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Playing of Anthem Grated...
Then there was a curious small thing, one which you might not imagine would be a trouble-maker but one which nevertheless came to be exceedingly annoying to the audience. That was the custom of playing, at the close of each event, the national anthem of the country which had won, and of running up the flags of the countries taking the first three places. Now that is a pleasant courtesy to the winners, but it becomes an awful bore to the spectators, whether they be winners or losers. More than that, it rubs in the victory just that much...
...National anthems are not made to order. You can't tell a person to compose one and then arbitrarily adopt it. They spring full-grown from the national consciousness. They are born, not in the study, but in moments of stress, in great national crises. The Marseillaise grew out of an hysterical mob. The Star-Spangled Banner was inspired by the bursting of bombs by night. Most national anthems are old songs whose symbolic significance came to them later-almost unconsciously. Most of them are worthless as poetry. Many are not notable as music. Ireland, overlooking the psychology...
...copies will be broadcast. All the patriot needs do is catch the swing of the melody, and read the words over once. The spirit of it he already has. Then to enforce justice, all true patriots will march in a body to the immigration headquarters singing the new national anthem, the burden of which runs...
...Battery, "cheering thousands" awaited. There were "salesladies," stenographers, clerks, bond-salesmen, mers." commuters, There street were sheiks, idlers, "representatives "bum of 23 organizations"-chiefly athletic clubs and life insurance companies. The heroes and heroines sailed across from Hoboken. The Fire Department Band struck up the National Anthem. All sang, all cheered, all marched to the City Hall. Mayor Hylan's Reception Committee was there and Mayor Hylan himself, with a typewritten speech clutched firmly in his damp and clammy hand...