The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-30

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PRESS COMMENT
New York Sun-Uncle Sam will. take
the Stacker by the slack.
Kansas City Why not call
Uncle Sans stalwart soldier sons
! .Samsons'?
Toledo Blade There is no room in
this country for persons who want to
give two cheers for the kaiser and one
for Uncle Sam.
! Boston Transcript-The kaiser may
have lost control of the reichstag, but
he is still able to master few votes
in the U. S. senate.
Chicago Herald I'm good Amer
lean, but" is a remark heard with
more frequency than credit these
days. Distrust the butting American.
New York World-The Frankfurter
Zeitung calls Dr. Michaelis "a Prus-
sian in the hest sense of the word"
But just what is the best sense of the
| word?
Spokane Spokesman Review It's
mighty expensive having big family
these days. Uncle Sam has Just
bought 2,175,00O pairs of shoes for the
boys.
| New York Evening Post-The mis-
take of the Germans who conspired to
spread tetanus is that they did not
scatter the bacilli of lockjaw in the
u. S. senate
indianapolis News P erhaps the kali
ser knew congress better than anyone
suspected when he said Americas de-
cision to send troops to France didn't
worry him in the least. Il
Concord Monitor, - It surely does
take time to make war in the new way
We are now beginning to build the ma
chimes which will build the airships
for our fight toward Berlin.
Pittsburgh Post-The active parrish
patton OF the crown prince in the pres
lent crisis suggests the belief that the
kaiser is thinking less of place in
the sun than of place for the son.
L ~ !hiPQ NoUc I.
rine sinkings are alarming. So were
the ravages of the Barbary pirates 100
years ago until their abnomina BILE
nests were cleaned up by the Ameri.
can navy.
Kansas City Star-Practical Amer.
lean politicians will not wonder at the
tenacity with which the Prussian
junkers cling to a suffrage system that
permits them to vote three times
while their opponents are voting once
| Houston Post-You will nave to
hand it to Mr.. Ramanoff for the quiet
he has maintained since he was
scrouged out of his job. "A fourth
class postmaster in Texas would have
roared more for being fired from his
little three-for-a-quarter office.
Yonkers Statesman 20 Some have
wondered If the fact that the Ameri-
can troops in France will be up
against foreign tongue will not hand.
leap them and lower their military ef-
fciency. Possibly, to some extent.
But they can shoot in any language.
! Houston Post - The Washington
fchurches prayed for the soldiers last
Sunday. We believe the Washington
churches ought to concentrate and
mass their prayers for congress. The
mothers of the country will pray for
the soldiers.
New York Evening Post-Lt is COM
prehensible why the Teuton advance
in Galicia should slacken as it ap-
proaches the line of Okrimovice. Rou-
manouvka, Jerebki, Colodievka, Pol
nankaletmanska, E leonorouvka and
Sorokikr0gouletz
New York World-'Hits on objects
aimed at were observed" is the off.
cial report from Berlin on the afraid
on Paris. The actual result was the
bombing Of a Red Cross hospital and
the killing of doctors and nurses. BY
German testimony, then, this was the
object it was sought to attain.
Washington Post-Because it was
rotten at the head and at the heart
the German empire goes to its doom.
It lived the life of skulking assassin.
accommodating bombs with which to as
sault, rob and murder its neighbors.
At the moment of assault. it uttered
an indelible lie. 1t has lived lie ever
since. It lies when it says the world
attacked 1t, and it lies when it says it /:
is fighting in defense of German soil.
What years of expiration must Ger
many live before the world will be.
iieve her word, her oath or her bond?