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VERSATILE WRITER
IS HORACE VACHELL
Turns His Books Into Plays
and Vice Versa
MAY SINCLAIR IS O. K
Annoyed By Report That She Has Had
Nervous Breakdown—Arnold Ben
nett I.ends His Yacht to Ad
miralty—Barrie's “Boys"
Hy HAYDEN CHtHCH
London, April 25.—(Special.)—Horace An
nesley Vachell, author and dramatist, too.
is rubbing his hands, iust as present,
and with good reason. His play. “Search
lights.” is going strong at the Savoy,
and meanwhile he has just sold another to
Frederick Harrison, who thought so well
of it that he decided to put it on
at the Ha.vmarket in succession to “The
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Flag Lieutenant," in spite of the fact that ■
he has several other promising pieces in |
his safe.
This new play, “Quinney's,” has been
referred i© before In this correspondence.
Its central character is the proprietor of
an untlque shop where “old furniture”
is faked, and the author has. of course,
made a book of it with the same title,
which has proved highly successful, but
the play was written first, and was orgln
ally sold to Cyril Maude. The latter
found in “Quinney” a character after hte
own heart and would have produced the
piece long since had it not been for the
tremendous wholly unexpected success of
“Grumpy.” As it was Maude paid two
goodly sums down to retain the rights,
but recently reluctantly surrendered them, j
At the Haymarket, the name part is j
played by Henry Ainley, a singularly '
happy choice, as this comely and capable
voung actor, who began by playing hand
some heroes, has made very good of late,
In charatoer parts, notably as the hero
The Great Adventure." "Search
lights has been paying a series of
"flying visits' to the provinces, and
playing to bumper houses. Notably at
Brighton, where the receipts. I under
stand, constituted something iike a record
for a “flying matinee" there
So Vachell's hand-rubbing is readily j
understandable. He it was. of course, who
gave us those fine novels. "Brothers.
"The Hill,” "The Face of Clay” and “Her J
Son." which reminds one that his own •
son has returned to the fighting front in
France, after having been invalided home!
with a bullet wound in the head. Vachell. j
v ho ranched in California for many j
years, and one of whose earliest books I
was called "Life and Sport on the F*a- I
■ I fie Slope.” has quite got into the habit
of using his plots both in novel and
t lay form--he did it with "Her Son.'
.h Us (which Winthrop Ames produced
recently), “Blinds Down,” as well as with !
"Quinney's." but he tells me that he en- •
joys stage work so mncli that It prob
ably will be sometime before he will take
the time to write another novel. Which,
as Frank Richardson says, is “bad hear
ing."
Biirrie's Adopted Boys
Sometime ago 1 whs able to give
aonie interesting news regarding Sir
-fames M. Barrie which never pre
viously had been made public. This
WHS that the author of "The Little
Minister had adopted five orphaned
i*o\.s who were not related to him m I
•n> way. and had undertaken ail the
responsibility of bringing up and edu
i eating them. At that time l was not
e t liberty to dot the i s and cross the
t s, but now, in consequence of the ta« t
thru the eldest of these youngsters has
jus" given his life for his country, the
whole story has come out.
1 hose adopted sons of Barrie’s arc
the children of the latArthur Llewe
lyn Davies, and of Sylvia, only daugh
’or of the author of "Trilby." M:s
Davies was a friend of Sir James ana 4
whs the original of "Grizel of th - t
1 rooked Smile," who won the heart of ]
Sentimental Tommy. Gerald du .dau- c
iier. the actor-manager, is the boys' t
uncle, and so. too. was Lieut. Col. Guy t
du Marn ier, the author of "An English- t
man n Home." who also was killed re t
‘ently in the fighting at Neuve Chap- •
' lie Barrie adopted the boys on the i
• tenth of their mother, ami has treated t
them exactly as If they were his own. I
I he sad fate of the eldest. Second Lieu- t
tenant George Llewelyn Davies, must c
have been a great blow to Sir James. •
j 1 fining, too. as it did. after the recent I
vounding of one of his nephews, an i
1 tragi- death of his close friend, tin
late Captain Scott
) • '(lam London newspapers are mis (
! iak. n. however, in saying that the j
young soldier who has just been kilb d \
I was the original of ''David" in Tim t
j Little White Bird. ' and, incidentally i
«»t Peter Pan." This was the second t
<>f the brothers. "Tommy" Davies, who *
also collaborated with Sir James in i
' iJttle Mary”—i. e., supplied the fa- t
mous I'll be sick tonight” line, and »
who received a royalty of 1 cent on ev- f
j er> performance of that famous- <
I "spoof" play. j
May Sinclair Not III
May Sinclair has been much nn
j noyed bv a statement published recently <
jin the Cnited States to the effect that <
! shf' had a nervous Heakdown as the re- i
I suit, as the writer put it, "of her recent 1
terrific experiences ft) Belgium." The re- i
, port went on to sav that the authoress i
! WHS down in Yorkshire recuperating from i
j tliit* breakdown and that it would prob-. 1
ably be sometime before she was able to
00 any writing, statements which Miss i
Sinclair wishes to deny, in the strongest
terms, as she thinks them liable to do
her considerable harm.
The "experiences” above referred to be- ,
fell the author of the "Divine Fire"
h member of the now famous Munry|
buiance corps s' cttofcfiwith
the Belgian^croas since soon after
1 he begmJ*mg of the war. Practically all ,
its \vor£ jn field has been done un
knell, fire and neither what they have
seen close to the fighting line, nor in 1
in- hospitals or while working among 1
the homeless refugees is likely to be for
gotten b\ any of the party. Miss Sin
clair left her companions after me rail i
of Ghent, partly because she was not <
physically strong enough tor the work and
partly because she had contracts which
had to be fulfilled, "but," she declares, in
a. letter to me.* "1 come of a family that '
is not used to breaking down under 'ter
rific experiences.'
"There was very little of those experi
ences. 'terrific' or otherwise. ' adds Miss
Sinclair, "that 1 would willingly have 1
missed, while so far from suffering, and i
"recuperating in Yorkshire, and being uh- 1
able to write. 1 was only in Yorkshire
two or three weeks, and my time mere
"'as spent thus Writing from 9:30 to 1
j Walking from 1:3n often till 10 at night i
up the dales or over the moors, collecting '
money for the Belgian refugees in m\
village. If the weather was hopeless 1
wrote from five in the afternoon til 10
or 11 at night, and never felt fitter.
“Since my return early in November F
have been hard at work on my Belgian
‘Journal or Impressions' (which F shall
have finished before the end of this
month) also on other writings which are
not yet complete.”
Lends Yachts to Admiralty
Arnold Bennett, who keeps steadfastly j
on the trail of the big war relief funds f
. -__=j;
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_Little Miss Booth Jones, Lost With Lusitania
Many persons at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York city, are still talking of tittle Miss Alisia Booth .Tones,
who was one of the victims of the Lusitania. She was with her father at the hotel and endeared herself to many
through her beauty and cleverness. Mr. Edwin Sooth-Jones, the father, was in the bolted States to see the objects
of art. It was Just before little Miss Bootb-Jones and her father left aboard the Lnsitauia that sbe had a photograph
taken. Horry Zebner, one of the assistant managers of the Waldorf-Astoria, admired the picture, and the girl gave
one to him on the morning she and her father left the hotel.
nd “ticks them off," as- the popular
dirsfie goes, in prim, if they fail to carry
ut conscientiously the work entrusted to
hem by the public, is, 'I hear, among
hose who have lent their private yachts
r» the admiralty, and his craft is now
teaming up and down the west < oast,
watching for German cruisers. Bennett
s still living down at Thorpe-le-Sokcn.
car Colchester, but he runs up to town
repuently and was one of the first night
udlence that gathered to see what sort
f a “vehicle" for Gaby Deslys Sir .lames
'arrie had produced in “Rosy Rapture,
iennett appeared highly amused.
Statues Prove White Elephants
London, April 25.- Seven heroic statues
f English kings, which formerly occu
pied a position of great honor in the old
Vestmlnitor hall, near W estminster ab
ey, are gathering dust in an obscure !
larehouse. because no suitable place for
hem can be found. The huge statues were
ccepted by the eJty corporation as a
"an in perpetuity, but ever since then
he city fathers have been at their wits
nd as to how to dispose of them. Ail
orts of suggestions have h.*en made and
ites proposed, but In each case certain
iifneuities stoqd in the way. The states !
ire of such a charucter that th**v.cannot j
ie exposed to the weather, and there \
Hstin*• t opposition to dividing the king> ■
irnong several museums or public build- i
ngs. none of which seem capable of hous- !
ng tlu? eniige group artistically/ ft is not I
mlikel\ that they will be allowed to re- j
nain in the warehouse until some new art !
nuseum is erected In which provision for !
hem can be made. The statues are by
he leading sculptors of their time and are
egarded by art experts as works of con
siderable merit.
No Gas Producing; Shells
'’jjpnvthe Ysfft'fi's r Vmpanion.
From coal tar are obtained such sub- j
stances as benzine and toluene, which
seated with nitric acid, make explosives ;
if the insensitive kind. One of them
ailed “T. N. T." (.short for trinit i n- !
oluene), has been largely used by the i
Germans in the present war for filling j
>hells.
In accounts of the fighting that is now
folng on in Europe, you read of the us * .
>f melinite by the French, and of lyddite :
)>’ the British. The .Japanese in their j
•ecent attack on the Germans in China, j
ised Shimose. All three of these high ;
explosives are one and the same thing, i
tamely., picric acid, which is derived from
■oaltar. and which is melted and poured
nto the projectiles.
The gases generated by all explosives
ire poisonous. For example, picric acid
fives off prussic acid, one of Lin- most
leadly of chemical substances. But th
itories of the recent use of shells that
iherate vapors capable of suffocating
>r otherwise killing whole regiments <>'
toidiers are fabrications. Xo one ha
ver contrived a means whereby, accord
ng to an idea long ago suggested burs'
ng projectiles may humanely distribute
>ver a battlefield a gas that will plunge
m army into deep end helpless sjumbe/
intil the.soldiers arc gathered in as pi
tners.
— - -i>.———- —
A Joke on Bismarck
from the Louisville Herald
The great iron chancellor of Germany.
5rince Otto von Bismarck, who first weld
id the nation Into an empire, was a most
©voted and docile husband and amenable
0 his wife's advice. Her ready wit, ul
liough it saved him many a weary hour,
nee got him into a ludricrous position.
Lord Russell, an English nobleman, was
ne day calling on the prince, when ho
emarked that Bismarck was doubtless
nnoyed by countless v isitors v\ no took
p his time unnecessarily.
“That is true,” responded the chancel
>r, with a laugh, “but my wife has a trick
Dr getting rid of all bores in a grace
ul way. If she sees 1 have a visitor
.ho is likely to prove dull, she comes
1 and makes some pretext for getting me
way."
Hardly had Bismarck ceased speaking
Mien his wife bustled into the library.
“Otto,” she said, in a commanding
oice, “you must go at once and take
our medicine; you ought to have had
t 10 minutes ago.”
It is needless to say that in spite of the
learty laugh that followed the English
■isitor did not long delay his adieu.
Kelly Honored for Services
London, April 26.—(Correspondence of
he Associated Press.)—Capt. William
irchihald Howard Kelly, of the cruiser
Gloucester, has been awarded the honor
»f appointment as companion of the
Jrder of the Bath in recognition of his
ervices during the chase of the German
arshlps Goeben and Breslau in August,
'he official description of Captain Kel
ey’s services 6ays: “The report of the
Gloucester shows that the Goeben could
ave caught and sunk her at any time
lad she dared to turn upon her. The
loeber. was apparently deterred by the j
Gloucester's boldness, which gave the
mpresBiou of support close at hand. The |
omhlnation of audacity with restraint. '
inswerving attention to the principal mil- j
lary object, namely, to hold on to the
loeber without tempting her too much—
nd strict conformity to orders consti
ute a naval episode which may justly
e retarded as a modal.” I
Farm Colonies Versus County Jails
B> \MOS \V . HI TI.RH
Seereiurj Indiana Stale Hoard of I'haritiea
Exclusive Service of Tht Survey.
Why should not a violator ut the state
law be a prisoner o? tht stale? Why is
it not as much the duty of the state to
care for those who commit petty offenses
as for those who commit greater ones?
As it is now, in practically all our states,
the petty offenders are cared for by local
officials, and in most of the common
wealths without much, if any. supervision.
To Massachusetts, perhaps, can be given
the credit for leading the wav in the
suggestion that the minor prisons be
states this plan has been suggested, but
placed Under state authority. In other
nowhere has any materia.! progress been
made in this direction.
The experience of the United Kingdom
since 1877 is suggestive. Three acts passed
simultaneously by the three kingdoms
placed the control of the minor prisons
under central government. The end sought
was a uniform system of punishment, the
repression of crime, and economy in ex
pense That the Law .was effective is to
be gathered from, the following statement
from Fir Evelyn Ruggles- Hrlse:
“The act eaipc .into effcu.t on April 1,
1*78. 113 local prisrftis being so transferred.
Since that date their nufnber has been
i educed to 30. At the time of their trajis.- 1
for the local prison population stopfl at
21,030, the highest known, F*n.*b tfful date
a continuous fall recorded until '1885,
when the numbers reached slightly over
15,‘ML, VWer a series of flunctuations be
'.by and above this number, her the pop
ulation stands at 15.000 at the present
time."
In what other countries has there been
such a great decrease in tlie number of
m i sd e! n ea mints ?
Our short-term prisoners are our great
est prison problem. There are more of
then. We give less thought to them and
do less for them. Our county jail sys
tem is a survival of the early days, a
relic of the past. Considered in the light
of modern social developments it ia an
obsolete thing.
\ placard that was used in Indiana to
cab attention to the county jail system
read as follows:
“How prisoners live and learn in In
diana county jails.
•They live in idleness at the expense
of the taxpayer. •
“They learn vice, immorality and crime
"They • become educated in criminal
ways.
“They degenerate both physically and
mon-ally.” *
THE WRONG END.
A similar legend would apply with
nioM* mi- less force to the jail system of
ail the United States.
Hit of these local prisons come all the
I risoners in our state intftitutions. One
of the delegates to the International
Frisor Congress In Washington, in 19H».
spoke in admiration of the reformatory
laws of some of our states, bflt added:
“It seems to me that you have begun
a* ‘he " v iu . end with the felons in the
Mate prison, instead of with the petty
often dr r, whose numbers are many times
as gnat, in the ip-aii iail ”
Altogether, the local jail presents the
roost difficult problem to solve Few peo
I
i
I*le are interested in it, fewer still care.
No one goes to the jail except on busi
ness unless he is committed, and perhaps
these local prisons to which few people
a thought uie making more criminals
than any other one agency. Our public
schools are supported by taxes for the.
purpose pf making good citizens. Our
.tails too. are public schools, but they are
making bad citizens. They are schools
for the training of criminals.
\n important development in penology
has been the recent changes In the treat
ment of misdemeanants in Indiana. This
involves a change of attitude and of the
ory. An offender against the federal law
N eomes a prisoner of the United States,
kb** judge of the court having jurisdic
tion- a United States officer—has full au
thority over the prisoner, including ins
keeping and care.
WHKR INDIANA HEADS.
In . fleet, that principle has been adopted
hv the state of Indiana alone so far <is
w * know. Under its .mil supervision law,
all prisoners are really prisoners of t.h-?
state. They are under the authority of
the judge of the circuit or crimlnol court,
who Lr n state office!*. The judge may
eMermine where the prisoner shall b#>
kept: how he shall be cared for: his food,
lathing. • te. He is given authority to
adopt rules for the rare and behavior
of prisoners and the conduct of officers,
in condemn a jail if it is unfit for upl
and to remove the prisoners until it is
repaired, remodeled or rebuilt. As a re
sult the buildings are in better condition.
Theie is improvement in cleanliness, neat
ness nnd sanitation.
These combine to effect a lessening in
Ike number of prisoners in many of tlie
jailr Where discipline, regular habit*
and cleansing of quarters and persons arc
i equired. many persons who love careless
ways of living manage to keep out of
jail.
Indiana also established a house of < r,r
rection for women misdemeanants. This
is a branch of the woman s prison. Tt is
wholly under the charge of women. This
law has been in operation since iros. with
very gratifying results Many of the
women who know nothing about domes
tic employment are trained so that when
they go out they may do something for
themselves. Some n them ho\ e heen * e
•clalried and re-established and are do
ing well.
The next step was the establishment of
the state farm for male misdemeanant*.
This was provided for by the Legislature of
1913 Tt is located near Green castle, about
45 miles from Tndianapolls, within reach
of two important railroad lines. On this
'arm there are different grades of lime
stone principal;v Mitchell limestone, the
best road building material in ihe state.
There is good surface clay for use in
brick and tile mu king. It is well watered
and there is a considerable tract of forest
land.
Twent.v -four men wore first transferred
from the state prison at Michigan Pity
and placed in tents borrowed from the
state national guard Tlu\ did their own
cooking and practical^ guarded them
selves On the dav of the first cold
weather and the beginning of the firsr
heavy snowfall, they completed the first
ouildmg and moved into it This will
eventually be the storehouse. They arc
nov at work upon the dormitories, in*
kitchen, dining room and other necessary
buildings. These at first will provide for
2rd or 300 men. Others will later be added
,*f' double this -capacity.
The newspapers call this farm the
“Prison without walls.” That is what It
is hoped it may he. hut probably at first
it will be surrounded by barbed wire
fence. However, the building will be of
the same one-story frame dormitory tvpe.
and it is expected tnere will be no bar.-,
as is the Institution after which it is
modeled.
At any rate. It will be an industrial
farm colony for short-term or misdemean
ant prisoners. Tt will be built by th«*
prisoner*, inexpensively, of wood, at least
at -first. The prisoners will Hp employed
in useful occupation, contributing to thci»
own support instead of living in idleness
at the expense of the taxpayer In a lo
cal Jail.
The governor proclaimed the institutu n
ready to receive prisoners April 12. 1915.
There will be sent to it the men with
longer sentences of the class that now
go to the workhouses and jails. Eventu
ally. there will doubtless be established
more farms of the same kind. Then there
will be opportunity for an indeterminate
sentence of some form for misdemeanants.
Tills will naturally mean that the county
jails will not be used for the confine
ment of convicted misdemeantants. They
will serve only as plases of detention foi
prisoners awaiting trial. It is confidently
believed the result will he a notable less
ening in the number of these prisoners.
People often speak of “prison” farms.
Th<« is not alone a prison problem. Th*
industrial farm colony is a type of insti
tution which has come to be regarded as
a. desirable means for the care of certain
groups of praclcally all classes of public
charges. Tt has been adopted and sue
cess fully conducted for the care of the
Insr.ne in Wisconsin. Massachusetts and
Indiana: for the feeble-minded in Mas
saehuetts, New Jersey and Indiana; for
epileptics in New Jersey and Indiana.,
V ‘ J
'l SPEAKS ON MUSIC
H> 'IRS. A. T. STOTALI,
I Of Okalunn. Alla*. Addrraa Dulfvrrpil
llrfnrr 'llaaUalpiil Mimic Trix'krr*
\*iMoola(ion «t Mrrlilimi.
President of the Associatidn, Mem
bers of the Association, ladies and
Gentlemen-—Huving been actively »n
gaged in teaching the Godowsky nro
gressivr series for two years, that is.
since the text was first from the press.
I feel confident we now have a happy
and effective medium through which
t tamianlization may be attained. When
I say “1 feel" a smile of egotism
mingled with the ridiculous passes over
me. When such connoisseurs as Ernest
I:. Kroeger. Wilson G. Smith, Sam Fa
bian, Albino Gorno and Arnold J. Gant
voort any it is a “boon to the teach
ing profession,*’ then why should we
of little moment presume? Still we al
ways have—and that is sufficient n.a
son for the American-born, and .V»is
sissippians are not eM nipt from their
inheritance of the American audacity.
Now closely considering the subject,
regarding the text material. It is act
an uninteresting, bulky mass as might
appear to the casual observer, but it
is an open sesame into an easily di
gested realm of art. Each phast »nd
step of progress proving more fascin
aiing than the prei eding. W hen >■ c
realize that true culture means
"knowing and loving the Best that has
been said and done in the world. * wo
aie cognizant of the fact that .11
adopting the compilation of the groat
•casters by such artists and pedagogues
as Messrs. Leopold Godowsky, Emil
I Sauer. Fredrick Ldllbriuge and the . te
i»r. \V. S. R. Mathews < to which staff
have - been recently added the illus
trious personages. Josef Hof man And
Edgar Stillman Kelly, composer of the
first and only truly American sym
phony yet writter), we can feel as
sured that we are making no mistake
in selecting our basis for “standardiza
tion of music” in our southland stati—
Mississippi. Indeed the road that was
tugged to the goal of success seem.-:
now to vanish and we travel onward,
upward, through the vista made clear
bv those to whom the muses have sung
in an unmistakable language, which
teils so audibly of the “power behind
the throne." wafted on the ethereal
II ml-waves to the delicately pulsating
vibration of the master mind. Shall
e as music teachers of Mississippi
not “lend a hand?" This would put us
<n the music map as doing something
worth while. Why should the teach
ers of Mississippi be laggards and con
tent with that mode of teaching which
requires the least fatigue and secures
the minimum results? Personally 1 must
admit, that 1 am becoming musically
skeptical. Was l trying ardently to
impart, more ardently to require, that
of pupils which meant only a vast
amount of time futilly consumed in
order to secure control, when only the
c.ne sense, the aural, was to be satis
lied? Why not strike the key with
two fingers instead uf one, or why
curve the finger or elevate an i de
press the wrist—why any previous
preparation to a difficult passage? If
you could secure “tone'* and pamper
Hi* aural organ by striking the keys
with straight fingers, the nose or toes,
or, better still, buy a Vietrola. an
• veolian attachment or pianola, and tell
> our pupils to “listen.*' This would be
I delightful and “educational." Very
; true, but. my friends, is it teaching?
j Are we fulfilling the basic principle of
| truth entrusted to our keeping? \\ hen
we have labored assiduously to inas
! t» l* the Leschetizky position of ele
] vated knuckles and depressed wrist
| and arc-* taught that the flat back ..f
• the hand is “amateurish" and som
equally great authority either or to
day or yesterday contradicts this, wha.1
ire we to do, merely accord it nil a
fed which is as whimsical as the styles
of the seasons? No. Art means progress.
Standardisation is progress Therefor *
let us standardize that which is
gieatest uplift, solves the most inri
caK problems, thereby disolves skep
ticism by establishing truib. The
above discussion, as you must under
stand. is in the general acceptation
of the meaning, termed “technic." This
we have all heard about (even in Mis
sissippi!. Now- to clear up this oft
disputed problem: Eis'eru. Jn 1828-18".)*)
Hej.pe, realizing the importance of se
curing better pianistic results, ir.s-.le
many scientific developments of the
•land positions. Even koine of these
have been refuted by some, but while
we hearken to the above discussions
Mr. Oodowskv answers by telling us
all these accepted positions are only
“relative." Does this not come as
"topes after rain?" Again, technic is
psychological: the power of mind over
• he playing apparatus <i. e., fingers,
knuckles, hands, upper and forearm
and shoulder!. In fact, all muscles frjm
the “crown of the head to the sole of
the feet* must be in n responsive (re
laxed) condition, free 10 he called upon
'o portray any emotion of the heart of
tie interpreter. This ability requires
cultural control, thereby the brain *»f
1 he listener becomes quickened thro ign
h;F sense, of sight instead of. as lust
conceived, through his sense of he..r
i 'g: therefore the adequate necessity
of careful and systematized study.
\ few words upon the unit basis in
our public and state schools. By h*.
quhseiug with Nebraska. Ohio. Minne
sota et aj, by adopting the progres
sive series, we would certainly make S
a rapid stride toward the evolution of t
music teaching in Mississippi. May we
not appeal to our male educators and
legislators to place such a standardised
i\stem upon the same legitimate basis
with any other accredited, scientific,
major study, after passing the exam
ination under an accredited teacher of
the society? Look at our greater unt
v« rsities. They recognize music as a
•nost potent factor of correlation to
abduolHe reasoning: e. g.. Harvard,:
■Sale. Northwestern, Chicago, Columbia.
University of Nebraska, etc. In marry
cast s qui girls are all boys.” There -
"ore should we as representatives of
the immortal art be content to re 4.
main passe in our own. our natives
state? On the other hand, should it ntwf
behoove us to agitate the question i'H«
HI our university is second to none in'j
P'oviding for her sons' development!
ri every divine endowment? What »ml-|
'•» rsity i» Complete without her glee,
'■'uli. and orchestra’.’ This requires aj
scientific teacher in his respective KneJ
based upon standardized methods ands
t tandardfzed musical literature. ShouhV,
not the God-given voice of the Mis- 1
sissippi boy fn»t h> taught the har
l'ion.v of tones and cruided to the ele
ctive genius ns wen us Harvard boys?
Should the Mississippi boy not he
taught the harmony of tones and
guided to the creative genius as well
•vs the boy of Yale? Th* i
by giving to Mississippi Hr.* k
iy and Moores. As yet no pro
vision has been-made for him. A tul-\
•ura! accomplishment is a safeguard
t* any young man. Friends and co
| workers, are we-doing our duty to
promote the advancement of the art
vp have so long espoused? May we
hasten to “set the atone rolling.’ hut
truly, let it return with moss! Now,
with the consent of the president. I
would like to put a motion before
the convention, viz: all who are in
favor of adopting the Godowsky series
or a course equivalent In its demar.ds
?«i a. standard of music teaching in »
Mississippi, please rise.
Literary Note
From Judge.
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celsior.”
•If I want to wait.' he mused **’
might get a big price for this as h
fast food poetry.”
Heaving a sigh, he mailed the rr
script to his publishers. Yjl
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