The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-08-26
ALL TOGETHER, NOW!

| AL-L 1OGE HEX, NOW
 "The singing soldier is the fighting sol dier," say the authorities in charge of the training of our armies. Singing under the most capable instructors available is part of the soldiers regular training. Efforts are constantly being made to give the soldier ev- cry opportunity to sing. In every canton ment the Y. M. c. A. is giving intensive lessons in group singing, which is the unost inspiring and impressive kind of singing. And the effects of the lessons hod for all along the way to the front the boys are singing Everyone knows that they are fighting as no soldiers ever fought before.
 Why doesn't the same thng apply to the folks at home: Why aren't there oppor tunities for the singing of our patriotic songs here? Everyone, even the most unmusical, can sing our we'll known songs in some key, and everybody should. The movement that is on foot to establish a Liberty Chorus is one that merits the unqualified support of all the community. It will do more to cement the people together into one undivided whole, devoted to the support of our country in every way, than any number of four-minute speeches or other movements, no matter how eloquent they may be.
 Music sort of gets under the skin when everyone is there taking part and singing with all their might There is an inspiration about it that is not to be obtained from any thing else. All over the country there are opportunities being created for the "com- munity sings" as they are called. If singing plays such great part in the lives of our soldiers who are facing the realities of life as they never have before, why shouldn't it be brought into the lives of those at home to | help them face the realities to help them gain vision of the things that really count ill this time when the whole world is in state of upheaval?
 Through much bloodshed and strife and great sorrow the world is advancing toward the brotherhood of man in fact as we'll as in name. This feeling is most prominent among the soldiers. As they face the elemental facts oi life they are inspired by the highest feel ings of brotherly love- And they sing, sing with their whole souls, not always on the key, perhaps, but with spirit that makes They express some of these feelings in their forth strongest when the doughboys are sing ing, whether it is in the Y. M. C. A. Hut or whether it is on the road to the front 1HCIC IS no agency WHICH IS dVd1laDle to all that would help the people at home to take their places in the march of the world toward the brotherhood of men as much as the community sing" There is no other means that will be as effective We are re- joiced to see an effort being made in this di- reetion, and in view of the fact that it is being taken up by the council of defense we are sure that it will receive the hearty sup port and cooperation that it deserves
 Let all the people sing"
 No COMPROMISE on the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong, that is the declaration of July 4, 19l8." Thus said Mir. Winston Churchill, on the Fourth of July, speaking on behalf of the British people at the great Anglo Saxon fellowship meeting in London AL most at the same hour, President Wilson, speaking at Mount Vernon, said, referring to the same question: "There can be but one issue. The settlement must be final There can be no compromise. No halfway decision would be tolerable. No halfway decision is conceivable" The Anglo Saxon voice, every day, becomes more surely one and sO every