Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-28
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CAMOUFLAGE.

ENer since this c%uphonious French
word vas introduced in America anG
began to vibrate between the cellar
and garnet Of newspaper row, the Am
erican people have been WONDERING
with reference to its exact meaning
1hey know, of course, that it has
something to do with deception, but
the exact idea hos been somewhat
elusive. 1t has been supposed that
we must become French in language
and ideals in order to grasp the full
significance of the term in all it's
various shades.
But such is not the case. 1t re-
mains for Codington county TO furnish
living examples of the qualifications
into which this beautiful French i'm
portation delves. Let us elaborate.
II you are living outside the city
OF Watertown. for instance, very like
ly you received a printed communica-
ton, some time ago, informing YOU
that o could have a certain daily
paper forwarded to your address for
a whole year for $1.90. That of itself
was not c%amoufage.
A little later, if you failed to avail
yourself of the offer but insisted that
you had been favored with the pub
LEGATION the previous year for SLIGO, or
~thereabouts, you were able to get it
again at the latter figure. Neither
is this camoufiage. The camouflage
is represented in the difference be-
tween the two sums. You begin to
grasp the inconsequential aspects of
the affair. of course-30 cents!
If, however, you were moi sufficient
~ Influenced to draw from your purse
either of the amounts specified, but
offered the sum for which you got
the paper the year previous to the
preceding one, you probably were en-
abled to continue on the list for $1.OO.
The $1.00 is not where the camou-
1lage comes in, but rather the double
dose of the 80 cents, or 80 cents plus
80 cents. This French term, you will
observe, is keeping pace with high
finance-it,s going up.
Up to the present moment we have
considered only the financial side of
the q Suppose, to continue the
illumination, you have not bitten into
the pie, and surprising, furthermore,
that the power behind the throne is
suapecting that your political differ
entail is out of whack and that your
spider needs new bearings and that
your cup ought to be refilled with
grease. you are made aware of the
fact that you are privileged to
receive daily visits from the afore-
mentioned paper for the sum Of so
cents q year, as such offers were re-
ported last week from the rural pre-
cincts. Now. the so cents is not ca
moulage, nor the $1.0o, nor the $3.50,
no vet the $1.9O, nor, in this par
ticular instance, the difference be-
tween any two OF the sums. The
camoufage Is to be found in politics.
You are to be warned that the polit-
ieal COLLINS VIII get you if you don't
watch ont.
You now have two shades Of the
meaning Of the word. Here's anoth-
er. II you live Inside the cerpurats
limits Of Watertown. and il you set
she paner ait al. YOU pay $3.50 q ear
II YOU pay IN advance. II you pay BY
the week It costs you $50, In
either case, IL ii ALL eamouaage.
But WHIT sinate, Tiras far the
carnouflage aWs
paper side Of the house. Get into
the game yourself by moving from
Inside the city to outside the city and
get the same paper for SO cents. The
~casnouAags 8 comes from your
side Of he house. BY moving across
the Sotder you save $s,so, d 1880,
~ Tie case may be. That isn't the
csmouaa ge The carnonlage Il rep
rsssnbs1 the distance between the
placeyo occupied inside tho city and
the111Ass ~ occupy outside the city,
sad yc1sve turned thetables on the
oesoto speak. Thus fourth shade
conaes tito vicw. Hsse endeth 10
sasdn a. ~
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