Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-23
HumdniSmS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

D REPRESENTATIVE PHIL CAMP.
~ BELL, of Kansas. while indulging Ia
the popular sport of autobiography stated
that he had been born of Scotch parents in
Nova Scotia
Isn't that unfortunate" said plain.
lively. You can never become President"
81 cannot he admitted, "but there are
certain advantages in my position. Other
men in public life, failing the presidency,
ran hardly escape the intimaion that the
fault was within them. ] can always lay
that failure to the fact Of foreign birth. It
is n perfect alibi."
| went to see DR.. Wilbur +. Crafts, head
Of the International Reform Bureau who
for twenty five years has occupied that his
toric old building in the shadow Of the
Capitol which harborcd the Supreme Court
when the British drove it from its home
beneath the great dome in the war Of 1872
and has fought his blue law campaigns from
that point Of vantage.
| listened to this gaunt. angular de-
sccndant of the Pilgrims talk. lie said hC
wanted the movies censored. He was against
'harccm' scenes. He pronounced it just
that way. The double was made very
long. Then he was against "cabarct" scenes
and he snapped the t for all that it was
worth. And he didn't think they ought to
be allowed to wear ''dccollete' gowns and
he pronounced it ''de"Collct with en-
phass on the ''lct."
They always do. There is a prescribed
pronunciation peculiar TO rcformcrS. II must
be written into the constitution of the re.
formers union and an active worker Is
probably refused a card unless he passes
the pronunciation test.
The abundance of marriagcabc bachelors
and the dchrth of young women to save
them from their plight have long been no
tOriOuS where men from the outside group
themselves in the Orient as outridcrs OF
commerce or as representatives OF Their
governments.
Henry Prather Fletcher, now under
secretary OF state, was, some years ago,
one of these languishing bachelors. Willard
ID. Straight, then consul general, shared
his banishment and his celibacy.
Into this situation inadvertently wan
dcrcd party which wns seeing sights in
the Orient and as members of which were
two young women well known in New YORK
and Newport social circles. They are MISS
Dorothy Whitney and Miss Beatrice Bond
In proof of all the warnings that nave n nsen
issued may be stated the fact that MISS
Bond is now Mrs. Fletcher aud Miss NGh'
ney has been transmitted into MrS
Straight.
There is great misconccpton in the
mind of the public with relation to con-
ccited people, says DR.. William y. NhHe;;
government aienist and superintendent o'
St. Elizabeth Asylum at Washington =.
The hagrantly cOnceited man is not "n"'
he seems. lie is man with very pro-
n0unced shortcomings. weaknesses lie kho"s
those shortcomings, knows that because i 1
them he is at n disadvantage. lilS Ooli On
front, his pouter pigeon struttlng an
camoufaging lie is not really con'cItru
lie believes that other men have the rus'
oyer him. His seeming conrcit Is coT',S, .S,
sion of his weakness to those VINO rcau '"'
symptoms Understandings.
When King Edward was Nma,, Wy
playing around within the walIS
Windsor Castle. in England, WiIIlam HIr!, na!!s
the commissioner of the General ANA VHas ',
OF the United States, was n lad OF ap3Js aT,
the same size playing around just ou's,o' 'on
the same wall. But one was the sIun"ttSSSe s,n tSe
of Queen Victoria and the other was Nv Nv
son of a tailor who made Eton Ja'N|'S W
the boys of the famous preparatory S'noo' ot "
that name nearby, and so they never b"
acquainted, ,,iIc.
Strange to say. there lived about ten h.n' !.
away mt the same time another boy o' L S',"
liar age by the name of George Su'h'r,.s"" ."ss
-Four decades rolled by and, William GpiE'
was governor Of the sovereign state "l "o '"'
and George Sutherland was the represent
tive of that commonwealth III the ! "''''
STATES Senate.