The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-17
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

urged to cultivate the "sheer love of
life and the spontaneous expressive
ness" of the Latin-American temper
ament, in an article appearing in the
April issue of "Recreation" magazine.
Writing on "Music's Good Neigh
borliness in the Americas" A. D.
Zanig, music director of the National
Recreation Association, declares that
these aspects of the "South American
way" are not for restaurants, the
atres, dance halls, or amorous ro-
mances alone. "They arise" he says,
"also between parents and their child
rem and among the old and in homes,
fields and all the other places of nor
NAL everyday living.
"1n music they are best represented
in the small group gathered about a
guitar player or two, not so well by
the large group aroused and managed
by song leader. There is a maxi
mum Of what can be called inner
propulsion in the typical Latin-Ameri-
can singing"
"There is" continuing Mr.. Zanzig,
ga very large variety of songs and
other music and dances rejecting
various racial traits and many differ
ent loves and faiths and other aspects
Of the life Of these peoples. We all
have long way to go to know these
distant neighbors Of ours better, and
there is still very little musical ma
terial available for US to go on"
X x X
In Houston, Texas, Mr.. Zanzig
points out, Mexican fiesta celebrations
are held on city Fairgrounds and the
Christmas season is especially rich in
folk festivals in which the folk dances
have large part. In Los Angeles
Latin-American music and dances are
live part of the community culture
and are apparent throughout the
whole city recreation program wher-
ever music and dancing have a place.
To provide North Americans with
better knowledge Of Latin American
and other folk songs, Zanzig has pro-
duced collection of 120 songs and
choruses entitled Singing America"
This contains IA folk songs of Argen-
tina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba,
Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Puerto
Rico. There are four such songs from
Canada and 35 distinctively U. S.
songs and nearly as many folk songs
gathered from American people of
more recent European ancestry.
Twenty-three of the folk songs have
been recorded by the Victor Company
Current increases in wholesale cof-
fee prices are not warranted in view
of the existing supply situation and
the lines of action possible under the
terms of the nter-American Coffee
Agreement, Miss Harriet Elliott, Con-
sumer Commissioner Of the National
Defense Advisory Commission recent
ly declared. She pointed out that
existing stocks of coffee in the United
States are almost double those of a
year ago, and that the loss of Euro
pean markets has resulted in large
surplus stocks in producing coun-
tries.
Referring to the provisions of the
Coffee Agreement which permit an
increase up to per cent over the
basic quota, as we'll as an unlimited
increase in case of Imminent short
age of coffee in the United States
market in relation to its require
ments," Miss Elliott said:
"There are sufficient powers avail
able to the Government to assure con-
sumers of adequate supplies of coffee
at reasonable prices, and | am pre-
pared to recommend the use of these
powers for this purpose if necessary"