Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — THE NEW UTOPIA [ARTICLE]

THE NEW UTOPIA

President Wilson's address to the senate in January was,damned with faint praise—or, just damned. To many distinguished preachers, politicians and business men his proposals Were “Utopian, beautiful ideals,” “desirable, of course, but not practical,” To one of our historians they were “asinine. There was a time in the history of this nation when we made ideals come true by believing in them. America was discovered, settled and preserved by faith in such beautiful ideals” as are embodied in the Declaration, of Independence, which in its day was quite as Utopian as President Wilson's proposals. Nothing is so practical as an ideal in -which men beleve. —Saturday Evening Post.

At the meeting of the Indiana Democratic ’ Editorial association held in Indianapolis last week, H. B. Wilson of the Carroll County Citizen-Times was elected president. E. J. Steinbach of the Kentland Democrat was re-elected as member of the executive committee for this congressional district. It was decided to hold the mid-summer meeting in Indianapolis this year, the date to be fixed later. The editors also decided to telegraph the Indiana representatives in the congress urging them to support the print paper investigating commission in its work seekng to solve the high cost of paper problem. “A reduction in the price of print paper is of vital importance to Indiana publishers,” the telegram read, in part.