Show MUSIC MUSI TO TOUS ITS US TEACHERS wes BY UTAH HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS Dr A A. A E E. E WinshIp Gives Most Moss Scholarly Address to This This' Section eci mH l Exemplification of ot music to teachers teacher of ot that art featured the the meeting of the section of ot the music education depari- depari department ment meat of ot the N N. E. E A A. A yesterday morr- morr ing lag The music which showed the teachers what advance ance had been made maae in teaching this art in Utah was wa Riven Q n by the chorus of the High school under direction of ot Mark Robinson Robin Robin- son and It drew man many encores encores Of Ot great Interest was t the scholarly address given the meeting by Dr A. A E. E Winship editor of the Journal of Education Education Edu Edu- cation of Boston on Music and Ethics Mr Winship said In part Why teach music in public schools Why not have that as a luxury to be taught at the tho expense of parents Asa vocation it has claims in this vocational ace ane but that does not concern us now Has music musie an ethical value Can school music be made to con contribute conk conk- tribute to the safety of ou our girls and and possibly our boys Just now the one noble fad if fad can be said to be noble Is a literary philanthropic and cru em- crusade sade which Is certain to wipe from all American cities the disgraceful pro pro- lv boA hn r If school music can be shown to have a distinct and unquestioned positive positive tive or preventive moral force Its universality uni Un- and Its permanency are es established established es- es beyond question Not Teacher Business It is no part of a teachers teacher's business as a teacher to engage directly or In Indirectly indirectly in- in directly In a campaign against vice in New York Chicago or elsewhere but rather with the tendency of life with starting children right Tho ethical mission of the school is ii isto to establish hope as a a. habit of mind That is heaven The kingdom of heaven is within you Fear as a habit of mind is the other place The Theother Theother other place is within you Pessimism is life under the shadow of disease old age and death Music Is the sunlight of hope the tho purifying ripple of the water of life the eliminating vigor of pure air ir In us and andover over us and about us But there Is music and music Just as there are water water wa wa- ter and water sunlight and sunlight air and air A sunstroke Is the worst mental collapse stagnant Infected wa water wa- wa tee ter means a a. scourge contaminated air means an epidemic Morally there is music of the lower world the flie ragtime of the street the voluptuous now new swing of the dance hall ball These are aro not music In Its sweetness and purity In Us Its nobility nobility- and any more than a smirk Is a smile orthan or orthan than giggling Is laughing or the tho Idiots Idiot's grin is the Joyous illumination of a fa fathers father's fa- fa ther's them's greeting of his first Ragtime music is a symptom It isa la is laa a revelation of social or Individual soil conditions You might as well fight thu blue Canadian thistle with resolutions In irs a kindergarten convention as to campaign campaign cam cam- against ragtime by denunciation In a church prayer meeting or a ChrIstian Christian Chris ChrIs- tian Endeavor convention Appreciation of good music Is worth Infinitely more than the ability to read the notes technically and lifelessly In Inan inan an exercise Discrimination between the noble and Ignoble In music is walking along the highways of the tho Celestial city Music must be lifted heaven high above the multiplication table and the spelling book before America can reap real time the social anti and moral effects of the tho possibilities possibilities pos pos- of the ethical power of school music Appreciation of masterpieces In music vocal or Instrumental make It as impossible for one ever to seek pleasure in a dance hall ball as for one trained In gentle manners to sit with his hat cat on in a private parlor Morality I is uniformity and universality in social masterpieces as it ft were Morality Is only noble when it harmonizes with the social world In a register that will make It Immortal Cole Speak Miss Mies Lucy K IC Cole supervisor of music of the public schools of Seattle Wash followed two numbers by time the chorus with an address on Music and the Social Problem It follows in part Music Is the language of the emo emo- Emotional life lite Is the strongest element in all our social InstitUtiOnS The home the tho greatest social institution institution tion was formerly the educational center for emotional Industrial and recreational life Now the schools furnish Industrial education and recreation recreation is furnished by private commercial commer commer- cial Interests all outside the home So much is said nowadays about tIme tho low standard of morals In our grammar and high school students If It the higher emotional life is not given givon constant and satisfying activity from childhood to maturity it is not surprisIng surprising sur sur- that tIme the lower emotional life becomes active The Tho habit of re responding re- re to the higher emotional life Ufa should become fixed and strong dur dur- during lug ing childhood The only way to eradicate eradicate erad erad- an evil ia is by substituting an equally attractive good We should provide wholesome and refined mediums medi urns of emotional expression for our young people Finally strong concerted national effort should bo be put forth toward se securing curing definite systematic education for leisure in the schools of the country country coun coun- rather than educational try more commercial provision for and super sueN supervision vision of our amusements more definite nite nito and systematic effort toward providing means for cultural Improvement improvement Improve improve- to toward toward to- to ment for the young wage earners ward exterminating exterminating- the suggestive song toward providing a better class of music for our dance programs When musicians educators and philanthropists philanthropist work together in this great upward movement we shall see social conditions conditions con con- marvelous changes In our problems of to today today to- to and the tho great not day will vill be greatly lessened If done awa away with entirely the program owing to th the Last on absence of P. P P. P Claxton W was H Alice Louise Reynolds of the B B. Y V. U. U She of a Tribute to Music and spoke grave gave She told dividends music that pays pals which subtle hold of the mysterious Indian legends had upon her bet and closed as follows Music replete exhaustive and ana that enriches time the life music noble heart is tho kind that pays dividends music section sec eec There Is a meeting meeting- of the In the tho morning at 9 o'clock tion this Congregational church and thelast the thelast First of the convention is scheduled scheduled sched sched- last meeting afternoon at t 3 for tomorrow |