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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13

appropriateness Of the text. The reason Il
not hard 10 find. 1t was founded on an IN
Cident not general in character, and hence Is
unsuitable tor continuous appropriateness
| have often been approached TO set worthy
words to music. but they did not possess the
true essence OF the great national American
song. Such things are born OF universal out
burst OF enthusiasm or of war. And the latter
most fortunately IN modern conditions, does
not often come. and 10 IN America, where we
are not seeking foreign ENHANCEMENT, seems
especially remote.
II a great war does come TO US. II VIII prompt
the writing OF an American national hymn that
viii last for all time.
La MarseillaIse the product of a ire
mendOuS OutburSt. 1t had to come, lust as
Die Yacht am Rheln was . flower OF war.
Germany needed a new song. Ii had been
composed long before the moment OF its ap-
pearance, but its appropriateness. with the
suited the occasion. Inafew days all Germany
was singing 1t.
Such song fires the people; but 1t cannot be
forced upon them.
People in Europe do not sing the folk songs
as they once did. even though the melodies
have lived tor centuries. America started at a
point where its people no longer needed folk
songs; they had time for them.
The folk song, like the wild rose, is born In
the country.
In the tremendous stress here it would be
impossible for country people 10 sit down to-
gether for the making of little poems and music
TO them. Fancy the American farmer assem-
bling IN groups for that purpose, He Is more
intent on SeedleSS oranges pumpkins and
cucumberS. or the growing of 4 new melon
All this Is but natural: it Is but an expression
OF the day and time. In Europe exactly the
same state of things prevails IN those countries
that are up 10 date
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13
Weakness of National Songs

| ne melody OF The Star-SpAnged Banner"
Is majestic and strong. but fhe -,
OF mat melody lies IN the fact that its cornn',s
is VocalIy unsuitable. Die Yacht am Rhr,n +"
mas the same fault Both are an oct,v,. ,n,i
NTH, whereas the natural compass for ,-'','
octave '''''l one
AGAIN America IS the only country, ,yh.r,
'he people do not know the words of tb.;.
national song On the many festival occas;",,.
when II has been my pleasure to conduct -
naVt found 1t necessary to have the wnrds
printed IN order that the people may io,n :,
singing 1T That shows the wcnkn,Sl i ,'',' m
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13

least she had no share in the diabolical plot that
succeeded all too well,-the assassination OF the
only broad minded and humane autocrat Rus
STA has ever known. I'm a man OF peace SIT F.,
but d horsewhip any man who dared say to
my face that Anna PendenniS was a woman
who lent herself to that deviltry, or any other
of the kind-veS, I'd do that even now, after
the lapse of twenty-five years."
Il know" | said huskily. That 5 just how
feel about Anne. She must be very like her
mother
To Be continued ne1t SnudGr
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something pictured therein. something that
brought strange usefulness to his fine old face.
She was the loveliest and most charming
woman I've ever seen!" he resumed emphati-
cally. "As witty as she was beautiful; gra-
ciouS wit-not the wit that wounds, no, no, y
perfect woman nobly planned, that was Anna
Pendennis. To see her, to know her, was TO love
her! Did l say Just now that she misused her
influence at the Russian court in the attempt
to further what she believed to be a right and
holy cause the cause OF freedom for OPP
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13
Can't Export Folk Songs

TO hear the folk songs. one must 90 10 those
lands that still lie IN the past. part OF a.
dear poetic Yesterday But wherever one NAV
ind the folk song it is Illustrative II gives one
the type OF the people from whom it ernanateS
Those OF Spain are picturesque spirited. full
OF love OF the dance; those of Germany breathe
that untranSlatabe quality, GsDslst. those OF
SCdnulndNla embOdy scenes OF mountains
of the eternal
In the Iyrol. they infused with a delight
tuL savage buOyanCV. To hear three. or four
men yodhng up III the mountains each ON :,
dIilerent peak. the sound reverberating and
eChoing Is untOrgetabe: but q Tvrolean would
never send out his yodel from the top Of a sL,1r-
Scraper on Manhattan Island.
To-Day we hive IN new world The old Is
giving place TO other influences; change has
asserted itself IN fresh conditions
W hlle those folk songs still remain tbo,,ah
III less ruling extent, a power IN the music that
Is belnS composed, the influence OF American
music Is making itself strongly felt In EuroDe
us determination and buoyaucv make for
themselves an impression wherever they are
nedrd. one knows from the spirit that II Is
American music, whether one hears II m CON
Stdhtinoplc or bombay. The song that Is DaDl1-
lar IN the streets OF New York and SAN Fran-
GSG" Is WhlNtcd III the streets OF Paris and Berlin
In numerous important scores. when one
hearS them, one hears also that their composers
nave had the scores OF certain American col
leagues IT their lett hand while they were.
writing In my own case. | am aware thar a
u"zen European composers have u standing
order AT their music dealers 10 supply them
with every new American score
Lake "a single instance OF tins American IN
uuencc. The Merry Widow Walt" II Is
haunting but II Is American. Twenty or
thirty Years ago Lehar would not have written
such a waltz II would have been impossible,
There Is = resemblance IN character. NOT m
notes. between 1t and She's My Sweetheart.
l M her Joe
We have influenced European composers bv
our spirit. Again. II - SIMPLY proof OF what /
nave SAID, and OF the many instances that may
De found OF the effect our popular American
song ut the stage has, not only upon the public.
out upon the composers at other countries
And So while 1t has always been held against
thu American composer that he has no folk
sony 10 make u background Ot centuries To- build
and 10 draw upon. he Is building on new foun-
datIons entirely OF his own the foundation of
the American spirit rs 1t Is expressed IN music |
In this branch, the popular song, modest Is
ITS field may seem. 1t is impossible for any |
thoughtful musician 60 fail % value ITS wide |
Spreading influence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13

Tyrol, or countries untouched by the influence
OF the popular song from the big cities.
Before could speak IN my babyhood in Ire
land | could sing a hundred irish folk tunes.
And folk songs have a tremendous influence on
the soul of the individual The modern Russian
school of composers Is an instance OF this.
There would not be any Grieg If 1t was not
for the Scandinavian folk songs that he had to
draw upon The peasants of his country could
sing many a little melody which found its way
into his sonatas. melodies that sprang from the
hearts of their ancestors and have lived ever
since.
Take DvoTak for instance, when. during his
stay IN this country and inspired by desire 10
write something with a genuine national turn
TO it. he composed his american New
World) symphony, he still showed the intu
ence of the folk songs of his native Bohemia.
There Is not 4 movement IN it, except the beau
tiful slow one, where Bohemia does not look
through the keyhole, III Slavic traits and bits.
Even Chopin, without doubt one of the great
est genuses, although he wrote only for the
piano, owes a vast per cent. of his beautiful
melodies TO the folk songs OF his native Poland.
The only American folk songs that We have
those by Stephen b. Foster belong TO TO
mantle period IN the South that We have lost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13
Negroes Losing Their Gaiety

A far as the songs of the Southern negro are
concerned, they seem To have no longer
the joyous spirit OF their grandtathers OF fifty
years ago. They have more IN them now,
as then, that charming gaiety.
Sometime ago several hundred negroes
kindly sang to me at one OF the great tobacco
factories of Richmond. Instead of the melodies
of the past. alternately bright and pathetic,
they sang, and most beautifully, men women,
and Children-hymns! Whether they felt freer
slaves than citizens, whether a certain
carefrec responsibility that they once enjoyed
had vanished this change IN their choice was
strangely marked.
National songs that run like prairie fire
through a whole vast country as does wind
swept flame are born or come appropriately
under exact conditions at an exact moment.
They are great embodiment of intense feeling
which demands them.
Take. for instance. the famous Sword
Song, which until the Franco PruSSian War of
1870, when Die Yacht am Rhcin superseded
1t. was great battle hymn of Germany. Lying
IN ambush for the enemy. kOrner wrote the
words Two hours later he was shot dead.
The poem found IN his pocket made him nm
mortal. The song set by Weber To music has
long inspired patriotic enthusiasm and valor.
Again, the wild, pulse stirring "MarSeillaiSe"
was written by ROuget de Isle in the war times
OF lI9Z IN a single night, seated at the piano in
a cold room, too exhausted after composing
ms passionate war CRY to leave the instrument
where he had fallen asleep. Its spirit held the
Whole SpHlt OF France. After 1t was first sung
at Strasburg 1t was quickly carried To Mar
SeleS. and became the inspiration of the band
oil insurgents there. and Of generations of liberty
lovers alter them. Its spirit has carried that
same message 10 many lands and not a heart
but IS stirred by it,
Volumes might he written OF the scenes in
which anyone OF these great national songs has
played a part scenes that have made history.
influencing ages past. which Will bear wcightiiv,
on ages yet to come
On the other hand, there is the patriotic
popular song, tor certain period and not
general to a whole land in its application. Sucb
popular song lives ITS day. and then perhans
IS comparatively seldom heard, except in those
sections from which 1t originally sprang.
Yet, songs like Dixie" hold all their fresh
ness and vlgor and to-day stir the masses IN ,h.
same wild enthusiasm rs of old IL is nov, ~
lolk song. Alive with martial fire and Snr;t
plAIe makes all forget 1t was once sectional
America needs i new national HYMN. but -
can come only At a moment OF intense. univer-
sal feeling
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
ROBERTSON EXPLAINS
WEAK CHARTER POINTS
EXCLUSION OF FOREIGNERS FROM MPLOYMENT
FOR FIVE YEARS-OPPOSING
ARGUMENT.

Today The Press presents the
second able article by Attorney
Fred c. Robertson on the proposed
charter. The Press does not neces-
sarily indorse or oppose Mr.. Rob
ertson's arguments, but it prints
them because it believes that THE
PEOLE SHOULD KNOW JUST
WHAT THEY WILL BE VOTING
FOR GOOD AND BAD FEATURES,
ON NEXT WEDNESDAY,:
This proposed charter limits the
right to labor. Section 54 pro-
vides:
Preference In employment:
Every officer and male employe of
the city shall be citizen of the
United States and resident Of
Spokane. Qualified electors shall
be employed in preference to non.
electors. and married men and men
of family in preference to unmar-
ried men, and such preference shall
extend to ranking upon the eligibil-
ity list of the commission provid-
ed, however, that this section shall
apply only to day laborers. and to
positions coming within the pro-
Yi=.kns of this article and shall not
applA to positions requiring techni-
cal slSill or scientific knowledge
Let us see how this works. No
German, Swede, Italian, Irishman,
Canadian or other foreigner, even
though he has declared his inten-
tion to become an American citizen,
can work in grading street or dig
ging sewer.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
WILL BE
NO STRIKE
ON ROADS

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CHICAGO, Dec. .24.-A settle.
ment between the engineers Of 81
western railroads and the com.
pany officials has been reached
and the threatened strike has been
averted. The announcement Of a
settlement was given out by Com.
missioner Of Labor Chas. NeiIi.
The terms have not yet been given
out.
The settlement today brings to
an end the possibility of a strike
of the engineers on practically all
lines west of the Mississippi river.
The threatened strike involved 35.-
500 men. The strike vote was
taken by locals on all the lines, and
the vote as tabulated in Chicago
showed that more than 95 per cent
Of the men had voted to strike un-
less wage increases were given by
the road.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
"ACLD PLOT"
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CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-That lead
ers of the striking garment work
ers have distributed acid among
the strikers with instructions to
throw it into the faces of the strike
breakers, is the confession which
the police allege Theophile Julik,
arrested for having blinded Edward
Olsen. made to them. Julik, the
police say, admitted that he threw
acid into Olsen's eyes. The fiery
liquid ate its way through Olsen's
eyeball and left him sightless and
suffering. The attack was part of
a carefully planned crusade. the
police assert. Every precaution is
being taken to protect both the
strike breakers and the officers
who are patrolling the factory dis
trict from attacks of acid singers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
BIG WRECK
IN ENGLAND
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LONDON, Dec. 24.-Two persons
we're killed outright and eight 9th.
ers 90 severely injured that they
couldn't crawl from the wreckage
were incinerated in the wreck Of
Glasgow bound express train to-
day near Carlisle, according to re-
ports received here. Twenty pas.
sengers were severely injured and
many Of them probably will die.
= The express. running at high
speed. crashed into pilot engine.
The passenger coaches were tele-
scoptd. Two passengers were
killed. Their bodies were removed
from the debris and laid alongside
the tracks by the uninjured passen-
gers. Before the work of rescuing
the injured could be begun the
wreckage took fire and burned
rapidly. The injured were forced
to crawl from the wrecked coaches
unaiAed. At least eight persons
were too badly hurt to make their
way ont of the wreckage or were
pinned down by heavy timbers and
were burned to death. spectators
state
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
HIGH
RATES ARE
KEPT Up

. Il desire to express my ap- =
. probation of two things The =
. Press is doing just now. One q
. is in printing stories about =
= the needy and unfortunate, .
. and in assisting them, and the .
. other is the campaign for =
. cheaper gas, which your paper =
. is conducting" Juvenile .
. Court Officer M. v. v. Winans. .
. The Press quotes this state =
. ment, made yesterday because =
. 1t wants to get RESULTS for .
= the people in this gas fight. =
. and when the people show =
. that they are interested, 1t .
. helps along the fight just that .
. much. This newspaper will .
. insist that candidates for .
. election at the next city cleo =
. ton pledge themselves to -
. work for lower gas, and it q
= will keep up the fight UNTIL .
= CHEAPER GAS HAS BEEN -
= OBTAINED. -
<<>>/>>>~ - HHH~1
Since The Press some days ago
mentioned the increase of COM
plants because of excessive gas
bills number of gas consumers
have expressed their approval Of
the attack on the meters, and also
approve the effort to overthrow the
meter deposit, started in the city
council by Captain John Gray.
An examination of the gas fran.
chise under which the city is being
supplied shows that gas inspec-
tor is permitted to inspect any
meter complained of and also de-
termine whether the gas sold is OF
the quality required by the ordi.
nance-15 candlepawer.
1t is believed that someone at the
city hall should be designated with
whom to register complaints
against robbing meters. A mer.
chant on the North Side reported
his troubles today over a gas
meter. His bills had always been
along about 81 per month, until
about five months ago. when the
meter went to the bad and each
months gas bill began increasing
until it reached 81 per month. He
then registered such an emphatic
kick that the meter was taken out
and a new one put In, and the first
month thereafter the gas bill was
$1.95. He has made repeated de-
mands on the company for a refund
of the overcharge, but while prom
ises were made no refund has yet
been seen.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
"G00D FELLOWS" MAKE 300 CHILDREN HAPP
EOPlE RALLY FOR FIGHT FOR CHEAPER GAS
READ THESE STATEMENTS
ON PROPOSED CHARTER

charter will the right Of refen
This the opinion OF
Richardson exudge Of superior court Spokane
The Of good but the proposed
falls important for the protection OF the
peopExayor Chairman Of the Charter Commission E. D.
Omstead.
provision against the
auditing probably iegaI-nterview with w. E.
Stephens
ed-Gov. M. E. Hay.
eight councilman but don't
derstand the present charter N. s. Pratt
It's good charter-Munter Blair, Coates and Goodwin
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
DOG GOES TO DOCTOR
WHO TREATED HIM
ONCE BEFORE

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 24.--Tobe,
a bull terrier owned by Hal Hotch-
kiss. sustained a broken leg some
months ago and was take to DR..
Otto Kiene, where the injured
member was set and held tight by
plaster cast.
The other day Tobe broke his leg
again. The Hotchkiss home Is fully
a mile from the Kiene residence,
but Tobe did not wait to be per
sonally conducted to the doctors.
On three legs he beat 1t across the
town to DR.. Kiene's, where on the
front porch. he sat and cried pit
eously until the doctor heard him.
Once more the leg was mended,
but Tobe is denied the companion.
ship of other dogs for while.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
BEST STUNT EVER
PLANNED HERE

two beautiful dollies. And she
wanted the dollies to 60 to some
poor little kiddies who would love
them and care for them. Maybe you
think the youngsters who get them
won't love them.
Then there came a letter this
morning. 1t wasn't typewriter. 1t
was addressed with pen and ink,
an dthe writing was somewhat wav-
ering. l opened 1t and found a sill
yer half dollar. And there was a
little note which said:
"To The Press: From an old
woman nearly seventy-eight. Please
accept for Good Fellows"
Now half a dollar doesn't seem
like very much, but in this case 1t
carries more than $50 worth of real
Christmas spirit.
And the children we are helping?
They are all deserving. Not one
of the bunch but is the child Of un-
fortunate parents. Not one but has
a sorrowful heart because of the
trials and troubles which have been
inflicted upon them during the few
short years they have lived, and
many of them are orphans.
So many of the children asked
for shoes this year that it didn't
seem for while as though We
could provide for them, but / be-
lieve we have; at least there will
be not over three or four not pro-
vided for, and they came in after
the shoe stock was exhausted. or
else they were of ages above 10,
and we were looking particularly
after the babies.
There's no doubt about it, fell
lows. This is the most successful
Christmas stunt ever pulled off in
Spokane.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
JOHN D. REFUSES TO
TELL WHETHER HE
BELIEVES IN SANTA

. NEW YORK, Dec. "a
. Whether John ID. Rockefeller
. believes in Santa Claus will
. have to be found out through
. some other medium than the 4
. press. When pressed for an
. answer, the near-billionaire re-
= piled:
. II have fully made up my
. mind never again to make
. statement for publication"
. Rockefeller appeared indig-
. nant at the freak question"
. but finally relaxed and let the
. reporter off with a God bless
. you" and benignant smile. Z
90 q . q . . q . q . Q 90 Q Z
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT ARMSTRONG
AND 7. H. YOUNG

II Spokane had commission
form of government with N. s.
Pratt, George Armstrong, j. G. Ar
gall. George Mudgett and John Gift
ford, city officials, as commission
ers, there would be lively times
around the city hall--for the tax
payer, at least.
Attention was directed the other
day to the illegal overpayment of
salary to T. II. Young. a paving In
speetor and protege of Mayor Pratt.
Young worked for So per day until
November / when he was arbi-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
BY A. GOOD FELLOW.

BY A. GOOD FELLOW.
ls this Good Fellow stunt Of ours
q success!
SIT?
Well, you just better bet that
II Is!
More than 800 children will be
happy tomorrow morning who
would have otherwise awakened on
Christmas morning to find that
their little stockings were empty
and Santa Claus had forgotten
them.
Who are the children?
Well, nobody knows, except I and
the Good Fellows and the children,
and I'm too busy to tell you.
Talking about being busy, let me
remark right now that If there was
ever busy man in any bodys town
I'm that fellow today-and have
been for several days past. If any
one thinks it's snap job to con-
meet more than 100 Good Fellows
with over 800 unfortunate and de-
serving kiddies, just let them try
1t once. That's all I've got to say.
I've been so busy that ! haven't
even had time to count up the
exact number of youngsters we are
helping out.
And now you'll want to know
something about the people who
are helping, and l can tell you that
some of the Good Fellows are not
wealthy by any means. That is,
not in worldly goods. But every
one of them is rich in the spirit
of love and charity and good will
towards men.
A woman walked into the office
yesterday, with a bundle of wash
ing over her arm. She had another
bundle. too, and in this bundle were
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trarily raised to $125 per month,
and the difference of salary sent
down through time check for SAT,
issued by Armstrong and Argall.
Afterward this amount was found
to be illegal; that SOS was all the
ordinance allowed. and for Novem-
ber Young drew only that amount
He has not yet refunded the $50.
although the city comptroller says
that 1t was illegally drawn.
On October 81. after the raise
was agreed to. Young was allowed
50 for bicycle repairs, while there
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24
s DIE IN
EXPLOSION

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kENTON, O., Dec. 24.-Six per.
sons were killed in an explosion
Of Illuminating gas In an apart
ment at the Lintz hotel here to.
day. Their bodies were discovered
by bell boy. The dead:
CHARLES LATHAM AND MRS
LATHAM.
WILLIAM KENNEDY.
PEARL KENNEDY, son Of Will.
lam, aged "a.
HARRY NEWCOMB, 20.
MISS BAILEY, 81.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-24

81 say to you laboring men, this
despotic elimination of honest men,
ready to work, from an opportunity
to do so is un-American and against
humanity, and is equivalent to our
saying we want no foreign born
persons here, and Is against their
treaty rights. Not only this-it is
class legislation of the most dan
eerous type.
This preventing of a person from
work by law has ever been con-
demned. In the case of Cummins
vs.. the State of Missouri that state
had passed a law that no person
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