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Show Phonograph Records Needed ' To use Kipling's words, the soldiers of the United States now meting out punishment to the kaiser's agents of cowardice "are out on active service, wiping something off a slate, and they've left a lot of little things behind them." One of the things is music but, incidentally, it should be remarked re-marked that the doughboys do not want if for the purpose of charming the Huns. They need music In their camps between the times in which they ire smashing down and destroying autocracy. Another appeal therefore goes out to the public spirited citizens of Utah and the nation at large for music for the soldiers. They need entertainment after nerve-racking experiences in the trenches and In the open. It should not be forgotten that In America's national army there are many professional and expert musicians, also that there are thousands of lovers of music who are now wearing the khaki. When they donned the uniform and sailed overseas they left . music behind. Their thoughts then, which are the same now, were ' to provide that music which would make the enemy dance in defeat, j The execution of that work is now being manifested by the Huns. The doughboys now ask for music from home. They want to - : hear the songs they sang4rh boyhoods They-want-4o-hear the old plantation melodies. They want to hear some of the classics and they want to hear ragtime. ' This Is Phonograph Slacker Record week. Get your old pho-; pho-; nograph records together for transportation to France. Do your i duty by furnishing the music to make the soldiers glad. The local committee will receive the records at the Red Cross shop. |