ADVERTISING THE PRESIDENT.

"The war-torn regions fill the President with horror;" so cries the Boston Herald in an emotional headline. The statement, of course, is reasonable enough. We might expect that any normal man on viewing the devastation of the most destructive war in history would experience an emotion something akin to horror. Mr. Wilson, in spite of his six years in the presidency, is yet normal and there is nothing sensational in his feeling very much as other men do.

We are accustomed to the publicity our newspapers give to the private life of men in high positions and we pay very little attention to it. In the case of Mr. Wilson, however and his foreign mission the practice has been carried to an extreme. The most trivial incidents of his daily life, the most matter of fact circumstances connected with his reception have been advertised with brazen complacency. When the British offered him the only formal entertainment that could be extended to the head of a great nation, the papers made much of the royal treatment this "prince of democracy" was getting. To give all the real news connected with the mission is only reasonable: We want to know exactly what is happening over there. But to feature such unimportant facts as have been repeatedly featured may be not only undignified but dangerous.