Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1918 — Page 2

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VXTSED MATERIAL.

The defeat in congress of the amendment 'of the revenue bill extending the ■selectivedraft to forty years and backward to eighteen, if it indicates anything like a permanent policy of the- government, will place cur country in a nw st anomalous position. The call from overseas is for more and ’more '.men—miiifOps ■ aml ,moremillions-of. tnem.--.; Already- the. newspapers are- reporting from; every section of the country that Cliss 1 of the former draft is : r.leaii.. exhausted. Secretary Baker has stated that we are trans pert! fig troops at? the rate of SW>»#6o a month. The men coming a ? e iu the last j year number -carcely a million, and not nearly all of these Will be listed in Class 1. From where are recruits Coming during the . next three or 'our months? Will We have to go into the lower classes to secure them? Many public men of sound judgment favored placing the age limit at forty or forty-five in the beginning. This, it seems to us, would have been the wiser course. Our country has a wealth of good fighting material between the ages of thirty-one and forty-five. Thousands of these men would make capital soldiers. They are ififired to life’s hard knocks, settled in the'r habits, and with little -raining would be a match for Germany's best. The—people of this country can not afford to J>e Julled into a false sense of security. Just because rhe allies have held the western line, just because they have defeated the great Austrian offensive, is no indication that victory is even remote*

ly in sight. The German machine is still militant and it will take millions of Americans to bring jhe allied armies to a point where real offensive warfare can be risked. There is a vast difference between holding the western line and marching to Berlin. Germany must be greatly reduced and the allies immeasurably strengthened before the latter move can be undertaken—and we must not even dream of relaxing our efforts until this is l effected. Our sihip-building program assures us that transport facilities will constantly increase from now on. Why, then, should all this unused material in fighting mem —material of the very best—be left unused? All the other allied nations haVe utilized all their available fighting force. < Some may ask, who will take the places of these men in industrial life? And we give the Yankee’s answer by asking another question: Who have taken those places in Erfgland and France? We will make a most fatal mistake if we permit the idea to enter the national mind that we can win this war with our surplus. America is going to be forced to trench deeply on her capital before the end comes. Fighting men bymilions and material resources by billions lulled in Shrdlu cmfwyp vbgkqj must be poured into the vortex before we can rest in victory. Germany would be only too pleased to see us lulled into a false sense of security to the extent of even the least slackening of our. intensive preparations. Let us utilize all the latent fighting material as well as material resources.

OVERDONE THRIFT.

Have we heard too much talk of duty of Thrift? It would almost seem so. Not of legitimate, bona fide thrift, the kind that “makls two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before,” but of the spurious brand that seeks to transfer the dollar from your neighbor’s i G'"ket to your own without adequate compensation to the neighbor. We have before said that higii prices was a mania. Higa prices is also a convenient cloak tor all sorts of petty meannesses and graft. It is doubtful if

the prevailing prices ill half the different lines of trade in this country could bb justified by war conditions. Yet they exist, and not only exist but keep on climbing. We have no sympathy whatever for the capitalistic profiteer who is caught in his efforts to mulch his government and the public in these times. He deserves all that he gets and then some. But the big fellows are not the ones most responsible for the present chaotic condition of prices. The blame for this condition rests closer home to the people themselves. In many lines the government has done much to stabilize prices, yet there .seem to be many more lines in which its efforts cannot bring 'results. I ' There seems to be a mania prevalent among all classes to get just a little more .for any article disposed of than such article is worth. The least seeming scarcity

of an article ia promptly taken advantage of—and that by all classes. The great trouble is we _havo confused the two terms —thrift and greed. Genuine thrift has the foundation of production or saving. One must either increase production or save from waste in order to practice thrift. The piling on of extra costs to an article with every conceiveble pretext is not thrift—this is greed, pure and simple, and as such is the most contemptible kind of profiteering. Let’s not let up on the big profiteers, but while rounding them up let’s not overlook the contemptible little fellows closer home. We should make their road a rocky one.

An accurte prediction as to which side will win this war could have been made from the beginning. The Hun’s sense of humor is limited to laughing at the predicament of the other fellow. The French and the American, on the other hand can and do find humor in their own troubles. While the Englishman is supposed to take himself pretty seriously, he is known the world over as a good sportsman, which if not identical with the American sense of humor, is closely allied with it. The German does not play games and is a poor sportsman, hence has not the staying qualities to survive a long and adverse campaign, nor the ability to see around the immediate circumstances to the final goal. The German wants something, lays his detailed plans and goes after it, with his head down. The allied spirit is different. It sees the end to be gained, has several alternate plans for its accomplishment and then on the field, in the midst of the game or battle, selects the one most apt to succeed, pushing it till its service is done and then, if necessary seizes on another, often unexpected by the enemy and thus, though often weaker, wins the game or the battle. It* is the healthier attitude of the two and most deserves to win.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Our summer readipg will be the newspapers. Who wants fiction when the incidents of the great war are unrolling themselves before us? . — J The only American troo-ps that will- ever “take to flight” are oui squadrons of “Eagles,’’ and when they get busy, the Hun will desperately wish they had “stood their ground,” “Why is Wall Street?”, the question which the ordinary mortal has sometimes asked, has received the answer. Wall street has paid over $450,000,000 in revenue taxes for the last fiscal year. A vacation spent away from home is a providential arrangement tr, make a man realize, that he has the best job in the world, the best home in the world, and the best wife and children in the world.

Artists in Berlin, ironically enough, when they ask fOf “Prussian Blue,’’ are informed that it cannot be obtained* and to make the situation still more ironical, they are given in its place, ‘‘Parisian Blue! ” Another woman has been acquitted for killing a mere man. If this thing keeps up it will not be long before the life insurance companies will be forced to include this mode of death with suicide in their list of “exceptions.”

During the three-pounds-per-person sugar limitation, do not complain if your coffee is' not sweet enough. The French are allowed but thirteen pounds of sugar per year per person, the Italians only nine pounds— if they can get it. The price of sugar in France is twenty-five cents,"in Italy sixty cent-» a pound. . Here’s hoping the “human” Germans will clean house after the war and for their own good as well as that of the world, exterminate all traces of the “Hun" element that has betrayed them even more foully and completely than it has the Belgians. It will tahe many a decade, generations even, to enable the world to differentiate between permans. The whole wide world will “be from Missouri.’’

If the world would have absolute proof of the deep duplicity of the German nation it can be found in the statement from high German authority, that that nation, instead of numbering sixty millions of people, as given out at the opening of the war, in reality numbered ninety millions. There can be no doubt census returns have been deliberately falsified. There could have- been but one object in this —deceiving the world as to her true strength. The allied world knows now, howv ever, that- it is fighting a monster of gigantic proportions, and is making its preparations accordingly.

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PHILOSOPHY’ WALT MASON

Breathes there a • man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, ‘TIl z dig up money, every chance, if that will help our boys in France. If coin will help to squash the Huil, I have no use for hoarded mon. The hat I’ve worn since ’93 will do another year so. me; the shoes I bought three years ago will serve to bear me to and fro; the pants I drew in father’s will are fit for ample service still. I root for Uncle Sam at bat, sq come along and pass the hat.” It’s hard to understand the skate who's scheming early, scheming late, to see how little he can give; he o .ght to be ashamed to live. Committees call at his abode, and kindly ask him to unload. He backs and fills and hums and haws, and- shoves some piffle through his jaws: “I dug up fifty cents last May; I can't spare anything today.” And he can face himself, that guy, who ought to hunt a hole and die. But in the long sad years to come, he'll find this wqrJd is out of plumb, he failed to . whoop for liberty, and while he lives on earth he'll be as lonesome as the yaller dorg that hangs around the city morgue. Oh, we musU give until it hurts, until we’ve soaked our Sunday shirts, and when wove given all we oWn, still strive to give another bone, a

HUNS START GIGANTIC DRIVE ON 65-MILE FRONT

defenders of the line. Altogether the two battle fronts aggregate about sixty-five miles in length. American troops are fighting valiantly on the sectors they have been holding and at two points have met with notable success. At Vaux they not alone broke down a violent attack by the enemy, but drove him back several hundred yards, and only returned to their forn/er positions when the advances of the Germans southeast of Chateau Thierry across the Marn# made the reoccupation of their trenches of strategic value. The Germans in addition to their tremendous expenditure of explosive and gas shells used numerous tanks-against the lines of the defenders and also opened with numerous naval guns bombardments of towns and cities far behind the battle line, dropping upon them shells from' ten and twelve-inch pieces.

The details of the strategic scheme the Germans have in view have not yet been unfolded. It seems apparent, however, that the main objective in the first stages of the offensive is the throwing of their lines southward on both sides of Rheims, enveloping that city and forcing its capitulation. While all the Germans are making their-, drive ip ‘ the south* the British around Ypres are pecking away at the German lines with success as regards the gaining of ground and the taking of prisoners; the French and Italians in Albania are keeping up their spectacular drive against the Austrians and tjie French, and Italians in the mountain region of the Italian theatre daily are harrassing the enemy with patrol attacks of considerable violence and bombardment.

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RITA RICH

Miss Rich specializes in character songs and impersonations, Irish and English, Scotch and Indian; also child songs and stories, which she renders in an inimitable manner. Miss Werno is particularly gifted in Irish and negro dialect, is a capable accompanist and does pianologues unusually well. She is well known in Chicago as a reader and musician, where her talent has been recognized since she was a child. Entertainment for first day of the Lincoln Chautauqua, August 6.

INDIANA FOOD ADMINISTRATION

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The Food Administration of Indiana does not undertake to say that five cents or seven cents per bushel for handling wheat is profiteering. We have had complaints that margains as high as 10c per bushel have been asked. We have no hesitancy in saying that it is our judgment that 'the Government would consider this margin as profiteering, and any dealer taking any such toll is liable to have his license cancelled. We want to drive home the following facts: . Ist. No authority is ’ given anyone to fix a definite price on wheat. 2nd. The Government has fixed a minimum price which the farmer must receive. 3rd. The grain dealer must buy wheat on Government inspection rules. 4th. These rules provide a moisture test. sth. If wheat is threshed wet, it will be subject to heavy discount. 7th. The Government is the sole arbiter as to what constitutes profit--Bth. ' Any grain dealer guilty of profiteering will have his license revoked. 9th. Any dealer having his license revoked or refusing to operate his elevator as usual is liable to have the elevator taken over and operated by the Governwre-n-tr 10th. Fair, ■ honest, patriotic farmers and grain dealers have nothing to fear either from the Indiana department or from the U. §. Food Administration.

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