El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-14
TIME FOR CONSIDERING THINGS
OTHER THAN THE PRACTICAL ONES

IL PASO should congratulate itself upon having mayor
l. and city council 50 broad minded that they get
away from the grim realities and think bit Of the other
side Of things.
Alderman R F. Semple said Sunday morning at the
meeting the FL Music association that the mayor
and aldermen felt the time had when they could do
other things for the city than that the streets
graded paved and cleaned and watch the workings Of the
Fo1ce and IRE departments They believe he sad that
money properly MY be spent to help make the city
better place in which to live.
When public servants take such position. city is
fortunate For city be what It should be without
the refining Influences Of life Il is worth all it costs to
construct and maintain parks bathing beaches, swimming
pools and places to play Municipalities have proved this
It worth just much OF even more to give the people
speaker recently said the vegetable If
he is foreigner, around h1Hng tunes from operas
while many OF our own best people don't know the tune
when they hear him Other countries benefited by the
refining Influences Of music centuries ago; it is traditional
with them We have been busy making money, buying
fine clothes and paving streets that have neglected the
other side Of life
FL PasO is in the position Of the big husky boy, reared
In the mining camp the ranch farm We husky
and strong and have the Yrty of youth, but lack
that Community refinement that makes life worth
We have looked al the practical things and left the others
1or the future Ihe time IS mere now TO bring IN the civil
zng and the refining influences It IS not for the few
who love music that should have the symphony o.
chestTa the municipal band; rather It for those who
do not know the joy Of these things They must be taught
love music and harmony It attunes them better TO the
citizenship that they must exercise-now If they are
adults later Il they children Art and music both have
their refining influences.
The man woman of generation ago denied the
finer things of life that the children Of today have
but s IN position to appreciate the advantages OF today
and anxious and willing TO help bring about conditions
today that will make the rising generation happier 1t
reaches its per years Good music softens business cares
It meoWs domestic difficulties, If It does not eliminate
them
It is necessary to surround ourselves with the esthec
vel the practical Crime ouTshes among the unedu-
Gated and education today does not merely arth-
etc geography and grammar Il means learning to love
appreciate the things that give variety, color and
charm and music and art do these.
It is long step forward that the public schools have
lately taken in the dissemination Of the rudments Of
SIC Instead Of ust singing the pupils did genera
lion agO-and that step ahead Of what they did
generation before thatpups now taught the Why OF
music; the reason for incorporating It IN life. In FL Paso
they taught understand Why certain composition
written; what means Why Il Is written this way OF
that wzv They are also taught what relation Instru-
rent has to anoheT and how they al necessary 10
complete harmony Incidentally, they are given selections
IF good music and they grow to ike IT. The impress
ion is made while minds receptive and as they grow
here Is desire for Il makes for better future
zenship for mid crave music and not be oene-
ted thereby. The old quotation that music hath charms
% soothe the savage breast Is literally true Love Of
music crowds ont OF softens the natural animal instinct
he heart and the soul It makes better and women
MORE sympathetic friends, parents business assoestes-
md better world
Then those who encourage It are entitled to praise. We
epeat 81 Psso is fortunate IN having city administTa
ion bread enough to recognize the value Of the eshec
add that the public schools deserve al praise Tor the
szt they taking educating the younger generation
o love music and what 1t stands for
The attention of the income tax collector called
be fact that bought two pairs Of shoes at local
tore last week.
Things are 50 arranged that where the coal bills end
he ice bills and water bills start in
Russias trouble should bear that line; made in Ger
Many
It snt split that separates Bryan and Wilson It IS
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