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Evening star., 1934-03-25
National Symphony Week.

TODAY is an important one for the
National Symphony. 1t not only
marks the beginning in Washington
Of National Symphony week, during
which members of the Orchestra AS
sociation will attempt to complete the
$50 900 fund needed to insure the or
chestra's existence next year. but Con-
ductor Hans Kinder presents this aft
ernoon the final Sunday concert Of
the present season.
During the coming week the cam
paign to complete the subscription
fund for a series of concerts in 1884
35 will be intensified. This fund
must be raised before the orchestra is
released for the Summer months, as
the orchestra association must Dc able
to give Kinder and his musicians
some assurance that the National
Symphony will be in existence next
year. Other factors also make it i'm
perative that the subscription be COM
pleted as soon as possible, such as the
arrangement Of dates for next year,
contracting for the hall, etc.
Sixty thousand dollars Is needed II
the orchestra is to continue. Little
more than half Of 1t has been raised
at present. The various committees
Evening star., 1934-03-25

From all directions come the news
that one or another of our great
musical establishments is in danger
of dissolution due to the lack of
financial support by their public. The
condition at the Metropolitan Opera
is not any better, if as good. as it
was last year; the New York Phil
harmonic Orchestra is pleading for
funds to keep in existence, and there
are many rumorS of the difficulties
encountered by the Philadelphia and
Boston organizations that seem fan
tastic. And there is our own Nation
al Symphony on the verge of ter
mination after a triumphant three
season battle in cOnquering obstacles.
Music is a marketable article, just
as a piece of merchandise. The rules
of production and conSumatlon apply
to it as well as to any manufactured
commodity that is presented to the
public. The producers of music must
have consumers and the public is
the aesthetic consumer for this aeS-
thetic product. BY their buying power
they not only keep the market
flourishing, but set the standard Of
what shall be presented. 1t is appar-
ent this year that the public is not
living up to its obligations in the
partnership. 1t is true that fulfilling
that half of the implied agreement
requires sacrifice but sacrifices of a
more telling nature are the daily
accompaniment of the other partner
and are cheerfully born that art may
live.
It is. indeed, curious situation the
musicians find themselves in today.
After a lifetime of toll there is little
market for their wares. Opera singers
are Snatching at any opportunity
offered to keep in practice and in
strumentaists are accepting all kinds
Of odd jobs unworthy of their in
tensive training Many whose dreams
have envisioned. soloists career are
to become orchestra musicians and
glad of the possibility of earning
money by means of their beloved art.
II these sources of artistic express
sion (and of income) are denied
them. what remains for them to do?
Where can they fit in to the
narrowed circle which is being pre-
pared for them? What will the public
gain by applying such strict economy
to the products and the producers of
art?
The vitality of art depends on the
consumer; in other words. the public.
The vigor of its interest influences
the amount and quality of the art
that is presented for its consumation
Art, today, is in certain sense, an
investment by both the artist and the
auditors and while it pays returns to
the one in providing means OF
livelihood, it gives infinitely more to
the other in supplying him with what
has already been recognized as
definite aid in personal and civic
betterment. The future of music has
passed into the hands of the public
and Just as other problems of eco
nonlic character have had to be met
and solved, so also will the people
who make up our audience have to
face and decide on what is to be
done with music.
A few years ago, our artists were
inadequate, our orchestras insufficient
in number and the opportunities for
native composers to present their
works so rare as to be almost negli
pible. The artists saw to it that their
Evening star., 1934-03-25

education was bettered, while high
minded individuals planned for more
orchestras and demanded to hear
what was newest in musical COM
position. This was easy when the
financial end could take care Of
itself. Now, when the music of this
country is at its highest artistic
point. the public would claim its f.
nancial embarrassment as adequate
reason for not supporting that which
was created for its use.
What has become of our talk of
the spiritual value of music to re-
place the eXcitements of material in
terests, of the need of learning the
language of the spirit. of the relaxa-
ton and uplift to be found in listen
ing to good music? What of the
advice as how to spend the leisure
time that has been forced upon us,
of the talk of the greater gain to
be had from a closer communion with
the arts? Are these things to be
set aside because the having of them
entails financial sacrifices? We can
be proud of Cur artists and proud of
our symphonic programs. There has
been created and developed a divi-
sion of national life that can stand
criticism from any ether nation. 1t
remains for those whose privilege it
is to enjoy, without the hard work
that the artist must endure, to see
to 1t that the musical opportunities
are increased rather than diminished,
no matter what that involves. The
market must be kept open and the
consumer must continue his pat
ronage.
TODAY begins the final drive for
l. the funds needed to keep the
National Symphony Orchestra in our
midst. This is National Symphony
to contribute his mite for the sup
port of our civic musical institution.
1t is a sad and discouraging thought
that any one must be urged to give,
or that the importance of the SYM
phony TO our cultural life must be
reiterated. Surely each individual
who has been one of the symphony's
audience, if he would but take counsel
with himself, and honestly sum up
the results, must agree that he was
the richer to an immeasurable degree
by the quality and amount Of music
that has been offered him. Again.
if he were honest. he must admit
there is no substitute for the pleasure,
the aesthetic progress and the spiri-
tual benefit that has come to him by
means of these concerts. II weigh
ing scale could be fashioned to hold
the small sum of money still obliga-
tory for the symphony's life on one
side and all the happiness the many
thousands have experienced by the
revelations of beauty and grandeur
that the orchestra gave to them, the
money would count but little against
that greater weight of beauty.
1t is a pity that one must beg for
art. 1t is a pity that money, so allied
with baser material moments, must be
made the determining factor in the
existence of a carefully built up and
excellent monument to art. The drive
will be finished by Easter Sunday,
and it is to be hoped that on that
day, which stands for all the world
as the symbol of the indestructibility
of the spiritual, that that most per-
feet earthly medium Of the super
natural essence, music, will still be
in our midst through the firm es-
tablishment of the National SYM
phony Orchestra.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

The International Art Forum, Nine.
Amelia Cont, president, is presenting
q program of American music on
Wednesday evening at the Admiral,
l640 Rhode Island avenue northwest.
The artists taking part are Lor-
raine E. Bentley, dramatic soprano;
Stanislaw Matieski, baritone; Amelia
Cont. harpist, and Emile Simon,
cellist.
Accompanist for Mrs. Bentley and
Mr.. Matjeski will be Jewell Downs
and Dorothy Andrews.
Programs and tickets may be Sc
cured at the T. A. Smith concert
bureau, 1880 G street northwest.
Music for the Easter pageant The
Questioner," to be presented by the
Fine Arts Department at the meeting
of the District of Columbia Federation
of Womens Clubs in Barker Hall at
1890 tomorrow morning, will be fur
nished by Zelda Miller Haun, pianist:
Mrs. Charles J. Sterner and Ruth
Hansford Snodgrass, sopranos. Mrs.
Haun will play the overture to the
pageant, chimes, and will accompany
the singers.
The junior division of the District
of Columbia Federation of Music
Clubs announces the fourth concert
of its ninth season. which will be
given at Barker Hall, Seventeenth
and K streets, Saturday evening. Ad-
vanced playing and ensemble will be
featured. Two piano numbers will be
presented by Lorraine Crawford,
Thelma Callahan, HARLAN Meyer,
Walter Swank, John Earle. Egor Slo-
pax, Joann Croarkin, Helen Hudiak,
Beall Lowry. Helen Coutinho, Shirley
MacKay. John and Ethel Macdonald,
Parker Dorman; violin solos by Jo-
sephine Cole. Albert Pargament and
Marietta Eckam: piano solos by Mar
garet Spiller. Helen Wallace and Ger
son Nordlinger. Ernest Hutchesons
march" for two pianos and strings
will be played by Lura Loomis, Ross
Stevens, Joseph Joers, Ellen Mary
Wright, Coursen Conklin, Phillip
Capell Wright, Betty Jane Stevens
and Kalmon Mariner, with Alice Scott
and Miss Fickenscher at the two
pianos. Arsenic Ralon and Leah Ef-
fenbach will accompany the violin
numbers. The public is welcomed at
these recitals. which are under the
direction of Mrs. Charles Brooks
Smith, Junior State counselor.
At the meeting of the German Lit
erary Society last Saturday at the
home of the president, Anita Schade,
the musical program was given by
Glenn Carow. pianist, and Francesca
Kaspar Lawson, soprano. At the next
meeting of the society, Anita Schade
will speak on Richard Strauss, the
Composer of Songs" and Ann Yago
McGutfey will sing number OF the
composers songs.
Francesca Della-Lana, tenor, will
be the guest soloist at the Second
Presbyterian Church in Alexandria
Va, today and on Easter Sunday.
a musicale under the auspices OF
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Kurenko Coming.
IIIAsHINGToN1ANs will have

IASHINGTONIANS VIII have an
opportunity to hear Russian mu-
sic sung by skilled natives of that
country Sunday. April %, when Maria
Kurenko, Russian soprano, ard the
Russian Cathedral Choir will give a
program at the National Theater.
This event is in the nature Of a
benefit, being organized under the 10
cal sponsorship of Russians living in
washington to raise a fund for the
Orphanage for Russian Children in
Newark, N. j. Father Gindlin. head
OF the Russian clergy here, is in gen.
eral charge Of the concert.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Music Organizations Are
Asking for Financial Aid
National Symphony Orchestra Is One of Many
Seeking Funds to Continue Great Work;
Local Musicians Battle for Three Years.
by ALICE EVERSMAN.

HERE has much talk in this country and elsewhere
the necessity of America developing itself musicay
| not musical Nation has been
firmly impressed with the result that artists
have had difficult task in overcoming inerority complex
which is the outgrowth of this continued repetition Long and
they abored to reach ideal standard
the civic life" been
exploited by those layen would better situation Having
grown accustomed this state of affairs is rather startling
discover that those for whom the efforts have been made
the music public of this not fulfilling their duties
Evening star., 1934-03-25

The program for the Sunday music
hour today at 614 E street Y. w. c. A
at O'Clock will be given by the
Washington Orchestral Society under
the direction Of DR.. c. z. Christiani.
Marguerite Carter. violinist, will give
several numbers, including the Con-
certo in G Minor by Bruck.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Additional Music News, Page II.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Notice!

Music for Easter church
services must be received by
the Music Editor not later than
Wednesday, March 28. 1t is re-
quested the notices be legibly
written.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and K
streets, will be given by Katherine
Lawson, pianist, and H. Phelps Clark,
bass, accompanied by Cecile Clark.
The public is cordially invited.
The Symphony Club Of George
Washington University will sponsor
a lecture recital the proceeds of which
will go to the sustaining fund of the
National Symphony Orchestra and to
the Symphony Club. on Thursday eve
ming, April u, at the home of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin.
Henry Smidt-Gregor will talk on
Modern Music and How to Listen
to It." illustrating his lecture with
piano numbers. Tickets may be
secured from the members Of the
Symphony Club or by calling the uni
versity.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

The program for the Palm Sunday
hour OF music at 5 o'clock at the
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Francesca Della-Lana, tenor, will
be the guest soloist at the Second
Presbyterian Church in Alexandria,
Va, today and on Easter Sunday.
a musicale under the auspices OF
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Victor McLaglen and
Boris Karlof in
s"The Lost Patrol.-
Mickey Mouse"
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Yvonne r. Stanley, coloratura So
prano, presented a program Of songs
for the students and teachers OF
Stuart Junior High School on Tues
day.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20
Old Santa Not a Joke

For many years the Herald has given the little
children of this community opportunity to express
their wishes to Santa Claus in the form of letters
written to him and published in columns.
This we believe, is beautiful CUSTOM one thai
gives the little children opportunity for selex
preston. custom which will carry the spirit of
yuletde beauty.
Some of the letters have a pathetic note
others faith in the thought that they will
be forgotten this greatest of all holidays, Christ
There of these letters, however, which
have found their way to waste basket. They
written by older girls and boys, who have, according
to their own thought, outgrown that spirit which
brings happiness to many little tots throughout
the whole world. These notes have been written
joke on someone, and although probably not inten-
tional show thought of sarcasm towards some
thing which little children hold dear. Living in
land of make-beleve" they do their FRIEND "Old
Santa is not to be considered in ocular vein He
Us not myth but something real something tangi-
ble something beautiful living in the hearts of little
children, portraying moral object, a spirit of
beauty.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20
Looking Back
Through Time
Excerpts From the Herald Thurs
day, December II, 1914-Items
/. of Interest of 20 Years Ago

The following officers were elect
ed to head the Commercial Club
for the ensuing year: President.
James Ia. Caughren; First Vice
President, Asa M. Wallace; Sec
ond Vice President, George O'Gara |;
Treasurer, Ben Dubois; Secretary
w. A. Moore.
The following officers were elect
ed at the annual meeting of the
Sank Valley Rural Telephone Co.;
John Kortan, president; ]. Gray,
Vice President; Rev. e. Fosberg,
secretary; G. Hillerud, treasurer.
On Saturday Of last week Harry
Hooper, proprietor of the Spring
Park Stock Farm, shipped two full
blood Galloway heifers to John C..
Gales at Freeport.
Robert R. Kells, a junior at HAM
line University and a graduate Of
the Sank Centre High School won
first prize in the Hamline orator.
cal contest held December 9th In
the administration building. His
subject was, 1rhe Conquering
Army" and was adjudged one Of
the best orations ever delivered at
Hamline. Mr.. Kells viii be the
university's orator In the inter-col-
legiate contest next spring.
Sank Centre defeated Long Prai-
RE In a basket bail game Friday
night by the score Of IS to z. The
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20
Placing The Blame Where 1t Belongs

Many sportsmen in this community were surpris
ed at the action of the Game and Fish Department
insofar as Sank lake has been opened to winter ang
ling. It is known fact that Sank Lake. thru heav!
fishing has deterorated from good fishing place =
just another lake. In answer to letter from one o.
our well-known sportsmen, T. Surber, Supt. of Fish
propagation, and expert in his line, places thu
blame where it belongs. He says as follows
There has been a sincere desire on our
part to close Sank Lake entirely to winter
fishing, but have found it impossible
to do account Of the preponderance
of public feeling in that vicinity being
against such movement.
1.-THE entire matter Of closing lakes this
season placed up to wardens, and we
acted upon their recommendations unless
absolutely were satisfied in our minds
that leaving a lake open would mean the
complete determination Of the fish life.
Perhaps, after 1t is too late, the people
of Sank Centre will awaken to the fact, that
fish have now reached the point where they
must be afforded the same protection that
we giving our game birds and animals"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20
An Utter Financial Impossibility

DR.. Edwin White, of President Roosevelts econ
omic security committee, in speaking of the Town
send Old Age Revolving Pension Plan says that it is
utterly impossible financially" He states that it
would require more than half the present nationa.
income to finance the plan and that it would re-
quire tax heavy couldn't possibly be collected
The Herald is heartily in favor of reasonable
old age pension for those in need only But to pay
$500 per month to many, who sufficiently able
to care for themselves, is to our way of thinking
foolish plan which in the final will only add huge
burden upon the taxpaying public. There are, how
ever many who want paternal government to pro-
vide the means of easy existence Work and thrift
has been the law of equitable compensation, only
thus we keep from sitting thrift and ambition
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20

y
come to NAV too. My little brother
and my little sister can not write
you a letter because my brother is
in the second grade and my sister
is In the first grade.
SO Santa will you please bring
my brother piece tractor set
and tree and candy. My sister
wants a II key piano and tree and
candy, and want a II piece set of
cooking dishes and tree and candy.
We are all coming to town on
Friday to get some candy. Thank
you.
Your friends,
Betty, Jack and Mildred Adrian
80
316 Birch Street,
Sau.. Centre, MINI.
Dec. 8, 1884
Dear Santa:
Please bring me a pop gun, a
pair Of overshoes, tool set, candy,
nuts and oranges.
Your friend,
Robert Kinsella.
Sank Centre, MINI.
80
316 Birch Street.
Sank Centre, MINI.
Dec. 3, 1894
Dear Santa
Please bring me an all compo-
sition baby, fully clothed, a blue
color dress. and pair of over
shoes and some candy, nuts an or
ange.
Your friend,
Catherine Kinsella.
go
316 Birch Street.
Sank Centre, MINI.
Dec. 3, 1884
Dear Santa:
Please bring me a horse and
cart, bag of blocks, Flose airplane,
and a pair of overshoes and some
candy and nuts.
Your friend,
Bernard Kinsella
Sank Centre, MINI.
Dec. 3. 1884.
Dear Santa:
I hope you will come this year to
my house. I want a doll a doll
buggy and doll dresser. I am in
the FIRST grade and I am five years
old, we are going to have pro-
gram, I hope you will come.
Yours truly,
Deloris Essler.
Sank Centre, MINI.
~ Nov. 80, 1894.
Dear Santa:
I don't think the weather is very
good but if you get this far I wish
you would give me a blackboard,
oranges and apples, some candy
and peanuts as we'll. I might take
a story book if you have a good
one for girls.
Z have two dolls yet so don't
need any more dolls. I got one last
year and one four years ago so
that is all I want.
Your friend,
Marian Cowlthorp.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20
Sank Centre, MINI.
Dec. 3, 1884

Dear Santa:
I wish you would bring me a big
car, bebe gun, sled, wagon with
lights, a pair of stockings. pair Of
shoes, cap with goggles and a cow
boy suit. Please bring them to me,
Your friend,
Henry Lang.
Sank Centre, Mimi,
Dec. 3, 1884.
It isn't very nice now but I hope
you will come..u want pencil and
pen and pair Of beads and bracelet
to match and some ink and candy
and nuts, apples and oranges. I
don't want very much so that's
all.
Yours truly,
Celestine Essler.
Dear Santa:
I am z years old. My little sister
Is 4 years old. I want B B gun.
My little sister wants a doll.
want an airplane. My little sister
wants doll chair. We want some
candy and nuts.
Clifford Gardner.
Crystal Gardner.
Sank Centre, MINI.
Sank Centre, MINI.
Dec. 5, 1884.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am little girl 6 years old. I
would like a pair of stockings, a
dolly, washtub to wash my dolly's
clothes. Some, nuts and candy.
Thank you.
Your friend,
Dolores Norton.
Sank Centre, Mimi,
Dec. Is, 1884.
Dear Santa:
I have been a very good girl. Will
you bring me pair Of roller
skates, Teddy bear, and a tricycle.
and a blue jacket with Upper on.
Thanking you,
/ I am your friend,
Arvllla &. UphuS.
Osakis, MINI.
, Dec. Is. 1884.
Dear Santie Claus:
Will you please bring me a kit
ty-kar, "Popeye" the sailor man, a
mouth organ and a coverall. Wish
ing you Merry Christmas, I am,
Your al,
Louise Martha1er.
p. S.-Please bring my brother
Hienie a drum, an air rifle, a rid
rig pony and a nice red necktie. He
would be very pleased.
Watford City, N. D.,
Dear Santa Claus:
Will you bring me a cup and
saucer, a pair of leather mittens,
and Tinkertoys. I am a boy nine
years old. Barbara is my sister,
she is five years old and she wants
a gun, doll, and mittens.
From Marvin Harder.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20

Enough Winesaps, Jonathans,
Wenatches and other northwest ap-
pies to fill 68 railway freight cars
has been allotted to the Minnesota
SIERRA Estate Emergency Relief ad-
ministration) by the Federal Sur
plus Relief corporation, for the
benefit Of the needy.
The announcement is made by
Fred Gilbert, sierra director of
commodity distribution. He also
reports the donation, from the
source, Of 100000 yards Of mattress
ticking, and material for comfort
ers IN the form Of 250,00O pounds of
cotton and 100000 yards of cover
ing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20

back and picked up the bundle, and at 10 o'clock
he staggered into the shop again three sheets to the
wind, and demanded his pack again. When Metzner
told him he already had 1t, Makk became angry, and
grabbed the year old shoemaker by the throat. In
the ensuing struggle, Metzner picked up an and
struck his opponent twice the head with the blunt
side Makh gave up. Meter called the police, and
because of his injuries, which required dozen
stitches in his head. Makki was let off with 10
dollar fine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-20
3A43aM 35Na1AN&
Santa Claus
Letters BSka8ake

Sank Centre, Mimi,
Dec. Z, 1884.
Dear Santa Claus:
am z years old and in the first
grade. I would like to have you
bring me for Christmas a train
with cars and tracks, a airplanes
that flys and q pair Of warm nit
tens, some candy and nuts.
Thanks alots.
From your friend,
anthony Schloegle.
Dec. Is, 1884.
Dear Santa: -.
AS Christmas is close, will have
to let you know what would like.
I'd like set of dishes, a black
board, a sleigh and don't forget
candy and nuts. TIL be looking for
you early the 25th.
Your little s. C. friend.
Marcella Schley.
Sank Centre, MINI.
Dec. 8, 1884
Dear Friend Santa
I have been a good boy and help
ed my dad a lot so will you please
bring me a two barrel cork gun.
a mouth organ and a cap and some
candy and nuts.
Please bring my little brother,
Leonard, doll, cap and car.
Your dear friend,
Cyril Winters.
Westport, MINI.
5.- Dec. s, 1884
Dear Santa Claus:
I am going to write you a few
words to tell you what would like
to have for Christmas.
I would like to have sled and
lead pencil If you could afford it
and candy and nuts that is all I am
going to ask you for Christmas.
I am nine years old in grade five.
Your friend,
Edmund Hoerschen.
Sank Centre. MINI.
Dec. 8, 1884
Dear Santa
have tried to be a good boy, so
would you please bring me two
barrel cork gun a mouth organ and
candy and nuts.
Please don't forget my ittl
brother, Leonard, he likes little
buss. IF you bring us this you are
certainly a good fellow. Thanking
you. I am your little friend,
Ralph Winters.
Sank Centre, MINI.
Dec. 8, 1884
Dear Santa:
I have a little brother and a lit
tie sister that wants you to come