. The literary digest. med for a time to have no effect, theauthorities invoked pleading their inability to interfere. Thel)ress prints a message sent to Governor Smith expressing theseritiments of men of the Navy: We, enlisted and marines of the United States Navy,in a meeting at the Navy Club, do respectfully beg that yourExcellency let us know if you will help us keep the city of NewYork American and not allow these Huns to insidt our flagand the men who have given and are willing to give their livesthat this our country be free from German Kiiltur. We, there-fore, appeal to you to
. The literary digest. med for a time to have no effect, theauthorities invoked pleading their inability to interfere. Thel)ress prints a message sent to Governor Smith expressing theseritiments of men of the Navy: We, enlisted and marines of the United States Navy,in a meeting at the Navy Club, do respectfully beg that yourExcellency let us know if you will help us keep the city of NewYork American and not allow these Huns to insidt our flagand the men who have given and are willing to give their livesthat this our country be free from German Kiiltur. We, there-fore, appeal to you to stop the presentation of German operason Mondav, March 10, at the Lexington Avenue Theater, NewYork City! Men in uniform who felt keenly the affront offered to theirsensibilities planned to take a hand. It was published in thel»;i()(rs that soldiers from the hospital not many blocks distantwould stand at attention in front of the theater where the firstoi)era was to be given and display the scars of battle to any who. FATHER KNICKERBOCKER BREAKS UP A SERENADE. —Barclay in the Baltimore .S(/>i. sought entrance. An attempted justification of the project wasgiven out in the newspapers by Dr. Max Winter, general busi-ness manager of the Christians Producing Company, in thefollowing terms: In New York City are several million Germans and German-Americans, among them luxndreds of thousands of adults whoare barred from recreation in ordinary American theaters. Theycame to this country to earn a living, and have been unable to learn English, owing to the lackof time. Thousands of sons ofthese men and women have goneoverseas, of whom many havebeen kiUed and wounded. Thosewho stayed behind helped theLiberty Loan and the Red Crossdrive and have throughout beenloyal, sincere patriots. There is absolutely no sortof propaganda in these or seven of the operettaswere written by composers nowdead. They contain nothing inany sense political. They arejust amusing and full of good
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