Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

Quit wondering when the war will end, and decide when YOU are going to help end it. Vegetarians now have the opportunity of their lives to test the accuracy of their theory. If the price of gasoline keeps on mounting, it ought to put a damper on the automobile thieves. The price of wool inclines the buyer to the belief that the “fleecy staple” is true to its name. Jeremiah O’Leary boasted that he would govto hell for his country,, and his country is unanimous in speeding his going. Looking for a safe bank for your war-price savings, neighbor? What’s the matter with Uncle Sam’s great Liberty Bank? Kaiser Bill may have gone to Constantinople to give the Turks a course in “kultur,” with a few lessons in frightfulness as incidentals. That bunch of congressmen who propose to visit the battle front in -France should be careful. The fireworks over there are entirely different from those they are used to in Washington. The Germans profess to regard the American army as a “negligible force.” If they continue to’ act on that theory after Pershing and his Sammies get into action they will greatly hasten the end. An exchange wants to know “why it takes, a woman so long to put on the KifMo she wears to evening functions?’’ Why. she has to be very particular as to location. A mistake w®uld be embarrassing. It i/a historical truth that no industry is destroyed without pulling down some other In its fall., The District of Columbia goes “dry,” and now watch the withering of those choice congressional mint beds. Three-cent postage is all right, and we will pay it with a grin if it will help win the war. Still we can’t help thinking there should be some way to extract a few dollars from the hundreds of tons of matter carried out of Washington under the franking system. When a man between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one resists the draft we proceed to handle him without gloves. When a man nast thirty-one works his jaw over time resisting not only the draft, but every other measure of self preservation the government has enacted. I we pass a resolution to “investiI gate” his loyalty.