The New York herald., 1922-12-31

able arm I'm arm chat in the bedroom
of convention town hotel as the
chances of agreement when great
lawyers are arguing before the United
states Supreme Court are more remote
than when those two lawyers are chat
ting In chambers.
Mr. Bonar Law or NJ. Poincare might
conceivably be willing 10 make conces-
sions just as Hiram Johnson or Bill
Barnes might. But II Hiram or Bill
make concessions that cost their con-
stituents money all their. political oppo-
nents at home can say is. Hiram or
BILL you cost us too much money
we're going to get another boss" or
Senator or whatever the case may re-
qure. And all their political opponents
can raise against them is the cry of
the betrayal OF the locaf Boosters Club
or Chamber of Commerce. But If NJ.
Poincare or Mr.. Bonar Law concede
too much they place in the hands OF
their domestic political opponents a
far more formidable weapon, weapon
that at home or over here stirs the
hearts. not the heads. of men who
live not by bread alone but by catch
words. They place in the hands OF
| their domestic political opponents the
puissant cry. Hes deserted the old
| fag!" and all that that cry means in
association with the sombs in st. Pauls S
and the blare of the cartons beneath
the Arc de Triomphe de rEtoile.
And he has to place his concession
on the record. definitely on the/ record
with his reasons. through the ears and
the mind and the tongue of NJ. Gamer
LYNX the interpreter.
Daily Import of Patriotism.
/ Sitting here in London tonight 1t is
! possible to consider as an Immediately
practical business whether new suit
of clothes should be bought in Saville
Row or after a two hour hop in an
airplane from a tailor in the Rue
| des Capucines, or, at the cost of an
other few hours travel less time than
it takes to get from New York to Chi
| cago. from the man who used to make
| clothes for the Crown FRINGE in Ber-
| lin. Just now a lot of worry inferior
German wine is masquerading about
Europe in bottles preaending to come
! from Beaune and BordeauX---not to
mention that commodity which always
raises Frenchmans hair. German
! champagne That's what's meant by
the immediate day to day import of pa
triotism In European Ives. There's no
Hart Schaffner & Marx with agen-
cies in all three towns And just at
| tne present stage Oh uilDRS II nluCn
easier for the French TO move few
soldiers up the Moselle Valley than it is
to try German wine takers in some
slow and shadowy International court.
Don't lean out the window" is in
scribed in at least three languages in
| 30 per cent of the railway cars OF
| Europe Steam and pre-steam national
| ism, not to mention electricity and wire
less and airplanes, are at final grips
The next few years ought to tell def
nitely which will win. That is the prob
lem that is facing the derided con-
| ferences of Europe the amiable and
sinister NJ. Camerlynk and his kind.
That is the problem in which America
] is now called upon to play a part, and
deciding part.
| One OF the wisest representatives the
| United States. has in Europe. an Am
ha ssador who observes and digests and
reasons upon first hand information as
| the ideal Ambassador ought to. "A man
who has first hand, non-political. non
| patriotic il you will, information from
every quarter OF Europe. told me here
| last week that he believes the unalter-
| able economic law will win.
| This is the way he phrased it: "As
between the two elemental appeals to
human feeling, the beating of the drum
and the clatter of the knife and fork, I
believe the knife and fork will win.
Europe has had enough OF the drum and
| too little of the knife and fork"
| Some day / want to read all the dis
patches that man has sent MIR. Hughes
from his listening post in the midst of
this epochal change