The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 August 1927 — Page 2

School Music and Jazz Hgi

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IFTEEN hundred high school youngstere, heads up, shoulders back, feet clicking In rhythmic step. Halt ’. Fifteen hundred instruments poised, fifteen hundred pairs of eyes I trained on a single leader. The I flourish of a baton and the biggest band In the world burst into music. When the echo of the last note I of “El Capitan" had died out in the distance. Osbourne McConathy, the

conductor and America’s foremoat musical educator, turned from the vast field of bright-eyed boys and girls and voiced the verdict of the multitude that stood spellbound listening to the music: “The Jan age can’t do anything to a nation that can muster youngsters like these. Their music will doom the so-called 'flaming youth’ and will put strength Into the social fabric of America.' This scene was enacted tn the city park of Council Bluffs. lowa, the last Saturday tn May, when twenty-three champion bands played as a massed concert ensemble under the direction of each of the judges to give a colorful finale to the National School Band contest. There were bands there from as far east as New York, as far west •s California, as far north as and as far south as Texas. Joliet was awarded the national championship by nosing out the Abraham Lincoln high school band of Council Bluffs by a fraction of y point. The Modesto (Calif.) high •choel captured third place, and fourth place went to the Nicholas Senn high school of Chicago. The national championship for Class B bands, limited to schools having enrollments under four hundred, was awarded to the Princeton (Calif.) band. Second place in this class was won by the band from .Vermillion. S. D. Ida Grove, la., was third, and Cleveland. Okla., fourth. In addition, honorable mehtion for fine performance even though thev did hot win a prize. was given by the judges to the reboot bands of Quincy. IlL; Marion. Ind.; Lockport. N. Y„ and Flint. Mich. The several winners tn the contest were awarded prize tablets by the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music, which also rewarded the director and members of the first two winning bands In each class with silver and bronze medals respectively. Joliet still retains the national trophy which must be won by the school three successive times to be kept permanently. The judges in the contest, in addition to Mr.. McCcnathy. were Herbert Clarke, director of the Long Beach (Calif.) municipal band* Taylor Branson, loader of the United States Marine band. Washington, D. C.. and Joseph E. Maddy, supervisor of music in the Ann Arbor (Mich.) public schools The first really nation-wide school band contest was held In in Fostoria. Ohio, although previously there had been a number of sectional and district contests In various parts of the country. Thirteen bands, from ten different states, contested ia this event. The contest at Council Bluffs this year brought together twenty-three bands, almost twice as many as the year before. To bring these bands together, twenty slx state and sectional band contests were held, each of which. In turn, had an average of twenty bands to vie for the state or sectional honors. It has been estimated that approximately $300,000 was raised this year by high schools, parent*, clubs, business groups and individual business men to send these bands to the section, state, and national contests, which have for their object the raising of the standard of music in the schools. Within the next decade. Mr. McConathy prophelies. music will be ax much a pert of the educational equipment of the high school boy and girt •a reading, writing and arithmetic. They will be able to elect courses In instruction on their chosen Instrument just as they elect to study Latin or Spanish, or choose between the liberal arts, a business or a technical course. And they will get the saute credit for music that they do for any •ther subject "Because I am mysHf a musician. I think of music first of all as an expression of beauty." says

Health Officers Kept Busy in the Orient

Corpse smuggling at the frontiers if Iraq keeps European health offltials busy enforcing quarantine rules, recording to reports received by the tditors of the London Medical Jourtai. Lancet. The desire of all devout Mohammedans to make pilgrimages to tea cftiee visited by the prophet, as veil as the blessings that accrue to tea faithful vhaa thag Make om <rf

Oils eminent educator. “But the high scnool band is one of the strictest schools of discipline a boy or girl can go through. It teaches team work, for in assembly playing every man has to do his own work and do it right It curbs the ego. for the boy or girl who wants to be the whole show has little chance In a band. He learns to know his place and fill It It teaches the lesson of service, for the band must be quick to respond to the need for music In any school activity. And. even more so now that the bands are meeting for these national contests, it teaches good sportsmanship, Just as does the football and baseball team. "There was one little band at the Council Bluffs meet whose story tells vividly what band discipline does for boys and girls. It was a Class B band from the Princeton (Calif.) high school. Princeton Is a town of four hundred inhabitants. There are one hundred and three students In its high school. And 75 per cent of them are studying music. Six years agtx the ’band’ in this high school consisted of three boys who played a mouth organ, a trombone, a saxophone and a girl pianist. They all played by ear. Today they have a fortyseven piece band that has carried off the Northern California championship four times, won the allstate championship three times, and this year took top honors as the best Class B band in America. “But it was a long trip from California out to lowa to the national meet. When Princeton was declared state winner over Arcata high school, its long-time musical rival, this little band began scrambling around to get the money for the trip. They gave concerts. They appealed to the citizens; of Princeton. But they could not quite top the! rise. At the eleventh hour came the Arcata high' school. ’We will help you out.’ and into the hands of the Princeton musicians they put their own, hard-earned dollars. And the Princeton band came to the national contest That is the kind of spirit you find In these boys and girls in the bands. “The boy who can square his shoulders and blow big, full notes co a trumpet* or horn is a healthy boy. He has got to be. No shallowchested, short-breathed weakling can survive in these pick bands. And greatest contribution of alk each player has found a threshold Into the great realm of musical literature; he is developing the cultural side of his life. He may forget the date of the discovery of the Pacific ocean; be may ■ never be able to solve an algebra problent But he can never forget his music. That is the one thing he will carry with him Into the great world." Nor is Mr. McConathy alone tn his views on music In the schools. The other three judges ip the contest were amazed at the! splendid discipline and performance of these juvenile bands and at least one expressed himself as of the opinion that there are not more than ten or a dozen professional bands in the United States who could measure up to the standards of these school bands. C. M. Tremaine, director of the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music, and secretary of the instrumental affairs committee of the Music Supervisors National conference, under the Joint auspices of which the state and national band contests are held, ia convinced not only of the value of the school band as a builder of character, but also feels that the band boy is a better student than his unmusical schoolmate. “After listening to the performances of these juvenile bands," said Mr. Tremaine. "I am more than ever Impressed with the Importance of music In the Uvea of our young school people. It demonstrates team work, discipline and perseverance and gives evidence of what this a band does for the youth as a builder of character In addition to its cultural advantages. “The spirit of playing in this national contest is just another proof that boy musicians are just, an eager to win band laurels aa the members of a\ football or basketball team are to win achievements to athletics for their schools and themselves. A school Is as proud of its band when it wins Its state, section or national contest as when ft takes home a trophy won on the gridiron or the baseball field.

the holy cities their final resting place makes plenty of work for the quarantine officers. New laws have been put into effect calling for the examinath» of local corpses as well as those tn transit from other countries. Now no corpse can be buried In one of the holy places without a pass. Exanflnarinns and health permits are also issued to the thousands of pilgrim* i'

that throng Into Arabia from the east thus enabling health officers to check up on one of the most fruitful of the spread of epidemics tn the Orient. The AgreeabZe Mon The true art of being agreeable Is to appear well pleased with all the company, and rather to seem well entertained with them than to bring entertainment to them—J«wph Addison.

THE RTRACTSE JOTRNAL

•Music is a healthful Influence and parents now are learning that the band is better than the •gang’ for their youngsters. Music is a fine mental stimulant and in a survey recently made in one middle western school. It was found that children who studied music averaged considerably higher tn all lines of school activities than those who did not. “Association with other young musicians is another great benefit for the boy or girl band member. hbw much the child may put his heart into practicing at home and playing for his own and others’ enjoyment, he is missing a great deal If he does not learn to work with others in the production of great masterpieces. It is absolutely essential for each member of the band to take his definite place in the group, to give others a chance, to come in at just the right beat, and to drop out at exactly the moment he is no longer needed. Temperament, sulks and overaggressiveness have no place in the band and the good director knows how to inculcate these lessons along with the other instructions. “Health might also be mentioned as one of the beneficial aspects of learning to play an Instrument. and becoming a member of the school band. Correct posture and breathing must be insisted upon. Physicians often will recommend a wind Instrument for the boy with the undeveloped chest. Then, too, music steadies the nerves and has a relaxing effect on pupils who tend to be too high strung and undisciplined. “Where a certain standard of scholarship considerably above the minimum for passing is required for participation in the school band for representing the school in a contest like the one held in Council Bluffs, this stimulus is often effective in bringing sagging grades up to the mark as It does with the boy trying to make the football eleven or the baseball or track team." Mr. Tremaine’s views on public school music has the enthusiastic Indorsement of the department of superintendence of the National Education association, made up of the representative heads of public school systems throughout the United States, which at its recent Dalias convention adopted this resolution: •L That we favor the Inclusion of music tn the curriculum on an equality with the other basic subjects. We believe that with the growing complexity of civilization more attention must be given to the arts, and that music offers possibilities, as yet but partially realised, for developing an appreciation of the finer things of life. We, therefore, recommend that all administrative officers take steps toward a more equitable adjustment of music in the educational program, involving: Time allotment; number and standard of teachers; equipment provided. “2. That we favor an immediate extension of music study to all rural schools, in the belief that no single development will so greatly increase the effectiveness of their work and so greatly lessen the extreme differences now existing between rural and urban education. We recommend as a guide the “Course of Study f V Music in the Rural Schools" approved by the Music Supervisors’ National conference. “3 That we believe an adequate program of high school music instruction should Include credit, equivalent to that given to other basic] subjects, for properly supervised music study carried on both in and out of the school; moreover, the recognition of music by the high schools as a subject bearing credit toward graduation should carry with It similar recognition of its value by colleges and other institutions of higher education. We recommend further that the department of superintendence favor a study of present practices as to music credits. “4. That, recognizing the great Interest manifested at this meeting toward making music a more vital element in education, we recommend that this subject shall continue to receive the attention of the department of superintendence and be included in the discussion groups of Its annual program."

Os Aerwtae He Wat O. K. At a dinner during the war a certain man of International fame was being discussed. Opinions differed concerning him. Some of the diners attacked him savagely, others insisted that he was a tine fellow despite his mistakes. J. M. Barrie, who was prtte ent, listened to all their remarks In silence, then said quietly without looking up from bis plate “He was an Infernal scoundrel, but Twas his only fault.-

Canal Has Big Repairing Plant

Facilities at Balboa and Cristobal for Ship Work Are Described. Washington.—The elaborate farilitlee for the repairing of ships at the Panama canal are given in a bulletin of the Panam&4?anal authorities. The principal manufacturing and repair plant is located at Balboa, the Pacitic terminal of the ca»al. It is adjacent to an inner harbor,-which has an area sufficient to permit access to docks, which aggregate 7,500 feet in length, including commercial docks, repair wharves and coaling docks. A much smaller plant is located at Cristobal, the Atlantic terminal about one and one-half miles from the main commercial docks. A description of the plant at Balboa follows: The dock has a depth of 35 feet over the blocks at mean tide. High tide varies from » to 11 feet above mean tide. It is «erved by a 50-ton traveling an outside reach of five fetl beyond the center of the dock. This Crane is also capable of traveling along the face of some of the repair wharves, thus facilitating the work of repairing vessels. Eor ships which do not require dry docking there are. adjacent to the ; shops about 3.500 feet of repair ; wharves. At regular intervals along 1 the coping of the dry dock and the repair wharves are outlets for air. water and alternating electric current A limned quantity of direct current can be supplied by two portable motor generating sets. Either compressed air or electricity can be supplied for operating auxiliaries on ships on which steam is off. Where refrigerating machinery is shut down, cold storage can be removed from the ship's boxes aM stored in the canal cold storage % ehouse nearby. The r«volr» .-..ops are centrally located with respect to the dry dock and repair wharves. Ample track and erane services provide for handling work between shops and ships. Huge Traveling Cranes. The main metal-working shops (machine, smithery, and boiler shop) are provided with 60-ton overhead travelling cranes, while the foundry has a 25-ton overhead crane. As 'all the shops are equipped with as complete tines of power tools as are generally found in an up-to-date repair shop, i only the larger tools wilt be given special mention so to give an idea of the maximum capacity of each department. i The machine shop is provided with a vertical boring mill cajMible of working 18 feet in diameter, with an open side extension planer 16 feet by 32 feet, and with a lathe 120-inch swing by 65 feet between centers. No ship machinery is too large for the capacity of this shop. This shop has a floor area of approximately 68.180 square feet The smithery is provided with a . 500-ton forging press with the necessary furnaces to handle any work that the press is capable of. Billets 24 Inches square by 19 feet long are kept In stock and can be worked under this press; there are other machinery and tools usually found in a I first-class smithery. There is also a department for spring making and a 1 tool-dressing department that includes ’ oil burning and electric tempering furnaces of the latest type. This shop has a floor area of approximately 24.386 square feet. The boiler and ship-fitting shops have a set of rolls capable of bending plates % inch by 30 feet. 3 Inch by 24 feet, or 2 inches by 6 feet.

Indians Insnect New Buffalo Bill Memorial

li 1 tJMB > I Gw. Frank C. Emerson of Wyoming greeting Crow Indian chiefs on their inspection of the new Buffalo on. Memorial museum at Cody. The museum was dedicated July 4.

GUNBOAT SCORPION HOME AFTER 19 YEARS ABROAD

<»■- Was Lost to Germans In World War Through Its Commander’s Cleverness at Bridge. Philadelphia—Saved from capture during war time, as the story goes, by the cleverness of Its commander, “No Trump" Babbitt, at a game of bridge, the gunboat Scorpion, after 19 years’ foreign service, has finally come home. When this country entered the World war the vessel was interned by the Turks at Constantinople. The Germans, who were in actual command at the port, demanded that the Turks seise the Scorpion, take off officers and crew and permit the Germans to use the ship as a decoy under cover of her American Identity. Talaat Pasha, an acquaintance of Commander Herbert S. Babbitt, came aboard with word of the German’s demand. The commarder was said to have taken a long chance and played

A Any size of ship or boiler plates or structural shapes can be worked by the Other machinery, which Includes angle shears, punches, straightening rolls, plate planer, and bending machine. This shop has a floor area of approximately 46.800 square feet. The pipe shop is outfitted for plumbing work and for pipe, copper and sheet-metal work of the highest classes. The floor area of this shop is approxomately 17.144 square feet. The foundry is equipped with a twoton tropenas converter and one twoton and one one-ton cupola, and the usual brass furnaces. There is an efficient sand-blast system for cleaning castings, also gate saws, sprue cutters, and other modern equipment, including annealing furnaces, core oven and mold-drying oven. The foundry can turn out castings as follows: Bronze, brass or composition. % pound to 1.000 pounds; iron pound to 26.000 pounds; steel. pound to 10.000 pounds. In connection with the foundry Is a pattern shop equipped to handle any and all classes of pattern work. This foundry and pattern shop together have a floor area of approximately 87,758 square feet. Woodworking Machinery. The planing mill and joiner shop is outfitted with the usual woodworking machines, including a 72-incb sawmill capable of handling timbers likely to be used in connection with ship work. This shop has a floor area of approximately 49.644 square feet The oxy-acetylene plant has portable electric welding and oxy-acety-lene cutting outfits capable of handling emergency repairs. The plant develops approximately 460 cubic feet of acetylene per hour. 5.000 cubic feet of hydrogen per day. All classes of boiler welding are done. thermite welds can be performed. Main engine cylinders have been welded in place, both high pressure and low pressure, the welds being as\ extensive and as successful as the welds made in the United States on engine cylinders during the World war. This plant has a floor area of approximately 910. square feet. An instrument repair shop is maintained in' which repairs are made to navigating instruments, clocks, gauges, typewriters and computing ntachines and other work of a minute In connection with this shop there is a plating plant for zinc, copper, nickel, silver and gold. This shop has a floor area of approximately 2.500 square feet. Located in the same building with the instrument repair shop is an electric shop under the control of the electrical division, the facilities of which are available for the entire Panama canal. This shop is equipped for motor winding, switchboard work and making repairs to practically any kind of electrical apparatus. The floor area of this shop is approximately 3.400 square feet There is a car shop equipped with all necessary machinery for the building of railroad cars of all kinds and also the repairing of all the rolling stock of the Panama railroad. In connection with this shop there is a rerolling mill for rerolling bars and miscellaneous scrap material into rounds and flats. This shop has a floor area of approximately 61,819 square feet There is located at both the Balboa and the Cristobal shops and connected therewith a roundhouse where general overhauling as well as minor repairs are made to the locomotives of the Panama railroad. The air-compressor plant and dry-

the Turk a game of bridge with the Scorpion as the stake. Babbitt won and the order of the Germans was pigeonholed by the Turk. The vessel has been in the naval service for 29 years and holds the world’s record for length of service in foreign waters. The crew of the Scorpion, numbering 7 officers and I<K> men, although glad to end a voyage of 26 days from Gibraltar, were a crestfallen lot when informed at the Philadelphia navy yard, where the craft is tied up, that the veteran vessel has made its last voyage for the navy. She is to be sold under orders from Washington. Many sailormen’ will regret the passing of the Scorpion from the service. At least one-third of the senior officers of the navy yard have served on her at one time or another and a number of her present crew have held the same berth for years.

dock pumpiug plant at Balboa an located in the same building. Then are two 5.000 cubic foot and one 2.501 cubic foot air compressors in use drive® by electric motors and om 2.500 cubic foot steam-driven com pressor which is considered only ai an emergency unit Up-to-Date Laboratory. There is a laboratory equipped wttt a 100.000-pound Riehle testing ma chine and a Brinnell hardness testing machine and other equipment so» making physical tests of all kinds There are also available in anothei division of the Panama canal, laboratories where chemical tests can bt made of fuel oils, metals, etc. All shop tools are operated by elec tricity. The larger tools are provided with independent motors and th« smaller tools are arranged tn groups and driven from countershafts. The current is obtained from a hydroelectric plant at the Gatun spillway supplemented-by a Diesel-driven plant at Miraflores. The 25-cycle. alternating current Is transmitted to the Balboa substation at 44.000 volts. At the substation it is transformed to 2.200 volts and so distributed through underground duct lines to the various shops, where it is further transformed, where necessary, to suitable voltages for use. The various speed tools in the machine ship are driven by direct current from rotary transformers within the shop. All other tools are driven by alternating current, generally at 220 volts. Current at 220 volts is available at all points along the water front for power purposes, and at 110 volts for lighting In the event of ships’ generators being out of use. The storehouses (under the control of the supply department) carry on hand a large stock of steel shapes, pipe, ship fittings, and supplies of every description. Steel plate is earned in stock in all thicknesses up to and including 2 inches. Piatds smaller than %-inch vary by sixteenths and plates larger than %-inch vary by eighths. The largest plates in stock are 72 inches by 10 feet by 2 inches thick. A large amount of steel billets is kept on hand In all sizes up to and Including 24 inches by 24 inches by 19 feet. Structural shapes are carried as follows: I-beams, all sizes up /to 27 inches; channels, all sizes up to 15 Inches; ship channels, all sizes up to 12 Inches; and angles, all sizes up to 8 inches by 8 Inches by 44-inch. There are also carried in the storehouses lumber of all sizes and miscellaneous equipment and supplies of practically every description that are used in the operation and maintenance of the .entire Panama canaL Birds Kill Cat Jeanette. Pa.—Authorities are powerless to apprehend the slayers of Mitzi, killed by a murder gang. 100 strong. Mitzi was a cat which was literally torn to pieces when attacked by a flock of blackbirds which swooped down upon the pet while she was sunning herself in a yard.

John Sargent’s Ghost Walks, Says Friend London.—The ghost of John Singer Sargent, famous American artist in his grave these last two years, has returned to haunt the Chelsea studio where he <»died. in the belief of the present occupants of the house. Frequently his footsteps are heard by Alfred Orr. his American artist friend, who took over the studio 16 months ago. descending from the second-floor workroom to the ground floor, in which he died, and which now is used as a bedroom by Mr. and Mrs. Orr. The latter also has heard footsteps, which she recognized as Sargent’s heavy tread.

[ The Scorpion was a ship of war during the Spanish-American conflict; she has carried scientific and diplomatic missions, sick men and Russian refugees and has been on the edge of five wars. Most of her foreign service was f spent tn the Mediterranean, Adriatic ’ Marmora and Black seas. 5 The Scorpion was built as a .pleasure craft in 1896 at a Brooklyn ship1 yard. In April. 1898. her owner. M. <’ ? D. Borden, sold her to the govern--1 ment for $500,009 and she was converted into a gunboat to fight against ; Spain. 3 New Excuse J New York.—Martha Mason, dancer, was fined So for leaving her car on a t street seven hours. Her excuse was that het darling chow chewed a cigarette stub and became frightfully 11L i. High Pressure New York.—A New Jersey •ealty o dealer sold a prospect a fifty-acre i- tract for development and a residene tlal site by taking him on an airplane trip over the countryside.