The sun., 1919-10-26
.HERE is no Hall of Mirrors

IT HERE is no Hall OF Mirrors at
Atlantic City. Architecturally
the nearest things To the gar
dens Of the Roi Soleil is the pink
stucco pickle pier No war SCARED
guards of honor spring to attention
st the sound OF the clarion. The
cF0pcaU hGute forme is as rare as
the dodo and decorations are reduced
from breast plates to tiny ribbons in
the button holes of sack suits,
Even the committees of experts, the
ethnologists, the cartographers, the
etymologists. the diplomatists and the
polticO-economic savants are absent
But the corridors of the Hotel Tray
more have been filled all the week
with CHEEKY faced persons in their
mental shirt sleeves, whose index
fingers as a rule are almost as long
as the middle fingers, a fact which
Indicates, according to any one of the
palmists, psychists and astrologers
along the boardwalk, that the hands
TO which the fingers are attached
neither rock the cradle nor rule the
world, but gather from the maze of
ahairs here and there the stun with
out which the cradle would be empty
and the world difficult place to live
In entirely.
This may be no Peace Conference
at Versailles, but the international
Trade Conference here through the
week has been busy with decisions
winch promise more widely to affect
the affairs of the non-German, or CIV
illzed portion, Of this world than will
the weightiest movements of the
council OF Ten, the Council of Four.
or the bulky documents submitted to
the Germans and the Austrians when
Abhor All Politics.
From the four great allied nations
and from the United States there
gathered here the first Of the week
800 men who shamelessly confess their
ebhorrence Of politics. They realize
mat politics must affect their first
concerns of life. But only as. a con-
uloutinS factor. They are here to ad-
just the main factor. They came TO
reconstruct business world torn
Gown and blown asunder by the cata-
elySm Of 1914-1919. It's not a ques-
non OF boundaries or self-determina-
uon or the machineries of democracy
WIN them. They are concerned first
VI all with percentages as applied to
To"aTs, cents, pounds sterling, francs,
hfa and marks. percentages of cost, or
pFuht' Of interest and OF exchange.
Their decisions may not mean that
a son Of (FOnna1turbk l..
pest delightfully romantic as the con.
junction Of two such lovely seats Of
NouOIe may be. But their decisions
WIN say whether the weavers of Lille
VIII nave Jobs next year, whether the
s'eeI makers of Pittsburg will have q
ouSy season, whether the copra gath.
.IefS OF the ScCth Seas will work ol
'IFe and whether the top HATED
,'efN OF London's city will or will moi
ne able to take the bank holidays a
brighton, due to the fulness or empti.
ness OF his personal purse.
lAey largely determined here a
'no Ifaymore and at the Steel Piei
s"liu the raucus screech of the skee,
D",l barkCrs and the soft whush of tho
HHahu' surf whether or not the Shoe
N'up OF Lynn, Mass, viii have it's OWL
.'uniouse next year. bus mess beinl
q soou ana whether or not little Luigin
.1'ha'o, who lives In the court base,
H,e ment OF fourteenth century house IT
,nIah' VIII be a round bellied or G
pare ribbed baby next year.
me whole conference has been re-
.afkable for its practically. Ever
Int bankers. one step removed from