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Lloyd G?eorge Disappoints
? Lloyd George's Manchester speech
was accurately described in the cable
dispatches as "disappointing." It
avoided the two main questions in
which the British public is now in?
terested?namely, the true inward?
ness of the government's recent
Near East policy and the prospect
of a new election, preceded by a
break-up of the Parliamentary coali
tion. He did not bac1* up Mr. Cham -
berlain's suggestion ?hat the coali?
tion has to be maintained as a check
on the aggressions of the Labor
party. He left his hearers in doubt
ag to wbetber he really wanted to
continue as the Coalitionist leader
or would prefer to take chances
hereafter as head of one of the
straight party groups.
In dealing with the Near East
crisis, now happily over, Lloyd
Georsre skated over very thin ice.
He said In one passage of his speech
that the government's object was
threefold: "?Trst, it was to secure
the freedom of the Straits for the
commerce of ail nations; second, it
was to prevent the war from spread?
ing into Europe . . . and, third,
it was to prevent a repetition in Con?
stantinople and in Greece of the
scenes of intolerable horror which
had been enacted in Asia Minor dur?
ing the last six or seven years."
Everybody concerned in the Near
Eastern situation is in favor of the
freedom of the Straits. It appears,
then, that what the British govern?
ment had in mind in calling on the
dominions, Jugo-Slavia and Ru?
mania to help protect the water?
way was to prevent the Turkish
army from entering Europe, thus
avoiding responsibility for any
Turkish atrocities which might be
committed on European soil.
The Turkish regular army was, in
fact, kept in Asia by the terms of
the Mudanui armistice. But Turk?
ish civilian officials and gendar?
merie are to cross at once into
Thrace. The Turk, with Lloyd
George's consent, is to rule again
over European territory. The em?
bargo at Chanak was only an emer?
gency one. The Turk is being kept
out of Europe so far as he is armed
und uniformed as a soldier. He is
not being excluded otherwise. He is
not being excluded because he is a
Turk and because the unutterable
horror of tho Armenian massacre
still clings about him.
Lloyd George led many people to |
believe that he had gone back to Mr. j
Gladstone's view of the "terrible
Turk." But he had not. He said or !
Saturday of Great Britain's early ?
war policy toward Turkey that it was '
"first of all, to secure the freedom
of the Straits, and, second, to take
away from Turkish rule Christian
populations whom you could not in?
trust to Turk'Hh charge." But he
admitted that his government had
driftad away from that policy. He
departed radically from it in Janu?
ary, 1918, when he made his well
known promise to the Indian Ma?
hometans regarding Constantinople
and Thrace. He reverted to it, it is
true, in 1920, when he approved the
S?vres treaty. But he rejected it
once more when he agreed last
March to restore Turkish sov?
ereignty over Constantinople and
eastern Thrace.
lie has n >t been a Gladstone, al?
though he has recently talked in the
Gladstore manner. And at Man?
chester he very nearly dropped that
nuinner. which doesn't comport at
all with the concessions made to
Turkey in the Mudania agreement.
Soured Milk of Kindness
"The World" tries to break the
force o? Governor Miller's argument
that lie was able to make the exist?
ing .?t?te machinery work, not think?
ing it necessary to wait for consti?
tutional revision to put new tools
into his hands. Mr. Smith, the Gov?
ernor said, had called for new tools,
-??eamvhile sitting in hi? chair at the
3iipitol and watching the wheels go
'eopnd.
Our neighbor intervenes and
?hartes that Governor Miller did
ask for "different machinery," be?
cause he announced his unwilling?
ness to run again this year on the j
same ticket with Secretary of State j
John J. Lyoas and Attorney General!
Newton, Pettifogging: faultfinding
this? reaches its limit. Can't "The
World" ?ee the difference between an
office and an officeholder, a depart?
ment and its temporary head? The
"different tools" which the Governor
alluded to were not state agents, bat
state agencies. He raised the legiti?
mate point that he had accomplished
with the old mechanism what Mr,
Smith had despaired of accomplish?
ing except with the aid of a new
mechanism.
"The World" talks a good deal
about its fairness. Its suggestion
that by dropping Messrs. Lyons and
Newton the Governor and the Re
! publican State Convention made over
? the offices of the Secretary of State
j and Attorney General is nonsense.
For a newspaper which claims
i breadth, clarity and charity of view,
"The World" too frequently is ma?
liciously partisan.
A Sober-Sided Election
The city registration this year?
1,179,818?falls short of last year's
total by 83,735. The local issues
involved in the mayoralty fight
brought out a heavy enrollment a
year ago. Now intensive local in?
terest seems to be lacking. It is a
commonplace among political ob?
servers in all sections of the coun?
try that no Congress campaign since
1914 has aroused so little public
attention or partisan excitement as
the one now in progress has done.
New York's registration reflects
the comparative apathy prevalent
everywhere. Yet we have a contest
in this state?that for the Govern?
orship?which deeply concerns
every taxpayer. That means nearly
everybody. Shall Mr. Miller's ef?
forts to give the people a bigger re?
turn than ever before from every
dollar spent on government be sus?
tained and his term in office be ex?
tended?
Again, the people of New York
County face the question of retain?
ing good judges on the bench and
keeping the judiciary qut of the
clutches of the party bosses. Sur?
rogate Cohalan's re-election will re?
affirm a salutary principle which
the politicians are intriguing to
set aside. Here are two is?
sues which come close home to
every voter. They arouse little pas?
sion. But it is of great importance
to those who have put their name_
on the poll lists to study them
cpen-mindedly and decide them
rightly.
The School Tragedy |
It is the sober fact that the school
situation in New York City was
never so badly muddled as in the
present hour. Mayor Hylan is crying
"Conspiracy!" as is his wont when?
ever the facts go against him. But no
juggling of figures can better the sit?
uation. More than 150,000 children
are to-day on part time, which is to
say that they are being half edu?
cated, And no relief is in sight.
To add to the confusion comes the
charge that the emergency double
sessions are not working satisfac?
torily. So much time is lost that
the children in such schools are re?
ceiving much less than a full edu?
cation. If investigation confirms
this view, far more than 150,000
children are being denied a proper
education.
The facts constitute the greatest
disgrace that has ever befallen the
City of New York. The wealthiest
city in America, the metropolis of a
great nation, refuses to give its chil?
dren the primary elements of edu
cation !
It is Mr. Hylan personally who
has thrust this tragedy opon the
school children of New York. This
policy of enforced illiteracy is the
inevitable result of his considered
: actions. The Gary system offered
a carefully devised plan, tested by
experience, whereby double use could
i be made of school buildings with
J efficient results. In turning his
?back on this plan Mr. Hylan de
j liberately condemned a large portion
j of the present generation of chil?
dren to a fraction of an education.
If New York has ever had worse
i mayors than Mayor Hylan there
! have surely been none who, de
\ liberately, to make a petty cam?
paign issue, did greater harm to the
j children of this city.
| "Fanwed Out" Railroad Work
The Railroad Labor Board has
J once more affirmed its decision that
j "farming out" of shop work by the
j railroads is a violation of the trans
' portation act. "Farming out" was
I originally an expedient on the part
; of the railroads to escape from the
; burdens imposed on them by the Mc
? Adoo national rail labor agreement.
Wage rates and working condi
I tions in the shops were made so op
j pressive that for economy's sake the
: managements were driven to enter
j into outside contracts for repairs as
;' far as practicable.
Some of this work was doubtless
i done cheaper outside and repre
I sented a saving for the hard pressed
roads. But in 1920 and 1921, antici
; pating a boom in business and an
j expansion of traffic which never ma?
terialized, many roads made emer?
gency repair contracts with outside
shops. According to the Interstate
Commerce Commission's findings
these contracts did not result in sa-r
ing. It was shown that the work
could have been done at lower cost
inside %he railroad organisation
So the economic argument ceased to
apply.
The Railroad Labor Board has
consistently held that since it was
authorised, when appealed to, to fix
wages and working conditions in the
shops as well as in the operating de?
partments, it was also required to
see that its decisions were not evaded
by "farming oat" what was essen?
tially railroad work. It followed
the spirit of the Eseh-Cummins act
in demanding that the roads should
not turn work away from the men
on their pay rolls.
Outside repair contracts were for?
bidden even before tbe shopmen's
strike broke. But the "farming out"
grievance was used by Mr. Jewell
to force a walk-out against a scal?
ing down of wages. Last July most
of the railroads which had not given
up outBide contracting promised the
Labor Board to do so. The cases re?
cently decided came down from the
period before July. The board's rul?
ings outlaw an abuse which had al?
ready practically ended.
The Labor Board's attitude ha.
been correct and impartial in'this
matter. Under government regula?
tion of the railroads both sides must
give up some of the privileges of in?
dividual freedom of action and of a
free market. Wages are fixed by
the board. In return for that the
railroad worker virtually agrees to
accept the board's awards. He is
also entitled to a certain compensat?
ing protection in tenure and to per?
form all work legitimately within
the sphea? of railroad operation.
Yielding to the board, the carriers
strengthen their contention that the
striking shopmen never had any ex?
cuse for not yieldi_& to it.
The Usual Whale
Southampton's annual whale has
arrived, this time a little earlier than
usual. Generally he waits until mid?
winter and as a rule chooses a day
when murders, wars and campaigns
on land are slack. He never fails to
remind the reporters of the old
story about "Thar she blows!" and
to bring forth examples of the Ameri?
can language which should arouse
the jealousy of H. L. Mencken. All
the old whalers don their oilskins
and sea-boots and appear on the
beaeli, using expressions full of apos?
trophes and obviously uttered with a
nasal twang. Every one is a cap'n
and every one has a fish story which
he tells the reporter as gospel truth,
who in turn dresses it up for the
credulous consumption of city folks.
The latest Southampton visitor
likes toothpicks after swallowing
several barrels of breakfast fish, and
also has brown eyes. The cut of his I
chin whiskers has not yet been re- ;
ported and estimates as to his size
vary only about fifty feet. Other?
wise he runs true to form and has
lured the entire population of South?
ampton to the beach, where they have
remained all day watching for him
to blow. Several cap'ns have planned
to go out and bring in his carcass,
and so that none will miss the fun
it has been arranged to ring all the
bells in the city bef ove the hunt com?
mences. But the appearance of a
whale off Southampton is now as
much of an event to the inhabitants
of that town as the passage of the
transcontinental limited is in Gopher
Prairie, where no one can bother
with working for an hour before or
after this occurrence. Gopher Prairie,
however, has it over Southampton in
that the excitement occurs daily.
But Southampton makes up for it
by taking a day off before and after
the arrival of the whale and talking
about it for the succeeding twelve
months.
Immigration and Labor Shortage
Ever since the westward move?
ment first became acute the cry has
been raised in the manufacturing
districts that we must impart un
skilled laborers from Europe to do
| heavy labor or ehe pay higher
wages. At intervals throucrhout the
last hundred years it has been re?
peated, and as often as repeated it
has been attacked. On the on-? side
have been the industrial interests.
On the other have been those whose
main interest was the welding of th.3
American race.
Now the bogey of a "labor short?
age" is raised again, and we are told
that there will soon be no more men
to build our roads and railroads, to
dig in our mines and to work at our
furnaces. Of the 309,556 aliens who
entered the country during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1922, only 32,
724 were classified as laborers,
whereas 100,058 out of the 198,712
returning emigrants were so classi?
fied. In other words, we lost this
year 67,334 more laborers than we
gained. Had there been no immi?
gration restriction law we might
have had instead an influx of
several hundred thousand willing
workers.
This is, of course, alarming to em?
ployers of labor. But the advocates
of restriction have realized all alon?j
that the new policy would brins-;
about a readjustment in the labor
field. They have felt, however, that
not even the cost of this readjust?
ment could outbalance the net gain
to the country of checking the inun?
dation of foreigners. "In the old
days, before the spare lands were
taken up and before the vast urban
population had developed, facilitat?
ing the existence of large foreign
colonies in our midst, the danger
was not so great. The country could
absorb the nvwcomtn without indi
jjwri-?on. Bot this is no long? true*
The country may have to pay the
prie? of the immigration restriction
in higher wages, bat it is the price
of American unity.
**
The Great Mark Swindle
Not the least interesting thing
about Germany'* gigantic mark
hoax is the fact that the majority
of those deceived by it are of Ger
masi extraction or with German
connections.
It has? of course, long been
known that Germany used her de?
preciating currency to buy good!
money abroad. This was but one
of her methods of evading repara?
tion payments. By hastening an
artificial bankruptcy she hoped, and
still expects, to escape further pay?
ments. But it is a strange play
of fate that the sums which she
thus exported and stored up abroad,
where neither her own tax gather?
ers nor Allied supervisors can reacit
them, should have been made for
the most part at the expense of her
sympathisers rather than of her
former enemies.
It is true that many non-Ger?
mans caught the fever and specu?
lated in marks. In so doing they
took upon their own shoulders part
of Germany's burden. But those
who bought most enthusiastically
were naturally persons whose be?
lief in Germany was greatest. And
yet as long as a year ago a promi?
nent German bunker is said to have
remarked to an American that it
was the opinion of many people in
Germany that in thus "soaking"
the Germans in America Germany
was repaying them for their failure
to support her more heartily dur?
ing the war.
Although such a point of view is
a tribute to the loyalty to Americi
of the German element in this
country it is a sad commentary
upon the integrity of purpose of the
German financial world. If Ger?
man bankers look with satisfaction
on the fraud perpetrated on their
friends what attitude can they bo
expected to take toward their
enemies?
The fat women whom Dr. Cope
land helped reduce came out for his
Senatorial candidacy, and that was
a pleasant compliment, whether
it .will materially reduce the Repub?
lican vote or not. But now the
undertakers have enthusiastically in?
dorsed him, and it is hard to decide
whether this is a compliment for an
efficient health commissioner ? or
what.
?More Truth 1 han Poetry j
By James J. Montague j
The Higher Art
[Raising a perfect hog, with the right
tilt of nose and curl of tall, la real art?
Secretary Wallace].
Art isn't merely sculptured stone
Or gobs of paint on canvas
spread ;
Is isn't symphonies of tone
By fluegel horns and oboes
shed;
It is not poetry expressed
In words, or poses, or in jigs?
In fact one finds it at its best
In pigs.
To rear a Berkshire to its prime; )
To teach him elegant repose;
To spend unstinted toil and time
On curl of tail and tilt of nose!
To lay long graceful flakes of fat
Upon the creature's* every part,
So that the world will wonder?
that ?
Is art.
A magic thrill the painter feels
What time he lays his canvas
by
And notes how nobly it reveab
Some passing mood of sea or
sky.
But higher laurels does he-win?
The farmer, happiest of men??
Who views the perfect porker in
His pen.
All arts have their appointed
place;
Corot, M. Angelo, Verlaine
Worked bravely to uplift the
race
And none of them have lived
in vain.
But greater gloTy do they quaff
Who, when their useful lives
"are done,
Have raised a hog that weighs a
half
A ton.
The Well Known Buck
When it corrips to licking Turkey
all the other European premiers aro
perfectly willing to let George do it
Helpful
One way to get some of that Ger?
man indemnity would be to attach
the receipts of the ex-Kaiser's book.
He's Lasted a Whole Month
! Isn't it about time that Greece was
asking waivers on her new king?
j (Copyright by James .1. Montague)
Scoutmasters Needed
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A survey has just been com?
pleted of all churches and settlement
houses south of Fourteenth Street and
east of Third Avanue, with a view co
establishing Boy Scout troops where
none at present exist.
Scoutmasters of all religious faiths
ere needed immediately.
Not more than one evening a week
is needed for the work. Beginning on
Monday evening, October 23, & course
in scout leadership will be given by the
Manhattan Council at the Museum of
Natural History. If you ara interested
kindly communicate with the under?
signed, in care of Manhattan Coun?
cil, Boy Scouts of America, 73 Madison
Avenue, EMANUEL HAYT,
Field Executive, 2d Division.
New York, Qet. 11, 1?22.
I .
The Tower
Capt.. Now Tot- TH-WM ?u>.. It>?
All men are BORN free and
equal. . . .
But only the rich can fcuy rum.
* ? *
The present Administration is
more aroused against European ships
that bring liquor into American
ports. ? . .
Than the Wilson Administration
was when German ships were mur?
dering American citteens on the high
seas.
* * a
Now that Safety Week is over,
pedestrians and motorists will prob?
ably go back to colliding with each
other in the old carefree, happy
spirit
* * ?
If the United States can enforce
its domestic laws on a French or
British ship flying its national flag,
why not in a French or British city?
* * *
England pays $50,000,000 of her
debt to America to-day. Gold is all
very well . . . but say it with
coal, England, say it with coal!
+ + *
As Kipling never remarked:
"They have the gold of the world,
but we have saved our coal."
* ? *
One of the latest theories in a
notorious New Jersey killing mystery
is: "The suggestion has been ad?
vanced that ne met her in an en?
deavor to show her the folly of her
infatuation for him."
He tells himself so frequently that
he is meeting Her for that purpose
and that purpose alone!
But after He meets Her he feels
sorry for Her because of thTs foolish
?infatuation.
And what can He do but comfort
Her?
Which makes Her understand how
noble He is ... . thus increasing
Her foolish infatuation.
The nobility which thus enters the
affair raises it to a Higher Plane;
the Element of Spirituality sanc?
tions anything that may follow.
Before They part He has forgotten
why He met Her.
The Spiritual Element is unper
ceived by the Interested Onlookers.
Fate, waiting at the Left Upper
Entrance with a cruel grin and an
ax, blows this spiritual element off
the situation as if it were the froth
from a glass of beer. And then
neatly nicks their necks with the ax.
Real life keeps right on stealing
all the old hokum and hackneyed
sentiment from the popular plays.
* '.*??*
Deaths from alcoholism are re?
ported to be on the increase in New
York State. That's what comes
when people drink Alcohol instead
of Wine and Beer and Whisky.
* * a
Great Britain and Irak have
signed a treaty. For a period of
twenty years King Feisal of Irak
agrees to be guided by King George
of England with regard to "inter?
national and financial obligations
and interests."
King George wi!i he guided b\
whatever governme.-t is in power in
Britain.
Whatever government is in powei
will be guided by tha press of thi
world.
The press of the world will con?
tinue to bo guided by avchy the cock
roac'i, Ike Marcosson, Dr. Fran.
Crane and Clare Sheridan.
What chance has King Feisal oi
Irak got?
a a a
Capt Peter Fitzurse worked ou'
plans thirty years ago to deflect tht
Gulf Stream in any direction re
quired.
>-But he never hopes to have then
adopted.
His plans for making batt'eship?
invisible to an enemy were pitreon
holed by a dozen different govern
ments, and the thing has not beei
done yet.
* * *
And yet the Captain's plan was
entirely scientific and logical.
The Captain illustrated one day, j
with a highball which Edom, his
colored body servant, had just set
before him.
* * *
Tie stuck a pencil into the high?
ball.
"Note," he said, "that where the
pencil enters the liquid there seems
to be a bend or break.
"The base of the pencil seems to
be an eighth of an inch from where
it really is.
"This is in accordance with a. well
known law of optics. It is, in fact,
the principle of mirage; mirage in
desert places or mirage at sea.
* * *
"The rays of light which make the
pencil visible at all are broken at
the point where they leave the thin?
ner medium of the air and penetrate
the denser medium of the liquid.
"If you have ever speared fish
you will have noticed the same thing,
The fish is always a few inches dis?
tant from where he seems to be.
+ ?-*}'.? *
"It is not necessary that watei
and air be in juxtaposition for thi.
illusion to be produced.
"A damp layer of air next to i
dry light layer of air will work jus
as well ... the person who look,1
through one layer of air at an ob
ject situated in another layer wil
seem to see it where it is not. It i
merely the principle of lenses.
* * *
"In deserts, or at sea, the mirag
occurs because these special atmos
pheric conditions have been ace:
dentally created.
"It is my plan to create these spt
cial atmospheric conditions delibei
ately and scientifically.
"On the deck of each of my battit
ships there will be a device for pr<
ducing chemically an aura of atmoi
phere differing from the atmosphei
naturally and normally surroundir
the ship on that day.
* * *
"The mirage of the ship will 1
seen by the enemy, not the re
ship. The real ship will be from
thousand to three thousand yar?
distant from where it seems to be
* * *
"The enemy will shoot at t
mirage
"Those in control of the gunne
on my ships will not be bother?.
They will know the extent of the c
flection from the actual, and \?
find the ranges accordingly."
* * *
Personally, we can't find a fli
in the scheme. And neither c
Edom, the Captain's servant.
Don Marquis
JUST TO KEEP HISTORY STRAIGHT
Copyright, liai?, "Usar York TrStrorn? ?iw>.
The Old Brooklyn Philharmonic By,D<mdA.cUr?s
Brooklyn became the third largest
city in the United States ?bout the
time of the Civil War and puffed it?
self more or less on account of the
fact. Undaunted by the superior mag?
nitude of its neighbor across the
river, it stoutly asserted its own
superiority in matters of more im?
portance than mere size. Among
these matters it reckoned Art, spell?
ing it always with a capital letter.
And among the arts it ranked music
as easily first.
It had its annual exhibition of pic-1
tures and statues which Brooklynites
modestly admitted wers far superior
to similar exhibitions given each year
in New York, but the one thing in
which it took most pride was the
Brooklyn Academy of Music. This
really admirable building, as any one
living in Brooklyn would mention
whenever the occasion came, seated
some sixty-four or five more than the
New York Academy. I forget the
exact number.
Opera of the ultra-grand sort was
presented there on occasions and un
deniably the presentations were equal
to those made in New York, but it was
not possible to assert superiority for
them and opera was not, therefore,
considered so important by Brooklyn
people, as Philharmonic concerts. For
tho Brooklyn Philharmonic Society
was believed, even by many disinter?
ested critics, to rank with the Boston
Symphony, which, as everybody knew,
had been for a long time the last word
in the musicai world.
There would be half a dozen Phil?
harmonic concerts each season,* with
three public rehearsals before each I
concert. To buy a season ticket ad- |
mitting you to all these was a social
obligation. I forget what the price
was, but nobody considered that, and
the music was unquestionably worth
the money, whatever it was. The
best performers and singers in the
world appeared there. Parepa-Rosa
sang there. So did Brignoli. Louis
Gottschalk played duets with Sander?
son, and solos -on the piano. And if
my memory is not at fault, Ole Bull,
Pauline Lucca, Adelina, Carlotta and
What Readers Say
Better Ordered in France ,
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: One of the most glaring weak?
nesses in our criminal procedure, it
seems to me, has been brought to light
in the Hall-Milla murder mystery. I
refer to the anachronism of the cor?
oner. Does it not seem more ?n keep-,
ing with our ideal of justice to have
some such official as the French ex?
amining magistrate to discharge the
coroner's duties? It is some time since
I reviewed the requirements for an ex?
amining magistrate (called a "juge
d'instruction") in France, but I think
they Include the taking of fingerprints,
measurements and photographs of a
special sort, showing the body from
every conceivable angle. The training
also includes a course in special ob?
servation, taking in details ordinarily
overlooked.
Above all, tha law in France deals
severely with curiosity-seekers who dare
to disturb the scene of the crime in
the slightest detail until after the
magistrate has completed his examina?
tion.
CHARLOTTE HOLMES CRAWFORD.
Brooklyn, Oct. 10, 1922.
The Rostrum Club
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the interest of Americanism
I am sure your readers will be glad to
learn of the formation of the Rostrum
Club, which has for its object the off?
setting of the activities of "radical
soap-box orators," whose insidious
propaganda has grown to be a na?
tional menace.
It Is hoped to enlist the active
aid of right-thinking Americans in an
earnest effort to combat these mis?
guided individuals by using their own
methods, the public Bpeaking platform.
Those active in promoting the club
are Judge Moses H. Grossman, Senator
W. C. Amos and John G. Pemble
ton. The club will meet each Wednes?
day at 7 p. m. in the Bar Association
Building. Plans call for the establish?
ment of a public speaking class under
th? tutelage of Mr. Harry C. France,
who has been doing a like service at
Columbia University.
W. ANSON HALLABAN,
Assistant Director.
New York, Oct 18, 19ZZ.L
Dr. Had?ey Concurring
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Under date of October 11 Dr.
; Arthur T. Hadley, distinguished econ?
omist, says that a point which I made
in a letter to him on October 7 is well
taken; that is, that the discrepancy in
rewards for Industrial effort is due to
tho fact that we have two standards
?or the distribution of wealth?a wag-?
or salary or interest rate fixed in ad?
vance, but no limit on profits?and
that this double standard is the sole
cause of the so-called unearned in?
crement In values of all kinds.
I argued that if a double standard of
money is economically unsound it i
should be clear that a double standard
for the distribution of wealth is also
unsound, and thus ? have in a few
words confirmed by eminent authority
a truth which I have been striving for ;
years to make clear.
LOWE SHEARON.
New York, Oct. 13, 1922.
Lying-in Hospital's Finances
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A recent public statement by
the United States Hospital Fund, con?
cerning the financial condition of Its
?embers' hospitals, has unfortunately
created a false Impression detrimental
to the interests of the Lying-in Hospital.
"The ten hospitals for women an?!
children," said the United Hospital
Fund statement, "showed a net surplus
of only $4,257, because, while many
had deficits individually, a surplue cf
$84,376 by the Lying-in Hospital
brought them up collectively."
Literally, this surplus of ours did
exist at the end of 1921, but only be?
cause of a substantial donation which
had been made by a small group of
loyal and generous friends at a time
when it was feared that the hospital
might have to close its doors. This
donation, made in 1921, and creating
th? surplus referred to above, has
made it possible to continue the
hospital for the present year.
My anxiety in bringing this situation
to the public's attention is based on
the fact that the surplus has now been
spent, and that the end of the year is
extremely likely to show a deficit.
MORTON S. PATON,
Vice-President. |
New York, Oct. 14? 1928.
Cario Patti were among those -who
lent distinction to the list of notables.
I heard them all, and in retrospect it
seems to have been at a Philhirmo-ic.
And I can no more admit than caa
any one of my generation that the?
superiors can be heard to-day.
Parepa had the best soprano T?ir?
I ever listened to, excepting on? tk
public never knew. Her manner ~i
exclusively hers. At one of the B
hearsals she cams on the .tage is \
street dress and sat in a chair u
sing. More than that, she crossed her
knees when she sat down, and Brook?
lyn gasped. It had not at that t?a?
been generally acknowledged that
women had legs and Mme. Psrrepa, if
not exactly fat, was certainly ?tont,
Her act, however, was condoned bf
many who were liberal enough t?
allow for the eccentricity of gemas, j
though some of these somewhat re?
gretfully compared her to Georp
Sand.
Brignoli ws3 vigorously hissed ti
one of these concerts, before he be?
gan singing, but just as he was abetf
to begin. It was for an offen?? _/
had committed at rehearsal. 1W
third rehearsal before each coneei
was considered a practically perfed
performance, as it usually was. p-J
consequently, drew a full hoes?, f?. j
the first and second rehearsal, wo-li
not; but it was a matinee performance,
and men did not, as a rule ?ttsM
matinees in those iays, consecro e-tif?
the audience would be mostly tf j
ladies and not a few who were Orel
more than children.
It was at a third rehearsal ft*
Brignoli, having come to singlas an?
nounced, refused to do so after !oo*
ing at the andicr-ce from be-hi- tho
curtain. "I do not sing to wo??*
and children," he said, and &* -*"
mark was reported. H
That was on a Wednesday, ?id *?
Saturday night, when the concert w_t
given, Brooklyn seethed with res?-**
ment.' Joe Howard, afterward e*?
of the most prominent Amerle??
journalists, was then a reporter **
"Tho Brooklyn Eagle," a aj?
young man about town and ?*? *w
had a large following in the VOWS*
set.
When Brignoli came out taa tM
leader of the orchestra was lifting Ml
baton as a signal for the begtoninj
of the accompaniment, Joe started t
hissing, and it was instantly takes
up by so many that it ssamai asi ?
the whole audience was JoIm*
though probably there were many *M
disapproved of so rude a rahuto *?
the artist for his own bad m*nn81*L?
Brignoli astonished everybody
Stunned as he must have been, W
stood as motionless as a statt?***1
face grew white till it was ?J?**
ghastly, but in no other way dtf ?
show any emotion whatever, ?*?**
after wha* seemed a long time, -**
audience became tired and p-J**f *
little ashamed, and there cam* *&**
silence. Then, signaling for W* ?*??
compantment, he opened his ?08? *\
sang as no one there bad ever -*?**
him sing before. He wa? ***
with a tremendous outburst, of **!
plauso, and not even "The Eagle* fj?
any very g-rsphic account of tbe
fair. . __,
Mention was made of Cari- r*
He was a younger brother of the **?
singers and gave promise of a***\.i
like fame with them, but *?aTioH^
If he ?ang it was not in publie? W
he seemed the equal of his -i*****^
a musical genius, yet I have ??*'_^
few ta half a century who ros??9*
him. ?'?