CRUSADE AGAINST SONGS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 2

CRUSADE AGAINST SONGS.

- There is a \ movement in America just now, tho '-'Telegraph" says, in oppesition not only to '.suggestive dances, but also' vulgar songs. In pursuance.of this crusade, notices have

■been posted in all V.M.C.A. and Y.W,JC.A: braawhes throughout "tho country prohibiting tho playing, and .ringing ofsongß such jvs "Hitchykoo," "Row, row, -row,-' and "Everybody,'*) doing it." Such -.songs, it is urged, are suggestive, and not ct all in keeping with,tho ideals-.of Christian associations. Mr. William Cooper, ;.inter, viewed, said:—"Formerly' street music was derived,from the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan,, but.nowadays it stvmrc .to come mostly, from mu«ie-har.s, and many of-.t'ho-'Songs are unspeakable. •