Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1911 — Truely Appropriate. [ARTICLE]

Truely Appropriate.

The organist was not lacking In patrotism, says the New York Sun, yet he rebelled when requested to play “The Star Spangled Banner,” at a wedding. “It la not appropriate," he said. “Ain’t IL” said ike bride’s father. "For this wedding it is the most appropriate thing you can play. Cut all the rest of the program if you like, but stick to that I had the hardest kind of a fight to keep Belle’s mother from marrying fier off to a foreigner. Between Belle and me we won out for an American, and if this isn’t the time for *The Star Spangled Banner,* I’d Hke to know what is."