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The New York herald., 1921-06-26

is a typically Spanish product? Yet
only the habanera and the seguidilla
are admitted to be of Spanish origin
The famous ballet music of TIE last
act came from the score that BIZE1
composed to DAUDET's play LAT
lesienne."
Aries is not far from the frontier
to be sure, but BIzET meant his music
to voice the emotions of his OWE
people. The noted fate motive which
led the French critios of music to
call attention to the Wagnerian ten
denotes of BIZET in their general
failure to understand the opera al
it's first hearing was taken by the
composer from a younger work OF
his, LES Jolies Files de Perth"
OF cou1-se credit Is due to MEnHAc
and HALEsx, who made such an ad
mirable dcamatic arrangement OF
MERIMEE's material. But if Gar
men" is not Spanish in story or music
what then Is ls3 1t has been pro
nounced Freneb and gypsy but not
Spanish. But {: is fair to predict
that 1t will continue to the public
the representative Spanish work OF
the operatic repertoire.
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
The Human Qualities of Sims.

In his human qualities as In his
naval exploits Admiral SIMS is after
the American peoples own heart
When this grizzled, rugged, open
sea warrior. who win be sung in fame
and fable for his achievements in the
great war Of all history, was the OBJ.
ject Of an attempted humiliation put
upon him by a man of very little con-
sequence in the big affairs of this
big world, various and varied may
have been the opinions as to how the
renowned Admiral would take it.
Admiral SIMS might have blazed
into indignation, or he might have
challenged the justice Of the official
reprimand, or he might have with
drawn in the sulks.
But Admiral SIMS did none of these
things when DENLY offered him the
petty affront. With his honest sailor
speech and jolly sailor laugh that
splendid tanner Of the German subma-
rines manfully blurted out to the pub
lie: Having spilled the beans, / got
what was coming to me-"
The more the American people sea
of SIMS, their great naval figure Of
the war, the better he looks to them.
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
Her Pet Comet.
An Ohio Lady's Graphic Description
Of q Spectacle In 1868.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In your
editorial article of June 10 you say
everybody has, It may be. a pet comet "
Yes. In my early youth there was a
comet Of comets, whose size and brill
lance surpass description.
That was in 1858. My, what a
stretch! Memory shifts like a scene in
the movies ana there is a black sky
where Donatis comet famed in splen-
dor, its fiery head to the horizon, it's
tail streaming to the zenith famed out
and drew third part of the stars of
heaven. Four sections of the fan split
as 1t were wide open, their edges
family flashing with prismatic color
The whole immense mass, glittering
white and transparent, tumbled and pail
pitated and shifted It's colossal stream
ers, one Of them bent and curved like
the sword of the Lord or Of Gideon.
Beneath the terrifying apparitlon of
this celestial visitor the people gazed
in awe and took 1t for q sign. Fright
ened lips whispered the prophecy from
the Bible:
I'm that day there shall be signs and
wonders in the heavens and wars and
rumors of wars on the EARTH"
The leaves of the trees futtered
ghostlike in the gloom and kneellng
in their shadow all the darkeys wept
and prayed.
This comet was visible day and night
for weeks. II 1t had struck the earth
every living thing would instantly have
died. 1t prognosticated fact. There
came indeed a war.
FLORENCE McLANDBuRaH.
AKRON, Ohio. June 20.
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Boating With Phi Beta Kappa.

At Princeton and wherever college
rowing men meet DR.. ]. DUNCAN
SPAETH needs no introduction. At
the New Jersey institution of learn
ing DR.. SPAETH holds the professor
ship of English, and as an avocation
fills varsity eights with Phi Beta
Kappa men who, to the undying
glory of Old Nassau workmanship,
go out upon the waters and beat
Olympic champions. He makes first
and second crews which row dead
possible on the lake ANDREW CARNE-
GLE built to float boats for the Orange
and Black. He incidentally acquires
the medal bestowed upon the man
who within the year has done the
most for the university, an honor
which means more than success at
one thing: 1t records an endurance
Of popularity in lecture hall, at the
training table and in college social
life which only an all round man
could hope to attain.
As coach DR.. SPAETH has found
1t possible to call forth the gameness
of youths devoted to rowing and to
maintain discipline among them
without having recourse to brutality
or adopting the language or the man
ners Of participants in the battle
royal He has the faculty of treat
ing visiting crews as gentlemen like
and expect to be treated without i'm.
pairing the morale of his own
charges. He has found 1t practicable
to produce creditable crews and at
the same time have their members
bear In mind that the first and only
OBJECT Of college education is not to
win victories over others but to win
victories over self.
THE NEW York HERALD receives in
the course Of each year a good many
letters from agitated ladies and gen.
tlemen who bemoan the influence of
college athletics and denounce impro-
prieties they assert are committed in
the name of team or of crew. Ere
quently we are asked what should be
done about It. When this question is
put to us hereafter we shall answer
promptly and with confidence that
the ]. Duncan Spaeth systom will cor
rect any unfortunate tendencies which
may be discernible in college ath-
letics, for by means of it gentle
manly sportsmanship is put on the
plane on whieh it belongs, and is kept
there.
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
Clusters Last Stand.
1t Should Have Taught Us Lesson
IN Preparedness.

To THE New Yo3x HERALD: ] want
to thank you for your splendid tribute
to the gallant General Custer. He and
his faithful little band OK 21I. murdered
forty-fve years ago. were a sacrifice
imposed on our country by band OF
pork barrel lovers and what you
now call little army" men. the same
kind we now have in Office. always have
had. but I hope not always will have.
The lessons taught in 1851 to 1855
were ignored. and see what happened to
us in 1898. but. worst of all. what hap
pened in the great world war. The thou
sands of our poor boys sacrificed abso-
lutely through isscn OF preparedness lies
at the door of every one who has op-
posed our country's preparedness. and
may God deal with them as they In
their selflshnesb have dealt.
Clusters command was reduced to the
average size that these wonderful legis-
lators have reduced our present army
to. Think Of it !--212 United States SOL
ders sent out to subdue 1000 savages,
all armed with repeating rifles by the
grace of the above mentioned, and
plenty Of ammunition.
Our dear country will continue to be
unprepared just as long as we elect
such as these to office. They will do
anything to wipe out our army and navy
and just watch their vote when the old
pork barrel" comes UP. .
New YORK, June 25. MIcHIoANpnR.
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Is Carmen" Spanish =?

II took the recent performance in
Seville of a dramatic version OF
MERIMEE's Carmen" to bring the
protest that the famous piece OF fic-
uon is essentially gypsy and not
Sevillian. The music of BrzET, which
is so inseparably associated with the
popularity Of the opera in this coun.
try, did not come into question. IL
ID generally conceded to be more
French than Spanish. The Sevil-
lians will not admit that the ethics
OF MERrNEE's characters represent
any but the life of the gypsy.
To Spaniards and particularly TO
Sevillians they deny the intellectual
and emotional life which is shown
by the French author. They declare
that 1t is possible only to the gypsy
tribes. It is impossible to deny that
a soldier Of the royal army is the
hero OF the novel, but for the rest of
its people and their acts Spain will
take no responsibility. They are
Tziganies.
With the story no longer admitted
TO be Spanish and the music gener.
ally pronounced by critics rather
French than otherwise, what is left
OF the general belief that this beloved
collaboration Of BIzEr and MEBIMEE
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
Comfort in Roughing 1t.

An Englishman advertises in Amer
lean newspapers that he will rent
his Thames houseboat containing
saloon, dining room, ten bedrooms,
three bathrooms, servants hall, &C"
for the summer for 20 guineas a
week, or for the Henley Regatta for
125 guineas. The specifications SO
far stated are likely to lead Ameri-
cans unfamiliar with the size and
living conveniences of Thames house
boats to examine further into the
particulars enumerated by the owner
and find that this floating summer
home has "hot and cold water in
every cabin, is fitted throughout with
electricity generated by it's own plant
for lighting, heating and cooking;
that it has a roof deck so by II feet,
a garden and tennis lawn, several
small boats, including an electric
canoe"
None of the simple comforts neces-
sary for few weeks river roughing
1t seems to be lacking. An American
lessee might convert the boats ten.
mis- court into a dancing floor, for
days on the Thames are too filed
with other entertainment to be given
over to tennis, while the evenings
are invitingly cool for dancing.
The electric canoe sounds smart,
Yankeelike, really, but it will not
be popular with those who have seen
punting on the Thames, by women
especially. Visits from houseboat to
houseboat or little side excursions
into lovely backwaters for tea are
most picturesquely made in COM
Portable punt, the punting pole han.
died by a woman, her fortunate pas
sengers lolling in lazy disorder on
cushions. But this is a small matter.
The irresistible appeal comes from
the simple comforts, mostly Ameri-
can devices, which sons and daugh.
ters of American pioneers demand
even while roughing it; bathrooms,
servants hall, electric lighting, heat
ing and cooking appliances.
If these holiday economies may be
enjoyed on Old England's Thames,
why not on New England's?
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
A Clergyrnan's Duty.
Let Him Make Men Good and They'll
Make the World Good.

To THE New YORK HERALD: AS
quoted In your news columns a clergy
man Of New York city recently asserted
that religion cannot be neutral because
it embraces "the whole of human life"
a neutral zone, and asks, "Is religion
to have nothing to say Of wages. Of the
housing question, of the building ma
terials combine. of banking methods
concerning loans by which the poor peo-
pie don't seem able to get housesT'
DR.. Grant does not seem to UNDER
stand the functions Of the clergy. It
is not the business Of the clergy to at
tempt the rectifioation Of every wrong
and abuse in society. It is the duty
Of clergymen to make men wiser and
better by instilling in them a love for
God. and by training them in virtuous
principles. When men are thus made
wiser and better they will themselves
be both able and willing to correct
wrongs and abuses as they encounter
them in public life.
Every man to his trade and vocation.
Why should a clergyman arrogate to
himself the setting to rights Of every
thing? It takes years Of experience.
study and reflection for a clergyman
merely to acquire an understanding OF
right doctrine and true principles Of
morality. 1t Is mere egotism or q sense
Of self-sufficiency that leads a clergy
man to feel himself capable of settling
all these perplexing problems Of public
life that can be settled only by men
who have given years Of study to them,
or by men whose natural genius pecul-
iarly fits them to settle such problems.
The average clergyman can follow
one Of two courses. He can either, by
years of study, thought and self-disci-
pline fit himself to be true and useful
shepherd Of his flock by exercising them
in the love of God and virtue. or else
he can neglect his proper studies and
duties by busying himself in multiform
matters Of the world. of which he can
only hope to acquire a half or quarter
knowledge.
Only a great genius can lay down
laws for the world. If the church to-
day possessed Its old time devotion and
conservation to the glory of God and
the true welfare of men clergymen
would attend strictly to the preaching
Of the Word and not 60 of at q tangent
to the discussion Of mundane affairs.
SPOKANE, Wash, June %. w. p.
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Senate in 1861 resulted in political
feud that lasted for years. 1t was car
ried to the Senate after his reelec-
ton in 1855 and prompted the accusa-
tions against him of being implicated
in fraudulent Indian contracts.
They have bounded me out of the
State" he said of his enemies, 'they
shan't hound me out of Office" The
next day he shot himself with the re-
volver he always carried and ten
days afterward, July 21. 1856, he
died.
A strange fatality seemed to follow
this tragic end of Kansas first Sem
ator. When PoMERoY, who was LANES
colleague, was a candidate for reelec-
tion in 1873 charges of bribery were
Unexpectedly presented against him
and he was defeated. He left the
State, never to return. EDMUND G..
Ross, who cast the deciding vote in
the Johnson impeachment trial, was
ostracized in Kansas and died in pow
erty, it was said, somewhere in the
Southwest. PRESTON PLUMB became
the centre of a remorseless local
strife and died suddenly with the
goal of his ambitions unattained.
]. RALPH BURTON in 1904 was con-
victed Of using his office for private
gains and sentenced in the United
States Court at st. Louis to six
months in jail. He resigned from the
Senate to prevent his expulsion. The
brilliant INGALLS,, commenting upon
his own overwhelming defeat for re-
election, said II am but one of the
fated succession"
No one apparently has attempted
to place valuation upon LANES pub
Ilic services or to make true estimate
Of his character. WILLIAM ALLEN
WHITE must have had him in mind
when he wrote some Of his political
stories. Old Ed HOWE must have had
much information regarding LANE
from first hand sources. WILLIAM z.
CoNNELLY, whose exhaustive work on
QUANTRILL took the gloss of the
heroic of that character, showed him
up the desperate he was and taught
us to spell his name correctly. could
still find in LANE most interesting
study. jim LANE remains to-day as
enigmatic character as he was sixty
years ago.
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
Jim Lane, Political Enigma.

This year Kansas reached the six
tieth anniversary of her Statehood
and she has been recalling the ca
reers Of the strong and strikingly in
teresting characters who made her
history in the tense days of 1861,
when the bitterness Of the Missouri
Kansas border warfare was at it's
height. No one of this militant group
was more picturesque than JAMES
HENRY LANE, or, as he wished to be
known, JIM LANE Of Kansas, who
was born June % just 107 years ago
last Wednesday.
LANES whole life was one of strife
and 1t seems but natural that he
should land in Kansas in the midst Of
the conflict over slavery, proclaim
himself follower Of JOHN Brown
and demand that violence be met
with violence. He was Democrat in
Indiana, but in 1856, year after his
arrival, the Free State party chose
him Major-General of it's troops and
the Kansas Legislature elected him to
the United States Senate. His cleo
tion was not recognized by Congress,
and, indicted for treason, he fled from
the territory.
When QUANTRILL swept down on
Lawrence, Kansas, burnt much of the
town and killed every man in sight.
he expected to catch LANE. When he
failed to find him he proclaimed him
a coward. LANE was merely too old
fox to be trapped so easily. He
was not coward, and he carried the
war across the Missouri border with
a vengeance and on his own terms.
No event of the times was more dra-
matte than his memorable speech at
Wyandotte, in the heat Of an IN
tensely bitter campaign. Wyandotte
turned out, but 1t came armed and
with a rope to hang him.
When he tried to speak the audi.
ence Kissed and drowned his voice
in cries of "Scoundrel, murderer"
He folded his arms and waited sneer.
ingly until the audience had ex
hausted itself. AS he again started
to speak an Indian staggered up the
aisle yelling Lets lynch himi'
LANE turned on him like fash, and
pointing his long. bony fingers
sh ant al fsTbrory that dr,,nixor Trdto,
out!" Men rose from all over the
house to obey the order. The audi
ence's obedience to those FIVE words
Of command marked LANES intellec
tual mastery Of it. He finished his
speech, the greatest of his career
The crowd which had come to hang
him bore him in triumph on its
shoulders through the streets.
or LANES oratory JOHN ]. INGALLS,
then a reporter, wrote:
Destitute of all the graces of the
art, he possesses but few OF its essen
tials; he wrlthes himself into contor-
tons; his voice a series of transit
tions from tho broken scream of a
maniac TO the hoarse rasping gut
turals Of Dutch butcher in the last
I gasp Of inebriation. Yet the electric
shook Of his extraordinary eloquence
thrills like the blast of a trumpet;
the magnetism OF his manner finds a
sudden response In the will Of his au-
diences and he sways them like a
field Of reeds shaken by the wind"
His election to the United States
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
The Old Jester.
WILMA

His cap and bells and motley laid away,
He sits and dreams upon the long ago.
Humming a little tune OF lovers woe
He sang a queen one fragrant yester-
day,
When life was young and roses
wreatfed the gay
And green old garden, where drowsy
king
Idled the hours, and needed no least
thing
Save that which might his easy comfort
sway.
But many years that lovely queen has
lain
United with the vanished roses dust,
The king is dead, and in their places
Hubbub and haste and clamor and dis
trust;
And in the TESTERS loyal heart alone
Beauty and charm and romance hold
their own.
CHARLOTTE BDcKsR.
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
Outward Bound.
r.-rHD DEPARTURE HORN.

L-THD DEPARTURE HORN.
Az the steamer begins slowly with
drawing from the pier,
And thrusting it's sterns enormous over
. hung chassis into the sun fiecked
rivers thoroughfare.
On the way to open sea.
1t signals the exit with a long drawn
portentously sonorous blast Of Its
horn,
A booming. believing bass. of unirnag-
inably potent bourbon tone.
AS of some gigantic saxophone or oboe
That Jars the ships very frame
And sets the hearers head and breast
vibrating with its tense tremor.
Like q violoncello body to vehemen,
bowling.
In that plangent thunder shouts the
pent energy of mine rified depths
of coal strata.
Yielding the hoarded dynamic OF whole
carboniferous eons;
Roaring now below these decks IN
whirlwinds of heat
Through yawning red fauces OF the blaz-
ing furnaces.
Until with sun smitten torrents OF
steam on high.
Blown back from the whistles sharp
brazen lips, about the ships fun
mel.
robe poured against her free torso
and tameless limbs by gales OF
the, Egean,
It issues in this reboant clamor
That seems to shake the very sea and
sky.
n.-rRoM THE STERN HALYARps.
Against the pallid gray-blue of the
horizon sky,
Where the Staten Island shore merges
into neutral haze of distance from
the hurrying steamers propellers,
And ringed about with seagulls
Like wind tossed fragments Of burnt
paper
Above q restless dre,
Streams and tugs from the stern nag
stafr in the sunlight
The incredibly brilliant flame
And trumpet-toned scarlet splendor
Or the British nag.
Iu.-THE auLLs.
By what magic do these living seaplanes
keep pace with the swift steamer?
On wings for the most part extended
motionless,
Maintaining against the wind their de-
sired places over stern and wake.
Tilting and sheering at win with the late
afternoon sunlight cleaning on
white wing-edges and breasts,
Intervening complex courses without
collision,
They might rather be wide-fnned Dream
or dace, languidly gliding behind
the plate glass of q great aqua
rum tank.
Tho birds hold their pink claws tucked
snug against the tall feathers.
While they crane their snowy necks and
heads to and fro,
That the alert eyes may miss no morsel
of food thrown from the ship.
And now and again ono fiexes its throat
aloft with wide opened beak
And with ludicrous semblance of an In
fant crying for its supper
Cheeps It's thin. Querulous lamentation.
ELIOT WHIrp.
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
Keeping an Office Force Fit.
One Company's Medical Service for
Members Of Organization.
From the Guaranty Ne,os.

During the year 1920 there were 10.
$50 consultations by employees for ALL
ments ranging from slight scratches to
serlous illnesses. OF this number $3.50
visits were made by men Of the COM
pany and 4.104 by women. It is not
possible to estimate the time saved the
company BY having medical treatment at
hand for emergencies, and for the pre-
ventive treatment which enabled em-
ployees to keep on at work, nor by that
other preventive measure which consists
in sending Ill employees home In time to
avert serious complications.
During the same period 1,726 men and
women in tho companys employ were
examined. and of these 1926 were rated
as practically without defects. Defects
possible of correction were found In ass
employees. AID only II had conditions
which made 1t advisable for them to
leave the company. The chief defects,
both in applicants and employees. wero
In the teeth. 342 out OF q total Of 1,730
employees needing dental treatment. The
next most prevalent conditions found In
employees were large or diseased tonsils,
defects in vision and nderweight In
all, something less than hundred OF the
members Of the company were found to
be suffering from serious defects.
The departments report for the year
shows that 2,o53 applicants for employ
ment were examined, and that Of these
1.24s were accepted Internationally. 537
were accepted conditionally and 26S
were rejected. This latter figure. how
ever, includes q number Of applicants
who were given permission to reappiy
after defects had been remedied. About
95 rejected applicants were reexam-
ned and accepted before the close
Of the year, and It is probable that adj
ditional reflections during 1920 will come
UP for reconsideration this year.
The work of the visiting nurse plays
big part in keeping the company In
touch with employees who are Ill. Both
by telephone and by personal calls the
nurse follows UP these cases. rendering.
in conjunction with the medical depart
ment, any aid that may be possible. either
in the way of obtaining skilled consul,
tants when so requested, obtaining nurs-
ing service, and seeing that the sick
of the company receive good care. The
visiting nurse made total Of 4s3 calls
at the homes of employees during 1920
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
An Old Time Road Show.

To THE New YORK HERALD: There is
one good Old road circus nobody has
mentioned In the old time tent show
stories. Niblo a Sloat's New York
Circus. John q. sloat manager
They showed here August 8, 1860. and
had big show for those days. having
over sixty horses. number of ponies.
some menagerie animals and two or
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
The Blind Spot.

To THE New York HERALD: The
Sherlock Holmes OF the editorial stafr of
the New York Times admits the success
of the Harding Administration but re-
veals the cause as follows In an edi-
torial article on June 81:
The Administration, wisely. prudently
and with great exactituds following thc
policies OF Mr.. Wilson. has thus far
won general appreciation.
II Is curious that those who are In
oculated with the Wilson microbe are
rendered blind to the good qualities OF
everybody else.
This was Wilson's weak point.
The New York herald., 1921-06-26

Great fiocks of canary birds are re-
ported from tho northwestern section
OF the United States, where their pres
enco in large numbers has astonished
the natives. No doubt the skilful and
convincing professional boosters lured
them to the Pacific coast. When the
advantages of life on the Pacific slope
engage the talents Of it's ardent advo-
Gates even the birds cannot resist
them