The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 18, 1918, Page 2

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Sail on, nor fear to wet thy feet; sail_on, nor fear the- critic’s guff, that Herald-Forum, Tribune stuff! Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our subs, our checks (and that’s the point that ruts), are all with thee, are all with thee! * * * - CONCERNING M’ADOO The cars still move on the level tracks, The smoke still curls from the engine- stacks, The stock still sells for par and more, And the coal whisks through as ne’er before; We ride the cushion near and far, And we still take meals in the dining car! Yet some few critics chatter still Of the inability of BillL : * * * DO YOU KNOW WHY ROOSE- VELT HAS TO WEAR GLASSES? HE (‘OVSTANTLY OVERWORKS HIS I'S! ¢ RN et THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CASTOR OIL SHORTAGE IN THE UNITED STATES HAS JUST TICK- LED THE KIDS TO DEATH. * L * Those who would live by the pen are usually penniless! Those who would live in it ‘are usually politi- cians looking for the _Iob of warden. i e * % * A FEW. INDIVIDUALS NOT EXPECT- ED TO LIVE THROUGH 1918, Our old friend and neighbor, John Barleycorn. The Divine Right of Kings. o - The present cold snap. The Fargo For-whom’s supply of " borrowed. editorials. T g0 19 ‘6. The present hope of Teethadore . Rose'n’fell. = 4. The Kaiser's tolerance of the non- support of his supposed alley, Gott. - &L One good thing. about Roosevelt is that his rabid opposition to anything’ -usually consolidates the other. side: HIS FIRST SHAVE . Don’t breathe nor move a muscle, for *twould make our boy feel bad, should he find himself detected by his mother and his dad. I know it’s mean to rubber through the key-hole at the boy —but we’ve always shared his secrets as we’ve always shared his joy, and it’s only since his trousers reached his shoe-tops that he’s had a single thought clandestine from his mother and his dad. Aha! His father’s razor, and his shaving mug and brush! Be careful—he may hear you, for he’s all alert! he’s spreading on the lather,-but he’s made it much too thin, for it’s running down his collar, and it’s dripping from his chin! He holds that little razor as if it weighed a ton, and he handles it as careful as he would an army gun! jured? HAS HE (UT HIMSELF? eye with lather; that’s why he’s acting so! Finished? He’s a barber! knave; it requires an hour of torture when his father has to shave! Let’s creep away. Be quiet! He must never know we saw him. Yes, I’'m sure lie never heard! That was comic—yes, but tragic, for we realize today that when a boy grows up, he also grows AWAY! down of hoyhood turns to whiskers on the face, ah! ’tis then that dad and mother slowly sink to second place! The political ambitions of J. A, A. B. " respect for the oplnlo And—hush! Now Is he in- He just fflled his What’s happened? Oh, no! “Why, the eclever little ‘We must never peep a word! When the fuzzy J.E. T. HIS REAL HOME Concealing his blood-crusted sword, The Kaiser made prayer to the Lord, But—“You go to the devil, He’s more on your level, And there you will get your reward!” _So the Kaiser went down to old Nick, And repeated his prayer and his trick, But—“Go back to Berlin, With your cargo of sin, My City’s too good for your clique!” * * * = Those kind and tender-hearted indi- viduals who are worrying so about the eight dollars per year that the poor hood-winked, ‘deluded, misled, inno- cent - lamb - to - the - slaughter League member pays to his organization, can find a soothing balm for their torn and lacerated feelings just by reading the report of the expenses of the last legis- lature, where the League saved the state some nine thousand dollars. * » * } PROVERBS It is better to say openly, “I be agin ve,” than to say diplomatically, “Per- haps I'm' fur ye.” When a governor trusteth to money- ed men and big dailies for his re-elec- tion, and forgetteth the people who do the voting, he hath indeed a peculiar idea of what constituteth a liability.or an asset. When city dailies find it in their hearts to say, “The League is indeed disloyal,” should they not first con; sider that the native state of the- League stands high man in Liberty Bond purchases and also in Red Cross membership, according to population? Should they not also consider that Golden. Valley county, North Dakota— late home of both Townley and Baer, the cradle county of the League, so to speak—standeth first of all counties in the United States in Red Cross mem- bership, according to population" » When in the course_ ot human events .it becomes necessary” for an editor ‘or politician to criticise the farmers' movement, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they tell the causes that impel them to-such criticism. - The: two: ‘chief: causes ate prejudice and. obligation, -but the aver- age critic apparently has not emmg tell. these auses