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Show Old Wine in New Bottles. What happens when the accepted tune of a national anthem is changed even Willi considerable care is revealed by this from Tom Daly's column in the Philadelphia Evening Ledger: "As the opener of the exercises at the convention con-vention of the National Association of Credit Men In Pittsburgh the words of 'America' were sung to the new music arranged for them. When the applause had dwindled away, the president presi-dent arose and said: 'I feel that our convention is never properly begun unless un-less we sing the national anthem, so let us all arise now and sing : :Ainer-ica." :Ainer-ica." ' (Prolonged applause.)" |