The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1903, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1903. 22 COMPOSER MacDOWELL HOPES FOR HIGH ART LIFE FOR PEOPLE. By Blar;c;e Partington. i | | THE TALENTED w CONTRALTO OF RE( 3 [ ! | ITAL WHICH WILL BE GIVEN TO-MOR- THIS CITY WHO WILL TAKE PART < | | | | L] tite pre- the utter for fe for his be »w and ba unable ng. As to pict- out graduates res for themselves, who have learned to see—as those othes should have learned to hear? Neither is there now the slightest shame attaching to such ignorance. When we teach that it s & stupld and & shameful thing to be dea?, to be blind, there will be some chance of our universities doing that work for which they are mnow dimily shaping.” But this was all afterward—after Mac- Dowell had sheken hands with his depart- ing visitor and myself, and had seated me :moflu to his homing place on the plano L (His way of throning himself there stamped him the born and bred planist!) “If you will pleass tell me something of the music at Columibla University,” I an, after his courteous: “What can I tell you?” “I have slready sald so much about thap—" “But we need 80 much more said, Mr, MacDowell!” and the composer consented then to talk of his work at the New York university. “I've always wanted to know how it happened that a chair of music was in- etalled at Columbia?” '‘Quite by accident, A greduate of Co- mbia who was very fond of music died was run over—and his mother founded the chalr in his memory. Robert Center hit name was.” “I'm glad & woman founded the first —————— e NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Baldness. At one time dandruff was attributed to be the result of a feverish condition of the scalp, which threw off the dried cuti- cie in scales, Professor Unna, Hamburg, Germany, noted authority on skin diseases, explodes this theory and says that dandruff is a germ disease, This germ is really responsible for the dandruff and for so many bald heads. It can be cured if it is gone about in the right way. The rii!}t way, of course, and the only ‘way is to kill the germ. Newbro's Herpicide does this, and causes the hair to grow luxuriantly, just #s nature intended it should. Sold by s. _Send 10c in stamps for Herpicide Co., Detroit, The Real Oause of Dandruff and | chair of muste in ed A splendid thing to have done,” Mac- nd the words were like a r. He stood up for a mo- I was surprised to find he | hove me, 80 pervading | bigness of the man. | ymposer s neither tall sturdy snoulders, and a red as admirably as one of tas. His color comes mostly | itic ancestry, with his fair eves, and ripe corn-vellow | , contrasted curfously with a| mane of dark brown hair. And, America,” I com- n brow of the man wi ads an’ he would; and b mostly on the “hills peaks of song’’—the eyes | shaped the D minor con- | o ve have also a fellowship at the university, founded In memory of Mr. | Mosenthal—he was for many years con-| ductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club in New York. I should like the facts of this | fellowship to be better known.” i “And they are—71" | “To begin with, it Is awarded for com- position, and the dignity is conferred | yearly. Work may be sent In by any one, | from any part of the States, its kind ac- cording to the composer's fancy. It | =hould be submitted from time to time | | during the year. The awards are made more for native facuity than for technical | | skill evidenced. Financially the dignity is | | worth some $600 or $700 for the year.” | “Has the fellowshlp been conferred very | frequently?” | “Twice only,” the composer acknowl- {ed‘ei “And, by the way, one of your Californian girls would have had it had | | she competed. Great pluck she had. She | |came to Columbia and made her way | through while she earned her own ltving. | Bhe wrote really original stuff. | | Twice only the degree has been grant- | ed In the six years since its foundation, and once it might have been won by a | Californian girl. (Who's all right?) “Then is there really a scarcity of musical fac- | n America?" | t in the least!” MacDowell said, de- cisively. “There is a pure, strong stream | of it, on the contrary, so much I see of it in the university. But it is directed into other channels by the commercial ideals of the age. It is further true that there |is yet a large lack of seriousness among | musical students. They think too fre- quently that a little knack of turning out a pretty song should exempt them from the grind they would have to go through in any counting-house career. It doesn't, does it? “About Columbia, our course there is purely historical and theoretical. We have, however, a g00od orchestra, directed | ;.v)' Gustave Hinrichs, whom you all know here— “And admire as much!” “And who has further a very efficlent chorus. There is also the usual Univer- sity Glee Club—out for a good time more | than mustc. There are eleven classes in | the musical course, ranging from that in | simplest theory to the last class In sym- phonic writing. The chief difficulty has always been that of time. The studen | fot no credit for thelr musical work, an {in the press of other studles it was al- | ways crowded out. Now, we have ob- | tained credit for it as laboratory work! | “A Chicaj 0 woman wants a divorce be- | cause she a rival in her husband's affections.” “A rival?” “Yes, a big red automobile.” ““Why doesn’t she scratch its lamps out?”’—Cleveland Plain JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Publication Office. THE SAN FRANCISCO CGALL. Address Communlcatlons to W. S. LEAKE, Manageri ...................................... s R A e Sl L ik aniciie saae TN B 13, 1000 @ ...... Third and Market Streets, S. F. TERE SOOTE AND TEE NECGRO. HE outbreak of temper in the South against the President is going through various phases. An influential paper in New Orleans has frankly declared that the Southern people will murder negro office-holders as fast as the President appoints them. Other papers and many Southern statesmen declare that the President insults the South by these appoint- ments, and thereupon proceed to treat him with wholesale abuse. It is well to go back to the President’s declaration of his policy in regard to the appoint— ment of negroes. He has said that he will appoint no negro because he is a negro. Such appoint- ments must be made considering the qualifications of the individual, who is appointed as an indi- vidual, a citizen, and not as a negro. This clears the air materially. Itis noanswer to say tt.rat he does not appoint negroes in the North to offices of corresponding dignity, for the reason that in the North none offer with the qualification as individuals. He has appointed many white Democrats in the South, not as Democrats, nor as white men, but as individuals and citizens. The President falls heir to the past policy of his party. It enfranch.ise.d the negro, que him a citizen and a voter. Then followed the carpet-bag and negro saturnalia in the South, which gave to several States governments that were an evil mixture of ignorance and unscrupulpus— ness. The incidents of the reconstruction period were, in part, such as may be expc.cte'd to issue from the potent passion and recklessness of a civil war, to which were added the afflictions of the transfer of a race from slavery to citizenship. The constitution, which the President has sworn to uphold, gives civil and political rights to the negro. Nearly all of the Southern States have nullified the constitution by features in their fundamental law eliminating the negro vote. The Federal constitution provides that when this is done the negro shall also be eliminated from the basis of apportionment for members of the House and Presidential electors. The South has incurred this penalty, but the President cannot enforce it.- The apportionment is made by Congress, and a Republican Congress, as an act of amity and to cancel sectionalism out of our national politics, has permitted the South to retain nearly fifty | members and electoral votes, based upon her negro populationl We are aware that Southern poli- ticians declare that they have not laid themselves liable to the constitutional penalty. But Till- man of South Carolina offsets this denial by frankly declaring that the object of all such changes in the Southern constitutions is the elimination of the negro vote. Now, who expects the President to join the South in this policy? Who expects him to take sides with Tillman? Who expects that he will put his hand to the work of denying to the ne- gro rights secured to him by the Federal constitution by ignoring him utterly as an individual and a citizen? The South is solidly Democratic. The States which are now.engaged in detraction of the President hold out the only hope to Democracy by their solidarity, and if they suffered the constitutional penalty of deprivation of electoral votes based on the disfranchised negro popula- tion the last hope of Democracy to ever regain the government would disappear. If the President and his party desired to renew sectional strife, if they were actuated by the spirit which is rife in the South, the electoral vote of that section would be pruned down to the constitutional number. But this has not been insisted upon and the Southern apportionment stands until the next census. ! In view of all this, the abuse showered upon the President because he has appointed Dr. Crum, an educated and competent man, though a negro, to be Collector of Customs at Charles- ton, seems little less than contemptible. President Harrison appointed Cuneo, a capable negro, \ | | | Collector at Galveston, and hot-headed Texas made no demonstration. Cuneo made a good offi- || cer, and it is known that he was on terms of amity with Texas Democrats, and enjoyed the strong friendship of Mr. Crane, the Democratic member from the Galveston district. T Another question is raised against the President in the South, to the effect that the ap- pointment of Dr. Crum again raises political ambition in the breast of the negro to his own disad- vantage, because his future will be better if he consider those materialities which may be helped forward by his own hands. This is a more reasonable view and may be calmly discussed. The temptation and lure of politics are a damage to all people who are ignorant and unqualified, and especially to the negro. In that view the President agrees with the South, as do all reasonable men in the North. But it is also to be considered that to deny political preferment to a negro who is qualified for it as an individual is to deprive the race of a strong motive for advancement. There- fore the President’s appointment of a negro who is admitted by his opponents to be qualified as an individual is not subject to impeachment-as an act inimical to the best interests of the race. | As for the attack on the President because he does not appoint negroes in the North, this | is to be said: The Northern negro is not denied nor deprived of any of his political rights. He is not repressed nor persecuted because the constitution makes him a citizen. For this reason | Northern negroes rarely desire office. They feel that such evidence of their political equality is not necessary. They possess the substance of liberty and as a rule are content to seek their mate- rial fortunes by work in such vocations as they can equip themselves to follow, with no further interest in politics than is indicated by casting a free ballot that is sure of being counted. Low in the scale as the race may be in the South, it is like all other races that are repressed and denied what the world esteems to be the common rights of man. | Time was that the Republican party stood as a unit for enfranchisement of the negro. That policy now gives the South a large number of members- of the House and electoral votes which it would not otherwise have. The difficulties of the situation have come down to President Roose- velt. He deals with the situation just as his Republican predecessors did. He appoints occasion= ally a negro as an individual, just as did Grant, Garfield, Harrison and McKinley, and if Republi- cans fail to support him as they did them, let the next step be taken by amending out of the con- stitution_the enfranchisement of the negro and reducing the Southern representation in the House and the Electoral College proportionately. That is the logical outcome. What does the South think of it? Will the Southern States vote to ratify such an amendment? Their answer is the test of their honesty of purpose. | | | THE STATE INSTITUTIONS OVERNOR PARDEE'S declaration in his inaugural message that politics shall not be permitted to impair the efficiency of the State institutions is very gratifying to the peo- ple of California. During the last two State administrations fitness in the management of those institutions took second place and politics went up head, as a rule. The result was great impairment of efficiency, to the injury of the penal and defective classes and the damage of the State’s reputation. Governor Pardee will demonstrate that a Republican administration of all our. costly State institutions may be entirely consistent with their highest efficiency, and thereby he will greatly strengthen his party and raise it in popular estimation. The day of the rake-off for the profit of politicians has gone by, and we may look forward to four years of management that will 'gratify the good people who look to these institutions to benefit society rather than the lower order of par- tisans, The patronage idea has everywhere proved a damage in such management. It has been seen that from the penitentiaries to ‘the university partisan patronage, when the sole motive in their administration, makes them powerless for any good purpose. This State, most of all in the Union, requires expulsion of politics from its State institu- tions as the master motive in their management. Our geographical position tends to greatly mul- tiply the demands upon many of these institutions. The climate is a lure to many of the defective classes to come here and enjoy the State’s liberality. The peculiar nature of many of our indus- tries increases the ranks of those who must have public support. The State is mindful of these ob- ligations, and her honor is involved in making of her institutions models for the rest of the Union. That this will be done by Governor Pardee the State joyously believes. It is announced that Count Robert de Montesquieu, the leading light of the Esthetic Cult of Paris, is coming to the United States to give us points. The gentleman won distinction by deco- rating the back of a tortoise with rich gems so that when crawling about the room he woulg fill the night with splendor. People with esthetic aspirations will please note that a tortoise without the gems is no good, nor are the gems utterly utter without the tortoise. AR S BERS John Jacob Astor has invented an improved turbine wheel and Cornelius Vanderbilt has invented an improved engine tender and firebox, and now let us hope they will not have the usual fate of inventors and die in poverty. : Most Eastern people are still howling about the price of coal, but a éood many are sawing wood and keeping warm at it, EE——— '} IN TOURING WITH HOLMES ONE ESCAPES TROUBLES OF JOURNEY. By Gusard. interest the excellent serfes of illustrated lectures brought to the Columbia Theater at Henry Miller’s instigation a couple of years ago. The pictures were made by Burton Holmes, the well known traveler, the lectures written by him and read here by Louis Francis Brown. In the Es these talks, long ago Instituted by John L. Stcddard, are a most popular form of entertainment and created here quite a censiderable interest. The chance to set | eye if not foot on the most distant part of the earth, on strange peoples, strange things, while never stirring from one's chair, has something of an ‘‘Arablan Nights™ navor about it and the magnif- icent {llustrations of the lectures all but fulfilled the agreeable fllusion. This week | a second series of the Holmes lectures is to begin, with the traveler himself to tell the storles, and any one who wants to go a-traveling without the journey’s troubles will have & most enjoyable evening's en- tertainment. Mr. Holmes begins his talks next Tues- day evening with “The Grand Canyon of Arizona,” that will be repeated here by request, as subject. For the rest of the serles the lecturer will show pictures of | Norway, Sweden and other northern lands, to be given on the Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday mati- | nees of this and the following week at | Steinway "Hall. Here are a few stories of the lecturer's adventures in search of materfal, some 2000 negatives being taken for each lec- ture, by the way. Of course, it goes with- | out saying that Holmes, in his many thousands of miles’ travel, has met with | many strange experiences, some merely amusing and some both threatening to himselt personally and to his mission. He met with an adventure in Korea, for | example, which bade fair to be both amusing and at the same time fatal to the future of a whole season’s lectures. It occurred in this fashion; He was in Korea a little over a year ago, en route around the world. Being properly ao- credited to the Korean court, he was ad- mitted to the royal palace grounds and was there making hay by taking photo- graphs of everything in sight, with a view to the fllustration of the coming season’s lectures. 4 Buddenly he turned a cormer and found himself in the presence of the littls Crown Prince of Korea, a tiny fellow of 3 or 4 years, surrounded by nurses and attendants and under the especial guar- dianship of his uncle. True to the uner- ring instinct of the camera flend, Mr. Holmes immediately “snap-shotted” the group and then apologized afterward. Instead of being taken to the Korean equivalent for the county jail, Mr. Holmes was bidden to approach the royal party, where the young prince became so enam- ored of Mr. Holmes' camera and so de- sirous of seeing the “wheels go round” tbat it was only with the greatest dif- flculty that the camera was rescued. The only thing that saved the day was the lucky .circumstance that Mr. Holmes had with him a very ingenious little French machine, similar to the small motion ple- ture machines in this country of the nickel-in-the-slot variety. When once the heir to the throne beheld the wonders of the moving pictures within, he immedi- ately beat a retreat for the palace, and insisted on carrying the somewhat ex- pensive toy to bed with him, and of course Mr. Holmes never saw it again. In acknowledgment, however, the King sent him many valuable gifts, gorgeous pleces of silk shotted with gold, silver dflnkh:&n‘nhlotl. Jewelry and carvings. Frequently, however, as in the case of obtaining motion pictures of the Czar of Russia, of Count Tolstol in his home gar- den surrounded by his grandchiidren, or a dash to a fire by the Hawilan Fire De- partment, no little lobbying is necessary. In the latter instance the circumstances were distinctly amusing. Having been a keen observer of hétman nature In its many phases for the ten years, Mr. Holmes rightly | siasm than all the rest of the e R Lz FAMOUS TRAVELER AND LEC- | TURER WHO WILL BE SEEN AND HEARD IN SAN FRANCISCO. that # w be useless to ask the m nicipal s or the Chief of Fire De and hook-a der compan al b t was ble for him to wait on & corner with his motion pf primed should ever, delfver he dectded to s the Omaha good luck he this lecture he I on picture of artment which by ought with him. To ted the Fire Chief, his n with thelr Of course the fire department aroused more interest and enthu- lecture close of the entertainment a of the firemen waited on him Aelegatic in his dressing-room and asked, as an especial favor, If he would not run the picture for them again. This was done, and still he gave no sign of his deeply hidden motive. The repetition of the ple- 1 as much enthusiasm as be- he Chief of the Fire Depart- thanking Mr. Holmes for his ced that while he ha Fire Department was the Ho could beat it s Holmes smiled reiterated agaln- sm Fire Chi lously. The Chief tion, and Mr. Holmes This so exasperated the t in an unguarded moment he offered s assertion by turn- ing out the entire department, that Mr. Holmes might see for himself how much better they could do things in Honolulu than they could in Omaha. It is need- less to say that Mr. Holmes insisted on having visible proof of this superlority and the result was one of the\best motton plctures in his collection, | Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* f Townsend's California glace fruit and candles, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-st BoXes. A nice present for Eastern friends, €39 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * f Special information supplied dally ta business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Caile fornia street. 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