| Show I A M Mystery t S Solved I 0 OF F the time curious traits displayed ed by bv the tho President since his inception to office one of the tho most I interesting is his disinclination in his lila official Capacity capacity ca ca- 11 aci ty to accompany his announced conclusions with w the arguments by which they are arc supported Ills His inaugural int address was an example of that attitude attitude atti atti- tude and his recent mes message to Congress was anI another an an- I other The nation which conceded that his profession profession pro pro- of or educator should at least have given him hima a l logical mind has failed to comprehend w why v this I I hould should be bo so The solution of the mystery however mn may lie in the fact that Mr 11 Wilson is a school school- I I master Schoolmasters rarely argue with their pupils t Those o of us whose school days aro are still within remembering remembering re rc- re- re distance can attest tho the truth of that fact Time The student accepts from his preceptor without without without with with- out protest many statements st. which he does not understand understand un un- un the multiplication table for instance is isI I in the be beginning only something to be memorized I The boy 00 knows that two times two to are arc four our but buthe buthe I he know w why and he rarely inquires either 1 because e of lack of curiosity or through tingling knowledge of the masters master's repugnance for crossI cross- cross I examination This attitude on the time part of the pupil I fosters in the schoolmaster a habit of expecting his I f asseverations to go unquestioned Mr W Wilson lson would have been more than human if he had not contracted the le habits and customs of I his prof profession The authority o of his hig position coupled with the reputation for erudition that acI accompanies ac ac- ac- ac I com companies ni i it gave ave his hs s statements at n nt lg right lt o of way vay un questioned it lt may 1 DC ne C tHat the tIle rr President has carried earned ear car ried ned this principle into the tho higher field to which he was called perhaps he lle sees no more reason for J explaining to the tho American people his constituents than ho did to tho admiring and adoring young men in the tile classroom Upon no other thoo theory may one I explain his lila failure to accompany his recommendations with some seine inkling of or the logic by which he lie I reached ached them Members of Congress may ma be to the Ole President I merely a number of unruly pupils to whom ho lie feels it necessary sary to tate state only his has decision he lie sees no I necessity for fOI their reasoning together 4 IPa n JIlt I i Mr Jr loore when he bc retires from the weather I bureau will go on the tho lecture platform But he lIe will nm do well to repress the vein rein of humor in which I all his weather practical jokes have been een I ted I With true oriental l politeness China thanks the II administration for lor refusing to support tho the proposed Joa loan Joan Based possibly on the reflection that if it itI I doesn't get the loan it wont won't have to repay it 4 I Julian Hawthorne according to Ills his attorn attorneys ys is penniless It does docs seem impossible to make I mon mo money y in literature even that of high finance I I and most of the b baseball stars star having liar hav ing lug ceased to bold hold out there may be a a. a chance for forI I Congress to get some attention r |
