Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Eternal vigilance is the price of conservation. Vienna bread is in great demand in the Austrian capital. z When the Austrian cupboard is bare the Austrian cabinet is vacant. We are all creatures of habit, and the thrift habit is an excellent one. Cultivate it. Von Hindenburg's Anvil first breakfast in Paris is getting cold. What can be detaining him? When the Germans attempt a raid on American troops they are monkeying with a large and active buzzsaw. It is now reported also that Hindenburg is in an insane asylum. Planning the war required a madman and carrying it out made a lunatic. From study of the kaiser's speeches and actions alienists affirm that he has long been insane. ‘•Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make’mad,” The girl who married soldiers in succession and secured an allotment from each should have gone into Wall street. She has all the makings bf a high financier.

If gratitude is due to the man who blades of grass grow where only one Stew before, what is due to the farmer who has planted twice the acreage that he ever did before? • ~ The war bills, of England and America are met by appropriations made by parliment and congress respectively. But the American soldiers . are preparing to pay Germany’s war Bill in full for all his acts. The - governiment desires us to conserve gas.and electric light; In the days when the community still harbored young men calling on their best girls with what fervid patriotism this request would have been carried out. General Pershing says, that the clean life and ,high ideals of the American soldier are due to the influence of the American mother, Do not be surprised if mother puts on airs for awhile. Who could blame her after such a tribute? If you want a good typerwiter at a bargain price, see those at The Democrat office.