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Show LAYTON JOURNAL, LAYTON, I llll TUI. KMUY. MVY 19. 1919 DOCTOR OF VIOLINS Lindbergh Due Peter Stoffcl, Itinerant Knight Of Fiddle, Travels in Workshop - - VMM Omm (RohnVtjc got credentials that gave me mittance to other schools. MIlAVAlKKK. William Peter Stoilo, who lives at the Elks club in Miv.u;Uce when hes at home, follows .m an 'lent ami well loved trade that of the itinerant knight of the fiddle. Hut with variations. He travels not only with his violins but with his violin workshop. He has a toui ing violin hospital. Most f his patients are violins owned by students in graded and high schools and colleges. He fixes their fiddles, gives them shop talk and pep talk, and does a bit of fiddle trading with them and their teachers to keep the Stoffel pot eboilmg. It was 20 years ago that Stoffel changed over from fiddles as a hobby to fiddles as a business. He has established his portable Bhop and smile in hundreds of schools In Wisconsin and the rest of the nation. YEARS AFTER CHRIST THERE WAS NO CEREMONIAL USE OF CANPLES, TORCHES LAMPS IN THE WORSHIP "THAT'S WHAT I CALL A GOOD PICTURE -WHEN SO MANY RUSTLERS GET SHOT YOU CANT KEEP TRACK " OR Or THE CHMSrlAd CHURCtf A PRAYER 7 H4-- AfiAiNpf fHUNDlRwliGHTNWQ IS STILL JTTLE REGGIE USIP HY1HE GREER CH'JPCH By Margarita Plaing at By Bud Fisher - WASHINGTON. A congrea-- , sional move is under way to honor Charles A. Lindbergh for air force assignment ht has been carrying out in dtep secrecy. Lindberghs most recent Job wa crushed. a hush hush survey of possible In talking with these young- overseas bases from which United sters and looking over their in- States bombeis could take off to struments, I find that 90 per cent strike back at an aggressor. of the fiddles are not in top condiDuring the mission, completed tion, and usually they can be put few weeks ago, the famed Lop Into good condition with little cost Eagle visited Alaska, Japan, the and effort you know, proper Philippines, Singapore, India and alignment, getting the bridge and other areas. the neck and other parts straightHis report and recommendations ened out just like getting the were submitted to Gen. Hoyt V motor of your car tuned up. Vandenberg, Air chief of staff, for Even a cheap instrument can whom Lindbergh had been workbe improved in tone and perform- ing directly. ance by proper alignment. I dont Tydings Urges Move talk dollars to these students I Several congressmen reportedly talk fiddle lore, and love for the were considering a resolution cominstrument, and the importance of mending the slim aeronautical good tone. And while I take their wizard who spanned the Atlantic fiddles to my bench for a going alone and nonstop 22 years ago in over, I create the interest In and the tiny Spirit of St. Louis. desire for better playing and betSen. Millard E. Tydings, (D., ter instruments. Maryland,) chairman of tho, A lot of experienced violinists senate armed services committee, dont know how the tone and qual- declared: Charles Lindbergh has ren-derity are affected by low arch, or wonderful service to tha dehigh arch, or the basic wood quality. The wood from Italy is dif- fense of his country for which we ferent from other woods, you bet. are very grateful. mission was only, It's the nativity that gives It the The bomb-bas- e character. If an Italian made a one in a series of secret air force' violin of Wisconsin maple, it assignments executed since Worldi wouldnt be so good. And an old War II by Lindbergh. His work for the Air Force beEnglish fiddle made of Italian wood will have an Italian quality. gan in the last war. The Lone Theres no mystery in violins for Eagle, now 47 years eld, went those whove studied them thor- Into the Pacific to study the operaoughly, and the differences be- ting characteristics of the navys' tween the genuine and the fakes Corsair fighter. make an expert laugh, he points Borrowed By AAF out. Stoffel has a stack of photoThere he was borrowed by the, stat labels seals and signatures air force to experiment with' of the finest violin makers and means of stretching the range of In this particular fieldi largest dealers in the world-lab- els the that are found in $25 fiddles. Lindbergh is recognized by aeroIn other words, all fakes. The real nautical engineers as a genius. student is not fooled by such By carburetor refinements and hocus-pocuother gimmicks" he extended secretly the range of both tha Corsair and the Lindbergh also has done outMany Spices In One standing work on the problem ef For the cook who wants a dash keeping morale at a high pitch of varied seasonings in salads and within various overseas commeat dressings, theres a new mands since the war. canned seasoning and salad Lindberghs activities for the air. mix. Packed in moisture-proo- f force have been carried out so cans, the seasoning contains 17 quietly that few persons in Washherbs, spices and cheeses. The ington have known of them. Ho product may be used dry in egg has spent two or three days out dishes, in sauces and with meats. of almost every week at air forco For an easily prepared salad headquarters in the Pentagon dressing, it may be combined with when not on a traveling 8 has been a fiddle fan. He comes from Racine, Wis., where his father, Jacob Stoffel, Jr., was a merchant and banker, and organizer of the Racine too. It was a musical family and William Teter took up violin playing at 8 under the well known Milwaukee teacher Albert Fink, a pupil of the great European virtuoso Joseph Joachim. But William only fiddled for fun in those days. He attended grade and high schools and business college in Racine, and went to work for the real estate department of the old Bloodgood, Kemper & Bloodgood All his life Stoffel MUTT AND JEFF Lauded for Service In Air Base Survey ad- Smashed Violin It wasnt all fun, to be sure. One young fellow dumped into my workroom and pulled a string of violins off the wall, and a $400 instrument at the bottom was c fa 300 Medal of Honor Im-port- ant . ed law firm. But business never Interrupted too much with his fiddling proclivities. Even as a youth, with his fathers assistance, he took up collecting, with no thought of profit, and assembled a dozen violins from the French, German and Italian schools. He had a discriminating touch even then, he avows In 1927 he went to Europe and picked up a few more in Czechoslovakia, France and England. Over there violin making Is still a home craft, and you have to visit the little towns and the shops in the homes to pick up the authentic national product, he explains. When you find specimens from good English and Italian and Bohemian makers, you are proving that you know your stuff. Started In Depression In t h e late 1920s he returned from another European trip and ran Into the grim depression. Real estate had little to offer in those days, so he pulled out, and sought oil and vinegar. to do something with his fiddles, of which he had a respectable collec- P-3- 8. s. By Gene Byrnes REGLAR FELLERS remember. I BET YOU A PIME. O PAY YA TH TWO BITS I Owe YA,TOPAY take your, winning AN W TWO BITS TH1 OUTA LET ME HAVE cents fifteen LL SETTLE I r NOTHIN OOlN I'LL Owe YA THIRTY five CE. YOU'RE TH BUY WHO WO Hi OlO YOU SAY FOR. THAT.'! y tion. Madison, Wis., '20YJy JITTER SUNNYSIDE By Arthur Pointer by Clark S. Haas UMY, vllflflS aims to be an intellectual and cultural town, he mused. So to Madison he went, took a hotel suite and advertised: Come and see my string Instruments. He stayed there a couple of months, did some business, and then moved on to the University of Iowa, which has a music school outstanding i n orchestra and string playing. Let me set up shop here, he proposed to the dean, and Ill service your Instruments and find better instruments for the musicians. 'No, no, weve never done anything like that, the dean replied. But at last he permitted Stoffel to take over a room In the music school if Stoffel agreed to make sales on the universitys property. I stayed at Iowa university off and on for a couple of years, even though there was no profit In It, he recalls. Students have little money for such things. My first year there cost me $2,500 but I had a lot of fun, and placed a few dozen fiddles, and fixed up their Instruments, and best of all, I got a boost from the Iowa faculty. P-3- 8. all-in-o- ne (faagtaf031 fiBffiHISO 03333 HELPS ENGINES 3 WAYS A Smoother Engino Idle. if Improved Gasoline Economy, Increased Electrode Life. rat of oloctrodo ofoiton, it Bacauto of III lowRoiiitor 5 pork Plug permit 1h, now Auto-li- t wider initial . gap tattings and makes that advantage! poisibl. TELEVISION TUNE IN "SUSPENSE!" TUESDAY RADIO THURSDAY CSS NETWORK r iX & vwwva TALKING IT OVER. USEP THO FIEISCHMANn's NEW HAVE Y9U DRY YEAST?' 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