The sun., 1918-11-11
THANKS AND MUSIC
MIX In WAR BENEFIT
Job Hedges and Gen. Bell Give
Novel Turn of Rejoicing
to $4,000 Concert.
HELPS CHRISTMAS FUND
Prayer Of Gratitude to God
for Civilizations Victory
Thrills Hippodrome.

Before an audience that filled every
seat in the Hippodrome yesterday after
noon, paying $4,000 to listen to a mu-
steal programme arranged for the Christ
mas and Emergency Fund beneht for
the auxiliarles OF 304th. 305th and 3o6th
Field Artillery and the 302d Ammunition
Train, job f. Hedges moved his auditors
when he implied the occasion should be
one of thanksgiving.
"Let us close with a sanctlty OF
prayer" he said, $50 that the great God
Of Hosts may reinvigorate our hearts
and souls and from this day forth be
valiant soldiers watching our army
across the seas which seeks to establish
that men and women on this earth may
worship the God of their own choice
through this and the generations to
come"
II ana thankful" Mr.. Hedges contin-
ued. that the Almighty God tired Of
| waiting for us to enter the war and
pushed us into II. ] am thankful that
the Flanders line held out till we got
there. l am glad we got there, although
! II was on the afternoon Of the last day
left.
Poetic Justice at wars End.
IT am glad there Is sufficient poetic
Justice in the world to make 1t necessary
for Germany to ask for an. armistice
from a French General. / am sorry
that the world will never know what the
Kaiser Is thinking about now. not that
we care, but as a matter Of intellectual
exercise 1 would like to know what he is
thinking about his present relationship
| to God
I'VE were In doubt about getting in,
and later we concluded we could not re-
main outside and be decent. After all.
we have been pacifists. and always will
be. A paciflst Is the illegitimate or
spring Of Hope and Regret, a man who
has no past to refer to and no future he
can look forward to with comfort.
When Germany entered Belgium op-
posed to the proposition that men and
women have the right to worship the
god OF their choice and acquire prop
erty she declared war on the United
| states Our Constitution was launched
as the highest product OF our human
kingdom. with providential underwriting
And we invited the world to come and
participate. This contract that exists
to-day will exist as long as this Gov
eminent lasts. this contract that put us
In the war, that kept us in the war and
the only contract that can keep us
moral before the world"
Reasons Given for Thanks.
\ Major-Gen. J. Franklin Bell also
said that the occasion should be one of
thanks. I'VE have much to pc thankful
for" he said. and I would like to make
a few suggestions on the work that i'm
plies this thanks. Suppose the Belgians,
a small. relatively weak nation. cowed
by the threats OF the overwhelming force
Of savages, had consented to allow the
! Germans to march through Belgium and
had not completely stood to oppose
them great as they are. patient as they
are. persevertng as they are, what might
have happened to the people Of France
had not England arrived OPPORTUNITY Ia
help? And the French! Suppose all
along they would have had to Withstand
that onrush Of heartless savages men
trained to destroy! And suppose the
Italians, corrupted by the deceitful prop
uganda. had lost their head and power
completely and allowed Italy to be over
run by Austria and Germany. and sup
pose II had not recovered itself We
have had so much to be thankful for
and then. last but not least. suppose We
should not ourselves have got there"
The feature of the programme In
cluded the voluntary services OF Nine
Schumann- Heink. Leoora Sparkes of the
Metropolitan Opera Company. Percy
Granger. Ricardo Martin. David Bisp-
ham. Irving Berlin and the combined
military bands from Fort Totten, For,
Hamilton and the Twenty-second In.