FUNNY OBSERVATIONS

The announcement that American soldiers at the front are suffering from "trench feet" does not mean that they are getting cold feet.

It will be pretty tough on those American congressmen in Europe if they get close enough to the front to be "gassed."

Maybe those German cooks who were awarded the iron cross performed valiant service as range finders.

A government bulletin announces that cold storage turkeys are so plentiful this year that the prices ought to be moderate. We'll bet the news never reaches our grocer.

The Canadians seem to have a perfect passion for Passchendaele.

Indian summer is good medicine for pale faces.

T. Roosevelt never did have much luck with political parties born of a desire to rule or ruin.

One Kansas City coal dealer has been fined $100 for selling a ton of coal that was short 360 pounds. After a while they may be compelling coal men to pass an examination in arithmetic every fall before the coal season opens.

A lot of women would have more time for their knitting if they could train their husbands to darn their own socks.

Even the British can't resist the temptation to kill off the Turks during November.

After a rookie has swallowed about a pound of dust at a cantonment he can hardly be blamed for wishing he had enlisted in the navy.

-- Des Moines Register, Nov. 9, 1917

Comments: A couple good Thanksgiving jokes there. But I'd guess that "trench feet" shouldn't really a laughing matter.