The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-15

 years. It used to be that only sight reading for chorus purposes was taught, but now instrumental music is having an important place in public school education.
 1 It is especially gratifying to know that boys are being encouraged to study the violin or other orchestral instruments and that the high school orchestra is already capable of doing something worth while and that soon it will be able to perform compositions under the head of the little classics" Boys who take music lessons" are no longer looked upon as "sissies." In Europe no man is considered educated unless he can at least read music, and listen to a symphony or sonata with trained intelligence, but in this "young country" only recently has the study of music been introduced into college curricula and put on a par with logic, literature and mathematics.
 It is not expected of young men who are to engage in business pur- suits and therefore to remain anna teurs that they devote much time to practice after they leave school or college, but the fact that they have some knowledge of music and can per- form with credit simple pieces and help out in an evenings entertainment will count for a great deal in cultural progress. Musical instruction in the schools for boys as we'll as girls is the foundation of a higher esthetic | life among the people. It helps to de- velop the right sort of musical atmos- phere and that after all is distinctly humanizing and more than anything else, will bring musical art into it's own.
 * * * The term "highbrow," according to President Hibben of Princeton, lis gen erally employed as weapon of emascu- lated minds which are content duly to range along the dead level of the trivial will have the courage to call his neigh bor "highbrow"?
 If you were a candidate for office on prosperity platform and your special was sidetracked for numerous fast freight Hughes probably felt that way on a re- cent trip to Baltimore. Russia has decided to release 21 Swed- ish ships held for the past two years There are times when it must be ex- | tremely difficult for Sweden to keep her J neutrality on straight.
 l Chicago professor recommended q | textbook to one of his classes that he had l written himself, but was unable to re- | call the title. The class's memory will
 be equally at fault about six months after
 they finish the book.
 l Now that the winners spells have been divided among the Red Sox, those mem- bers of the team who don't already own
 automobiles are probably making prepa-
 rations to buy.
 1 A youth whose first name is Alphonso has been expelled from the University ot
 Illinois for hazing. He failed to live IF
 to it's polite significance. T l Still, the south is free from the sort of
 mob violence that is baking the life of a
 Bayonne, N. J.. policeman anything but q grand sweet song.
 The calmness with which the Greeks I conduct a revolution should be an object
 lesson to hot-headed South American re- publics.
 ! The departure of From Brown from
 Sing Sing dissipates the hope of Sing
 Sing golf club being organized at an early
 date
 Hundreds of pilgrims are getting to bt pretty well acquainted with the topo-
 graphical features of Shadow Lawn. 1 When the socialists of Europe begin tc
 talk out in meeting' what they say l sounds like truth
 The high price of eggs is going to in
 terfere seriously with the output o
 Christmas eggnog this year.