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BOSTON SUNDAY POST, JUNE 27. 1920 41 AMERICA LOSING TBE ERIENDSHIP OF FRANCE. SAYS CRAM Former Ally Feels United States Has Abandoned Their Country Rheims Cathedral Most Beauti- in World "The United States is losing friendship of here are the reasons for widening breach between us; French feel that this country has abandoned them in their hour of greatest need. "They live in mortal dread that is preparing to war upon them again. don't can attitude in withdrawing absolutely our interest in European affairs.

is a feeling in France that we were insincere when we talked of making the world safe i for feeling that we have shrunk from the the and blew a I was talking with Ralph Adams Cram, noted Bostoli architect and Writer, In his book-lined office, when these facts came to me across the corner of a massive black walnut table. With a positiveness that was startling. He had just come from France, where he went to discuss plans for a memorial to the pngllsh-speaklng dead the World war, which he is to design. France herself needs a spiritual regeneration. That Is the conviction one gets from a talk with Julien Le- mordant, famous French painter, blinded by his injuries during the continued Professor Cram, while he puffed his blackened briar pipe nervously.

saw Ijemordant in Paris and he Is a wonderful character. In his blindness he sees the hope of future glory for France, coming from a rebirth of deep spiritual thought, rather than from expansion of commerce or prog- along material lines. fellow, he will never paint another picture for the world to see and said Professor Cram, a sympathetic note In his voice. somehow, perhaps because of the contrast, the remark reminded me of that philosophic la often on the Ups of the heroic French following the greatest tragedies of the conflict. While Dr.

Cram was refilling his pipe, after using the stub of a yellow pencil to clean the bowl, I inquired steps steps are being taken for a memorial to the men and women who gave their llvos in the war. PJan Church as World Memorial Methodically Dr. Cram finished business of lighting his pipe, then swung one leg over the other, aettling back In his chair, he cloud of smoke Into the air. magnificent church, the most beautiful edifice in the world, on the very Bite of the battle of the Marne, dedicated to St. Jeanne Is the form of memorial to the English-speaking dead of the war which seems to meet With the most favor.

a memorial, essentially religious in character, is. in my opinion, absolutely imperative, and the Cardinal ArchbiFhops of Paris, Rheims and Westminster, Marshal Foch. and men high in the government of Great Britain and France, are very enthusiastic over the idea. fathers of the project, conceived 5ti England, plan to raise the money for the memorial church by free-will offerings, and to present it to the people of France through the Archbishop of itheims. the opportune moment has not arrived for the starting of the move- hient to raise the necessary funds.

Industrial, economic and political conditions in Europe, the growing feeling against the United States in France and dd not seem to justify the pressing of the subject at Referring to his meeting with Cap- the Boston Art Commission, as one of the pleasant surprises of his tour of the western front. Dr. Cram between puffs of smoke, said: met Captain Greene at Noyon where he is engaged in the work of repatriation being conducted by the Red Cross and he told me a very interesting and significant thing about the people among whom he is working. How France Could Be Helped 'The first request these people he said, 'when they return to their ruined homes and farms, is not for building materials, agricultural imple- xnents, nor food and shelter, but that a piece of a church be fixed up where they can hear Greene after providing the people of the region with the necessities of life is giving first consideration to the rebuilding of can the people of the United States do to keep the friendliness of the French which you say diminishing, assuming that this country continues to hold aloof from the league of I asked. should like to see the people of the United States take into their own hands as much restoration of French villages as he replied, brushing a speck of tobacco ash from his blue serge coat sleeve.

of the destroyed villages have been adopted by cities and rich individuals in this country, and are being rebuilt. This sort of work is greatly appreciated by the French people and more of it will serve to offset the growing feeling of unfriendliness toward us. are not popular in France today, that is perfectly evident, but I was told that the English were more unpopular than stems strange," I interrupted. should France have more of a dislike for Great Britain, which has joined forces with her in the league of nations, than for the States?" "1 really don't said Dr. Cram, It is because of the French no tion that England is playing every card for complete control of the commerce of the world, and showing an especially friendly spirit toward Unrolling a large map of France on 1 the table before him.

Dr. Cram pointed with his pencil to the various points along the western front which he visited, from Chateau Thierry to Belleau Wood, along the road to Rheims, and on to Verdun. picture, no description, gives any idea of the western he said. is everywhere, as far as the eye can see. The subsoil, gray and has been hurled up.

and blackened. gaunt stumps of trees, branchless and leafless, stick out of it. Great areas without grass or weeds, wdth not a single living thipg in sight, can be seen from the forts about Verdun, stretching away to the very horizon. "Did take any He looked up from the map as he repeated my question. would as soon thought of taking a picture of a he said.

Busy to Signs and there you see the farmers creeping back to their ruined homes. You find them living in shell holes, the cellars of their wrecked farmhouses, abandoned army tents, the roughest kind of shelters. are too busy to talk, according to signs that are posted where the tourist cannot fall to observe them. Diligently they labor, cultivating little plots, which, seen from the hllis, are as splashes of green in a desert of desolation. was surprised to see how little war material is left upon the battlefields.

Practically everything is gone except great rolls of barbed wire, but I did see an aeroplane graveyard where there were scores of machines rotting. some places where there were thriving villages I could not find two bricks a single vestige of a building but piles and piles of debris. I never dreamed of such complete destruction. It is appalling. The impression prevails generally in this country that the beauty of the famous cathedral at Rheirns is gone, but Dr.

Cram saw the majestic structure in its present state from the standpoint of the designer, the builder, the artist. He actually smiled as he described It. Cathedral is the moat beautiful thing on earth at the present time. When I last saw it before the war Vlo- 1 le Due. the great architect, had just the I completed his work of restoration.

The exterior w'as cold, gray, harsh and new looking. every bit of this harshness and newness has been blasted away. The fabric remains perfectly complete and the whole thing is fiuahed salmon and rose, melting into dove color. It is an enormous silvery thing, rising majestically amid a mass of ruins. never saw anything like it.

Lots of people burst into tears at the aight. In the light of the setting sun it is inspiring, Indescribable. would rather go back to the devastated region where they formerly lived than to take up their abode in some new locality, untouched by the horror of Miss feean of Boston and Coos Drawn Excluaively For tho I Boston Post I By Frank E. Davidson PPKPfk, DOES INCOME COVER VoVR EXPENSES ot rll of Miss CRN MXi MRKE oth E.HOS MEET lifvi RFRfRfO STRONG ARM RULE SALVATION Henry Lane Wilson, Former Ambassador, Prescribes Remedy for Unrest in Exclusive Interview (Continued From Page 39) And They Lived Happily; fiy Law of Succession to Presidential Chair In what order do the members of the Cabinet succeed to the office of President? With nominations centring the public eye and Governor Coolidge a Harry Greene. of possible incumbent of the presidency, this question is of particular interest in New England.

I asked Ilcnfy Lane Il'ilson, onetime our ambassador to Mexico, the plain question, is the matter zvith i Mr. Wilsqn is better qualified to; answer that question than most men i almost anyone, in fact. He was ambassador during the troublous times which brought about the removal from the presidency of Diaz and the installation of Ma- dcro; during the brief Madcro rule, which ended in the overthrow and death of that visionary; and, finally, he resigned when the policy of the administration at Washington toward the Huerta government became, as he believed, impossible. He knew Diaz and the conditions under the rule of Diaz, begun in 1877 which was marked by the most cordial relations between the United States and our sister country. And he knew from close range observation, at a time when the responsibility for the safety of foreigners in the unhappy country lay heavily on his shoulders, the volcanic period or the revolution.

Wilson knows not only Mexico but the other republics south of us. He was minister to Chill for nine years. He could have been minister to Venezuela but declined. He has had a wider diplomatic experience, as well as being minister to Belgium from 1906 to 1910. And he has represented his country on various special missions abroad; But as one who saw Mexico in her period of prosperity and peace and afterward in the throes of revolution and virtual anarchy he is the best informed man in this country oti the affairs of our unfortunate troubles due form of I asked.

Breeds to her Mixed Take one on Retiri AV.1VD. ernenn INDIGESTION RLAKES HERB JP TABLETS too From an authoritative source the Sunday Post quotes the following; In case of the death or inability of the President and Vice-President to act in office the Secretary of State is legally empowered to act as President so long as the Inability of the President and Vice-President iines. If there is no Secretary of State because of death, removal or resignation, or if he, too, is unable to act, the duty falls to the Secretary of the Treasury. And so it goes. The Secretary of War is next, then the Attorney-General, the Postmaster-General, the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Interior.

Congress has provided, however, that only the Cabinet officers appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate shall be entitled to act, and only those who are eligible to the office of presidency as outlined in the Constitution, Therefore, if the Secretary of State happened to be foreign-born and were a naturalized citizen he could not become President by the death or resignation of both President and Vlce-Presl- Population Discontent said Mr. Wilson, "though the present Mexican constitution is utterly Impossible, impracticable and unworkable as an organic act. It may be said to be a departure in principle from all previous Mexican constitutions as as from all Latin-Amerl- can organic "The defects in constitution do not extend to other Latln-Amerlcan the organic acts and laws of countries are well adapted to the character of their peoples. The trouble is not with the laws but with the administration of the laws. The failure in administration is due to some extent to decadent morals, but more to unscientific and untrained I asked Mr.

Wilson if much of troubles was not due to a condition parallel to that of 'Russia, where 80 per cent of the population is ignorant and unable to comprehend the meaning of self-government. He answered in the affirmative. In Russia when the Czar was overthrown foreign observers with the army reported an amazing condition of ignorance among the soldiers. They did not know the meaning of the word Liberty and equality were meaningless terms to them. They understood little head of the church and state, whose word was law.

Be- Bhot out of power. What Mexico is a strong government maintaining republican forms, but able to maintain order, and procure by strong-arm methods the gradual elevation of the masses to a level where they may be able to govern Diaz Knew How to Rule From what Mr. Wilson said about the necessity of a strong arm in Mexico it was natural to conclude that he approved the autocratic nile of Porflrlo Diaz. He said that he did. he said, the government of Mexico after a welter of crime and anarchy extending over 50 years, and by firmness, courage and severity maintained his position.

He was a wise, just and patriotic man, and if he coulfi have lived and maintained himself In power 20 years longer. Mexico might have ceased to be a problem. He energetically developed the material resources of his country and opened her riches to the energy and youth of the world. Undoubtedly he expected to develop the spiritual side of the Mexican people. He had large and generous plans for the education and elevation of the masses, but were all wrecked by the failure of effective administration w'hich came with advancing you believe Madero was a sincere was an honest man, but a dreamer and utterly inefficient' and Impracticable.

He did not actually undo the work of Diaz, but by his inefficiency and Incompetency and he prepared the way for worse men who were to Mr. Wilson was ambassador when Madero was by Huerta, he says, but by General Blanquet. The situation at that time was most complicated for Mexico, after the jailing of had no President, and both Diaz and Huerta were claiming control of the country. It was in this crisis that Mr. Wilson called Diaz and Huerta to his office in the embassy to consult, and under threat that the United States would be asked to intervene they agreed that Huerta'' should assume the presidency.

Huerta was not recognized by the government at WaBh- 'ngton and eventually was overthrown by Carranza. Of Carranza, just killed in the latest Mexican revolution, Mr. Wilson said: was a buffoon and utterly uncouth political figure, with no knowledge ol the science of government and less ol international obligation. His ultimatt fate was sure because of his tlmldit.x of character in a country where couragt necessarily takes the place of BOSTON AUTHOR GOES "ON STRIKE" Shall Never Write Another Says Mary Caroline Hates Correcting Proofs Here is the missing s' A' Success diagnosticians and modern psychologists declare that a person must love his or her vocation in order to reach the highest pinnacle of sue- cess. you really mean that.

Miss Cra'w- ford? Do you find writing a grind? Do have difficulties in expressing your thoughts in words? Is that the meaning of your last I queried. exactly. I hate writing books until I get into them. The research, is But here is a Boston woman, a noted actually doing the work of writing, i'cry fascinating. It fairly thnllc me author, who is an exception to this' have fundaynental rule for success in life.

She detests book writing, yet she has produced more than a dozen works of exceptional literary merit that have won her fame and fortune. readers just why she has made a solemn vow never to produce another book. Here are the actors in this wordless declaration of love. The bridegroom, Arthur is a deaf mute, and you have seen how he made the marriage vow. His bride is the daughter of deaf mutes, hut happily she is blessed with normaL speech and hearing.

Her smiling face shows that the match is a real love one. dent. Another question often heard is this: yond that and work and scant food and Is the President limited in his power to mean clothing life had no meaning for appoint his Secretary of State or any of the other Cabinet officers? The answer is as follows; As to the constitutional requirements for holding the secretaryship of state, there seems to be nothing except the article which provides that the President shall have power and with the advice and consent the Senate.to appoint all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for and shall be established by The various Cabinet officers have been established by different acts of Congress. It would be difficult to Hay without a very careful examination of the statutes whether there were any limitations upon the President to appoint any citizen of the States over 21 years of age to be Secretary of State provided he could secure the consent and approval of the Senate. Forcigin Capital Brought Trouble I recalled that 1 had been told by men familiar with Mexican affairs In recent years that Carranza stood In constant fear of assassination and that this war the reason he spent so much of his time away from Mexico City and In Queretaro, where he was among his friends.

what of I asked. cannot justly estimate the character of said Mr. Wilson, he was not in public life while I was In Mexico, and I was not personally acquainted with him. What he has said from time to time makes a good Impression, but it is not yet certain whether he will be able to control the unruly elements of Mexico and ride as master In a storm of Much of the recent trouble with Mexico has grown out of the antagonism of Carranza to foreign Investors, eflpeclally Americana. Diaz encouraged them.

But under the subsequent rulers of Mexico their rights bave been disregarded. In fact, according to many observers, the anti-forelgn policy has been the keynote of the policy of the administrations following Diaz. (Copy by Bain Newa Foibles oF Famous Folk, little difficulty in framing my thoughts in words. I used to pound them out on the typewriter, but I never did learn to typewrite. Now dictate to my secretary almost every line I write.

not really the gathering of ma, Terial for a book, or the writing of it And today she tells Sfinday Post that I hate, the mechanical difficul- tits involved afterwards. The reading and revision of proofs is tremendously laborious, and gets on my nerves. Now you know Just why I hate to write books. newspapermen are lucky. Tou turn in your copy, someone else edits it and writes the headlines, another matt corrects the proofs.

You see your story after it leaves -your hands I until it is published. I would enjoy pro- I ducing books under such a you intend to quit writing books, to retire from the literary 1 asked. have made a solemn vow never to write another she said sertousl.v enough, then I have made that same vow after each one of my publi- cations were she added, a I smile Hitting across her you some other occupation in i I asKed. just celebrating my first anni- as a business she explained, as she'again turned to her desk i and took from the middle drawer scv- oral typewritten pages clipped together. my income tax report I described as a councillor in publicity writing hate shall never write new lx)ok is the first I have done in eight will be my Coming from Mary Caroline Crawford, whose the Days of the Pilgrim just published, is a notable contribution to Tercentenary literature, the above statements astonished me, until she explained just what phase of book- writing she Then I blame her for going In AS REVEALED BY THEMSELVES Qdpstionuaires consisting of ten questions have sent tb famous men or women in sU parts of the country.

Their will appear from time to time in the Boston Post. We have with us tcsUy; BABE RUTH, the Home-Run King is your name in full? George Ruth. you ever had a nickname? What was it? They all call me Where it came streaked with gray from I remember. was your favorite sport when you were a boy? a funny question to ask a baseball player; it was the diamond, of course. athletics did you engage and excel in when you were in school? football.

did you happen to meet your wife, and where did you meet her? Through a friend, six years ago in Boston. What your hobby today? wrong; it bas'Aball or knocking home runs. that little game they call golf. was ambition when you were a boy? To becbme a baseball 8 event in your life caused you to choose your present 1 stuck to baseball since 1 was a kid. I change, and I just drifted into the big brush.

you had your life to live over what profession would you choose? The same as in this life; I like it. At the head of a short flight of stairs, at 4 Joy street, I found an open door. Through this I saw a woman, rather short and stout, seated at a mahogany desk in the centre of a large room, a sheaf of papers in her hands, which she was studying through unrimmed spectacles. In a glance I made a mental snapshot of her. She was looking very trim In a suit of blue jersey cloth.

Only a stray lock of her hair was visible over her ear that was nearest me. and noted that it was a light brown llut l.til t. seeking Miss Cfrawford, the au- I explained as our eyes met. am Miss she replied, as she dropped the papers she had been perusing and rose quickly from her chair. I It took hut a moment for me to explain the object of my visit and while I was spesking she drew a chair close to her desk.

are the revised proofs of my new book, the first I have done in eight years. Txiok through the index, it is a splendid piece of work compiled by my secretary, so at liberty to praise it. You may find something there that will Interest you without wading through the entire work. bother to return she added. sick of the sight of them, I hate writing Boston there is no other woman engaged in this line of work, but I have just learned there is one woman in New York doing exactly what I am doing.

I have just received a letter of introduction to her, and will make her acquaintance as soon as possible. I should suppose that every city of any considerable size might afford sufficient scope for at least one worker of this kind. primary object of the business which I have set up, and which I am interested in seeing grow, is not to make money, but rather to render service in a field which stands in great need of something of this kind. To put financial values of any kind on the work is at once difficult and disagreeable. but women with a gift for it, and the proper training through social work and jounalism, ought.to be able to make between $2000 and $3000 a year almost from the is the outstanding object you had in mind when you wrote the Days of the Pilgrim I asked.

was anxious to show that the Pilgrims were much more human than most histories have pictured she 10 would you do with a million dollar.s if you had it to away? give part to St. School of Baltimore, and with the bal ance I would buy bats and balls for all the kids in the world. Did the Vigilantes Originate? Fish That Give Shocks Several varieties of fish are reatly liv- them. root of the evil conditions which prevail in said Mr. Wilson.

"lies in the circumstances that 80 per cent of the population is Illiterate and Vigilantes were self-appoinied Ing electric batteries. The electric ray i out When th. ordinary po- specimen the shock may be strong litical Institutions failed to afford enough to temporarily disable a man. protection to persons and property, electric star-gazer, the electric cat- the people sometimes resorted to a I voluntary, secret and temporary or- i electric eel also ganlzHtion called a vigilance com- power to a remarkable extent. mltteo.

i better known electric fish is the The most notable Instance was in San Francisco, in the early days of in this case the electric mining, when the criminal class current generated is very slight Indeed. government can be founded on an illlter ate suffrage, especially In a country where the Indian blood so largely you see no hope for self-governed Mexico?" may be taken as an axiom that Mexico can never be revolutionized into the practice of an orderly 'government from democratic said Mr. Wilson. result can only be accomplished by the slow' processes of evolution, taking the form of universal neemed to have its own way, and re- In miniature. Other gans of.

touch very fish have the or- highly developed, and some depend upon these organs for their living. Of these the angler is a good example. The rod is a bone which extends over its mouth. At the end is a tiny piece of loose skin. This is the bait.

A curious fish goes up to investigate, slightly touches the bait, and the jaws close over its prey with a snap. education and the implanting by degrees of sound political principles. The history of every administration in Mexico since the revolution against Spain furnishes proof of this for all of them have been shot in and sort to extraordinaiy necessary. remedies was Before being married In Norway a girl must first secure a certificate showing that she can cook. Fish possessing this power use it for the purpose of self-protection and also to kill the victims on which they feed.

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