The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-05
What They Say

to go south to Sioux Falls / am salts
fed that the people down my way will
fall over themselves to lend their sup
port. From all indications the Luces
mean business, and it will be a great
thing for Brookings to have them
build to the city.
r. M. EIiis-The department store
had to buy a team of horses and an
other delivery wagon the other day,
and l don't know why the Register
shouldn't pay for them. Why SO?
Well, it's the Registers fault because
we bought them. The advertising we
have been doing in your paper brought
the business, compelling us to put on
another wagon, and l insist that the
Register is to blame. You can come
up to the store and settle any time.
r. r. Johnson-It seems to me that
the fishermen of the city should take
some steps to stamp out the SEEMING at
Lake Campbell this year. We have a
good dam in now that will raise the
lake considerably and from the num-
Der of pickerel that have been caught
through the ice this winter the lake
must be pretty well stocked with them
and 1t will furnish splendid fishing,
provided we can keep out the seines.
l am told that a party purchased sew
eral hundred feet of small rope at a
local store the other day and he boldly
announced that he wanted 1t to use on
a seine. 1t is common knowledge that
two or three local parties were using
a gill net on the west side last year,
and If this kind of work keeps on how
long will our fishing last? I don't see
why we can't get the state game war
den to authorize a local man as a
deputy, and we must have some money
left in the dam fund that could be
used to pay him. Then II the real
sportsmen will cooperate with him we
can put the fish-hogs out of business.
j. w. Warren-In common with
other Brookings citizens I have a feel
ing of civic pride every time I see the
new government building they are put
ting up down there on the corner, and
yet when I think of 1t seriously I
der IL 1t isn't a mistake. Bookings
deserves a public building just as
much as Huron, Watertown. Mitchell.
Rapid City and the other towns in this
and other states, but I wonder If the
whole pork barrel" system isn't
wrong. Every town of any conse-
quence feels that 1t should have a pub
lie building and n is as much entitled
to it as the other, but you know and I
know that Brookings and these other
towns could get along with a whole
lot cheaper building and yet it could
be one that would be q creditable addi-
ton to the town. The government Is
building for permanency. but wouldn't
1t be cheaper and better for them to
contract with some one to build a sub
stantial building and pay rent. AS 1t is
now they purchase a valuable corner
and put up a $4,000 building that will
never produce a cent of taxes for the
local community. Understand me. I
am not kicking because Brookings has
that building. On the contrary l am
glad Of It, but I believe the custom of
building these expensive buildings all
over the country Is wrong. Just as
wrong as for the government to ap-
propriate fourteen million dollars for
two new b~attleships. something they
did the other day. Millions of the peo-
pies money are poured out every year
that suffering humanity could use
mighty well. How much could Brook
ings use? Quite a little I think. The
other day a youngster anne to my
house and wanted some work to earn
enough to buy a second reader. His
father was dead, he said, and his
mother was taking In washing. I do
not have to buy any school books. SO
I did not feel that I was doing very
much in giving him the price of the
book. Here was a boy only old enough
to use a second reader out looking for
work at this time Of the year, and I
have been wondering since II he and
his mother and thousands of others in
this highly civilized country of ours
could not use some of the millions the
government is wasting through its
pork barrel"