Show j. j S. S March Stirs Patriotism I 4 11 T i IS IS hard to turn on a radio these these days davs i l- l without hearing the brisk strains of Sousas Sousa's ous s 's famous march match The tiThe Stars and Stripes For- For Vever II The other day the famous band bandmaster master mas- mas ter observed the thirty first anniversary of the Composition of th that t march and the radio stations are helping him to celebrate it t. t It It wo would woOld ld be be interesting to know just howS how S many Americans have marched young away 5 to var war fo that f that tune tune a and id to to know how many young o ng AI Americans r cans will do so in the future it lt has become almost a national song it is the country's gr greatest st martial air and it is one of the most potent aids our militant patriotism will ever ever know Patriotism is not n necessarily a logical affair af- af fair It is an emotion that wells up in a rather inarticulate fash fashion on It cann cannot t be expressed ex- ex pressed in words words' sa save ve by a poet most nIost of us are unable to say what it means to us We Wes Wesee Wesee s see e a flag floating high in the sunlight and we see the gleam of bayonets as the soldiers pass pas by and and we cannot tell what it is we feel teel we only know that we are caught up for for j the moment by something bigger anti and stronger than tha 1 ourselves that oUrselves that we lose ourselves our our- ourel ourselves selves el es in a tide that sweeps us lIS off pur our ur feet and mak makes s the fla flag the most beautiful emblem emblem em- em blem blell on earth And then then- as we struggle f or r expression the band breaks out with the inimitably inspiring warming heart bars of Sousas Sousa's great march march and and the music gives us our expression The blaring g trumpets say the Mile things we are not able to say 1 These thoughts are apropos of Music week when all of us us' should resolve to give music iC a greater part in in our daily lives |