Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

A war savings stamp a month will give the kaiser a bump. The woman who can can and will can is helping to win the war. There is nothing selfish about the United States, even if she did have an eclipse all to herself a few days ago. The cotton stocking is really more patriotic than the silk stocking, although some people consider it a little slacker. If you cannot get your favorite brand of tobacco, just think how those war-worn boys in the trenches are enjoying its flavor. The American brand of courage has a strong infusion of gayety. Witness our boys who advanced to battle at Veuilly with their helmets bedecked with poppies. America is thrilled by the exploits of her troops on the Marne. She will keep her enthusiastic feelings, and after the war is over will tell them to the marines. The German generals have often set dates when they will dine in Paris. But it is not reported that the Paris restaurants are laying in any supplies of sausages and sauer kraut. Between the requirements oi more wheat for the allies and more money to support the army Undo Sam must continue to tighten his belt and loosen the straps of his pocketbook. During the st two weeks the college graduate in his commencement address has been busy informing the world how campaigns should be conducted and how governments should be financed. The other day the woman’s suffrage question bobbed up serenely again in the Senate. It submerges ifor long periods and then surprises everyone by coming to the surface. But the American craft has never carried explosives on board. In Oregon the eclipse was total over a strip fifty miles wide. The chickens in this district had never made a study of astronomy or of the causes of natural phenomena. They went to roost when the sky darkened, and lost two-irretrievable hours out of their lives.