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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-08
Hawaiian Planters
 Refuse LabOrers

Honolulu T. H., Jan. S.-The Ha- waiian Planters Association at a re- cent meeting decided not to grant the demands of plantation laborers for Gn increase in the basic wage scale from $50 to $40 a month under the present conditions of the sugar mar Iot.
 Filipino 1aborers recently submitted to the association demand for a straight daily wage of s2.50 without a bonus.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-08

It is estimated that there were har- vested this year in Kansas 1,5OO,OOO acres of ''volunteer' wheat worth about S100,000,000. The wheat was not planted but sprang up from the neglected harvest of a year ago when the crops were deserted.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-08

Brazil will try to relieve it's print paper shortage by legislation favoring 2 tie erection of subsidized plants and the use of native products. Mach of BraziPs paper now Is imported.
 A Welsh coal firm which recently opened offices in New York; has con- tracted for 35,000.000 tons of United States coal
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-08

France put on a spite meet" of Olympic athletes after the games at Antwerp, to show that the French people would patronize the games bet ter than the Belgians. There were larger crowds at Co1ombes than at Antwerp. The Americans, as usual, won the meet.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-08

of
 
  in before the public
  of
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-08

London heard a real "jazz'' band for the first time recently. It was made up of misunderstanding American southern negroes with moaning trom- bones and delirious drums, ard, ac- cording to the papers. the audience was captivated and even began to hitch around in their seats.
 Eskimo miners and treppers by the hundreds saw their first airpIane when the flight of army machines ar rived in Alaska recently. The towns were decorated for the occasion
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-08

enormous sums for wine, tobacco and luxuries for their table. A mason, blacksmith or cabinet-maker used to consider himself well paid with less than a dollar a day. Now they earn $50, $7 and ST a day, and look for ward to having more in the future.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
obo Is Creature That Has Been Developed Out of the World Wa

only definition, and a definition is
only a method-freQuently defective
of bringing out the truth. When
at some previous time you may have
read such definition (it is some
times called an axiom or logos1,
which has been accepted by others
as the truth, it is quite possible you
may have dismissed it as worthless,
only to recall it later, in the light
of fuller experience, as being some
thing fundamental, something that
can never again be contradicted.
And you are then filed with amaze
ment that you should have been SO
blind to its real meaning when you
first heard it. That is only because,
as we go on, living and suffering
more or less, and making constant
readjustments to our environment,
We keep getting new insights into
life.
And that is why we gradually
come to Learn that it isn't safe to dis
miss offhand certain definitions, OF
truths, which over a long period OF
time have come to be accepted as
fundamental. The old Indian re.
ligious teachers never argued or dis
cussed. They said "such and such q
thing is so. Practice it and you vii
discover in time that it is so. But
only by faith and practice can you
discover it." And that rule still
holds good.
The Sobo, like the four-fusher, is
always ready to discuss, but never
to define. Talk with Soho, 8 So.
cialist or a Bolshevist, and it is al
ways the same. He flashes upor
you better world, but it is alwayi
in the vague distance. Meanwhile
his method of getting it reeks will
words. Try them. But st. Paul said
'Now is the accepted time"
Let US see if we can make def
nition of a better world about which
we can come to some sort Of agree
ment among ourselves. And in do
ing this I viii ask you to believe tina
am fair, chat | have no other CD
ieet but the good of the creates
number. and / will also ask you Il
dismiss ali thought Of your own self
interest, to be as you would want tn,
little boy to be with his candy worlt
however much he may love it FOL
himself, to be ready to give it als, III
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

with force, because those capitalists
have been rooted so long that moth
ing but force will drive them out. A
few rehearsed strikes first for prac-
tice, then q general strike, then a
revolution, some necessary blood
shed, starvation, woman and child
killing, etc, and when all the injus-
tice has thus been corrected the bet
ter world will be triunphantly
ushered in. The fact that by this
time we shall all be dead will not
matter, because, according to the
Sobo, the hereafter is an extremely
doubtful affair and the memory Of
all the horrors we have been SO
nagnanimously permitted to go
through will not trouble US.
But now that we are still divinely
permitted to remember it must not
be forgotten that during this Sobo
prelude to eventual peace pretty
much everybody will suffer alike.
The poor will not be exempt, The
proletariat will catch it with the
capitalists. For even our most ex-
alted Sobos would not claim that the
peasants of Russia-largely in the
maj ority-are enjoying themselves.
SO much for this material world
that we can see and feel and hear
roises from. leave it in your hands
TO speculate upon and to make out of
it what you can. In many respects
it is an interesting world, Not all
the noises that come from it are dis
cords; many Of them are rich har-
monies. Even as imperfect as it is
there is so much Of beauty in it that
we are blind to, and Of which we
get only occasional glimpses, that We
begin to wonder after a while
whether we are any proper judges o.
it at all. We see in it poor people
who, according to the Sobo, ought
TO be very miserable, far happier
than rich peopIs WHO ought to bt
happy.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
But the Master Still
Guards His
Hands

rewska and have been coming here
for more than twenty years. During
the war we were here nearly long
enough to take out first papers
;:ff''-
Who could imagine Paderewski as
the citizen of any country but his be-
loved Poland?
Perhaps you will find time in Cal
ifornia to write some music2" /
asked him. Some reports had it that
while the great master would give up
concerts he would continue his mus
cal composition.
But no." he said emphaticaly.
Writing music takes more time than
playing. 1t uses up more energy,
requires more concentration"
But aren't you gong to miss it
all-the ovations, the clamoring pub
lie, the thrill of the concert?"
"Oh, yes, do miss it, When pass
Carnegie Hall 1 feel it in here" He
tapped his chest lightly. There is
pain, too. But I am still before the
public. ] make many addresses be-
fore great audiences. There is some
thrill to that. feel their response,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Plays No More

''No, do not play the piano any
more. I cannot. 1t is not the same
as before, Perhaps once or twice
touch the keys for little; I play a
scale. But no more. Not in War
saw, not in Switzerland. Not for
recreation. No, never"
Paderewski's favorite make of
piano stood near where he was sit
ting. The lid was closed down tight
Iy, with vases of flowers on top.
"No, I do not open it," he said.
''The old habit might come back and
demand my time. / love music, yes,
but"--he shrugged his shoulders
that is over now.
"The last time l played before the
public was in May, 1917, at the re-
ception given in the Metropolitan
Opera House for Marshal Joffre and
the French Commission. They asked
me to play and I was glad to do it.
/ played, they applauded, it was fin
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Will Change Everything

The Sobo is going to change all
this. Not now, but say in couple
of generations or so. He is going to
have ali the trees in the forest of
exactly the same height, and make
due arrangements with the thunder
~elouds not to strike aa they pass by
Every leaf VIII be checked up by the
local soviet. God made the world in
six days and then rested. The Sobo
is going to unmake it in a somewhat
longer time, because he is at heart
more modest than God; and then
everything will be all right. He
explains that he will have to begin
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Where All Agree

Everybody wants better world.
according to his lights. The small
boys idea of a better world is one
where the trees are all made of
candy, the rivers are made Of Gus
tard, the, mountains are sugar
loaves and the table lands are frost
ed cake dotted with ice cream cones.
The rich man wants q world where
the problem of the poor is solved,
so that he will feel no further re-
spohsibility about 1T and where he
can get things done without delay
or friction. TIE Sobo wants a
world where all men will have an
equal chance, where, as he puts it,
they will be 'ffree." To get this
kind of world the Sobo is willing
to abolish God, the Church, the
home, property and governments.
He doesn't always go so far as this
in his talk. He may be nice, gen
tie Sobo and purr about the rights
If man and comradeship and broth
erly love. But this is what he really
means, for when he is able to have
his own way this is what he does
And when he gets the power to dc
il he then becomes quite frank, just
as Lenine is frank.
Says one Russian gentleman-per-
haps he is little more thar Sobo
"Our object is not only to destroy
the United States government, but tc
spread our doctrine to the ends OF
the earth"
IN pursuit of this laudable object
they have already sold the jewelry
taken from the Russian homes to the
amount of sI0,0o0,000 and sent the
money to the United States to assist
their propaganda-through our for
eign-language press, trough oul
so..ools and colleges, by organizing
! the negro and through paid labor
agitators.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
NINE. PADEREWSKT ila
1'A the garb of q Polish
nurse

ished Afterward it was not the
same; the vision was not there.
~ had a complete itinerary ar
ranged for South American tour,
all the dates. the cities, transporta-
ton, everything. But there was
clause in the contract that if my
couqtry needed me it was void,
They appointed me Provisional Min
lister to the United States. I went to
Washington and forgot the piano.
It was necessary"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Country Always First

Slowly the great musician began
to explain how he had converted his
musical career into a service to his
Poland. During all the years of his
phenomenal successes he was think
ing how he might help his country.
"Music is fashionable" he said.
"1n all countries it is the distin-
guished people who patronize the arts.
They welcome artists to their homes
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

and make friends of them. All over
the world 1 had such friends. Per
haps / may say that I Interested
some Of them in my Poland. I tried.
Perhaps l succeeded in a small way.
"And when l went to the Peace
Conference, probably l was the only
man there who needed no introduce
tions. They were all my friends,
my very dear friends. could speak
their language, ask about their home
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
1t " as the Piano or Patriotism, and Patri(
II Shall Never Plav
Again, Bays
Paderewski
BY Torrey Ford

A LITTLE more than two years
q have passed since the Mes
n sian Of Poland sailed out of
Nav York Harbor, full of plans and
hopes and ambitions for his country.
And now he is back-e1, permission.
Back from war-torn Warsaw and
.be palace at Zamek; back from be-
iaC Premier of the nation that gave
hid his birth; back from the Peace
Conference and the League of Ma
ions strife; back to see if his almond
trees have begun to leaf and grow.
Home again!
@And oh, it is so good!" said
Ignace Jan Paderewski.
When q world-famed pianist turns
statesman he doesn't do the thing
by halves. Music and politics don't
mix-not in the same calendar year.
Between a piano and a premiership
man must choose. Paderewski
did.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Two Kinds of Worlds

people happy.
Two Kinds of Worlds
There are two kinds of better
worlds, one that you see and one
that you don't see. The one that
you see among men is full of in
justice. 1t has always been so and
doubtless always will be. 1t is so
in nature. Some trees grow to their
full height, amply nourished. Others
are gnarled and crippled and stunted
and impoverished. Some are blasted
by lightning. If all these stricken
trees could get the upper hand of
the more fortunate ones there would
be a revolution, and these favored
trees would either be driven out Of
the forest altogether or reduced to
the level Of the others. Some streams
are clear and flow gently and
smoothly to the ocean, others are
turbulent and muddy and noisy.
And this, the material world that
we see about US, our visible selves a
part of it, is full of injustices. A
pale little stenographer struggles
and supports four or five others on
$50 a week, unable, through what
you may think an absurd sense Of
duty to those others, even to get
married to the poor clerk she loves,
and dies unhonored and unsung
while a useless old lady of seventy,
who has never lifted a finger for
another, lives in a mansion, waited
on by a dozen menials who have no
other object in life but to draw good
pay and cater obsequiously to her
whims.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

cities and inquire for their friends.
They knew my interests. 1t was very
useful. Ny music had served"
Paderewski was spending the
summer of 1914 at his beautiful
villa in Switzerland, at Morges, near
the Lake Of Geneva. When the war
broke out he turned his estate over
as home for Polish refugees. In
1915 he came to the United States
as head of the Polish relief COM
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

because his whole conception Of life
is bound up with the material world.
He admits nothing that he does not
see. He sees inequality in material
conditions, and, being without faith
or spiritual insight, he thinks to cor
rect it by material means. For one
set Of injustices, which are apparent
to everybody, he wants to substitute
another set that is worse.
What the Sobo does not under
stand is that this better material
world he dreams of cannot be in the
nature of things, because only out
of the apparent injustices and in
consistencies that have always pre-
vailed and must prevail can man de-
velop a soul, and mans soul cannot
be born and developed except when
he rises above these material condi-
tons.
If there were a continuous and
equal distribution of this worlds
goods without regard to differences
in intelligence or environment, then
We would lapse into mere animals,
with no opportunity to realize that
+ by becoming independent of these
material conditions can the qualities
of self-sacrifice, heroism and love be
sustained.
The utter uselessness Of q useless
human being can often be measured
by the amount Of money he is per
nlitted to possess; that is TO say, his
capacity for service Is so inconsider-
able that it is not even worth while
tc make him n4terlally poor, be-
cause there is 50 little in him that
would be brought cat by not having
anything.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

mission to seek aid for his country
men.
america was generous" he ac-
knowledged profusely. VERY. They
helped in so many ways. But I could
not do much until they came into the
war. knew they would"
In Recruiting Campaign
Later, with the backing of the
Polish National Committee and the
French government, Paderewski or
ganized successful campaign for
the recruiting Of Polish soldiers for
service with the French army. The
Polish Legion, known as Haller's
army, was sent to France and en-
gagged in the war, wearing the
French uniform of horizon blue.
When the armistice came Pade-
rewski was among the first to be
granted a special passport. With
Nine. Paderewska and a military
I dGGoGllS liC ItdGAlCQ Oldlil III bS-
cember, 1918. Shortly afterward
he was elected Premier of the new
republic and established at Zamek,
the royal palace at Warsaw, home
of Poland's kings of old, and occu-
pied in turn by Russian and German
governors of the subject country.
For nearly year he held the high
office and then resigned to make
room for candidate of the Peasant
party. But he continued as Poland's
representative in the League of Ma
tions.
81 came over to America this time
just for a rest" he explained, ''anc
principally to find out how my zoe
almond trees are growing out on my
ranch in California"
Paderewski owns a large ranch at
Paso Robes, in San Luis Obispc
County, between San Francisco and
Los Angeles. He bought the place
a year before the war.
eve expect to stay there a few
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
4 Material View

Saniuci Taylor Coleridge once
wrote, liz regard to the differences Of
opinion that prevail among men, that,
while you might understand another
mans ignorance, he would at the
same time be ignorant Of your under
standing. Some Of US can well un-
derstand the ignorance Of the Sobo,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Still Has His Appeal

When l was a pianist many
critics told me that 1 did more than
appeal to the emotional side of my
audience, that l persuaded them,
reached their intellectual side. It
may account for what success I had
as a musician. Now that l do not
play any more, they tell me that 1
am a lyric speaker, that I reach the
emotional side of my audience and
play on it.
80, you see"-he smiled broadly
-"when I was a musician l was q
speaker; now that l am a speaker,
! am a musician. 1t is queer"
Paderewski speaks eloquentIy in
French, Polish and English. If II
were really necessary, he might do
as well in German; but he doesn't
find it necessary. Eloquence knows
no one particular language. The
key to one is the key to all.
Accompanying Paderewski as his
official secretary is NJ. Sylwin Stra-
kacz, first secretary of the Polish
Legation at Geneva. A fortnight
ago NJ. Strakacz was in Warsaw.
This is his first visit to America. He
was asked if New York was much of
a change from Warsaw.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
THE PadereaOski of the old
x days a0he21. the aUorJd
kneW him only as q pjanist

is good, America is kind, America is
wonderful! And yet the economists
would have US think that America is
losing her ideals. l do not believe
1t. She is too young and jealous a
nation for that.
"You want to know about myself?
Oh, there is nothing to tell. How
l may best serve my country. That
is all.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Creative or Commercial

There are plenty Of instances Of
men like this who. possessed Of
large property, suddenly lose it, only
60 begin all over again and get it
all back: for that is the only thing
they have learned how to do. Men
arc either creative or commercial.
~ theT are creative they soon begin
to deyal~p Internal resources and
spiritual and moral insights that
tend alI the time to free them more
and more from material conditions.
Such men have no fear of what is
going to happen 20 them. Their
material wants are few because they
know that Injuries and even many
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

brainless people who are rich and
'pampered. The Sobo calls them
parasites, and you know human be-
ings with brains and Of good con-
duct who are poor. And so the Sobo
gets you, and SO you begin to see
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
BY Thomas L. Mason

TT YOU want to know what a
I Sobo is, all you need do is to
take Socialist and Bolshe-
visit and tie them up together.
Then remove the parts that belong
70 each one individually and the re-
suit is Sobo. A Socialist may not
agree completely with Bolshevist
any more than a Bolshevist may
agree completely with Socialist.
But there are certain elements in
each that are common to both. That's
Sobo.
The Sobo is a new kind of animal
that has come out of the war. His
habitat is the United States of
America. His advertised purpose is
70 make better world. This is how
ne gets your attention. Not a new
iaea' but it is always good. 1t was
nEst invented by a medicine man, who
stood on a rock and told the rest of
the tribe how he could cure them of
everything they had if they would
AXE his remedy. 1t never fails to
catch the crowd, because the mos;
0S US are looking to get something
1or nothing and, being sports, gam
Oiers or adventurers by nature
Which We got from the forest), we
are ready to listen to any one who
makes the offer.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Nothing TO Lose

Besides, il we have nothing, or
next to nothing, so far as this worlds
goods are concerned, we conclude
tnst we can't lose anything by TAX
ing the medicine the Sobo has to
onsT. I say 1--WE" when | mean only
part OF us. This may not apply
either to you or to me. You and !
may have settled the matter for
ourselves and know where we stand
In this case we need no advice or
counsel.
II you are q Sobo you want to dis
Sass ID. because by discussing it,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Broadway and Warsaw

Last night I walked over to your
Broadway" he exclaimed and COW
cred his eyes with his hands. oh
it is differentV'
Paderewski and his party leave
New York for the West tonight. He
will stop off at Pittsburgh to make
an address at the Polish convention
which will be held there on Tuesday,
February %.
Paderewskj the pianist has
passed on; Paderewski the patriot
takes his place.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

so-called comforts are fatal 20 the
only happiness worth while, which,
Ultimately, consists in complete
forgetfulness Of self.
The Sobo at heart is only selfish
He is trying to grab away from
others not alone the superhuous
things ne thinks they ought not to
have, but the right to say who shall
have them. Sub-consciously he is
seeking the same kind Of power that
he envies the hated capitalist the
possession Of. He does not under
stand that the capitalist himself has
no real power except as he has
been able to develop his internal re
sources in spite of his material
wealth.
E. H. Hartman and Russell Sage
acquired lots of money; but the
difference between them is highly
important. This difference does not
consist in the money they had, but
only in the difference between their
internal visions. Russell Sage had
no vision, except to add to his pile.
Hartman cared nothing for money
except so far as he could use it TO
carry out his creative intentions.
Men Of moral and spiritual vision
work through various mediums
Some Of them work through money
because their talents can be ex-
pressed only in that way. Others
live in garrets, like many Of the
poets, and furnish efnitions--crea-
tive ideas that come in time 70 be
recognized by the minority az true.
Visible and Invisible
Underneath the visible world Of
material inpustices there is another
invisible world, controlled by the
moral law. which, however long ia
our blind impatience we may have
to wait for it to act, always rur
true to form. The injustices of IT,.
material world are only the meau
whereby man develops his soul.
"Wast doth it profit a man if ho
gain the who world and lose hn
dwn sou
The Sobo wants 10 overturn s4.
United States government in ord
to prove that this is otherwise.
But all real Americans, concene,
about the soul of their country a
well ss their own. know that ID.
! cannot be.