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The New York herald., 1922-04-02

applaud Kim out OF sheer conventional
politeness. But there is a certain type
Of hand clapping that drips frost and
is.frescoed with ice.
After dinner speaking is an in
dustry nurtured by hotel proprietors
10 pay for large dining rooms and
vast quantities of crockery. 1t is the
only kind of alleged entertainment left
to public dinner. Up until he is
forty the ambitious man bends all his
energies toward getting an invitation
to speak at a public function. After
forty he seeks to avoid that invitation.
II consider Almet +. Jerks, for
mery of the Appellate Division, the
most skillful speaker ] have ever
heard. There was the aroma Of the
library about him as he spoke He
was not weighed down with vast self
Importance. He was polished. fluent.
graceful and always reliable. | speak
in the past tense merely because l re-
fer to the occasions l have heard him
speak. Doubtless he is no less delight
ful now.
Colby Versatile Speaker.
cambridge Colby is one OF the best
or extemporaneous dinner speakers.
He has voice, presence, vocabulary.
wit-eyerything. Homer Cummings
Charles NJ. Schwab. Bourke Cochran.
James NJ Beck. Patrick Francis Muir
ply, Horace Porter and William Jen-
nings Bryan or his topic is neither
political nor religious) have charmed
me with their forensic ability The
first and most important quality Of thu
successful after dinner speaker is COM
mon sense. Then in order, / think.
come presence, voice, diction as dis
tinguished from vocabulary. manner.
message, humor and sense OF propor-
ton.
you must be able 10 command and
hold the attention Or Your audience.
There lis very little use talking unless
you are heard. The thing to DO is 20
get acquainted with yoru audience be-
fore trying to make il think
"Of course | am wandering from tho
original argument. ] am merely trying
to tell you that speaking to crowd
Of dry diners Is a much more hazard
Gus thing than haranEuing Il well ir-
rgated room full Of folks. These
nights the speaker must be brief Lre-
call the clergyman who asked the
president Of Yale how long his SER
mon should be.
"well. replied the president OF Yale.
few souls are saved after twenty min
utos
Many 10 Not Know weakness.
Mr. Murphy may be right IL saying
that prohibition has reduced the nuns
Der OF persons who think they can
sing. do not know how many of the
singers who can't sing know that they
can't sing. II Is extremely ditlicrlt -
convince a man who thinks nc CA
sing that he cannot sing. But this I
know: we go 10 public dinners de-
termined TO have a good time even j,
we have to hire bullies 10 compel as 10
have IT, We say to q professional glad
handler.
Here is large sum Of money. II y
for YOU In return FOR Il you must in
slst that be merry tonight at this
dinner because man - supposed 10
laugh. sing ana otherwise be jolly at
such affairs. Prod me. bawI at me
roar commands at me. am deter
mined Ia have q good time and Is up
Ia YOU TO insist that my deterntnation
docs not wane.
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

TO them to depend upon his having
been made ready to wear, and-may
we not add-up to date. In way these
crusaders, like those of old. do not
know just what their errand is, but
as those of medieval days wished to
regain the birthplace OF Christ for
their faith. so the moderns are fight
ing for heaven as they understand ii
Mr.. Bryan, for example, understands
it little or not at all, but in common
with the more ignorant and narrow
minded mystics. places himself on
record as "agin" the Governmental
science.
In approaching Winston Churchills
Two Minds for One" or as he pre-
fers 70 entitle 1t. THE Psychology OF
the Gospels" it is difficult to maintain
the Baconian attitude. which Is to
read not TO oppose and refute. nor TO
accept and take for granted, but to
weigh and consider. Before one can
weigh and consider one must under
stand, and tho present writer con-
fesscs TO an almost complete inability
to understand the densely packed coll
umns Of Churchill's presentation. 1t
was De la Rochefoucauld. think. who
said that men had language given to
them to conceal their thoughts-ex-
cept. Of course. those who have no
thoughts TO conceal. No one can doubt
that Mr.. Churchill has thoughts. beau
tiful. aspiring, stimulative. but his ex-
position is jungle without vistas. his
road map TO heaven Is a puzzle pic
ture, at least 20 one reader. The jun
gle is fun Of mysterious. suggestive.
gorgeously colored shapes. but We see
no way out; the puzzle picture is sug
gestive TO the fancy. interesting in its
possibilities but it does not lead any
where. To be explicit. there are whole
paragraphs which could be turned up
side down or hindside before without
losing or gaining in meaning. Most
Of them indeed. arc meaningless to
ono who wishes to think logically and
biologcally, and hy thinking under
standingly is meant ordered and def
mite processes OF thought applied to
definite and clearly understood situa-
tions. Here and there we find state
ment which has definite logical i'm
plication, however small the content
In truth or in practical application.
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
In 1879 Deutsch Pulled
Political Wires Behind Scenes

In the early days Of 1919 il was
Deutsch who did all the political
scheming and wire pulling behind the
scenes. / met him at the house OF
Georg Bernhard, the editor Of the
Vossische Zeitung. Bernhard, whom
found personally one of the most de-
lightfully clever men in Germany, with
4 gift Of satire more Gallo than Teu-
tonic. used to entertain me with rem
iniscences Of his experiences at the
front as war correspondent. when his
analyses of the military situation were
the frankest and best OF any published
in the German press. He was more
anti British than anti-French and was
one OF the advocates OF the "Continen-
tai Politik," an economic and political
alliance or the States Of western Eu-
rope against what he termed British
economic Imperialism.
Another interesting figure in the
newspaper world who took an active
part in all the political talkfests was
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

steam. What their emotions were we
do not know, but may infer. Pride
perhaps happiness in a recognition oi
law and it's manifestation, pleasure IN
anticipation of the meaning. practical
and spiritual. TO mankind of their dis
covery. But whatever the emotion
beautiful and altruistic. or indeed sci
fish. it followed the creation and die
not cause il. The emotion was the re-
suit. the creation was a step i'm an
intellectual process, and il is quite pos
sible that this process may have beer
as free from emotional coloring as the
addition of column of figures art
with the exception of Mr.. Hambridge's
proof Of the mathematical truth Of GER
tain Greek vases and temples-which
bitches this branch of art to the vine
of science-must be called not yet
science"
Every art has its underlying body
OF logical principle. and this we call
science. In architecture and music
il is largely mathematical science in
art he science OF optics. as we'll :;
even in poetry there must be the un-
Gerlying science of language, which we
know as grammar. else were our
verses unintelligible doggerel or mere
maniac rawlings. We cannot build for
beauty, whether houses or statues.
poems or pictures. unless we know
and allow for stresses and strains. un-
less we know and can handle our
medium and our material, and the
knowing is science, nothing more. III
we have two minds We have instincts
in both" Not necessarily unless. in
deed, we use the word instinct" so
loosely rs to give II a double mean
ing, to Indicate at one time a:tomatic
md unconscious somatic reactions, and
at another habitual and usual mental
processes, II would be as logical to
say that IL we have two safe deposit
boxes we have bonds in both Forse
qVe 81. forse que non.
TO continue with our quotations.
I'VE discard the assumption that emo
tions have their origin in the mind
or the brain. What are felt as emo
tions are the manifestations of Wills
whose wishes are that we shall express
them in acts, and so crafty their de-
sires and hates" The little word
for we cannot feel without a mind.
The biologist understands. as Winston
Churchill must that sensation is at
least as much function Of mind as
is intention. Biological thought aims
more and more to separate mind into
its simplest component parts as il
separates structure. however compli
Gated. into its cellular elements. II is
becoming more and more probable
that the basic factors OF mind, so
called are simple cell changes, and
that the resulting complex reactions
which We know as intention. inhibition.
Judgment. are no more immaterial and
mystic than the palace or the pyramid,
which is no more wonderful. in 4 way.
than the brick or the marble
M.,nra Tc n,c],rf,r,r,,
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
By DR.. PERCY FRIDENBERG.

Dr. Fridonbcr1 is t0eil krotcn oph-
thdlmoloOist OF NeC York. achosc intel
lectndl bont is fotcdrd enbrioloDD and
biology, and on the latter subject he has
,cTitten crfcHsirely. Hc Is a graduate Of
Columbia College and took his degree Of
". y. n the University Of Strdssbnrg IN
IlSdcc.
Tn its search for truth and he
beauty it calls happiness the
human spirit is very much like
the pendulum which swings through
never so wide an arc but seems to be
steadiest only at the point where it is
about to turn upon it's own path. II Is
a sign of the times in matters intel
vulsion against all that same human
spirit called materialistic when 1t was
not worshiping it as pragmatism, effl-
cheney and common sense. After four
years OF he'll on earth, Tie end OF
which is not yet and which in a way
crowned the edifice Of man capabili
ties Of scientific and organized de-
struction, we want heaven on earth.
Mans spirit moves in devious ways
its wonders to perform. The search
for an easy and accessible Paradise,
however nebulous. is innate. An
dreyieffs "He WEo Gets Slapped is
man throughout the ages trying to
escape from the realities of a life
which he is not strong enough to cope
with or philosophic enough TO en-
dure will. a smile, and various are the
gypsy circuses TO which he fees, some
beautiful and some vile. The swing
Of the pendulum now takes us from
the practical 10 the visionary, from
efficiency TO spirituality. from the
earth to the clouds. and II we are
very, very indefinite and aspiring
even beyond.
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
Rathenau Interviewed
Midst the Noise of Revolution

Consequently felt that | was very
fortunate when ! secured an appoint
ment with Walter Rathenau. On the
day I called to see him there was
lighting going on in the eastern Sec
lion OF Berlin, and many streets were
patroled by "panzer wagen," armored
automobiles On the roofs Of the
rouses at the corner OF Inter den
Linden and the Jaeger Strasse just
across from the Hotel Bristol. where
was staying, machine guns were
posted. and l heard them rafting a
few nights before behind the boarded
front windows of the hotel In order
10 escape possible danger from stray
bullets the few guests were given
rooms facing tie inner court.
But in his office on the Quay across
the Spree from the turbulent Wilhelm
strasse, found Rathenau sitting i'm
perturbably at his desk, going over
plsns for the restoration OF his huge
factories to a peace basis The sltua-
tion at the moment evidently did not
disturb kim, and the most noticeable
thing about him was the underlying
'aOLt VI fpNitUt1Ce III the luluIt VI
Germany that ran through all his con-
versation. Rathenau gives the i'm
preston OF a thinker, rather ttan a
man of action, but he does his think
ing effectively and has no illusions.
Nearly every one | had met up to that
time was up TO the ears in political
t-trigue; restless, nervous obviously
c.stng to make an impression on every
foreigner. | found Rathenau entirely
different. He neither gushed nor held
back, but received me with simple
friendlness, and discussed the politi-
cal situation with calm aloofness.
Ii was natural, he said that Ger
many should pass through the dema-
gogue period and inevitable that re-
actions to Right and Left should fol-
low in a revolutionary and defeated
country, for. unlike many of his conn
trymen. he frankly admitted Ger
many's d1feat There would be a pc
| riod Of demoralization and readjust-
lmcnt during which there would be a
Neal and pressing danger from Boshe-
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

plies in the intellectual realm quite
as much as in the executive or prac-
tical. a passage in letter Of Cotton
Mather to his son illustrates the
practical method. The great man
writes, in speaking OF his life at Har-
ward College, college to which he
went at the age OF twelve:
4 compared systems both or logict1
ard OF ph.sicS in catechisms Of my
own which have been since used by
many others. | went over the uses cs
globes and proceeded in arithmetic an
far as was ordinary. l made thesfs
and antitheses upon the main qu'..-
tions that lay before me.
Hundreds Of books read over and I
Kept diary Of my studies"
His comparing systems in logic and
in physics, his catechisms. his theses
and antitheses. his diary. represent
methods and forces or thinking.
Many, too many. Of us to-day just
learn our rules of logic or principles
Of physics, and just read our books
mot hundreds, usually) without cate
chizing ourselves. We are absorbers
and not reasoners, sponges and not
forces. Learn 10 think by thinking.
Little thinking is still thinking. The
little thinking passes over into much
and the much into more, and the more
grows from more to more.
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
To Become Thinker One
Must Travel Road of Learning

A second method OF becoming 4
thinker lies along the road Of learn
ing. Learning should be the way
leading 10 the house of thinking.
The guide posts of ilnowledge point
the way to the house OF reflection. II
one learn. and learn any subject with
attentiveness with thoroughness.
with carefulness, with clearness, with
honesty, with sense OF relation, il
win be found that these qualities. tho
attentiveness, thoroushness. careful
ness, clearness and honesty. relation
ship, become principles and elements
OF ones own intellectual constitution.
laws Of ones mental procedure. In
time the content Of the learning may
become lost The years lessen the
body OF knowledge.
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
Having Been a Socialist,
Rathenau Was Under a Cloud


At that time Rathenau was rather
Under cloud politically. Before and
during the war he had been known as
a Socialist and had written several
books and pamphlets on the subject,
but as the son OF a rich man. who had
occupied himself with social problems
in a theoretical rather than prac-
tical manner he was somewhat looked
down upon by the Social Democrats,
who made their socialism a matter Of
practical politics. Later, when, as he
predicted. the Government, face to face
with problems Of economic reconstruc-
tion, turned TO its great ndustrials for
assistance Rathenau, on account OF
his liberal view as well as his financial
background, was chosen to represent
the Government on the reparations
question and matters Of foreign policy.
In the sober disillusioned Germany of
the present day. which has tried au-
tocracy and socialism and found them
both wanting. he forms the connect
ing link between labor and capital, and
he is probably the man best fitted 10
bring together the various discordant
elements within the country. As q
man who was always opposed to the
war and the former imperial policies
he is not inclined to deny or wriggle
out OF Germany's responsibilities to
the Allies, and there is probably no one
in Germany better able 10 handle its
foreign policy.
While Rathenau represents the per-
sonality. the ideals and the moral force
behind thea. +. c." the corporation
also has its deus car ntdchind. the man
who really directs its financial policies
behind the scenes, and incidentally no
doubt has his finger in the reparations
pie as well-Geheimra Deutsch. head
of its board of directors. a little short.
dark man with alert black eyes that
miss nothing, a Macchiavellian brain
and head for figures.
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
IS AND RA7HENAU THE GOVERNING POWER IN GERMANY TO-DAY

there making munitions, but the only
sign | saw OF war time production
was pile of scrapped and rusty shells
III the yard. Practically every one Of
the operatives had been retained and
every department was back in its old
line Of work. In the shipping depart
ment ] saw a number OF electric mo-
tors wrapped in shiny black canvas,
ready for shipment to neutral coun-
tries-Holland. Denmark, Switzerland,
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
Close Relations Are Borne
BY Learning to Thinking

Learning is the library Of fact. tudg-
ment. opinion, lodged in the printed
volume or in manuscript. Thinking
Is the pointing out Of III, relation OF
these facts. the interpretations OF
these judgments, the vitalizlng OF
these lifeless pages. Learning is the
vast ocean OF knowledge into which
All the streams Of history, or human
ity's achievements and affairs. pour
themselves. noble. impressive. Think.
ing Is the use of this limitless ac-
emulation for tho enlargement ~
human character FOR the better7nent
OF nations, for the enrichment Of the
race. Learning is the chaEt room of
tho ocean steamship. its wallis hung
with maps and diagrams or winds and
OF currents. OF deep water and shoal
its desks covered with mathematical
books and logarithmic fables and in
struments necessary to safe and SWIFT
navigation. Thinking Is the ships
officer who uses these tables and
charts and chronometers for tho de-
termination Of latitude and longi-
tude and for the securing OF tho great
and final purpose OF the voyage.
The problem for the school in max
Ing learners and thinkers is IN secur-
ing teachers who can, through the
studying Of these students, not only
make scholars but also thinkers.
Difficult II Is 10 secure proper mum
bcr Of proper teachers TO give proper
lessons. II Is vastly more difficult and
vastly more important 10 get teachers
who are inspirers. dynamic powers
and vitalizing forces. to create the
mooi Of reflection luud OF consider
ateness In the mind Of youth Such
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
Grating at Dry Banquets
More Hazardous Task Than
Haranguing the Irrigated
Patrick Francis Murphy May Have Been Right About
the Effect of Prohibition Singing at Public Func
,a tions, but Augustus Thomas Says Sober Diners
Make Tough Going for the Speakers.

Patrick Francis Murphy OF New
York said last week at a luncheon in
London that prohibition had had the
effect at public dinners of reducing the
number of persons who think they can
sing. Yesterday Augustus Thomas
playwright, told reporter for THE
NEW YORK HERALD that the quality of
the singing at such functions had
fallen off, but that there was much
more of IL. He said:
1T is not necessary for me TO de-
scribe FOR you the public dinner OF
ante prohibition nights. Then men sang
with fierce abandon. having been
warmed internally and fired with great
enthusiasm, not TO say ambition. They
sang badly, very badly, and they did it
defantly. They didn't stop 10 think
about the quality of their music and
the hearer. made tolerant by the same
spirit that urged the song, accepted II
with great applause.
To-day they hire cheer leaders and
song pluggers 10 stand in a balcony
above the speakers table and badger
the merrymakers below into singing.
The diners sing in self-defense. You
say to yourself: Wei, l might just as
well sing now and get il over with be-
cause that bowling minstrel above
there will keep up this fearful ex-
hortation until I surrender
"Nothing OF the old Fire"
$50 YOU do your worst--sing in cold
blood. so to speak. You may not feel
like singing, but, as l say, you Just
sing because you are expected to sing
and thus show the world what whale
Of time you are having. There's
nothing of the old fire about it, moth
ing spontaneous. You have paid pro-
fessional ballyhoo to devil you into
song
yes, there is moro and worse sing
ing to-day, and it is attributable to
prohibition. The effect the Nolstead
act has had ON after dinner speaking
is another matter. There are fewer
and better speeches for the very OBJ
vious reason that tho cold. sober man
viii balk under abuse quicker than he
who has been mellowed and made
tolerant by wine.
"'Time was when tho chronic after
dinner speaker could ruin forty min
utes or an hour with speech that
ls,cKed ali OF the elements demanded
these sober nights He was always
certain TO get reaction. The chances
were that he would be applauded
vociferously no matter how terrible
Lis speech lie might receive slight
degree OF raz2ng. The demonstration
might be a combination OF apprecia-
ton and condemnation. At All events
ne got reaction. lie had the satisfac.
ton OF knowing that folks had heard
him.
some Applause Frigid.
But now he rises 70 his feet to
speak 10 a very different audience. A.
body this audience Is cold, defiant
sober. eXaCting and analytical Tickle
II with wit ana II responds with
chuckcs md ia guffaw o. two Bore
II with inauitjes aud II crushes YOU
back into Ssur chair With tons oi
heavy silence Y0u know. j man or
collection of men ,an applaud IN =
manner that stinEs deeper than frank
disapproval 4 Il almost \ forcgone
conclusion that sn after dinner
speaker will ne appaadcd they will
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
Nature Is Disciplinary

Mature Is never disciplinary" says
Mr.. Churchill. It would be difficult 20
compress a grea*f auou-t Of untruth
into four words. The sentence ap
piles 20 man, aHd TO man nature is
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
Accession Of Industrial Bar0ns
to Power Since Armistice Is
Interesting Story.
TOLD BY WOMAN WRITER
Marguerite E. Harrison Says
Predictions Made i'm 1919
Are Coming True.
BY MARGUERITE E. HARRISON

In most news dispatches from Ger
many at the present time, economic
and industrial, rather than political.
problems are given the first place.
The policies OF the Coalition Cabinet
or the state of mind OF the members
OF the Reichstag are of minor impor-
tance. What every one wants to know
are the plans and attitude OF mind Of
the industrial barons; men like Hugo
SHINES and Walter Rathenau and
other members of the industrial oil
garchy, which is to-day the real gov
erning power in Germany.
TO any one familiar with conditions
in Germany Immediately following the
armistice the gradual accession of
these men to power is intensely in
.tercsting. In the early days of the
republic they were very much in the
background, and yet in January, 1919.
Walter Rathenau, president OF the
General Electric Company, now Min
ister OF Foreign Affairs, predicted to
me exactly what has since taken place.