The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

stop pork JOODery ana even u MAKE
graft so disgraceful that dirty money
will seem less desirable than clean
fingers and an unsmirched name.
Detroit News-The editor of Who's
Who in Russia is laboring under the
stran of issuing a new edition every
third day.
. Hancock Copper Journal.-Wash-
ington churches closed for three
weeks to save fuel Wonder how
hard up for fuel old Satan is?
New York Telegram. Germany
howied for Britain's peace terms and.
just As everybody expected. didn't
like them when they arrived.
Macon Telegraph.-And it's right
dsiheartening, too, to think the gov
| efnAs1t might buy an aeeropiane
With tho money it is paying La Fol-
lette.
Msrqaette Chronicle. that We
! know where the Americans are fight
; ing, maybe some of our fireside stra-
tegists can tell Gen. Pershing how to
win this war easier.
, Seattle Times Vienna's threat
; that unless the allies make peace
now it later will demand annexations
and indemnities, deserves place as
one of the truly humorous incidents
of very serious war.
| Detroit Free Press An l. w. W.
member has been arrested out west
for having in his possession soap
box filled with dynamite. One can't
help wondering where those l. w. ",
get their soap boxes. They don't
look as though they ever bought or
used any soap.
Chicago Herald.-For forty years
the German autocracy has refused to
let the German people rule them
| selves and at the same time constant
ly assured them they ought to rule
the rest of the world.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.-Mr. Nc
Adoo VIII run the treasury of the
United States in the morning and the
railroads in THE afternoon Can
! the president find something to &C.
, cupy the secretary's evenings.
Mankato Free Press The United
States government is entitled to that
! SIG which is gong into the Golfers
Of the Nonpartisan league. The gov
! eminent will ray 4 per cent for the
' What ho off
| in return for its use?
| Louisville Cou1ier-Jorrnal.- One
reason why the United States govern
ment does not want married men in
| its war armies is that it cannot af-
ford to trust with important military
duties men who cannot with any GER
tainty or dispatch mail a letter.
! Ohio State Journal. 1t always
darkest just before the dawn and per-
haps it won't be so very long before
we shall be in position to. beat our
swords back into plowshares = or
slaves into pruning hooks and our
| fuel administrators into college pres
idents.
Ohio State Journal One advan-
tage our esteemed ally Great Brit
ain has over democracy like us is
that when some prominent patriot
isn't making good in some branch Of
the war service she can retire him
by elevating him to the peerage and
keep him in good humor.
Minneapolis JOurnal.-Our military
egotism has made us suppose our
selves unconQuerable. It keeps us
marking time from August, 1914, tie
April 1917, when we should have been
bending every energy in preparation
for eventual:ties That egotism
should by now be pretty we'll cured
We have been fortunate that the
awakening has not yet been disas.
trous.
Cappee's Weekly. The average
housekeeper is Hooverizing patriot
cally, hut she is doing it with a sort
of grudge and you can't reason her
out of It. All she says is, why
should try so hard to save wheat
when millions of bushels Of grain
are used in making beer?' She cant
forget it. Women are not good com
prom:sers. Right is right and wrong
is wrong with them. And who should
blame her in this instance? Sixty
million bushels of barley, Is million
bushels of corn and three million
bushels of rice were used in making
beer in this country in 1916-enough
L. to provide a pound of bread a day
for year for six million people,,
, BARNES COUNTY Y. NJ. C. A.
The Y. M. C. A through its county
work department, is engaged in the
| hNainaSs of halnirn &hn ho.,s az IL.