Glacier County chief., 1939-11-17
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YoRK.-Somebody was al
ways turning in a riot call when
Igor Stravinsky's Fire Bird" and
"Sacre du Printemps" were first
Wild Composer played. He
Spears Harvard Browder Of
ProfessorshiD the salons and
servatories, but now he's as respect
able as Nicholas Murray Butler, rs
ne takes his post as professor Of DO
etry at Harvard. As he writes his
fourth symphony, he enjoys full and
complete academic sanction for
what were once considered the Wild
vagaries of his compositions.
In Russia, his parents wanted
MIN to be q lawyer. Rimsky-
korsakod was the Pied Piper
who lured him from law books
TO outlaw music, but who nm
leashed his genius and himseN
profted as Stravinsky became
one Of his most knowing and
gifted interpreters.
The frail person of Professor stra-
whisky, as he may now be called.
has been shaken and racked BY the
torrent of his genius, and eyerv 20
OFTEN he has found it necessary y
take time out in Switzerland for re-
pairs. But, at 81, he still has furious
vitality and is still at midway i
his creative career.
With a sharp pencil he suearx
superaural sounds. MarshaIing
them in a symphony, he Iooses
demons, to Stay them with his
baton. This demoniac disss-
nance caused riots in France
when his compositions were first
produced. It took quite q few
years for discerning critics %
discover that he PLANNED il that
way" and that there was law
and order in his music.
He can tame host of hobgoblins.
but he's scared to death of drafts.
He conducts rehearsals in a sheep
skin coat.
Musicologists at last find him a
sound technician. The dadaists and
surrealists will never claim him.
Modernism, he says, is "soiJed
word"
M UGH is being written currently
In comparison of the intellec-
tual climate of America TODAY with
that of the immediate pre-war pc
Vet Steel Maker Rod of 1917.
Debunks War as Grace, presi.
Source of Profit cent OF the
Steel corporation, offers something
possibly worthy weighing in this bal
ance in his vehement Reputation Of
any desire for war profits.
1--WE don't want any war 10
initiate Bethlehem's business"
says Mr.. Grace. I've prefer
peace. We are in a position to
be war baby number one, as in
the last war, but 1 can tell Won
that our directors and associates
don't want that kind of business,
I'd like to see the war stop to-
day. Bethlehem would be better
of if it did,"
In contrast are the words of an
other great industrialist, now dead,
who, at a New York luncheon club
in January, 1917, spoke as follows:
America has come of age. Its
ships cannot be driven from the
seas; its citizens will go wherever
their trade or business leads them.
No insolent challenge to. our enter
prise Will stay US in our peaceful
pursuits whenever and wherever we
choose to 60. And say to you that
our great business establishment
will remain world business for what
ever profit may legitimately accrue.
1t is not only our right, but patriotic
duty to seize opportunity to main
tain the full solvency of this ma
ton"
Mr.. Grace, as president Of
both Bethlehem Steel and the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding corpora
ton, had special charge Of an
production Of cannon, armor
plate and munitions during the
World war. Last summer. he
rounded out 40 years with Beth
lehem, one Of the great steel.
masters Of the country. After
his graduation in electrical e.
gineering at Lehigh universify.
his first Job ut the compasy
was operating an electric cranc.
He became general superintesa-
emit, manager and . direetse =