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Show ITEILS WOMEN JAZZ BARBARIC) ! Mrs. Anne Oberndorfer Denounces De-nounces Majority of Modern Songs "Is the popular Jazz, which now , holds th.- American people in a ttKht grip i n ,,, enter l he American home ,,. declares Mrs Anne Faulkner Faulk-ner Oberndorfer, national music chalr-; chalr-; man of the General Federation of U o-I o-I men's . Iuls. who Is in Ogden. at-1 I tending the convention sessions of the; 1 Utah Federation. Mrs Oberndorfer has boen leading an offensive against popular songs throughout ihc t inted .States, backed i bj the women's clubs, and basing grounds for the attack upon the ln-riucnces ln-riucnces the popular songs have upon our young people. l 1 U . l I N K. The leader of the crusade declares; thai ninety per cent of the popular; I songs ure unspeakable. While no spc-1 ' . ific Inntances ar. given of these of-j renders. It is known that a few arc. given a clean bill of health, such as I The Long, Long Trail." and Keep the Home Fires llurning. ' , "I have worked for twenty years" she said, "on the theory that 'Jazz and ragtime In Us original form, would i be the basis of the future American J school But that is no reason why I I cannol see that ra.gtlme and jazz" I I when vulgarized, are an actual men-j lace to the life, morals, and educa'j ! tion of young America today. ' When one knows that In one ofi i lnc;.f, s biggest a.i.l l.e.'U hi'h schools: me s.udants bought 2000 copies of! popular songs ID two weeks, and, the' comrh.ttee of students appointed by ih. sciiool found only torty which, he) 601 lidered fli for boys and girls 10 sing ti - ther, don't you really think 1 . Linnp .--iioukl happen to awake I .American parents to tnelr responslbll-J 1 llles? In a middle-western !ty wluro 1 I had I.. . n giving talks in which I ut-Ltacked ut-Ltacked th.. vil popular songs, I s.iid I to the manager of a music shop that j II hoped 1 had no, hurl h r business. She replied, if l could help you In thlsj campaign id give up everything in j (lie . .1 I IV MO II- She toiri me that seventy-flv( per cent of her customers were high school' I oys ahd gnis vho bought nothing I but tins trash, and she said they j blushed." CALLS IT BARBAROl s Mrs. Oberndorfer, while denouncing 1 '..'' music as baroaric and as arous-, j ing the woi-st emotions, does not dropj Jtrte subject at this point, but offers many suggestions for Its correction I festl 1 .lay before -the club' women of 1 L'tah. she said in part: At no time In the history of the I world has any nation faced such an I opportunity tor the development of I a nallohal art as that which lies be 1 tore America today. The General Fefc-I Fefc-I eraUon of Women's clubs has pledged! I Its support to all good American mu-l j sic. What are we to do about it? Let I I uh siari daily music in 0i;v homes When we sing the good old folk songs! of America, which our Amer.caniza-: Amer.caniza-: tion work hut taught us real!) are the ! folk songs of the whole world' Let us ! encourage our children to play goou j music for us in our homes. Let us I use our phonographs and player-pi- ' ! anos as g force for good amusement) and education in our home circle. "An ideal plan for community cooperation co-operation In furthering g Knowledge of good music In your pomnunit r the music memory contest This Should bo started In everj community of' America by the women's dubs. HERE'S HER ri.w "Briefly the plan is to enlist the' support of the clubs, boards of edu- j I catloh superintendents Of schools, I supervisors of music, newspapers and' music dealers. A list of fifty good In-! strumental compositions is made. on records, player-piano roils, and in These selections should be available I simple piano sheei music which the I children can play themselves. The at wspapers should publish the lists : and possibly a short anaivsis of each: , number. At the end of six weeks or1 two months these fifty good omp'osi tions will he known b -. r child and j I in every home in your communln I Then the contests should be held, with preliminary contesis in each school ' I Fight or ten of the compositions' I should be plaed. without programs' Mho en 1 1,1 re 11 miHi ( a... . 1 m i , me name, 01 th- composition composer und possibly pos-sibly when and where he lived, an I the meaning of the selection The twenty-five best papers should constitute consti-tute the school team, and then the nnal contest of teams should be held In a bis hall, under the guapleea of the communis musical Interests which the womeni clubs have gathered to- |