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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
DEFENDS POPULAR REMEDIES
Speaker Says Newspapers Should In
vestigate Merits of Medicines Be-
fore Barring Advertisements.

mat an organized attempt has been
made to blac'~"n the reputation of the
popular family remedies of this u
try, and to mislead the newspaper
publishers into rejecting the adver-
Using OF such medicines, was the
charge made by Carl J. Balliett, Of
Buffalo, N. Y, at the convention of the
Advertising Affiliation at Detroit.
Mr.. Balliett is a director of the Pro
prietary Association Of America, which
includes in it's membership two hun
dred firms which make the popular
prepared medicines of America.
Mr.. Balliett pointed out that it is
the duty of the newspaper publisher
to refuse the advertising of any fake
or fraudulent medicine, just as it is
his duty to refuse any fake or fraudu-
lent advertising, but it is not right to
shut down on all medical advertising
because there have been some takers,
n more than it would be right to
refuse to publish all department store
advertising because certain stores
have made a practice of lying about
bargain sales.
Disease and death are mysteries.
People who are perfectly we'll are
skeptical. They laugh at the time
worn patent medicine joke, just "a
they laugh again and again over the
many variations of the operation joke
THE operation was a success but
the patient died" This so-called hui
NOR has perhaps hurt the medicine
business with well people, but when
he hitherto healthy mar feels a Sc
we're pain or illness, he Immediately
wants medicine, and will bless the
cure whether it be at the hands of a
regular doctor, a homeopath, an osteo-
path, a Christian Scientist or patent
medicine. There is nothing more
deadly thar disease; nothing more
honorable than to cure it.
Mr.. Balliett refuted the idea sought
to be spread about that pa,ent medi-
clnes are unpopular by showing that
from 1900 to 1912 the amount of pre-
pared medicines consumed in America
increased from $780, 0O, 900 to $780,
000,0 300 annually. He showed that, al
though the American Medical Associ-
alton is trying as al organization to
exterminate s~o-called patent medi-
cines, the family doctor, individually,
is not fighting them but prescribing
them. He estimated that 400 of the
prescriptions written by doctors today
include proprietary medicines.
The writings of DR.. Harvey w. Wi
ley, he said, have also aimed to de-
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12

stroy confidence in proprietary medi-
cines; but that DR.. Wiley's ideas ara
not infallible is shown by cases where
his analyses We're entirely wrong. Mr.
Balliett mentioned a case where. with
all the power of the Government, he
fought a preparation as being danger
u to health, and was ingloriously
walloped.
There has been spread the idea that
a clever faker can mix a few useless
ingredients and, by smart ADVERTISING
sell tons Of it and win sudden wealth.
whereas, as a matter of fact, the medi-
cine business is VIGOROUSLY difficult
and, where there has been one success
at it, there have been a hundred fail
ures. Any medicine which has no
merit cannot live, because persons
who are duped into buying it once will
not buy it again, and the profit from
advertising a medicine can only come
from repeat sales to the same, salts
fed people. Therefore, any medicine
which has been on the market for a
number of years, and is still adver.
tised, must have merit behind it to ac-
count for it's ucces
In conclusion MIR. Balliett declared
that no newspaper is doing justice to
it's readers in the matter Of medical
or other advertising, unless it investi-
gates, not only the wording of the adj
ye~rtisement offered for publication,
but the merits of the article adver-
tised. He pointed out that the few
newspapers who have been deluded
into the policy of barring out medical
advertising have adopted this general
policy, rather than to form an inves-
tigation bureau Of this kind which
could, in a constructive and useful eff
fort, investigate and decide what is
a good product and what is a fraud,
in not only the medicine business, but
in every other business which adver-
tises it's wares to the public.
The audience seemed to agree with
Mr.. Balliett's ideas on the subject and
the chairman decided the question at
issue in his favor.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
What Is Greatness?

All, gentle, tender lady minei
The winter wind blows cold and shri1l-
Come, fill me one more glass of wine.
And give the silly fools their will.
And what care we for war or wrack,
Flow kings and heroes rise and faIlf
Look yonder,+ in his coffin black
There lies the greatest of them all.
TO pluck him down, and keep him up.
Died many million human souls
lis twelve O'clock and time to sun.
Bid Mary heap the fire with Goals.
He captured many thousand guns;
We wrote The Great before his name:
And dying, only left his sons
The recollection OF his shame.
Though more than half the world was his
He died without a road his own;
And borrowed from his enemies
Six foot of ground to lie upon.
He fought a thousand glorious wars,
And more thar half the world was his:
And somewhere now, in yonder stars.
Can tell, mayhap, What greatness is.
William Makepeace Thackeray.
written at Paris at the time of the sec
ond funeral of Napoleon.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
Food Price Advance Not Justified.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
have adyanesedp ft to th rn Highest 6hs ofi@i ie1e ft ever
recorded on a gold ~basis-much above
the level of five and six years ago, when
Of living was a national occupation.
Taking the many staple articles that en-
ter into Bradstreet's index number the
clared amounted to 10 per cent.
Gene rail-, s+ si4Pg pc ! ',t this advance was
that war in Europe would at ali AFFECT
ennifrv the and demand nnaat1n,e or i the eb supply of
but in a fortnight poultry and vegetables
moved up from 20 to 40 per, cent. Even
in rural districts, where local supply
meets local demand, such advances took
place. There was no conspiracy about
it. and the causes are beyond the reach
of the most puissant attorney general.
through long habit wal and food are assoc
ciated in the public mind. A culinary
marked up the price and people who had
to buy food paid it.
There might reasonably nave been
some advance in sugar, but the price
doubled in Is days-incidentally, accord
the sugar trust a profit of SIS, 900, 900. That
trust was no more particularly to blame
than anybody else.
hands of consumers. If they will cut
dow consumption of PARTICLES that have
unfeaSonably advanced the price will fall.
Wheat and sugar are the only staple food
articles the distribution of which seems
likely to be affected in a permanent way
by the war: Probably the ernand for the
former will be increased, because each
Russia, will wish to store up as large a
stock Of the cereal as possible. And the
available supply of sugar will doubtless
be decreased.
AS to most articles, consumers are war
ranted in resenting an advance in price;
but the resentment will not be effectual
except as it expresses itself In a refusa,
to buy.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12

TIC duchess Ct Sutherland. who is
acting "a z Red Cross nurse. was IN
1ss FIRE during ths bolabsrdment Of
Na-1~ rF s1s Germans.
" LIZ 6a9a9 Eonae workers en-
saegsS By ire trades IL London over
rTEv4 t-aorsan6 ara cut ct work,
Ta9is aezaa II hundred thousand are
r1 saa-ae-
Mrn George ~ eoatha2s. wife Of the
s-Terzaor IF 1e Panama canal zone. ia
known as Ire first lady @ the land"
E that gsr1itory-
Crar ene mullen women signed the
sppegl grsaaated TO President Wilson
asking hsaa To lead g movement for
s.ssas's sE2sag the warning nations
s-fSrsagG
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
Farmers to Help.

Tonkers, N. Y, has a Housewives
s&gue that has started an ~inyestiga-
ton Of the high prices being charged
by the local dealers. Mrs. H. NJ Crow
ssr, at the head Of the league. eau
toned the members against laying In
too large gupplies and urged them TO
buy more economically than ever The
farmers viii be asked to cooperate
With the league and keep the mem
sers supplied.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
Pertinent Suggestion.

A vesataE but Entserlg merchant was
~rsiebrsase FIR having a magnifcently
Ascosztes dining room, whilst his
rdas1s were very few. 4 celebrated
viii waa aartfsd 10 dine on a certain
-oncafEesB and the hogt asked him If he
Gisafs Ihank the room elegant.
+Tss was the reply. But 1t Is not
rnasa 10 rng tgste."
-Ana what change would you
szsa.ks asked the host
as@ answered the wit, 1T this
we're ag house, you know, / would
asyeooklng ct the ceiiing-less
gliding aadhere he glanced furtiye-
" IT the Dining table-more carving.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
CRAZE IS FIRST
OF SOCIAL
HYSTERIA IN

I Then came the polka epidemic In
1874, beside which the present tango
craze is mild.
The polka was an old peasant dance,
handed down with folklore. Josef
Neruda saw a girl dance 1t in the
Elbeleinitz market place. He showed it
to some friends in Prague. From there
1t spread TO Vienna and Paris.
The Greatest Dancing Master.
Then Cellarius, a Frenchman, prob
ably the greatest dancing master who
ever lived, took the polka to London
and cleaned up several fortunes with
1t. The newspapers said that he was
kept busy giving lessons that the one
hour between 2 and 3 a. m. was the
only time he had in which to sleep.
None of the freak dances of that
time lasted. They were given names
like ragtime music. Up Tails All,
Jumps of Pudding, The Bath, The
Ladies Misfortune, Rub Her Down
With Straw, and there was one dance
called An Old Mans a Bagful O.
Bones.
Here in America we have originated
only one international dance: the two
step.
Most of our other dances were de-
vised by plantation darkeys-cake-
walks, reels, clogs and breakdowns-
and never took abroad, except on
the stage.
The roller skating obsession of the
early sos put dancing in the back
ground and when roller skates got
common during the sos dancing did
not come back-bicycles came in.
Then bicycles got SO common that
when they went by boys yelled ice"
and for a time it looked good for dane
ing.
But along came automobiles, and
1T was not until the novelty of riding
in an automobile began to wear off
that the recent revival Of dancing be-
gan.
Tango Is Japanese.
The tango did not originate in Ar
g%entine.
1t came from Tango, Japan, a dis
trict on the southern shore of Wasaka
bay down on the west coast, where
it originated some 800 years ago in
the city of Hashidate.
Hashidate, Matsushima and Miyas-
hima are the japanese pleasure resorts
corresponding to our Newport, Allan
tic City and Tuxedo.
The music for the Japanese tango
was strummed On an instrument
known as the stamisen. When Argen-
tine borrowed the dance from Japan
and gave it plenty of advertising, they
discarded the stanlisen and hired brass
bands.
They also modified the dance lust
as a composer makes ragtime out of
classical music by eliminating notes in
regular combinations to get a synco-
pated, choppy, snappy effect.
Tango itself is an oriental word;
the name of the Chinese dynasty that
ruled from 618 to sos, A. D.
Nearly all dances originate
In the hot countries, and Japan has
been a rising point for rivers Of danc-
ing that sent out branches all over the
world.
The famous side show hulu-hulu
dance of the Hawaiian islands was
adapted from the Japanese sacred
hulu dance.
We have all been reading of the
great awakening Of China, how the
Chinese are striving to eclipse the
Japs.
The success of the Japanese tango
evidently made China jealous, for
about the time the new tariff bill
passed the Senate, they exported a
Chinese dance known as the tao-tao,
which already is eclipsing the tango
here in America.
Hop light. ladies. your cakes all
F! dough-"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
AIsace and Lorraine.

The area Of Alsace is 1874 square
miles; Of Lorraine, 1900 square miles.
Population of Alsace-Lorraine, 1,S0O,-
600, of mixed German, French and Celt
stock. Incorporated with the German
Lorraine had been practically French
since the treaty of Westphalia, in 164S,
until it was taken by Germany in 1871
as one of the spells of the Franco
Prussian a
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12

The Belgian newspaper Patriotic gives
the following story:
"A battery of Belgian mttrailleuses was
surrounded when the ammunition was ex-
hausted, but the men determined to make
a dash with dubbed rifles, using their
bayonets as daggers. AS everybody famil-
lar with Belgium knows. dogs are every
where used for light draft, and mitrail-
leuse batteries are mostly drawn by these
fine animals. Seeing their masters rough
Ily treated in a hand to hand fight. the
dogs Joined in so effectively as to enable
the gnnners to break through, while the
dogs covered their retreat
"A soldier carried one or these heroic
beasts In his arms, for 1t had a bullet
through the paw. Blu It did not whine
just kept licking the hand OF its rescuer.,'
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12

yGUR oTFg DRUGGIST Will TELL YoU
IN ksrss ays ke.ntay tor Bed Weak wste1
EyE AEa GEzLl&Atss5 HyEa1S; NO snErSng-
axs Eye CcMtorL Ws.te for EooE of iAe Rys
Fy H&-l ETse- kErLs Ere Rs-ns4y Ca Clczss.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
Rone Valuable.

~konsy has no value IN Europe
aow.
10: heard al Monte Carlo they
wsre g-aEng ham sandwiches"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12

"DO NOBLE THINGS
NOT DREAM THEM

: Annie Winsor Allen In the Atlantic.
To each man, by an illusion of
, interior optics, his own real life
: appears to be. not what we see
; him doing. but what he feels
; himself feeling-his own invis-
; ible sensations, emotions, aspi-
; rations and satisfactions. He
, is to himself the enter of a
: weh-like universe, and every
; least message that comes
, TO him is. by a necessity of his
souls unity. equally interesting
and exciting to him. But this
, subjectiyeness is not life; it is
; existence. Life is conduct; it IS
growth and betterment; it is
; what follows the emotion and
: desire; it is effort and achieve
, ment or failure. Unless we do
, the things, we cannot get be-
; yond to seek further things. AS
: far back as man began he has
: thought and felt delicately. The
; Mid-Victorians set out to deli
: cately. 1t is this doing the
? things that makes US grow up.
.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12

Rather lnquisitive.
zone ticket to Lemont."
"Single?"
None of your business."-Life.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12

The personnel of the navy OF thu
United States II than $4,000.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
DOCS FOUGHT With Soldiers.

written at Paris at the time of the Sc
ond funeral of Napoleon.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16

The formation
backied
pockeed the end buckng with the
uIar number of the line
He
the interference before well
this splendid
he played
tackle;
between their
required be trials
make distance
Ndy recall
at Columbus Ohio in 1894 in which used this play least oneaf
everything
play they could finally
scarcely hing
DO recall having
but think the IS
back and lined IA a
permitted to tds formation did
have direct
him
This would wall
the side which il is always hardest get interference.
AM reminded peculiar thing
which far know
the only football
This of
instance heard of hvius been done football
the right playing
this play repeated one time right after another
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16

said that l was looking for the soft
ones. l never picked my opponents,
always fought the men the public
demanded me to fight
When we arrived in San Francisco
left all the details of the match up
to Nolan. | told him the weight |
wanted-135 pounds three hours be-
fore the fight. | felt that | had a
right to dictate as to weight. since
Nelson and Wolgast had their say
when they were champions. And |
could not find any rule compelling me
to make 1873 pounds, ringside
Compromises on Weight Question.
The match came very near falling
through because of the hitch over
the weight. Joe Levy. representing
Rivers, held out for 1873 pounds, ring
side, and finally made it a couple of
hours before stepping into the ring.
! decided that l would stand pat,
and Nolan advised me to do so, and
the battle was on. The match was up
in the air, and Graney was in stew
Levy was just about as stubborn and
obstinate as Nolan and myself and
he threatened to call il all off if we
refused to give in.
Finally compromise of 1874 pounds
an hour before the battle was sug-
gested. Nolan and | thought this
over, and gave in rather than lose the
match, for we were afraid Rivers
would pass us up.
Shortly after signing the articles
went with Nolan again to his ranch
In Lake County. / wanted couple
of weeks of complete rest in the
mountains after my strenuous career
on the stage | knew that | would
have to be right IN order to beat Riv-
ers, and | certainly did not intend to
take any chances with such a danger
Gus hitter
1t was while on the ranch that my
first real trouble started. The split
with Nolan is what | have reference
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
BY W lille Richie.

CAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16.-I fin
ished my theatrical work in
Portland. Greg. on June / of last
year, and | heaved many a sigh of
relief when the last turn was over.
| felt tired and weary of the stage,
and every time I looked at the foot
lights the old longing to get back into
the ring crept over me. knew then
that | never was cut out to bean ac-
tor. No. indeed.
Promoters al over the country were
after me. | had chances to box prac-
tically every lightweight of promi =
hence in the business. | was tempt =
ed to so back TO New York and take
on Leach Cross then for ten rounds,
but | knew if ! did this l would be
roasted for looking for easy game in
stead of defending my title over the
twenty round route.
Manager Nolan and I held many
conferences regarding these matches.
For a while we We're unable TO make
up our minds as to what to do. | had
my troubles in climbing up TO the
top of the ladder, and ! made up my
mind that | would let all the promot-
ers bid for my services and then ac-
ttpl the pest OllCI, II Was 1t buSi-
ness proposition with me.
At that time | was being criticised
all over the country for doing theat-
ricapworll instead of getting into the
ring and defending my title, They
were calling me parlor champion. a
child of luck and other pet names,
and finally these attacks began to
wear on my nerves, for l knew that
was not getting anything like an
even break.
Accepts Terms With Rivers.
When | started out on the stage l
made the promise that | would meet
the best man available as soon as my
contract expired. | would have fought
in Il month after winning the cham
pionship from Wolgast but for the
fact that ! was bound to make good
with the sullivan x Considne peo-
pie. could not run out on them,
much as | would have liked to.
Finally, after lot of dickering, we
accepted the terms which Eddie Ora
ney offered us for meeting with Joe
Rivers here on the Fourth of July.
Graney's guarantee Of S1S,500, win,
lose or urav. was the best we re-
CeiVed SO Nolan wired that Graney
could consider the match closed So.
after settling up our affairs in Port
land We started for San Francisco.
made this match With Rivers prin-
cipally because ! looked upon him as
the best drawing card and also be-
cause he appeared to be the toughest
hghtweiEht i'm the business then. They
did me great injustice when they
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16

to. l thought the matter over for
many weeks, long before the Rivers
match was made, in fact, and | final
ly came to the conclusion that | was
the drawing card and that | would be
foolish TO give up so much money to a
manager
Splits With Billy Nolan,
When ! signed up with Nolan he
told me that he would be in a posi-
ton to get me big guarantees and
look after my interests. But later or
| saw things in a different light.
saw that the promoters were after me
and that | could do business with
them very nicely without Nolan's aid.
which was costing me IS per cent of
my earnings.
AT last ! made up my mind, and
informed Nolan that / intended to cali
ragged and accused me of being an in
CRATE, but 1t made no difference with
me. We came down from the ranch
together, and he vainly argued with
me to change my mind. This, how
ever l refused to do, for l felt that l
was in the right.
We parted company when we hit
San Francisco, | left Nolan without
bearing any bitter feeling against
him, and | hope that he feels the
same way toward me. ! know that
he was very sore at me then, for the
job meant a lot of money to him.
But he did not make good with me.
and | figured that | saved just that
much when ! decided to let him go.
Anyhow, Nolan received his % per
cent out of my end for the Rivers
match. | agreed to give him this
when the split-up came. do not
think that he earned the money, for
know that | could have gotten just
as much if had done all the business
myself. But / have been criticised
often since for being an migrate and
deliberately turning Nolan down.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
Famous Plays BY Heisman|
No. II The Old Ends Back
BY j. w. .Heisman.


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