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6 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 13, 1919. MUSIC AS A CURATIVE FOR THE ILLS OF THE WORLD New Music Service League of America Headed by Charles M. Schwab Aims to Uplift Humanity by Carrying Out on Broader Scale the Psychologic Treatment So Successful During Wai Period , I Neptune, that It nnit ha aoratvhm In I Neptune, that it most be somewhere In the neighborhood of the place In the skies where they finally found It. be cause it had shown Its power and in fluence long- before it showed its face. It ' would ' tax the reader's patience too much to take him through all the devious demonstrations necessary to show that the something1, to the thresh old of which science is always reach Ins without ever being- able to -ret across, is a force which is exactly the same in every single thine in all the world. It is only when wo analyse this force as it manifests Itself in our own selves that we recognise it as what we call our will. Of course, our win is so ultimately ET XB.YTXG E. BACOX. f i yO hasten convalescence, banish de- Xpresslon. promote a civic spirit and develop, in the nation, the sense of the good and beautiful these, according to Charles M. Schwab, head of the Beth lehem Steel corporation, are some of the problems to be solved by the Musle Service League of America, of which he is president. The league was organised recently in New York- Its first duty will be to provide mcslo for military and civic hospitals, prisons, asylums acd other institutions. Much has been said and written about the marvelously beneficial effects of muslo not only upon the mind, but also upon the body, so much so that, accord ing to a recent announcement from Washington, the government content , plates the employment of muslo to cure invalid soldiers. Naturally, there have been numberless conjectures as to the cause of this curative property of muslo. Dr. Thaddeus Rich, concertmsster of the Philadelphia, orchestra and dean of the muslo department of Temple uni versity. says that he has frequently seen practical demonstrations of the ef ficacy of muslo as a curative. He has often played the violin for convalescent soldiers and says he almost invariably no Lad beneficial results. Veatal Rehabllltattosw "Once I also bad the happiness to be Instrumental in reawakening an inter est la life in a woman who had been bedridden many years." be said. -Nothing which science or the solicitude of friends could do seemed capable of arousing her from the melancholy brooding In which she hsd fallen. My violin scattered the humors and left her bright and cheerful. "Another case which cam nnder my observation, although I was not actor In It. was that of a prominent Philadelphia woman who had long been suffering from mental depression. She was deemed to be past all hope of cure. and, as a last resort, a famous neuro path prescribed music. One of the most celebrated musicians of this country undertook to furnish the music. Be played the piano for the woman to such good effect that within a short time he was restored to health. The mu sician found that the best results in that particular case were obtained from lasslcal music Mournful selec tions seemed to brighten ber, and later, the gayer sort of mnslo raised her spirits and put ber into a merry mood." Doctor Rich said ha had often won dered what the cause of the efficacy of muslo might be and bad spoken to many other musicians and scientists about It. but the only theory advanced which seemed tenable was that it was the tonio effect of music upon the nervea "Maybe, too. the memory baa some thing to do with the cures." Doctor Rich said. "Sometimes a musical note will recall some scene of the past, the recollection of which will sweep over one with the stimulating effect of balm. I have observed this in my own person. Music, in this respect, bears an analogy to odors. Often have long forgotten events been recalled to my memory by the whiff of some fra grance which had been inseparably coupled with the event which, its re currence evoked." Whatever the physiological cause of the curative effect of music, there cor. talnly la a very profound philosophical one, the following theory of which will. I hope, commend Itself to the reader not only on account of Its Interesting nature and Its plausibility, but also because It throws much light upon the deepest and most mooted riddles of life itself. Llssltatloas ef sdeste. Science, analyzing the things which nature preeents in such profusion, al ways reaches a point beyond which it cannot go. For instance, the physicists nave traced the course of matter, first, down to the molecule which Is much too small for the most powerful micro scope to disclose; then to the atom, compared to which the molecule bears the same relation as a grain of wheat to a granary: and. finally, according to the most recent pronouncement, down i 1i ' -.. nT ' If. Db. Tkaddeaa Rica, coaceTtmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, has need the vfolla wit k els-sal sace-eea la woeiaa- ceavaleaeeat soldiers back health, and ta ai lavaUds from s-telaaeaoly tiesdlns. to the electron, which revolves within the core of the atom like a planet in side our firmament. In each instance the physicists have been able to trace the slse of what, at each ets.se of the discoveries, was re garded as the ultimate constituent of matter, and they have also been able to tell us the manner In which these mi nute constituents acted. But what that within them was which gave them the power to act. this they never could tell. It was something which always eluded them, although they knew It was some thssfg. just as the astronomers knew, years before the discovery of the planet bound up with our intellect that we can scarcely conceive of them as exist ing apart from each other. Neverthe less, the fact is that our Intellect, which Is dependent upon a brain, is one thing, while the will, which has its seat In every part of the body, la that which causes us to experience either pleasure or pain, according as the will la af fected. In lower animals we can more easily eee the relationship between intellect and win. the polyp, for Instance, hav ing a most voracious will with just barely enough intellect to point tne way of its win to its food. In plant life we see manif estations 01 the win entirely stripped of intellect. The lowest form of animal life Is dis tinguished from plant life by the fact that it reacts to motives supplied through an intellect, no matter how gllmmerlngly small and rudimentary this Intellect may be. Plants, whether -1-Lnt oaJca. flv-catching mimosas or creeping ivy and mosses, react only to stimuli, which is a sort of mechanical process and requires no intellect. Never' theless. the will shows Itself as clearly unmistakably In this plant re action as it does in the motivated acts of men. Musle Voice of the Will. In the inorganio world, too, where even stimuli no longer prevail, where everything reacts only to causes prop erly so-called that Is, to mechanical. chemical and electrical causes that force which reacts to these causes ad dresses Itself to the unbiased beholder as no less a will than that which makes men run from danger or hasten to the place where pleasure awaits them. Now, what, you ask, has all this to do with muslcT Everything in the world. Whatever we see around us is con creted will. For will is a longing-, i ceaseless yearning, and only waits to manifest itself when opportunity pre sents itself by means of motives stim uli or crass causes. When the cord of the musical instru ment is struck, the answering vibra tions are the manifestations of some phase of the will residing in that in strument. These vibrations are as much a manifestation of a will as Is the spark which springs from the flint when struck by steel, or as Is the out burst of rage from a man whom another has struck in the face. And. Strang to say. these vibrations of the cord, converted by the mechan ism of our ear Into music, reach the will residing within us and find a re sponsive echo there quicker than any appeal made to us through any of the other senses. I Music thus is, so to speak, a voice calling to us from another world the world in which the will Is at home. Music, therefore, has no need of words. It goes directly to the heart and stirs the will more potently than the pro ductions of any of the oth-er arts. Chopin, the great composer, was once a reception at the house of the "FIDDLED UTS WAT TO SUCCESS." Ifnsdc has had no little share is shaping the destiny of Charles M. Schwab. It was with music that he won the heart of Andrew Car negie, the great ironmaster, many years ago and thus was able to obtain a foothold upon the ladder of success which he has mounted since to the very top. When Mr. Schwab was IS he was earning $6 a week at Mr. Car negie's plant in Braddock, Pa, but soon attracted the attention of Cap tain W. R. Jones, the general su perintendent, who marveled at the . I boy's knowledge of the workings of the plant. Schwab's rise was quick, and soon he was working alongside of Captain Jones, to whom ha 6erved as a sort of encyclopedia of facts and figures. Mr. Carnegie resided at Pitta burg, 10 miles from the plant, and would frequently send for Captain Jones for a report. To rid himself of this to him irksome duty Cap tain Jones one day said to Mr. Carnegie: "By the way, I think I can fix this matter of making reports with out wasting my time. IVe a young fellow named Schwab who knows as much about the plant as I do. Ill send him to you, and when you get tired talking shop hell give you a little music. He plays the piano, the organ and the violin first-rate, and he also sings." Mr. Carnegie found that Captain Jones had not exaggerated. He was amazed at the youth's efficiency. After a several hours' session young Schwab took up his hat and was about to go when Mr. Carnegie exclaimed: "Oh, by the way you must play for me, I almost forgot-" And the way the boy played and sang the old songs that had been popular when Mr. Carnegie was a child, and especially an old Scotch ballad, touched the ironmaster's heart. Scarcely out of his teens, the re building of the Homestead mills was committed to Schwab, and, at 30, on the death of Captain Jones, i i i j i no uoviiiJio general Buperuiteuueiib f oi tne JUagar rnomson works at asBu salary of $35,000 a year. r w- M. SCHWAB. . . . ...e CHARLES joined the others who had gathered i Joy or sorrow, or love or hatred, or around the piano. Even her wit, beauty, hope or fear: but or.ly of joy in gen at French actress Rachel. Most of the company was gathered around Rachel, while Chopin, in a distant comer of the adjoining room, was thrumming dreamily at a piano. First one, then another, a third, a fourth left the side the amiable and beautiful young hostess until at last she too, becoming aware -of .(ha divine sounds, arose and grace and fame were not proof against the mightier magio of the master's music. Muslo s?ca2i to us of weal and woe; and it is weal and woe that make up thi strands of our life. We are for ever tossed between dsire and gratl flcatlon, and if the sequence of these two is rapid enough we deem our selves happy. Woo to us if either makes too long a stay. For, If our desires re main ungratifled too long, unhappl- ness is inevitable; and. on the other hand, if gratification follows imme diately upon the heels of each desire, tedium, a leaden, deadly tedium, seizes upon us in the end and despair is added to unhappiness. Key to Mualo Cares, AH this is reflected also in muslo. The continuous striving of the lighter notes of the melody to get away from the ground-bass, and their quick re turn to It, are analogous to our per petual shuttlecock flights between de sire and gratification. And, in pre cisely the same manner as the latter must not be too long delayed in their transitions from one to the other, lest we suffer, so if the notes are arrested too long either at the ground-bass or away from It, the music becomes worse than a discord and is unbearable. The key, then, to the cures wrought by muslo Is furnished by the fact that muslo Is so direct a manifestation of win than when it is heard it arouses kindred emotions in the win of him who hears it. True, its language is so uni versal that it tells us nothing at all of this or that particular person, thing or event, nor of this or that particular eral. srrow in general, love and hatred in general, hope and fear in general So that each of thousands of auditors will interpret, let us say, a symphony according to his own particular mood and training. . For, though the will is master in his own. house, it neverthe less is guided by motives supplied to It by Its servant.- the intellect, the mind; and he whose Intellect has been refined by education will, naturally, find that bis Intellect has a wider hori zon of motives to offer its master; and, conversely, too, such a one win inter pret the motions of the will In a more refined manner and visualize them In frander, nobler pictures than he whose mind has not been trained. But what, ever the manner of Interpretation, the "effect upon the will Itself is pleasur able or painful. Hence, the problem of him who would effect cures by muslo must be to employ melodies which touch the will of the patient pleasurably, with an Insistency which leaves it CO choice but to react benefi cially upon the entire body. For, what ever is in nature Is will concreted; hence If the will Is soothed and con tented, the chances are that the body, which is its concreted manifestation, will soon be well. too. curacy shows that the monetary system of Germany is now based en tirely upon paper, with the exception of the. relatively small and unimpor tant gold and silver reserve. The value of such means of payment as have been put in circulation la very small. Out side of the imperial bank notes there are what are locally called the "dahrle henskassenschelne." or the notes Issued by the various loan bankB against mer chandise, and there are the coupons of the different war loans, which circulate as means of payment. The greatest evil of this paper ex I of ..w,- .-J 'frjTtfL-, ";y -- , I sirs ana K i auiliuh liu ji. auu, aaa pi tt- i m -tew,- ' LSjr f 'TVCV'-'-.-rT ' " I cisely the same manner as the latter I AA iiiliSli y . II Ifelfil 1 f MWm imwmemmij. i 3a, S"9. fV W v ';. v.'.JbM'Y I II- " ' 'U. - M .notes, or ; -1 & If1' til n ' - r I li m : - . - -. , X sVtywJ '. - S l AC a A f ' ' -i - Srf A T r fcT j v lav 1 - " f esssa ' WT gr Tt p beauty aask. srrac war aot proof against the mightier xasgie ""iyta-tHj saaaterts aanala . CURRENCY INFLATION NOW OVERWHELMS ALL GERMANY Monetary System Practically Based Upon Paper and Every Town and Village Issues Its Own. REPORT of recent date which Is I The great demand for the old bank believed to be drawn with ac-1 botes and currency has naturally iiubou uiBn iv rise in value. A xvuu- Ciiaplm tne si-eat composer, wu on plawins for friends In the borne of the French, actress Rachel. One after the other members of the company became aware of the divine sounds and gratis Ei-cr suvuuu .uc pisiw Mitwn sat a ttii i of the is caused by the auxiliary "hifsschelne." as they are called. Every town and village has its own money, which has steadily been increasing, and with little or nothing back of it. There is such a lack of confidence In this local cur rency that the notes are only taken In payment in the locality where they ac tually have been Issued. Owing to the unfortunate situation created by these local auxiliary notes the German population has lost con fidence in the general financial situa tion and attempts to protect Itself by procuring old bank notes. Hoarding has thus been brought about on a large scale. This "geldhamstereV or gold bunser. i complained; of on aU aides, j mark bank note with red stamping now costs from 1150 to 1200 marks. There are several reasons for the gold hoarding. The first of these Is to keep the money away from the banks, and thus escape the control of the au thorities, as well as the heavy Income taxation. The second Is to more easily conduct business In Germany, that la. to be able with greater facility to pur chase hidden merchandise by paying in the preferable currency. A third reason Is to be able to send money abroad to neutral countries at the pro pitious moment and purchase foreign exchange. A fourth reason Is to be able with such foreign exchange through dummies living in neutral countries to do business with the al lied countries. Still another reason is to be able with greater facility to pur chase In Germany, neutral or allied gold and silver or securities and then to hide these until later. The carrying out of the conditions mentioned in these live points naturally tends to aggravate the situation and to diminish the possibility of payment of the Indemnity to be demanded. The high salaries, as well as the extrava gant life of the population, have little bearing upon the security of the eco nomic situation, the money circulating from hand to hand and thus always sellable. OLD VETERAN SHOT DEAD Unidentified Man Shoots Four Times Without Warning. NEW YORK. Antonio Mazzlo, one of Garibaldi's veterans, was talking over old times with five or six cronies in Phllippo Mosco's wine shop at 402 East Twelfth street, when a roan entered and fired four shots. One of the bullets struck Mazzlo In the back of the head and he fell dead. The murdered fled and all trace of him was lost. No one could account for the murder. nor could any of Mazzio-s xrienas identify the assassin. They believe that he intended to kill one of the others, but the police could obtain no informa tion concerning the intended victim. Mosoo was detained by Detectives Stetter and Quinn of the Fifth-street station as a material witness. . Mazzlo was SO years old and lived alons at. 407 East Twelfth street. He had s, son living; oa SUten Island,
