Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

That new American bread has the taste of victory. Every disloyal word sinks a screw in an American soldier’s coflin. Are YOU driving screws. Our boys in camp have rebelled against German measles and want the name changed. They’d much prefer plain old itdh. Perhaps Hindenburg was merely springing a premature April fool’s joke when he fixed April 1 as the date he would occupy Paris. The hog is the most patriotic Citizen among us. No matter how much or how little he is worth, he keeps right on rooting for us.

The senator from Wisconsin now has leisure to ponder on the pathos of that old song, “There’s a Name that’s Never Spoken.” The man with a hoe is a back number. It’s the man with the tractor and gang plow that this country is encouraging right now. The slacker in the poultry yard is becoming as unpopular on the farm as the-slacker on the farm is becoming in other parts of the country. Henry Ford is reported to have resigned a machine for use against the U-boat. Some time ago he designed a machine that has overcome almost everything else but a U-boat, and why not that? Chancellor Von iHertling says that Germany must be thoroughly whipped before she will agree to the terms on which a just and lasting peace can be secured. For once the chancellor is thoroughly in accord with his foes.

The Washington Post would have Dr. Garfield withhold fuel from congress when next those hot debates are pulled off, on the ground that the Capitol is already sufficiently heated by hot air. But hot air is their food, not their Ifuel. It was the irony of fate that while Chamberlain, Hitchcock, Wadsworth and other senators were telling the senate how poorly prepared our soldiers were, the boys “over there’ were sailing into the Germans in true American fashion and winning warm praises from the Allies.