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The Washington times., 1919-11-23
SOCIETY TO PUSH
MUSIC OF AMERICA

After a long period of study of the
Idea of society that would effectiyelv
De able to publish the best of Ameri-
can music, especially chamber music
such an organization has finally been
launched with John Alden Carpenter
Rubin Goldmark, Mrs. II. n. A. Beach
and other noted American composers
among the officers elected. Many lead
crs In the music world Including
Percy Granger. Harold Bauer. How
ard Brockway, Daniel Gregory Mason
olive Mead. and Vivian Burnet have
expressed their approval of the idea.
IL is the purpose of the society to
publish works by American composer,
winch, because OF their lack of COM
mercial value, could only in rare in
stances be undertaken by the exist
ing publishing firms. The compost
tlons TO be brought out must disclose
q nigh degree Of musical excellence.
Their selection will be based on merit
only and without regard to commercial
possibilities.
committee of musicians of the
highest standards and establishes
regulations will select the works to
be printed. Only such works will be
published as have been voted by this
committee as preferable to all other
works submitted and as having a suf-
hcient art value to deserve preserva-
ton in printed form. Three or four
compositions will be brought out each
year.
The Washington times., 1919-11-23
VIOLIN DATES BACK
TO REMOTE TIMES

The origin of the violin dates bac,,
10 very remote age. 1t ranks
among the most ancient of instru-
ments in use at the present day. As
10 the principles of construction. it
has been found that it's earliest form
was not very unlike the modern. II
appeared both with and without the
irets. On some of the representa-
tlons seen in stone carvings at
ihepes, In Egypt, there were some
with and without holes in the ton.
some with three, some with five and
some with eight strings These
strings were made sometimes Of
sheep's intestines, sometimes of linen
thread and sometimes of wire. The
neck resembled a guitar. The an
cient name was kinura The Persian
kinura was played in the manner of a
bass viol with a bow resembling a
shooting bow. None of the old vio-
Inns had such an accompaniment as a
chin-rest
The Grecian Tyre had seven strings.
AS 1t was very small IL was held in
one hand. The Egyptian flute was
only cows horn with four holes
The Jewish trumpets which shattered
the walls of Jericho were rams
horns. The Jews had no other in
struments but percussion instru-
ments. They used a triangular harp
which was struck with an iron needle.
Inc timbrel was the tambourine; the
dulcimer was horizontal harp.
The Washington times., 1919-11-23
NO LONGER SOFT TO
LOVE GOOD MUSIC
War Has Nightly Changed
Worlds Attitude Toward
This Fine Art.

An editorial in the Philadelphia
Ledger speaks on the wars effect on
music and the increased interest Of
the public thus:
n student OF the changes wrought
by wartime and the reconstruction
era cannot AFFORD to overlook the
altered status of the art of music. A
rev years ago there was a gulf fixed
DetWeen the knowledge of the special
lists and the intelligence OF the aver
age audience. Music to be popular"
was expected to appeal to an order Of
taste comparatively low. Now that
Is changed. visitor to one Of our
leading restaurants heard Schuberts
diminished symphony played by the
orchestra and at about the same trrne
listened to Bach's "Air on the G
string at theater. At a hotel the
other day the Hymn to the Sum-"
from Rimsky-korsakow's "Coq dor
was heard with general acceptance:
ano IN the moving-picture theaters
0nopin, Beethoven and Bach are by no
means uncommon. Some Of the "pic-
.u1e places employ players of high
Standing from the important SYM
phony orchestras. The talking ma
chine has had a great deal to do
with the spread of intelligence and
appreciation in matters musical; the
movement for community singingAhas
led many to discover in themselves a
capacity for the concord of sweet
sounds. after they had supposed them
selves incurably afflicted by tone
deafness.
ut is no longer thought unmanly
or little soft" to care for music
The art has proved in all walks Of
iite It's singular power to Danish the
megrims and to line the clouds with
silver. With soldiers abroad music
was a powerful remedial agency; and
"a new songs measure" for grateful
thousands relieved the tedium of the
hospital ward and helped on leave to
bring man back to the normal life
and the world he knew. A great vio-
linist is right in his feeling that
music has great work to do In
allayfng the bitterness of feeling
aroused by war. Never was partici-
patton in music so general, never was
the love of popular taste so high or
the public so discerning"
The Washington times., 1919-11-23
SELECTS MUSICAL
HUSBAND; ND;;ELUCKY
Mabel Garrison's Better
Half" Always Plays Ac-
compartment for Her. a

To be the first wholly Amerid
trained, American-born coloratura =
prano engaged for leading roles at Eae
Metropolitan Opera House is Of itself
a distinction, but to be At once signed
Up for q three years contract, without
even so much as q try-out in the big
auditorium of the Metropolitan, or
without a big European reputation Is
quite unusual. However, when an in
terviewer from Musical America ap-
preached the door leading to Mrs.
George Siemonn's apartment (for that
IL Mabel Garrison's name In private
life), an inkling of the reason for this
rapid advancement was given the
visitor, for the strains Of the Johann
Strauss "Voce di Primavera" waltz,
sung with q beautiful soprano, were
waited through the door, and later
the owner Of this voice was found to
be a young woman of decidedly charm
ing personality.
"Do you know" said Miss Garrison.
81 was extremely lucky in picking a
musician for husband, for most
singers have to employ an accompan-
hours to the time when the accompan-
list can be present. but whenever i
want to sing, my husband is always
at my disposal to accompany ne.
I'VE have the distinction of being
the only two diploma graduates Of
Peabody Institute In Baltimore who
are married to each other, although
the courtship did not begin while we
were there. Ours was q church choir
romance-Mr. Siemonn was organist.
and sang IN the choir
As to the details OF her career, Miss
Garrison related: MY first teacher
vas Lucfen O'dend'haf. an old gradu-
ate or the Paris Conservatory, and
the one to whom j attribute the good
pf feliminary training ! received. I
then continued my studies at the Pen
body Institute in Baltimore, f-mAjn-
ing there until received my d,rIom.
Then thought I was ready for = pu1-
lie career, so I came to New York. but
soon became disillusioned. Il began
my studies with Oscar SaenRer. and
within few months he obtained for
me an engagement with the Aborn
opera Company, with whom toured
Tor two seasons. always Continuing 2
my studies with Mr.. Saeneer when.
ever 1 was near enough to New York
to do so.
Finally, one day at Mr.. Saenrer,s
studio 1 was heard by Andres de Seeu.
roia, and he liked my singing go wei
mat he introduced me to Signor Catti-
Casaxza. who granted me a private
nearing and Immediately gave me a
eontracL only yesterday I signed a
~oano, ,ohe-half-year's contract with
II. =. johnston. the manager. for CON
cert work before and after nv 80
sons at the Metropolitan. I. am no-
nard at work learning the tvenfy.four
parts assigned IN my contract with ~.
Metropolitan" '"e
The Washington times., 1919-11-23
ART IN ITALY HAS
TAKEN BIG. SLUMP
Welded Far Greater Power
In Music Centuries Ago
Than Today.

We all know what reputation
Italy has established for herself In
the musical world Of today. but most
of US realize how infinitely greater
was her power in the world of yester-
day. For it is a fact not to be over
looked that Italy. like her sister coun-
tries, has deteriorated to a great ex-
tent in musical art. We look ct Italy
as the home of song-of bel canto.
From our babyhood we are taught
that all Italians can sing and that
one can expect to hear that at any
moment among the poverty-Stricken
street singers Of Naples has been dis
covered q new tenor greater than
Caruso." But this is carrying the
matter a little too far because, as
there was but one Verdi, in the same
sense there Is but one Caruso, and
that worthy gentleman still remains
IT, all countries the tenor of today, at
any rate as far as timbre Of the>voice
Is concerned.
AS there is always cause for each
effect, so is there cause for this de-
terioration. Possibly the first real
cause lies with the composers them
selves. italian music has always been
cEfehy limited to the vocal genre,
there having been extremely little
symphonic work done either in the
past or the present. Hitherto COM
posers had always written for the
voice. holding the human organ great
est of all instruments, and aubordi-
mating all instruments to It. Conse-
quently there always existed perfect
galaxy of wonderful voices among
both the men and the women. One
had to sing well even to attempt to
sing the music which was given one
to execute. Therefore many years
were spent on the preparation for a
vocal career. The old masters realized
just what their pupils would DC called
upon to do. and so were most jealous
and thorough in all branches Cf their
tutoring, even II this schooling was
confined to the voice alone. They
were content to overlook oftentimes
the more general musical education
and put forth all their efforts to Civ
Ing the pupil a vocal technic which
was in all respects absolutely perfect
AS years rolled on. however, vocal
music and ideas gradually changed.
Thus the influence of the Wagnerian
music drama made itself felt in Italy
Composers began to look at cperatic
music in a different light. They be-
gan to see how much more force
could be given to dramatic situations
with their relative vocal outbursts
when these were backed I'D by a
strong orchestral accompaniment.
So Verdi. who had hitherto been
writing the simplest kind of accom-
paniments to the vocal parts OF his
operas (which were almost in dance
rhythm). began to change his, style.
and while possibly he never allowed
the vocal element to be injured in any
way. he did signally increase the i'm
portance OF his orchestral score.
Tne nrst of the more modern COM
posers TO come under the spell Of thi.
new idea were Mascagni, Puccini and
Leoncavello. who, in their respective
operas Cavalleria Rusticana," lie
sl ana Pagliacci," sounded a
new note in Italian operate life Ard
this new maniera soon estabIished
itself and had its effect on the younger
generation.
The Washington times., 1919-11-23

season given at the Knickerbocker
theater Friday afternoon.
Mr.. Fabian had not been heard in
the larger form of playing for some
time and he impressed anew by his
broad musicianship whose flowing
and smooth technique makes him
an artist essentially refined yet
also full Of character in that fine
ness. He gave the piano concerto
Hungarian Fantasie" Of Liszt, and
his tone and touch were full of
pianistic beauty that belongs to the
real artists Of the piano, in whose
ranks Mr.. Fabian stands.
The orchestra did not give such a
good account Of themselves. An OBJ
vious lack of preparation and even
ness In the parts marred the program,
which had excellent moments. but was
not adequate for concert perform
ance, Grieg's Autumn" overture and
the Massenet suite were played. In
the Anal group the "Air de Ballet"
and the "Angelus" received the best
renditions of the afternoon. The con-
certo showed q lack of coordination
and support from the instruments.
The Washington Philharmonic has
justified its future but to live and
prosper a certain average must be
maintained, or that indispensable
element. "the public" will not re-
spond. ]. MACH.
The Washington times., 1919-11-23
Music Calendar
NOVEMBER.

25, Tuesday, 4:30-New York
symphony Orchestra, Werren-
rath, sooist National Theater.
rs, Tuesday, 4:30-Rachmani-
non, piano recital. Polls Thea
ter.
25, Tuesday, s:15-New York
Symphony Orchestra, with or
chestral concert and lecture by
Walter Damrosch, conductor, on
"The symphony" illustrated by
the Tshaikowsky 'Pathetique. |"
Fine Arts Course. Central High
School.
2S, Friday, IL a. m.-Percy
Veazie, barytone, and Mrs. Heinl,
pianist. Friday Morning Music
Club. at Cosmos Club.
%, Friday, 4:30-Prokofieff,
piano recital; second of Ten Star
Series. National Theater.
December.
l, Monday, 8:15 D. m.-Francis
Rogers, In Old English and Mod
ern Songs; Washington Society
OF the Fine Arts. Central High
School.
2, Tuesday, 4:30 - Boston
symphony Orchestra, National
Theater.
4, Thursday, 4:30- Sistine
Quartet, National Theater.
The Washington times., 1919-11-23
N. J. FIREECHTERS
WILL QUIT UNION

JERSEY CITY, n. J., Nov. 25.-City
firemen of Jersey City have resign
ed from the Uniformed Tiremen's As
sociation with headquarters in Wasu-
ington.
They took this action after adopt
ing resolutions declaring they "fiud
a unionized fire department destroys
the efficiency and discipline of the
department and is a detriment to or
ganized labor, inasmuch as they can
not be true TO the oath of the union
and serve the city in protection Of
life and property"
The Washington times., 1919-11-23
YEGGs GET s1oo. 900 IN BoNps

CELlNA, Ohio. Nov. 23.-More than
100000 in Government bonds, mostly
Liberty issues, was secured by robbers
who cut their way with an acetylene
torch into the vault Of the Farmers
Savings Bank at Rockford, ten miles
north OF here, and looted eighteen of
sixty deposit boxes
The Washington times., 1919-11-23
c0NFESSES EMBEZZlEMENT
OF GAS COMPANY FUNDS

embexzler OF between $4,000 and
81, 900 of the funds of the Bristol Gas
and Electric Company of this city, NJ.
+. Steelman, secretary of the COM
pany, was arraigned before Mag
The Washington times., 1919-11-23

istrate J. w. Norvefi. He waived his
examination and was released on a
bond of $1,000.
He confessed to the defalcation of
the funds, which had covered a period
OF about eighteen months. His trial
will come up during the January ses-
sion of Sullivan County Circuit Court
at Blountville, Tenn.
The Washington times., 1919-11-23
FABIAN AT PIANO
DELIGHTS AUDIENCE

s. NJ. Fabian, pianist, was soloist
with the Washington Philharmonic
Orchestra, Heinrich Hammer. con-
ductor, at its fourth concert of the
The Washington times., 1919-11-23

New In the time to save. Reinvest
ysur Liberty Bond interest In w. 8. 8.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1919-11-06
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR

IN THE best regulated newspaper
offices the typographical error will
creap in and is feared almost as much
by the editor as Holy water is by
his Satanic majesty.
A certain editor and publisher Of
country newspaper in Kansas was
asked to leave the community as a
result Of typographical error in his
report of the wedding of the mayors
daughter, says a western exchange.
After exausting his supply of large
words about the "blushing bride" he
said: "The large elaborate bouquets
of roses were punk"
The mayor demanded a correction
and apology in the next weeks issue,
all of which the editor was glad TO
promise.
The next issue contained: "We
wish to apologize for the manner in
which we disgraced the beautiful we'd
ding last week. Through error of the
typesetter we were made to say, 'the
roses were punk What we wanted
to say was that the noses were pink i"
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1919-11-06
NJ. N. A. PURCHASES
ADJOINING PROPERTY
TOxsey & ShrOut Sell Twenty Eight
Lots of the Callahan Tract to
Military Academy

The Missouri Military Academy has
purchased from Hoxsey & Shrout
twenty-eight lots known as the Calla-
han tract, which is across the avenue
from the school in east Mexico. The
land extends 240 feet on each side Of
east Jackson street.
These lots are among the choice
building properties of the city. 1t is
likely the academy will follow the plan
they have been discussing for some
time and build faculty homes facing
the school and on this land.
The Callahan home has been in the
hands of contractors who were remod-
cling it to make a three apartment
house. This work will likely continue.
Definite plans concerning the schools
purposes with the property will TO
doubt be announced shortly.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1919-11-06
FOR SOUTH
IN AUORAIN COUNTY
Col. Eli Hodge, of Columbia, so Years
Old, Was Confederate Who
Never Surrendered
columbia Tribune.)

Col. Eli Hodge Tuesday celebrated
his eightieth birthday.
Colonel Hodge is a native of Ken
lucky. He came with his father to
Boone county in 1857 He was farm
er until 1861, when he cast his for
tunes with the South, joining Peach
er's company of what was then the
state guard. He enlisted as private
and participated in the battles of Dry
wood and Lexington. In the spring
of 1862 he became adjutant of Col.
Gid Thompsons regiment. Was in the
Lone Jack fight and Elkhorn, where
he was wounded in the thigh. He also
took part in the battle of Prairie Grove
where his horse was shot under him.
Was at Springfield, Cape Girardeau
and Hartsville, and in fact all the bat
ties in which General Joe Shelby took
part. In the fall Of 1864 he came into
Boone, Howard and Audrain counties
recruiting for Confederate service.
At Waverly was placed in command
of 485 hen and started for Prices
army, but failed to join it on the re-
treat from independence. He went i'll
a southwest direction on this retreat.
Enroute he was attacked by Federals
at Cassville, where he lost $50 men,
killed, captured and missing. He fin
ally reached the Confederate army at
Clarkskville, Texas. On the re-organ-
ization Of Col. D. Williams regiment
he was made a Iieutenant-colonel.
At the conclusion of the Civil War
Col. Hodge was among those who
never surrendered. Along with Joe
Shelby, John D. Edwards and other
still militant and adventurous Confcd-
crate soldiers, he went to Old Mexico
with the intent of joining fortunes
with the unfortunate Macmillan whom
Napoleon III had set upon the throne
Of Mexico. Gen. Shelby was enthus-
iastic over the prospect, but Col. Hodge
did not believe in monarchies, and he
went principally to avoid surrendering
to the Fcderals. The band of Confed-
crates never reached Maxmilian's fore
cs, as the people rose against him
when the French troops were with
drawn from Mexico, and he was cap
tured by the Republicans in 1866 and
shortly afterwards shot.
Col. Hodge remained in Mexico three
years, returning to Boone county in
1868.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1919-11-06
MEXICO ADRAIN COUNTY, MISSOURI THURSDAY
BE CAREFUL.

YOUR life and the lives of your
family are your dearest possessions.
Do you not, often without realizing
the danger take chances of killing or
injuring yourself and your family by
running over some RAILROAD
CROSSING without first making it
your business to STOP, LOOK AND
LISTEN?
Guard against this needless risk by
taking the few seconds necessary to
make sure that your name or the
names of those dear to you are net
added to the constantly growing cas-
ualty lists that are so regularly feat
ured in our daily papers.
During the past five years ten thou
sand persons have been killed and
more than twenty-five thousand m
jured in automobile railroad crossing
accidents in the United States. With
the numbers of new automobiles and
new drivers coming into service every
day these crossing accidents are in
creasing to an alarming extent-Be
Careful.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1919-11-06
THE COAL STRIKE.

THE public will suffer more than
anyone because of the coal strike
They will have to undergo the hard
ships of fuel shortage, and in many
cases this means extreme suffering,
yes even death. They will also suffer
an increase in the cost ofliving because
the advance in the price of coal used
for manufacture will be tackled onto
costs and passed to the public.
Even though the operators are III
part at fault there is no valid excuse
not to have had this strike arbitrat-
ed. The open disregard of the strik-
crs for the Federal law is not half as
bad as the refusal to consider the suf-
fering which will come to the people Of
the nation, especially those who are
financially placed so that they are
forced to purchase coal in small guam
titles throughout the winter.
The Government represents the pub
lie. What they do in this strike in
behalf Of the majority of the people
Of this country will receive the unqual-
fed backing of the general public.
Production must he kept up If The
government fail in this then, you
might say, there is no government.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1919-11-06
TO BUILD THREE BRIDGES.
County Court Lets Contracts to Lynch
Mcdonald. of Moberly.

Contracts for three bridges were let
to Lynch, Mcdonald Construction
Company, of Moberly, by the County
Court at the last session of the Nov
ember term Tuesday afternoon. One
bridge is to be across Fish Branch
near the ]. T. Johnson farm, and is to
cost $6773; it is to be made with con-
crete abutments and concrete floor,
and is to be 95 feet long by 16 feet
wide. Another, across Culver Creek,
near the Croakley farm, east Of town,
is to be As feet by IA feet and on II
feet legs; the cost is to be $1472. The
third bridge is a small one in the Mex
ico special district, the cost of whicn
has not been determined.
The appointment of j, Walter
Adams as school attendance officer by
Ed C. Ofutt, county superintendent
of Schools, was approved by the cour..
MIR. Adams succeeds John Bartels, who
has resigned.
The court adjourned Tuesday aftel-
noon, after an ususually short session.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1919-11-06
MRS. MARY CONNER
DIES IN CONCORD
Woman 73 Years of Age Has Paraletic
Stroke at Home of her Daugh-
ter, Mrs. Miller

Mrs. Mary Conner, 79 years old, died
Tuesday morning at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Lester Miller, a few
miles east of Concord. Her death was
caused by paraletic stroke.
Mrs. Conner leaves four daughters
and three sons: Mrs. Edgar French
and Mrs. VIII Steel, of Oklahoma;
Mrs. Lester Miller; Mrs. NJ. F. Ken
non, who lives just south of Concord;
Bob Conner, of Fulton; Logan Conner,
of Montana; and Zeke Conner of near
Concord Her husband and one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Emery Miller, have been
dead several years.
Mrs. CONNER also leaves three sis
ters: Mrs. Bob Boyd and Mrs. jeff
colt, of Mexico, and Mrs. Jennie Gill
more.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not yet been made. 1t will probably
be held Thursday, as some of Mrs. Con-
ncr's children will come for it and it
may be necessary to wait for them to
arrive. Logan Connor, who lives in
Montana, was here a short time ago
to see his mother, but returned to his
homo thinking hnr n1urh hetter
Mrs. Conner was a member of the
Christian church and has lived a life
that has won for her many friends.
There will BE- many to mourn her los,
The Ledger extends sympathy to them
IN their grief.