There won't be much for them. Enthusiasm grows among them over his
admirable fitness for reinterment on the Supreme Bench.





EDWARD M. HOUSE


The nature of Colonel Edward M. House was fully revealed by a story
of his youth, which he told me at Paris in the concluding moments
of the Peace Conference. He was elated and confident. The
compromises in which he delighted had been made. The gifts had all
been bestowed--of territory which men will have to fight for to
keep, of reparations which will never be paid, of alliances which
will never be carried out, of a League of Nations which the
Colonel's own Nation will never enter.

Looking the work over with that blindness with which men are struck
who are under the dominion of another and stronger man's mind, his
gentle soul was flooded with happiness. He was as near boasting as
one of his modest habits could be, as his mind turned to the wisdom
of his youth which had brought forth this excellent fruit.

"I got my first real sight of politics," he said, "when I was a boy
in Cornell University. My great chum there was young Morton, a son
of the Republican war governor of Indiana. The Hayes-Tilden
contest over the Presidency was being decided. Morton and I used to