The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-02-25

world peace ana Solvency.
Some day a little band of diplomats
and financiers will meet in the Paris
catacombs or a
diplomats London fog, heav-
Prey to lily disguised, and
Perf;nnr put something
over, and Pertinax
won't catch them at it. To date,
the watchful French journalist has
anticipated and cried down every
effort, warning all and sundry that,
whatever it is, it won't work.
Thus, the studious proposals OF
Paul van iceland, former premier
of Belgium, were blasted several
weeks in advance of their publica-
ton, as just so much eye-wash.
Pertinax is one of the most bril-
liant and influential journalists OF
Europe and anything he touches up
in advance goes in with two strikes
against it. AS does the Van iceland
plan for economic reconstruction.
Walt Disney is readying "Snow
White" for France. That probably
means that Pertinax is preparing
to swing on it, just before it lands
there. One American common
tator made the film his sole excep-
ton in many years of dissent. Moth
ing like that may be expected
from Pertinax.
He is the only full-time dissenter
who bats 1000. He has picked fights
with Senator Borah, former Presi-
dent Hoover (being the only man
ever to assail an American Presi-
dent with that dignitary presently,
with all the Germans, before, dur
ing and after the war, and with all
ambassadors of good will.
In 1888, the French government
announced it would spend 81 1920, 900
80. to build good will
Wise CRACKS in America. Per-
Soured u. S. tinax, fielding that
Good Will one, pegged over
to this country
some sour cracks about American
materialism. And, just in passing,
any French journalist ought to know
a lot about materialists. For few
days it looked as if he might over
look the recent Brussels conference,
but he was on the job and smeared
it in plenty of time to get it a bad
press. He is at his best in discov-
ering and exposing Geneva's good
will conspiracies.
He is Partisan sophisticate, dap
per, dressy, monocled, getting about
a great deal and nosing in various
diplomatic feed-boxes-a first-class
reporter; but never satisfied. One
of the depressing things about him
is that he is so often right as he
pans this or that hopeful endeavor
before anybody else knows what it
is.
"A PROPOS of recent fiare-ups of
the behaviorist argument
among TIE psychologists, here's
Eugene Ormandy in the news as a
timely exhibit of the effect of early
conditioning. Long before he was
married, Eugene Ormandy's father,
a Hungarian dentist, used to say,
"Some day I'm going to get mar
ried and hive son and I'm going
to make him great violinist."
Years later, he pressed tiny violin
into his new baby's hand and had
him coached in rhythm before he
was out of the cradle.
At the age of three, the boy was
working hard at his violin lessons.
-, His only toys were
Boy Wonder music boxes. And
NoW Great now, Eugene Or
Conductor mandy, conductor
of the Philadel-
phia orchestra, gets the Gustav
Mailer medal, following the per-
Torrance of his composition, "Das
Lied Won Der Erde."
At the age of five, he was a stu
dent in the Budapest academy of
music, through at fourteen, but not
allowed to 60 on tour as violinist
until he was seventeen. In 1921, he
was in New York, hoping to bridge
the break in his career with his last
five-cent piece. He did, as violin
list at the Capitol theater, then as
sistant conductor, later with Roxy's
gang and then six years as conduc-
tor of the Minneapolis symphony or
chestra. He is perhaps the first
conductor to be upped to fame by
radio.
His father in Hungary isn't alto
gether pleased. "Just think what a
great violinist you might have
been," he wrote to his son.