European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse A mending our ways by Eirv Klein Nana slow Lordon Johnson would t have Hli Job. Go. Nelson Rockefeller could t be married to mrs. Margarett. Murphy end Moat of j. Paul Getty s no Ilont would b confiscated by Uncle Sam. Under the Man Many Unen menu tothe Constitution lined since it was tined Jutt 179 Yean ago the and Muy other strange Litu Atlonie would have been brought to pass. Fortunately Only tiny traction of then proposed amendment have been enacted lace the document waa ratified Back on june 21. 1788. On that Date in Yean ago the Constitution became effective with Ita a Pronto by the Tab state of the original13, new Hampshire. It waa officially pro claimed the Law of the land on March 4of the following year and George washing ton was inaugurated As tint president on april 30. Sinn then the 33. Constitution has become the oldest body of written Law governing any major nation in the world and it stands almost unchanged. But not because Eha Gec Haven t Bee advanced by Congress. Although Only a score a amendments actually have been enacted More than 4,000 have been submitted thais just about one proposed amendment every two weeks Ever since the Federal government of started. The office of the vie president has been particular Eon spot with those who have wanted to Emend the Constitution. At least halt a Dosen attempt have Bee made to eliminate the Post in the coat new of 1ws, one of those proposing abolition of the Job was rep Tram Ohio named Jamesanna a trosits. Net Long afterwards earthm Belem president was shot to death end the Eton try looked to the toe president. Chatter a. Arthur to carry on the other hand then have been some amendments suggested which would have enlarged the position and Given the us not one but several vie presidents. One proposal was for a first second and third vice president. Amendment which would have altered our marital Laws also have been of these potential changes in the Constitution would have forbidden a divorced person to marry again. Potent of times a Law against having More than one wife has been urged but this legislation never has been , other Al atutes strictly prohibit the practice even in mormon Utah. Being largely affluent cd aliens the founding Esthers probably would have been appalled at the number of amendments suggested to curb individual wealth. Several times it has been proposed that Uncle Sam confiscate any person s holdings which exceed $10 million. Such measures were especially popular during the depression of the 1930. Not Long after Wash Langton a death Connecticut senator urged the Constitution be amended so that future Presl Denta be chosen by lot from among re tired senators. An Ohio Delegate proposed that the chief executive be determined by raffle every state being allowed to put the Nageot a favorite son in the raffle Box. Technically the United states of Amer Ica would t even exist under one Amend ment that waa advanced. A Wisconsin congressman suggested that our nation be called the United states of Earth. He also supported an amendment which Wouldhave abolished the army and Navy including the military academies. Congress thought otherwise. Goran on Bridge neither vulnerable. North opening Tad Jack a d Wila a Oart Aln objective i greatly to be desired nearly any risk k justified to order to obtain one s goal Bast s willingness so play it Safe m today hand 14 permitted his opponent to Romp Home with Hie game contract i hearts. Wen opened the Jack of Spades to Ace was played from Dummy and East dropped the live a Spade was returned and Baal Wain Alta the Queen he shifted to a Diamond in the Hope of finding West with the Ace. For he urgently Lea red a club play thru North s King. South put up the Diamond a Efrom he hand and led e Small heart when West Ollo cd wit the seven Dummy nine was inserted. One Trump trick must be lost in any event and Declarer s object waa to keep West out if the Lead. Best was in again Idhe had utile recount but to re turn another Diamond. South held the trick with the Queen and another heart Lead located West s King and cleared up the Trump situation without further casualty. A Spade was trumped in the closed hand Felling the remain ing honors and establishing the Dummy s two Long cants in the suit. A Diamond was led to the King and South a losing club were discarded on the ipad a As the Declarer chalked up an Over trick. East lost the Oal Lle for his Side on the very Flani trick. Inasmuch As a club Lead from his partner at some stage appears to be inessential part hip defensive Campaign. East should exert every Effort to gel West in. Since the opening Lead of the tack of Spades has every appearance of being the lop of a sequence i is suggested Tysl East drop his Queen under the Dummy s when Declarer returns a Spade at tick two. East can play the five which permit Hla part Ner to win the Rick. The club shift now becomes inescapable. No. N Coo a Mfd state information Behee s evolution of a new Mulc. Jam. Today the Seph Uinos of Jakaj jazz s beginnings were vocal its up roots sink deep into the traditions of negro Folk singing that once flourished through out the Rural Southland of the United slates when for the negro owning no musical instruments except a few crude improvisations made from boxes barrels and brooms the voice waa the principal Means of musical expression. Songs of work and play trouble and Hope Rose on Rich and rhythmic voices at every hand from peddle crying Terr Wane to the Countryside from work gangs on the rail reads. From Aub Baa gathered at Days end to sing away their weariness in the Harraw of i painted porches overlooking Dusty Cotton Fields Tram myst de churches ringing with the sound of Sabba Tharsis. The Wen the Alces that Early negro musicians instinctively a nettled Ami Traa starred to their Boras when they taught themselves to but the discarded band instr Meta that came into their hands at be Otoe of the did War i the Metis As played by their proud new Enn Sera the inet Neonta the cease ext Utah of the human voice singing horns opening the Way la Jen. Eee to freely Anve Vrsata my thus beginning Asai Blasi leg the a it a sorer tone the new nil Tom lamed her Lack of Trala lag Hato a. Liens at least a Faas tvs men of Jas. Was Donn Nhav Date expend Fey the established technical Lea of instrumental Taa Igei sett Tonas Nln purpose and. Simply playing their Home the my the Susete aaa Aiato beat to then they discovered Rich variety of Moss Taw eaten and extended the Range of their instrument far Lay Sig the Luam traditional limit. Inability to read music and a clue Mot tack at familiarity wit the eight note musical scale of which american Isle relies resulted in still another innovation the invention of in Owita scale. This waa done by adding two new note a flatted third and flatted seventh to the Standard eight of the Western scale. These were the Blue essential to the future Jan Idun. And marking its melodic texture with a tonal identity of Ita own. The Blue notes were some where in Between the usual notes of Western music but linked directly to Africa where the musical language makes frequent use of Quarter r their rhythms the new musicians looked again to the african heritage underlying nearly Sll their Muiloc with the fluid and polyphonic voice of Iho african Drums. The rigid rhythmic patterns of Western music with their fixed time signatures and even numbered bar lines of two. Three four six and eight beats were largely ignored. The new Muiloc sometimes carried five seven or nine beats to the measure it sometimes overlooked the bar lines almost entirely and overlapped the beat from bar to bar As in ragtime and it sometimes complicated matters further by fooling around wit even these rhythms sustained syncopation accenting the normally weak second and fourth Bent instead of the customary first an third the break suspending the rhythm entirely while the Trett la Felt rather than heard and other rhythmic devices Long familiar tothe african drummer but strange to Western ears gave the Mush a swinging danceable character of us own. But if Africa spoke loudest in this Moalc ii did not speak Early musician dipped boldly into All the i be round them stirring in element of european hymns polka Stalm. Folk Oong marches and any others that might their fan the result was a musical hybrid earthy vigorous and Unm stake ably new. Part of it we diverted into the already bos of religious music that later developed into the Megro spiritual. To mainstream poured into marshes ragtime and the blues. For the moment the Blue had the spotlight. Ragtime a piano . And piano were scarce marches re a Hillhou no o i my clan. Had by now become individually proficient on their cornets trombones and tuba Numble playing we. Till crudely inexpert. The blut. How was vocal music requiring no there in nth the the ton i22sr? fh2s"1 to we do Colon a song speech steaming directly from the Singer s emotions they wkly tearing the Ell from in. With dub Tod Tao along the Mealo Tell about Tro Amee general attitude about life of the negro Community. .ntlm.nt.1. A carrying became n negro Folk poetry of the Elmea. Blue. Lingers wandered the South with their Batter augur. A wed 11 " ii"1 23".ned of rowed. They earned e meager living on Street Corners. In n barroom and at picnic Outing. But what they Lack a Reward was often More than offset by the Oon to Tel �2 mothered from admirer along the Way. And in mete Handahl. Developed a set of standards and a recon eau u Eusi it i usually a bars the words set into with an establishing statement then repeated a. Ending with a final of tape meanwhile the crudeness had gradually playing of the brass ads. And these a from ? a. An these by popular fixture in the Community Elf. The Rosthern Ner i ==7sfc�.a the seeds of had been sown however of Elf Thi Sims and stapes july 26,
