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ID PAPER MILLS RUN TO MUSIC.

is still young, with his life before him
to try out the joy plan In city factories.
Big and muscular. and very active. he
would be a dead ringer for an Alexander
Dumas, pere, musketeer in modern dress
but for his perennial grin.
Old Francois Bourgalat who went
round the world with Roland's troupe
in 1869. never got farther than Tarbes
with a wagonload of shoats in all
these intervening years. He admits that
the Pyrenees were sleeping.
He's a restless man. that Monsieur
Vernes." says Bourgalat. He flies
about in his automobile day and night,
over the passes, to break his neck. When
We hear a honk in the middle Of the
night, our women roll over and muir
muir: It's that dear Monsieur Jacques.
why don't he go to bed,' l don't know
if he ever sleeps. but he smiles always"
The aged warbler looked up quizzically.
Il am sixty-nine years DID," he said.
Il went around the world in 1863, and
to Tarbes in 1897. / smile. too. when
I am seated. with cup of Gascon wine.
beneath trellis.'
Don't fear.
BY which we know that no excess OF
unrestful energy has spoiled the Pyrs-
nees, as yet.
STERLING HELLO.
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JACQUES WRNES
New BUSINESS
| RARoN OFnE
I PYRENEES

fancy or q bid for popularity But hu-
I man nature Is so constructed that when
an idea succeeds its originator becomes
passionately proud of 1t, and the last
stage is the sincere conviction which
Jacques Vernes may very well have be-
gun with. 1 don't say he didn't What
I say is that joy succeeded in the
Pyrenees
a psychological moment The popula-
tons had been boring themselves to
death. Many had emigrated. When the
new Switzerland boom came-railroad
and trolley construction. hotel and casino
building. and the rush to capture the
white COAL OF waterfalls-they were
first dazed, then showed jealousy Of out
siders, scarcely realizing their own luck.
Next, they caught the money-making
wages, until winter found them with
plenty of money in their pockets, but
with mighty little Joy in their hearts!
Jacques Vernes music had an easy job
with such folks. locked in their high
valleys. Would 1t be equally successful
with sophisticated city workers?
Jacques Vernes says yes, and points to
the carpenters. masons. plasterers, plumb
ers and decorators on the baths and
casinos of Luchon, Bigorre and eau
terets, where the musical experiment was
tried on a large scale. Half the artisans
were city bred. Vernes' orchestras struck
up beside them, and he hunted up rem
nants of the famous old mountaineer
singers to form new ballad bands.
Yes they sang to the bricklayers and
carpenters! 1t seems ridiculous. but the
man says that he Is out for results, and
got them
II know that gloom is not conducive
to results, any more than Indigestion"
says vernes. TT is the cheerful worker
who Is valuable. not the perpetual Crouch
We smile in the Pyrenees. as we build
and improve, working shoulder to Shout
der, because we sing at our work and
listen to the band and shake q leg with
the girls when work Is 0ver!"
Mind you. the mountaineer singers are
the poet-composer. Alfred Roland, the
origina! troupe toured j., the er world ;. and
particular, household tune In America.
"Montagnss Pyrenees vous etes mes
amours! (You mountains OF the Pyre-
grand roll. And the choruses of Ma
laye." Tho Two Shepherds" ''Anes-
curing every third line in the ballads.
were peculiarly adapted to'-be picked up.
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supporters. Estradere is also scientific
man and a writer on philosophical sub
jects.
Much has been said, Of late, concern
ing various labor-saving principles" this
scientific mayor says. Among them Is
the well known system Of minimizing
the number Of movements necessary to
accomplish a given amount of work.
Reduced to plain words, it is an attempt
to introduce rhythm into shop. factory
and farm. But, look you, rhythm is
measured movement. and the basic prin-
ciple of music is rhythm. Vernes sim
ply took the shortest road to solve the
problem. Instead of explaining pain
fully and trying to enforce intricate
rules. like the Germans, he set these
working folks to song-and made them
unconsciously adopt the rhythmic move
ment."
The scientific mayor looked up from
his desk.
I think that We've hit on a world
moving principle" he said. Song at
work-and orchestral music, even-soon
pays its expense back. with a profit, to
employers. We get the rhythmic move
ment. We also revive the dropping
spirits stimulate energy and eliminate
the Crouch
1t is all new. We shall see. vernes
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mountain side. Visitors who automobile.
carriage ride and horseback in the chest
nut shade of the magnificent Pyrenees
roads like to pass through merry villages
and see a dance at sunset. Americans
have this tradition of the Pyrenees. An
aged Baltimore clubman wrote friend of
mine this summer. when he learned that
he was going up to Cauterets: You will
find at the railway buffet of Pierref1tte,
where you take the diligence, two beauti-
full young girls who dance The Fricassee'
with poetic grace. Give my respects to
them" He forgot that he had last seen
the girls in 1874. that they are now grand
mothers, and the diligence is replaced by
q mountain trolley.
In old days it was an American play
ground for rich families of Boston, New
York, Philadelphia. Baltimore and the
cotton-rich south. Then came the Ameri-
can civil war. followed by the Franco
Prussian; and the greenest and balmiest
of mountains. with their trout streams
and lizard shooting were all but forgotten.
The new Switzerland has it's traditions.
Business interest. also. prompts Vernes'
search for work efficiency.
Mayor Gabriel Estradere, the new func-
tionary of Luchon. is one Of his strong
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almost against their will, by city artisans.
who may have sneered when the troupe
began to sing, but automatically joined In
on the third day.
At the st. Beat marble quarries they
were natives. Still, today the most i'm
portant marble Quarries of France, four
miles outside Luchon, they show tour
Asts, besides the latest machinery and q
cog-railway device that let's down fifteen
ton blocks, the original funnel" from
which the Column of Trajan at Rome
was cut. and sections quarried under
Louis XIV to build the fountains Of
Versailles and the two Trianons.
X
Well, at ST. Beat there are 600 work
men, formerly known for their sullen
grouches after pay day. Jacques Vernes
offered the management, just for an ex-
pertinent, the loan of five-piece band
and the Bourgalat troupe of singers. OF
course, the quarrymen were natives, and
Bagneres de Bigorre. home Of the old
songs is just across the Aspen and Pey-
sourde passess. Many must have known
snatches Of the choruses. but. all the
same, no man had been known to lift the
voice at st. Beat except to curse fellow
workman. So it was a marvel how the
fellows took to warbling. They kept the
band, but Bourgalat and his singers were
soon sent packing.
Younger workmen memorized the bal
lads And today the Quarries are doubly
show place outside LuchOn. To the
droning Of stone saws and the putting
Of hosting engines, they swing the mighty
melodies Of 1.-THE Hymn" and 1.-THE Goat
Flock And the marble mallets pound
time to the interminable Fair Maid"
And they do say the noon dance at the
quarries, when the wives and sweethearts
bring the hot dinner pals, is sight
worth going far to witness.
One can understand more easily the
Pyrenees wooden works. outside Bigorre.
and the paper mill. where half the en-
ployes are girls and women. Here they
introduced a three-piece dance orchestra
at the pm. 'gouter," or tea hour.
though they never touch tea but for
illness It was the hands themselves
who asked for flute and violin to lead
them singing at their work. They had
heard of the quarries.
OF course, vernes has q selfish business
interest in 1t, though the expense is not
enormous. given the results. His casinos.
baths and hotels call for gayety in the
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EKYOR GABRIEL ESTRADERE.
The SCIENTIFIC MAYOR Or
LUCHON

bands. with guitars, castanets and tam
bourines. to collect money from them"
In those days It was a sight when
Vernes entered a village.
is there a dance on tonight?" he
would INQUIRE. Why not7 Oh. because
chauffeur Is fiddler, and these two men
with him play guitar and flute At s
O'Clock. sharp tonight. sharp. In the
place.
True enough, at dusk. the entire popu-
lation would be strolling under the beech,
ash and chestnut trees. or seated in their
doorways round the place. 1t is a grove
in the center of the village The best
houses, church. post office and the shops
are round 1t. Here they danced 100 years
ago, 500 years ago. 1000 years agol But
in vain did the music strike up the noun.
tain fandango-called The Pantaloon''-
and Jacques Vernes soon guessed why
they stood and gawped.
+ X
"You don't dance because YOU can't,
You have forgotten how!' Thus he scoId-
ed the young folks from st. Beat to
Calypso, from Viscos to Payolle. But
I'll bet your mothers dance. Where are
they? 1 desire to dance with your moth
ers!'
1t was true. All the middle-aged wom-
en- Of the upper valleys were good
dancers. and 1t did not take much coax
ing to let themselves loose.
Il shall never forget or regret that
dancing with the mothers" says yernes.
Il would start with one. to dance The
Apricots' or The Fricassee,' the others
nudged their white-mustached old hus-
bands and they pranced out on the green
beside us. The young ones watched.
ashamed and envious. Why had thew
stopped dancing? Every time, the moth
ers told me, 1t was when they had stop
ped wearing the old picturesque dress.
Initiating city fashions! At CaIynso
three young beauties whispered. I saw
them scoot down the village street. but
In five minutes they were back lau1hinp
ana lovely, in the ancient Golf and bodice.
They gave the first dance to three old
bachelor shepherds. but that did NOT last
long Three boys FASTENED to the store,
and pinned the festive bunch of ribbons
the beauties. They danced awkwardly,
but, all the same. they had done The
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the arena, they prayed and sang until
they were devoured. How helpless they
seemed. and, measured by every human
rule, how hopeless was their cause,
And yet within a few decades the power
which they invoked proved mightier
than the legions of the emperor and the
faith in which they died was triumph-
ant DER all the land. 1t is said that
ferfngs returned asking themselves.
What is it that can enter into the
heart of man and make him die as
these die?" They were greater con-
querors in their death than they could
have been had they purchased life BY a
surrender of their faith
What would have been the fate Of
the church if the early Christians had
had as little faith as many of our Chris
tisns of today? And if the Christians
of today had the faith Of the martyrs.
how long would it be before the fulfill
ment of the prophecy that every knee
shall bow and every tongue confess?"
1 am glad that He who is called the
Prince of Peace-who can bring peace
to every troubled heart and whose
teachings exemplified in life. will bring
peace between man and man, between
and community. between
state and state, between nation and ma
tion throughout the world am glad
that He brings courage as well as peace
SO that those who follow Him may take
up and each day bravely do the duties
that to that day fall.
AS the Christian grows older he ap.
preciates more and more the complete.
ness with which Christ satisfies the
longings of the heart and, grateful for
tho peace which he enjoys and for the
which he has received, he re-
peats the words of the great scholars
Sir William Jones:
Before Thy mystic altar. heavenly truth,
kneel In manhood, as knelt In youth,
And life's last shade be frightened by thy ray"
Conysight, 1913. By the Mcclure Nswua0sg
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given us measure of greatness which
promotes peace. When His disciples
quarreled among themselves as to
which should be greatest in the king
dom Of heaven. He rebuked them and
said: Let him who would be chiefest
among you be the servant of ALL" Serv-
ice Is the measure of greatness; 1t al
ways has been true, 1t Is true today.
and 1t always will be true. that he is
greatest who does the most of good.
And how this old world will be trans
formed when this standard of great
ness becomes the standard of every life!
Christ also led the way to peace by
giving us a formula for the propaga-
ton of truth. Not all Of those who
have really desired to do good have
employed the Christian method-on all
Christians even. In the history of the
human race but two methods have been
used The first is the forcible method,
and 1t has been employed most fire.
quently A man has an idea which he
thinks is good; he tells his neighbors
about 1t and they do not like it. This
makes him angry; he thinks it would
be so much better for them II they
would like it, and, seizing a club. he at
tempts to make them like It. But one
trouble about this rule is that 1t works
both ways; when a man starts out to
compel his neighbors to think as he
does he generally finds them willing to
acceptsth challenge and they spend SO
much time in trying to coerce each
other that they have no time left to do
each other good.
The other is the Bible plan-"Be not
overcome of evil but overcome evil
with good" And there is no other way
of overcoming evil. I am not much OF a
farmer-I get more credit for my farm
ing than deserve, and my little farm
receives more advertising than 1t is en-
titled to. But am farmer enough to
know that If I cut down weeds they
will spring up again: and farmer
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BUSINESS man, wen money Iii calcium
carbide works, marble quarries, light
and power plants. trolley lines, hotels,
casinos and mineral springs of the noun
taiEs bordering on Spain.
..There'll be a dance on the green after
supper" he says to highland villagers
from Bigorre and I.uchon up to Caute-
rets. the jumping-off place. .'I'I pay the
fddlers.''
To those who wonder why he does 1t
Jacques Vernes tells his principles. and
as they deal with the health of peoples
and novel stimulants to work efficiency
] pass them on. They may be a good
thing.
France owed her greatness to the
sense Of joy that permeated Frenchmen,"
says the man whose energy has done so
much to transform the Pyrenees into a
new Switzerland. IF France today shows
sisns of WEAKNESS it is because we have
allowed our joyous passion for the beau
ufui TO lapse in disuse. No longer do
the country folks of many region dance
and sing. as in the olden days The
roiffcking choruses are silent in the
wales. Where is the farandole they foot
ed on the mall? Pressed on all sides by
commercialism, we have become too seri-
ous-and France is losing money by it,
Gayety as source OF wealth appears,
IN his thought. a peculiarly French as
set But after all. they have no patent
on 1t. We might profit by it. Listen:
American energy in Industrial devel-
opment has made itself felt the world
over, says Jacques Nernes. France has
not escaped 1t. l myself have been ac-
cused OF exerting American energy. but
j know the French people 1t will dry
them up and break themr'
He intimates that IL may break US also
pointing to the crowds of rich and sue
cessful but weary American men and
rather discontinued American women
who flock to BIgorre and Iuchon IN
come back" amid the gentle gayeties
or watering place and casino in the
mountain ozone And what would Luz
chon and Bigorre be without music and
the man who keeps the music going All
right Paris, too. is gay; but Paris has
been drawing too much French vitality
And village life must be gay also.
X
Fortunately. the irresistible old power
OF merriment is latent in the soul of every
child of France" says Vernes. l bank on
IT. That's all. AS had to employ armies
or workmen, l put pacemakers who knew
the old songs at the head of the various
gangs. Ffve-piece brass bands cost but
little. And the clang of pick and shovel,
hammer and saw, keep time agreeably
to melodious tunes. The results accom-
plished were surprising, even to myself. I
had been told that the men Of the Pyre-
nees dldynOt want to work but led gos-
siping lives. while their womenfolks had
the money fever and practiced fierce
economies. l was told that the more en-
ergetic Pyrenees men had emigrated to
America. | was told that was facing a
grave problem. / found no problem only
a condition. Pitiful condition of music
lovers almost ashamed to sing, and nat
nral born dancers. whose young folks
sat back and watched the Spanish Jump
ing-jack boys skip over the passes in
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THE PRINCE OF PEACE.
BY WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

enough to know that IL I plant some
thing there which has more vitality
than the weeds shall not only get rid
of the constant cutting but have the
benefit Of the crop besides.
In order that there might be no mis-
take In His plan Of propagating the
truth. Christ went into detail and laid
emphasis upon the value of example
so live that others seeing your good
works may be constrained to glorify
your Father which is in Heaven" There
Is no human influence SO potent for
good as that which goes out from an
upright life. A sermon may be an
swered; the arguments presented in a
speech may be disputed, but no one can
answer a Christian life-it is the unan-
swerable argument in favor of our re-
ligion.
faith-and my optimism-for 1 am an
optimist-my faith and my optimism
rest upon the belief that Christs
teachings are being more studied today
than ever before, and that with this
larger study will come a larger appli-
cation of those teachings to the every
day life Of the world. and to the ques-
tons with which we deal
But this Prince of Peace promises not
only peace but strength. Some have
thought His teachings fit only for the
weak and the timid and unsuited to
men Of vigor. energy and ambition.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. Only the man OF faith can be
courageous.
Only those who believe attempt the
seemingly impossible. and. by attempt
ing, prove that one, with God. can
chase a thousand and that two can put
ten thousand to flight l can imagine
that the early Christians who were car
ried into the coliseum to make a spec
tacle for those more savage than the
beasts were entreated by their doubt
ing companions not to endanger their
lives. But kneeling In the center Of
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FRANcoIS BURGALAT.
S1XTYNME YEARS OLD AND
STILL SINGING MOUNTAIN
BALLADS q

BalIade' and 'Matelotte' as children. And
dancing is in this peoples blood. All they
needed was starter"
What this business baron does not tell
is the quantity Of guitars, violins flutes,
horns, accordions and hurdy-gurdys he
has paid for. and the number of three
piece orchestras that he has sent on
missionary tours through the mountains.
At first, 1t may have been q passing
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FRENCH business
man declares joy
is a business asset.
You can't sing ?''
he says to gangs
of laborers road
bedding a noun
tain trolley. 'I'll
hire singers for
you and a brass
band for change"
He is no pniian-
thropist. He is a
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JOY AS A BUSINESS SET-=--STONE
orresnondence Of rhe Star

speeiai Correspondence of The Star.
BAGNERES-DE-BI French
Pyrenees Mountains, on the Spanish
Frontier, August -, 1918.
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lder prefers to believe that his associates have gained
motion because of ag with the boss rather than face the
truth that he is sipshod and lazy and unan,btious.
You get anywhere and anything if you're right and
bright
You be much and haze much your ideas can
demand and your faculties command
There's always chance for those who knoxo teussetue
but the idiot who the DESIRE TO HA We SYNONYMOUS
with the STRENGTH TO HOLD, is hopeless
Intervention unnecessary for the able upon
the inept
You lead fool opportunity but you can't make
him tjank
So long become cabinet long as neus-
boys become long foundngs become
long train boys become long boys
become Marshall long ninety of the dom
mating personalities in la medicine commerce. Journal
ism, finance in politics. began life with capital Of hope and
heritage of faithso long the control Of the counys
industrial professional and poitcal-is held by poor
mems who asked than honest chance and made
their and themselves by unflaggng reliance their
futures and unwavering adherence that confidence
whoever wheedes and fawns for than shosv is
a hooby.
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By Herbert Kaufman
To a Young Man Looking for a Pull.

Influence crutch Sound neither need it heed
it. They're enough stand alone and their records
rich father only support incapable He can't
sustain him where his efficiency won't retain him.
There enough rscIas performers for the needs
of the there's always ouesupp Of misits and
second raters.
The world csaseess hunt for bigger and braoer and
brighter personalities
you're endowed with compelling attributes you cart dodge
recognition if you're pufed and soen with uaniy, we're
bound get your real ee when you do the scales Of
comparison.
Incompetence are generally cyclists and likely speres
their They far exaggerae the North OF
their work that the unbiased valuation of the market bound
unjust
The inuferabe being under the stars is failure with
the delson that society engaged general conspiracy
defraud him of recognition
Dauber whnes for intercesson with art director and
thereby brands himself illustrator whose pictures have
already been rejected on their os0n merits.
Dr. Bluff complains that "a the frsf-cIass practice Of tho
controlled by cques and Immediately establishes him.
self physician whose concet binds him to the realization Of
his shortcomings.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-03
District Attorney Blll.

Representative Riddles dSrict At
torney bill which died in the senate
after passing the house at the regular
session reappears with . number OF
other representatives acting as spon-
sors: II. II. Smith. =. p. Hill, DR..
Riddle. Cook. Emanuel. Tcehee and
senator Blassingame.
The bill provides for district attor-
neys co-extensive In territory with
the district judges. at . salary OF
81. 600. and for elective assistants 40
follows: In counties less than 10000.
one: In counties between 10000 ana
10000, two. at $1,000 each In coun-
ties over 10000. three at not to ex.
ceed $1,000 each.
Messrs. whitman and Dearing ap'
pear as the authors Of the third Blue
Sunday law proposed In the house.
They particularly object to baseball.
golf. basketball and Indian ball. ane
would fine man from $50 to 500 and
send him to jail from 80 to 90 days
for PLAYING such unseemly games o.
ca tie sabbath.