Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-28

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often t+e past few years. is verified
offering 1t for sale.
THE property should be taken care
of by a group of public spirited young
men, who would continue it as a place
of amusement" said President Frank
Sturgis, of the Madison Square Garden
Company, in explaining the reasons for
the advertisement.
The s~port-loving public, showmen,
the retail business publican, many,
many varied publics there are which
will unite in the ardent wish that "a
group. of public spirited mem
may be found to take the Garden over
and to continue to devote it to the
uses which have made it international
ly famous.
There are many landmarks New
York might worry along without, and
some through the absence of which the
city would gain, but even New York,
with it's manifold marvels, cannot at
ford to lose the Madison Square Gar
den. No other structure could ever take
its place.
Some tragedies at least point a moral.
That one which claimed as victim
David Graham Phillips deprived the
world of a virile writer and taught no
lesson. 1t was a pitifuI. unnecessary,
but apparently u%npreventable tragedy.
| But, that the world was stirred to sud-
den vivid appreciation Of genius and
the necessity for mourning sincerely its
loss there was nothing gained.
And what d small thing is that with
which to offset all Mr.. Phillips might
have accomplished had he been per-
mitted to live out his natural span of
lifei
1t is a fact that men cannot achieve
prominence of any kind In this scatter
Drained world without personal risk.
He who rises becomes a natural target
for the mentally unbalanced. And yet
such prominence as Mr.. Phillips had
gained should. it seems, be almost i'm
mune from attack. He had sought to
teach through his power to entertain
and had succeeded. 1t Is almost incon-
ceivable that through his work he
should have en~gendered the murder
Gus antipathy of one who imagined
himself his enemy.
The cowboy managed somehow to
survive the Eastern fiction featuring
him, the inroads of the farmers, the
fencing Of the prairies n enough of
him is left to make the danger of his
extinction a remote one. That Isl the
danger was a remote one until yester-
day.
But now, alas. it seems the hour of
the cowboy has struck-at least of that
bronco-riding cowboy to whom we have
been accustomed. An aviator, and a !
French n at that, demonstrated yes
terday that the %aeroplane has the ordi-
nary bronco beaten a great many ways
in the gentle art of herding cattle.
Rene Simon is said to have suddenly
appeared out of a clear sky near Hous- |
ton, Tex, and to have taken a herd of
cattle ava from a bunch of punch
ers,' After using the herd for demon
s~tration purposes. he is said to have
replaced 1t.
Cattlemen must hurry and enlist the
aeroplane before the 'rustlers'' annex
1t, or the wal between them. which was
ended, apparently. some time ago, will
grow one-sided again.
Once in a While a comparison of
courtship days and their delights with
the more subdued period after mar
riage begets in the person making the
comparison a restlessness which may,
in time. grow into active rebellion
with ones lot.
A Staten Island woman in her suit
for divorce alleges that In the three
years they lave been married her hus-
band hasn't taken her buggy riding
one single time. There is nothing ridic-
ulous in such an allegation to this
woman. She saw in it a statement
concerning one of the manifestations of
the cold, hard reality against which
she is rebelling.
Just as introspection is the foe to in
dividual contentment, so retrospection-
since distance does lend enchantment |
at times-can play hob with marital
happiness. One cannot safely dwell
too much upon the phrase, Those were
the happy days"
A great many persons who have
never seen a prize fight and never ex-
pect to see one will read casually to-
day the headline proclaiming a victory
for an American boxer over an Eng
lish champion, hesitate, perhaps stop
and read the story through; or at least
peruse 1t down to the fight by rounds"
Give any contest an international
flavor and the glow IN American VIC
tory induces is as general as respira-
ton. Perhaps we are just as far from
a guaranteed worlds peace as we are
from world citizenship. A man boasts
of the prowess of his city, attends the
annual banquets of his State society.
but the emotions which prompt these
acts are as nothing to that undefinable
spirit known as patriotism
Some experts say we must get over
patriotism II ever we are to- become