Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-11-24
MUSICAL ITEMS
civilian Conrad Mills

Thanksgiving Day is to be a day of
song not only i'm our home country,
hut in our army camps abroad, wher-
ever they may be located. The influ-
enza epidemic in this community pro-
hIDItS such celebration on that day,
hut let us hope local conditions via
be such that in a very short while
VIC can all feel free to attend public
meetings and go to the churches,
schools and theatcrs. The Community
chorus, Of approximately one hundred
voices. has an especially good pro
Sram OF songs, all ready to place I'm
rehearsal just us soon as it is safe
10 do so. II is planned to give a big
public concert in one Of the local the
aters after about two weeks rehcars-
ing An orchestra of fifteen or more
pieces viii accompany the singers. and
the concert should be one of the bcst
and most entertaining ever given.
Kitty Cheatham. one Of the best
known concert and recital artists. is
waEing a vigorous campaign against
he use and words of The Star Span
gIed Banner as our national anthem.
She claims, cmphatically TO he Il true
and loyal patriot and traces her an
cestry 10 the earliest settlers OF Amer
Ica- Her objection to the sentiment
expressed by the words OF The anthem
Is based on the fact that they were
written at a time when OUT country
vas at war with Great Butain. and
such sentiments are opposed to the
inseparable unity of the two great
English speaking nations. That TO
keep alive dhe emotion which this
Great Britain and America being all
lies in the tyue sense. That We must
forget those things that are behind
and recognize ourselves as brothers.
We. as A nation, are responsible for
Ierpetuating the remembrance OF HE
schism of war. which should long ago
have been forgotten. by insisting on
the use OF The Star Spangled Banner
and teaching it to our children in the
public schools.
Particular objection is found only
10 the words, Where the foes naughty
host in dread silence rcposes,' and She
asks: DO these sentiments breathe
union, and shall we today refer to our
brother and ally as the foes naughty
host?r
Objection to the music is made he
cause it is the music written for an
old English drinking song used by the
Anacreontic Society of London This
song was sung during their frequent
cOnvivial meetings at the Crown and
Anchor tavern" and it later became
famous and in constant use in all the
celebrated taverns in London and
throughout England.
Miss Cheatham states.
The original words and music Of
The Star Spangled Banner emanated
from false sentimentality, darkness and
degeneracy and carry with them the
mental animus of the carnal mind,
which perpetuates its influence in dis
cord, death and repeated wars. The
music is an old English drinking song
nd its influence keeps active the in
toxication OF the material senses. The
words are tribute to pagan idolator
whose poisonous vine of myrtle OF
Venus with Bacchus' vine must be
mentally uprooted and ultimately for
ever cast out of Anglo-Saxon con-
seriousness.
The spiritual union of England anC
America and there is no other union
is God made. It's attempted disruption
through the insistence on The Stal
Spangled Banner is a German propa
ganda and it must and shall cease.
Many prominent people, includins
we'll known journalists. musicians anC