neither Lloyd Oeorre nor Or lando made any reply, but Clemenceeu. as the record eats forth, pointed out the much greater responsibilities of the prin cipal powers.' SsTAXL STATES BIO DIFFICULTY Ne problems. Indeed, proved more dif ficult throughout the oonference than tnose or we new small states. During the war the president had been a strong champion of fjie right of the email tatea. lie had encouraged the Poles snd Serbs and formally recognised the . Csacho-cUevaks, This was not mareJv a Policy of the greatest value In breaking lam wmwrn 01 uie enemy powers, by destroying their unity, but It repre sented his own deep, conviction regard- . tng the rights ef peoples to determine their own government, and the duty of the strong to esslst them. - He was more , renternea always with the dua of tve strong than with the rights ef th He was greatly attracted by en address by Marshal Joffre at the French, ecad etay and copied off a sentence of It which he used afterwards during bis speech at the Oulldhan ia London and "wwnerw.. .mis sentsnce waa as, fol lows : . i . - - ; - , - . - "Let er (France) never forget that the week and small cannot live free in (be world If the strong end great are ever.reaay u place their strength and power at the disposal of right." ' i m was eiacuy Uie president's doe- , wm mu ns aeugaiee in it ; be believed which ate the aerially thmecboe the pubno. Tha nwi wimiamiM year.. that the acid test of democracy lay in the treatment by the strong of the weak. FREITCH "CORDOJC SAKITATRI But no sooner had the peace confer ence opened than new policies began to develop, as far as the poles removed from the presidents (and Joffre's) idea ; for they sought tojwise the weak to help protect and make more secure the strong The central purpose of the French policy here, as always, dictated by French fears was to build up a ring of small, weak states around Germany they themselves called it a "cordon sanitarie," a sanitary cordon snd make these de pendent upon her, rather than upon Ger- IB' protecUon- Tt Poles, with uie rolisn army commanded by French generals, thus became a military satel- .fi frMC.;nd thls w& equally true of Roumania and of other of the small states. The French sup ported throughout the peace conference the record is full of it the demands of these smaller states for the utmost ag grandisement at the expense of the en emy states. This policy tended, of course, irrespective of its Justice or In justice In particular t m,u. i. small state apprehensive regarding itsj new ralna. aml firfi k. ZL..4 - . uw VvBBIOlO reverse of the old enemy powers., (they retained a profound respect for the fTTf f G3"), obliged them to lunvAoVrance. then ad .-stnrT the strongest conUnental sUte. for protec tion' The more unjust the settlement might be, the greater the fear of the small state and the sharper the sense of rH01 And re help . ro.t.th flercr svew the .national istic spirit among them ; and the more exolted the scramble for wider bounda ries, for coal and iron mines, for rail roads and industrial centers. We have a. vivid picture of the situation in Cen tral Europe in the secret report of the American officer. Major General F J ?n:. Who " Chief American repJ HL.J?? H1" ater-eiued commis sion to Poltnd. He says (April 11) : rRESCH OS MILITARISM "In Central Europe, the French unl rorm Is everywhere In evidence, offi. and men. There Is a concerted, distinct ;uo" ng aae by these agents to foster the military spirit In Poland. . ..v.v,. ajio, g Deueve, In Rou mania. The Imperialistic idea has seised upon the French mind like a kind of madness, and the obvious effort is to create a chain of states, highly mill- larisea. organised as far as possible under French guidance, and intended to be future allies Of Franre T h.t. J doubt whatever of this general plan, and apparently meeting with great suc cess. Poland Is endeavoring to raise an army of approximately 600.000: the Osechs are striving to raise an army of about 250,000, and Roumania is strug gling under a very extensive militarr burden. All of this means that these People have no belief in the efficacy of ine league or rxattons to protect them, and that under the guidance of the French, a strong military combination is being built upv . capable, perhaps, of dominating Europe. This ' purpose, of course, is not avowed. The claim is that mis cnam.of strong military states Is essential te hold' back the tide of Rue elan Bolshevism. I regard this largely as camouflage, Each of the three states named hsa aggressive designs upon the surrounding territory and each Is determined to get by force. It need be. as large an area as possible." "as-KTesslve military scUon" pre dicted by General Kernan in April ax tually took place later. It is surely one or the tragic incidents of the peace con ference that the legitimate rights and Interests of the Poles, in which the president had long been profoundly In terested, should have been so confused, even submerged, by the selfish, con flicting interests and .purposes of the great powers. But Poland has ever been a tragic figure in history; much used, never served, by her greater neighbors. Again and again In the conferences, the French were perfectly frank In speaking of this use of Poland, not to help the Poles, but to serve the interests of the allied powers. On June 2, for example, Clemenceau said : POLAND V ALLOTTED .FATE "When we spoke of establishing P2 land, it must be remembered that this was not done merely to redress, one of the greatest wrongs of history; It was desired to create a barrier between Ger many and Russia." , The Poles were te be used to hold back Bolshevism, to weaken Germany, to balance the power of the Csechs every thing In the world except to build m a sound Polish state. . . . As for the British, thci r... ward i the small states the note oftenest sounded to the peace conference was aaarp unpauenee with the small powere because they -were trouble-makers and costly: and an -w would not settle down, there could be no return to peace and no. revival of .Vo,.,. , , commerce ia which tha British (and. to a lesser degree, the Ainerlcans), were vitally interested. We find Lloyd George lashing out la denun- (Coejoladad ea rase Twa, Coloata Than) i REPRESENTATIVES OF FIVE SMALLER STATES WHOSE PROBLEMS TROUBLED WILSON I" '" T I ' "'""-i mm ii ' Krxw . is ', -1T"'""r"";--i:i , - V ' ; v I v V I ' ' . Ii jytt z M (Pubhahtd and ornhtcd bj G. r, Pntaaa'a (All fkt twerrad by U nitodBUtm . BWure v. SrpcUaate) v -' '' EVERT time we elect a new president we learn what a, various, ereature, 13 the typical American. ' . - . ; When Mr. RooBeveJt was In the wkh House the typical- American was gay' robustious, full of the Joy of living, an expansive spirit from the frontier, a Picaresque twentieth century middle class cavalier. He hit the line hard and did not flinch. And his laugh shook the skies. ; Came Wilson. And the typical Ameri can was troubled about his soul. Rooted firmly In the church-going past, he car ried the banner of the Lord, democracy, Idealistic bent on perfecting that old Incorrigible man. he cuts off the right hand that offends him and votes for prohibition and woman suffrare. a round head in a Ford.' Eight years, and we have the ierfnnTv typical - American, Warren Gamaliel Harding of the modern type, the square head, typical of that American whose artistic taste Is the movies, who reads ana nnas mental satisfaction In the vague Inanities of the small town news paper. . who has faith , in America, who is for liberty, virtue, happiness, pros perity, law and order and all the stand ard generalities and holds them a per fect creed: who distrusts anythin new except mechanical inventions, the stand ardised product of the syndicate which supplies bis nursing bottle, his school books, his information, his humor in a strip, his art on a screen, with a quan tity production" mind, cautious, uniform ly hating divergence from uniformity. Jailing it in troublous times, prosperous, who has his car and hla.hSW account and can. sell a bill of goodsis wen as the best' of them. '' : ' People who Insist upon having their poimos -logical demanded 'to know the why. of.. Harding, , Why was a man , of so tmdlsUug ulshed. a record as he ftrst chosen as the j candidate' for president and then. elected president?. .; , , . As a legislator he had left no mark on legislation. . If he had retired from" congress at the end of his terra his name would have existed only In the old congressional directories, like that of a thousand others. -As a public speaker he had said nothing that any body could remember. He had passed through a great war and left no marls on it. He had shared te a fierce debate upon the peace. that followed the war but though you can recall small persons like McCumber and Kellogg and Moses and McCormlck In that discussion you do not recall -Harding. To be sure he made a speech in that debate which he himself says waa a great speech but no newspaper thought fit to publish It because of its quality, or felt Impelled to publish it tn spite of its quality be cause it had been made hyHarding.' ? He neither compelled attention - by what he said nor toy his : personality. Why. then, without fireworks,' without distinction of , any sort without catch lng the, public eye, or especially deeerv Ing to catch ft. was Warren Harding elected president of the United States? ' ' - .' - - ONE! plausible reason ": why he ; was nominated was that ! given by Sen ator Brandegee at Chicago where -he had a great deal to do with the nomina thMU j -There ahVt any first raters this year. This atnt any 1SS0 or any 1804.' We haven't any John Shermans or Theodore Roosevelts. - We've got a lot of second raters and Warren Harding Is the best of the second raters.- , v Once nominated as a Republican his election f course Inevitably- followed. Borto accept Mr. Brandegee's pie In avoidance is to agree to the eternal pov, erty of American poUttcal life, for most . - ' ' ' V- i - -j i - a lis?' ;v;: 1 v::i4 of our oresidente . him K.n nkw-Warren G. Harding.- first tlaes sec ond raters. - - ... , ...... Mrs.., Harding,, a, woman t of sound sense and much . energy, had an exoei-leni- instructive answer to tha- wn Tha .pictures- of the house - in Marion, the celebrated front porch, herself and her husband were token to be exhibited by cinema all over the land. She said, I want the people to see these pic tures so that they will know we are Just folks like themselves." ' Warren Harding Is "Just folks." A witty woman said of him, alluding to the small town novel which "was popular at the' time of his inauguration.-"Maln Street has arrived in the White House," The average man has rfeen up and by 7,000,000 majority elected an average man president. His defects were his virtues. He was chosen rather for what he wasn't than for what he was, the inconspicuousness of his achievements. The "Just folks" level of his mind, his Small town man's caution, his sense of the security of the . past, his average hopes and fears and practicality, his Standardized Americanism which would enable -a people who wanted for a sea son to do so to take themselves politi cally for granted. rpHE country was tired of the high 'A- thinking and rather plain spiritual living of Woodrow Wilson. It desired the man in the White House to cause it no more moral overstrain than does the man you meet In the Pullman smoking compartment or the man who writes the captions for the movies who employs a sort of inaugrural style, freed from the inhibitions of statesmanship. It was in a mood similar to that of Mr. -Harding himself when, after his election.. he took Senators Freylinghuysen. Hale and Elk Ins with him on his-trip to Texas. Sen ator Knox, observing his- choice. Is re ported to have said, "L think he Is tak ing those three along because ha wanted complete -mental relaxation.- AH his Ufa Mr. Harding has. shown a predHec4 tion ton, companions who give, him cora4 pleto mental relaxation, Jthough duty compels him to associate with tha Hughes and 4he Hoovers. The conflict between duty and complete ' mental re--taxation' establishes a strong bond s of sympathy between him and the average American. . The -hy" . of . Harding ia the demo eratle passion .for equality. - We are' standardised, turned out like Fords by the hundred million, and we cannot en dure for long anyone who is not stand ardiaed. Such an one easts reflections upon us; why should we by our votes) mmecessarily asperse ourselves? 'Oc4 caslomvlly we may Indulge nation alky, as mem "do individually, in the romantic belief that we are somebody else, that we are like 'Roosevelt or Wilson and ther become typical of what we would be but always we come back to. the knowledge that we are nationally, like nanunR, wno is typical or wnat we are! ised, associated pressed folks. f i Men debate whether or not Mr, Wilson was a great man-and they win keep ori doing so until the last of those passes away whose judgment of hhn Is clouded by the sense of his personality. But men win never debate about the great ness of Mr. -r Harding, not even Mr1. Harding himself. . He Is , modest. He has only two. vanities, his vanity about his personal appearance and his vanity about his literary .style. - j The bihibitiona of a presidential can dldate hound to speak and say nothing, irked hhn. . ; , . "Of bourse ' I could - make " better speeches than theee." he told a friend, durtnr the campaign,'" "but X have to be so carefu. - . - Ji . fM-J' v.-C ".'' . Z j i r-HIS Inaugural address he let' hhni e go, aa much as it is posaibln far a maa so cautious as he Is to let nimscll r 4r 2V fcjujT?-0j,lr luirmaawiuKu 2r ,14 ' a.g?at speech, "aa Inaugural ttrplace alongside the Inaugurals of Liu eoln and Washington, written in his most Cpable ,Engltsh, Harding , at hlkc.best; it. is ..hard for a manto mow Marloa T8 w(tA wg editorials, to receive uw uaiiy compuments of Dick Cressinger and Jim Prendergast without becoming vain of; the power of his nn n i. ki. chief vanity .and It is one that it Is bard for him who speaks or writes . to cfc5f Pe- He has none of that egotism which makes a self-confident man think himself the favorite of fortune. He said, after bis nomination at jChlca-S-3ew t4 plr of deuces and tiled. Tie did, not say it boastfully as K man who likes to draw. to a pair of deuces and who always expects to fill; He said it with surprise and relief. He does not like to hold a pair of deuces and be forced to draw to them. He has not a large way of regarding losing and winning as all a part of the game, lie hates to lose. He hated to lose even a friendly game of billiards in the Marlon club with his old friend Colonel ccristian, father of his secretary, though the BUke waa only a ciiTr. , When he was urged to seek the Re publican nomination for the presidencv he is reported to have said. "Why should i. My chances of winning are not good! vi , 5Lon " my name 1 stall prob ably in the end lose the nomination for fbe senate. (His term was expiring.) If. I don t run for the presidency I can stay in the senate all my life. I like the ente- It is a very pleasant place." The senate is like Marlon. Ohio, a very pleasant place, for a certain tern peramenu And Mr. Harding stayed In Marion all his life until force a vis ex terior ; there is nothing inside Mr. Hard ing that urges him on and on until .I" circumstances, of politics, of other men's ambitions, took him out of Marion and. set him down in Washing ton, m the senate. The process of uprooting him from the PteasanVlilace of Marion is reported-to nave been, thus described by hia political transpl&nter, the present eAtoraejgS eral, Mr. Daugherty : ."When it came te running Uor the. senate I -found him. sunning hUnnelf in Florida,' like a turtle oa a log and I had to push him into the water and make him swim." 7 An a similar thing happened when it came to running for the presidency. It te a definite type of man who. suns him self on a log. who ia seduced by pleasant Places like Marion. Ohio, wnom theWg not drw 'nto, its magnetic field, whose heart is not excited by the larger chances of life. Is be laay 1 u he acktng la imagination. Does he hate to lose? Does he want self-confidence? W modest? Has be no love for lite, life as a great adventure? - What. fjr b W Mr. Harding la that kind of klad ?f mvn trt out with. hZ Vf onl, 1X51111 ' departure, that choice to remain in a pleasant place hke Marion, not to risk what you hare oc-ty as the son of tZLZZrt. VT i Iunule. the reasonable prospect that the growth of your email f bring nome accretion tow StKft? sctalt ot hazard greauy tn Hm York or Chicago or' ea ttrontler. Life aaka 115 to toose pleasant niacee hke Marlon and la retorajor that lime gr. gsmromu" "Pay If you are, to begin with, well Pjoed. 4iryou re Ingratiatingly kand aome. If your personality is agreeable- ."The best feBow in the wertdteTlSay poker with all Saturday iiigMaaii Marlonlto feelingly described the Tareai. aent to xasvand if you have a gift of , Bnawma ana abundant aa your looks. , - : . f , J: V -A t t t t ' TITR-' HABDINO Is a handsome man; J-TA endowed witR the gifts that reln force.tbe charm of hl exterior, a fine voice.! winning smile.-. fluency ef which his Inaugural Is the best imtuM -an ample man. you might say. But he w.ioo nanasome. xoo endowed, for his own good, his own spiritual good. "The ewrH4 S! :ST7m'!WSyi T "ill"1' il'T a light .stoop of his .shoulders, ihe soft figure, the heaviness under the eyes be tray; In . -some, measure perhaps -the con sequenoe ' of nature's aaaii lty. Given all these things you take, It may. be. too. much fbe. granted. There la -not much to stiffen tha mental, nmi ana pnysicai libers. - , I Given such good looks. ' such favor from nature.- and an - environment In which . the struggle is not sharp and existence is a species of mildly purpose ful flanerle, you lounge a bit stoop shoulderly forward to success. There Is nothing hard about . the president. I once described him in somewhat this fashion to a banker in New York who wasa interested in knowing what kind of a president we had. "Tou agree." he said, "with a friend of Harding's who came in to see me a few days ago. This friend said to me Warren is the best fellow In the world. He has wonderful tsct. Hs knows how to make men work with him and how to get the best out of them. He Is po litically adroit. He is conscientious. ' He has a keen sense of his responalbllitlea. Hs has unusual common' sense.' And he named other similsr virtues, Well-I asked him, 'What is his defect r Oh. he replied, the only trouble with War ren is that he lacks mentality.'." a The story, like moot stories, exagger ates. The president haa .the average man's virtues of common sense and con sclentiousness with rather more i the average man's political akin ami the average man's Industry or lack of lnausxry. wis mentality . la not lacking ; it is undisciplined, especially In Its high er ranges, by hard effort. There Is a certain softness about him mentally, it Is not an accident that his favorite com panions are the least Intellectual mem. bers of that house of average Intelli gence, the senate. They remind him of the mental . surround tegs of Marion, the pleasant but unstlmulatinr mmoi atmosphere - of the Marlon club,, with Its successful small town business men,- Its rocs aioreaeepers. lis- nanker .whose mental horizon is bounded. bv Martnn county, the -value of whose fans lands for mortgages he knows to a penny, the lumber dealer whose eye rests on the forests of Kentucky and West Virginia. rauiE. preauoent Has never felt -the J- sharpening of competition. He waa a local pundit because he waa the editor. He was the editor because he owned the Republican paper of Marion. There waa no effective rival No strong In telligence challenged his and made him fight for his place. He never studied hard or thought deeply on public queaw tiona. "A.'maa who stays where he is put by birth- tends to accept- authority and authority la strong ta small rlaraw The acceptance ef authority Implies few risks.' It la like staying ta Marlon to- sreaa or going- to New Tork or even Cleveland. It is easier and often mare profitable than studying hard or-think ing ueepty or inquiring too much. am Mr. Hardtogs Is a mind that bows to authority. What his party -say a to enough for Mr.- Harding. - His party Is for protection and Mr. Harding Is for protection ; the.argumeots for protection may be readily assimilated from the ed itorials of one good big city newspaper and from a few campaign ad dresses, is rs u remission or tolls oe American shipping in the Panama nni had Mr. Harding Is for the remission of tons. ,. ear. xtooc nroxe witn hia party on tons ana atr. naming is as much shocked at Mr. Root's deviation as the matrons of Marion, would be over. the public disregard of the - -seventh mm. mandment by one of their number. His party ' became somehow for the pay. ment of Columbia's Panama claims and Mr. Hording was for their per ment.'. t A story tells Just how Senator, Kellogg went to the president , to oppose' the Co lombla treaty.-' After- hearing Mrv Kel logg -. Mr. - Harding remarked, . "Wen, u&, jv nave someuung on i vCHt 7i ' HARDING. WARREN G. President of the United States; b'orn ' . Corsica, Morrow county, Ohio. November, z.. 185; educa tion, student of Ohio Central col lege (now defunct). Iberia. 1171 11 '. epgaged ' in newspaper . busi heas at Marion. Ohio, since It 14; president Harding Publishing company, publishers Star (dally ); member Ohio senate, lt0-04; lieutenant governor of Ohio. 1M4- Republican nominee for gov ernor of Ohio. 1910 dereated); member United States senate from Ohio. 1115-21; Baptist; president of the United SUtea, 1I2L, Toove . evidently read ' the ' treaty I haven't," ' "A mind aceeptlng authority favors cer tain genera policies.' It Is not eufflcleatl ly Inquiring, to trouble itself with the details. , Mr. Harding is for ' all - sorts OI wing, nt;is contest to be merely for them.' A' curious iUustrsUon' devel oped In Marion. duJng the vkdU of the beet minds. He said to the aeWsoanee ? i?o ' 0?' 7- I am for voltav rnimiary- training. ... t W-would you tram. Mr. Prewi. dent,"' asked one of the Journalists, "of- The-presldeut heellsted.t At test Tea said. "I haven't thought of that." -."B" one ef Wa Interlocutors, the conegee are trainisg a lot ef offw n ow." ; .'. , This brought do response. Another who- had experience i the Great war remarked.' "In the Ust war we were lacking ta trained nen-coms: It would be-a good idea to train a lot oi them.-' - t . r . ? . ee." rejoined Mr. Harding eagerly. -That would be a good Idee," 7 A more tnqnlrlng mind would have gone-further than to be "for votuntarv military training. t A Quicker, leeeal Uoua.'lf no more thorough mind would have answered the first question. -What womld you train officers or men T bv answering instanUy. "Both," . r '" v In that coUoquy you hare revealed all the mental, habits of Mr, Harding. He was asked once, after he had had sev eral conferences with 8enator McCum-ben-- Senator Smoot., Representative Fordney.. and others, who would be re sponsible for financial legislation. "Have you worked out . the larger details of your taxation policy? -Naturally otr waa the reply! That naturally- sprang. I suppose, from bis habit of believing that somewhere there ia authority. Somewhere there would be authority to determine what the larger 1 r"mK a VVyj detaite ef Party" a nnaaclal should be. policy e e NOW. this authority ia not "going ta beany one wtaa or aey Ira toea. an rnemis ten ua, te Wi os of any aseuinptiou of power r any of his advise ra. He la iiih, t- v7-1 the pabtie think Uiii anv .k himself U president. A men as hand me as Harding, aa vain of his literary tTt.. ? h, an aa t tfcat te "we ex -total setf-ef soiamet. )la wia bow to Impersonal antkM-n to . that of the party, or Invoke the aaoar. ' mows awverwajMe of -beat mioda." oeiU tngjheoften on God aa a well eelab. llsAedauthorlty. but he wfa ne let au thority be personal and be called hrh. ty. oe- Lodge or Kaea - "sal Wan Has i t yea will. , The peestdonra atr-ftiwt- a. i?4 V? ' during the cam. ZZZ -ii1 KI to voter on a Pun man. "Mr. Harding as a maa of amUl publkj esperteooe. not known by any large political , aooompliahment." .Jwr". answer ptimkkally. r: wiU ere te U that be makea fnody Asked who -they-.wet, he was alwaya vague and elostva, gods ea the mountain perhaps. There te aa Aeaer rZ0: toe average man'a faJth : It Is -Them.- -They are the foantata of authority. Mr. Harding kmew TitUe esenpet tton la Marloa so he haa known little ooaapotttiosi to pebUe life whack to this fJTls net genuinely eompetiUve. Mr. Lloyd George Is at tha head of the Britiah government because he Is the greatest master of the House ef Cero lnoaa t" a generatloa and he to chose, by the men who know him far what be la. his fellow members of the House of Commons, An American prealdeot to elected by the newspapers, which toew Utile about him. by Ue politicians, whs ' do not want a master but a slave, by the delegates to a national oonvesUon, Ured. with hotel bCls mounting, ready to name . anybody to order to go home. The preet denry. the one great prise ta American public life, la attained by ne known rules and under coodltioos which hsve nothing, in these te make a vaaa work, hard or think hard, especially one n dewed with a handsome face and Crura, and Ingratiating personality, and a liter ary style. . . .,. -, . t . -:. . " The' stnaU town man. vnlmAgtaative and of restricted mental hortsoa does not think la terms of masons of mankind. Masse vaguely appall him.- They exist la the big cities on which be turned his -back ta his ensudarioos youth. His eoo tacto are. with todlvtduala. Hia democ racy consists- to smiling epea the wiUage -painter umT exTling hlr -Jtorry." la ju- ways nodding to the village cobbler sod calling him "Bill.- ta stopping on the street corner with a group, which haa not neon invited to Jots the village dob, putting hia hand on the shoulder of one of them and calling them TVUowa" Politic In the small town is limited t ' dealings " with persona, to enlisting the support of mea with a following at the polls. " . Mr. Harding once drew this plctare ef . hia Idea or poUUca. if 1 had a poUrr to put over I should g aboat It this way." hs said. Ton all know the tosn ' meeting, if not. by experience, by hear-", say. Now If I had a' program that t wanted to have adopted by a town meet- . leg I should go to the three er four most Influential mea In my community. . I . should talk It out with them. I should make conoession te them until J had got -them to agree with me. And then I should go Into the town meeting feeling perfectly confident that my plan would go through. Well It's the same In the , nation aa to the town meeting, or la the whole world, if you win. I -should si way go first to the three or four tee Ing men. Mr. Harding thinks of politics In thie personal way. . He does not conceive ef It as the force of Ideas er the weight ef . morality moving the hearts of mankind. . Mankind Is only a word to him. one that he often tases or perhaps he prefers ha manity. which haa two more synihies a. large loose word that he employ to make hie thoeght look bigger thaa It really is, something like the stag drvtoa for making an ordinary saaa seem It feet tall. .... Thus be win never try to move the mass of the people as his priiisceesors have. . He will not "go to the country." . Ha will not bring pubUe optntoa to bear aa a disciplinary force to hi bouaehoM. He will treat the whole Calted States as If It were a Marloa, eewsuiaeg srllias "best minds.- torn posing differences seeking unity, with the aid of his except tioaal tact. .... ' - This attitude haa lis disadvantages. If you have a passion for Ideas and aa IS diaereace for person you caa say yv-" ' or vne". easily: you may. end y h-nng.' dictatorial and arrogant, aa Mr. Wi'aoe was; but you win not be weak. J ra ttle contrary, yoe are Indlffereat to I4caej and coast da rate of pereons.yoe mU fiati ' It hard to say "decided- to any ruesuu And somewhere there must be authority the passing of tha- flaal Judgmer.t sst " the giving of orders. - A . . , ' - "e e. . -t-- BUT he compensate for hi own de fects. Alnaost aa good aa i rr la a knowledge of year own UmiLaUooa; and Mr. Hardtag knows his thorougUy. Out of hi modesty, hi desire to rein force himself, ha proceeded the strong est cabinet that Washington haa aweu la a generation. He like to have -dunoas rest upon the broad base ef more thaa one totelligenee and be hae surrounded himself for this purpoas auk able sesociatea. Hi policies, will Lack tmsgl nation which ts not a ceanpoetie product, bet they will have prectlcaJitr, . which I the greatest common deaorot na tion of several minds ; and be. moreover. Is hlmeelf unimaginative aad practical. Whatever supetwtructure -of world or ganisation be take pert to, behind it will be the reality, a pmate maderstaed lng with the bit rest maa I eight ; for this reason the fail of Lloyd George aad the succession of a labor government to England win dlacoscert him terrify. The dsanocratto passion for eoaalltr. which doc .toe tracks of the great, he modifies by reminding the nation alwar that he la "Just folks.- by Opening the White House la wa gates,, by - entire everyone by Ms first name. So constant is hi aim to appease It that I woudrr If he Is not sometime betrayed late ai dresslng hi secretary of slats aa -Char- T-- '-, . . a