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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
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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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