Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-13
The Windmill
THE HOLOCAUST.
The bolshevikI onco reso,vetI to bo

THE HOLOCAUST.
ihe oolsheviki oncn resolved to hold
u Great convention
W reds residing everywhere, in mum.
oers passing mention;
The bushybeards from italy. tha
Trotxky clan from Russia.
Inc communists from Hungary. the
spartacides from Prussia,
ana all the rest OF those who think
the humble proleariat
should rule by force of arms or
knives. with cannon, bomb or lar.
Y lat.
From all the distant parts OF earth
at length they came together
And some were soft as jellyfish and
others tough as leather,
And some were blond and some were
gray and some were black and
sooty,
And all OF them wore besLryds. but
none would take prize for beauty.
They argued on The weather; they
discussed the league OF nations;
For miles around the people heard
the huge reverbe rations;
The adjectves were routed and the
nouns and prontsuns scattered,
vocabularies smash he'd to bits and die
tionaries shattered;
And then with great Resembling
shouts they vote d resolutl ions
Proclaiming war on capital and
ninety revolutions.
They vowed that they'd announce
from every beliry, roof and stee-
pie
That now at last was brought about
the triumph OF the peel,ul.
tAnd all along their purpose Wa 10
make themselves the rulers
And put the oneil who diiiaSreed In
prisons and In coolNB).
Thus all was harmony until q sawed.
of bolsheviid,
eve was Wild as h.sa&hsr and
whose brain WIS somewhat leAky,
Proposed that all thu, reds should
shave each day Of all the seasons
And henceforth saould be fbea1,dless.
Just for sanitary reagons.
But ti1ereupon an argument began
with such acidi'y
charged with 1leat and with hut
mildly
And (tho you may lit UP your
hands and swear that this u nc
/. ton,
We vouch for 10 the nerceness OF
the wrangling caused such friction
That sparks few up and ret their
boards ablazins. 10, like finders,
And sooner than It cen be told. the
reds were only cinders.
Germany. her chancellor says. IL
trying to Keep h'.r promises. About
an equal amount OF success was OBJ
tanned. It seems. when She was tn
Ing to win tho war.
POLITICAL. FORECAST.
Out Of every hundred voters, ave
will not have made up their minds
who they'll vote for before they've
read the party platforms.
Twenty-seven ind nine tehths per 4
cent OF the readsrs OF tht, platforms
won't understand whe.t they fnSans
Only "a per cent will believe what
they say.
OF the free and enlightened elec-
lorate who are to serve ~ court Of
last resort In ths league OF nations
md treaty prob EN-, ss.H per cent
Will have read neither: by election
lay.
Among those who read. e6.S per
cent won't be quite sure who Il right
N the controversy over them.
On the day altar election, roughly.
20 per cent Of tn, electorate win sx-
claim. II told yon 3d." ana roughly.
50 per cent Of the electorate VIII
reply according to their vocabulardss.
CONF EssloN. #
With jokes we lave laughed -
The world Is D, fun
It's exceedingly lard
70 ind new ones to pull.
Strange are the ways Of prosi-
ience-the Russians and Poles ne
the only peoples In the world who
,a.n pronounce tie names Of the bat
les they are thgl ting.
--
The ex-kaiser, they ray, has more
han 200 clocks at Doom. ProtAoly
srying to make the time pass . little
.aster.
The Ger1nans have decided that
ne marble statues Of the HohenDol.
ems in Berlin ere out Of placss that
he mailed tists and Large sAbeEs DO
lot seem ito beltng In the eocSal1tic
.eeime. This list Of substitute Sta
uary IL humbly suglsestsd:
THE .N5INKEls.
civilian Hollenzollerr, with q
Dutch laclkerouiid)
A PLACID IN THEl SUN
German laborr, sweating behsnA
the plow)
GROUP
Communists Il eding their young)
G1tOU19
(Ebert's ancestors, girded with
harness)
GENIUS
(The invente,. Of .Ptlsner beer,
mounted on Z keg)
Hope
fHindenburs peerinE into the
f'iture)
FAITH
Ludendorn seated OIL picklehaube)