was too stout, was not Haig color-blind, and retained at all in active service by Court favor? So before the Marne the personal appearance of an officer nearly lost that victory and did actually limit its range. At British headquarters there arrived a "most unmilitary-looking military genius, bespectacled and untidy, with shaggy mustache, black buttoned boots, and yellow leggings." One British officer said that nobody should be seen speaking to such a comedian. Sir John French, at any rate, was absent, and the comedian was told that he must expect an answer by telephone. Enough that he was Gallieni, the real victor of the Marne, and as such created Marshal, but, it need hardly be said, only after his death. Foch does not escape this searching analysis. He was not so much a master as a mystic of war. To him, no battle was lost unless you believed it lost. But his insistence on attack and deliberate ignorance of materials for attack, like airplanes, "led the military navigators of France among rocks where they nearly foundered." His record is thus checkered and much of his repute is due to Maxime Weygard-"ma encyclopédie." On the Marne the achievements of Foch were "mythical." From this iconoclasm Pershing could hardly expect to escape unscathed. His attempt to revive the rifle, superseded in trench warfare, was expensive. But even Captain Liddell Hart has to confess that in refusing to disintegrate his army among the Allies Pershing was pursuing a patriotic objective-namely, the establishment of a military tradition, definite and national. A serious difficulty is promotion. In Germany the rule was priority, but the commander became a figurehead, subject to a younger and abler chief of staff. What Roosevelt did was to promote Pershing over the head of 862 seniors. What guaranty, then, has any nation that in a speculation so unaccountable as war it will be any better served in the future than nations, victors and vanquished, have been served in the past? It is the man who is to be blamed. It is the mind of the race that has been harnessed to an impossible task. HE editor of this department will THE be glad to help readers with advice and suggestions in buying current books, whether noticed in these pages or not. If you wish guidance in selecting books for yourself or to give away, we shall do the best we can for you if you will write us, giving some suggestions, preferably with examples, of the taste which is to be satisfied. We shall confine ourselves to books published within the last year or so, so that you will have no trouble in buying them through your own bookshop. Zermatt-Gornergrat SWITZERLAND Revitalize Your Spirit... Summer in the Alpine Wonderland there is gayety everywhere... the simple, spontaneous gayety of peasants in their bright costumes. . . the smart, cosmopolitan gayety of the resorts... where sports and dances, carnivals and gala affairs follow one another in a joyous round Let us tell you about it... how you can arrange every detail here for radiant weeks in Switzerland that will last in your memory always. FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY paign are constantly coming to light. It was he who, in collaboration with several associates identified with the oil industry, evolved the delightfully simple plan of forming an oil company to serve as a camouflaged clearing-house for campaign contributions. It was given the name of the Continental Trading Company. Through this concern Sinclair and his collaborators, by buying crude oil and selling it to members of their own group at a 25-cent advance, made approximately $3,000,000 available almost overnight for what appear to have been primarily political purposes. It has developed since that $233,000 of the proceeds found its way into the possession of Albert B. Fall, NOW READY Facts About 99-Year Leases And the Money they Have Made By Hon. CHARLES F. PRYOR This book shows how modern busi- to which are added valuable then Secretary of the Interior. Later, $160,000 in Liberty Bonds and other securities was delivered by Sinclair to Will Hays to be applied to the Republican campaign deficit. Seventy-five thousand dollars of this amount was used to curtail a note carried by the Republican National Committee in the Empire Trust Company of New York, of whose Board of Directors Senator Du Pont was chairman. The final payment of $85,000 was made in 1923, according to the recent testimony of Will Hays before the Walsh committee in Washington, coinciding with the dissolution of the Continental Trading Company. Where the rest of the money went is still a mystery, due to the absence of several witnesses in Europe and the refusal of others to testify. Herein we have contemporary proof of the partnership which exists more or less continuously between big business and big politics-a partnership which, so far as business groups are concerned, is uni-partisan only when it pays to be so, and bi-partisan otherwise. Sometimes contributions are made to both National Committees, that the contributor may have friends at court no matter who wins the election. When it becomes necessary or desirable to conceal such contributions from the public gaze, political and business intrigue join hands -without, however, always succeeding in their purpose. Tariff beneficiaries may always be relied upon for sizable contributions. Joseph R. Grundy, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, President of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association and himself a millionaire manufacturer of textiles, is the principal collector of this group. He raised as high as $800,000 among the members of the Association for use in a single Republican Presidential campaign. It is a commonplace in politics that the Democratic Party cannot raise comparable campaign funds because it has nothing to sell. In a measure this is true. It is not that there is any essential difference in the morals of the parties. The Republicans simply have the advantage of issues which commend themselves to the business community. Committed as it is to the principle of protection, the Republican Party is always able to grant tariff favors in return for campaign contributions. There is little altruism in business, and it is not strange that some of the larger business groups should supply sinews of war to the party which seems most likely to return the favor. But, while the Democrats may not be able to grant legislative and executive favors to the same extent, they still find it possible to raise substantial sums, and it is frequently found that the large contributors, when a Democratic Administration comes into power, are given positions of honor in the Governmental scheme. Contributions may range from $1 up, with the sky as the limit. The $1,000limit imposed by Chairman Hays in the 1920 campaign was no more than a gesture. If a man chooses to contribute $25,000 or $100,000, and it is not desired to have these amounts officially recorded, it is easy enough to split them up and credit smaller sums to a dozen individuals willing to lend their names to the deception. As a recent illustration of the rewards which sometimes come to those who give generously of their personal funds for party purposes, Jesse H. Jones, of Houston, Texas, the new "angel" of the Democratic Party, walked off with the Democratic National Convention only a few weeks ago, taking it to Texas for the first time in history. In the campaign of 1924 he was credited with a contribution of $30,000, following his appointment as chairman of the Finance Committee of the Democratic National Committee, and since that time is understood to have brought his total contributions to something over $100,000. In addition, he probably will be called on to put up part of the $200,000 which the city of Houston bid for the Democratic Convention, and for which he wrote his personal check when the National Committee met in Washington in January. Were the Democrats to come into power Nationally, the chances would be better than even that he would be offered a place in the Cabinet. The special Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures which investigated that subject in 1924, reported that in the Presidential contest of that year the Republicans collected $4,360,478.82 for campaign purposes, and the Democrats $821,037.05. The Republican National Committee closed the campaign with a substantial surplus, and the Democratic National Committee with its customary deficit, amounting to some $300,000. C HAIRMAN WILLIAM M. BUTLER, of the Republican National Committee, is, if not a strictly unique type in National politics, typical of the change which has overtaken Republican affairs since Calvin Coolidge became President. The Republican Chairman is cold, courteous, and efficient, a lawyer and textile manufacturer, who came up in Massachusetts politics under the tutelage of the late Murray Crane. In this respect he and President Coolidge were contemporaries. Along with William V. 514 Hodges, of Denver, the treasurer of the Republican National Committee, he is credited with having given the Committee the most businesslike administration on record. His methods differ diametrically from those of Will Hays, who directed the Harding campaign in 1920. Hays was an up-and-at-'em, pep-'em-up, get-themoney Chairman, an evangelist by temperament and a practical politician by choice, who spent money like water and used the long-distance telephone as if the calls were across the street. With Hays it was "Go to it!" and damn the expense. His performance was consistent, for the Republican outlay in 1920, as officially acknowledged, was something over $7,000,000, while the Democrats always claimed it was twice that sum at least. Chairman Butler ran the 1924 campaign as effectively, if less enthusiastically and with less froth and foam, on half Hays's budget. Unlike Hays, Butler and Hodges insist on knowing, not only where the money goes, but where it comes from, and why, regarding it as good political practice as well as good business practice to have your accounts in shape for an audit at all times. In the earlier months of his tenure as National Chairman Butler antagonized party associates by his brusque manner and a habit of giving orders to men who considered themselves his equals or superiors in political and social standing. His sense of proportion has improved with experience in his present position. He is one of the two or three individuals in whom President Coolidge really confides, as much as he confides in any one. C HAIRMAN CLEM L. SHAVER, of the Democratic National Committee, is a silent and far-sighted mountaineer from West Virginia, with an extraordinary capacity for getting things done in a quiet way. It was due almost entirely to his personal efforts that the Democrats were able to hold a Jackson Day dinner in January without calling out the police. Confronted with a difficult and almost unprecedented party situation, he has sought steadily to restore some semblance of party harmony and heal the breach between the rival Democratic factions. Progress necessarily has been slow. As a member of the middleof-the-road group, which has worked to concentrate attention on Jeffersonian fundamentals to the exclusion of controversial issues like the Klan and prohibition, which split the Madison Square Garden Convention in 1924, Chairman Shaver has refused to be swerved or to become exercised over the efforts of factionalists to gain control of the party machinery. This is his chief claim to fame as Chairman-this and the fact that when the Committee renders its account at Houston in June it should be able to show the party deficit wiped out and a balance in the bank. And that, considering the Democratic record of recent years, is an achievement in itself. Because of an aversion to public speaking and a natural reticence of manner, Shaver is perhaps the most misjudged man in National politics. In his home State of West Virginia his political acumen is appraised at its actual value, which is considerably above the average. He is moderately wealthy, a woodsman He is moderately wealthy, a woodsman in type and temperament, and possesses a shrewd political sense. Like Chairman Butler, he is a congenital conservative, but, unlike him, he is a combination of political idealist and practical politician. Whereas Butler is businesslike and direct, Shaver accomplishes his ends by equally effective but entirely different methods, perhaps born of his woodsman's instinct. He is a master of the He is a master of the art of planting and nurturing ideas, and not unskilled at persuasion. Like Mr. Butler, he will complete his present term as Chairman and probably give way to another when the Convention meets in June. A s to who will run this year's campaigns, the identities of the Presidential nominees, the size of the campaign budgets, and the character of the coming contest, there is no one who can answer authoritatively in advance of the National Conventions. The nominees will choose their own Chairmen. Both parties will spend whatever they think they must spend to win, deterred only by a healthy fear of publicity in connection with the amounts so raised and spent. 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