The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-08

eSque," Tor piano or Vlolln, IirsI
played about two years ago by dis
tinguished artists, was highly praised
at the time and the composer was
hailed as one of the few really great
American composers. The works ne
has since written have confirmed the
previous estimate of his talent and
today Powell is one of the most writ
ten about celebrities in the United
States. The September issue of
Current Opinion devotes a page to
him, under the caption, "The Voice of
the South in American Music"
While Powell uses folk songs and
folk dances for his themes his devel-
opment of these themes is always
original and scholarly. Current Opinion
says of him: ellis whole personality,
| his whole career, is suffused with this
genuine American folk spirit land it
is spirit that is wholly different
from the Americanism of the north
and east He is the first since Stephen
Foster was an untutored musician,
of the American south; but while
Foster was an untutored musician, a
singer of the soil, John Powell is
man not only of broad education, but
of musical training and equipment
probably equal to that of the fore
most European composers of this gen
Grafton"
Those who are acquainted with Pow
ell speak of his attractive personality
and his modest bearing. He is being
lionized, but his head has not been
| turned. Southerners can but feel
proud of John Powell.
| n
| 1t is alleged that medical officers on
board the battleship Maine were so busy
| developing photographs at the time" that
they gave two civilian sailors I've by mis-
take. BY the way, are surgeons In the
navy supposed to be expert photogra-
piers first and medical men afterward?
| Birmingham walters went on q strike
yesterday, compelling their employers to
! take up the trays they laid down. Some
of these days the down-trodden public is
going to strike and then there will be the
deuce to pay.
the Mexican flag when the commission
ers arrived at New London. Somewhere
across the styx old Huerta must have
laughed at that.
| jefferson county citizens who emitted
loudcres when their taxes were raised,
should be glad they don't live in Mexico
where the total increases are more than
1000 per cent
| Now that Count Won Reventlow has to
submit his war articles to the censor be-
fore they are published his excellent con-
tributons will lose a great deal of their
punch.
| The Age-Heralds Washington CORE
spondent says the republican campaign
textbook is a joke. Yet there isn't line
in it by any of the column conductors.
| 4
| Nashville is In an Apologize mood be-
cause Mr.. Hughes was heckled there.
However, a town should not be Judged by
the actions of few unruly citizens
conclusion by this time that the insur-
ance probe was child's play compared to
running for the presidency.
|
President Ripley of the Santa Fe has
adopted bold and defiant attitude. He
talks like man who might run all his
trains single handed.
| It's no use trying to memorize some Of
the names just appearing in the war dis
patches Most of them are consonantal
misfits
1
| Health in Germany is said to have i'm
proved. At any rate the danger of de-
veloping govt has been considerably
abated.
Senators ought to be above calling each
other hard names and indulging in silly
quarrels, but evidently they are not.
1
| Rumania has joined the nations riding
on the water wagon. The god of war is
getting to be a mighty reformer.
| poet who writes about tho ''ineffable
peace of the stars" had in mind the &C.
estial and not the theatrical sort.
|
Things have come to such a pass in
Europe that even Berlin is conceding de-
feat.
| LUKE M'LUKE SAYS
| Copyright, 1916, by the Cincinnati En-
quirer.)
| Yo,i NAV NOT realize IT. But YOU fool