Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-23
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some music that has been put out
this month by one Of the talking
machine companies.
It is called Melody in A Major
and it must be rather good music, for
Fritz Kreisler, the violnist, consent
ed to play it for the photograph
record. ~
Dawes, who once. was director of
the Chicago Grand Opera Company,
plays enough musical instruments to
substitute on any occasion in one of
those country town bands such as
gave President Harding his first
f4me beyond the immediate horizon.
Maybe Harding and Dawes could
scG out a cornet and a violin respect
5~aly, and put a little jazz into Con-
gress.
MS a good thing for the country
that it's director of the budget,
who will try to bring order out of
chaos in Uncle Sans finances and put
the brakes on spending, has some
thing like music as a safety valve
or hobby.
Where the average fnancief would
stick to his statistics "a hours a day
and soon get 50 tangled up in them
that he wouldn't produce much ex-
cept notwithstanding reports, Dawes
can get out his fiddle and drifting off
in melody, get better perspective on
bis job.
All work and no play makes Jack
iackags.
The man who hasn't a hobby
golf or pinochle or something else to
give his brain and body recreation
is close to the advanced stages of
dry rot.
The late ]. P. Morgan, it is said
conceived many of his transportation
projects in evenings when he PLAYED
with toy trains of cars.
If you haven't a hobby, better get
one So
MUSIC is the hobby of Financier
Dawes because music is nothing
but cultured form of mathematics.
Mathematics suggests finance, so
we earnestly recommend that Bud
geteer Dawes take his fiddle into Sen
ate and House and scrape off some of
the classical selections that might
curb Congress spendthrift ways.
For instance, cover the Hills to
the Poorhouse" Or, money Am the
Root of All Evil" Or, when I Had
Money I Was Crazy to Spend"
If these seem to be getting in their
work, switch over to: "Save Up Your
Nickels and Your Dimes and Your
Rocks, and You'll Always Have
Money in Yom Old Tobacco Box"
tsE2E WAS the wisest man France
has ever produced" has often
been said Of Montaigne. He lived
and wrote his Incompatible essays
$50 years ago.
In one of them he speaks of the
corruption of the age in which he
was living, with particular reference
to its influence on the rising genera
ton. So sure was he that the child
rcn of those days were headed
straight for the bow-wows that he
was thankful he had been spared the
responsibility of rearing children of
his own. This, although he was the
kindliest of men and loved children.
1t is too bad the wise Montaigna
didn't go into the details of the
'ealamitous conditions to which he
refers.
1t would be interesting to com
pare them with the short skirts, open
work stockings, Jazz and cigarettes Of
today
THE out-of-town visitor usually ha
the edge on you, in one respect
in your home city,
When he winds up his visit an,
pulls out for home he carries wit
him memories of many places tina
are Of unusual interest.
And you, who live right here il
Americus-have you ever been t.
these places? Chances are that yol
haven't!
Better perk up and look about you
You'll be surprised at what you hav
missed. And the next time you visi
some other town you can talk wit
authority, about the beauty spot
and the places Of interest in thi
home city Of yours.