Show I I KAREL CAPEK LOOKS AT HYDE PARK T J 9 f Lalit Laet year the young Hungarian t I Capek b best st known wn In lie this thill country for his tali RU UR un u. u n. n HV which has tall b been n played d In Inn ina n R dozen doxen languages paid n R visit to London IH In impressions lon of England and the he lie has hAil recorded In an en entertaining book hook of ot ketch Letter Letters SCorn from Lag Eng lend land which Doubleday lage l'age and Company have published recently Following is hl hi description of that I most h of Institution Hyde Park I found myself by Hyde Park It Was a a. large open space and anyone anyone anyone any any- one who likes to can bring along alonga a chair or a o platform or nothing at atall atall all and can start talking After awhile he has five or twenty or people listening to him they answer him raise objections nod their heads and sometimes they Join the orator In lb singing sacred or or profane profane profane pro pro- fane hymns The larger churches have perambulating pulpits but most of ot the orators simply stand standon on the ground suck at a moist cigarette cigarette cigarette ciga ciga- rette and preach about vegetarianism vegetarian vegetarian- ism about God about lt education lon about reparations or about spirit spirit- Never In my life liCe have I seen anything like It It Because sinful man that I am I had not been present at any preaching preaching preach- preach ing ine for several years I went to listen Prompted by modesty I Joined only and quie t group the speaker there ther was a hUnchbacked hunchbacked hunchbacked hunch hUnch- I backed youth with fine eyes ees evidently evidently evi evi- dently a Polish Jew after atter some considerable time I realized realized- that his subject was nas merely schooling and I passed over over- overto to a large crowd where an an a old gentleman In a a- atop top top- top hat was Jumping about abolt In a a. pulpit I ascertained that he represented some Hyde Park Mission he flung his hands bands about so much that I was afraid he would tumble over oer the hand At another crowd a Catholic Catholic Catholic Ca Ca- was preaching beneath a a. high nigh crucifix for tor the first time In my life I beheld the proclaiming of the faith of heretics I Jot It was wag extremely extreme extreme- ly nice and concluded with song In which I attempted 1 to sing alto Unfortunately un- un fortunately I did not know the tune A few crowds were devoted exclusively to song In their midst a little HUle man takes his stand stand- with a baton gives the note and the whole crowd sings and Indeed in a very decent and polyphonic manner I wanted to listen in silence for I dont don't bC belong Ong to this but but my myS S I f Q neighbor a gentleman in a top hat top hat urged mo me to sing too so I sang aloud and glorified the he Lord without without without with with- out words and without tune A pal pair of lovers comes this way t the e youth takes the cigarette e from his mouth and sings the girls also sings an anold anold anold old lord sings and a youth with a cane under his arm sings and the shabby little man In the midst of the circle grac gracefully rullY conducts as In Ingrand Ingrand Ingrand grand opera nothing here has pleased me so BO much before I sang with two other churches besides this and listened to a sermon on on oc- socialism and to the gospel of a a. Metropolitan Secular society Another group comprised only there thero was a a. brown Indian a one one eyed e ed man wearing a cap a stout out Armenian Jew and two taciturn men with pipes the one- one eyed man declared with a I fearful pessimism that som something is sometimEs sometimE's sometimes sometimes some some- times timE's nothing while the Indian advocated advocated ad ad- the more cheerful view that something is sometimes something something some some- thing Uin which he repealed repeated twenty times In very tumbledown English Then there was vas an old fellow standIng stand- stand lag ins there who held a along a long cross and on it a a. banner with the tho In Inscription In- In Thy Lord thee he was saying something In a weak and h y voice but nobody w was wis s listening to him So I r. r a lost foreigner for for- eigner cigner came to a standstill and supplied him with an audience of one Then I wanted to go my wa way for It was already night but I was stopped by bv a man In a nervous state but I do 10 not know enow what he said to me I told him that I was wall wasa walla a stranger strang I that London was a te ter terrible affair but that I wa was fond of the English that I had already been about tho the world a little but that few things pleased me so much muchas as the orators In yde Park I Taxi company representatives say tSay they're going to join vigorously in the drive in c congress for repeal of the auto excise taxes and if they succeed they can reduce fares until nearly everybody will be able to af afford afford af- af ford taxi transportation Maybe they really will witt give the public the benefit of at least part of the difference too Theres There's considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable competition In the taxi bus busl nes ness |