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Show EDITORIALS .-' ; (By C. D. McNeeley) J SUGAR FOR PRESERVING Now that the regulation regarding the. use of sugar has gone into effect it is quite likely that in many sections of this state that preserving fruits and putting up jam and jelly will become be-come very popular. Very likely many people who have never before be-fore interested themselves in this line of industry will undertake the preserving work on a large scale. The use of sugar here is now to be reduced. That is the people peo-ple will be limited in the matter of making purchases to very small quantities except where the sugar is to be used for preserving preserv-ing fruits and preparing other articles of food. This being the case a great many people it appears have decided on preserving are now buying sugar by the hundred pounds for that purpose. ; But in case there is a large increase in the amount of preserving pre-serving the average family cannot use very much sugar for this work because it does not require so much sugar for preserving. There are doubtless many people who will now engage in preserv-ing preserv-ing who have never done so before and they might have the opinion opin-ion that they would have to use large quantities of sugar. A lady who has had much experience in preserving and knows much of the requirements of the average family along this line writes us as follows: "One hundred pounds of sugar will put up the following, making all much richer than what is bought at the stores: 100 glasses of jelly, 30 pounds; 25 quarts of jam, 25 pounds; 200 quarts of canned fruit, 45 pounds. Where will they get jars and where will they put the fruit when it is put up? And what in heaven's name will a family of two or three do with so much fruit? Therefore, it will not take a great quantity of sugar to do the canning and preserving. But it is possible that there may be a few who will get sugar for canning and preserving and use the iwectening for other purposes and this feature will have to be 'ooked after. Everyone will be allowed enough sugar for the or-Oinary or-Oinary family use, but will not be allowed to make purchases only in small quantities. This is intended to conserve the sugar supply and prevent waste. Many people eat too much sugar and this new regulation will be beneficial to their health as well as their bank account. ' !LiiJ.iL 4 i. REVISING THE SOCIALIST PLATFORM It is reported from New York that a revision of the Socialist anti-war platform adopted at the St. Louis convention is being Agitated by Socialist leaders. One of these in particular, A. W. Ricker, former publisher of the Appeal To Reason, expounded his views recently at a "family gathering" of New York Socialists. ' Mr. Ricker's remarks indicate so clearly the kind of repudiation repudi-ation the majority Socialists are receiving at the hands of the public that they are of .more than passing interest. The consequences conse-quences of the St. Louis platform, Mr. Ricker said, have .been threefold: , "First Ve did not succeed at all in stopping the war. "Second The American government, being fully determined to prosecute the war with all vigor enacted censorship laws which have in their enforcement resulted in suppressing the So-" f 'alist press. 'Third Our hostile attitude toward the government almost 'mmediately linked us up with the anarchists, the I. W. W., and the pro-Germans." Mr. Ricker goes on to say that no government, "not even a Tocialist government," could afford to tolerate internal propaganda propa-ganda calculated to promote discord and rebellion when the entire en-tire nation was making colossal sacrifices, both of money and of men, in the prosecution of a great war. And Mr. Ricker adds that he has now come to believe that "the supreme task of the world outside of Germany is to bend every energy and to make every conceivable sacrifice to the end that the German dream of conquest be brought to naught." Loyal Americans will welcome support in our great undertaking under-taking from all elements of the community, no matter what their political faith. But we shall be unwise if we do not keep on our guard against all varieties of eleventh hour repentance. . It is obvious that the Socialists would have something to gam ay making at least an ostensible recantation. They could hope that protection would again be given to their speakers and . magazines. That there is a tendency in this direction is indicat- ea oy ine revival oi mat rabid magazine, the Masses, under a mew title with the old anti-war utterances expunged. j But Americans will not forget that these same Socialists "subscribed to the St. Louis platform. By their acquiescence in that platform, which still remains the official statement of the : parry position, they align themselves with every enemy of our , government and with every- friend of the German cau?e. Some - of them now profess to see that they were mistaken. But even if we grant that they are sin-ere what shall wo say of their judgment? judg-ment? Having made a blunder of the gravest consequences, can we tr jst them not to blunder again! Is it conceivable that Americans Amer-icans should ever want to turn over any function of government to men who admit they could not see any reason why we should . defeat Germany? ' , The St. Louis platform is one of the most disastrous blows that Socialism has received anywhere in the world and it will be ; surprising if within any brief period of years the Socialist party in America can recover the ground it has lost. . r '! I. W. W. LITERATURE One day last week the whole time of the court at Chicago which is trying the indicted I. W. W. members, was taken up in reading extracts from the literature circulated by that organization, organiza-tion, much of it in foreign languages, and the revelation of their principles and propaganda was somewhat startliifg. Mucb of it was from their periodical publications. The following is from the Alarm: "Is it harder to kiss a German flag than an American flag? Is it harder to slave under a German regime than an American? "Curses will rest on the heads that in cowardly submission go out to murder people and bring destruction over a prosperous land and its innocent people." One' of them, the editor of another magazine called The - Bulpar, prints a dictionary of military terms over the signature '-of Alexander Berkman. The difinitions given are as follows: "Allies, Nymphs of Democracy; Barbarians, Nations not the Allies; uns, Devoted patriots of central Europe; Humanity, Treachery of the Government; Kaiser, The Ambition of the President; Loyal Citizens, A deaf, dumb and blind subject; Registration, Reg-istration, Funeral procession of liberty; Un-American, Independent Independ-ent opinion; Victory, Ten million men killed." The government captured thousands of copies of this literature. litera-ture. Much of it was in pamphlet form, some bound books and the remainder their current publications. How wide the circulation circula-tion was is shown by the fact that it was found in the headquarters headquar-ters of the organization all over the country and the money it cost to publish it must have run up into very high figures. As he members of this organization were known for their poverty the question arises: Who furnished that money? |