"We Approve."

(We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In reply to A. G. Paine '17's article of Friday last in defense of President Wilson, I would like to submit the following clipping from the New Bedford Standard, with slight additions:

"Someone who has remembered the Dreyfus case and Zola's 'J'accuse' philippic has organized a society of Democrats under the name of 'Approving Americans.' The slogan of the society is 'We approve!' We suppose their list of approbations will include the following:

"We approve the selection of William Jennings Bryan as Secretary of State.

"We approve his resignation.

"We approve the stand of Mr. Wilson in opposition to a national defense program in 1914.

"We approve his address in favor of a national defense program in 1916.

"We approve his capture of Vera Cruz with the object of enforcing a salute to the American flag.

"We approve his withdrawal of our forces from Vera Cruz with the American flag unsaluted.

"We approve his insistence that Huerta must not be president of Mexico.

"We approve his announcement that there must be no interference with Mexico.

"We approve his support of Pancho Villa.

"We approve his pursuit of Pancho Villa.

"We approve his discontinuance of pursuit of Pancho Villa.

"We approve his notification of Germany that submarine attacks on merchant ships must cease.

"We approve his declaration during the submarine controversy that we are too proud to fight.

"We approve class legislation as exemplified by the Adamson law.

"We approve his shaken fist.

"We approve his admonitory finger.

"We approve him when he advances and when he backs up, when he goes up and when he goes down, vertically and horizontally and diagonally, in straight lines and curved lines, in circles and spirals, eliptically and parabolically. Our approbation is flexible and adjustable mobile and double-jointed." C. D. HORTON '18.