Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — TOPICS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

TOPICS IN BRIEF

Woman’s sphere is no longer flattened at the polls.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. America is first in the running broad jump and standing high prices.—Brooklyn Eagle. Politics this year is about the only thing this year you can get a stomach full of at the old rates.— Manila Bulletin. It now appears that the Soviet’s conquest at the Pole must/ be ranked with Dr. Cook’s; —Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. The initial mistake was made in the Irish problem when Ireland was

located so near to England. Reclamation is the key to the high cost of living, declares Mr. Roosevelt, thus adding another to a sizable bunch of keys. But none of them seem to fit. —Chicago Tribune. The new freight rates really offer very slight' opportunity for further profiteering, but our sturdy American profiteers have been schooled from childhood in the art of making the best of things as they find then*. —Kansas City Star. According to reports the Bodsheviki ran out of ammunition and Poland. —Brooklyn Eagle. One trembles to think what that town of Przasnysz would be without i te “a”.—St.. Louis Globe Democrat. ... We might build a memorial to war-prices if we could safely put up anything that high.—Brooklyn Eagle. Sugar is just as sweet if not so dear. —Omaha World Herald. Great Britian is giving Egypt freedom to do anything Great Britan wants her to do.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. The reason the Democrats are so virtuous is probably because money is the root of ail evil.—Philadelphia North American. “Deer to Supplant Beer”, says a head-line, but the packers play that game by making beef dear.—Greenville (S. C.). Piedmont. The United States had better acquire a seat in the League of Nations before the best ones get into the hands of the speculators. — Chicago Tribune. • Comrade Debs declares, surprisingly, that the chief issue coal shortage. We suppose Gene, had got his coal in for the winter. I —Chicago Tribune. Now we shall witness the spectacle of men who don’t know a guesttowel from an embroidered napkin trying to tell their wives how to vote on important issues.— Kansas City tar.