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SsHip YARDS © PLANNED COST $27,000,000 | “WARK WASN'T SUCH HELL FOR EVERYONE” portant in the world we must have houses in Europe for our diplomatic there, and give them enough to live in them? Possibly, when the League of Na- tions gets to work, most of the world’s agents money diplomacy will be centered in Paris, and ambassadors will go out of style and there will be radical changes in the Pparatus of international relations, so it may he as well to wait a little before refinancing and rchousing our ambas- But it remains true that the considerable executive offices, both in State National service, are too meagerly paid. Poor men who take them are poorer when they quit. The mass of the people and the mass of the legislators do not understand the cost of the social duties that intrude upon governors, mayors of great cities, cabinet officers and the ike, and which make it very difficult for them to cut their coats according to the sadors. and scant allowance of cloth the govern- ment makes them. Our new Governor Smith of New York, a man with a wife and eight children, of whom (all of them) we have such good hopes, ought to have more than ten thousand dollars a year to live on in Albany. If he is a good governor that is nothing to what he will He ought not to be pinched for mon His office is too important to be invaded by any harassment of that sort And, of course, Mr. MeAdoo and Mr. Gregory ought to have had enough to live on in Washington, even in high cost times, and something over. It is extremely bad economy not to pay such public servants enough to keep them physically and mentally com fort- able, while they are working for us. If, when we have sucked their brains, we chuck them out without further provision, that may be economy, though it is not certain that it is. earn, ? . ss 3 & M* LANE, the Secretary of the In- terior, comes from California, and is a little crazy, like all the est Cali- vol He sees things; sees them big and luminous, and talks about them vividly, He sees the Ame fornians ns at great people, doing a great work in the earth, and he fairly burns to make them fit for it. He made a speech here the other night, when a dinner was given for him, and virtually keep the sixth race of men is now develop: ing in the United States, He didn't put it quite that way, for that might what the —that said spiritist people telling 1 have made scandal, and perhaps he does not know about the sixth race hut he said he wanted to get people about “ because advanced excited Americanism Americanism is the that has most spirit come to m We are try n's spirit he said, United from above. great experiment in’ the States. Can we gather toxether people of iVerent races, creeds, conditions ind aspirations, who can be merged into one? If we cannot do this we will fail, indeed we will have already failed. If we do this we will pro duce the greatest of all nations and anew race that will long hold a com- pelling place in the world There are a good many people who think it is being don nd, of course, the great war gave it a tremendous What was it that the French Academician said, as quoted in Lire? This is it American world leadership a of the war he said: drive forwards lately Forecasting a result As to the United States of Eur you will never make a Spaniard an in, nor a Swede For that it is necessary to transport them to associate of a Russ’ the brother of an Italian the Mississippi In Europe, Ei arate. In America they merge, politi- cally at least, and racially more slowly: Religions differences have helped to hold them apart, but they seem to be fading, not from the decay of religion, but from the decay of diTerences. Mr. Lane sees things, but they are there. He has not lived in California for nothing. ropeans remain. sep- comicbooks.com