Being Done Good
t74 THE COMMONWEAL December 22, I926 with old-world art and culture in a way that would be impossible otherwise. Young students, especially, are enriched by positive, concrete knowledge of the...
...It developed that the prisoner had torn down a poster in a street-car because he was of the opinion that posters interfered wi.th the view of those traveling in these public conveyances and it was the duty of all who preferred to look at the back premises of East-Side tenements to pull them down...
...Few songs have identified themselves so com-pletely with the favorite music of all the world...
...Recent indications show that even in Congress some of the sinners are becoming impatient under treatment, not to say resentful...
...Nevertheless, he did not doubt the inten- tions of his would-be benefactors...
...In the young man's own picturesque words, the custom of treating incoming classes "like rats for purposes of ex- perimentation," has no warrant in sense or decency...
...I believe," he said, "that the life of every individual should be so barricaded that it would be easy to do right and difficult to do wrong...
...Schumann- Heink's present appearance in New York City marks her fiftieth anniversary as a singer...
...Joseph Mohr, an assistant priest, had planaed a Christmas celebration and appealed to Gruber to set to music some lines he had penned...
...A probation officer had been ordered to make a re-port to the court before sentence was imposed and this is what he had to say: "The defendant is a reformer with the usual mental twist that makes him think that everyone is wrong but him and once he forms an opinion, his mind doses and nothing can change it...
...At this hearing appeared the Reverend Firman A. Demaria of Asbury Park, who voiced his opposition to Sunday bathing...
...Young students, especially, are enriched by positive, concrete knowledge of the things dealt with in their books...
...The hymn was, so to speak, a pi&ce d'occasion...
...THE observed tendency of the worm to turn at a certain point in treatment, has not stopped neo-scientists from sticking pins in him for their own pur- poses...
...Finally, the effect must be to deepen the general interest in what may properly be termed the ages of Christendom--the years which were, as most of us are coming round to see, bright with faith as well as beauty...
...The writer, Edward B. Lent, was an invalid, who, through a long period of sickness, had retained a lively sense of humor...
...Those who affect concern and mistrust at the relations between director and penitent, should be the first to see that what might be described as non-sacramental con- fession finds a speedy and unimpeded way to the dis- card where many educational fads and fancies await it...
...and of course, Christmas would not be complete for many older-fashioned people if the great ballad (and the great voice) could not be "turned on...
...Not all those who are "being done good" by these enthusiasts with the twisted mentality have the keen sense of humor of the invalid author of the once popular book...
...IT seems pretty hard to believe that Mme...
...We were, therefore, very glad to see that the editor of Singing revived for the benefit of his readers, the history of the "Christmas masterpiece": "Like the melodies of Stephen Foster, the hymn was written by a man who was not ignorant of the fundamentals of musical art...
...He was a native of Hallein, in Upper Austria, near Salzburg, the birthplace of Mozart to whom the hymn has erroneously been ascribed...
...All the same, we hope the manly reply re-turned by one Columbia freshman to a questionnaire upon his intimate habits and complexes, will secure its abatementmat least during "bright college years...
...But undoubtedly nothing she has ever sung moved and thrilled so many people as the touching simplicity of her Sfille Nacht...
...And the little carol was sung for the first time on Christmas Eve in the St...
...Gruber was born in I787, and passed the seventy-eight years of his life as an organist and choirmaster in his native town...
...Her interpreta- tion of certain great Wagnerian r61es is still the best, and the magnificent fulness of her voice is constantly a source of rapture...
...Nicola Pharrkirche of Oberndorf by a chorus of children's voices...
...t74 THE COMMONWEAL December 22, I926 with old-world art and culture in a way that would be impossible otherwise...
...We have lis- tened to phonographs rendering the song on warm July nights...
...It was composed by Franz Gruber, a Catholic church musician...
...On the same day on which the newspapers recorded the fact that the court had suspended sentence on Stimmell with the suggestion that he devote himself to a study of how to mind his own business, there ap- peared elsewhere in these journals a despatch from Trenton, New Jersey, reporting a hearing at the State House on proposals to revise the Sunday "blue laws...
...Recently, one Branson C. Stimmell appeared in Specia.1 Sessions for sentence on a conviction of injur- ing property...
...But it appeared that he was not content to hold his own opinion and guide his personal acts by the opinion he held...
...Therefore, he said, Sunday bathing should be forbidden by law...
...Now the reverend gentleman has as much right as any other individual to his opinion regarding either the sinfulness or the sinlessness of taking a dip in the ocean on the first day of the week...
...BEING DONE GOOD S OME twenty-five years ago, a book by a Brooklyn journalist entitled, Being Done Good, had a wide circulation...
...It was written almost on the spur of the moment in t818, in Oberndorf, near Salzburg...
...The army of those who believe they are the only ones in the procession of life who are in step and that all can be brought into a correct "left-right" by Congressional enactments, is steadily growing...
...He had submitted to one special treatment after another in the hope that his sufferings might be relieved and in the end had ar- rived at the condusion that he had been "done"--and done good...
...Each meant well and each was convinced that his remedy--and his alone--could make the patient well...
Vol. 5 • December 1926 • No. 7
