Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 August 1918 — Page 3

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WILL NOTBE MOVED

Director Herbert Briggs Recommends To School Board That No Change Be Made.

"I ha vocational school will not be relocated as the result of a. report made to the school board Friday night by Vocational Director Herbert Briggs. He reported that he had investigated the building at Thirteenth and Deming •treets, formerly occupied by the United Bread company, and found it undesirable for a vocational school ^building. He estimated that the cost ®f changes necessary lind of moving and re-installing equipment, at $7,700, nd recommended that all action in regard to relocating: the vocational fcchool be suspended until the Rose

Polytechnic building can be secured or a new especially designed vocational •ehool building erected.

The contract for the erection of a two-room building at Twenty-eighth Street and Seventh avenue for a temporary colored school was awarded to Edward Shaw for $6,798. A contract Was also let for the re construction of the entrances of Wiley high school. Bids on contracts for the plastering of the walls of the newly built addition to the boys' vocational school and the Installation of a heating plant for the building were opened.

John T. M&yroi>e secured the contract for enlarging the entrance to "Wiley high school for $1,810, in accordance with a recommendation of a fleputy state fire marshal. The following bids were submitted: Brill & Hon, $1,973 John T. Mayrose, $1,810 "Walter Caton, $1,950.

As the number of yards of plastering to be done was not known to the 1oard members the contract for the plastering of the vocational school was not awarded. A committee composed of Henry F. Schmidt, Dr. Charlei Gerstmeyer and Andrew i 'Mara, was appointed to Investigate the bids and awa«rd the contract to the lowest bidder. Bias were submitted by Charles Barch for $150 and Rotroff Pros, for rifle a yard-

Bids or Building.

Bids on the contract for the construction of the new colored school were submitted by Brill & Son, at $8,383 John T. Mavrose, $8,509 Strott Wuest, $10,838 Edward Shaw, $fi,798 Arthur M. Lee, $7,522 S. E. Pierson & Son, $8,300 E, JT. Workman, $9,700, and Walter Caton, $8,400.

After warm argument the beating plant bid was deferred. Prox & Burpett Co. was the only company to submit a bid on the installation of a heating system for the new addition and the vocational school, and the bid was only for the second floor. This question was referred to the same committee when it was decided to outfit both floors with steam heat.

Property Inside City Limits. The school board attorney reported that the question of whether or not the lots purchased for the temporary colored school and the Rosemont school were within the city limits had been investigated, snd that it had been found that they were. Warren Sanford was named by the board for its Appraiser of the Rosemont school and !Lon Lee as alternative.

Mrs. Sallie Hughes was allowed $385 for the purchase of new books for the library. New scales for weighing the coal being stored in the school buildings were ordered installed, as the ones now at the administration building are too small to weigh, some of the larger trucks.

That the principals and teachers of academic schools be instructed that the boys' vocoational school is not a "dumping ground" for unruly pupils, •was suggested by John R. Harkness. Superintendent Waits and other board members agreed.

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Young Woman Allowed To Plead Under Assumed Name. *Mary Watson,'* the pretty young •woman who fell from a speeding taxicab at Fourth street and Wabash avenue Thursday night, In an intoxicated condition and who has made every effort to conceal her identity, was fined $5 and costs in City Court Friday afternoon by Judge Paul R. Shafer. She paid her fine and hurriedly departed from the court room, shielding her features from the eyes of the spectators and the press table.

The woman, who is believed to be the wife of a prominent Crawfordsville business man, was arrested here after, it is said, she had gone to Westville, Til., with a local married man. Tt is believed that they feared being caught together and that the woman, after reaching Westville and indulging in a large quantity of liquor, hired a taxicab to bring her back to this city.

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Who would ever have thought that an American woman would one day run for office in England? It was not even thought (possible a few years ago that an English woman would do such a thing—but an American—it is positively staggering. Yet that is just what the duchess of Marlborough is doing.

The duchess of Marlborough, it will "be remembered, was Consuela Vanderbilt, daughter of W. K. Vanderhilt, of New York. She was married in 1895 to the ninth duke of Marlborough. A few years after their marriage they separated and tince that time jthe duchess has been active In philanthropic and social service work in London.

At' the beginning of the war she took up hospital and war relief work. And noW she Is turning her attention toward politics. She has always been interested in woman's suffrage and has made speeches in this country when visiting her mother, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont.

The duchess wishes to fill the vacancy in- the London county council caused by the death of the former representative. She has been accepted as the progressive candidate for the North Southwark division, according to latest reports. The vacancy is to be filled immediately, it is said.

And It to that while the men of Britain are deciding that women shall not sit in the house of parliament an American woman will probably sit ia the county council, so there.

What to Do With Valuable Furs, This is not a fashion note, but it is an interesting bit of news from the far west. Perhaps, after reading it' many young women will follow the advice given to their 'brothers about "going west."

Miss Patsy Reere, of Sierra county, California, only girl trapper, walked two hundred miles to register at the state university at Berkeley. She will pay for her course with the pelts of i

f. H. C. A. BUILDING CLOSES FOR REPAIRS

Extensive Remodeling Will Be Done Before New Secretary Takes Charge of Affairs.

The local Y. M. C. A. will close tot a month next Saturday for extensive repairs and rearrangement of the building. Although there has been no gymnasium work th|s summer the swimming pool has been doing a good business, averaging SO swimmers a day.

Abner Gran, who for the past nine years has been general secretary at La Crosse, Wis., will arrive about October 1 to take charge of the local work. Mr. Gran is eager to start the work and he feels that in Terre Haute there is an opportunity to use the experience and knowledge of Y. M. C. A. work that he has accumulated in the last 20 years.

In speaking of the new secretary, Mr. F. H. Kisling, chairman of the local Y. M. C. A. board of directors says, "Mir. Gran acted as executive secretary during the recent Red Cross drive in LaCrosse and the newspapers there were net reluctant in giving him credit for the success of the campaign which put LaCrosse 'over the top* by nearly 50 per cent."

Members of the local association whose memberships ha^e been paid up will be given an extension of credit on their membership for the period that the building is closed.

Mr. Kisling says, "*'The board of directors regret exceedingly the necessity of closing the building although only temporarily but it was thought best to do so. There is, however, an assurance that with the improvements in the building and the starting of real Y. M. C. A. work here that many Terre Haute people will support the work that h&ve heretofore taken no interest."

SLOT MACHINES SMASHED.

Chief Beattie's Squad Destroys Gambling Equipment. The Slot machines have passed and have gone down beneath the powerful axe of Chief of Police Jack Beattie and his crew of bluecoats. Yesterday afternoon the work was started, and for a few moments the clash of iron against wood was to be heard as the bluecoats worked like beavers, smashing the delicate mechanism of the expensive gambling machines. It is estimated that within the two hours consumed in the destruction that $5,000 worth of slot machines were destroyed.

Chief Beattie personally supervised the work, and the nickels found in the machines were turned into the pension fund. The iron work was sold to junk dealers, and a part of the wood was carried home by patrolmen as kindling wood for the winter. Several crap tables and roulette wheels were thrown into the junk pile after having been operated upon with an axe, and when the 51 slot machines were added to the pile, it assumed the proportions of a regular Junk yard.

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Lela Crews, the 14-year-old West Terre Haute .girl, who has been missing from home for more than a week, was found by the police Friday night at' the Nine-Mile island, south of the city, and returned to her parents.

The girl started to the Ed Green fishing camp, south of the city, more than a week ago, and when her shoes and stockings were found in an old empty house it was thought that she had been drowned while wading in the river. The girl told the officers that she had decided to stay at the Nipe-Mile* island, --instead of at the fishing camp, and h*d "ailed to notify her parents, y

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two lynx coons, eighteen skunks, fifteen foxes and five coyotes.

Women in Coal Industry. Coal companies in Pennsylvania are employing women to a great extent. One company has sent its male telephone operators to the mln^s and hired girls to take their places. This is commendable, but why did they wait until now and how could a man who was satisfied to run a switch board ever manage to switch coal cars in a mine?

Another company has replaced men clerks with girls in its colliery offices.

DEPUTY CLERK ISSUES OWN LICENSE TO WED

Popular Young Charleston, (111.,) Woman Steals March On Father and Friends.

By Special Correspondent. CHARLESTON, 111., Aug. 17.—Miss Elizabeth Willingham, daughter of County Clerk John F. Willingham, and chief deputy county clerk, is a woman that keeps a secret. She and Charles Boyer, a young machinist, had planned to get married without the knowledge of their friends or nosey newspaper reporters. After closing the office for the night. Miss "Willingham returned later and issued the license for her marriage to Mr. Boyer, which was performed at the home 'of the pastor of the First Christian church by the pastor, the Rev. A. LeJRoy. Huff, later in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Boyer quietly slipped away to Springfield to attend the state fair.

They will be at home to friends at 1020 Van Buren street, after Aug. 24.

Would Cut Lighting.

By Special Correspondent. CHARLESTON, 111., Aug. 17.—The Central Illinois Public Service company has filed a request with the city council to allow the company to place the city's street lighting on a "moonlight" schedule, instead of the all-night schedule that has been in effect here for nearly 30 years. The city pays a rate of $60 a year rental on each of the 102 arc lights, and among the company's proposition is a rate of $52 a lamp a year. It is not believed that the city will amend the contract so as to adopt the new schedule.

Election Comes High.

By Special Correspondent. CHARLESTON, 111., Aug. If.—The primary election to nominate candidates for judge and clerk of the Charleston city court cast but 100 votes (Tat of the 1,800 male votes in Charleston, women not being allowed to vote for the office of judge. The nominees are: Judge—Miles A. Tipsword, democrat John T. Kincaid, republican. For clerk—C. W. Middleton, democrat Mrs. Cora Daniels, republican.

Discharged From Service.

By Special Correspondent, CHARLESTON, 111., Aug. 17,— Thomas Hampton, aged 18 years, enlisting in the regular army last May, is home from Camp Merritt, N. J., where he received an honorable discharge following injuries received on the rifle range. A few months ago Young Hampton was struck in the right knee cap hy

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Editor's Health Improves.

By Special Correspondent. CHARLESTON, 111., Aug. 17.—C. L. Lee, owner and publisher of the Daily Courier, who entered the Mayo sanitarium at Rochester, Minn., for treatment for an interior goitre, is home after an absence of six weeks. He returns improved in health.

CITY COURT DOCKET.

The case of Harry Records, charged with carrying concealed weapons was continued until next Tuesday afternoon.

John Merchamper and Fred Strammer charged with violating the state liquor law, had their cases continued until Tuesday afternoon.

Mrs. Anna Dahl, 608 South Fourth street, as arraigned on complaint of Mrs. William Wyeth, charged with provoke. Judge Shafer continued the casji^SO days.

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their privations brought on what was known as "The Peasants' War." "With pitchforks and scythes they warred on the military and nobility, ana tnelr desperation and sense of injustice so augmented the power of their crude weapons, that it was only after the bloodiest fighting that they were vanquished in the unequal conflict.

Very little was accomplished Ifl the way of social progress throughout tre seventeenth century because of the long series of wars which devastated the continent at that period. It was estimated that by 1650 no less than 70 per cent, of the German people had perished through the ravages of war, pestilence and famine.

The principles of republicanism, brought to the fore by the French revolution, took root in Germany and bore fruit in 1832 in the shape of a rather formidable uprising. No less than 30,000 men gathered at Hambach in the Palatinate to demand emancipation, but Bavarian troops quelled the rebellion and similar uprisings in Frankfort, Bremen, Cassel and Saxony were likewise suppressed.

Perhaps the most ambitious revolution in the annals of Germany was that of 1848, when the spirit of democracy was rife throughout Europe. Berlin and Vienna fell to the poulace, but the triumph was short-lived. General Wrangel subdued the uprising, and Prussian troops soon disposed of other rebellions throughout the empire. One of the effects of the demonstration was to secure a constitution for Prussia, but no sooner was the menace of the revolution allayed than the constitution was Withdrawn—which, of course, was typical of Prussian statecraft.

Did Rebel Once.

But even this comparatively recent indication of the spirit of independence in the German people is of little significance in connection with a consideration of present probabilities because of the fact that such ideas have not gained ground since.

When the war broke out in 1914 the kaiser had behind him a united people who gloried in his power and were prepared to follow wherever his ambitions might lead. I do not mean for a moment to intimate that there were not many in Germany who were and are as keen for democracy as any individuals in the world—but I am talking now of the people as a wholeroyalty, nobility, aristocracy, junkers, middle-classes, workers and farmers— ninety-eight per cent, of the population of the country fevered their kaiser and were proud to regard themselves as "his" people.

I shall not forget the scene in Berlin when it was announced in the papers that Austria had handed her ultimatum to Servia. That evening I walked up Unter der Linden and saw thousands of young men from eighteen to thirty marching along with their hats off clamoring for war. Mounted police were on hand but made no efforts to disperse the gathering, although no such demonstration is ever allowed in Germany unless it is in keeping of the policy of the government to permit it.

I turned to a gray-haired porter standing in front of a building and asked him what it meant. 'They want war!" he answered. "There's 10,000 of them and they're on their way to the Russian embassy. Poor fools! I've been through two wars—against Austria in *66 and France in '70—and I know what it means. These young men will learn too, to their sorrow, before it's over. Tfiere was a time when the hand of Germany was extended to the world downward as a sign of friendship, but now it is stretched out upward to grab all it can get!"

This old porter was wise enough to realize the dangers which those higher up ignored.

On every hand there was evidence of elation among the people at the early prospect of going to war, and their enthusiasm continued long after hostilities began.

The Germans had been told by the newspapers that the war upon which they were embarking was forced upon them and that the rest of the world had jumped upon Germany's neck and was seeking to dismember the empire because it was jealous of Germtan commercial supremacy. They were likewise promised that the outcome of the war would secure the "freedom of the seas" and give Germany an opportunity to meet England in the markets of the world on an equal commercial basis.

To what extent the people believed the official explanation of the purpose of the' war, I am not in a position to say. Many undoubtedly accepted it at its face value, and gloried in the prospect of Germany's triumph. The better informed, knowing that every port in the world was open to German boats and that, in fact, eighty per cent, of the German foreign trade was with AngloSaxon nations, must have been at a loss to understand what was meant by the "freedom of the seas" which Germany was so anxious to secure.

But whether they saw through their People Were United, government's pretenses or not, practically every German in the country went into the war with a will, determined to uphold German might and establish the national principle of "Deutschland uber alles!"

It was confidently expected by all that the war would be over within ninety days at the outside, and there can b§ no doubt that if the German program had been carried out to a successful conclusion the position of the Hohenzollerns would have been secure for many generations to come. Victory would have so reinforced the foundations of the empire that it would have been proof against political agitators. I believe, for hundreds of years. Democracy would be crushed the world over and all that has been accomplished in the past 2,000 years would go for naught.

But the German plan did not succeed. It went wrong right from the start. Belgium proved an unexpected obstacle, the English came in, Paris refused to fall, the French held their own, the Russian hordes proved a real menace, and after the great, lumbering German mac&iaa had traveled a.

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Morale Kept Up.

In this way, the second year of the war found the German people with their faith in their leaders comparatively unshaken. Disasters had been so skillfully concealed or minimized and victories had been, so widely circulated and magnified that the people were, if possible, more solidly behind the war and keener for its vigorous prosecution in 1016 than they were when it started two years before.

On May day, 1915, the .Socialist Liebknecht addressed a crowd in the Potsdamer Platz and his' diatribes against the kaiser were so distasteful even to his own supporters that they unanimously turned against him when he was arrested. The criticism was made that as he was a member of the reichstag it was undignified for him t.cf®*speak openly against the government from a barrel on the public square, arid many socialists with whom I afterwards talked said his arrest served him right.

Then Scheidman became the most conspicuous socialist in the public eye. but he has developed into a most conservative advocate of socialistic principles, and, indeed, the whole party has been torn to pieces by dissensions and internal differences. The socialists were never less of a problem to the government than during the early years of the war.

When, however, the food shortage began to grow to serious proportions and the people were put on such meager rations that the pangs of hunger and the ravages of disease became a constant reminder of the war and its consequences, a spirit of unrest became noticeable. No one seemed to care very much that the war which was to be over by Christmas, 1914, was still very far from over by Christmas, 1916, so long as everyone had plenty to eat and the German cause was everywhere triumphant. But when the ordinary mode of life was being constantly changed by one military restriction after another and the pinch of hunger and deprivation began to be felt throughout the empire, then the people began to ask questions.

Now Asking Questions.

Why haven't the U-boats subjugated the English fleet and opened the German ports, and together with the Zeppelins brought England to her knees? Why does the war, which was to be over in three months, now enter its third year? Why are we pressing into Russian and French territory if our only object is to defend our borders? Why are we suffering for lack of food and clothing, if we are winning in the field?'

By the time America came into the war, in Aprils 1917, conditions had become very bad from an economic standpoint and the murmuring of the people was becoming more pronounced. People were now not only asking questions they were beginning to insist upon answers. Strikes were breaking out all over the country. Robbery and bribery were never so rampant in the history of the nation. The birth-rat^ had declined at an alarming rate and the death rate among civilians was rapidly climbing.

Poor food and insufficient nourishment were beginning to make themselves felt and seen. The nation was being slowly but surely starved to death and the people were beginning to realize it. Ersatz—substitute—foods were not enough to satisfy physical requirements. They might deceive the eye, but they could not deceive the blood.

The suffering that the people had to endure began to undermine their faith in their rulers. I heard murmuring on the streets and in the street cars, and patients who came into my office were not hesitant in expressing themselves freely about the outlook.

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CADETS MAKE PROGRESS.

Portion ©f Company Measured For New Uunlforms Friday Night. Several new members were taken into the Newsboy cadets at the meeting Friday evening, and 22 of the boys present were measured for the new uniforms to be furnished the company. Another drill will be held Monday evening, and the time limit for measurements for uniforms will expire next Friday night. Roy Holley will drill the cadets Monday night. Those measured last night were Roy Holley, Abraham Lehan, David Rumer, Edward Nasser, Wayne Richey, Nasser Nasser Jr., Herschel Lewis, Rex Shannon, Elmer Rogers, Paul Nasser, Roy Strader. Tofake Hanr.a, Charles Nasser, James Shaw. Earl Withers, John Taylor, William Silvers Jr., Sidney Deeble, Charles Vaughn, David Terrell, Clyde Tipps. Paul Junker

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certain distance on its original impetus it was brought to an unforeseen halt. It was very awkward for thfe government, because it was all so different from what the people do to shake their confidence.

To keep the facts from the public, the press was put under rigorous supervision, and none of the reverses which the Germans encountered, none of the political mistakes which they were constantly making, none of the unforeseen difficulties which were developing, was ever published until the people had been gradually and skillfully prepared to receive the bad news, while general information concerning some of the misfortunes was suppressed entirely.

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WOULD YOU SHOOT THE KAISER?

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What will we do with the kaiser? If we get him in captivity, take the brute through the shell-torn places in Belgium and France and let all the suffering humanity gaze on him and give him a trial, but let the ooort innocent people oi Belgium be the pudge and jury.

JAKS LYON.

Terre Haute. Ind.. Autr. S.

War Contest Editor. Tribune:— I would put the Kaiser in a rustv tub and send him adrift in the Atlantic ocean with some hard tack to eat and some castor to drink so as to sret rid of some of his mean tricks.

I would put the German flasr on board so that when a submarine anpeared it would sink the tub to the depth of a dark and lobstfrous trrave and be should pray to God hat he was satisfied with his first position in hell.

CHLOE BALLINGKli. 201 N. Fifth Street.

Vermillion. 111.. Aug. 9.

War Contest Editor. Tribune:— Would I shoot the Kaiser? No. I •"tvoulu bring him to the United States and place him in a case and exhibit him all over the country.

Everybody would be crazv to Sep him. and the money we would mak off of the old beast would cav off our war debt.

JURETTA DODD.

Chrisman, Til., Aug. 15.

If I were jddge I would sentence the kaiser to hard labor unttl he repented. Then arive him a chance to earn a living. If he did not repent, hard labor. We consider ourselves a Christian people. "Thou shsllt not kill,"

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enemies," "Do ye unto others." It would be impossible for us to justly punish a man who has committed the unnumbered crimes of the kaiser, so as we believe in a just God. why not leave it to Him? U. D.

War Contest Editor Tribune:— If I had hold of the kaiser would put lice and maggots on his head and cut off hTS hands and feet so that he could not scratch them off. I would like to pay him back for what he has done to Belgium and France.

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Al«o four reels nlmwinis '*TIIK BATTLE OP AKH1S,» i.i to crush the kaiser's ideals—in order, to make'the world a democracy—a tit place fop people to live in. "It isn't^the outer kaiser we are striving to crush—to shoot—it is the inner^ It&i scr

If we ran shoot the inner kaiser bv a peace conference, what use is it for us to destroy the outer kaiser? WouM our world be a safe place for democracy* while it is inhabited by people who seek to take their revenge in such terrible non-counting ways when they will have gotten the greatest revenge that coulf* be taken—democracy. .Let him live to see derhocracv ui) and autocracy down. Repentance upon hi.i part v.-ill surely follow and God will be his judge in the last.

SYLVIA NAVE.

319 South Sixth street. West Terre Haute, Ind.

War Contest Editor Tribune:— Would I shoot the kaiser? No. I would take him to the center of the Sahara desert, put a pair of felt boots on him with a fur cap, flannel clothes and a big fur overcoat, lock his hands behind him with a pair of handcuffs and turn him loose with a 20-pound ball on each foot. I would be sure and nut his clothes on so he could not get them off. HOLLAND BEACH.

Clinton, Ina., R. R- 3.

Tfi^st Terre Haute, Ind.

War Contest Kaitor Tribune:—• Would I shoot the kaiser? No. I would make him wash President Wilson's feet and kiss the American flag.

GENEVA HOWARD, Eight years old.

Terre Haute. Ind.

War Contest Editor. Tribune:— No. I should not shoot the kaiser. Are our boys facing the perils of death by fighting in the trenches, makina air raids, crossing the sea. etc.. for the mere purpose of getting the kais-er for the Americans and allied forces to shoot? Is the main purpose of this war to get one man—the kaiser? V

Wo. our boys are dom* these things

JESSIE S. HART.

Rockvllle. Ind.. Ausr. •.

War Contest Editor, Tribune:— If the i i s were caught and I had my say would have a contest toy decide what to do with him. I would? let the maimed women and children who have suffered from his orders have three votes, soldiers two votes, and the, allied citizens one vote. Before carTying out this plan I would take him over the allied nations so thev could,sec him and give him

This would be done under a heavy guard, so he would not be killed be-v fore the great contest opened, or rathel*. was carried out.'

H. HA1LEY BRACKEN. •HZ E. Harris Street.

Los Angeles. Cal.. Aug. 11

War Contest Editor. Tribune:— Seeing your contest was on. tthought I _woi#d try.

Wouid I shoot the kaiserf No. a thousand times no. But I would leava him -to a just God to deal with. Jesus said to love our enemies, so I would turn the kaizer over to him. I'would have all the world pray for him and when he is saved through the blood of Jesus he would bring all the world to Christ and the kingdom of heaveu would come on earth.

MRS. FLOKKNCE E. WOOD. «35 W. 47th Street,

Terre Haute, Aug. 1ft,

War Contest Editor Tribune:It may be the sentence or judgment of the Iord that the kaiser's heart bo hardened so he will not yield or surrender and that he be destroyed for his^ manifold abominations. So I should get rid of the. kaiser by proxy throng. entente raiding warfara. I I If, however, ^ie kaiser survives bv I surrendering t" our terms he shoula be condemned to a watery grave beside his Lusitania victims. Representatives (of the victorious flags should place him, i the Hohenzoliern men, and advisors on a life boat to be torpedoed by Admiral i Von Tirpitz under guard on a suhmarine. Then the deserted admiral should be sent to his friends by a depth bomb.

Mv idea is that on the day of the last judgment when the kaiser stands up to await his reward he will recall the seventh beatitude and expect not an iron cross, but a hot cross.

O. M. OAILET. v

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Terre Haute. I»d.. Atur. T.

War Contest Editor. Tribune:— In reading your columns foy«..ihtf question, "would you shoot the kaiser?"

Here is my suggestion: If captured alive turn the brute over to the Kinirling Brothers' circus, have him placed in one of the wild animal's caeres. Feed him on dead snakes. On everv performance of the show invite the i strongest man in the audience to come I up and take 10 good slusrf at him. I Continue this as long as the dirty brui# I iiv«a

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