Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-11-09

Prof. Nyval Delivered Address
Here Before Recent Meet
ing Of Civic Club !.

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+ /. Fill the mind OF childhood and
youth, 3 says a noted psychologist,
with Beautiful pictures, chaste fig
ures, elevating images, and you gain
in these an initial power Of associa-
ton which will do much in carrying
forward the development of character
in q safe channel and making the ex-
periences of subsequent life rich and
interesting 49, !: j ..:5 ;
Never before has the environment
of the home, OF the schoolroom and Of
the community been the subject of as
earnest attention and investigation
on the part of educators and womens
clubs as today. -s *.
We know that in the home and in
the schoolroom are formed the asso-
Citations which in after life are to give
direction to the stream of ideas. Vine
Their we will it or not-our youthful
associates leave an indelible imprint
upon the life we live. What is true
of the home and sch00lrO0m environ
ment is equally true of the commune
ty life as whole. !
The guardians, therefore, of our
homes and of our schools have no
moral right to neglect the aesthetic,
moral and spiritual health of the chill
dren during their period of training.
The responsibility rests upon us to
make the homelife, the school-life and
the community life interesting and
helpful to the lchildren.
Historians, Philosophers, Physi-
clans, Scientists, Poets, Men of At
fairs, the makers of our laws, the
Scriptures-a1l walks of life attest to
the: power of music. =
From the misty ages comes the
story of the part music has played in
shaping the destinies of man. The
savage as we'll as the civilized man
acknowledges the power of music by
his attention to it in his social, civic
and religious institutions,
When King Saul was suffering the
torrents of the evil spirits-it was
David, who, through the magic
strains from his Tyre, brought peace
and comfort to his troubled soul. =
Tyrtaeus aroused a whole army to
action by the sound of his flute.
Plato said that no change can be
made in Music without a similar
change being made in the state.
Milton, the great philosopher, poet
and musician, spent certain time
every day after dinner in singing or
playing some kind of instrument.
Miracles have been recorded in the
way Of cures of physical ailments thru
the agency of music.
Music has a favorable influence on
digestion which accounts for the mu-
sic we are treated to at most restaur-
ants.
There is scarcely a home in this
community which is not provided with
an instrument of some kind. And
you, yourselves, in your own home
life, give daily proofs of the need for
and influence of music in your own
life.
Why is music such a powerful ag-
ency? .
A noted psychologist says that:
music by filling the heart with ten
der sentiments, make those who are
sensitive to it's influences, susceptible
of a happiness amounting almost to
a sweet delirium 1t is so natural to
love, to enjoy, without effort or ex-
ertion, the sweet tones of an emotion
al composition, so delightful and in
toicating that we yield to our in.
clinations before we are aware OF 1t.
A scientific explanation tells us that
"the secret lies deep down in the
silent workings of the brain cells and
of the concepts in the concept-mass
The explanation is to be sought in
the inner thot relations and the asso-
ciated sense-impressions awakened by
the incoming sounds" -
What kind of music do you hear and
learn?
What kind of music do your chill
dren hear and learn?
What kind of music do you and
your children hear and learn in the
home, in the school and in your com
munity gatherings?
Ragtime? Jazz? The vulgarly
suggestive? The unspeakably crude