The Lamar register., 1915-02-03

Tyre for poets bending to their strings,
the warning world shall open fire and
fight the grievances of kings. A few
will claim the aid of God, few with
Buddha will array, and others, WELD
ing Allah's rod will lay about them as
they may. The heather on his dis
tant isle will lounge in oceans balmy
lap, and watch with ever growing
smile the civilizing nations scrap. He
will mark the dark and surginga
throng, and with somewhat wrinkled
brow, will quantity wonder what w9s
wrong with his religion, anyhow.
1t won't be easy to explain
These things in Burmah and Ceylon,
And foreign missions, in the main,
viii have their troubles getting on.
The things of idols often said
Are very true in most respects,
But one has still to little dread
The wars of civilizing sects.
If all the progress we would share
Amounts to this, our brethren all
Will grab their idols by the hair,
And deftly beat it to the tall.
February will be an interesting
month at Washington. A grave prob
lem will arrive in town on every train
and join the line of grave problems
in front of the White house. There
have been times when our Presidents
have had little to do but hunt bears
or play golf, but that will not be the
case during February. There will be
Villa to watch. Villa will arrive with
his army in northern Mexico early in
the month and will begin whatever he
is doing all over again. One cannot
help being interested in Villas system.
He proceeds so far along a certain
line, and when he finds himself con-
fused, or in doubt, he goes back to
the starting point, and sets out again.
This will be his third time out. There
will also be the problem of what is
contraband. We have that problem to
settle with England. 1t seems food
stuffs, for instance, bound for Ger
many, are not contraband if the army
is not TO consume them. To settle the
the question of what is for the army
and what is for the civil population,
| it will be necessary to determine if
the army likes the same things the
civil population likes. Thus, who eats
pompernickel If we can satisfy
England that a German soldier never
eats pompernickel, we can ship all the
pompernickel we want. The only way
to settle this question in our opinion,
is to induce Germany to lend us a
soldier and civilian, and conduct our
experiments here in the presence of
the German and British embassies.
Then there is the shipping bill. That
has to be settled. Mr.. Wilson wants
to invest thirty million dollars of gov
ernment money in a merchant marine.
Before this can be done it will be
necessary to satisy congress that the
government will get its money back.
This is going to necessitate great
deal of investigation as to the ten
dency of money to come back, espec-
tally once it has escaped to the high
seas. February is going to be no
time for birdshot at Washington, nor
will it be a good time to make chau-
tauqua engagements for next sum
mer.
The wind will meantime play a wild,
Deep dirge of Winter in the trees,
And superdreadnaughts, grimly styl-
ed,
viii keep the vigil of the seas.
The hired man will venture out
In seven pairs of pantaloons,
And great debates will rage about
The open box containing prunes.
The ready Federal reserve
Will give to trade its oldtime
swing,
And watchful poets will observe
A few bold auguries of spring.
There will be no full moon in Feb