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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27
Market Day. Anrll 20
ORGANIZE OAR

DR.. B. B. Bracket, of the electrical
department of State Col
lege, spoke to the students Tuesday
morning on Industrial Preparedness"
bringing out some interesting facts
concerning the condition of the coun-
try in an industrial way. He stated
that however good fighters we may be
we do nothing unless supplies were
readily available. DR.. Bracket return
ed home the first of last week from
Pierre where he attended the first
meeting of the newly formed Board
of Directors Of the Organization for
Industrial Preparedness of the State
of South Dakota" The five members
of the board met at the capitol build
ing and took up the greater part of the
day organizing and appointing aides
In various parts of the state to assist
in gathering the great mass Of ma
terial the board will be called on to
compile. Allan J. Clark, of Led, was
selected as chairman of the board.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27
Bombs in the Air
SERVICE

With an active Y. NJ. c. A, a full
time salaried secretary, Geo. c. Phil
lips, and 235 students enrolled in Bible
study classes, religious conditions at
State College are better than average.
The Y. NJ. c. A. 16-page edition Of the
student paper, the Industrial Collegian,
tian work being carried on in State
College.
The secretary's salary is raised Dy
subscription among faculty, local bust
ness men and students. Bible study
classes are led by faculty members,
upper classmen and business men. In
addition to the classes, the associa-
ton holds a w~ell-attended religious
meeting every Tuesday evening. In
these and countless other ways the
organization ministers to the moral
and religious needs of the young men
enrolled at State.
The Y. NJ. c. A. also gives material
help to the men in the way of securing
employment, finding suitable rooms
and boasding places, and by conduct
ing an important information bureau.
AS many as sixty students have found
employment through this bureau in
n day.
The Y. M. G. A. occupies five rooms
on the basement floor of "Old Central"
all furnished with lounging chairs,
study tables, reading room, an Edison,
a game room, and a we'll equipped
office. Frequent social affairs and
mixers" and an excellent lecture
course are special features.
President f. c. Perisho states that
'the Y. NJ. G. A. is a very vital part Of
State College, and it's Christian force
is a necessary aid in college work. The
Y. NJ. c.. A. is busy all the week in So
cial service work among the young
men, not only creating interest in Bible
study, missionary and other religious
movements, but also reaching it's maxi
mum influence in general helpfuln-ss
to the men of the college. Christianity
was never so well established as at
present in our educational institutions.
A larger per cen of Jul faculty are
active Christian workers than at any
earlier time, and more of our stu
dents who are prominent in debates,
oratory and athletics are Christian
men"
MARKET Day. April o.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27
PRISONER Hangs
SELF WITH TOWEL
CITY AND COUNTY OFFICERS DIG
UP EVIDENCE OF SENsA-
TIONAl PRACTICES
VIOLATION Of WHITE SLAVE ACT CLAIMED
Frequent Visitor to Brookings Brings
Different Woman Each
Time

Harvey E. Campbell, alias Billie La
telle, an itinerant tight-wire actor, held
at the county Jail on a vagrancy
charge, created considerable excite
ment Tuesday night by attempting to
commit suicide. Sheriff Miners at
tention was called to his cell about
11:45 and on turning on the light found
the prisoner dangling from the upper
bars of the cell by two towels which
he had tied around his neck. When
cut down he was unconscious but was
speedily revived.
Investigations on the part of the au-
thorities have revealed the fact that
Campbell has left in his wake a string
of wives. The evidence tends to show
that he has been making frequent
trips to Brookings and each time a
different woman has been with him.
Last week he came back with still an
other woman who gives her name as
Bessie Campbell and who is now in
the county jail serving out a sentence
OF ten days and a $1,000 fine assessed
against her for vagrancy and other
unlawful acts involving a number of
Brookings citizens. 1t is said that
Campbell was here about fair time
with two girls and along about No
vember with another woman, and
again about four weeks ago with a
girl as his wife. This time they put
on a vaudeville act at one of the local
theatres.
Campbell was arrested Monday and
placed in the county Jail. At the di-
rection of States Attorney Purdy the
federal authorities were notified and
a special U. S. prosecutor arrived yes
terday to take the matter in charge
under the Mann white slave act claim
ing that Campbell has beer transport
ing women for unlawful purposes.
Trial has been set for 2 o'clock today.
Two women are being held at the
county Jail as witnesses and another
is in the custody of the police at
Sioux Falls.
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SCHOOL LANDS IN DEMAND
Average Price Paid by Purchaser per
Acre is $5t n

A special dispatch from Pierre says:
y million and a quarter dollars is
the return from land sales by the state
at the spring offerings which were
completed this week. The average
price received from school lands was
lands was $1S.59 per acre. The highest
average for any county was McCook,
with $S2.73 an acre, several tracts in
tina county bringing 800 an acre. The
lowest average on school lands was in
Union county, where a small trart of
sand bar sold at $40 an acre.
Thn sales by COMMITTEES Wern.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27

The general interest in the coming
clean up movement was emphasized
by the presence of twenty-three men
and women at the meeting at the
Club Tuesday evening
called to discuss the movement and
appoint committees to carry on the
work.
Mayor Mathews presided and ex-
planned in a general way the purpose
of the meeting and the necessity of a
general clean up campaign. Mr..
Mathews said: During the summer
months Bookings is on exhibition as
much as any other town in the state.
In order for her to make the best APP
pearance possible it will be necessary
for each of III to DO our part. BY a
common observance Of this cleaning
up time Brookings will be, during the
coming summer, a healthier, happier
and more beautiful little city in which
to live"
Mayor Mathews appointed a nOmin-
ating committee consisting of NJ. f..
Culhane, Mrs. Lillian Smith and T.. A.
Robinson, who will select an executive
committee to direct the movement and
appoint the various committees.
When the campaign starts next
Monday it is hoped everything will be
in readiness and the residents of the
city will join heartily in making Brook
place to live.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27

The Mexican situation remains Il
puzzle with little developments other
than an engagement between Colonel
Dodd's detachment with 260 McXi-
can bandits at Tomachie in the center
of the Sierra Madres, in Western Chi
huahua, last Saturday. Two Ameri-
cans were killed and three wounded,
while six Mexicans were killed and
nineteen wounded and a quantity Of
equipment and horses captured.
Several detachments of American
troops have resumed active pursuit OF
Villa, and are whipping the mountains
north and west of Parral, where the
bandit chieftan is reported to be ND
ing, the report from field headquarters
said.
Diplomatic and other problems sur
rounding the pursuit of Villa are be-
ing held in status quo pending the
conference between General Scott,
chief of staff of the United States
army, and General Obregon, Carran-
za's minister of war, which is expected
to take place soon at some border
point.
Major General Funston will attend
the conference.
Market Day, April 90
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27

Thomas Kinsey is living evidence Of
the absence of a lot Of the imagined
dangers of travel at sea. Mr.. Kinsey
estimates that he has travelled four
million miles, and he claims that he
has a worlds record for distance over
the ocean wave. He sums up the story
of a life at sea, declaring that he has
never been in serious danger in any Of
his voyages.
Carries His Troubles Easily
The appearance of President Wilson
indicates that he gets a good sleep
every night, and is not unnecessarily
exercised vel the conditions in for
eign affairs. This does not signify
that the President has any lack of ap-
probation of the gravity of affairs
but a man can even become accustom-
ed to troublesome nations, just as he
is able to reconcile himself to most
any other conditions into which he
may be forced. President Wilson
spends a great deal of his time in
keeping fully advised with reference
to foreign affairs and in directing his
policies; but the task has not made
him grow thin, or look older.
Bombs in the Air
The spectacular performance of an
illuminated a~eroplane dropping imita-
ton bombs down on Washington, is
the latest stunt of propaganda on the
part Of the interests. New York is
also to be destroyed" by the same
young man who sailed over the Ma
tional Capital. Congressman have
been interested, but not very thorough
ly convinced by the latest diversion
of the man in the flying machine.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27
TRACK SEASON TO OPEN

The track season at State College
will open Saturday with the annual
interclass track meeting at 1870 in
the afternoon.
This being the first interclass con-
test so well represented with stars in
each event it promises to be an un-
usual meet. Many Of the young men
have been out daily and under Coach
Ewing's directions are fast getting in
good shape for the other meets later
in the season.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27

questions Miss Kidd has outlined as
follows just what the evenings enter
tainment will delineate:
Do you know what sort Of buildings
different colleges give TO the use of
their women students? DO you know
hundreds of college girls are learning
to take their religion into their play?
Do you know how the Young Women's
Christian Association helps girls to do
this? And do you know what college
girls and their younger sisters in high
school girls are standing for in their
association and clubs?
The cast of characters and the var
ious attributes and things which they
will represent follows:
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(By j. E. ,Jones)

(By ]. e. Jones)
Brookings Register Bureau, Washington, DC.
R~eopenine Of Canal
Goethals is on top of the job again,
and he has the Panama Canal open to
traffic. The waterway has virtually
been closed for seven months, during
which time the dredging fleet has re-
moved a mountain or two. But in
such a task as the building of the
Panama Canal, minor things hardly
count. There have been some at
tempts at Washington to stir up
trouble for Colonel Goethals, but the
inspiration of the efforts in this direc-
ton appeared to eminate from rival
interests engaged in dredge contracts.
Advices received at the National Capt.
tai are to the effect that Colonel
Goethals feels that his task is about
finished, and he expects to return to
the United States within a few
months.
"Seeing Washington"
The school boys and girls-bless
them, are arriving in Washington by
the trainload, availing themselves of
the annual custom to visit the National
Capitol. Perhaps there is no city in
the country, not excepting New York,
that entertains as many strangers
daily as Washington. The railroads
this year are offering exceptionally
low excursion rates, enabling school
children to come for distances of W
eral hundred miles for a few dollars.
Inasmuch as Congress is in session
the young people are enjoying every
opportunity to witness the manner in
which the country is managed. Every
person should visit Washington at
least once; and the inspiration that
they receive from the visit is sure to
make them feel that they are better
and more patriotic Americans as a re-
suit of their pilgrimage.
Safety at Sea
While there Is abundant concern re-
garding the safety of travel on the rail-
roads, it is significant that the acct
dent insurance companies regard the
dangers of travel in this way cry
lightly, and back up their judgment
to promises to pay double indemnity
in case of accident or death. Mr..
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27
3,926.S1
3,926.81 $73,004.9S
Average for state 1883

NF'IdS' IVT NNVN' FI''""
Total acreage of all classes sold was
28,S77.9S, for which the state will re-
ceive $1,259.918.85. Besides the bene-
fit to the srhOols Of the state which
will accrue from the interest upon this
fund, there will be a lot Of land placed
upon the tax list for next year, for
the first time. Day county especially
will have a new acreage Of 7,440.30 to
add to local taxation.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27
Market Day, April 2s

The South Dakota Sunday School
Association will at Huron on
May 2, 3 and 4. One thousand dele
gates is looked for to attend this meet
ing.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-04-27

The state well drillers will hold a
convention in B%rookings May rs and
26, according to a letter received by
the Commercial Club from R. ".
drillers in the state a large number of
them are expected to be present at
the convention. Brookings offers suit
able facilities to any organization to
hold conventions in this city ad the
Commercial Club has taken much in
terest and time in making those that
come to Brookings comfortable and
enjoy themselves.
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Day, April 90

President Perisho returned Wednes.
day morning from the southern part of
the state where he went the first part
Of the week to deliver a number Of ad-
dresses.
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CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED

Market Day. April
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24,951.17 $1,1S6,913.S7

Average for state $51.7l
The endowment land sales for the
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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

Market Day. April 20
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WELL DRILLERs HERE IN MAY

Market Day, April 90
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STANDS TOP

Market Day, April 90
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U. S. FORCES RoUT BANDITS

Market Day, April %
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-11-16
VIII Not Stand Fol II

Information comes from Charleston
that Governor Hatfield and his politi-
cal ad Users are seriously consider
ing calling special session OF the
legislature for the purpose of passing
legislation to extend the term OF Office
OF the Hatfield appointees and the ma
chine job holders through the term OF
office OF John J. Cornwell. so as TO
strip him OF all right or authority In
the matter OF executive appointments.
Governor Hatfield Is preparing to
call down on himself the righteous in
dignation and the just wrath Of the
people OF the state regardless OF par
~, II he attempts to thrwart the eg
pressed will OF the voterg by auch high
handed and arbitrary MISUSE OF pow
er. The people have positively spoken
and have emphatically demanded a
new set Of faces IN public affairs I'm
West Virginia and the proposed re-
sort to political czarigm will be re-
sented throughout the entire state
Hstheld's hope is that he can force
through the present legislature his
program and that the next legislature,
by reason ot It's Republican majority
In the state Senate, will be unable to
repeal his political measures.
II Is lnconcelvablo that the fair
minded leaders OF the Republican par
~ In West Virginia, who are not dom
mated by the Hatfield machine, will
for one moment aid or abet the Hat
field program. II they wish TO place
West Virginia permanently In the
Democratic column. II is sofe To say
the storm of disappfoyal WATCH wsuld
sweep the state " ,wo years and in
four years would give overwhelming
Democratic control to both branches
Of the next legislature and all state
ofaces in feur years, such methods
as Hatfield is saId 10 propose might
be tolerated In Mcdowell county, bat
Governor Hatfield r. undertaking "a
takt IN too much territory when he at
tenipts 10 coerce the people Of the
Whole state OF West Virginia. -Adyer-
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-11-16
Beecbam and HIS pills

Joseph Beecham died the other day
in England He got knighthood, $14O,-
100000 and a worldwide reputation
out Of pills. Sir Joseph believed in
printers ink. He spent more money
In advertising and got more out OF II
than perhaps any other man who liy-
ed
Probably his most daring exploit
was the hymn book trick. He had an
edition OF hymn books printed for sale
around the holidays. All over Eng
land people opened tho books on
Christmas day and started 10 sing an
old and hallowed hymn Those who
followed tho text sang:
'Tiark. the herald angels sing,
'Beecham's pills are just the thing
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
1.-TWO for man and one for chlldD"
The trick was outrageous. but Il
made people think OF Sir Joseph's
pills
In "soptimua." William J. Locke has
a character. Glenn Sypher. which Is
supposed TO have been fashioned on a
Beecham modol-a man with keen
business judgment and a remedy, a
man who talked nothing but his rem
edy and thought Of nothing but It and
saw opportunity for advertising Il in
every circumstance that developed
There is no doubt Sir Joseph
thought he was a public benefactor.
n he did not believe in his pills ne
would not have been so persistent I'm
telling the public about them
He deserves study not as a maker
OF pills but as a maker OF ads" lie
was a genius IN that line.
There was an American whose pills
we're every BIT as good as those OF
Beecham lie might have made a
great fortune out OF them, but he lack
ed one element in which Beecham was
strong persistence. He built I'D .
big business and made lot OF money
Then he decided that everybody knew
about his pills and there was no fur.
ther need to spend money on tellinp
them about them. He ceased adver.
tising and the people ceased taklnl
his pills. Now he is dead and his pill.
are little more than q memory Cam
merce end Fluancs.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-11-16
Just a Word

Thousands OF prayers OF sincere
thankfulness went up from West Vir-
ginia homes with the coming OF GER
tain knowledge that John j. Cornwell
had been elected Governor
To God-fearing people his election
does not seem party victory, but ap-
pears in it's true aspect OF rescue
of the state from the selfish and cruel
hands of the most brazen machine Of
office holders and tax eaters that ever
plundered people, and used the pro-
ceeds to perpetunte It's power.
Mr.. Cornwell's election is not a mere
party triumph, and must not be so re-
garded or boasted OF by Democrats
Remember that hundreds Of independ-
ent voters. and of liberal and broad
minded Republicans and members of
other parties voted with US TO make
possible this victory for clean govern
ernment and political decency. The
credit and honors are theirs Just as
much as ours. and their feelings and
opinions must be respected.
There should be no unseemiy shout
ing, jollifying or beating Of party tom
toms; no vulgar exultation, licking Of
chops, or gloating over defeated men.
Rather let us be soberly and earn
estly thankful for our emancipation
from political enslavement The re-
suit is a new declaration of independ-
ence in West Virginia and is the heri-
tage alike Of Republican and Demo
crat and Socialist-of man and woman
and child.
Never again will any band OF men
9ttempt to build up a political ma
chine, under any party name. to pros
tifpte government and rob the state
10 enrich themselves For all time
% come will stand the warning exam
pie Of the Hatfield Robinson machine.
driven from power under the scorpion
lash Of public Indignation.
This is no time for precipitate ac-
tion or self-seeking. The election OF
the first governor under a new regime
brings with It great responsibility
and not only will the man who IS
elected measure up and realize our
hopes. but he must have the unselhsh
help and cooperation Of every man
who made the redemption OF the state
| possible
Let no man be greedy I'm seeking
places for himself or his friends Re
member we are under solemn pledge
to the people to abolish aII needless
Offices, and unless we Keep faith with
the people who have trusted us We
did not deserve to win. and will never
win again Let every man who voted
for Cornwell forget himself, and give
the best that is in him 10 help thC
new governor make good. and justify
the confidence the people have re-
posed In us.
And let us be self-restrained, cour
teous. dignlhed and unseihsh Char
lesion Gazette.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-11-16

In nearly every state Mr.. Hughes
ran behind his ticket and President
Wilson ran ahead OF his ticket.
To appreciate the extraordinary po-
iltical change that has resulted from
Mr.. Wilson's leadership OF the Demo
cratic party II is necessary only TO
read the returns In the Presidential
elections of the last twenty years.
In 1896 MIR. McKinley's popular
plurality over Mr.. Bryan was COL 1854.
Mr.. Mckinley having 271 votes in the
electoral college to Mr.. Bryans ITO.
In 1890 Mr.. McKinley's popular
plurality was increased to $40, 700
his electoral vote being 292 to 155 for
Mr.. Bryan.
In 1904 the Republican ascendancy
Increased tremendously. Mr.. Roose-
velts popular plurality was 2.545.bl6,
and he had 336 votes In the electoral
college to Judge Parker's 14O.
In 1908 the Democratic party picked
up little but not much. MIR. Taft's
popular plurality over Mr.. Bryan was
l,269,804. His electoral vote was 32l
to Mr.. Bryans 1872
Thus In four successive Presidential
elections the smallest Republican
plurality In the popular vote was COL
S54 and the smallest Republican ma
jority in tho electoral college was So.
In 1912 the Roosevelt bolt DESTROYED
party lines. and although Mr.. Wilson
was elected by an enormous majority
In the electoral college, the combined
Taft Roosevelt vote was 7,GO4,5
against a Wilson vote OF only 6,2g3,-
0l9. The Republlcan-Progre plur-
ality OF the popular vote was 1,311.-
l54, or slightly more than in 1908.
In 1916 the Wilson popular vote is
2,160,000 beyond the previous Demo
cratic record 1t is 100000 more than
the Roosevolt-Taft vote of 1912. II is
more than 100000 In advance OF the
reunited Republican party There is
no more talk Of minority Presi-
dent"
Mr., Wilson has put the two parties
on an equality again. The great Re
publican majorities OF the last twenty
years have been broken, and the coun-
try will profit from this restoration OF
the balance. There is no better as
surance Of good government than two
parties practically equal in power and
each at the mercy OF the independent
vote World.