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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-02

Harmony in design in groups of
houses is coming to sense of appre-
citation, as is evidenced by several hous-
ing schemes and the architectural treat
ment followed in certain developments.
The American, when he builds for
himself, has strong desire for indi-
viduality of expression. This is shown
particularly in most any suburb where
you will see a neighborhood of houses
in which many styles or architecture,
class of materials. color schemes, etc,
are represented. The lines and shapes
have no relation to each other, so that
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-11
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HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
(By Ben King Harned.)

ri
Although in nearly every respect
the High School is well equipped Their,
is still one very important depart
ment lacking. This is a department
Of Public Speaking. The literary so
cieties constitute one source Of in
struetion in oratory, but this Is en-
tirely inadequate to the needs OF
the students. When the work is run
ming smoothly with no hindranees and
no delays each boy has an opportun-
ity TO speak on a regular program
only once a month. Usually n pro-
fessor whose mind is necessarily cen
tered on his every day work is pre-
sent. He corrects mistakes which he
notices but the regular critics for
the societies are students. who or
dinarily have had very little more
experience than the boys whom they
correct. No explanation is necessary
when we say that speakers cannot
be developed through this channel.
We need a professor who has made
it his business to study oratory and
whose only vocation is teaching il to
others. In this way and in no other
can real orators be developed.
To meet this demand we must have
a department Of Public Speaking con-
Quoted just as the English, Latin or
Mathematics departments are In hav-
ing the classes meet every day to stu
dy great orations Of their English and
style Of expression would be inn
proved more than II possibly could be
in the regular English course. On
the days for the students to debate
or deliver original orations the in
struetor could criticise their posture,
gestures and fluctuations Of the
voices, things which few students
know anything about and things Of
which most are totally ignorant. In
hearing the students speak often.
mistakes would be corrected which
otherwise would never be noticed.
The students would also become ac-
eustomed to speaking in public. prac-
tice which they could not get from
a private tutor. After four year
course this department could turn
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-11

out speakers who would be capable
Of leading the Public Speaking de-
partment in our colleges and uniyer-
stiles and those who do not continue
their education IN school would not
be embarrassed when called on to
make a speech in public. Through
the speakers this high school would
gaia greater reputation and be
brought before the public more than
in any other way. Especially since
our entry into the war has II became
more important to institute this
course in High Schools. Some Of the
boys who would have gone to un-
iversities in the times Of peace will
now join the army with only high
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-11

school education. II therefore Is ex-
pedient that our High Schools in
struct our boys in this important
work and prepare them for a greater
work and a larger service to human
ity.
On Wednesday morning Mrs.
Smith. Miss Jennie Glass. Mrs.
Crutchheld and Miss Bush were pres
ent at Chapel and told the students
what a great opportunity IL was for
them to be able TO hear Lieutenant
Patrick 0'Brien. Each student was
urged to sell rs many tickets as pos
sible.
The Orchestra will play at Crofton
Friday night at the Tabernacle Mon
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-11
SOME TOBACCO SET.

Some tobacco has been set in this
county during the past few days
Hickman Bros. and Lucien Means
Jr., west Of town. have put out sew.
oral acres, and in other sections OF
the county the work Of transplant,
ing has been begun. Plants are
growing rapidly and with a good "sea-
son for setting" much Of the crop can
be put out.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-11
DIED FROM
HEART ATTACK

Funeral and burial services for
Mrs. Stella Pippin were held yester-
day aftern lsn following her sudden
death yesterday morning. She was
found dead in bed and IL is supposed
that either heart failure OF conges-
ton was the cause.
Her husband. r. L. Pippin, and 0
children survive her. While Mrs.
Pippin had not been in good health
for some time she was not considered
in a serious condition. The family
lives on the farm Of J. r. King on
the Butler road.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-11

day night. for Lieutenant O'Brien.
and at Pembroke Thursday night for
the High Schools commencement.
For the last month the orchestra sAss
really become county organization
playing in nearly all Of the neighbor-
ing villages and giving the inhabi-
tants thereof an opportunity to hear
real first class classical music
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-11
Important, Surgical Dressings.

The work room will be closed to
workers all next week as quota Of
curgical dressings for May (75O army
pads) has been completed. This by
order from Cleveland headquarters.
Signed: Chairman Surgical Dressings.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-11
PRINCESS TODAY.


Madge Kcnnedy's latest vehicle,
"Our Little Wife" the Goldwyn pic
turizAtion Of Avery Hopwood's splen-
did stage success. Miss Kennedy Is
surrounded by notable cast in sour
Little Wife" Her leading man,
George Forth. who portrays the role
Of Herb. the loving but jealous hus-
band Of Dodo (Madge Kennedy has
done creditable work in several screen
productions made on the coast. and
previous TO acting before the camera
was intrusted with a number Of i'm
portant roles in Broadway produc.
tions. q
William Davidson, as DIR. Elliott,
who admires Dodo much to his wife's
discontinue, is another who has Civ
en- a good account of himself. wray
Page has the role Of Mrs. Elliott,
whose one aim in life is to make
hubby forget other women exist.
Kempton Green is Tommy. the poet.
whose love sonnets drive Dodo fran
tic. The role Of Bobo, the "goat''
Of II all. Is in the hands Of Walter
HERS. who was a vaudeville artist
before his advent ON the screen. Mar
guerite Marsh, sister of Mae. Is
Angie.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-11
NAVY LEAGUE.

The graduates Of the Supervisors
course Of instruction can get mater
ials at Miss Fannie Rogers.
MRS. W. ID. COOPER.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-11

Orders taken for Victrolas and
Records. HARDWICK.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

audience all of Verdi's score. body
and soul, as it lives in him, mixing
with it an abundance of Affection
He used no book, but that is a mat
ter of small Importance, except as
it Influenced the performance. 1t is,
Of course, as a brilliant German mu-
sician once said, much better that
conductor should have the score in
his head than his head in the score;
but unless ne can convey his knowl
edge to the musicians under him, it
will avail him nothing. Evidently
Signor Toscanni's head and heart
are full of Nerdi's music, and his
transmission of what he knows and
what he feels is magnetic"
Signor Toscanni never gave cause
for reversal or modification of this
judgment. On the contrary, everything
that he did in the conductors chair
for Italy, at the end of the season of
1914-15 not to return, increased the ad-
miration for his great talents of those
capable of occupying the seat of judg
ment.
The causes which led to the severing
OF his rotations with the metropolitan
opera were never divulged That there
was a desire on the part Of the man
agemcnt to meet the wishes of the pub
lie, which fully appreciated his great
gifts, and the fact that his presence in
the conductors chair was always q
guaranty that there would be no per
functorness in the performance is
evidenced by cablegram which the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Singers New and Old-Miss Destinn
and Her Patriotism-An Ameri-
can School of Music

utter potently. Very different sro -.
moods represented by the hat of II.
shepherd Pedro and the mill of {.
bastiano. Mr.. d'Albert seems 10 b.r.
realized that here was the trro s.,,
for the activity of his creative f.n.e
and what is best in his score is
fection of the two moods. The mus;.
begins with ranz des vaches. with -.
early strains of which, designed n do
pict the coming of dawn, are discreetlr
mingled the sound of pasture bells
At the close of the prologue thor.
comes an intermezzo to accompany tbs
change Of scene from the mounta;, +on
to the vale below, which modulates in
mood and melodic themes from tho
pastoral and peaceful element 70 +,a
urban and tragic. This is, of con-v.
| instrumental music, and it is only Whit
the orchestra utters that is likely ~
interest anybody from musical non,
of view. The vocal part of the scor.
is nearly all declamatory chatter. float.
ing on an orchestral current, which bv
harmonic and instrumental eddvincs
and whirlings seeks to comment IN ~
color the emotional contents of tho
text and dramatic situation. It IL +bs
parloo,do of the young Italians. but
with less melodic flow. Much of tits
delivered rapidly and in monotone
Rapid it had to be, for the book of tbe
play is voluminous enough to fill an
! evening if it were spoken instead of
sung; monotone it had to be. because
there is little in the text that admits
of melodic contours. Indeed, the most
persistent question which the ranre-
sentation forced upon my mind was
why music had been introduced into il
at all. Save when it heightened the
mood, as in the climaxes at the end OF
the first act and beginning of the sec
ond, or published the unutterable feel
ings which surgcd in the hearts OF
Marta and Pedro when their lips were
dumb the music was little else than an
impertinence. One thing the music of
'Tiefand' may be said to do, however;
to some extent it modifes the horror
of the play and lifts into relief its few
moments of cheer. But it is a hundred
times pitiful that the son of dancing
master and composer of dances having
SO inviting a field before him as Span
ish dances and Spanish melodies open
could not get further away from Wen
nese commonplace than Mr. dAlbert
did in the music associated with the
three female gossips Of the play. Miss
Destinn, who had effected her debut or
the American stage in aida" on the
opening night of the season, played the
role Of Marta. In pose, gesture, facia
expression and poignancy of utterance
she recalled memories of Duse in the
original form and Calve in the operate
version of "Cavalleria Rusticana'
Praise can scarcely 60 further than
this.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
chairman of the executive committee of

chairman of the executive committee of
the directors sent to him in Italy:
Am happy to hear that you are
considering Gatti Casazza's PROPOSE
ton, which has my fullest approval.
not only because it is meant as
public expression of our admiration
and gratitude for what the Metropoli
tain owes to your unique genius, but
also because it will give still greater
scope and effect and force to your
great personality in shaping the ar
tistlc development of the Metropoli
tan. voice the sentiments Of the
board and New York public and my
self in expressing sinccrest hope that
we may continue to en- oy the in
spiraticn of your splendid art. You
may rest assured that anything in
my power to make your work here
sympathetic and satisfactory to you
will cheerfully be done. Kindest re-
CARDS. OTTO II. KAHN"
No answer to this telegram was re-
ceived by Mr.. Kahn or any of the
directors, but it WAS reported that
Signor Toscanin, who had a son in the
Italian army, was patriotically giving
his services to his country by directing
concerts for the soldiers.
The first novelty of the season was
brought forward on November %, 1908.
1t was Eugen d'Albert's "TieAand,' pro-
duced under the direction of Mr. Alfred
Hertz, with the parts in the play dis
tributcd as follows:
Marta. ta.............. .Fr;iulein Destinn
Popa Nine. Fornia
AntOnia Mun Matt 70 | n
Rosalia ..................M Nine Randa
Nori .................. Nine. l'IEuiller
Pedro Observation-Disclosures Herr Schmedes
Scbastiano ............Fc Herr Fcinhals
Tomasso ................M Mr.. Hinckley
MOflcclO herr (tOfltZ
Nando Herr Rciss
Mr. Dippcl supervised the produc-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

the womb of the future. Many years
before I had remarked in The Tribune,
in support of contention steadily up
held ever since, that America must
and will have distinctively national
school of composition, which was only
who, as Walter Bagehot argues in his
discussion of the origin of literary
schools, shall strike out that rough
notion Of the style which the American
for that reason will find imitation. The
characteristic mode Of expression which
will be stamped upon the music of
the future American composer eve are
ward man") will be the joint creation
of the Anne rican's freedom from con-
ventional methods and his inherited
predictions and capacities. "The re-
Elective German, the mercurial French
man, the stolid Englishman, the warm
hearted Irishman, the impulsive 1tal-
ian, the daring Russian, will each con-
tribute his factor to the sum of ma
tional taste. The folk melodies of all
nations will yield up their character
istic charms and disclose to the COM
poser hundred avenues Of emotional
expression which have not yet been
explored. The American composer will
be the truest representative Of the uni
versal art, because he will be the truest
type of the citizen of the world"
I have never so much wanted these
words remembered as now. If ever
there was an opera which came out of
an inter-racial melting pot it is "Tief-
land" 1t is tragedy, but like Car
men," which is also tragedy, it invited.
if it did not cry out for, the element
of local color upon which national
schools are now based. That founda-
tion is likely to be strengthened by the
clash Of nations which shall end in the
liberation of peoples from political
yokcs and the establishment of the
principle of f-government 1t will
endure, believe, until an idealized in
tcrnationalism brings with it new
idioms sprung from universal concepts
of beauty and truth, themselves the
fruit Of amalgaration
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
The Programme
And the Conductor

The prospectus which had appeared
in the summer promised that under
the "joint direction" of Messrs Gatti
and Dippel there should be subscrip-
ton season of twenty weeks, consisting
of one hundred performances en- Mon
day, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
evenings end Saturday afternoons:
twelve performances on Saturday even
ings and special series on Tuesday
and Saturday evenings devoted to clas-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

ton, Mr.. Hertz had studied the score
with the composer in the summer and
Herr Schmedes had created the role OF
Pedro in the original performance of
the opera in Vienna. The Spanish play
by Angel Guimera, upon which the
opera is based had been seen in New
York little more than two years be-
fore in an English version at the Man
haitian Theatre, and also in March,
1903, when it had revival under the
title Marta of the Lowlands." The
story plays high up in the mountains
Of Catalonia and low down in the val
leys Wherefore its operate title) and
resents vivid picture of wickedness,
misfortune and primitive virtue such
as can easily be believed to be existent
amid such surroundings as it pre-
sents. To serve his own ends, a viii
lainous lord Of the manor lures a shep-
herd from his hills into the valley, and
in the guise of a blessing for which the
highland man had long been praying
gives him to wife the woman whom he
had held in vicious thraldom for
years; gives her to him only in name
to further his own mefcenary purposes,
but purposing to keep her, nevertheless,
for the qualification of his own appe-
tites. There is a period (brief, for the
action is swift and all compassed with
in the space of day), in which both
victims remain ignorant; then an awak-
enng, which in the woman replaces dis
gust and hatred for her nominal hus-
band with love and turns the obedience
of the simple man Of the hills into
murderous rebellion. He strangles his
fiendish lord and master to death and,
taking his wife into his arms. carries
her to his mountain home, where in a
purer air she is to awake to purer
life.
A combination of circumstances in
vited to some curious speculations
apropos of this production. 1t was a
German opera; the book, on a Spanish
subject, was by an Austrian drama
tist; the music was by a pianist of
Scottish birth whose grandfather had
been a French cavalry officer, father .
FrancoGerman by birth, an English
dancing master by profession, mother
an English woman; the composer
Eugene (now Eugen) Charles Francis
d'Albert, musically product of the
National Training School of London,
IS the artistic man without country,
since, so far as he has professed any
allegiance at ALL it is to Germany
though there is less German blood in
his veins than French or English. The
Italian general manager of the theatre
at which the opera had been produced
had been honored on the eve of the per-
formance by public dinner presided
over by Walter Damrosch, patriotic
American born in Breslau, at which
Horace Porter, II. Z. Krehbiel, George
B. NJ. Harvey and Count Massiglia, the
last representative of the Italian gov
ernment, had made speeches. Of late
there has been much speculation touch
ing what is to come out of the Amer
lean melting pot, and such mixture of
elements as had representation at this
premiere might naturally turn that
speculation toward the question of the
American school of music which lies in
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
An Analysis Of
Tiehand"

The lbretto of "Tief1and" cannot be
said to "yearn" for music as Wagner
insisted that the book of lyric drama
should, but it contains elements with
which music can meet in a mutually
beneficial union. There is in the sym
bolism Of the play large proclamation
of virtue in the heights and vice in the
lowlands. Verbal preachments of this
kind are more likely to cause amuse-
ment than to awaken reflection or stir
the emotions; but for symbolism music
has a language which the orchestra can
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

w lin lhe Ne" AoiA puo''' u''
w turbed by the dssensions
which had broken out in
the management before the doors Of
the opera house had been opened
for the first performance, the friends
Of German opera, fearful that the
new managers would prove to be
reactionary, and the rivalry Of the
Manhattan Opera House threatening to
grow more and more formidable, the
twenty-fourth regular subscription sea-
son at the Metropolitan began on No
vember Is, 1908. During the summer
sops had been plentifuly thrown to
the German Cerberus by the appoint
ment Of Mr. Dippcl as administrative
manager, Mr.. Gatti's protestations OF
cclecticism in taste ard Mr.. Toscanlnl' 9
devotion to the best types Of German
opera, including Wagners dramas.
That devotion, it may be said at once,
was beautifully and convincingly
demonstrated in the season and after
ward up to the time of Mr.. Toscaninl's
departure from the Metropolitan at
the close OF the year 1914-15. The
terms administrative manager ana
"ioiut directors" were construed by the
public generally as indicating that Mr.
Dippel would have powers coextenslve
with those of Mr.. Gatti in the de-
termination Of the artistic policies OF
the establishment, and that those
powers would be exercised specifically
in the production of old and new operas
in the German repertory.
The plan Of the board of directors of
the company was vague and tentative
and it was obviously necessary that
there should be not only an eXten~
sion Of the term Of engagement of the
manager and conductor, who had been
brought from Italy, but also sharp
definition of authority if the standards,
commercial and artistic, of the Metro
poltan Opera were to be maintained.
To these ends the newcomers from
ABROAD addressed themselves vigorously
il routrance. with the consequences to
Mr.. Dippcl that were set forth in the
preceding chapter of this chronicle.
Nevertheless to Mr.. Dippel was given
large authority. While Mr.. Gatt re-
inforced the Italian side Of the house,
Mr. Dippel reinforced the German with
, artists, scenery and choristers as each
thought best under the supervision Of
the executive committee of the board
Of directors of what became the Metro
politan Opera Company as soon as that
style could legally be adopted.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
FUNDAMENTALS IN DEMOCRACY
BY DR.. Frank Crane

These are axioms of democracy. Think on these
things.
i. The whole people is wiser than any group or
it it. Its judgment is sounder, surer. AS Lin
coin put it, You fool all of the people some
of the time and of the people all of the time,
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time
2. Democracy is not scheme of voting plan
for securing rulers it is a spirit.
8. Remember what Mazzini said, that some day
a would arise to whom democracy would be
religion. He would be the Great Man. Il quote
from memory, and may be ineXact.)
4. Democracy is run for the benefit of the peo-
pie in it; Autocracy for the benefit of the people
upon it.
s. Autocracy is most concerned about Eff
cheney; Democracy about Welfare Autocracy is
eager to build the house; Democracy that the build
ers be happy.
6. Autocracy is a White Passion; Democracy
Red Passion.
7. Autocracy thinks of the State; Democracy OF
the People that compose the State
s. Autoeracy is abstract; Democracy concrete
3 The former exalts impersonal aims; the latter
aims constantly at men.
9. Autocracy produces Order; Democracy Initi-
ative. Democracy Invents; Autocracy Applies
10. Autocracy's Efficiency is quick, specious,
and temporary; Democracy's Efficiency is cumula-
tive; every success means another. f..
IL Democracy is Natural; Autocracy is Artifi-
cial.
H. Democracy is its own remedy. The cure
for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy 1t
carries within itself its recuperatiOn. Auto
cracy prepares its own ruin.
49, Democracy has in it the seed of Evolution;
Autocracy has in it the seed of Revolution.
IA The Strength of Democracy is Education;
the Strength of Autocracy is Obedience
Is The God of Democracy is the same God the
individual has; the God of Autocracy has differ
ent moral code from that of the individual, The
Kaiser's God for instance approved Of the rape or
Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania-
16 The method of Democracy is Light; OF Au-
tocracy Darkness. Democracy created the Free
Press; Autocracy the Censor.
II 1t is complained of Democracy that 1t de-
bates too much but only by free debate can the
Right be wnnowed out.
49, Democracy washes its dirty linen in pub
Iic' True but it gets it clean.
49, Democracy is Dangerous. And there is no
Progress without Danger.
20 Democracy is called Vulgar, Common,
Cheap The real truth is that Autocracy is more
So only it's defects are concealed and tester, while
Democracys are open and are healed.
81 Democracy is capable of more perfect
Organization and Unity than Autocracy.
%. Autocracy is built upon Caste; Democracy
upon Humanity.
% "The Parliament of Man, the Federation
of the World, is only possible in world OF demo-
cratic naions. So long as there are Kings, EN-
perors and Dynasties there can be no World Unity
"a. Militarism IS function of Autocracy De-
mocracy functions in Law.
under Democracy than under any protection and
patronage they may get from Autocracy Just as
plants and people grow better in the air and sun
shine than in a closed room
Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane)