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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-10-12

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lectOr away-use Blatchford's Egg
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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-10-12

He who thinks most profits best
use Blatchford's Egg Mash.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

argue whether music is for or against
this or that kind of political opinion
is like whether it is square or oblong.
Unfortunately" says 'Tzvestia," !" "we
have no proletarian music" By that 1t
means no music composed with the aim
Of encouraging certain political opin-
ions. Yet it ought to be easy to induce
some bad musician to compose such
music, as bad musicians often do COM
pose with some ulterior, not musical,
purpose. The same men who have COM
posed with the object of supplying the
place of conversation in restaurants
would surely, for an adequate fee, pro-
duce "proletarian" music. The aim, the
motive, is equally irrelevant in both
cases. But no one, not even a Boil
shevist government, could induce any
one to produce good music so, for it
cannot be done. You forget both about
restaurants and about the proletariat
when you compose good music, and re-
member the music only which you
compose for mankind; and that is why
fanatics of all kinds are always hostile
to artists, as artists are hostile to
them.
The artist could not obey them IL he
would. He might compose at their bid
ding out Of fear, but 1t would not be
music. You can take q horse to the
water, but you cannot make him drink.
st. Just issued an edict saying that
every one was to have friend of his
heart or suffer The consequences of
disobedience. Trotzky might issue an
edict saying that all Russian COM
posers were to compose proletarian
music, but he would not produce 1t SO
any more than st. Just produced a crop
Of friendships. "Izvestia" is aware Of
political tendencies in all thu compo-
sers: as that Haydn is feudal, Glinka
landowner, and Rimsky- -Korsakcv
"Pan-S -Slavonic, with national assem-
bly, undertone." But these artists were
not thinking Of such things when they
composed; they were thinking of their
music; and if composer is made to
think Of anything else by a tyrannous
employer, whether grand duke or Boil
shevist, then he will produce rubbish.
No tyranny can control art any more
than it can control the weather.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
New Voice, Old Doctrine

DR.. Wilhelm Cuno, the new Ger
man Chancellor, broke fresh trail,
We are told, by weasing American.
horn-rimmed spectacles while he ad.
dressed the Reichstag. That, how
ever, was as far as he went in the
way of inno1 alton. In essentials his
speech echoed the we'll known eva
sions and winnings of the Wirthian
era.
Dr.. Cuno boldly copies Wirth's
phrase: First bread, then repara-
t1ons.' That is to say, when duly de-
coded: First bread, then beer, then
ships, then industrial bonuses, then
minimum taxes, then an Allied loan,
while the Allies, staggering under
taxes three times as great, meekly
wait for Germany to get ready to
discharge few of her past-due obli-
cations"
"This policy is the policy of the
nations self-preservation," says the
new Chancellor. Undoubtedly it
seems so to the Germans. They have
always felt that national self preser-
vation could best be secured by pay
ing no war debts at all and by en-
ploying existing German wealth in
restoring Germany's former indus
trial and commercial greatness. Call
that policy repudiation, if you will.
1t still represents fiercely realistic
self-interest.
The Germans never have admitted
in their hearts that they lost the
war. They cannot associate crimi-
nal aggression and defeat with their
natural nsequences--moral repent
ance and restitution. Herr Cuno
talks as the leader not of a nation
condemned to penance for it's sins
but Of nation which has merely in
Cured commercial debt. Other
wise he could not describe his pro-
gram as one of Strengthening Ger
man economic life, to be followed by
the best possible performance of
treaty obligations from the surplus
after urgent German requirements
are covered"
This is the same old tune Of
Deutschland ueber Allies" Ger
many must come first. Her interests
must be safeguarded, at the expense
of all others. If she chose to depre-
ciate her paper mark and swindle
foreign investors out of $1,000, ,00G,-
GOO or more the Allies have nothing
to complain about, as she sees it.
They must turn in and help Ger
many to re-stabilize her currency be-
fore they can expect any gold mark
remittances.
German chancellors do not change
their spots. Fehrenbachs, Wirths,
Cunos-scratch them and YOU find
them all reparations dodgers.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

nearer to the fundamental emotions
OF his eountrymen, the bitterness of
their rligiat, the reality OF their dan
gers, The hreathlessness Of their
hopes and fears. Did he come to do
more than this? We doubt it. But,
whether ne nourishes in his bosom
expectations of tangible guarantees
or not, we are sure that he has
gained for France i'll what he has
himself cited as 'the imponderables, =
tie elements Of good will.
Whateve. America may do or not do
atolt German reparations, French
security, international debts, eco
nonlc arrangements and so on.
American public opinion must re-
main favorably influenced by the
"Tiger's" visit, simply because we
have seen him, heard him, felt the
impact of the man and his profound
~ patriotic thought. When Lowell
heard the aged Emerson deliver one
OF his addresses he said that he had
not been able to follow the discourse
IN detail, but he added, he felt that
something beautiful had passed that
way, something that maGe him want
to cry "Ha, Ha! TO the sound of the
trumpets." On his travels here Gle
menceau leaves similar impression.
lie may not alter Franco American
relations in the official sense;
but Franco American sentiment is
the better for his having come
among us.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

Three and the Jungle, Books. Why not
make 1t your aim to suggest to your
readers the cultivation of q sense OF
discrimination? Of course,
once one begins to discriminate in such
things many an opportunity for strik-
ing generalization and peppy uuip is
gone. But is it really worth while to
sacrifice the truth in order to shock
and lambaste the highbrows, che philis-
tines and the poseurs 2" -
After all, we doubt whether we have
sufficient courage to grapple with r. A.
c. We are grieyously handicapped at
the outset. He knows what Truth is !:
Our cosmos is composed of some three
convictions and handful of prefer
ences that wax and wane and wither
with the seasons. We haven't the
moral courage to hail any of them as
truth. When a man can apply that
term to his preferences in literature,
decidedly we are outgunned and over
whelmed by that man and should look
around frantically for dugout.
Some five sticks of space separate US
from the nearest exit, and the sooner
we cover them the better. Wherefore,
speaking of Conrad:
We stick to our earlier statements.
We play 'em pat. We think Conrad is
ver-pressagented,o over-estimated, over
celebrated. We think the best part of
"The Niger of the Narcissus" is the
title. That has greatness. We think
Lord Jim" is a clumsily put together,
clumsily told yarn, tremendously ver-
bose, entirely unbelievable. We haven't
read youth" We did read "Chance"
ON bet, and came darn near losing
it. We liked Victory" pretty we'll.
We liked "The Rescue, too, but we
never read book of Conrad's yet that
we didn't have to drag ourself along by
the ears to get through.
Conrad is chaotic-with some of the
awe-inspiring vastness of chaos end all
of it's confusion. He has caught the
magic of the sea, Well grant. But
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Books and So Forth B. r's1g|l f =, E, e wa'~

NJ WAS inevitable, we suppose, that
sooner or later some one should trv
to reform us-and succeed in irritating
US.
We haven't the least objection to be-
ing considered a brand unsaved from
the burning or person of no impor-
tance and considerably less ability
There are moments when every day in
every way we feel we are getting
worser and worser. When some one
else discovers it, too, we haven't the
heart to disagree with him.
But now, along comes R. A. G. He
doesn't attack our style or our subject
matter. That should make us suspi-
cious to begin with. Instead, it soothes
us while r. A. c., treacherous soul,
slips rope around our neck, still ut
to try to lead us from the pit we have
digged up onto the heights. r. A. C.'s
campaign plan is based on the Every
amusing indeed, but I'm sure you didn It
hhS@h HoicS t5PC VI az uiiiChCs IL
we were of fine fiber he probably would
inspire US into admitting he was right.
We aren't-and he doesn't.
"In your firstl contribution" R. A. C.
wheedles, "you said that you consider
Kipling great writer and Conrad not,
Which Conrad? For there are at least
three. If you mean the Conrad of
Youth and some other books, I might
agree with you. At least there is room
for argument there. But l can't see
how, with your outlook on things, you
can deny the greatness of the Conrad
of Victory or Lord jim or 'Ty-
phoon' of The eNigger of the Mar
cissus.' Surely in these books, as in
few others, the issues Of life and
death, of character, the imminence of
fate and the mystery and magic of the
sea are set forth with simplicity and
directness and power that is unques-
tionably great.
"of course, Kipling is great. But
not ali Kipling is equal to Soldiers
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Our Ships in Time of War

One of the perils to the country at
tending the disappearance of the
American merchant marine from the
ocean which is altogether overlooked
tRese days is the connection between
tho merchant fleet and the navy in
case of war.
Perhaps the greatest lesson of the
submarine campaign in the last war
was the dependence of nations upon
communication with the outside
world by merchant ships. This was,
ct course, truer of the European
countries than of ourselves. But it
IS nevertheless a fact that great
naval power like the United States
mast have merchant ships as auxil-
iaries.
We cannot be sure that if we are
once more hurled into war we shall
have allies who can lend us their
ships. And yet should we find our
selves deprived of merchant fleet.
even though we controlled the seas,
we should soon suffer severely for it.
During the last war most of our
troops and practically all of our sup
plies were transported in foreign
bottoms.
What if our allies could not have
spared the ships? Where, then,
would have been that unstinted
American aid which hastened the
final victory?
To ignore this phase Of the ship
Ping problem on the theory that we
are unlikely to get into wax again,
end that, even if we do, we car de-
rend upon our allies and neutrals, is
to resort to the old blind tactics of
the pacifsts. Were there not a
thousand other reasons for encour-
aging rather than annihilating
American shipping, this one alone
would be sufficient to warrant strain
ing every effort to build up for this
country marine that will be an eff
fective auxiliary in time Of war.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
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we've never sailed on cruise with him
that we didn't have to work every inch
Of our passage. When we yearn for
sea voyages now we turn to Kipling OF
McFee and loaf about ON deck while
they look after the engines.
When people speak of "Soldiers
Three" and the Jungle Books in the
same breath with Kipling we are GER
tain that they quit reading him years
and years ago. Kipling also wrote
"The Ship That Found Herself" and
"The Drums Of the Fore and Aftn and
"a Habitation Enforced" and "Dray
Wara Vow Dee" and "The Man Who
Would Be King" and dozen more,
utterly above the furthest reach OF
Conrad or any man writing to-day
even Kipling himself.
For though R. A. C. doesn't mention
it, there are two Kiplings-the man
who welded the most romantic and
powerful pen of the early years of
the current century and the man who
to-day tries feebly to recapture that
earlier mighty gift. There is tragedy
in Kipling.
A mans greatness, we think, can
never be estimated by his own genera
tion. Therefore we'll make bet with
R. A. c. Wen each deposit s5 in 8
savings bank, with instructions that at
the end of fifty years our grandchildren
are to go to the public library and find
whose books are more often taken
from the shelves. II Conrad's are more
populars the third generation of C.s
get the money, plus interest. If Kip
ling's, the fortune comes into the Van
de Water family. If r. A. c. will agree
to this, we'll feel it's unnecessary TO,
US to take out any more life insurance
Our heirs will be provided for.
e.
Concerning r. A. C.'s suggestion that
we try to inspire in our readers the
cultivation of sense Of discrimina.
tion, we can only say that we're
against all forms Of suicide-even lit
erary.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
BoLsheuisn and Music

children ofslight ali through the ages,
and they are not the doctrines of
bloodthirsty conceit Beethoven, too,
believed passionately in God and in
man; as for Scriabin, he is hardly
genial, and he too was, according to
Bolsheyist ideas, sunk in superstition
THAT is to say, profoundly religious
and humanitarian.
intact, "Izvestia" has hit upon these
composers merely because it had to
find some; but all art is opposed to
that recnrrent disease Of fanaticism,
which at this moment finds its most
complete expression in Bolshevism. All
through the ages the great artist has
seen his chief enemy in the men who
Judge everything in terms of their own
particular panacea. Rossini put IL
quite simply when he said that there
are only two kinds of music---tha good
and the bad; which means that 70
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

er-revolutionary." AS for Schubert,
Schumann and Chopin, they are sing
ers of the petty bourgeoisie, repre-
sentatives of revolutionary currents in
educated circles" Certainly their
music has beauty which puts US in
love with life; while Bolshevisrn is not
likely to content any except those who
are in love with death and destruction.
But strangest of all is the choice Of
composers who, to "Izvestia," seem not
hostile to Bolshevism. They are "the
cheerful Mozart, the heroic Beethoven
and the genial Scriabin." One can
only conclude that the writer has
never heard any of these composers,
or at any rate has never listened to
them. For if there ever was an artist
likely to put mankind cut of conceit
with all kinds of inhuman fanaticism
it is Mozart. The doctrines of the
"Magic Flute are the doctrines Of the
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
(From The London Times

We published lately the musical
opinions OF the Moscow and Bolshevist
organ "Izvestia." These, though they
have certain idiosyncrasies of their
own, are much like the opinions of
many people who do not care for music.
That is to say, they judge it as means
to an end-in this case Bolshevism.
'Izvestia" is contemptuous Of the bour-
geois habit of finding in music mar
eotic, IAN integral part of their life
of comforts But there is the same
fallacy, in its own view, of the func-
tion Of namely, that it should
act as counter-irritant to life of
discomfort;
For 'Izvestia" Tchaikovsky is too
pathetic; no doubt people in Russia
weep enough as it is without being
made to weep over aElgen Onegin," and
so the overture to that opera is "coun-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
"a Little Brief Authority,

Unaccustomed Importance makes
Doors of small-minded men. There
is Commissioner of Accounts Hirsh-
field, for example. His position en-
ables him to hold hearings when city
institutions are complained of by the
citizens. Inasmuch as under the
present administration city institu-
tions are almost always provoking
complaint, Hirshfeld holds many
hearings.
In these hearings he always takes
on attitude of lofty dignity, which
does not sit particularly we'll on a
man Of his attainnents. Especially
when women are before him does he
buster and storm, ordering them off
the witness stand whenever their
testimony is not to his liking.
Hirshfield, of course, is not so inn
portant as he fancies he is, and can
really do no particular harm, save
now and then to irritate persons who
come before him. His whole bear
ing is obviously in imitation of that
OF his chief, and it is the latter who
is responsible for Hirshfeld's con-
duct,
1T the Mayor were a little more
tolerant and q little better behaved
on the occasions when he comes into
contact with the public there is little
doubt the public manners Of his
subordinates would improve.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
The Bethlehem Consolidation

Postwar trade is progressively
becoming challenge for extraordi-
nary capacity in management, witt,
pressure brought by labor, on the
one hand, for high wages and by
consumers, on the other, for low
prices. In the present economic
readjustment business leaders are
making an intensified effort to re-
duce costs through lowering over
head charges and through other
economics in operation. The pro-
posed absorption of the MidvaIe
Steel and Ordnance Company and
the Cambria Steel Company by the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation is an
incident in this broad movement.
The consolidation represents more
than linking up Of identical steel
plants. If consumnlated it would
broaden the scope OF activities of
the greater Bethlehem, which would
make virtually all commercial steer
products. Following the recent ac-
QUESTION of the Lackawanna Steel
Company, which gave Bethlehem a
strong position IS a producer of
steel rails, the new economic we'd
ding would create larger and bet
ter integrated competitor Of the
United States Steel Corporation
than it has ever had since it was
brought into being in 1901.
The new Bethlehem instead of
thWarting competition ought to
heighten it, particularly if the ex-
pected economies are introduced.
In the Lockwood committee hear
ings last June the inability of the
so-calied independent companies to
produce steel within SO ton as
choaply as the Steel Corporation
was revealed. In so far as the new
combination will be able to manu-
facture products more economically
and on more nearly equal basis
9TH the leader of the industry, we
think the public interest will be po.
tentially served.
Incidentally, the Steel Corpora
ton, through an intelligent policy,
has employed its differential in
costs neither to crush competitors
nor to abuse customers, and under
the leadership of Judge Gary has
been, in spite of its magnitude, in
vulnerable to attacks against it's
trade tactics. 1t has demonstrated
that largeness and wickedness OF
purpose are by no means synony-
nous, and, since the merger will
leave it the largest factor in the
field, there is no present reason to
fear the consequences of a law
ahiding consolidation of smaller
companies.
The new Bethlehem, according to
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

the program announced, will come,
INTO being without the sale OF new
securities. Il will bring Mr.. Grace
into the focus of public attention
as one of the larger figures in
American industrial life. 1t win
also mark the realization of a dream
of Charles NJ. Schwab, who went to
Bethlehem seventeen years ago
when many thought the zenith OF
his romantic career as an iron
master had been passed.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
The Flapper's Self-Expression


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Flapper? Wish had beeni It
is SO much better at seventeen than
at thirty-seven. Who hasn't the desire
to express ones own feelings and not
some one else's without interference
Once let the so-called fapper be her
honest-to-goodness self, and she will
choose to do the constructive thing,
sooner or later.
We should not interfere with each
other or try to make each other good.
Feeling this SO strongly, I have tried
very subtle suggestion and then let my
sixteen-year-old express himself, IN
spite of his grandparents objections.
He has come to his own conclusions
that he does not wish to smoke yet,
that he hates the "Follies,o is more
e&acting in his standards for the
| movies than / am, reads all the things
that never did at his age and loves
them Thackeray, Scott, Irving, Dumas,
Twain, Stevenson, Macaulay, kipling
snd many more. He also thinks high
school fraternities puerile, loves dog
and the woods, drives car we'll, builds
his own radio, is home nine-tenths of
his time and is often moved to chide
gently his thirty y~seyen-year-old fapper
mother for dancing too much or for
| smoke on her breath.
Let me say to your correspondent
who is worried about the fappers,
cheer up! Have faith In them! Give
them more rope, and they'll not hang
themselves. L. w. WEST
Columhu Ohio Nov. 20. 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
The Hiking Habit
American Women Outdistanced by
the Europeans

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: At last an article appears in
your paper on the benefits of the finest
and simplest exercise in the world
hiking. Why more articles ON this sub
ject are not published in the papers
and magazines is hard to understand.
Probably it is because it is not popu-
lar sport and does not require an
elaborate and attractive equipment. 1
do hope FOR some plan to start "hik-
ing week." or, even better. the hiking
habit" among US lazy Americans es-
peciafly the women. e~s
Personally I have always been q
walker. Almost from infancy my IA
I fther took me on long walks and even
now, though he is past sixty-fve, we
| often tramp ten miles together of a
Saturday afternoon when he Is free
from business cares. Other times a
girl friend and l don our knicker suits
eyes, they are the finest thing out for
walking and not immodest, though we
are not all educated to their value as
YETI, take bit of lunch and start off
for day in the great outdoors on
beautiful Long Island. We cover from
twelve to eighteen miles day and
come home really alive and refreshed,
feeling that "this day we truly have
walked with God"
The American woman excels her sis
ters of other nations in many ways. but
when 1t comes to hiking the Euro
pean woman seems to lead. Let US
show real spirit of sportsmanship
and follow their lead in this one re-
spect. (They follow ours SO often.) If
all the women in this country who play
golf would give it up for one week and
spend their play time ON the road
afoot start in the right direction
would have been made. Having played
golf myself know it Is dandy game,
but is second to hiking, which is
broader and deeper. feel sure that
other golfers would agree with me if
| they tried hiking oftener.
American women got suffrage by
kicking and helped to get prohibition
in the same way. We don't know how
much more kicking we may have to
do, so let's get our leg muscles in trim
by hiking. A HIKER.
Flushing, N. Y, Nov. 1S, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Csasrets for Poets
(Fyons rae Booemoss1

(Fyons The BooEmaHj
n FOUND a royal-moth half way gut aS
= his chrysalis,
Powerless TO go further.
I broke the hard, brittle shell with my
fingers--too late.
His crumpled wings were gorgeous,
But they would not ay.
The limitations of chrysalis are the
strength of a caterpillar:
They help him to concentrate his mind
on wings.
But when it comes to emerging,
Every caterpillar should arrange TO be-
prompt and lucky
IL he wants to soar.
KARLE WILSON BAKER.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Lunatic

fFrom Tae DoasIs Iosa,srl
MY HEARTS 3 gypsy or lunatic,
: = It knows no thrifty laws,
It longs to- scatter riches and to pick
Gold out of straws.
To burn the amber harvest summer sent
With sparks Of laughter,
Not bed herewith the cattle Of content
The winter after.
In June to whistle tunes with every note
The blackbird knows,
Since in November fields my empty coat
May flap at crows.
Since virtue and old age are hard to
trick
With any gift,
This is the wisdom of tho lunasic,
And gypsy thrift!
MARJORIE ALLEN sErFFERT.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Amen

Sgrosb The Londow Msrov~ut
He shall rise mp at ths voice Of @
bird" -Eceiesisstes
WHO then. is 'he"f
I" Dante, Keats, Shakespeare, NIL
ton, Shelley; all
Rose in their greatness as the shrilf
decree,
The little, xousing, inarticulate eaii.
For they stood up
At the bird-voice. Of iara, OF nfgntfn@
gale,
Drank poems from that throat az from
a cup.
Over the great worlds notes did thsss
prevail
And not alone
The sacred poets woke. In listening
man,
Woman, and child a post stirs unknown.
Throughout the Mays Of birds sinca
Mays began.
He rose, he heard
Our father, our Saint Peter, In hid
tears
The growing, twice, Of che prophetic
bird,
The saddest cock-crow Of our human
years.
ALICE MEYNEII4