Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

One of the eternal mysteries will •be, what did old Father Time do with that idle hour when the schedule was changed? Chinese flsheitnen train otters to catch fish. Which is all right if the otters don't do too much talking about their exploits. An exchange remarks that the Mexican crisis is passing. Of course it is. They pass as regularly down there as the moon’s phases, “Now is the time to begin keeping your chickens penned up,” remarks an exchange. The impressionable bachelor cynically retorts that there’s catching before penning. A New York man has appealed to the courts to compel his -wife to keep silence. But where is he going to find a. judge with nerve enough to undertake to impose such a sentence? Disappointed in pulling off their fight in Baltimore, Willard and Fulton might try the western front in France. There might not be so many rounds fought, but it’s safe to say it’ would be mighty interesting while it lasted. If Words would win the war, there, are people in tn is community, and in all others no doubt, who would be capable of doing yeoman serviced But words will not win. Talk’is said to be “cheap,” but in the present emergency we are constrained to believe it comes very high. What is needed now is not words, but deeds. Get down to business and 'brass tacks. DO SOMETHING. <Hiustle. Raise something to eat, or to clothe,, somebody, or do something to supply some other necessity. Work, work, and keep on working,- and let the words stay in the dictionary. They’re not needed. More than a billion dollars of American agricultural exports were sold to the European nations at war with Germany during 1917.

Had this patipn maintained peace at the price of obedience to the German war zone decree, this European market would have been closed and this billion dollars worth of agricultural products would, most of them, have rotted on farms and in warehouses, or been used in unprofitable ways, with consequent stagnation and ruin to the American farmers. Interest as well as duty urges the American farmer to give financial support to his government in this war. Buy Liberty bond;*.