Show NO ORDER FORBIDDING OF DIXIE Washington Feb C Dixie Is a national air and not the property properly ot or ortho tho tim South alone according to a de declaration tl d cl ration today tolay by b Joseph NImmo Jr ono of oC the tho few I surviving friends ot of 0 Abraham Lincoln Mr r statement stAtement was caulier h by a report published hero that Frost dent ilont d nl Schneider of the Chicago board of education had forbidden the sing singing ing lug of Dixie DI lc at the Lincoln cen con centennial tennial That Dixie Is treasonable I am prepared to deny from my m personal ex cx experiences said Mr Nimmo Early arly one morning in tho the month of April 1805 1865 the news reached reach ell Washington a that Richmond had been beon evacuated There Thero was a rush to the tho White House Soon Mr Lincoln appeared at the win wiit window dow over oer the front entrance He re 10 replied plied to a demand for a speech 1 I I well we remember his closing words which were ere as follows j There Thoro Is 15 a song sons or tune tutie which 1 used to hear with great pleasure be bel before j fore the war but our friends across the tho river ha have o appropriated It tp t their r use URe during the tho last four Cour years rears It Il Is the one called Dixie But nut I think wo we have captured It At any rate J I conferred with the tho attorney general today and he expressed the tho opinion that may fairly be regarded r as IlS captured property So I J shall Rhall be glad to hear Dixie by b the band hand Ever Eor since then Dixie has hag been re regarded regarded as a national air all beloved by hS bythe h the people of the North and of or tho th South The tune tunc Pixie Dixie was comI corn I posed by hy Dan Dnn Emmett a Northern man who wrote the tho words It was tor Jor I all nil time a truly trul national song made i bo so 1 0 by the humor burner or Abraham Lincoln I Chicago Feb G No o order forbid j dinS ding din the singing of Dixie at the IAn Lin Lincoln I coIn coln centennial here heie has been boen issued according to Richard C Hall president dent of the Chicago Association or ot I Commerce I |