Lodge Not Insincere.

(The Crimson invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under the head and reserves the right to exclude say whose publication would be palpably inappropriate.) To the Editor of the Crimson:

I have read with interest a delightfully cartooned article with a Latin title, which bore the signature "John Gallishaw" and appeared in the recent issue of the Harvard Magazine (White). It seems to be fashionable lately to cast aspersions on Senator Lodge. "Wily, plausible, insincere" he is called by our dean. Anything so vital as the proposed League of Nations must inevitably arouse considerable feeling, but is it not somewhat hasty to impugn suddenly shallowness to a man who has hitherto been accredited with sincerity if nothing else. The Latin heading ("She transit gloria Lodge") itself shows that Mr. Gallishaw once held the Senator in esteem.

Senator Lodge is condemned for making a patriotic appeal at the end of his speech. A patriotic appeal it certainly was; Lodge told us plainly that it was time we gave our thoughts and our efforts to our own country. England is doing it, Italy is doing it, France is doing it. And right here may be found the essential difference between the contentions of President Lowell and Senator Lodge. The President argued that the most fundamentally important business before us is to see that some covenant that has international welfare as its aim be established. The Senator contends that it is the duty of every American to safeguard the interests of these United Sates first, last and all the time. Between the two there is a deadlock. Which side a man takes depends on his philosophy of life-the only appeal that can be made for either is a flag flapping appeal. Nor does it seem that Mr. Gallishaw himself is quite immune from that sort of thing. "The feet of young men are making new foot prints in the sands of time" etc.; is that not an appeal to the enthusiasm rather than to the intelligence of the readers? GEORGE CROMPTON, JR.'20.