The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

VIEWS OF THE PRESS


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Troy Record: The kaiser will fine
| that the Sammy is Samson.
Baltimore Sun: To conserve the
food supply, first get your food.
Toledo Blade: The mailed fist is or
its way to the dead letter office.
Providence Journal: The Russian
offensive is particularly so to the kais
er.
Dallas News: Anyhow, congress
has given John Barleycorn the fright
Of his life.
Boston Transcripts: The initials IL
w. W." appear to stand for Il Want
Wilhelm"
Washington Star: Congress has en-
abled the brewery to get the laugh on
the distillery.
Chicago News: Russian patriots
quite willing to talk things over with
Germany-in Berlin
Albany Journal: In time of war a
pacifist is a person who wants tc
fight against his country.
Newport News: The Chinese repub
lie is no more. You can't make a
democracy out of pig-tail
Williamsport Grit: The Northwest
apple crop will exceed 23,50O car
loads. Watch us do our bite.
Jamestown Optimist: The more you
see of some slackers the more you
think Of the CONSUMPTION law.
Boston Transcript: Why don't the
Washington police scatter few mice
around the White House gates?
New Haven Union: Don't forget to
swat the fly even if the war does take
large amount Of your attention.
Philadelphia Inquirer: The South
ern statesmen care not who pay the
taxes so long as they rule the nation.
Detroit Free Press: When German
Surrender Day comes it ought to be
added to the list of American holidays.
Capper's Weekly: When a rural
community doesn't know and can't find
out the detectives might as we'll give
up.
Milwaukee Free Press: Count that
day lost whose low, descending sun
looks not upon some socialist quitting
his party.
Washington Star: Russia fully un-
derstands that separate peace. now
will mean a separate war in the fu-
ture. ..... IS .r-.
Galveston News: 1t looks now as if
the German socialist delegates at
Stockholm will have to be satisfied
with rain-checks.
Oshkosh Northwestern: Evidently
the American people think more of the
Red Cross than they do of the iron
cross.
Toledo Blade: Roaring Germany
will never forgive the Russian lambs
to lie down inside the
beast of prey.
Washington Post: The confirmed
pacifist is an allopathist for conven-
tons but homeopathist in the defense
of his country.
indianapolis Journal: The purpose
of the embargo, of course, it to put
up the bar and take out the 60 in re-
gard to certain exports.
Boston Herald: washington should
send mission to those Virginia farm
ers who have stopped digging potatoes
because the price is going down.
Pittsburgh Post: If there is not
something wrong with the heart of the
man who asks at this late day what
America is fighting for, his head needs
Minot News: When you hear an in
dividual constantly boasting of his
individual accomplishments, he sci:
dom has any other working parts than
his mouth.
Wall Street Journal: Queen Sophia
of Greece is the first member of the
Hohenzollern family to have the ex-
before the title, but will probably not
be lonely long.
New York Evening Sun: If any
thing were needed to prove the fact
that this is topsyturvy world it is the
sight of a Russian socialist audience
cheering Elihu Root.
Kansas City Journal: Everybody in
France has cordially welcomed Gen.
Pershing but Won Hindenburg. It
seems Pershing hasn't called on Hin.
denburg yet. But he will.
St. Louis Globe Democrat: It is
hoped for the recent great endowments
of medical schools that they will cure
us more generally of the diseases we
have instead of discovering more.
Philadelphia Press: The kaiser
must have given up the notion of an
nexing certain American state to Mex.
leo or he would hardly have given up
zimmerman, who had the job in
charge.
Bismarck Tribune: After poisoning
wells in France, slaughtering the help
less in Belgium and distributing pois.
oned court plaster in America, do they
still object to being called Huns? II
they do we shall try to call them by
their real name as soon as the postal
rules allow it.
Grand Forks Herald: LaFollette
and Gronna are doing their best to
play into the hands of the kaiser. A
resolution of appreciation from the
German war cabinet, with an iron
cross or some trinket of that sort,