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THE KANSAS CITY STAR. SATURDAY. JANUARY 4. 1919. War Adds a "Peace Bell" to Belgium's Classic Carillons Captured Cannon Afford Material for New Chimes to Hang in the Historie Belfries Looted by the German Armies in the Period of Military Occupation.

HE lust of war dealt with gians a heavy blow. Many of their beloved bells were melted up by the Germans for cannon, and consequently few carillons rang out in joyous greeting when the Belgians returned to their homes after the Germans left. Silent were the bells in the church' towers of Flanders and Artois, in the belfries of Doual and Bruges. It was a tragic moment to the people of these places who had been accustomed to hearing the bells announce to the world their joys and their sorrows. The Belgians, however, wasted few moments in regrets, but began at once! to plan how to replace their stolen bells.

The captured cannon gave them an idea. Like Michelangelo, wno saw an angel in every block of uncut marble, they saw a carrillon of bells in every captured German cannon. A number of the cities decided to use the cannons of the enemy for the casting of bells. This is not the first time that cannon have been used for such tory furnishes many precedents. In Vienna is a bell cast in 1711 of Emperor Joseph from the cannon left by the Turks when they raised the siege of the city, THE BELLS OF COLOGNE.

In the Cathedral of Cologne are two bells, the "Emperor" and the which were made from the metal of reduced French guns. The former 1 is decwith an inscription that is incharacteristic of the first William. The Latin, translated, reads: "William, the Most Illustrious Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, pious remembrance of the heavenly aid granted him in the fortunate course and conclusion of the last French war, has ordered, after the restoration of the German Empire, a bell to be cast from captured cannon, of the weight of fifty thousand pounds, which is to be suspended in the house of God, now nearly completed. In accordance with this pious desire of the victorious prince, the society formed for the completion of the cathedral has caused this bell to be cast, under Roman Pontiff Pius I IX archbishop of Cologne, Paul Melchers, year of our Lord 1874." Underneath this inscription is the following verse: "Emperor" Bell I am named. The emperor's name made famed.

On holy ward I stand For German fatherland. I pray, God grant it hence, Peace, welfare and defense. ANCIENTS USED BELLS. From the time when man began to think and act along civic and religious lines, bells have played an emotional part in his life. They have pealed out joyously in times of peace and happiness; moaned in agony for the stricken, and clapped in terror in moments of danger.

One of the earliest uses of them is recorded in Exodus, where they are mentioned as ornamenting the hem of the robe of the high priest. It is also possible that the Assyrians and Egyptians used bells exclusively in religious rites; but the Greeks and Romans employed them for secular as well as religious purposes. The great feasts of Osiris, the Judge of the Dead, were inaugurated by the Egyptian priests with the ringing of hand bells. The Romans used bells for door knockers and as alarm signals. The Greeks had an interesting custom of hanging bells to the chariots of victorious generals by way of reminding them "that notwithstanding their services and valor, they were still within pale of law and justice." Bells were first adapted for church belfries by the Italian bishop of Nola in a city of Campania in 400 A.

and to this day the Italians call a belfry the campanile. The Britons used in their churches as early as the Seventh Century. In the Middle Ages the bell tower became symbol of independence and its bell was used to call the people to arms in times of war; in times by in limousines tucked-in how ones Germany roll, feels as the procession moves on to Versailles. HENRY LASSEN, GOOD CITIZEN. The death of Henry Lassen of Wichita, which occurred so unexpectedly Thursday night at his home, will be mourned by all Kansas.

He was a wonderfully good citizen, viewed from every standpoint. Henry Lassen was a successful man. He had built up one of the biggest milling industries in the country. He was the kind of a successful man who knew how to use his resources. He was one of the most citizens of Kansas, and a business enterprising, terprises in Wichita.

He an inspiration to the city and the state." When Wichita found it necessary for its further development recently, to have a big hotel, the city tried in every way to interest someone in the building of the hotel. It was found that a million dollars would be required. All efforts to find anyone who could be induced to spend that much money on a hotel building failed. Then Henry Lassen said: "Let's build it ourselves." He took charge of the movement, organized a company of business men, formed a corporation, stock Wichita people, and the millionsold, dollar hotel was opened to the public on New Year's Day. He was at the front in every movement to raise the different war funds.

He was on the consulting boards frequently called to Washington by Herbert Hoover, food administrator. Since the war he has spent his time between Wichita and Washington, serving the government as best he could. When Wichita wanted commission government a few years ago Henry Lassen turned in with his powerful influence and helped the town to get it. When Wichita wanted to take another step in advance and get the city manager plan Henry Lassen was one of the chief figures in the fight for better government. Always he stood for the best things in state and city affairs.

When Governor Capper organized his new board of administration last year Henry Lassen was one of first men to be offered a place on the board. He said to Governor Capper: "I would like to "take it, and serve without pay, but I "have undertaken to build this new "hotel, and I am so busy I do not want "to get any more irons in the fire. I "might get so busy at doing too many "things and accomplish nothing." He was a devoted friend of Henry. J. Allen.

It was Mr. Lassen who persuaded Henry Allen into running for governor. When Allen felt that he must go to France and engage in war work, Mr. Lassen told him to go ahead. "Just so you get back in time to take the office," he said, "it will be all right.

We will look after everything here at home." And Henry Lassen looked after it. He was the chairman of the executive committee of the Allen campaign for the primaries. He raised all the money, ran the errands, kept the workers inspired by his encouragement, attended every meeting of the campaign commit- tee--and yet he found time to carry on his milling business, build a hotel, serve the government, and act as a member of a half dozen or more business committees for the city of Wichita. His home life, also, was ideal. His home out on College Hill in Wichita was one of the most comfortable in Kansas, and in it Henry Lassen and his wife kept open house for all Wichita.

He knew everyone, it seemed, in Wichitamen, women and children--and called them by their first names. It was a sad day for Wichita and for Kansas when Henry Lassen reached the end of his life. At Him Again. From the Boston Transcript. Sappy- Smoking helps me to think.

She -When did you stop using tobacco? of peace it rang to call them, when necessary, for discussion of civic problems. BELGIUM PRODUCED MUSICAL BELLA, Almost all countries have used bells for civic purposes, but to Belgium belongs the honor of bringing out their musical qualities. The carillon of bells had its birth in Belgium. Here, too, have been erected beautiful watch towers, quite as lovely in their way as the campaniles of Italy, Saint Rombold's Tower at Malines, the belfry of Bruges, the spire of the Antwerp Cathedral, the Cloth Hall of. Ypres, now battered down, are famous.

The lovely carillons of bells in scription of the effect of this music upon him. He says: "After the bell ceased striking and the vibration of its deep and solemn tone had died away, there was silence. So long a silence, it seemed, that we wondered if ever it was to be broken. Then pianissimo, from the highest, lightest bells, as if not to startle us, and from far, far above tower, it seemedindeed as if very gently shaken from the sky itself--came trills and runs that were angelic! Rapidly they grew in volume and majesty as they descended the scale until the entire heavens seemed full of music, LIKE CRASHING ICICLES. "Sometimes in winter, after icicles have formed, there comes a thaw, and one by one they tumble down gently at first, then bolder mass they come till, like an avalanche, they crash down with a mighty roar.

All of this the music suggested. It was low, it was loud, it was from one bell, it was from chords of bells, it was majestic, it simple. And every note seemed to fall THE FAMOUS BELFRY OF BRUGES, THE BELLS OF WHICH WERE SILENCED IN THE WAR. gian towers have inspired many a poet, many an author. Rossetti, Stevenson, Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Longfellow, Macdonald, Henry VanDyke and others have written of the music of the carillon.

The forty-five bells in the tower of St. Rombold at Mechlin, or Malines, which were heard by Victor Hugo in 1845, gave birth to a with his ring upon the window pane poem, which tradition says he wrote! a little inn in the middle of the night. The theme is a description of the wonderful carillon music at Malines. Another writer, William Gorham Rice, who heard the great master of bells, Josef Denyn, play on the carillon of St. Rombold, has given a splendid de- HOOVER WILL HAVE TO BE CAREFUL OR HE'LL BE ELECTED PRESIDENT.

FORMER GERMAN ADMINISTRATORS IN BELGIUM NOW SEEKING TO ON THE FOOD I QUESTION TELL PERSONALLY TO PAIR HELL COMPUMEN HERBERT HOOVER PLIES FooD throne in 1 1918, has the throne tattooed on his trousers, but he will be kieked from one neutral, country to another is obliterated. Robinson Cruse's Island, off the of Chile, will be destroyed by an earthquake. This hasn't happened for quite a while, but the annual custom will be revived now that the war news is out of the way. Prediction: Now that the surrender of has made the seas safe for women and children, there will 'e a demand that they made safe for the men, too, by seining out Annette Kellermann, the mermaid vamp. Prediction: The men who learned to cook in the army and scrub the kitchen floor will return to find their wives have learned the boilermaker's trade, and the poor heroes will have to admit that a yeoman's place is in the home.

Prediction: Some scientists will dis. cover that hippopotamus steak is as good as turkey, and a lot of poor goops will begin to feel well fed until they happen to remember that hippos are just as hard to catch as ham hocks are. Prediction: The world will become the question of why a sailor on a street corner always looks as if he were freezing to death. Prediction: The man who used to say that the German butchers were so clever that they could use every part of the pig but the squeal will be interviewed in 1919, and will admit that when the food shortage was at its worst the Huns finally made use of the squeal. Prediction: This war to end war was so popular that it is forecast that all future wars will also be wars to end war.

Prediction: Regarding the end of the world, many prophets at various times have predicted it. They have always fallen down and failed to deliver the goods on the date set. Consequently, of theworld predictions are regarded as the hoodoo of the profession. However, if the signs indicated the world's end in 1919, I would take a chance and predict it, but I am led to believe that the end of the not occur 1919. So that is my prophecy, and it will stand- -unless countermanded by telephone.

KANSAS NOTES. "We ought to be thankful again that the war stopped when it did," says Paul Rankin, "or the old saying, 'He swears like a pirate' might amended to read 'He swears like a Optimistic prediction by the Minneapolis Messenger: "We have a feeling that William Hohenzollern will see less of 1919 than he has of any year since he was born." The Jewell Republican says if you are going to jump off the roof or get married, you should consider the consequences beforehand, otherwise it will be too late. A number of Second District newspaper editors are in receipt of the announcement of the marriage October 23, in Valparaiso, Chile, of Creta Maud Williams and Fred H. Hill. Mr.

Hill Pleasanton boy, and in early manhood was editor of the Parker Message. Later he was a member of Osawatomie Graphic staff under the editorship of the late Judge Clevenger. For several years he has been store manager for a mining company at Sewell, Chile, near Valparaiso. Mrs. Hill is a daughter of George W.

Williams, formerly of Osawatomie. John W. Sheridan postmaster at Paola, has resigned and will go soon to El Paso, to engage in the manufacture of ice cream. Mr. Sheridan is junior editor of the Paola Spirit, and will retain his interest in that newspaper.

"Atchison should resolve tomorrow to be so gol-blasted busy making progress hereafter that the old town won't have a minute's time to worry about Kansas City," says the Atchison Globe. Kansas City would appreciate that, too. THE EAGLE'S LATEST PREFERENCE. In Carlisle. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was played as our national anthem.

And would that it Eagle. Most soldier boys who received fur. loughs home for Christmas didn't have much time to spend with their families, but one resourceful Great Bend woman managed, time by keep her inviting boy his at girl home to part a week-end house party at the old home. "Limb of Well Known Lumber Man Amputated," says a headline in one of the Kansas dailies. Lucky he is a lumber man, isn't it? DANGERS OF A FRIENDLY CITY.

An Eskridge soldier boy, who was in Paris on armistice day, wrote home that one had to be "awfully careful or he'd get kissed" while the celebration was on. Valuable tip to housewives, from Mrs. B. L. Mickle of the Soldier Clipper: If the teakettle has disappeared and cannot be found anywhere in the house, ask friend husband to look for it out in the garage.

Upon the alehouse bench He rests a whilestopped to question him Of march and battle grim. He answered like a child With ready smile, ONE BLIND. THE KANSAS CITY STAR FOUNDED SEPTEMBER, 1880, BY WILLIAM R. NELSON. Address A11 Letters: THE KANSAS CITY STAR, KANSAS CITY, Mo.

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The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of credited news in all credited to it or not otherwise this paper, and also the local news published herein. of republication of special disAll rights patches are also reserved. the paid circulation of During December THE STAR was as follows: Evening and Sunday (daily Morning (daily average) 220.180 Weekly Star (average) .357,660 SATURDAY, JANUARY 4. AND some people think they can abolish war from the world when society isn't even able yet to prevent a street car strike. PROTECTING THE PUBLIC BY COURT ACTION.

The drastic actions taken by Judge C. Pollock to maintain law and in Kansas City, in the presstreet car strike, accompanied by equally drastic demands on the company adequate and comfortable street car service, meets the approval of all lawabiding citizens. In his order directing marshals to charge of policing the cars Judge Pollock has taken into consideration the men and women who have been deprived of their means of transportaand face suffering and venience because of the present strike. announcing his decision, he criticized Kansas City, police officials for failure to give adequate police protection, at the same time extended his critito the company for failure to opercars. The strike contentions were considered, the rights of the public transportation being paramount.

For two weeks the Kansas City, situation furnished a continuous quarrel between Mayor Harry Mendenhall and representatives of the company. The company shouted it had extra crews, but not get protection. The city got special police and gave the short to company officials. Men arrested convicted of assaulting cars received small fines in police court and and went their way, while the company deliberately discontinued service certain lines with the first disturbance. This situation in the attempt to police cars with citizens caused the court utter criticism of the company, mayor and his police department.

company got another jolt from the court yesterday, in fact two in rapid succession. First, when it started a car out of a barn with broken windows United States marshal ordered it back: for windows to be put in before taking passengers. The cars were cold, as they have been for winters past, notwithstanding suits brought by the city in state courts to compel heating of cars. Another marshal of the court ordered heat. The old excuse of lack of power heat, that has served against the pubin the past, however, weakened when marshal said: "If you cannot heat with electricity, put stoves on the cars.

They are going to be heated." Judge Pollock is to be congratulated obtaining instantly an effective heat order that the city has been unable enforce in the state courts in two years litigation. His verbal instructions the marshal yesterday that ample police protection be given for normal service, and that care be taken, to force orders for comfortable service, sounds good to a suffering public. better still, the marshal responded such a manner that even the company was forced to admit that its failure give service was due entirely to inability to furnish crews. Judge Pollock's. announcement the service in Kansas City, be normal without unnecessary has put the responsibility for street squarely up to the railways company.

No one doubts the ability of the shals of the court to preserve law order; that that will be done, goes out saying. The people of Kansas City, unqualifiedly support Judge Pollock's order program and approve determination to give the kind of fortable service they have longed hoped for. They will await patiently the next few days, which will answer the question as to whether the company can keep its promise to give full car service. MARSHAL FOCH has given the Germans permission to vote in the Rhine inces. It seems proper.

Marshal doubtless figures that it was his job see that the Germans didn't do any ing in France, and that job he formed. FOR GOODNESS SAKE, WHAT FOR? Admiral Rodman's recommendation 1 to the House naval committee (which, by the way, will have no say SO about it) that the surrendered German war vessels be wrecked is one that a mere landsman will quite fail to get the bearings of. A battle ship, it will appear to most observers, is a battle ship and can be used as such. It is a machine that takes some years to build and costs a pot of money. It was a goodish haul that the Allies made when the bottled and beaten enemy fleet came out with the white flag flying, and to destroy these useful trophies seems only less childish than to give them back.

A PARIS report says the peace discussion is to begin January 13, but there is some reason to believe that a few casual words already have been exchanged on the subject in London, Paris and Rome. PERSONS who stand on a street corner these zero mornings and watch the Within the darkened world Where now you KO, What pictures do you see of wartime misery? When came the cruel stroke That made him so? Oh, no, grim battle's fields do not see: I see the village street And friends and kindred greet And I am only glad At home to be. -Anna Tafel in Contemporary STARBEAMS. England soon will be off food can begin reading, Dickens without skipping those dinner table scenes -that is, if England has time to read nowadays. It doesn't hurt a boy's feelings larly for the teacher to tell problems he worked are all does sort of jar his faith in established beliefs when the teacher him all the problems his dad him are wrong.

SOUNDS LIKE A BIG STORY. 'Way over in the middle of the under a modest headline, yesterday found an article to the effect late Czar of Russia and his entire had been slain. Should not a that kind be investigated by and treated with some prominence? The French troops in Budapest reported to be holding General Mackensen under arrest. Well, one of the gang we started after. When one of the southeast schools dismissed the pupils at New Year's afternoon, a young evening dress was observed in heated hall quietly and gracefully ing off the considerable his New Year's Eve celebration.

the teachers who didn't exactly working on a legal holiday "Well, poor chap, nobody will The schoolhouses are the only open today." Ignace Jan Paderewski seems a fair way of being the first the new Polish republic. small boys with ambitions will stand that taking piano lessons no way injure their chances President. Had it not been for the war have cost us twenty cents thirty to give our favorite magazine tor the pleasure manuscript this Hereturning This is another time at the Union Station that trains" and "snowbound practically snyonymous terms. The Hiawatha (Kas.) World served that "Man moves in a way his blunders to perform." Gloom observed the same last year. Bill Nye observed Josh Billings made the same more than forty years ago.

ly, it must be so. The man engaged Thursday the storm door at the Van home did not show up yesterday ing on account of the extreme However, Mr. Van Quentin says, finish the job eventually, and will keep the flies out just as as it does the cold. To The Star: What's the the motorists? For a few days strike began the motorists were but now one may stand on a indefinitely while car after car, cept for the drivers, buzz past. FROSTED The novelty of good wears off quickly, as the down.

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As early as 968 A. D. is an account the consecration of the great bell of the Lateran which was called "John." All are familiar with Old Kate of St. Mark's, Great Tom of Lincoln, Big Ben of Westminster, and Saint Maria, the rung for the first time when the carillon bells of Antwerp, which, was Bold entered that city in 1467. In this same carillon is a bell called the "Carolus," which was given by Charles V.

It is composed of copper, silver and gold and is valued at $100,000. Many historical incidents are associated with bells and carillons. Those who have heard the bells in the belfry of Ghent must have recalled that these two bells rang out joyously on the Christmas Eve of 1814, when they announced to the world the signing of the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain. The coronabell of Russia, which is the largest in the world, was rung only in honor of the emperor. At his coronation it pealed forth 3 as the church, and its voice announced conclusion of the ceremony to the world.

BELLS FAMED IN HISTORY. In Spain the famous bell in the Church of St. Nicholas at Velilla in Aragon only rings at times of public calamity. The bells of China, which are usually of great size, are hung in towers and are used for denoting the five watches of the night. The "Jacqueline" of Notre Dame, Paris, one of the sweetest toned bells in the world, is used only on great holidays on account of its age, having been cast in 1400.

In Venice the semi-triumphal arch leading from the square of St. Marks to the Rialto is crowned by a bell with a bronze Vulcan standing on each side of it. These statues strike the bell hour by hour with ponderous maces. In recalling the famous bells and incidents associated with them we must not forget that America, too, has one famous bell -Liberty Bell, which was cracked while ringing for liberty, or that Belgium will add a new Bell'-to her marvelous collection of historic bells and carillons. Getting a Line on 1919.

C. L. Edson in the New York Evening Post. The following correct forecasts were made by the Man from Arkansas, who prophecies by means of the breastbone of a goose, the thickness of the fur on a coon and the moss on the north side of forest trees. He happened to be on Broadway at the time, so he predicted by means of the green paint on the north side of lamp posts, the fur on the soubrette's wrists and ankles, and the turkey breasts in the delicatessen windows.

He says this will be a hard winter for the poor. Next summer will be a bad summer for the poor. In fact, there is so little in prospect for the poor that he advises them to change their occupation and become rich. Prediction: There will be no more world wars in 1919. The question of whether or not democracy totes a wallop will be settled by a newspaper decision in favor of Kid Columbia.

The latter, however, will not defend the championship again in the coming year, but will stall around a couple of years and enjoy the prosperity that accrues to a champ. Prediction: The kaiser, who lost bis is AD Ca AUGHT Relieve it Don't say sell out. ronic. And (The balsas one Tar Ho healing latter the comf Coughs othma also fling cos honey is ve and $1.1 Pine Extre ANC TIN Un 924 ME.