Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-04 | Page 9 | Music as a Cure for Graft Evil

MUSIC AS A CURE FORJRAFT EVIL Kdueator Tellfl f Its Kesrnprat-ins, Kesrnprat-ins, Effpct Upti tin4 Youth. TI RNS BRUTAL ROYS INTO fOUNG GENTLEMEN Doclires That Bntirelj Nei Spirit Ctnefi W i t Ii Musical Mu-sical Training. MILWAI'KEE. Jan 3 -Prof William L. Tomllna of Chicago mis that music will cure graft In an address to ths Wisconsin Teachers' association today. Prof Tomllne sold: "Give the hoys and girls of this country coun-try the Inner conception of the higher life, as it enn be given unconsciously through music, properly taught, and you will hsvo the solution "f the graft problem prob-lem and all other material evils. Reali7.es Philosophy. "So thoroughly have I been convinced of this fact that for the last nine yeura I have given my entire attention to this work When I first began work with children 1 aaw what could be done with them, hut I did not realize the philosophy Off It until several yariN later My experience ex-perience has taught the regenerating effect ef-fect of music ' Brings New Spirit Prof Tomllns then relnted hla experience ex-perience In New York some years ago with classes composed not only off the lower elements, but off some of the most vicious boys of the Bowery district. Brutality Bru-tality was then fun. he said, because they knew no better But with their musical training came a new spirit, until when one saw ancther boy clinch the hand nnd strike hlstmate he caught the hand and uncllnched' the fingers with th--remark. "Aw. ferglt It "