6 WHY PATRIOTIC SINGING SOCIETY WAS ORGANIZED The Singing Soldier Makes Best Contented Fight ing Man One thing we must have to hold in our hearts; the true picture of the boys on the transport Tuscania when the fatal hour came. Disci pline was' there, we are assured, but what songs did they sing? In general terms the New York Globe speaks of our soldiers as "singing the battlecry of freedom," and one wonders if by some instinct the re frain l'rom old Civil War days well ed up in "Hurrah, hurrah, we bring the jubilee," putting in the back ground the syncopations of "Over There." Whatever it was, wo can trust the Globe's. words that "the spirit of America was in the songs that came from the sinking s;liip, rather than in imprecations against the foe that strikes in the dark and wreaks his fury 011 women and chil dren." The Globe goos on in a nobly impassioned strain: "The song 3 that rose from the Hooding decks of the Tuscania are echoing in the hearts of a hun dred million Americans, cheering them on to redoubled effort. Not in hymns of hate shall our feelings find expression. Not in vain threats. Not in cries for vengeance, llut as we, too, begin to feel the wounds of the treacherous enemy of mankind the son;? that rose to the lips of our sons facing death shall swell bur hearts with the love of honor, of liberty, of justice that alone makes war glorious, that dis pels all doubts, that makes life and possessions dear to us only for what they count in the battle for victory. "Over the crushed bodies of our soldiers dashed upon the rooks of the Irish coast we consecrate all that we are, all that we have, to the cause of man lor which our fathers raised the standard our- armies tight \inder in France. Of those that have fallen as men fall it is our part to be worthy. Cheering each other, they went to their deaths; cheering each other, wo must bear their deaths, and, counting not tlre'cost, so serve that their deaths may not be in vain. Unhastily, unskillfully, we took up the burden laid upon us. t'riangrlly, un fearfully, we must carry it,, determined only that we will light as those light that know their strength and the justice of their quarrel. "They sang of America, those that bore our colors upon the water that engulfed them. So le.t us that stand iipon the shores take up their song, Ko let us still live to honor them that have fallen, and to carry on cheer fully, wisely, thoroughly, the strug gle*in which ungrudgingly they gave their lives." The singing of the army will be one of the inspiring chapters in the history of the war. Changes have already come about. The British Army is,less of a singing force than it was in the early days. There is rot so much singing of route songs, .-•ays E. B. Osborn, in The Il lustrated London News, as there used to be when the troops were be ing moved up into the forward sec tions of the lighting-zone. The offi cer who provides this information insists that this change does not mean that the fine edge of morale has been blunted. J!ut changes of personnel have come over the Army: "The men are as good as ever hey were—better, perhaps, now that •ven the conscripted recruits are be •oining wary veterans and the iron determination of the whole great brotherhood is tempered to steel. Hut it was the 'Tommy' of the old Army—who i 3 now no more—and the Reservists who were so l'ond of singing and whistling when on the road or in billets as to surprise even ihe gay, gallant poilus who have in herited such a store of quaint marching chanties —many of them closely resembling the counting-out rhymes used in children's games. The Territorials who had had camp holi days were also a tuneful race. "But the multitudes that arrived later on, taken out of industrial oc cupations which were always being speeded up, had been worked too hard all their lives to acquire the habit of open-air singing. The mod ern factory or warehouse or shop lias no use for chanties; the wheels of our vast industrial mechanism have not ground out a single joyous I'oik-song. The successors of the Territorials only knew the choruses of a few popular musical songs; and their junior officers—the ma jority men accustomed to the silent, engrossing toil and moil of business life—could teach them nothing bet ter, as a rule. Such officers and men look on war as a business rather ihan as a sport—the game of games—and there can be no doubt • that their point of view makes for a higher degree of efficiency in the end. The picturesque side of war fare has vanished forever; the late Ivor Campbell (that new Stevenson in becoming who fell on the road to Kut, after serving in I'rance with hla fellow clansmen) spoke salutary truth when he defined modern War as 'organized boredom,' and said he felt its incessant drudgery in his N ery bones. So the men of the New Armies will march songless for hours and miles—just as they walk ed aforetime to the dour day's work through the dim, echoing streets of still-slumbering industrial cities. Curious About M L ? It Stands tor the Best Cold Cough and Catarrh Medicine Ever Discovered, Which Is Mentho Laxene - Mentho-Laxenc has been on the market seven years. It is a concen trated compound of healing, sooth ing, curative extracts to be mixed at homo witli granulated sugar syrup—a full pint—or it may be taken in doses of ten drops in the "raw" state by those who do not like sweet feyrup. 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The defect might be remedied, Mr. Osborn points out, and since "sing ing breeds cheerfulness," it is sug gested that the men of the new armies be provided with suitable song-books: "The book which would be most useful to them would contain, in the llryt place, the words of the old familiar tunes that have survived so many of the wildly popular music hall ditties. The British working man turned soldier is curiously con scientious in this matter, and quite unlike the concert-singers, who think more of tune and tone than of the human significance of a song; he will not open his mouth if he has not the words by heart. If ho comes from Scotland or Wales, he almost always knows the words time has wedded to his inherited melodies. 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Then would follow a few of good music-hall songs (words only)*whieli have sur vived their vogue on the barrel organs. 'Tipperary' would have to be included, though it was never ao much sung in the Army as most peo ple—among them our French and American friends, and enemy musi cal critics in Germany—have been taught to believe. 'Daisy' and 'The HARRISBURG TEI^EGRAJPTf Honeysuckle and the Bee' (the lat- I ter a pretty tune with a touch of the folk-sons spirit), and others that are still well i-emembered, ouprht not to be left out. Next would come a small selection of the beautiful folk-sonKs collected by Mr. Cecil Sharp and others. Last would be included a liberal selection of the parodies, marching songs and 'ragging' ditties which have been collected in Lieut. F. T. Nettlelngham's 'Tommy's Tunes'—the most previous of all war-anthologies. If the War Office liad a little more imaginative Insight the soldiers' song-book I have in mind would already be a part of , every soldier's equipment.—Literary Digest. INDIANS TO ENLIST Following a visit to Carlisle yes terday. members, of the Harrlsburg recruiting staff, who were guests of honor at a dinner there yesterday, reported that they have secured the promises of a number of the Indians i to enlist on completion of the school year. The recruiting staff was royal-j ly treated at the Indian school. People's Forum to Hoid Great Publ*c Meeting The aggressive campaign for bet ter education of the colored race which was launched this week by the ! People's Forum at the enthusiastic meeting addressed by Governor Brumbaugh, Dr. Nathan Schaeffer and other students of education will be continued on Sunday afternoon next in the hall of the House of Rep i resentatives, where the principal speaker will be W. H. Lewis, a col ored attorney of Boston, of nation wide reputation. Mr. Lewis is probably the most capable colored lawyer in the coun try. giving valuable service under President Taft Assistant Attorney I General. The meeting will be called to order at ] p. m. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad. PLAN 15-MINUTE SPEAKERS Within the near future fifteen-min ute speakers will likely address all meetings of fraternal artd labor or ganizations if plans now being work, ed out by Francis C. Menamin, pub- ■ licity director for lodges and frater nities, materialize. The plan is for regularly authorised speakers to ad dress the lodge members at their meeting, as a means of spreading facts concerning the war that should be known by the people. The propa ganda is also suggested as a means of offsetting the German propoganda now rife in this country. DR. REICD TO SI'E.\K Dr. George Edward Reed will ad dress the men's mass meeting in Fahnestock Hall, Sunday afternoon, ,on the subject, "Playing the Game." Dr. Reed was formerly president of Dickinson College. The meeting will open at 3.30 o'clock. Meredith Ger mer, a local musician, will play sev eral trombone solos. . | M \ RCH 29, 1918 You Look As YOU FEEL You know well enough when your liver is loafing. CONSTIPATION _grrt> Your akin loon gets the bad news, ft grows dull, yellow, muddy and un- I \ sightly. rtT-r-nvf Violent purgatives are not what yon (fjEfMLfIRTLRS need—just the gentle help of thia old- JifflEßm VITTLE time standard remedy. AjjujjSßr RIVER Small Pill, Small Doae, Small Prtoe. AV & ,ne JyTf signature / AEXlSlli; BARTER'S IRON PILLS many colorless faces but greatly help moat pale-faced people.
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