Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-23

PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOT
BY cutting out beefsteak one might
almost save enough for that summer
vacation.
1t is certainly consderate in meat
to go up just at the time when people
ought to eat a good deal less of it,
anyway.
Farmers near Gettysburg are offer
ing $50 a month, board and lodging
for farm hands, but most of the
transient laborers insist upon So a
day straight,
Notwithstanding the popularity of
gasoline and electricity, the farmers
of the United States feel that they
have not overdone it this year in
raising l 100000, 900 bushels of oats.
Considering the planning for vaca-
tions going on in the west at present
the question is not only one of NOV
ing the crops but one of moving the
crop owners also.
Huerta has sailed away from the
coast of Mexico, bound for Paris, via
Jamaica. He says he has departed
in the interest of peace, but it looks
as though he was saving his shin by
a hasty get away.
There is something strikingly appro-
pirate in the reported action of sawmill
men to enter upon a scheme for the
promotion of reforesta tion Perhaps
the lumbermen may be induced to join
them.
1t is usually conceded that children
should be taught how to swim as soon
as they have learned how to walk,
and the time is not far distant, APP
parently, when early lessons in flying
will also be advisable.
The only way for business man,
or anyone else who does not follow
loafing as profession, to take va
cation is to pick up and go. Waiting
for more spare time or more finances
is like waiting for tomorrow-it new
| er comes.
The victories of peace are more
glorious than the victories of war. 1t
is a victory of peace that Woodrow
Wilson has won-and won under the
nerve racking handicap created by
the chorus of opposition and criticism
sent up by many of the people of his
own country.
In spite of those big crops and the
Argentine beef imports, it seems that
we are to have the privilege of pay
ing higher prices than ever for beef.
There must be an answer to the ques-
tion that naturally presents itself,
but the answer has not yet appeared
IN print.
1t is bitter disappointment to
some people in this country to have
Huerta confess defeat. But the
American people as whole, one
may be sure, will rejoice because
what there is of democracy in Mexi-
co is evidently to triumph over forces
of privilege and reac tion.
The report of the condition of the
state treasury at the close of business
June 80 showed in all funds, 1924, ,s35.
The general fund is in good shape,
with $363,s75. The game fund bal
ance is S44.s9s, being less than a
month ago OF account of money spent
in collection and distribution of fish
The twine fund balance is $l07,13o.
The only way in this world to make
community rich and prosperous is
to promote trade in it, both produc.
ing and consuming. The nearer the
consumer is to the producer the bet.
ter both are off, and this takes cogniz.
ance of the fact that every living man
is in some of his aspects producer
and in others consumer.
The reply Of President Wilson tc
those critics who have been trying te
delay trust legislation that the so.
called dullness of business was pure.
~ psychological has been followed by
deep, dense silence in some quar-.
ters hitherto very noisy. It was SC
apta description of real condition.