St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 24, 1918
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“ SSRI | SE SANNA ceca dee Fe ye SORRY NTE ey: Re ‘one “us —_ PELIIOCE LE LE ES og PMA 2 | ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SUNDAY -MORNING, MARCH 24, 1918. ~~ & ¥ we Pa * WN aie” 2 leat ity Sy. gw a “$1. LOUIS PQST-DISPATCH © THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE. out overworking the employes, or hes rey : by Pounded by JOSEPH PULITZER What is th ttle plan of the §S me War | ®dding one or two efficient clerks who raw a Te aoe eens ‘i Japa enmmee far less pay than do the more or less ornamental ZUBLIC OPINION ae Dec. 12, 1878. . ° Published 4 J the Pulitzer Publishing Co. ae © 07 wants rheads of these petty departments. + Twelfth and Olive Streets This is the crucial question in the intense con-/ 1, aadition, the Kentuckians have decided that POST-DISPATCH CIRCUL ATION centration of world interest on the lines of fight-| their State wards shall have more direct care Average for entire year. 1917: ing men struggling for mastery on the western| and that a bipartisan board, of which the chair- Sunda V, 361,265 front. man shall devote his entire time to the work, ) eae Ras shall be well pald and held strictly accountable Daily and Sunday, 194,593) ‘he kaleidoscopic changes of the battlefield| °° WE. PRN’ St renee Araceae s#THE POST-DISPATCH sells more papers | Make it impossible in the beginning of the Ger-, ,,,. recently was confronted with the same This column is designed to without bias the latest comment by | leading publicists, newspapers end periods. © cals on the questions of the day. a sp? mca ~ a piot a. * fap is the strategy of the allied leaders. What have/diers will have become so accustomed and inured T whatever it may be worth. On Tus ay pi op ane Ss . . P we ca © | : — ae cn they prepared in plan, weapons and modes of at- to outdoor life that they will take to farming as day Senator Reed took three one = naaoekunall as ante-bellum a * | their chosen after-the-war employment. Here is Senate’s time, say $2978.76 worth, for @ @ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. | tack to turn the German masses and strike the tha: mabdateekty ‘Sia the fia aden sas alias Haale speech opposing what he afterward voted — NOUNCEMENT of the 4 ” . | decisive blow? What has united planning and ends Stay h k for. If the Senator had not retreated inte — ment and approach! i Getfernment Control of Prices and Wages. oday. ay at home, work your farm to the limit his dugout when the roll was called it riage of Miss Ellanors q To thé Editor of thé Post-Dispatch. unified control developed in the way of decisive! of. its productiveness. M&ke it so desirable that might have been worth what it cost to put Tieut® George Prat q PR nec me nar te ro rveronyy eh warfare? when the soldier who would be a farmer returns him on record as opposing something. But | — cane an a surprise last wv Hi rr and con or m, but ad- ’ ae - i vancing prices densa by strikes for ad-| Either substantial superiority in men and guns from the war he will buy it or rent it from you ee ag -aereettadtpge pilin oie etka wedding Ylagae place : ¥ : side, Da , side, Vvclock 7 Monday even i vance in wages settle nothing, but instead | or clever. strategy is required to reach a decision | °” pa tgime —— will be time enough esque! 2 is not worth the Senator's trouble or the | ; a the residence of are 4 cause and sourcé of irritation and ; to think of dropping the plow handles and heading try’s money. Considering that the — a eede ole isfaction and hinder the vital ana|im the campaign. Unfortunately, the United Pie eee eres Miss Lois Brady of @ dissatisfaction & rt | a for the big city. subject the Senator raised was Mr. Hoover's — will (be Miss Scott's rane tama ee pros og oboe ects at States are not ready to throw our full weight into; But by that time the farmer boy who has wisely reckless waste of the public funds, itwowM@ § ponor and Miss Cathert the struggle. We have just begun to participate in | stayed at home may also have learned to love the seem that the Senator might havg steed | Creery will be the only br by his guns and voted the way he talked, — Three little girls will serve efficiency in support of the great move- «ments of the nation at this time of great-| force. We are helping our allies and fortunately | D¢althfulness and profits of outdoor life and have Of course, Mr. Hoover is responsible for girls, Anne Oliver, daught A ” HOOK “sme SS be Cae seein eae ee Ne ~~ ~ - ieee . pees eaonsty te ote 7 a eae eos oe est emergency. If something is not done ‘“ tiny ston food ae on: . it ‘ ea an erencents rag Aveo whether this letter should go to James, John or| be long delayed. one—a tyranny which exploited an entire country as another to shoot at. The Sulzer bill attacks the chief ae ~se gSarna not yet been laid. The Fe | Hi laxt of the series 0 hue their country. When Paul FB door Jeremiah F. Smith, all of the same regiment. He oo+ a that had not been done, perhaps, since the balmy days defense of our present condition. It creates a market. fles have not yet been manfuactured pictures which nn sa th “through the country there was no ex- | *8Y8 that the only safe way to have addressed that| THE CASE AGAINST THE FARM GIRL. of Syracuse. It doesn’t matter how big that market isthe end [which these troops are to be armen TE 86° en nn ee ae vemption board. Therefore there is no /| letter would have been to James Franklin Smith.| Mrs. F. M. Deweese of Nebraska, who sponsored ‘“What we will lay emphasis upon is the tyranny is the same. cannon have not yet been oa he | rh, aha, a: “* 3 “a « directio ne ,teason why people married a few years| The point is this: Wh hich is forcing th 7 f wh ras ay are to blast the German army out 0 . | eater under Pee nee without feeble or very young dependents point is this: Where so many men are gath-/| the resolution that Eastern college girls were not| 8 forcing the price of wheat up in Washington mm Pa ‘trenches in front of the American sector ~ Boardiof the St. Louis 1 i } should receiye sympathy because they do ered there is a great similarity of names of opie. | wanted on Nebraska farms, which was adopted by today. What is it doing that? Is it some unselfish IN BIRD ROMANCE. ‘of the fighting line.. The grim business @ Hospital for the be ui t a .-pot wish to leave a comfortable home for | ®@* individuals. Mr. Clark, after becoming ac-|the Woman’s Defense Council of that State, has| interest which wants to feed the hungry in Europe James B. Baker, an Eastern bird lover, thinks (that confronts this nation can be a tal, will be gives Bata ah ti war. M. O. MALLEY. | quainted with the difficulties of mails in France, | answered the question as to why she and other| °F would like to see that bread is denied no one in our there is something wrong with bird romance in his | ‘07 ¥@"4 Properly only when the — a "he offteans “il ( if asks that every letter be addressed with all par-| Nebraska women do not want Eastern farm girls. own country for what bread can be profitably sold at? neighborhood. He says numbers of birds go unmated eel pcautlegmmendtigae Petes om right- aa | by a number of Mary Insti ei | Is Monopoly Efficient? ticulars possible on the outside of the envelope. The reason is not that the Nebraska women are Alas, no!. It is the farmers, bringing to bear that in that vicinity every year, this being particularly | eousness. ‘ Sabin So +e ee con- on tha mite on Tee The y i ia pe Rae ct eee eee 2 cee Write the given and middle name in full, then | jealous, neither is it that they fear the Eastern| teat political influence which is undoubtedly theirs. true of robins. The male seems to be rare, and many | 8¢¢ration of time and effort, of goods aaa és Ce eee oe gi Asis: 43 a id the frightfuln Sieggrw lecoil Stas i add, if you can, the rank, company, regiment and | farm women’s dress styles. It is very, very far The farmers want to be numbered with the profiteers of the females neither have a nest nor raise any dy oI bases a = aa agree a the red eae aa panes Ge a Sate eR thin gee meaattaaterer ean, | C7mee of thé” soldier. The more particulars|from such reasons. Much farther than you sus-| 2 this war, and they are visiting their tyranny upon young. This reminds me of the results of my own race pew aenbirion) “ana this generation a lia Fay Carton and Blizabe s ae ‘to grow bigger, the wrath of the people given, the surer the letter is to reach the right | pected. But, before going into the real reasons, let us. observation through several years of what I have | reste a solemn duty—the duty of wiping eS The ushers who assisted ale a aor him unless he be extremely | Person, and the more speed in delivery. it be stated that Mrs. Deweese is not a farm wom- ‘“Will labor, do you suppose, do anything worse taken to be a bachelor oriole. The bird comes regu- | Ut with its blood and tears, with the wa sar Niggeman, chelaaaay : i a ef ‘stead misdeeds have been put acr i The title Mister is entirely wasted, for there are| an, but an instructor in the Nebraska State Uni- that that to us? I think not. We merely pass from larly to our neighborhood, but I have never been able = sp hereedingrnd betes Ie. wee a yon ‘ G — “ oa os J _— sted Lhe past. ne doubt. dut Ld Ah eh no Misses or Mesdames in the army, He asks that | versity. one form of tyranny to another, as truly as if we were to discover that he has a mate. He is a Baltimore— | tac gage prorat ye _ : re ‘ y Nh ao k- cat ‘Claudéd ian ‘wherein a properly regulated trust cannot |"° Pencils be used. He says that the handling| The first reason is the idle men. She says:| ‘élivered by each one to its equally-rapacious suc- as beautiful as Adonis, and can sing like Caruso. I a Wallace Simmons and Jol Aiea but work out to the advantage of the | Of military mail is often not an entirely polite job | “Thousands of men in America are idle and thou-| ¢ss0r.”’ concluded he was a bachelor only after “™ SODAY’S BEST CARTOON Gis “a ies people as a whole. and the pencil addresses become blurred and of ay ! 2) ecoking in ete sd Misa Laura Capen, daw he un at ile Sees ‘pate Of the Gavesumnant and often | sands are now,employed in the production of lux- Hush!) You’tl cost me the farmers trade,’’ said vain through two years for some sign of his mate. enon whe 3a gr f Are I" : * tn taking over the railroads was to organ- erased before the letters get to the trenches. He/uries. These men should be used on farms be- the storekeeper. Did he want a mate? Evidently not. If he had he catentineaa An met pa l' ize them as a unit systefh: something nev. | @®*8 that, to insure delivery of home letters,| fore women are put out in the fields.” las ™ baie would have gone away on that quest which has led esded by a luncheon ¥ st te “e- Our contention that every sign painter sho the Bureau, and’ is entirely | tic wartime economies. Confronted with th ” A robin’s lilti uld be ss En large institutions tend more to rea} the ne-| help in the fields. your's ng love song followed around by a proof her ts be tative. As the Red Cross (Seeticviency than small ones. Proportion. | “¢S!ty of raising more money or cutting down| There you have it. Nebraska is perfectly safe, Trails off with the light! follo in the ts ye rae out by the in ite membership the mq ; “Theret in all branches is much small- | ¢xpenses, the Legislature now in session accepted | for no one will suppose that any Eastern girl is : — ee ee one wonee 02 ee teas ible to eariit ona P a o etait the latter horn of the dilemma and bills are pend-| going all the way to Nebraska to wash dishes. oe ee ee a ‘Clerk of the U. &. Cireats Count af As weil 2, ‘so them ce. become, (hare A. ndustries to | ing to abolish 16 again! : of the U. 8. Circuit Court of ar them to become thoero id as they wished subject to regula- BR ish 16 State bureaus. It has been an-/There is no fetching costume for that sort of And Ufe is fres ls Collector of In —- — - Quainted with the organteal t nounced thét the w if hy, 0 tenal Revenue ° 3 oa HR tte ts by a commission? . @ work accomplished by these | work, and, besides, why go so far to do what you @ Werk of the Red Cross, am 2 Mo 86s BAM bureaus can be taken over by other bureaus with. | can Sn nt Seas , y | As snowdrops déwn the lane. &. Collector of Custums ' : ee a ini NT Se nS on i 4 i a stench ». GRAEME BUBR., Li Oooo eee ee ee ee a aX ** My 2 ya | 2 See eee ating ’ : f ;
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