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Show r il, y a vi $ fAxrr-- fi f IMlIjLt' La Mlti! j I1.' : Income and Leisure Illlfl for Ate Opportunity nnd Eneountemeat for Youth , FOR DEMOCRACY VOL , No. 6 AddreM, 217 David Keith Bid filtered "e Meper THISJHING CALLED SWING America Goes Primitive Rhythmic Tunes of to No, Genevieve, this is cot a description of open house at the zoo its just a picturesque way of saying that an audience of dissatisfied patrons in a New York night spot are hungry for that indefinable, primitive and captivating type of alleged music called swing. The cats are swing mu- wear gang they despise might be Guy Lombardos THE MASTER OF THEM AI.Ii Benny Good mu, the king of swing, the agony stick that helped discredit sweet jazz and brought America a new era of hot musk). Or is it music? 1th Gershwin-Grofe-Whi- te beer-scente- . A 1 1' WILL IT STAGNATE? A hid HOW SWING AFFECTS THEM When Benny Goodmans band appeared at New Yorks Paramount theater recently the enstomera were so carried away by the swing music that some of them danced in the aisles. A few, still more Intoxicated able. by the rhythm, swarmed up on the Riding the crest of this wave has stage where the orchestra gave Imbeen a bespectacled young man to promptu exhibitions of the shag" 'horn swing is a d Cause, and other swing tempo dances. In n orchestra leader who tossed It lower picture the conductor la in the tight in the laps of New York's so- left background while Gene Krqpa, cial elect by his trade staging a concert at king of the drummeru, plies sophisticated Carnegie hall a few behind his sniicase. peks agol His name is Benny Goodman, and filthough the Carnegie hall concert Prompted one critic to change the t am,f from Manhattan to "Madhat-b.- " he will continue to play hot nuic until the Cause is won or the Pottle lost carefree rhythm Orleans shanties and honky-tonk- s discovered 30 years Co. This second wave seems lycngcful, determined to punish the pithless first wave which went stray and made itself respectthrobbing, semi-sacre- SUCCESS STOBT 0UEh still 1ft Soon may come the stagnation that usually seizes arts patronized It will be sponby the sored and supported. Swingmen will, without realizing, develop a codified technique and a set of rules to which all music must conform before it cen be called swing. True exponents of swing will not be frightened by this prediction. When they gather 'round tonight and go out of the world, watching ti.inrfredi of the faithful cock an attentive ear to the music, all fears will be cast aside. Even though the current swing craze does give way to the respectable jazz of future George Gershwins and Ferde Grafes. it wUl probably return at a later date. For the will alNew Orleans honky-tonk- s tom-toways be loyal and the rhythm that beats within a negro's breast must find expression. Then will come a third wave, and the be happy again! .alligators will 0 WiMrn Ntwipaper Union. well-to-d- o. which New youthful, Goodman is man of the old school. He Ja lot his start in Chicago with the lata P01 Bismarck (Bix) Beiderbecke, Ereat trumpet and piano man of earlj days who played with such nsults Frankie Trumbauer and Goldkette. Beiderbeckes readings are still coveted by patrons me hot music school. He died in ,when Georga Gershwin, Ferde jrofe and Paul Whiteman were at P eight of their popularity as P MAR. II. 1938 Editorial -- By C. N. LUND, S, lire think Published Weekly by C. N. Lund m t I I The Utah Siate Tax Reform League has given out statistics to prove that 92 per cent of the industrial wealth of Utah is owned outside of the state. And from this wealth there is a constant stream of profits going out of the state every year. If this figure is correct then the people have sold their heritags and brought themselves into bondage from which there appears to. be no escape but complete bankruptcy. The Dragon of Babylon has indeed left a slimy trail over the bosom of what Abraham Lineoln called the Treasure House of the nation. This situs tioh can never be changed under the old corrupt politics and there is not in sight any leadership that will come forward to change it. To my good friends who read this paper I say that lam giving both body and soul to the cause of human welfare, and that wlhout purse or script. Surely you who have been served so long can do something to help along. Jefferson Was First to Say It Brigham Young was a great man. For years we have been giving him credit for originating the idea of the small town and the small farm extended over wide areas as the best and most secure anchorages for good citizenship and stable government. But there was a great man before him who originated the idea in this country. It was Thomas Jefferson. lie advocated thafthis was the best plan for our civilisation to follow. The large cities, he said in effect, are inimical to civilization and are sure to end up in anarchy. He was right. And because of the many large cities with their centralized wealth, the many small towns with their stable citiscns, are in poverty. Joe Bush Jr says, If a Salt Lake County farmer, tax payer was to come to his county seat town of Salt Lake City, to try to sell s truckload of spuds on the side walk on Main Street, he would be ? But a used car thats different. A Protest The Utah Old Age Pension Organisation, Paul Allred Chr., Mary C. Yeager, Sec., has protested, in the name of the organisation, against the appropriation of $30,000, or any other sum, to be used by anyone, other than the grand jury itself for its necessary expenses. And this paper adds that if we have to appropriate $30,000, we might just as well let the guilty parties continue to pilfer it. Will Dobson Is Dead Our good friend Will Dobson died in California last week. He was well known in Salt Lake and Utah Progressive circles as a brilliant writer and a man whose heart beat warmly for humanity and its welfare. He had the soul and the vision to see the heartbreak of the world, the cruel exploitation and oppression of man by man, the callousness and brutality of the system that keeps millions in poverty and distress Against it all he came with his kindly soul to protest and with his reason and his pen to fight as best he could, only to be ground down and out like a lamb would be in Wall Street. But the truth he stood for will triumph The world he visioned is in the making and the efforts he made were not in vain. When Truth and the New World become realities he should be remembered as a vacant soldier in the ranks of the noble army of torchbearers and forerunners hr the cause of Freedom and human redemption. We Would rather have had the soul, the spirit of Brotherhood, the kindly feeling and sympathy and charity that Will Dobson had and go down in pove ty to forgotten dust than to be one of the rich and proud oppressors of the poor. May the great Father of us all receive and rest his soul and reward him for haring been true to the light. And may he find in some far Valhalla the complete realisation of all his hopes and dreams. To all my good business friends, let me say that this office does good Job Printing, and It does It for less than the trust price. Get your Letter Heads, Envelopes, Cards, Circulars, Hand Bills from us, help the cause and save. The Truth Is Out For a long time the hirelings of Plutocracy have been deny, thata very few men control the wealth, politics and of this and other countries. But now it is an admitted fact, at least so far as England is concerned. A prominent Britton, in a radio interview, admitted that about twelve men absolutely control the money and the government and the economic system of England. And so if is everywhere. gov-emm- et ing this paper ap ARTICLES ON FOOD. 1 hat to Eat and article on Foo-lWhy " a splendid peal was week worth its last weight Head it and profit. The one in gold. Read Current Events, page 4, and all other features On the inside of $1.50 PER YE.' COOPERATION C00PERATI0 OR WHAT? AT WORK New Cooperative Organized for wholesale and retail dealings in foodstuffs, clothing and merchandise of all kinds, articles of incorporation of the Consumers corporation were filed Thursday in district court by nine Payson citizen, Directors are Jno Smith Hazel K. Bott, Fanny McClelland, W. C. Davis and J. II. Schuartz. Other incorporators are J. P. Jensen, Hattie Frisby, Sid Coary and Oro H. Moore. Tale of Magic No.21( All in one building. Can t Grand Jury solve this? In Numbers Moses wrol According to the number th ye shall prepare so shall ye everyone according to the! According to Mrs. Rohde, practically every farmer in Den. mark takes an active part in conducting some phase of the business of the community in which she lives. 8he referred to Denmark as a vast laboratory where a world-wid- e program of human betterment is being worked out through the formation of cooperatives covering every phase of human activity. She stated it as her belief that an extension into the international affairs of the idea motivating cooperatives would completely remove the causes of war One hundred years ago, she said, the Danish government determined by legislation to put the farmers on their own land. The result is that today all but three per cent of the farmers in Denmark live on their own lands. Mr. Dolle of the Sunset Color Works is the new manager of the Cooperative store at 590 East 21st So. and is beginning to make a good showing. Mr. and Mrs Rsy Richards of the Utah Consumers Ladies Apparel Shop at 309 So. Main, have just returned from a buying trip to New York. . ' In the telepho: number, book it is written: Republican Co.ChairmnW21l Democratic Co. W2I( Democratic State W2K District Attorney Prevents War County Cooperation Utah Foreign Owned exponents of the hated symphonic you go along. Any selection from a Jazz and schmaltz." Beethoven sonata to Bel Mir Bist Goodman played for years with Du Schoen is presumably swing-abl- e but we'd Just as soon they'd let other bands, unhappy because he was forced to restrain himself and Beethoven alone. produce commercial music, sweet and restrained tunes that were popSPBEADING THE IAN ular with the customers but sickening to musicians. In 1331 he tried Though critics scorn swing as an his own band but It flopped because the musicians themselves art, inof the man have demonstrated a positively arfluence. In 1934, nauseated, he ortistic regard for their profession. ganized another outfit that was unlike Gershwin jazz, will fired from Billy Rose's Music Hall Swing, thrive without glamor. Some of New York. a the of in In nick time America's most fcble cats are large commercial radio show picked found in such small and A BIT FAMLIAI him up. Next came a Manhattan as Chicago's Three hotel engagement Which closed be- Deucesplaces night club. To youth it is a new delight but cause the customers weren't preThe Three Deuces, like other I to middle-age- d Americans it has a pared for hot music. The skies were swing spots, was once famous for strangely familiar beat, reminiscent again dark until Fate intervened its Nightly, after "jam sessions. of something they heard 19 or 30 one night at the Palomar ballroom other clubs had closed their doors, Los an and in is known as years ago, before what Angeles swing began musicians from world famous orattained "jazz respectability. overnight stampede to popularity! chestras made this dark basement I Those were the days when jazz was their rendezvous, treating the cushot, when polite society frowned tomers to impromptu swing conSWING DEFINED ion it as primitive and uncivilized. certs that made the welkin ring. It was before George Gershwin The Chicago musician's union put a with is the Well guess wrote Rhapsody in Blue," before you what stop to this delightful custom, but It I Jazz symphonlzed itself and fell un--I mystic element of swing that makes till prevails in many a Harlem der such artistic control that it was some people stamp their feet and dub. no longer free end natural. When shout, that makes other people sit night But it remains true that some of note as for that day arrived it ceased to be tensely listening every America's ablest musicians are Ijaz ranking as something unreal if life Itself depended on it? wing enthusiasts. Seldom does one land unprecedented, something that Gene Krupa, popular drummer find faster or more talented hands I had no reason to exist and therefore with Goodman's band, says swing than those of Teddy Wilson, Good(soon expired. is "complete and inspired freedom man's pianist, nor can many trumSwing took Its place. And swing of rhythmic interpretation. Which pet men epproach Roy Eldridge's lia nothing more than the original means that you don't follow music; crystal-dea- r high notes without usDixieland jazz, a second wave of instead you create and improvise as ing a mute. What will happen to swing? As the "alligators become more numerous and historians announce that this primitive music is only a second edition of the early Jazz, it becomes increasingly possible that swing may also try to get respectable and thereby kill itself. Swing is already tremendously successful. Already it is appearing in New York's finer hotels, far removed from the smoky atmosphere in which it developed. orcheitri, famous lor its smooth and restful tunes (otherwise, Lombardo himself, schmaltz). the director, might be the "monkey." The "alligators" are several million Americans mostly younger generation who play no Instrument but have been bitten by the swing bug. And what a bug it is, stinging white man and black man alike, d invading Chicagos joints and New York's swankiest supper dubs! FRIDAY, LekeCBy. Utah. under the Act of March I want to live to nee an end to man's exploitation by man, which will be one of the greatest steps ever taken by the human race. I want my life lengthened so I may see the day when there shall be an end to and bigotry persecution; an end to unemplo ment and hunger and want and fear. I want to ee the time when every man shall have the guaranteed right to work at wiiat he likes best and for which he is best adapted. I want to see the day when all shall have their seasons of rest and leisure, when learning shall be free and open to every soul, when the lamp of science shall have driven out the darkness of ignorance' and superstition. I want to live to see a golden age of universal beauty and joy, when peace and cooperation shall be world wide and every soul shall be radiant with the knowledge that a better world has been found from which the inhabitants shall never be turned away. either. sicians, rhythm-ma- d boys who, by lickin their chops" and friskin their whiskers," indicate a desire for an impromptu gathering of their ilk to play for the fun of it, otherwise known as a jam The long undersession. ' UTAH, What I Want to Live to See LaBINE cats were and friskin their lickin chops their whiskers, just aching for a jam session. Up on the stage a long underwear gang was handing out sweet, and sticky schmaltz while a monkey waved his baton. The alligators didnt like it By JOSEPH W. A bunch of the i it Sell Men, dont bo niggardly. Send us a today send in your orders for what you needsubscription In Job Printing. the 'Cats' Conservation of Human Resources More Attention to Making Life And Happiness and HUMAN WELFARE et the Poet Qftlce it e a 'llfO . W21( W21( Commis' 'ion AttyW21( Liquor If Liquor Com is to be investigated the prosecutor will be District Atty W21C Defense Atty will be the Liquor Com Atty W210 ; If County is to be repre- sented at hearing it will ' R be by Co. Attorney W210 If Rep party is to be re-t presented at hearing it will be by Rep. Co ChairW210t If Dem Co part is to be represented it will be by Dem Co. Chairman W2HM If state Dem party is to j be represented it will be by Dem State Chairman W210C; And Mosee wrote, Every thing' in Israel shall be thine And Joe Bush Jr. asks if the people ; : ' ! i i i rule. PERSONAL ITEMS Give em the Flowers Now Carl S. Fore, contractor in the firm of Fore and Johnson of Murray, sends in a subsrip-tiowith the notation that The harvest is great and the laborers are few His firm is for efficiency and perfection The Utah Consumers Coop, and they strive to build up. Mr will hold its annual meeting on Fore is a mighty good man who i stands fonr squere for a better Wednesday, March 30. How Abaut Politics) A third party for Utah is said to be in the making. , What is needed is not so much a third party as a new way of doing things. The idea of running the state for the enrichment and preferment of a powerful few has got to cease.The people must take back their resources and operate them for their own use and not for profteers NOTICES. The Builders of Old Age Security meet every Tueday afternoon at 2 P. M. at the Moose Hall. All aged people invited. Good programs. Sam F. Keifer, Chairman. 9000Utah families on relief Apr, 1936; 17066 Dec. 1937. 1 he Old Age Security Group meet evry Friday afternoon ?t 4 P. M. 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