Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

If you want results, get the in arines after the submarines. The truly patriotic family is cheerfully raising a war garden and joyfully canning the products. If America could have ''foreseen the consequences she would never have invented the submarine. A mother in Chicago had her son arrested for evgdi.ng the draft. She didn’t raise her boy to be a slacker. America’s colors —the blue field, the white stars, the red stripes, the white stripes—and never, never a yellow streak. Mr. Schwab has the right idea of a Fourth of July celebration. Instead of sending up rockets toward the sky, he will send) down ships to the sea. Conservation serves the nation, Extravagance is bad, A thrift stamp, ’tis true, means money for you, A* war stamp backs your lad. The letter “AV’’ Cakes a prominent place in cur alphabet. Without it we could neither wage the war nor 'win the war, nor shoula We have wool nor wheat nor Wilson. The fact that a new star found aim pie space and opportunity to appear among the others and outshine many of them goes to prove that there is always plenty of room at the top. The United States has made wonderful advances in the dye industry during the past year, and is making many dyes that were formerly procured from Germany. The Germans, on the bther hand, have been industriously dying" lately.

Kipling, writing in the person of Tommy Atkins,, says of the U. S. Marine: “For there isn’t a job on the top of the earth the beggar don’t' know nor de." And after the Marine Corps’ magnificent service in France we with Kipling. •

to be a soldier in the trenches than to be a baby undo* a year old. The death rate for the soldier is 2 per cent and for the baby 7 per cent. If it were optional with the baby, he would probably infinitely preset to be a soldier. . Eugene V. Debs, three times Socialist candidate for the presidency, hae recently made a speech reaffirming his opposition to conscription and- Liberty bonds, and referring to the Bolsheviki as ‘comrades.” He and the Bolsheviki may be calling “Kamerad" yet Government officials at the head of the wool and woolen department announce that during the period of the war conservation of both men's an I womens woolen apparel will bt» absolutely necessary. They predict that in another year no garment will be fashionable unless it displays the ‘'democratic darn’’ or the “patriotic patch.’’ The “reactionary rip,” however, will not be tolerated.