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PAGE ft A HERALD ANE) NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON THURSDAY. JULY 3. 1958 History Doesn't March Straight Edllor't Note: Few of us stand ins to sing the National Anthem, wonder about its history. But as w e prepare to celebrate I his coun try's birthday on the Fourth of July, let's take a look at the song s lively past and at the controvers ies still swirling around it. By ARTHUR EDSON AP Newsfcatures Writer WASHINGTON IAP) - History doesn't march straight ahead as It seems to in books. Olten it stumbles about, sometimes with delightful results. Did you ever stop to think, for example, how fortunate it was that during the War of 1812 the British were in such a hurry? They hustled Dr. William Bcanes off to prison so fast he didn't have time to grab his wig or, more Important, his spectacles. If they hadn't been in such a rush, one of the most famous of all patriotic lines would never have been written. "0 Say! Can You See, By The Dawn s Early Light? That's the unbespectaclcd Dr Beanes anxiously peering at a ihore dimly seen and putting the question to Francis Scott Key aboard a British ship In Baltimore Harbor. This is the time when we get ready to celebrate Independence Ley. With a long weekend coming up, there'll be quick vacation trips, firecrackers, baseball doublchead en, watermelons, brass bands and, at night, the rocket's red glare as it bursts in the air. At many of the more strictly patriotic gatherings there will be at least a few moments of atlea tion for the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner," an old tune that still has enough life in it to kick up a fuss in Congress. Which takes us back to the eye training Dr. Bcanes, a prominent Washington physician and patriot The British had invaded Wash inijton and burned it in August, 1814. Capturing three British ref ugee!, Dr. Bcanes had them thrown in jail. Later the Redcoats toted away the unfortunate Dr. Beanes as a British prisoner. All this helped to stir the pa triotic fervor of Francis Scott Key, who had opposed the war W. T. Co. High Bidder LAKEV1EW The Fremont National Forest announced that Weyerhaeuser Timber Company was successful bidder on a tim ber sale June 30 at 10 a.m. The timber is located in the Klamath Working Circle and .was the Al der Springs sale in the Silver Lake District. There were 10,900,000 board feet of ponderosa pine which sold for 115.10 per thousand feet; one mil lion board feet of white fir and other species at (1.35 per thou sand; and an unestimated amount of old deads at (1 per thousand. Appraised prices were $14.50 per thousand on ponderosa pine and $1.55 per thousand on white fir and other species. -j Simplot-Devoe Lumber Mill of Chiloquin. was the only thcr bid der on this stand. At 2 p.m. on Manday In the Lnkeview Working Circle Hie Mud Springs sale In the Drew Valley District hail the Lahcva?w Lum ber Protects Company as tau oniy and sueccssM bidder. Te Lakeview comport w- a;ed 36,2W.M IwHrd fevt tl (nderosa pine, minimum $J9.5 per taad.saaii (eel: tne mIIn white fir and tHrnr ?ecics at $1.M per (inward; and vmntmmiei imiinl f tM dwd li tt ir Mirmsaad. On July 14 there will ba m al nvefcioa at 2 a.m. in the oflixe of Hie Frciwnt National Fern a Lahevirw. This will ip (We PM tiofo stife lh Bly Xm& rs.t, LaV C.mty. hat Uw ItfJnw Vr4u Circle. Ttore will lie i ill HI bin d kM 3 pmtaro.xn p-aw. mwiwuu W.o tor ttonxand : .tot.oot bowd Iwi at wite far and otW po't il dtw otuumnin ptv tbouMoid. AS tl!C prim mcruriii Ituj t ir; tor fhak ettumtnii tai ttxr thai was to produce his stirring unrm. Roger B. Taney, who was to become Chief Justice, described Key in this way: 'A tall, gaunt fellow, as lean -as a Potomac herring, and as shrewd as the shrewdest." - Slrongly religious, Key had wrestled with the idea of entering he ministry. Religion lost, and he became a first-rate lawyer. But his religious fervor was to show up in his poetry, and his Lord, With Glowing Heart I d Praise Thee" still appears in some hymnals. During his busy later legal life Key defended Sam Houston in a famous trial before the House of Representatives. He was also a conciliator for Andrew Jackson in an argument involving Alabama, and a passionate spokesman in a cate now remembered onlv as "A Negro named Ben seeking his f-redom." As this nation drilled toward war, Key became deeply dis Imbed. When he was chosen to deliver the oration before the Washipgton Society of Alexandria, Va., a high honor, he mournfully spoke on "the deplorable condition into which the American people had lallen as a result of their vice and stupidity." Then came the British invasion, and Key stopped fretting over de plorable conditions. to worry over more immediate problems. When he was asked if he would attempt to obtain Dr. Beanes' release, he accepted. Although Key was successful, the British were cautious. They held both Key and Beanes aboard ship while plans were made to at tack Baltimore. Key spent the night of Sept. 13, 18)4, in afony as the British guns boomed. During the early morn ing hours the tension heightened as Dr. Bcanes kept asking: "Can you see the flag? Can you see the flag?" Then, when Key did see Ihc flag still flying over Ft. Mcllcnry, he poured his feelings into the poem he jotted down on an envelope On Sept. 21 it appeared in the Baltimore American. Soon it was being sung in taverns and thea ters. It was an old tunc, one that had been used for "Adams and Lihcr- ly" during the Revolutionary War. Unfortunately, it had even an old er history, even, by somo stand dards, a shady past. The tune had been composed, probably by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society of London, a drinking club. Many have protested that a tune for raising the cup is hardly proper for raising the flag. Vet anyone who bothers to hunt up the original words for the old song, looking for bawdy versify ing, may have trouble understand ing those protests. One verse should be ample: "To Anacreon, in heav'n, where he sat In full (Ire, A few oni of harmony sent a petition That he Ihefr Inspirer and pa tron be; When this answer arrived from the Jolly old Grecian Voice, fiddle and flute. No longer be mute; I'll lend ye my name, and In spire ye lo boot; And besides, I'll instruct ye, like me to Intwlns The myrtle of Venus with Bac chus'! vine." In this less poetic age that sort! of thing might drive, but would scarcely lead, a man to drink. Although both the Army and Navy officially adopted "The Star Spaneled Banner," it was not un til March 3, 1931, that President Herbert Hoover signed the bill that made it the national anthem. Well, you might think that would unC the matter, but it hasn't. A few years ago Rep. Joel Broy- hill IR-Val was asked by some h.ch school students for the off i cial version of the anthem. He be gan rooting around, and found there wasn't any, although the Li brary of Congress has more than 1:71 copyrighted versions. . This led to the present troubles. Foi during an attempt to give an ollicial wording a typographical error was made but let Sen. Nel- on Dilworth R of the California State Senaie explain his reaction. "One proposal," he told his col- leagues "would change the word rower from capital to a small let ter. In this case the word refers to God and io make it a small letter is atheistic." Broyhill scurried back to Ihc printers, dodging indignant com . bints as he ran, for a new "Cap ital P" bill. This time he included explanation.' to show he's not in tent on undermining the Ameri can way of life. Another . suggestion has been made by Rep. Carroll Kcarns (R- Fal, a graduate of the Chicago - - ifSvi dttc&eflfc &ill licf on Your D Vitk Gifts Gritlss IV9M Friendly I uct , .ttightors ad YotT Civic and S-i;l Wtlfwe LabV "()t to KciM : te Ibto rt a last AiouceNcnts Arrival of rcun Kl.mrth F4h Nq cost o tfbligatfoaj PhorflTU Musical College. He has worked out basic harmonics, in various keys, to help conductors abroad erd he, loo knows how to play the piece. Kearns points out one difficulty in The Star-bpangled Banner is r.si each of us understands all too well. 'The trouble is that it was writ- tin in too broad a range," Kearns says. "No one is able to reach all I ue high notes and all the low notes." Kearns got some excellent sup port at a House committee hear ing on May 21. Luch Monroe, who has sung the song more than 5,000 times all over the world, told the congressmen: "Audiences have difficulty with ine high notes in the middle and !i.in in the end. Her recommendation: Adopt a version worked out by Paul Taub- mon. a New York musician, which imkes the piece more singable. But a word of reassurance. Whether or not an official version s adopted, no violence will be done to the anthem. You'll never get a congressman to vote against 'The Star-Spangled Banner," es pecially in an election year. A final observation: One proposal involving the his toric old tune has nothing to do with either the words or the mel ody. Rep. Katherine Price Collier St. George IR-NY) has a bill that would simply insert this sentence ir.to the law of the land "The National Anthem should not be rendered for the purpose of stopping a public disturbance." Put that baton down, professor Let the riot go on. 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