South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-11
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7 see where Pres't Wilson sent A
letter TO the German government
that they might Just so well save the
carfare and not send any delegates
10 this here peace conference which
wouldn't be prepared for the worst.
Nfawruss," Abe Potash said one
morning IN April.
You would think. considering
how excited the German people gets
nowadays. that they would have a
hard time finding anyone 20 take the
lob OF delegate. Abe" Morris PERL
1nutter suggested. which the least
that happens 10 one Of them German
delegates after the German people
finds out what was in the paper he
signed is that his executioners would
claim thai the daylight saving law
made Il unnecessary for them 20
wait till sunrise. understand
We'll. ne would always have the
excuse that the only thing ne seen
Of the peace treaty before ne signed
10 was A dotted line. Mawruss, Abe
said. and also. Mawruss. il is just
possible that the return half OF them
German peace delegates will read
Via Amsterdam. and that before
taking a three years lease OF an
Amsterdam apartment, some of them
peace delegates would first visit "a
ticket scalper and get hat much
of their minds anyway"
And even in Paris them German
peace delegates wouldn't be too safe
neither" Morris declared. which ]
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arranging for the accommodation OF
them German delegates at "a hotel
next TO the place where the peace
treaty is going 10 be signed, Abe. and
the lot on which the hotel stands is
going 10 be protected with an egg
proof fence eight feet high 50 that
the German delegates can escape any
stray rotten eggs"
The fence could be Il fee high.
Mawruss," Abe remarked, and il
wouldn't do any good. because no
body could escape rotten eggs i'm q
French hotel. Mawruss. rotten coffee
neither. Also. Mawruss. eggs amt
got nothing to do with that fence.
because IL that fence wouldn't be
there M~awruss. when IL comes time
AnN AlAfAA AEI man ~ SABl
% treaty, Mawruss, the peace con-
ference would got 10 appoint a COM
mittee OF resident buyers TO round
up them German delegates, on ac-
count that nobody else but resident
buyers who is accustomed to enter
tanning their American clients would
know where them German delegates
had disappeared to-"
We'll, IN a way 10 is the peace con
~ference's own fault. because they
sent word 10 the German govern
ment that they didn't want to deal
with no messengers hat mat the
German delegates should all be high
up officials, Abe" Morri said,
which seemingly as a general thing
the higher up a German happens TO
he. understand. the lower down he
can act. Take for example the
crown prince. Abe. and L always
thought that no matter how much
people abused him. Abe. ne could
anyhow go home and say TO his wife
whatever 1 done. / done it all for
YOU. instead Of going somewheres
else and saying it TO ballet dancers as
his wife's mother claims
81 understood he was leading a
double life. Mawruss." Abe observed.
He was leading a double life in
Spades, Abe" Morris declared. allud-
ing TO the game of auction pinochle.
Day after day his wife's mother
says he would leave the house to go
down town TO the palace and instead
he would go down town to the
Palace and never show up tin all
hours OF the morning. Then when
his wife asked him where he was
putting in his time. y'u.derstand, in
stead OF acting reasonable and tell
ing her a phony story about being
sick and tired Of getting stuck at
the Reichskanzlei might after night
and that he wished the old man
would get through %springiug "a new
chancellor on him every week. UNI
derstand me. he gives himself dead
away by getting sore. In fact. Abe.
lis mOther-in-law says that the Ho-
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