The Glasgow courier., 1916-11-10

"Same Old Bill" Sulzer had to go
back on his nickname and turn Re-
publican.
What is Nebraska celebrating the
semi-centennial of, anyhow, Bryan's
presidential candidacy?
Why didn't Brooklyn blame the high
cost of world series tickets on the
war?
War is putting a stop to treating in
British barrooms. But why wait for
war?
Every time soap box statistician
brags that this is billion dollar coun-
try Congress raises the ante.
It's whole lot easier for some men
to criticise whiskers than it is for
them to raise a beard.
Philadelphia has advanced the price
of the ten-cent shine to fifteen cents,
| which looks like rubbing it in when the
ultimate consumer hasn't foot to
stand on.
The German army may be on its
uppers but it still manages somehow
to put up good front.
Broom corn has gone to 5000 ton,
but the vacuum cleaner will bring it
down.
Now that the Greek Navy and Ar
my have come out for the entente the
attitude of Greece probably makes lit
tie differences to the allies.
Kicking in football too often is not
confined to the sort done with the
feet.
That general strike in New York,
seems hardly to have reached even
the dignity of major proportions.
If Roumania were as bad as the
Germans call her, Berlin need not
have been so anxious to keep her out
Of bad company
Apparently there should be closed
season for Zeppelins engaged in the
humane practice of dropping bombs
on London.
The Kaiser now regards his old
friend Ferdinand as the ignoblest
/ Rouman of them ALL
Steam is up in the Irish crisis again.
1t nearly always is.
Summer has not come back. 1t
merely has been trying to find it's
: hat.
Money does not invariably talk.
Hush money makes signs and avoids
publicity.
One surmises that the Sportsmen's
Club should never lack material for
i billiard balls.
! This is the same war that two years
/ ago was so full Of thrills that it kept
people awake nights.
The so-called eight hour law prom
ises to be one matter in which most
Of the arguments follow the legisla-
tion instead of proceeding it.
Neutrals have suffered enough as
innocent bystanders without inviting
bumps by trying to be peace makers
According to all accounts there is
as mad a scramble among European
people for war bonds as there was in
Boston for worlds series tickets.
If the European war were half as
bloody as some American newspapers
have made it appear, it would be al
most as grewsome as movie master
piece.
A Mexican campaigner too often
neglects the workingman's full dinner
pail and devotes his attention to full
pocketbook.
] Chicago threatens to suppress
gambling, but as usual, finds no way
to count in the wheat spectators.
"Army braces" says headline. Any
relation to "Navy Suspendsrs."
! The trouble with undersea war is
that it is not on the level.
1t is reported that "grave note''
has been handed Greece by the allies,
and taking previous notes into consid-
Grafton one surmises that "grave
note" carries an invitation to go and
II Jump into shell hole.
We fear that the Pittsfeld, Mass.
housemaids who have organized un.
ion and demand 81 week for a TO-
hour day will have to wait until ocn.
gress convenes.
The decision of the Episcopal church
that wives must continue to obey their
husbands comes Just in time for the
), revival of King Henry VIII.
J, The first thing the allies know the
:. German Peace Society will be insist.
ing on their government conducting
ruthless war.
Mr. Hearst deplores the fact that
British prejudice has created false
and ridiculous impression in America
| Of Frenchmen Are we foo urdar.