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Woodrow Wilson REATNESS can be recognized by the aura of drama that (; clings to its person. In the last. several years of his life there was nothing Woodrow Wilson could do or suffer but And yet when he chose his moment for tiptoeing from: the of life he outdid self in profoundest not referring to his remark, “I vd to Admiral Grayson, though t had We rather to the national setting for his death and the manner of it. Picture a nation of 110,000,000 people gazing intently at the moral devastation in their public life wrought by a black, had its dramatic significance. his histrionic This is meant We are which he is said to have whispe its perfect appropriateness. refe spreading pool of petroleum, — Never did idealism seem at a lower ebb nor the consequences of its lack more appallingly ipparent. Ata signal they look up, every one of them, to say by to the alist. from coast to coast, “He is dyin diately: he lingers a little, last ‘The word flashes But he doesn’t die imme- long enough to rivet the attention of all these millions on his exit: long cnough to substitute thought for shock in their grief: long delibly in their minds the contrast between what he stood for and that scene from which they had momentarily averted their nough to implant in- We have been deeply affected by the passing of this great » agreed with Woodrow American. It is not necessary toh Wilson in all particulars to appreciate the essential sublimity of his vision or the strength and courage with which he fought for its realization. Behind the Times Good Americans. and even many who 2 2h are not so good, like to think of Europe as backward and decadent when it isn’t torn 1p and prostrate. Central Europe, we usually assume, is all of Tt may have a little culture of bah! Yet a news bulletin from a foreign aircraft company just received, m n Buda- pest and Vienna three di these things. a sort, but con- veniences. ations casually that betwe ent companies operate plane passenger serv ing with the Orient One of these operating companies, presumably the ifter carrying about 2,000 passe a total of ne: mile bs, Connet youngest, rly 40,000 writes to the aireraft company “We have experienced during the course of the se operation neither thanks to your excellent ident marred the season, son's lays nor dama’ machines. . . but not even so much as a wheel has been broken We can look back on a service regularity of 100 per cent Bat. of course. if ¢ truly progressive they would have an antomobile Pretty good for such a backward region its people w to every family and stay on the ground. LQ tions of the Teapot Dome inquiry. Be cause William G. MeAdoo received perfectly legitimate law Fall $100,000 he is being And meetings of President Teapot Politics The famous propensity of the American people to stampede politically was never more in evidence than since the revela vers fees from the man who lent or the Democ: uttended the Harding's cabinet, though without portfolio or authority, when the subject of the naval oil leases should have come up but did counted out of the race 2tic nomination hecause Calvin Coolids not. he is being counted out of the race for the Republican nomi- until Edward L. Doheny took the witness stand, were the main contenders for their parties’ desig- tished of the innocent bystanders limping to cover from the mob’s displeasure the as we are for that to Coolidg nation, These two men nations. ‘To-day they are simply the most distin damage to But we're We won't pretend to feel as sorry for MeAdoo’s chance sorrier still for a people that professes to govern itself and yet in a situation like the present threatens to use not the faintest discrimination in dividing the sheep from the goats. Tt was the same four years ago when all the evils and discomforts of id his under an avalanche of the war were placed to the account of Woodrow Wilson supporters and policies were buried 7.000,000 votes, it, that violent mob rea Though we are a good Republican who says ction probably led directly to the present the would have had the nerve to carry through their lacking the encouragement of that overwhelming plurality. Thus does one popular fury lead to another, while the favor- seandal, for we doubt: very much whether il culprits onspiracy ite of to-day becomes the outcast of to-morrow Rages to rages And bust to bust But we have a strong notion still that Cal has the time and ck. He's a pretty good horseman, they say. especially on an elephant. Ride’em,Cal_ boy, ride ‘em! genius to stage a come Rah! Rah! Rah! Leland Stanford. Jr.. University. is offering her students a course in cheer leading, and a great many editors are ted. But the point of view should depend on what one the aim of a college education. Certainly the ability to do an Indian dance with a mc ore a crowded stadium frankly flabber considers rious But. then, who contends now that scholarship is the goal of the higher learning? Some professor of psychology hit the nail on the head the other day when he said that the “mixer” type of college gradu- rded better financially than the honor student. It isn’t scholars that our colleges want in their alumni bodies but cheer leaders —the boys who can and provoke a storm of ron tier of athletes is not an indispensable adjunct of scholarship. ate succ mixers, or, in other words. make us cheer for THRIFT, and keep large balances in their :Whocan make us root for the OWN-YOUR-OWN-HOME nd buy their houses; who can make us ery over the WIFE AND KIDDIES George F. Babbitt would have given his eyeteeth to take such a course. and take out more insurance icbooks.com