Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-29 | Page 1 | What About Yankee Doodle?

WHAT ABOUT I YANKEE DOODLE Dee Dec De 23 In II Dixie more mels mor popular than Yankee Doodle That Is his II the question which apparent apparently ly I has haa h divided the tho country countr Into two camps and anI brought about abut a controversy which promises to become second second only anI anIto to the tho recent great eat question of the tIme day Who 1 discovered tho the north pole Tho The Innocent assertion of Otto Oto G T chief of or the tho division of music of the tho library of or Congress Cones In iii a a publication cation dation of at American national songs that Dixie was Wl more mor prominent In patri patriotic otic popularity than titan Yankee Doodle has ha stirred up a hornets nest and oven even ven resulted un ln threats of death to Mr His HIl office orce In the congressional al at library has lias been ben swamped with wih let letters lettel tots tel from frona various parts of the tIme country In which tho the writers take tle exception to t tho thu statement about abut Dixie Somo Seine of or those dIre diro thes punishment letters leters threaten Mr with