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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-12
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from non1rolizing too great ranges
of wave length when certain narrow
ranges will serve their purposes just
as well.
Fixes Standard Distress Wave.
a STANDARD distress wave" for ships
is one of the most important provisions
OF the bill. y wave length OF 500 me-
iers must be uniformly reserved for
this emergency call by all wireless
stations. official, commercial or private.
on sea or on land. Each passenger
carrying vessel viii Lee required to
keep in operation, day and night, an
extra instrument tuned TO maintain
eternal vigilance for calls for help that
may come moaning over tho relentless
deep. This emergency ear viii be
known as special distress receiver"
and the governments experts seek
strict Legislation requiring such ap-
paratus beside the puartermaster or
Lookout OF every ship: also that all
men employed az the wheel or upon
watch shall he adequately trained 10
distinguish the international distress
SAIL, IS. o. s. whenever this special
instrument utters II.
s. o. S.-"Save Our Ship"
This distress call. instead Of the old
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-12
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ny JOHN ELFRETH >XATkIys.

Washington. D. g.. May 10. 1912.
TT HE terrible Titanic tragedy will
confer one benefit upon human
ity. II will emancips,e the
wireless telegraph from the arbitrary
power of commcrcialism and place it
under strict governmental regulation.
assuring eternal vigilance for distress
calls at sea. absolute precedence for
such signals for help and better equip
ment for their utterancc.
The Congress of the United States
IS now at work upon and parliament
Of the great nations OF earth Will
next month be engaged upon rigid
laws to prevent. i'll future, such
babel Of wireless tongues. such
feebleness OF wireless cars. such inter
ference by meddlesome wireless anna
teurs, and such greed of wireless
commercial interests as contributed to
the suspense, the horror and the death
toll of old oceans most monstrous
tragedy.
New legislation for the regulation
of radio communication" has lately
been reported favorably to both houses
of Congress II is carried in a bill
carefully framed by the wireless en-
perts OF the navy, aymy and Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. 1t is
designed to put quietus upon the
long threatenirl5 monoi oily of all the
powerful wireless interests, not only
OF America, but of the world; TO give
distress calls from the sea an abso-
lutte right OF way; to prevent the inter-
ference OF commercial messages with
official ana emergency messages,
All Operators to he Licensed.
The nrst step toward giving the
Federal government an actual hold
upon all wireless stations in our ter
ritory or upon our ships will he a
strict requirement that each station
and all OF its operators must obtain a
Federal license; also that all operators
must be American citizens.
To prevent interference with govern
ment or distress messages each com
mercial station will be limited by its
license 20 certain wave lengths" for
carrying its messages. also to certain
hours Of work. Under the existing sys-
ten operators send out their dots and
da--hes upon electric waves varying in
length. generally, from 100 20 5000
metcrs--a meter being very nearly a
ward. To get clear results sending and
receiving inst-umonts must be adjust
cr or tuned to the same limits OF
wave length
The government will tunc all Of it's
instruments 10 receive and send only
waves that are between ESQ and 900
meters in length, ana will prosecute
any private, or commercial concern
which tres{n ss,es within these limits.
such contcrris VIII be allowed TO tune
their Instruments above and below
these pitches. but VIII be prevented
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-10-04
October 4, 1912.

ticket, if this law was passed. There
is need of more state laws also, espec-
tally one like that of California, for
bidding publication of race gambling
odds and bets. And anti-gambling
laws also need better enforcement,
In Waterville, Maine, in July, 1912,
the editor of this magazine saw not
only race gambling but wheel gamb-
ling in an Elks Hall, open to all, as
public as he had seen it in Reno, Ne
vada, before it was reformed. And
this open gambling, of which he in
formed the chief of police and the
press, was neither suppressed by the
former nor exposed by the latter.
Japan, on the first appearance of
race gambling at its new horse races,
stamped it out as plague-bearing rat.
Canton, China, made great holiday
of its recent abolition of all gambling.
Let Europe and America beware lest
heather lands shall out-do them in
banishing this oldest and greediest
vice to the limbo of crimes against
civilization, with piracy and slavery
and pugilism. = Twentieth Century
Quarterly.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-10-04
AMONG

According to dispatch from Mus
kogee, Oklahoma, persons suspected
of having liquor will not be allowed
to board the Iron Mountain trains.
Such an order was issued by Judge
r. c. Allen. This order was issued to
the railway by the court in an effort
to suppress the introduction of liquor
into prohibition territory. Bootleg
gers who found it impossible to ship
their goods by express have been
boarding the trains as passengers and
carry stuff in their pockets and grips.
The independent Democrats of Mem
phis have reaffirmed their allegiance
to the principle of statewide prohi-
bition.
The Mississippi supreme court has
decided that it is not lawful for Mis-
sissippi River boats to sell liquors,
even when they are closer to the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-10-04
THE WORLD ARENA

Mr. Adolf Hansen, one of the Inter
national Prohibition Considerations
vice-presidents, has been elected sec
rotary to the "Danmarks Afholds-
forming" which is the largest Danish
Temperance Society, numbering $4,000
members in about 1000 branches. Of
fees are to be opened in April at
Aalborg, in Jutland. Denmark is
steadily nearing its long-desired goal
of national prohibition, and His Maj
esty King Frederick VIII. has ex-
pressed the great pleasure which he
will have in attaching his signature to
national prohibitory law. 1t is ex-
pected Mr. Hansen will be able ma
terially to assist the cause of prohi-
bition by means of this powerful or
ganization, of which he now becomes
the active head.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-10-04
STATES

Arkansas side than to the Mississippi
side
Every near-beer emporium in Nat
chez, Miss, has been closed, and the
keys have been delivered to Sheriff
P. w. Mulvihill. The closing of the
joints is the result of the order of
Governor Brewer that there must be
a cleaning up.
Winthrop, Mo-, is the wettest spot
of it's size in the United States. 1t
has but eighty-three inhabitants and
six saloons.
Rev. w. C. Carver, superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon League of Wyom-
ing, has resigned to take the pastorate
of a Methodist church. He is sue
ceeded by Rev. Nathan Hugh Lee, of
Denver.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-10-04

The Inspector in the English school
asked the boys of the school he was
examining: "Can you take your warm
overcoat Off" eyes, sir" was the
response. "Can the bear take his
warm overcoat Off" "No, sir"
"Why not?" There was silence for
a while and then a little boy spoke
up: please, sir, because God alone
knows where the buttons are"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-10-04
Message of New Works Gambling Tragedy

finger either the purity laws or the
laws against gambling
Strange to say, no prominent paper
has noted in the long columns re-
Gently devoted to New York gambling
that the most dangerous, most whole
sale form of this vice, race gambling,
outlawed in its New York stronghold
by efforts initiated by the Interna
tional Reform Bureau and consum-
mated by Governor Hughes, is even
now plotting the corruption of courts
and the bribery of the legislatures,
that millionaire gamblers may again
lure negroes and clerks and working
men into gambling to pay the expense
of their so-called sport" and make
it, like Wall Street, business slaugh-
ter house of lambs" Vigorous eff
forts backed by the worst of monopo-
lies, the Race Gambling Trust, are be-
ing made in New York, Louisiana and
California to restore this enemy OF
business and morals.
The encouraging fact is that the
frauds of the race gamblers, with scant
help from churches, have driven race
gambling from four-ffths of our forty
eight states. 1t is retained in Nevada,
Montana, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky,
Virginia and Maryland only because
churches and chambers of commerce,
in equal neglect of the moral and ma
terial interests they are set to guard,
have neglected to drive through con-
gress the Sims-Lea anti-gambling bill
that would prevent these backward
states, and Mexico and Cuba and Can
ada from bringing in the major part
of their gambling gains from anti
gambling states by infamous Inter
state commerce" in gambling bets and
odds, which could not cross any state
line legally, any more than lottery
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-10-04

The tragedy in New York, where
gambler, about to expose the System"
by which big gamblers bought pro-
lection of the police, was murdered by
assassins hired by high police officials,
should wake the churches to nation
wide. indeed a worldwide war on
gambling, which has suffered serious
defeats of late that will be toll
lowed by it's complete overthrow
everywhere in the near future, II there
is another case of wasted opportunity.
The moral of the tragedy is, first OF
all. that so-called liberal enforce
ment" of laws relating to gambling,
impurity, the Sabbath and liquor sell
ing, by making the police into habitual
and wholesale perjurers, naturally
makes them also grafters, boodlers, and
murderers. Mayor Gaynor's person
al liberty" views have naturally grown
to official assassination. The public, if
it thinks straight, will see that Gov.
ok Is right III SayAhS lAAoS
there is reinforcement of law, there
is graft"
That truth applies to almost every
city, large and small, in the United
States, and yet Los Angeles, Seattle,
Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati,
Philadelphia and the cities of Iowa
and Nebraska under "red-light'' injunc-
ton laws, are about the only recent
conspicuous examples of successful
law enforcement-and in most of these
cases only one of the four most neg
lected laws was enforced.
The churches have devoted what
little effort they were willing to spare
for social ethics almost entirely to the
mere enactment of temperance laws
and the enforcement of Sunday laws,
and have hardly touched with little
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-10-04
o o o

Andrew Carnegie, it is reported, is
endeavoring to close up all public
houses in the vicinity of Skibo Castle
and thus start campaign Tor prohibi-
ton into Scotland Old fishermen OF
the vicinity are complaining because
they have to travel from twelve to
nineteen miles in order to get their
daily grog.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
GAINS IN STRENGTH.
PREPoNpERENcE IN UEGIsLA
TURE WILL NOT BE so
HEAVY.
HAPP ENINGS OVER THES STATE
What Is Going On Here and There
That is of Interest to the Read.
ers Throughout South Da-
kota and Vicinity.

Pierre.-The preponderence OF leg
islatiye membership between the east
and west river portions of the state
has always been so heavy in favor
of the eastern part hat the west could
not make any great showing IL they
should at any time attempt to push
any measure not to the liking Of the
eastern members. Not that such a
test has often come up, but the force
of numbers existed from the begin
ming of statehood, and yet exists, al
though the west made a decided gain
through the apportionment act of the
last session, and will, no doubt, make
even a greater gain through the next
apportionment, which cannot come
until the session of 1917. The changes
in the senate must come by cutting
out eastern members, as the senate
has from the beginning been up to the
full constitutional limitation OF As.
While the house had room for expan.
sion within the constitutional limita.
tons, the law makers did not see that
such course vas required. and while
the western part of the state gained
in that body, it was also by reduc.
tons east of the river. Up to the last
session the west river country had a
representation of 20 to 149 members
OF both houses, while the reapportion.
ment gives them SO vi of the 147
membership as it will be for the next
six years. Up to the last apportion.
ment the section west of the river Sc.
cured sever out of the As senators.
Under the present apportionment they
will get ten out Of that number, a
net gain of three; and their gain in
the house will then be ten members,
or twenty-four out Of 102, instead of
fourteen out of 104. The apportion,
ment act of the last session calls for
a house membership of 1913 in the
first paragraph of the act, but by
amendments this was reduced one, but
the first paragraph was not changed
TO meet this amendment.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
IT Is CRIMINAL TO NEGLECT
THE SKIN AND HAIR

Think Of the suffering entailed by
neglected skin troubles-mental be-
cause Of designation, physical be-
cause of pain. Think of the pleasure
of a clear skin, soft, white hands, and
good hair. These blessings. so essen-
tial to happiness and even success in
life, are ofan only a matter of a little
thoughtful care In the selection of
effective remedial agents. Cuticura
Soap and Ointment do SO much for
poor compilations, red, rough hands,
and dry, thin and falling hair, and cost
SO little, that 1t is almost criminal not
to use them. Although Cuticura Soap
and Ointment are sold everywhere, a
postal to "Cuticura," Dept. L, Bos-
ton. will secure a liberal sample Of
each, with 32-page booklet on skin
and scalp treatment.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13

a boat In which some Siberian Eskt
mos had arrived, he found a quantity
Of whisky which he poured on the
ground. Before he knew what was
happening he was struck down,
trampled upon and several ribs and
his nose were broken. 1t might have
been very serious for the doctor, had
it not been for a shipwrecked whal-
ing crew in camp on the island, which
came to his assistance.
1T was in the night time, and the
Siberians had brought some of their
people who were sick over to the doc
tor for medical treatment. And when
l awoke to see my husband standing
in the door, covered with blood, sur
rounded by strange Eskimos, l was
very much alarmed for a moment"
Reindeer Industry.
In regard to the reindeer industry
DR.. Campbell is very optimistic, not
withstanding an effort was made a few
years ago to discredit the whole ven
ture.
THE government established a herd
of seventy deer on the island in 1900,"
he says "and it now numbers six hum
dred and eighty, and many have been
killed for food and clothing. This may
not be done at will, but is entirely un.
der government regulation.
"Only about t~hirty-five at present
belong to the government, the rest
having been given out to the herders
in lieu of wages. Our chief herder.
Sapillu, has 200 head from his earnings
and their increase.
The teaching in the public school
is not unlike ours, including industrial
training and music. In addition to this
| the schoolhouse, which is also our
home, Is open to the public evenings
and is a social center in the fullest
sense. From 1t emanates the indus
trial, educational, business, social and
religious life Of the people. ,
Besides the regular school course
! there is a good work bench, black.
] smith outfit, grindstone, stocks and
| dies, polishing lathe (for polishing
ivory, fur-sewing machine, laundry
and organ always ready for any one
! to use"
One Of DR.. Campbell's pet schemes
is the Building and Loan Association,
which several young men have already
established and built sanitary cabins
for themselves and wives.
DR.. and Mrs. Campbell r social
workers of the most approved STAN
dard, developing the native and do
nestle arts, teaching sanitation and
hygienic living and intoxicating moral
principles, in addition to public school
instruction and medical care. What
this means to this most restricted and
| wretched of peoples. is beyond our
comprehension. they say.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
RAILROAD HOPES.
Suggestion That the Northwestern In.
tends Building.

sSs ~"
Pierre.-lt Is not often that the Of.
ficials of ons OF the big railway sys-
TENS Of the northwest can make a
trip over their lines without some one
catching the fact Of their movement
ana commenting upon it. But re-
Gently the president of the Northwest
ern system, with a number of other
officials, made a run over their line
out to the terminals in Butte county,
and back to Chicago with no special
comment. as most of their travelling
was in the night. While this might
not mean anything else than inspec-
ton, the recent change in policy of
the Union Pacific to give to the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul company
rights heretofore held exclusively by
the Northwestern company, has, with
this visit of the officials, started talk
of the extenson of the Northwestern
lines from Belle Fourche to Miles City,
for another Pacific connection since
they no longer hold their exclusive
Union Pacific privilege.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
Not Reliably Informed.

The gentleman who wore evening
clothes and the remnants Of a jag at
8 o'clock in the morning was clinging
to the ~footboard of a crowded surface
car In Chicago. AS the car rounded a
sharp curve with a jerk the person In
incongruous apparel fell quickly and
heavily to the c~obblestones. He was
picked up by the strong hands Of the
conductor and about 20 passengers.
Collision" he asked in a dignified
tone of voice.
"No," said the conductor.
ION the track?" further questioned
the victim Of the accident.
NO" said the conductor.
WELL" concluded he of the jag, of
I had known that / wouldn't have got
off."-Popular Magazine.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
BruIe on the Boom.

Kimball.-Never in the history of
the state has Brule county grass, small
grain and corr looked as fine as it
loes at the present time. While land
sales are quiet, yet with continued
good crops there is expected to be
n Of the biggest movements in the
sale of lands to both local and east
ern buyers in this part of the state
this fall next spring that has ever
taken place.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
Have an Aim in Life.

Go into a factory where they make
mariners comasses, and you may see
the needles before they have been
magnetized. They will then point in
any direction, but from the moment
they are applied to the magnet they
point to the north, and are true TO the
pole ever afterward, In this they are
like the young man before and after
he has q purpose in life.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
Not the shoes Fault.

This incident should never have hap
pened at all, because it's so terrible,
but 1t did happen. and this is a news
paper. OF course So the bad news
and the good must both be printed.
The two girls were talking to the
man. And the man said, in order to
make conversation:
81 notice that Miss Binks is limping
this evening. Has she sprained her
ankle?"
"No," said the first girl. smiling.
Tier shoes are too small for her
don't you think so?"
Nothing of the kind!" answered
the second girl. How can you say
such a thing? Her shoes aren't q bit
too small-they're the biggest size
made. 1t isn't her fault Her feet
are too large-that's ALL"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
Artificial Lakes.

A German investigator has found
that the large artificial lakes formed
for irrigation purposes or to supply
water for large cities, are not with
out influence on the climate of the sur
rounding locality. In n instance
that came under his notice, there has
been during the ten years since the
dam was constructed and the lake
formed. a decrease of IL degree Fab
renheit in the average monthly differ
ence between maximum and minimum
temperatures. In the neighborhood
of another lake the number of foggy
days has increased from the average
Of fi~fty-seven each year to eighty-six.
The German investigator says that
this increase a be assigned to no
other cause than the creation of the
great artificial lake and the conse-
quent increased evaporation in the To-
cality.-Popular Mechanics.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
j. l.. Browne WEEDS.

Aberdeen. l.. Browne Of this
city celebrated his denomination to
the state senate at the primaries by
uniting in marriage with Miss Eliza
beth Clary, teacher for the past ten
years at the Northern Normal and
Industrial school. So quietly was the
affair kept that not even the most
intimate friends Of the couple knew of
the approaching ceremony until the
marriage license was taken out.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
ELKS LAY CORNER STONE.
Handsome New Home Being Erected
at Yankton.

Handsome New Home Being Erected
at Yankton.
Yankton.-With a large attendance
Of townspeople, members Of the B.
p. o. e. and out of town guests, the
corner stone of the $4,000 Yankton
new Elks' home was laid with i'm.
pressive ceremonies. A parade, led by
theband, marched from the present
Elks' club rooms to the site of the
new home where the officers took
charge Of the program, Exalted Ruler
M. p. Gilman, Jr., presiding. w. II.
McMaster gave the address of the oc.
casion, especially commencing the
Yankton lodge for the work which has
been accomplished during the
even years Of it's history.
The corner stone is a beautiful piece
of Monticello red granite and is carved
with an Elk head, the clock design,
the Elk motto, "Cervus alces," and
the lettering, "Yankton Lodge, No.
994, B. p. o. E., ~1905-1912."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
Indian Y. M. C.. A. Convention.

Flandreau.-The first Iniian Y. M.
c. A. convention ever held in the
state was in session here last week.
There are twenty-seven associations,
the first one having been organized
here thirty-two years ago. Discussions
were led by Indians and white men
on subjects pertaining to education,
religion and home life. Music was
furnished by students of the Flaud-
eau Indian school. Many delegates
were here, including Stephen Jones.
of Santee, Neb., general secretary Of
indian Y. M. c. A. work, and Interna-
tionai Secretary Hall. of New York
civ
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
Cares for the Homeless.

Sioux Falls.-The annual report Of
the South Dakota Children's Home
society, which maintains a fine home
in Sioux Falls for the care of the
homeless and unfortunate children of
the state, which has just been made
public. shows that during the past
year a total Of 169 children were cared
for. OF this number, seventythree
were placed in private homes for the
first time and fo~rty-seven children
were replaced, while seventeen child
rem were returned to their guardians.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-06-13
Rrookinas Summer School.

Brookings.-The fourth annual com.
bined summer school and teachers in
stitute will be held at the South Da-
kota State College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts from Wednesday, June
10, to Wednesday, July 3, sessions to
be held six days a week. DR.. A. A.
Brigham, principal Of the school of
agriculture of the state college, will
be the director, with Miss Gertrude
Stedman, superintendent of schools
for Brookings county, assisting.