Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

American farmers are mobilizing for the new spring drive. The fly peril is greater than the submarine. Swat him first! No need to tell your neighbors what you are. Tire/ know. A cynic is a man who believes nothing and knows less. We have a few. - ‘ Just keep your eye on the- Mex. He’s worse than an egg that won't hatch. So far we have not heard a pro- ' posal that our government loan spuds to the allies. Hats off to the patriot who goes [into the field and raises twice as imany spuds this year as he did a year ago. We need ’em, . The business man who .advertises only when trade is brisk is close kin to the follow' who prays for rain 'during a deluge. A movement is on foot for the government to confiscate all incomes" in excess, of SIOO,OOO a yea,r. Bully! Here’s ours. We don’t believe a word of this talk that women -want to join the army and navy. Every applicant would have to tell her agp. An exchange speaks of a recent meeting as “a gathering of noted -agriculturists.” The farmers, of course, w T ere at home preparing for crops. ;; ■ Give us a federal food dictator. Jail the price boosting speculators. Keep prices down. Give poor people an opportunity to eat three meals a day. In the course of this war, reader, the opportunity will be yours to duplicate one of the greatest miracles iof the Master. The multitude will 'demand food. At last the small boy has an influential champion, A Liverpool ■medical journal emphatically asserts that too much cleanliness i‘s injurious to health, and that, soap ■ and . water are shortening the lives 'of the people; ■■' "■ - ..■ The government is to -control ab!.'olut».L,v the prices which manu- ■ I'arturers may charge for war munitions. That's good. But let’s, go ' even: •farther and have a federal (•em mi.-sibn to regulate the prices of foodstuffs and jail the ' price ■ boosters, One of the practical patriots of the ■ day v,i 11 b.p the farmer who. strains every nerve in the production of foodstuffs , for the army and jcivilian population. We can reduce jour wardrobe to a shoe-string and La shirt if necessary, but' we cannot 'subsist on water and wind.