The Washington herald., 1918-07-24

II Col Roosevelt becomes can
didate for the governorship of New
York he will do so because ne be-
lieves 1t to be a fitting stepping stcne
to the Presidency.
II he does not then he win con-
side. the time entirely inappropriate
to start such a movement.
This Is the view of some OF the
political wiseacres who are watching
They believe the Colonel will. be
guided wholly by the effect of the
move on his supposed-to-be ambition
to again sit in the White House.
Democrats who are no less interest
ed than the Republicans in the af-
fair rather forlornly admit that the
Colonel is perhaps more to the fore
than at any time since he essayed
to bring about the defeat Of both Taft
and the President. They are not at
all disposed to grant so readily. how
ever. that the Colonel will hold
steadily to this point OF vantage.
They are convinced, and hopeful. that
he win make some monumental
blunder which will rebound to the
benefit OF their party.
One thing is now apparent since
the governship talk gained momentum
in New York. This is that the in
ternal troubles of the party have
been settled. T. R. is quite on speak
ing terms now with Smoot, Penrose
and Barnes-and those men vhom he
condemned from one end of the coun-
try to the other in 1912 are quite
as strong for him-and perhaps
stronger-than some of the men who
followed his trumpeting off into bull
moose ranks then
We observe. from the picture " the
new Kerensky in a recent Herald.
that he has smooth, neatly parted
hair. What a change-why, Alexander
Kerensky had a bushy pompadour
when he was doing things in his home
country last year. And his eyes. re-
Gently referred to as dark were
light blue then, and it was said of
him he never smiled. The present
Kerensky mas been smiling, and even
kissing Henderson. And how the
multitude yelled "be a good woman.
Arthur, when the osculatory scene
was staged.
J. Ham Lewis bill to concentrate
the wire affairs of the nation under
a single head. a cabinet officer,
should be amended to include all
sorts of public work. many engineers
OF the country think.
Some OF them have urged for years
past that the government cen:ralize
its public works and now take the
position that the time is ripe for the
move. Every cabinet officer has one
or more branches of public works un-
der his direction and yet oil of them
are of the same basic character. The
fact there is a division of this labor
makes 1t exceedingly expensive,
engineers argue, and moreover the
efficiency Of the work 10 greatly i'm
paired under the present condition.
Not so many years ago a South
American country wanted to organ
ize its public works and its engineers
at once came to the United States
to obtain our system. They were
amazed to find a Generalization.
Needless to say they did not pattern
after it at all, but went elsewhere for
their model.
II we knew the exact state of mind
o. the majority Of Russians we would
know how to handle the problem of
ludI
There are men, thoroughly familiar
with that country, who insist the
majority Of Russians are not at all
interested In intervention-save as they
want to stave it OF and might be
inclined to resent 1t with the utmost
vehemence. These men who say they
know Russia, declare that the pres
ent turbulent state of affairs there
is not at all turbulent, in fact. and
that the Russians themselves are very
well satisfied. II this is true, then
We would do well to respect this state
OF mind. If II is not true we should
know 1t. But how We are to know Il,
no. noe can tell just now. The only
suggestion appears to have come from
Russian-Americans who, say that an
investigating committee selected from
their number should be sent over ther
to find out
Now is good time to send a man
of real power as minister to Bolivia.
He should be young man capable
of speaking Spanish fiuently and of
mingling there with the people. A
high type of man could do an indefinite
amount of good in bringing Chile to
a realization Of what America means
to her. He could cement the people
Of both that country and the couptry