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Show I oo j ' POPULAR SONGS. . - j Maybe you are one of those persons jwho read's the verses that go with the. popular jazz tunes of the day and won-der won-der how such crimes in verse can find a, sale. Maybe you have thought that some of the words of these popular songs are not only silly but that some 'are indecent as well. A short article published in The Monitor, a magazine issued by the Mountain Stales Telegraph Tele-graph & Telephone company may throw some light on the situation. Tho Monitor says that recently Edward Ed-ward Rose, a writer of popular songs, was ghen a suspended sentence in a court In Now York. Ho had pleaded guilty to two charges that he had opium in his possession. Rose told the court ho had been us'ing drugs for 23 years and that the drugs inspired many of his compositions. composi-tions. Ho said he had written "He Walked Right In, Turned Around and Walked Right Out Again," "I Wonder If You M.Isscd Me," "Baby Shoes," ".Oh, Johnny, Oh," and several other songs which have been found upon the pianos in nearly everybody's home. There Is a strenuous effort being made by certain organizations to ad-jvance ad-jvance the cause of good music among the American people. At first thought. I it shouldn't be difficult to get tho American public to prefer Haydn? jMnssenot, Verdi, Elgar and McDowell to Irving Berlin find others, but a' few minutes' observation at the music counters will hring a realization that the promoters - of good music have a huge taskbcfore them. |