asp. He has longed to be
Secretary of State, and it was a bitter disappointment when Mr.
Harding did not invite him to enter the Cabinet.

Mr. Lodge is a curious and not uninteresting study in psychology.
He has no great talent, but he is not without some ability; in his
youth he was an industrious plodder and fond of study. He has read
much but absorbed little; he is well educated in the narrow sense
of the schoolmaster, but he has no philosophic background; his is
the parasitic mind that sucks sustenance from the brains of others
and gives nothing in return. He is without the slightest
imagination and is devoid of all sense of humor; and without these
two, imagination, which is the gift of the poet, and humor, which
is the dower of the philosopher, no man can see life whole.

He has genius almost for misunderstanding public sentiment. To him
may be applied Junius' characterization of the Duke of Grafton: "It
is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do
right by mistake."

With all these defects, the defects of heritage and environment and
temperament, so much was expected from Mr. Lodge, and so much he
might have done, that it is a disappointment he has accomplished so
little. He has been thirty-four years in Congress, and his career
can be summed up in three achievements--the Force Bill, the attempt
to wreck England by driving her to silver coinage, and the part he
took in defeating the treaty of peace with Germany. The Force Bill
and the silver amendment his biographers have charitably forgotten;
will the future biographer deal as gently with the closing years of
his life? And if so, what material will the biographer have?

Macaulay, reviewing Barere's Memoirs--and allowing for the
difference in time and manners and morals there is a strange
similarity between the leader of the French Revolution and the
leader of the Senate--said, "We now propose to do him, by the
blessing of God, full and signal justice."

We think we may say, with proper humility, that, by the blessing of
God, we have done Senator Henry Cabot Lodge full and signal
justice.

BERNARD M. BARUCH

A clever woman magazine writer once asked Bernard M. Baruch for
some information about the peace treaty. The question was not in
his special field, the economic sections of the treaty, and he told
her so.

"It took him one sentence to say that he could not tell me what I
wanted to know," she described the interview afte