Show ASSERTS SONGS REPLACE DRINKS Learn About Jazz You Condemn Advice of Musician I dont don't shout from tho the house house- hou housetops housetops e- e tops tho the evils of or jazz jatz Jazz has haa the same place In my musical lifo as os a funny tunny story has haa in my literary life lite Professor W C Bradford national director of or music during the oar said In a brief address to the LIons club today in the tho Spanish room ot of the Heed hotel Mr Bradford said he ho did not not WIsh to defend vulgarity In words but buthe buthe lie he advised Find lind out what jazz Is before you condemn it It practical ly Iy practically all the he jazz songs ho he said salol are arc taken from operas That Thal which Is enjoyed by 00 Ott per cent of ot the thc peo- peo people peo people plc Is not all an bad he declared Music Is la considered by some as asIL asa asa IL a non essential Mr Ir Bradford saId but he ho called attention to the oLd atti attitude tude Lude of President Woodrow Wilson toward community singing during the war President Wilson ho he said realized the social value of music and when certain persons protested against singing of Jazz in the army the war president replied I 1 lont care what they sing eing so long Os IlS they sing The Tho speaker referred to the time when hen groups of men resorted to the tho cocktail to break down dowa the bar bar- barrier barnor rier nor but today he said Bald groups ot of otmen olmen men In service clubs break brcak down the barrier in community singing which builds good fellowship The Tho social vision Islon of ot music is humanizIng ing lag humanizing he said He lie declared that al at although Ill Ill- though it la Is wonderful to listen to great artists there is no growth In Inthe inthe the placid contemplation of music there must be participation ns as gro gron th comes cornea from rein expression Mr Bradford sanS sang two solo II President P 1 J 3 Carver presided and Irving had charge of ot the th program A vocal solo tolo was ivas as rca ren- dered rendered by Joseph P 1 Fernelius n |