The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
MR.. DEVERY:;''
Takes Up the Question Of Music and Shows
Where Time and Harmony IRE
Important Factors.
Copyright, and Exchanged

E@ HERD was a wise guy once
said that music has charms
to soothe the savage beast. OF
course he may be right. At the
~ same time I notice that every
time a brass band passes down
Fourteenth street playin' Swamp
,em, swamp en-, get the wampum," Char
ley Murphy sends out for two htghbaHS,
an the district leaders is ordered to econ
onllAe on street SWeepers 1t s clnch
that next day there's a panic down at
City Hall, an if the tOon's played good
an Iorty the whole organization S shook
up for a week. There amt a sOOthin'
note GU see 1t takes e. different sort of
note to sOOthe the wigwam bunch. But
notwithstanding the disturbances caused
here an there by various toOns, there's
no aeny1n' that music is a blessin' to the
people The point is to have the proper
44usic AZ tle proper time II some guy
plants himself under George w. Perkins
window at two o'clock in the morain',
s4o STARTS IN playin' a cornet solor on
don't like no cheap man." yOn can ex-
pecr no burst Of enthusiasm out of Ceor-
gle. You get him down at the opri an
there amt anybody thatn have a better
time. Music's like everythfn' else-ft's
got TO be handled with discretion. So has
campaign contributions.
The two main things in music is time
an harmony. II you don't have the
time an the harmony right, music's on
me junk. There is some people holds
that harmony's more important than
time, an again there is others that holds
the visa. versa. Harmony is what Won
might call the scientific blendin' OF notes
BOT Instance If Timothy D. Sullivan
mas nifty nves in his jeens, an the fran
cnlse negouator comes along an lays
Two thousand more down on the table
Tim pulls out his fifty, an somehow they
Bet scientifically blended together. You
can ten where they met or how they
was mixed up. An instead of bein' two
S7y5p Dunches OF notes they're all one.
that's harmony. When the matter
comes up for vote there amt a dis
cpId nowhere. Things is blended grand
~ tHe People IS blended out Of a fran
enlse It's the same in music When
al OF the instruments is plavin' there
mustn't be no jarrin sound. Everythfn'
must SOUND sweet to the ear Can YOU
imagine any sweeter music than to hear
a supreme court judge singfn' ont eigh-
Igen. months IN a sort of crescendo trern-
~ ~ 70 one or this insurance crowd while
~ rest OF en- was in the cells below
1stenln to the band play won't You
SteP Up TO the Bar, Me BOys2" An
10 where time comes in as bein an
Important matter. Take Dick Canfield's
CdsS 1of instance, where they fined him
q thousand bucks for keepfnf a gaubIinl
mouse. There wasn't nothin' to it, That
wash more than Eve per cent. Of little
Reggie's donation A little time v-o51i5
nave been a different matter, even IL 1T
had been only three months
me hardest thing about the music
game IS the fact that the boys that de-
llvers the goods don't get the coin for
II 4nat IS, some Of EN- don't The
Things is not equally divided. It's the
same IN the legislatures. It don't cut no
4gure Tor you to be an assemblyman.
What you've got to work out is to get
on the proper committee. Did you ever
hear that piece they call Kroffsers Son
ataE IL was doped out by a buy named
Beethoven. He was a bird too only
he had hair instead Of feathers He
conio nave stuned mattress. whereas
q plTd couldn't do more than I'LL a board
n mouse pillow. But take him Here
ne starts In 70 write KrOitseT's Sonata
an II takes him six months He turns