Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-12
New Workers Explode
Idea Of Nothing but
Short Lives, Chances
BY JESSIE

BY JESSIE HENDERSON
Special Correspondent Of II Great Falls Tribune
Copyright. 1922. by The ireat Falls Tribune
New York, June 11.-"It's too bad"
just a. the rest Of the country gets
all set in the belief that New York
stands for exactly two things, somebody
goes and upsets the tradition. New
York, of course, is supposed to be full
of nothing but short lives and long
chances: of crimes and croesi, of scan
dals and vandals.
You'd no more think of looking to
New York for culture than you'd look
to Central park, with its nursemaids
and it's zoo. for an opera house or a
set Of municipal art studios. Which
is where the little old town has its
fingers crossed again. For Central
park. along two blocks on the south
side, is exactly where you may look
very soon for the beginnings Of one
of the finest municipal art centers In
the world.
A cool s15.OOO,Ooo is to be spent
on the two-block square home OF art,
which will advance education in paint
ing. music and the drama.
Culture Alone Figures
The city. moreover, will donate the
land. All this. mind you, in the inter
ests of culture, and not Of any other
crime. The mayor did not ever stip-
ulate that his portrait must adorn the
drop curtain Of the opera house, which
is to be among the incest opera houses
on this or. any other planet. You don't
ever have to vote the straight Tam
many ticket in order to study cubistry
or whatever it is they study nova
days in a studio. You needn't even
know how to spell Murphy in order to
get a shot at play acting in the munich
pal theater. Politics doesn't figure.
Cash doesn't figure. Only culture and
it's a five-hour ride from Boston, too.
Get Degree at 100
Another thing. this crash and hurry.
short life and worry idea. Too bad
once more. Folks, meet DR.. Stephen
who received the honorary degree
of doctor of science at Columbia uni
v~ersity commencement exercises. Most
il this from the point of
view of the New York tradition. No
body ia this town Of rush and riot is
supposed to live to be much over As.
Fifty is a ripe old age. Well, of course
they tried to keep it secret, but the
fact leaked out. DR.. Smith is 100
years old. Not only 100 years old,
but looks lot a day over IS and feels
not d minute over 60. Outside New
York it sometimes occurs that Uncle
Jed lives a century and is pointed to
as he drowses and mumbles in a Chin
ney corner.
DIR. Stephen Smith. however, isn't
ornn nnIf pn.ph wi
lived to be 100, to do it in the accepted
He simply won't hang about
the chimney corner nor browse nor
humble. He goes around taking de-
grees and giving sound advice on the
American public health service, OF
which, as it happens. he is the founder.
as well as the most conspicuous ex-
ponent.
Columbia university itself. more
over, is some buster of traditions. If
is as full Of crooks and jazz
its reputation demands. it's pecu-
liar that a big university should be
out scholars for 16S years
and is now planning to receive a bump
er crop of freshmen in its one hundred
and sixty ninth year is. from the ira
%iitional viewpoint, distinctly discour-
aging.
Can it be that tranquility has been
over pressagented? Can it be that
human beings thrive better on holdups,
cabarets. badly ventilated subways,
crowds and cut throat competi-
ton.
Here's a topic for savants to get
headaches over. And In process of
ants please bear in mind that Boston
has no $15,O 900. 900 municipal home of
art nor lonesome corners-uncrowded
it be-any DIR. stephen Smith.
But let us not gloat. This is no
for gloating. anyway. with
New York the hottest spot-mercuri-
ally speakipg-in the country; with
the asphalt on Fifth avenue, ever at
Z p. M, clinging to the holes of ones
pumps; and with an egg declining
to be fried on the blistering pavement
and merely going up in a puff of smoke.
That Is weather in which to fix the
thoughts on higher things. one. for
instance, some roof garden or the ferris
wheel at Coney. Some spot where
you may loaf and invite your soul
at least your soul mate. 1t is dis
not the weather for a run
around Central park. particularly if
you are not already so pounds over
The city health department
links the weather is great for just
hat little thing. You see, last fall
he health department took a couple
dozen plump ones in hand, putem
through all kinds of diet and exercises,
With the result that when the class
net for reunion this week it was found
hey had cloughed off nearly eight
aggregate feet Of waist line and half
ton of avirdupois. One lost
Il pounds.
Start Another P. E. Glass
Imbued with enthusiasm at the ex-
of this excellent exhibit another
lass was started. It planned as a
irst exercise a little run around Cen
raj park-not all arond the park, you
but just hither and yon
md between the weather and one
hing and another the spectators got
bout as much exercise as did the WON
First the spectators get all limb
red up hunting for shade trees and
hey got even more limbered up laugh
ng at the patients and cheering to
to make greater efforts. If the