Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1917 — Patriotic Songs Must Be Sung in Schools. [ARTICLE]

Patriotic Songs Must Be Sung in Schools.

AIL county superintendents of the received from Horace Ellis, state supermßendent of public instruction, a communication which directs attention to the law of the state compelling the singing in the schools of patriotic .songs on all patriotic occasions. The law as passed in 1915 is quoted as fol-lows,-and tits enforcement demanded: “That the state board of education shall require the singing of the Star Spangled Banner in its entirety in the schools of the state of Indiana upon all patriotic occasions.” In addition to the above section of the. statutes, Mr. Ellis’ letter states: “As president of the state board of education, I respectfully direct you to require from all teachers of your county (city, town and rural), a strict compliance with this statute. If some omissions of this duty have heretofore occurred, there must be .none now. If ever occasion demanded the cultivation of the sentiment of this inspiring song, certainly the crisis through which we are how passing constitutes that occasion.”