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THE DEVIL AMAZED AT HIS OWN GAME
Having persistently bombarded civilian populations
and attacked hospitals behind the lines for the past two
years and longer, the Prussian government is amazed and
even horrified, bristling, indeed, with righteous indigna
tion. that its enemies should be moved to retaliation. On
more than one score we may regret there is retaliation.
We may say that Prussian fiendishness had best be left
unimitated. But it is not for the fiend himself, who ini
tiated frightfulness, to assume an attitude of holy horror
when frightfulness is visited upon his own head.
Incident to that attitude we find this significant state
ment: “Even the French will not dare to assert that at-,
tacks on hospitals far behind the line are of military ne
cessity. By such barbarity the will to persevere can only
be strengthened among the German people." Who will
say that there has not been design on the part of the Prus
sian military masters, by repeated attacks on hospitals, re
peated sinkings of hospital ships, repeated air bombing of
civilian towns, from which has occurred the wholesale
slaughter of school children, for the express purpose of
arousing the spirit of vengeance and bringing about re-1
prisal in kind? If that is a sure course for stiffening the!
backbone of the German people and strengthening then
will to persevere, it is also the course that is entirely con
sistent with Prussian philosophy.
To keep this type of cussedness concealed from the
German people, as the Prussian masters undoubtedly have
done, and then by repeated savageries to excite retaliation
is simply the refined Prussian method of making the end
justify the means.
And now they are talking of future grocery deliveries
by the airplanes. Oh. ye eggs!
Buy a Liberty Bond and get that matter off your
mind. If you can't do that, subscribe to the tobacco fund.
The federal tax collector’ll get you if you don’t watch
out. and the chances are 100 to 1 he’ll get you anyway.
With only $1000 exemption, a host of bachelors and
spinsters will soon join the army of income taxpayers.
Alaskans can contribute a great deal toward conser
vation by eating Alaskan food products. There is always
waste in shipping food products—waste both in shrinkage
and in freight space and tariffs. By eating fish, potatoes
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They do the one
thing you have al
w ay • wished a
cigarette would do;
they satisfy— and
yet they’re MILD.
WHY NOT HELP A GOOD THING ALONG?
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— Evana in Baltimore American.
and other foods produced in Alaska the shrinkage and cost
of shipping is saved and the shrinkage and cost ol ship
ping a like quantity of food from the States is saved.
Therefore, if we save foodstuffs in Alaska, we conseive
the supply in the States for those who live there, we save
shipping space for the transportation of other needful
things, and we keep dollars in Alaska to work again.
Jack Frost is no respecter of persons. He puts the
same crimson hues in the leaves of the maple, the cheeks
of the princess and the toes of the barefoot bov. (Seat
tle Post-Intelligencer.)
Senator La Follette is quoted as saying he would die
for democracy. All right. I move that space be leseived
for the Wisconsin Senator in the first line of trenches —
(New York Telegraph.)
Secrtarv McAdoo wants Congress to furnish mote $1
bills. That’s right. They will soon be needed for car fare.
—(Johnstown Democrat.)
The shortest book in the world would be “What I Do
With My Spare Time,” by A. Kerensky.—(N. Y. Sun.)
Colonel House has forgotten more about camouflage
than the Allied armies ever knew.—N. ^ . Sun.)_
Ig.w. palmer
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