Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-23
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AUSGESPIELT.


From Savannah to Vancouver
We have heard you, Mr.. Hoover,
The administrator of the nation S
food;
And your drastic, meagre portions
Put our stomachs through contor-
lions,
Though we take them in an uncom-
planning mood
You have curtailed bread and flour,
And our candies now are sour,
While you do your best to minimize
our meat
Yet with all these limitations
You have not disclaimed the ra-
tons
Which the kaiser and the boches
like to eat
No, you do not mention schnitzel,
Sauerkraut or twisted pretzel
And all those different beers of
German brew.
Now, there's swieback and bologna
And that Wienerwurst so phony,
Which | really think We also might
eschew.
And those luscious Limburg cheeses
Could we scatter to the breezes
If you'd only give the signal every
where;
And potatoes German-fried, sir,
Would we gladly put aside, sir,
If it made a difference to them
''over there"
Yes, with candor and with pleasure
Would we each adopt the measure
IN DO
you taboo.
While our palates still maneuver
To new standards, Mr.. Hoover,
Why not put ban on German
dishes too?
Cartoons Magazine.
SOME time ago We remarked
when it was reported that the peO-
pie in Germany did not believe
there were a million Americans in
France, that we had observed none
of the Huns at the front express
ing any doubt about it. But it has
come to pass. A German prisoner
captured by the Americans said
that the German soldiers regarded
the report that there were a mil
lion Americans in France as false,
and believed the number was TEN
MILLION instead Of one.
ALONG the same line of thought
we have Clown Prince Willie cry
ing, 20, Papa, o, papa, save me
from those Yankeesi"
THE editor of the New York
Telegraph says his idea
of far sighted man is the soldier
who wrote to the book committee
and asked for a guide to the city
of Berlin.
IN regard TO the painting of the
city hall Commissioner John Muir
rim disclaims responsibility for the
fact that it's to be painted yellow.
John says he was in favor of paint
ing it black, in mourning for the
revenue the city has lost.
WITH the town gone dry, and
in food strictly enforc-
ed, about the only wa. the present
banuuets resemble those OF pre-
war days is the continued supply OF
after-dinner speakers.
Probably Drawing to a Split Flush.
Jewell, Kan, Republican,.
Mr.. nebUs fell part way town
in a well last Thursday and it
bruised HIM up SO he could net
make a full hand the next day.
PAT was employed by a subway
company. AS he was
leaving the house his wife said:
DO moind yez don't git hurt,
Pat. It's so dangerous working in
that subway"
That's all right, Biddy," Pat re-
piled. Il borrowed 81 from the
foreman and he won't let me do
dangerous work any more"
OF Course You've Heard Green Ap-
pies Are on the Market.
(Ansonia, Conn, SentineD.
Mrs. Fannie Booth who is con-
fined to her home with illness i'll
the Center, is doing as well as could
Re expected.
FOR the past several moons we
have read the papers with fear that
we should happen across an order
by Hoover putting the taboo on
eating of corn on the ear. But ah,
now we take a sigh of relief
HoOver's in England and the sweet
corn season is here.
1T occurs to US that despite the
cOngested condition IN the tri-cities
1t present it wouldn't be difficult
70 make room for such a visitor as
his one when we read that Miss O.
space of Taylor Ridge is visiting
n Reynolds.
OF course now that the army is
IN the offensive there is not the
need for that "stOnewall defense"
or which "StonewaII" Jackson be-
anne famous, that there is when a
defensive battle is being fought
which may or may not Rccount for
he fact that Lieutenant Rock
Iastle is stationed at the Rock Is
and arsenal.
SPEAKING of the weather won't |
t be- fine when We can keep the |
emperature down to IS degrees IN |
'ur homes next winter?
Americans in War.