Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-10-14
ARMY MARCHES ON IT'S STOMACH.

The Dawson NIinn) Sentinel, edited by Hon. Theodore Christ
ianson, says some very pat things now and then. Discussing Min
nesota, State Of Prosperity, = the paper calls attention to the axiom
that an army marches on its stomach.
''No organization, military, industrial or POLITICAL says the
Sentinel, sis stronger than its eommissary department. Man does
not live by bread alone; neither can he live without bread. The
ability to supply the primal want must be in the last analysis, the
test Of community efficiency
Adverting to Minnesota's immense grain crops this year, it is
pointed out that the product of its great Touring mills alone would
Laid end to end, continues the Sentinel these loaves would encircle
the globe one hundred and thirty-two times at the equator.
In this matter Of community efficiency South Dakota walks hand
in hand with Minnesota. No section of the vast domain under
Uncle Sans control has been so lavishly favored by nature in 1915
as that region of which South Dakota and its nGghbor on the east
1t is equipped for marching on its stomach as no other Sec
ton in the country could march. It's granares are full almost to
the point of bursting, SO far as the weather has permitted threshing
TO proceed.
The principal and immediate drawback relates to the proportion
of the price which the consumer must eventually pay that will reach
the pockets of the producer.
statistieians claiming to have investigated with sufficient care
Ito know whereof they speak aver that the producer gets only about
forty per cent of what the consumer has to pay, showing that we
have not as yet systematized our methods of distribution to the point
Of the greatest degree Of economic saving.
That's one of the problems for the future to solve.
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Congress will be in session within a few months. But cheer upl
The legislature won't meet until 1917.
The supreme court has dismissed the case against Joe Kirby of
disbarment proceedings. The court finds that, ordinarily speaking,
Joe has been a respectable citizen, the great lapse being when he
spoke his mind about the COURT
We don't know as we blame the supreme court much for trying
Ito keep the lawyers in the straight and narrow path. The court
seemingly goes upon the theory that the limbs Of the law have been
so busy trying to keep other people straight that perhaps they
haven't had time to look at themselves.
The future lady Of the land is said to trace d strain Of her blood
back 70 Pocahontaa Of John Smith fame # she possesses the traits
with which tradition has clothed the Indian princess she will add
both grace and distinction to the White. House family, although the
president himself doesn't lack IN dstinehveness.
President Wilson is going to- be married next December. Mrs
Gait, an accomplished woman whose home Is il the national capital
viii become the future first lady Of the land The presidents
family Is said to Be highly pleased ever the prospective event
Woodrow Wilson, from boyhood up, has always been a lucky dog
The Dawson 1inn1 Sentinel referring to the statement that
the average Harvard mans family As threeTfourths Of q SON. and the
average Vassar womans family Isl half Al daughter, commons as fol
lows: 1.-THE men and women OF the bowery are multiplying and
Ireplenishing the earth. If the nation gets It's idealswhere it gets It'll
lchildren, what will American ideals be a hundred years hence9 The
great menace Of the west-European Is suicide-war suicide and race
suicide: