Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

“Czernin lied,” said Clemenceau. Truly, brevity is the soul of wit. The Geiimans have captured Ham. Let us hope it was picked clean to the bone when they'got it. Those women and children killed and mangled in that Paris church by the big German gun were merely another acceptable sacrifice to Gott. A Colorado man has had his jaw bone patched up with a rib. But this isn’t the first instance in Which a rib was used to perfect a talking machine. That Missouri hog that coughed up a dollar upon being kicked was a mischief-maker in his tribe. Everybody will be ‘‘kickin’ my hog aroun’ ” now. A draft on the pool rooms of the -cities ought to round up many a marksman whose time could be better employed in projecting lead balls than in rolling ivory. The farmer who is unwilling to raise $2.00 wheat should ask himself the question if he is willing to exchange places with his boy who is facing German bullets for S3O a month. It is said that Germany is discussing a plan to insure women against spinsterhood. As Germans are experts at inventing substitutes, perhaps they can invent a substitute for a man.

('ole Blease of South Carolina announces that he will be a candidate for the United States Senate. Probably figures on a fuel shortage next winter and calculates he could raise the temperature at .. ’’*• to Washington. Mr. Hoover suspended the meatless day program, and the meat barons at once tacked 2%. cents to the price. Perhaps they figured that we had a tidy nest egg saved during the period of abstinance. I There isn’t much gets by the pack--1 ers. <* If anyone doubts the ability, of the women of this-country as fighters they are reminded that just now' these women are successfully prosecuting three great wars: They are doing yeoman service in whip’ping the kaiser, are successfully ■ prosecuting a war for pdlitical recI ognition, and are whipping John Barleycorn to a standstill. Plant seeds and grow bullets. Impossible. you say. Not at all. The great need of the allied forces on the front today is ample supplies of food. The need of the allied nations is food. Without it the war would prove a failure, it matters not how many bullets we mold , and send across. Food and more 1 food is the cry, and with it we will make effective the bullets. Hungry soldiers can have no heart for fighting, and ours imust fight this war to a finish. RAISE SOMETHING TO EAT.