Edgefield Advertiser

A Pierce-Arrow car makes Cupid's darts more effective.

Eat your hams every-day and save the bacon for company.

A wagon load of cotton will 'most buy a wagon load of Fords.

Nobody can blame a true-blue college boy for refusing to study German.

Let us hope that 1917 taxes will not keep pace with other advancing prices, expenses, et cetera.

Even if cotton is bringing aeroplane prices, all-cotton farming will never lead to independence.

Did you believe you would ever see the day when sugar-cured hams would sell for less than dry salt sides?

The government is doing its utmost to make camp life safe, morally, for the young men of the country.

Sweet potato crop largest in history, says a headline. Next in order will be a report on the 'possum crop.

In the second Liberty Loan, certificates as low as $5 will be issued, which will give the newspaper man a chance.

Apart from affording some sort of mental gymnastics, the study of the present geography of Europe is of but little value.

Let us give thanks daily that there is only one Watson, one LaFollette and one Blease to sow seeds of discord and disloyalty to the government.

As some of the football stars are now enlisted under the Stars and Stripes, there will be less interest in this rough-and-tumble sport this season than usual.

According to Madame Rumor, there will be more than a score of applicants for the Edgefield postoffice. A life-time job at a good salary is worth working for.

Peace terms "Made in Germany" should be viewed with the gravest suspicion. Times without number those in authority in Germany have proven themselves unreliable and untruthful.

A private at Camp Hancock was handed a commission Monday as first lieutenant. There is always promotion awaiting the fellow who makes good. But promotion must always be merited before it is received.

Colonel Roosevelt hit the nail squarely on the head when he said in a speech in Kansas City Monday: If we take heed of any peace utterances Germany prepares we will show that we are not prepared yet to go out into the world without a guardian.

Mr. Henry Ford's generosity is said to be equal to his genius, having contributed a half million dollars to the Red Cross the other day. Now if he wants to make an immeasurably larger contribution to the country's economic and financial welfare, let him close his automobile factories until after the war.

After seeing the impending fate of the Kaiser, the impeachment of Gov. ernor Ferguson of Texas and the issuing of a warrant for Senator LaFollette, one is constrained to believe that occupying a niche far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife is preferable to the maelstrom of politics.