Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-08-16

II stand for an Americanism that
knows no Interior purpose, for a pa
triOtiSm that is single and complete.
Whether native or natUraliZed, of
whatever race or creed, we have but
one country. and we do not for an in
slant tolerate any division Of aiiegi-
ance."
CHAS. E. HUGHES.
Now, everybody get ready for the
Grant County Fair!
900
Five sharks caught at Oyster Bay
in one day" Just why Oyster Bay?
Maybe they were naughty Progressive
sharks out for a little revenge.
900
Where may we ask, will the adj
vance in women's styles go to? The
GAINESVILLE Gazette advertises ladies'
dresses "One-third off," Dear me, how
dry it is getting!
On top of the hot wave comes re-
port that a wall of cold air is moving
down on US from Canada where early
frOsts have injured the standing grain.
OF course, we want it cooler, but moth
ing OF that sort, if you please.
900
The claim that owing to the critical
condition of our foreign affairs, we
should not be changing presidents, ETC.,
ETC., adj nauseam, strikes us as about
the best argument Mex we have
heard yet. Even the horses out in the
fields are smiling.
900
Recent rains, while not too general
or too heavy, may knock all to find
ers the doleful report of bad crops as
predicted in the August LIST summary
by the government experts. A gov
eminent crop report is another thing
not to be taken too seriously.
A government crop expert reduces
the output Con paper) by many mil
lions Of dollars with the dash of pen
and then, straightway, with the utmost
gusto restores things by adding an
other cipher A few million bushels
Of corn, wheat or oats, means nothing
to the celebrated G. 2. z.
Iowa, according to reports, has the
largest amount of automobiles per
capita Of any state in the Union Some
counties have one car to every eight
persons. Still, the cataclysm threat
ened because Of the peoples extrava-
gance, seems as far off as ever and
Iowa will harvest bigger crops than
ever this year. The state had on Aug
ust 1st, nearly 141,OOO cars represent
ing an investment of $177,OOO,OOO.
900
Malcolm Jeffris should now extend
his invitation for joint debate to Mes
srs. Gronna, Clapp, Borah, Works,
Bristow, redheaded Jim Manahan, of
Minnesota, and Fureseth, of heaven
knows-where. The doughty little
Scotchman might either vanquish the
bunch or else place them in light of
being afraid to meet him on the plat
form One thing is sure Jeffris will re
main unterrified, for a scrapper, he Is.
900
Aside from the doubtful value of the
wares vended by an itinerant street
hawker, Just wherein does the COM
munity benefit? True, the city re
ceives as license money the sum of
$3.50, which places the stranger on
better basis than the home mer-
chant for selling goods and without
question hurts legitimate business for
the afternoon. Why not make the Ii
cense fee So. or better still refuse
z0 grant it altogether?
900
True progress is difficult, for human
ity, as Shakespeare, in other words,
puts it, is afraid of change. We regard
with something akin to terror, inno-
yations, because they speak of doing
things differently and we are afraid
of the mental tests and struggles nee
essary along untracked lines and new,
boundIess fields Of endeavor. Prog
ress comes slowly for progress means
thought and thought means emancipa-
ton Our chains are soporific, but
We love them.
900
Wisconsin's law on child labor re-
quiring the age of sixteen years for
the entrance of children into indus
trial employment, is 50 far ahead Of
some states that there can be no com
parison. A man told not long ago of
his entrance into the industrial life
of England when eight years old, and
his brother going to work at the age
Of seven. We may lack perfection in
49,. t,.o.t Y,,ant of GROWN workers but