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THE IRONWOOD TIMES. VOLUME IRONWOOD, GOGEBIC COUNTY, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938 NUMBER 14 THROUGH LOVE TO LAUGHTER EAD your child through love to laughter, Sorrow soon enough comes after; Soon enough will real ill find it, Let not false gloom blur or blind it; Life has much of glee and Smothering smiles in babes is madness, Rather let them laugh and love it With God's smiling skies above it; Joyous juniors love to caper, Ills for them are thin as paper, While the gladness and the glory Fill life to its upper story; Smiles for them are finely filling, Though some tears each may be spilling. Let them laugh, the years are flying To where each shall know more crying, Burdened with the cares and trials, Sufferings and self-denials Which grow greater, stronger, bolder, As their human slaves grow older. Let the child laugh long and longer, Let its love of glee grow stronger, Better it should turn from troubles, Laugh at irridescent bubbles, Than eclipse its sunny gladness In the atmosphere of sadness, All too ready to bereave And with ghosts of gloom to leave us. Let your juvenile be folly, Lead him far from melancholy, Harmless joys jar roof and rafter, Lead your child through love to laughter.

EDGAR JONES By LEMUEL F. PARTON He was suspected of slyly sabotaging the grandiose new Italian state. It was in Suspected of March, 1934, that his opera, "The Sabotage in Fable of the Exchanged Sons," New Opera with the text by Luigi Piran- dello, all but caused a riot in the Royal opera house. So far as I could learn at the time, there was no brash heresy in the work, but, as elaborated by the text, a subtle hint that ultimate truth is forever elusive and supreme power dead sea fruit. That, of course, is dangerous doctrine in a totalitarian state, and it was quickly and savagely resented.

The next day, II Duce forbade another presentation. Malipiero is a poet and a mystic. Of dominant presence, with sharply cut Roman features and hair brushed back in a thick pom- dadour, he is at the same time extraordinarily gracious, friendly and unassuming. He lives in a quaint stone villa, forty or fifty miles from Venice, centuries old, rambling and tumbledown. Cut in the stone door lintel there is a Latin text, "To the obscene, all things are obscene." That was his answer to the critics of one of his operas.

The art of living engrosses him as much as the art of music and he studiously maintains a relationship of courtesy, dignity and Has Gift for friendly intimacy with the crea- Friendship tures in his has a With Animals gift for friendship with animals and thinks that much of the trouble of mankind is due to its insensitiveness to the subhuman and superhuman. His music is apt to range into those zones. He was born in Venice in 1882, beginning his violin studies in his sixth year. His father was a political exile and the family was in Germany for many years. Wagner was a crashing strain of modernity which profoundly affected his work.

(Copyright WNU Service) tion than the eight or nine thousand dollars that has been realized the past year from tuition. A canvass of the prospects would have to be made by interested citizens who desire to keep the school running to see whether or not at least a hundred students could not be induced to attend the College at the increased rate. Too much effort has been made in bringing the institution to its present high standard to have it discarded without a concerted struggle by interested parties who believe that an institution of that sort is a decided asset to any community. We don't know the exact figures but sending a child away to school, whether it be to Michigan, Wisconsin, or Minnesota, must cost in the neighborhood of eight hundred or a thousand dollars. Sending a child to a local school for two years at a saving of about four hundred dollars per year should not be overlooked by any public-spirited citizens.

Besides, the money spent would stay in Iromuood and not be drained aivay, never to return. But no time is to be lost. Those interested should get the details while the instructors are here yet and sign contracts with other schools or leave the city when the present school term comes to an end. Malipiero Was Person! to Remember A sort of challenge was made by the American Chemical industry, third largest of all manufacturing industries in the United States, ivhen a statement by the company that one hundred million dollars would be available for plant expansion and new employment if the industry can be sure that it will be free from government inter- tachecl Miss Kite; Mary June Lilliquist is Mrs. DeHooley of the Nobility; Mrs.

Sharp the landlady, is played by Eleanor Lilliquist; Stasia, the slavey, is depicted by Mary Cashman, Jack Sullivan plays the part of the street singer, while Frank Michela is the stranger. Mary Germaine O'Neill wields the megaphone, so to speak, for the play, in her role as director. That snicker heard a while back was uttered by an D. at the mere mention of a Republican comeback in the state and county elections to be held this fall. HE sixth questionnaire of the monthly series inaugurated by a national editorial reviewer, to obtain the views of country editors on issues of timely importance, was somewhat different in form than those previously when a mei'e "yes" and "no" was asked of thousands of country editors throughout the country to get a cross-sectional opinion on national events and) doings.

Two questions were asked of the editors in which the answer sought would relieve present economic conditions, should the editor have his way. They were: Assuming it were within your power to pass one national law that you believe would spur investment and industrial expansion, and create employment and steady jobs, what law would you pass?" In answering this question, a majority of the editors proposed the passage of a law that would make it impossible for the government to engage in activities which are customarily regarded as I EW Francesco Malipiero at a party in the Royal Danielli in Venice soon after the World war, I thought he was one of the most charming and brilliant, and, at the same time, most cryptic men I had ever seen. There was in the company another Italian musician, a famous conductor, who was the lion of the evening. I have forgotten his appearance and his name, but everything about Signer Malipiero is vividly remembered. On the way home in a gondola, I asked the conductor for an appraisal of Signer Malipiero as a musician.

There was considerable condescension in the reply. Malipiero was gifted but erratic, it was even hinted that he was "unsound," in some deeply subversive sense. But my Virgil eagerly agreed that the signer was a most extraor- Lemue i dinary human personality. Parton As recently as four years ago, a Malipiero opera threw the Royal opera house of Rome into a tumult of howling and cat-calls. Mussolini banned it as "inimical to the faith and sound teachings of the new Italy." But, by this time, Malipiero had become a world-famous musician, and he was soon restored to favor.

The status is unquestioned as his symphony "Elegiaca," was given its first performance in New York, with John Barbirolli "Outlaw" ofl conducting. For many years, Music Now critical opinion discounted him as Is Lionized somewhat of an outlaw and disturber. Now it has caught up with him, as it did with Stravinsky and Richard Strauss. Both the "Fire Bird" and "Salome" were met with cat-calls when they were first produced. Critics note some mysterious "enervating influence" in Malipiero's new symphony.

It may be an afterthought, but the explanation seems clear as I recall my conversation with him. His face saddened and he seemed ten years older when I mentioned the war. For his ballet, "Pantea," he had written of "the struggle of a soul hurling itself into the struggle for liberty, only to find oblivion and leath." The war had been to him a tragic and devastating experience. He said it had profoundly shaken both his art and his life. SCRIBELINGS OF A YOUNG SCRIBE FFORTS are being made by certain public spirited citizens of the city to see if the Junior College could possibly be continued on a self-sustaining basis.

With the recent refusal of the taxpayers to stand any increase in their taxes, drastic reductions have been taken by the members of the school board to operate the system within the present income. As one of the economy measures which have been proposed is the discontinuation of the Ironwood Junior College. The present school year will be terminated next Friday, and the six-year-old institution will close its doors. To say that the Junior College is an asset to the community and the range is to put it mildly, as no one can deny that sending a child for two years to a school near home is a distinct saving over the method of going hundreds of miles to attain an education at a greater cost. The sad part of the whole affair is that more pupils could not be induced to attend the College at the reasonable tuition charged.

The less than two hundred pupils who made this institution their preparatory school where not adequate in proportion to the cost of maintenance and teachers' salaries. Were it possible to have had four or five hundred pupils attend the Junior College the cost of upkeep would have nearly been taken care of by tuition. As long as the room is available the teaching of thirty pupils per room is much cheaper per pupil cost than the teaching of ten or fifteen pupils, as the same teaching staff could handle the larger number of students. The fly in the ointment in the present set-up was that the taxpayers were made to believe at the time of establishing the Junior College, the institution would be self-supporting. As time went on and no appreciable increase in student attendance was received, the College was forced to draw on the regular school funds for support.

A number of local residents have made the statement that they would be willing to send their children to Junior College here in Ironwood at an increased tuition. The proposed increase was placed at a tuition for one year at two hundred and fifty dollars. This increase is more than three times the present rate yet many are willing to pay this price and keep their children near home rather than send them away at a much greater cost. Now the question comes up if there are at least one hundred parents in the city who would be willing to spend this amount of money and keep the Junior College operating. A two hundred and fifty dollar a year tuition fee would bring ference.

Big business has at last been forced to lay its cards on the table and assert that if prosperity is to be had further restrictions must be abolished. A business man really is a much better judge of what is good for his business than a government theorist. And Down, The Street: If Air Mail Week was successfully terminated in Ironwood when nearly twenty-five hundred letters bearing the special cachet of the City of Ironwood left the Ironwood airport at 11:20 yesterday morn- Never again would the suave fluencies or banalities of music have meaning for him. He was impelled to a deeper search. This disillusionment was sublimated in irony.

twenty-five thousand dollars revenue toward operating the system should one hundred students be found among the range residents. ing. The flight was scheduled for 10 a. eastern standard time, but due to a low ceiling the pilot of this route, Mario Fontana, of Iron Mountain, was hindered in trying to keep to the schedule. Ceiling at the Ironwood airport was reported at six hundred feet by Jerry Gendron, who went aloft with his plane to ascertain weather conditions, so that they could be relayed to Fontana by phone, so he'd know what to expect on this end of the route.

This flight will affect the starting of a regular air flight to this territory sometime in the future, as it demonstrates that patronage could be secured in making the regular flying of mail successful from a business standpoint. flThe Gogebic Concert orchesti'a is scheduled to appear at the Ironwood Theatre next Sunday evening (the Theatre ad in the Times will give further partciulars). This organization is one of which we all should be proud, as in the short time it has been in existence, difficult symphonic numbers have been presented in a very creditable manner. TJWorkmen have been busy the past few weeks repairing the roof of the Carnegie Library. New roofing is being placed over the entire building.

flA new system' will be installed in the O'Donnell-Seamens store for making change for customers. Pneumatic air chutes will carry cai-tridges from six stations, four on the main floor, one in the basement and one station on the second floor. The new system which will be ready about June 1st, will speed up service to the customer, as the cartridges ai'e whisked to the head cashier and back much faster than the older overhead wire and basket method. City Drug Store completed moving its stock of drugs and supplies to the old Jussen Trier stand from their place of business next door, and now have much larger quarters, in addition to the soda fountain service and magazine and newsstand formerly operated by Jussen Trier. The interior was completely redecorated for the new patrons.

ffOur weather still seems to be coming in bunches; we now have another mess of rain to dampen our spirits. fl'The Passing of the Third Floor Back," is to be presented by the Parish Players this evening at the Memorial building. A London setting is depicted, with thirteen local actors making up the personnel: Harry Wills plays the part of Joey Wright, the 1'etired book maker; Albert Michela is a painter named Christopher Penny; Major Tompkins, a retired officer is portrayed by Charles Peerenboom; Caroline Wurl plays the part of Mrs. Tompkins, while Laura Ness Sandell is the daughter, Vivian; Sape Samuels, of the city, and Harry Lar- coln, his packel, are played by Frank Hudson and This figure is much nearer the cost of opera- Frank Dwyer; lone Ross, plays the part of unat- the proper realm for private enterprise. The second question: "2.

Assuming it were within your power to repeal one existing national law that, in your opinion, is now discouraging investment, industrial expansion and employment, what law would you repeal?" This second question showed a near-capacity majority wanted repeal or revision of the capital gains and the undistributed profits taxes. It is apparent from these two questions and their answers, that tax special emphasis on capital gains, and undistributed profits, and government getting out of business and competing with private enterprise, are the real drawbacks in a successful comeback on the roadi to recovery. Another answer that ran high in the list sent in was that labor unions should be equally responsible with employers. Reduction of government bureaus and employes was also suggested, but we couldn't hope for this, as helpers for vote- plucking time lessen the burden of uncertainty in attaining and holding political jobs. Repeal of the income tax was suggested, as were, repeal of the recent Farm Act; repeal of the Social Security Act; repeal of laws regulating business; curtail powers of the President.

In other words, the pet schemes of an American Utopia would have to be repealed before prosperity could be realized in this country. The most important discards would have to be, Government in The oioner of a drug store in Montana reports that every third check he cashes is one that the payee had received for government work. It sure would be nice if everyone could be on a government payroll, but to foot the bill. I'CI'D'I No stock was put in the promise made by Germany that any helium shipped to her would be used strictly for commercial purposes and not for the promotion of dirigibles using helium in time of war. General approval has been given the action of Secretary of the Interior Ickes for the stand he took in denying helium gas for use in Germany's new dirigible now under Herr Hugo Eckener made a trip to the United States in the hopes of securing gas for Germany from this country as we have a virtual monopoly on the most efficient gas for dirigibles.

From what we've seen of other promises made by foreign countries to this nation, this was a wise step. Uncle $am has finally put a zipper on his pocketbook and natural resources. 1 Wonder where they get their percentages? A recent survey showed the average family income at $1,260. Fifty-nine cities in the country were canvassed to get the report. With a large percentage of the families in this country on relief, we must assume that the reliefer is living like a king at little or no effort on his part.

There is a growing movement to have holidays fall on Monday so that two days could be celebrated in a row. With the present employment situation life seems to be one grand holiday without further legislation..