POTASH AND PERLMUTTER SETTLE THINGS

by
MONTAGUE GLASS
Author of "Worrying Won't Win"
Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London


Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things

Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published September, 1919


CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I. [They Arrive, and So Does the President]1
II. [Settling the Preliminaries]15
III. [The President's Visit to England]24
IV. [Everything Is Proceeding Satisfactorily—Maybe]33
V. [This Here Peace Conference—It Needs Publicity]42
VI. [Joining the Legion of Honor]52
VII. [Some Cruel and Unusual Punishments for the Kaiser]62
VIII. [It Enters on Its No-gold-casket Phase]72
IX. [Worrying Should Begin at Home, Ain't It?]82
X. [The New Hungarian Rhapsody]92
XI. [It Is Still Up in the Air, but You Can't Say the Same for Transatlantic Voyages]102
XII. [This Here Victory Liberty Loan]112
XIII. [When Is a Secret Treaty Secret?]122
XIV. [The First Day of May]132
XV. [The Peace Treaty as Good Reading]142
XVI. [The German Roman Holiday and the Americanization of Americans]152
XVII. [Mr. Wilson's Favor of the 20th Ulto. and Contents Noted]162
XVIII. [Being Up in the Air, as Applied to Transatlantic Flights, Crown Jewels, and League of Nations Speeches]172
XIX. [The Leak and Other Mysteries]182
XX. [July the First and After]192
XXI. [What the Public Wants, Economically and Theatrically]202
XXII. [They Discuss the Signing of It]212
XXIII. [The Recent Unpleasantness in Toledo, Ohio]222
XXIV. [Feeding the Peace Conferencers and the Household]232
XXV. [What Are You Going to Do About It? This Includes Libeled Millionaires, Enforced Prohibition, and Shantung]241
XXVI. [The Approaching Royal Visit]251

ILLUSTRATIONS

["He Gives Himself Dead Away by Getting Sore"]Frontispiece
["I Wouldn't Blame Chairman ClemenceauNeither, Because if This Here PeaceConference Is Going to End This Sideof Nineteen-fifty, It's Got to BeSpeeded Up Some"]Facing p.44
["A Whole Lot of People Is So Badly Predictedto the Lapel-button Habit TheyWould Join Anything"]"52
["... Which when You Consider that Mr.Wilson Started In—in a Small Way"]"144