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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-11-26
Bessie and Her
Thanksgiving Pies

TITLE Bessie Gray looked up from
her story book with a sigh. and
IL as she looked up she caught the
reflection Of her face In a mir
ror over the table and sighed again.
"Oh. dear. Ii | were only slender
and graceful and a grown up young
lady or a princess and lived In a pal
ice and had heaps of money and could
carry lunches Of flowers to sick peo-
pie! But here | am. nothing but Bes-
sic Gray-short. stout and homely.
with a broad face and a wide mouth
and not exactly poor. but then I have
to work rather hard for a little girl. and
as for the troubles of this world. some.
how ] don't feel so badly about them
as ought to. or else the people around
here don't have any to speak Of"
"Now's your chance" said a little
~squeaking voice. Where did Il come
from? There was nothing In sight but
a heap Of pumpkins on a board Just
outside the window and a little colored
girl passing the garden fence. scantlly
clad and ~shivering In the cold Novem-
Der sunshine. All that Bessie knew of
her was that her name was Poppy.
and she belonged to a family that were
very shiftless, 1t appeared. from their
unwfllingness to work and their igno
rant ways OF doing the little they
could do.
But II could not be this little girl
who spoke. She was hurrying on with
ou turning a glance toward the house.
eager, no doubt. to reach her miserable
shelter from the cold.
Bessie's curiosity was fully aroused.
She went out and stood upon the door.
step. The colored child was out OF
sight, and everything was still but
the wind. and that hardly whispered
through the lea1ess boughs OF the pear
trees. But there was the voice. close
- her now. Help me down." It said.
And Besale's mouth opened wider than
oyer a. she saw the topmost pumpkin
~ TIE Pile It her side moving itself
without aid OF hands. She took hold
n ~ Stem. and, although II was one Of
~ tenvjest 81 the lot. she scarcely felt
NJ w3Ikh( at anl.
ersy ~ M said the voice again
AZ III 6sl,evsd Der own ears
- = 1unpkin talktns! That
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-11-26
SOUTH DAKOTA

Roy Shanbarker
Thanksgiving of the Pres IT ......
Mabel Bitterness
Thanksgiving Story. Margaret Wix
Debate-Resolved that final Examin.
atoms be Abolished.
Afirmative-Eddie Prentice, Clara
Hoffman.
Negative-Frank Ryger, Blanch
Tobin.
What B. H. S. Students Have to be
Thankful for Pearl Randall
Dream Of the Future Thanksgiving
Claude Vinegar
Schools were closed Wednesday for
the rest of the week on account ot the
Thanksgiving holidays.
The domestic science department.
under the efficient management of
Miss Palon has become one of the
most popular as well as one of the
most talked about departments of the
schools. After the game Saturday
the girls of the department served a
fine three course dinner to the two
teams. The dinner was enjoyed by
our visitors as well as the local boys.
One of the boys when asked whether
the game is really worth what a stu
dent puts into it, as a football player
he says when after a hard game you
are invited to a feed such as only our
domestic science girls can prepare
and serve, all ore spots disappear and
the most troublesome question that
presents itself to me is why I am not
able to eat more.
Section two of the department gave
a six o'clock dinner to the boys Tues
day. Toasts we're given and a good
time in general vas the verdict.
The high school students gave a
farce entitled the Dressing Gown Mon
day evening at the Pleasant Hour"
and Tuesday evening at the Fad"
Through the courtesy of the manage
ments of these play houses a large
amount of the proceeds were turned
into the exchequer of the athletic as
ISOLATION. The farce was a short com
edy of one act in which many amusing
were clustered about a
dressing gown that did not seem in
place. The people who took part
were seniors and they acquitted them
selves in such a manner as to receive
hearty applause from the audience,
The cast was as follows:
Mrs. Peabody ...... Harriet Cheeever
Peabody (the daughter) -.
......... .lLeld Llhu
Kerk Albert Thompson
. Maid Hazel Skiff
The Butler PultZ
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-11-26
MAGAZINES AT THE LIBRARY

During the year 1914 the library ha.
been receiving through subscription
the following periodicals:
The Bookman
Boys Life
Century
Everybody's
*Harper's Monthly
House Beautiful
Ladies Home Journal
Recreation and Outdoor World
Saint Nicholas
+Scribner's Magazine
Technical World
Woman's Home Companion
The American City
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-11-26

That Thanksgiving day was zoe
years ago popularity and generally oh
served In England is well shown by
the following passage:
For Hudibras who thought he 'ad won
The field as certain as a gun
And. having routed the whole troop.
With victory was cock-a-hoop.
Thinking he 'ad done enough to purchase
Thanksgiving day among the churches.
Thus wrote Butter in 1881. during
Oliver Cromweli's tenure Of power. and
1t clearly proves that at a time when
the observance OF the day was but
just beginning to be regularly kept In
this country. the English recognized
the day very generally as one Of Joy
and feasting.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-11-26

We wish everybody good cheer. q
finely whetted appetite. vigorous diges.
tion and = pleasant reunion of the scat.
tered members OF the family. From
the tottering grandfather to the totter.
ing baby. : pleasant Thanksgiving to
ALI
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-11-26

very weak. But their line was one of
the strongest that the Brookings team
has faced this year.
After Brookings' third score. Coach
Dillon sem in all of the available sub
stitutes. which was almost all of the
second team, who succeeded in hold,
ing their visiting team at bay for the
rest of the game.
Tomorrow, Thanksgiving, the local
team will meet Pierre high school
team on the State field in the final
struggle for the state championship.
Neither team have been defeated this
season and by comparing scores the
two teams are about the same
strength and a hard fought battle is
inevitable. Coach Dillon promises a
complete reverse Of form displayed in
the Madison game, and Frances Car
Isle, the keeper of the magic horse
shoe, has the insignia conveniently
and beautifully decorated that its
ocult influence may the better spur
our boys on to a browning victory.
State field will see the biggest crowd
at this game it has had this season.
II Brookings wins this game and
Sioux City wins her game with Gin
ton ii will give US the claim to the
championship of the northwest. Can
we do it? Not only the championship
of the state but of the northwest.
Come and see US win.
The Thanksgiving program of the
high school literary societies given at
$3.50 Wednesday will speak for them
selves.
AIpha-Alethean
Piano Solo. Mary Miller
A Foreigners Idea of Our Thanks
giving ............ Clara Eberlein
Whistling Solo ........ Clara Wiley
Original Thanksgiving Story.
Lyle Waltz
Piano Solo ....... Elizabeth Solberg
lNCddAhS ShN fiittAC
Flute Solo ........... Harold Sharp
Humorous Advertisements. ........
Palmer Johnson
Vocal Solo Ruth Jarvis
Piano Solo ......... Marion Carlisle
Delta-Bata
Reading ........... Helen Peterson
Debate-Ella Sanders, Hymen Wexler.
Hazel Stewart, Elvin Korstad, An
gle Olson, Esther Schmidt.
that Final Exam
nations be Abolished.
of Thanksgiving Meal Tiff
Pearl Rufenacht
Prospects for the Thanksgiving Game
Robert Matheny
Minerva
Thanksgiving of the Past ........
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-11-26

very weak. But their line was n of
the strongest that the Brookings team
has faced this year.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
The "Jock-Man" and His Strap

Always, if when race of the men of
losing whipped because they lost zine
whipped bunch for that of them
Many small and weak while the other bunch
were all big strong men little fellows logged
meruy couldn't do much work the big
During when the driven at top speed
time the guards stand the bank and and
convicts with horrible oahs threatening have them
the captain they call the ackman and the captain
with the leather strap rather piece of leather
PIP inches wide and feet long of 3py strength for feet of
length and ply the The last had studded with
"a copper rivets
and the guard usually says:
Kill that -r; he's azyl'
Then the captain drags the convict out of the pit and
him. him get his hands and knees Then the
forced drop his and hold his shirt
his exposing his bare back Then the captain him
ashes sometimes with the leather strap and if the
convict lets his shirt drop he gets extra stroke for time
it happens Those whips they terrible could
break heavy jug with one four feet away
During the year | Thomasons camp,
whipped trivial oenses and for oense ALL
60 logged until they could hardly stand and then
forced back into the ditch and ovehg dirt and there
devils crying and begging for mercy Men whipped
law,
Willie Jones safe blower who doing fve-year bit
small weak, little with cough and the strength of
He placed with of husky of them
weighing less than 100 and 200 pounds and because he couldn't do
much work they could he logged numerically
strapped while the wounds still his back from
whipping he got few days before.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
Crazed Into Cutting Fingers off

"A named Will Clemens whipped often that he
almost and night he cut his fingers off thinking
they'd him in the hospital and give him few days of
They whipped him for doing it, and him back the
There young boy in the camp who got whipped
worked hard he suicide by eating
He eating the stuff for week before the guards knew
and he dying when he finally convinced them he sick
they him in the hospital One day this boy fall
the they picked him
whipped him and him work He died a few
There convict named Sam, who crazy. him
whipped 90 times because he little and couldn't keep
up with the big guard named Kent Newson had grudge
against because he Newsom the half
coun do much work and Newson
many Therefore he had whipped
day, and finally made raving idiot
fellow.
THE convics also whipped if they wouldn't
guards money that their folks them The
guards their money had than the
who wouldn't do il.
1--WE heard guards walk convict who working
hard he could and who wasn't violating rules
say
Damn you, don't like your looks And then after a
string of oaths, he would have the convict whipped.
Every time complained about anyhing-he got
whipped if he asked for things that the printed rules plain
. ~ said he could have the guards would say:
( To hell with the Prison Commission Tom Donaldson run
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
FORMER PRISONER MAKES NEW
CHARGES OF PRISON ABUSES

ming this CAMP You'll just what he can have!
And then the would be logged for asking for the few
rights he is supposed to have.
Because of the with which the guards cater to their
vanity worked hard they can't sleep at
night OF course convict expects to work hard, and prob
ably should work hard but there limit to human endurance
We used shovel dirt and work the roads hard that
could hardly ourselves at night tired and
racked with pain could not eat
Our beds mattresses spread side by side OF
Each shaced and besides the regular chains
he chained 2nch log chain that made last to
and posts He forced his clothing by pulling
through the fitting leg ronsand he didn't hurry he
whipped.
1--WE fed peas that had weevs in them and to-
filled with On Sundays had beef, and
the bacon and there mighty little of
that.
1--WE ate supper of tin bucket, and then went to
only you could hear during the night the
grooming they tried to find comfortable position
had muscular every night and to relieve this
W. given strychnine tablets.
commit suicide because they had been
whipped numerically and worked hard and the convc
continually trying hurt they would have to to
the hospital a few days Once put my foot under
they tied around it made back
to work.
Living the camp simply awful Our meth
cd of taking will illustrates barrel sawed in two
and half used for tub holding about five gallons of
water Ten stood chained together and the tub
was passed from the other he could take bal
without changing the towel the the The tenth
man was battle that had been used before by
nine other had worked for fourteen hours the drest
kind Of labor!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
Declares He Himself Was Flogged Cruelty With
Heavy Strap Studded With Copper Rivets
Tells of Seeing Unwarranted Brutality to
Sick COnvicts.
Continued 2 rom Page l..

expect live surroundings that would have been
pean hog be fed food filled with worms and forced
shotguns their hands and the machinery OF the
beck and call submit to ndgnites and insults that
my mind for murder to have armed men,
but who officers OF the law
BLACKBOARD apply vile ephes mother and threaten
10 kill me have fogged if protested
camp where Captain jim Casey was IN charge
was trsy and charge of machine shop wore
leg We under the lease system then
and system infinitely better than the system
that prevails Fulton County Convicts under the lease
logged less and they not worked
until and their bodies acked with pam
believe there convict in Georgia who wouldn't rather
system than under the system used IN fu
County
serving months sent to Captain Tom Donald
camp Buckhad where Captain Clyde Thomson fore
man double shackes and nagged until spirit
was broken been almost like at the brick
had be cured The bunch that went with to Buck
head all long and the guards afraid OF
started what practice convict camps racing
work Convc supposed to have two weeks
comparatively work which get hardened for the strain
of the the roads but they rarely get It, The guards
all and and immensely proud of their positions
Nothing them than boast of the working abilities
of their high rollers and their bully boys There
eighty divided into squads each squad
armed guard One guard would his
against the of another guard proddng the onvcs
gun barrels cung them and threatening them with foggng
the They made shovel dirt in such
the slightest break the stroke finger
hacked off by the sharp edge of shovel
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
Weltner Tells Ministers
Of Unbelievable Cruelty

ably will carry the marks OF the strap
to his grave.
They viii tell YOU that the con-
victs can't be handled except by the
use of the strap. That is very true.
You may be surprised that concede
this, but II is true because of the men
they have as guards. Let the county
and the State get competent and hu-
name men TO act as foremen of the
camps and the strap can. be dispensed
with. So long as they let men of low
or brutal character remain in charge
OF the couvicts there are certain to De
repeated instances OF the crosses st
cruelty.
You all have heard for months Of
conditions in Georgia. The situation
seems TO have come to a focus now.
Action must be had. and al once. It
remains for the ministers to act II
the Grand Jury is intending to ind
out the whole truth ! want to say
they have only begun. And after they
have done their work, II Is for the
Prison Commission to throw the light
on conditions all over the State"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02

Philip Weltner. secretary OF the
Georgia Prison Association. at the
meeting OF the Evangelical Ministers
Association Monday told in q graphic
manner Of the horrible mistreatment
and brutality of which prisoners had
been made victims.
Il want TO lend my testimony" he
said. that the camp on which they
have begun their investigation. as bad
as ii is, and as inhumane and I'M
civilized as are the punishmentS they
visit upon the convicts, is the best
camp in Fulton County.
Let them investigate tho other
camps also They will uncover CON
ditiOns OF which they could not have
dreamed or conceived.
Saw Mark OF Lash on Man.
THE logging in Captain LuCN' :
camp became SO fearful that persons
living in the vicinity We're compelled
to make formal protest
"A man now IN the insane asylum
came to me from one OF the Fulton
County camps with great flesh
wounds covering his body. He prob
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
State and County VIII
Join in Thorough Probe

the convict guards and the RESPONSE
hility for their actions.
1t seemed the disposition of the
Commissioners to pass the RESPONSE
bility on to the State Prison Corn
mission. Tul .. Waters, chairman
of the County Commissioners. is said
to have told the Grand Jury that,
while the County Board has the ap-
pointment Of the guards, the Prison
Commission makes all the rules and
regulations under which the guards
act and by which they control the
convicts in their charge.
Mr.. Waters testimony, in effect, is
said to have been this:
I'VE name the foreman Of the camp,
The Prison Commission takes him and
desginates him as State deputy
warden and he becomes virtually a
State employee and works under the
rules and regulations formulated oy
the Prison Commission. He is re-
sponsible ~ the Prison Commission
and not to us.
"If the Prison Commission objects
to him, they can put him out and we
will select another man. We are glad
to cooperate with the Prison Com
mission in any way possible
Chairman Waters said after he had
left the Grand Jury room that he
never had heard of any of the abuses
since he had been on the County
Board He said that while he was
chairman OF the Public Works Com
mittee in 1912, the committee which
has the supervision of the camps, he
had occasion to visit the camps, and
never had heard one word of com
plant from the prisoners.
Waters Favors Lash.
Mr.. Waters was of the opinion that
| 1t would be impossible to abolish
| hogging. He said that he viewed the
convicts much in the light of grown
up children, whom it was necessary
to whip once in a while in order tc
enforce discipline.
MANY Of the convicts are of {
sort" he said. who could not be dis.
| cipined in av other way"
General Clifford L. Anderson ad,
mitted that the practice of flogginl
| convlcts was a revolving and bruta
one but he did not know whether
discipline could be enforced withou
! IT, He is said to have told the Crane
Jury that in the counties where al
| attempt had been made to do ava!
with corporal punishment ii was ;
question II the discipline was not evei
| worse that il had been before.
Anderson Probed Shooting.
General Anderson is reported t,
have related that he made a Guie
investigation of the shooting of Har
ris by Thomson at the time. an,
to have found that Thomson appear
ed justified.
One of the Jurors thereupon re
marked. it is said: Il guess you mus
have got the wrong dope"
Shelby Smith. another member o
the county board, was questioned a
length The trend of the inquire
showed that the jurors are making
a rigid investigation with a view o
finding II the flogging can not b.
completely abolished in the convic
camps OF the county.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
WILKINSON SEES
SUNSHINE ON
ALL SIDES
Declares Citizens Must Be Care
full Not to Attack Institutions
Doing Good Work,

Nell r. Wilkinson, the new presi-
dent of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce. looked out of a spacious win
dow at an elaborate setting of blue
sky brightness and Joined the Sun
shine Club with the following we'll
chosen expressions:
"On such a glorious day 1t would
be hard to make any other kind of a
talk than one about sunshine-eve
the sun, which the astronomers tell
us is something more than 90,OO0,OOO
miles away, seems to have singled
out Georgia for his especial regard.
"And all the wealth of sunshine is
not in the air. I was recently in
New York and the East and | was
immensely gratified, and not little
surprised, TO note the sentiment of
bankers and business people general
ly regarding She Southeast, and par
ticularly Georgia and Atlanta.
Boost Atlanta for Bank.
"Whv. there wasn't a banker but
thought the Southeast should be made
regional reserve banking district,
and they all agreed that Atlanta
should have the bank. This, l may
add, very closely corresponds to my
own private opinion.
Our section is facing a splendid
year of prosperity and opportunity
Perhaps the main thing will be to
keep intact our balance and sense OF
proportion under the temptation OF
all this opportunity; to expand con-
servatively; not 10 oVertrade or
! plunge and vet be ready to make
the most of the rich field before us.
and right here | should like to
make a little statement
Publicity Seekers Warned.
81 think this is especially good
time for some persons, in whom the
itch writing and the craving of
publicity is strong, 20 refrain with
some care from flying into the col
umns of the newspapers with sensa-
tionaI statements, ill-considered as
we'll as ill-timed, attacking institu-
tions less from knowledge of their
short comings than from desire for
passing notoriety.
Il may even mention case in
point
"A Youthful ministers. whose name
| ESCAPES me, made an attack not long
ago on the Associated Charities. Il
resulted in the Chamber of Com
merce appointing a special commit
tee to examine the books and methods
! of that institution, Frank NJ. lnman
being the chairman of the commit
tee A most thorough examination
was made. and that committees re-
port, given to the press, was most eff
fective and convincing as to the thor
oughly good work being done by the
Associated Charities.
Georgia Chamber Praised.
CAS- to our State at large, the Geor-
gia Chamber of Commerce is whoop-
ing up things all over the State, and
Is becoming a most potent factor ir
its upbuilding and betteunent Or
ganized effort by the business mer
of the State, under the guidance OF
the Georgia Chamber of Commerce
is destined to do for Georgia what
the citizens of Atlanta are doing fol
their city, with the aid of our owr
Chamber of Commerce.
"One Of the most cheerful things
can see in the Sunshine Club of At
lanta is the ease and consideration:
enthusiasm with winch It Is possible
even necesary-to become a mem
Der. | don't remember ever to hav,
seen the sunshine of prosperity Sc
bountifuily distributed before"