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PAGE TWO Delving Into the Gene (Current Opinion.I | In si Good or bad, fad or institution. Jazz is Jazz was born in Chicago, developed Brocks in New Orleans, exploited in New held at York and glorified in Paris. So writes Zet land one of the many authorities who have birthda recently delved into this latest man!- discove testation of American music that has native conquered a p'.ace in the western "Wh world. Howard Brockway. the Amer- I was ican composer, attempts to explain. Siames< in the N. Y. Review, the characteris- Orienta tics and origin of Jazz, but its origin harmor still remains obscure. Chicago claims essence it. and. according to E. M. King. Chi- like no cago still holds the strongest title, heard. But Jazz, claims .ur Brockway. absolut though it is new to us in tne I'nited were t States and ''rough us to ooth Eng- moniac land and Franc . is not absolutely accents new to the w< rid. Tie attempts an percuss analysis of this newest musical phe- ous mo nomenon: and lou "Just what is Jazz? In striving to I have answer ths query. I can not hope to mood r imitate the admirable brevity of the is no r word. Jazz is ordered and calculated our ow noise It is a compound of qualities, erous. both rythmic and melodic. It seeks, kindly : and with absolute success be it said riment. to sweep from our minds all simul- Othe' laneous consideration of other things/ ties are and to focus o.ir attention upon its Anreric; own mad, whirling. involved self. York T Herein lies a large part of its com- zet. for pelling force and appeal. It may well Ohicaec be that General Gouraud could find "At the hideous load of responsibility Jazz, lightened, perhaps even put aside for of havi the moment, as he listened to Eu- ear. wi rope"? jazzing. ami that he feit his many i pulse responding to the virile rhythm, flavor o and his emotions joining in the tush that CI of the humorous care-free mood. Cer- case, ta n it is that our dough-boys, fresh tion.' sa from the trenches, with days and was bo weeks of grim endeavor and physical New Or strain behind them, turned to the Jazz and glo furnished by their band - and found in present: it relaxation and s la e and cheer negro n: which enabled them to forget what cornet was past and to ah ir. 1 n themselves sober.' < wholeheartedly to the joyous hilarity or'hodo of the present moment. freely c "There is not the .-lightest doubt Pastime that in th.s maelstrom of rhythm above ti there al des a powerful tonic efTec. baric at Through the medium of the phy.-.cal. woman it reaches and influences the psycho- he held logical attitude. I have been con- tlonal i vinced oMhe truth of this fact by per- vva" P'a sonal experience, undergone not once Jasbo i but many times." i taken t Jazz is composed of rhythm, m -1- musi'% w odv and a certain modicum of contrapuntal inne- voices, continue- Mr. " " a Brockway. But the greatest of t )>.? - ? 1 is rhythm. The Jazz band star's out ' , . .. . * ?r ria vv to cet you ana leaves nothing *o chance. "It is fairly well established that only an oyster ran resist the ap- a,1(* 1 peal of syncopated rhythm when it is "uv" 111 performed with masterful abandon " "1'' self-nre? which absolutely controls dynam gradations and vita! accents." Il?-r? 1 , . , - bands t is the veal secret of Jazz: r- pressi "The howitzers of the Jazx band's ex press artillery are stationed in the 'trap- ' I'nder this heading we find all the in- 0p|l|,?nij struments of percussion. - ich a.- the , j ^ big drum, the snare drum, cymbals. n.t,jon ( triancle. wooden blocks played upon j . j with drum sticks, xylophone, cowbells, rattles, whistles for the pro- ,,,.iv_rar duct ion of vario- - ird muses, and a host of other implements, often the OIj~jn. personal conceptions of individual plaver- of 'he ;p- The trombones . . . ., broken in y r en resent f > . 1 .nrs, w the router < clarinets, oboes, aaxonh >nes, alt i . . . -Not oni horns an! cornet- th ripul. .... traveler hie batteries, l he lange mung po nt.... . . niornin; blank. .? - easv to see whv tin . .tee! . . . , Jazz ba of the 'drum-fire 1- complete! than sn "The melody will always be borne ,tmj (j()V by suff enf .nstrun.ents to ensure its { tv,( getting o\er.' Then, in ill- inner (j voices of the band, will take p ate a nofhin" comb.nation of effect- which adds Thee' w enormouslv In Ihn r.. T .1 /I iv.. ?v.? - - ? -- "" syncopa number Here are certain of thr* c >n- *gweet trapuntal features which are men- les-maj? tioneri above. They consist of a 1- p(j on riety of hilarious effects. produced by ,hp jake trombones or saxophones, attained by an(j n curious sliding from note to note. j,j,.rcP(j This creates an extremely comical re- r,.a! m;, suit. This characterisMc and droll Chicago portamento has become so v. 11 known likes it. nnd so popular that it has achieved a sjt on tl specific name -'blues.' a humorously hear! . apt designation. A -trikinu contrast jn chirr is made by the mournf 1 soughing of 8 ,rUP , the tromroncs in t < rr ds? o* the pj(rh in joyous rict of th re.-t of the hand i.ands. \ Sharp rhythmic ejaculations ai:-< ,he |ak front out the welter of sound, and propaga over the who.-- tumult the traps-play- [f one er spreads his arraw of dazllng ac- thetic sf tents, brought forth with absolute feelings cirtuositv from his motley army of1 0f fhica noise producers It almost seems, at "This times, like a case of 'each for hitn-'a whole self and the devil take the hindmost, j jt OVPr t But it is not so. and there is definite rrater. a purpose and ordered means in it all make ? ? duclion Rub-My-Tisnt is a powerful ontl Ja7z fm septic; It kills the poison caused . from Infected ruts, cures old sores ... I overheat tetter, etc.?Ad*. *? ^CASTER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. e musicians, with construction, silvery note from Question President Three I ?r who cared not When Senator Fall. Hep be roasted for his New Mexico, suggested th he crowd looking amendments to the league c holy-rollers ex- would not require Germany's ; the chuckles or as she was not a member >nd over all the league, the president replied 1 >i!ity of old horse had thought of that feature, would be a thi- agreed with Senators Brande l Knox. Republican. Pennsylvar ?rts of the iKast asserted that the treaty wou Washington is al- into force among all the sig k is rent in spots, as soon as three had ratified i ly Jazz. But the For more than three ho te throes?and it committee members questioi until conscious- president and afterward thej for lunch at the White House 'ontributes to the the recess was taken there h ... (Continued Kro th New Orleans, where so iliosyncrasies of Senegambian ^e could not disclose iricinated We are convinced 0f international good licauo ha> made out a pood an(j for the same re Good or bad. fad or institu- could not go into the : iys the brief for < hicaeo. 'Jazz tliFrench frontier rn in this city, developed in niittee a copy of the leans, exploited in New ^ork Shantung promise, rifled In Paris." And Chicago Early action on j as Exhibit A. Jasbo Hrown. a urged in a statement lusician. who doubled with the at outset of the < and piccolo 'When lie was was necessary, he continues the brief..'he played peace basis might be \ music, but when he imbibed other treaties under if pin. which was his favorite at Versailles were be: . he had a way of screaming the world learned wh he melody with a strance ha- to the treaty w ith (5e tandon. One evening a young he saw no reasonable frequenter of the cafe where ate reservations but forth, tired of the conven- wise to incorporate t manner in which the music fieation itself ved. called out. "A little more in replying to a lot n that piece!" The cry was tions by Senator lira ip " Jazz! Jazz!" and Jazz can. Connecticut, th as christened." led into an exhaust! zz one of the spiritual results ,he co-mingling of ttempt at assimilation of some obligations in troatie ine different races" questions "A moral obligatio ing in the N. V. Evening P >st. son. "is. of course, sv all the itinerant musicians-- obligation, and if 1 n and monkeys. German bands greater binding force irdy-gurdies. ferry-boat fel- obligation there is d those who jangle the tarn- judgment; in a legal i inn Pint (i in a sont-me tor is no element of judf nervation? A certain pro- Like a I emarked i?st winter that Jazz Senator Hrandegee vere merely outbreaks of ir- was no important ble spontaneity, which would cause we are obligate itself momentarily and then "I thinV: it is of ir Hut they are becoming poitance," replied th c. international. Mr. Kim: cause the element of that Jazz is a ragged comht- into it." .f letters that suggests bump- jiUT i am ass urn in snorting, wind and banging Hrandegee. "if the c< broken glass and the devil- v-se Uj; to (j0 a ro e back of it all ' hicago, congress refused to d e. he asserts, is its inevitable oth,.r nation's r.*pre bly can do the same traditional place of wind anil to me i.k* a rrtpo of gla-s. and the geographical effective tribunal wh >:" the Jazz bands is Chicago, in promoting peace." -c in a long journey did a "The reason 1 do in ar more manifestations, you." Mr Wilson re r. noon and night, of what do not think such nils can do under pressure likely often occur. I lote the car in Chicago. l*p be only upon the gr . n Michigan av. nu the bands- and. in ease eongres ? air with their tonal curses indifferent to foreign ring the height of the loan Senator Harding. I :e.-s than "My Country Tis of suggested there was as subjected to irresponsible a "written compact tion Jumping and throbbing, to fulfill Its mora Hand of Liberty' was p'tif tl which the president i st. . Certainly there ascend- "Hut it steadie- th? hieago's famous Broadway by its promise before h actual cosmic vacuums, holes stand with other na iii apace, ii you piease. judgment to niainta by instruments lifted in ethe- world." issacre To all appearances. When Senator Hrai not only does not mind, but president's opinion O Chicago, couldst thou but ras- of the present tie parapet once removed and Rumania and iiunga . Surely, if the general air said he could not ans ico is preeminently Jazz, if it would inolve passing hat the good people naturally foieign political ques id roll 'o the iii* of the many considered Inadvisabl vby should the country allow Senator llrandegec e city to constitute itself a tention that many ai ting choir of Jazz immortal? ternational law had <1 municipality has lost its es- meaning of various i tnse. has it no respect for the treaty, and that Cha of others? Shall the popcorn William Howard Taft go blow over all the lot? had suggested reser is a fair metaphor, too. I'ut president insisted thi band in a giant popper, hold perfectly safe to lej he clowing coals of an ample language to the intei nd. shaking well, command it ture statesmen witho 1 some jolly music -the pro- t'nited States would would he meticulously true to in: The wheezei of the quickly reliev* ... , , llilioii>.ne*->., Ixiss ol g horns: the popping of the ?Pa<Ll< hrH> due fo . d drumheads; the groans \,jv THE LA! and pleadings of tta I ? f now and then a pure CLlOOf JCLZZ a thoroughbred pipt a rap that he was to iipport of his contention that ar1, ra*'n8s of 1 not new to the world. Mr. on' erN 8 es an<* ... , .... , .. . pressing themselves av tells of a t hinese festival ' ? , , .. . . . 0 .. a few cannibals; a Paderewski s chateau in bwit. . ... . .. raucous imperturbat . in honor of the great pianist s _ , .. _ x. i? . fiddles. . . . That v. At that time Mr. Rrockwav . , . , cago Jazz baml. red phonograph records of a ? ... . . "So far many p; Siamese orchestra: . . . .. . . ... , , have been spared. 1 en I first heard them p'.aved, , ... .. .... most free. New lor astounded, for there in this _ , . Boston is only slight ? music, in spite of the strange ...... ... , , , ... , ? .. . .. Middle est is in tl 1 idioms, from an Occidental s ... .. may never know it lie standpoint, was the verv , . ness returns, of?Jazz: The music was ? . . . . Henri Duvernois c ithing that my ears had ever _ _ . . ... Paris Femina an am and uncouth to the point of , . ,. .. . T, . Jazz craze in the Fr< e uninte.ligibilitv. But there ... . . Blanditeurs are giv he insistent rhythm, the de- . . . . their recently affiant inergv, the fantastic riot of . . . , . , colored Jazz band l from the drums and other concierge is persuad in in?triimrnte otui o w /-? ?_ . . . , , , , in his ears: the bar od which made me laugh long . , orders to plav so thi d It seemed humorous to me , . . A. All the other tenants often wondered what that .... . . building are invited t eally was in, Siamese. There , , / . if they were not the; oom for doubt when we ' ear . . . . , , . complain of the noisi ti Ja77.. \\ hob : .rt. hoi.-t? The musicians them; rough. but the very soul of , , , , fer to play classica stood humor and care-free mer* , .. they real ze that th? . , niand Jazz with its i r less erudite musical authori. . . . , sortment of noisema satisfied that Jazz is purelv of , ' on in particular, sir an origin. \\ e find the New , , . Jazzers explains, "th elegraph. Hroadwav s own ga- . ,, that they have an au instance, giving the credit to > PRESIDENT WU last we have the genesis of INTERPR1 Chicago disputes the honor' * T\& firct Ct 11 ffn/I Oc?f r*n !n it ^ - ? - - - ? using skit on the no discussion whether the ?nch capital. The was to be resumed during th ing a party for neon, but later it was decidei :ed daughter. A do so There was no intima s engaged. The nicht whether the committei ed to put cotton seek a further conference. To id is given strict it will resume its open heai it he can hear it the capitol. Senator Fall 1< of the apartment Mr- Wilson a list of question 0 the party, since the latter said he would rep c would certainly length later. They concern t e to the landlord. t>rs of the president or coni selves would pre- declare a state of peace, de 1 selections, hut the resumption of trade am >ir clients all de- niatic relations with German miscellaneous as- disposition is to he made of t kers?the "klax- man colonies, and the need fo ice. as one of the ir?n representation on variot* at reminds them peon reconstruction commissi tomobile." The president's declarath compelling moral obligation LSON the league was emphasized in 2TS LEAGUE ment issued jointly tonight b ? tors Borah. Idaho, and Johnsc m Page 1.) fornia. Republican members ? committee, and two of the I > "in the interest opponents to the treaty in ii 1 understanding ' ent form. They declared th ason he said he testimony had borne out thei negotiations over that the league world lead t< or give the com- minable foreicn complication? record of Japan's also pointed out that Senato son had developed in the day' the treaty was ing that a cood part of the tei by the president settlement resultinc from t onference. This was yet to he determined, held, so that a The arrangements for publi reached and the transcript of the discussion, negotiations now _... _# - - pin. uui ui a suggestion rr ing delayed until committee that senators he at would happen q?, sted to keep the proceed rmany. He said confidence, had Mr Wilson's p objection to sen- supervision. After the commit thought it un- departed ho went to the White hem in the rati- pas, nicnt. where the correspc ere waiting for the last of it lg series of quos- ographic report, and asked v ndegee. Itepuhli- ev^ything there was going sir e president ess ..j ,.ame down." he said to t \. discussion "f rrspon,jonts ..j0 inquire of y< moral and legal j# tfje report of the con was handled the way you wan n." said Mr. Wil- _ p, rior to a legal gam Tm)k H||| Remnlni| WU| lay say so. has a _ , , George Ade says that a frl >. In every motal , his in Bridgeport. Conn., has an elementt of ..... . ored boy working for him as , obligation there One morning ham announced gment. ,.f < ??i was about to quit. suggested there laks you, Mistak Blank, distinction, "be- * ~f , . . .. <><;<) has more imitations th 'd in anv event. ... ... , . other < lull and I etfer Tonic ilte greatest im- market, hut no One wants e president, "be- tions. They are dangerous judgment enters in the medicine line.?Adv. g." returned Mr uincil should adrt.un thing, and o it. and if every _ _ assenttiling, it seenis LJ sand and not an ieh would result ? B not agree with plied, "is that I a refusal would believe it would When it'? ?C avest grounds? s is riuht. I am criticism." lepublican. Ohio, no necessity of for this republic . .1 obl.gations to eJoined: ^ t jW 1,1; f ?,r 11 ,by he jthoritii'.s on inl.fi'T* 1 t- t< thf "* >rovisions of th" rle* K. Hughes, I "IV > arul Klihu Knot .ations, but the1 _ ^ it he thought _ ? fl t?>p n??inK Bl of fu- I y I * * BVI ut fear that the R I suffer by th'-ir, f \p|?etite and Torpid Liver.? F . assent. | | 9 ^NqmMa J m 1HL ! le never fT>| ffl The rlave ?ia, who Id come /j^^Q Always ijP the best B buy for to f Up w/ tion to- III? ^ ? would nrirp morrow r I IvV f 9HT 1 diplo- flVC-C v. what - . he Ger-' Of D s Euro-' Sealed Tight-Kept Right TCfl rltorial \ \ I om the *" ~ / <3^5^A / y not re- vrt>*->oco f inps In) f5|J?5 Y?8L\ ^dk ersonal 1^4 V?S'\N . ?l(USP ^103 indents ???mmm_.._ ie ite(ain't pot no fault to find with dis heah ir whether .. , 'o.j. i'ut they telis me dat over heah pi loothlv. , ' at ciese munitions dey's payin fo' dol- I' h'" rnr" lahs a day. I lows to pit some of dat n< w sren * " easy inonev. He ng paid off. ho departed. Two days later he tamo back and applied for his former place. I li linn. "Didn't vou care for the new job?" lend of a col- "1 <,uit hefo' * Kot dat bar." stated janitor, the negro. "Yistiddv mornin' I toes that he over to dent munitions works and I tells de man in de little office at de and I Kate dat I'se done come to get one of them fo'-dollah-a-day Jobs. He says an any 'nil rizht." and den he gits out a book on the anrt he axes me whut is my name; IrnitA* j tjen jip sav. "\vhar do you want things de remains sent?' And I look him that you can't think straight ; when the beads stand out on your forWioad and the heated air is absolutely motionless? Pepsi-Cola brings the sea breezes to you! J' For brain fag and l?ody drag? ta.restor# the old punch and optimism?Oh.hovl Pepsi-C?>l? puts lotsofpepin t hat l.?|t hmjj mile of the day's ftrind; makes thpuRht How easily and expression brilliant; (IrinJc Cooling?Refreshing?Pepifying PEPSI-COLA RIPAY, AUGUST 22, 1919. >HLagt^ ents worth \fflp||i Flavor mj Lastsjp^' 1 de eye an' say: 'Doss, don't you ester yo'se'f bout de remains, 'ca'se se gwine take em with me right aw.' " Candy News. 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