San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07
Men and Affairs

Copyright. ty the San Antonio Light.
New York, Oct. 6.-David Lloyd
George who set foot upon American
soil for the first time on Friday,
knows more about the World War
! than any other man, living or dead.
Lloyd-George not only knew the
| politics and the economies and the
diplomacy of the war. but he knew
| all about the actual fighting. In this
respect he differed wholly from Wood
row Wilson.
The contemporaneou addresses of
the two men to Congress, on the part
of Mr.. Wilson, and to Parliament,
on the part Of Mr.. George. form
an interesting comparison. From the
moment the United States entered the
war, President Wilson began talk
ing about the bases of the peace. His
fourteen points soon were enunciated.
During most of this time Great Brit
ain was fighting with her back to the
wall. The British people did not
want TO know about the basis of the
treaty. They wanted to know the
battles were going on the western
front.
1t was given to Lloyd-George to
tell them and his analysis of the
military situation were masterpieces.
They showed the British premier TO
be a man of many sides. His was
no academic view of war. He knew
the fighting from personal contact
with it. Many military experts were
made By the war. Some historians
nj int ,,,tsNno1 &c x.-Arlfl
favor. But more of these could quite
compare with Mr.. Lloyd-George when
he sat down to paint the situation
for the British people.
Was Not Afraid.
Lloyd-George was brave. He did
not attempt to minimize British losses
at the front. One of his statements
showed that in the single month of
May, 1918, the British casualty list
was as heavy as the entire losses
of the American army proved to be
in the end. But throughout the Lloyd
George rccitals of fact there bresthed
the native optimism and hopefulness !
of the man. His addresses to Parlia-
ment were gift of God TO the Eng |
fish. Wey kept their spirit, alive, |
their morals bucked NJ. When Nhings |
were darkest, Lloyd-George would |
take the rostrun and he never smoke |
in vain. His addresses. cabled to
this country, had much the same ef-
feet as they did in England.
The actual fighting of the war
never interested Woodrow Wilson.
1t held Jloyd-Gcorge enthralled.
President Wilson was not intrigued
by the training camps, or the NUM-
ton works. IlOyd-Ccorge was among
the workers half of his time. Mr..
Wilson felt nothing of the material |
side OF the war. Lloyd-George revell-
ed in it.
His Prediction True.
The most famous statement mad,
by Lloyd-George was that the war
would be : knockout for Germany.
1t was strange turn of fate that
as he was received Mt the city hall
there were hawkers in the outskirts
of the crowd crying:
"One million German marks for
twenty-five cents"
Pavlowa. the Russian dancer, Just
hack from Europe. thinks she sees the
decline of Jazz in the offing. Paul
Whiteman. the Jazz bardmastcr, lust
back from EurOne. is certain that
Jazz is in its infancy and has before
It many triumphs ret TO come. One
is inclined to believe Paul, especial
iy when he counled his optimisti,
statement with the admission that |
he now has 80 bands in operation.
Whiteman was made honorary |
member Of New Nork's famous Dutch |
Treat Club this week and he brought
ms own personal band along with |
MN. 1t was the. same band that
played so often for the Prince of |
Wales while on the other side and
take it from the trombone and
saxophone players. the prince is Ger.
tainly some dancer.
Il get some awful wallons from
the true music lovers every now
and then for jazzins the classics"
sad Whiteman to the writer, "but l
believe we are right. If we can
bring the classics TO the people. even
In the form OF dance music. | believe
we are cultivating the taste of mar
who could be veached in no Other
way. Take the Song of India for
instance. Since it has been plovcd
by the dance orc estras. venture TO
say the sale of the original song has
been doubled or tripled. After they
hear the real thing. they NAV saw
how rotten we played it. but any
way we get over. And that's our
justification"
The rumpus out in Oklahoma stir
red up many things, but not the
least was the stirring IN of the Hon.
"Bill" Sulzer. one-time known as
the Henry Clay" of the House of
Representatives in Washington. and
later the. governor of the sovereign
state. of New York until he was i'm.
neached and removed from office.
Some of the papers here had the
temerity to draw an analogy between
Governor Walton's Ease and that of
Governor Sulzer. The Honorable
Blll had long been in retirement, bu,
this was too much for him. He
sailed forth and this is what he had
to say:
As several newspapers have called
attention TO the supposed analogy of