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Show The time of neutrality is past. Disloyalty to Our Country is treason. Treason is punishable by death. Hogs are selling for 1(5 cents per pound on foot in Denver,' Colorado. The city's hog ranch owns 5,000 head which are fattened from the city's food wastes. The hog-business hog-business is paying in Denver. State Superintendent Cowans and a group of school men have recommended that all colleges, high schools and the eighth grade of grammar schools be closed on April 17th. The school owrk has been so seriously interrupted inter-rupted by recruiting that little fan be accomplished for the remainder of the term and the young men are needed a,s recruits or as laborers on the ranches. In localities where commercialism is the main motive of life it requires some time to make people realize that the declaration of war was noUa joke. Even men who should have known better smiled and joked at any patriotic patri-otic expression. There was a feeling of security behind desk or counter of a paying business. Now these same men are coming slowly to realize that it is because of the advantages offered in a free country that they have their "paying business." They .must know that as their country is in danger so is their "paying business" in clanger. And some men's patriotism does not extend farther than that the guarding of their pile of dollars. : o ' |