The New York herald., 1921-11-25
BY EDWIN G. HILL.

ny EDW Cs HILL.
Special Despatch to THE NEW YosK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c.. Nov. -.
Time travels in divers PAGES viii,
divers persons So said Shakespeare
in "As You Like It." Pictures seen
daily upon the changing screen of the
conference prove II. Taft and Bryan
testing together among the dinosaurs
at the National Museum last night.
Present and former Secretaries of State
Hughes. Root. Bryan and Lansing mus
ing over the mummy case OF a prin-
cess of Egypt.
"All flesh is grass. The nations
are as a drop OF the bucket" Bryan
says. quoting Isaiah. The ancient lady
before him lived and loved In a nation
ana time that did not approve of limi-
tatlon of armament. What Bryan
means - Look at them now - The
mellowed comnoner Is less and less
the politician that once ragged up and
down the land, more and more the
evangelist. He broods over the con-
ference from private pulpit, larding
his reflections with Scripture.
Few men out of holy orders know
the Bible better. though at times he
mods, in common with all great men.
At breakfast one day in the st. Francis
Hotel at San Francisco with the Demo-
cratic boss of California. Gavin Nc
Nab, Bryan hurled into the talk a
quotation from the New Testament:
Though I speak with the tongues of
men and of angels. and have not
charity. am become as sounding
brass. or tinkling cymbals." Excuse
M a haI cot 10
Nab. Finding a Bible after some dis
pute and several hours' search Gt was
the Democratic National Convention)
Bryan admitted defeat.
Until December 3 Congress is tuckeN
away among rnothballs A late hour dis
position among Representatives to in
struct the conference and lecture Great
Britain and Japan makes recess very
agreeable TO Mr.. Harding. Mr.. Hughes,
Mr.. Balfour. ct al. their motto being,
Patience and shuttle the cards. The
Senate. counselied by Lodge and Under
wood. continues a,niable and unobtru-
sive. with Borah a watchful figure at the
window looking toward Memorial Cont
mental Hall. Borah is the watchdog OF
the international council.
tice law in Idaho. and had some expe-
rience with limitation of armament in
hot and violent days. He likes to tell
this story: There was a case between
sheep men and cattle nen---a mean
case---bad blood on both sides. When
we came TO the town where the case was
tc be tried we found the sheep men there
packing artillery and the cattle men,
saggng with hardware, glaring at them
Beth wanted Justice to get a fair break
SO did We. Therefore we took the gune
away from both sides and tried the case
ia a ca;mer atmosphere"
Speaking OF disarmament. the one
time reyered painting Of William Hohen.
zoilern no longer hangs in the German
Embassy. John the Junkn,an has made
Oft with IT, The newly opened house at
Massachusetts avenue and Fifteenth
street, musty after five years OF disuse
is being redecorated under the eye ct
Baron Edmund Won Hermann. attache,
who has come as the advance guard Of
the Ambassador to be. The imperial
plendor that marked the house and fur
nishings in Won Bernstorffs day has
disappeared. Two clerks, n butler, a
cook and handy man constitute the en-
tourage of this once naughty establish
nleDt. Won Thermann, young, clean cut.
blond blue eyed grandson of a friend of
Goethe's. maintains earnestly that he
wants TO avoid even the appearance of
supporting German propaganda in
America.
God knows we have had enough war, s.