Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

When in doubt, kick the doubt aside and go ahead. The idle rich will be anything but idle when they get to France. Russia is busily engaged in wondering whether, it is getting on or getting off. No, Miranda, "it isn’t necessary to act foolish in order to convince people that you are. They know. King George invited the enlisted men with Pershing to visit Buckingham palace. His majesty was honored. Don’t go around lamenting the fact that you had just passed the age for registration. You can still volunteer. Lord, won’t the old baldheads

have a glorious time when the young bloods have all marched away to the war! In his eagerness to obtain peace the kaiser is , willing to give away' apy portion of the earth that does not belong to him. . Pershing was in luck. He dined with the king and stowed away ? square meal without having to cough up a fortune for it. Slackers who sneaked away from registering June 5 and how find themselves facing prison sentenceand compulsory military - "service at the end of their incarceration, will get no sympathy 'from the public at large. Instead, they, will be 'viewed with scorn and disgust, and to their dying day they will carr." the obloquay with which they have smeared themselves. Parents arnot imbued with the idea of sending their own sons to war while the slacker sneaks into hiding.