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Show A A. V In May the barefoot boy appears, reminding us of bygone years when we, too, suffered all the woes of busting bust-ing brickbats with our toes. The sweet girl graduate will come and tell us how the world should run. Orations on both war and peace will starle men from Blaine to Greece. Let's hope the kings will comprehend and bring their present strife to end. Speaking of war and peace, the month of May seems always to have taken a pretty free hand in both: A man named Dewey, you will remember, remem-ber, pulled off quite a stunt in Manila Bay once, ic was May i, seventeen years ago. The treaty of Aix la Cha-pelle Cha-pelle was signed May 3, 1668. Chicago's Chica-go's Haymarket riots occurred in May, 1386. The war god persuaded Diaz it was a good time to quit Mexico four years ago this month. Ticonderago surrendered May 10, 1775. The last bloodshed of the Civil war is said to have been on May 22, 186,5, and the first declaration of war in the colonies was made May 28. These historical facts, however, are mere incidents compared with the real battles being be-ing framed up all over the world this month. But why talk of marriage and war, when both fishing and baseball are at hand? If Europe had three or four good baseball leagues she wouldn't have to go to war to attract attention. ! And if it wasn't for her inter-mar-j riages the ruling heads wouldn't have so much to scrap over. But we should worry over them; we'll let 'em fight it out, and then when devastation is their lot we'll sell 'em everything we've got. So while 'tis May go sow the seed to raise the grain the world will need, and while we're sowing let us pray and thank our God for U.S.A. |