Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — THE FLAG [ARTICLE]

THE FLAG

Let us hang out the flag, .the red. white a®d blue, A sign to the world that we are loyal and true To the country we love, the home of the brave; Let our banner float above us and ripple and wave. Then hail to our flag, the red, white and blue— The flag of the nation that’s loyal and true. It floats o'er our land and shall float o’er the sea , The flag of our country, the home Of the free. 6 It whs carried aloft by the gallant and brave Who fought: for our country from oppression to save, So here in our states, the states that we love, ■ • - The red, white and blue shall wave .. from above. \ - Then hail to our flag, " the -red;, white and blue, The flag of the nation that's loyal and true. » - . It floats o'er our land and shall float o'er the sea— The flag’ of our country, the home of the' ' free. ‘ ‘ -—Sarah A. Crockett. Enjoy your money while living. Others will make it fly when you are dead. . / ~ ' “Buying a ; pig in a poke” has lost all element of risk. No chance to lose now. • We have stood on the brink of war ?o long we have become dizzy and are tumbling in. A loyal American is one who places the welfare of America above that of all other nations. Extravagance and parsimony are both sins, but there is a happy medium which makes you actually human. Russia has demonstrated the fact, that the guillotine is not the only instrument that can remove a crowned head. _ Turkey may be considered the “sick man of Europe,” but from his recent efforts at sprinting you would never believe it. - Nobody can blame those German sailors for attempting to escape. The word had gone out that they were to be sent to a “bone dry” state. , . '

Things are beginning to happen on other parts of the old ball now, and'if ydur Uncle Carranza doesn't get a better press agent he will soon be in total eclipse. If Europe legalizes polygamy after the war in order to build up its shattered population there will be a tremendous slump in the male population of this country. I Society women at Atlantic City insist on the hotel managers treating their pet dogs as guests. The managers should accede to the demand. Any dog is as good as the woman who considers a dog her equal. y American physicians who have been engaged in hospital work in Germany contend that the food shortage has operated to improve the health of the people. They could have learned that much at home. American newspapermen are noted for health and longevity.

Just about the time an article of diet reaches a sufficiently high price to be really toothsome and appetizing, along comes some meddlesome highbrow and declares it fatal to one or more of the pet ailments of mankind.. Spuds are now declared 'to have a special grudge against the little catarrh devils and we are warned against eating them. * . You say, Mr. Merchant, that you don’t have to advertise because you have been in business so long that everybody knows you. Well, there is a certain mail order concern in Chicago that has probably been in business as long as you have, and we will bet a nickel to a ginger cake -that every 'person that reads these lines can call the name of that firm. And we will bet, further, that over half of your customers have catalogs of this firm in their homes right now. They see the value of advertising. Can’t you? . Citizens of Layramie township residing four miles south of Clark’s Hill are greatly incensed over the alleged un-Americanism displayed by Henry Arndt, .a farmer. Neighbors 1 : have entered complaint to Sheriff Slayback tfiat each morning Arndt raises a Gernfen flag on a pole which he erected in his yard. The sight of- the flag has aroused; the ire Of the citizens and they demand that something be done. Sheriff Slayback said last night that; he instructed two men residing in the vicinity that the first time they saw the flag raised to shoot it down and place Arndt under arrest.Saturday’s Lafayette Journal-