Show Club Women Oppose Singing Of Star Spangled Banner Declare Militaristic National Anthem Inspires Youth to toMake toMake Make Var Patriotic Societies and Ministers Rush to Defense of Stirring Song For School Children By JESSIE HENDERSON Special Correspondent of The Standard Examiner CopyrIght 1927 Consolidated Press AssocIation NEW NEW YORK Nov It 26 looks M as though despite the Newark 11 N. N L J. Contemporary club and the woman supervisor of music Itt In Inthe the Newark schools the children of the public schools and those of other states will continue to sing the tho Star Spangled Banner Danner and to ask Santa Claus for toy soldiers with guns Even If Mrs Alan Johnson a 0 Newark Quaker Mrs Harry Heller of the Newark club and various arlous other parents shudder at the line about bombs bursting In air the bombs will keep on bursting musically right to the high note Just jest before the end of the national anthem that Is If you can reach fiat fl-fiat t wIth with- without out bursting In air yourself BIBLICAL FIGHT TOO Both the D B A. A It the Colonial Dames will continue to In In- Instruct school children In the words ot of the national anthem the principles of patriotism and the tenets of preparedness Indica are too that Sunday schools will n not t delete onward Chris Chris' Christian tian soldier marching as aJ to war nor Is there any movement afoot so far to change those parts of the scrIptures whIch speak about fighting the good fight or battling for the Lord It Is all very deplorable from the vIewpoint of peace loving club women and nd goodness knows where It will all au end Probably In another world war If children are allowed to take pot shots at tile the dove of peace with the toy guns which that brutal militarIst Santa jams Into theIr stockIngs It is perfectly true trIte saId Mrs lire Livingstone Rowe Schuyler of New York City wh whon the bursting bombs were called callet to her atten- atten attention tion that children grow up in the way they ar are trained This is why It Is so Important to train them In preparedness ant and I I the difference between self defense ant and aggression As president of the Children of the AmerIcan RevolutIon a juvenile branch founded by the West Point society of the Manhattan D. D A. A n K as a Colonial Dame and as aR the wife of an eminent New NewYork NewYork York clergyman Mrs Schuyler is well Qualified to express an Ion SUSPECTS PROPAGANDA All AU nations sIng national anthems she but I dont don't think anyone started a war merely through singing a patriotic song Nor though Im I'm not a psychologist do I think children grow up this the Idea of starting a war simply because they have played with toy soldIers Is so much patriotic anti talk In schools and colleges nowadays that one suspects there Is sometimes money behind it 1 I wont won't say where the money comes from Crom but it isn't difficult to guess People who wio disapprove e of patriotic songs seem to lose sight of the between offensive and defensive which Is tile the dH- dH ference emphasized by our patriotic societies In dealing with school schoolchildren children Nobody approves of the big boy who attacks the little boy but while disapprovIng of the big boy some people forget that the little boy needs to be rescued Moreover it If the had been lleen taught not aggression but self defense perhaps se wouldn't wouldn need to be rescued LAUDS The pacifist Is not a patrIot lie He is a coward and a sel sh cow cow- coward ard because ho he Is interested In protecting his own child rather than in protecting all children When we sing the Star Spangled Dan Ban Danner ncr ner we too often orten forget that the flag doeS doeS' not stand for our coun try In the narrow sense of the word It stands for the rIght of human human- beings to determine their own form of government The Rev neve Dr SChuyler of the Church of the MedIator was like like- likewIse wIse by the spectacle of public school children singing tile the national anthem Singing patriotic songs no more makes a person militarIstic than singIng hymns makes hIm bins Christian anti lle he said for both are the expression of prIncIples In which the sIn slag er believes When It was explained that thal the Hie N wark club women ob- ob objected to seemed to be sheer patrIotism he Dont say say sheer patriotism as It that were an unworthy emotion It was sheer patrIotism snore more than anything else whIch took our pioneers west of the Alleghenies and whIch took civilization with them Sheer patrIotism has nothing to do with materIalism It is a be- be belief Bet lief In the finest prInciples of ones one's country and an Intention to support that belief In Its sense sheer patriotism Is one of the noblest emotions In the world |