The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-06-16
Mainly About People
A Weekly News Letter
By T. p. O'CONNoR.

Copyright, 1919. by Public Ledger CO.
LONDON, June 14.-Ncver IN ht'y
years residence in London have seen
a season gayer than the present. J"iili
Bull ordinarily is q grunolei' oul nc
also insists on having his good Time
Never did he insist so strongly as TO-DAY
On fancy dress balls and big weddings
Derby day was unexampled for attend
ance and was reported more fully in tho'
papers than the proceedings Of the peace
conference. On the opera season. where
new tenor or new prima donna Is IN
troduced. every week young ladies are
displaying leapyear initiative or love
making 10 the despair of old-fashionca
parsons and prim doEagers. And WIN
regard TO dress this, for instance IS
what find in the chaste columns OF the
Daily News:
There was no back to her dress; there
was very little front, and nothing 10
speak about In the way Of Sides Inc
skirt came to an abrupt end well aoofe
the knee. The only articles Of dress
were a paiFsSof black stockings and
pair Of shoes
Reacttou from Wars Stress
Such IS London today. 1t reminds one
Of that orgy OF enjoyment which fol
lowed ING CASCu(lOi " 4SOONSPASA@~ N-'~
the end Of the reign Of terror in Paris,
when Napoleon and Barras were rivals
| for the favors Of Josephine. and IT
comes from the same cause, namely, tho
| cessation Of the prolonged anxieties or
four years and the spring tide of relief
and Joy Of life which nothing can now
dam.
You win. therefore. form a wrong i'm
preston Of what London thinks ana
feels II you take too seriously any pic
! ture of anxieties about the terms or
peace or teremiades about our financial
position Northclifre's organs try in
vain q new stunt against Premier LLOYD
George. Even Horatio Bottomley can
not raise moments of emotion In the
House OF Commons by loud peremptory
demands for q bigger indemnity from
the Germans
1 london stir feasts and dances. Yet,
Of course, there is the spectre of many
coming troubles, such as inslstent
tyoices that the rise In the price Of coal
foreshadows a. hard winter, with fireless
crates. Paris Is breaking out after
self-restraint Of five years OF war; mat
old feud between capital and labor
which often held up French capital IN
pre-war days with demands for wages
Ia soaring above anything tho widest
agttator suggested In pre-war days. ana
here in England labor unrest receives
a certain impetus from the strong dlVl-
sion of opinion between the government
represented in this respect NANNY pS
lChurchiu, with lingo mflitarlst speeCnnS'
and the working classes and Some 4-Io-
erals on the question OF support LOT
Admiral Kolchak in Russia against inc
| Bolshevlsts.
Public RemainS Untntereste"
y-,ere may be a volcano, but We in
I London are dancing g1yly upon It. IL
4. 1irnifcant at present Of tho rathcr
disbeveled and abscntminded public
| onInion that even the controversy be-
tween Asauith and Lord Frerch "Xcltcs
but a tepid interest. Over THIS ana GU
other controversies there hangs the
overriding fact Of the entire disappear
ancc of the old party spirit ana MAJ
obstruction OF all old party lines whioh
Jloyd George for good reason or bad.
from personal conviction or persona
ambition, has managed TO accomplish
Lord Nrench's proceedings. esn"ciaiiy IN
his free attacks not only on the dHlo
Lord Kitchener. but on living Objects
like Smith-Dorrien. whom military DIS
cinlin. does not allow 10 reply, and h"
rakinR ND again of old feuds In ~"
| srony Of wartime does not commend IT.
self as good tactics or good manners
But though some liberal papers at
tempt to utilize Asquith's brilliant re-
tort as ammunition against Ll"Hd
! George for his share in tho intrigue that
, brought down Asquith and set him lp'
and though Lord NorthCliff". who was
tho chief agent for producing that re-
suit, attempts to renew the campo H:
against Asquith, the public remains I'M
interested.
One Of the most curious symptoms OF
this strange unprecedented temper OF
narcotized opinion was revealed in ~"
debate in the house Of commons on tn"
proposal to substitut" federal for The
present unitary parliamentary system
in the British Isles. TIL" debate was al
lowed by tho government TO occupy
nearly two full nights. and even Walter
Long. the most typical Tory Of III" 70
actionaries. gave his blessing To III"
scheme.
What happened in III" debate would
have been impossible fly" years ago. II
Is almost incredible even today. Her"
was a proposal in Ihis most conservative
OF nationsRo pull to pieces III" thousand
year old parliamentary machine, and II