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12 PAGES YEAR 85. NO, 196 KINGSTON. ON The Daily British Whig ONTARIO. FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918 PAGES 9-12 a A CANADIAN ASSOCIATION Tn Of School Music Supervisors Is In rder, While holding no brief for any sec- tion of the musical fraternity, if noth- ing more than close observers, we mist admit the inestimable service rendered to our nation and to the cause of music hy those whose work is the supervision of music in eur schools. 1p individual centres great strides are being made. Certain gu- pervisors where they are given gope and encouragement are meeting with unusual success in securing for Music the place on the eurriculum it should occupy and thén in producing results that cannot fail to win the heartiest approval from parents who desire the best in education for their children. + But the advance is slow. The pub- lic needs some high explosive shells to shake up their views on education, Often--far- tco often--in the school board itself, where one is justified in looking for progressive educational leadership, he finds the interest in any suggested reform seldom gets beyond the will-it.cost-any-more stage We all know the trustee who stands with his thumbs behind his suspenders, say ing self-confidentlv, "I'm agen all fads The three r's did our fathers and that's all we'll pay for." on The advancement of music 'in the schools is rapid in some quarters and non-existent in others, Even the best of the efforts expended are indi vidual, It's like fighting a military campaign by a number of expeditions, each discommected from the others and independent of any central source of supplies and counsel, Musically, Canada is losing by not having an or- ganization of music supervisors. This leads to the question why could not the music supervisors of the. Dominion form an asseeiation? Or if one organization is impracti- cable why not have one in Eastern Canada and one in the West? Our fieighbors, the Americans, have such, EE The Telgmann School of . Music Plano, violin and other stringed instruments; elocutiop and dra- matic art. Puplia may begin at any date. Terms on application. Engagements for concerts ac- cepted. 216 Frontenac Street. - Phone 1610. inthe 7 and they are productive of numberless improvements For example, one upervisor tells how by usmg a small car he fifteen schools in: a purely rural community every week, which reduces the cost met by each of the co-operating school boards to a minimum Another gives in detail his experiences in instituting and de- veloping a high school orchestra. A third explains his success with a cho- rus of 700 or 800 school children. Still another presents 'his methods of granting credit for music study with approved private teachers, and so on. No one can estimate the good such an exchange of ideas is to the indi vidual supervisors . But more than that from such an organization would emanate influences of an educational character that would assist in dispell- ing the ignorance and indifference shown in the matter of musical in- struction in public and high schools The proceedings at a Music Supervis- ors' Convention would make the very finest cor: for newspapers. It would jack up school teachers whose ideas of music in get eral education are none too orthodox. It would focus at strategic points the weight of a na- tional movement. It would reinforce thc work where it is already receiv- ing reasonably good attention. It would impress public opinion from many angles Covers MILLIONAIRE COULD SING But Was Too Old To Enlist With His Son. You have heard George and me speak of Barker, Sidney Barker? He was with us in college, in the class be- low A whole-hearted sort of chap, with a twinkle in his eye. He used to have a fine voice too, and was in great demand at college affairs. For the last ten -years he has beén in the automobile business AK making money hand over fist. He had a big house and enteegained a lot. His boy--the only cHild--was up at col- lege and was graduated last June. The first day out of college he joined the army and went across with Pershing. Just a private. He did it with his father's consent. Jarker always was a big man. But as the days went on, Barker realized that giving his son to -the cause was not enough. He wanted to give him. self, He and Mrs. Barker talked it over, laid their plans, and before the week was out they were ready to throw up their own interests and join the big game, He sold out his business, sold his house and most of the furniture, gave half of the proceeds to the Red PIANO ~is sold at a price that is within the reach of any jurse. for t us prove it. 1¢ price on the markel. We claim that it'is the best value a and make One Price Only -- Cash or Terms. Illustrated Catalogue Free. C W. LINDSAY, Limited 121 Princess Street, Other ores at Montreal, Ottawa, ig singston "Belleville and To Yield 7fo 9 Per cent. * Bxooptionsl market conditions. en a ! Cross, jwe forgetting that? 712¢ dnd then offered his services to the Y. M. C, A. When they asked him what he thought he could do, he said he could sing. Imagine it! A millionaire, a big executive, giving that as his tal ent. Well, they took him at his word. He could sing. he could get along with men. The next thing he knew he was ordered to a cantonment as a song soldier. To-day Mrs. Barker has twe rooms in a little country hotel in a town near the cantopment and Barker sleeps in g bunk in the back room of a YMCA. building. What do 1 do down here? I play ragtime .1 play it for an hour every night, between seven and eight, aid you ought 'to hear me. Barker stands on the platform and leads the singing. I bang the box. The boys do the res Do you know I never played rag- time before in my life, and as for jaz- zing into double syncopation, it was an unknown world. For the past five years | have been mooning' around with Tchaikovsky and Rimsky--Kor- sakoff and Debussy; playing the pro- per things, and thinking | was getting all there was to be had out of music. Just as if musi®@ were only for the cultured and the highbrow. Down here we have music for the mob, and I'm beginning to see that the persons who wrote "Keep the Home Fires Burning" and "Over There" have done an immeasurable amount for the people, German Violin School Poor. Many schools of violin making grew up in most of the large cities of Eu- rope, but the combination of sense of beauty of tone, of form and of color, a combination so abundant in Italy, was wanting. The French had form and produced fine copies, but their varnish was poor and no original de- signers arose. Fine violins with great originality were made in Eng- land, but few are to be found withthe | original labels and they now flourish as "Italians." The poorest school was the Ger- man, These inartistic violins have a more or less sharply defined ridge on each side of the bridge, are clearly descended from a square box. Their greatest maker, Stainer, made small instruments, flat-under the bridge with a sharp descent on each side. The sound holes are short and ugly, and the tone so weak and thin no artist will tise them. While old instruments of other schools are steadily appreci- ating in value. the Stainer value is de- creasing and the same is trie of other Germany Violins with rea- sonable care last for centuries, apd the little sensitive vibrating structure rings to us to-day with much the same voice as it did to our-ancestors, perhaps a little mellower with all the hives and things it has seen in its long fife. Music in "No Man's Land." * The music of the soil grows of it. sell, especially the national, which in aiy country has mo fixed composer and cannot be accounted for by the earliest inhabitants. In fact the question who invented music has been asked by people of many ages, aml an 'aaswer is still wanting. In the trenches, the sighing of the wind through the death- laden barb wire entapglements of "No Man's Land" carries along freakish waves of sound that strikes the ears of the soldiers like the wail of a banshee. Aviators, whe have traversed heights above the clouds will imagine strange tunes that cote from the wires of the plane, the tune taking <almost any. mournful sound tial the mood of the aviator conjures. Music comes from natural causes. The elements of all music exist around us in the sighing of the leaves, the trill of the birds ,the gentle mono- tone of bees, in the swell of the seas and the peal of thunder. | Alone in the trenches, the whistling of bullets overhead, the swish of "starlight" shells, the long wail of mighty shrap- nel driving through the air, makes music, though the controlling of such raw sounds calls upon all the re- sources of the fertile imagination of the soldier dreamer, who will be bet- ter satisfied with the music that the sale of Vict ty Bonds will provide. A spell in the trenches gives a man am- ple opportunity to reflect upon many things, and hile the war has been productive of poets and some wonder- ful verse, notably that of Rupert Brooke, who died off Gallipoli; ohn Masefield, whose "August 1914" is genstally regarded as the most re- markable poem yet produced as a re- sult of the war, and Rudyard Kipling, whose m "When the English Be- gin to Hate" is one of the most virile things he has | produced, it has not given the wor .anything wonderful in the way of music. Boys should: be sdicated in music as well as girls wit het any shought, mn the first wi img career, but as a cultural # a What's more ence. Are IS. FINER THAN IN MANY YEARS Says Tanlac Prov- ts Great Value in His Wife's Case. ---- "My wife has gained ten pounds by taking Tanlac and her health is better right now than it has been in| eight or nine years," said George Thompson, a well-known employee of the Belle Ewart Ice Company, re- siding at 94 Greenlaw avenue, To- ronto, recently. "The value of Tanlae," Mr. Thomp- son continued, "has been proven be- yond a doubt to my mind by what it has done for Mrs. Thompson, She had been nervous and all run-down for a good many years. She had no appe- tite and never seemed to relish her food and her nerves were in such bad condition that the least little unusual noise would upset her, She could not rest well at night and would get up in the mornings feeling tired and wornout. She looked pale, bad no strength and energy and was hardly able to look after her household af- fairs. Her whole system seemed to be in a badly run-down condition and in spite of all she could do kept go- ing down, "Seeing Tanlac so highly endorsed I decided to get her to try it and be- fore she finished the first bottle she was feeling better and I could see good results. She is on her fifth bot- tle now and has improved until she looks like a different person, Her ap- petite is fine and that her food agrees with her is shown by her increase in weight and strength, Her nervous- ness has left her entirely, her worn- out, listless feelings are gone and she has more life and energy than in years. We are both delighted over her wonderful improvement and ad- vise everyone in the condition she was to try Tanlac." Tanlac is sold in Kingston by A. P. Chown in Plevna by Gilbert Ost- ler, in Battersea by C. 8. Clark, in Fernleigh by Ervin Martin, in Ardoch by M. J. Scullion, in Sharbot Lake by W. Y. Cannon. --ADVT, Thom od IS "LAKE OF MYSTERY." Deepest in the World--Winds Cannot Reach It, A lake, known as the Great Sunken Lake, is reported to be the deepest Jake in the United States, and perhaps in the whole world. Located jn the valley of the Cas- cade mountains, about seventy miles north of Jacksonville, Ore., this lake, which is about fifteen miles long and four miles wide, is so deep that its depth cannot be measured. It is situated so far below the crest of the mountains that winds cantot reach it ,and its surface is like a sheet of glass. It is sometimes called the "Lake of Mystery." The Salvation Army. Chicago Tribune. The Salvation Army rests upon a firm foundation of public respect and confidence. Its "achievements are achievements in pure character, love of humanity, faith in mankind, the supremacy of kindness over mis- fortune and suffering, the serene be- lief in human worth. Upon all itg acts are so stamped these evidences of sincerity and courage, of love and gentleness, tha acceptance of its purposes is forced upon the roughest of mankind This achievement is an extraordin- ary one because the Salvation Army has carried, in peace times, a gospel of gentleness without a suggestion of softness to peoplp who have coarsened in the hardhess of habits, steeled against refinement of emo- tion or expression, and i ed to scorn of sentiments of reli- gion and of emotional exaltation. With a modesty. which is true, with no craving for recognition, with a fine meekness which has no taint of timidity but which does sub- merge self, the Salvation Army has done its work in peace, seeking io develop, encourage or release the best remaining impulses in people who have been most savagely treat- ed or who have treated themselvéh most malevolently, and out of this peace work it went into 'war, with the same modesty, with no expecta- tion that anything wordly in fame or material advantage would accrue to it. Its reward fis that no Salvation WArmy project is ever questioned as to its sincerity. It is @ hundred per cent. army and In its devotion to the cause of kind dealings between men and the men it mow goes into the shell fire. Will Change Name. the Windsor Record, the only daily newspaper in' County will pass to the control of its new owner, Wil- liam Herman, of Saskatoon, a well- is understood the paper will appear under a new name, probably the Bor- der City Star, and will be unistred to sixteen pages. GE po i pr mats. sper pk. App ili EE a. nT | Aug. 23.--On Sept. 1st known newspaperman of the west. It{ OO ASTONISHING BUYING CHANCES Suits for Men Who Look Beyond the Price Ticket A little finer in the tailoring. A little finer in the finish. 'A littlé surer in the fit, and much better in the fabric than most suits at their price.. A fine tweed in several good lon! .atterns. Colors are light and dark, greys, brown, dar! ures, and many blue stripes. The styles are form belts, also conser- vative models. Sizes 34 to aturday, from $12.95 to $25.00. Smart __cviceable Suits or School Boys Boys suits in heavy grey tweeds and worsteds; pleated front with yoke, stitched on belts; full cut bloomers: sizes 26 to 34. Prices from $4.95 to $12.00. " Men's Boots In patent dongola and tan calf, with rubber heel and Neolin sole. Prices from $4.95 to $6.95. Boys' School Boots Ranging in sizes from | to 5. Prices from ... $2.50 to $5.00 Louis Abramson, The Up-to-the-Minute-Clothier and Furnisher. 336 Princess Street d Nervous Mothers Should Profit by the Experience of These Two Women . SHAE rrr a marked improvement. now free from pain and able to do all my house. work."-- Mrs. BB Zunonexs, 303 Weiss Breen SECOND SBGT 108 EA : 0