Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

What doth it profit a man to plant a garden and lose it via his neighbor’s chickens? Austria is beginning to inquire what she is fighting for. Xobody knows but the kaiser, and he won’t tell. Germany’s plea that she is fighting for her existence, although hypocritically made, is coming to be the sober truth. In justice to Mr. Root it should

be remembered that he said Russia would be all right if——. Only the “if” didn’t materialize. The fellow who. says a woman can’t keep a secret, should try to get his wife to tell the real secret of how she landed him; The wool shortage might be relieved somewhat by commandeering all that the politicians are accustomed to pull oyer the people’s eyes. Those German soldiers hunting for the American sector in France doubtless had the success of the boy hunting, for a hornet’s nest. They found it.

Many a man who loudly provlaims himself in favor of measures that will work the greatest good to the greatest number, is also firmly convinced that No. 1 is the greatest. The American Indian is the greatest real estate promoter among us. Every tract of land the government assigns to him is at once so enhanced in vafeie that everybody wants it. Those profiteers who attempted to rob the government and the officers of the army in the price oi uniform's should be given a chance to wear a uniform, only it should be different from the product of their factories. Uncle Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal will doubtless assert that the recent display of the Northern lights was providentially sent to light the “Hohenzollerns and Hapsbourgs” further on their way to h—l. Criticism comes of the American soldiers in France that they are too anxious to fight. What else could brie expect when they were raised on a diet composed of three-fourths Jesse James and one-fourth Bob Fitzsimmons? And there’ll come a time before long when not even their officers can hold them back. The American people are perfectly willing to live on “substitutes,’ if only those substitutes are made available. As soon, however, as a substitute is suggested, the price of that article emulates the airship. When sxing a price on wheat the government might give great rejief by also fixing prices on the substitutes.

The water wagon is fast becoming an even more popular vehicle than the automobile. ■ ■ i v Since, the hen received her reprieve she has demonstrated .wha.t the female species can acomplish in a wSr on old H. C. L. Somebody should suggest to the ball clubs that the exercise has made them fit subjects to shoulder a musket. If not that, then the swing of a ball club is not so verydifferent to that of a hoe.