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Show Passing of Community I Singing Less to World "What has happened to eommuniiy ' ringing, which did its part in winning: the war and afterward made life nser- t Her for age as we'll as youth?" asks the Independent, r.oston. There is a dearth of it now. and even when one funis il the old gusto is gone and tba listless cheilites drag through to a, drooping end. This ought not to bo. There Is much more that) a social' heart warming in popular song, important im-portant as that may be in our coa-j coa-j glomerate country. The individual's own stimulus is most important of all, for he ought to "go forth to lie" wilh spirit anil power. One cannot listen in church, wiiic-f oiight to lie the greatest place for community com-munity song, without wondering why the gift has fallen into disuse. Peopl -mechanically go through the form of opening their hymn books and rising, and then seem abashed Into silence In the sound of their own voices. |