Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1919 — Lacking in Respect. [ARTICLE]

Lacking in Respect.

A burly and bristling exemplar of German militarism, with captain’s knots on his shoulders and an iro# cross on his chest, was included in a bag of prisoners that some American soldiers made just before the armistice was signed. He was indignant, to say the least, and his mood intensified as he was marched back to the intelligence officer. He had not heard the questioning officer speak more than five words of German before he burst into the conversation. “Do you allow privates to call officers by their first names In this army?” be demanded wdtheringly, according to Stars and Stripes. “Why 1 ?” asked the officer. “Well, this pig,” said the Prussian, “called me Heine every time he addressed me." —tooth’s Companion.