The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17
WHO'S
NEWS
! THIS .
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW enthusiastically was al
l y ways turning in riot call when
Igor Stravinsky's Fire Bird" and
"Sacre du Printemps" were first
Wild Composer p l,,as e. re = :
Spears HARVARD Browder of
Professorship me sa.ohs anu anu
servatories, but now he's as respect
able as Nicholas Murray Butler, as
ne takes his post as professor of po-
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
him to be a lawyer. Rimsky-
KOrsak0ff was the Pied Piper
who Iured him from law books
to outlaw music, but who UNI
leashed his genius and himself
prOfited 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 every so
often he has found it necessary to
take time out in Switzerland for re-
pairs. But, at 81, he still has furious
vitality and is still at midway in
his creative career.
With sharp pencil he spears
superaural sounds. Marshaling
them in symphony, he looses
demons, to Stay them with his
baton. This demoniac dissO-
nance caused riots in France
when his compositions were first
produced. 1t took quite a few
years for discerning critics to
discover that he planned it that
way" and that there was law
and order in his music.
M UGH is being written currently
AvA in comparison of the intellec-
tual climate of America today with
that of the immediate pre-war pc
Vet Steel Maker ROD of 1917.
Debunls War as Grace, presi-
Source of Profit 9ent Oh tne
Steel corporation, offers something
possibly worthy weighing in this bal
ance in his vehement reputation Of
any desire for war profits.
eve don't want any war to
initiate Bethlehem's business"
says Mr.. Grace. eve prefer
peace. We are in a position to
be war baby number one, as i'm
the last war, but I can tell you
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
off if it did,"
In contrast are the words Of an
other great industrialist, now dead,
who, at New York luncheon club
in January, 1917, spoke as follows:
america has come of age. It's
ships cannot be driven from the
seas; its citizens will 60 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 go. And I say to you that
our great business establishment
will remain world business for what
ever profit may legitimately accrue.
It 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 all
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 en-
cheering at Lehigh university,
his first job at the company
was operating an electric crane.
He became general superintend.