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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28
Pooh-Poohs "Yenow Peril.
From tho San Francisco Bulletin.

Cousin Henry's talents and virtues. or
their equivalent, may be found in some
oriental breast. under some yellow skin,
5000 or 6,6O miles away. They not only
may be found there, but certainly will
be found there. The laws of probability
forbid any other conclusion. Now, we
would not be frightened of a nation of
Cousin HenryS. That would be ridiculous.
And We wouldn't be frightened at Nevada
or Arizona, although we know that there
are a few very unpleasant people in those
states. We don't accuse Oregon or Wash
ington or even Canada of having evil de
signs against us, and as a rule we don't
become suspicious of another race or ma
ton unless it talks u different language.
We understand Canada's version of Cousin
Henry: it is so much like our own that
we couldn't bear to shoot it. Germany's
version is a little different. Japan's
stranger still. We suspect Japan's Cousin
HenryS of a tenacious and ferocious de-
sign to hurt us. We think of the Japanese
Cousin Henry as going through a whole
lifetime, giving only incidental attention
to his family. his home. his amusements,
his friends and his religion, and nourish-
ing himself almost entirely on the nope
of being one of "a force which is to sink
the American navy or Subdue California.
What fools we are! Japan is no more
unanimous than California. Now one fac
ton is on top. now another, and while one
Japanese is worrying over the land ques-
ton another is hunting new remedies for
cancer, another ~inventing new machinery
for making cotton, a third writing a poem,
q fourth painting a picture, a fifth playing
with his 2-year-old son. An absolute gov
gives these diverse people the
semblance of unanimity, but it is only a
semblance. Men are as various as they
are numerous. Among all the "teeming
millions of Asia there are no two who
are exactly alike, or who desire exactly
the same things.
The politics of the east may conflict
with the politics of the west, but the men
of the east want much the same things
that are wanted by the men of the west:
are content to live within at least as mar
row a range of work and pleasure. and dc
not, any more than we do, spend their
lives dreaming of murder and conquest.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28
"FIsHIN' Time"
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From the MINNEAPOLIS JournaL.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
flshln' times here. Trout anglers
nave peen at 1T now since April Is. On
May 1 the open season on all UNDER
water game, save the lordly black bass.
began.
flsh1n' time! Takes you back almost
as TAR as you can remember, doesn't
1T? Then comes lick with YOU down
the years. Remember, il you can go
back that far, lie first time caddy bent
a pm for you. impaled a cricket or
grub worm on 1T. and you angled glee-
iuily frcm the bank of the little ''crick'
In grandpa's pasture? Remember how
you babbled n chartered in tones that
would have sent the least wary fish in
that brook. had there been any fish
tnere. away, off up to the headwaters
somewhere In deadly panic? Then, do
you remember the next time-the time
the folks took you really and truly
fishing with a real line and a real
nook. and made you keep still? You
didn't catch anything, but whenever
anybody else did. you had to be scolded
Tor the noise you made
You were about 6 years old then. 1t
was a year or so later that you first
went fishing with the gang" Your
departure was NOR or less secret. 1t
had to be. In the first place. you had
TO play hockey to make the trip. In the
second place. you couldn't have gained
VIVA id
been no school. The folks at home
foolish of 'em. wasn't it?-were
"Drownded." you called it. You didn't
set any fish that time, either. Mex
time you did. but you had to drop 'em
In your haste to get through the fence
when the farmer drove you off his
place. oh. well. you couldn't have
taken them home, anyway. They might
have thrown light on several little
things you didn't particularly care tc
have brought up.
That was the start Of years OF
juvenile angling excursions. Gradually,
the old folks-at least. you thought
them old-came to consent to your go.
ing. Sometimes you caught fish:
time you didn't. But you enjoyed your
self none the less.
Later on. you grew up and acquired
a miscellaneous collection of rods and
reels n lures. and you mastered the
meisteries of bait casting. II you be-
came a genuine S3rd degree FISHING
bug" you likewise took a whirl at fly
casting. That brings you right down
to the present.
Wake up! It's time to go fishin'
again.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28
America.

America.
We lay and smiled, to see our sky
So blue, so luminous with sun:
LO. far off. walled an Ominous cry:
We heard q thunder of footsteps run
Under a darkness settling there,
Some huge and sinister wings eclipse.
fouled the east: a baleful glare
Lightened beneath; and maddened lips
Took up that cry. while darkness stirred
And heaved, and like a wounds thing
Bed. by the utterance of one word
Which babe a myriad war-swords sing.
What murderous shadow troubled so
Our summer dream? . The sunlight
ceased,
A sick and fetid wind came slow
From the stale tenements Of the east
Brother to STAY his brother rose.
The shambles fell. and from that gloom
Came the hoarse herded cry of those
Who blindly massed to fight for room.
Room! Give US air! A breathing space.
The sunlight and the and for all!
Each lifted up q stifled face.
And battered door. and beat at wall,
E0r space to SOW his little seed.
10. they would pillow the earth with sword.
Strew dead on earth that earth might
feed.
And Ws-where now our summer bliss
Evom b stale tenements OF the eaot
Stole fear lest W should oome to this,
And prove ~ brothers to tho beast.
Conrad Aiken ia hi Outlook
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28
Wilson'S Foreign Policies.
From the Chicago News.

Much has been said this week by re-
publican and progressive party leaders
n d%erogation of the foreign policies of
he present national administration. In
view of the %scornful declarations so free
~ INDUCED in 1T was to nave been ex-
oected that the platforms adopted by the
Shlcago conventions would outline in de-
all more vigorous foreign policies than
The present administration has employed.
The fact Is, however. that those platforms.
while crfticising the attitude of President
Wilson on various problems growing out
Of our foreign relationships, offer little
that Ia specific in the way of an alterna-
tive.
Intervention in Mexico is not advocated
by either platform. The chairman of the
resolutions committee of the republican
national convention was Senator Lodge Of
MASSACHUSETTS,. who has stood with the
president in most of the controversies in
ongress arising from the relations of the
Of Europe. The republican platform de-
clares "for the protection of every Ameri-
can citizen IN all the rights secured to him
by the constitution. treaties and the law
OF nations. at home and abroad, by land
and sea-" If this declaration was a slap
at any one connected with the federal gov
congress-some of them occupy seats in
the republican national convention-who
voted against UNFOLDING the rights of
american citizens on the high seas when
President Wilson was striving to maintain
those rights.
On the issue of preparedness the two
So'SSiiIioiS SllllHS Ill CHlcaSo, especially
the progressive convention. took more adj
vanced ground than has been taken thus
far by the administration at Washington.
But the opportunity to discredit the adj
mlntstratlon because of it's foreign policies
by the effective method of offering a def
mite and convincingly superior program
was not seized upon. Can 1T be that the
leaders of the two parties after all their
~derogatory defamation were not able to
frame such a program?
AT least 1t may be said that both parties
IN convention assembled showed wisdom
IN rejecting the advice of the men who
wished to commit them to such policies
as Intervention in Mexico, an embargo on
the export of munitions and other extreme
positions with respect to the relations of
the United States with foreign countries.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28

= PLATFORMS OF OLD
MEN AND YOUNG MEN 4

From the Chicago Pos

From the ChiCagO POst.
Aachins va patrlotlsm themselves. these
leaders have counted on the patriotism
III roosevelt. not as an asset to him. but
20 themselves. They count upon his love
of America as a bar to his fighting their
candidate. They believe that he will be
TOO sincerely eager to see this country
rescued from wisconsin to accept the
progressive nomination and have a third
lcket in the field.
They may be fooled by the events. The
pressure of the personal claims of the pro-
sressives upon Roosevclt's gratitude may
be too strong for him. Or the old guard
may very easily name a candidate so
weak. so timorous in his Americanism.
nat RooseNelt's progressive candidacy
"iii be a public duty.
the contrast showed again in the two
platforms.
The platform of the republicans was
aimed not to present the gospel of Ameri-
"a, but to catch four political influences
Roosevelt, the republicans, the pro-
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28

1t is queer that a man who sees how
little unanimity there is among his own
people, how little singleness of purpose,
how many parties, cliqueS and societies.,
should be able to credit a foreign nation
as, for instance, ~Japan-with the very
, qualities lacking in his nation, and. indeed,
IN all the people he ever met. Yet this is
a mistake which almost all of us insist
on making. We know how good natured,
now much wrapped up in self and family,
low little touched by great currents, our
ives are. and the lives of people we know
pest. We never think of our nation as Il
.hite peril. If we have Il passion for or
saniZation it bothers us to see how far
t is from being II peril to anything but
| tself, how it drifts and losses, how its
whole aspect quivers and changes under
HE winds of events. What we don't seem
20 understand is that the people with
whom We are familiar are not a peculiar
people. or different in any fundamental
way from many others in other lands.
We are a bucket of water out of the pond.
but we don't realize our kinship with the
rest of the pond.
Here we are: Bill Jones, Mrs. Jones,
Hattie Jones. Cousin Henry, Uncle JOSH
ia; Samuel Brown, Mrs. Samuel Brown,
Did man Smith, young Jimmy McNNhiffle-
rec, Sarah's Oldest boy. Susie Gallup's
title baby, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore
roosevelt, the postmaster, tne man next
ioor. the fellow who was around peddling
aluminium ware. the chap in the street
.ar who tried to get us into a conversation
,bout bascball-the United States is made
up of just such people, repeated over and
pver again. and the rest of the world is
'nly superticially different from the Unit
d States.
What does Cousin Henry want most?
Well, he wants to get married and in or
Ter to get married he wants a better job,
with a little more pay. He would like to
De able to pay the first installment on a
house and lot. He likes to go to Dances,
10 go fishing and to camp out. He wants
to be decent and kindly, so far as he can
be without seeming e~ffeminate. If he
meets with good luck he Will be a useful,
modest, moderate, everyday citizen.
Blu this is not the only country that
can produce boys like Cousin Henry.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28
DRUG USE IN UNITED STATES.

The American people use more drugs
per capita than any other people on
he globe. If the doctor does not pre-
scribe a few bottles of medicine they
fire him and get one who will. The
thought that a doctor must give medi-
cine is deeply grounded in the coll
lective n in the individual mind. A
medicine at the drug store. Some per-
sons go so far as to eat the samples
left at the door or SEN on request.
In the list of symptoms found on
he circula a drug hungry nan can
always find one. and sometimes a
bunch, that he has or ought to have,
because it run in the family, or some
he is liable to have.
Many persons have gotten away from
che habit of taking medicines for con-
sumption. But there are still many who
drink medicine from h beginning to
the end of the disease. Let no en-
thusiast fool himself. There are still
thousands who burn up the little
money they have, money which should
go for rest, food and open air, on So
called consumption cures.
In DR.. Hawes' valuable little book
On "Consumption-What to Do About
It," there is a short chapter on drugs
md cures for consumption. AS to cures
for consumption, he says: A such
may be condemn l at once. Leave them
alone, no matter how glowing may be
the reports You have concerning them"
to disbelieve the wild statements made
on the circula of cures are disposed
to nibble at medicines of a milder sort.
AS to alcoholic drinks, Halves says
that in rare cases he allows, or even
advises, patients to take a little beer
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28

at meals. This is much the exception,
however. The rule is that all alcoholic
drinks should be left alone. They are
not strengthening-not even port wine
has the strengthening qualities in
which so many have faith. Especially
does he condemn eggnog.
Creosote and all other %nauseating
drugs do no good: On the other hand.
as they disturb digestion n appetite,
they may do much harm. He has little
faith in cod liver oil and emulsions.
He says: 1T should be borne in mind
that such preparations are merely
forms of fat, and as such leave some
value. The taste is usually Disagree
able. Children often relish it. If they
are underweight extra fat is a good
thing.
There are nc special curative prop
critics in oils and emulsions. Person.
ally. l have never prescribed cod liver
Oil or an emulsion. If my patients need
to give it in cream, butter, salads and
in other fatty foods"
He does not think the indiscriminate
use of tonics and hypophosphates is
advisable. Serums and vaccines, OF
course, should be given only by ply
sicians experienced in treating con-
sumption. Inhalants often help irri-
tated threats and annoying coughs. LAS
a general rule, the fewer drugs or ar
tificial foods or preparations of any
kind that are taken the better for the
patient" he says.
Sanitorium patients rarely cough.
coughs. If such persons can keep from
coughing without taking opiates and
other medicines, why should you and
l take them?
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28
Department of
Genea1ogy and Hera]dry
Conducted by Leonard Wilson. Editor-ln-Chief makers of Ar.r;e.n
Biographical Series.

obviously there must be sOme reason
why a nan should become the attorney
general of his state and the youngest
attorney general i'm the country at the
& of 29-this is to be followed up by
getting himself elected to congress
when only 80. Lurking somewhere
there must be, l say, II reason, or rea-
sons.
For the purpose of this little inquiry,
we shall deal only with those causes
which are plainly visible to the naked
eye.
Before proceeding further it may be
only fair to state that the subject of
our discussion is Representative Royal
Z. johnson, OF South Dakota.
Just in a nutshell. the primary rea =
sons for the rise of young Royal John
son in public life, appear to be n pair
OF spectacle$ and a pair of twins.
The spectaclcs We're his own the
twins We're not. In fact the twins did
not belong to anybody. They were not
twins at all. only imaginary twins, but
they We're responsible i'm II large meas
sure for their supposed parent being Il
of congress and being the sub
ject of this piece that we are now en-
gagged in writing.
Johnson was Il baseball player. He
played primarily i'm college, but in sum-
mer sold his service for mere gold to
semiprofessional teams in his native
Slate. HIS speciality was catching be-
hind the bat. Being a wee trifle near
sighted he found it advantageous to
wear a pair of nose glasses. Now, at
fifst thought 1T may seem like a hazar-
douS undertaking for a man wearing
nose glasses to stand up and permit a
pitcher to hur balls rapidly in the
general direction of his face. The peo-
pie of South Dakota took that view Of
1t. and marveled. Yet the facts We're
that johnson, with his glasses on, wa
IN no more danger behind the bat than
II he had confined his playing to such
games as hide and seek, dominoes or
drop the handkerchief. Because a
catcher wears a heavy wire cage over
ms features, and even the humblest
onlooker at n ball game stands more
chance of having his face ruined by a
pan than the man behind h bat. Still.
1t was the first time the people of
south Dakota had seen n catcher wear
ing glasses. and they talked about it.
soon Johnson's name was a household
catcher with the specs"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28
HUGHES MUST POSITIVELY I
y DECLARE ON AMERICANISM, I

From the Brooklyn Eagle.

SAHS oAOoh1y II
Mr.. Roosevelt gave every indication
short. of a positive statement hat he
would not accept Justice Hughes as the
republican nominee; but when the issue
gressive convention, which named him as
the head of a third ticket, he declined to
this is a retreat from a supposedly UNI
alterable position, he must be credited by
progressives and republicans alike with a
wise subordination of his personal ambi-
ton and a display of good sense which
must raise him in the esteem even of
those who see in his course a certain self
qualification and inconsistency.
Mr.. Roosevelt could make himself a
powerful factor In the Hughes campaign.
Whether he will do SO or not must in a
Hugh Hushe me does aa aepe saaa u w}tho whaf the Justice naes
few days or weeks. Mr.. Roosevelt has
attached a string to his declination of the
be a difficult matter for Mr.. Hughes to
cut the string by a declaration Of prin-
eiples which shall meet the progressive
a declaration was presented to Mr..
Hughes yesterday. but he awaited him
self ,,a Of It much as Senator Harding
temporary chairman. denouncing the adj
ministration on the Mexican issue, gem
eralizing. upon the subject of national de-
tense and discreetly r%efraining from say
ing, anything in regard to our relations
with belligerent Europe which could be
construed as directly offensive to the
LlS DIlCIldlcu VOS6.
Mr.; Hughes was not nominated because
Of his services on the supreme court
rectitude.. the courage, the independence
and the intelligence he displayed in his
two terms as governor of this state. No
man who ever occupied that position was
less suspected than he of obedience to
any dictation other than that Of his w
conscience. He Is unfortunate at the
present Mt. time in the fact h his noomina-
dividuals who have injected into Ameri-
can politics the sympathy they feel for
openly boasted Of their purpose to beat
Hughes candidacy. They have avowed
an implacable hostility to President VIII
inspired them 70 assaii Mr.. Roosevelt:
like to think 1t IL q d~elusion-that Mr..
Hughes as q presidential candidate will
be less independent. less and
less o~utspoken than he was a. governor
Of this state.
with the liability Of q Roosevelt ticket
eliminated. the Eagle regards Mr.. Hughes
- the strongest candidate the republicans
could have named. He win not remain
strong, however. unless he at onco de-
stroy6 the impression that 10 q b s.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28

the beneficiary of those who in every dis
pute between this country and Germany
have unhesitatingly proclaimed their 10y
walls because of the silence Mr.. Hughes
has preserved in Difference to the dignity
and isolation. of his place upon the SUI
preme court bench. 1t should prevail no
longer. Mr.. Hughes tongue should be
!oosened. Mr.. Wilson's Americanism is
certified to by the enmity of those whose
United States should become the virtual
partner of the belligerent preferred by
them. Mr.. Hughes cannot surely be blind
cans have come to recognize hyphenism
as an evil and pernicious thing, and that
no man suspected of being it's candidate
can receive the support of voters to whom
a pure and unadulterated Americanism
appeals as the supreme issues of this
campaign.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28
Saints Of tho Saturday Bath.
From the June Atlantic.

I would not say a word in depreciation
of modern plumbing. Beyond a doubt it is
one Of our greatest blessings, and the
shall be neither a great unwashed" nor
a Submerged tenth" But, somehow, Sat
urday has lost its SAVIOR. Life is tanner
than 1t used to be. No man in his senses
would wish. in this day Of Pullman sleep
ers. to cross the great plains in a prairie
schooner. but the anne of the men who
history. And so I think we ought to build
a little altar to the middle class country
mothers who. in the face of every obstacle,
kept the Saturday night bath a sacred in
stitution.. and handed 1t down to their
children inviolate.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-28

4, dog cemetery. intended only for dead
dogs of high social standing. MARITIME
went and bought Il lot in that ceme-
terry and gave his dog such a burial
as amy dog might well be proud of. The
prospect of such a burial should recon
CHE almost any dog to having had his
day. MARITIME forsook his senatorial
duties long enough to so to the funeral
ana personally see to it that the dos
was paid every respect.
To-day a neat little marble head
stone marks the sDot where the Mar
tine dog made it's final descent into the
bosom of the earth.
Thomas u. Sisson. congressman from
! MISSISSIPPI, wears about the longest
rock coat to be seen about the House
OF Representatives.
Having that fact firmly fixed in our
minds, let us now go on With the de-
nouement of our brief ,.le. Sisson had
Il constituent for whom he desired to
obtain n promotion in one of the de-
partments. An employee there in one
of the higher up places died suddenly
ana Slsson assumed that this vacancy
made by death might facilitate matters
for his man. He went to the chief of
that division and asked him to APP
point his candidate to the vacant place.
never to fill Il vacancy caused by
death until after the cuneral."
II supposed the funeral was over by
now said Sisson, apologetically.
Il notice" observed the other man,
looking at Sisson's conventions black
uniform, that you are dressed for the
occasion"
A vaudeville performer who makes a
speciality of getting himself out of
straight jackets. handcuffs, and the like
gave a special exhibition a little while
ago at the United States Senate. After
he had successfully wriggled out Of the
various tight places, Senator Blair Lee,
OF Maryland, made this comment:
II have a notion to hire tina fellow
to get some of my bills out of COM
mittee."
John Gruelle, the comic artist and
illustrator, bought a little place up in
connecticut a few years ago, so that
ne might work in peace and quiet, far
from the maddening noises and dis
fractions of New York. Now he sleeps
IN the country, but keeps an apartment
In a busy section of New York to work
in. He says the country offers oppor-
tunities to do things other than work
such as fishing. or mulling about the
garden-and he finds 1t best lust to
remove himself from the realm OF
temptation.
George +. Burba. a Dayton newspa-
per editor. spent a few days recently
IN New York. and while there some
body asked him how he liked that big
town.
Il care for it very little" replied Bur,
be. Did you ever think of this: Sup.
posing YOU lived in New York and
wanted to go fishing. Where would
you go to dig a car of worms?"