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- " From First Statesman, March 23, 1851
- . THE STATESilAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ,
Y , I . ' CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher J-
. - Member of th Associated Press
' The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all w
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Farm Telephone
The rural telephone line long has been the
butt of ridicule. Its intermittent ..service, its
defective transmission and its convenience for
eavesdropping have made the rural line a shin
ing target for jokesmiths. The city .systems,
have often been content to let the rural people
set up and run their own lines. The resulting
cooperatively-owned farm telephone lines have
generally failed to give the quality of service
furnished by urban exchanges. '
For one thing, the country lines have empha
sized low cost. No adequate provision was
made for maintenance and nothing was provid
ed for depreciation. ; Periodic turnouts of farm
ers to reset poles or crossarms were relied on
to substitute for full-time work by trained line
men. Small wonder, then, that telephone Ser
vice on such lines was independable, t -
But the rural telephone user seems about to
come into his own. The FCC has been haunt-
" inghim, surveying his needs and diagnosing the
ills of his telephone line, i The telephone com
panies also have had a committee working out
-the problem of rural telephony. Reports are
coming out nowi and they are sure to be fol-
1 lowed with action as soon as materials and labor
are freed for construction. s -
The FCC reports that the number of rural
telephone subscribers has dropped some 35 per
cent in the last 20 years, although the total
number of telephones in the country has about
doubled in that time. It finds that there are
some 750,000 mote electrified farms than farms
served by telephone lines. The FCC blames the
decline on increased service costs, decreased
competition among companies and the practice
of the Bell system to maintain or increase rates
rather than decrease them. The chairman of
the company committee" replies that the statis
tics are unfair because they fail to make allow
ance for the depression when farmers didn't
con tinue their telephone connections. Now, he
says the record is very much improved, the Bell
comp'anies reporting an increase of 500,000 farm
phones or 35 per cent since 1935. e9
The FCC report undoubtedly will spur ac
tivity. But the problem will remain of main
taining telephone lines in thinly settled areas
and trying to supply a quality of service com
parable to that on city lines. This will cost
money no matter who does it. j
One possible development is what is called
thet"rural carrier phone." It consists of a small
set Jwith vacuum tubes and a conventional tele-
phoVie, with connecting wires leading to a pow-0111 possession.; The huge bulk Of Mt. Hood
r line. ? The .carrier frequencies are sunerim- effectively shoulders this wind away from Can-
posed on the current flowing through the power
lines.! - ' ' . .
In setting up a system a line would run from
the powerline to a Central telephone exchange.
The operators there would make the connections
with other subscribers on the exchange or with
other exchanges. Under this system party-line
eavesdropping and conversations would be
eliminated. . 1 i
The application of such a method of commun
ication to general use remains a matter for fu
ture trial. But not for long will the rural field
lie as fallow as it has in the way of telephone
service. Either through farm cooperatives or
private telephone companies,' or through gov
ernment participation, there will
extension of telephone service
communities of America, as soon as the war
ends. 1 '
The Bend Bulletin has been conducting a poll
on whether social security payroll taxes should
be raised. The vote was three to one against a
raise on the ground "there are too many damn
taxes now.' Doubtless the vote- would be in
the same proportion itthe question was whether
the pensions should be doubled and in favor
of the doubling.
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Guest Editorial
THE CHKXSTMAS TREE IS A SYMBOL OF LIFE
Back in the dawn of the years, the tree like the
sun was a symbol to primitive man, a symbol of
universal life. v
Trees were held sacred: some God or spirit dwelt
there, .gifts were. hung, upon them: offerings to
please or prayers fo ward off evil. Trees were the
earliest altars.
The-Tree Worship can be' traced back to earliest
times; to Egypt to India to China, It is found in
the Roman Saturnalia, that ancient pagan festival
to the Sun God, the giver of triumphant life.-
The Druid ceremonies were tree worship. Clad in
snowy robes; the priests with golden sickles cut the
mistleto from the glorious oaks of old England.
The Christmas tree, as we know it, is the out-,
growth, of these ancient and medieval customs and
legends.
One Christmas eve, Martin Luther, walked under
the glory of the stars feeling the' nearness of the
great Heavenly Father. It filled his soul with won
der, and to share the feeling with his' children, he
cut down -a little fir tree and set it up in his home,
bright with lighted candles the first Christmas
tree. -. 'X: :-
The Christmas tree was set up in Germany with
reverence, made beautiful, it radiated joy; gifts
were set below, never on the tree. They kept this
custom to themselves for a thousand ysrs.
Prince Albert brought it to England when he
married Queen Victoria, adding it to the many jolly
'Christmas ceremonies there. The Empress Eugenie
. added the tree to the joyous St Noel in France.
- The Puritan Fathers did not bring the Christmas
. tree ceremonies when they landed at Plymouth
. Rock. However, when the Dutch Sounded their col
ony In Pennsylvania, they observed the Christmas
tree with the ceremonies of the Fatherland.
Today it is a.universal custom all over the world.
Four million trees are used In the United States
alone. . "" 'X ' XrXXW-'vV' k"'-:-' ": ; ;.
If conservation, care, and economy are practiced
In our glorious second-growth forests, future gener
ations will have Christmas' trees for evermore.
, . The forests are our heritage. .
Let us not waste . this great asset. .
Want always, follows waste. f
Jessie M. Honeyman,
,. Oregon Roadside Defense Council.
Ahead of Competition
The city of San Francisco is planning to spend
$20,000,00 on improving its airport. The plan
includes reclamation of 470 acres of tidelands,
relocation of the Bayshore highway, construc
tion of runways up to 10,000 feet in length;
erection of new terminal buildings. The city
is aspiring to be the hub of air transportation
on the west coast. "It isn't trying to "meet com
petition;" it is trying to be ahead of competi
tion. : '.J. ' . r" ';?,';
We mention this to point up the comment
that communities must prepare to compete, and
they must be ready to back their bets with , sub
stantial stakes. ' .. 1 ' ,
Portland, the principal port for Oregon, Re
cently voted to spend some $3,000,000 for dock
improvements. But wilLthis be anywhere near
enough to modernize its facilities for the event
ual competitive era after the war? Our infor
mation is that ships will demand the best of
facilities, with space and equipment to handle
loading and unloading from many hatches at
once, so they can make quick turn-arounds. The
ports which prepare to give that service nat
urally will be ports of call. ,
This is not ijust a Portland matter, because
the rest of the state is interested in its expan
sion. From the standpoint of ocean transpor
tation, Portland is "our" port, because over its,
docks flow the' goods we offer for export and
the goods we want-to import. I- ' -
In all our talk of planning there is danger
that we emphasize too much the non-economic
features of community life. Valuable as they
are, unless we. develop our economy we can't
afford the luxuries that go with high commun
ity standards. i '
The Portland East Wind
Portland, whose winter-time position at the
mouth of the Columbia gorge wind-tunnel is
not a pleasant one, is getting jumpy after ten
days of what the
casion acts as monitor for the weatherman, has
appropriately J recommended a change, with
wind to come from another quarter of the com
pass, preferably the southwest. , In fact,- the
Portland paper says it would welcome a cargo
of Pacific ocean rain. ' "
This subject is quite academic to us who live
in the mid-valley. The chill Canadian breath
blown down the
interpreting
come a -rapid TT.U'v fiSH aMiafff
through rural H If W UUCH IMUW J
There is no rift in the war clouds gathering over
Nazi Germany as the Christmas season draws near.
Look where they1 would, the people of the be
sieged reich could see nothing but portents of com
ing total defeat in the battle front news.; Only in
the inter-allied policy and political discords could
they find a ray of hope that the blood-bath resist
ance their Nazi masters have decreed for them
might conceivably win for them something less
than unconditional surrender. V , kl ' .
That hope probably is as, illusory as the reliance
Nazis placed in robot bombs to turn the tide of de
I feat Whatever the divergence of views -between
i London, Moscow and Washington to an ( interim
treatment of liberated or half -liberated nations in
Europe or as to post war European boundaries- or
peace plana, big three , unity in military action
against the common foe still is the dominating fac
tor on European battle fronts. ; (
: That was patent in the events that have brought
elements of six Allied armies in the west on to Ger
man soil from the Karlsruhe corner on the central
Rhine to the Arnheim gateway in Holland it was
clearly demonstrated, too, in the Russian eweep
Indians called the Walla Walla t
wind. The esteemed Oregonian, which on oc- j
gorge is almost exclusively a
by and points south. Oh, we may get a little of
the fringe of the wjnd,"but none of the Scringe,
sir, none of the cringe." "-...
The current cold snap has lasted quite a spell,
and true webfeet endorse the Oregonian's rec-
ommendation. But if the oldtimers will only
think back a quarter century they will imme
diately feel much warmer. Remember, the cold
weather of December, 1919? That, brothers,
was one for the record book. In comparison,
this, is but mild spring weather. Comparisons
may be odious, but this one is beneficent.
K1EKE L. SIMPSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WAS ANALYST
urougn Hungary 10 ciutcn closely at doomed Buda-
pest -and threaten .Vienna.' ' :. ' JY'i
lmpUcit in the tangled and troublesome situation ;
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ministry under fire and British troops of liberation
into armed conflict with Hrek fartinnicta ir r!r.
cumstances which set it apart from the Anglo
American rift over Italian political developments.
Liberated Italy below the Allied-Nazi battle-line is
a military zone of action only in the sense that Al
lied supply lines far behind the front run through it.
That could not be true in Greece at the end of
the Balkan peninsula while Nazi garrisons retain a
hold on Crete or any islands of the -eastern Mediter
ranean, the Aegean sea or anywhere on the Adri
atic flank of the Balkan peninsula, liberated
Greece would be a logical base of Allied operations
to sweep the Aegean free of enemy outposts and
establish abort - line lend - lease - communication
routes ,with Russia. :
Churchill stressed to. parliament this distinction,
between the Italian situation and that in Greece in
defending the British course in Greece. In Greece
as in Belgium and Holland immediate policy flow
ed, he said, from the Allied military high command
rather than from Downing street. In the one case
General Wilson, former Allied overall commander
in the Mediterranean theater, and in the other Gen
eral Eisenhower dictated the procedure in efforts
to maintain' order.. "..A ;k vj ,,Vk k; ..i'k
The implication is that Greece, Belgium and Hoi-1
land are still strictly nimtair operations theaters,
in Aljied eyes and that order must 2e maintained
by military force iif necessary to insure military
supply lines close to the fighting fronts or as bases
of possible contemplated new military moves.
In any event, the iiriPOTal turmoil in Athens nd
elsewhere is Greece tends to delay whatever plans
may have 'been laid bribe Allies -to exploit lully
the Nazi retreat from the Balkans under the pres
. sure of the Russian drive through Rumania and
Hungary, - v .,. . -.- - - 1
hf ! mt witfc Thm WntiMt Stm
Action on the Manpower
The Literary
Guidcpost
By John Selby
VIU nLlACOCVRT, kj HM.
BU T. bM (Dwll, - Blou , -
Fesree; S3).
My first review copy of Har
nett T. Kane's . "Deep Delta
Country" succumbed to ;" some
temptation or other on Its way
the second came very late. An
other day or so, and I should
have missed the best, by fax, of
the ten volumes so far published
in the American Folkways se
ries. More one of the best books
ever written by an American
about an American region.
Much of the credit goes to the
lower j Mississippi delta itself,
which is a region like no other.
But mostly, the book is good for
three elementary reasons.: Mr.
Kane, knows the delta, he can
write, and he knows from long
newspaper experience what to
write and what to throw away.
I. suspect that for this book he
dared throw away very little
material, for the delta country is
overlaid with "different" people,
flora, 'fauna and weather. ?
' One of the things Mr. Kane
-tossed overboard was the cus
tomary long excursion into the -
' geological I and historical back
ground of his territory. There is
enough about each of these, but
there it stops. Then he surveys
the territory, from the deck of a
i ship running down-river from
New Orleans. The deck is high
above the banks of the river, and
these are for the most part high
er than the back country. This
is a land of soft, rich sofl. It is
wet much of the time, and will
grow a crop almost overnight
three or four a year are hot re
markable A flower garden
grows into tangled bower while
one's back is turned, and in the
same interval a wind-heightened
tide-can wash in and cover the
whole place. : 'J
The people are largely -French,
with liberal infusions of Fili
pino, Tocko (Dalmatian), Span
ish, negro j and Anglo-Saxon.
They have a speech of their own,
i and they live with one foot eh 1
land end one in the water. Such
heroes as their two -famous
priests, and their j favorite Dr.
Ballowe were Irving legends, and
other odd characters, sprout like
mQd rice and grow into rich
color. Mr: Kane serves up both
; background and. guttering fore
ground for all this, and, some
how be wraps the panorama in
precisely the proper English. Ev- .
ery northerner saomkt read
"Deep Delta Country
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A patent for a nlarer-niano was
taken out id the United States, in
I860. ,
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THE YOUNG IDEA By AlOSSlCT
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Anybody can de It
Front
News Behind the News :
I By PAUL- MALLON . .
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole
" : ' ' orKm part-shicuy prohibited.)
, WASHINGTON, Dec 17.
Congress has got itself into a
stir on whether i. is , right to
"criticize" our allies. The Penn
sylvania Republican Mr. Gavin
said something: M- .
about the Brit
ish being will
ing to eacrifice
, American , boys
and 'questioned
their draft pol
icies In . a way
which caused
the reporters to
deduce he was
"apparently re
fering to Can
ada." Up jump
MaUoa
ed the Texas Democrat
Johnson, saying, oh no, you must
not say such things about our
allies because you are aiding
Germany. The leader McCor
mack, trying to referee the argu
ment, though constructive crjti--cism
all right but urged pru
,"dence. 1 -h j.;, - - ' , .
, It did not ' occur to anyone to
ask what the facts of British
Empire conscription policy really
are. No one asked whether what'
was said was true or untrue,
and indeed this normal gauge of
whether critidsmj is justified or
not, was never mentioned.! I got
the facts from no less an uncriti
cal a British source - than the
.British information service and
' the various empire legations and
information services here. An
hour of work! by an congressman
could haye avoided or settled the
still unsolved gllspute. . . v, ...
The British LJes have a draft
system more extensive than ours,
but Canada, Australia and the
Union of South Africa have- sys
tems limiting the I use of their
drafted troops in various ways to
home defense although their vol
unteers fight anywhere. India
has no conscription of any kind
. on the native population, but
the British Isles draft system ap
plies to British subjects there.
The India volunteer
army is sel-
dof fully" identified in dispatch
es as it fights In the name of the
British, but numbers mere than
2,000,000 troops, plus 150,000 in
the navy and air services. Three
of its divisions are now fighting
in Italy, one division in Greece,
and while the exact number of
its men . in use; on j the Burma
front (north and south) has not
been given, out, I was suprised
to learn SO per cent of the. units
in action there are Indian. Also
the Indians are policing the mid
dle east and north. Africa.
- Australian law prevents use of
draftees beyond a ' certain are
with his SKATES r
Via j
PoI
" covering, the Islands just north
and ast of the homeland (it runs
through .New Zealand and New
' Guinea). However, 89 per cent
of the Australian army is volun
teer and the draft militia is used '
i mostly for home duties as it
includes those least physically
fit .Volunteer Australians have
fought conspicuously in Egypt,
'Syria, Greece,- Yugoslavia and
Malaya. ,- ' i .
Canadian law which Prime
Minister King is trying to break ,
so sensationally, uses only volun
teers abroad, and conscriptees on
home soil only. Although some
few went to Alaska. The union
of South Africa also has con
scription (18 to 60) only for
home service, but over- 10 per
cent of its total population has
volunteered and voluteers were
used in North Africa (Libya) by
special act of their parliament
- In the British Isles 57 per .cent
of the male population, 18 to 40,
r is in the ; armed forces under a
-strong draft 1 act Men: 41 to 50
can be: sent to industry to work,
and draftees have been sent into
the coal mines. Women 18 to 51
are drafted for home' service. By
last March the United Kingdom
(British Isles alone) had raised
4,500,000 for he armed services
(excluding women and industry.)
These facts show the British
at home are ahead of us in draft
strictness, although their total
4,500,000 is less than half our
11,000,000 and more, and the
bulk of allied forces fighting on
the western front are ours. Draft
criticism therefore can justly be
made only against Canada, Aus
tralia and South Africa. My crit
icism would be that they have
an archaic conception of home
defense, although it is the same
one we had at the start of this
war, and it is certainly well root
ed in a solid understanding of
freedom.; What' changed us was-the1-expanded
range of military
weapons and methods proving
that defensei can well - start
aboard (successful defense of
Singapore and the Philippines'
I would for instance have saved
Australia). Strictly from the
standpoint of new military con
siderations (planes, rockets, etc.)
it is evident the homeland is the
"last line of defense.
The facts also show the con
gressional notion of what con
stitutes just criticism is absurd.
Worse than the man who might
make an untruthful accusation,
is the one who tries to answer
by shushing any nought that
any of bur allies have dones or"
could ever do anything wrong.
His p o i i t i o n implies that the
" truth dare not be told. Such an
unwillingness' to face facts can
also undermine public confi
dence. !'
Practfcal
elision
tof Kev. John L. Knlrht. lrM
CMinaelor on RelHr0,a Life. .,
Memory is but today tomorrow.
The things which we 'look back
upon tomorrow are simply those
things which we are doing today.
Each day we build memories, for
memory. Is but a review Of the
thoughts and deeds of days that
are past Whether our memories
are. beautiful or ugly depends up
on how w are living today. The
surest way to fond memories then.
Is the highest use of today.
Dallas Vesper Service :
To Be Held on Sunday
DALLAS The annual Christ
mas , vesper t service- of "the Men
- nonite church wfll be held at
4jta Sunday night at the church
here. A. H. Friesen Is director of
the vested choir of 32 voices. Mrs.
Al Kroeker Is soloist
v.The concert is an annual affair
and will be held at the church,
Washington and nayter streets.
Ut GERMANY, Dee. -(Delayed)-yT)'-This
concerns the
odyssey of William David Tat-.
j tun, who drives
- m truck for the
-84th division
; and who refus
ed to quit hifih
' balling until he
..reached his
.destination.
i He hails from
, Valliant, Okla
and he used to
, be. private.
This is why his
gene ral pro-Kenneth L, Dixoa
, moted him to be a sergeant: : ;1
It was back in England one
cheerless, foggy morning when
William David's topkick told hint
to check his truck and get ready
to-rolL This being the armyj
Private Tatum wasn't told .where
he was going. But he was sure
it wasn't down highway 68 into
. Oklahoma City. . j
' "Well, western front, here we
jCome," thought William David,!
and pretty soon the convoy start-S
ed off :: y-,:' "?'' -fv ;
But visibility was bad and he
had a wreck. "Wait here until
the wrecker comes,; said the
sergeant "Then you can catch
up with us at the assembly
area."
1
One day William waited. Then
two, three and four. This is get4
y ting" nowhere, he thought So he
walked to a nearby airfield, bor
- rowed a wrecker and hauled his
truck over to a hangar and re
.paired it himself, j - fj
But when he reached the as
sembly -area, the division had
. departed. So, remembering a
well-known, seaport he shoved
. off again, pushing his accelera
tor clear to the floorboards. Ij
His guess was right, Twit he ar
rived after the division bid
sailed. - ' ' ' ! :jk jj
William Davidf was alone, and
it appeared that .lus chance of
getting across the' channel was
about as good as getting' home
for Christmas. Then one day an
LST. sailed with a stowaway.; It
still isn't quite dear how or
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'now-1 see they are picturizing
tiie song-hit of 1904:Meet!;me
at St Louie, Meet me at J the
Fair." That gives one a touch of
nostalgia.--vr- ' r- v"4L '
"-If one. studies many of j, the
songs that are included in popu- -lar
song collections, he can't help
but shake his head over J the
mystery of why they have lived.
Take the luncheon club ' favor
ite, "Clementine;" what silly
dribble it is:
Light she was and like a
fairy, - ... : t . "
And .ljer shoes wen number .
. nine . . . ", k."
Hit her foot against a splinter,
Fell into the foaming brine."
Yet when the song-leader j gets
up and waves his arms the men
will line, lustily on "darting
Clementine." I : jj.;
The only thing we can say for
the words of Stephen Foster's
"Oh Susanna" is that they are
merely vehicles for its melody,
i What else can you make out of
this: i " j
"It rain'd, all night de day I
left, , .'
De weather it was dry,
1 De sun o hot I froze to death; ,
Susanna don't you cry." j
That wording would make an
gels weep, but it seems to ioake
humans sing.' - r 1 ' '
x 'My WUd Irish Rose" hwi e.
sweet tune and the sentiment is
beautiful until one gets to! the
banality of the last two liner ;
"And some day for my sake,1
. she may let me take '- -The
bloom from my wild Irish
' Ros0 " ' z " -
Alas for -Sweet Adeline." It is
the, perfect serenade, but has
been barbershopped to death.
The company it has kept has cost
it the good reputation which! its
words and music really deserve.
Take the song "Dixie" the
"national anthem of the south."
It isn't a native folksong of jthe
south. Dan Emmett composed it
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Stevens
Diamonds - Watches - Jewelry
N.
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A Pink or
Yellow Flexible
Watch Bracelet .
mar be the answer .
a gift tor "Him" . . . still
time to have your gifts en
graved in our store!
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where Private' Tatum managed
to hide that truck. k, i
In France, the trail already
was; growing cold. ' Dozens of
. divisions were moving along the
western front . Too, WUUam
David couldn't get too . curious
around military policemen in
dividual soldiers are not suppos
ed to roam around Europe on
unauthorized missions. ; .."
But across Europe he went
scrounging rations and gasoline
where he could, sleeping in. his
truck nights and asking "which
way t did they, go, . sheriff?, in
three different languages. f
: Driving into a little Belgian
town one day, he spotted an of
ficer he used to know. Skidding
' to a halt he started asking ques
tions. He learned that his out
fit was supposed to be some
where' in Holland. So h hnH.
ed for the Dutch border.
The trail grew wanner. Peo
ple" said," "they were here j yes
terday", or they were here this
morning." Suddenly he got a
-different answer: : .
Theyll be here tomorrow.
l So William David sat himself
down to wait 1 He had outrun
his outfit to Holland and reach-i
ed Jthe western front before it
did.' ,k;;;.: : j
When the general came up he
figured tins man had no busi
ness, being a buck private. .' So
he's Sgt William David Tatum
"now. ' j
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Red Cross Personnel
Representative Seeks
National Workers 1
Hugo VindaL personnel repre
sentative of the Pacific area of
fice of the American Red Cross,
will be in Salem Wednesday,! De
cember 20; to, interview anyone
interested in doing Red Cross
work with the national organiza
tion, j
Positions as assistant field di
rector and other specialized jobs
are open, announced Judge George
Rossman, chairman of the j Mar
ion county Red Cross chapter. Ap
pointments may be made I with
Mr. Vindal by calling the local
office, 9277, or bjr calling
Rossman.
Judge
in 1859 as a ("walk-around" for
a minstrel troupe he was! with.
-When the Civil war broke out
the Washington Artillery iad it
arranged as a quick-step, and
then the song-tune sp r ,e a d
through the south. Like "Oh Su
' sanna," its words are meaning
less except as they express
primitive balladry:
"Dar's buckwheat cakes an'
Ingen batter. j i
.Makes you fat or ahttle fat
' ter ... ; " r
Den hoe it down and scratch
your grabble" -Spite
of the words it will be a
long time before folk the country
over: will leave off singing
"Look away, Dixie Land."!
Far better in the rich pathos
. of its words and the plaint of
its air is Foster's "My Old Ken
tucky Home," catching as it does
the rare melancholy of the
"darky" fieldhand. .!.',
: My own choice of a song which
in words and music seems just
about perfect is "Drink to Me
Only with Thine ! Eyes." The
verse is by Ben Johnson, i emi
nent English poet and dramatist
and the music is of an old Eng
lish airl Music and sentiment
seem in perfect blend:
"Drink to me only with thine
. - eyes, '-- . -'."
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss within the
- cup,
And IH not ask for wine.".
Another, song, a familiar one,
a bit out Of style now, but still
e prime favorite of sopranos as
an encore number is "T is the
last rose of summer, Left bloom
ing alone.".,-- j '
What makes a song live? Prin-
cipally the music A melody Uvea
far longer in memory than the
words that went with it People
"hum a tune" .when they may
not know the words. Bat when
to an appealing melody are tied
words with meaning then the
lawmakers take second place:
"Allona, enfants de la pa trie?
Le jour de gloire est arrive.
La Marseillaise
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