The Washington herald., 1921-03-28


of the more narrowly Jewish papers
it is printed in Polish and may
properly be regarded as part of the
Polish nationalistic press.
None Of the papers sin the capital
is printed in English or German,
and Western visitors who do not
read Polish get their days news
generally from the French Journal
Nde Pologno. The latter is one of
those smoothly written. slightly
mysterious little sheets-like the
Journal de Petrosrad. published in
Petersburg during the summer Of
1s17-which combine news, a flip
pant Paris letter. and more or less
useful serious discussion with de-
mure. but constant propaganda Of
their own.
Grateful for Little.
The foreigner is grateful for its
scraps of real news and for such
really helpful things as the series
of enquetes published this fall on
the various programs for q Po-
lish constitution and IL accustomed
to read between the lines of his
newspapers he can almost always
pick up a bit of Interior amusement.
Tucked ingeniously away in editor
ials are frequent phrases like "at a
h. 81 nd taI hxy
the entire civilized world with the
exception of France" And while
the Journal de Bologne maintains
a stoutly conservative attitude to-
ward Russia, particularly on ques-
tions of the rights of property and
of responsibility for foreign loans,
1t shows great liberality in quoting
even the most radical Polish jour-
nails whenever they criticise Eng
land or attack the British for their
policy in ireland.
1t says little about far-off Ameri-
ca but now and then gives the
American wanderer a chance to see
himself as others see us. Such. for
instance. was the description in its
Paris letter of a scene in a Paris
theater rented by the Chicago Tri-
bune ito permit Americans to know,
few hours before ordinary NOR
tails, the result of the Presidential
election"
while the jazz band played the
airs OF the fox trot, grizzly bear
and shimmy, the results flowed
across the screen.
An American Election.
There was loud laughter from
mouths filled with gold, pipe smok-
ing in the orchestra chairs and
boxes. Ladies ventured on cigar
cites, while all the men who did
not smoke pipes lighted enormous
cigars. The democratic, and some-
times soiled. Jacket rubbed shoul-
ders with the smartest dinner coats.
And odors. acrid and strong,
mingled. without losing themselves
with delicate perfumes.
Toward IL o'clock the national fra
GRANGE of gin and whisky and
soda, mingled with the powerful ex-
halations from that mass of hu-
manity. made this 'tepidarium' in
supportable. On the stage the jazz
became completely mad. and pres
sently was succeeded by an Hawai-
ian orchestra, and a dancer, with
yellow skin, and ebony hair, and a
skirt of vegetable fiber. began a
dance Of complicated steps.
At this time 1t was announced that
the candidate, Harding, in an Illi-
nois village, had obtained 40S votes.
as against 43 given to his opponent,
Cox. Boos and groans mingled with
whistles and approving laughter.
About 2 o'clock in the morning the
hall was packed to overfiowing.
while at the buffet people cele-
brated joyously with champagne
the victory of Harding. the dry
candidate! There was In
all this something childlike and
gay; a little brutal. This Ameri-
can crowd. hulahulaing with
Hawaiians and the jazz band, is
still far from the French crowd.
It Is a childlike mob. quite capable
in its pleasure of smashing its own
doll without really Intending to do
so ."
| German Papers Scarce.
or the provincial" papers. the
Gas (Time) Of the ancient univer-
3ity town of Cracow, is among the
most influential and interesting.
Probably very few of its readers
Cracow was. of course. in former
Austrian Poland-would think OF
themselves as being provincial at
ALL
Their town is old and mellow and
has a distinct literary tradition,
and the Cracovians are inclined to
look on Warsaw somewhat as old
| time ) Bostonians looked-or still
| look-op the crowds and glitter OF
New York. The editor of Gas. Mr..
| Beaupre. gets his name from a
French ancestor who came to Po-
land in the time Of the .Napoleonic
wars, bat he himself is thoroughly
Polish in feeling, and precisely the
urbane and cultured gentleman one
might expect to fnd in such po-
sition in such a town.
There are no German papers In
Cracow, although 1t was for CEN
tury and q half an Austrian city.
In Posen, however, the capital OF
German Poland, and in appearance
almost a German city there are, or
were, a few weeks ago. two papers
still published in German. The
largest of. these, the Neueste Mach