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GERMAN PROPAGANDA LINKS PRINCETON AND SONG WRITER

Rewards of "Yes, We Have No Bananas" Provide Funds for Cleveland Hall

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Princeton, June 3.--A new form of German propaganda, linking together the names of Princeton University and the composer of the erstwhile popular tune "Yes, We Have No Bananas!" in a glaring expose of American materialism were discovered recently in a German newspaper.

In a special article endeavoring to show the superfluity of wealth in the United States, the German journal printed a picture of the popular composer, and beside it, the picture of an imposing stone building in the Gothic style, purporting to be the palace which the tunemaker had built with the proceeds from his song success. On careful examination of this picture however, the building was found to be not a palace, but Cleveland Hall, one of the newer-buildings on the Princeton campus.

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