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A POUI'-vMTt wnnnAM FOK
rininni,rniA
Thlnga on which the people expect the new
administration to concentrate Ita attention!
The Delaware river bridae.
A trydoek bio enough to accommodate tne
largest shipt
Development of the rapid traiutt system.
A convention hall.
A bulldlno for the Fret Library.
An Art lluttum.
Knlorflemetit of the xcater tiipph.
Homes to aceoi mxodatc the population.
"ALL INHABITANTS THEREOF"
IT 18 asserted on Rood authority that the
Liberty Hell Inscription is purged at last
ot implied reservations.
"Without the dotting of an additional "I."
tho crossing of an additional "t" or the
subtraction of these marks the venerable
mouthpiece of freedom honestly announces
liberty "throughout all the land and to all
the inhabitants thereof."
The sister bell, which will be rung at the
Sufrage Jubilee on Saturday afternoon,
will symbolize precisely that enlivening Idea.
Independence Hall, in faithful keeping with
the historical and sentimental proprieties,
Trill be the tccnc of the festivities. Fifty
women's clubs are expected to take part in
this formal and picturesque recognition of
the benefaction of the nineteenth amend
ment. Mrs. Catt, Governor Sproul and
Mayor Moore will speak.
Although ju"tificatIon for the festivities
Is palpable, the women nre to be congratu
lated for crystallizing their zestful appre
ciation of victory. Among u good many
human bipeds grumbling Is the habit, out
spoken glee the exception that proves the
rule. Feminine emancipation is well worth
a formal cheer. Independence Hall is the
correct auditorium. The occasion bids fuir
to be one of the sincerest and moit inspiring
of many notable ones that have graced the
shrine of liberty.
A "CAPACITY" COLLEGE
IF THE financial and administrative prob
lems of the University of Pennsylvania
arc formidable, they arc nnnually countered
by evidences of vitality such as are hardly
paralleled In any similar institution of
learning throughout the rountrv.
. JS'at student attendance, which has in- i
creased annually, has now attained absolute
"capacity" proportions. This autumn about
000 young men will be placed upon the
waiting lists. It is expected that the en
rollment, which begins today, will reach
about 11,000 or nearly S00 more than last
year.
Of all indorsements of an Illustrious In
stitution. thl is perhitps the mot significant.
Within a quarter of a century the University
"population" has trebled itself. Such vig
orous jrrowth is n sign of sound neaileniic
health, promising in the end u solution of
some pending difficulties.
Doctor I'i'iiiiimati begins the first e:ir in
which he will assume tht duties of provost
Trith tho assurance that the University is im
mensely populur unci deeply respected. The
public, which is honored by the record of
the Institution and its wide scope, may per
missibly rejoice in thee hopeful uugurie.s.
AUTUMN HOPES
THE astronomers insist thai autumn 1U20
begins the day after tomorrow at pre
cisely twenty -nine minutes after 3 oVlnrk
In the morning. Popular .scieuce, however,
Is more persuasive, nml it is, therefore,
generally understood tlmt autumn foo to
baseball, straw hats and succotash and
friend to football. oerroats uml chestnuts
season poetically somber supposedly stimu
latingstarts on September i!l. Philadel
phia Is proud of this section of Ita calendar.
With an assurance ulmost Californian the
town is prone to dismiss ruw winter, tickle
pring and muggy summer with the boastful
proclamation of its autumn as the best pro
curable nnvwhere. The fiction is innocent,
a peccadillo certainly to be condoned in a
region where folks ure rather more weather
beaten than weather-beating
The recent brisk days and skies of Pa
prlan blue undoubtedly furnish the optimist
with n substantial handicap. If the equi
noctial sunshine and clean air continue for
the late editions today. Los Angeles clti
tens marooned here v, ill be hearing enough
about It to multe them feel entirely at home.
KEEPING THE LEGION FREE
FORTUNATELY for the American
Legion, it is disappointing those men
who, knowing the force of the influence
which It represent., have hi en mine to use
it as a blar not only In polities lmt in otlirr
fields where independent thinking nnd an
impartial view me quite as important Tor
this the ex-soldiers nnd their leaders deserve
credit and congratulation.
Both pollticul parties were in the war
and they are in the Legion. Rich and poor
served with equal devotion. Auj effort to
divide these young men into opposing closes
is graceless and unwise. State Adjutant
William O. Murdock, of New Jersey, has
made It plaiu that Legion men, who, acting
ns strike-breakers, pretend to represent the
tentlment and purpose of the organization,
way expect to be censured or denied the
privileges of u chatter. That attitude is
justified. Labor disputes cannot be properly
settled on sentimental grounds And if em
ployers who habitually get into violent rows
with their men found the Legion lined up in
solid units on the side of labor they would
havo n right to feel resentful.
APPLES AND ABSURDITY
TIIl'l usual exasperating story of Penn
sylvania apples Is being told again this
year, The crop is enormous, estimated to
exceed 17,000,000 barrels. But the wastage,
due, it is said, to manipulation by shipping
agencies intent on artificially maintaining
high prices, will also be vast The public.
'deluded by the speciously pretty exteriors of
.ywrtern fruits, will probably keep on buying
them at high nrlccs nnd wondering occa
sionally why savor in npples has become
merely a memory.
Farmers in nearby counties aro endeavor
ing to combat onerous and unnatural con
ditions by a system of truck deliveries
eliminating the middlemen and both delib
erate and occidental rigidities of transport.
The plan at present is not workable unless
guarantee of sale Is made by ndvanco orders
from consumers, which render possible de
liveries of four or five barrels of npples at
a. time. But as only a small .proportion of
the community Is likely to nvnll Itself of
these opportunities the absurdity of the
situation Is not greatly relieved.
The federal and state agricultural de
partments report that the value of Penn
sylvania apple orchards has Increased more
than 20 per cent within the last three years.
Theoretically this Is consoling until the
search Is made for renlly tasty npples at a
moderate price.
And then the spell of that peculiarly
modern psychology which has fostered
the sale of "heart of palm trees" from South
Africa Illustrates with dismal idiocy why
one of the greatest fruit-growing regions
In the wofld, right at our doors, is crippled
In the marketing of its luscious products.
WHAT'S UP IN THE MINDS
OF THE NEW GENERATION?
Youth and Age Aro Eying Each Other
Critically, Not Only In Britain,
but the World Over
YEARS and years ago, when Mr. Wilson
was still a glorified prophet In the land
and when we could think of the great war
as an end rather than u new beginning of
International tribulution, a poet somewhere
In a trench wrote a poem.
He wa,s a young poet. Clearly, he had
not reached the ugo of compromises and
temperate judgment.
The ignominy of dirt nnd cooties and end
less cold and hunger and bloodshed and
automatic obedience to voices of command
teems to have overwhelmed him for a
moment nnd to have driven him to wild
utterance. In his poem he said that If ever
there was another jolly old world war the
jolly old gentlemen normally responsible for
such things would be plucked from their
plush chairs at home and sent to the jolly
old front to finish It while the youth of the
world stood comfortably nsldo to do the
cheering.
The extremely unreasonable young poet
was killed. But his poem still lives to irri
tate some of the nerves of the old world.
It started a good many minds off on erratic
tangents.
In England, now, there is a loud discus
sion of what 0. K. Chestcron calls the
Conflict Between Youth and Age. This de
bate rages In the London Morning Post,
where mystified parents, encouraged by ob
servations delivered In the deencst chest
tones of which the Post Itself Is capable, tell
of the growing Insolence, Intolerance nnd
recklessness of their children.
Observers that Is, ladies and gentlemen
who write to the pnpers have discovered
that Youth is not what It used to be, that it
is getting out of hand, developing ways and
philosophies of its own and, in the words
of the cherished British phrase, going n
pace. A debate that has momentarily dis
pelled interest in the Sinn Fein demonstra
tions and the ambitions of the British Labor
party nnd the disagreements with France
reached a climax when an old gentleman
wrote to say in accents wild that his own
daughter entered her home unon n day to
slap him on the back and call him not Pater
but Old Bcnn. And It was an ingenue of the
upper middle class who countered with a
passionate letter in which London wns In
formed that "a soviet of youth has already
come to some extent and that, within limits,
it is no bad thing!"
Youthful Eng'nnd. It seems. IH'e the youth
of a large part of the civilized world, is
going in too desperately for jazz and for
latchkeys; for late hours and cigarettes.
Shocked parents confess In print that their
sons nnd daughters have been known to
swear. Moreover, they nre cultivating
habits of insolence and arrogance. They
have nn Air. It is a new and disconcerting
Air. suggestive of conscious tolerance and
secrecy, of things known, which, from
motives of charity for an elder world, nre
not uttered.
Youth, cry the writers to the London
Post, seems disposed to look down nnd not
up nt its parents, and to be heard and not
seen. The Post nods a grave affirmative.
It confesses thnt we nre come upon strange
and trying days.
Meanwhile, the youth of London is dis.
posed to sneer openly nt the anonymous
Moses who writes the leaders for the Poit.
The .situation is, as you might sa, grave.
The elders of the world sit piously at lioirie
or In their clubs nnd their office plotting
campaigns or traue or military rivalry. They
enrnestly sell top hats nnd cooiiinc to the
heathen. They confess that new wars are,
indeed, u possibility not to be disregarded
They preach Intolerance ns one of the newer
irtues. They admit by every inference
thnt the affairs of civilization nre almost
beond their control They rail each other
fearful names. And thej are grieved he
cnuse their consecration to these tasks does
not inspire in the youth of the world n de
sire to keep them company ond join them
in their great activities.
Youth has lost something of its ancient
faith and its ancient courtesy. It laid much
of its fnitli down at the feet of those col
lege professors who know more nbiuf science
than they know about life, and not enough
about either subject It has gone in pretty
wildly for ja;:z und late hours. lint there
again, in the tango jears, the elders were
the lenders in the stampede.
Youth isn't horn with knowledge. It
lenrns by looking around. Whnt the fathers
nnd mothers of the time perceive now is
oui the reflection of their own cxntnples
in the mirror, which Is the jouuger genera
tion. The parent who weeps in print be
cause his daughter demands n lntchke nnd
a right to sta out half the night was cer
tainly one of those who hnd n habit of get
ting home shortly before sunup.
Viuth goes to the j.iti palates, to the all
night lestaunints, to questionable shows.
But it doesn't run these things nr make
money out of them. It reads the racy hooks.
It does not write them. It fights in the
wars. But the wars are plotted by older
minds. All the visible forces and agencies
of modern civilization are the work of men
over forty. And since every one agree, that
wholesome change is needed in a good many
quarters a new assertion of the youthful
spirit of the race is not a thing to be feared.
Youth itself does not and cannot funda
mentally change. It comes to the world
with hopes and visions. It is not hard and
it cunnot be bitter, because it has no knowl
edge of evil until its illusions aro gone or
taken away from it. But youth aspires and
it loves life and It reacts to moods that a
good many elder statesmen have long for
gotten. In England even the memory of the war
is a bitter irritation to men and women who
are not too old to hope for tho liberation of
llfo from the burdens that it had recently to
bear And if in England nnd elsewhere
there Is a disposition in the rising generation
to reject some of the older standards of
conduct and judgment it cau be easily under-
EVENING PUBttffc LEDaEB
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stood, Jazz and latchkeys and slang aro
transient phenomena. They mean nothing
permanent. But tho attitude of tolerant
criticism with which soma young men con
front older ones is another matter. And it
must appear In any final analysis to be a
wholesome thing.
For ourselves we should llko to see In
this, country nnd in this city, too, a general
emancipation of the youthful mind expressed
not in n disposition toward cigarettes nnd
latchkeys, but In active criticism and oppo
sition to some of tho bigotries and delusions
that cnrller generations fostered. Thnt wny
He a better civilization nnd n renewal of
foith nnd good works. In politics. In eco
nomics nnd even In tho social llfo of the
country such a culmination is greatly to be
desired.
Meanwhile,' who, looking largely about the
world, can sny thnt youth Is intolerant or
even without n mysterious sort of wisdom of
Its own?
Let us suppose, for exnmple, thnt those
still young were to tnkc their ciders at their
word. Let us suppose thnt they believed
one-tenth of what Mr. Cox is saying of his
opponents. Would youth not have a right
to rise in a passion of nnger nnd despair?
No less a person than tho presidential
nominee of one of the great parties Is using
all his energy to convince the men of the
country that they nre the stake In n mon
strous enterprise, doomed to bayonets under
the plans of distinguished American states
men. Similarly, there arc Republicans who
try to convince these same young men, and
the young women for that matter, that It
is the desire of the President of the United
Slates to sacrifice not only their safety or
their lives, but the strength of their nation
for the benefit of the British empire. Scoun
drels and traitors are everywhere In positions
of authority and power if you believe all
that is being said on politlcnl stumps here in
the United Stntes and elsewhere.
But youth, born with faith, Is tolerant und
wie; wiser In many ways than those who
so ardently and foolishly uddress it. It
knows that all it hears Is not true. It has
not had time to outlive Instincts which con
vince it that deliberate evil Is uncommon
among men mid that most people try, ac
cording to all their lights, to be good. But
nowadays it has much to remember the
failure of elder statesmen in many countries,
the cynicism of Clemenceau and his school,
the confusion in Britain. It may remember
the French Academy of Science, the most
exalted body of elderly scholars in the world,
which knew everything but that economic
oppression in France and tho general disre
gard by those in authority of the health and
well-being of the people nro slowly depopu
lating that gallant country.
Youth wants change. And who does uot?
THE WATER WARNING
rpiIE report of the consulting engineers on
J- the water system of Philadelphia is
listed for presentation to Council today. It
is expected that those defects of the prescut
equipment, which Chief Davis has repeat
edly pointed out, will be emphasized again.
Stress upon this subject cau, however, hardly
surpass the sudden drought caused through
out nearly half of the city on Sunday morn
ing by a break in ono of the principal water
mains leading from the Lardners Point
station.
On a nonworking day the six-hour water
famine was vexatious and inconvenient. It
is the menacing possibilities of such n
breakdown in tho municipal vitality that
provoke a shudder. A city with nn imper
fect, ineffective, antiquated water-supply
system is a crippled community, even If good
fortune saves it from the perils of fire.
Mr. Davis, a competent official, much
embarrassed by the lack of adequate funds
and materials, hastened to point the moral
of "I told you o." The lesson was nptly
drawn. Neither the city government nor
citizens themselves seem until lately to have
npprecintcd the seriousness of the water
supply crisis. It is imperative that such
recommendations ns nre made in the official
report be promptly heeded and made the
basis of direct practical action.
The lonn bill will, if passed, provide for
the appropriation of $2,000,000 for enlarg
ing the Queen Lane pumping station.
Though this will be u help in n critical
situation, the problem will not be solved
without larger-scale remedies. These in
the end will have to Include n general de
velopment und strengthening of the water
system on the modern lines Indispensable In
a city of some two million inhabitants, and
the observance of sane economy bv the pub
lic itself.
Water wastage in Philadelphia is no
torious. Typical of much prevalent care-lessne-s
wns the last chupter in Sunday's
unpleasant episode. The Water Bureau was
forced to detnll special crews to stop the
flow from h.wlrauts turned nt the beginning
of the drought and then neglected.
The vnlue of wnter meters as a check on
water extravagance has long sjm.p hPcn
demonstrated. Phlladelnhinns nr Wl,
ward In not making a more general use
of them jiiht ns the city administration is
behlud the times with n wnter system in
some respects superannuated and alive
chiefly In its elements of insecurity.
The insistence of the Public Service
Commission that It hns u right to inquire
into the relations of underlying nnd oper
ntiii? companies will meet with general ap
proval, but it is questionable if the under
lying companies thereby received nnv in
formation not already known to them." Why
should they demand to be told thnt two anil
two mnke four?
Anyhow, the man who can't get a bouse
has no present worry about coal.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1 What Is the hiRhest mountain on nnv
Island In the world' "v
2. What Is the correct pronunciation of the
word nephew?
3. What were the first names of ti,P three
famous Hronte Sinters, celrhrated in
Cncllsh literature? u '"
t
How many Republican Preniiients havo
Berved two full terms each"
In what y'-nr did tho ilerniar.s rnaku their
Bucceasful Mtack upon Verdun''
For what musical Instrument were tho
mnjorltv of the compositions of Chnnln
written'' "n
Who la the present premier of Frunrn'
What Is a enullectlon? "m.u.
From whom do gulvanlc batteries take
10. What Is mtaiu by trade winds
Answers to Yesterday'6 Quiz
1. George Washington was chairman of the
convention which framed the conatitn.
tlon of the United States con"llu.
I. A patronmlc Is a nsmo derived from a
father or an nncebtor
3. ninnche K Rruco. a native of Vlntlnla
and born a slave, was elected to the
United States Senate as a Republican
and served one term, being the first
negro to serve In that body
4. He was elected from Mississippi.
5. Tasmania Is an Island nnd British colonv
south of Australia. '
0 It lb named after Abel J Tasman
1 intch navigator, who discovered it' in
1642 He called It Van DIomen'B
Land
7 John Adams said "Tho essence of free
government consists In nn effectual
control of rhalrles."
8 New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois lead
In the number of electoral votes which
they are entltleU to cast In a preslden
tlal election. New York is allotted 45.
Pennsylvania 38 and Illinois 29.
9 Paper money In tho United States was
depreciated until the resumption of
specie payments In 1873,
10 Queen Elizabeth was tha last English
monarch of the. house of Tudor,
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JUSTICE FOR, DARBY CREEK
If It' Had Long Ago Been Called
River It Might Now Havo
Its Deserts
By GEORGE NOX McCAIN
TflBRB is a section of southeastern Penn
sylvania embracing about forty square
miles in which, during the present year, new
homes nnd new Industries will add, It Is
estimated, $25,000,000 to Its valuation.
One of Its avenues of traffic Is a small
river that for years was navigable for light
craft.
For some years past this waterway has
been permitted, through lack of government
attention, to fall Into disuse.
Recently efforts have been made to In-,
duce the government to dredge ond improvo
it nnd restore It to Its former importance
ns n commerce route.
Three great railroads converge at .a point
on Its bnnks. The opportunity for establish
ing n great railroad terminal is ready to
hand.
Delaware river craft and light-draft
coasting vessels could unload their cargoes
of lumber, building material, sand nnd even
food supplies for shipment to adjacent points
with case and celerity.
But the government, which has been busy
frying fat iti the rivers nnd harbors bills of
tho past for tho benefit of uncharted, ro
moto nnd inconsequential southern streams,
declines to do anything for this wnterway in
the center of a great manufacturing district.
I REFER to the Darby river. Locally it
Is known ns Darby creek.
In the same way the blundering old pio
neers or careless cartographers dubbed the
Perkloraen river, which winds Its way fifty
miles through eastern Pennsylvania, a creek.
Anywhere else In the United States, per
haps, these streams would receive their
proper title.
At points in Its course the Darby river is
300 ynrds wide.
It Is wider than that If the submerged
lauds bordering It nre Included land that
could bo reclaimed for sites for industrial
establishments by the suction pipe and fill
ing process.
A little more thnn three months ago n
petition signed by ,'tOO manufacturers and
business men was taken to Washington. It
prayed for the dredging of Darby river and
Its restoration as a water highway.
All the satisfaction the petitioners got was
in the way of advice. They were told to go
home and get tho people along the river, or
the state, or even Delnwarc county, to put
up funds for this improvement.
If the government observed this practice
nil over tho country there would bo some
thousands of miles of rivers unimproved.
And it would havo been just about ns well
if they had never been Improved.
TN THE meantime, however, what nre the
J. congressmen In southeastern Pennsylva
nia nnd that Includes certain districts in
Philadelphia doing about this?
Of course it is ensy enough, and equally
convenient, to fall back on the report of
the Wilmington engineers, who looked with
disfavor upon the project.
But there Is such a thing ns demanding a
square deal. Three hundred business men,
in the matter of judgment, might in a pinch,
nnd in the sum total of their conclusions,
have as much common seDse as two or three
engineers.
But this Is all beside the Issue There Is
one other way out of the dilemma.
George Kyle nnd his coworkers can have
recourse to tho Legislature of tho state for
aid in this emergency.
It might be possible that if the state
would make a modest appropriation the gov
ernment would meet it half wny.
Anyhow it's worth nn attempt.
A PICTURESQUE celebration Is dated to
come off on October 10 nt Norristown.
It's the reunion of former students of Tree
mount Seminary.
It was a famous old educational institu
tion, an academy of high school grade, whose
building was a conspiclous landmark on the
hill nt tho southenstern edge of Norristown.
It will not be the first reunion. That was
held in 101." when nn organization was
formed. The great war nnd the business
nnd social upheavals of the Intervening years
miliiated against another "get-together"
meeting of the old boys.
Among the famous students prior to 1860
were General Winfield S. Hancock nnd John
F. Hartranft, who together with the Schalls.
got the nonmllitary part of their education
nt Trccmouut.
The late Archbishop Thomas F. Kennedy,
of Rome, Mexico and South America, was
one of the students.
As high as 1200 boys attended the seminary
tach year in the heyday of its career.
It closed Its doors about 1885 after an
existence of over forty years.
S CAMERON CORSON is president of
the Alumni Association. Others of the
former students Interested iu the reunion nre
Charles II. Shaw, John W. Harry, George
II. Stcinmetz nnd G'eorge M. Painter.
Peter Bolger, former civil service com
missioner and political writer of this cltv.
is unothcr of the old grnds of Treemount
Seminary.
Rev. Samuel Aaron, a noted Baptist min
ister nnd temperance nnd nnti-slnvery advo
cate, founded the seminary in 1844. Finun
olnl reverses compelled him to closo the
school two jears before tho Civil War.
Then John W. Loch, nn unusually gifted
man with a genius for teaching, reorganized
the seminary.
He conducted the Institution for nenrly a
quarter of a century, shifted his vocation" to
finance, and became tho first president of
Norristown Trust Co.
THAT wns more than thirty years ago.
The Bchool died with his departure.
Of the children of Dr. and Mrs. Loch (nee
Hannah M'Crea. who died many years ago),
Linda Is the wife of Horaco C. Jones, vice
president of the Uuion League, textile
manufacturer; Flora M.. wife of William A.
Lelsenrlug, of Mauch Chunk, Pa. ; Ida F.,
wife of N. II. Larzalere, a leader of tho
Montgomery county bar, and Ella R., widow
of Addison R. Wright, of Norristown.
These daughters und their sister, Miss
Mary Loch, were excepted from the pro
vision that Treemount was exclusively for
"young men und hoys," nnd, after rudimen
tary schooling elsewhere, were pupils of
their fnthcr nnd his stnff in the seminRry.
MR. BOLGER fans vivid recollection of
Doctor Loch nnd his uncommon teach
ing genius.
He had n lot of cheerful rhymes and other
memorv bracers to clarify rules.
He had, too. n kind of Jules Verne's wny
of foreshadowing great inventions; of pic
turing tho future to his pupils.
Doctor Loch was n man of Imposing
appearance with full, black whiskers, klndlv
eyes, ana wns very inn anu impressive of
carriage.
Former District Attorney Jncob V. (Jnt
wals, of Montgomery county, was a teacher
in the institute ufter the Civil War.
One of the features of the reunion in Oc
tober of the Treemount boys will be a visit
to the giavc of Doctor Loch.
IN SUMMER
I THINK these stars that drnw so strange
ly near,
That lean and listen for the turning
Earth,
Aie never wholly careless when they hear
The murmur of her bushed and quiet
mirth
But looking out upon a world In bloom,
They half remember, and they heed and
hark :
A reminiscent sweetness In the gloom,
A music older than this singing dnrk.
Their summers gone, so many eons past,
Bird-song and bloom ond swallow from
tho sky,
These dead, dcalrelesB worlds find here, at
last,
Something remembered when the Earth
turns by,
Sweet with these blowing odors they bad
known,
This hnppy music that was onco their
i own.
David Morton, in the Notion.
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They
Know Best
DR. LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
On "An Open-Minded Audience"
A MORE tolerant nnd open-minded atti
tude on the part of tho muslc-lovlng
public is nsked for both modern :-nd so-called
old -fashioned orchestral music by Leopold
Stokowskl, conductor of the Philadelphia
Orchestra. In au intcriew, Sir. Stokowskl
stated thnt to secure this attitude Is almost
as important ns to play the music itself.
"Amnncr music lovers OUC finds tWO
classes of people," said Mr. Stokowskl,
"neither of whom represents the clnss that
I would like to sec. The first holds that all
modern music is freakish and worthless, the
work of charlatans nnd poseurs, that it has
no grateful melodies and that the Ideas and
feelings which it expresses are of the fad
dist variety. , .
"The other class professes to admire the
work of tho composers of the last decade or
so, whether It be Impressionistic, cubist or
simply Intellectual. At the same time It
wants to throw into -tho discard oil the
music of the past, holding that It Is passe
and behind the timcB nnd not worthy of the
serious attention of sophisticated persons.
"Both classes aro wrong, both arc nar
row and both In their separate ways work a
harm to the future development of music.
It must be remembered, on the one hand,
that the music of the past, the so-called
classics, is judged by the work of the great
masters, of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Pnles
triua. But It must also be understood that
there were many little men nt that time nnd
that their work, even If it was not rewarded
with the laurel of greatness and did not
achieve imiuortoliti yet hnd its virtue in
blazing the trail, In making experiments thnt
provided the material on which the musical
giants of that time were able to build their
noblo and enduring structures.
Build Greatness on Loss Gifted
"Many composers of whom we jlo not
even hear led to Palestrina, just ns be led to
Beethoven, Bach und Mozart, and as still
others have led to Wngncr or Debussy. These
men were super-geniuscs, it is true, but
thev might never have reached the heights
if they had not had the experience of those
less-gifted who went before them.
"Similarly, our contemporary composers
aro not only expressing the spirit, the
thought, tho feeling and tho life of the pres
ent time, but they are doing the experi
mental work which will make it possible for
other great masters to arise, the masters of
the future, who, It is quite possible, may
equal the Immortals of the past.
"But In order that they may play their
part In tho destinies of music, it Is neces
sary that they be given a hearing; a fair,
broad-minded, appreciative hearing.
"Tlie music lover attending un orchestral
concert should bear this in mind. When he
goes to a concert ho should not only wont
to be edified and entertained, but he should
realize that he. too, has a certain responsi
bility. Iu making up a program I try to
please tho lover of the older music ns well ns
tho ono who fancies our more modern crea
tions. So I make provision for the former,
say In 85 per cent of tho program. Now I
think it no more thnn fair that, having
done that, the audience should be willing to
devote 10 per cent of tho evening to giving
their time ond earnest nnd appreciative at
tention to ctfablo new composers to get a
fair hearing.
"I ask that because It means that I have
had to devote time that I might otherwise
use for my owd recreation to the work of
studying and analyzing and preparing for a
performance these new works. I have been
in this city quite some tlmo and will likely
remain for some time to come. I am prob
ably at ray highest point of development ns
far aa musical experience goes, and I still
have, youth and tho enthusiasm that goes
with It. So I may fairly say I am devoting
the best years of ray life to Philadelphia.
"Tn elve tho older works exclusively
would make things very easy for me, but It
would advance the city muslcully, nothing.
First Judgment Not Best
"It does not follow that my choice of pro
grams represents the works that I admire
andJlove the most. That would be nn un
fair and selfish position to take, because
there nro many other choices to consider.
But It Is our duty to our contemporary com
posers as well as to ourselves to Insure their
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getting a hearing. It may be that we don't
wholly llko their work, then again it may
be that we nre not able In our limited ex
perience to appreciate Its virtue, but there
Is something of interest to be gleaned from
It.
"I find in examining hundreds of bcores
for future production that many of them are
just foolish and therefore unworthy of fur
ther consideration. But others, while they
mako an unfavorable impression at first
scanning, i nna on n second or a third per
usal not only to possess great Interest, but
sometimes qualities of the highest order.
I can point to my first experience with
Scrlnbln's "Poeme d'Extnse," some years
ago, when I pushed It nsldo as unworthy
of attention. Lnter acquaintance with it
t n ?t m,lcn t,lnt l ,,n, not scen before, and
1 finaljy bcame convinced that It was a great
work.'
"Often I have noticed the same experience
in the performance of a new work in the
rehearsals with tho members of tho orchestra.
Somo of them laugh nt the first hearing,
then they cense 'to laugh, then become in
terested and then enthused.
"For that reason I cannot blamt an nu
dlcnco for not liking many' works at first
hearing, hut feel from experience thnt they,
too, should not exercise snap judgment, but
should be willing to extend tho snmo toler
ance toward new efforts as others have
done.
"If music is to grow, we must produce
now works. The orchestra Is tho only chan
nel through which many composers ever get
n chance to havo their creations publicly
performed. At tho snmo time this city has
an unexampled opportunity to ndd to Its
prestige by encouraging contemporary art
as thnt with which it is more familiar.
"There is a popular idea that all music
of the past was melodious and that all pres
ent day music is the reverse. It must be
remembered that we have In mind only the
high lights of the past as shown by the glauts
of musical creation.
"If we beard all of tho works written In
the years gone by, wo should find n full share
of dissonances and ungrateful melodies. Con
versely, much of pur modern muBlc is full of
the most splendid though unconventional
melody.
Italian and Russian Works
"Our now composers ore reflecting the
times In which they live. Much of their
work 1s experimental, but It has its historic
as well as Its musical value.
"My observations in Europe during tho
last few months showed signs of n new kind
of musical expression coming Into being. I
believe that most of tho nations aro suffering
from fatigue duo to the war, and that It will
takp ten, maybe twenty years for this now
expression to take complete form. But I
found quite decided signs of It, especially In
Italy. In tho northern port of this country
there ore several young composers, Alfano,
Mallplero, Guarlerl. Gui, Casella and Plz
zettl. who nre marking the transition from
one phase of musical feeling to another. They
nre relieving Italy from tho charge thnt she
writes only operatic music.
"Their work, ns Is most of the work of
the near future, is of nn impressionistic na
ture, short, concise nnd rather jagged, but
still having form nnd coherence. I hnve
nlRo reason to believe that the new Russia
will make Imnortnnt contributions to the
music of the future. Stravinsky hns dono
several significant things.
"It should be borne In mind then thnt
lust ns we provide for other future features
of our lives, we should assume the same,
responsibility for the future of our music nnd
"nr the musical children of today so thst
they may become the giants of tomorrow."
The rest of the eotintrv will w.nteh w!i
Interest the work of the IInrvar(1 inf0ttIp
Parnlvsls Commission In Boston which,
though still urmwnre of how the drend ills
ease spreads, hns yet been nble to effect's
number of cures, nnd In manv esses 1ms
rrl7t rJ rFu ,h.r """"'frs of disability.
tlj .I'm W7 HtV Vm aro mnr"' ''Urns of
the epidemic of four venrs asro nnd the
Emergency Aid Is seeking means to help
hose whose parents nre too poor to aVo
them nil the attention thev nerd There Is
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SHORT CUTS
Council will today be urged to
inside the car."
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Daniels took the stump in Maine and
the vote hnd teeth in it.
Erwln's guardians doubtless bad a wary
eye for waiting nutomoblles.
Jack Frost has shown his nose in this
section, but has not yet decided to follow It.
The Orgescb movement seems to be con
structed so as to closely resemble the goose
step. Tou can't blame Cox overmuch. He
has to do all the braying for tho Demo
cratic mule.
Incidentally It costs you five cents to
find out what the five-cent sign on the street
cars mean.
The Issue in tho Indiana senatorial
campaign appears to be between oratory and
politlcnl knowledge.
William Hohcnzollern has made a new
will and Intrusted it to a Dutch notary.
In Dutch : a will and no wny out.
Can the roost violent nnd craziest of the
anarchists consider tho killing of thirty-four
workers as a triumph over capitalism r
The Ohio Dental Society will send a
delegation to Marlon on Thursday. A
treaty with teeth in it will interest them.
Deaths in France, are double the num
ber of births. Thus within her own borders
France sees tho German menace grow.
Now that the frost Is on the punkln
it ought to bo pie for tho hay fevcrltel
but the report has the earmarks of a false
alarm.
May It not bo well Imagined thnt the
League of Nations is by way of averting
war by adjudicating tho claims of Flnlsna
and Sweden to the Aland Islands?
Now that It is receiving honor and
glory, tho front porch, cvn though it may
lack a cradle of liberty, ought, at least, to
huve its chairs equipped with Plymoutn
Rockers.
A Worcester, Mass., reporter who hai
just inherited $400,000 and is sticking to his
job says he bees nothing Inconsistent In
being wealthy and being a nowspapermsn.
Inconsistent? No But unusual.
"You'll never miss the water till th
well runs dry," runs the old song. PeoplJ
appreciate that lino today, for Sundays
accident to tho Torrcsdale avenue main was
provocatlvo of some very serious thinking.
The citizen who devotes some pof""
of the remainder of this week to o study
of the conditions which brought about tlte
setting aside of next week as Forest lro
teetlon Week will learn something to bis
advantage.
The Scnato elections subcommittee will
rcsumo Investigation of campaign expcDOi
tures tomorrow. Now thut Governor cox
hns published far nnd wide what he thlniu
of Republican funds, why not subpoena him
and huve him tell whnt ho knows.' It prob
ably would not take very long.
It Is merely chnnce, of course, that hut
year's hats nro so different from this '"
Or if not chanco then business amm.
But If It should chance thut tho thrliiy
ones nre sufficiently numerous it win
hnrd for the unlnitiuted to tell just whlcn
is fashionable.
A Wilmington. Del., woman voter will
have to chooso at the polls between ner
father, n Republican, and her husband,
Democrat, both cnndldntes for tho Asro
bly. It islu't nearly so difficult as it sounds.
All she hns to do is to flick a penny oo
then do the opposite.
We nro n sensible people, of ""
but While we aro fusslug about I l Y
freight enrs and tho high cost of t-aW.
tatlon, we ure bringing apples from wj J
fnrnln nnd retailing them at seven cenij (
apleeo here in Philadelphia, while hundreds .
of bushels of upples of infinitely better flavor, i
aro rotting on the ground within w
miles of homo. Why?
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