Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-03
"He Sings WD1saHis Violin"

Pan-American hington, which
includes large ans Influential group
of official folk, is all agog over the
Forthcoming appearance in New York
of Spanish Americas greatest musi-
cal genius, the renowned violinist,
Alfred San Malo.
"He sings with his violin" is the
proverbial phrase in. South America
for San Malo, who still in his twenties
has won the highest honors of Paris
and Berlin during recent European
tours. He comes to the United States
for the first time this year, and will
be heard in his initial concert at Car
negie Hall on February 25. A spec
ial train will carry the beauty and
chivalry of Washington's Pan-Amer-
lean legations to New York for the
event.
Closer Cultural Relations
While statesmen quarrel it is a
hopeful sign when cultural relations
improve between the Americas. The
decision of San Malo, the famous
South American violinist, to spend
year in the United States marks
another step in the cementing of
closer cultural relations between
North and South America. Spanish
on his mothers side, he is of French
and Dutch extraction on his fathers
side, and his name perpetuates the
famous Huegenot family for which
the ancient French seaport of st.
Malo is named.
Music has been traditional heri-
tage with the San Malos for dozen
generations. His father was pro-
fessor of the violin in continental con-
servatories, and his mother was also
talented player on the same instru-
ment. San Malo learned to play the
violin at five years of age, and gave
his first public concert at nine. In
France he is ranked with Kressler and
Heifetz as an "Ace of the Fiddle"
At his New York concert he will
play for the first time a Stradivarius
violin which he purchased for $4,000
a few days ago after negotiations
lasting four years. 1t is one of the
famous musical instruments of the
musical world, formerly the property
of the great Lapinsky.
Victories in Cotton Production
The Agricultural Department at
Washington has large amount of
data to support the statement that
the production of a bale of cotton
per acre at the prevailing prices of
eleven and twelve cents per pound is
profitable. While there is general
complaint to the effect that the cot
ton situation in the South is in de-
plorable condition still it has been
proved over and over again this past
year that even under all the prevail
ing unfavorable conditions that cot
ton can be produced at profit, and
has been produced profitably by far
mers who give proper attention to fer
tilizing the SOIL The best agricultur-
al minds in the different states are
behind the efforts that have been
made to stimulate the production.
Among the outstanding successes
in that respect during the season just
passed are the winners of the cotton
growing contests in seven Southern
states These contestants won sub
stantial cash prizes in addition to
making neat profit on the crop it.
self. A study of the methods en-
ployed by them shows to striking
degree that one of the prime requls-
ties in profitable cotton-growing is
intelligent fertilization. Chilean Nj
trate of Soda was used by first prize
winners in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi, South Carolina and Louis
lana. In spite of low prices G. Mont
Adams of Tyler, Texas, has made
cotton a good paying crop in the last
two years by reducing production
costs. In 1925 he won the Grand
Prize for the highest yield per acre
in Texas, raising sixteen bales on
five acres. In 1926 he won the first
prize for the best upland staple cot
ton, and other wards. His production