Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-10-12
IN THE CITY OF THE WORLD.
BY ]. o. Knott.

am staying for a few days. Having
heard Of the Knott chain Of hotels in
| this city, visited the Office Of the
management and had a delightful
chat with Mr.. James Knott. who not
only sent me to hotel Of the "chain"
as his guest, but insisted that remain
| over for several days to see his BROTH
er, Hon. David II. Knott, who is
Democratic nominee for Congress, and
who wishes to talkwith me at length on
family history. thus have leisure to
study something Of our great metro
polls.
Between the Bankers Association
and the baseball, there is little just
now to hear or see in this city. am
bound to confess the baseball fans have
the city literally by the nose. Sitting
| in restaurant reading the suggestive
| editorial from the New York Times,
| casually asked an intelligent-l looking
young man opposite me whether he
had read the Times editorial on the
bankers resolution concerning the new
| tariff and debt funding. He frankly
told me he had been too busy with
| baseball news to read what the bank
ers said and did. I left the editorial
in his hands, after giving him a Blast
that may do him good.
Coin to the ball game ?" smiled
the Greek shoe shine man, as he pol
ished my Sunday morning shoes. do
you know anything about a Bankers
Association that is meeting in your
city ?" said by way Of test-out. He
scratched his head and asked me TO re-
peat my question. Finally he said ::
"Bankers-bankers- know not about
bankers" His Greek newspaper was
| near him, and looking at it, said:
The bankers in your city are trying
to help your people in Europe to pay
their debts and once more get on their
rect. II you read more about this and
less OF baseball you would be better
citizen of this country" ooh" he
said, VI make money by bettin' on base
ball. no care about bankers" Yet
he will vote or be voted next Novem-
Der!
In the Pennsylvania Hotel, which
like the bridge over the Golden Horn
shows YOU the world in an hours time,
the baseball fans surged and swagger-
ed about, while women in sleeveless
dresses but long skirts, lounged lazi-
ly on sofas and chairs in the lobby.
Broadway is as place deserted
One thinks of Byron's description Of
Venice, when he said, "Silent rows tho
songless gondolierS' Detected, long
OF skirt, and without the cabaret in
SEPARATION, the happer has sought the
hotel lobby for atmosphere.
| Some thoughts came to me as I sat
for an hour, perfect stranger, watch
ing the throngs in this and later in the
McAlpin Hotel. 1t is possible to be a
citizen OF the world, without being a
worldly citizen. II is possible to study
phases Of human nature-even soma
phases accounted to be sordid-with-
out in the least desiring to enter into
the excuses Of these superficial peo-
pie. A man who speaks and writes
about the people Of the world should
know what they do, and the spirit that
animates them. Did it ever occur to
preachers of the more narrow tvpe
that Paul must have seen and known
much Of the life of his day to be able
to write the second chapter of the epis-
tie of the Romans? The museum in
Naples, where certain unmentionablo
| sights are shown to "men onlv." tells
now Tuch Paul knew of the life of
his dav.
A man must have little moral stami-
ma Indeed who has any inclination to
enter irto the "'ife" that the Urea,
mass Of DIR city efficiency indulge if,
vet student of human nature may
look rpon that life much as a doctor
may seek 10 see some rcpulSivc form
OF disease as an Undressing case -
he physician is thinking all the while
OF n possible Cure" of the disease
So should the man think who studies
human nature in its repulsive phases.
personally hate vaudeville, not be-
cause 1t is necessarily immoral, but
because 1t Is hollow and hooking. !,
IS cheap and clap-trappy But "many
there be that GO in thereat." hmOnr
them our peerless citizen. cX-President
, wilson So, feel towards vaudeville
much as do towards the craze of the
masses over baseball. that | am Jus,
a little odd, and must not pass a Sc.
we're Judgment where | cannot enter
} INTO sympathy with the masses VIII,
| Go not think IS do. revere pooc
music so much that "jazz" is To me I'm.
tAinHdbie rs entertainment in an in
teNigent, refined company But her,
again find | have had in the post Il
. 'aIk lonely rad. | hate to see
, oman smoke, use !ip-Stic'; paint. put
her ., or nurse 4 log. hat,
most every torn OF modern daacinq
nd fail to see the "sov'l' oI the fun
= 49, movie wen Harold iloyi or BOOK.
"ih- Sheik' ana "Main Street
But here once more find that an
: not with the majority.
, ]! haze no liking for poll les. -lbei
: ! am much interested in statesman