The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-01-10
YESTERDAY AND TODAY
CHANGES MADE BY WAR
DOING MANY THINGS THAT u-
THOUGHT WE COULD NOT
Do-MoRE TO FOLLOW.
("Girard" in Philadelphia I,adso,

AZ i"ucipHid Ledger
Yesterday the wrist watch was N.
fad Of sissies and today it is the ~
cessity of soldiers going to battle
Yesterday Uncle Sam was smasbi.u
the railroads into small units and 70.
day he is preparing to operate tban,
as the largest trust in the world
Yesterday it was fashionable 10 Soo
how much you could waste and tbon
indirectly brag about "the things ono
really and truly must have to get on
with while today multi -millionairos
are eating corn bread.
| Yesterday all the blatberskito,
pointed to big business such as Ratb
lehem Steel and Baldwins as a puh,io
menace but today we hail them 90
saviors of our country.
Yesterday hundreds of men l know
or know about were earning with their
brains tens of thousands of dollars for
themselves every year, whereas TODAY
they are toiling for Uncle Sam for two
cents week.
Yesterday 1t was crime for the
United States to own a merchant ma
rine today Philadelphia shipyard is
preparing to build SO great ships at q
clip, so that we may have merchant
marine.
Yesterday it was the fashion for the
vast majority of people to spend every
cent they earned, but today ten mil
lion people own Liberty bonds-most-
ly paid for out of savings.
Yesterday we couldn't possibly get
on without limited railroad trains, vet
today we feel no fatal sensations when
those costly luxuries are not running.
Yesterday girl paying teller in a
bank would have caused a mild riot,
but today women are in the banks,
breaking stones on the railroads. con-
Quoting trolley cars, making big shells
for our troops, running elevators in
office buildings and playing messenger
boy.
Yesterday we put more money in al
cohol twice over than we put in all
public education, as men, and few
women too, couldn't seem to live with
out John Barleycorn, and yet today
our liquor bill has been cut in two
without a major surgical operation.
Yesterday we taxed ourselves heav-
lily to feed and maintain in semi-lux-
ury or at least full comfort thousands
of crooks, thieves, counterfeiters and
murderers, but today some sensible
communities have set this parasite
class to work.
Yesterday milady could scarcely
draw on her own gloves, but now she
is knitting with nimble fingers stout
sweaters for Sammee.
Yesterday we depended upon Ger
many for lot Of drugs and dyes
which today we are duplicating-on
ly making better ones.
Yesterday we simply had to eat
steaks and chops three times a day,
but now we find less need for doctors
and fewer calls upon our bank ac-
counts when eating meat but once
day.
Yesterday the farmers apparently
were raising all the food they could
make mother earth produce, neverthe-
less one clear call from Dame Neces-
sity and the farmers added cool bill
lion bushels Of grains to our supply
Yester adythe mossbacks yelled that
800 ships Of war were too many for
nation certain never to have another
fight, but now we find 1000 such ships
too few, when we have war.
Yesterday You just couldn't be con-
tent without joy ride, eating up pre-
cious gasoline, but you reduced mile
age by 40 per cent and still survive the
shock.
Yesterday we had to have our din
ner plates thanked by sugar bowls, but
today when the big hotels dole out
one lump of sugar for each cup of cof-
Zee we do first rate and still save over
20 per cent in sugar.
That's what necessity does for us.
You never can tell. By tomorrow we
nay have made sufficient progress to
,e able to dine without the din of
)raSS band at our elbows