Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-04 | Page 6 | Hindenburg Smiles

HINDENBURG SMILES. The kaiser carries a press agent with him, and, whenever big events are in progress, the imperial advertiser describes de-scribes the sublime things that the "AJ1 Highest" does. It appears that after the waves of battle had swept forwarl beyond the Aisne, the kaiser was strolling along the Chemin-des-Dames with his good, but sick, friend Yon Hindenburg. In passing, we may state that Hindenburg has the "falling sickness'' so common among military commanders who fail to win victories. But let us return to the sublime figures fig-ures of the kaiser and the old, but somewhat some-what winded, warrior. To a question from the emperor whether the climbing of the hill was not too much for him, Von Hindenburg smilingly said to the kaiser: "It is very good for me to get a little exercise, your majesty." Thus grandly do great kings and generals gen-erals conduct themselves when they are together. Ko wonder the German people fall down in adoration when they hear such thrilling stories when they hear that the kaiser has graciously inquired whether Hindenburg still can walk up a hill, and that the old soldier smiles. But, perhaps, there is some veiled "satire in this story. Perhaps the kaiser, if he had put the question as he formulated formu-lated it in his mind, would have said something like this: "You old fossil, you can't wiu battles bat-tles any more. I wonder if you have gumption enough to walk up a hill without with-out falling down."