The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-15
Charles G.. Norris, author of
THE Amateur" (Doran.)
Tagore. John Galsworthy and Rupert
Brooke. She takes the more I'VE
tional. not the experimental, poems.
A BIT OF
EVERYTHING ELSE.

The United States IL in danger OF n
war. Not for disccrnihlc political rea-
sons. but because IL has a philosopher.
Everybody knows, for we have been
told often enough. that it was Fried
rich Nietzschc died 1900 who started
the present war SO 1t may be thu
In 1880 the Western Hemisphere will
suffer such an indigestion as now af-
flicts Europe, and opinion of the day
will trace its origins back to Crotrds.
published in 1913, and We doubleday.
Page. now hot from the typewriting
machine OF the am author, Gerald
Stanley Lee. I'VE" Is launched into the
reading world as "a confession of faith
for the American people. Il study Of the
art OF making things happen. a rec
concentration Of the first person plural
for men and nations" II is 700 pages
Of twentieth century philosophy.
Twentieth century philosophy is not
the philosophy of Herr Professor
ueberweg's bulky tome. II never snores.
1t falls into headings like these: Does
Mr.. Carnegie express America the
art Of making people look" news to
people about their own pocketbooks."
Jack Johnson and Mr.. Roosevelt"
hip pocket peace 1.-THE rights Of "a
%saptead." "whiners and getters." the
overmeek." 'the undermeek,'' think
Ing in three dimensions ninety mill
ion faces" ION getting the Colonel not
TO he afraid and "the death of MUIR
der Need We SAY that this author
speaks out in meeting, hits from the
shoulder, handles his subject without
kid gloves n exemplihes all the other
stock phrases for plain directness of
speech? He * not too dignihed TO use
the Billy sunday style where that
seems best fitted TO his purpose, and
as 1t is his purpose to move the Amer
lean people by sticking verbal pins into
what he considers n sluggish national
mind. the occasions for employing the
sensational vocabulary are frequent.
Any paragraph in I'VE tells the
story OF It and its author: this one Is
characteristic: Every man has bare
spots in his mind. places in which he
| allows his thinking to be done for HIM
| 10y machinery or 10y other people II
is n personal disappointment To mo
Z tia at just this time Col. Roosevelt, of
all others Tthc nan who owes his en-
I tire career to advertising. To- an easy
familiar way he has OF Shaping the
world on the back and to a Kind III
grit ne has of taking the world in
hard personally and making things
| happen To II. the man who .
has been the most colossal advertising
mar OF his time . should sud
denly turn his back on his own con-
fcssion. In the most siupcn,irus.
original and arresting opportunity Ia
make all nations look any nation has
ever hal Col. Roosevelt throws all adj
vcrtising to tho winds. drops all at
tcnt!on-enRinecrlng with Il thud, gives
up. lies down. bluhhers for h.G ships
and soldiers and talks about iightlng
and about being 'errihl" as hard as
anybody does. The tame big. mo-
! %nutonous. feeble. unnoticoahlc fogrorn
oc uGliness, the same stupid meaning
less mooing of guns, the se!fsaIne
d.afening thunder TO get attention
that all the nations have failed with
before our eyes, Col Roosevelt wants
us to adopt to make America attract
attention, to make America stand ont,
to make America stop war. in the
world
We cannot be- quite certain which
Mr.. Leo loves most. peace or the OPP
p~ortunity TO philosophize. But he is
u capable hugler in the army Of mill
tant pacitists.