Logan Republican | 1914-09-08 | Page 7 | Where Courtesy Os a Crime

Where Courtesy Is a Crime. The serlo-comla difficulties which the Germans created for themselves in Alsace, one of the provinces wrested from France, seem unending. A flower flow-er fete near Strassburg was ordered abandoned because some charitable persons gave red carnations, others cornflowers the favorite flowers of the old emperor and others, again, pome whlto blossoms. This combination, combina-tion, chosen as a delicate courtesy, made the French trl-oolor, and accordingly accord-ingly was declared criminal by the head of tho Alsatian government, since any display of foreign colors is now forbidden there. Soon children with red hair, blue eyes and whlto teeth Will bo ordered executed. Utlca Globe.