New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Methods for Making the
Whole World Musical
Education by Automatic Machines: learn Tuns
and Sop Warfare; Something About
Sltsic and Morals

diViCQal, CncD also comm. anal, national,
UNIVERSAL Miss Sc mour is not con-
tent with mere philosophical theoriz-
ing; she puts the matter concreteiy and
with quite as much conviction that if
her aims and methods were carried out
there would be an end of warfare
among the worlds peoples as that pro-
mulgated by the dealists who would
create millennium by means OF q writ
ten covenant
Fundamentals of Harmony
To live harmoniously within our
/ selves-individua with individual, race
J With race, people with people, nation
with nation-we must learn how to fol-
.ow, memorize and record a melody
and how to distinguish with the inner
ear the three fundamental chords of
harmony.
After that (and she suggests as Il
help to the first activity the making Of
tone picture-a line running up,
down or straightway ge the notes i1di-
cate while soundiag) We do not cen
need TO hear the music more. We need
merely to think it. cali it up in our
inner consciousness (recall it by the
aid Of the memory, we should say, and
at once we are put above physical
misery and mental torment.
We are not indulging in hyperbole
in thus stating Miss Seymour; neither
does she think that she is speaking
extravagantly, hyperbolcally or in
anything save sober truth when she
says: "lf every one could be shown
how 70 follow tune and to remember
It the the worlds unrest would be
ameliorated"
Why? Because by SO doing each in
/ dividpal would become conscious OF the
harmony within himself and would
express that harmony to an extent
varying according to the degree Of its
awakeniag.' and, as Sidney Lanier said
Music Is harmony; harmony is love,
and love is Cod"
But is that true Of an ordinary in
/ civlduai or a congeres OF such indi-
yidUals which is not true Of musician
or group Of musicians? II it were
true Of musicians who canno. only
follow tones and remember them. but
create them, then there ought to be
no unhappy, no wicked, immoral
perhaps we should say unnoral-it's
fAch pretty word, with the STING
: rsmoved) musicians; certainly no
criminal ones
But we believe on excellent testi-
nony that Nero was good musician
and a moral monster. But the syllo-
g'sm is mere hyperbole, nero meta
phorical flourish. We might us vel
attempt 10 save the world from dam
nation by remem bering and draw;nt
picture Of the arch or spire Of a
cathedral as by remcm oerng and set
ing down a tune For az music j.
harmony, 20 architecture IN harmony
ard geometry ia harmony, the laws o.
strains md resistanccs are harmony
and ecu pture. ard painting, an,
poetry, all arts-architecturc and pcomc.
sry ana dynamlcs are harmony, ant
harmony Ia God.
Also, according to Mas Seymour
music, in the sense that It is uni
YeEeal language. rs religion, symbol
iz.ng the Onenesa, or Love, which
unitsa al. people"
Germany vas the most musical cour.
Try 8 ne world, yet it began III,
wicked war which haf dcmornlized tht
World. What about that? M.ss sey
nour expla!ns; Tho Germans hat
been taught music in the old-fash
'oned, technical way. which must nov
be abolished. Everybody must b,
taught 10 hear music. then to thinl
about ~, thsn TO mako =.
| Music, or the capacity % hear tune,