POLITICAL NOTES: Lotos Man

Four years before he was elected to his first public office (Governor of New Jersey ). Woodrow Wilson made a remarkable address to the members of Manhattan's erudite Lotos Club. Last week the Lotos Club again served as a forum for a No. i Democrat—Owen D. Young. Not Mr. Young, as honor guest, but Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the club's president, gave the event a political twist. Introducing Mr. Young as a "public servant," Dr. Butler said: "Whether a public servant receives office or not is accidental, and if that public servant...

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