The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-07-20
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The wages of Kultur is moral
death.
China appears to be threatened by
the yellow peril.
Lens is likely to fall soon. Save
the pieces.
Don't bemoan the fact that you were
not among the first to land in France.
Take the next boat.
The report that the Germans are
stealing French church bells to make
shells rings true.
Somebody in congress seems to have
put an embargo on COMMON sense.
Intoxicated Russia may have to
clamp a prohibition law on liberty.
It may be that the Germans, hav-
ing removed troops from the Russian
front, r having less men captured
than would otherwise have been the
case.
Having come to supply Americans
with all information that may be lack
ing as to Roumania and its people,
the Roumanian mission probably will
be in this country a good while.
1t is understood that Won Beth
mann-Hollweg will make no attempt
to reply to that part of Mr.. Lloyd
Georges speech which bluntly an
nounced that the German army had
burrowed out of sight.
Why not call that Associated Press
man home to be secretary of the navy,
and give Josephus a colorful job as
war correspondent.
1t seems a pity for the agricultural
department to waste good cans on
preserves when Washington is so full
of cheap politicians.
The British have captured, as it
were, the outer rim of the Lens.
Even the great war shows a ten
dency to take the week end off.
Maybe the crown prince thinks the
road to Verdun is now easier than the
road to Berlin.
Germany certainly got it's hands on
the fruits of victory, but could not
get away with them.
Anyway, as a flippant person
might remark, Germany did not find
Brazil an easy nut to crock.
In order to live up to it's title the
superdreadnought Idaho has been
built to resist even submarines.
Just now the bear that walks like
a man begins to talk like a democrat
and to fight like the dickens.
Though China's emperor came back
he was personally conducted, and he
may have ONE on a tourists ticket.
Another German date for the end of
the war with a German triumph has
passed. It is cruel of the allies to
unfix the dates as regularly as Ger
many fixes them.
AS a punishment, China's deposed
president has been made a duke by
the restored emperor. The emperor
must have learned something from
the way Germany punished the SUBJ
marine commanders who sank neutral
ships without warning.
Food Administrator Hoover is be-
ing opposed by certain interests which
last year permitted storable food
stuffs to perish in the fields in order
that handling costs might be mini
mixed and maximum prices might be
obtained from the consumer. The OPP
position Of those interests should in
crease the public's confidence in Mr..
Hoover.
Advice is one thing on which there
has been no advance in price.
If it were known hat the American
troops would be sent to Champagne,
hundreds of thousands from prohibi-
ton states would volunteer.
1t seem to be only a question of
time before there will be allied with
the United States every nation that
in the past was an enemy.
The next steps in the creation of
that new army will have to Ego
some" if they expect to be as sue
cessful as that famous registration.
Presumably, the we'll remembered
destroyer Smith, was included in the
fleet sent to European waters, where
plenty of submarines are to be seen.
That the big modern guns of indie
finite range do not demolish every
thing on earth seems to be another
support of the theory that the earth
is a curved surface.
The only danger is hat when Ger
many shall become unable to import
any more food from Scandinavian
countries, she may start importing
the Scandinavians themselves as la
borers.
A prohibition measure introduced
separately and on its individual mer-
it's might be such a novelty that a
dazed congress would pass it.
1t is said that King Alphonso
wants to be the first president of
Spain, but it's not likely that such a
desire has always been the dream of
his life.
If not printed this morning, look
out for the tomorrow German denials