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WHY o ALL or THEM?

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hsAf3sGs that ths soreiEn relations committee 81.
Inf N tho "1ittts psspins," asked why 1t was th., n, hs.,
inss had hssn Arranged for the pil,pinos, the p.xr,es
sra the nnnnsroys rarisl groups tbs. arc do,a,ci1.a =,
.e~ Tort city. sens.or Williams offered the suggestive,
that such hearings had probably not been arranged on,z
ssessss the1 hah not besn requested. After looking ove,
fhs MT Of shoss who have already been beard. and WIN
srs tn b., no other expisnstlon seems 10 b.. pous,b1e =,
has se4H reported thAl there are in Porto Rico a y b.,
Ut people vino wosid like 10 cut looac from tho r,,i,oa
htAtss And ~ np \ government Of their own. why Shouts
their case ns tecslvs the attention Of the senate In tn
confederation of The treaty with Germany and tho LeAxuo
% saso"s7 There are also in thta country Of ours a lot
OF persons l. ", Wa and that nort Of Trims, who ,ns,st
That our preAent form ~ government Ia ali vrons ana
that they are o~onstsniy outraged and oppre~.d whv
m ohid not their eAse b attended 10 In IN. p>aer t,..,v,
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of directing the productions. This Or
rangement, which continued from 1yud
through 1909, was responsible for many
novelties of the French school, iu nd e.
dition TO introducing such notable artists
as Luisa Tctra2zini, John Mccormack,
Mary Garden and other famous stars.
AS a matter of fact. the French school
of grand opera had been almost totally
neglected in this country until Cam e
panini took it up.
With the organization of the. Chi
cago PHILADELPHIA Grand Opera Co. in
1910. Campanini was selected as mn
steal director, and at once organized
and trained an operate orchestra that
soon was reckoned second to none in ,hc
country. Following the Abandonment
of opera in Philadelphia, CdmpaTini
devoted himself exclusively to the CHI
cago company.
Produced Many Novelties
Among the operate novelties pro.
duced under Campanini's direction dur
ing his career in Philadelphia and Chi
cago were "Quo Vadis,' "Natoma.'
"Salome," '"The Secret of Susanne,'
"Cendrillon. "Le Jongleur de Notr,
Dame" "Thais," Louise" "pel
lcas ct Melisande," and "Samson e
Dalila."
Besides being one OF the worlds mos
accomplished conductors and impru
sarios, Campanini had one ambition
which he never achieved. That was {,
% q concert conductor. Years ago h
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of twenty three he was director Of the
Parma Opera and conducted "Car.
men," his brother, Italo Campunini, u
famous tenor, playing Don Jose.
The opera at Parma served as n step
ping stone and he was called to direct
the famous La Scala at Milan, where
he was praised by Verdi.
Henry Abbey, the American impre-
sario, was SO taken with the produc-
tion of Carmen that he offered the
young man an engagement at the Met
ropolitan Opera House, New York
There he conducted the second per-
forinance given at that house for the
debut of Scmbrich in "La Sonnam.
bula." He returned to New York the
following year TO produce for the first
time in America "OteliU." in which
his brother, Italo, appeared in the title
roe and his wife, Eva Tetrazzini Cam
panini sister Of Luisa Tetrazzini, ap-
peared as Desdamona.
His reputation firmly established
| Cnmpanini went from one musical cen =
ter to another until he lind conluc,t I'd
in every big opera house il France,
| Spain. Italy and South An.rrGa. Fer
nine years he held the baton in Cove nj
Garden London Every singer OF n"te
| in the last thirty or thirty five yaars
mas sung under his direction.
When Oscar Hammerstein arranged
! +, present grand opera Iii New Yml
! in oppo.ition TO the Metropolitan upero
he selected Campanini to assist in the
organization and have complete charge
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Of spiritualism, yet scientists and
teachers accept unquestioned and build
their religious faith on miracles,
sanity visitations, and apparitions Of
the Virgin and other spiritual phe-
nomena.
"In Mexico churches and monuments
within the past 200 years have been
built upon sites where ignorant poems
asserted they had witnessed a veritable
appearance Of the Virgin. Does not
one great denomination of the Christian
world, which numbers its votarics by
millions, accept these statements as
facts and build the churches accord
ingly2 &c.
that he has received communication
from Il relative or friend who has crossed
to the beyond, there comes the sneering
assertion that the eminent gentleman il
subject to hallucinations or is th~
victim of a diseased mind. Even when
il is declared that an eminent divine
and great philanthropist and teacher
like Doctor Conwell has held com e
munication with the spirit world there
is the old cry of 'hallucination' and
the subconscious mind.
al venture the assertion that there
are hundreds of intelligent, clear
headed, right minded men and women
in Philadelphia today" continued Doc T.
tor Erwood earnestly who, if they
would only acknowledge the fact, have
experienced phenomena that have con
yinced them of the power of the de e
parted to communicate with them,
Nothing but the fear of ridicule, and
the suspicion that they see things OF
hear voices prevents them from pub
fishing their experience to the world
But the eminent men whom | have
named have braved this senseless ant
ignorant prejudice and humanity Il
better for their having spoken.
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Br1C LEDGER PHILADELPHIA FRIDAY, DECENfBER 1919

He told her in Italian how he wished
It sung. There was an astonished objec-
tion. Csmpanini laid his baton. on the
rack in front of him and sat back in
his chair. "When you are ready to
sing this as / wish we will 60 on with
the rehearsal" he said, Presently they
went on. 80,
But his training of the company did
not cease with his work from the CON
duCtor's chair. So great was his desire
ensemble Of the performance, that be
even climbed up on the stage, became
stage manager for n time, and showed
the chorus how to do this or that bit of
business. To see the conductor running
about amidst n group of chorus men
and women, pushing one here, pulling
another there, shouting directions and
then going back to his desk and picking
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expressed this ambition, but his life
was so filed with his operate work
that he never had time to devote to
the concert.
Campanini's personality was such
that he ruled absolutely the organiza-
tions with which he was connected. II
is usually the case that great siuoers
"ule the conductors in operate produc-
tions, and interpret their parts to sui
themselves. Not so with Campanini.
'iis productions were his own, and the
singers all sang his interpretations Of
the score.
Corrected the Great Melba
In this connection q story is told of
Melba's appearance under his baton.
AT rehearsal Melba sang n passage in
Il way that did not please him. Rap I!
rap from his baton. The music ceased.
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up his baton onoe more was indeed a
strange sight. There was one guiding
hand over the whole--music and action.
The death Of Campanini follows close
ly upon the passing OF other figures
prominently identified with music. Yes
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terday the death Of Professor Horatio
Parker. the noted American composer,
winner of two prizes for grand opera
compositions, was announced. Only tba
day before Luigi Illica, Italy's fore~
most grand opera librettist, died.
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C0n,paniyai, Opera
Director, Is Dead

Continued From Page Ono
has done so much to forward the inter
csts and ideals of grand opera during a
cnrepr of forty wears. "
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Makes Sone Comparisons

"In defiance Of the accumulated evil
dence of such men as Prof. William
James, the psychologist of Harvardi
University; DR.. James II Hyslop, OF
Columbia University Sir Oliver Lodge
and Sir William Wallace, eminent scien-
lists; Camille Flammarion, the astron-
omer; Doctor Hodgson, of the Society
for psychical Research; Sir Conan
Doyle, the writer, and a score of other
eminent men, science laughs in the face
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Began Conducting as Youth

Campanini was born September l,
1860. in Parma, Italy, and first studied
music in the conservatory there. While
still n youth he took the first violin
desk at the Parma opera. At the age
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Safety as Sea

The international photographic Con-
ference has been held at the Conference
Hall Of the Office Of Works in London
Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss presided,
and there were present thirty-nine dele
gates from the Argentine, Belgium,
Brazil Chile, China, Denmark, Egypt,
France, Great Britain, Greece, Peru,
Portugal Siam, Spain. Sweden and the
United States. In opening the confer
cnces the First Sea Lord said that, as
sailors, they knew the tremendous i'm
portancc to the whole world of hydroc.
raphy. They knew how the safety Of
the lives Of those who went down to the
sea in ships depended upon accurate
photography, and they believed, much
as had been done in various countries,
that coordination and organization must
inevitably be an enormous Improvement
in the direction Of attaining that safety
Tor which they were all striving.
Rear Admiral Sir John f. Parry. who
was elected president, said that, al
though the experience and knowledge
gained during the war had undoubtedly
benefited photography, he earnestly
hoped that they might now be able to
extend their activities in every direction
without interfcrcncc Of all the manv
inventions brought into use as practical
possibilities he personally considered
that among the most important had been
the use Of dircctional wireless tclegra-
phy and Of hydrophones for position
finding, which had been most prominent
in the simpliGcation and accclcration of
photographic work, and their universal
adoption to assist in carrying out the
work Of the navy. They were already
extensively using hydrophoncs for
sound-rnnging under water, to assist in
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Minds

Some of the revelations involved in the
current expose of the mind of great
American hero are neither alarming nor
especially new. That a man with less
than a schoolboy's knowledge of words
and history should make fifty millions
holds no surprise whatever. The money
making sense is something quite by itself
and rests upon neither broad learning
nor general intelligence. Fundamentally
it consists of craftsmanship in it's widest
sense, the ability to conceive a product
and q market and bring them together.
Imagination is Of it's essence. All-round
wisdom or education may or may not
be present in addition. Besides, Henry
Ford possessed high inventive genius.
That is something apart from wisdom.
What is rather appalling is the break
down of our school system, of our news
papers and magazines, exhibited in such
colossal ignorance as Henry Ford's.
We like to think of every American as
necessarily equipped with certain tools
of citizenship. Part he gets as boy in
school. The rest he picks up by his read
ing and his talk, knowledge Of our his
tory, of our institutions. So we have
supposed, and upon this theory we have
based large part of our faith in the
democratic system. A nation of idealists
we have called ourselves; but idealists
with a severely practical turn. Our
dreams even we're salted with the SAVIOR
of much horse sense, born of hard facts.
The exhibition of Henry Ford might
we'll go far to disturb our complacency if
we did not know that the reserve of good
sense in the American people is gigantic.
1t deserves all the confidence that has
been reposed in it. Our modern demo-
cratic system is not based upon an
equality Of mind so much as an equality
of will and conscience. That we have
learned deeply in the last three years.
And now we know another thing if we
did not know it before, namely, that
between the ability that makes a great
leader and the ability which can make
fifty millions and incidentally universal
motor car there is no conceivable con-
nection whatever.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21

the exact determination of positions in
the North Sea, required in relation to
mine fields and the reinforcement of
navigational aids, and the possibilities
in this connection we're enormous. The
accuracy resulting from the use of this
method had been found to be marvellous,
and yet the invention was only in its
infancy.
The use Of directfonal wireless would
certainly simplify the obtaining Of posi-
tions in waters where the employment
of the hydrophone was impossible, and
only a hydrographcal surveyor could
realize to the full the enormous advan-
tage that must be derived from any
method of obtaining a position in mid
ocean without difficulty and with GER
tainty. AS both these methods of posi-
ton finding became more reliable, the
Importance Of their general adoption in
the interest of safe navigation would be
obvious
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Are There Others?

To the Editor of The Tribune:
Sir: May I not, to use the Presidential
phrase, be permitted to announce that the
stamp quandary may be fictitious?
an resident of Brooklyn and have
either made a general discovery or STUN
bled upon an oasis of stamp exchange Last
Friday evening l had no trouble in con-
verting several obsolete three-cent stamps
nj the - Station, where the kindly clerk
went so far as to give me my "change" in
honest-to- goodness, red blooded two-cent
stamps! When the latter were safe in my
possession tmidly asked the clerk whether
he were not conscious of breaking some Of
Burleson's DEGREES. He replied that there
was, to his knowledge, but one ruling re-
gardng the three-ccnt stamps; namely,
that they must be presented for redcmption
prior to August /, 1919.
That clerk rendered too great a kindness
to be rewarded by nationwide run on his
station. Hence l must ask YOU to print
this in some inconspicuous place, to escape
the ken of unfortunates and of our postal
pontfex. PAUL STANDARD
Brooklyn, July IA, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Aftermath Of Creelisrn

Passing over the question of the
validity of the methods employed to
secure access to a document so conf
Dental, The Nation does what may we'll
be regarded as a public service in pub
fishing the dispatch, signed "Bullard,"
dated at Toxic, January 25, 1919, and
forwarded on the same day to Paris
for the information of Colonel House.
The sender Of the dispatch, it appears,
had authority from the Creel bureau to
get information concerning Siberian con-
ditions, especially concerning Kolchak
Was a confidential agent of sort
often of great weight. And we discover
this agent, furnishing few or no facts to
support his sweeping conclusions, oracu-
larly condemning the Kolchak govern
ment and advising against it's recogni-
ton. This communication was deemed of
sufficient Importance to be forwarded to
Paris.
The Russian problem has been compli-
Gated by the practice of sending over
men who did not go to ascertain and
report facts, but who reached their con-
cluslons before they took ship. Such
have, Of course, found the confirmation
which they sought. Relying on such
tainted information, the State Depart
nent naturally has gone from error to
more error. There has been reliance on
agents firmly committed to this or that
social theory and so. full of preconceived
opinion that they had little interest in
facts.
Ordinarily the fanatcal social thcorist
does not do much damage when employed
as reporter, but there are times when
he is most harmful. The wavering policy
OF this country toward Russia has been,
1t would seem, largely due to the jun
oles Of misinformation and misadvice
received
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Bella Km's i1aish

Bella Kun's communist government in
Budapest appears to be near shipwreck.
Kun is an imitation Lenine. He lacks,
however, the intellectual passion and
cold fanaticism of his Russian model
And he has had much poorer material
to work with.
Russia has been breeding revolution
aries of the internationalst and terrorist
type for a couple of generations.
In Hungary the proletariat has been
strongly nationalistic. All classes of
Magyars were driven to unite on race
and language lines, in order to maintain
their supremacy over the subject peo-
Piles of the kingdom. Class war in Hun
gary is artificial. The Hungarian aris-
tocracy and bourgeoisie we're, ir fact,
moved by nationalistic considerations to
turn the government over to Bella Kun.
They saw in Fictitious experiment.
with Bolshevism the only hope Of delay
ing peace of partition and Of soften
ing the terms to be imposed by the Paris
Conference.
The Magyar peasantry is not Bolshe
visit. 1t has little use for communism
always unpopular with those who make
a living out of the soil. Kun's strength
has been confined to the cities-chiefy
to Budapest. He has been able to raise
troops to fight the Czecho-Slovaks and
the Rumanians. But his generals and
soldiers have baked at fighting the peas
ants and the urgeoisie-work that has
been done in Russia mainly by Lenine's
Lettish and Chinese mercenaries.
Kun's regime has been largely polit-
ical makeshift, tolerated by the bourge-
ois classes, which have suffered most
from it. They seem to prefer mild
sort of anarchy to national disruption
The problem at Paris is to find some
Hungarian administration competent to
sign a peace and to pledge Hungary's
faith to it's execution Kun would sign
if the conference would let him. But to
get better names on the document the
Allies may have to occupy the country
and set up a provisional government,
representative Of the people rather than
of Kun's camoufaged proetariat
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21

by new sentiment and the wide support
and confidence Of the peoples of the world
and equipping it to promote effective meas
ures for human betterment under conditions
Of peace
eve are confident that this movement,
assured it is at the outset of the moral
support of civilization, has in it great pos
sibilites of adding immeasurably to the
happiness and welfare Of mankind"
The following are the American scientists
who have subscribed their names to the
resolution: DR.. William Henry Welch, Dr.
William Palmer Lucas Lieutenant Colonel
William f. Snow, DR.. Hugh S. Cumming, DR..
Samuel McClintock Hamill, Dr. Herman
Michael Biggs, DR.. Fritz B. Talbot, Colonel
Richard P. Strong, DR.. L. Emmett Holt, DR..
Wicklitfe Rose, DR.. Frederick f. Russell,
DR.. Edward R. Baldwin, DR.. Livingston Far
rand, Lieutenant Colonel Linsly R. Williams
and Dr.. Albert II. Garvin.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21

solved in January, 1918, scarcely voice In
this country was raised in defence Of the
Bolshevlki. 1t had been universally admitted
that the Constituent Assembly was to be the
crowning work Of the revolution and every
political party in England accepted it as
the final solution. Since the dissolution of
the Constituent Assembly the Bolsheviki
have proceeded from one extreme to an
other.
The principle Of majority rule was thrown
to the winds, the Red Terror received the
blessing of the soviet government, wholesale
robbery was recognized under the name of
communism, and conscrption accompanied by
the death penalty and the most rigorous dis
cipline was reintroduced. In a word, all
the liberties that had been the pride Of the
early revolution were revoked and all opposi-
ton was stifed by military force.
In the face of facts such as these how
is it that public opinion in this country,
instead of hardening against the Bolsheviki,
has shown increasing signs Of wavering?
How is it that people here who at one
time We're the foremost supporters of the
early revolution and the principle Of the
Constituent Assembly now seek to defend
those who trampled those same principles
under foot, while the opponents of the Boil
sheviki, who have never wavered in their
allegiance to the liberties of the early revo-
luton, they lightly dismissed as reaction
aries
To find the right answer to this question
would be to explain the success of Bolshevik
propaganda abroad Any one who has at
tempted to follow German propaganda during
the war and Bolshevik propaganda since the
armistice cannot fail to be impressed by
the similarity of their methods. This is not
surprising considering haw closely German
and Bolshevik agents have worked together
The appeal made by the Bolshevik since
the armistice has been directed to the same
class of people who lent the most ready
ear to German propaganda. The Germans,
having proclaimed and having seized
what they wanted by force, then for
ward as the true pacifsts whose desire was
to save Europe from further boodshed The
Bolsheviki have adopted a precisely similar
policy. Knowing well that in this country
they will find more favor as advocates of
pacifsm than as advocates of the class war;
they have set their caps at those very people
who if they experienced it in their own coun-
try would be the first to recoil from the
violence of the proletarat dictatorship.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-21

graduates of the public schools in which
English is taught are being thrust aside
for Spanish speaking political workers.
These signs of decentralization are
ominous. Native government has not
vindicated the claim made for it that it
would be an adequate substitute for
American government. Nor could it we'll
be expected to be.
Independence at this time would only
accelerate the process Of deterioration.
1t would certainly expose the Philippines
to foreign aggression. 1t would also
quickly dissipate the material benefits
which they have derived from American
rule