Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-20
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Some Recent Speeches BY . French.
man. Englishman, Turk and Ameri.
can Give Occasion for
Earnest Thought ....
Ry SARAH II. LOWRIE

4 more than one person who heard Che.
menceau came away with the impression
that he scarcely could bc said to represent
she majority Of his countrymen. let alone
this opinion was rather confirmed or al ali
Events Events .sonslderably strengthened by an.
otho!, Frsnchman, Ionguet. who quite
irsnkIy began his address to large gath.
s.,ns oy speaking Of Clcmenceau as my
and who claimed that his reason @ nj for S ad.
dressing the American public was to assure
them that young France and working France
shd' OF course. socialistlc France Aouted
tne idea that ~ old and worn and hardened
an nnprosressive as our late visitor could In
any sense represent bis nation rs whole.
ven, there you had II Clcmenceau took
rains 70 show us an undivided France, re.
nemocfing the past and arming against the
au.ure M and looking TO America 70. fulfill
ses.oin ss.a ooi,gations In the present. LonSuet.
2 leader cf party, showed bis much smaller
put no less Impressive audicncc--for they
were young and intelligent and exceedingly
eagcr--a divided France: the larger part
intent on scrapping the past. determined to
%merca '"s o"s dure ,:nl. and only s"ns ths. hat
he,nousness Of the peace treaty spoils the
impossible indemnity and tho maintenance
OF the present warlike attitude on the
HLEMENCEAU wss clever and in places
- witty: and always interesting; Long,et.
the grandson Of Karl Marx and the Socialist
spokesman for more than France, for he Is
an internationnlist. Of course. was Just a.
clever: clever more profound and with q more care:
kecenor appreciation. I thought.
iie made no appeal to the feelings; 1t was
al! headwork for sr aksr and listener, but
whnt ne said OF the determination against
war IN France and Of the dissatisfaction
=, %''s r., the pence treaty b. the rank and file
trust Of the people Of the politicians who
had Unanswered the country before the war
and during the treaty negotiations--what he
SAID sounded more likely to he true than the
dry hystsria OF despair which Clemenceau
came 80 far to depict to America.
MOT that Clemenceau was himself hysteri.
4 cal in nstutely making his effects. He
struck me as "very much all there" IN try.
ing to EauGe the mental response TO each
weil'devised sentence. And not that ne. too,
did not appeal to the head. He really fiat.
Were used to thinking things. rather than
feeling them; so much 30 that one of the
notables In the box behind mo srumbled
rather thnt he was bringing down criticism
on bis head by arguing rather than by dc.
claiming. Hc averred that Lloyd George was
facts rather than feelings.
,.;,I And he will never move the American
pno,ie BY arguing this way" was :he
7 DO not know how much Clemenceau lost
l. his Academy audience by arguing rather
than appealing. but do know that the sort
OF audience that LonEuet had at Wither.
spoon Hall would not have clappcd him II
he had merely tried to make them feel.
They would have been embarrassed at any.
seemed TO me that the Contemporary Club
was embarrassed the other night when. after
the Englishman and the Turk had appealed
to the heads OF the audience, the American
turned on the tnemOlo stop Of mobile pathos'
s6Id.r sGd Tounasa na,a,, honor" and 1.-The unknown
Fourth Of July orntion--and attempted to
make broken heart DO service for an arsu.
ment.
I DARE say aome people liked it, though,
\ for It Is rnthcr habit. especially with
the conservative element Of any gathering, to
enjoy bursts Of feeling about things that do
not affect their everyday life: but I thought
the Ensllshman was quite astonished at the
sudden turn the nfFai took. and that the
Turk Turk was on the whole relieved. because
encc could have cast at him which would
have shaken even his gentle inslnuations into
quite sinister facts had they not been krnt
busy getting out from under. their own
compatriot's fcrvid and accusotory eio.
Quence.
I'VE nm idea that although the Enslishman
L the Hon. Philip Kerr-pronounced
Carr-was secretary OF Lloyd George and
very much aware OF oil the ins and outs Of
the SC. called conversations leading IN to
the peace treaty and with his nstntc chief's
irOns n mt m md IN tho f.n r..
that nc Il young enough and modern Eng.
lishman enough to like the sporting pn,no.
siticn OF good argument az we'll ms n hot
Socialist would. md to regard "punctrred
feelings not part OF the game when YOU
''whnt's what"
He himself made very good attempt to
tell his audience at the Contcmnororv
what Is what" In the present war sitma.
tion In the Near Fast He did not assert his
but he made an impression OF very honest
frankness and clear thinking on our behalf
II hc had spoken to the audience that turned
out to hear LonEuet the same week thew
would have liked him and followed his arru,
ments .nd asked him very straight questions.
speaker at the Contemporary, they wouldn't
have lot him sit down and breathe f.e.,v
before they had .pounced on him for defni,
tion. Of what he me0nt by becoming a
hhhureN per cent IhrK lf you lived IN
Turkey or what was the process inv",vs%
.I, When It va vas thought best best that you did not
destroyed was injuStic' Of the conou.ross %ss
and m Armenian village burned wna tbs
Inevitable result oi Turkeys harhorine
strangers In their midst.
In fact, the Turks explanation would
have been the evenings excitement NJ thn
Withcrspoon meeting. whereas ut the Con.
temporary 1t was allowed to drop with a
thud.
DCT rs a mere onlookcr it struck me a.
II rather 4 waste NJ time to pouncs rn,,
the oratinn Of the American, Mr. RullnrI
and try 10 do ANYTHING sensible with IT, Hc
had evidently done something in tho wav
Of a patriotic speech somewhere Of lotc ,hnn,
the unknown soldier. and his admirers Ind
said II WAS beautiful and he had been p,nh
srntuiated for his stirring anncol n.y. ~"
word for word he cherished 1t ard repeatsd
It with some burning sentences at,out hmsr,.
cans quitting" too soon thrown in I'll
calculated to stir tn. fec ling and stop In.
thinkincs NJ "trlc Americans ' '"e
1t certainly knocked spots out Of any 5o.
bate on the matter In hnnd-the Enrop"on