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Show "DAMN FILIPINO" SONG GETS NAVY IN TROUBLE; PORT DOUGLAS REVISES W a aw. wmm -a m v " ' ' Officers and privates at Fort. Douglas who are wont to sing a certain "Damn the Filipino" song are laughing just now over the fact that the American navy has been called down hard for. chanting a much tamer aria than is rendered by the Fort Douglas people. The army men explain that they only damn the Filipinos once while the Navy repeats the word down three times. Nevertheless "Damn, Damn, Damn the Filipino" is not to be sung in the American navy hereafter. Secretary Bonaparte has issued a general order forbidding officers and men of the navy singing the song "at any public gathering" or by any body of "assembled men connected with the navy." The order was sent to Rear-Admiral R. D. Evans, commander- ) in-chief of the Atlantic fleet. () The song is not altogether complimentary to the Filipinos. One stanza, reads: ; 1 ' 'Td rather be driving a bob-tail mule, .? I And a living on pork and beans, ' Than be a-lighting 'way out here, Out In the Philippines. - ' The Secretary wants to stop the song once and forever. He does not . believe the singing of it publicly will help to create a friendly feeling between Americans and the people of our Eastern possessions. The Fort Douglas song will be revised at once. |