Show Mt ii w n 1 lm m I moor HOOP DEnS run FOR rOIti i ARTISTS A By Chester Cheater II 11 Ito Rowell I May Ia one timidly suggest gut the tho Introduction of or a proof root reader In the art rooms of ot newspapers His function unction would be bo limited d but Imp Important It would consist In enforcing the correct ct spelling ot of one expression sJon There Are arc throe classes of or car car- cartoonists car cartoonists speaking One Oue spells It as the printer printers do all all U right These Thee Thc ei are thew the w products ot of a j discipline little by short of or bollinI boiling oil 3 c i res Sj r The Tho second J elMs dims spell II It r They have hove evIdently been told only a uw thousand nd times to put In the tho two FA le but have v not yet been X In- In ini In Intimidated i ted Into Inserting the space apace The third third class whIch Includes all ot of them until Ih they y have had to do over drawIngs on this account at ot least a hundred 1 times an and 1 been discharged at least five times for tor It frankly spell it 11 alright Far be it from a 0 mere con con- contrIbutor contributor con contributor to be captious This spelling be alright or spelling spell spell- spelling ing may not be Important But Dut It if printers can bo be taught to pelt pell already aa sa one word and andall all right as two why not art art- artIsts art artists Ista I A California newspaper proposes abolishing the legislature and let let- letting letting tine ting proposed new laws simply be submItted to the governor by those Interested what hat happens In the tho end anyway Ot Of course coune In practically every state In the union the governor Is the government For at least leut the whole of ot this century the presIdent has been the national 1 Whenever ho he did not succeed In governing we were not governed The Increasing complexity of ot life lite made efficiency so much more Im- Im Important important Im Important than anything else that we tacitly turned the tho whole gov gov- government government government over oer to Its only efficient branch Les and congress our own direct representatives the safeguards of ot our treed freedom om fell Into Increasing contempt tor for theone the theone theone one unpardonable sin aln ot of o Inefficiency clency The right remedy would have been to make them efficient It Il Itcan Itcan can an be done dene The experience ot of the world has shown how But It was easier to take ako the department that was already ct- ct ef efficient and make It the legislative as well as the executive branch It works on the whole surprisingly well Until we e can do the theother theother theother other thing there Is nothing to do I but cling to It But But free tree ItO gov gov- gov government government needs other things as aswell aswell well ell as efficiency We e must have the efficiency even nen It if Its lu price is doing without the other things Ital Italy and Spain are exemplifying that In its ex- ex ex torm form America can best escape the resolutely rIsk ot of o their fate late by setting reso reso- resolutely at the task of ot securing rep rep- representative rep representative freedom and responsibility without sacrificing etel- etel effi efficiency clency 1 ANOTHER UNOFFICIAL CONFERENCE There will be a strictly unofficial cial Pacific conference or Institute Institute Institute tute att In Hawaii this summer at- at at attended t tended by strictly unofficial persons per per- persons per persons sons from all the nations around the Pacific for tor the strictly unofficial unofficial cial lal discussion of 01 the problems of the Pacific Unless there is danger of or the suspicion that It doth protest too much doubtless a reiteration of 01 lu Its strictly unofficial character will I be a 0 routine feature of ot the open open- opening open opening In ing of ot each session But Dut there will be real value In this thia strictly unofficial basis ot of discussion This applies particularly to the most delicate questions of ot all all- all those affecting Japan and the white nations of ot the Pacific So 80 tar far only two sorts Boris of ot ex- ex ex expressions lons of ot Japanese opinion have been One was the necessarily rev re- restrained re strained and correct expressions ot of officials The other was WIlS wa tM the unreal unrestrained rained not to say and Irresponsible expressions or of yellow ellow journals and poll poll- poli politicians Neither of ot course means any any- anything any anything thing thinK A gathering of 01 representative tive and responsible persons who carefully do not represent any any- any anything thing and are not responsible to anybody can experts conservatively conserva conserva- conservatively conservatively and Intelligently the real best opinion on both sides of 01 these Such an expression the more unofficial the better will be In- In In Invaluable valuable In enlightening official understandIngs and negotiations nes later |