Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-22
kAMPEskA AND RIcHLAND
This and That.

~ III 0t'a "a iah
Well. of course we can't say posi-.
lively whether they bathed the ladies
of the embassy leaving Germany, but
at any rate it would seem the Ger
mans, if they did so, did well by the
ladies in that they sem them from
their shore nice and sanitary. This
is much better than we here did by
the suite of Count Won Bernstorff. We
simply say that they had a sure and
safe departure, according them very
civil and courteous treatment, but we
never thought Of giving them a bath.
How careless we hasty, reckless peo-
pie here are! We shall sure blame
Mr.. Wilson or the Red Cross for not
asking congress for an appropriation
for the purpose of giving the ladies'
of the German ambassadors company
a thorough washing up before they
left for the seat of war. And the
possibilities of the negligence are
acutely intensified, and thereby our
culpability increased ten fold, by the
fact that when these people get over
there where everybody is so very busy
just now their chances of a good
decent bath is almost mill. We in
deed are sorry, deal kaiser. Please
overlook the slip this time.
Incidentally, what an instance here
Germany affords us of advanced dip
lomacy. What other case on record
of sending a discharged minister to a
country away all washed up nice and
clean. Ali true indeed does history
and philosophy teach that great, no.
BILE, lofty, sublime fights of soul and
conduct occur at a time when a people
are torn by some titanic struggle.
1t was with considerable feeling
that the American people read of the
noble conduct of the central powers
in Belgium and lastly the bathing (if
true) of these American ladies help
less in a foreign land.
We see that the increase in certain
postage rates failed to pass. Well,
perhaps best, perhaps not. However,
if the editor Of this paper has the
correct view of the increase as per an
editorial last week, we, like him, be-
lieye it would have been well had it
passed.
The editor last issue was in quite a
humorous state of mind. All editors
have to joke a little once in a while,
you know, and our editor is no excep-
ton. Howere, in this editors case,
as far as our observation is concern
ed, the jokes in private or public and
generally pretty clean jokes. How
nice it would be if all jokes were
wholesome, clean, well meaning jokes.
However, we believe there is no re-
Election on III. Ford especially, even
though he did make a mistake in
Judgment in the peace trip to Europe.
The editorial remarks that "As a
rule a fellow doesn't boiler before he
is hurt" They used to say that the
democrats were in the habit of doing
SO.
Talking about our editor, readers,
a gentleman of age and experience, a
keen thinker and well posted dropped
a statement to use not long ago about
the said editor that we felt was quite
a statement coming from the man it
did. We haven't yet told the editor
about it, what it was, perhaps some
time well be able to spring it on him
and then flee through the door.
We see in Caught Unawares" that
Mr.. A. w. Ransom admits that he
lowered himself when he left Water
town for Mitchell.
We have never met, personally, Mrs
~Stutenroth, but as sure as you live,
mister, she is some letter writer,
We thoroughly enjoyed her letter in
last issue, even though we do not,
know her and but very few of the
peopleNwhom she mentioned.
We hope that the city of Water
town will take seriously Mrs. Stuten-
roth's well worded suggestions about
seats in our lovely court house yard
for folk to s when resting, espe.
cially at the concerts given by our
famous band.
AS we read the name, Stella Marie,
somehow there flashed into our mind
the names OF two famous ships: the
Stella Mae that rides the waters of
the fair Kampeska, The other yes
sci, dear reader. is truly a famed ves-
sci, a ship which crossed the Atlantic
without being sunk by either a mine,
aircraft or submarine. She knew no
wireless. no guns burdened her decks,
no throbbing engines Jared her
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