Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Now that summer is approaching the potato blossom will no doubt make its advent as a select article of millinery adornment. We can see right now that If this restrictive diet business goes much farther there will be a number of failures among the manufacturers of anti-fat. Our idea of a “work of supererogaticn.” as the preacher would say. is the department of agriculture telling the people how to have “wheatless” and “meatless” days. The information is entirely super-, It is not necessary to be stingy or resort to parsimony in your personal or household expenditures,

but it is highly essential that every person refrain from extravagance or waste of any nature while we are at war with a powerful foreign country. Foreign missions continue to pour into the United States and, as a result, American gold continues to pour out —or rather, it is loaned to the allies and spent in this country for supplies that are to be sent abroad to win the war. There is no bottom to the American purse when the cause of humanity is at stake. Up to the present time the country as a whole has been practically sleeping with regard to the war. But we will awake with a sudden start when the selective draft begins to draw our own sons and brothers to the trenches. There will be no lack of interest frotn then on. Once thoroughly aroused to the seriousness of the situation, the American people will wade in with sleeves up and stick until the last dog is hung.