St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 30, 1930
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April 10, 1907. , | a LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE The name and address of the author must accompany every coaeene’ but on request will not be penmenes. Letters not exceeding 200 words wi receive preference. An Attack on J. P. Eee To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: : N the judicial department of our State ‘onstitution we have provided for cmd tices of the Peace to try small ae aes , his Justice of the Peace system as sometimes been called “the pese vale court.” It is the poor man’s tyrant oe oppressor. Our Circuit Court is = es of unlimited jurisdiction, and the lit — in that court, be he rich or poor, is Ae a competent Judge to sit upon his rig : and a jury of 12 men chosen by a4 = and impartial method. If after ee os judgment the litigant is dissatisfie , he may take an appeal to the mig ae Court or the court of last resort, with- out bond if he so desires or is unable -e appeal bond. gh ging the poor unfortunate citi- zen who may get into a lawsuit before . Justice of the Peace. He must sevens his rights to a court that is not by law required to know anything about law of the impartial weighing of evidence. I he galls for a jury he is compelled his introduction, Dr. Koch- “equally removed from { conservatism on the one hand and from socialism on the other; he is , natural democrat and humani- | tarian. While he has a big heart, he has also @ hard head. | In his opening chapter the au-} nor points to the admitted leader- j of America, not only in indus- | finance but in world poli-j} tics, but he says that “nobody will | nelieve that such conditions and developments will ever give rise to armed conflicts.” He then briefly reviews the position of the British empire, in its relation to the fu- ture of Europe. He sees Nation- alism as an enduring and powerful influence in Europe, points out that the imperialism of today is based on commercial needs; ex- J plains why pacifism cannot yet solve the practical problems of the world; reviews the experience of pre-war Germany, the Treaty of Versailles as “an instrument of subjugation,” negotiated under du- ress: the Ruhr invasion and its re- sults, and awards high praise to the late Foreign Minister Gustav stresemann for lifting Germany out of the slough of despair by his wise and masterly guidance in the field of foreign politics. The book is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Stresemann, whom Ambassador Th t ship try and schuman calls “a glorious martyr to his country’s cause. : : A book of this kind—so calm, 80 void of bitterness, 50 careful of the other man’s view and feelings — a striking evidence that hymns of hate inspired by the great wars propaganda have at last subsided, never we hope to be heard again. H. M. WILLIAMS. THE AMERICAN SONGBAG. By Carl Sandburg (Harcourt Brace & Co. $3.60). This is a popular edition of hook first published at, if memo serves, $7.60. Jt contains th words and music of hundreds © American songs, including man we have heard all our lives bu whose accurate text and music rarely to be found. The collectior ranges from prigon and blues song te Negro spirituals. It was a tems if it wished. Traffic control is up to the city and Kelker has said it can be provided completely in appearance from the old-fashioned hobo. Since ments to the law ought to be put | °F $279,000, bringing about great improvement. The | the advent of motor busses has made travel cheap, through the Legislature providing for | abolition of parking and left turns requires nothing _the inference is that these hitch-hikers are largely appeals from Justice of the Peace judg- | more than courage at the City Hall and Kelker 5aYS | men out of work seeking to better their fortunes in ments on same terms and conditions that would abound in great results. distant wenteten appeals may be taken now from the Cir- | The net cost to the railways in this comprehensive; Tp, | e temptation is great to employ the one or more cuit Court; providing for the filing of | in | cases without advance of costs on filing | Program is $700,000 for rerouting. This expenditure empty seats that so many automobiles carry by stop- ping to give hitch-hikers a lift. Unluckily, hitch- of pauper oath in lieu thereof; also mak- | undoubtedly is within the means of the company, hikers have a bad name caused by the actions of | a few of their number who have repaid motorists’ tent judges and juries instituted instead. Until that can be done some amend- Leading newspapers pay handsome tribute to the genius of Lon Chaney; artistry of portrayer of grotesque characters likened to that of Hugo and Dickens; “he knew that to act one must act,” says New York World; Arkansas Democrat thinks Hunchback will be remembered “long after lover-heroes are forgotten.” -_ i a MODERN WRESTLING. It is doubtful whether the ancient Greeks, who highly prized wrestling as a demonstration of phys- ical skill and stamina, would recognize the sport which today masquerades as wrestling. In the Post- Dispatch account of the Shikat-Dusek encounter Wednesday evening, a partial list was made of Shi- kat’s foul tactics to show that the ex-champion, once ren8wned for his clean technique, has at last adopt- ed the rough-and-tumble showmanship now in vogue. If wrestling has rules and is governed by the same general code of sportsmanship common to other | games, it is not apparent to present-day audiences. The game has become a potpourri of grappling, box- ing, la savate, jiu jitsu, butting and old-fashioned bar-room roughhouse. Kicking an opponent in the jaw, massaging a cauliflowered ear with an elbow, slugging, kneeing, repeatedly seeking the safety of the ropes to break holds—these and many other prac- voices and their other tricks of impersona- tion; they Knew that this kind of make- belleve is the very life of the theater. * ¥ « THE BELOVED VILLAIN. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. ON CHANEY, beloved villain of the screen, leaves an empty niche, By the paradoxical attraction of sheer repuisive- ness he made himself as popular as the doll- eyed automatons with the movie public whom he assured of a delicious shudder, and real shudders are scarce in the mimic world. ~ a + A CARICATURIST LIKE DICKENS. From the Milwaukee Journal.. HANEY’S role was that. of an in- terpreter of character. And character interpretation was just the thing that the movies needed—still need, for that matter. For great drama, whether on stage or screen, lies in the setting forth of char- acter. Chaney had a liking for the gro- tesque. His interpretations were carica- tures instead of real characters. That is not to say that they were not worth while. Dickens was ai caricature painter in words and he’ lives. = « - : MOST VERSATILE STAR. From the Washingten Post. F all the talented motion picture stars, Lon Chaney was the most versatile. With a bit of crepe hair, a box of grease paint and a lump of make-up putty, he could, re-make his features to the most fearful pattern, and with contrivances he himself fashiohed in deepest secret he could transform his athietic, well-proportioned body into the gnaried, broken figure of a human derelict. His work before the cam- era showed the possibilities latent exclusive- it, it might be Lon Chaney.” No one else could give the movie fans such chills along the spinal column. Barrymore was stil] Barrymore in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” bo matter what horrible grimaces and ex- pressive claws he showed. Chaney was never Chaney in his pictures. - ° = BELONGED TO SILENT SCREEN. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. ROM an artistic point of view it is per- haps best that Chaney ended his career when he did. His fame is secure as one of the great artists of the silent screen. The grotesque but appealing “Hunchback of Notre Dame” and the hard-boiled dive keeper of “The Road to Mandalay” will not soon be forgotten by the millions who never missed a Lon Chaney picture. = - * THE GREAT GROTESQUE. From the Cleveland Press. O matter how: melodramatic his role— even when he wore a mask and pur- sued the heroine through subterranean halis —he made his audience feel a certain dig- nity and pathos in his distorted criminals, beggars, Outcasts. He got closer to uni- versal human emotions than many heroes who smiled charmingly and loved success- fully. Trieks of makeup aside, his gestures were a continual reminder that these emo- tions are present under a mask of ugliness and deformity. It is significant that one of his most famous pictures was taken from a story by Victor Hugo. His artistic formula, like that of Hugo, was to mingle extremes of good and evil.in all their forms, physical ugli- ness and mora] beauty, sometimes in a sin- gle person, always in close juxtaposition. * * s ONE OF FEW REAL ARTISTS. ~~ Solicitor. He has in turn served as Solicitor of department, chairman of various highy important missions at international confer- ences, counselor and expert assistant for the State Department. * . ° F stocky build, weighing more than 2°? pounds and about five feet nine inchet in height, Clark is the kind of man whe always is in a good humor. Kellogg, ¥> Secretary of State, held up the appoint ment of Under Secretary until Utah Rep» licans voted as to whether or not thes should send Clark to the United States 85 ate. And when he lost the nomination Kellogg persuaded him to take over the post. At the State Department they describ? him in one sentence: “Reuben Clark is * solid as a rock.” Perhaps the best fh tration of this solidity ascribed to Clark ! his friends {s found in the way he met crisis in our foreign policy on the eve * Mr. Hoovers inauguration as President. © 6 . REVOLUTION broke out in Mexico # that time. Clark then was Under Se retary and the State Department's ¢xptt on Mexican affairs. Upon him rested sponsibility of placing immediately in t* hands of the incoming President recomme dations as to policy. It was at night when he received first word of the revolt. He gathered all t* information he could from news dispatche* Then he telegraptied all American dip matic representatives in Mexico to #? him quickly all the facts concerning outbreak, underscoring the word fact* When he had received these, he retire? to his home on the night of March § “ write his memorandum for the Presides! the gold medal of the Americ dbiedical Association. Dr. Spencer valucs most, he said yesterday, because « the glory it reflects on his hom town of Richmond, Va, and BS alma mater, the University © Richmond. He is going down there soon to receive a Ph! Be Nappa Key. “J suppose the reason I got th medal is that it's the only yaccit in the world made of insect zround-up ticks,” he said. “Know ing that ticks carried ft, 1 figu that with ticks I could inocula against it. I tried it on guin pigs and it didn’t kill them, so tried it on myself and it worked. “In 1924. 1 was the first an only one to take ft. In 1925, ; brave souls volunteerc’. in 192 without any urging, the numa ves 600. Last year it was 600 using all the vaccine we cou riuake in our Public Health Servic loboratory at Hae :ilten, Mont. When winter winds sweep sheep-herding sections of Mont Wyoming and Idaho, Spencer PD ained, the ticks on sheep and @.imals become quiescent. t ‘rus within the tick also hibe catem, he eald. Only through a @ ication of this hibernation *" efficacious vaccine be 4 oped, he discovered. “After allowing the ticks to ©» Infected animals, we put the that med (to @ refrigerator to hibernat * ex lained. “When taken t' ey have no cffect. But let a 0 take One drop of blo from al and enough polson develops ‘hateome tick to kill a thow éLinea piga.” Neo commercial eoncern Ww kttempt the manufacture of #0 vrnsive and difficult a product “Yecine from post-hibernated Use Spencer said, and the Public H “ervice therefore has a mon No charge fs mad for vaceinath ‘@tertals = In one locality Public Het “ rvice records show death in ver cent of the adults cont 120 disease in the past 12 I hope I shall nover Mve to see such | ing valley and the bald-topped mountain beyond, A boishevistic ideas carried out in this coun. | fringe of purple loosestrife; the color riot of a road- try. R. R. BYWATER. side garden. The lake rolling in on pebbly sand: a Of Mooves’s Record. thin moon over black trees. The fragrant brown To the Editor of the Post-Dispateh. cushion of pine needles deep and spongy under HOPE Hoover is serving his first and| gnarled branches. A drink of spring water trickling tices go without so much as a reprimand from the referee. They might as well remove that official]! screen loses one of its few genuine artists. from the ring entirely. ee the outcomer@f matches, are supposed to prefer the) pr Sop eftena the od saat, sot aotthen rough stuff to an orderly conttuct of the game. As. who find no good { vi ! bt ecg term as President. Outside of/from rocks ages old. Sailing, piling white clouds: long as much of the game is under suspicion as be Lon Chan - or ae gy Bey Bis: rying to enforce prohibition, he has gone). How butterfli dan lo | ey as the Mansfield of the film, gothing. in my opinion. Of course, he ye es cing along a meadow edge. | ing a.pre-arranged series of cireus performances, the but we can think of no more apt com- has had no success with prohibition: Young crows crying from their nests on a wooded promoters evidently feel that only an orgy of fouls, P*tis0n. While “the man of a thousand nobody could enforce this fool law, 1/ Dill. An early walk down the marsh roy; leaning; will continue to attract customers to the box office, ‘*°** MAF not have been as versatile as hope the next President will have the birches stirring in faint. motion: the thought of This may work as a temporary lure, but in th Selene ke ne ane an ee interest of the working people at heart eggs and ba d biscui 4: © long Beaucaire in the afternoon and Ivan the and get behind measures and de things com an uits, <A bluffside stairway | run the game will suffer irreparable injury. Noj| Terrible in the evening, he entered into the to keep the working people working, not | of limestone carpeted with green moss. Tall grass, sport can continue to prosper when. on the one hand,| *P{Tit Of his art with the same passionate idie as they are now. | dew-wet, bending, rising and bending again in gusts | its honesty suspected and, on the other, its manners | spoerity.. se was & difficult tela. He of morning wind. The wild beauty of a camp fire| are borrowed from the butcher shop. | ly in the motion picture. In his death the who was to be inaugurated the next day. All night he worked. And when Pre®- dent Hoover entered the executive offic of the White House the next day. the fir™ thing to greet his eyes was Clark's reper and recommendations on the Mexican ™ volt. Never before. say officials of the 5#* Department, has the department met © quickly and so thoroughly a crisis in fr eign policy. NOT ENOUGH TO HURT. From. the New Yorker. From the 8pringfield Republican. HE death of Lon Chancy is a distinct 4 loss to dramatic art. He was one of the screen's comparatively few real artists. That he resisted almost to the last the advancing talkie may have been due partly to his serious throat affection, but it was doubtless.due largely to the fact that he believed, with Chariie Chaplin, that the screés greatest possibilities were tn pantomime. It was characteristic of Chaney's thoroughness that when he finally succumbed to the talkie, in his last pic- ture, “The Unholy Three,” he took a part in which he impersonated several charac- ters each with a different voice: and it was characteristic that he did ft convinc- was not the perfumed here who felds the heroine to his breast and fades out of the AX rte tao A. E. F. + vc be a i -- : b ‘ oh » ‘4 J ~ - * * j ‘ oa ; v "i i . ; : : fl sree a” NT eR ae oF oi Ss Ape _ i a ‘ oe ae simaas * _ pict Ste . oes . ban % © es po ee ‘ ~ 7 Ee. nate TP PGR bE aR, ee he NS SS, La eR E RAO. 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