Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1919 — TOPICS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS IN BRIEF.

Germany started out to lick the world and only got as fair as its hoots. —Tampa Tribune. Will there. be just one league of nations? X)r a Major League and a Boche League?—New York Evening Sun. The crown prince isn’t taking so much interest in the old man’s shoes as he did not so long ago.—Anaconda Standard. The armistice terms should have required the Huns to tels the truth for a period of thirty days. ---Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. After we have 'beaten our swords into plowshares the next thing will be to straighten out our corkscrews into hatpins.—Kansas City Star. Now that the Hun has paid the price for peace, the South would like to know what he ds willing to pay for cotton.—Greenville ( S. C.) Piedmont. The Crown Prince slays he Was sure the war was lost after the Mamte. So he fought Verdun just to make absolutely certain.— Tribune. Another international mystery is where the Bolsheviki of all lands obtain the funds with which they.jooo-

tinually appear to be well supplied. —Chicago Daily News. It mlay prove to be just as impossible to seize the person of Wlilhelim von Hohenzollern for punishment as it was to get an America narmy into France.—-Albany Journal. A Southern newspaper Is so cruel as to remark that there would have been no opposition if it had been Congress that was going out of the country.—New York Evening Post. Our War Department bought 119,000,000 pieces of soap for shipment overseas in the last six months, which sounds aa if we are preparing to get fin contact with the Bolsheviki.—lndianapolis Star. And now our returning soldiers will soon be demanding of their mothers and wive doughnuts “like the Salvation Army used to make.” —Long Island City Star. An American scientist recommends tooth-drawing- as a cur j for insanity. But his compatriot, Mr. Davis, couM tell him that the treatment had no effect in the case of the kaiser.—■ Passing Show (London). Civilized countries willing to abandon conscription when Germany shows the way are like that wise Frenchman Wh owas ready to abolish capital punishment “if the murderers would start first”—Wall Streiet Journal. If the kaiser is indicted, tried and condemned on all the charges individuals are trying to lodge against him, there will be so many executions ordered for him that the baHance of his life will afford him practically no leisure.—Detroit News. Billy Sunday’s Kansas City friends will be glad to know that he’s hitting them up against the center field fence. In a recent sermon Billy remarked that “the kaffier has sunk so tow that he’ll have to takean airplane to get to hell.”—Kansas City Star. It is said that the English language will be used in the Versailles conference. In recognition of the presence of the President, it seems to us the delegates would make the American language the official language, but we suppose the English delegates would riot be able to understand fit.—Houston Post.