Show KAISER GHOST AR ARMY Y CLANKS ITS TRAPPINGS But Voice Calling for Disarmament Drowns Sound fly Dr BY- BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN JI Copyright 1927 By The Consoli Consol Consolidated dated Press Preat Association BERLIN Feb It 12 12 It Is agala a gala galaday galaday I da day In Doom Doom Doorn Fifty Flety years ears ag aga Prince Wilhelm of Prussia be- be became be became came a first lieutenant in the most most elegant Infantry guard regi re-I- regi- regi regiment regiment ment whose whoso uniform he h had hll worn orn since lie he h was 10 years old As a child dressed in an uniform with a crippled armand arm anda a defective ear he was often mocked behind his bis back Thus began a military career which eventually led to the th hIghest summit Czar CUI Nicholas NIcholai of Russia felt that he h had no right to promote himself and therefore remained In Inthe inthe the colonels colonel's uniform which his I father had conferred on him Never until his death did he lIe show In the uniform of a gen gen- general gen general eral oral But Wilhelm unhesitatingly named himself general and field marshal and covered his own breast with all the orders and decorations known in peace and war All of these decorations glitter on Wilhelms Wilhelm's breast on gala days Around him he h beholds again the blue white red and gray uni uniform form torm of the regiments which he heso heso hoso so often led In his theatrical kaiser maneuvers but never In real war And un under ler the black blackeagle blackeagle eagle of ot the imperial standard he does not realize that he ho Is com corn commanding commanding manding a ghost para parade le HE flU PAYS YS IIO L GE The old army which was wal ground to pieces by supe superior lor enemy forces and burled buried by the November storm of 1918 sent many representatives to Doom Doorn chief among whom was wa-s the aged Marshal who in th the coquettish uniform uniformed of the Death head Hussars croak croak- croaked ed Id out in hoarse voice a 0 pane pane- panegyric panegyric panegyric to te the tle high all highest all cst most pow pow- powerful powerful powerful erful kaiser king and chief com corn commander commander mander But Wilhelm praises himself still sUiI louder and Indulges In lengthy panegyrics of his splendid splendid did reforms of ot the army and hI hIs creation of ot the marine Wasn't his jubilee jublle celebrated In BerUn Berlin by at least leut five tivo hundred officers including some somo from the wehr Dont Don't bundles of ot tele- tele telegrams tele grants grams bring expressions of loyalty from the th fatherland Hasn't the national guard of ot Imperial and royal politics politic softly crept onto the ridgepole of republican power and named as minister of ot In- In Interior In Interior tenor Admiral pupil Von Kendell who was dismissed from the Prussian state service Siv savan n years ago tor for furthering royalist plots plot and who was suspected ot of similar offenses last summer i LIFTS IRS InS GLASS Confident of ot victory Wilhelm lifts his glass and drinks to the approaching day of avenging tri tn- triumph The Tho gathering of ot ghosts quivers in anxious devotion In Inthe Inthe the ice-cold ice mass of grav graves 8 trembles the th skeletons of ot heroes whose e last lest hour of ot life was em- em embittered em embittered by the report that their war lord in time timo ot of their deep deep- deepest deepest est eat need had fled tied from the army to safety abroad But nut this In- In Inglorious In Inglorious glorious self advertiser still stIlt en- en eni endeavors en endeavors deavors to glorify himself I and thereby causes boundless distrust to be b felt In the land which en- en endured endured en endured dured him too long Th The German nation reads read with fleeting smile the reports of ot the gala day This spectre no longer affrights s It Even the majority ot of those reared In militaristic Ideas reject the hope of victOrs by force a and d desire desir merely merdY merely as atho the conservative party to partake ot of the new nw source ot of power The Tho glowworm shows the tho Matin to be b near and gins to pale his light Swords still clank on the hips hip ot of the ghostly army but amidst Its empty fanfares fanfare one on hears as asa asa ai a morning greeting the mighty voice from across the th lit dawn dawn Atlantic summoning to disarmament ment merit anda and a a a completion ot of the th work In Washington 00 00 |