The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-15

That busting trusts may go with
 kindly feeling.
 That sentiment and al that gives
 good cheer,
 Are not apart from what once seem
 ed raw dealing.
 From busting trusts We turn to trust
 the trusts,
 Thus runs the new Wilsonian dis pensation; A trust that's trusted. it no longer busts,
 Or in it's heart can shelter that
 sensation"
 The plot opened with Father Trust and Daughter lndsutry in hiding. Trust is startled at the likeness of Industry to her dead sister Infant Industry who was so beautiful that her face looked like S5 per cent ad yalorem"
 lndustry-"What happened Co herr"
 Trust-"The democratic acid throwers got her.
 lndustry-'Did they get you, too?"
 Trust-"No: but they're after me with a poisoned needle. The word trust is no longer respected except cn twenty dollar gold piece, and Roosevelt tried to take it off of that"
 Enter McReynolds, who makes ad- vances to Industry, saying:
 "l will clothe you in silks and deck you in diamonds to which the girl replied
 Never! l know your idea of clothes. You want everyone to dress like the blindfolded lady with the scaIes."
 Then McReynolds tempts the fath- CT, urging him to dissolve the trusts: keep part of what you have and draw dividends without voting privileges from the rest"
 Trust-"What good will that do:"
 McReynolds-"All the trust busters in congress will be put out of busl. ness. They will have nothing left 10 bust"
 Finally under the fear of .he mob. Trusts throws himself upon the mer- cy of the new Interstate Trade Com. mission, otherwise the Brothers Cherryble" of the government and subscribes to their constitution of peace" under which the trusts come to our commission when they feel naughty, and We tell them now to be good"
 On board the battleeship Friend. ship, was held an examination of a class of bluejackets by one of Secre- tary Daniels young welfare work CTS" and here were some of the ques- tions and answers:
 What is the chief aim of the navy?"
 "To knock out the kindergartens."
 What is naval strategy"
 Carrying John Lind from Vera Cruz to Pass Christian without let ting anybody know it."
 Following in the wake of the shin came an ancient, giving his name as Apt Alliteration," which was no cd. der than Woodrow Wilson or Champ Clark, or Luke Lea, or Knute Nelson, or Tom Taggart, or Bill Barnes or Swager Sherley' He was afraid his baby ''Watchful Waiting" had been killed, as the other poor Dollar Di. plomacy."
 In a coIorful picture illustrative of his ancestry Ernest G. Walker. cor respondent of the Boston Herald and the Springfield Republican, was mi tiated into the office of president of the Gridiron Club, as preliminary to much merrymaking. Broad-brim- med Puritans, whose cognomens say ored of Pilgrims Progress, marched with plumed cavaliers of the south land to do honor to the new presi- dent, who was significantly warned upon taking up his office that "the Gridiron Club stands for only one term"
 It was in tropical Santo Domingo that the Gridiron initiated its most re- cent accessions to membership, in the persons of Ben F. Allen of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Sumner H. Curtis Of the Chicago Record.Her aid. A change of scene effected while the lights were lowered disclosed a group Of Dominican generals arrang- ing for a presidential election, such as were usually he'd on Mondays and Thursdays. For this occasion an ex- tra election was held on Saturday and the generals were playing freeze out" for the nomination. To this the observers" sent by the Washington state department strongly objected and demanded the substitution of the presidential primary system. but be- fore their will could be enforced they were discovered to be two "molders of public opinion so, of course, Washington newspaper men, and thus eligible to membership in the club which promptly adopted them
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