The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-03-02

the glory of victory, which it hoped be
reward of our fight for freedom for all the peoples of
the world But in setting example other employers
of labor he has performed service which equally
rotic and valuable in the solution of the vexaous and
narrowing problem of living wage. If those
the capital of the country be
problem from the standpoint the same
spirit OF justice and fair play will be able in America
at least to foresta and ward off the industrial
nomc diseases which latent in the social fabric
of the world.
AN ALERT CAPTAIN, A INUNDATED SERGEANT
sergeant in New York regiment has been stripped
of his chevrons because he had the bad tell
indecent story volunteer Y NJ C. A. entertainment
at Camp Dix Wrightstown N. ]. The notice of his pun
shment contains the suggestion by the captain
that soldiers like entertained
by filth This sergeant got his just deserts, and
the captain should be commended for his prompt
and conspicuous action in the matter. The offend
ing officer was guilty of breach of moral we'll
military discipline in offering his offensive uterances
before audience of his comrades the great majority
of whom doubt experienced disgust and shame rather
than enjoyment pleasure in the illadvised piece of
entertainment"
In presuming upon welcome reception this spe-
cies of stunt the professional amateur entertainer
makes unaattering estimate of the and
temper of his auditors and also dscloses the side
his breeding and mental equipment insults his
helpless hearers who perforce compelled to listen
his disgusting rectas and illusions without being able
10 voice their resentment ana humlllaOn Our Vaude
Vile stunts abound in these outrageous violations of
public decency good FORM safe to say that no
proprietor of theater wherein such scand
alous and vicious performances tolerated would allow
his wife or daughter young to be contaminated
social with those who this vile method
of getting hand" But these managers exhibit little
for the moral tone and cleanliness their
patrons otherwise they would be careful eliminate
much of the nauseating and degrading filth that
| finding places their bills
rh ;c th
quality Of stage provender. Instances indeed may be
cited where plays and musical comedies have enjoyed
successful though profusey garnshed with tainted
and unwhoesome material, much of it imported from
European capitals. But these offerings usually have de-
rived their because of genuine merit which
minmizes the effect of the maodorous trim
mngs of nasness Not because Of but in spite of these
ingredients does the presentation make
go with public To ascrbe their popularity their
salacousness putrdity is mistake that man
ager regret from the box Office standpoint
THE only criterion which to "cut any ice" with
the majority of them.
all profit by the discipline of soldier boys
who are potentially, least in the shadow of death
us all try to emulate the physical, mental and moral
cleanliness which, happily it is the good portion of
soldiers to enjoy.
| THE KAISER WOULD PARALLEL NAPOLEON.
kaiser going parallel the of Napoleon
way Waterloo? The lord of the Teuons has
confessed hts admiration of the great Cosican
five great figures history that have shaped his
imperial ambitions After the emperor had made
himself master of Europe he proceed to install his rea
tives and friends in the places of the
quered nations He also invaded Russia, but the enter
prise shattered forever the strength and vigor of his
his marks the beginning of the decline
of his colossal power the Continent. This il
the of 1912, and onehalf years before his
throw at Waterloo
The Emperor following Napoleonic prece
dent in planning to place the members of his nobility
of the several territories which have beer
by his ruthless army hordes 1t is
he has already selected for Russia which
is be restored to monarchy after the Bolshevik
gime been obterated Poland. Luthania, Conrland
Finland and Ukrana be honored with the protec
ton and utilization of the German empire, exercises
through the satraps of the emperor.
Napoleon had planned to make Paris instead of Rome
l., the capital of Chrstendom, and the Prussian wa
lord may in mind project of this kind
undsclosed in relation Berlin Nothing is
his overreaching avarice and assumption
ell After Leipsig the battle the nations the
Napoleon gradually ebbed away The Allies made one
of peace to him he would be content to restore tn
boundaries France the lines of 1892, the Allies
o today substantially proposing to the Kaiser If