Show Tae 6 TKS THE GARLAND TIMES nVEKY FRIDAY MORNING Second Class Mail Matter August 1928 at the ' Post Office at Garland Utah 'Subscriptions: $200 Per Year — - $250 Outside of County Vernald TVm Johns Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED OAKLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAn CHICAGO FRIDAY JULY 18 1952 HERE WE COME UCntcred as BEAUTY HAPPINESS EVERYTHING— SOMEWHERE ELSE The spot was indeed a place of quiet comfort — and even of beauty Smooth grass spread away from the feet to beds of flowers swaying in the cool Thick growing evergreens and tall valley breeze shrubbery heavy with dark green foliage banked the scene The bright red berries of the honey- suckle gave a gay touch to luxuriant border Above was the calm blue of a summer sky Tall trees cast lacy shadows over grass and spread their limbs far out to the very edges of the roof of the white vine covered house A spray of clear water sparkled in the sunshine We hadn’t gone a mile to find it and if we bad gone a thousand we couldn’t have found nicer spot to spread a blanket for an afternoon in the sun or shade or to enjoy an outdoor picnic In fact this was only home so the residents will probably feel they have to go somewhere miles away for a picnic come July 24th COLUMEANDERING By Stanley Johnson Inasmuch as this colmn is pres cntly concerned in giving a report on the state of that kind of music known as jazz a definition of the term would be useful if it could be attained The story is told that a matron once asked Louise Armstrong to define jazz for her “Lady” he replied “if 3’ou gotta ask what it is you ain’t never goin to know” Whether the story itself is true or not its is the spirit that animeaning mates jazz is something that must be sensed rather than defined The best one can do is to trace its origins and point out the various ingedients of which it ds made Jazz is a kind of music built n West African rhythms brot to the United States by Negroes in the days of their slavery With this basis its melancholy undertone is easily explained" as is the fact that it usually deals very fothrightly wih earthy subjects The jubilaUon with which it is played docs not disguise its lasis in the suffering of a whole race It is a folk music based on two kinds of 'songs: spirituals and work songs or blues With little to look forward to in this life the Negro race created a long tradition of songs mosUy concerned with the possible glories of another life ch as '"'When the Saints irO Marching To” and “Jesus Goin o Make Up "My Dying Bed” To this basis the Negro added his chants of oppression in the present songs the composed while working in votton fields on levees and along The dustry roads of the South In the cities the elements of and English Trench quadrilles sand Spanish folk songs also crept it The kind of music that combinelements and became was first played in New Orleans by wandering street bands about 75 years ago Sometimes They would be employed by commercial firms to ride about the and advertise city in carriages warious products at other times they played for the Mardi Gras Curi sand other social activities ed these Jazz ously enough funeral processions the most frequent opprovided portunity for the playing of their music If was the custom for a group of these musicians to walk in the procession to one of New Orleans’s burying vaults playing dirges which were merely blues When the ceremony was songs over the musicians generally fortified by food and drink would increased the tempo until the dirges became shflults of jubilation In recalling these days Wingy Manone the ’trumpeter who watched these processions when he was a 'child has reported that no disrespect was intended “That’s the way New Orleans people wanted to be buried” he says f'Jazz was in our blood Some of the greatest music I ever heard was played on the way by those mourners home from a cemetery” New Orleans perhaps the most colorful city in the Unitey States at that time was the first home of this kind of music probably because its cosmopolitan nature and its traditions (it still had a large" French and Spanish population) made it tolerant of new forms It was in fact the attitude to ward human pleasures that fostered the localization of these early jazz bands in the section of New Orleans known as Storyville New Orleans had always been a city of almost legendary indolence and gaiety but late in the nineteenth century some reformers felt that the city was acquiring too unsavory a reputation as a resort of forbidden these acpleasures Accordingly tivities were outlawed in all parts of the city except one The crusade had been led by a gentleman named Story to his everlasting embarrassment and the historimirth of all subsequent ans his name was given to the area where flourished for 20 years from 1897 to 1917 when the US Army closed the district the very activities he had to stamp out attempted But while it lasted Storyville provided a home and refuge for dozens of great jazz players It saw the nascence of pianists singers and members of small bands who in littered cafes and crowded bars played their hearts out for the patrons who paid them scant attention Jazz it is true has had to live down its origins in these surroundings but it is to its credit that its essential integrity was never corrupted by of Its playing the circumstances so that when it later spread up the Mississippi River to Memphis St Louis and Chicago then east to New York and west to California it would still be recognized as what one critic calls “a lean and athletic music" a kind of music that expressed in a simple and direct way the agony of a race but which went beyond that to convey primitively but very genuinely the sorrow and joy of all races Miss Elaine Kirby visited week in Blackfoot Idaho this Primary Boys Enjoy Summer Fun-de-l- ABOVE a THE Trailbuilder boys the Second “Ward Primary together with their parents and teachers numbering 35 enjoyed a thrilling at the evenward grounds Wednesday IULL By LYTLE ing thousands F THE MULTIPLE consisted Activities of games of teachers in our schools and a program lunch and the singing of fun songs around the camp colleges only a tiny per cent practice subversion Eut we know that fire is almost the principal Members of the ward presi- this field target of the Reds and their inmemstake and four board dency filtration must be prevented at any bers were also present Class cost t teachers are Dessie Campbell Now there is a tremendous Vivian Norma Jensen amount of hullabaloo Pierce being conand Thelma Hall stantly raised against “tampering” with our children’s education The committees” Mrs B C Brough and Earnel “vigilance are being damned as enemies of Nielson were in Logan Monday our public school systems Anyone who raises his voice in protest against some of the textbooks is labeled a “suppressor of academic of J freedom” These The Eullctin Free Press Denver and takes a puff of the cigarette Colorado believes it has found the desired one great trouble with our coun "It occurs to us that the idea a In short editorial entitled try c may cut down on "Few Statesmen” the Free Press tion but that the only way to as says: sure complete concentration in “The one great trouble with our heavy traffic is for the driver to country today Is that we have few refrain from all other activities statesmen We have a great Perhaps a machine that selected swarm a great hoard of politicia cigarette lit it end instead of ans but It is only now and then one puff smoked it taking we find that a man who is large end then tossed it out the enough truly to deserve the name window might be the enswer statesman The large majority in public life today are there not for the purpose of serving the best Irresponsibility Interest of those whom they are The Brownsville supposed to represent but they Telegraph Brownsville Pennsylvania had this are there purely for self for in this form or to say recently of responsibility in government: that as the case may be” “Freedom automatically entails One of the chief responsibility Smoke That Cigarette marks of the slave is that he does on gadgets the not need to be responsible because Commenting Phoenix Home News Phoenix he has lost his authority over his’ Arizona had this to say recently: own actions And when the free “One device recently patented man becomes irresponsible he soon would select a cigarette light it becomes a slave Today the peoand give it a puff so that an auto- ple of the United States are threat mobile driver won’t have to take ened by actual tyrannies from his eyes off the road when lighting without and potential tyranny from up The device fitshito an automo- within But neither of these menbile panaL aces so seriously threatens our “The inventor says that motorist liberty as our own irresponsibility1 should not attempt lighting ciga- Whenever we subordinate the genrettes themselves when driving eral welfare to (which since such a procedure is danger- is the essence of social irresponous on the modern highway Thus sibility) we weaken another 6tone his Invention which selects lights in the foundation of our freedom” “vigilance committees” are not formed for the fun of being a vigilante In fact participation In their activities is probably anything but pleasant It entails work and it lays the members open to vilification and abuse These groups are formed by parents who are concerned about the way certain political theories are being it aught in the schools — not about the theories themselves Every child in these days should be made aware of the meaning of the Marxist system as well as that of our own capitalistic system Otherwise they would be mentally incapable of protecting themselves against the false blandishments which the Beds are so and their adept at handing out But when a child comes home from school spouting the old familiar line of do the “defenders of freedom” academic except their parents to do or say nothing? Do they believe all American parents are so dumb they can’t recognize “eduthe fine hand of a cator” from that of the teacher who teaches facts and lets the child make up his own mind about them? We don’t want our youth influenced In the classroom toward a policy which we are fighting on the battlefield and we don’t intend that they shall be — regardless of the outraged feelings of those who object to parents’ rights over their own children We haven’t yet reached the point where the kids belong to the state Red rot Mrs Olive Hall and Mrs Fanny Hall were in Logan Tuesday |