ator, for term 1917-23

LANSING, Robert,

Ex-Secretary of State; b. at Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1864; Educ.
A.B., Amherst, 1886; (LL.D., Amherst, 1915, Colgate, 1915,
Princeton, 1917, Columbia, 1918, Union, 1918, U. State of N. Y.,
1919); Admitted to bar, 1889; Asso. counsel for U. S. in Behring
Sea Arbitration, 1892-3: counsel for Behring Sea Claims Commn.,
1896-7; solicitor and counsel for the United States under the
Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; counsel, North Atlantic Coast
Fisheries Arbitration at The Hague, 1909-10; agent of United
States, Am. and British Claims Arbitration, 1912-14; counselor for
Dept. of State, Mar. 20, 1914-June 23, 1915; Secretary of State in
Cabinet of Pres. Wilson, June 23, 1915-Feb., 1920; mem. Am. Commn.
to Negotiate Peace, Paris, 1918-19

PENROSE, Boies,

Senator; b. Phila., Nov. 1, 1860; Educ. A.B., Harvard, 1881;
Admitted to the bar, 1883; mem. Pa. Ho. of Rep., 1884-6, Senate,
1887-97 (pres. pro tem., 1889,1891); U. S. senator, 4 terms,
1897-1921; Chmn. Rep. State Com., 1903-5; mem. Rep. Nat. Com. since 1904

BORAH, William Edgar,

Senator; b. at Fairfield, Ill., June 29, 1865; Educ. Southern Ill.
Acad., Enfield, and U. of Kan.; Admitted to bar, 1889; U. S.
senator from Idaho, Jan. 14,1903; elected U. S. senator for terms
1907-13, 1913-19, 1919-25

WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING

Every time we elect a new President we learn what a various
creature is the Typical American.

When Mr. Roosevelt was in the White House the Typical American was
gay, robustious, full of the joy of living, an expansive spirit
from the frontier, a picaresque twentieth century middle class
Cavalier. He hit the line hard and did not flinch. And his laugh
shook the skies.

Came Wilson. And the Typical American was troubled about his soul.
Rooted firmly in the church-going past, he carried the banner of
the Lord, Democracy, idealistic, bent on perfecting that old
incorrigible Man, he cuts off the right hand that offends him and
votes for prohibition and woman suffrage, a Round Head in a Ford.

Eight years and we have the perfectly typical American, Warren
Gamaliel Harding of the modern type, the Square Head, typical of
that America whose artistic taste is the movies, who reads and
finds mental satisfaction in the vague inanities of the small town
newspaper, who has faith in America, who is for liberty, virtue,
happiness, prosperity, law and order and all the standard
generalities and h