Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1936, Page 7

New Deal Has New Mexico In the Bag 1932 Margin May Be Cut, But Victory Is in the Cards. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. LBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., Sep- A tember 7.—New Mexico is one of those States which looks decidedly as if it would be for Roosevelt, but which could by a slight margin give its electoral vote to Lan- don if the Townsendites do not vote the Democratic ticket. In 1932 New Mexico went for Mr. Roosevelt by about 41,000, but this year even ; the most opti- j mistic estimate from the best in- formed persons on the Demo- cratic side does not go beyond 15000. This means not a close result, but one @ that eould be overturned as in 1924, by a three- way activity. = Thus, in that year, Mr. Coolidge failed by 3,000 to get a majority of the votes cast, but nevertheless had a plurality sufficient to get the electoral vote over Mr. Davis and Mr. La Follette, respec- tively. ‘The Republicans here have made a direct bid for the Townsend vote. The Townsendites put on a demon- stration during the recent Repub- lican State Convention here and did succeed in having written into the platform a proposal for a “revolving plan” for old-age pensions. But the word “Republican” doesn't mean the same thing here as it does in most other States. The followers of the late Senator Bronson Cutting, progressive Republican, control the Republican party. This is one of the few States, too, curiously enough, where large groups of voters are dominated by county bosses. This is particularly true of the Spanish- American vote, so if one knows how the county leaders are heading he can tell how the State will vote. Chavez May Lose in Feud. ‘There's a chance that irrespective of the presidential race, Miguel Otero, Republican nominee for the United Btates Senate, and backed by the Cut- ting followers, may defeat Senator Chavez, Democrat, the present in- cumbent, largely over the residuary animosities growing out of the Cut- ting-Chavez feud. The Spanish-American vote is about 45 per cent of the total here and “deals” with the leaders of that vote are not uncommon on behalf of both major parties. The Federal relief checks have been pouring into this State. Some one has calculated that there are about 27,480 Federal remittances to individuals which out of a voting strength of about 150,- 000 seems like a fairly substantial leverage for the party in power. The total Federal money spent here last year is estimated at about $36,- 000,000 and in 1934 about $19,000,000. New Mexico pays only about $1,500,- 000 in Federal income taxes and has 2 relatively small State budget—about $7,000,000—s0 the Federal money spent here takes on colossal propor- tions judged by any State govern- ment money ever expended hereto- fore, Retail Trade Good. Business of a retail character is re- ported good on every side as a conse- quence of the purchasing power cre- ated by the vast Federal subsidies. Relief agencies here are pretty well dominated politically. The Federal and State agencies have been well blended under an alert New Deal Governor. Many are the tales one hears that to get attention an appli- cant must sign or give some sort of pledge to support Mr. Roosevelt. This would not be surprising, in view of the rather primitive way politics is handled in New Mexico. The Republicans have by no means conceded the State, and feel that the campaign they have in mind for Gov. Landon will be fruitful. But the outlook at the moment is that only a far-reaching tide of sentiment against Mr. Roosevelt and in favor of Mr. Landon can change the sit- uation which might be described as *in the bag” for Mr. Roosevelt, (Copyright, 1936.) JAMES H. JOHNSON RITES TOMORROW General Manager of Garfinckel's Was Capital Resident for Half Century. Funeral services for James Herbert Johnson, general manager of Julius Garfinkel & Co., who died Saturday at his residence, 3060 Sixteenth street, will be held at 9 am. tomorrow at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, fol- lowing brief private services at his home. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. A resident here for half a century, Mr. Johnson had been general man- sger of Garfinkel’s since 1905. He had been in poor health for son® yea.rs, but died of a heart attack. CHARLES K. FINKEL FUNERAL TOMORROW Thomson School Principal, Who Died in Atlantic City, to Be Buried in Cedar Hill. Puneral services for ‘Charles K. Finkel, principal of Thomson School, who died Saturday in Atlantic City, will be held at the Wright funeral home, 1337 Tenth street, at 11 a.m. tomorrow. Private burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mr. Finkel had been in the District #chool system for more than 40 years. He formerly was principal of Brook- land and Franklin Schools. He was o native of Washington and was edu- cated in Washington public schools and old Wilson Normal School. He died after a heart attack while on a vacation outing at Atlantic City with his family. David Lawrence, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., News Behind the News Meeting Between Roosevelt and Landon Called Draw By Keen Political Observers. BY PAUL MALLON. HOSE who watched President Roosevelt's meeting with Gov. Landon I closest called it a draw. The Kansas Governor used it to establish the fact that he shaves every morning and Mr. Roosevelt discovered that what all the Governors want out of him is cash. Every State authority met by the President, except the Kansan, mentioned what a great drought relief job he could do if only furnished with some of Mr. Morgenthau's inexhaustible funds. The result was that every one went home satisfled with having told his side of the story, but nobody got any money. Counselors of both Mr. Roose- velt and Gov. Landon told them no good would come of their meet- ing. Little incidents, they said, would be played out of all pro- portion to proper significance, Either Mr. Roosevelt or Gov, Lan- don would emerge, they contended, with superior honors, and the one who lost would suffer political — ignominy. They were wrong. Gov. Landon ran into Mr. Roosevelt with his hand outstretched and vice versa. The amicable feelings on both sides were really as strong as expressed. Des Moines authorities felt they had witnessed a spectacular political show without a climax. * X X X Most publicized development of government is not the Roosevelt- Landon conference or the war in Spain. It is a meeting of a couple of people here under the title of the “Third World Power Conference.” Every newsmen in Washington kas received upward of 8000000 words of authoritative analyses of the gathering, which is officially subheaded as “Second Congress on Large Dams.” \ The explanation of all this extensive mimeographing apparently is that there is a presidential campaign under way and the subject of power is an issue. Ordinarily the second congress onarge dams is held in June. September this year is nearer November. Note—If you wish any further information regarding the “Third World Power Conference and Second Congress on Large Dams,” all an- nouncements advise you to call District 1820, extension 1231, which is Mr. Ickes’ Interior Department, and the answering voice will inform you she is in charge of publicity for the T. W. P. C. and 8. C. O. L. D. * kK x Father Coughlin and his vice presidential candidate are virtually strangers. Coughlin met O'Brien only a week before the head of the ticket, Mr. Lemke, decided to run. The microphone padre went to his good friend, Whitney, of the railroad brotherhood, and asked him to suggest some one who would appeal to the labor vote. Whitney mentioned O'Brien. Coughlin went down to Boston a week before the announcement to inspect his candidate. What made O'Brien presentable to Coughlin was mainly the fact that he was an enemy of Gov. Curley. and Coughlin once were close friends. It seems that Curley Coughlin used to visit the Massachusetts political maestro frequently. They differed, however, regarding a political appointment and both have been gunning for each other ever since. * % * % A fellow who is running for the presidency by the name of William Lemke was having dinner with his following, numbering at least five Bill impersonated silliness. * x persons, at Manchester, N. H. The subject of discussion was what an unsatisfactory Senator George Moses had turned out to be when he was a Senator. To the surprise of Mr. Lemke and the other five persons, in walked no other than Senator George Moses. He threw his political arms around the culprit and sald: “Well, here is my old friend, Bill" * X The Agriculture Department officially sent out an announcement signed by Dr. L. H. Bean, economic adviser, which started off as follows: “Food prices, in spite of the record droughts of 1934 and 1936, continue to keep pace with earnings of employed factory workers. Employed con- sumers can still buy more food with their present earnings than they were able to buy in 1928 and 1929.” Fortunately the Commerce monthly regarding factory pay rolls. Department issues a statement It shows that factory employ- ment in 1929 averaged 93 percent and today it is 80 per cent. As a result, the Agriculture Department has issued a correction and a kill. It wants Dr. Bean's announcement to start out: “Employed con- sumers can still buy more food with their present earnings than they were able to buy in 1928 and 1929.” So be it. (Copyright. 1936.) KNOX 1S GREETED INGOLLEGE TOWN Scenes of 40 Years Ago Re- called in Labor Day Pro- gram at Alma. By tre Assoctated Press. ALMA, Mich,, September 7.—Col. Frank ‘Knox, Republican vice presi- dential nominee, revisited today the little college town where he was a student 40 years ago. Knox, who captained Alma College's first foot ball team, was to deliver his Labor day address in Bahlke Stadium, which was the setting for an unde- feated 1935 eleven’s home triumphs. Estimates reaching the candidate were that more than 20,000 Michigan Re- publicans would gather to hear him. Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald, Repub- lican chief executive of the State, and United States Senator Arthur H. Van- denberg of Michigan were expected to confer with Knox aboard his special campaign train before the rally. Both shared places with Knox on the speaking program. Senator Van- denberg, an old friend of Knox, was to introduce him. Vandenberg and Knox became reporters for a Grand Rapids, Mich., newspaper (the Herald) on the same night, and each later became a newspaper publisher. ‘Walked In First Time. The Knox train arrived in Alma Sunday afternoon, coming from Al- lentown, Pa. Knox, who worked his way through Alma College as a mem- ber of the class of 1897 and married the co-ed daughter of an Alma farmer, told the crowd which welcomed him at the'station, “This is very different from the way I first arrived i Alma.” “I think I walked in that time,” he added, explaining that he Lad $25 in his pocket on the first trip for his expenses as a student. ‘The candidate’s wife accompanied him yesterday. Knox met Annie Reid when both were undergraduates in Alma College. They married after he returned from the Spanish-American War to get his first newspaper job, having quit school in his senior year to join the Rough Riders. There was to be a tea in her honor at 3 p.m. as part of today's program. It was “How are you, Bert?” and “Hello, Fred,” as Knox traversed elm- lined streets yesterday from the sta- tion to the home of Dr. H. M. Crooks, » | president of the college, where he and his wife were dinner guests. Escorted by a color guard of World War vet- erans and a parade, the candidate waved to groups on sidewalks and frequently called greetings to indi- viduals he recognized in the crowd. Public Reception. ‘Today’s program begins at 2 p.m. with a public reception at the college. Saginaw’s “Knox Vice Presidential Band” parades at 4 p.m. Fitzgerald, former Gov. Wilber M. Brucker and ‘Vandenberg were to speak briefly pre- ceding Knox's own address. MRS. SUE V. BERRY DIES, WIDOW OF MERCHANT Luray Resident Was Mother of Assistant Virginia Agricul- tural Commissioner. By the Associated Press. LURAY, Va, September 7T.—Mrs. Sue V. Berry, widow of Frank W. Berry, Luray merchant, died here today. She was a daughter of the late Capt. Richard S. Parks, Confederate Army, who was also a member of the General Assembly and prominent po- litically in the State. Survivors are & sister, Mrs. Emma Morris, Atlanta; four sons, Lawrence T. Berry, assistant State commissioner of agriculture; F. V. Berry, Richmond; Lee G. Berry, Luray, and Frank W. Berry, Marianna, Fla, and two daughters, Elizabeth P. Berry, Luray, and Mrs. C. F. Girardeai, Atlanta. Funeral services will be held at the home today, with interment in Green Hill Cemetery. 16 VIE TOMORROW FOR ZIONCHECK JOB Race for His House Seat and Mrs. Dill's Bid Features of State Primary. Py the Associated Press. SEATTLE, September 7.—The battle for the congressional seat of the late Marion A. Zioncheck and the political bid of Rosalie Jones Dill, divorced wife of former Senator C. C. Dill, attracted attention as Washington's primary campaign ended today. Nine Democrats and seven Republi- cans aspire to the post vacated by Zioncheck jn a suicidal five-story plunge from a building here after a turbulent career that included arrests for speeding and the placing of empty beer bottles on the White House steps. Mrs. Dill, seeking the Democratic nomination for Congress from Eastern ‘Washington, recently figured in a sen- sational divorce suit in which her hus- band charged her with burying dead dogs in the back yard and embarassing him with outspoken opposition to President Roosevelt. Approximately 500,000 voters were expected to mark their choices to- morrow on the new blanket primary ballot, which will permit them to ballot for nomination of candidates in either party. ‘There were 763,494 registered voters, 6% AVAILABLE FOR INVESTORS Mou Rulty Company dldg. Metre. 1778 FIRST TRUST LOANS Why Modern Mugwumps Sit on Fence For One Thing, They Believe in Business, With Reservations. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. N THE New York papers, an enter- l prising department store is ad- vertising cravats for Mugwumps. It seems that the store got out campaign neckwear, gentlemen's ties decorated with elephants or donkeys, with which the wearer could adver- tise his politics. Now it appears that there is a market for a different & T symbol. And the store put out a tie picturing up- on its silk a flock of little owls, sit- ting very owlish= 1y upen the fence. There is a great tdeal of Mug- wumpishness this campaign year, and it might not be unuseful to try to analyze the specie. What makes a Mug- wump? First of all, owls on the fence are for a great many things that Roose- velt has done. They are for the measures which were taken to end the deflation. They are not sold on the infallibility and all-embracing wisdom of business. In fact, they are a little fed up with the whole idea of & purely business civilization. Their memories are pretty good. They remember only too well the grand and glorious spree of 1924-1929, and they don't want that time back. They are sold on the idea that the depression was due in large part to unrestrained speculation for quick profits and the artificial forcing up of values. ’I'hey. know that business had pretty much its own way in this country for a generation, and that the process end- ed in a horrible catastrophe. What They Think. The Pecora investigations made their mark. So did the scandals in some of the income tax hearings. They confess that many income tax | cases were aired for purely political purposes; they observe that no prom- inent supporters of Mr. Roosevelt have had their financial affairs pub- licly washed, but just the same the hearings made an impression. They don’t think any longer that Mr. Mel- lon was the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton, and they don't think Calvin Coolidge was an- other Lincoln. They think Coolidge was a very shrewd fellow, who was smart enough to get off while the ship was still afloat. When Mr. Knox makes such a speech as he did on Wednesday in Pittsfield he doesn't win any of these Mugwumps. They don't like the New Deal attacked as made up of “alien elements.” They know that Henry Wallace and Rexford Tugwell and some of the others of the most New Dealish of the New Dealers are no more alien than doughnuts. They listen skeptically to the theory that depressions will just cure themselves if you let them alone. They think: “Probably they do, but meanwhile a lot of people die. It only takes a few days without food to starve a man, and he, as an individual, can't hibernate and suspend his digestive process until the wheel of the busi- ness cycle swings up again in, say, five year's time.” They've read the papers and they know that depressions haven't cured themselves anywhere in the world without a great deal of governmental interference. They want as little as possible and they want it to be wise, but they don't accept the laissez-faire idea at all. See Tide of Prosperity. And these Mugwumps can't be brought to deny the evidence of their senses. They know that the country is recovering; is, indeed, prosperous afy this moment. They aren’t much impressed by being told that if the Republicans had been in it would have been more prosperous. Too many of them think: “Maybe so, but I might not have been here to see it.” And when Knox says: “Elect Landon and you are electing another Cool- idge,” they are, as often as not, a bit alarmed. They remember Mr. Oool- idge as the Yankee who didn’t choose to run, for, they thin, very good reasons. These Mugwumps, as far as my in- vestigations reveal, like the following things about the administration: They like the 8. E. C., the deposit insurance, the reorganization of the Federal Re- serve (by and large they blame the bankers for a good deal). In princi- ple they like the spending program. They think it was often extravagant and they think it is now time to re- trench, but they believe that with things as they were it was necessary for Government to step in, use its credit in a big way, and start things off again. They are convinced that it was this policy which did start things off again. They believe that relief, with Federal funds, was and is necessary. They are for the C. C. C. They are doubtful about the social security bill. They are skeptical about the A. A. A. and its heirs, although they like the objective. They are sold on the idea that Government has so- Dorothy Th First Mortgage Money For CONSTRUCTION LOANS and LOANS ON IMPROVED PROPERTY in the " District of Columbia, Nearby Maryland and Virgin trol of some sort over the economic system. ‘Well, then, why don’t they go out and buy dark cravats and vote for Roosevelt? Maybe, in the end, they will, but meanwhile, such New Deal- ishness as they have is shot through with & great many serious reserva- tions. ‘They believe that the present ad- ministration is, as far as efficlency goes, one of the worst we have ever bad. They think that it is wasteful, extravagant, extremely debonair about the taxpayer, and full of crackpots. Nearly everybody krows somebody who sat for years on the Boulevard Montparnasse, or in Greenwich Vil- lage, until he was called to Washing- ton to advise the Government on the preservation of wild life. They don't like Mr. Farley at all, and they se- riously doubt the idealism of the Bos- ton, Chicago, Maine or Louisiana sup- porters of the President. But behind all this there is some- thing else, far more important. This is;a premonition that this adminis- tration is a farce or something, that everything isn't always what it seems, and that something is being put over on them. They aren’'t Communisis or Soclalists or Fascists or Laborites. They believe in private enterprise, accept the capitalist system and want to see it work with more jus- tice, more evenness and more intel- ligent control. They wonder why, if the Government needed to expand Government spending, to get money into circulation, it did not expand normal governmental activities. Why in the world it allowed schools to close or be overcrowded, while it set up brand-new educational agencies, why men were dismissed from an es- tablished Government bureau under the economy bill and then rehired in & brand-new agency. See Test Tube Attitude. ‘They are convinced that Wash- ington is full of people, some of them in positions of authority, who believe that the traditional social and eco- nomic system is doomed anyhow, and that anything done to hasten its de- mise and prepare for another one is a step in the right direction. They think that the relief administration has not been concerned primarily with taking care of the unemployed, but has been trying to do other things— raise the American standard of liv- ing. experiment with an economic system of production for use, revive and popularize the arts. And they are convinced that to try to do all these things and call it relief is dis- ingenuous and dangerous. They definitely don't like the W. P. A. It is not the cost that bothers them most, since they accept the C. C. C. Hence the feeling that under the W. P. A. a totally different sort of work society is being set up, par- allel to the existing society, at war with it and capable, in the long run, of undermining it. They don't want to give a mandate to continue or ex- pand that rival society. If they did they wouldn't be Mugwumps. They would vote for Norman Thomas. On the whole they would like to see this administration go out. They have thought that Gov. Landon was their man. But they want to be sure that certain gains that have been made will be consolidated. And that is just what they are beginning to doubt. They are afraid that the baby is going to be thrown out with the bath. (Copyright, 1936.) SUSPECT IN ATTACK ON WOMAN LYNCHED Crowd of 150 Takes Man, Identi- fied as Woman's Assaulter, From Georgia Jail. By une Associated Press. DALTON, Ga., September 7.—A 21-year-old colored man was lynched near here yesterday after his arrest on an accusation of attempting to as- sault a white woman. Sheriff J. T. Bryan said a crowd of about 150 men removed the man, booked as A. L. McCamy, from the Whitfleld County jail after using pistols to force Jailer John Pitt to relinquish his keys. The man, whose body officers found several hours later beneath a tree from which it had been hanged, re- cently completed a chain gang sen- tence for an attempted attack on & 10-year-old girl, Bryan said. “The woman screamed when he touched her, and he broke and ran from the house,” the sheriff said. “Two men who met him as he ran down the street recognized him. We got the bloodhounds and caught him in a short time. I planned to ques- tion him todn}’. but they got him first.” First ‘Trust Loans For Purchasing a Home or RE-FINANCING EXPIRING TRUSTS NO COMMISSION CHARGE NO RENEWALS REQUIRED Terms Arranged on Easy Monthly Payments First Mortcace Loans | District of Columbia, Nearby Maryland and Virginia Terms from 3 to 15 years Also MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1936. We, the People Social Dynamite Packed for U. S. in Mechanical Cotton Picker. BY JAY FRANKLIN, most important event of the eventful 1930s—far more fateful than the election of Roosevelt, the rise of Mitler or the collapse of the League of Nations—occurred on a plantation owned by a man named Wiilerman in the little town of Stoneville, Miss. ‘There, on August 31, in the presence of 200 witnesses, including re- porters, planters and Government officials, Mack Rust of Memphis, Tenn., turned loose a machine invented by himself and his brother, John Rust, on & fleld of cotton. 1t was a lumbering tractor-drawn device, 10 feet high, operating no fewer than 1,344 moistened steel spindles which thrust themselves into the open bolls, drew out the flber, conveyed it to a hamper where a blower separated it from the spindles, and, in other words, did mechanically what had always been done by hand labor in the cotton South. After eight hours, the machine has picked as much cotton as 82 expert fleld laborers working at top ‘speed could have done. As it passed down the rows of “white gold,” it indicated it may rip the very heart and soul out of the old South and usher in an era of economic, social and racial readjustment as yet undreamed of in Dixie. For a mechanical cotton picker, ‘when finally perfected, means that there will be 7,000,000 fewer jobs at picking time in the 10 cotton States. It is a revolution in the making—it is the greatest news story of our times. . The machine’s inventors, who are Radicals, fully realize the danger. They propose to lease, rather than sell, the machine and to apply the profits to a benevolent foundation for rehabilitating the Southern farmers—whom it displaces. One of the brothers, John Rust, is already introducing the machine into Soviet Russia, and King Cotton is about to abdicate, for this means that cotton-growing regions can now be brought into production without requiring a large supply of docile and well-trained labor for picking the crop. * x X x ‘This means cotton will be grown in great quantities in Russia, Brazil, ‘Turkestan, China, India and Africa. It means trouble. The machine is not yet perfect. It doubtless can be improved, but even then it will collect enough trash to lower the grade and the price of a machine-picked bale. Yet the savings on the labor cost are so great as to be decisive. The Rust machine will pick a bale an hour at an estimated cost (including depreciation, etc.) of 98 cents, where it costs between $10 and $20 to pick the same amount of cotton by hand. There has mever been any question that skilled handwork is COUGHLIN URGES superior in quality to most machine work, but mass production is 80 economical that it distributes goods more widely and thus adds to the abundance by which we measure human wealth and happiness. Grand Rapids supplies more people with furniture in a single day than ever any of the famous old craftsmen of the eighteenth century did in a lifetime. will lose. So the imperfect cotton picker will win and the hand picker I claim that this is the greatest danger which the South has ever faced, far greater than Sherman's march or the Republican tariffs and the banks which salted away the fruits of Northern victory. It means that the South must find 7,000,000 more jobs for its people and lose its foreign markets at the same time. * * * % How will the South, how will America, meet this long drawn out crisis in the cotton-growing industry? True, the machine is in its infancy, true that it is not suited to all types of cotton land, true that Department of Agriculture officials have always pooh-poohed it. But it's here, and it picks cotton skillfully enough to spare the unripened bolls and green buds. So a mechanical cotton picker that works is social dynamite, and unless the Rust brothers are very clever, very strong and very determined, they run the risk of having their revolutionary device pirated just as Eli Whitney's cotton gin was pirated. Here, if anywhere, is a case for the New Deal to intervene and help prevent this machine from simply adding to the sum total of human misery, instead of freeing our people from the curse of treadmill labor and perpetual poverty. (Copyright. 1936.) 'NEW TEA PARTY Assails Press for Reports of | Vatican Attitude on His Addresses. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 7.—The Rev. | Charles E. Coughlin left in Chicago today an admonition to his followers that “you won't get your rights until you take every international banker and either convert him or else start a new party.” “I mean a new Boston tea party.” he said in & Sunday address to thou- sands at Riverview Park. “Your ances- tors did it once before, and do you lack the intestinal fortitude to do it now?” ‘While his listeners surged about the press section with cries of “throw them out,” the priest replied to recent Get the Facts about our MORTGAGE LOAN PLAN EARN how itlowers your interest costs . .. how it puts your principal pay- ments on & more conveni- ent basis. Thousands of property owners endorse the plan. Ask us about it. WEAVER BRO’ INC REALTORS Mortgage Loan Corverpondeont Metropaitian Lifs Inmrancs Company WASHINGTON BUILDING DISTRICT 9486 Business Properties reports that high church officials had curbed his activities, with a “chal- lenge” to the press to “headline” his denial as, he said, it had “headlined | the lies.” “Don't let them deceive you by false propaganda originationg from Rome or anywhere else that the Vatican has cracked down on Bishop Gallagher or Father Coughlin,” he asserted. “That's | a lie. If they had cracked down, I wouldn’t be here today. Bishop Gal- lagher only yesterday said ‘it's a pack of infernal lies.” ” “I challenge the press to headline that, as they've headlined the lies.” The priest urged his hearers back from the press benches with “don’t| blame these ladies and gentlemen down | here.” Back-Breaking Sneeze. HARRISBURG, Pa. (#).—Harry Milward sneezed so hard he lost his balance and fell. Two weeks later he went to the hospital. 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Leopold Stokowski includes in the Cleveland prospectus “everything cultural.” The participation of the Rumanian pianist, Moritz Rosenthal, in the list of artists is a re- minder that America could { get excited about good music lorng before the days of radio and ! song - pluggers. Rosenthal is now 73. On Novem- ber 14, 1888, he hit New York with an impact which developed into a cyclonic sweep as he toured the country. His audience was in a state of hysteria. Here's what the New York Sun said the next day “He is a hero, a demigod—what shall we say? To the alertness of legerdemain and the strength of a blacksmith, he adds the refinement of a woman and the sincerity of a faith- ful and humble apc(t‘e of art.” Moritz Rosenthal. t tle giant of the keyboard.” ‘the lion of the piano,” “the jupiter he octaves this was distasteful to Rosen- and devoted artist, ne of the few surviving pupils of Liszt. But America had a good news sense even in that day rs liked to run and re- which was true, that nthal could tear a pack of | cards in two, or break a horseshoe with his hands; that he was a chess wizard: that he could scan Latin verse and recite long, flawless pas- sages from the Greek and Latin poets; that he knew all of Heine by [heaz that he spoke five modern | languages: that he delved into phie | losophy and philology, and thav he | was a crack swimmer. He was a pupil of Franz Liszt at the age of 11, court pianist to the | Queen of Rumania at 12 and played before Tsar Alexander of Russia at 14. At that first New York appear= ance, when his audience was in a wild frenzy for nearly half an hour and had to be calmed by the police, he was attended on the platform by a little boy in & short jacket and Hessian bocs. The lad’s name was Fritz Kreisler. One reporter noted that the boy also was supposed to be | musically gifted. Graybeards knew all about Rosen- thal. 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