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Show I THE JAZZ ANTIDOTE. Jazz music, imported from the underworld un-derworld dives of Buenos Aires, began to Bweep America in 1913. Sailors brought It into New Orleans. It spread up the Mississippi river. Negro Ne-gro roustabouts on the levees chanted new varieties of Jazz "blues." Tramps, in their camps, which they all "Jungles." caught the infection, toy called Jazz "snowbird musu ow" Joeing the underworld name for cocaine and a "snowbird" meaning dope fiend. Infectiously the epidemic of Jazz spread over the country, evolving from jazz melodies to a form of jazz life characterized by fatalism, indil lerence. recklessness and immorality. Simultaneously, the Juzz germ swept Europe' In "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" you read Ibanez's fine description of France being worked to a high pitch of Jazz emo t ionalisui. Psychiartrlflts recognized the Jazz epidemic as one of the peculiar waves of social neurasthenia, or hysteria, which periodically sweep countries or even (he whole world. The tango craze The international wave of social hysteria culminated in :he wor.d war. violent international insanity The reaction is on. Yo)ll sobers. Nerves calm Blowlj clown People an becoming normal again thinking healthy thoughts Jazz Is passing During the Jazz epidemic there baa, been a lot of worrying about Young America. Youth in general seamed to have gpne on on a tangent oi s ild prodialisni. Hue morning the count: woke up' and was amazed to learn that the ydungsters had gone crazy on wireless The radiophone has corralled Juvenile enthusiasm The wireless erase has developed far enough to show that it's going to be the most powerful antidote against Jazz. The lad who is tinkering with Hertzian waves has his feet on the grouud. is thinking clean thoughts, training his brain, soaking up useful knowledge The wireless fan is vaccinal ci! against jazz, JuBt as boys of a generation genera-tion ago were kept In a healthy, nor-, mal mental state by playing Indian, building shanties, collecting bones and old junk in alleys, listening to street fakers. staging amateur mlnstn I shows, stringing toy, telegraphs We are a foolish lot of sheep, W8 humans. Bui a kindly providence shepherds us, bringing u I. -I. t It fold wJen we stray too far from normal. |