Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-12-11

Wilson said more in column than
Roosevelt has said in seven.
Indians in this vicinity are pre-
dieting there will be no winter this
year.
When two politicians tell each other
how hard they work neither does much
listening.
Some domestic science school will
make itself famous by issuing cook
book with the eggs left out.
A perusal of the editorial pages of
the state machine indicate that they are
badly frightened about something.
North Dakota's 8 coal output, accord
ing to the geological survey, amounts
to about Q half million tons annually.
If Wilson holds congress over Christ
mas the limit OF presidential power and
congressional obedience will have been
reached.
A good deal more would have been
said about the weather if confidence
had been felt that the weather would
stand pat.
If the weather man is planning to
send little of the other sort of thing,
he will find his clientele pretty well
prepared for it.
II Uncle Sam wants to get more
money for his postal savings banks
let him do the way the other savings
banks do, namely, advertise.
1t is something to induce lot of in.
telligent voters to get out publicity and
be counted with the minority. You
have to give it to the Richards law; it
did just that.
As tho state press becomes inter-
ested in tho candidates for political
offices the editorials on good roads
and boosting South Dakota become
fewer and shorter.
The cordial way in which congress
received President Wilson did not ex-
hibit evidence of the strained relations
which critics of the executive have
been looking for.
In California women who vote
must tell whether they are married
or not, but the borrid men have not
as yet arranged it so that the ladies
will have to state how many children
they have.
congress had the opportunity of
adding much to the pleasure of the
Thanksgiving season but has allowed
it to slip. Still, perhaps congress
will do better another year.
Kansas City Times: Gen. Huerta
may as well make up his mind that the
only recognition he will get will be
when his friends say: "Don' he look
natural?''
It is not unpleasant to turn away
from constant evidences of Industrial
expansion in that section just to con-
template for moment the fact that
there are ae7 colleges in the southern
United States.
1t is impossible to see, however,
what useful thing is accomplished by
the aviator who flies upside down.
The world is waiting patiently for an
aviator who flies straight ahead and
keeps right side up.
Kansas City Star: PresidsnS Will
sons addresses are as brief and fine
and clear as might be expected from
q very able and very busy man who
does his own typewriting with one
finger out of use.
The eight hour day is all right, if
one wants to take orders all his life,
but the man who gets to the place
where he can give them gets there by
disregarding time schedules and ''slow
down" signals. Marshall County SEN
tinel.
The government has accepted the bid
of the Ripley Steel Boat company Of
Grafton, ILL.,, to furnish and equip a
new ferryboat for Forest City. At ap-
proximately $500. The new craft is
to be GA feet in length. with steel hull
and horsepower sufficient for all emer-
gencies.