Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

When a fellow has bats In his belfry the bats are about the only things that count. ” All patriptis are patriotic, but - are-' more so than others —in their own estimation. The wise man knows much and says little. The fool just keeps right on spilling the beans. .■ A kind act aids you just as much as the other fellow. An injury hurts him worse than you. - While eliminating the food hog let’s not forget the swine in other commodity lines. The pen’s full of ’em.

Heredity runs deep, and the girl who is lazy and selfish and surly to her mother may expect the same treatment from her. own children in after years. Some nut suggests that we start a movement to . Americanize America. qnfta useless. the kaiser .did ft when he tramped .on the starspangled toe. ■ . When the government completes ’those airplanes we suggest senators And congressmen for the crews. They are so ’ accustomed to being “up in the air’’ that high altitudes wouldn’t bother them. We are told that if we work on a farm we .won’t have to go to war. and that if we go to war we won’t have to work on a farm. But what’s bothering some of our yellow-hided Willies is, how they can skip ’em both. The citizens of Evanston, Illinois, have placed a bulletin board at the depots and other public places, and on this board is placed -the name of every man who joins the army. It is to stay there until the close of the war, and is called Evanston’s roll of honor.