The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-10-10

BRIEF COMMENT
They need -thundering or.
chestra to brace them up on that
shaky Parsifal line.
The enemy has been swept out OF
Palestine, but Belgium still awaits the
day Of its deliverance.
1t is better to spend thirty billions
year in war cost than to pay a
hundred billions in the form of an in
dennity to the Huns.
The Germans are badly ratified but
they still manage to describe all the
retreats on all the fronts as "strate-
gic moves"
It is reported that safety razor
blades are to be conserved for the use
of the soldiers. If that is so, whis-
kers are likely to grow few months
hence where they never grew before.
Congress is interested in wheat and
cotton prices high enough to satisfy
the producers, but the most of US are
interested in wheat, meat and coal
prices low enough to satisfy consum-
ers.
The opportunity to subscribe to the
Fourth Liberty Loan is the Americans
opportunity to give tangible support
to his country in its just war while
putting up safe investment at a
fair interest.
The "cold cutting scorn" of Presi-
dent Wilson about which the German
newspapers have been raging is mild
compared with the whip of scorpians
which Hun atrocities merit.
The kaiser said recently at Essen
that Servia and Montenegro "are fin
ished," but what the hard hitting Ser
via has since been doing hardly sug-
gests complete knocked-out nation.
General Pershing's historic LA
fayette, we are here" is expected to
be paralleled in due time and in an.
other European capital with an equal
ly brief and equally effective "Bill,
we've got you"
The French call them Boches,
Americans and English folk call them
Huns, but the soldiers seem pretty
generally to have picked upon "Fritx"
as the enemy's name, even pluraliz-
ing the more kindly term into
The German Chancellor admits that
"the situation is grave" It certainly
is, with one and three-quarters mil
lion Americans already added to the
French and British forces and with
ten thousand more-to quote General
Foch-landing in France every lay.
Although the terrible winter of
1917-1918 seemed to put permanent
end to the cutlery against the location
of most of the environments in the
milder climate of che Southern states,
the unreasoning complaint has been
renewed.
The Congressional Record is to be
printed on ordinary news print in
stead of fine paper, thus saving the
government from $4,000 to $4,000 a
day. A further saving and a needed
reform could be assured by restricting
congressmen's ''leave to print" vol
umes of matter merely advertising
themselves among their constituents.
The Germans who wrote the calls
to the Moslems to rise against the
Christian Allies thought they had
played trump card, yet Arab horse
men are now cooperating with the
British in Palestine. The Arab likes
a Turk even less than Christian and
repudiates the claim of the Sultan of
Turkey to be the Caliph over all "the
faithful" ' -
The Houston Post urges the teach
ing Of Spanish in the public schools
of Texas, and with reason. Except
for the Brazilian variant of Portu-
guese, Spanish is the only language
other than English spoken in all the
western hemisphere. French and
Spanish are the two foreign languages
young Americans will have most need
Of in the future.
Both democratic and republican
campaigners are provoking smiles by
claiming too much. Some of the for
mer seem to think that this is the
democratic party's war instead of the
American peoples. Some of the lat
ter seem to think that republicans de-
serve enormous credit because, al
though out of power, they are loyal
to their country and have not taken
Germany's side in consequence of the
unwelcome fact that the democrats
have the management of affairs.
The German people are evidently
staggered by the contrast between the
they were so sure of
and the peace dictated from without
which they now begin to contemplate
as probability. After believing that
they had the world in a sling, it is
stunning to realize that after all
somebody else is likely to do the
singing.
A pro-German Swiss in this coun-
try is quoted as saying that the Ger
mans now hold the most Of France,
that they are sweeping forward in a |
victorious march, that all America has |
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