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Show TUMULTY IS NEUTRAL Serious international difficulties were barely avoided at the White House the other day. Qua Karger Oswald Schuette and Louis Garthe representing the right wing of the German forces in Washington, bore down on ihe executive offices, and, with glaring countenances, shoved at Secretary Tumulty a story, reprinted lu various newspapers, that he has been singing "It s a Long Way to Tipperary," the popular song the English soldiers are singing in the trenches confronting the Germans in France. Hastily reading the article, Mr. Tumulty's real Irish went high in the sir for a few minutes. The outcome of it was that he had never even heard the "Tipperary" song; that he wouldn't have sung it if he had, because be-cause he has tried hard to promote President Wilson's request that every present war. He admitted that he lid know "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" and at rare intervals hummed .t, but his favorite song is "We Take Our Hats Off to You, Mr Wilson." I |