Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-02-11

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and all would have to admit that the
first unrest comes from lack Of social
advantages. The farmers club and
its organization is without doubt the
best thing for the good of the com
munities as well as for the country
and too good to die out, but to keep
1t alive some different steps will
have to be taken such as to forget
that they cannot have a meetig un-
less they have a speaker engaged.
We hear some mi ask What will
we do there without a speaker" /
would say that in each community are
many worthy persons following the
lines of conventional charity. Their
notion of the way to make a social
center in the school is to fit it up as
a play place with a trimming OF care
fully selected instructions. They be-
lieye in moving pictures. in plays,
lectures, choral societies, games.
Farmers clubs and home classes may
serve a two-fold good. They are de-
signed to stimulate entertainment at
a season when the business of the
farm is not pressing and at the same
time offer opportunity for mental i'm
provement. And it connects us up
with the life of today. The possibil-
tiles are almost limitless and / frankly
add that the vital thing in it was not
what a few could do for the many,
but what people meeting together as
people democratically do for each
other.
High cost of living by f. C. Ben
thin. l believe the high cost of liv-
ing rests mainly with ourselves. Some
of us believe in living high in com
parison with the way our forefathers
lived in the old pioneer days. 1t is a
fact that we pay considerably more
for many things now than we did in
the past but taking it all together l
believe we are just as, well or better
off right now Il mean financially
as in the old pioneer days. The high
cost of living depends mor on pluck
than luck. Poor farming, bad man
agement, laZiness, machinery left out
in the open with the sky for a cover.
/ believe that any able bodied man
or woman willing to work does not
need to fear the high cost of living
very much. The development ot ,eL-
ter systems of distribution which
would involve less loss and waste, is
of vital Importance in the farming
business. Our system of distribution
needs reorganization. ! believe there
are too many middlemen between the
producer and the consumer. II we
can retire a few of these non-produc-
ers we will shave down the cost of
living at least a little. believe
that the high cost of living does not
affect the farmers al much as 1t does
the city folks. We can raise most of
the things we eat on the farm which
is quite an item in making the boat
carry. 1t seems to be human nature
to growl and kick that taxes are high
and the things W have to buy also,
but there are not many who would
want to 60 back to the times when
taxes and other things were low.
Years ago O dollar used to look as
big as a wagon wheel, while today it
is considered small change. VIZ have
heard so much about the high cost
Of living of late years that we'll have
to think about the high cost OF dying
some time in the future. 1t isn't even
cheap to die now days. We must
keep awake and ave funeral .expen-
SEES, And lets all work Tor govern
ment ownership Of, railroads,
"A recitation OF Margaret Loesch,
THE Two Pictures was the best. we
have had at u club this year and
she was loudly appiauded. Ss
The program for the meeting OF
February % is as follows 80 {
Song-"Mt. Vernon Bells School.
Best Method Of Keeping Down
Various Kinds Of Weeds August
Klatt.
Current Events-Herman Framke,
"Gimpses OF the Life of Abraham
Lincoln Mrs. Benthin. $fl
"Glimpses Of the Life Of Washing
ton,n Mrs. Evenson.
Local News, Carey Scott. .
Intermission.
Recitation, Catherine Loesch.
Farm Problems" II. 1. Loucks.
"How to Run a Social Center"
Mrs. Klatt.