Show try a want ad in the reapers readers Re apers classified column with print paper up more than I 1 per cent it is pretty tough I 1 scratching for the country newspaper man some people half starve themselves in order to buy gasoline for a mortgaged car mr aal mrs P F peterson of salina were the guests of mr and mrs D V hyde over sunday this is a mighty good time for everybody to get busy and improve our country roads winter will be coming along soon and then we will be again lamenting the fact that the roads are muddy and rough and getting worse all the time of course they will be muddy and rough and will keep on getting worse unless we buck up ourselves and get out and do something worth while we have never yet seen a fellow who was not willing to get out his hammer and knock when the subject of country roads is mentioned but very few of them are willing to use a shovel or a spade or a scraper if we had more to do and less talk we would have good roads everywhere and the family hammer could be put to better use an irish authority says insanity and crime are lessened by war no doubt of it whatever how can a dead soldier become a lunatic or a criminal the rumanians are confident because their troops are fresh the bulgarians Bulga rians are confident because their troops are veterans which gives foundation for the belief that an answer may yet be found for that age old problem why is a hen the iron crosses distributed by the kaiser to his soldiers weigh nine tons but when the kaiser thinks of the brave fellows he sent out to die the cross he bears must weigh far more than that americans in japan have just reelected woodrow wilson by a straw vote thus beginning a long along series of these fake elections which will sweep over our own fair land and amount to zero when a thinking man reads a great mass of this campaign twaddle he is forced to ask two questions Is the intelligence of the politicians so low that they fancy the american people swallow such stuff or is the intelligence of the american people so low that they really do swallow it |