Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-01-17

~ l.itis -
with . view to Improvement in on
road laws ON such comprehensiv
lines as may enable us to build PEI
manently good roads in all sections
of the state.
+ Farmers Institutes.
You should make liberal appropria
lions for continuing and extending
the work of the farmers institutes
These institutes are of great value
and may be increasingly SO. With .
view to economy and increased eff
ficiency this work should be conduct
ed in cooperation with the proposed
agricultural education extension work
in connection with the college of agri
culture and mechanic arts. Provis.
ion should be made for so called short
courses or. schools of instruction in
improved methods of farm operation
I'm the different localities. and such
extension of the work as may seen
advisable.
Panama-nacffIc Exposition.
The opening and commercial use OF
the Panama canal is to be celebrated
by an exposition, to be held at Sar
Francisco, Cal, during the year 1915
to be known as the Panama-Pacifi.
International exposition. Most of thu
states will be represented there, and
many, no doubt, will have suitable
buildings on the exposition grounds
1t is desirable and fitting that South
Dakota and it's people be represent
ed at this celebration of so important
an event in our country's history, and
it would afford an excellent opportun-
ity for exhibition of the states re-
sources, attractions and advantages,
where so many, not only from the diff
ferent states of the union, but from
the various countries of the world
will assemble.
Liquor Traffic Regulation.
The need for strict regulation and
control of the sale of intoxicating
liquors is now recognized and acknow.
lodged by all, differences of opinion
being confined chiefly to- the merits
of different methods. The law passed
by the last Legislature requiring liquor
saloons to be closed from o'clock
p. m. to o'clock a. IN. has worked
we'll and, so far as l am informed,
has generally been observed and obey
ed. 1t is a wise provision. Forbid
ding the sale of liquor late at night,
it eliminates some of the worst feat.
ures of the traffic. Some of the more
Objectionable features of this bust.
ness would be removed by limiting
the number of saloons in given town
or area according to population. sug.
gest the enactment of law limiting
the number of saloons to not more
than one in a town of 1000 or less,
and not more than one additional for
each additional 1000 of population.
Some of the liquor dealers themselves
have expressed approval of this plan
and there should not be much oppO.
sition to such measure.
Breweries and wholesale houses
should not be allowed to own. have
an interest in or control saloons Of
places where liquor is sold at retail
The local man, owning his own bust
ness and having his interest localized
in the community, is bound to b.
more regardful of the law and rule,
Of decency than q brewery compan.
having large iterests elsewhere tt
which the local saloon is an incident
l recommend the enactment of Law
prohibiting any brewery company, d
officer, director, stakeholder or ageD'
of any such, from owning any interest
in any retail liquor saloon, or lOanine
or advancing any money or thing. OF
value, except goods sold in the regu
lar course Of trade, to any retail liQ
uor dealer.