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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE NEW YORK CITY. SATURDAY, JUNE 16. 1917. WORDS BY HARDING NEWS OF THE WEEK SCENERY BY ZERE WALKS AND TALKS By JULIUS CHAMBERS (A Daily Feature in Its Thirteenth Year.) The Ears. vlng EXEMPTION A America to Give Germany "Airplanes for Its Zepplins!" each side of the duman hefsl a long as anyone CM remember.

Fortunately they do grow much. Aside from Its use In hearing the tar has little valua except at times to serve the tiar- land, which Lord Salisbury foolishly ribed! For a first it Is the larges ready cash Sard a dapper youth, and slendert "My country I I'd defend her If I felt that I was suited to the task; But the military service, I believe, would make me nervous. Have I reason for exemption, may I ask? "I have registered, of course, But to ride upon a horse Would cause me great discomfort and affi And to eat from metal dishes Would be much against my wishes, interest In Southwestern Africa i trade, such as boys make with Jack knives, called "sight unseen" shouk have felt the weight of British shell: Instead of the nose of the Galllpoll area can be made Impregnable. Thi of the world. It In the price of freedom.

And II Is only a beginning of the entire cost but no expense Is too great to maintain the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This generation and those to follow must consent to sacrifices of life and heavy taxation little Might cer for his latter, Howev were there ears he woi likely find the nose could do that lui wnue or pork ana Deans 1 cannot bear tne signu In order to Insure future peace. The stroyers and submarines i despatch! Helgoland is Germany's defense of thi American people have gloriously to the test and will go straight "Clothes in which a soldier's dressed Look as if they're never pressed, And their trousers seem to wholly lack the While to one who's slightly fussy Oily rifles are so mussy. 1 am sure I'd never have a minute's peace. i grea' ward from this day until Teutonto harbors near the mouths of the Elbe and the Weser. Of these, the first Is the more Important, because thereat terrorism has been destroyed 1 Brigadier General Squler has tet new mark for American heroism.

1 proposes that a fleet of 1,000 or mo: iuu ucean ena or me K.iei CUU It Is folly to compare present naval warfare with the days of Decatur and Paul Jones or Froblsher, but given three such men today, placed upon airplanes be launched, aa one bolt, "I couldn't quite across the German frontier, and modern fighting craft. It is morally the same havoo be wrought upon the cities of the Invader that his savages have Inflicted upon the beautiful lands To sleep nightly in a tent With persons who would not refrain from snoring. While the rations without question Are sufficient, my digestion Might rebel. And then the drills, perhaps are boring. aasureo, mat attempts would have been made to destroy not "cut out" the dreadnoughts as British daredevil commanders did when frigates were fashioned of wood.

of Belgium and France! While the war against the subma rine is to be pushed with utmost why they are well developed The ears are the cause of lots of exasperation at different times through life In early youth, when grown-up people look to aee If they are cdean; In adolescence, when they have a way of sticking out too much and In middle age, when they have a way of growing long beards. The ear heart more noise than anything else except at times when there Is so much noise that you can't hear anything. Slacker Joke. Friend (grateful for a favor) Have the Britons forgotten the episode of the 14-gun cutter Viper (July, 1800)? Or overlooked vigor, chief aggression is now to come from the sky! The American officer grows sublimely florid In his appeal for "an army In the air regiments and brigades of winged cavalry, mounted upon gas- "cutting out" events at The Hague Do they not recall Michael Dwyer, "of the fighting race." and his plucky boat load of companions at Blendom, near Alicante? "And I also understand That obeying each command With precision is the part of a recruit. And any such condition Would Just spoil my disposition, And I fear the regulations wouldn't suit.

"Then the long and tedious hikes Over hot and dusty pikes Cause excessive perspiration, so I read, When the absence of a bath Moves a cleanly chap to wrath And must be inconvenient indeed. driven flying horses that will blind the eyes of Germany until her gunners, deprived of range Anders, will be de More brilliant yet was the carrying stroyed by Allied artillery." The moral effect of such a raid would be tremendous. The destruc tion of all munitions plants In Western Prussia, for example, would do more to end this horrid war than the sacrifice of a million French, British and small boats filled with British tars in Cameret Bay (1801). There was a fight almost without parallel. A great French ship was literally towed out of port and delivered to the British blockading squadron while the combined fleets of Spain and France ooked on! In this remarkable Instance, the enemy was not taken by surprise; they did not merely defy attack as do the Germans today, they Invited It as the Germans do not.

Alas, In the one supreme effort to which the British navy assigned Itself, at the Dardanelles, it failed lamentably even with considerable French assistance! Happy Thought. Americans on the Belgian and French ftp "Though my duties in the army Wouldn't seriously harm me, Yet I hardly think I'm fitted for the task. Digging trenches seems so menial A work that's not congenial. Have I grounds to claim exemption, may I frontier! To covert the twin-spired cathedr al of Cologne Into the same sort of blackened stone to be seen at Rhelms and Louvaln would bring directly home to terrorists directing the Inhumanities of this war the meaning of such wanton outrages. English critlo recently sneered, that i.

thousand times a Important, however, would be the lnaplratloi HEART CRY Fire Company 111 Unanimous for Liberty Loan Bonds the British navy has gone to seed, as far as imagination, dash and genius Is concerned." The men and the ships are there! Undoubtedly, there Is some restraining or sinister Influence that balks the dreams of a British Hobson or Cushlng. What can It be? Who Is bold enough to "Somewhere In France!" Some- the right man Is chosen for the task? Without Intending to Institute a comparison that would be Invidious, I modestly desire to call attention to the complete "clean up" made by the American navy In the two naval engagements during the Spanish-American war. Its conduct can only be described as exalted. There was a decision, in each instance! At Manila and at Santiago the viotory was as Dronounced as Toe-o's in th r.r Japan. It was not due to any lack On the tortured earth you lie, And your eyes that smiled so fear-Stare heedless at the sky.

Lips that you pressed to mine Closed on a cry to God, And the fingers that once caressed my hair Grip deep In the bloodstained White-lipped I stand alone. And try to see afar, Afar to where have pity, Christ! "Somewhere In France" you are. But in that God-knows-where Myself seems crucified; And I wonder if it Is you that live, And was It my heart that dledl ELIZABETH JEAN DUNHAM. 831 Ovlngton avenue. oi nruisn vaior.

ratner to German cowardice, that the Jutland fight Is, to this hour, much of a mystery. To prove that British war craft ought to have essayed a raid UDon valiant aviators would impart to the commanders of the great Allied fleet of battleships watchfully waiting In the North Sea for an enemy that Clares not come out to offer battle. With aid of sky-pilots, Helgoland can be stormed and taken; the Kiel Canal can be choked with stone-laden craft piloted by airplanes 1 There are many Cushlngs and Hobsons In the British and American navies who will volunteer to lead such desperate enterprises. The Jutland fight demonstrates the futility of an attempt by Germany to break through the British cordon; but that very fact makes for Inaction on the part of the British and American fighting craft now, or soon to be united In the waters surrounding the British Isles. Stagnation has lasted for nearly three years with two tragic interruptions that have been practically Indecisive.

Some means must be devised to get at the German naval bases! Nothing Is Impossible to a Nelson, a John Paul Jones, a Drake, a Farra-gut, a Raleigh or a Dewey! For three years the British Admiralty has deemed an attack upon the ports of Bremen and Hamburg a naval impossibility. Surely, what has been done by fearless German sea raiders can be achieved by equally courageous Americans and Britons! Have we forgotten that the Deutsch-land made two round trips from her home port to this country, scorning the alleged cordon of steel craft that was assumed to olose the North Sea ports! Somebody ought to come forward with a plan, however hazardous, to strike the German ships huddled Uke rats in a nest within the basins Tf the Kiel Canal! I prefer to see an American try this task! Where are the heroes of other days? Kiel Is the goal against which the the mouth of the Weser, the case is cited of an American captain of a Mallory steamship In the Spring of There had not been a ship carrying American flag In Bremen for 30 erhaven before he was challenged by Commandant of the Port was amai- ng. His words were: "You might lave been a war vessel and destroyed at the sea power of her enemy early -wr, in the war. Winston Churchill has been abused for exclaiming, in the House of Commons: "We shall hunt their war ships In their holes, as. we hunt rats, and destroy them!" His words were flamboyant, but his Now the lob will have to i.nrtAr- As a Singer He's a Great Paper-Hanger.

Perry Chambers has given up teaching singing school and has been papering in this neighborhood lately. Perry Is Just as good at hanging paper as he Is at singing. Hopkins, Journal. taken under American Initiative, as Liberty Loan bonds in value from $50 $250 have been purchased by the members of Hook and Ladder Company No. Ill, Halsey street, near Sumner avenue.

Every man in the company is a subscriber to the loan. The members are: Captain Robert H. Donaghy, Lieutenant William J. Mulligan, Firemen Joseph Quinlan, Frederick Hill, Joseph P. Dugan, Frederick C.

Helmke, Joseph R. Meares, J. A. Vogt, R. C.

Bahlmann, J. M. Dunleavy, W. H. Dempsey, A.

Brown, William Simowitz, J. F. Killmeyer. as tne sun In irlorv will Hb tomorrow. Insignia of Service Branches of Navy Did He Speak English? WORLD NEWS BRIEFS Copenhagen, Denmark Only an person or an invalid is permitted he American Revolution and ited States.

The only two his subject published in the lguage seem to be out of I of these works, it is ante be republished. rrpreter for rr capnciij THE ANSWER the German Imperial Clothing Bureau, it is learned here, in addition, the person desiring to have two overcoats Amerii WAS approaching the desk to register for the State census. I sighed. All the morning I had struggling through the list of 1 must produce a medical certificate, I he. tlK foreigners, some hmisHf was 'in Constantinople.

statln tnat tne Physical condition of The man was an artist and resided the applicant Is such aa to make the Tnp at a well known and representative winter coat necessary. an artist LLEen JL' Is Krita of whom understood English and couldn't speak it; but most of whom spoke it Just enough to convince one that they didn't understand it. And here was another of them. A fair-haired, blue-eyed individual, with a simple, broad countenance that bespoke the same heavy monotony expressed in the way he planted his footsteps. They were ample footsteps their only hope, bended knee? soul, America? tleman registrar.

"The Government is Kov nnmpy rerunded thinking of my own sizlng-u Uy flourishing organization nu Holds rampnre, 1 near a nst at lsS'luckv Then "to Klves exhibl- Like ocean's mighty ro vim ESS K8M mm mm -i That is hasn't me in the Se- As In the days yore. mensions to eliminate the distance And so he stood before itret sel ii, I have said I sighed, the list of questions to all I book stores for the Then, swift mental registration of the applicant. It always pleases me to size up people as it were in one sweeping glance of a remarkably penetrating nature, and I flattered myself that Address in Keeping With the Spirit of '17. in this census taking my Ki had potted for the Government ledged German spy. As a sort elf-ordained Secret Service agent, the "Do you operate strument?" the man had avoided researching glance and answered "Yes." I was convinced.

Great, then, was mv confidence in the decision that the gentleman now standing before me was no other than a nice, clean stupid Swede. The kind who If he spoke English at all would answer my Inquiries with: "I bane" this, or that, as the case might he. However, he knew the number of the district In which he was about to register, which Is more than can be said for many, and his answer: "Xo was accented, but perfecth clear. Encouraging, I thought, he can at least speak English. Oh, yes! he could at least speak English this nice, clean, stupid Swede of mine, and to make a long storv short, he could speak German, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese.

Greek, Turkish and HusBlan besides. Of Above are shown the insignia that distinguish one branch of the American naval service from another. They are (I) master at arms; (2) boatswain's mate, cockswains; (3) quartermasters; (4) blacksmiths, ship fitters; (5) sailmakers mates; (6) printers; 17 1 carpenters mates, plumbers, fitters and painters; (8) turret captains; (9 gunner's mate; (10) chief yeoman; (II) yeoman, first, second, third grades; (12) electricians; (13) machinists' mates, boiler makers, water tenders, copper-rmiths and oilers; (14) hospital stewards, hospital apprentices (red cloth); (15) bandmasters, musicians; (16) commissary stewards; (17) ships cooks and bakers; (18) bugler; (19) gun captain mark; (20) gi-n pointer mark; (21) gun pointer, first class, same as No. 20; with star (23) (23) rovy gunner, risking high gun scores; (24) radio operator! (25) torpedoman; (26) expert apprentice mark. Patriotism has cropped up in every branch of taice nis word for daily affairs.

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