Evening star., 1926-04-11
BY IDA GILBERT MYERS.

The Macmillan Company.
NOETS and orators and the
- writer's of Holy Writ appear
to find more of imaginative
stir in the sudden act OF ere.
alton than in the slow adapta.
tions that gradually increase the
complexities and powers of an ascend
ing scale of development. A ciod OIL
earth in the hand of GOd-and Adam,
the first man, emerged complete. a
gesture, and the lesser pagan gods
rose full-panoplied from the palm or
Zeus And even down to our own
time it pleases eloquence to project
these sudden creations. This, in face
of the fact that every phase OF life
Is an outstanding example OF the SLOW
and orderly development OF the SIM
pie into the complex, Of the particu-
lar into the general. All Is growth.
Take anything you will-this type
writer, my electric light, my tele-
uhone. my radiator-each reaches
back over a long road to the early
picture writing, to the tallow dip, 10
the word carriers along hidden trails,
to the live coal carried from place TO
place. So, in the world OF science Oh
letters, of governments, what you
will. Speaking OF governments
brings us to our own and TO lts giori-
Gus instrument, the Constitutlon'
which forms the theme or TINS stuoy:
The oratorv Of Gladstone, classic
example OF error handsomely garbed'
declared this Constitution to be the
most wonderful work ever struck on
at a piyer, time by the brain ana puF-
pose of man." .....,.,, 81,
..,rhe Genesis of the Constitution
bv Rreckinridge Long, fulfiiis It's au-
thor's intention ito show Dy uoeu ,e
mentarv evidence that the ConstNu'
ton as drawn in 1887, was the result
NJ n,anv causes-that it was the lruit
oF a tree which had developed srau
na,Iv. The argument that the Cotsu,
tution is a development does not ailo
sho,,ld not detract from the creolI
and fame of those who were eVentu,
ally responsible for the framing Oh
the instrument" ,, ,h
The "documentary evidence SUB
mitted here as proof Is drawn from
many sources, is the result OF many
deliberations. 1t goes PACK 70 tlie
napers drawn up on the MayuoWei
before the landing or the furltans'
satting up certain rules or conduct
certain policies that would be pur-
sued. or aimed at, In the new nome
As each new colony came into ex'
istence so its members set out laws
and regulations binding upon that
colony. And these, even as coloilai
documents, shifted and changed, grew
and enlarged their powers Win tne
exna nding life Of the locality. II is
srnnosable. and it here turns out TO
he true. that when the great Consti.
tuition came into being 1t contained
combinations and notifications OF
those earlier documents which mad IN
their narrower spheres served tnese
American groups Adequately. mere
we have the story of the CONSTITUTION
framed by Massachusetts Colony ana
that of Connecticut. And the Articies
of Confederation of the New Engiahu
colonies at least named the seed. II II
did not plant 1t. of that larger con
federation which is our own pride
TODAY as it has been the pattern OF
MANY another government in other
parts of the world.
SO the deeply interesting and close
standing story goes on. Otner COLO
nies make their plans and the ldea
of union grew. bitterly talked about
on both sides of the question. But It
is all growth toward the ultimate goal
of union, though the growth might
not at the moment have been
recognized or even desired. 1t is this
matter Of growth, now lusty and for-
ward looking, now retarded by CIR
cumstances, that the book III hand
makes indisputably clear. And this
Is Just the point that should stand
clear in the minds OF Americans as
they study the causes-natural hu-
man causes worked out to their
logical conclusions by men, like
these of our own day-entering into
the completion Of the Constitution of
the United States. Certainly point
of our political history that should
be generally known. And here, in
clear statement, in faultless conclu-
sions and in Il most readable form.
is this great point in our histor!
presented.
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ROOSEVELT AND THE OLD
GUARD. BY j. Hampton Moore.
Line drawings by j. Clifford Berry
man. Philadelphia: Macrae, Smith
Co.
r HAMPTON MOORE here reviews
~ an important chapter Of politi-
cal history and, at the same time,
projects a vivid study Of the person
ality and character and service of
Theodore Roosevelt. President Of the
National Republican League, con-
gressman. mayor of Philadelphia
Offices calculated to bring this author
into close touch with political mat
ters-Mr. Moore came into close con-
tact with Roosevelt during the fruit
full years Of the great American.
Here. in effect, is a moving picture Of
the old guard-Platt. Hanna. Quay,
Penrose, Foraker and others. Opposite
them is Theodore Roosevelt, youthful
knight-errant, trough rider" soldier,
writer. champion of a new day. The
pictures sum, In point, to these two
inherently opposed groups, striving to
work together in the same field.
In a snappy newspaper manner. Mr.
Moore opens up the policy of Roose.
welt to gather to himself the young
men of the Republican party, whose
enthusiasm. he counted. would be the
only possible offset against the rooted
and grooved and conventionalized po'
litical habits of the ''old guard" A
hundred pictures are presented to
show that in this time and place or in
that one Roosevelt marshaled the
young men to counteract the plans
of the elders. Here we see Roosevelt
in the war, in the Vice Presidency, as
neutrality-suspicious., audacious, dar-
ing, versatile-just Theodore Roose-
welt, the only one of the kind. Some
times he was unjust, as 1 believe he
was in opposing Taft in 1912, but his
strength was in his incorruptibility.
No matter how hard he hit, and he
hit viciously when he did hit. the
masses believed in him. In politics he
was eminently practical. A truly
masterful American he was, but a
politician withal, the best to give-and-
take, speaking softly or with the big
stick who ever reached the White
House" An admirable and unpre-