South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-20
AS WAS THE MASTERS PRIDE IN
DAYS LONG OLD-THEY COME TO
SCOFF AND co AWAY TO PRAISE

- REST Wilson having been treated TO that bit Of
poison exposure on the part OF the majority OF
the senate foreign relations committee. refusing
- invite him before them 20 extend his views on the
Paris treaty and the League OF Nations covenant.
demonstrating stronger than ever that IL is personal
hate rather than intelligent consideration OF the
document that prompts the opposition. has resorted
70 inviting the senators TO come TO him-and they
are going away more sensible than they came.
He seemingly causes it to dawn upon his visit
ors. how little they really know about the interna-
tional affairs in which they are %dabbling. and that
70 make a good. hrst-cIass fool of the United States.
In the eyes OF the world. the thing for the senate TO
10 is to go and do exactly what it has been threaten
ing to do. Sens. OF the Lodge. Knox. Borah. New.
Watson and HI. Johnson type, may be able to make
8 display Of assumed international knowledge, suf-
noient to convince unsuspecting Americans OF their
wisdom. but after listening 70 the president, even
their former supporters in the senate. come to en-
tsrtain grave doubts as 70 their sanity.
There is something about the president that
seems 10 be both intellectually and magnetically con-
vtncing. Railroad presidents. bankers. high f.
nsnciers, have called on him TO scon and come away
20 praise. quite as enthusiastically as these senators
have done. He seems to be a man who never talks
until he knows what he is going to say; never moves
until he is ready to act; who prepares his case be-
fore he goes into court. and bridges the pitfalls be-
fore he attempts TO cross. It seems TO be this, in
fact, that so exasperates those senator's whose ca
m &c wisdom he has so frequently set at naught;
@ssperating them even to the point Of hate.
One need not be surprised that the committee.
packed as It is in opposition to the president on ev-
e<gthing for which he stands. and having blown off
as It has about them. should refuse to invite the ex-
scutivs to come before them and expose their ig-
norance TO their faces. in the presence of each other.
and particularly TO the public.
The senate military committee got enough Of
that when It called sec'y OF War Baker before it a
year ago last January. In fact. senate committees
have run amuck 80 often from close contact with
Prest wilson's administration, as again. for instance.
In the aircraft affair. that this refusal to invite him
70 be heard is about the wisest thing that body has
done for some time. In the aircraft matter, it will
be recalled, the president delegated Charles Evans
Hughes TO prove the assininity Of the senate's chal-
lenges.
Too bad. indeed. that the president before go
ing TO France didn't invite a number Of senators in.
put some international brains into their heads, and
keep on pumping them in. all the while asking their
consent to make use Of the brains he was furnish
ing them. Had he done that. the like of Lodge,
Knox. Borah. New. Watson and California Hi, might
be exhibiting some real brains now, and perhaps
after months Of training. be capable Of understand
ing the president il he should go before them. They
are almost 20 be pitied rather than despised; yet
what is more dispicable than ignorance when hidden
behind such a bluff?
On the contrary, however, the president went to
France. keeping his counsel. or il consulting any
one, consulting men OF ripper minds. They said he
would get nowhere: that those diplomatic acrobats
over there would stuff him IN a corner and go on
and do as they pleased, yet the president comes back
with pretty much all that he went after. was given
thA Mace ~ honor IN signing the treaty-and oh.
how II stings,
Hate himl why shouldn't they hate him?
Isn't inferiority always jealous of merit? And in
tslIigence the envy OF boneheads?
WOMEN IN POI TTICS AND THE LOCAL.