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American cities have an established reputation for being cosmopolitan, but the fact has rarely been brought more vividly to mind than by this characterization of present-day Boston by a writer in "Collier's :"

Italy swarms the doorstep of the house of John Hancock. Tipperary camps at the base of the Bunker Hill Monument. In the shadows of the steeple where the lanterns hung for Paul Revere I have heard English often, but Italian oftener. Of all who rub elbows with you in Boston's streets, only one in three is the native-born American child of native-born American parents."

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The oldest joke, according to the "Argonaut," is the one about the Irishman who was handling dynamite in a quarry. He let a stick drop, and the whole box went up, taking Mike with it. The quarry.boss came around later and said to another Irishman "Where's Mike?" "He's gone," replied Pat. "When will he be back?" asked the boss. << Well," replied Pat, "if he comes back as fast as he went, he'll be back yesterday."

In trying to account for the habits of certain insects which work resolutely toward a goal which they never experience, Professor J. A. Thomson, in his Gifford Lectures, says: "Many digger-wasps, for instance, make elaborate preparations for offspring which they never survive to see.

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"He is the most igruntest, sarcasticest heanimous I ever saw."

"An old gentleman the other day rered to the Boy Scoots." "

A student was called upon to criticise paper just read by a classmate. His chief int of adverse comment, he said, was his low-student's pronounciation.""

(This is matched by a dictated letter m a subscriber in which the typist writes, Ateacher said the letter r had no sound its own in pronounciation, but that its ind was indentical with that of the Ital1 a.")

A woman telling of her daughter's mesickness said, 'It was really heartidering to see her.'"

A. D. Mutz, an engineer of the Chicago, Iwaukee, and St. Paul road, met his death a way that illustrates the promptness of ood railway man in trying to avoid accit; his instinctive heroism deserves rechition. He was off duty and standing at a tion in Montana, with his wife, preparaMy to boarding a passenger train. Forty away cars came plunging down the de toward a gravel train at the station. jumped on the locomotive and tried to the gravel train off on a siding. Before could quite succeed in clearing the main ,however, the runaway cars crashed into train and killed him and five others.

Can any of your readers tell me," a scriber writes, "when rocking-chairs ame so popular in this country ? Were y originally introduced from England from the Continent? They are rarely En in England to-day. I doubt if you ld buy one from stock in either London Paris shops to-day, though they may e have been popular in France, for I ieve one is shown in the house occupied Napoleon during his exile in the island Elba, from which one would infer that Emperor was accustomed to use it."

xamples of current English humor: From "London Opinion:"

Whe Ruling Passion.-Mother-"Why you pulling everything out of the cupErd?"

Joan (aged 9)-"I'm looking for the ry I kept when I was a little girl." From the "Passing Show:"

Life's Painful Moments.-When, after iently waiting one's turn at the barber's a customer who is being shaved, he denly demands a haircut, a singe, and Champoo.

From the London "Mail:"

Romantic Parent (on beach)-" Some ple say they can still see people smugng on this beach at night.'

Little Boy-"Yes, I know-grandma 's it's disgusting-night after night the ne people."

From the "Passing Show:"

Butler-"The old-clothes man is oute, sir."

Then ask him if he has anything that Il fit me, James."

Here is a skit from Vienna on the tenry to unionize everything:

From the "Humoristische Blaetter:" In the Thieves' Kitchen.- "I know a fine b you can crack in the West district." Can't be done. My operations are limby the union to the Eastern district."

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HE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

HE great and solemn referendum asked for by President Wilson has received the clearest and most comete answer possible. And the voice the people has been explicit, not only to the foreign entanglements involved the kind of League insisted upon Mr. Wilson, but upon the whole urse of the Administration at home. The completeness of the Republican etory is amazing and overwhelming. e popular plurality of Warren G. arding and Calvin Coolidge is the gest ever gained by Presidential and ce-Presidential candidates. Exact ures are not available as we write,

morning after election, but such imated pluralities as that of 1,100,

0 in New York State (440,000 in

w York City alone), 750,000 in Pennvania, and from 300,000 to 500,000 Ohio are typical of the extent of the litical landslide.

Of the total electoral vote of 531 36 needed to elect) Harding at this

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be considerably swollen by the newly made women voters, but the party voters, but the party division of the women vote will largely be a matter of surmise for the very reason that the victory has been so sweeping, while no separate tally has been kept of the women voters. It is certain that in this. the first Presidential election in which women have voted the country over, a large proportion of them exercised their privilege with earnest patriotism.

In an editorial on another page the significance of the great political overturn is discussed.

THE RESULT IN THE STATE
OF NEW YORK

THE State of New York deserves

special mention in comment upon the election for two reasons. First, it gave the unprecedented and astounding plurality of one million to the Republican candidate for President and at the same time nearly elected the Democratic

posed subservience to Tammany and his advocacy of a "liberal enforcement?' of the Prohibition Law.

Another surprising result in New York State was the overwhelming vote by which Senator Wadsworth was reelected, his majority at this writing being estimated at from 300,000 to 500,000. He was vigorously opposed by some women leaders because he has persistently voted against woman suffrage and because his record on labor legislation in New York State for women and children has not been broad-minded or progressive. women voters, however, apparently, and we think wisely, decided that it is more important at this juncture to give President-elect Harding the support of a Republican Senate than to punish Senator Wadsworth for voting, as they believed, wrongly in the past on issues. which are practically settled.

CAMPAIGN GOSSIP

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ow that the campaign is over and

th 140. Compare this with Mr. ilson's 435 electoral votes in 1912 d 277 in 1916. The Democrats have ried hardly any States outside of the ditional solid South and some of the ear-Southern" States, while Tensee appears to be in the Republi1 column. We speak below of the narkable contest for the Governorp in New York and of the more portant results of the elections as to nators.

In this Presidential election the exeted has happened. There have been such complications and after-election certainties as marked the election of ilson over Hughes in 1916. Even at time of Roosevelt's victory over rker in 1904, when the Republican urality was enormous, and in the elecn of Taft in 1908, there were prection doubting Thomases who ludiusly misconceived the probabilities. it in 1920 the trend of public opinion s been so strong and definite that the idslide was almost universally foreen and by all but partisan "lastchers" conceded.

It will be interesting to compare the tal popular votes cast, when the fig fes are obtainable, with the total of er 18,000,000 in 1916 and over ,000,000 in 1912. The total will

even affectionately known as "Al" Smith. The New York "Herald' rightly says that the extraordinary vote he polled in the face of an overwhelming Republican landslide is "one of the most remarkable personal triumphs in the history of politics." It is also a tribute to the ability of the American voter to exercise the right of discrimination and independent judgment even under the stress of strong party feeling. It is no disparagement to Governor-elect Miller, who has an admirable record as a lawyer, a State official, and a Judge' of the State Supreme Court, to say that Governor Smith is admitted by thoughtGovernor Smith is admitted by thoughtful men of all parties to have been an unusually good executive. He came from the plain people, and he has quietly but firmly stood for the rights and welfare of the plain people. Even his membership in Tammany Hall has not obscured this fact. Both his political career and his political character illustrate what an American of modest origin may do in administrative government who faithfully tries to educate himself and to stand for the general welfare as opposed to partisan spoils. Indeed, except for two weaknesses in his record, which, however, we believe, were the results of real conviction on his part, he might possibly have been re-elected-his sup

to refer to one or two episodes which are not very creditable to American politics. The first episode was the publication in "Harvey's Weekly" of a cartoon which was a caricature of Raphael's famous painting "The Immaculate Conception." It is perhaps not surprising that this cartoon, which gave great offense both to Protestants and to Catholics, was published by Colonel Harvey, who has never posed as a Chesterfieldian in matters of taste or manners. But that it should have been sent out for publication in other journals by the Republican National Committee, as is alleged, is both surprising and disappointing. Those politicians who ignore or violate the deep-seated religious feelings of thousands of men and women of all ecclesiastical faiths disclose not only their lack of genuine human sympathy, but their lack of intelligence and discretion as political managers. It should in all fairness be added that Mr. Hays, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, denounced the publication of this cartoon as soon as he learned of it, and put a stop to its circulation by subordinates of the Committee in the regular routine. When the American people are thoroughly educated to

ALBERT B. CUMMINS (REPUBLICAN) RE-ELECTED SENATOR FROM IOWA

respect, even when they do not agree with, the religious opinions and faiths. of their fellow-countrymen, the political campaigns of those happy days to come will be conducted without such egregious mistakes.

The other episode is perhaps still more discreditable to American politics. For weeks preceding the elec{'on furtive and whispering gossip about Senator Harding had been circulated throughout the country, often in the form of the phrase, "Have you heard the awful things that have been said about Mr. Harding?" with no mention of what the awful things were. It was said that the daily newspaper offices throughout the country had these stories in their editorial rooms, but that they were so bad as to be unprintable. Fortunately, a few days before the election the allegation upon which these rumors were based was made public. It was that some of Senator Harding's immediate ancestors were mulattoes, and that he therefore had Negro blood in his veins. Professor William Estabrook Chancellor, of Wooster University, in the State of Ohio, was dismissed by the Board of Trustees for circulating this allegation. On its publication the rumor exploded without harm to anybody except to its originators. The viciousness of this gossip lies not in the fact that it is a calumny, but that it was a definite and a concerted attempt to calumniate. Baseless rumor and gossip cease to be harmful when exposed to the open light of day. President Cleveland, when during his Presidential campaign he was attacked by rumor, said not only a brave thing, but gave expression to an eternal principle. When the rumors were brought to his attention, he dryly remarked: "Tell the truth." Any charge against a public man which is important enough to deserve attention is important enough to be made publicly and on good authority.

(C) Harris & Ewing

REED SMOOT (REPUBLICAN)
RE-ELECTED SENATOR FROM UTAH

Charges of any other kind should be
dismissed as slanderous. It is discred-
itable to the American people that they
permit themselves to pay so much at-
tention to gossip and tittle-tattle re-
garding their public men.

THE NEXT CONGRESS

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YONGRESS in both houses will be
Republican.

There are 96 members in the United States Senate; there are 435 members in the House of Representatives. One-third of the Senate members and all of the House members are elected every two years.

The Sixty-seventh Congress convenes March 4, 1921. This year for its Senate, in addition to the necessary thirty-two Senators to be elected, two others were chosen to replace losses by death.

The Sixty-sixth Congress had a Republican majority of 39 in the House of Representatives. This will be increased

FRANK B. BRANDEGEE (REP) RE-ELECTED SENATOR FROM CONS.

degee, of Connecticut, and Moses, of New Hampshire, all of whom were standing for re-election. There were also ugly Republican "splits" in Wis consin, Indiana, and Illinois, respect ively endangering the chances of the present Republican Senators Lenroot and Watson and of the Republican nominee to succeed a Republican Sen ator in Illinois. Finally, in Utah there was Congressman Milton H. Welling's vigorous campaign against the Repub lican Senator Smoot, Mr. Smoot's reser vationist views concerning the League of Nations not having pleased many of his fellow-Mormons. And in Missouri Senator Spencer, Republican, had to face an equally vigorous campaign waged by Breckenridge Long, Demo crat and late Third Assistant Secretary of State. All four Senators and the Illinois candidate have been successful

NORTH DAKOTA, WISCONSIN, AND SOME DEMOCRATIC WORRIES

creased to about fifty. In the Senate the THE Senatorial fights in North Da

Republicans had a majority of only two. Present reports indicate that, as a result of the election, this majority will be very materially increased. This is a double consolation to Republicans. They recognize the irony of electing a Republican President and not a Republican Senate. Again, they see that the higher the Republican majority in the Senate the more impotent would be the discord of such "irreconcilables" as Senators Borah and Johnson.

Most observers anticipated that the House would retain its large Republican majority. But the Senatorial situamajority. But the Senatorial situa tion was menacing to the Republicans. Their slender majority was threatened by very possible Democratic gains. There was, for instance, a large woman vote, independent of party, to be reckoned with against the Republican Senators Wadsworth, of New York, Bran

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kota and Wisconsin were both centers of lively political interest. In North Dakota it will be remembered that the Non-Partisan League cap tured the Republican organization and named as its candidate for Senator Dr. E. F. Ladd. It was expected that many Republicans would cast their votes for the Democratic candidate, H. P. Perry, but the early returns indicate that Dr. Ladd has successfully overcome this handicap. The Non-Partisan League candidate in South Dakota, lacking the Republican indorsement, was defeated by his Republican rival, Governor Norbeck. It is not to be supposed that Dr. Ladd, of North Dakota, will be of much comfort to the Republican majority in the Senate, though he is nominally of that party.

In Wisconsin Senator Lenroot, fac ing the vigorous opposition of his col