Show GRAVE VE PERil If- If OSING ALL ITS t e Purists Would CutOut Cut Out of Great Song ORK Sept 23 A A Americas America's fir f purify old ld darky songs and andl Ban Ban- Spangled l lIStar schools w Yorks York's public 1 At a confer- confer h g gh school music teachers Dr Frank ank R R. fix musical the board of education was wasI committee was appointed I music publishers and the to eliminate al all Ct songs printed in the the movement succeeds generations g be without be been n a happy part of ot all aU tomes the tomes the quaint and American negro as n perhaps the most n In the country and In famous trio Massas Ground Old Blade Suwanee River For years have hummed their slumber with these old folk ites Theres There's hardly a lad hum Suwanee River or Joe And wili their c charm il lies un in the harmless dialect d be little left to them with with- f to the songs as universally sung Is e a Instead of de ob b and moe the cause of ot l the purists would the English words and in- in careful pronunciation It II Job for the tt ell be said to be born ican lean children so much a adren's adren's adren's drens dren's music have they be- be national anthem have attempted a capital n t but for strenuous ob- ob plan plan fas las first broached the word fl fight ht as it oc- oc t verse The objection smacked too much of war all of peace counsel prevailed not made The only now will be a slight change I un In the first and third adoption of clouds t tin in ln place of perilous 1 elf 1 v verse Perilous is warry but clouds is not key will be changed flat to A flat to make Lof the song less inary inay voices for or these changes some time ago Dr fix Rix said the board of ot superintend superintend- hey were shelved and Dr t know whether hether they are aref areC f C- C lh ons ions for changing the darky lId ild appeal to an any Interested Rix told an Evening World lay We Ve want our children ure are English not a dialect there are many foreign our ur schools The number is And dialect conIn cont con- con lit In t is hard enough for them ordinary English I think should be made throughout 1 Qed changes in the Star inner are suggested in the lk ng the song easier for dithe populace to sing by and making it a much fuL anthem We Ve hope too xe the stirring soul ap- ap really is when sung force- force not now being sung Cc pt on rare occasions 36 |