Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-12-12
EDUCATION WEEK
A SUCCESS.

LAuCdClOH w tck IDS C4USeG
with doubtless the most wide
spread observance of the week in
the history of any recent cam
faign. From the teachers in the
schools, from the ministers in the
pulpits, from the leaders of civic
organizations throughout the en-
tire length and breadth of the
land have come some expressions
of the advantages of education as
humanizing and civilizing force.
These broad-minded people have
told Of reading, writing and arith-
metic as developer of the men
tai side of nature, with music as
developer of the spiritual. They
have told that music has become an
essential and not a luxury.
The place of music in education
is being more surely and definitely
established every day. Never be-
fore have people realized to how
great an extent contentment, faith,
hope and love are cultivated, fed,
and warmed under the soothing
and elevating Influence of music.
Great men have realized this.
DR.. p. P. Claxton, when United
States commissioner of education,
in a report to the Department of
the Interior, said, "next to read
ing and writing, music is the most
important subject taught in the
curriculum of the schools today.
Education which is to fit the boy
to take his place in a democracy,
to meet his brother man with UNI
Outstanding, to contribute an all
around personality to his commun-
ity, to be the wise and sympathetic
head of his family-that education
is not merely an accumulation of
knowledge, nor is it merely the
training of a we'll disciplined mind
it is training in the appreciation
and understanding of all good
things"
True, all cannot be musicians
in the sense of great ability in per
rormance, but ali can be taught to
understand and appreciate music,
thus obtaining a taste of the finer
side of life.
Music should be available not
only for chosen few, but should
and does exist for all. Every hu-
man heart and brain should be able
to respond intelligently to the up
lifting influence of music.
Children everywhere are reach
ing out for music. This is espec-
ally true of boys, who early in
life learn to plays orchestral in
strumcnts, and struggle along as
best they may, often without aid
or encouragement from those who
might impart love of music to
the soul.
The splendid music of tn
worlds masters should be known
and loved as we'll as its poetry, lit
eraturc, history and art. A civil
ization built upon musical struc-
ture is the necessity of a cultured
citizenry.
In Americas the Music Study
cluB, an organization devoted al
most wholly to cultivating an APP
probation of music in the COM
munity, is sponsoring a series OF
artists entertainments. One of
the series of great musical treats
has passed into happy memory
Two others are to come.
To the mothers and fathers who
have shown concern over the "jaz2
age" and its demoralizing infiu.
ences, the assurance is made that
in the series sponsored by the Mu-
sic Study club is the most perfect
type of music.
The Music Study club asks the
cooperation of the mothers and
fathers, the heads of educational
institutions, the presidents of civic
clubs, and the public generally to
support an effort which has for its
sole end the moral and spiritua
uplift of the community, whose
membership strives to give only
the best, and whose motto i.
SERVICE.