Show YANKEE HUMOR toe the gift art frt humor is the saving savin grace of many a difficult situation and americans possess this admirable trait toa to a remor remarkable kable degree it is i traditional tradition that no mat matter ter how dark the day or hard the going we as people are able to sift some humor out 0 of f the situation and the fact that w we are rapidly recovering recover wK our OM metry custo customary sanity for instance our soldiers had hardly landed in france when they announced that they intended to can the raiser kaiser at first blua this intensely ti isely aud amused our english friends who with their own inimitable appreciation of ot humor found treat great delight in contemplating the prospect of the american ardys expressed intention of bottling up the german war lord and hermet cally sealing him to in a retainer figuratively speake speaking it of if cou course the dense Brit ians apparently never heard of the de derivation mation of the term can as used in this sense and the thought that it might perhaps allude to the time honored practice of tying a tin can to a dogs tl tail to get rid of him never once entered the their heads all of which simply added to the sport nhen he the americans learned of the interpretation that had been put upon t their hiir slang since then our boya have become a trifle more explicit in their lingo and ad are less liable to be misunderstood A catchy song has been im promised provi Pro aed entitled can the kaiser which is sung ungto to the tune of dixie here it is in khaki suit and army visor all AH aboard to can the kaiser look away look away look away germany 1 in Kaise Kals erland he be reigns alone well push the kaiser off ff his throne look away look away look away germany then I 1 want to can the rem kaiber hooray hooray 1 in Kais Kati erland terland ill take my stand until I 1 can the kaiser lets so go lets leta go lets 9 go and can the th e kaiser lets so go lets leta go 90 lets go and can the kaiser but bt the boys bois at the front do not have a monopoly on improvising the humorous sayings and songs song that tend to lighten the load of war over on the coast the calif californians tan haie hae adopted the following song entitled the Battle Cry of freed freedom well rally round the hoe boys and join the ranks of toil shouting houting the battle cry of feed em well train the crops to grow boys boya a as title billera of f the soil sod i shoot shouting mir the battle cry of feed em where there is work to do boys boya well gather on the spot shouting the battle hattle cry of I feed E em to duty well be true boys and till the vacant lot shouting bh outing the battle cry of reed ern em 1 nature kind mater will aid in our need down with the tater later and out with the weed so well rally round the hoe boys and tram train the crops to grow shouting the battle cry of feed em and perhaps the finest sense of humor of all the of offerings to date is to be found in n the following lowina fol lines penned by an unknown author from the atlantic seaboard they are suns sung to it tre tune of tenting on the old camp ground many are the backs that are weary tonight from using the spade and the hoe many are the men who are straining their abt sight watching for the stuff to grow planting tonight planting tonight planting in the old b backyard a k d that americans hav have begun n t to 0 revive the yankee humor w which ie h characterized their forebears fore beara and are singing while at work whether on an the battle front or in the fields back homp home is IB indeed a most whole some situation goodwins Goo dwina weekly |