Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

The Germans are a musical, nation. We trust they will enjoy Sousa’s band when it plays in Berlin. The President showed excellent judgment in selecting hi% secretary of war. Who could he better fitted to handle doughboys than a Baker? It is reported that the former czar and his family were forced to move May 1. People who have -experienced the joys of moving Will beinclined to accuse the Russian powers that be of cruelty. '-Mall to "be delivered by aeroplane between Chicago and New York will require about eleven hours in

transit. It will cost twenty-four cents an ounce. At that a love letter would he cheap at the price. It is sometimes mighty hard to trace the relationship between cause and effect. Who would have thought when the thermometer stayed down out of sight for days at a time last winter that we would pay more for ice this summer? Mr. Noah was the first shipbuilder on record who worked according to specifications. But if we may judge hi 3 craft by the models which we often see in the toy shops it would not in these days have answered even for a river boat. Lloyd George is said to spend his leisure moments in playing and singing Welsh national airs. After singing “Clyw, Clyw, Foreuol Glod” or “Rhyvelgyroh Gwyr Harlech,’’ 'ihaking a war speech would seem to him a trifling feat. “Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How is your war garden growing?” ! “With potatoes it grows, and beans in rows, And pretty maids do the hoeing. "I used to raise shells and silver bells, ———— But now I’m a great deal wiser. Our war gardens stand an aid to our land, And a help to beat the Kaiser.”

While we are urging the farmers to raise hogs, it occurs to us the government might greatly facilitate matters by inaugurating uniform compulsory inoculation of all hogs against cholera, this to be carried out through the Department of Agriculture. It is safe to say there is hardly a state in the Union that does not lose a million hogs, old aud young, every year through this scourge. Compulsory vaccination and inoculation has almost rid the human race of several heretofore dheaded diseases. £t will do the same for porkers. Just now any plan that will increase the meat supply is well worth practicing. » •

The arts of weaving and rope and net-making are practiced by some of the lower forms of life, notably among caterpillars and spiders. The weaver birds of Africa and India, which are a species of finch, construct wonderful nests out of leaves by sewing them together.

Investigators recently found extensive undeveloped coal .fields in Serbia. / Neither the laburnum nor the common lilac is indigenous to this country, the former having been introduced from the Alpine region of Europe and the latter from Persia, where “lilas” or “lilag’’ is the name given to its flowers. The horse chestnut was originally a native of Asia, probably of northern India, whence it was introduced. A whirlpool bath is the novel treatment applied at a hospital in Manchester, England, for cases of rheumatism, heart disease, shell shock and debility following typhoid and dysentery. The tank, large enough for twelve men, contains four feet of water and is provided with seats on which the bathers are immersed to tiheir necks. TKe temperature is kept at 93 degrees Fahrenheit, just below that of the body. The room is quiet and dimly lighted, and after an hour in tie bath the men go to rest-rooms.