The sun., 1919-04-26
The rresidert wins Over Some OBJ
Curi to Minds.

In the dispatches lately from Paris
were ten words OF such thrilling I'M
port that. lest they were lost to the
reader In the sea OF type, we must
present them again to his enraptured
vision. They came at the end Of u
paragraph which told how Mr.. Will
SON visited American headquarters
End discussed the Italian crisis with
the American delegation. The ten
words were these:
The delegation gave les full sup
port to the Presidents attitude"
Thus the Associated Press reporter
dispel.ed. in words all too brief for
such TN occasion, the cloud of doubt
that must have been in the minds of
some of AIR. WILSON'S admirers on
this side of the Atlantic. What are
Jr!umphs over foreign diplomats. no
toriously easily argued out of any
thing, as compared with Mr.. WILSON'S
victory In bringing the American dele.
CATION unanimously over to his side
in this or any other matter?
Was II not common knowledge
when the George Washington sailed
from New York last December that
the President had purposeiy taken
with him none but men Of the most
independent habit of thought? 1t is
reported that ut the very irst lunch
con OF the illustrious company one
Of tho group of photographers was
observed to make drawing of ii
piece of pie upon the table cloth after
Mr.. WILSON had openly arrived at n
preference for chocolate mousse. An
other voyuger, a famous geographer.
WIS heard to remark that he was 60
ing on deck to see the sun set even
II nobody else went.
4 professor Of ethnography boldly
stated to his promenade companion
that the skeletal remains Of the Middle
Paleolithic form homogeneous as.
sembly; although, as every one knows
nothing Is said In THE New Free
dom" to confirm such Il statement
One afternoon In mid-ocean when the
President appeared particularly posi-
tive about something one Of the off,
cial photographers turned up with u
negative. Mr. GEORGE CREEL persisted
In WEI ring his hair thick. pompadour
and black. The Secretary OF State
WINS seen to slip OF his Overcoat
within an hour after Mr.. WILSON had
remarked that 1t was chilly. Over
there Colonel HOUSE Is said to have
piled the Ossa OF Independence on the
Pellon of indlvldualism by saying
soon after the President had men
toned the nneness OF the weather.
that II was likely to rain at any time
Such divergences of opinion might
have Jared upon a statesman who
had not carefully chosen his delega-
ton for the very purpose Of having
men about him who would draw their
own views from the depths nf indivId-
u'l thought and would be rs unbend-
ing MS bessemer steel In UNFOLDING
their particular opinions.
But now, praise be we find that on
the subject OF Fiume Mr.. WILSON. un.
doubtedly to his pleasant surprise,
finds that the American delegation
gives full its support TO his attitude.
The Messrs. BULLITT and HERON are
with him to the last man. Colonel
HOUSE finds himself able to sny Yes
to the Presidential inquiry. The ON.
| cial historians write themselves down
MS characters In this unanimous meet.
ing. The anthropologlsts. perhaps re.
/ turning from excnvatiOns in Mentone
and Neanderthal with newly recon.
structed skulls and complete theory
for the luminosity between France and
Germany. vote Yea. The cartogra-
pliers, aroused from the creation of a
map showing the peaks and valleys OF
the Jugo-Slav, MS distinguished from
the Czecho-Slovnk. temperament OH
rainy Wednesdays, devote nearly an