Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-29
ITLTOF HARRY LADDERS
SONG HAS MINOR NOTE
Something Has Hit the Scotch
Comedian, but Not His
Funnybone
1.-TWO EYES FOR AN EYE"
uo Wants Reprisal Upon the Skulking
Boches Who Killed His
Only Son
By M'LISS

By M'LISS
,Uh.r a squat, knobby little figure OF
,ahr,an accoutered to high heaven IN
oostume of the clan Macleod walked
tne a,ber waddled. into the lobby OF his
Sa,si crowd gathered round.
,auder. all right" one Of the spec
aid "but he looks like something's
hit him ,..,,.., .,,aor h,,, No,
Something has hit Harry Lauder-out not
his funny Dohe .,,rirp Roche who. camou-
~, a costume that resembled the dark
hageu nartb wriggled out through sap
brow, tbe Allies trench In France was
TOW VI. Harry Iauder-in the most Nulner-
VIA w,a nav that a proud ana loving latner
SUE Ne hit The Boche killed Captaln Johh
yauder, the son and only cnllo Vi i,"''S'
Lauue,' =. ,,hv the funny face of Harry
That 10 craven on It the lines OF a
Lauuei tneradicable sorrow, which makes
deep - -, even TO the casual glance OF the
nm. nln. iounger that something mas MT MIN
OoV' rt two eyes for an eye now. and
.ooth for TOOTH" he told me with
soorful earnestness
nod thought the interview would be
. iiehtsome one, replete WIN n.y. -, I''omo ,,,a
"a rollicking Lauderisms, but mere was
anu o,,rning band on Harry's arm, ana
ue ,,as Mrs Lauder a pretty woman
there ,n black her eyes filled with unshed
80 And nobody felt bonnie at all
DEMANDS STERN REPRGsAL
.v,o must work reprisals en- the GER
u.p" he said, his eyes gleamhe colu pe
Sind his spectacles. We must go llt1
nnrmany and bomb their hosptais anu
Sor,b their women and children ueieNe
we must do that'
o,, % those persons who ask me how
-, tbinl, this war will last. I do not
in,r but what I do know is that TINS
war must last until the German people
ere made to know that We the NAlhes a,e
tobting for civilization and they are nght-
inn tor the Kaiser and against CIVILIZATION
"It will do us no good to fight only to
.,atter Prussianism. 1t must ne starhpeu
81 utterly destroyed, or it will assemble
oao,r and we would have this whole thing
10 20 over with again
Like gnarled old white tree trunks nus
tnees stuck out from under his snort plaiu
kilt and again and again Lauder struck
Them with resounding thumps to empha-
sze his unuuenChable hatred OF the Hun
"They stalked my son you'd stalk a
hast" he said softly they dug a sap
out of their trench and dressed one OF
their dirty dogs up in costume which was
irdistnguishable from the ground ne
picked my son off
"Ive got one of those costumes at home,'
he continued land we are using them now
against the German. but thank God, 1t was
they who invented It,
APPLAUDS AMERICAS SPIRIT
Harry Lauder has been in the United
States only two weeks this last VISIT put
ne has been cannily observing us the while.
"The spirit of preparation Is Splendid ne
aad but you do not yet realize. You VIII
not begin to realize until your ships come
hack filed with men who will disembarK
and crowd your streets--living testimonials
of this war-men who will never see again
again ,u.. .,,o
way you people over here say Englanu
all the time when you mean Great BRIT
1t was the indomitable scotch III
him-"every man is conscripted-you DO
not see any not in uniform-and every
woman is working for her country
I'VE are treating this war now as a
business" he continued, I'VE have II down
on a business basis :. are not talking
much, not boasting, but we are going TO
make of this war a highly successful busl-
ness The spirit of sacrifice over there Is
unanimous. We are not saying we VIII
Go what we can We are saying we VIII
DO everything
81 have just come from the trenches,
the tones were hushed again, and the raw
Scotch of his accent was camouhaged WIN
fine soft shading of admiration and rev
erence. "our soldiers are the quiet KIND
each man of them feels the need to dc
Is a machine an automaton, yes, and tho
German officer he stands behind his mer
and lashing them cries Go on, go on -
Harry Lauder Sprang from the sota or
which he sat and, in the dramatic manner
that gets his audiences down to their very
toes illustrated the difference, but th'
officer of Great Britain runs on ahead anC
says Come on, men, come on
MY son was an officer
Mrs. Lauder. who was in the next room
came to the adjoining door tremulously al
II to close it and then went away again
Harry Lauder changed the subject abruptly
With something of his old zest he tolC
me Of the new songs he has brought will
him on this, his farewell appearance-hi
war song: THE Ladies' Who Fought ant
Won" and THE Waggle O. the kits" "W'
All Go Hame the Same Way" 81 Love t.
be a Sailor" and I'm Going to Mari!
Carrie"
But despite the magnfcence of his at
tempt at gayety and the magnihcence o
his Macleod habliments (you know whe
you see him why they pronounce IL loud
you know that something has hit Harr
Lauder. His kiltie is red and green an
blue. his knees are white and polished, hi
stockings are white and gray and blacl
his coat is brown, built after the manne
Cf smoking Jacket his brogans hav
humorous little fringed tongues that wave
gossipy, In the breeze, and his tam with II
rooster feather is laugh all by itself, Bu
there's a band of mourning the sleev
and neither he nor you can quite get ava
trom that.