Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-28

election day will be regarded with
great popular approval.
Between civil war, ultmatums and
blockades, Greece as neutral is en-
Joying all the blessings of peace.
Nineteen seventeen promises to be
one OF the greatest years for investi-
CATION that the country has known.
The Investigations of the high cost
or llVlng have been taking The lid off
but nobody has noticed the button
drop out of the market.
Some of those palatial Chicago
apartment houses are said to be not
quite so palatial since their owners
are unable to get coal.
Tearing up Canadian railroad tracks
for shipment of the rails to the bat
tie front in France does not indicate
the allies have hopes for immediate
peace.
That prohibitory measure has
been introduced in the national con
gress does not mean that national
prohibition is anywhere near accom-
plished
If We can only get them to dicker-
ing over peace terms. There isn't
much chance of trade until the bar
gaining begins. And it is time both
sides were looking for bargain.
The days are getting longer and
summer is closer than it was yester-
day, but real winter weather has
scarcely started if the weather man
carries out his usual routine.
There are $50 men to every 100
women in Montana and Congresswo-
man Jeanette Rankin is red headed
Let's see what two years in Washing
ton will bring
A noted British diplomat is credit
ed with the statement that the Ger.
man peace proposal would shorten
the war a year. Considering what a
year of war means, that is no small
accomplishment.
This office is in receipt of the pre-
MUM list of the Central South Da-
kota Poultry Association which will
hold their third annual exhibition at
Pierre on JBn. 9-l3 The book offers
many valuable prizes.
The inaugural committee is enthu-
siastically preparing for the 4th Of
March, The District of Columbia
has a record for achievement in this
connection which invites the best en-
deavors OF every patriotic citizen.
1t begins to look little like some
of those fellows in congress might get
to that prohibition job before 1920
and thus rob w. j. b. of an issue on
| which to make campaign for the
presidency. "There's always some
one taking the joys out of life."
In the meantime there is no sugges-
| tlon OF an armistice. The German
| diplomats who framed the proposals
made no provision for such a tenn
| porary cessation of the war. The war
could not be stopped without invoIv-
ing economic losses, greater than the
losses'by war itself.
| The next U. S. senate will consist
| of 81 democrats and AZ republicans
The republicans made net gain of
two in the recent election, gaining
two in Indiana, one in Maine, one in
New York and one in West Virginia
| The democrats gained one in Rho1e
Island, one in Utah and one in Della
ware.
The utter. failure of the national
| guard, through no fault of its own,
when it is expected to supply ma
tional need for soldiers. Universal
military training and universal SER
vice are coming to be locke on with
favor by even those who most bitter
ly opposed no more than few months
ago. A universal training and SER
vice which will reach the sons of the
rich as well as of the poor will meet
with almost unanimous approval