Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1919 — TOPICS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS IN BRIEF.

Still, a league of nations might succeed although projects of church union fail’.—Buffalo Enquirer. | The league of nations idea is a good one, provided the umpire question can be settled satisfactorily.— Portland Oregonian. „ Revolution is the broaching of the wine of freedom, and Bolshevism is the ensuing delirium tremens.—New York Tribune. Men pray for what they want and Providence makes them sore by hand-/ ing them what they ought to have. — New York Evening Sun. Not only are the Germans licked and humiliated, but world-wide prohiibition is staring them in the face, —Bonner Springs (Kan.) Chieftain. The Associated Press says this session of congress promises to become historic. Our notion is it promises to become hysteric. —-Houston Post. “Republics have evidently arisen in Vienna and Budapest.”—Evening paper. And it looks as if we might have a shepublic in this country soon. —Punch (London.) , Liebknecht, the German Bolshevik, says-he- is -against peagec^d.-ifahg-keeps on he’s going to find the allies in entire accord with him on that point.—New York Tribune. President Wilson says that thirteen is his lucky number. This is aho the opinion of those who oppose his concerning the freedom of the seas. Evening: Post The war hasn’t started yet for one Hiawatha (Kar. ) soldier boy who is expected home soon. Two -young women, neither of whom will be trifled with, are flying service flags for him. —New’ York World. Germans are going out of their way, press dispatches say, to show courtesy to the invading Americans. That is just what we went out of our way to teach them. —New York Tribune. In war, chivalry is the best policy, not only because it is deceht and right, but because there is such a thing as getting licked. Germany is sorry now that it overlooked this important point.—Houston Post. “We are down and out; isn’t that enough?” remarks the crownless prince in one of his intepnews. Everybody knows that they' are down, but w’hat must be made for sure for all time is that they are not. —Utica Observer. Mr. Brisbane has bought- another newspaper. Evidently anxious to secure a newspaper through which no one could suspect him of dealing with the brewery interests, Mr. Brisbane bought one this time in Milwaukee. —Kansas City Star. We can only give a preliminary