The mirror., 1922-05-04

WSiy HHPoitdlit, anu StllI OtHcTS pIOILI-
nently placed but of no importance. He
read editorials and accepted them at their
face value, namely: personal opinion pub
licly expressed; to him they were not un-
biased facts upon which conclusions should
be based; but rather the statement of an
individual that, pending its mental accep-
tance, should be resolved into its COM
ponent parts and each of its principles or
elements scrutinized with care. He was
not a skeptic, neither was he credulous.
He was rather of an open mind, suscep-
tible to correction. In word, he was from
an intellectual Missouri.
By no elasticity of his mind could he,
for instance, delineate Mr.. Judge Ebert
Gary of the U. S. Steel Corporation calmly
pacing the environs of the Grand Central
Station as he awaited by prearranged
schedule, an incoming train bearing Mr.
Samuel Gompers, of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, and whom, upon his arrival,
the Judge courteously seats in his softly
purring motor car preparatory to their de-
parture for the Ritz; there, at flower be-
decked table, exposed to public view, to
discuss the pros and cons of IL hour days,
output and efficiency, closed and open
shop, tons per man per day, and like in
tricate problems having to do with finance
and work.
Nor, Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan amiably
ambling through the traffic of Broadway
astride bicycle bound for his Wall Street
Sanctum Of Securities for the purpose of
keeping an appointment with Mr.. Henry
Ford to discuss the terms of a tentative
loan.
Nor, Mr.. William Randolph Hearst, he
of the voluminous and venemous editorial
pen, assuming for week, at the invita-
ton of Lord Northcliffe, the editorial
policy of the London Times.
Nor, Mr.. Henry Cabot Lodge .permeated
with the essence of Back Bay, nurtured on
beans, and -matured in the environs of
John Harvard, grabbing streetcar, a
portfolio in his august hand containing
transcript Of the Versailles treaty, bound
for the home of Mr.. Thomas Woodrow
Wilson for the purpose of discussing the
why and wherefores of the famous Points
openly arrived at, the object of his visit
being non-political and the act of con-
structive statesman bent on doing his bit
toward righting a war-strained universe
in the spirit of brotherly love.
None of these possibilities, but remote
probabilities could Sir Michael by any
stretch of his Imagination conceive.
But, the care of the evening has arrived
and Sir Michael, having enjoyed his fru-
gal repast, repairs to his stable. He fond
ly pets the young heifer who has not as
yet reached the stage of paying for her
hay by the issuance of her milky fluid.
Methodicaly he places his stool meath the
udder of the heifers of maternity and pro-
ceeds to eject therefrom the secretions that
constitute the base of his simple subsis-
tance. AS he mechanically proceeds with
his labor his thoughts turn to his agricul-
tural brothers. He pictures the poor but
honest farmer stumbling over his boot jack
as he gropes about in the semi-dawn for
his trousers preparatory to entering upon
the days activities. He sees him leave
through the creaking door of his SMALL
paint cracked and disheveled dwelling
wherein is housed his care lined spouse