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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
NINETEEN MILLIONS SPENT

Nearly $40, 900, 900 was spent in the
antituberculosis campaign in the
United States during the year 1912, &C
cording to the fourth annual statistical
statement Of expenditures in this
movement issued by the National AS
s~ociation for the Study and Proven
ton of tuberculosis today. These an
nual statements are based largely on
reports received from anti-tubercu-
losis agencies throughout the country.
The figures are estimated where ac-
tual reports are not available.
The expenditures during the year
for sanatorium and hospital construc-
ton and treatment make the largest
single item in the total, amounting to
nearly $16,S00,00 0 This is an increase
Of nearly $4,000, 900 over the same
group Of expenditures for the year
1911. The anti-tuberculosis associa-
tions and committees spent over $685.
900, while dispensaries and tubercu-
losis clinics spent over $500, 900. Over
$115, 900 was spent for the mainten-
ance and establishment Of open-air
schools and fresh air classes, which is
more than double the amount spent
for this purpose in 1911. Official,
state and municipal expenditures out
side Of the maintenance of institu-
tons, which are included in the other
totals, amounted to $500 900. In addi-
ton to these figures, about $500, 900
a spent by hospitals for insane and
penal institutions in caring for their
tuberculosis inmates.
The total expenditures for the year
1912 are 20 per cent, or nearly $4,-
100000 greater than the total Tor the
year 1911. Another significant feature
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
EPlGRAMS FROM MORGAN'S TIES.
TIMONY

Credit IS the basis of banking.
There can be no monopoly in money
Or credit.
You cannot buy credit.
Character is the basis of credit.
Credit has no relation whatever to
money.
Commodities can be controlled by
combination, but you cannot control
money by combinations.
Men VINO have control of credit
have control of money.
Property is not an essential basis
of credit at banks.
Men of character obtain loans with
out security when men of property
can get no credit.
| am always working for the good
of the country, even when self-inter-
est is at stake.
Railroad building has not been sup
pressed by combinations or the lack
of financial resources, but by the lack
of protection against legislation.
When a man comes to me for
money, my first question is "What is
his record?"
| never sell short.
Speculation on stock exchanges is
desirable; but manipulation should be
prevented.
l am not a power in any avenue of
industry in this country, and l am not
seeking power.
Money is a commodity in the sense
that it is regulated by the rules OF
supply and demand.
Men I cannot trust cannot get
money from me or all the govern
ment bonds in the world.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
HOW AN EDITORIAL WRITER'S
WORK BROUGHT HIM FAME

In the January American Magazine
in the Interesting People" depart
ment ap. ears an article about Frank
|. Cobb, chief editorial writer of the
New York World. MI. Cobb was
writing SO ably, although annony-
mously, in the Detroit Fress Press in
1904, that Joseph Pulitzer, the blind
editor of the World, discovered his
talent and called him to New York.
Following is an extract from the ar
ticle:
"Cobb's leaders, always cogent,
forceful and informing, made a very
favorable impression upon two dis
t~inguished Americans. When Theo-
dore Roosevelt, then president of the
United States, visited Detroit in 1903
he wanted to know about the writer
of an editorial ON Scandinavian litera-
ture, which had appeared in the Free
Press shortly before that time. The
result was an invitation for Cobb to
dine with the president in order to
hear at first hand Mr.. Roosevelt's en-
thusiastic appreciation of the editorial
and to hold companionship for a space
with all the kings and queens of liter
Observation-Disclosures in every Ease by
Mr.. Roosevelt, OF course.
"The other discriminating discover
er of the erudition and literary charm
of the Free PRESSES discussion Of cur
rent problems was Joseph Pulitzer,
proprietor of the New York World.
Seeking an infusion Of new blood in
the Worlds editorial page, he had his
secretaries read to him the editorials
Of a dozen OF the leading newspapers
of the country for several weeks. The
regular s~tory-book sequel Of this pains
taking editorialtasting by the great
publisher was a call to Cobb to write
the Worlds leaders and look after the
page.
1.-The Pulitzer test Of fitness in this
case has been indicated by the unsur-
~passable clarity, compactness, and va
riety of the Worlds interpretative
treatment Of events. No healthier,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02

DDS OF farming have made up for the
relative decrease in the number OF
farmers, and Secretary Wilson Is en-
titled to credit for the increased intel
ligence with which the soil has been
titled and planted.
AS Secretary Wilson points out, the
record of his sixteen years begins with
a yearly farm production Of $4,000
900, 900 and ends with 1882, 600, 1000.
In other words, the yield of the soil
has been more than doubled in the
years that "Tama Jim" has been at
the head of the department Of agricul-
ture.
1t is peculiarly appropriate that the
year that marks Secretary Wilson's re-
tirement from the public service
should be the greatest, from a crop
standpoint, in the entire history of the
country.
Mr.. Wilson has performed invalu-
able service for the people. If any
n mar deserves credit for the funda-
mental prosperity Of the nation, that
man is "Tama jim" He viii go out
Of Office with the undying friendship
Of all the farmers and the grateful adj
miration of the entire country.-Wash-
ington Post.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02

pointed out by the National Associa-
ton, is the expenditure of public
money. During the year 1912, 65.6
per cent Of the SIS, 90O,0 900 spent in
tuberculosis work came from either
federal, state, county of municipal
funds. This figure is considered by
the anti-tubei ~culosis) workers as par
ii ularly significant because it indi-
Gates the shifting of responsibility for
the provision of tuberculosis hospitals
and other institutions upon the MUM
cipality, county and state.
New York State again leads the
country in it's anti-tuberculosis expen-
ditures. Pennsylvania comes next
and Massachusetts and Colorado are
in third and fourth places respectively.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
HIGHLAND

Martin Risch and Julius Wiese are
busy repairing the telephone line in
this vicinity.
Nick Whiskur has purchased the
Schwartzbach farm lei Elkton and
is busy moving these days.
A basket social and dance was given
Monday evening in the school house
in Dist. No. 46.
John and Jake Bulger of White,
visited Thursday with their brother,
Math Wachter.
Henry Hollander and family visited
at Albert Gusts Sunday.
Mr., and Mrs. VIM. Mo'ter and fam
lily spent Christmas at the home of
their parents, near Lake Benton.
Lincoln Kretsinger of near Lake
Benton, is visiting at his brothers,
Clark Kretsinger, these days.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
TRAVELLING

Every n knows how much the
~Brookings public library owes DR..
Miller, that without his zeal manifest
through many Years OF almost dis
couraged hops, without his activity
when steps were taken to bring the
matter to an issue, without disinter-
ested service on the board of trustees,
Bookings might still be missing on
the library map. 1t is we'll to have
such a man, standing for educational
activity as he does, represent us in
the senate. 1t Is well particularly to
have his help in passing the proposed
library commission bill. For what
DR.. Miller thinks is a good thing for
Brookings, he thinks with equal zeal
would be a good thing for the farm
families. And when he reflects that
more than five sixths of the people Of
South Dakota are, by reason of their
location, deprived not only of ready
social i~ntercourses but also of ade-
quate school facilities, he declares
that it Is no less than a burning shame
that the state should not do what is
practicable to give them access to
good reading. So considered the
travelling library becomes not only the
farmers privilege but his right.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
A GOOD CAUSE

The time has come when more at
tention must be given to advanced
methods of agriculture. Our farms in
South Dakota could be made to pro-
duce double the amount they are pro-
ducing today II the men who are oper-
ating them could be induced to put
into practice more up to date and
economic methods of farming. Farm
ing Is more nearly an exact science
than is that of medicine, but how few
farmers really understand even the
rudiments of that science.
The farmers institutes, carrying a
corps Of practical farmers, are visit
ing as many points yer the state as
its limited funds will permit and is
preaching the gospel OF better farm
ing. of better live stock, OF better
homes, OF better business acumen,
ETC.; but the farmers Institutes are
handicapped by a lack of funds. 1t
is conceded that the appropriation for
this year will be exhausted before
many of the towns now scheduled can
be reached and many other towns not
on the regular schedule are said to be
clamoring for an institute.
There should be a number Of short
courses, or schools Of agricultural in
struction conducted at various parts Of
the state so that all might avail them
selves OF this method Of instruction.
The Legislature at its coming session
should see to It that funds are pro-
vided so that all who desire may have
the benefit of a farmers institute this
year, and that both Institutes and
short courses may be conducted the
next succeeding two years.
The amount OF money 1t would cost
will, be a mere bagatelle. but the good
that would accrue from 1t could never
be computed In dollars and cents.
Let the present legislature do some
thing for the farmer. He has been
feeding us now let US show him In
this way . small measure Of gratitude.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
BUSHNELL

George Popingo Of Rock Rapids,
Iowa, came Tuesday to opend Xmas
with his parents.
The Christmas play was a great sue
cesaL Such expressions, "The best
thing that was ever in the hail."
Very good" etc. 9 common yer
diets.
Miss Mary Marsten Of Winnebago,
Mimi. 10 q guest at the Robins home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garrison who have
been visiting their children. Mrs.
Harry FELTON, and George Garrison,
went to Minnesota for q short stay
and from there will return to their
home IN Kansas.
Mn. Stanley and Mrs. Glenn Stanley
Who have been on the sick list for q
Tow davs are shout again:
Leslte 0occh ives . visitor at the
Wilson home On Sunday.
81. Rhodes az Aurora. came over
sunday svening 70 3 Mre. Ben
IooSnie Who = Quits III.
M u n. southard Of Msckin'
- i 36lnn., / sviuiting her sister. Mrs
"a ~. gred Hartley q
- UpssaDi T. ~ sRaapa sn6sa'
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
espond
SINAI

G.. N. Isolani and family, John
Slime and family and Sam Langum
and family visited at N. o. Bursvold's
Sunday.
Laura and Marie Llope spent Christ
mas at Arne Llope's.
There was a Christmas tree in the
Lutheran church Friday evening with
over 400 people in attendance.
d. L. Myhres visited at Otto Erick-
sons Sunday.
Lewis and Robert Slime departed
for Lake Mills, Iowa, to spend Christ
mas
o. N. Johnson spent christmas at
his old home In Iowa.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
"TAMA JIM's" SWAN SONG

The report Of Secretary Wilson of
the department Of agriculture is a
swan Of prosperity. After sixteen
years Of faithful. efficient service, the
friend Of the farmer and the nation
has written into his final report the
splendid story Of the great growth Of
agricultural products growth that
was due as much to the educational
work Of the department and more
scientific methods Of farming as to the
bounty OF providence and the growth
in population.
Population On the country has not
kept pace with the increasing number
Of people An the cities. which gives
the report Of Secretary Wilson even
greater Significance. Improved meth
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
WALkING-A LOST ART

The whole nation is looking with
horror on the task thirty-four New
York s~uffragets undertook the other
day when they started to walk from
Broadway to the governors mansion
at Albany. At the time this is writ
ten, we have it in the dispat hes that
four of the thirty-four who bravely
started forth have limped into Fish
kill, some fifty miles from New York,
and approximately q third of the total
distance of their journey. The wo-
men have allowed themselves two
weeks to make the trip at an average
of ten miles a day and but four have
survived the first four days, indicating
that the undertaking is actually one
of great harship. The New York
World thinks the assumption that it
is a feat to walk ten miles a day is
an amazing n and concludes that
walking is a lost art. The eastern pa
per says:
Three miles an hour is a moderate
pace. An eight hour day is not con-
sidered too long at toll much more
severe than walking. Any normal in
dividual of either sex between ten
and sixty years of age should be able
to walk the larger part of twenty-four
miles a day without training and with
out discomfort.
"The woman who gets breakfast and
clears 1T away, goes shopping all day,
stands up in a crowded car and upon
her return home gets dinner for the
family has done more than the equiva-
lent of a fair days walk; yet she
would not commonly think it possible
to walk ten miles. A man will walk
around a billiard table two hours who
would refuse to try seven miles
straightaway in the same time"
Our elaborate means of rapid transit
from place to place L. the city and
in the country are responsible for the
decline Of what was once the princi-
pal mode of locomotion. Before the ad-
vent of the trolley in Sioux Falls, men
and women alike walked to and from
the business districts and their homes
in the remote parts of the city. Now
it Is a hardship and We take a car.
The business man who closes his desk
on a fine summer afternoon and
boards a trolley bound for the golf
links tells a fellow passenger that he
plays golf because he needs the ex-
ercise and, while he doesn't care for
the game in particular, he gets a good,
brisk three mile walk once around the
course Meanwhile, he is riding on a
trolley for two miles in order to get
exercise by walking three.
If this same business man were per-
mitted to drive his golf ball all the
way through the streets to the golf
links he would not mind the walk
from his office or his home to the
course. He must have some excuse
for walking or he will ride. If there
were means for riding around the
course while playing the game, there
would be no walking in golf.
Walking is undoubtedly, with the
most Of us a lost art.-Sioux Falls
Press.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02

to deal with secular and trivial mat
tiers in the pulpit to the exclusion Of
the great issue Of salvation" He and
others think this has something to do
with the empty pew problem. They
believe that able preaching of the IN
~adulterated gospel would do more to
fill pews than all the secular devices
contrived. Possibly. At any rate the
pulpit seems especially designed as
the place for preaching the gospel.
There are other places as we'll equip
ped for handling other problems, but
none with the exclusive function of
teaching spiritual truth.
Many churches are resorting to
moving pictures and other novel meth
DDS to draw the crowd. Well, if
crowds mean salvation, perhaps they
are on the right track. But people
can see all the moving pictures they
wish elsewhere. Yet this has come
to be an educational factor, It is said.
1t has and might be used to advan-
tage in the pulpit, only it seems a lit
tie risky to the cause of religion to ad-
NIT that it needs some such patent
scheme to substitute or supplement
the appeal of the gospel. Bishop Nc
Coy and those who agree with him
that the church's success as the dis.
penser Of grace rests upon it's fidelity
to simple religious propaganda seem
to have a good deal of argument on
their side.-Omaha Bee.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02

home for a day or two; they are en-
route to Iowa where they will visit
friends.
Mrs. F. w. Bailey has been spend
ing a few days with her children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Nelson, in the
country.
There was a social dance in the
town hall on New Years Eve, Chris
tensen's orchestra of Brookings, fur
nishing the music.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
January 2
LIVESTOCK
January

Cattle-market steady to strong;
beeves, $5.8O@9.60; Texas steers,
$4.75@5.90; western steers, $3.50
$50; stockers and feeders $4.25@
TAO; cows and heifers, $2.S5@7.60;
calves, $6.5O@10.50. Hogs-market
steady to a shade lower; light, $4,000
7.52h; mixed, $7.2O@7 55; heavy,
$7.2O@7.55; rough, $7.20@7.3O; pigs,
$5.50@7.50; bulk of sales, $7.4O@7.50.
Sheep-market steady to 10c higher;
native, $4.35@5.45; western, $4,000
sos; yearlings. $6.10@7.75; lambs, ma
tive, $6.30QS.90; western, $6.45@S.9O.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the library
association will be held in the assem-
bly, room of the city hall Monday, Jan
uary 18th at 500 p. m., for the cleo
tion of officers and other business. All
persons having contributed one dollar
more are entitled to vote at this
meeting.
Signed, DR.. +. G. Miller, Pres.
Gertrude Morrow, Secy.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
WHY NOT RAISE MORE LIVE
STOCK

With the cowboy and his larriat
rapidly disappearing from the western
plains and the top of the steer market
at Chicago lowering around the SO and
$40 mark, isn't it timely that the
farmers of this community should re-
cognize the fact that there is much
money to be made in growing live
stock for market? Since the high cost
of living become such a vital topic for
discussion and the price of beef one Of
the items showing the largest per
cent increase in price the Chicago
packers have been maintaining that
the law of supply and demand has
been the sole aus In defense of
their statements the packers point out
that no longer are the western plains
the grazing grounds for thousands OF
head of cattle which as soon as fatten-
ed were shipped to Chicago, Kansas
City or some other packing center.
They say that reclamation projects
ohb IL NNSNAhS VI lhS oI6iJCo
into small tracts for farming have
driven the cowboy and his lariat out
Of a job, and that the beef of the
future must be grown by the soil tiller
and not the cattle baron who is rapid
ly passing away.
Whether the packers are right or
not in the diagnosis of the high cost Of
living, what they say of beef for future
consumption is true. Even Texas, the
once great home of the long-horned
steer and the cowboy, is undergoing
such a transformation that the old
time "cow-puncher' would not recog-
nize it. The small farm is doing
away with the roundup in the Lone
Star State, and what is true in Texas
is also true of several of the north
west states.
Every live stock expert will say that
the under production of cattle is to
blame for the high standard Of living
costs. Agricultural college experts re-
cognize that the packers are present
ing facts and are urging the farmers
Of the middle west to buy more feed
ers and go into the cattle-growing bus
mess on a larger scale. 1t Is said the
average farmer markets not more
than one or two steers a year, when
he could just as easily feed a dozen or
so and make as much money as In any
other way of disposing the crops he
raises. One of the b~est-posted live
stock growers in the West recently
said: 1.-THE production of live stock
is going to grow, instead of going
back, as the last few years have
shown, because the farmer and the
small ranchmen finally have realized
the profit there is in raising live stock
especially as contrasted against
truck farming. The generous prices
paid for stock in the open market,
combined with the work of the agricul-
tural colleges toward this end, have
helped convince the farmer he would
better change his tactics and reap
profit in the field of growing more
live stock"
What this expert says is a mighty
good tip to the farmers Of this COM
munity. Grow more live stock and
you will make more money.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02

A peculiar coincidence is reported
from Huron where hundreds of small
birds, called Lapland Longspurs by
the state ~entomologist, were found
dead in the streets Tuesday morning,
1t was just a year and one day since
the same thing happened there.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02
THOSE EMPry pEws

Methodist Hashop James H. Mccoy
STRIKES y blow ct the modern tendency
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-02

FOR SALE-Choice timothy hay
and straw-baled. A. j. Sanders.
Phone R2S0.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-14
BILL TO AUTHORIZE
SYDNEYS SUBWAY
IBy Latest MALL

SYDNEY, N S. W., Aus. = Another
stage has been reached in the con-
struction of Sydney's underground
railway, which will run under the bus
lest portions of the city. The minister
for works has announced that 4 bill
will be introduced Immediately the
New South Wales parliament meets,
authorizing the construction of the
necessary tunnels for the city under
ground railway.
The minister, the Hon. A. Griffith.
states that the government has decid-
ed to procure authority to carry out
the work without reference to the
public works committee, SO as to OBJ
viate the long delay that would be &C.
casioned by the taking of evidence.
The scheme is based upon David
Hays original report upon Sydneys
traffic problems, as amended by the
Officers OF the public works depart
|ment working in conjunction with the
railway department.