Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

With “licker” fifty cents a drink, many a left-over thirst will have to wear itself out next day. There are indications that Mr. Hoover’s efforts will eventually bring flour on speaking terms with the people; The profiteers are after the scalp of Secretary Daniels because-he distinguishes between “doing a bit” and “taking a bite.” Longer life to you, Josephus. The senator from Wisconsin now finds himself in such a hopeless minority in Washington that “as

lonesome as LaFollette” has become a popular saying. While the tangle continues in the affairs of the fuel administration we have always the consolation of knowing that spring is on the way and must come sooner or later. Chicago, "has been looted of $2,000,000 during the past year by robbers. The reason the figures are so low’ is that the estimate doesn’t include the activities of the food profiteers. New' York papers tell of an Italian who ate twenty eggs at one meal. That fellow is not only an alien enemy, but should be vigorously prosecuted for hoarding food supplies. One thing this war has done for us, it has convinced tmany Democrats that Republicans were hum-a beings, and Republicans have been forced to admit that Democrats might even be Christians. The difference between the Russian and German views of peace was that while Russia desired peace with Gerpiany, the latter wanted peaceful possession of Russia. Such a little difference to mar the harmony.

We are confidently assured that government officials are hot on the trail of the food barons. They’re running too darned fast. They get overheated and have to stop and rest, when the wily varmints get a good lead again. Better take it slow and sure, and land them.

As a sample off American thrift we might mention that wool is now around one dollar a pound, yet this country maintains 25,000,000 dogs, at least 20,000,000 of which are utterly worthless. These twenty million brutes are hereditary enemies of the sheep, and are alone responsible for the inexcusible scarcity of the woollies in the country. A prominent editor oif the country is out with a long editorial purporting to be an analysis of the female nature. That editor ,is either a fraud -or the most foolhardy man alive. We contend that the female nature can’t be analyzed. But if it can, and this editor has succeeded, then he will be a hunted man the balance of his days for telling on the women. If, as Col. Lewis alleges, the ordnance equipment of Pershing’s army is “an outrage and a disgrace,” somebody should be made to walk the plank. If an atom of personal feeling has been permitted to interfere with the protection of these men, the guilty parties should feel the avenging power of an outraged people. “Personal feelings” can have no place in the war program, and the party encumbered with them . should be relegated in the bind-most seat in private life, if not to some place more secluded still.

The supreme court of the United States has unanimously held the conscription law constitutional, and Emma Goldman, Alexander Beikman and others must serve sentences imposed in other courts. One out of every eight lowans owns an automobile. Figures issued at the state house last week showed that more than 282,000 automobiles were registered last year. This was 85,000 more than the preceding year, bringing in $1,641,718 in license fees, an average of G 5 cents for every man, woman and child in the state.