Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

The German peace dove has more the appearance of a vulture. We forget the exact date of Villa’s last death, but anyway it must be nearly due again. We are perfectly willing that the pig should have the privilege of making a hog of himself. What has become of the oldtime doctor who advised the “eatless” cure for indigestion? “Striking a blow for America and liberty” doesn't include striking miners, ship builders and others. The order holding up the sale of hens is bringing a large supply of spring chickens from cold storage. If that German drive catches Trotsky in the net he will wish his name was Runsky or Flysky. When all of those “American dentists to the kaiser” get back home, the population of 'this country should be appreciably increased. If the shade of Old Jonah ever revisits this .mundane sphere, he must chuckle with glee at the reports that people are eating whale meat.

The kaiser says: “The. Lord pointed out to us the path by which we should go.” But it’s a safe bet the Lord didn’t tell him what awaits them at the end of the path. When other arguments fail in settling strikes, during the period of the war, a quiet intimation that those who will not work must fight might produce results. Congress should try it. When Secretary Baker stated that a half million men would be drafted before June, he surely hadn’t sized up the crowds about the pool rooms, or he would have made the number a million. Mexico has placed a tax of $8 a head on persons leaving that country for the United States. If Carranza, Villa, et al., are fair samples of the population, Mexico couldn’t please this country better than by making the tax prohibitive. If every farmer will obey the spirit of the suggestipn to keep the hens on the farm instead of selling them, and will see that every setter is supplied with a nice nest of eggs, a long step will be taken toward a greater food production. A chimpanzee in full evening dress escaped from a show in New York. When found he was mingling with the guests at a swell lobster palace. We are not informed in the dispatch how his keepers distinguished him from the other guests. Rawson, North Dakota, has no saloons, no jail, lawyers, doctors, red-light district, church, movies or pawnshop. George Bailey of the 'Houston (Texas! Post once remarked that “this life is just one d d thing after He evidently had no reference to life

in Rawson, North Dakota. Raleigh iFox, age seven, who weighs 227 pounds, was seen walking down the street in Pottersville, Mo., where he was visiting; crying because his shoes hurt and his father would not carry him. It is gratifying to the people that the government has begun to work on the food hoarders, and ij bringing to light many hoarded supplies. The good work should be kept up. But let’s not confine ourselves to the small fish and the minnows. There are some whales in the ocean that need looking after. Dollars to doughnuts, before Heney gets through with certain gentlemen dealing largely in food supplies, he will uncover a matter of hoarding that will make the country open its eyes. At ’em, Heney. , ■ : The world will watch with '’interest the outcome of the German occupation of Russia, as also the disposition the Teutonic powers will make of their agents, Lenine and Trotsky—for that these worthies have been all along working in the interest of Germany, few thinking people now doubt. If treachery is rewarded in proportion to its baseness, they should have high place in the favor of the kaiser. If Russia is really their fatherland, they must find deep consolation in. the thought that through their efforts she now lies helpless under the heel of her oppressor.