The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-06-21
Here and There

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Food Administrator Hoover says:
81 do not believe any person IN the
United States has a right to make one
cent more profit out Of any employ
ment than under pre-war conditions.
l do not care whether this refers to
farmer, laborer, manufacturer, mid
dleman or retailer"
Were Mr.. Hoover or anyone else
able to carry out this principle thlnk
of what vast sums would be saved the
American people! 1t is entirely likely
that were there no more profit from
beginning to end, in war stimulated
Industrial or commercial transactions
than there was in similar transactions
before the stimulus of war was gwen
them, many savings would be made.
In the first place, were this possible,
the high cost of living would be
markedly reduced. That alone would
mean many hundreds of millions in
the living of the people. Then there
would be vast savings for the govern
ment, reducing the cost Of war and the
amount of taxes the people are re-
quired to pay. That also would apply
to the new taxes now being discussed
by congress and the administration.
On top of that would come the huge
government loans. They would also be
much less in amount.
| So If this profiteering could be cut
as Mr.. Hoover would evidently like it,
the American people would find their
part in the war and their living down
to where there could be little COM
plaint.-Milwaukee News.
| Recently a man employed in the
traffic service of the Electric railway
company, took a vacation for day
and went fishing at Nemahbin lakes
He told of the proposed trip to a num-
Der of patrons between WatertOwn and
OcOnomowOc and was jOshed about
his prOwess as an angler. But he
caught a big one just the same and
when the returning car was passing
the location of one of his doubtful pa
irons he displayed the fish from the
platform and laughed in glee at the
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face of the doubling Thomas. just
then the car passed one of the cleo
trio poles and the fish was whisked
out Of his hand by the contact. The
loss of the fish did not bother him sc
much as the thought that the doubter
secured fine dinner at his expense
There's q moral
We begin the publication OF the
Roccy Mountain Cyclone with some
phew difficulties in the way. The type
lphounder phrom whom we bought OuI
output phor this printing ophice
phailed to supply us with any ephs OF
Gays, and Il will phour or phive week
bephOre we can get any. We have or
dered the missing letters, and will
have to get along without them till
they come. We don't liQue the look O1
this variety ov spelling any better
than our readers, but mistaix will
happen in the best Of regulated pham-
lilies, and Jpn the his and c's and ks
and p's hold out, we shall ceep( SOUND
the hard) the Cyclone whirling
Iaphter g phasion till the sorts ARRIVE
1t Is no joQue to us; it's serious
aphair.-Rocky Mountain Cyclone.
A certain physician, who so far in
life has not entered the Benedict
class, was called on professional SER
vices and was met at the car line by
a man who began telling of the way
wardness Of an old bachelor whose
death had occurred recently. A bache-
lor is no good anyway, observed the
rustic. They can't be dependent upon
and there should be a tax on them
Seeing the doctor smile with an ef-
fort to keep in a loud guffaw, he in
Quired the reason but was told that he
was only submerged in mirth to think
what he would have missed had an
other driver been sent to meet him
A gentleman visited the house of q
friend. The butler, an Irishman, acted
very kindly toward him. He waited
upon him at dinner, brushed his
clothes, and saw him into his car
riage. The gentleman, who was miser-
ly, never offered tip, so, as little
reminder, Pat said to him: Faith
sor, if you lose your purse on the way
remember you didn't pull it out here
abOuts."