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SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1922-10-28
ZAHYNULI LESNfM
POZARU.

San Bernardino, CAL, 27. rij
ma. - Osm muzI sc pohresuje
v horske oblasti okresu San
Bernardino, kde lesni pozary
radily po nekolik dni. Tito
muzi oddelili sc cd hlavniho
t6lesa svych druhd, kteri bra
Mill plamenIm proniknouti do
zalesnene casti bllze jezera
Arrowhead do Flemingova
IdOli.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1922-10-28
EBERT HLfDAN VOJAKY.

Berlin, 27. rfjna. - Vojaci
a oddly policie, ozbrojene rue,
nicemi byly nakvap poslany do
Wilhelmstr.e sse. kdyz Sc pro-
zradilo, ze ltoky ma presiden-
ia Eberta a kanclere Wirtha
byly planovany ma dnesek.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1922-10-28
v LlSTOpADUt LETNI
VEDRO.

Pratt. Kans.. 27. rijna. -
Toto mesto zakusilo letni vedro
vcera odpoledne, kdy rtut'
teplomeru vvstoupila ma 96
stupnd. Tato hcrka vlna "a
sahla cely zapadni Kansas.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1922-10-28
TURECKA BASNfRKA VIDA
Sc MA PROPACACNf
CESTU.

Cafihrad, 26. rijna. - Hall
de Edib Hanum, proslula tu-
recka basnlfka manzelka VI
ce-presidenta angorske vlady,
hodla behem Pristine mesice
nastoupiti cestu do Angle a
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1922-10-28
fascist UPLATNUJ SV0J VLIV.
ZMOCNILI Sc NEST FLORENCE,
PISY A CEREMONY.
RESlGNACE KABINETU BYLA DORUCENA VCERA
KRALI PO JEHO NAVRATU DO RfMA
Bulletin:

Rim, 28. fijna. - X bojdm doslo severne odtud a
fascist tahnou toto mssto die zprav obdrzenych zde
dnes easns rano Vadni vojsko Sc pfpravuje ma moz-
bitvu zde.
Londyn, 28.rijna. - Vojensky zakon prohlasen byl
cele ltai ma vejt platnost dnes poedne pravi
depese Cd Stefaniho kanceafe polofedn taske novi-
nafske organisace
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Mah0mef Ali Calls andIzanyf FOLLOW

What did the spiritual leader aim to do?
No less than to blend with the ancient
PHILOSOPHERS everywhere accepted as the
guiding rule of good moral conduct as Of
man to man the creeds of Catholicism,
Professionalism and Judaism all over the
world.
Bahaism may be characterized, and is
characterized by its disciples, as a product
of Christianity, Mahometanism and the
Mosaic law. 1t recognizes the good in all
three. it derives in great measure its
teachings and admontions as well as in
sprations from the holy books, the Bible,
the Koran and the Tablets and Books of
Moses.
From all it seeks to draw the best, free
from alloy of superstition and hampering
ceremonies. And by blending all three of
these spiritual books there has evolved
spirit or personifcation of a religious
aspiration which Bahaism stands for 1t is
perhaps the universal religion that so
many, particularly in the United States.
have longed for and elsewhere sought i'm
vain.
All that has been done in America so
far has come about of itself. The belev-
ers, however, have long felt that some
leader should superintend the work. Dur.
ing this year and presumably in the com
ing summer there will arrive from the
Orient a small army of preachers. grad
yates of the American University at
Beirut, who have spent most of their lives
learning the English language.
These APOSTLES of the new faith will be
under the guidance of DR.. Kheiraila and
Mahomet Ali's son, Mahomet Ali being
the executive head of the Bahaist move.
ment. These preachers will go TO various
cities there to labor to build new assem-
bles that are meant to spread the faith
to every State.
OF particular interest to the Bahai
movement here to-day is the recent sue
cesson of Mahomet Ali, son of Baba Ullah,
to the leadership of this religion. Ma.
homet Ais son and heir, Shua Ullah
Behai. lives in the United States. Is an
American citizen and is married to an
American woman.
Mr.. Behai makes his home in New York
city. He came to this country at the time
of the ST. Louis Exposition, sent hither by
his father to study western civilization and
to realize in person the greatness of the
American nation and the opportunities of
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largely by their generous gifts of money
and will soon erect a costly, elaborate head
quarters of the faith of Bahaism in the
form of a magnificent marble temple in
Chicago.
All gifts to Bahaism are unsolicited And
it is powerful proof of the religions eff
fects on humanity when money in great
quantities pours from the Golfers of hard
headed business men and women on whom
no tax for supporting their religion has
ever been laid. They find new, strange
peace in this faith of Bahaism and their
first impulse seems to be to place valuable
gifts on the strange and far distant altar
Bahaism calls itself a universal re-
ligon. This means universal brotherhood,
and universal brotherhood means universal
peace.
With these great ideas, which are by no
means new, Bahaism started to circle the
globe Quietly it crossed Europe, as
quietly it leaped the ocean, and its con-
verts in America gathered together two by
two, then hundred by hundred, collecting
as by a law of natural attraction and
clinging together by another law equally
natural Of cohesion. There never has been
a propaganda of Bahaism carried on in this
or any other land.
Nevertheless 1t is well within the mem
ory OF those not yet old that the first few
adherents of the Bah met on Sundays in a
little dark back room on Fifty-fifth street
to read papers from the nephew OF the
Bah, who was then a prisoner of the Turk
IN Acre--to read these papers and to dis.
cuss and interpret them quietly then to
sing few hymns and with quiet pres
sure OF the hand to disperse.
A little later the increasing band met in
the larger parlors Of an adherent on Park
avenue and by the year 1890 or so they
had still further grown and increased in
membership and fortune until they were
able to lease for spiritual meetings, Sun
days and week days a public hall on West
Fifty-eighth street,
Even in these early days the merchants
and business men who had been attracted
by the very quietude Of this simple religion
had but ono urge. desire that rose above
all other earthly ones--it was to make the
trip to Acre. in Asia Minor and sit for a
time at the feet of their spiritual master.
Many Of them did gain their desire. And
not one went to Acre without a gift a
free will offering, to aid their chief in the
spread of his faith.
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came to America, some thirty-five years
ago, absorbed his teachings and herself be-
came an ardent advocate of the new faith.
She speaks thus of Bahaism:
"The spiritual trend in this country to-
day Is undeniably for a new religion 1t is
coming slowly but surely. The suffrage
movement and all these unity societies and
clubs scattered ALI over the land are merely
outlying expressions of the will of the peo-
pie for universal brotherhood. The teach
ings of Beha Ullah, in my opinion, are the
most Christian, enlightened and up to date
teachings of any religion extant. You
might say that they are compound of all
the faiths of the world, and yet they are
different and possess specific qualities of
their own.
Marriage, Beha Ullah taught, cannot be
contracted without the specific consent of
the young couple Monogamy is recon-
mended. 1t does not require leaders with
strong personalities like Dowie and Mrs.
Eddy, without whom Zionism and Chris
tian Science would have made little prog
ress in this country, to introduce Bahaism
here. The teachings of Beha Ullah are
clear and logical enough and carry an ire
sistible appeal to all intelligent and
thoughtful men and women as they are ex-
pressed In the three volumes that sum up
the whole philosophy of his religion, che
Most Sacred Book of Laws. the Tablet of
Wisdom and the Book of Heikel. One has
only to study these books and absorb their
teachings in order to in turn be able to
promulgate them in the assemblies"
The Bahasts are scattered all over the
world. Their great citadel is, Of course,
Persia, where the new faith originated. or
the 100000 inhabitants in the land Of
Omar Khayyam, 100000 are Of the Bahai
denomination. The remainder of the con-
verts are spread over Russia, China, India,
Afghanistan, Beluchistan, Turkey, Syria,
Egypt and most of the European countries.
Two principles constitute the basis of
Bahaism, unity and solidarity Of mankind.
Its aim Is the altruistic Kingdom Of
hearts," There should be no conquest, no
dominion and no adhesion to political ideas.
All men are equal and brothers. There are
no great ones, no small ones, no nobility,
no plebs. All men are children of one great
country--the earth. There is no special
country-that is to say, the idea Of patriot
ism does not exist among the Bahaists; the
cosmopolitan idea dominates entirely.
II was In 1853 that Mira Huseyn Ali,
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Imply falling branches resemble the weep
ing willow. The slab, on which the Ameri
can eagle is conspicuous, had been sent out
from America.
Payne's body did not have a home in
America until 1883, when his remains were
removed from Tunis, thus carrying out the
restless spirit of his life
The coffin had remained IN the Anglican
Church in Tunis on the night before it's
embarkment. Home, Sweet Home" was
played on the organ as it was moved out to
the ship. The body lay in state in the Gov
ernor's room in City Hall, New York, when
1t arrived and later was buried in Oak
Hill Cemetery in Washington, D. c., in the
presence of thousands gathered to welcome
home a strayed and broken son of Amer
lea. The vast concourse sung the same
sacred song that had been played on the
organ in the little church in Tunis. Presi-
dent Arthur and his Cabinet and great
numbers Of Government officials attended
the services to join in a belated tribute
to a citizen who could muster few friends
in America while he was alive.
In the life of John Howard Payne and
the tale of his wanderings, adventures and
misfortunes, there is the same thread that
lies in the experience Of thousands OF his
fellow cona.rymen who by choice or neces
sity quit America for foreign lands. His
was the old story Of first finding more joy
in new surroundings than in old home
scenes and then being betrayed by the lure
of the rolling stone life.
In connection with this effort to pre-
serve for those who may by chance be
abroad or there by pure choice there is re-
called the whole sad life of John Howard
Payne.
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" VERY thinking person, including the
X scoffer, is interested in the birth OF
a new religion. The dawn of new
religious idea is a phenomenon, and the
growth and development Of it into faith
always is an interesting study. What may
lie between new faith or new doc.
trine interpreting differently the tenets
of an old faith seems to place us at once
in the receptive attitude strangely akin
with the Hindus who anciently listened to
the gentle voice of Buddha, to the Asiatics
who were fired by the enthusiasm of Ma
homet and even with the characters who
are portrayed in Genesis.
cults" of course have always existed.
There have been sporadic growths at the
base Of every great religious tree. Too
often these have been mere fungi, worth
less and to be cut down before they sap
the strength of the great roots on which
they feed; too often these have proved to
be mere promotions OF clfarlatans. Hu
manity never has been for long seduced
into receiving them and they ordinarily
die for lack of vitality only TO be supplied
by continuous interest.
religion within recent years has come
out of the East which, while containing
some Oriental features, is easily adaptable
TO the Western world. II is rather to be
described as a doctrine that combines the
best in modern religions with old philos-
ophies--so old indeed that they anticipate
Zoroaster and the Grecian sages. II pre-
sents the combination in a form so orig
inal that it may be called an entirely new
religion. It's tenets, simple almost primi-
tive though they be, appear to be gaining
considerable hold in the United States
after an even greater degree of acceptance
on the European continent.
First Born in Persia,
But Draws the Best Here
This new spreading faith, this new re-
ligion, based on an idea of universal
brotherhood of man, is Bahaism. IL was
born In Persian the brain OF a medita
tive sheik, title which is religious as well
as political. The most wonderful thing
about IL is not its novelty, for that il really
has not, but the tact that 1t already domi.
mates many souls in the United States who
are representative of our most cultivated
and purest moraled men and women. Also
there is the corellating fact that these con.
verts support its Eastern representation
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From the time he was 13 Payne never
knew the meaning of the word home. The
only such thing his mind could picture
when he wrote Home, Sweet Home was
America-Broadway the Hampton hamlets
of the far south shore of Long Island, the
friendly old buildings of Union College at
Schenectady and the picturesque camps OF
the Cherokee Indians in Georgia.
When Payne was 13 his mother died
Soon afterward his father Joined her after
the failure of a private school of his in
Boston. Payne, who had been born some
place in New York city, spent his early
boyhood in Boston, and at IL showed such
a marked gift of elocution that he at
tracted the attention of an actor who was
all for putting the BOY on the stage. Payne
shared the actors idea, but his ambition
so shocked his father that the boy forth
with was shipped to New York to be bound
out to merchant and prepare himself for
a business career.
Payne worked by day for the merchant,
to whom literally like Uncle Tom, he
owed his body. But by night he gave his
soul to the stage, frequently the haunts
of actors in taverns around what is now
City Hall Park at almost the time City
Hall was being built. He published anony-
mously little dramatic paper which he
called the Thespian Mirror.
The publication attracted such favorable
attention that his authorship could not
long be hidden. When William Coleman,
who had founded the New York Evening
Post only four years previously, learned
that his colleague of the Mirror was only
13, he took an interest in the boy, which
was shared by John e. Seamons. wealthy
man of benevolent, inclination and stern,
unyielding virtue.
Seamons sent Payne to Union College as
his protege. Payne, boy prodigy, started
on his college career with a wide reputa-
tion. His fame as an editor of the Mirror
had spread to Albany, where, in passing
through to Schenectady aboard sloop, he
was ccurted and petted and flattered and
spent his benefactor's money with such
prodigality that Seamons withdrew his
support when he heard of it.
At Union young Payne was not model
student and had to leave school to work his
way after Seamons became dissatisfied with
his actions. Among Union Colleges most
cherished possessions is the original manu-
script of poem entitled Home" written
in 1906 by a homesick, penniless student,
Payne. Before the discovery of the manu-
script among the effects of Harmanus
Bleecker of Albany, there had been some
doubts about Payne's originality in writing
Home, Sweet Home" as many of the plays
and songs he did in after life were adapted.
But comparisons of Home" and Home
Sweet Home" prove that the latter was
elaborated from the former.
When Payne left Union he was free to be
an actor. When he was 16 he made his
stage debut on February "a, 1909, as Young
Norual in Douglas" at the old Park Thea
ter, which stood in Park Row, between
Beekman and Ann streets and backed into
Theater Alley, the only reminder of what
was the Longacre Square section of its day.
Payne was success in plays, all the way
from "Barbarossa" to Romeo and Juliet"
and played in Boston. Philadelphia and
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from the lips of 'Sicilian peasant girl
selling oranges.
For "Clari, the Maid Of Milan," contain
ing the most famous song of its kind in
the world, Charles Kemble, manager of the
Covent Garden Theater, paid the poet ESQ.
A Miss Tree, sister of the famous Ellen,
played the part of CIdri and thus sung,
for the first time on May s. 1928, Home,
Sweet Home" In twenty months Charles
Kemble had gained $4,000 by the copy
right in the sale of 100000 copies. Other
publishers to whom the rights have passed
have made other huge sums. Payne got
only his ESQ, and had to keep on writing
to pay for his lodgings.
The author of Home, Sweet Home" all
along was discovering that Europe does
not pay for prolonged American residence.
He was frequently hard up and in trouble,
but he was favorite and went among the
notable folk of his time. He lived in the
Palais Royal at it's brilliant epoch, when
ia gambling houses drew sightseers from
all Europe. He lived in the Rue Richelieu
when it was still the elegant street of
residences. He knew the Paris of "Pel-
ham" and Becky Sharp" the Paris Of
gastronomy and the witty Boulevard. The
Latin Quarter was then the Latin Quarter.
He had his entree to all theaters and
knew the actors and actresses. He saw
the pageant of the Empire. Yet he knew
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~ NE HUNDRED years lacking re"
months have passed since John
Howard Payne, actor, playwright,
composer and consular official, first gave
to the world it's most famous ballad,
Home Sweet Home" In that time an
American wanderers creation, written and
first sung in England, has touched inti-
mately countless millions of Americans at
home or away from it,
Now homesick and homeless Americans
in Paris and London are building around
the name of Payne and the deep running
sentiment of his song plans for memorial
homes for Americans abroad. To the pro-
moters of these homes for travellers abroad,
Payne is the patron of wanderers and
Home Sweet Home" is their anthem.
group of Americans meeting recently
in the offices of Alexander Kahn, represen-
tative of an American sewing machine
company in Paris, arranged to open the
first home there. Soon they expect to ex-
tend their activities to London and then
to other capitals around the world. Later
they may even have branch in New
York for lonely folk in the metropolis ad.
venturing away from Western, Southern or
New England firesides, or even for that
always homeless class of which Payne was
a distinguished member-the actors.
The idea of Home, Sweet Home" CEN
ters in Europe, the Far East and the Pa
cific Islands grew out of the conversation
of twenty American tourists after dinner
in a hotel of Tunis. They talked Home
Sweet Home and sang the song. Then
they heard a story of how John Howard
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Strong Here and in Chicago,
All From Old Faith.

In both New York and Chicago. the two
great strongholds of the country, Bahaism
has taken firm root. In the great metropo-
lis of the middle West there are more than
5000 faithful, nearly all Americans, and in
this city they number well over 5000.
Most remarkable Of all is the fact that
these neophytes have been recruited not
from the ranks of the non-sectarian units
but from those of the Catholic, Protestant,
Jewish and other religions.
II is among women that Bahaism has Its
strongest appeal, particularly among the
suffragists. since its tenets recognize the
rights of women and are in thorough sym
pathy with most of the principles advocated
by them to-day One of the earliest con-
verts and most enthusiastic adherents In
this country is Mrs Kate T. Morris, prom
inent suffragist leader, who was for many
years hostess of the Woman's Suffrage,
now the League of Women Voters. Mrs.
Morris met DR.. Kheiralla when he first
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il did not pay. as he must have felt in
"Home. Sweet Home:
An exile from home, spendor dazzles In
vain,
oh, give me my lowly matched cottage
again,
The birds singing gaily that came at my
call.
Give me them and that peace of mind
dearer than all
Home, home. sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home
Payne returned home to New York in
1885. But he had been away too long.
For seven years he wandered up and down
the land Of his birth, for time studying
the tribal customs OF the Cherokees and
defending their cause. His old friends
were scattered. Little by little he found
himself restless and out of touch. 1t was
the revenge of the home neglected.
Friends worked to get him consular
appointment When he was SO he OBJ
tanned the post at Tunis When he pre-
sented his credentials the Bey of Tunis
exclaimed:
America? America? Where is it?"
Payne smiled sadly to himself. He
knew.
He had consular society, an olive grove
and-the flag! He was beloved for just
one song that he had written. Once again
he had a chance at home, sweet home
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p a y e, far away
from his native land,
homeless, alone and
u n h a ppy, died in
T nj is on April l,
1852, when he was
United States Consul
there.
Payne had written
his great song twen-
ty-nine y e ars pre-
viously a n d h a d
spent all those inter
vening years except
six away from home.
According to local l
tradition in Tunis,
Payne spent the sum
mer in a villa among
olive groves, outside
t h e city walls, b u t
breathed his last in
the American Con-
sulate, "a M o r i S h
building s e p a rated
from the B ri t i s h
Residency by a mar
row lane.
Over the site of his
grave is a plain, gray
marble slab on mas.
sive f ou n d a tions.
overhung by a great
pepper tree, whose
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Told Sultan to Approach
And Was Banished to Acre


In 1863 Beha Ullah was commanded by
the Sultan Abdul Aziz to appear before him
in Constantinople. The prophet travelled
thither, but sent word to the Turkish
despot though the Grand Vizier that if
the Sultan desired to see him he, the Sui
tan should come to- him. This angered the
potentate and he banished him to Acre,
Syria, where Beha Ullah established his
spiritual seat and from where he con-
tinued to promulga& the teachings Of the
new faith.
The Bahaists have three great religious
events. Their new year falls on March 21;
on April 25 the faithful observe a twelve
day feast, because on that day Beha Ullah
rested in grove near the river Khabour,
a branch of the Euphrates, west Of Bag
dad, while on his way to Constantinople.
and there uttered the texts" On March
2 the Bahaists enter upon a nineteen day
fast, which ends on March 20. Like the
Mahometans they pray facing east.
Their ritual Is simple and consists In
individual prayer three times day. Their
rosary contains ninety-five beads, the only
formula of worship being the simple
words: Allahu.Abha, which means, God the
most splendid. Their house of worship,
Mashrak- -ElAskar, the literal translation
of which Is the dawn in a place of COM
memoration," is only for assemblies and
teachings; prayer is taboo therein
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introducing the faith of Beha Ullah to the
people of the United States.
Perhaps one of the most picturesque
features in the campaign is the erection of
two grandiose houses of worship-the
Bahaists eschew the word temple-which
will cost each more than a million dollars.
Plans have already been completed for the
building of one in Willimette, suburb of
Chicago, and an identical one will be
erected in New York Immediately suit
able site is found.
I'VE are not seeking funds in this coun-
try" said Mr.. Behai I'VE have been offered
all manner of help from the faithful here.
Where the offers were of money we have
declined them. Our financial resources to-
day are more than ample to meet the ey.
penses of countrywide campaign. All the
money that is needed will come from the
Orient We have millions and we propose
to spend without hindrance in order to
make the faith of my grandfather, Beha
Ullah, known in every city and hamlet in
this great country.
"Our activities in the past have been con
fined to translating into English the pre-.
cepts OF Beha Ullah and to introducing to
the more educated of the nation the tenets
OF our faith. We have now more than
20 900 Bahaists in this country, large per-
centage of whom will become teachers and
preach the new faith"