The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-19
ELECTRIC SPARKS

Belgium knows how to enjoy Ger
man peace.
Even a bad war may be worth
fighting out to a conclusion.
Honeyed words are often used to
mend broken promises.
Germany's peace campaign has
been we'll managed and we'll stage
managerial.
Mr.. David Lloyd George is so pow
erful now that he might almost be
referred to as the Colonel House of
England.
To a recently militant world sud
denly at peace, with nothing on hand
except debts and fighting men, will
a fat and unprotected republic like
the United States suggest anything?
To the allies who firmly believe
! that they understand the Teutonic
mind it must seem incomprehensible
that their foes really can sight vic
tory and desire peace simultaneously.
What is left Of them by the Ger
mans might be called Remanians.
Does Villa make slaves of his cap
tives? Other successful soldiers do
in these times.
Secretary Lansing's explanation,
which needed such a hasty explanation
indicates that possibly he, too, was
caught in the general surprise caused
by President Wilson's note.
The Kaiser has a new grandson.
The war has not reduced the size Of
the Hohenzollern family.
The halving of the nickel may cut
the size of the soft drink in two.
1t is stated that President Wilson's
peace note did not contain "any threat
that the United States might be
forced to enter the war;" but in view
of the alleged general ~unprepared-
ness of this country, it semes quite a
compliment that the word threat"
should have been used.
However, it must be admitted that
Denmark's belated agreement to sell
the islands is much more gratifying
than a greedy acceptance of the $685.
900 900 would have been.
The central powers, asserting that
the war was thrust upon them and
that they are fighting for their very
existence, must be completely mysti-
fed by the enemy's talk of adequate
reparation for the past and adequate
security for the future"
The neutral countries should make
it a point not to forget to transmit
those peace missives to Portugal.
One of the most surprising fea-
lures of the whole situation is that
Henry Ford hoped that Germany's
o%vertures would be we'll received.
1t may be lucky that Uncle Sans
older submarines prove their inefi-
, cheney in time of peace.
Unmarried men in Virginia who do
not reside with their parents will not
be permitted the monthly quart of
whiskey that the state allows each
individual. Even imperial Rome
never thought of a o ingenious
method of promoting marriage.
Poor old Germany, beleaguered, be-
set, confronted by superior numbers,
is forced to cry for peace even at the
price of having her lost colonies re-
turned and setting up the Independent
Kingdoms of Poland and Lithunia.
A peace plea from n set Of bellig-
erents to the other seems only to in
crease the feeling of hostility.
Jnexorable logic seems to demand
somebody else-naming no names.
Nothing that has happened in the
last few days should persuade the
authorities in Washington that this
country does not need a real navy.
A man never does anything des-
pcrate if fed regularly.
Lots of men will tell you how to get
rich, but they haven't time to explain
why they are still poor.
The final government crop figures
show that our yield of wheat this
year actually is $4,000, 900 bushels
larger than earlier estimates. One
explanation is said to he that the
farmers of the West in giving state
r,ents of yield to government officials
made them as low as possible to help
J along the feeling that the shortage
would be acute. Either that, or the
experts are poor guessers.
Palace life in Greece being just one
, ultimate after another. how is Con-
:. stantine to know when he faces the
!; ultimate ultimatum?