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New-York tribune., 1919-07-01

There arc woighty things to engage the
attention this morning, but we don't know
what they are wcightier that is, than
that Mr. James f. Teacher of Newport
News, has applied for a marriage license
Oh, yes To we'd Miss Mary f.. Schools.
Of Richmond.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-01

Speaking of writing, the book we have
enjoyed most this season is Old Don Mar
quis's "Prefacos.' Nobody hates to write
with a harder hatred than Don's; and if
anybody turns out more good stuff in the
course of a year we don't know who it is
New-York tribune., 1919-07-01

Complete Characterization, by Jane NJ:
The kind Of dame who writes to q forty
second cousin in New York for permission
to visit her for few days In her wee
apartment, and after spending couple of
weeks being trotted around, etc. tells
casual caller that she certainly is enjoy
ing the city, but wouldn't live here for
anything
New-York tribune., 1919-07-01
"Afnrylnnd. Ny Maryland'

TFNONl the WASHINGTON P0stl
BARTFNDER-EN -ENPER1TNCED PERMA-
HENT POSITION FOR DEPENDABLE.
SOBER MAN. COLUMBIA COUNTRY
CLUB, CHEVY CHASE. MD 27
New-York tribune., 1919-07-01

PERSONAL.-D. NJ: We have no inten-
tion OF getting out another book before
next spring
New-York tribune., 1919-07-01

The effect of Prohibition on contributing
will be watched with interest," but not by
US Prohibition will have no effect on it,
as it will have no effect on most things.
But now the vets ard the drys are going
to claim every good and bad thing
New-York tribune., 1919-07-01

Not since "sertainly" appeared in dia-
lect story has anything so spoiled our day
as "shure," in "Mr. Boyle" by Mary r.
Shipman Andrews in the July Scribner's
Why not "sure"?
New-York tribune., 1919-07-01

But the most horrible sound in the
world says J. W. NJ, "is the cink of
the ice in the shaker when Barney at the
adjacent clubhouse is compiling q ginger
ale, and your score is 5-all, third set"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-01

When the Police Field Dav is over md
the Irish Liberty Fund collectors have
all that they expect to amass.
motorists will be able to go from point
to point more quickly than pedestrians.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-01

The song changes to Drunk last night,
drunk the night before; going to be sober
tonight and be sober forevermore.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-05-23
Esprit de Corps Works Wonders.

Esprit de corps makes every French
soldier feel proud to belong to his unit,
for he proclaims that his unit is the
best of all in the French armies and
that all men of this unit are a fine lot.
That esprit de corps will make them
perform wonderful achievements in or
der to Guido neighboring units. But
the eXaltation of the morale is really
the work Of the officers; they are in
close touch with the men and have
confidence. They will point out
to them the reasons why they fight !;
they will tell them why they must be
confident of success; they will give
them some indications as to how the
next battle will be fought and the rea-
sons why a success is expected-name-
~. the great superiority in guns, in am.
munitiOn, in infantry and in morale
that we shall have in this particular
sector. Then, as the training goes on,
the men will feel and realize their SD.
periority over the enemy.
Another sentiment which must be In
culcated into every fighter is a strong
hate for the Boche. a strong desire to
meet him, to fight him and to beat
him.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-05-23
Frederick IN Great.

On the seventeenth of August, 1888,
died the most remarkable sovereign
Prussia has yet produced. Carlyle de-
scribes him as a king without the hap
pentngs no crown but an old military
hat and not godlike in physiognomy ;
cl0se-shut mouth with thin lips, prOmi-
nent jaws. with q head Of long form.
His face bore the evidence Of many
sorrows and much hard labor. and
seemed to anticipate nothing but much
moro to come; . snuffy nose rather
flung into the air under its old cooked
hat-like an old snufy lion on the
watch ! and . pair Of eyes as no man.
lion or lynx Of that century bore. he
presented himself IN Spartan simplici.
t.. This was Frederick II at home ;
among the common people who loved
him, he was Father Fred-a name Of
familiarity which had not bred con-
tempt In that instance. This portrait
strongly reminds one Of Kaiser VIII.
helm because Il II % Numerically
opposite.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-05-23
WHERE CATS ARE POPULAR
Shops and Restaurants Need Pussy's
Assistance to Keep the Rats
and Mice Away.

"Cats as commercial assets are sci.
dom heard Of" said the Sidewalk Tour.
list, "but tabby is quite an important
fixture with some shopkeepers and res
thurant proprietors. Roaming around
the city, I've often been Impressed by
the frequency with which cats ap-
peared in fruiterers' windows, and the
other day l entered a shop and under
cover of buying an apple asked about
the three cats / saw perched in the
store.
1.-THE salesman told me that cats
were indispensable in his line because
Of rats and mice. He pointed out that,
II n of the rodents took so much as
a tiny nip at an apple or pear, the
value of the fruit was impaired; for
no one would buy an apple that ap-
peared to have been nibbled. He de-
clared that rats or mice would not eat
fruit if they could get something else,
but when their hunger became great
enough they would attack his stock In
trade.
Everyone has noticed the cats that
wander with faint 'meows' about res
taurants and sit patiently at ones feet
waiting for q titbit. These animals
aren't there simply to give a honey
touch; they are working and waiting
for the rats that come for blocks to
get at the food. Many restaurants
have a galvanized iron sheet tackled in
at the junction of their kitchens floor
and walls to prevent the animals
from gnawing a way int that depart
ment. After the dining places close
at night and the chairs are stacked on
the tables, the mice or rats come out
to forage. It is then that the watch
cats are alert hunters.
"Many hotels, especially Of small,
sfde-street type, maintain a staff Of
cats to patrol the corridors. Women
guests and the feminine fear of mice
keep these retainers on the pay ROLL
The cat battalions start out after mid
night, and many times that dOleful
wall that strikes your ears is not from
the rear yard, as you sleepily fancy,
but from the hall outside, where one
cat mournfully tells another how poor
the hunting is that night. While, OF
course, it is easy enough to keep cats
In apartments. the task of training
them to consider a shop or restaurant
as a permanent home is more difficult"
New York Times.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-05-23
Julius Caesar Tlmid.

To ind Julius Caesar applying for
and getting exemption from military
service, a. he has done at Spalding. Is
something of q shock. But this Is one
Of the names which prove that names
are not everything.
The most famous bearer Of tat q
long interval from the great Roman.
Julius Caesar, the old all-England
cricketer, was Of an extraordinarily
nervous temperament. His colleague,
Calbyn, has told how he was always
afraid to sleep by himself at a strange
hotel for fear somebody might have
died there at some time.
eJulie" was also In nightly terror OF
fire, would never sleep in a room above
the first floor, and often reused Calbyn
at might with . cry that the fire had
come at last.-London Chronicle
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-05-23
GAINESVILLE Corn
Planter

are shaft drive planters. The1have no
chain, no clutch roller dogs and springs
to get out of order. Just plain shaft
gear drive. Either edge drop or fiat
drop, all in n planter. Made strong
and heavy; most simple and surest plant
err made. Come and see it, you will
like it.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

chorus and audience, with orchestra
accompaniment; conductor, Arthur
Mees.
Thursday, June 5.-Symphonic i'm
pressions, "Whitehouse, by Nicola
Laucella and conducted bv the COM
poser; selections from Charpentier,s
Louise" Hulda Lashanska; Jig move
ment from Stanford's Irish Symphony;
first performance of Alice in Wonder
land series of pantomime nictures
for orchestra, by Edgar Stillman Kel-
ley; conducted by the composer: The
curtain rises-Alice on Her Wav to
Wonderland; the White Rabbit il
Late the Cheshire Cat; the Caucus
Race; the Forest of Forgetfulness; the
Red Queens Banquet; Funeral March
OF Marionette,' by Gounod, "Rhap-
sodle Negre," for pianoforte and or
cnestra, the piano to be played by the
composer, John Powell; recitation
The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Sydney Thompson; "America." to he
sung by the chorus and audience with
orchestral accomplishment.
An orchestra of seventy-fve men Sc
lected from the New York philhar-
monic Society, Metropolitan Opera
House and the New York Symphony
Society Conductor, Henry P. Schmitt.
NO tickets are sold for any of these
concerts, admission being solelv bv in
vitation.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Litchfeld County Festival

There will be the usual annual fes-
tival of the Litchfield County Choral
Union in Norfolk in the Music Shed
of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Stoeckel next
month. Its features will be much like
those of recent years, though the meet
ing is tc be designated as the "Fest.va
of the Allies" because of the fact all
the music to be performed is to be
that written by Americans, English
men, Irishmen, Frenchman and Italians
The programme is outlined as follows
Tuesday, June 3.-Festival chorale
by Robbins Battell; to be nung bv the
chorus and audience, with orchestral
accompaniment; first performance of
a new lyric suite No. 2, written for the
festival by Victor Kolar and to be con-
Quoted by the composer. This suite is in
three Movements pastorale, co a.ege and
tinale-and is scored for the modern
symphony orchestra; "Hiawatha's We'd
ding Feast" and "The Death of Min
nehaha,' by Coleridge Taylor, to be
sung by the Litchfeld County Choral
unlon-425 voices assisted by Hulda
Lashanska, soprano; Lambert Murphy,
tenor and Emilio d Gogorza, barry
tone; conductor, Arthur Mces.
Wednesday, June 4.-"Star- r-Spaneled
Banner to be sung by the chorus and
audience, with orchestral accompani-
ment; Samson and Dellah," by Saint
Saens; to be nung by the second sec
ton of the Litchfield County Choral
Ohion-42b voices-assisted by Louise
Homer, contralto, Orville Harold,
tenor; Emilio di Gogorza baritone, and
Leon Rothier, bass; prayer of Thanks
giving" by Kremser, to be sung bv
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

DR.. Muck in New York became very
vigorous when the last two concerts of
the season were reached, and though
they resulted only in creating coun-
ter demonstrations for him, Major Hig-
glnson, who had founded the orchestra
and maintained it for nearly a genera
ton, IN the following summer retired
from its control and turned it over
to body of trustees. He had been
obliged to accept the inevitable for
though he stoutly refused TO believe
that Mr.. Muck had in any way violated
the laws of the United States, he was
permitted to see some documentary
evidence which had convinced the De-
partment of Justice that his conductor
was dangerous alien and he was
subjected to the humiliation of seeing
the man whose cause he had manfullv
champloned arrested on March 25. 1918.
and sent to Fort Oglethorpe for in
ternment Needless to say, the stanch
patriotism of Major Higginson was
never in question for a moment.
few more words must be added
to the history of the concert season
before the operate record is taken up
and the story of its external features
On November /, 1917, there
went into effect Federal law which
imposed tax on tickets for amuse-
ments. A fear that thM tax would
work havoc in the concereSf cid was not
realized. The field had been greatly
overworked in the years Immediately
preceding aud continued to be over
worked down to the end of 1917
is, which marks the conclusion of
these studies. In the department
Of recitals by singers and instruments
allsts the maintenance Of the plethora
was not difficult of explanation. Con-
certs by newcomers In New York large
ly are advertising affairs Those who
give them in the great majority of
cases seek chiefly to get metropolitan
publicity for exploitation in other To-
calities. Audiences and newspaper no
tlces are essential to them. The for
ner are procured by the distribution of
free tickets. The fear justified by the
nature of the habitual "deadhead" that
audiences would not be willing to pay
even the tax on the price of the tickets
was overcome to great extent by the /
device of having the tax paid by the
giver. 1t added to the cost of
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

kind of graver consequences and
was kept longer In the public mind.
DR. Muck's troubles, indeed, began al
most as early as those Of Mr.. Kreisler.
At the first concert of 1918 in
Providence. R. l., a request was handed
to the manager of the orchestra. Mr..
Charles A. Ellis, that the music begin
with performance of THE Star Span
gled Banner" Mr.. Ellis compared the
list OF signatures, that of representa-
tive women of the city, with a list Of
subscribers, and finding few if any of
them here, took it upon himself to ig-
n request Intelligence Of the
4ent was sent broadcast throughout
country at once. A storm blew up
which was measuraby appeased by the
fact that at the next concert in Bos-
ton and at every concert thereafter
the patriotic music was played under
the guidance of the conductor Stories
Of DR.. Muck's intense Germanism pur-
sued him, however, and were not null
flied by an attempt on his part to take
refuge behind an old certificate of
Swiss citizenship. The regular concerts
were given throughout the season in
Boston, New York, PHILADELPHIA and
other cities, but a score of the members
of the orchestra were Germans and.
citizens Of the enemy country being
prohibited from entering the national
capital the cOncerfs rSuall,, cr;,.o,,
there had to be abandoned A concert
booked for Chicago was also cancelled.
The protests agalnst ne nrasnnce nf
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
The Fate of Enemy Aliens
Prejudice Against German Music and Musicians
Stinulated-The Unique Case OF Fritz Kreisler-
The adventures Of Ernest kun,uald and Kart Muck

to alleviate want and suffering amonf
hospitality and support to a horde of
performers, singers and teachers who
had hitherto earned their livelihood in
Europe. What at first was looked upon
as temporary haven had now be-
come the home of hundreds, not to
say thousands, of foreigners, who were
not likely to return to their devas-
tated and impoverished homes, for a
long time at least. Whether or not
their sojourn was to work for the
cultural good of America was q ques-
tlon not to be answered in the sum-
mer of 1917 and is not to be answered
yet. The fact that n large number of
foreign virtuosi of high rank took IN
residence in this country in 1914
and remained here was not looked upon
with disfavor at the time, though it
was feared that it would lead to
plethora of concerts which might mill
tate to some extent against their edu
cational value. That apprehension was
fulfilled, and there is no qualification
to be derived from the fact that some
of the artists who have intrenched
themselves here bear Slavic instead of
Germanic names. Their willingness
TO crook the pregnant hinges of the
knee" that thrift might follow fawn-
ing" distinguished them from the
Austrian Kreisler; but not to his dis
credit. The storm of opposition, as
have said, broke first over him.
Whether or not he should be permitted
to play before a club in Sewickley.
Penn, kept the people of that suburb
OF Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh itself in
a ferment during the latter part of
the summer of 1917 Eventually the
concert was cancelled, and in Pitts
burgh the Director of Public Safety
called on the chief of police to pro-
hibit concert which was to be given
there. Trouble arose in other cities,
and Mr.. Kreisler acting with com
mendable dignity and frankness, can
called all the concerts for which he
had been booked except those which |
had charitable objects. Concerts,
obstensibly of this character, it may
we'll be stated, there were q great many
N the ensuing season, as there had |
oeen in the preceding, since it was
5ound easy to throw the cloak of
charity over many an enterprise in
which selfish purpose was disguised
As patriotism. Especially was this the
'ase after the imposition by the gov
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
By II. E. Krehbiel

With this chapter l purpose to con
clude nv history of the chief incident:
IN oneratic history in New York in the
neriod from the beginning of the wal
"a the end of the season of 1917-10. The
simmer of 1917 wore on, and though
growing detestation of all things
German became more and more mani
fest there were no signs of ferment
indicating change of attitude toward
art or artists about the opera house
or elsewhere From May to the middle
~ October, so far as anything of real
musical significance is concerned, New
York enjoys q dead season. Summer
eoneerts of many kinds there are in
nrofusion, but if they offer much it
IA as pleasant stimulus to the enjoy
ment of the people who flock to the
nublic parks, the recreation piers and
other places for which generous pro-
vision is annually made by the munich
pslity and the philanthropy of private
citizens. AS the time for the opening
n the concert season in the fall of
1917 approached, however, there were
indications that the feeling of liberal
liberation toward music and musicians
Of Teutonc origin was giving way be-
fore a prejudice which eventually be-
came as unreasonable as the earlier
attitude had been honorable and
amiable Some of the means used to
stimulate the prejudice was of nature
which l shall not dignity by either
definition or description. The first
manifestations Of this feeling that at
tracted more than local attention
broke about the head of an artist who
had enjoyed popular favor in e greater
measure and for a longer period than
any of his colleagues. This was Mr.
Fritz Kreisler, the violinist, and the
reason, no doubt, was because he, an
Austrian, had in the previous year
served for e brief period (and suf-
fered slight wound in the military
service of his country. The circum-
stances had made for his popularity
rather than against him in the season
of 1916-1917 Mr.. Kreisler's was g
conspicuous case and deserves to be
discussed more fully than others, but
N the last instance it illustrated
changed attitude of the United States
toward European artists in general,
those of great and those of
no eminence.
AS soon as the war broke out the |
United States was called upon not only
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

The last half Of this chapter aUiu
appear neat Sunday.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
-HE WAX AND GERMAN MUSIC IN NEW YORK

eminent of the United States of 8
war tax of 10 per cent upon the price
Of all tickets of admission to places
of amusement. After the belated
declaration of war against Austria. Mr.
Kreisler publicly stated that he asked
no consideration beyond that to which
he was entitled as we'll behaved alien
enemy. | am far from contending that
he should have been permitted to con-
tlnue his career as concert-giver
but am giving unusual attention to
his case partly because it was the
first that excited wide public notice.
and partly because during the period
of excitement which eliminated in
action directly connected with the his
tory of opera in New York he con-
Quoted himself with decorum and
dignity, showing no rancor even when
the treatment which he received from
the newspapers and the pulpit com
PEELED him to withdraw even from his
projected charity concerts. He thus
preserved his self-respect and the re-
spect of all his friends and many of
his political enemies.
This is more than can be said for
other foreign artists who found them
selves similarly situated. Mr.. Josef
Stransky, conductor Of the Philhar-
monic Society Of New York, soon
was in the vortex of the storm. He,
too, was an Austrian subject and there
were musicians in his orchestra who
had never become American citizens
by naturalization. Mr.. Stransky wealth
cred the gale. The orchestra was
purged of its alien enemy element; the
Musical Union Of New York impeached
and deposed Its German president: Mr..
Stransky defended himself against at
tacks made against his loyalty to the
United States by public proclamation
of the fact that he had opened the
series Of Philharmonic concerts with
performance of "The Star r-Spangled
Banner" which, without official sane
ton, had come to be looked upon as the
national anthem); that he was a Bohe-
mlan Of CzechoSlavic parentage; that
Bohemia was favorable to the Allies
and tghting for her independence; that
ne had renounced his native country
and declared his intention to become
a citizen Of the United States; that he
had given his services to war chari-
ties, etc, etc, He held his position.
and though he did not eliminate the
music of the German classics from his
programmes, he placed a taboo upon
the music of living German COMPOSERS.
Dr. Ernest kunwald, conductor of the
CINCINNATI Symphony Orchestra. was
less diplomatic. He, too, was an Aus
TRAN, and | believe had served in the
Austrian army before coming to this
He fell under suspicion and
was arrested by officers Of the United
states government in December. 1917.
freed for time, but rearrested in jan
uary, 1918, and condemned to intern
nent at Fort Oglethorpe, Ca. during
the period of the war.
1he evidence on which DR.. Kunwald
was imprisoned was never divuleed
neither was that which sent Dr.. Karl
Muck, who had been conductor of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra since tn
all of 1912, to be his companion. DR..
Muck's case caused the greater sensa-
lon, because it was the first of the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

the advertisement-that was all. ITnon
TIE PuoHc the tax was not felt as q
burden except in the case of artists of
established reputation and undoubted
merit In cases where subscriptions
had been paid for the series of con-
certs, with those of symphony orches-
tras and the opera before the tax law
mad been enacted the tax was paid in
advance by the management, and, where
the justice of such q course was OBJ
vlous, collected from the government in
the form of rebate.
The feeling of intolerance toward
German music and musicians was ap-
parent IN the concert rooms before pub
lie recognition of IL was reflected in
any action by the directors of the opera
company. great many singers quick
lys banished all German songs from
their programmes; others sang the
songs IN English translations. Local
orchestras IN some of the small cities
eliminated the music of even the clas-
sizes, and this folly, which could but
result in the debasement of taste. found
some men and women, fortunately not
many, who justified it. AS if the music
of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann.
Brahms and Wagner, all long dead be-
fore the war was even a dream in the
wicked minds of the German rulers and
people, could in any wise be connected
with the authors of the most monstrous
crime Of a millennium. In January.
1918, the Philharmonic Society. finding
1t doubly desirable to repair fortunes
already somewhat decayed and now
threatened by the controversy over its
conductor, proclaimed policy which
left the classic repertory intact, but
the compositions of living
German composers. This seemed
proper expedient and one akin with
the prescription of German singers at
the Metropolitan Opera, of which |
now am called upon to speak.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Programmes of the Week
SUNDAY

Hlppodrome, 8 p. m.-Last recital Of
the season by Nine. Galli-Curci:
Mary of Allendale (old English ....... Hook
The Lass With the Delicate Air. Arne
Ah. non credea" from .Snn ,hnla
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

q 20. at Wanamaker's Auditorium nex4
tuesday afternoon Eva Lynn. So
prano; Viola Robertson. mezzo-so-
prano' Worthe Faulkner, tenor; Eddis
miller, tenor; Billy Cripps, tenor; Jos
Martei' oarytone; Ashley Nagle, barry
tone and Francis J. Tyler. bass. all
American singers. will appear All III.
songs VIII be by American composers.
among whom. Reginald de Koven. Clare
hummer, George Botsford and Richard
Whiting VIII be represented.