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The Washington times., 1920-06-27
GROWERS MAY HOLD
Up 1920 WOOL CLIP

CASPER, Wyo., June 81. - High
prices for clothing and wooden goods
will continue next fall and winter,
IL the action of wool growers OF Ma
trona county, Wyo.. center OF the
largest wool producing region in the
United states, is any criterion.
II is reported on good authority
that the growers In that section have
agreed to store their 1920 clip, ap-
proximating 5000, 900 pounds of wool
because of low prices prevailing in
the wool market.
At meeting recently held here, II
In understood the wool growers were
assured by leading banking institu-
tions of the state that sufficient fnan-
cial assistance would be forthcoming
to enable the wool growers to with
hold the 1920 production until higher
prices were oBtainable for the raw
material.
The action OF the banks relieves
anxiety on the part of owners of some
600 900 "woolics," who feared their
clip would have to be sacrificed at the
prevailing low prices. Wool men de-
clare that present conditions parallel
the situation in the cattle market last
year. when their crop OF spring lambs
was forced on to the market at from
ss to s11 per 100 pounds.
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
WOOD RESPONSIBLE
FOR ORGAN TONES
Possibilities Of Extracting Rare
Melodies Discovered by
Philadelphia Musician.

The next time you 90 to church or
into A picture show OF the modorn
pattern and listen to the soft tones
of the organ. coming from you know
not where, ponder what makes these
tones. says the American Forestry
Association OF Washington for theso
tones In most cases come from wood.
To = Philadelphian goes the credit
for discovering the possibilities OF
getting tones from wood In this fash
ion for the first time many years ago
Strange as IL may seem the discovery
10 due to the soft pAtter OF the rain
drops on a cedar shingles roof. When
Philadelphia's roofs were mostly COW
cred with shingles Gettlieb Hittelber-
ger listened to the rain fall and noted
the different sounds and from that
he worked out the pipe organ. WOOD
has long been the material for SOUND
making Instruments, the American
Forestry Association points out. from
the savage methods for making music
down to the present day built In pipe
organs costing thousands OF dollars.
The value OF q violin Is In the sound
producing qualities OF the wood used
In making II.
A tremendous industry Is founded
upon the use of more than two hun
dred million feet of wood every year
In the manufacture OF musical instru-
ments. On this subject the American
Forestry Magazine says:
Most softwoods listed In this In
dustry do not owe their place to their
resonance. For instance. much white
pine and sugar pine are manufactured
into keys for organs and pianos, but
they are preferred for those places on
account OF their lightness and small
tendency to warp, and not for any
quality OF resonance which they may
possess.
THE quality OF wood in a violin has
much to do in determining the value
of the instrument. The old master
makers of violins, like Stradivari,
Amati, and Guarneri, selected their
wood and prepared 1t with as much
care as they bestowed on the actual
shaping and joining. Maple has al
ways been one of the finest violin
woods, and IL Is nearly always COM
bined with some softwood like pine
or spruce. Some Of the finest work
ing in wood is done in producing high
class horns for talking machines ano
music boxes. The horn Is a sort oil
sounding board, corresponding to that
of the piano. There are very nne IN
struments which are made without
wooden horns. but many persons claim
that the wooden horn gives softnest
and richness of the tone which Is ex-
tremely rare"
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
MEXICO PARADISE FOR
MUSICIANS, SAYS MUSIN
Border Republic Not Entirely a Land
- of Bandits. Rattlers and
Chile Con Carne.

Americans who picture Mexico as a
land of bandits, rattlesnakss, and
chile con carne surrounded by revo-
lutions will very likely be surprised
to learn that in the opinion OF Ovide
Musin, the noted Belgian violinist
our southern neighbor is a pardise
for musicians.
NJ. Musin made two concert tours
Of Mexico. Writing in MY Mem
ories," a book OF anecdote and mu-
sical history, the fruit of tours in
many nations, NJ. Musin says that a
Mexican audience wastes no applause
until 1t learns what the artist can do.
but once won. it's response Is inspir-
ing and enthusiastic.
The musical good taste which the
violinist found in Mexican society ne
attributes not only to a natural
faculty for music but very largely to
art. He writes:
'The National Conservatory OF
Music in Mexico City is the best pc
cuniarily endowed institution OF any
conservatory in the world. The great
National Theater is built of white
marble and polished granite, and for
splendor and architectural perfection
1t cannot be excelled anywhere ex-
cept by the Grand Opera in Paris"
The medical profession is the most
susceptible to the influence of music.
NJ. Musin believes. He says that in
amateur musical organizations physi-
clans predominate.
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
YACHT RESOLUTET TO
RACE SHAMROCK N
Americas Cup Committee Picks
Hereschoff SIoop As
Defender.

NEWPORT. r. l.. June Z7.-rhs
Herreschon sloop Resolute will de-
fend the Americas Cup against Sir
Thomas Lipton's challenger. Sham
rock w. In the International Yacht
races. beginning July Is.
This was the decision of the cup
committee at its meeting here last
night at the New York Yacht Club
station. The decision ends a rivalry
between the ResoIute and the Vanitis
which started In 1914. In which year
the two boats were built.
The Resolute was built at the Her
reschon Yards. Bristol. where all
famous cup boats since the Vigilant.
in 1898, have been constructed. A
syndicate including J. p. Morgan.
George +. Baker, jr.; Cornelius Van
derbilt, Arthur Curtiss James. Leeds
Ledyard, Henry Walter. and Robert
w. Emmons, known as the nag 6ffi-
GER syndicate" financed the building
OF the Resolute. which Is seventy ave
feet on the water line.
Charles Francis Adams. of Boston.
who skippered the Resolute In the
elimination races. will sail her In tho
international contests.
Following yesterdays race the
Resolute was taken to Bristol to be
hauled out and groomed for the big
race.
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
MUS|CINvALUADLE
lNlFE OF FARMER
Plenty Of Tuneful Melodies Keep
Hired Man Happy, Say
Sons OF Soil.

That music In the home is as es-
sentiai to the well-bsing OF the family
as are the meals dpon the table, Ia
the declaration of one woman reader
OF the Prairie armer. a weekly farm
journal published In Chicago. express
cd In the leading article of a recent
issue under the heading. .'Music
Makes Home Life Happier" ~
Communications from dozens OF
supscribers TO the popular weekly re-
veal many uses TO which music is put
on the farm with which the urban
resident IL not familiar,
On one farm the threshers are en-
tertained during the luncheon hour
by strains from a phonograph set up
In the shade of a tree on the bank
OF brook which runs through the
field -
lone reader declares that music has
contributed more to her happy mar
rted life on the farm than anything
else. Another says she would put q
musical instrument into every homo
in the land. She finds music an ef-
tective substitute for medicines, ana
declares that there Is no medicine
more pleasant to take than music.
In some large farm families every
member is a musician, each playing a
different instrument
Music in our house is as essential
AZ are the meals on the table, is the
The Washington times., 1920-06-27

declaration OF Mrs. j. h. Hohitner
Pulaski county, Indiana, and Mrs. j
~ H., % Faks SSNaty. s&,0etf. nsff
II think that where there is a home
with neither flowers nor music there
10 apt 70 be neither hsrmony nor love
IL I could. ! would put musical In
strument In every home In the nation
Music is heslthful; there is no better
cure for bad humors, for old or young
and there Is no medicine more pleas
ant TO take"
1T 10 my experience that music
aside from q good husband ana ths
dear children. has contributed more
60 the happiness OF my married hIe
than anything else" writes Mrs. Il. O.
Cavins. or Coles county. ON the olr,h-
day OF each member OF the cavins
family the other members make IL a
practice 20 give him a phonosrAph
record. BY this means the record IL
brary 10 frequently repienished
That music is intensely prAetlcsl as
well. as esthetical In its Influence 10
evident from the experience or Mrs.
otto Rsichard, Of Winnebaso county
Illinois, among Others always on =
large farm" Mrs. Reichard says III
mas been necessary for US TO employ
hell" both with farm and household
Iabors We have found that music
has been one OF the chief reasons why
the very best of this hired help al
WAYS remained with us until they
were ready to enter a home or their
own"
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
MUSIC NOTES

Two piano rectsIs were given Fri
day night ana Saturday afternoon OF
last week at the studio OF the Misses
Ainke- Among the students par
ticipstng In the program were Made
line Augusterfer. Margaret Guertin,
Helen Walter. Richard Hawes, Emma
Hsckman: Jane kenney. Margaret
Cook. Elisabeth Wine. Lorins Thomp-
con. Mildred Arrison, Richard Huhn,
Afine Mcbride, Selma Foer. sackst
Duryee, Emma lie Grys. Genevievs
Beardsles. Olive Carpenter, hsy
Louise Brill. Edith Norris, Myrtle
Crouch: Anna McAiwee, Mildred Buck
insham., Csthrine Bishop, Marguerite
Sheilenberger. Delois Crown. Doro-
thy Fox, perwyn Cooper, tGertrude
Duryee. Eola BenIler. Helen HUM
Francis Evans, Eleanor Penn. Lillian
Craigen, Dorothy Gravatte, Lillian
seymour. Barbara Staples. Agnes
Lynch. Mildred Myers. Marjorie smith
A writer In Musical America says
Arturo Toseanini Is said to have re-
Gently discovered a youthful Bohe-
mIan yiolinist, by name Vasa Prihods
who 10 said TO be a marvel. And the
lad. who was on the verge of starva.
ton when roscsninJ found him. Is to
come to this country next season un-
der the management Of our friend
Fortune Gallo. impresario of the Sar
Carlo Grand Opera Company and fu'
ture manager OF the Manhattan
Toscanini, IL seems. heard the boy
playing In the restaurant OF the Gal.
leria Vittoria .Emanuele for a bare
living. He had been driven to Italy
from Cxecho-Slovakia through the
revolution and the general upset
there. SO Toscanini. recognizing tn,
boys talent. arranged a concert fol
him, to help him. When the genia
Arturo was quoted as having saic
that the new wonder was the equa
Of Paganini he explained in that sar'
castle manner which is his delight
that he could never have made tn,
comparison as he had never heart
Paganini.
Apropos OF Toscanini, the announce
ment that he Is to come here mex
year with a nne orchestra to go OF
tour, will be received with general
satisfaction. Intellectual eofts, as yol
no doubt may remember. were mad,
from time to time by the Metropoli
tan people. to get him back there. bu
he turned them all down, one reasoi
being that he was engaged in publ,
work In Italy to support the sufferer
by the war. The other reason,
think, is that his differences will
Gatti and others at the metropolitan
were of such a nature as TO make al
efforts at their settlement fruitless.
That he will be acclaimed here q
unquestioned. At the same time, man
ayers are figuring that the tour will
involve a loss OF at least 100000
However. that will be a really small
matter compared with the benefit tn
country will derive from hearing
man who may In all fairness be ad
| judged the greatest conductor o
| opera, and az some would add. o
symphonic works, the world has to
day.
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
RUSSIA MAY PAY DEBTS
IF REDS ARE RECOGNIZED

LONDON. June 2T.-The Soviet COX
sums OF gold at Stockholm, copen-
hagen and Reval to pay for food as
soon as commercial trading Is re-
sumed. according to a statement made
by Gregory Krassin, head of the Boil
shevik trade commission. to Alfred
Davies, labor member OF parliament
from Lancashire. Mr.. Davies re-
vealed this conversation today.
krassia intinaated that Russia
wsuId pay her national debts ~ the
Soviet government is recognised By
the allies.
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
REFORMED DANCES
NEEDED IN AMERICA
Some Jazzers Can Put Vulgar
Note in Even Strauss Waltz,
'- Say Masters.

The recent meeting OF the Ma
tional Association Of Masters OF
Dancing put itself on record as OPP
posed 10 the shimmey." says Along
Broadway" the Edison musical mag
azine
Good work! A quiet reform OF
this kind is 30 much better than
Constitutional Amendment to con-
troll those who don't know how 10
behave themselves.
when this news was announced
some OF the big newspapers appear
ed with startling headlines, Dance
Teachers to Danish Jazz
The President OF the association
said:
"'Thare Is a crying need for dance
reformation all over the country
and the people demand that teachers
OF dancing shall bring II about One
great handicap TO reforming the
dance Is the theater. Musical come
dies are responsible for originating
most OF the vulgar steps, and people
think 1t clever to mimic what they
see on the stage.
I'VE are In full sympathy with this
| Dut ~ NC siSo''v e'
derstood that yaxI isn't a method OF
dancihK--it 10 a new Kind of music
and a convention OF dancing teachers
could Danish jazz as successfully a.
King Canute. in the poem, command
ed the tide of the Thames to recede
at Westminster. Jazz music Is here
to stay, because II is just right Tor
dancing--it keeps the time, and yet
Il syncopates II and gives II pep
In the last analysis, dancing Is the
poetry of motion. When we talk
about abolishing this or that kind
, of music to reform the dance, we fail
| to strike at the root OF the trouble
1t is possible to dance vulgarly ever
to Strauss Waltz II the dancers
want to. or ii is possible to join In
| the widest jazz that ever was re-
| leased from a half-crazed bunch Of
musicians and do IT In a decent
way"
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
GENDER R0E SONGS
OFTEN EN0VERL0OKED

1t has remained for David Bispham
in an interesting book OF musical
"Recollections" which he has recent
ly written. to focus the attention OF
thoughtful singers on the too-orten
overlooked gender Of the songs they
are singing.
Much is to be said on both sides
of the question as to whether a song.
obviously composed for a man, should
be sung by a maid. In most instances
where an ardent love song is- caroled
forth during a recital program. by a
bird-like soprano, for example, 1t Is
because there happened to be a par
ticularly lovely musical setting which
made the performer think that the
unsuitability- of,,the words might be
overlooked. Again, 1t really doesn't
seem quite fair, that male singer
should be barred from using song
particularly suited to his voice be-
cause the words are not exactly ap.
propriate, and so we sometimes see
an earnest young tenor. obliVious Of
the comic effect, tendrly singing
sweet lullaby in words that only q
mother would use.
Occasionally one comes across a
song in which the composer has hap
PLY made allowances for the singers
sex by a notation indicating now the
words can be changed IL necessary.
"Tommy-Lad" is an example Of this
type. Although written for a mans
voice, it is possible for a woman to
use 1t to good advantage. merely by
changing the first person to the third.
"Dear Old Pal of Mine" also, which
has been successfully used by every
variety Of singer. IS made more in
telligently effective for soprano or
contralto by changing the gender Of
the song.
Mr.. Bispham seems to think that
women singers are more prone to ap-
propriate songs for their own use
than men-singing rollicking sea-
songs. masculine serenades or even
such songs as Homer's Uncle Rome
or Huhn's "Invictus" with clear
voice and conscience.
But men, too, are sometimes indis-
Greet in this regard. Many a baritone
or tenor Of note Is guilty Of angel
Serenading" now and then or even
Last Rose of Summer-ing,r which
Is why Mr.. Bispham's plea to consider
the gender of songs is both timely
and necessary.
The Washington times., 1920-06-27

msdistsly adjoining the Manhattan
stands the Biltmore, which typifies
the the modern Motel idea. on sp-
prorAmstsly ths SAM ERacf a. Al ec-
eupied by the MAnhsttAn's 600 rooms,
the Biltmore has 1000 sleeping
chambers.
HOME or FAMOUS DRINK.
Mr., Bowman said yeserday that pro-
hibition had much 10 do with the
failure OF the Manhattan 10 produce
the necessary returns. In spite OF the
Eighteenth Amendment, there are still
many persons alive who can remsm-
ber what a Manhattan coctail wss,
and this famous drink was first con-
cocted and took its name from the
hostelry.
With prohibition. Mr.. Bowman said.
IL became impossible TO run such q
hotel as the Manhattan save at q
loss. The first demand for a success
ful modern hotel is accommodation;
and while the Manhattan was In it's
day one OF the most successful hotels
In New York II could not compete
with other and larger ones under pre-
vailing conditions.
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
FAMOUSN. Y. HOTEL
TOCLOSE IT'S DOORS
Dry Law Fatal to the Manhat-
tan, Where Cocktail 0riginat-
ed-Skyscraper Going Up.

NEW YORK. June 2a.-The Msnhat-
tan Hotel. In it's day one OF the most
famous hostslries OF the country. will
close its doors next Wednesday and
cease TO exist as a hotel. A new sky
scraper will be erected on the site.
At the corner OF Forty-second street
and Madison avenue. This announce
ment was made yesterday by John
McE. Bowman.
The abandonment by the Bowman
Interests Of the Manhattan is part OF
a general regroupinS scheme affect
Ing the Pershing Square hotels under
volve the doubling OF the accommo-
dation offered by the Commodore and
q new 3.OO0-room hotel on the present
site OF the Murray Hill Hotel. The
old Murray Hill will be pulled down.
as has been announced.
The lease on the Manhattan prop
erty held by Mr.. Bowman has been
sold to the National City Company.
which takes possession July !. IL 10
understood that the new owners will
erect an Office and store building on
the site. ..AF.
Mr.. Bowman's lease has six and a
half years to run, with an option OF a
twenty-year renewal, The deal also
Involves the removal Of the head
quarters OF the Old Colony Club and
the Transportation Club to the Bilt-
more. The furnishings, including
those OF the suite which was once the
New York headquarters OF President
Mckinley. will be sold at auction.
COMMODORE TO BE ENLARGED.
The plans announced for doubling
the accommodation of the Commodore
involve the construction of a 1000
room addition on the northwest cor
ner of Lexington avenue and Forty
third street. This will give the Com
modore 1000 rooms. which, II is said,
will make II the largest hotel in the
world. The new building to replace
the Murray Hill Hotel will have 5000
rooms. which will bring the total ac-
commodations OF the Bowman hotels
in this area to 10000 rooms. In addi-
tion. II is announced that the aim of
the new Murray Hill will be to estab-
lish a reputation as the most luxuri-
Gus hotel in the world.
The Manhattan Is one OF the last OF
the chain OF hotels which helped to
make New York famous in the early
part OF the century. and Is one of
several which have outgrown their
usefulness and dropped from sight in
the last year or so. The Manhattan
was a contemporary OF the Holland
House, and a little earlier than the
Knickerbocker, which closed it's door
last month.
The hotel was designed in a period
when ornae furnishings and luxury
were the aim OF the hotel architect
and before the rush OF modern travel
cut down the size OF hotel rooms. and
multiplied their number by four. I'M
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
new FUEL FOR MOTORS
APPEARS IN WASHINGTON

Washington has a new motor fuel,
which is being sold under the trade
name Of Lightning Motor Fuel. The
fuel question is serious one for auto
mobiilists. There is, of course, a linn
tied supply Of gasoline. available and
anything that may be successfully
used to postpone the day when our
present motor power system will have
to be discarded, or an inferior fuel
supply substituted, is most heartily
welcomed.
Lightning Motor Fuel is a highly
refined coal product, and is said to
work wonders. 1t may be used exclu-
sively or In conjunction with gasoline
and requires no carburetor adjust
ment.
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
EBERT READY TO QUIT
AS GERMAN PRESIDENT

BERLIN, June 27.--Chancsiior Feb
erenbach has been asked by President
Ebert to make arrangements for a
general election. It Is reported.
Ebert is said TO be discouraged by
the refus&l OF the Socialists 10 CO.
onerate In the formation OF a new
cabinet, and to be ready to 'relinquish
his office as soon as the people elect
a successor. :, .' 80. 90
The Washington times., 1920-06-27
TEACH LITERATURE
WITH MUSIC AS AID
Correlation of Studies Worked
Out Successfully by Newark,
N. J. Teacher.

That music can be used in connec-
ton with English literature in the
high school, to the mutual benefit Of
both these elements In the curriculum.
is the successfully tested theory OF
Philip Gordon, in charge Of music In
one of the largest secondary schools
in Newark. N. ].
, Incidentally 1t Is one Of the most
| recent and valuable applications OF
the principle of correlation of studies,
to which educators the country over
are giving so much attention.
illustrating his plan. Mr.. Gordon
described the kind of musical pro-
gram he had just given before the
senior classes in English literature:
I'VE began with the old epics, and
played on the piano the 'Parsifaf
prel, following 1t by. record OF
Brunnhilde's battle cry.
BEGAN WITH OLD EPICS.
The next stop was Chaucer, and as
an example of medieval popular mu-
sic had the record Of the old round
'Sumer is icumen in When we came
to Shakespeare we used several rec
ords. mostly of the original settings
by Shakespeare's contemporaries"
Mr.. Gordon is a warm advocate of
the use of the phonograph in the
teaching of musical appreciation.
even going so far as to say that with
out it's aid such instruction would be
Well-nigh impossible. 81 might talk
myself dry about the beauties OF the
string quartet" he explains. might
show the pupils pictures of the in
struments and play a quartet on the
piano.
What have I accomplished? Prob
ably created some wrong Impressions
and established a feeling that quar-
tet music is dull and uninteresting.
with the records of some famous
string quartets to help me. however.
I can give an accurate idea of the
nature OF this music and lay the
foundation for a lifelong love of 1t.
When one comes to the subject of the
orchestra and the recognition of the
voices of the different instruments,
the aid Of the records Is, IL possible,
of even greater Importance"
A library of records owned by any
school, says Mr.. Gordon, provides op-
portunities for music memory or iden-
tification contests which stimulate
the interest of the children and at
the same time make them thoroughly
conversant with certain pieces of
music.
This cultural influence also soon
extends beyond the classroom into
the homes, where the pupils get their
parents to buy similar music and de-
velop better taste. In this way
Americas musical future will be IA.
vorably affected.
Arizona republican., 1920-04-06

intense action, and startling situations. Tn the role of Jack Derry, the cham pion demonstrates his versatility, for each of the pictures finds him called upon to offer something entirely differ ent from his former appearances, and yet lose nothing of the strength of the character which he is making famous.
 On the same program H. B. Warner will be offered in '"The Pagan God" q particularly strong character study, and of the same nature that has been to a great extent responsible for this stars rise in the world of pictures.
 Peacock
 night of delight, in fact, one big glorious good time is promised every one who gets in on the big carnival at the Peacock next Thursday night As an extra feature Manager Walter Will lis Powell is staging a prize waltz on the same night and some of the best dancers in the city have indicated their intention of competing.
 In order to bring out real terpsI- chorean talent, Manager Powell is of- fering prizes of unusual beauty and value To the gentleman winning the waltz contest will be awarded solid silver loving cup and the lady will re- ceive a gold wrist watch. Reservations are already being made for this big night of nights, but many good tables can still be obtained. Plenty of seats have been arranged in the balcony Tor