The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-09-05

fave YOU ever seen President
Wilson Taught It's a cheer.
4 = full. amiable sight. It Is not
the wide, unctuous laugh Of the
broadly effulgsnt Mr. Taft. who was
good, workadhy President. Nor
the slap-on.thesbacl1, emphasized
dental visibility Of the onetime'
President named Roosevelt The
Wilson laugh Is q suddenly frank
expression Of man. Of serious habit.
not given indiscriminately and with,
lack, Of proportion, but under control
Of an orderly mind! aud bestowed
with. the, same circumspection that
attends the launching of q well,
turned phrase. At this time OF war
and diplomacy, when the peace or
America rests practically In the even
balanced judgment of one man,
Europe is discussing the Presidents
kugh.
The adjustment OF AFFAIRS between
khe warning nations and the United
States is no laughing matter, to be
sure; but those who look from q
distance see In the method by which
Woodrow Wilson easily and natur-
ally oeercarne' an obstacle an earnest
Of the outcome Of the grayer things
at issue.
The attempt OF suffraglsts to
heckle him during his visit to New
York during the naval review last
spring, shorn Of its intended force by
nils instant tact, has about passed
from public memory as an unimpor.
tant minor incident. But in Europe
It Is regarded OF no small value in,
estimating the character OF the man
IN q sudden and, what might be-, an
embarrassing emergency. It has
been called the laugh cure for
heclding."
kiplins's Reported Comment.
Il was one OF weekend party in
we country recently" writes our
European correspondent, "and when
the talk fell to how we'll the Enplish.
sunragettes were rushing to national
aid and how the campaign Of Ter.
5ordsm and heckling had happily
been discarded for nobler service
someone remarked that, as a rule.
the English were inclined to take
those things too seriously: that the
american treatment would have
divested many Of the demonstrations
OF their value, from suffrage noint
Of view. pesAs
True gravely assented a gov.
eminent official; President Wilson
laughed the hecklers out OF action,'
one Of them was an English
woman was suggested.
"Ye'e.es.' drawled the speaker
that's probably what made him
laugh W
"Thereupon We all laughed and
smother Of the party told that a
friend Of Ripling, who had discussed
the incident with the author, said
that Rudgard simply commented.
President: Wilson has a nice appre.
cistioni OF values
SAoSaS WASOu IuuCn nfa1Sed
laugh cure was applied to two laugh.
ing militant suftfagettes. 1t is not
definitely known whether they were
smiling wien they tried to rush Mr.
Wilson; but here we have undis.
putedi evi9ence that they were when
they came into the focus, Of the
camera. Miss Mabel Scofield Is the
English. militant and was twice ar
rested by pestered; John Bull for
1tnffing letter boxes. Her com.
panion was Miss Florence Harmon,
secretary Of Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont,
Of. the Congressfona Union, called
the most militant of all American
Suffrage organizations"
Il was Mrs. Belmont, taking leaf
from the English method, who had
dikected the descent upon the Presi.
dent. But It now seems that In the
Eight for suffrags on this side Of
the Atlantic the strenuous features of
English campaigning will not be