Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-02
| HOW DOES 1T
| STRIKE YOU?
A NATOLE FRANCE tells story of his
u childhood with his hoy friend.

n NalOLE thANCE tells story VI hiS
n own childhood with his boy friend,
Fontanet.
The two youngsters after debating at
some length what great things they would do
and forming and rejecting several projects,
finally agreed to write a history of France
in fifty volumes
They decided to commence this monu-
mental work with the King Teutobochus.
Now the King Teutobochus was thirty
feet tall. as one might find by measuring his
bones, which had been recently discovered.
But think of encountering and perhaps
affronting a giant in the very first chapter
Of your book.
Fontanet said Wen have to skip Teu-
tobochus."
But the literary conscience OF Anatoie
France would not permit him to skip Ieuto-
bochus.
So the History of France, in fifty Volumes
stopped with Teutobochus.>
All his life, says the author, there were
Teutobochuses which stopped him, but II WAS
| a marvel to see the subtle Fontanet, lawyer
noliticiau, member Of the Chamber OF Depu-
| ties, running between the legs OF the leu
| tobochuses that he encountered in pubic lie !!
| TNHE TeutoboChuS that stands III 'h@
| l. worlds way today, that above al con
fronts Mr. Wilson, is the Mr.. wilson OIL l
| two wears ago. Mr.. Wilson the conscience OF
mankind, Mr., Wilson the leader of the
world, Mr.. Wilson the regenerator OF the
earth. that giant thirty feet high who used
| to talk across the Atlantic as easily as ordl-
nary folk might talk across the Schuyikiii.
Mr.. LLOYD George. subtle, practical poll.
| tician. comforting in Paris about the state OF
Europc. has just said to Messrs. Mllerana
and Nitti. apropos of fiume ana Con
stantinople and Moscow, well, let us
skip old Teutobochus"
But Mr.. Wilson, sitting in Washington,
is appaled at the idea of neglecting, dis
crediting or perhaps affronting the giant.
q q q
THE correspondence on the Adriatic con l.
l. sists of Mr.. Wilson'S writing I'VE must
bepin with Teutobochus," and Mr.. LLOYD
George's reply, But see how easy 1t IS To
run between the legs of the old fellow.
We've done it before many is the time al
Paris. Besides, this time We must.
But the President refuses to run between
the legs of the giant, whose bones any one
NAV now measure the idealist Of two years
ago, old Teutobochus OF the endless peace
And so like the history OF France in fifty
| volumes, the League VI iAoS SNof
with Teutobochus.
"'' &C g
TIME most terrible Teutobochus that maI
i stand across any ones path Is his owl
imagined self.
A child externalizes.
His Teutobochuses are outside OF him.
His giants are not himself as he was oi
would he or thinks he is or thinks other
people think he is.
He raises them up out of the past a
something to conquer or something TO nj
him with the exquisite sense of unreal fear
Rut the Teutobochuses that afiict late
years are inside YOU
Tbey are the giant that you were or tn
1ou believe the world thinks you are.
II IL difficult to run between the legs o
one Of these giants.
psychoanalysts looking into the soul pro
pounce one who has one or these giant
inhibited" by the sense that he canno
stin over or run between the legs of hi
Teutobochus.
And they try to convince him that hi
: Teutobochus is not real and that his histor
> Of France begins with men five feet eigh
inches tall instead Of with a king thirt
feet high in his socks.
When you look inward excessively a
vour Teutobochus the psychoanalysts tell 20
that YOU are "introvert" which word
. aivep here in the interests of science an
, leads rs far away from the Teutobochus be
tween whose legs Mr.. Lloyd George is 6
adroitly running ..
: U,HE New York Democrats have stolen
i march upon the New York Republican
| hv outting two women among the Big Fou
. that they viii send 70 thelE knn tTanciac