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Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The Flag is passing by! Blue and white and crimson it shines Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high: Hats off! The Flag is passing by! —HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT. R e R “§°‘l‘.."{s~" "\ ; B N e, R eAN ﬁ(t::3:é:::~":'\ e R R N RSN G e SNSRI S e RO RN e A TR A ASEBTREAON N SRRERTI v SRR B SRR L NS  S \\%‘\\Q\ SR RN 7. SN  to know that they are not the only ones. All great men, the Yankees on the Marne, Oh, the English and the Irish, and the 'owling' Scotties, too, The Canucks and Austrians, and the 'airy French polo; The only things that bothered us, a year before we knew, Was 'ow in 'ell the Yankees' did look, and what in 'ell they'd do. They didn't have to run; they didn't know the game; They didn't never marched it much; their shooting was the same; And the only thing that bothered us that day in law, July was now in hell the land if they should run away. The leggy, now new guns, just come across the sea, We couldn't help wondering how in hell their guns would be; And the only thing that bothered us in all our staggering ranks Was what in hell would happen when the Yankees had to stop when the Yankees had to stop before they got into Berlin. They didn't have no tactics but the blooming manual; They hadn't learned no orders but "Cory" and "Give them hell!" But the only thing that bothered us about them was the chow to feed their kamerads. Oh, the English and the Irish, and the howling. Scotties, too, The Canucks and Austrians, and the 'airy French polo; The only thing that bothered us don't bother us no more. It's only why in 'ell we didn't know the Yanks before. —ANONYMOUS SONG OF THE A. E. F. Don't emulate the weasel in their sleeping habits. Indeed, some of the most brilliant men, instead of calling three or four hours a night's sleep, were able to work only two or three hours out of twenty-four. Darwin, for all his prodigious output  the flood, Their Flag to April’s breeze unfurled Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON. THE BLUE AND THE GRAY No more shall the war cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red; They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray. —FRANCIS MILES FINCH. BATTLE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born Across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. —JULIA WARD HOWE. THE FIGHTING RACE “Read out the names” and Burke sat back, And Kelly drooped his head, While Shea—they call him Scholar Jack— Went down the list of the dead— Officers, seamen, gunners, marines, The crews of the gig and yawl, The bearded man and the lad in his teens, Carpenters, coal-passers—all. Then, knocking the ashes from out his pipe, Said Burke in an offhand way: “We’re all in that dead man’s list, by Cripe: Kelly and Burke and Shea.” “Well, here’s to the Maine, and I’m sorry for Spain,” Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. —JOSEPH I. C. CLARKE. MONTEREY The foe himself recoiled aghast When, striking where he strongest lay, We swooped his flanking batteries past, And braving full their murderous blast, Stormed home the towers of Monterey. We were not many—we who pressed But who of us have not confessed Beside the brave who fell that day; He’d rather share their warrior rest, Than not have been at Monterey? At his desk only two or three hours each day. Spencer worked only four hours out of the twenty-four. And the famous philosopher, Des Carées as well as the big-brained Doctor Johnson, used frequently to lie abed until two or three in the afternoon. Perhaps the champion of all long-distance sleepers, however—excluding Hindoo fakirs, buried alive for months, and other trance subjects—was Moore, the French mathematician. Moore, during his old age, used to EAGLE RIVER REVIEW, EAGLE RIVER, WIS. “THE UNKNOWN DEAD” Britain hath buried one beneath Westminster Abbey’s dome, And France hath made her Triumph Arch - A post’s final home, With this to be of all men read: “In Honor of the Unknown Dead.” Columbia, see thou this done: Bring home an unknown soldier son And bury him in Arlington, With all the pageantry of state Well earned in death, denied by fate, With pomp of peace and show of war And honors of a conqueror: Armistice day forever wed To memory of thine unknown dead, While grass shall grow and waters run. —JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. DECORATION Mid the flower-wreathed tombs I stand Bearing lilies in my hand. Comrades: In what soldier-grave Sleeps the bravest of the brave? Turning from my comrades’ eyes, Kneeling where a woman lies. I strew lilies on the A HOT TIME When you hear dem bells go ting a ling All join round and sweetly we will sing; And when the verse is through, the chorus all join in, There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight! —JOSEPH HAYDEN. sleep 20 hours a day, leaving only fpur hours for science—and every thing else.—Dr. Edwin F. Bowers in “Sleeping for Health.” Uncle Charlie’s Whistle, Anna and her mother often go to see her aunt and uncle. Her uncle plays a clarinet, of which she is much afraid. When she sees him reach for it she takes hold of her mother’s hand and says, “Come home, mamma, Uncle Charlie is going to blow him’s whistle.”. grave Of the bravest of ~ the brave. ~THOS. W. HIGGINSON. 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Emergency Tariff Bill—House Insists on Small Army— 3 Slacker Lists Given ' ... Out. - i By EDWARD W. PICKARD. ' Germany has surrendeved again. Un conditionally and completely, she has accepted the demands of the allies, su preme council, and has promised to carry out the terms of the ultimatum without delay. 2. There had been little doubt of this result, but the trouble was to find a cabinet that would assume the responsibility and perhaps odium of yielding to the inevitable. After several leaders had declined the job, Dr. Wirth, minister of finance in the Fehrenbach cabinet and leader of the Centrist party, agreed to become chancellor and foreign minister, selected the rest of the cabinet and had it acquiesce in the demands of the allies. Then he went before the reichstag and said, among other things: "There is no possibility for us other than acceptance or rejection. The victors have decided. Acceptance means that we declare our readiness to bear in voluntary labor the heavy financial burdens demanded year by year. Refusal would, however, mean surrendering the basis of our entire industrial activities, and, as a consequence, dismemberment of our economic body, already so greatly weakened, and the shackling of our entire industrial life." Thereupon the reichstag, by the rather small majority of 221 to 175, voted to accept the ultimatum. The German government’s reply to the ultimatum was telegraphed at once to Premier Lloyd George, who wired it to all the governments concerned. He then announced it to the house of commons, which received the news with cheers. In France satisfaction over the surrender of Germany was lessened by the smallness of the majority vote in the reichstag and the feeling that the Wirth ministry cannot last long. The French are still skeptical of Berlin’s good faith, and propose to maintain. Their forces on the Rhine at sufficient strength to occupy the Ruhr until it becomes evident that Germany will carry out the terms of the ultimatum. Dr. Wirth's reply commits the Germans absolutely to this course. In it, he said: "The German government is fully resolved, first, to carry out without reserve or condition its obligations as defined by the reparations commission. "Second, to accept and carry out without reserve or condition the guarantees in respect of those obligations prescribed by the reparations commission. "Third, to carry out without reserve or delay the measures of military, naval, and aerial disarmament notified to the German government by the allied powers in their note of January 29, 1921, those overdue to be completed at once and the remainder by the prescribed date. "Fourth, to carry out without reserve or delay the trial of war criminals and to execute the other unfulfilled portions of the treaty referred to in the first paragraph of the note of the allied governments of May 5." The chief stumbling block, hitherto, in the process of disarmament of Germany has been the determination of Bavaria to maintain its civil-military organization. It is understood now that the Bavarian authorities have promised that that body shall be disbanded immediately, though another report has it that Bavaria is to negotiate directly with France concerning civilian affairs. SEEKS SUPPORT OF NATIONS China Would Rouse World's Popular Opinion to Opposition to Anglo-Japanese Treaty. New York.—China is seeking the support of public opinion in the United States and the British dominions to prevent the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty, Bertram Lenox Simpson, adviser to the president of China and statistician to China. The Chinese government, declared in a statement, guards, offering to place these under the control of French authorities. As for the reparations, Germany can pay, and she will pay if she is com pelled to pay. But if there is any way of wriggling out of paying, Ger many may be depended on to try it. Only ill informed sentimentalists now take any stogk in the German wails of poverty and threatened bankruptey; and mighty few people have any re maining confidence in German good faith. Before the end of May, it is be lieved, the allied supreme council will meet again, either in Belgium or Italy, to discuss the modalities for securing the reparations payments and to take up the problems of Upper Silesia. At that session of the council the United States will be represented, probably by Ambassador Harvey, who has arrived in England with promises of the close co-operation of this country in the task of readjusting the affairs of Europe so far as they affect Ameriea, at least. This is in accord witk the policy adopted by President Harding, a policy which probably will not be changed by the attacks on it already being made by certain elements in the senate. The fight in that body was opened by La Follette of Wisconsin, who introduced a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the senate that the United States should take no part in European affairs under the Versailles treaty, denouncing the pact and point ing out that it has been repudiated by the senate and the American people. Ambassador Wallace in Paris last week resumed his place in the ambas sadors’ council, which is trying to set tle the Upper Silesia embroglio; and Roland Boyden again took ‘his old place on the reparations commission, under instructions from Washington. At this writing, the situation in Upper Silesia appears more serious than ever, despite reports of an armistice and statements by Korfanty, leader of the Polish insurgents, that an agreement with the allies had been reached. The Germans in the region and nearby, forbidden by the French to make actual war on the Poles, are making full use of their armed civilian forces there and are reported to have defeated the Poles in the Cosel district, east of the Oder river. At Ratibor and Rosenberg, also, there was severe fighting. The Poles were using heavy artillery and other guns they had captured from the Italian plebiscite force, and the Germans had batteries provided by the Italians for defensive use. It was fairly evident that the French were at least tacitly supporting the Poles, and there was reason to believe that if the British and Italians could restrain the German civilian forces a temporary truce could be arranged pending the settlement of the entire controversy by the supreme council of the League of Nations. The Poles feel they have been "double-crossed" by the allies, about Teschen, about the Ukraine, about Danzig, and now about Upper Silesia; and their patience was exhausted. Those who are informed concerning the treatment Poland has received are inclined to sympathize with her in this instance. Others look on her action at this time as another example of the impetuous and unruly behavior that has been characteristic of Poland in the past. The allies are about to emphasize their aloofness from the struggle between the Greeks and the Turkish Nationalists in Asia Minor. Dispatches from Constantinople say the allied high commissioners, generals and admirals there have decided to proclaim the neutrality of that city and of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles while the warfare between the Greeks and Turks continues. Greece will be asked to remove her warships from territorial waters and will not longer be able to use the city as a base. Her forces on the Brusa and Ismid fronts must be supplied by way of Rodosto. The difficulty in understanding the situation in the Near East is illustrated by the news that the Russian soviet authorities, who were supposed to be supporting Kemal Pasha, leader of the Turkish Nationalists, have been plotting against him with the object of establishing a soviet republic in Angora. The scheme was uncovered in time and many arrests of Bolsheviki were made. Mr. Simpson, who recently arrived from Canada, where he discussed the treaty question with Premier Meighen and other Canadian officials, said he had been commissioned by the Chinese government as its official spokesman in regard to the treaty. He was instructed, he added, to use his discretion in seeking to create public sentiment against the treaty’s renewal on the ground that it tended to give moral support to Japan for “further encroachments on China.” By a vote of 63 to 28 the senate last week passed the emergency tariff bill. Only one Republican—Moses of New Hampshire—stood fast with the opposition, and seven Democrats were found with the majority. The senate and house conferees at once began their efforts to reach agreement, the only radical difference being over the anti-dumping and currency revaluation sections, which were rewritten by the senate committee, which also made provision for continuing the war time restrictions on imports of dyestuffs. The house passed the army appropriation bill, but it refused to recede from its determination to make the army small. The measure provides for an army of only 150,000 men, and an amendment was adopted which authorizes the secretary of war to discharge enlisted men upon their application until that limit has been reached. It is likely there will be a prolonged contest with the senate over the size of the army, and possibly a veto by the President if the house wins. President Harding has fixed things so the administration can to a certain extent use its judgment in appointing postmasters. He has issued an order affecting about 13,000 post offices of the first, second, and third classes, authorizing the selection of any one of the first ‘three applicants on the eligible list as determined by open competitive examinations. Under an order of President Wilson, the one at the head of the list had to be appointed. President Harding said the new arrangement was made to permit business training and experience to be considered, and so that the choice would not be based merely on “a cloistered, scholastic examination which might result in a high grade in theory, but not a guaranty of efficiency in fact.” Publication of the slacker lists has been begun in various parts of the country, but some newspapers already have discontinued it because it was found the lists as supplied by the war department were woefully faulty, including the names of many men who served their country patriotically in the war. Such names, according to a ruling of the department, cannot be removed from the lists without the authorization of the department after the injured persons have proved their cases at Washington. As for the most offensive of all the slackers, G. C. Bergdoll, the war department intends to keep after him unremittingly until it brings him back from Germany and punishes him. Such is the statement of General March; chief of staff, to the house committee investigating the escape of the draft dodger. The inquiry, which has brought out many acrimonious accusations, seems to be narrowing down. That the blame for the escape of Bergdoll will be placed on Clarence Gibboney, one of the slackers’ attorneys, since dead, and the two sergeants from whose custody Bergdoll got away. Another crisis drew near in the British coal strike last week. The transport workers decided that no foreign coal should be unloaded in the United Kingdom, promising aid in this to the miners and taking up the matter with the railway workers. Formed, Mr. Simpson declared, that the phrase “regional understandings” in article 21 of the covenant of the League of Nations was selected by British and Japanese statesmen with the purpose of later contending that the Anglo-Japanese treaty was such a “regional understanding” with respect to China. Mr. Simpson declared that China has sent a special delegate to Paris and Geneva to protest against the inclusion of such a clause in the revised covenant. 