The Washington herald., 1920-07-29
CBy RAYMOND G. CARRoLL.)

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New York. July 2S.-"we marry
them and we bury them" said one
of those attending the thirteenth
annual conference of the National
Association OF Organists at the
College of the City of New York.
He added by way of explanation:
Il mean we give the dear young
things Mendelssohn's Wedding
March or Wagner's Lohengrin' to
and from the altar, and when the
sands OF life are run we play the
funeral march from Saul or Wag-
ner's 'Gotterdammerungen' on their
way to the grave"
Don't forget that we resurrect
them as WELL" added another or
ganist. What with? Why, in the
weird composition. Dante Maca-
bre,' whose theme deals with a
cemetery where the ghosts come
forth at midnight and cavort for
an hour" And then he took a seat
at the organ. pulled out the stops
and played this fantastic revivin-
cation.
Talk without Words.
There is one thing I like about
an organist. He can talk to you
without saying a word. And when
the music blurs a bit to an untu-
tored intellect out comes the Eox
Humana stops and the organ
speaks a celestial tongue of angels
voices.
Judging from their talents, or
ganists are exceedingly interesting
people TO meet. They have catho-
lie minds, have travelled and are in
tellectuals. Looking over the 200
in attendance at. the convention.
did not see a single uninteresting
face. They represented both the
ater and the church and came from
all parts of the country.
The possibilities of the organ
are boundless," said S. Z. Gruen-
stein, who on Sunday plays in the
fashionable First Presbyterian
Church at Lake Forest, Ill, the rest
of the week edits the Diapason, the
organ (no humor intended) of the
National Association. He went on:
'I look forward to the time when
every city of $4,000 in the United
States will have its municipal or
gan. We have a splendid start in
that direction with the magnificent
organ which Cyrus H Curtis has
installed in the City Hall at Port
land, Me. After all, there is no In
strument like the organ to soothe
tired nerves and stimulate the i'm
agination. The organ plays and
the spirit rises to a world of rest
full, flowing clouds and heavenly
dreams"
From Many Cities.
The Philadelphia organists pres
ent included Charles NJ. Courboin,
who plays the John Wanamaker
organ; Rollo F. Maitland and Hen
ry S. Fry, and DR.. John NICE. Ward,
president of the Organ Players
Club. Others from distant points
were:
William E. Zeuch, of the South
Boston; Arthur E. Turner,
Mass; DIR. William A
Wolf, Lancaster, Pa: Edwin Arthur
Kraft. Cleveland; Charles Heinroth,
Pittsburg; Alfred Brinkler, Port
land, Maine; Ernest r. Kreeger, ST.
Louis; Charles N. Boyd, Pittsburg,
and II. A Ditzel, of Dayton, Ohio,
who is neighbor and old friend
Of Gov. Cox, the Democratic can
didate for President.
Meeting at the same time with
the organist are the members of
the Organ Builders Association of
America, the Joint session taking
place this afternoon. Long ago the
two branches learned to cooperate,
discovered the value of
mutual respect, lesson that could
well be followed by others to the
great world of capital and labor.
Both associations admit what each
owes to the other. and were pleas
ingly frank in telling about it out
loud
Postage Stamp Millionaire.
Charles Ponzi, the Bostonian, who
says he made sS5o0,000 buying and
selling exchange And dealing in and
out OF foreign postal orders. has
=" MONOPOLY on the scheme, which