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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

Prof. w. M. MAR of the State Col
lege, who Is a staff correspondent of
the Argus-Leader, says in that paper
recently: "The Observer has been
greatly pleased and surprised to see
the really fine buildings that have been
put up in the state the last few years.
Some of them are magnificent, as for
instance the court house in Highmore
and the la In Vermillion. These two
buildings have been erected at great
cost within the last two or three years,
and they are eloquent testimonials to
the wealth and faith of the people of
South Dakota. It would surprise the
majority of people in the east to see
these magnificent buildings standing
on these prairies." The professor has
not been a resident Of Brookings very
long and from the above we Judge
that he is not aware that we have in
this county q court house that com
petent critics say is the finest in the
state, and 1t ranks with the state CAPT
toll In everything but size.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

Monday and made a call at the Regis
ter Office.
Ole Hanson has been confined to his
home by illness the past week.
p. ]. Hegeman is opening up his
glove and mitten factory in the build
ing north of the Bank of Brookings.
Prof. Fl. B. Mathews returned from
Ann Arbor, Mich, last week and after
visiting relatives in Clark county came
to Brookings Monday to be in readi-
ness for the opening of college.
A company of fifty ladies and gentle
men reminded c.. A. Skinner that it
was his 33rd birthday Tuesday even
ing by giving him a surprise. Mrs.
Skinner proved to be a pleasing hos
tess and the evening was pleasantly
spent. Oranges, apples and ice cream
and cake were served. During the
evening Rev. VIM. Fielder in a neat
speech presented Mr.. Skinner with an
easy chair in remembrance of the &C.
casion.
Frank B. Crawford was arrested
Tuesday morning by Marshal Gullick.
Crawford is claimed to be a deserter
from the regular army. A description
of the man, furnished by Deputy
Sheriff Getman of Dodge Center,
Mimi, led to his arrest. officer Gull
lick deserves credit for the arrest, as
he only had a description of the a
He deserted April 20, 1898 from his
military duties, his regiment hen be-
ing stationed in New York.
Mrs. Boyd has been visiting at
Aurora the past week and the reports
come now that she is not expected to
live.
We have all wondered at the cold
wave from the west at this time of the
year. Word now comes that the Pa
cifc coast is experiencing the most
severe weather known in years.
The Pontiac, H., Real Estate Jour
nal recently published an illustrated
edition which contained some of the
public buildings and fine residences of
this city.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
WE CAN, BUT WE WON'T

While members of congress are do
ing their little best to find some way
of knocking high prices off their perch,
Secretary Houston's department is tell
ing the country that it has means at
hand to bring down cost of living on
it's own account.
DR.. M. E. Pennington, n of Mr..
Houston's experts, says in a public
document:
mo other civilized country wastes
foodstuffs as we waste them. If all
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

of Mr.. Houston's men were carried
out one dollar would go as far as two
dollars now go. But what's the use?
The chances are that no American will
care to follow the advice. 1t is a great
deal easier to growl at high prices and
to pay the money than it is to learn a
system and to follow it. We are a
careless people, and while we continue
to be careless we cannot be care free.
1t is something, however, to know hat
we can cut the price of living If we
want to, even if there is no chance in
the world that any one of us will try
the job on.-Chicago Evening Post.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

The latest development in the fight
between the city of Mitchell and the
Dakota Telephone Company came last
week. when Judge Trip held that the
operation of a telephone system is for
a public purpose and dismissed the in
junction suit brought to restrain the
city from building the $50, 900 tele-
phone plant voted by the taxpayers
last year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
The FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

The freedom and fearlessness Of the
press Of our country is as necessary
for the success Of our repubrc an form
OF government as Ii IN honest and In
telligent electorate. In fact the intelli-
renee Of the voters on the important
questions at issue depends pretty
largely upon the publicity that the
press ! give. AZ long ago a the
dino of making the United States ION
stffntton ne fathers Of y country
recognised TINT the liberty Of the
~ mnst ~ guaranteed and put :
6laucs = that eRsct = . organic
~ inporfancs - this provision
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

California seems to be in hard luck.
Last year the state suffered a severe
frost which did much harm to the
citrus industry, and at the present
time floods are causing considerable
damage. The present calamity, com.
ing at a time when business Is at a
low ebb in the western state. will
likely prove a serious blow to that
country.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
What They Say

Coach EWING see by a dispatch
from Vermillion that the state univer-
sity claims to have a game scheduled
with the State College football team
have made no arrangements for a
game with the university and will
make none until they agree to play the
contest on the local field. The last
game between the two institutions
was played at Vermillion, so it Is
nothing more than fair that they
should come here, especially as the
contest would attract a much bigger
crowd in Brookings than at Vermil-
ion.
M. G. Carlisle see that the Regis
ter, with Charlie Halls assistance, put
over a scoop" on the Minneapolis
Journal, as you had a mention of the
new ten-story Luce Line Terminal
Building last week, two or three days
before 1t came out in the Journal.
There has been some talk of where the
line will come into town and where
the depot will be located, but l do not
believe that anyone knows the route
into the city, not eve the Luces.
When the representatives of the COM
pany were selling stock no mention
was made of where the line would
come in, they stating that the best
interests of the city would be con
sidered. If the line runs on the streets
a franchise will have to be secured
from the city council, and no move OF
that kind has been made.
Dr.. c, c. Lipp, State college-The
question is often asked whether meat
from a hog recovering from cholera is
fit for food. Hog cholera cannot be
transmitted to man, so that even If
meat from a hog suffering from chol-
era were used there would be no
danger of man contracting the disease.
Cholera hogs are condemned on the
principle that the meat is from a sick
animal and therefore unfit for human
food. This does not mean that there
is no danger from consuming such
meat. The fever and other disease
processes at work during cholera
give rise to various harmful products
which il eaten by man may cause SER
ious illness. When a hog has had
cholera and made an apparently COM
plete recovery its meat Is perfectly
wholesome. Whether the recovery is
complete or not can usually be judged
by the general condition Of the hog,
his thrift. appetite, and appearance.
Meat from hogs recently vaccinated
should not be eaten for several weeks
or until the danger Of the possibility
of a reaction has disappeared. The
veterinary department at the college
is frequently in receipt of pieces OF
meat for examination, from butchered
hogs suspected of showing evidence OF
cholera. In most cases no diagnosis
can be made for the reason that the
meat does not show evidence of chol-
era. In order to make a positive dag
nosis Of cholera 1t Is necessary to ex-
anime the internal organs at the time
the hog is butchered. There is really
little to be feared II hogs that eat well
and appear well are butchered two
months after all trace Of cholera has
disappeared. II butchered sooner.
there II the possibility Of the meat be.
Ing unft for food. When hogs are
lvaccinatsd they should not be butcher.
IA until one month after the vaccina.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

The prejudice against moving pic.
lures is rapidly dying u and they
are being recognized as an important
aid in educational work. The latest
testimony in their behalf comes from
Chairman Vassaly Of the Minnesota
board of control, who says that the
movies" have been found to be indis-
pensible in the deaf schools and insane
asylums of the state. Hats off to the
movies"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

Highmore is to have a postmaster
primary, under the provisions of the
Richards law, within a couple of
weeks. Five candidates are in the
field and the race promises to be a
good one. The election of the post.
master by postofice patrons looks en-
tirely reasonable, and we are compel
led to admit that the Richards primary
has at least one good feature.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
TWENTY YEARS AGO;

Taken from the Register Of Feb
ruary %, 1894.
H. C. Solberg returned from Purdue
Monday night.
twenty-five new students were en-
rolled at the college Wednesday.
Geo. P. Sexauer, proprietor of the
Volga roller mill, was in Bookings
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

Senator Crawford speaks at the
opera house tomorrow night, and while
there is not a great deal of interest in
the campaign up to this time 1t Is
expected that the senator's well known
ability as a platform speaker will as
sure him a large audience.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

One wonders why there is \so much
concern at Washington over the kill
ing of one British subject in Mexico,
when the government has paid little
attention to the slaughter OF some one
hundred and fifty American citizens
there during the past year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
HARD TO EXPLAIN

Wherever a democrat is running for
a federal Office, he makes a point of
saying that he is a Wilson democrat.
Isn't it rather inexplicable that it took
the national democratic convention a
week to consent to the nomination of
this same man Wilson?-Mitchell Re-
publican.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
The Smart Aleck"
Is Seldom Popular
BY HOLLAND,

uUMOR is always enjoy
"A able. But it must be
funny. The joke that hangs
fire is a failure even under
the most advantageous cir
cumstances. When sprung
with the wrong background
|. Is worse than q failure-it
is a tragedy.
Advertising Is a serious
matter. 1t costs money and
Is designed to make money.
1t is no place for jokes, no
place for witticisms, no place
for the smart Aleck." The
jest that will ''go" when de-
livered orally with a SPAR
king eye and a contagious
smile will often fall fiat
when these accessories are
lacking. Cold type Is a Sc
we're trial for attempts at
merriment.
The wise advertiser will be
chary Of efforts at humor.
The quip that causes a smile
in the humor column would
be likely to sound silly in an
advertisement. And even If
1t provoked a guffaw it would
not sell goods.
BUSINESS Is BUSINESS,
ADVERTISING is BUSl-
NESS.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

The Saturday Review Is a new Dem
ocratic paper at Huron, the first issue
of which appeared this week. Frank
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

South Dakota should not have a
NORWOOD political campaign. Let us
have the roses without the thorns.-
Geddes News.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
How to Detect the
Alum Baking Powder

(Which are the alum baking powders;
how can avoid them unless they are named9'
asks a housekeeper.
Here is one way: take the can Of a low
priced powder in your hand and read the
ingredient clause upon the back label. The
law requires that if the powder contains alum
that fact must be there stated. If you find
one Of the ingredients named alum. or SUI
phate Of aluminium, you have found an alum
baking ponder.
There is another and a better way. You
don't have to know the names Of the alum
powders. Use Royal Baking Powder only;
that assures you a cream of tartar powder,
and the purest and most healthful baking
powder beyond question.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

ton, so that should there be a slight
reaction, 1t has had ample time to dis
appear.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

A Popular Want will do it!
New Britain herald., 1914-08-27
A War Footing For the Family.
 (New York Tribune.)

It is beginning to come home to most of us that the effects of the European Armageddon are by no means confined to Europe. Here in America a minority composed chiefly of farmers and meat packers are making more money than ever. The bulk of the country is feeling the pinch of a higher cost of living and reduced business all along the line. We are spared the tragic business of keenly. We are realizing more vivid ly than ever the innumerable and complex relationships which bind the modern world together and in con- sequence of which no nation can live to itself.
 Realizing our lot what should we do? There is a lot of plain, hard sense to back period of strict econ omy. Most American families, from father with his cigars down to Mary Jane with her tango slippers, have long list of extravagances. Frugal ity is not one of our national vir- tues We have the habit of spending and we are proud of it. We'll, the present is a splendid time to forget our national predilections and start promptly to put our family living on a war basis. A few months of care full spending can be recommended to most of our households. Luxurles can be cut and necessities bought With extra care and attention. Waste can be reduced to a minimum.
 In the long run this country must gain and gain greatly through Eu- ropes setback. In the present months of stringency we can, if we will, both help ourselves through the passing troubles and incidentally pick up q speaking acquaintance with the ad- mirable virtue of economy.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-27

cause, she said, she was not one who would be guilty of saying one thing at one time and another thing at an other. Yet we do not all wear our years so gracefully. Some of us re- pine at the calendars reminder ana would erase the record if we could We wish no commemoratlon of an unwelcome fact. We are content to let our juniors have the candles and the cake and the birthday presents.
 But there are ways of not letting the calendar know how old we are. The secret of perennial youth seems to have been whispered to a few tor- tunate souls We do not think of them as growing old, for their hearts are always young within them and the, spirit of play alive. They have the sense of humor and of blithe abandon which even the occasional minor cad ences of tragedy cannot obllterate. They are not pessimists who brood upon departed glories and can fore cast naught but black evil in the days to come. They believe that "the best is yet to be-" and they are unafrald of what the future holds. Each birth day. though it may write some trivial legend of age upon the physical frame, finds the spiritual tenant younger still
New Britain herald., 1914-08-27
The Real Tragedy. Springfeld Republican.)

The tragedy of modern warfare is f that it is not fought. by the fighters. In the death on the battlefield of a born soldier. treading the paths of glory to the grave, there is nothing for the world to regret; that was his chosen career and the expectable end ing of it. The world has lost one more fighter, and nothing more; it is otherwise when a bullet makes an end of man whose gifts have nothing to do with war. In the Austrian army is one of the two greatest living violinists, Fritz Kreisler; in Belgium, over age but anxious to enlist to de- fend his country, is the other, Eugene Ysaye; in the French, army Jacques Thibault is said to be fighting. All the armies are full of men of varied gifts, many of them rare and fine, and quite irrelevant to war; such stuff is too precious for the battlefield-bul- lets one makes of lead, not of gold.
 War is hell,'' said Sherman, who was a keen military thinker but not a militarist; it is view to which militarists have never given assent. They are declaring today as they have always declared, that war is the great est of games. the highest expression of human energy, the instrument of the nations will, Natures inevorable law of progress. And it must be con- sidered that the born fighters war has never seemed what Sherman called it. Take, for instance, the rebel guerrilla leader, John A. Mosby, who saw as much hard hand -to-hand fighting as any man in the Civil war, and exposed himself to danger with zest-"not that he was reckless" says one of his men, "but he was unconsciously brave, and loved war for itself; it was never 'nelp to him, as it was to Sherman, but on the whole he rather looked at 1t as a sort of martial picnic"
 The philosopher will waste no time in deploring that the fighting man should like to fight, and if he is a hard-hearted philosopher he may even feel that 1t would not be bad thing for the world if its fighting blood could be periodically let by put ting the born warriors at the con- genial task of mutual elimination But what his philosophy does not re- veal is why he, a man of peace, to whom slaughter is abhorrent, and whose special gifts are wasted on the battlefield, should be eliminated along with the militaristic surplus.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-27
WE COULD STOP WAR.

Evidence has been introduced in
 the John Doe Investigating proceed ings now being conducted in New
 York by District Attorney Whitman to show that if an embargo were placed on wheat, flour and similar
 products that the war in Europe
 would cease, that the surplus thus
 created in the local markets would
 lessen prices at home and the country
 and the people would be the better for
 1t. It is stated that Russia alone is
 short 4OO,O0O,0O0 bushels of wheat
 and it is believed that the conditions in all warning countries are such that this country could find ready mar ket for it's entire crop of foodstutfs, but on the other hand it is believed that the farmers of this country would be very much displeased if the gov ernment at Washington took steps to place an embargo on the exportation of all grains to Europe.
 It must be apparent that if there is to be large exportations of food
 stuffs that the effect will be higher
 prices here because it would cause a scarcity of those articles and that
 would send the prices skyward. This
 condition shows that there is some
 selfshness in the average man and it is because of this that socialism can never hope to prosper in this country When the American business man sees an opportunity to make money
 he wants to make it and he will not
 retain a kindly feeling for those who
 oppose him. If the administration at
 Washington prevents foodstuffs from
 being shipped abroad as it virtually
 has in the case of money, the agricul-
 tural element will never forgive it
 and that opposition is likely to be
 enough to cause it to hesitate about
 acting along the line suggested. The
 conditions, however, are worth seri-
 ous attention. -
New Britain herald., 1914-08-27
BOND AND NOTE TAX.

State Treasurer Roberts is taking pains to notify the people of the state that all persons owning bonds or notes liable to taxation should write to him for lists and arrange, to pay what they owe on this tax This is one of the forms of taxation that is difficult to collect. Those liable for this tax ought to pay 1t in the town where they live, but under the law they can pay it to the state at the rate of four-tenths of one per cent, whereas if they do not pay it there and desire to pay it where they live, which is not likely, they must pay the regular local rate which in New Britain for instance is fifteen and a half mills.
 It is difficult to induce people to pay this tax and it seems almost an impossibility to get them to own up to having the property. The state, however, Is going to make an effort to force people to pay by passing a ldW III IIlc ucAL lCSloldluIc, lIcdSuIcT Roberts says, that will compel them to pay this tax at the local rates for all the time which the owners of the bonds and notes have had them in their possession and did not pay the tax. This is to be regarded as pen- atty and it seems as if it might be a severe one for those who are caught with the goods.
 For several years the state has been endeavoring to make people pay their taxes and it has been a difficult task, but 1t is now apparent that steps are to be taken in the case of those in debted for this particular tax that will make it very costly for the de- linquents. There is quite difference between paying four-tenths of one per cent. to the state and fifteen or sixteen mills to the town or city. It is very evident that it is much better to pay the state now than to pay the higher rate later on to some one else. The treasurer will be glad to give advice on this matter if interested people care to write for 1t.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-27
Trials of Working Women.
(Chicago Tribune.)

Conaplaint is being made that in our recent agitation for the intelligent handling of the problem of unemploy- ment woman was completely lost sight of. AS matter of fact, 1t is stated, woman suffers from unem- ployment to a not inconsiderable ex- tent. Many of the trades open to her are seasonal. In time of general depression women get no more con- sideration from employers than men.
 While there are, however, hum dred and one places where the un- employed man can spend the day, and even night, where he can find shelter from cold and rain, where he can even get food free, the number of places open to the unemployed woman is very small. She cannot spend the day ill saloon. She cannot sleep in Hallway. She does not enjoy the mans privilege of panhandling. She cannot beg in the street the price of a cup of coffee.
 Why does not the woman who is in such a plight turn to homework? is often asked. To begin with, there is no homework for all such unemployed women. Then. again, not all such women are fit for homework. You cannot make cook out of glove maker or bindery girl on short notice, no notice at all. The prob lem of unemployment among women, it is argued must be met with the same provisions and agencies that come to the help of the unemployed man. There is not only reason in this demand; justice and humanity are on its side. The woman out of a job is entitled to all the consideration man getS-and more.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-27
D. MCMILLAN
lss-2ol-z03 MAIN STREET.

employ and joined the British army, in addition to giving the men their jobs back when they returned from the front.
 The Associated Portland Cement manufacturers have agreed to reinstate the men upon their return from the war, and in the meantime will turn over to the wives or relatives of the warriors the difference between their regular wages and those which they will earn in the army.
 The Dunlop Rubber Co, which lost 1 ,00O men through enlistment, has an- nounced it will keep their places open, and during the war will pay to their wives half the salaries of their married men.
 The Union Castle Mali Steamship Co.,, will give half pay to the married men, and the General Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals will give half pay. Both organizations will reinstate the men on their return.
 Hundreds of firms and institutions throughout the United Kingdom have been equally iberal.