Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

J. Spratt and wife should have no trouble in dividing the meat rations these days. What has become of the statesman Who sneered at the silver dollar as “cheap money?” Was there, or was there not, a man named Villa who cut some ice in Mexico in years gone by? It is suspicioned that General Haig is seeking to make each of his “offensives” true to the term. • After this war is ended, the title “Colonel" will no longer stamp a man as necessarily from Kentucky. Many a boy who was pronounced “the picture of his dad’ has been known to overcome the handicap. Great excitement has been Created throughout Mexico by the publication in El Universal pf a statement by General Pablo Gonzales, former commander of the Carranza forces in Mexico City and a wellknown constitutionalist, favoring Mexico following the example of other Latin-America countries and severing diplomatic relations with Germany.