The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1922, Page 26

‘ PSTAPLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZEN. Published Datiy Except Buuday pe The Press Publishing, i, Now, 55 to 68 Park Raw, New York. » RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row. | 2 J ANGUS BHAW, Treneurer, 63 Park Row. A JO8KPH PULITZER, Secreta Park Rew, . MEMBER OF THE Associa TED PRESS. @ Tie Associated Prem is exclusively entitied to the use fer republication Of ell news despatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Pape nd also the loca) news published derein, HIGH TIME. 66] AM beginning to think,” Sheriff Werner of Westchester County said yesterday, “that he (George S. Ward) does not want to come to White Plains and testify.’ * The first five words of the sentence would be better if they stood alone. They would be even better if sounded in chorus by the whole West- chester County organization for law-enforce- - ment—-Sheriff, District. Attorney, Coroner and police. It is high time some one was beginning to think - and to act. The procedure tollowed in the Ward “ease is absolutely incomprehensible. After four weeks of dilly-dally and delay the Westchester authorities are almost ready to ques- tion the father of the slayer, who, on the show- ‘ing made by the Westchester officials, is a highly important witness who probably knows as ‘much about the circumstances leading up to the shooting as any other one person. A more diligent and intelligent organization would have found the father and would have questioned him, in a John Doe proceeding if, not otherwise. The Sheriff would long ago have known definitely whether George S. Ward wanted ‘to testify or not. ; The whole conduct of the case has been, as we have said, inexplicable. The mere fact that the ‘Wards are wealthy and politically powerful should have proved all the more reason ‘for prompt and decisive action. District Attorney Weeks has done far less than his duty. Such‘an example of non-feasance weakens trust in the ad- ministration of the law. Unless there is early evidence of a chahge in policy, Gov. Miller is in duty bound to look into the matter and supersede the lackadaisical offi- ‘cials with prosecutors who will get action / ‘The Tribune sees President Harding “trying to play Shakespeare to a crowd that likes ‘movie’ stuff.” What role for example? The melancholy Dane? Falstaff? Or Lear bowed down with » sorroys? 2 1 4 i ~. MORE OPEN-AIR MUSIC. HE Goldman concert band has made an enviable name for itself in. the last few years.’ New York welgomes its return for the summer season of concerts on the green at Co- ‘lumbia University and the neighborhood concerts lin the city parks. } New York hasn’t enough summer music. ‘It jean hardly haye too much. The Evening World ‘has repeatedly advocated regular musical pro- grammes in Central Park and more music else- ‘where. Whenever and wherever the music is available, whether by public support or by private phil- anthropy, the crowds are appreciative. If New York were to choose between a music ¢entre and music, there is no question that music would take first choice. If the Municipal Administration wants to fos- ter interest in music, it can do no better than to "give more support to music for the masses. If New York had more music in the parks, each park would be a music centre. Then if a centre of centres proved desirable, the funds would be “provided. THAT POKER QUERY. Thomas A. Edison’s poker question is hardly a credit to its inventor, For many players such a situation is impossible. One devotee of the game explains the {mpos- sibility as far as he is concerned by giving the three rules under which he plays poker—or doesn’t play: 1, Lnever gamble when the loss of the stake will seriously inconvenience me or anyone with whom I am playing. 2, Never play with strangers except in a game where tested friends introduce and vouch for the stranger. 3. Never cheat or continue play with any- one suspected of cheating. ‘These are good rules. If generally observed they would take most of the curse off gambling. Perhaps this would be a satisfactory answer to Mr. Edison's question. Perhaps not. UNDER CUPID'S FLAG. APT. RANDALL of the good ship “President Fillmore” deserves well from Mr. Lasker of the Shipping Board, Chairman Lasker is an ad- vertising man in the shipping business. Randall is a shipping man with an eye for ggod advertis- ing. Capt. Randall observed what most folks know, that an ocean liner is conducive to romance, that _a sheltered nook on deck is verily a happy hunt- ‘ing ground for a certain little god. All the world loves Dan Cupid, Capt. Randall ‘went even further and paid high honor to Dan, Manufacturing an appropriate flag to be dis-- ~ THE EVENING played when Dah visited ship. Only Presidents, reigning monarchs and owners of ships “rate” such consideration. In the course of a round trip to Bremen, Capt. Randall raised Cupid's flag ten times and an- nounced ten engagements in what amounted to a serial love-story. Then, when he returned to New York, the ship news reporters got hold of the story. ° The advertising value is obvious. Wateh the would-be-wedded pick the “President Fillmore” for European travel. It ought also to do a good business for newlyweds who would find Capt. Randall a kindly. host to happy victims of his co-commander, Dan Cupid. A BORE BECAUSE TRUE? AST year, when the Meyer Legislative Com- i; mittee was investigating departments of the Municipal Administration, its disclosures were . discounted as “campaign stuff.” Now, when the Meyer committee makes its formal report to the Legislature and the Charter Revision Commission, its findings afe hailed as “an old story that everybody knows.” , Politics, favoritism and speculative greed in the Police Department; graft in the Department of Public Markets; waste in the Department of Public Welfare; more graft in the Licénse De- partment. Is the public to be equally indifferent to the evidence whether recorded in the heat of a cam- paign or in the cold light of a year later? Of the conduct of high officials of the Police Department the Meyer report says: : , “The facts tend to show & demoralization and a lack of principle that seriously concern the citizens of New York.” Is the avetage citizen of New York to yawn over the facts and forget them merely because they have for so many months been true? WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, -192%,. Consumer Carries its representative songs, ‘ ‘The Negroes have given the Untted States its finest melodies. Out of their sorrows and dreams they have evolved a great many beautiful bal« ads. The colored folk expressed « much of their thoughts in “spirit- uals”, One of the best known of these is “Deep River,”.a very ap- Pealing air. It haw been effectively harmonized by Coleridge-Taylor, the English Negro composer, and our own Henry T. Burleigh, also colored, of Erie, Pa. Mr, Burleigh has made plendid arrangements of two of the finest spirituals, “Nobody Knows de Trouble I’ve Seen” and ‘Couldn't , Hear Nobody Pray.” They are essen~ tially songs of the heart. A perennial freshness, charm an@ vigor pervade the songs of England. They are typical of the English peo- ple, The composer of “Down Among the Dead Men” is unknown, This ts an.old English drinking song. It first appeared early in the eighteenth cen- tury and is beliévea to be over 300 years old. It is a fine specimen of the clean-cut quality of a great part of English folk-music, ; “Drink to Me Only With Thine Byes” {8 an example of the gentler type of British ballad. The words are by Ben Jonson, the beloved poet: There ts a happy‘mating of music and words in this song, It seems that . the melody i as ancient as that of “Down Among the Dead Men.” $ Some of the loveliest folk-musia _ has been bequeathed to the world by Ireland. In thg best Irish melodies the dominant qualities are tenderness and heroic feelingy There is a ro- mantic story attached to the song, “Robin Adair."" Long supposed to have been of Scottish origin, it wal later discovered that it came from the “Emerald Isie.” Tradition tells us that. it was written by Carrol O'Daly, a famous Trish harper of the fourteenth cen- tury, and was inspired by a romantiea occurrence in his own life, The minstrel aspired to the hand of a lass named Ellen O'Cavanaugh, but her parents were opposed to the match. Obliged to leave Ireland on a long trip, O'Daly was dismayed to find his sweetheart betrothed to another on his return, With a heart full of sorrow he retired to @ lonely and there composed the song, ‘‘HMileen Aroon,”” which {s the melody of “Robin Adair.” The next day he attended the wedding, ‘disguised as @» harper. At the request of the bride he played his new ballad. The audience was entranced, Elien recog~ nized her lover under his disguise and, her affections quickly returning, sh@ eloped with him that night. “Eileen Aroon” was first printed ea an Irish song about 1729, but later was published in many collections of. Scotch melodies. It was first played in Scotland by Dennis O’Hempsey, a renowned Irigh troubadour, when he made a tout of that country. The air became very pepuler there and in the course of time the words of “Robin Adair” were fitted to it, Who can listen to “Auld Lang Syne” and not respond to its exquisite feeling? In one form or another this song has been un be in Scotland for centuries. Robert Burns wrote to a friend in 1788: “Ie not the phrase ‘Aula Lang Syne’ exceedingly expres- sive? There are an old song and tune which have often thrilled my soul. You know I an enthusiast in old Scotch songs. Many prom- inent Scotch poets tried to write appropriate words for the melody, but it remained for Burns to compose the most beautiful lyric. As he con- : b FORDNEY—M¢ CombeR TARIFF BURDEN In the wrangle over their ancestry, W. J. Bryan and Dr. Spangler are getting delight- fully intimate and personal. “The skunk, the lizard,,the turtle and venomous snakes” are some of the newest relatives the professor has » found for Mr. Bryan. LEARNED AT SAD COST. EW YORK was shocked yesterday to learn how many people lost their lives in Sun- day’s.storm. Brief though it was, the blow was of almost tornado-like intensity. While the greatest loss of life was on the water, seven persons were killed in the collapse of a Ferris wheel at Clason Point Park in the Bronx, and other fatalities on land were due to falling trees and live electric wires. The storm did not come without warning. Ominous banks of cloud in the West gave ample hint that some violent break-up of the hot spell might be brewing. But people in and about New York are used to dark skies and heavy showers that rarely bring such disastrous force of ‘wind as that of Sunday. : Perhaps they become too confident to be as careful as they should be. When the sky looks as it did Sunday afternoon it is safer for small boats to seek shelter without reckoning on the usual light squall. Operators of aerial devices in amusement parks should take no chances but refuse passengers when a heavy storm threatens. The lesson is learned at sad cost, but, at least, _ it is learned early in the season: Nobody ever knows just how hard the wind is going to blow— even in this part of the country, <——Linseeshesenienidineteeelatie An inquiring reader has propounded two From Evening WorldReaders What kind of letter do you tind most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a Jot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) * MANNERS WILL MAKE A MARKET. We have the brief but descriptive word “lout” which we apply to unmannerly boys and men. Jnfortunately it is necessary in writing of our fellow citizens to use it altogether too often. For the lout is numerous and scattered broadly through- out the land, both in the city and the country. Education does not always cure him. Neither does environment. There are louts of college graduates and louts in so-called polite society. Z The boy who seems afraid to say ‘‘sir’ when he ad dresses his elders, who returns surly answers to civil ques tions, who leers at people who speak to him, is one sort of a lout, and a highly offensive sort. He is frequently met with. Psychology of Applause. To the Editor of The Evening World: I have been very much interested in the opinions of your readers on the subject of what causes applause in a theatre. I doubt Very much that weather has anything to do with it. Nor am I convinced that others right in attributing the cause to audience intelligence and the art of the actor, respectively. Applause in a theatre or out of it iF simply the manifestation of mob spirit. It is seldom, if ever, the ex pression of the individual. So much for “audience intelligenc As for “the of the actor,” an audience may be enraptured at the close of a fine plece of acting, its senses and emotions deeply moved, but «rea and wonderful as the action on the stage may be, the mob-audience sits moribund, dumbfounded, inert, puz- wood in the apartment and knocking down the ceiling of an apartment be- low. Tho Judge told the lanior? that if he furnished the tenants with ¥indling wood they would not have to chop weed in the apartment. He then dismissed the case. W. H. W. New York City, June 9 1922. ‘The Trinil Ape-Man. To the Hattor of The Evening World: In The Evening World of June 8, you printed an article concerning the ‘Trinil Ape-Man. Here are the facts: In 1891 near ‘Trinil, Java, were unearthed @he fol- lowing: A small section of the brain pan, two molar teeth, and a piece of thigh bone. ‘The section of the brain pan, and one tooth, were found sixteen yards from the thigh bone and other tooth The thigh bone was that of a man He is rude and unman nered to men and women alike. . He is a lout when he applies for a position—which he never gets. He is a lout when he falls into the hands of the law for : questions. Perhaps some other reader can zled by its own impulses. Then 4Jthe brain pan that of a chimpanzee|$ some minor offense, and usually gets an extra month’s sen sig the eeer eee. LA ‘ answer them: k pale-faced usher, working under in-|or gibbon. ; tence be his loutishne: judi. Lang Syne” rather * Ly f What is the American. Standard of Liv- structions trom the stage director, |°"rhe fragments, " after discovery] $ \onGe , prcause : #8 prejudices the Judge 3 | ca"for it the melody of “Tl Fee'd a ing? make evef so feeble a noise by clap-| were not let open to investigation or 8 3 . Lass at Martinmas.” - That is the P ns! * ping the hands, and with one accord] study, and not many casts are ex- Perhaps he does not know any better than to be a lout, $ | way tt ng at present, ‘ Where is it typified in New York City? the mob will burst forth in riotous | tant. AUGUSTINE. but dozens of boys from the same neighborhood manage to p ’ The American Standatd at is a com- applause, That is mob psychology. | New York, June 9, 1922, learn better. ( mon phrase often encountered; a vague One of the most subtie devices of es pict one lias ideas on the siibject. It is the old-tinje actors was based pre- Waaeuity cate mane anon: On a cértain golf course near New York there are 100 $| When You Go to the ' beet 7 Wa ebiting 1 elsely on the knowledge of this mob] qo ine Editor of The Evening World: caddies, among whom about ten are louts. The mannerly Museum - 1 ign penn Th pag wae. sa psychology. When the curtain ful, Commissioner Coler of the Public caddies make most of the money. ‘ 'o definite res je: By hah on a scene, if there was not enough| weifare Department has proposed to Good manners can find a market. They sre al ; be glad to read them and pass them along, applause, they would shake the cur-| 11. poard of Estimate and Apportion.|¢ in demand. tf Riwey? 31 THE EARLIEST KNOWN BRITON, ‘ . tain. Inevitably this would cause @ yer Dennlkvah: hi i Perhaps the oldest known humas ‘ frenzy of hand-clapping and the cur-] ment the erection in this city of a eople who respect themselves—and most successful as distinct from the ape typ 7 ACHES AND PAINS tain would be sent up again and} psychiatric hospital, at a cost of $2,- people do—like to be respected. Hike Pil ninn.ot Eagiand E ti dous demonstra-|090;000, in order that thi : i y . Laila In Boston the subway crowds are wise enough to | SeeiP ae ene oe ejunpaa e ae pilings tong F munimatdi ad even the lout himself, prefers civility to ‘This relic of man} in the shape of @ ’ enter cars by one door and leave by another. In New |" New York, June 8, 1922. : ineiyuar ye skull indcating an unmistakably low t ‘ in various city institutions, may be Loutishness is merely an utter neglect of other people's # York they butt into each other like frightened sheep, peop! grade of intellectuallty, is of extraor« 4 Léltian Russell. co-ordinated and administered under} $ feelings, a want of sympathy or kindliness toward all dinary Importance, because it was age ’ . ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: one authority and one roof, for tho created things. : t Four Cuban Cabinet members pre resigned at the 1 dare say that your charming] adequate care of mental defectives Most criminats are louts. Most failures are louts companied, when discovered, by evie u behest of our special representative, Gen. Crowder. | eaitorial on Lillian Russell was fully|and for research and experimenta- M b h Sty abtet i . dences of handicraft among men, es f Crowdered out, so to speak. appreciated by many others, as well] tion in the cure or relief of mental Most boys who easily obtain positions, and promotions $| sown in the American Musoum of u ° as by me. diseases. when they get positions, are well mannered and thoughtful Natural History. ‘The beauty of the tribute brands ft] In the ‘United States since the|$ for others. ‘These evidences Were flints and fos~ be The corn doctors awe seeking a higher professional as a literary gem. worlds war there are more insane than sils that were found in conjunetion position. Why not? They do much to promote a good |*sowever, 1 sincerely hope that the}in England, Germany, France and _This world ee Reedy much what it gets. It returns 3 [me et Ten an was surely. no AH understanding among men, pleusure of your receiving this may| Russia combined, A hospital made for] ~ loutishness, if not with loutishness, at least with inattention monkey. He was a man of the earlier Pi ° be ot least as great as the pleasure| this se Ah Ba stop the and neglect. ‘ Paleolithic, or old Stone Age. Probably b vb re. ur editorial gave to me while read-| growth of mentally defective persons. s od manners wit! wy had not discovered the secret of B. Re %, hel are aut Ay @ Nee weather dress of dine | TO. JOHN LYNCH. Instead of a hospital, I would] $ ¢ It:retnrns go with respect, and has a plac fire, of of ooking. hla. meals, Wut Ne § shirt with trousers to match, They took much cooter |'™%\Coayn, June 8, 1922 rather advice the use of the money to] $ for them. : unquestionably hunted them down. Ne and more comfortable than the riders. stop’ the cause. The well-mannered man makes his own market, and if The Piltdown is the most primitive és J Vaiwevies of Jantice. ‘The present phase ioe insanity is he can market himself he will get along, provided of course skull of man yet found; but #€. indi« tu The indiacriminating Sunday tornado tore down | Tribe Balter of The Evening World injustice tn courts, where money is) $ that he has the brains and the persistence, cates @ brain development superior to . 9 Who are our law-makers? superior to justice, unemployment, ‘ that of the Australians whom Capt. th many trees and only smashed a few wayside signs, I have an opportunity to get around] low wages\ and long hours, mainutri-| Speer, Cook came across on the antipodal a Yet nature is supposed to take care of things, to courts in this city and I have| tion unsanitary living quarters, race | —————————————— OC continent’ when he sailed around part *D . heard many of our Judges hand out|and_ religion hatred organizations, SE BIRTHDAY? ory ala of it unt on personal..opinions in leu of tho aw,|grafters and crooks in the Govern- WHOSE 7 oes, sear being saben: prinoner, 100 ooo sob veal ‘a albett ty Commencement season is here and the college grad. | Where is the law back of the dectaon| ment offices, JUNK 18-WINEFIELD SCOTT was] le was exchanged and promoted to ° EAS) OFI0E A TAR, tu uates ave coming out of their comfortable cloisters |of one Magistrate: “You have oj The remedy for insanity is as fol-|born in Pare ae. Vis Tao wi mets CH Maioe lobe alae aie hei® a p ; 6 of th {ght to keep dogs in the city, It! lows: Establish justice in courts, | 1786, and died at West Point, N. Y.]W2s made Commanderein-Chjef of r- {0:06 WORSE 6 Cle RCE Ane bop at ecg wa privilege.”’ eR jabolish grafters und crooks from} May 29, 1866, He was educated at} the United States Army and as such} of peace was signed. He was nom!- may be able to meet Mr. Edison's draw-poker tests, Recently I had the privile of} political office work with standard | ¥ am and Mary College, studied |took charge of the Fedéral forces in| nated for President by the Whigs, but ) Mp heuring a Judge decide aginst a| wages, eight } work day, and sani-| law and was admitted to the bar. In] the second year defeated by Franklin Pierce, his Burges Johnson says that one sith of Vassar’s | plaintife beca 1808 he entered the army as a Cap-|in 18 Dernoaradie.opponeah, Te wen WU) ty aus he put it, ‘the! tary Itving quar didn’t like his looke.’* } Then there would be of no need of tain, At the beginning of the War of In another case the lundiord was! hospitals for mentaliy defective per-| 1812 he was aent on an expedition to Aispossessing © tenunt for chopping sons THEODORE BERGMAN. | Canada. He fought with great brev- Cerro . sand of the army at the begin« Sept. 14, 16 entered the City of| ning of the Civil War, but resigned Mexico, which he held until thetreaty | ine position im Oatober, alumnae are school ma’ama. JOHN KEETZ.