Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

The Kaiser’s hair has grown gray since the war began. Probably in the same proportion in which his prospects have grown dark. By this time you have probably decided that you never did like sugar in your coffee anyhow. A hundred and forty years ago the minute man was the man of the hour. Now it is the duration-of-the-war man. Do any of us fail to realize that a drive for the Fourth, Liberty Loan is in progress? Butter is going up, and will soon be seen only on the tables of the munition September in France is a cold month, but the*’allies managed to keep warm running after the Germans. “Can any good come out of There is certainly some good being done there. The ex-German liners used as transports are doing their bit toward the destruction of the Hindenburg ' line. If you will investigate you will

doubtless And in the vicinity of every school a complicated system of trenches, defended and attacked by heroic soldiers from ten to fourteen years of age. It is stated that 5,000 miles of telephone wire were laid in the St. Mihiel salient and along its borders by the Americans before their attack on the salient. When the battle opened trucks laden with wires started north, unreeling the wires through No-Man’s-Land, and 6,000 telephone instnftnents wefre used to connect these wires in the battle zone. The telephones werb also supplemented by several thousand carrier pigeons. When the American army wants information it gets it. In October we shall probably have two million soldiers in France. Your contribution to the Fourth Liberty Loan will help provide them with food, clothing and shelter. Subcribe to your limit.