Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1916 — EDITORIAL SQUIBS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL SQUIBS

That beauty' that is skin deep often washes off. The price of skirts is still up. So are the skirts. Now, all together! “Buy it at home this Christmas.” Just a few more days now and we’ll be busy cussing the Christmas bills. The butchers of Europe keep right on butchering regardless of the number of squeals. Be not alarmed at that strange and fearsome., noise. The congressional mouth is working again. Stop joking about the price of shoe leather. It’s a distressingly serious matter in frosty weather. Marriage license clerks are about the only humane and philanthropic people left. They have not raised their fees.

Don’t poo-hoo at something you don’t understand. There's always some one wiser than you who can see the point. If the newspapers of the country boosted their prices in proportion to the advance in other lines, WOULDN’T THERE BE ONE MIGHTY HOWL OF PROTEST?