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Show SIX HUNDRED ENTER BOWLING TOURNEY Buffalo, N. Y., March 7.--More than 600 bowlers from New York state, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Canada Cana-da are entered In the fourteenth international in-ternational tourney of the American Bowling congress which begins at the Broadway auditorium on Monday night, continuing until March 21. Sixteen alleys will bo used for the tournament and no alleys will be used for practicing games. Unlike the National Bowling association the American Bowling congress does not permit practice games during a tournament. tour-nament. Special grandstands have . ileen erected in the auditorium and these, together with the gallery, will provide pro-vide seats for a record crowd. GERMAN MILITARISM. Tho following Interosting defense of the manners of German military officers offi-cers was written by one of their number: num-ber: Tho outside' world accuses the German officer of usurping a position of superiority over his fellow-men. We do not exactly demand that position, but, living in a military state, we arc undoubtedly In the enjoyment of it. It Is well that we are, not for our insignificant insig-nificant selves, for we do not count, but the state is the supreme thing, and there must be preferential treatment treat-ment for those who wear Its livery and do its service. Do not imagine that the life of a German officer is a round of autocratic dole far nlente. Ho rises at dawn and works ten to twelve hours a day at a salary a shop assistant would scorn. A lieutenant receives S pounds lo 10 pounds a month. A colonel receives up to 500 pounds a year. We recently had a war minister-genera! so poor that ho could not grant his lieutenant sons an allowance of mo"e than 2 or 3 pounds a month. Do you think a station sta-tion like Zabern. of which we have dozens, means luxury, comfort and social joy? Ism t our reputed superior super-ior position about all we have in return re-turn for instant readiness to die at tho King's call? You have lived in Germany a decade. Have you ever seen the 'superior' German officer sabering civillnns out of hand, or elbowing el-bowing women Into the gutter" or jostling children? We have some 35,000 or 40,000 officers. There aro doubtless hundreds of snobs among them perhaps only a fair percentage that would find its equal in'nny organization or-ganization of corresponding numerical numeri-cal strength. Have you not smiled oftoner at the punctilious overpollte-ness overpollte-ness of German officers than at their swaggering? You hnvc bivouacked with them af'Kalser maneuvers.' Huvq you not always been struck by the democratic comradeship between offlcors and men? Of course, you have heard us snarl In regulation form when orders aro to be given. That Is our little "way of enforcing discipline aud respect our way of reminding French and Russian friends that those bedrock principles of military strength arc still inherent in tho German Ger-man army. How long do you think they would subsist if our officers did not show subordinates their readiness to go to extremes to prevent and stamp out Insults to the supreme badgo of slate authority? Frederick William Wile in London Daily Mall. |