WORDS OF WISDOM

From the pen of snowy-haired Ramsay MacDonald, champion shaker-of-hands-across-the-sea, and Prime Minister of Great Britain, has issued a statement in which diplomacy blends with astute perception. The shrewd Scot, who by a graceful and masterly manipulation of Anglo-Saxon heartstrings, by an incomparably dexterous muddling of issues, reached the pinnacle position of British statecraft, displays in his written comment the same piercing analysis and tempered sagacity which gained him his high post.

In the December issue of the "News Letter," official publication of the National Labor Committee of England, Prime Minister MacDonald, apropos of the present situation of upheaval and suspense regarding disarmament, spoke with a tone that sounded thunderously and majestically around the globe. It was the proclamation of wisdom and greatness from the quick, clear brain of a mighty man.

The Prime Minister spent no time on amiable and useless generalities. He faced the question squarely, and destroyed it with one telling stroke. "The race for arms," said Mr. MacDonald, while the world hold its breath, "the race for arms must inevitably result in war!"