| Show E LETTERS O TO T THE EDITOR Thota Thole t persons professing to 10 b be b. American who con latently Ien mat anti American letters to the editor edILO of The TIe The ma may ai 3 well veil understand right now that the w U ast uti paper basket li Is yawning for such literature The reIt to o be absolutely IDd Independent but hut It Is 11 wholly whon and nd unqualifiedly American and It Will JIU not knowingly publish one line that In any ny wa affects t tte te t. t good name nime honor hOllor or integrity of or ti the Ibe United States or the tie loyal loral mill men who ar sr ere at it tb the helm beim o of the th ment Letters to the editor must be written only on one side of the paper otherwise they tey cannot be used and will be thrown In the waste paper basket THE LOW COST OF SAVING SOULS Editor The Telegram It cost the Presbyterians 2661 to convert a hea heathen hen to Christianity last year To gain converts in non- non I ChrIstian lands was spent pays says RaYS a report Just made public by the Presbyterian board of ot foreign missions This sum however includes educational educational work In foreign lands maInt maintenance maintenance main maIn- t nance of hospitals and dispensaries the purchase and repair of ot buildings and I The ThA number ber of ot converts is known but no statistics are given of ot th the I umber number of ot minds brightened In mis- mis I elon non schools nor of ot the lives saved in hospitals Irrespective of ot the great good ac accomplIsheD accomplished no- no along these more material paths It is only fair tair to admit that 2661 Is mighty cheap for saving savin a a. poul ul Why in this Christian land of ours many a a. man spends more more than I that in one evening sending his soul to perdition on N. N W. W PRAISE FOR SENATOR KING Editor The Telegram Hurrah for our Utah senator Judge King ICing is one king that is absolutely absolutely absolutely right He hits the n nail il squarely upon the head when he drives home the fact that too many so called Americans are spineless degenerates who would sell our country to the enemy and give them a bill of sale for the goods The sooner we line up these curs and shoot them as traitors deserve the tho sooner we will have America for Americans Too much liberty has given the traitors a chance to ply their trade and feather their nests with their ill III gotten gains but the time has come to weed them out Shoot the traitors That is the talk taUt Demand loyalty from every one who enjoys the protection of ot our flag and nd If it the they are guilty of no worse than disloyalty at at the time of a worlds world's crisis like Uke this is fire tire them out as as un un- un- un desirables Load th them m into ships and send them to the kaiser with our compliments com corn com I If they are not for us they are against us Let our motto be America for Americans Only MRS D. D H. H E. E TURN 0 Of THE YEAR I Editor Telegram Once more a year swings into its last lap and we have with us the Autumnal Equinox Autumn sneaks up on us city lers Country folk have watched Its stately approach for some time tune and welcomed Its advance agents in the yellowing corn the orchard trees be beginning ginning to gleam with red Jewels the black of the wild grape and the flauntIng flaunting flaunting flaunt flaunt- ing heralds of the goldenrod Country housewives are planning the big days of farm housekeeping the soft- soft soap boiling the rendering lard-rendering when the tte seasons season's crop of pork is gloriously transformed into Juicy hams bacon tenderloins side meat and yum um um I cracklings and that last per- per fum-ey fum day of apple butter apple butter making Country children are are scheming and dreaming of nutting parties up the creek and of moonlight coon hunts In Inthe inthe inthe the big woods Here in the city we know it Is autumn too too but but by what sorry signs 4 i We learn by the flip of a calendar leaf lear by the presentation of the milliners mil mil- liners bill for friend wife's fall hat by the sudden sharp chill of the breeze from the open window as w tumble out in the cold gray fog Cog that serves us for autumn mornings But even for us prodigal sons there is a crumb of ot Joy from Mother Natures Nature's rich table As we plod along some suburban street on our way to business business business busi busi- ness W we hear a sudden dimly familiar crackle under foot catch a sweetness and looking down discover discover discover dis dis- dis- dis cover that we are wading ankle deep In sweet brown and yellow autumn leaves Sometimes at night there is the tang of of smoke smoke leaf from a surreptitious bonfire in a neighboring alley and alley and Is IsIt Isit isit it tho smoke which fills our eyes with tears as ase we e remember our little boy selves laboriously raking the lawn in l long ago ago ng-ago Autumns and heaping the gathered gold for tor a a. bonfire and potato rOa roast t in the old back yard at home Autumn again turn again turn o 0 the year New dreams old dreams old dreams Autumn again I A. 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