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About The Bartow tribune. The Cartersville news. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1917-1924 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1921)
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Mr. Sta cy, who is a Rutherford County farmer, recommends Black- Draught as a medicine that should be kept in every house hold tor rise in the prompt treatment of many little ills to pre vent them ire.n developing into serious troubles. THEDFORD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT “It touches the liver and does the work,” Mr. Stacy declared. “It is one of the best medicines 1 ever saw for a cold and headache. 1 don’t know what we would do in our family if it wasn’t for Black-Draught. It has saved us many dollars ... 1 don’t see how any family can hardly go with out it 1 know it is a reliable and splendid medicine to keep in the house. I recommend Black-Draught highly and am never without it." At all druggists. Accept No Imitations a >•* R3 NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS OF CITY AS SESSMENTS FOR 1921 Notice is hereby given that the City Tax Assessors of the City of Cartersville have filed their assessments of real estate and re vision of personalty returns for the year 1921 All objections to said assessments must be filed in writing with the City Clerk on or before the 12th day of August, 1921, to be passed upon by the Board of Aldermen. This 20th day of July, 1921. THOS. A. UPSHAW, City Clerk JAZZ MUSIC AND WHAT IT MAY LEAD TO “Does Jazz Put the Win in Syncopa tion?'’ jinks Mm. Marx E. Oberndorfer, national music General Fed eration of Women * Club*, who pro ceeds to answer this question in a most illuminating manner In the current Is sue of the Ladies' Home Journal. The ladies of the Woman's Mission - ary Society have asked The Tribune- News to publish Mrs. Oberndorfers comments, which follow: We have all been taught to believe that “n usic soothes the savage breast.” but we have never stopped to consider that an entirely different type of music rn ght invoke savage instincts. We have been content to accept all kinds of music, and to admit music in all its phases into our homes, simply because ii was music. It is rule that frequently fj*ther and mother have preferred some old favorite song or dance or some aria from opera, to the last ‘‘best seller” which has found its way into the hour circle; but, after all, young people must be enterLained and amused and even il the old-fashioned parents di<l not enjoy the dance n usic of the day. they felt ?,t could really do no harm, because it was music. Therefore. It is somewhat of a rude awakening for many of these parents to lind that America is facing a most serious situation regarding its popular music. Welfare workers tell that never in the history of our land nave there been such immoral conditions among our young people, and in the surveys made by many organizations regarding these conditions, the blame is laid on Jazz music and its evil in fluence on the young people of today. Never before have such outrageous dances been permitted in private as well as public ballrooms, and never has there been used for the accompaniment of the dance such a strange combination of tone and rhythm as that produced by the dance orchestras of today. CCrtainly, if this music is in any way responsible for the condition and for the immoral acts which can he traced to the indigence of these dances, then it is high time that the question should be raised: “Can music ever be an influ ence? for evil ?” The Rebellion. In history there have been several great periods when music was declared to he an evil influence and certain re strictions were placed upon the dance |and the music which accompanied it. But all of these restrictions were made by the clergy, who have never been particularly enthusiastic a bo if I dancing, anyway. ' Today, however, the first great rebellion against jazz music and such dances as the “toddle” and the ' shinxn y” comes from the dancing masters themselves. Realizing the cVtl influence of this type of music and dancing, the National Dancing Mas ; iers' Association, at their last session, | adopted this rule: “Don’t permit vul gar, cheap jazz music to be played. I Such music almost forces dancers to I use Jerky half-steps, and Invites im moral variations. It is useless to ex- I peel to find refined dancing when the | music lacks all refinement, for. after all, what is dancing but an interpreta tion of music?” Several of the large dance halls in the big cities are following the lead of the proprietor of one of them in Chi cago. who, when he opened his estab lishment a few years ago, bravely ad i vertised in all the papers thai no jazz | n usic and no immoral dances would la* I allowed on his floor, fils announcement J was met with ridicule, but his dance ! hall has become the most popular one !in Chicago. The place is crowded every evening, and yet nothing except waltzes and two-steps are allowed on the floor and absolutely no jazz music is tol erated. That jazz is an influence for evil is jtlso felt by a number of the biggest country clubs, which have forbidden the corset cheek-room, the leaving of the hall between dances and the jazz or chestras —three evils which have also been eliminated from many municipal (lance halls, particularly when these THE TRIBUNE-NEWS, CARTERSVILLE, GA., AUGUST 11. 1921. have been taken under the chaperonage of the Women’s Clubs Still another proof that jazz ih rec ognized as producing an evil effect ifi the fact that in almost every big indus try where music has been instituted it has been found necessary to discontinue jazz because of its demoralizing effect upon the workers. This was noticed in an unsteadiness and lack of evenness in the workmanship of the product af ter a period when the workmen had in dulged in jazz music. .Many people classify under the title “jazz” all music in syncopated rhythm, whether it be the ragtime of the Amer ican negro or the esardas of the Slavic people. Yet there is a vast difference between syncopation and jazz. To un derstand the seriousness of the jazz craze, which, emanating from America, has swept over the world. It is time that the American public should realize what the terms ragtime and ja/.z mean; for the words are not synonymous, as so many people suppose. The Element* of Music Out of Tune. Jazz is not defined in the dictionary or encyclopedia. But Groves’ Dictionary of Music says that “ragtime is a mod ern term of American origin, signifying , in the first instance broken ihythm and ! melody, especially a sort of continuous j syncopation.” The Encyclopedia Bri tannica sums up syncopation as ‘ the , rhythmic method of tying two beats of the same not into one tone in such a i way as to displace the accent.” Synco pation, this curious rhythmic accent on the short beat, is found in its most h ghly developed forms in the music of the folk who have been held for years in political subjection. It is. therefore, an expression in miusic of the desire for that freedom which has been denied to its interpreter. It is found in’its most mtense forms among the folk of all the Slavic countries, especially in certain districts of Poland and Russia, and also among the Hungarian gypsies. For the same reason it was the nat ural expression of the American negroes and was used by them as the accompa ! nintent for their bizarre dances and cake-walks. Negro ragtime, it must be frankly acknowledged is on*- of the nv st important and distinctively char acteristic American expressions to be found in our native music. Whether rag-time will bn the corner-stone of the ! American School of Music row % b<- a j subect for discussion; but the fact re -1 mains that many of the greatest com positions by past and present American I composers have been influenced by rag time. Like all other phases of synco pation, ragtime quickens the pulse, it excites, it stimulates; but it does not destroy. What of jazz? It is hard to define jazz, because it is neither a definite form nor a type of rhythm; it is rather a method em/ployed by the interpreter in playing the dance or song. Familiar hymn tunes can be jazzed until their original melodies are hardly recogniza ble.’ Jazz does for harmony what the accented syncopation of ragtime does for rhythm. In ragtime the rhythm is thrown out of joint, as it were, thus j distorting the melody; in jazz exactly I the same thing is (lone to the harmony. | The melodic line is disjointed and dis connected by the accenting of the par ' tin l instead of the simple tone, and the 1 same effect is produced on the melody and harmony which is noticed in synco pated rhythm. The combination of syncopation and the use of these inhar monic partial tones produces a strange, weird effect, which has been designated •jazz.” The jazz orchestra uses only those In struments which can produce partial, Inharmonic tones more readily than simple tones —such as the saxophone, the clarinet and the trombone, which share honors with the percussion in struments that accent syncopated rhythm. The combination of the syn copated rhythm, accentuated by the constant use of the partial tones sound ing otT-pitch, has put syncopation too off-key. Tlius the three simple ele ments of music—rhythm, melody and harmony—have been put out of tune with each other. Ifs Effect. Jazz originally was the accompani ment of the voodoo dancer, stimulating the half-crazed barbarian to the vilest deeds. l'he weird chant, accompanied by the syncopated rhythm of the voo doo invokers, has also been employed by other barbaric people to stimulate brutality and sensuality. That is has u demoralizing effect upon the human brain has been demonstrated by many scientists. There is always a revolutionary pe riod of the breaking down of old con ventions and customs which follows after every great war; and this rebel lion against existing conditions is to he noticed in all life toda>. Unrest, the desire to break the shackles of old ideas and forms are abroad. So it is no won der that young people should have be come so imbued with this spirit that they should express it in every phase of their daily lives. The Question is whether this tendency should he dem onstrated in jazz—that expression of protest against law and order, that bol shevik element of license striving for expression in music. The human organism responds to mu- steal vibrations. This fact is univer sally recognized. What instincts then are aroused by jazz- Certainly not deeds of valor or martial courage, for all marches and patriotic hymns are of regular rhythm and simple harmony; decidedly not contentment or serenity, for the songs of home and the love of native land are all of the simplest mel ody and harmony with noticeably reg ular rhythm. Jazz disorganizes all i regular laws and order; it stimulates to | extreme deeds, to a breaking away from all rules and conventions, it is harmful ! and dangerous and Us influence is wholly bad. A number of scientific men who have been working on experiments In mu sleo-thearapv with the insane, declare that while regular rhythms and simple tones produce a quieting effect on the brain of even a violent patient, the ef fect of jazz on the normal brain pro duces an atrophied condition on the brain cells of conception until very fre quently those under the demoralizing Influence of the .persistent use of syn copation. combined with inharmonic partial tones, are actually incapable of distinguishing between good and evil, between right and wrong. Dancing to Mozart minuets. Strauss waltzes and Sousa two-steps certainly never led to the corset check room which now holds sway in hotels, clubs and dance ha,lls. Never would one of the biggest fraternities of a great col lege then have thought it necessary to print on the cards of invitation to the "Junior Prom" that ‘‘a corset check room will be provided.” Nor would the girl who woy*‘ corsets in those days have been dubbed old ironsides” and left a discosolate Wall-flower in a cor ner of the ball room Now boys and girls of good families brazenly frequent i the lowest dives in order to learn new CICUISTERS PILLS DIAMOND BRAND If LADIES I r Aik jwr lirnn lit for Cm-CHHh TER S A j DIAMOND SiSASD PILLS ta Ri o onJ/Vv Gor-D metallic boxes, scaled with Blue\<> fcioboa Take no ernsa. Bay of your ?/ Brmrrts* and *k for 1111-CUES.TfcU rt V DIAiIOSD PUAID PI 7.1*8, for twenty*? j yr -s regarded as Pest, Safest, Always Reliab. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGIST \-Z£2> EVERYWHERE?^. fiance steps. Now many jazz dances have words accompanying them which would then never have been allowed to go through the mail. Much music has become an tnfuence for evil. Last winter, at one of the biggest high schools in one of our largest cities, a survey was made of the popular songs of the day by the music supervisor, who suggested that a community sing be held for one assembly each week. He requested the students to bring all the popular songs to school that a choice might be made of what to sing. At the end of two weeks he had in his office over two thousand “best sellers." He asked the student body to appoint from among themselves a committee of six to choose the songs to be sung at the assembly. This committee, after going through the two thousand songs chose forty as t>etng ' fit for boys and girls to sing together." With this evil influ ence surrounding our coming genera tion. it is not to be wondered at that degeneracy should be developing so rapidly in America. In a recent letter to the author Dr. Henry van Dyke says of jazz: as I understand it, it is not music at all. It is merely an Irritation of the nerves of hearing, a sensual teasing of the strings of physical passion. Its fault lies not in syncopation for that is a legitimate device when sparingly used But jazz' is an unmitigated cacophony, a combi nation of disagreeable sounds in com plicated discords, a wilful ugliness and a deliberate vulgarity.” Never in the history of America have we more needed the help and inspira tion which good music can and does give. The music department of the General Federation of Women's Clubs has taken for its motto: “To Make Good Music Popular, and Popular -Mu lsh- Good." Let us carry out this motto in every home in America firmly, stead, lastly, determinedly, until all the music in our land becomes an influence for good. CLEAR CREEK. We are having; some rainy weather fit this writing. Mr. J. M. Abernathy, of Cartersvilby has been visiting in our community. Mr. and Mrs Elihu Summey and ( hildren, of near Iron Hill, are visiting i the former's mother, Mrs. R. T. Surn- I n >\ of this place. | Mr. and Mrs. Lester Womack and ‘hildren. of near Pumpkin Yin*’ spent Saturday find Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Abernathy. Mr. Roy Puckett spent Saturday night with his cousins, Messrs. Jeff and Roosevelt Abernathy. Mr. George Womack was the guest of Mr. Jesse Howell Saturday and Sun day Mr, and Sirs. B. T. Abernathy and children of near Pumpkin Vine creek, j have been visiting relatives in our vi cinity. ■Mrs. Ti-ssie Tidwell and children from below Cartersville, are spending a few days with her parents. Mr. and Mrs R. L. Howell. Mrs. Nancy Blackburn, of Cherokee has been visiting relatives at this place. Mr. Franklin Tidwell, from near Pine Grove, spent Wednesday night with his aunt, Mrs. R. T. Summey. Elder W. E. Hembree and Mr. Her man Taylor spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Abernathy. Mr. Matthew Tidwell spent Wednes day night with Mr, R. L. Howell. We are sorry to say that Mrs. Ma tilda Abernathy is not improving at this writing. Miss Florrie G4rner. from Martha. Ga„ who is teaching at Bates, was vis iting Mrs. R. L. Howell, at this place. Everybody remember the annual singing at Macedonia the fourth Sun day in this month. Everybody come and bring well filled baskets. = RESERVE^ —OF COURSE, WE HAVE MANY PROBLEMS, JUST LIKE YOURS. There are times in the life of any man, any business, any community, any town, when an optimistic word, or suggestion goes a long way. If you feel that we can serve you, in any way, come in, tell us about it, and see how ready and anxious we are to do so. The officers at this bank are very human, with problems just like yours, many of them, no doubt. They very likely will have a suggestion, or idea that you may work out, to your own pleasure and profit. Anyway, just feel this bank stands ready to render its part in community service, and to do a big part in community building. 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