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MONDAY FEBRUARY 3rd., 1919
BASE BALL IN THE WAR ZONE
(From The Cincinnati Tim.'s-Star)
y .Wherever British. American, Fernch and Italian soldiers and sailor*
WUcnftir.glod American fciiae l>a»4 continuer its campaign of “peaceful penetra
tion." Our national game is becoming highly popular abroad. The French
have taken a great fancy, likewise, to tiie British game of soccer, while on
the other hand, the Americans have shown little disposition to adopt any of
the foreign pastimes.
There is to the British and French something unusual in the sight of
hundreds of thousands of young Americans eagerly devoted to a single sport,
in France and Great Britain there is no such unanimity of preference. Nor
have those countries ever produced a picturesque sporting vernacular such as
that which surrounds our pet game. I
The swapping of sports is going to be a good thing for all. Interna
tional contests in various games are bound to maintain and increase Inter
Allied friendships. In future years our World championship series may be Car
more inclusive and enveloping than they ar© today. Th© Japanese already i
arc keen competitors for base ball honors. Some day,-to win a real world,
« hnmpionship. it may he necessary for our knights of the bat to circumnavi
gate the globe. But we shall have to have a new International- language If
the world is to understand the beautiful significance of such terms as “swatting
the pill" and swiping a sack.”
VIERECK’ 6 MUSE
(Elivera (Ohio) Telegram)
A volume of poems by George Sylvester Viereck, known as “Songs of
Armageddon." was published by Mitchell Kennerley in lfl*. One of the vol
umes was found in the Bridgeport (Conn.) public library, and a protaat was
made. Other public libraries are said to have the book. Viereck has been
,-ietty well exploited in the newspapers, especially during the last fOw weeks
when additional evidence was unearthed to show how he worked in this coun
try to further the cause of Germany. One of the poema in hla volume la dedi
cated to “Wilhelm II. Prince of Peace.” with this concluding stansa:
May thy victorious armies rout '\
The yellow hordes against thee hurled.
The canr, whose scepter is the knout.
And France, the harlot of the wotld!
But thy great task will not be done
Until thou vanquish utterly
The Norman sister of the Hun.
England, the serpent of the sea.
After Italy came into the war against Germany. Vleruck .wrote a poem.
In which he said that “hell, when the Slackest deeds are known, shall hail the
name of Italy," and that
The Teuton, thundering through the land
Shall set God’s prisoned shepherd free. \
But thou shalt wear the scarlet band
Of England’s strumpet. Italy! ! i
This man Viereck hated everything that was not pro-Genoa n. and yet
ho called himself an American. There is no reason to betievelihAt hla fail
ing for America is that of a real American. And this man who lashed everyi
nation opposed to the kaiser is allowed to remain here without * protest
FOR THE RELIEF OF PftETI
rolygmny is proposed by a Western poet as a substitute for tbs time*
honored poet s practise of starving, says a recent Issue of the Uterary Digest.
Tire, writer, who bears the name. If not the nature of Bert Love, ought to bo
e xpected to know, since he speaks also from the confeeeed experience of need*
ine the antidote. He calls himself ".lie unbugted bugler of Tula. Oklahoma."
and sends his recommendation against the expedient of the unfortunate Chat
torton to Reedy's Mirror (St. I^ouls.) Thus:
•VYs- to poets, evey one of then should have a wife—or perhaps two or
three wives willing and eager to t:ike in washing to the toft fhat the bus*
hand be not ground in the journalist it wheel. In a somewhat «| wide
spread career as an unwilling victim of the Journalistic wheel, hashed thin
l*cth fore and aft as well as amidships. I have had under phew is!Ion more
one poet who died with all his music in him because no washboard was sub
stituted for the wheel. I may l>e permitted to express the view that a special
legislative act bestowing upon'poets the privilege of polygamy should be
passed.
“In these days one wife, even tho in high health and of exceptional
Liceptual powress, can not be expected to keep a husband glT or out of the
wheel; she should have collaborators at the washboard, or. at any rate. say.
first and second aids to hanging out and ironing. A matter of three conjugal
laundresses should solve the high cost of living the poet's life, even in these
days. /
“Until recent years living has been comparatively cheap. My own ex
perience on the wheel causes me to feel und fear for others—since 1 know ii
to be a wheel that runs down and mashes thin ail poetical aspiration—anil
for the sake of writers who have in them the capability of doing worth-while
things in literary art I make bold plea for this poet-polygamous statute.
“One wife taking in washing is not enough to keep the average artist
out of the wheel"
OVER MILLION MEN DISCHARGED FROM ARMY SERVICE
Special to tAo Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—Chief of Staff General March announced to
day that more than one million officers and men of the National Army forces
have boon discharged from service since the signing of the armistice with th?
Teutons.
The discharged person iel to dat totals sixty one thousand, two hurdled
and thirty seven officers and nine hundred and fifty four thousand, four hun
dred and eleven men.
March said that thirty three generals wrere included among the dis
charged officers. All but four of these, however, were formerly members of
tho regular army and will not be entirely released from the government
military service, as all will later resume their old >nnk in the regular army
forces.
The four who have been definitely discharged were National Guard
generals
KAISER DECIDES TO WEAR WHI8KER8
I Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Feb. 1—Ex-Kalser Wilhelm has decided that in future he
will conceal his face beneath a thatch of whiskers, according to statements
made by the ex-emperor's barber, who returned to Berlin from Holland today.
The Barber, who accompanied his former royal master at the tim*»
the latter fled from Berlin and has remained in constant attendance of Wil
helm until a few days ago, says the kaiser has decided to wear a full beard and
has no further need for his services. •
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