St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 15, 1930
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a * ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1930. - ; , ‘ ! 7h m4 ee wee ; : “% . Ke : , K, rod * sear! _. . - 7 ~ ve STLOUIS POST-DISPATER Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER res ¢ December 12,” 1878 pet Published by _... The Pulitzer Publishing Company Twelfth Boulevard and Olive Street eee 1 know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles; that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tol- erate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, mever belong to any party, always [ THE POSsT-DISPATCH PLATFORM | A CALL FOR ACTION. Despite the defeat of Proposition No. 6, which would have simplified the financial aspect. of the problem, St. Louis must go forward with its central river front plans. For failure to put them into opera- values are being destroyed and ever mounting traffic congestion is costing St. Louis dearly in time and money. We urge the Mayor, the Board of Aldermen and other public officials, as well as the Chamber of Commerce, General Council on Civic Needs and other organizations, to act immediately to cure this situation. There js no obstacle that leadership and energy cannot hurdle. ; As drafted by the City Plan Commission the river front plan would completely transform lower down- tion lower downtown is dying by inches, property Mr. Hoover battles the physical exactions of the of-| fice by playing medicine ball before breakfast and by week-end trips to the country. Like boxers, the chief magistrates of the country must keep in fight- ing trim or succumb to the grind. It would greatly lighten the President's burden if someone else, say the Vice President, were given the duty of receiving handshakers and idle delegations of all sorts. Half of the people who storm the White House have no real business there, and go only to/ bask a brief moment in the limelight. Let them do so, but not’ on the President’s time.. Many corpora- tions have relieved their hard-working presidents of trivial contacts by employing. official handshakers. The Federal Government needs one. == = —S =: A SENSIBLE POLICE CAPTAIN. of the Deep + PARADE. By Fritjoft jchelson and Leon Byrne. ( Rob- M. McBride & Co., New York, $3.00.) HEN Fritjoff Michelson and Leon Byrne, San. Francisco newspaper men back from a e to the Orient before the png finished the story of their ntures, it seems to have struck ot that, with “The Cradle of the “soe still remembered, somebody a er it all happened th ight ask mie just toset doubt town. Its advantages are summarized as follows: 1. Shifting of the business district will be per- manently checked. 2. Property values of the eastern end of the business district will be stabilized and greatly ~ enhanced. | 3. The greatly increased street capacity will be a decided advantage to traffic circulation facili- ties throughout the city, since the plan is com- pletely co-ordinated with the major street plan. 4. The long-sought improvement of the river front will be accomplished in a most monumental manner. 5. Demand for public parking space and garage facilities upon a large scale will be satisfied, since the plan provides an ultimate capacity for the accommodation of more than 8000 automo- biles. 6. Both vehicular and water approaches to the city of St. Louis will be highly attractive and inviting. The most important traffic feature of the plan is to make Third street into a 100-foot double-decked thoroughfare which will give access to widened Gravois avenue on the south and to widened Natural Bridge road on the north. Gravois widening should begin in the spring. The report of the condemnation commissioners on the Natural Bridge project has been filed, and attempts are now being made to set- tle the exceptions out of court. In addition to these new traffic routes, widened Third street will be ar- ticulated with east-and-west streets. Three 80-foot streets at the northern end of the business section, namely Washington, Morgan and Franklin, will feed into it. Morgan, which will have no _ street car tracks, is in process of being widened, although progress is exceedingly slow. The condemnation com- missioners—G. Zollman, W. Francis and F. Delporte —have held more than 800 meetings and yet have filed no report. On the southern end of the business section, Market street, widened to 100 feet, will lead into widened Third street. Final judgment on the Market street widening has been handed down and actual work may be expected soon. If the articulation of widened Third street is vis- ation ualized, it will be seen that it will solve St. Louis’ NEWS REEL. downtown traffic problem for many years to come.| Mons, Belgium, raises fund for statue to honor A SO ai ie RD MANOR NN co A ans oo a meaty, Be From all parts of the city lower downtown will be | author of nation’s beer song, and Rochefort, France, Cgahin bate Me Ty ens ces eR IRS RTS ae Rn apie ae NE a Sas coe ICE Or & 4 RBndete:: (New. Seal easily accessible over handsome thoroughfares, and it|gives up plan to erect statue of Pierre Loti due ion Tasos ee het ae eee ae 2 eatin aneurin i patent Ny ake PRA ghee oe LL Hay ie ‘ aay roo Bbatoe pe pare: + tne, a will no longer be necessary to creep into the congest-| to insufficient contributions; Secretary of Agricul- ren peas ee ee es “te g $4.00.) e ed section at a snail’s pace. St. Louis, now laid out} ture Hyde urges public to eat more to reduce farm : ubt the human fac like a river town of the 1860s, will have been ad-| surplus, and Dr. A. C. Baxter of Illinois Department ANOTHER “CURE” F OR THE FARMER. is besrenpse oe he object in th justed to the motor age. of Health says average person eats three times as world, and the study of its oo ~ We feel free to predict that once St. Louis obtains | much food as he needs; New York telegraph com- hertereysitiay is esta : this improvement it will regret that it wasn’t done! pany begins sale of theater tickets, and Eastern gaso- practically everyone with the ca a quarter of a century earlier. Chicago’s example | line stations open department for transmitting tele- pacity to think and marvel at n is sufficient to show that the expenditure of money} grams; Kansas is ostracised by Big Six Conference ture’s work as kaleidoscopicall on such public improvements as this is bread cast | because Jim Bausch, football player, gets $75 a month upon the waters. They add to a city’s wealth, its for selling insurance, and Martin Brill of Notre BARITONE - LEASES attractiveness, its livability. Dame team gets $1000 each from father for three \ Just now there is no wiser investment for St. Louis SYMPHONY ALIDIENCE touchdowns agafnst Penn; Russia charges at least six to make. Let us quit talking and begin acting. European Powers are conspiring to foment war for Includes by oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never iack sympathy with the poor, always remain de- voted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing mews; always be drastically inde- pendent; never be afrnid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plu- tocracy, or predatory poverty. JOSEPH PULITZER. April 10, 1007. The Police Department in St. Lopis made a repu- st that Way: tation for sound judgment during the demonstrations against unemployment last spring, and Capt. Am- rhein of the Central District showed how it was done yesterday when a meeting on Twelfth boulevard was broken up by the police and five of the leaders taken to headquarters. Capt. Amrhein sent the quintette back to the meet- ing and told the police not to bring them in again. The meeting was resumed and nothing occurred or was said to warrant interference. On “Red Thurs- day,” when the police of New York were using their clubs on the unemployed, when the police of Detroit PU poet | a a ee orne Cradle of were snatching banners displayed by the unemployed . cal ¥ a, ra ; ee Deon? Furthermore, th on Cadillac square, and when the police in many E at 2 Pd Sa nt » uthor of that other veraciou : le was able to establish that cities were helping the communists exploit unemploy- hronicle ie a ment, the St. Louis Police Department distinguished : = > — hat ake hed VOvaall itself by good sense and tolerance. The unemployed hy $ Pai grt ‘t ship. It i probably true marched to the city hall and presented their griev- Rss way ! ee nat there is such a ship plying ance to the Mayor, as is their constitutional right. GF ,etween Portland and petites S They did not disturb the peace, nor did the police | ' b-85 _ $ , 2 ee a mea py nats disturb their peace. . . . e release from the bore We congratulate Capt. Amrhein. The certain way panes Pry for the dail to make others lawless is for the police to become is Siti et : i es: and that they did, from firs ; Nast, have some interesting experi ences. If, in the telling, experienc grew to adventures, with the twe young writing. men playing heroic and romantic parts, it is no worst than other writing men have done without taking the trouble tc sea, es te of record in the shippin news of a Portland paper that the skipper of the West Wanderer, back from the Orient, reported very quiet trip. “What a whopper,’ say Mike and Leon, commentin ? . upon this. And “what a whopper,’ SEN aa RAGS > ee eens vo"aper mig sax. comment «ac Mate ende oe ana iy tte, Sultegeh ts 2 a i RB ONG a opt” le Be ae re ing upon ea : 3 as setts a eats os Sing Shi hme OT ee - Ra eer fi mn of. the same quiet trip. The i hae Saree R eS Sh ne one 4 av ney eee” Sle: te eee authors and the skipper might be : 5 ig SA . 9 Oi ae ’ author and the inper might | ir mute of view. F. A. BEHYMER, Atcha te a ee eae | 4.3 E HUMAN FACE. By Max Pie- aR * Midla Bay Ses eS Pc i Se ' “1 ee" m se aii gan Cronin ie Pt pecs wrote a foreword de- : ae: nue honoc as newspaper a and sailors before ome a hat it was true, every wae w it, There is such @ thing ¢ testing too much and, after al . is only Mike and Leon solemnly ’ erting the veracity of Leon and ike. It might have been bette ¢ they had called in somebody — does not follow, however, tha js not a very good yarn. The sme could have been said, anc 7 LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE The Prohibition Referenda. ' % the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: HE various referenda held in Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and other states last week to test pop- ular sentiment on the prohibitory stat- utes have genuinely alarmed the prohi- bition forces. They dread nothing s0 much as this awakening public senti- ment voiced at the polls in protest against a long nightmare reign of fraud, violence, hypocrisy engendered by polit- ical prohibition. An effective temper- ance spirit engendered in the citizen- ship through years of education and moral suasion would have worked mi- racles, but a coercive tyranny masquer- ading as a “noble experiment” has wrought undreamed havoc, Sober-minded citizens have for decades hoped to see America a genuinely tem- perate country. But that does not mean prohibition. ‘The annals of American history are luminous with the recorded efforts of sincere and exalted souls such as Susan B. Anthony, De Witt Talmage, Julia Ward Howe, James G. Blaine and others toward realization of this ideal. Yet their grandiose hopes have been dashed by the past ll-year record of crime and futility that has disgraced po- litical prohibition—not temperance—in this land of nominal freedom. The tem- per of the American people has ap- proached that of the epoch shortly before Fort Sumter was'fired upon, when that noble exponent of human freedom, Carl Schurz, wrote from his Wisconsin home that there no longer could be two parties in the Union, a Northern and a Southern, in a country half-slave and half-free. The situation created by last week’s referenda hasrevealed that morethan a third of the population is emphatically on record as against prohibition, It is all very well for the Bishop Cannons and their bullwhacker following to lambast the oldtime saloon and its admitted evils, yet the latter was infinitely less lawless and corrupting than the present-day bootleg traffic with its inca)culable prof- its to a vast criminal syndicate financed by prohibition. DONALD P. BEARD. Kansas City, Mo. as... rr FIRST THINGS FIRST. In Baltimore the Y. W. C. A., the Boy Scouts, the Playground Athletic League and the other Com- munity Fund agencies, not engaged directly in relief work, have stepped aside to allow relief agencies to take precedence. The plan is to have évery relief agency’s budget filled first, with the other agencies taking what is left. This, as the Baltimore Sun says, alain. is a splendid gesture on the part of these agencies, SST pee AE TS ue EMRE pe ite: for in their voluntary withdrawal they set a fine Bi teed Asai. ta eae AEN” Rad ‘5, ae example of civic responsibility. The charities in Pee Maiev Ment SS re Baltimore have decided that the prevention of human ee Ay ay. Lace wo REE teete Se ate suffering is the most important work of all. Balti- OPW yee” : more’s Community Fund is putting first things first. = = * ~ a.m,” ? Mae 03. teas ae be hag CO ee ie Soa W's oh te pt hi a eh ; % ny Mee AS get Mme gh “pA » . ; », rhs ae. & pe Ne Boe + | cot Rs emt aa oh, : “ yey Nd Prt, he oo” Rar 5a ow) oY \ ere. ee * ; ~ eatin gstR hg PG Sy pe. oy ¢ . gam Bey eS ee tient . Bt yet, UE weep nag a bg: han fe a Tp pha i 10 8 an i el - _ es ee Ss Se ge Te ae age. al th ee ee ee Find 4 Pale See Paani x | ae, ee ee ee ee ee ee ee, ‘cars " Many men when called to do jury duty try to escape this task, and would be giad to have someone substitute for them. ONE OF THE UNEMPLOYED. Thinks’ Barnes Should Be Answered. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: R. HARRY ELMER BARNES’ upon the actual belief in God. While 1 admire liberty of speech and the wide open policy of the modern press in printing such stuff, I think the ques- tion calls for impartiality and fairness by these societies that invite such men to talk before them and the newspapers publishing the hurtful teachings; a fair- ness that would give some person who belleves in God an opportunity to reply before these audiences to these talks and that would cause the newspapers to print their side of the subject with equal gen- KEK. MASON ROBERTS. erosity. For Safer Safety Zones. Te the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: HE motorists owe their thanks * Judge Stein who has declared (in his court) that the present safety zones are illegal, especially those marked by yel- low lines which the P. 8. Co. paints on the streets at just any old place. It is true the city needs safety zones, but let them: be marked so that they are visible under all weather conditions. a. ¥ Z. | A Communistic Newspaper. To the Editor of the Post-Digpaich: T)ERMIT me to state that the Morning Freiheit is opposed to Zionism ‘The letter, however, did not state that this newspaper is a communistic one, and that it is the only Jewish paper in Amert- ca that sides with the British White Pa- per. Fortunately the Jews are not commun- ists. Judaism as well as Zionism cannot well be compatible with commun- Jews do not expect a friendly atti- very iam. tude from such a source. ai, GUSTAVE KLAUSNER. ad- dress in St. Louis Monday’ on the subject, “Science vs. Religion’’, appears to be an abbreviated rehash of newspa- per articles and excerpts from a book of which he is the author. If one may judge from a rather generous notice of this atheistic propaganda in an afternoon pa- per and the like prominence given to the talk of Clarence Darrow before the Y. W. H. A. a few weeks ago, who dealt in like propaganda of a more pessimistic trend, however, we may prepare our- selves to meet a situation never before presented to our civilization which rests at A. Spirtack, » who took exception to a letter written by Minnette EK. Fisher, correctly states were restrained from setting fire to town houses. Seven hundred years later—a few days ago—42 -Princeton students were suspended for the wanton destruction of property during a football riot, and almost simultaneously 87 University of Pittsburg students were arrested by Pittsburg mounted police, who charged into the ranks of 1500 students, during a disorderly demonstration incident to the Pitt-Car- negie Tech game. Clashes between town and gown did not become ancient Oxford. .Certainly they have no place in the college community of today, with its advantage of seven centuries of enlightenment. Such lapses in the citizenship of college students are a disgrace to the educational system. Nothing less. = = rr DIALOGUE AS OF 1873. Count Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” was written about 1873. In it appears a bit of dialogue which, in the light of subsequent events, makes rather amusing reading. Gen. Serpuhovsky is urging his friend, Vronsky, to devote his talents to the public service. Serpuhovsky: Such men as you are wanted. Vronsky: By whom? Serpuhovsky: By society, by Russia. Russia needs men! She needs a party, or else every- thing goes and will go to the dogs. Vronsky:: How do you mean? Bertenev’s party against the Russian communists? 3 Serpuhovsky: No. Tout ca est une blague. (That's all buncombe.) There are no communists, Some 44 years later came Brest-Litovsk, Lenin, communism. a i i NEEDED: AN OFFICIAL HANDSHAKER. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, Oklahoma’s Governor-elect, has delegated to Lieutenant Governor-elect Robert Burns the task of “dishing out applesauce for the administration.” Murray notifies the public that it should call on Burns for “funeral orations, public dedications and children’s christenings, together with functions demanding the services of an orator or a toastmaster.” Murray meanwhile intends to devote himself to the serious duties of his. office. The practice of using public officials to give pres- tige to ceremonies of all kinds is becoming a nui- sance. They are constantly besieged by all sorts of organizations and individual publicity hounds to make speeches, lay cornerstones, pose for photo- graphs, bestow medals and what nct. Even the Presi- dent of the United States has no protection against such inroads on his time and patience; in fact, he suffers a greater plague of such requests than any other public man. In the last 20 years the Presidency has become a burden almost too much for one man to carry. Wil- son broke down under the strain and Coolidge came through only by adhering to the strictest regimen. i Tennyson said: “Better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.” Perhaps this expresses the philosophy, if any, of the two’Grand avenue jazzbos who have just returned from a New Orieans spend- ing spree and are now in custody of the police. James V. Noel, the Missouri Theater treasurer who stole $9700 from his employers, told how he and his com- panion, Harold Werner, spent $4000 in four days. They found the necessary premise to this extrava- gance was to stay drunk, so a large part. of the money was spent for champagne, Scotch and Bour- bon. Half of the money went in gambling losses. The remainder was used for apartment rent, new clothes, tips for entertainers and so on. If a four- |day spree is worth a long stretch in the penitentiary, the values of the Hollywood age are a little different than they were when Victoria was Queen. = Prohibition agents in Georgia have found a still at the bottom of a well. Since when have dry agents been looking for Truth? = = _— - a SORGHUM TIME. Backward though old Joe Grundy finds our section in many ways, there is one respect in which we are far in the lead of our brothers and sisters of the enlightened East. The Ozarks country makes sweet- ening in the fall, Vermont waits until spring. This, we submit, is all in our favor. Throughout the win- ter we have fresh sorghum for our wheat cakes and waffles, while the New England breakfast table never knows new maple syrup until the frost has begun to go out. The proper background for piping hot cakes, melting butter and molasses consists of frosted win: dows and drifting snow, not of crocuses and budding trees. Disinterested testimony from Minneapolis, Se- attle and New Orleans will concur in that. This ad- vantage which Springfield, Mo., enjoys over Spring- field, Mass., is made possible by the sorghum making still in progress in the Ozark hills. Once regarded @s an occupation of little profit, reserved for only the laziest in remote sections, raising cane and mill- ing molasses has developed mto a large industry. Horse power grinders have been replaced by electric machinery; copper evaporators have supplanted old- time tin-bottomed cooking pans; small cane patches have spread over large fields. Nowadays the busi- | ness of “making up” sorghum stalks in the Ozarks can stand beside the “sugaring off” of maple syrup in the Connecticut Valley and ask no favors. = = —_— — Having resigned his conservation job and reiterat- ed his determination not to be a candidate again for the Senate, Mr. Hawes would seem to be in the predicament of a migratory bird. me. At least not in a nice smart package of words neatly tied up in a paragraph or so, as I would have liked. I just couldn't do it. The audience saw that I couldn't. But the lady set me to wondering. Why doesn’t every afflicted community rise up in wrath and expel these parasites? Loan sharkery is a criminal business in many states; so these usurers can be sent to jail. Deputy Attorney-General Raphael sent some to the hoosegow in New. York City not so long ago, so it has been done. The Kansas Supreme Court recently said loan shark offices were disorderly houses, and we know their contracts are void or voidable. * * * But no other criminal “racket” ef which I have heard anything is able to rent of- fices and do business openly in prominent buildings, advertise continuously in the newspapers, sue in the courts, and use all the mechanisms available to decent busi- ness. Lobbying for and by loan sharks is done openly in most state Legislatures, but can you imagine any other anti-social business getting away with it? It’s effective lobby- ing, too. Loan sharkery is a criminal business in Illinois, Not so long ago a woman lawyer became active against some loan sharks in Chicago—and the racketeers threatened her brother with death if his sister were not “called off.” Well, what answer did I give to the old lady at the woman’s club? My stumbling answer was a.guess—a guess that poor peo-. ple had to borrow money very often. often- er perhaps than she realized. And if there were no reputable company from which to borrow, then these poor folks were com- pelled to go to loan sharks. Evidently, I said, society realized this and tolerated loan . sharks. { 7 a . From what source will relief come? I See two main streams—co-operation and private enterprise, both under stute regu- lation, If the co-operative commonwealth advances swiftly, then we shall have great- _ est hope in loans by credit unions. people's banks and other co-operative loan agen- cies. But meantime we shall have to look to better regulation of commercial] agen- cies. Small loans are necessary. Fickle though legislators may be, I’ve found few to deny that a loan of money in a family emergen- cy was better than charity or bankruptcy. The small loan laws in 24 states are siin. ple in theory. They call for state super- vision of lenders who lend sums up to $300 on salaries, indorsers and chattels, which after all are about the only bases of cred- it available to the average man. The laws usually provide for bond, examination. li- cense fee and penalties for violations. The to be allowed. As a result the “legislative hazard” is the greatest danger at present to the new experiment in money-lending. Decent capital cannot get money from the public through security sales for a business that is not stabilized—and it cannot re- duce rates to borrowers unless it gets cheap money. So every time a Legislature threat- ens to reduce the going rate, cautious capi- tal flows elsewhere, and daring dollars em- ployed by loan sharks make a fat profit. ! Americans of all income classes want g00ds and services, want them in big gobs, and want them pronto. In the “old” coun- tries money was borrowed on pawn—which is accumulated wealth in property form. But the average American has little use for the pawnbroker. If ready cash is not at hand, there is always a money-lender or the installment seller to oblige him by discount- ing future earnings. And nearly every time he uses his credit he becomes a sure pros- pect as a borrower of money in the future. And if there isn't a legitimate lender at hand to make the loans, the loan shark will! make them. I've heard it said that money- lenders stimulate borrowing. Undoubtedly they do, but mainly it’s the borrower's own idea after some misfortune has pressed him for ready cash. + + * In recent: years, the high-rate loan shark chains have united into a Super-combine to fight regulatory legislation and have pooled lobbyists, “‘trouble-shooters,” attorneys and fixers of all kinds, Three main types of attack are continuously in progress. The first is constitutional attack en the exist- ing laws, the second is resistance to pro- posed new legislation, and latterly there has been an attempt to repeal or emasculate ex- isting laws, Mysterious “test” cases have appeared in several states in the last two years. I re- call offhand at least 10. Fortunately none of these cases has succeeded, but the loan sharks figure there is always a possibility of a decision of unconstitutionality. And then the state would be open again to high-raters. Consider the effect of a breakdown of the Missouri law, for example. In St. Louis prior to its passage there were Over a hun- dred “20 per centers.” Now there are only half a dozen, and these are undergoing criminal prosecution. A reversal would let all brands of loan sharkery loose upon the State again. 3 The greatest activity of the loan shark combine is directed toward preventing the Spread of legislation and toward repeal of laws which have driven loan sharks out of certain states. ; NO SLOGAN FOR JUDGES. From the Jersey Journal. HAT “Buy Now” slogan does not apply : to judgeships. much to Garrett. A large part of the tim he was in Congress, this man, respected 474 admired’ by Democrats and Repubiica™ alike, either was acting or actual Demo cratic leader on the floor. In 1928, he was defeated for election ™ the Senate. After that defeat he went to? life job on the Customs Court—-a |am duck. But his heart and his chief intere™ is still ‘‘on the Hill.” s J . HERE are those who say that as a par liamentarian and strategist, Finis Garre! ‘has few equals. Others insist he has some thing more—the knack of thinking fast his feet in debate. And they refer to th?! famous fight to seat Representative &: Bloom back in 1924. In this instance, the Republican comm! tee majority had ruled in favor of Wal'e’ Chandler, Republican contestant for t* Nineteenth New York seat. The time 45 April in the year of a presidentia! election The party complexion of the New York delegation hung inthe balance. Wit) Chandler in, it would be Republican by one. with Bloom seated, Democratic by one. A three-way presidential race was Joominé, and it was possible that the House mish be called on to elect the next Presiden New York's vote in such an election was >*- ing decided in the Chandler-Bloom contes’- — ” _ HEN the vote came, all except Democrats had been mustered, ¥"!'* there were 15 Republicans missing. Also. a group of seven irregular and two resv'*" Republicans joined the Democrats in s¥?- port of Bloom. The committee ma/ority ™* port was overthrown, 210 to 198. The n** vote seated Bloom, 209 to 198. It was at this point that Garrett 44 his quick thinking. Jumping to his fce' he shifted his vote from “aye” to “no.” The" at the same time, he popped in a motion '? reconsider the vote and to table the reco® sideration motion. Speaker Gillett and Nick Longworth, then Republican floor leader, had been causnt napping. If Garrett’s move succeeded. Bloom was in to stay, for the job could not be undone when the missing Republica” showed up. Gillett accepted Garrett's 40U- ble motion “without objection.” The Repu” licans tried to save the day with a po'nt of order, but it was too late. Bloom was in for keeps. three THE USUAL RESULT. From the New York Evening Post. TERRIFIC battle between a shark #°° a whale off the coast of Florida is T* ported in the news columns. We 4on* know how it finally came out, but we * sume that the whale gave in and bought \b¢ Teal estate. EINRICH Schlusnus, Germa H baritone, with the St. Louis Symphon Orchestra yesterday afternoon singing an aria from Verd! “Masked Ball” and a group of Ger man songs. He quickly established himself as an artist with a magonifi cent vocal equipment and a genu ine musical sense. His voice Is high baritone warmed by an agree able resonance, and his cantilena as well as other features of deliv ery, suggests- Italian rather tha German training. He was enthusiastically received by the audience’ and sang, as an en core to his group of songs, th “Rat Catcher” by Hugo Wolf. Th was a fortunate choice and raisec the average quality of the voca part of the program considerabl The other songs were distinctly sec ond rate despite the distinguishe names attached to them. As f¢ the Verdi number one can only s& that the singer’s superb artist Bifts made it endurame withot convincing one that it should eve be included in a symp > pro Kram. If a baritone simply to sing, an operatic excerpt the is always Leporelio’s aria or “Don Giovanni.” ; From the viewpoint of one inter ested primarily in the music, th most important numbers on tt program were the Handel G Mi Concerto Grosso” for strings an¢ the three dances from Manuel 4 Falla's “Three-Cornered Hat.” The orchestra was in good fort for both these, but the fact, of the being the opening and. clos humbers of the program and Jeet to the disurbances caused : comers and early goers, pre *nted their being received as the’ should have been. ri no? Program was completed t “'M8ky-Korsakoff’s “Antar” phony, which was not a sympt *¢ all in the sense of being a work pte out of musical, rather than ! ‘rary, ideas. The music un ‘Ook to describe the dering Adventures and dreams of ’
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