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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-14

breeding associations, and 142 hog
cholera control associations were or
ganized.
More than 100000 hogs were vac
cinated against cholera.
Better farm management was pro-
NOTED through assistance given to
farmers in determining the factors
that make for success Or failure in
farm enterprises.
Farmers exchanges and co opera
tive marketing associations were or
ganizsd and effected large savings to
members.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-14
Goa5NY.Y OFFICIAL PAPER
nntered at the Post-Ofica atPierre. South Da-
kota. as rnailrnattcr Of the second class.
BY Is. 9. sATTEKLEI' 81

There was once . nickel Scent
piece with which the public was just
becoming familiar when the coin was
withdrawn. Then there was a really
useful 2.cent piece, which the public
liked very wellindeed, because it was
lust the right denomination for the
purchase of newspapers. and of many
other articles, and that also was
Withdrawn. 1t would seem that the
restoration of this coin, with a 211-
cent piece in addition, would come
nearer meeting the exigency caused
BY the splitting of the cent in prices
than would the 211-cent piece.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-14
FIRE PREVENTION.
How Our Enormous Annual Losses
Might Be Reduced.

How Dur Enormous Annual Losses
Might BE Reduced.
The average annual loss by fire in
America is V e half as much as the
cost of building the Panama canal.
This is an actual loss. Insurance, of
course, restores nothing destroyed, but
merely passes the hat for the benefit Of
the individual losers. The loss to the
community is total.
But little thought has been given to
the communal aspects of the economic
system of fire insurance, writes DR..
Maynard M. Metcalf in the Scientific
Monthly. 1t has been viewed chiefly
from the standpoint of the individual.
Insurance companies repay to individ-
uals their actual losses, and it is sim
pier for the individual to gain security
against loss by fire by hiring an insur-
ance company to carry his risks than it
Is for him to prevent loss from fire by
building fireproof buildings.
Suppose we should appropriate q
quarter of a billion dollars, the amount
of a single years fire loss, to the or
ganization and support Of a bureau of
fire prevention, calling to the work of
this bureau the three best chemists, the
three strongest physicists and tie three
keenest engineers in the world. How
long would it be before they had found
very inexpensive methods of protecting
all buildings against fire, however In
tiammable their construction? The
problem is childisllly simple beside
those which men OF science are attack.
ing daily and with success.
How absurd it is that we have fires
today! They should long ago have be.
come a thing of the past.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-14

2SSgCDrfr
"WR0RGET your devils and keep
your pink lamps lighted" says
Frances EIodgson Burnett.

"M XORGEI your devils n keep
your pink lamps lighted" says
Frances Hodgson Burnett.
"a pink lamp always makes
everything look lovely The counsel
is never more imperative than during
the holiday season when we not only
want 10 be happy ourselves, but to
make others happy. Chr tmas cheer
should be q contagipn unchecked and
uniettered. The universal brotherhood
tauslt by the One whose nativity is
coTnmenogated in the holiday season
makes the element of cheer second to.
chat of love.
All Christmas associations are warm
ed by it. The great fireplace, through
which the patron saint gains entrance,
is ever the embodiment of cheer. The
face of the old gentleman ever reflects
eheerfulness. if we may trust the por-
traits. And the little folks who have
an interest in the stockings hung by
the chimney but echo the sentiment.
Cheer is in the Christmas air, as in
the robins spring note.
But yet there are always some cor
ners where gloom rests; somc shadows
amid the sunlight. There are some
clouds which none of US can remove.
but these are the fleecy clouds which
just obscure the light of love from
some lives. A little gust of wind, a
touch of the human breath and they
are ~dispelled, or at least shifted, and
the sun shines over the Swallowed spot.
Says Robert Louis Stevenson: ga
happy man or oma is a better thing
to find than q five pound note. He or
she is r%adiating a focus of good will.
and his or her entrance into a room is
as though another candle had been
lighted" The Christmas tree should
have many candles. Every little heart
should be made to beat more radiantly.
and it takes very little of this worlds
goods or of human Kindness to render
even the child of the street radiantly
happy. A bit of cheer leaveneth the
lump of human misery. The wreaths
of holly become a mockery unless we
strive to add to the brightness of, some
neglected life.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-14

Webster World: Those who claim to
know say that the actual cost of print
paper at the mills today is 500 a ton.
Add SIS a ton for freight, add IS for
jobber's profit and it would fix $50, as a
fair price. They are now asking $50
: ton delivered. We used to have a
law for the control Of trusts and mon
opoiies for the protection Of the peo-
Pile but it has become q dead letter.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-14
PRESIDENT BY A DIRECT VOTE
Senator Ed. S. johnson Introduces
Measure for Election Of President
/. by Popular Vote.

One of the first measures intro
duced in the present session of con-
gress was by Senator Ed. S. John
son of South Dakota. 1t is a joint
resolution for a constitutional am
endment looking to the election of
president and vice president by
popular vote and the adjustment
of the electoral college. Senator
Johnson's measure is short, but
covers the ground completely, and
there is no question but it will re-
ceive substantial support in the up
per branch of the national legisla-
ttre. 1t is worded as follows:
Resolved by the senate and house
of representatives of the United
States of America in congress as
sembled (two-thirds of each house
concurring thereinD that the fol-
lowing amendeut to the constitution
of the United States is hereby pro-
posed and submitted to the several
states, as follows:
The executive power shall be
vested in a president OF the United
States of America. He shall hold
his office during the term of four
years, and together with the vice
president, chosen for the same
term, be elected by plurality vote
of the qualified electors of the
several states, as follows:
That on the first Tuesday in the
month of November, of the year
nineteen hundred twenty, and on
the same day in every fourth year
thereafter, the citizens of each
state, who possess the qualifca-
tons requisite for electors of the
most numerous branch of the state
legislature shall vote by secret bal
lot, at the places provided by state
law within the several states, for a
president and vice president of the
United States, one of whom atleast
shall not be an inhabitant of the
same state as the %elector; the bal
lots shall be canvassed and the re
suit in each state ascertained from
the official returns by the legally
constituted state canvassing board
of each state, who shall certify the
result in said state to the president
of the senate and to the speaker OF
the house of representatives of the
United States within sixty days
after said election, and their certi-
ficate shall be conclusive proof OF
such result.
The congress of the United States
shall be in session on the second
Monday in February in the year
nineteen hundred and twenty-one
and on the same day in every fourth
year thereafter when the speaker
of the house Of representatives
shall open all the certificates and
the votes be counted by the two
house in joint session. The person
having the greatest lumber of votes
for president shall be president 0,
the United States, and the person
having the greatest number Of votes
for vice president shall be the vice
president of the United States fol
the ensuing term of four years
Such election shall be conducted il
such manner as the congress shall
by law further prescribe.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-14

There is talk even Of displacing
Gen. Joffre with q younger man.
Joffre has heretofore been regarded
8 the one figure on the allies side
wiitharegafd 70 which there was no
doubt whatever.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-14

New York World: In reading Col.
Rooseyelt's distortion on the defeat
of Mr.. Hughes we haye a suspicion
that he stopped dictation at the end
of each paragraph to give three
cheers.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-14

Express companies are filing notices
with banks throughout the country to the
sheet that they have abandoned the ac-
eeptance Of money orders for destina-
lions In Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bull
garia, and Turkey on account Of inability
e learn whether the funds are received
~ the persons to whom they have been
sent
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-14

South Dakota will have q legislature
on it's hands this winter. Some will
measure tits success by the number Of
so-called progressive laws passed.
Nsvertheless it's real usefulness will de-
pendB1pon how few laws are passed.
"a might score 4 point BY repeating q
few that are never inforced.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
PRESS COMMENT.
THE OTHER FELLOWS RELIGION.

A so-calcd religious society in
this country has been flooding south
American countries with a pamphlet
against the Catholic religion and the
Catholics in general. However good
may have been the intentions of the
society, it has done this country a
serious wrong, in that the circulation
of such matter by an Americas. or
ganzation has aroused hatred toward
all Americans upon the part OF the
people down there.
Whatever the other fellows reli-
gion, it is his, and it is foolish to
assault it if you expect him to re-
main your friend. We are trying at
this time to show the people of South
America that we are their friends.
We want them to help us solve the
many problems which must be solved
before this continent becomes the
pe9ce-loving, laW-abiding continent it
should become. We are sending our
industrial missionaries to South
America in an effort to secure their
trade; we are sending our agents
down there to purchase raw materi-
ais; we are establishing branch banks
in an effort to bring about better
trade conditions, which means better
social conditions. And here comes
an aggressive society circularzing
the citizens with a pamphlet that is
direct insult to every one who en-
braces the Catholic religion-and
practically all of the people down
there embrace that faith.
!. From the organizations standpoint
the pamphlet was ill-timed and i'll
tempered. You cannot win man to
your way of thinking by assaulting his
religion. Converts must be made
through love, not through hate. If
the organization desired to make con-
vcrts. it selected the very worst meth
cd in the world; but if it wanted to
continue the bitterness that the South
Americans enterta ined toward us for
centuries, it took the proper course
Fort Smith American.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
DO AWAY WITH DIRT.

Visitors as we'll as home peoD!'
Judge Pine Bluff by its looks. MOI
only the appearance of the ma 1,
streets, but the appearance of baeh
yards, from yards, side streets ahf
alleys.
Every square foot of Pine Bluft
should be fit for the eyes of a
stranger.
The city beautiful starts with .lll
city Clean.
Whenever a visitor leaves the CITY
he should be impelled to say tha!
Pine Bluff is clean, pretty, bright anL
the people happy and prosperons
looking.
A h deous back yard indicates d
Ecor citizen. 1t is like a white collar
enfolding dirty neck.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
GLOOMY STATISTICS.

Statistics are figures that are sen;
broadcast to keep people Informed
They are "a source OF wonder and dis
may. One ather admires or sym
pathizes with the men who have to
compile them.
That isn't all. however. Who has
not felt an overWhe lining feeling oil
depression come over him at the en-
OF a row OF figures?
If you want to see how bad human
ity is IN the aggregate, read the sta
tistics of crime.
If you want to sweat blood over The
wrongs and injustices of living under
the present systems of government,
read the statistics of wealth distribu-
ton.
If you want to worry over the pov
erty Of The race. read the statistics
on average income.
If you want TO develop a healthy
disgust for the world, yourself and
your family, devour statistics.
And il you cultivate sufficient
crouch maybe you can compile some
statist cs Yourself
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
GETS A RAILWAY FOR
JUDGMENT FOR $l0S.56
Alabama LabOrer in Quandary What
to Do With the Street Car System
He Levied Upon.

Gadsden. Ala, April 13.-John V.
Maise. laborer. is the possessor of a
railroad and does not know what to
Go with it He had claim against a
local street car company, went into
the courts with it, secured judg-
ment for $10S56. Payment was not
forthcoming and Maise levied on the
read. Afer he got possession OF the
property he did not know what to do
With it and lawyers are trying to find
some means of satisfying the pudg-
ment and costs. keeping the property
in the hands of the street car COM
rany with uninterrupted service and
at the same time get fee for them
selves.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
GADSkrS HUBBY
ARRAlGNED FOR
WELLAND PLOT

New York, April 13.-Capt. Hans
Tauscher, husband of the grand opera
singer, Nine. Johanna Gadski, and an
officer in the German army reserve
was arraigned in the federal court
here today for hearing on the
charge that he headed a conspiracy
to blow up the Welland canal between
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, Canada
The government declares that the
plot to destroy the artificial connec-
ton between the two lakes was
Matched just after the war begun,
either in Germany or while Captain
Tauscher was on his way to this
country at the command of the kais-
ers' government.
Hans Won der Goltz. the German
spy reprieved by the British govern
ment so that he could come here from
London to give evidence of German
plots on American soil, is believed to
have revealed damaging facts about
1auscher. 1t is reported that he also
has shown the connection of Captain
Won Papen, the recalled German mill
tary attache at Washington, WITH the
alleged Tauscher plot.
Five men were in the party that left
New York to blow up the canal. They
went armed with revolvers supplied, it
is said, by German agents. Arriving
at Niagara Falls, everything was in
readiness to carry the conspiracy in
to effect when something happened
that caused a postponement OF the en-
terprise. What that was has not been
disclosed by the government. One
official said the postponement might
have been due to cold feet"
Law in the Case.
Section Is of the United States
criminal core, which applies in the
present case, reads:
Every person who, within the ter
ritory of jurisdiction of the United
States, begins, or sets on foot, OF pro-
vides. or prepares, the means for any
military expedition or enterprise. to
be carried on from thence against the
territory or dominion Of any foreign
prince or state, or of any colony, dis
trict, or people. with whom the Unit
cd States are at peace, shall be deem
cd guilty of a high misdemeanor and
shall be fined not exceeding $4,000 and
imprisoned not more than three
years."
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
COTTON USED IN
MARCH EXCEEDS
PREVIOUS MARK
Census Bureau Announces
Manufacturers Use
613,625 Bales.

Washington, April 14.--Cotton man
ufacturers used more raw cotton dur
ing March than in any one month be-
fore in the nations history. Census
bureau statistics announced today
show the 6O0,000-bale mark was
passed for the first time, as far as
records show. The exact quantity OF
cotton used during the month was
613,625, exceeding the previous record
month, which was March last year, by
almost 10000 bales.
Indications are that the years con-
sumption of cotton in the United
States will be record one, as the
cotton manufacturing industry is eX-
tremely active. Up to the end OF
March, 4,22S,990 bales of cotton had
been used during the eight months OF
the year. This is Col 900 bales more
than was used last year in the same
period. Cotton spindles active during
March numbered 80 $50, OF $4,000
more than were in operation at the
close of March last year. The .um-
Der of spindles is a record one.
American cotton goods are pushing
their way into foreign markets to a
greater extent than ever before. lhey
are taking the place OF goods former
| ly manufactured by countries now at
war.
Latest available statistics, those for
the first seven months of the year
1915-16, show that s3a,024.157 worth of
manufactured cotton was exported.
This is $25,000.0GO more than export
| cd in the came pe1iOd of the previous
year and almost $29,000,oo0 more than
the same period two years previously.
Cotton on hand March 81 in con-
Stunning establishments was 1850, 10
running bales. exclusive of lintcrs,
compared with 1,711,949 a year ago,
and in public storage and at com
presses 3410,0S9 bales, exclusive OF
linters, compared with 3,37S,734 year
ago.
Spndles active numbered 32,032,-
5S9 compared with 30,907,3S2 year
ago.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15

Congress is nearing the point where
business is becoming congested. As
usual, loS of important matters VII
be held up until the last hours Of rhc
session, and then either passed OF
killed " thout proper consideration
This kind of dilly-dallying has be-
come a characteristic of the nationa
making body in the last few gen
erations, and only the pressure o
public opinion will change t.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15

ter conditions will so admit. 1t is
only the selfish individual, who fears
that his own profits may be tempo
rarily reduced, that is wiling for evil
conditions to exist without publicity
People who advocate this "short
sighted policy refuse TO recognize
the fact that evils cannot be erad!-
catcd by people who persist in emulat-
ing the silly ostrich.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
---o+o,

The subcommittee of the STAT,
Democratic central committee cal
CGlates nhat John II. Arbuckle wo1
the nomination for encouragement
anyway the Perry vote is figured. L
the Biselow vote is accepted, Ar
buckles majority will be 264. If Tho
Perryville vote be taken Arbuckle WI
have a majority over Rhoton of 925
The state central committee will de
termine which Perry returns are t
he counted.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15

The Garland county grand jury is
literally going after violators OF
the law prohibiting the sale of liquor
While. in session a. Hot Springs
Thursday. one Of the members per
ceived a negro leaving a place across
the street, stuffing two TASKS into hi:
hip pocke,s. The grand jury recessed
and, with the prosecuting attorney
and sheriff, raided the place. One
arrest was made and quantity O.
beer and whiskey seized.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
UONORS AMERICAN HEROES

Washington. April 13.-Secretary OF
Commerce Redfield sent to U. S. Ship
ping Commissioner Grant at Boston
che gold and six silver watches
awarded by the Canadian government
to Captain Lawrence Norris and the
crew of the fishing schooner Josie
for gallant and humane service" IN
the rescue of the captain and crew
ri the Canadian schooner Harry or
May IS, 1915.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
~ INE BLUFF
ROGRESS
i ROsPERITY
A MISTAKEN POLICY.


c,sed for publishing the facts con-
Germ ng conditions in the cities in
which they are published, the critics
contending that anything unfavorable
ao the city should not he made public,
ignoring the fact that publicity is The
best and surest remedy for certain
evils.
The New Orleans T,mes-tP icayune
was recs ntly severely censured by
certain business organizat ons of the
Crescent City for printing an article
about 2 proposed anti-mosquito cam
paign and nhe need therefor. The
Times Picayune rightly terms the. at
titude of is criticts "sholtsighted AMI
mistaken saying 1.-The apparent dis
position 10 censure our publication of
news regarding the anti-mosquiIo
campaign is in our judgment as short
sighted and IN staken as was the
policy of an older day, when some of
us supposed that disease could be
eradicated and abuses cured by mere
ly concealing them.
1.-The fact is that in many sections
of the country-and in several other
la: ger cities-campaigns against the
mosquito pest are organized or II
process OF organization. 1t is proba-
BILE that some millions of dollars will
be spent in that wrk during the next
few years. The mosquitoes were par
ticularly numerous. and particularly
Troublesome last summer, in many
parts of the United States. Our own
city and the Gulf Coast section OF
Mississippi suffered from mosquito
visitations. Federal. state and city
health authorities have been studying
the mosquito eradication problem
ever s'nce. Columns have been
printed upon the subject. In New
Orleans alone, so far as we recall,
has the disposition been shown to re-
sent the publicity that nearly every
where else is considered helpful.
mo newspaper has given greater
of New Orleans. none has been more
liberal of space or mole cons silently
active in these and other good COM
munity causes than the Times-Pica
yune We have been occasionally
criticised before for urging full and
frank publicity instead of conceal
ment, but we submit that the city owes
its present enviable place in Ameri
can esteem, and its reputation FOL
civic enterprise, very largely to jus
that sort of publicity.
There is. as We sse it, nothing t
be ga ned by conceaiing the fact tina
measures are being taken here a
elsewhere for mosquito eradication.
campaign OF that sort will be Sc
down to our credi. everywhere. 1t i
squarely in the line of modern prog
ress and in keeping with the civil
pol cy that has SO materially in
creased the city's prestige in recen
years. 1t should be obv'o to ever
oFleania1a that this newspaper woul
be the last to attempt to injure, til
city or undo the constructive work
has helped 40 build up
This is the correct view, and al
thoughtful and broad persons who ar
really sincere in their desire to bel
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
DCNAWAY on NORMAL 30 ARD,

Little Rock. April ID. S. Duna-
way of Little Rock and Conway. bet
ter known as Sharp, was today APP
pointed by Governor Hays as men,
Der of the state normal board, to sue
coed Jos. Frauenthal whose term had
expired. Mr.. Dunaway has been trav-
cling representative of the Arkansas
Gazette for several years.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
ACTION is NATURAL.

P. S. Meehan, Hancock, Mich,
writes: Il have given Foley Cathar-
IT, Tablets through trial and can
positively. state they are the best
laxative | ever used. Their action is
natural, no pain Or gripping, and they
clean the systeml IN fine shape
Stout persons say the buoyant. free
feeling they bring is blessing. Mann
Pharmacy.
ASK our drivers about launder-
Ing your rag rugs, any Size, Amer
ican-Excelsior laundry Co., phone
LAG. tt
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
GOOD ROADS LEADERS.

Little Rock, April 13.-J. S. Aber-
crombie of Saline county. president;
+. F. Kitchen. vice president; George
Il. Brown, secretary. reelected, are
the new officers of the Arkansas
Good Roads and Drainage association
which closed its annual session here
today The association will meet i'll
Little Rock again next year.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-15
----OFO

The presid ntial primary seems 10
ing them handles forth favorite son
In Michigan it's Henry Ford: in Iowa
It's Cummins;, in Ind ana it's Fair
banks. This refers ito the Republican
ticket, of course. Mr.. Wilson is an
opposed on the Democratic ticket in
every state. as was to be expected.