Show J TIMELY COMMENT j f don dont t be a grumbler some people contrive to get hold of the prickly side of 0 everything to run up against the sharp corners and find out all the disagreeable things halt half the strength spent in growling would often set things right A model town Is that in abich you see the citizens patronize the home merchants the merchants advertise in the local papers and the laborers spend the money they earn with their own tradesmen and all animated by byj a spirit that they will purchase at home borne the spirit 0 of reciprocity between business and mechanics trades men laborers and manufacturers result every time in making the town a satisfactory one to do business in two men were disputing over their respective churches one was a baptist and one was a presbyterian finally one of ef them called a neighbor who was passing and asked his hia opinion as to which was the better church to in which to be saved well neighbor he said son bon and I 1 have been hauling wheat nearly forty years there thera are two roads that lead to the mill eneis the valley road and the other leads over the hill and never yet has the miller asked me which I 1 road I 1 came but he always asks Is the wheat good PREPARE FOR PEACE it if this country has learned any lesson at all in the last three years it has learned the importance of preparedness pa redness never again will we be excusable it if we pursue a policy ol 01 watchful waiting we have learned to appreciate the foresight ot of such men as theodore roosevelt leonard wood augustus P gardner and richmond P hobson they urged us to prepare tor for a possible war let us have the wisdom now to heed the advice of those who are urging us to prepare for a certain peace why should we neglect tariff legislation until our representatives sit at the council of nations thus handicapping ourselves by approaching the discussion ot of peace terms as tree free traders europe and asia want free access to our markets they have cheap labor and od low standards or of living it will be 19 their desire to arrange peace terms term which will preclude the adoption ot of a protective tariff in america protection is one of our permanent poll poli cles we should get bic back it upon our usual vantage ground before the peace conference con terence shall be called FACTS LONG suppressed the continued revelations of von activities show that he not only was a diligent it rather credulous dipol matic agent along the lines which the law of 0 nations permits but that he transgressed the rules ot of neutrality time and time again it cannot be that his of fences were not known to the powers that be in washington it cannot be that the secret service and the decipherers of 0 foreign codes have only recently so sharlend shar pend their wits that we are getting recently dincov ered evidence of german perfidy the fact act probably is that the startling stuff that the state department is now noly publishing has been in their possession for or a long time and kept under cover for some reason which mr air Burl esons rules regarding the editorial conduct of newspapers will not permit us to express an an opinion about SEND ABLEST MEN AIEN in any and every important conference between the united states and this the nations with wilh whom we are fighting this war against autocracy this government should be represented by the men who are best qualified by native ability by experience in large national problems and by bythe ali e influence which goes with worldwide world wide reputation our present international conferences are not sc schools hoolis lor for the education ot of diplomats they are tasks calling for the services of men whose abilities have been demonstrated and whose names command respect the world around col roosevelt fills the bill pa R NOT ONE BUT TEN MILLION the philadelphia ledger is ot or the opinion that this war will produce no robert morris no stephen girard no jay cooke meaning by that that no man will so impress himself upon the financial operations of the government during the war that he will stand out like these figures of and civil war days this may mean some loss to the with which historians may write the record of our war tor for the freedom of 0 the world but that will be more in ore than over balanced by the gain t to 0 the nation nation in the consciousness that the united action of 0 ten million millian citizens the number who subscribed to the second liberty loan means morti more for the national cause than the super human efforts of 0 any one man ka TYPISTS WANTED IN washington the aril service commission at washington Washing bon announces once more that it needs typists and stenographers og at entrance salaries of 1000 to 1200 the board of trade of 0 the city ot of washington has undertaken der taken to find rooms and boarding places tor for people who go to the national cui capital pital to engage in government work mcafoos McA DOOS S TIME HAS i the time has come say bays 9 secretary of the treasury mcadoo when suffrage should be given to the women of america As a matter of 0 tact fact the present time la is no more opportune than any other tor for the giving of the franchise to we women men it if women suffrage is desirable it ft was as desirable twenty years ago as it la Is today what mr mcadoo meant was that the time has baa come for him to advocate woman suffrages suf suffrage frages comparisons RI SONS the stock of whiskey on hand band in this country is estimated to be enough to last tor for three years the stock block of sugar bugar on hand iu is enough tor for three weeks tho the stock of coal on hand Is enough tor for about the tha game time it 1 bugar and coal re quiren time to develop their flavor and add to their value thero would be plenty ot of them also CRUSH TIIE 1 I W W municipal Muni cip at elections in russia show the to be a negligible blo quantity numerically bli caking their vote in the larger towns amo their vote in the larger towns to but seven fer per cent of the file total while in the smaller communities muni ties it was less than three per cent the in russia correspond lo 10 the 1 I W W in the united states in both countries they have exerted an influence far nr beyond their real strength because they have not hesitated to employ methods of terrorism before which the forces ot of law and order have hate shrunk in unnecessary dismay the percentage of 0 americans opposed to the I 1 W W is no smaller than that of 0 russians who are opposed to the and in each country this great majority by vote and with fre force should hould unite to crust crush such enemies 0 of tree free institutions ra WORDS NOT the birch poles wooden guns and Other makeshifts with which the soldiers at cantonment are being drilled are known in the ranks as baker brags braes thus war enriches the vocabulary doubtless these quaker guns have called forth other wor words ds which way may not be printed in a truly mars moral I 1 journal like this pay your taxes jerome paxton ot of the first national bank has been appointed deputy treasurer and 1917 taxes can be paid to him at the bank during banking hours taxes become delinquent at noon december 36 43 |