Bisbee daily review., 1919-05-16
KUHN PUTTING ZIP
 IN WARREN DISTRICT;
 HAS FEM ALL SINGING
Community Singing Is Here to Stay, Says Overseas
 Vocalist of ""

"K-H-K-Katy. beautiful Katy, You're the Only Girl That l Adore, rang merrily through the store of the Phelps Dodge Mercantile company this morning and made customers and passersby wonledel what was taking place that caused such cheerfulness among. the ?. D. Mercantile employees.
 Community singing, made so pOpu- lar by the war, is being inaugurated in the Warren district and Alfred O. Kuhn, Y. M. C.. A. overseas song di- rector, is showing the Warren dis trict what community singing is and what it means, and so far Mir. Kuhn is enthusiastic over the way the peO- pie of 'BOsbee are taking it up.
 Mir. Kuhn, who was in the song work in Fort Bliss and later in En- gland and France, said, in speaking of community singing: Its effect it not that alone from the singing but is more psychological in it's effect on the mind. It is we'll known that no one can sing who has a grouch or hatred in their heart and the re- verse is true, that anybody that sings has nothing but good feelings toward everybody else. It is an effectual gloom buster,'"
 On Tuesday evening the mothers of the district had their first attempt at singing at the Mothers and Sons banquet at the Y, and mothers who never knew that they had vocal chords before were working on the beautiful harmony of There's a Long, Long Trail Awinding," Moth , CT Machree', and Aloha" It was the end of perfect day" and delight full evening when everybody went. home happy and cheerful
 Who would have though that the hundred or more miners attending the Warren District Mining Course on Wednesday night would have enjoy ed singing. but the enthusiasm with which Mir. Kuhn led, put volume into their voices that almost raised the rafters on the Y gymnasium. More curious still was the choral work of the AmericanizatiOn classes at the High school, who got together later Wednesday evening and 75 or so for eign born people, to whom the En- glish language is still strange, put their words to music and to their own surprise rendered Good Morn ing. Mir. Zip, ZIP, ZIP"
 Yesterday was busy day for Mir Kuhn, meeting with the employees of fba DbaIuc Dodua nN--,,r4sro ; q, ,o morning at nine and later with the LOwedd Junior High and then with the children of the Lowell Grammar school massed on the playground singing the megaphone chorus of Keep the Home Fires Burning" Then later in the morning came the Horace Mann school and the Central school.
 It was hoped that everybody in the community will have the chance to hear and participate in this commun- ity singing as community singing is a feature that has come to stay and stays only because the people enjoy it. There will be numerous demon. stratiOns at the T. w. c. A. carni- val, the Warren Park dance, a regular community sing at the Y. w. c. A. tennis court on Sunday and almost innumerable other affairs.
 The affair at the P. D. Mercantile was so enjoyed that 1t is to be re- peated again this morning so that if you go into the store and hear a clerk whistling or humming Liza Jane" or Pack Up Your Troubles" you will know that she is not crazy but just living over the ten-minute morning sing and feeling better for it.