The sun., 1919-07-28


the Bois de Boulogne. ALI parts OF the
city. went to tho Theatre Fran
Gals, the Varieties and the Theatre Sarah
Bernhard every week. But nowhere do
they have the audiences go quickly and
properly responsive to the play as they
are In New York.
They approve with such good man
ners too. Which brings me to say that
New York's manners are inexpressibly
improved since twenty years ago. Then
| any one anywhere was likely to thrust
ahead and jostle you. Now that's con-
| fined to the subway. Even the police
are better hammered. In fact the police
have changed more than anything else
In New York.
my lord When think Of the old
cop used to know He was rough
belly in front and usually beer bottle
| in his back pocket. and IL you asked him
a question he would bite your head of
could hardly believe II when saw the
trig, athletic, intelligent. earnest and
efficient men they have on the force now.
Why, when you ask them a question
they seem to take personal interest In
| the answer"
Lectures to BE International.
Mr.. Chaioner 10 going to interlard his
OF comment on affairs. On account of
his long residence abroad. his courses in
diplomacy and law he believes himself
qualified to discuss international affairs
with particular skill.
"The Asistotelian syllogism," said he,
"is to be my guide, and when big men
make wild statements about important
AFFAIRS In the course Of the month Tn
going to take the statements up and
expose their fallacy."
Mr.. Chaloner is not going to change
the spelling Of his name to conform to
that of the family, to which he IL now
reconciled. but this Is a nero matter of
convenience. He says people invariably
spelled the old name with ID" and he
never gets Chaloner spelled any way-but
correctly. 80 I'm not going back to
wrestle with what we used to call that
damned D." he said.
He has been receiving great deal OF
correspondence from persons unknown
to him lately and he asked the news
paper men to make plain that there Is
one kind Of letters he likes to get and
another he pays no attention to.
Anonymous letters from women" he
said, ''are welcome to me because am
a psychologist and a writer. student
of human nature. understand the
yearning OF the female heart for COM
partnership. 1t may be q relief to some
women to sit down and write out their
troubles to me. They may rest assured
that no letter addressed to me personally
will be opened by any one else or be
laughed at by any one. As they are
anonymous 1 can't be bothered by an
swering them, but I'll be glad to read
them.
DisIilxes "stril<e', Letters.
but there's another kind of letter to
which / must turn a deaf ear. That's
the strike letter have dedicated all
my resources to a special fight Of my
own to achieve a reform. Even such
great charities as the Red Cross and the
Salvation Army can get nothing from
me, because they cannot help my cause
and there are plenty Of others to help
them. It's going to cost me about $3.50
night for these lectures and have
judgments alone of $40, 900 outsta nding
against me as the result Of my twenty
year legal fight. have many other
debts that must pay. 80, with the
cause to which have dedicated my for
tune in view. I will have not one dollar
for any other charity
Mr.. Chaloner issued the announcement
Of his coming lectures in a formal state
ment beginning:
Gentlemen Of the Fourth Estate in
solemn conclave assembled in my suite
at the Hotel Brevoort: Greeting
The statement then goes on to describe
a similar but larger meeting ION the
south bank of the Potomac in 1912"
when Mr.. Chaloner was legally sane
only in Virginia and North Carolina
At that conference he announced his
determination to hire hall in Richmond
and open his case to the public. This
he did. He delivered two years series
OF lectures in the Rex Moving Picture
Theatre until he was stopped by the
police, who closed the house In the en-
forcement OF revived Virginia Sunday
blue laws
immortalized in the New York lectures.
lures"
Text of Letter to Public.
The statement continues:
$50 you see. gentlemen Of the Fourth
Estate. nothing but what the French
term force majeure-superior force,
forced me Off of the trail of bogus
lunacy law. But whereas may posi-
bly, be forced of a trail I am on, tenn
porarily cannot, humanity speaking,
be kept OF a trail
"In order to give you and your mil
lions Of readers an idea OF the nature
of the said lectures let them imagine q
composite photograph OF two political
giants-supplemente by my humble, II
adventurous, self The giants are the
late United States Senator Benjamin
Tillman OF South Carolina and the Late
favorite son of the Empire State, Col.
Theodore Roosevelt. In order not to be
considered presumptuous in naming my
self with such mighty men Of valor I
hasten to add that do so merely as an
dedication of my aim In oratory-the
strength and rugged honesty of Senator
Tillman, supplemented by the almost
universal sympathy of Col. Roosevelt,
to whom nothing was foreign, moth
ing without interest-from the sup
porting of tho Audubon Society for the
preservation of our song birds, to
nvenging the outrage on the American
flag in the sinking of the Lusitania.
Senator Tillman hailed from the State
my paternsl great &C.. grandfather
sailed to from Tenby. wales, in l7I0-
whereas Col. Roosevelt was connected
with me by marriage, and personally
known to me. Both Of US were born on
this magical island of Manhattan, from
, hose bosom has arisen this dream city
of New York-like Venus rising from
the sea"
Describing the title chosen for the
lectures. he went on:
Thus, am at liberty to touch upon
questions of religion II l choose without
falling under the ban of that ancient
maxim: No discussion on religion or
politics. That handle the subject with
80 AwaA II.