John W. Beattie (1885–1962)

Songs collected by educators in the public schools for special public assemblies and singing occasions. Provides "Responsive Readings" -- from Psalms ("righteousness exalteth a nation"), Jefferson ("We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."), the Gettysburg address, Woodrow Wilson ("The Flag means universal education..."), and Mary McDowell, the great suffragette and union organizer.

I had to look McDowell up: Wikipedia explains that she is "A founder of the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)...". She also worked for protective legislation for women and children. "After the 1919 race riots, Mary McDowell focused her activism on working to improve race relations."

Includes Heinrich Heine's "The Loreley", and Emmet's "Go to Sleep, Lena". Each of these familiar 202 songs is a bombshell which explodes the current GOP deceit of what "America" meant to generations of Americans. McDowell is quoted in a responsive reading, saying "Our country does not ask us to die for her welfare; she asks us to live for her, and so to live and so to act that her government may be pure, her officers honest, and every corner of her territory shall be a place fit to grow the best men and women, who shall rule over her."

This book of songs clearly delineates union of people who are fully franchised as owners of their own public entity -- OUR Government. The public entity is an inclusive government owned by its own people. The Koch Brothers with their 200+ 501c3 re-educating "educational" organizations, are not just wrong, they are dissembling evil-doers.… (mehr)