Life — September 11, 1919 — page 22: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

SEPTEMBER 11 1919 “While there is Life there's Hope" Published by LIFE Axorew Miturx, President and Treasurer PUBLISHING COMPANY Jaurs $. Mercatye, Secretary 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York English Offices, Rolls House, Bre LEASE, will not somebody stand up in the Senat nounce eral Pershing! way home at_ this nobody seems to think ill of him. He is all but universally applauded, which — will be very uncomfortable for him when he finds himself in a country where everybody is cracking everybody clse on the head with a club. Mr. Hoover was considerably applauded for a ood while, and a good many people still think he is a deserving man, But when his boom to be strong, a patriot was found to rise in the Senate and “ want to know” things about him, and suggest that he was manipulating the grain market in a way he shouldn't, and was a dangerous object disguised as a life-saver. That was our objectious Missouri friend, Senator Reed, wasn’t it? One cannot be sure about things that hap- pened last year, so many happened, and so many have happened since, but it has the flavor of Mr. Reed, and hh would be a suitable person to rise in the Senate now and point out that General Pershing is a tin soldier, or a cause of too much expense to his country, or careless in his accounts, or something else, and so take him out of a class in which there is no one else, and make him feel reunited to his country and really one of us. and de- Gen- He is on his writing, and seemed going 100 Poor man, to be so praised! he probably deserves it all! sure, he represents in his huge triumphant effort in which the whole country participated, but—good luck to him!—what an admirable rep- resentative of that effort he is! What person it Bldgs., London, E. C, a feat to have picked at the first go a general to command the A. E. F. who was up to the job! Incredible! And it must have been done by, or by con- of, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Baker, as to both of whom it is so easy to testimony that they never did anything right. nivane raise a torrent ¢ Well faithful soldier! If 4s tiresome, you Welcome, General Pershing! done, good and too much praise candidate for relief, can always become a President and get complete There are good friends of yours, 2 many, who hope you won't, ‘hut will urd your glories thriftily and live on them. But for our part, we dc hope so, Canned glory is no good. If you think you sce a chance, General, to serve the country further, you will not dodge it out of mere thrift; that is certain. If you think, as Sherman did, that the Presidency is not your job, that’s a different matter. If you think so, you won't let any buzz of any bee upset you. No, no! yeneral FTER all, what a droll man Sena- tor Knox is! All of a sudden, fighting the Treaty League for months, he got on his legs after and the and reduced the opposition to both to absurdity. They are both rotten, he said; let's have nothing to do with cither of them, but declare peace with rmany, and make a little deal of our own on the side, Mr. Knox admitted that he shakes in his shoes whenever he reads the Treaty, and sees what sort of a family He thinks that when the armistice was signed and the Kai- ser skedaddled, we should have peace and come home, leaving the Eu- it invites us into. made ropeans to fix up Europe, and limiting The Ger- mans, he says, are beaten but unbroken, “their damning philosophy unchanged, and with a will fired by hate, to mete out revenge.” When they have per- fected a combination with “injured and all the Slavic peoples, and Japan and “the great yellow races of the Pacific,” who will have free cess to the battlefront through Russia, the jig will be up with Western Eu- rope, and we will be thankful to be at our assistance to advice. Russia” home. The trick, as he sees it, for France is “closest friendship for Germany so as to bind Germany to Western Europe, and restrain her from the em- braces of Russia and Japan. The par- ticulars of the process of developing closest friendship between the French and the as-bad-as-ever Germans he did ot stop to disclose, nor was it neces- sary because the friendship would have to he mortised in after we had gone liome and forgotten that there was any Europ HICH shows what may happen to aman who lives too long in Phil- adelphia, and is in politics in a state that needs a protective tariff in its Iusiness, Even the Tribune admits that Mr. Knox has not kept up with the times, and has not discussed things as they are. But never mind that. He has helped the Treaty by helping peo- ple to realize the appalling fix the world, including us, would be in if we rejected it. No doubt Mr. Wilson would be ever so happy to have Mr. Knox come along with him on his tour of exposition and speak his piece from the same platforms as himself. Mr. Knox scemed really to believe that the nightmares that he had about the League were valid dreams. He WAS pe If he is unduly bent on reducing Mr. Wilson from his lofty moral eminence, he did not show it in that speech, He seemed very badly scared. Europe is torn with hatreds General Smuts described it as fitter comicbooks.com