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Saxophones Used
in Fight on Devil
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The saxophone—“instrument of the
'devil” —is being enlisted h> the
churches In their fight on the deVtl, It
is indicated in advices reaching the
Conn Music Center, Elkhart, Ind. All
saxophone quartettes and sextettes -Ih
church and Sunday school are among
the “devti’g own weapons" being weed
to win folks over to religion.
“Not so long ago It was quite com
mon for church people to shun the
mention of saxophone, let alone go to
hear one played,” says James F. ♦Boy
er, supervisor of the Conn Music Cen*
ter. “The sentiment seemed to be.
even among musicians, that the sard- 1
phone wasn’t much good for but jazz,
and for a while it did appear that;
the Jazz artists were the only ones to
recognize and make use of this com
paratively new addition to the brass
A S LONG as there are children in the world, so long will there be a Santa
** Claus to gladden their young hearts. Every year there are queries and
discussion about this patron saint of childhood, and he was so ably defended
by Francis P. Church, a late editorial writer on the New York Sun, that all fu
ture questions have been answered. The letter that brought forth his beauti
ful and convincing reply was from little Virginia O’Hanlon, of New York,
which is given below, together with his answer.
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“Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some
pf my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, ‘lf you see it in the Sun, it’s so.’
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
“VIRGINIA O’HANLON.
“115 West Doth St.”
“Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They
have been affected by the skepticism of a skepti
cal age. They do not believe except they see.
They think that nothing can be which is hot com
prehensible to their little minds. All iiinds,
Virginia, are little. In this great universe of
ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intel
lect, as compared with the boundless world about
him, as measured by the intelligence capable of
grasping the whole truth and knowledge.,.
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He
exists as certainly as love and generosity and
devotion exist, and you know that they abound
and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! how dreary would be the world if there
Were no Santa Claus. If would be as dreary
as if there were no Virginias. There would be
no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance
to make tolerable this We should
have no enjoyment, except in senee and sight.
The eternal light with which childhood fills the
world would be extinguished.
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Instrument family. Reports now com
ing In here, however, Indicate a
changed attitude on the part of the
ptiblfc. Artists know that the saxo
phone tones come nearest of all others
!n resemblance to the human voice, and
recognize that there Is nothing so beau
tiful musically as a saxophone solo.
H. Benne Henton, one of the greatest
living masters of this Instrument,claims
that ho cleaner, more elevating or In
spirational music can come from any
instrument, and will not play anything
that has the slightest taint of Juzz In
it. Saxophone quartettes and saxo
phone sextettes are winning a place
for themselves In churches, especially
those that cannot afford a pipe organ,
and other churches have found that
the appearance of an orchestra at
church functions Invariably draws in
creased attendance. This is indeed
fighting the devil with his own wea
pons.”
Vital Statistics is the Bookkoeph
' of Human Life.
Is There a Santa Claus?
“Not believe in Santa Claus? You might
as well not believe in fairies. You might get
on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even
your papa to hire men to watch all the chimneys
if they did not see Santa £laus coming down,
what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa
Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa
Claus. The most real things in the world are
those that neither children nor men can see. Did
you ever se fairies dancing on the lawn? Os
course not, but that’s no proof they are not there.
Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders
there are unseen and unseable in the world. You
may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what
makes the noise inside, but there is a veil cover
ing the unseen world which not the strongest
man, nor even the united strength of all the
strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.
Only faith, fancy, peotry, love, romance, can
push aside th.it curtain and view and picture the
supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all
real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is
nothing else real and abiding.
“No Santa Claus! Thank God, he lives, and
he lives forever! A thousand years from now,
Virginia—nay, ten times ten thousand years
from now, he will continue to make glad the
heart of childhood!”
HEALIHOGRAMS
No Man's Land exacted a toll of 10
per Thousand “Over There.”
Seventy-seven (77) per Thousand
die In the cradle "Over Her®.”
The Cradle ought to be at least as
safe as No Man’s Land.
Public health Is necessaay to Pub
lic Welfare.
A low death rate Is batter than a
low tax rate.
A wise community placas health
above wealth.
Health Is wealth. Don’t be a spend
thrift.
He who hasn’t health, hasn’t any
thing.
What shall It profit a child *f he
rln the whole curriculum ana Jose hls
r. h°al*h.
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