The Washington times., 1918-08-11
The Bird That Looks Like the
Kaiser
Kaiser

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To the unframed eye it difficult to distinguish far
up in the air genuine eagle from vuure with hdeous
head and neck.
Close by the difference is plain And the people of
Germany and Austria they their imitation eagles
royal Hapsburg and Hohenzoern vultures driven back in
France and Italy realizing that they have staked their
futures the wrong kind of bird.
In natural history books you learn that the chief diff
ference between the vutue and the eagle is in the head
and feet.
The eagles head you know well Americans become
acquainted with it early 1t is cleancu wemade trim
fighting head with powerful wings to carry it, and power
fu taons to pick up and away what strikes down
The head Of the vulture, with bare fabby hdeous,
wrnked skin is the most hideous thing in nature; not
excepting the hyena's head
The ugies of the vultures called the King vuture-
its scientific SarcOhamphus papGis perhaps the most
hdeous of them all and curously enough he has certain
likeness to the Prussan Kaiser.
The difference in the feet of the eagle and the feet of
the Vuture is great the difference in their heads al
though it does not strike the eye at first glance.
The eagle spends time the ground. He lives in
the high mountains, swoops down upon his prey with
powerful destroying blow attacks only that which is alive
never condescends to carrion.
The vulture, the other hand has feet well adapted
to walking the ground and feeding dead bodies But
the toes and claws weak They have strength to
carry away anything.
There is a suggestion also of royal methods in the
vulture's of feeding his young he finds
dead horse weak, SICK dying animal that cannot
heavily back to his young ones regugates what he has
eaten and feeds them thus.
The distinguished Hohenzollern vuture started out to
swallow various kingdoms expecting to take home and
hand throne to each Of the six young vutures it
did not work
Put a military cap or a crown on the King vulture
and you viii have really good likeness of the Kaiser.
The picture on this page as good picture as could
be made of the war as it stands The Prussan vuture all
ready well prepared, and hungry, started out what
to be tour of triumph and struck at Belgium, weak
Next France before civilization surprised
could recover and defend itself
And there was to be a fine old regrgitating home
week in Berlin the Kaiser feeding to the six young Hohen
zoern vuures royal crowns and wide dominons He
to be Sacohamphus papa king of all the King vultures
and they to be the little King vultures.
Another kind of bird, however as it happened, was
living three thousand miles away the ocean, and
from the top of the Rocky Mountains the Washington
Monument he had his eye Mr. Hohenzollern Sarcor-
hamphus, his doings and his plans.
The eagle sometimes sits absolutely quiet for long
time You have noticed that IN the Geological Garden
especially after the eagle is fed.
Our big American eagle very well fed-too well,
perhaps 1t took him time to get started. Papa
vuture and his young Prussia and the old second
class vuture in Austria thought the American eagle
would start and enjoyed themselves for a time.
But the American eagle started finally He can fly
long way and pretty fast when he starts Now he has
struck his first blow side by side with the eagles of France
It Is only the merest beginning.
All the that comes of the fighting is such news
this country might expect Young Americans found
here and there the West 'front.' lying dead in rows shot
down by German machine gun fire. War correspondents
walking beyond the first of dead Americans come
to the German machine guns in what is called "a ma
chine gun nesa big hole perhaps fifty feet long fifteen
feet deep.
And there in the nest they find the Prussian machin
gunners dead killed BY bayoHets the young from
different Paris of the United States
Quick thinking quick killing and the Prussans
are finding it out.
This cartoon is good picture because the difference
between free people and people ruled and used by an
auocrat actually the difference between eagle and vuture
While our men fight in France and hundreds of thou
sands of others the ocean, there million and
half In training here, and there will always be at least
million training as long the lasts
Ernrn II H,ro-