PAGE EIG4IT Vanishin Phenomenon Industry Overwhelms World Folk Music Folk music all over the world is a vanishing phenomenon, according to Dr. Samuel W. Bayard, associate professor of English composition. Bayard, who has been collecting folk music ever since he was a boy, attributes this to the disappearance of the small farm and to the machine age. B ayar d b egan t o collect folk them date back as early as the music as a boy around his father's, l4 o o 's. A few of the Stephen Fos hum located near Pittsburgh. I n lter songs have become folk songs those days, he recalls. it was quite,bY meeting the qualifications for a task to record the songs Hera folk song. would first listen to it and then Bayard defi ne s a folk song as have the singer dictate it to him. a song which "once composed and remembered and sung, nev- This presented problems be- " cause the singers were illiterate er stops being recomposed. in most cases and could not stop This is borne out by the fact in some folk songs have sev in the middle and then start up eral dozen different versions. again. Often a singer would get One folk song has over 100 dif halfway through a song, while , zerent versiovs. Bayard wrote furiously, th en . Despite the disappearance of stop, start at the top and sing ' folk singing, there are changes be hadrapidly to the spot where he ,mg made even today. Bayard says stopped. that folk songs today tend to be The machine age, which is help- more hill-billy type. ing to eradicate folk singing, came, There is no such thing as a new to Bayard's aid about , seven years, folk song accoiding to Bayard. ago when he began to take down,Th e wor d s may be different but songs with a tape recorder. the form and idea are always the Bayard does most of his collect- same. ing during the summer in south-; Bayard collects the folk songs estein Pennsylvania and parts mainly for his own enjoyment, of West Virginia. but has written a short anthology Most of the songs came from of folk songs and a number of the British Isles and many of iarticles. The case of the crumpled letter ! 1 The desk where Mr. Nelson opened his bills and wrote a letter to the electric com pany, piotesting against their advertising that electricity gibes more value for every dollar than any other item in the family budget. 2 Where Mr. Nelson looked at the electric clock to see if he had time to mail his letter before dinner. 3 The hi-fi eet•}ie turned ofr as he left the room. 4 Where Mr. N. paused to check the fur nace thermostat and turn on the porch light to guide the dinner guests. 5 His daughter's bedroom where he watched her drying her hair with the elec tric hair dryer and admired the dress she had just ironed for her date. 6 The TV, with Junior riding herd. 7 The electric cofteemaker and the toaster, ready to do dinner duty. 8 The all•electric kitchen, w bete dinner was cooking and Mrs. Nelson 1% as taking ice cubes from the refrigerator—and where the electric dishwasher and clotheswasher and dryer were waiting to do the chores ahead. 9 The back porch, where Mr. N. paused to think—realizing that his family was putting electricity to work in dozens of ways all over the house... ways he often forgot. So ma? be the electric company was right about the value of his serl ice. 10 The flash can into which he tossed his crumpled letter. th WEST PENN POWER <woo By NEAL FRIEDMAN THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Werner Seeks All-Around Title (Continued from page six) Around, and John Davis, who won the Big Ten side horse event, are three more reasons why the Illini are favored to take the title this year. Other strong team contention should come from lowa with Swedish Stefan Carlson and Mexican Pancho Segura (not the tennis player) and Southern California. coached by Olym pian Jack Beckner. Swiss gymnastics expert Kurt Backler, who saw the Big Ten tourney this year, had this analy sis of today's championships: "lowa has two good gymnasts, but I was not overly impressed. 'lllinois is your competition and a strong one." In the individual competition, Wettstone may team junior Lou ISavadove with the Gold-Dust Twins in the All-Around. 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The last qualifying event, and one in which Wettstone is rely ing to score heavily, is tumb- I ling, Eastern titlist Dave Du laney (who incidentally failed to qualify last year), runner-up Werner and fourth-place Graeme Cowen will carry the SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: No. 3 Once again the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, bless their tat tooed hearts, have consented to let me use this space, normally Intended for levity, to bring you a brief lesson in science. They are generous, openhanded men, the makers of Marlboro, hearty, ruddy, and full of the jOy of living, as anyone can tell who has sampled their wares. In Marlboro you will find no stinting, no stinginess. Marlboro's pleasures are rich, manifold, and bountiful. You get a lot to like with a Marlboro—filter, flavor, flip-top box, and, in some models, power steering. The science that we take up today is called astronomy, from the Greek words astro meaning "sore" and nomy meaning "back". Sore backs were the occupational disease of the early Greek astronomers, and no wonder! They used to spend every blessed night lying on the damp ground and looking up at the sky, and if there's a better way to get a sore back, I'd like to hear about it. Especially in the moist Mediterranean area, where Greece is generally considered to be. Lumbago and related disorders kept astronomy from be coming very popular until Galileo, an unemployed muleteer of Pamplona, fashioned a homemade telescope in 1924 out of three Social Security cards and an ordinary ice cube. What schoolboy does not know that stirring story—how Galileo stepped up to his telescope, how he looked heavenward, how his face filled with wonder, how he stepped back and whispered the words heard round the world: "Let them eat cake!" Well sir, you can imagine what happened then! William Jennings Bryan snatched Nell Gwynne from the shadow of the guillotine at Oslo; Chancellor Bismarck brought in four gushers in a single afternoon; Enos Slaughter was signed by the Han seatic League; Crete was declared off limits to Wellington's army; and William Faulkner won the Davis Cup for his im mortal Penrod and Sam. But after a while thinl4. calmed down and astronomers began the staggering task of naming all the heavenly bodies. First man to name a star was Sigafoos of Mt. Wilson, and the name he chose was Betelgeuse, afte4: his dear wife, Betelgeuse Sigafoos, prom queen at Michigan State from 1919 to 1931. Then the Major Brothers of Yerkes Observatory named stars after their wives, Ursa and Canis, and Witnick of Harvard named one after his wife, Big Dipper, and soon all the stars were named Astronomers then turned to the question: is there life on other planets? The answer was a fiat, unequivocal no. Spectro -scopic studies proved without a doubt that the atmosphere on the other planets was far too harsh to permit the culture of the fine tobaccos that go into Marlboro Cigarettes ... And who can live without Marlboro? This celestial column—like the author's more earthy ones —is brought to you by the makers of Marlboro, the filter cigarette with the long white ash. And in all the solar system you won't find a better smoke. hopes of the Lions. Wettstone is faced with an addi tional burden of eliminating one of his 11 travelers to cut his team down to the allowed maximum of 10. The decision appears to be be tween• Savadove, Foht or Dona hue. It could mean the title if one fails to qualify when the eleventh does not even get a chance to complete today. "Without a doubt," said one of the traveling 11, "this is going to be a team effort. It all depends on how many we qualify today." On elmpie mr&imm e Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys! "and, "Barefoot Boy with Cheek.") • =MI FRIDAY. APRIL 11. 1958 • Ina Mat Madams
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