The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-09
Society
Signs of the
Times

electrified the musical world o
America and given new hope q
those identified with native compost
tions OF this character In collabora
foundation called "Tho opera u
Our Language" ie fo stage tw,
American operas In 1923. an epocha
alliance Of the muse Of song
orchestration and acting. Tho ain
of this foundation is TO Induce IN,
American composer OF high mrrit "a
1.-Two and labor 90 his own country
TO huild up a nation OF musical
masters, not one of musical borrow
egs. and so TO enable them TO publish
and present their works in their
native land. says the Cincinnati iin
qurer OF recent date, further solilo-
qui2inE, the articles reads;
Tho two operas chosen by the
foundation for presentation IN 1923
are The Echo" by Frank Patter-
son. of New York, whose work is
indorscd by Lazare Snminekv II. ..
Osgood. walter GOldc. Adolf Tand-
Ter, Theodore Etcarns and George
Polacco. and castle Agraz1nt'
written by Ralph Lyford, Of Cincin.
natl, and indurscd by Vincent a.
Indy. Eugene Ysaye Edgar still
man Kelley and John Alden Carpcn-
ter. Another aspiration OF the
opera ln our Language Fouudn-
ton" is to establish u $100O,O0u
opera house where native works ana
artists may be heard and foreign
operas ~ presented IN English such
Institutions prevail in every other
country of distinction, why not In
tho most powerful of them ALL the
United states? a nationwide cam
paign Is now Initiated under the
1iNagYInn nj Mira ATghthuI Ii h'TnGT
of Chicago, Mrs. Kclley's co-chair-
man of opera In the National
Federation Of Music clubs and chair
man OF the opera In our Language
Foundation" TO whom subscriptions
in any amount may be sent to erect
this first American opera house.
Paris has its famous Grand Opera
House on the Place do lOpera: Eng
land has its Convent Garden. GER
many. Austria, Russia had simil,r
native homes OF Inspiration. which
even the world war could not dis
solve despite the white heat OF that
terrible holocaust. That America
should be lacking in so vast an IN
fluencc, 80 vital an incentive to ITS
native creative impulses, Is In keep
ing with tho immaturity of It's
artistic life, which has not kept pace
with it's devotion To Mammon. OF
course. until America places n Just
and proper stopcock upon the In
discriminate flow OF illlterate Inn
migration TO this country--an influx
whose sole purpose is TO make
money, often to be expended upon
the land of It's birth and not upon
that of its adoption--the heaven
born spirit OF art will not only hide
It's head in shame. but he traduced
with Jazz and the sort OF absurdlties
which the concocters OF musical
comedies folst upon n defenseless
money-grubbing public.
Great fortunes have been made,
spent and Fquandered In other Coun-
tries, but they have as rule been
accumulated and disseminated by
those born 10 the soil and proud of
the traditions OF a land which they
call their own. and TO which their
ancestors from time immemorial
gave their brains and brawn--their
very hearts blood. Therefore, art
has flourlshed hand in hand with
commercial prosperity, to tho bet
terment OF both and tho advance
ment OF civilization. No nation IL
great enough TO feed its body and
starve It's soul; ana, therefore, the
sooner such large and influential
bodies as the National Federation of
the thinking minds OF this ever
changing land, the greater will he
the good TO a national sentiment OF
solidarity in the interest OF the Nn-
ner life OF the land. without which
no country can hope 10 Withstand
the modern trend of radicalism and
iconoclasm. Money as a means OF
sodden self-indulgonce. IL tho poor
est of assets, yet II has become the
II. - @ al
people of the earth. II is the lure OF
America to tho most undesirable of
all other lands. Money Is naturally
a medium OF comfort and pleasure,
and as such Is Indispensable. But
beyond affording the necessities Of
food and shelter. of travel and
education, money IS n menace except
when used TO further the noble pro-
jects of mankind. The greatcst
martyrs OF the twentieth century are
those who have lived and died for
the sole purpose of accumulatlug
countless millions. Threatened 10y
bandits and hlackmailers, the vie
Tins OF disease because of the
narrownesS of their lives and the
tenaclty of their minds in one
channel from which their love OF
acquisition permitted them no relief
practically prisoners In vast estates
which have to be guarded IKE penl-
tentiarios. Americas multi-million-
aires make up pltlful series OF
object lessons
A few of these have given great
sums OF money 10 assist the world
and In consequence are beloved and
revered. Most Of them have pros
pered and passed ON, unmindful Of
the fact that man Is hut q steward
upon earth Of the bounty OF Provi-
dence; that that which God hae
given is, according TO the Biblical
injunction, not sent for the self
aggrandizement OF those chosen O.
be it's distributors IN this life, 10 hc
boarded under a hushol, but rather
10 be cast upon the waters Of eudoa-
Vor that II may return 20 the faith
ful a thousand fold, enriched ana in
creased by that which has accrued
TO IL in It's helpful voyage upon the
ocean of service. Assisting art
pathology, all the beneflcent aspira
tiuns to which the human soul Is
heir, are among these benefits, ant
the National Federation OF Musi,
clubs is one OF their siEnatOrics
worthy of the help OF those able 1,
further its altruistic aims anC
strengthen its high hopes. II il
composed of the flower Of America
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