Is Music Fundamental

AT a recent meeting of the Grand Rapids Rotary Club the speaker maintained that a better understanding of relationship of employee and employer accounts for the peace we have had during the recent trying years. We believe the above statement is true, but we also believe that this better understanding is due to a better appreciation of real values, which in turn is based on something more than a 3R education. Many have marvelled that during the depression the American people have preserved their equanimity so well. The interpreters of present-day conditions were mindful of the riots and general disorders which have accompanied all former depressions and panics. Those who have given careful thought have invariably concluded that the reason is due in a large measure to the higher degree of enlightenment of the populace, and its greater capacity to participate in and to enjoy the cultural fields of activity, of which music is an important part. In the many controversies bearing on the fundamental versus the unessential, participants have usually failed to define their terms. Frills and has served as a caption for attacks on education during the past few years more than any other expression. Here, too, the conclusions have been fallacious because of unwillingness or perhaps inability to begin with sound premises, and because the formulation of a general definition of fads and frills, or of fundamentals, has proved to be very difficult

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