FUTURE OF MUSIC.
Interview With Sir Henry Wood, i
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EXPLOITING CHILD LABOUR.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918.
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CONVICTS AS FIGHTERS. and demcarasy without separating against serious odds, Germany ILLUSIONS ABOUT MULTI-LORD JELLICOE ON HUN
|soldiers into those who bad done has lost practically. ail time in prison sad those who had her foreign markets. She not; rather let the distinction be must recapture them or sink in Mr. A. Henderson's Charge.
An American Writer's View. given to those who demonstrated commercial status. It is frankly Mr. Arther Henderson, K.P.,
their bravery, self-escrifies, and admitted that these are the alter Meny considerations have in- presided is a conference on ed
real devotion to the country and natives; no other choice is open. fuenced Sir Henry Wood in his postional problems held at the M. K." recently appeared in the
The following article by "E the fighting ooit."
Ber industries were "and must decision to remain in London and London Day Training College, New York Boening Post:---
Dr. Kirobway believes that the continue to be her life-blood. to decline the fattering offer of recently arranged by the Workers'
formation of a convict unit in any It is interesting to observe that Th Right Hon. J. M. Robertson the conductorship of the Boston Educational Association.
Should a convict be allowed to army is contrary to the recognised the possibility of altimate disse. in his "Economics of Progress," Jellicoe recently, at an Albert Hall "Two years ago" mid Lord Symphony Orchestra.
Hr. Henderson said that or fight for the United States? This principles of dealing with men ter to the German armies is either an all-round discussion of the demonstration in celebration, of "It was such a very great com.ganised Labour was sometimes question is being discussed by who have dons wrong. "Ar scouted as ridiculous or treated. se subject, says :****
the anniversary of the Battle of pliment, and shows s very presented to be indifferent to the prison reformers all over the long as men are kept together as an eventuality that would involve There is always a certain Jatland," the German High Sess pleasant tie between the two claims of education. Its past country. More than that, the ex-convicts, or criminals, their the complete rain of Germany element of economio illusion about Fleet was defeated and driven nations," is the way in which record was a sufficient refutation topic is uppermost in nearly service to their country becomes for all time. That it would individual wealth; and the back into its porte by the British he regards the American offer. of that suggestion. It welcomed every prison, penitentiary, and less of a redeming feature. The result in the ruin of a system, of illusion magnifies
with the Grand Fleet,” "Bat," he said recently, in an the Bill introduced by the Pre-bouss of detention. The indefinite men ought not to feel that they the national organisation se at pre-magnifying of shares of wealth in interview with a represents- sideal of the Board of Education, agenty that operates within are to have a chance to make seat controlled, goes without say terms of money. Moralists and tive of the Observer, there was because, though it fell short of prisone, spreading news that no good merely seabody oforiminals. ing, bat it is characteristic of those economists can agree that the ed) the Clerk of the Weather had soted, as he often had done the probentral world in London to Labour, it was at least an instal- get from one prison to another, himself the duties and opportuni. that no other condition of affairs and of wealth is just command the enemy, and he had assisted my inputy-three years with in the educational programme of me won to pool pasir, Amarict in the army takes upon who dominate Germany at present chief advantage, given by on during the war, on the side of be thought of and educationally ment of reforms which were lung has been dramming up thieties for service of a normal man. is within the scope of their im-of art. beauty. saltare. I hope I have always done the overdue and laid a basis from subject of the enlistment of con- The Croiz de Guerre of a reclaim,aginations. Teteren if we assume Mediaeval
the German High Seas Flest to fgared right thing. And we bars such which further progress might vice in the army until prisonere ed man ought to show to reserve that the Governmental system of largely
get back to ita porta under the Ba command of darkness of the night. The unique audiences at Queen's Hall continue. The Labour movement are thoroughly aroused and ready tion. There would be no better Germany will remain unaltered, perepaal services, of troops of officers and men of the Grand Their standard has improved demanded, in short, that the Bill to catch at anything that will oppertunity of humanising or the problem of the future as ressinere, gratifying the sense of Flest displayed a gallantry which enormously. They appreciate all should be strengthened, not make a case for them. "on the socialising the criminal class than admitted by such soknowledged power; and even mediaral litera. schools of instrumental music, weakened, and the Labour party outside." Experts and students by getting them into the army.” authorities as Professor Wohlt {ture
exceeded even his expectation. ia fall of homily on the The Promenade' public, "for in the House of Commons would of sociology who have been visit
This is the view of a penologietmann, Dr. Waber, and many impossibility of maximising Day and night the navigation example, is unlike any other in throw its whole weight against ing prisons have come back to The convicts themselves think others, bristles with difficulties. happiness by that or any other of our merchant ships was one. the world. They will come and the sitempt to water it down in New York impressed with the they are good material for fighters.dace for man and besat is indis Modern wealth figures as com-view of the brutality of cor "The import of colonial pro self-regarding use of wealth, long vigil of anxiety and cars in stand every night for ten weeks Committee. They knew very well uniform eagerness of convicts to They see themselves as men who to listen to classical mussterpieces. that behind the scenes certain get into the great fight. Little have had some experienos with Wohltmann, "and Germany's spacious houses, elbow-room, parallel even in the days of the
pensable,"
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mand of amenity in surroundings enemies, phenomenal and without "After the war, moreover, man einister industrial interests, else is talked about among them. the exigencies of warfare. Another who have been for years in the representing not all, nor even Of course, to the casual thinker view they take is that of men highly developed industries would beautiful surroundings within and most notorione pirates of the past, trenches will come back dying moet, employers, but a reactionary this desire of the convicts would who might face bullets better than go to the wall and her workers be without the house, travel, leisure. It was computed that 12,500 for olsssical music, I mean the section Among them, were seem to be actuated three others who have not offended reduced to starvstion if she failed It is in part the spectacle of these seamen had been murdered in a best music, not dull music, for no endeavouring to fine classic is ever dail. There the President of the Board of freedom, or a degree of freedom, families. Some of them whose only warehouses are empty, we have no part the discontent is also roused a deconquered, and after each intimidate quarters, at least, by the lure of against society and their own to obtain raw materiale from that rouses and sustains prolete fashion not known in the history
abroad after the war. Oar risu discontent. But in large of the ses; yet the British seam ought to be after the war e trem- Ednostion to drop the continus- which army life offers. It is adventure left in this world is endons aplift for orchestral masio, tion school proposals which natural that to the convict stmy death sooner or later in the course Cotton and only an insufficient and fed
by the mere re-torpedo he again went to esa, and also for choral music, lot I were the kernel of
Lord Crewe said that he had the life should be preferable to prison, of a long term, want to dis on a quantity of wool;rabber and gutta oord of the large, fortunes of think the choirs will be fall of Bill. They were willing that no matter how much self-govern- battlefield, and die for some perchs are hardly imported si all, modern capitalism, the figures of never been able to comprehend
specially capable children should ment obtained there. The great purpose.
and the same holda good for the fortunes of the multi-million" what the ́zes! hope of the "The public taste has been receive special educational opport-adventure, which after all many All of this show, what penolog- After
coffee, cocoa, spissa, etc. aires. The announcement that Germane was on the oven. constantly improving. Twenty-unities. Bat they regarded the times was the prime mover in the iste have contended that men in pesce we are threatened with an million pounds or filly million were they failed, as was proved the oonclusion of So-and-80 bee amassed five Whatever their aime and hopes three years ago we had, it is true, common berd, the vast majority convict's mis-step, is paramsant prison are not all bad. There are economic war and, if this should dollars este op a greater stress of by the precipitate retreat and to play s little bit down, but of working-class children, as in the army, coupled with the moral oarables among them, snd come about we shall he confronted indignation, probably, than the torpidity of their High Sesa Fiest from that time the movement incapable of profiting by farther highest form of bombastic action. men with mental deformities that with great economic distress and spectacle of thousands of families ever since. la the Grand Fleet has alware been upward. education, and as only fit, when Those who have been watching have come from the psychopathic, To day the second part of our they reached 14, 10 labour long the development of this idea of clinics more nearly normal than
s new problem of existence." with incomes of five thousand there was not a man or a boy who concerts, in which at one time we hours in the factory and the enlistment say that the prisoners they ever have been.
This summarises the commer-pounds. And yet the multi-did not thirst to give the German used to feel bound to play operatic workshop. They protested against are not raising the question
cial prospect with which Germany millionaire is not at all pro a final lesson in a great flest sction selections, is sa good as the first, the "änbearable burden" which primarily because they think life The writer asked a prominent is faced as eeen through the portionately
one of the special There are Beethoven, Tchaikov-eight hours' continued education in the army
equal to penologist if, considering all the spectacles of her more thoughtful the output of Isbour It tragedies of this war, said Lord sky, Brahms, and other masters would impose upon industry, sad near release. On the other buman equation, be thongut these and eminent economists. It is is much batter for labour Crewe, that when it ended there in Part II, as in Part I.
they tried to win popular support hand, prison reformers do not Prisoners who are clamoring to sezioni enough as it stands, but that he should own forty would be no shaking of bands or "Our mingers. I think, have by talking of the loss of earnings overlook the fact that, as human get into the fight for principle's it may well be that fatare million dollars then, that four treating bygones sa bygones. improved very much in the select which, they alleged, would be beings, the increased freedomske vere sincers, and his answer reality will prove even worse hundred men should own a ban. Some people called out for re ion of their arias, and we have incurred by working-class attracts these men in a certain was augaslifedly yes. Iamsios of than such present predictions. dred thousand dollars osob. He prisala in kind. (Cheers) Well, aleo a magnificent set of pianists families.
correctional institutions are par-Some allowanca is made cannot consumes little of what he knew no rele of Divine justice and violinist in London at the They were aware of these Dr. George W. Kirchway, for- ticularly impressed by the action by these captains of industry for they would consume. His acou-or of human procedure which, present moment. I must not gentlemen's motives, and they merly acting Warden of Sing convict anits. Moreover, they know will have earned, but no allowance relative restriction of idle living; ship or when they attacked
of European countries in enlisting the world-hate which Germany malation really represents
when the enemy sank a passenger name them, for they are too many, were not deceived by their Sing, base given thia дви We have certainly half a dosen specions kind of seasideration for problem in prisen life close can the number of former convicts at all is made for a basis of anti- and his capital as a productive hospitals on land, would forbid pianiste, violinists, and cellists the financial difficulties of the sideration. He said to-day that already fighting in the United Germen feeling which will sxist force may be as wall and better na to tey the perpetratora by ■ who can hold their own. against poorer parents. The Labour few people realised the attitude
States army.
The common talk still more potently after the war spplied by bim than by them. dramhead scart-martial and to any in the world."
mavement had already outlined of the prisoner toward his dis in the Elmira Reformatory is unless the Central Empires are He cannot ran forty houses or execute them, not by shooting as Two years before the war Sirite own policy for removing these franchisement. That is a punish of the 350 former Elmira men ruled by new men with new forty yachts. And the chancee brare enemies but by hanging as Henry was the first to introduce dificulties. It meant to break the ment keenly felt. He sees in who are now serving their coun-principles.
sre that he will devote to public malefactore. (Cheers). eight ladies among the violina at vicious circle which bound igno-service with the army an openlisted by not going into detail it will not then be so much endowment, what in their hands in our rights it was certain that
try. These former prisoners For Germany's present enemies purposes, such 03
If we were to act entirely with- university Queen's Hall. They worked so rance to poverty and poverty to portunity to regain his position as well that now he has fourteen, ignorance. It had demanded that a member of the body of citizens, about past experiences, observ-master of hate as of essential would be devoted to the maintain the enemy would put to death an and there is no doubt, he thinks, every worker should be paid a fall Reinstatement and a chance to lug the general prison sugasite policy; they will be engaged in a ing of four hundred families in equal or a larger number of our that they have come to stay. "I do living wage, and by a living wage make good on so equal footing of not revealing or prying lato & struggle for survival. Hardly luxury.
men, against whom no offence not like ladies playing the it meant one high enough to with his fellows are potent factors law prohibiting the acceptance of country as at present con- the four hundred, the mere possible to conceive a hideous man's past. Notwithstanding the any German realises that bis "But even as divided among could be alleged, and it was trombone and the double-bass," enable the worker's children to in the prisoner's present desire he said, "They work in the receive sa good an education to get into the army and fight for eagerness for fray and and for world. Peace can make no differ- wealth, many times multiplied, could only close with the exter- offenders for servida, their stituted threatens raid to the division of their command of competition of savagery which orchestra splendidly, and I am as the children of bis his country. delighted with them. They are employer. To those who said Dr. Kirchway not long ago it bringe, have drawn hundrede apart from
the recognition participation in ence if militarism survives. Quite would do practically nothing for minstion of all remaining fall of enthusiasm for their work that an abundant supply of cheap made a trip of icepsction through
prejadice, other the proletariat. What it needs is prisoneré on both sides. Sach and they practice their instra juvenile labour was necessary to the New Jerasy penal institutions,
civilized peoples ciang, afford to hundreds of thousands of decent an isane was beyond British con- ments, which
is rather an industry, they answered, "Hands and through several in Penney ment et présent is unfavourable Central Europe to be revived, and sharing of a few hundred large the war, however, our control of The attitude of the Govern- allow the military power of bonses of moderate eiss, not a templation, at any rate, After important thing..
off the children! They are the Irania. The men responded toward convict service, The introduction of ladies, nation of the future. They ought spontaneously and well to all the
Plans such revival will depend on the houses. Let us ray that there are raw materials could be sad ought however, has not counterbalanoad to be regarded as potential par patriotio appeals," he said. "The have been made and put in resurrection of German trade and a hundred thousand really rick to be applied against these past our losses in men. Between thirty eata and potential citizens, not reason is clear. Whatever peration for using convict labour industrialism. Germany, as she families in the country living in outrages, as well as in setting off and forty of the men have gone to be orificed they have appeal recognizes them for war work and related par- exista today, cannot be permitted idle inxury. Apart from the eating any territorial gains which the since the war began, and at the been in the past to the tempor citizens, men who mast take hold poses, but the ine has been in the future to strengthen her and drinking and the clothes, the enemy might enjoy when pesce present moment more than half ary convenience of industry and of the national problem with the drawn there.
sinswe and sharpen her clawe. luxury, as such, cannot be divided, was made. those still in the orchestra are in to consideration of private profit, rest of us, gripe them, because
The danger is too grest; it would save in so far as, say, the pictures khaki. It is very wonderful how Industry exists for human beings, they have keenly felt the degrad
be arming a prospective snemy. might go into public pisture- they arrange their military and not haman beings for industry, ation of lots of citizenship. They
if the war ende is a compro-galleries. You cannot divide the musical duties as well as they do. and if the exigencies of employers have been told that they were no
mine which leaves Germany as fox-hunting, the motor osis, the
The Langs of the Air Pilot. We have had no difficulty at all and the welfare of the children longer part of the common life;
she is, it is very certain that the travel; though we should sim at in this respect. We never had conflict, then the former must no longer wanted or needed. The
economic straggle will be more enabling all to travel who desire Important as keen sight, good more than three Germans in the give way to the latter, not the alightest thing that intimates
bitter than any German foresees. it. The whole material consumpt orchestra, and at the outbreak of latter to the former."
their fellowship swakens, the
Central Europe will be surround-ion, divided among the mass, hearing, and good hands are to the war they west at once.”
most pathetic enthusiasm."
ed by an economie fence the would would be a bagatelle; and an air pilot, the most important of all ie the possession of good After patriotic addresses
necesary trench-line as it were, s division of the rich people's delivered at the New Jersey State reveals
A study of the German press of enemies as hostile then ss now. money command of wealth, with lange, said Major, Martin W. marvellous. "The way in which consider the British school to-day prison at Trenton, on
growing anxiety Against that barrier Germany will out an increase in the actual lack, of the Air Ministry, who our young men have improved in far in advance of the German. occasions at the penitentiary amongst the more thoughtful and beat in vain, for the calvation of things which constitate material lectured recently at the Institute orchestration is eplaadid," he said. Our younger school of composers si Caldwell, N.,
better-informed members of the the world will depend on its wealth, would tend proportionally of Public Health. The successful There is no lack of British pro. are mach stronger than any of the New York's Great Meadow holding important commercial it. holde, by her own admission conceivably stimulate production who can take in more oxygen than commercial community. Men holding against her assaults. If to side prices, though it might pilot is generally a deep breather, ductions. Just at this moment I younger eshool of German om prison, Dr. Kirchwey said: "I position scouringely write articles she must sink is commsssist for the time being. La fine, there the ordinary msn and is able to am flooded with new works by posers. There is no doubt about don's know of tiny experience warning their countrymen of the status and therefore in power. is no solution for labour on the bold his breath, longer. He is some very interesting novelties of that wretched Garmanism from ed me more than the snocess of which feces German trade siter ungeon by the militarists and the share without insressing the out-of an atmosphere where oxygen from America and from one or which we were suffering." It will the campaigns for Thrift Stampe the War two young Italian composers, also do a lot of good in Americs, and Liberty Bonds in these
merchant commanders of Ger- put. More and more clearly does is getting rare. which I am going to introduce ai for they were a little too mash places. I talked siso to a good are not wholly blinded by nation- better fature for all concerned. It stipulating for improved dis It is true that even those who many, which alone promises a it appear that Mill was in error in the Promenada Concerte.
dominated by Germaniem, as we many of the inmates of the "Unfortunately there no new wOIS.
Eastern penitentiary of Fennel si prejudice still saama that, the German armies are beaten, a tribution without increase of Bussisa novelties, because we "In French mascial art, 100, vanis not long ago. They were though the war may not end in a new Germany will inevitably production. cannot get into touch with the there is much greater subtlety proud to a great degree of their decisive victory for their arise from the ashes of a "destrao? "Bat, none the less, the visibly essential to the war, both Russian composers. Once Russia and colour, much greater refine contributions to the Red Cras arme, the position of Germany tion which will represent the spectacle of inequality in the aher for fighting and for munitioning gets straight again the future for meat, and a wider sense of and to other patriotic work, when peace in declared will be death of a system and not the ruining remains a constant source of the fight, that it is inconceivable her music is, I consider, very atmosphere. Look at Debussy; "I think the Government as least as great sad influential of a people. This is so much labour's discontent; and if we are that aspect of things should be strong. There is a tremendous what a great men he was! The might well modify its attitude formerly. They postulates more than a possibility that it to escape disastrous wastage of lost sight of. The profit-getting lot of character about Russian French have experimented; they toward the engerase of convicts mighty nation groaning admitted- may be regarded so the only end power by labour striles, the claw has simply to remember music. Bussian composers have have produced novelties and to serve the country. The army y under heavy tarsa, but as ably ultimately possible. Till this employing clase must fase the that it has hitherto had the bes * great gift for orchestral colour. original effects, which none of the is the greatest socialising influence and completely dominated as ever comes about, there can be no precept that if there is to be say of things; and that for that very At times it may be rather too atodgy old Germane ever did we have. The inmates need it as by militarista on the one hand peace for the peoples of the earth, reduction of shares in the period reason, it should see to it fost Ensters, too Oriental, but that is really, Germany has lived on her the country needs their rehabil. sad commercial hierarchy on for even the cessation of war could of reconstruction it should fall Isbour's worse lot is not furth
good fault,
past tradition, and that tradition itation. In the army they would the other. This adaptable machine be nothing but a truce. It would first and most on their shares worsened. Need, we add the ***Garman music is at a stand- is over. I have no use for modern be among all classes and they propose to regalate as before be less than a truce, for it would rather than on those of labour. sooumio warning that, in terms of still. Outride Richard Biraus, German music. The great meat conditions of men. It would not for economic battle. But they merely be the replacement of one There I am taking for granted the law of normal doll interes who is a musical genius, there are era, of course, will live for over, be dificult for officers to create a recognise thas the fight will war by another. By Osp, B.P.P. bortain national
ideal, such wornenment would mean bad no notable German composers. I and must be played.”
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