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Show WILH ELM'S CRIME. 'here are said to bo 00,000.000 huu-grv huu-grv people in Kuropc and the near east and the United States is called upon to make still more sacrifices in order that these unfortunates may be saved j from death by starvation. A message I from Mr. Hoover. who is now in Ku-j Ku-j rope, will be read in all tlie churches i in this country tomorrow iu an effort to 'bring home to the American people the j need for food conservation. There is no doubt that the Christian men and I women of the United States w ill do their part in aiding suffering humanity. jThey stinted themselves last year in or-! or-! der to send food to Europe and they jare still mindful of the cries of the at-' at-' f licted. 'But while they are doing this ,their thought will naturally revert to j the author of all this woe and dcola-; dcola-; t ion. They will wonder if tho appetite I of William Hoheni'ulieru is nood while I hunger gnaws at the vitals of so many j j millions of human beings whose bread I he has taken away or' absorbed or de-1 de-1 st roved in his mad effort to rule the world. They will speculate upon his j .ability to uige-t th choice morsels of i food he is aide' to purchase while the j stomach- of coi:i':ie-s ihoa-am.N of his! !c;ims become closed with tho bark j of trees and the gras of the fields Thee will want to know if he is still i proud and ovoi bearing while his former 1 - I t - a re cri :ig: n-' and era 'A ling at the feet of their conquerors and try-i try-i i:g to erect some sort of government jin order to sign termi of peace. Finally I they will be interested in tiie fate of jt-ie war lord whether!:-; is to -be ex-ftiaditel, ex-ftiaditel, tried and executed for his un-'. un-'. pn riC.'ded cri m ";, or nether he is to ibo allowed to live out his allotted span I of life and enjoy the grcit wealth ex-jtortd ex-jtortd from his people. They will reach I rif conriusioii, however, that it is far '' etfr to be a humble A meriean citi-jzen citi-jzen ministering to the wants of the af-jiiicted af-jiiicted than to be Wiihelm the Damned. |