The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-14
LAUDER R0USES
PATRIOTISM WITH
THEATER SPEECH
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ductory speech and Mr.. Lauder was
again given an ovation when he arose
20 make his patriotic speech
At the outset OF his talk. Mr. Laude
said that he wanted to say that he was
doing what he could and saying what
he could TO help win the war and that
hc wanted every American to do the
same thing,
He then explained what his concep.
ton OF ROtaranism was by lkenng a
Rotariin to the lanpligher who went
from lamp post TO lamp post leaving a
glow OF light behind him, so that other
persons who came that way would not
be in danger.
Preserve Liberty, Is Plea.
you are citizens OF a great country,
. free country, the United States Of
America" said Mr.. Lauder, and you
enjoy your liberty because it was given
you by your foreiathers "You will
leave the same for those who come
: after you, know it, and there is only
one thing that can take your liberty
from you and that is death
let me tell you a story, which is re-
called by that word Liberty" | was
in prison sometime ago, | will say by
way Of explanation that was a visitor
sentenced to be hanged, but at the last
moment his sentence was committed 10
one OF penal servitude for the remain
der OF his natural lie
THE man told me that he had
looked at those cold gray walls is~
seventeen long years, and had forgotten
what a tree, the green fields, or the
rose. looked like.
But when he passed by the other
prisoners he always saw a look Of pity
on their faces.
One day he was called to the office
OF the warden and told that he would I've
given his liberty at the end OF two years.
and he told me that straightway he
could see the green fields the trees and
the rose, through those cold gray walls
that he had not been able to see through
for seventeen years. The looks from the
other prisoners turned from pity IA
envy
Don't Be War Weary"
Don't be war weary folks" said IN,
speaker, a trace OF sadness in his voice
we mustn't slacken moment W,
must think Of the boys at the front
They don't slack up in their efforts Tht
war goes on on Sunday the same as OF
Saturday and Monday"
Mention of the front brought to hi
mind the death of his son Captain
Lauder and alluding to the change hi
sons death brought into his life Laude
said:
u believe there is a God. that he is
God Of Justice and that he viii see ii
through"
The world is on fire" continued m
speaker, "and we have been called upo
TO put il out Let us apply ourselves I
that task until not one embcr remain
Let us not desist until where now
flame is black as the darkest night"
No Mercy In Huns.
Speaking Of the methods OF wariar
adopted by the German, Lauder reicrre
to a case called 10 his attention by hi
son while on leave from the iron
Sixty men of the Black Watch, a Higl
land regiment, were captured by Il
Germans. The prisoners were, strippt
naked, left TO stand an night in
drirzling rain and told in the mornir
that they could rejoin their con
panions. After crawling through Il
German barbed wire on their way to ii
British lines scyenty-five yards ava
the Germans TUNED their machine CUR
upon the helpless men and moved ther
down
mo mercy prevails with a Hun" sal
Lauder. "He leaves nothing tE chance
the wake Of the Hun is desolation" II
then referred TO a visit 90 a Germa
dugout IS feet below the surface of II
ground. THE Huns live like animals
he ssid,--"beeause they are animals
Lauder warned his audience that Gel
man propaganda is still being carrie
On In America.
Denounces Propaganda.
The German plague was in Amtric
before the war began" he said, "an
nat plague is still in America. Hay
yss Inquired who lives next door
ycul Have you found out who he I
where he came from and why. and vhi
he u doinsI Did you know that the