"HUSH! NO MUSIC PLEASE."

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 3

"HUSH! NO MUSIC PLEASE."

iM v Lloyd hits fcpokch iolotjuently on behalf ol music in war time, tiitl what fie has to say supplies a sum■ii'iil answer to these who say, "Hush no' music, please. There is a war on'.' 1 His address was made in connectioi with the Welsh National Eisteddfod mid on July L 7 last, and lie was moved o indignation over the remarks oi ■oiik' deprecating, lugubrious writer ii "The Times," who apparently placet ;he Eisteddfod in the category ol thing: udecent to be done during a war. '•Why should we not sing during th< ivar?" 'says Mr Lloyd George. "Why •specially, should we not eing at tin itage of the war? The blinds of JMI iin are not down yet, nor arc they like ■ to be. The honour of Britain is no lead. Her might is not broken, lie iestiny is not fulfilled. J lor ideals an tot shattered by her enemies. She i: more than alive. She is more potent die is greater than she ever was. HeDominions are wider, her influence if leeper, her purpose is more exalte; ban ever. Why should Iter ehildrei lot sing . ' I know war means suffering. W:e noans sorrow. Darkness has fallen 01 nany a devoted household, lint it hj eon ordained thai the best singe igainst the birds oi Britain should givi is song in the night, and. aceordini o legend, that sweet song is a song o riumpli over pain. . . . Hundreds o ■•Mrs have swept over these h-lls, bn' lie harp of Wales has never yet bcei silenced l)y one of them, and I ghoul v proud if I contributed somethin; o keep it. in tune during the war b\ he holding of the Eisteddfod to-day 'fur soldiers sing the songs of Wales ii he trenches, and they hold the littl Eisteddfod' behind them. Here is ; elegroni which says. "Greetings am 'h-.sl wMu-s to the Kisl eddlod and ey uanfalvaim, from Welshmen in lb. mid. 'Next Eisteddfod we shall b. uilh von.' Please God they wilT. Tha is Inuu the 3Sth Welsh Divi ;ion. They do not ask ns to stoj .inging.''"