Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-10-01
Business S~tagnant
!. On Atlantic Coast
Warren w. Odds Finds Conditions
stagnant in New York-Many
Out of Employment.

Mr.. and Mrs. Warren w. Odds, who
reside on their farm northwest of
Watertown, returned last Saturday
from an extended sojourn in eastern
sections, particularly New York.
They also visited in Michigan and
Pennsylvania. They had been abb
sent owe three months. Mr.. Olds'
mother and a sister, who had like
wise been visiting In eastern states,
returned with them.
Speaking of conditions generally
throughout the eastern border of the
country, Mr.. Olds said that he heard
more complaints regarding hard
times in New York than elsewhere
during his stay in the east.
Stagnant in New York.
81 noticed" said Mr.. Olds, in con-
versation with a Saturday News rep
resentative, that practically through
out all of New York state there was
a general complaint with regard to
business depression. Many laboring
men were out of employment, and the
unemployed seemed to be increasing
in numbers rather than decreasing.
Many people in that section were be-
ginning to wonder what would be the
condition when winter, with its rig
ors, is upon them.
THE cause? Well, that's something
that / couldn't exactly ascertain, to
my own satisfaction. 1t was gener-
ally laid to the European war, but
did not altogether impress itself up
on my mind as being the sole cause.
Stock Exchanges Closed.
"True, the closing of the stock ex-
changes, and the thousands of small
auxiliaries, otherwise known, per-
haps, as bucketshops has. resulted in
turning loose upon the labor mar
kets no inconsiderable population, 1
presume. You see, the brokerage
concerns have no business, to speak
of, when the stock exchange is not
in operation; hence, all of their en-
ployees are forced into other chan
nels to find work.
But that is only an incidental af-
fair, SO far as l could perceive. Of
coursG much Of the foreign conn
/. merce has been likewise suspended,
which throws another class Of labor
upon the market, SO that, taken as a
whole, the war may have consider
able bearing upon the labor situation,
and yet it does not seem to me the
sole cause. There are other condi.
tions entering into it-conditions
which have been brought about, NO
doubt, by the general trend of our
modern industrialism and the com
mercialism of the day.
H. s.E #taeEh5- IT,.
Better in Michigan.
However" continued Mr.. Olds,
1--WE did not find conditions quite SO
distressing further west. In Mich,
iligan, for instance, the unemployed
were comparatively few in number;
In fact, did not impress US at all, tc
speak of.
Crops, too, in the latter state have
been good this veal. But one thing
noticed in Michigan, as compared
with New York, and That is that the
apple growers, SO far as my observa
tons extended, are not taking the
care of their fruit that is characters
tic In New York. In the eastern state
the apple raisers are beginning IL
look after their orchards in a system
attic way, doing their spraying at the
proper time and doing more or less
judicious pruning, whereas in Mich
igan, in those regions which we Wis
tied, the orchards have been some
what neglected and that neglect is
still noticeable.
"But Dakota For Me.D
nBut, on the whole, concluded Mr.
Odds, South Dakota is good enough
for me. / saw sections where there
is obviously more wealth to thu
square mile, and where the genera.
trend Indicated a richer country, may
be, but that was due in part to theil
superior farming methods. There
were a few sections where, accordins
to my view, the farmers are proceed
ing along scientific lines in a yer,
practical way, and they are reapins
an increased treasure of profit as
result.
Better Farming Needed Here.
ut struck me, as / passed arount
in some Of these we'll farmed CON
munities. that we of South Dakot;
may also increase our profits by fol
lowing along similar lines.
we farm better, as a rule, her,
than in many of the regions whicl
We visited while away, but / dom
believe we farm we'll enough. No
QUITE SO much land for each farme
end little more thorough metho,
would result in greater profits TO
the means and energy expended, / be
heve, right here In South Dakots
even right around WATERFOWL.
That's what we'll have to come tx
iii my opinion was Mr.. Odds cor
Guiding shot.
Il What WOULD YOU DO?
There are many times when on
man questions anotherss actions an
motives. Men act differently unde
different circumstances. The que,
ton is. what would You do right no,
If you had a severe cold? Could 70
do, better than to take Chamberlain
Cough Remedy? 1t is highly recon
] mended BY people who have used
"a forkvears and know itS Faiiie. Mr.,