Show I r n r. r P r 1 4 U 4 HERBERT HOOVER Secretary of Commerce WHOLE WORLD CRAVES MUSIC Longing for Sweet Sounds Would Seem to indicate That t the e Nations Nations Na Na- Ions Are Recovering That nations fire are in individuals In minIature miniature min min- lature has been pi proven oven so often that It has long ago be become ome a truism j but perhaps It has never ne been In Indicated more effectively than In the present attitude of the nations of war shat Europe toward music From England France Belgium and Italy not loss less than from Germany Austria and even eYen Russia comes the same story story I through the mouths of trustworthy observers observers ob ob- servers returning to to this country as aswell as aswell aswell well as through other n news ws channels Europe Is mad for tor music they all No will describe sa say other words the craving that has seized these coun coup countries tries for lor all Its forms torms There are i tragedies les which at their cruelest crudest take from the In Individual all solace not Dot to menU mention on any delight In the loveliest of ot arts I shall hate sweet music my whole life Ute long wrote In Inthe Inthe inthe the bitterness of disillusionment and happy Is that human being who l has as not at least once In his bis life touched the tho supreme height of ot agony when to hear music Is an unbearable thing But as with man so with countries In which disillusionment far tar worse than bereavement emen has hns yet jet et followed close on Its footsteps One of the first signs of an ability to take tale up life UCe once more In healthy health human fashion Is a returning willingness even en a n longing for tor the Joys of ot music And when the lower flower of ot charity blooms once more moreIn moreIn moreIn In the soul laid mst wast vast by hatred music music mu mu- sic Is not far nr off oft In races as In s. s j I |