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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-09-20
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lfEsHAaN2rrd VIEW M fMS ELBe
MRS. b. O.. Lerdahl visited friends
at Florence this week.
Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. d. K. Loucks
on Wednesday, September Is 1917, q
daughter.
Fske O,Hara IN THE Man From
Wicklow. Metropolitan Theatre, sat
urday, Sept. 22nd.
Geo. 3. Phelps returned yesterday.
from the twin cities, where he attend
ed to business matters.
Nj. Chase has returned to My
sian, MINI, following a visit at the
home d A. B. Tiffany in this city.
Rev. 9. j. Christianson. pastor Of
the Congregational church. departed
yesterday for Faulkton, s. p, to att
tend a meeting Of the Christian En-
deavor Society. Of which he il mod
orator.
The city budget Of Aberdeen, as re-
Gently published in the Aberdeen
News is $222.67s.s go, which Is about
100000 IN exces Of Watertown's
budget. both cases he school ap-
preparation is included.
Lake kampeska lots Tor sale az
Eask Yahota. Inquire Of Mrs. Frances
I. Hopkins, 525 e. Kemp Ave, or5
phone 34cO. SOFT
Local friends Of former Governor
Frank Nj. Burye will be interested in
learning that he leaves this week for
Peoria, ILL.,. attend session Of the
international Dry Farming Congress,
Of which he Is president Governor
Byrne viii probably be absent from
the state for ten days o. two weeks
The trends Of tie family deeply rel
greet to learn Of the death Of Mrs;
Timothy Curley. which occurred last
Saturday, the funeral having E
held last Monday from Immaculate
Conception church, ii this city, Faith
eli IN. o'Meara conducting SER
vices, assisted BY Father Veeser s1
this city and Father slattery of Hen
NJ MRS. Curley II 4 native Of Fond
|dr. Lac, Wis, where she resided urt;
tn 1884 soon after which she re-
moved with her husband TO Coding-
EIrTzH -
The sun., 1917-09-22
The vsnishing Point.

When the dairyman raises his price
for milk q cent and fraction over.
the milk retailer raises his price two
cents; and the retailer says In justi-
fication that every increase in price
somewhat diminishes the volume OF
his business. Into the extent to which
this justification justifes we shall not
here inquire; the retailer speaks the
truth. however. when he says that
each raise of price lessons the demand
for his milk.
Milk Is necessary of life for
infants and children, but its con-
sumption by adults is capable of ex-
traordinary curtailment without much
hardship.
When the price Of milk, or almost
any other commodity however basic,
reaches certain height consumption
shrinks to a point where there is no
profit for retailer. producer or any
one else.
When that point Is reached it is not
the public which suffers most.
The sun., 1917-09-22

at length upon the delight this speech
caused at the German Embassy.
Did BERNsroRrF know at the mo-
ment Of the greater plots against
the United States that Germany even
then had under way?
ZlMMERMANN's note to Mexico sug-
gesting q German N Mexican-JapAnese
alliance and the capture Of our boun-
dairy States had already been des-
patched. Was BERNsrORFr cognixant
Of this? In less than week the Ger
man note announcing the commence
ment Of unrestricted submarine war
fare was received. Did BERNsTORrF
know 1t was on the way? February
5 the United States broke with Ger
many, and the President asked Con-
gress to permit the arming Of mer-
chant ships. Only the little group
Of wilful men" opposed 1t.
Congress will of course have to in
vestigate the ugly references in the
Bernstorff note to influence exerted
ION former occasions" through "the
organization you know Of" In the
meantime 1t is just as well to take
neither the influences nor the organi-
zatlon too seriously. There were in
dividuals about Washington in those
days quite rs eager TO pluck BERN
sToRrF as he was to influence Congress.
They called themselves by the high
sounding names Of organizations. and
If they lured Representative or Sem
ator into an innocent chat in the cor
ridOr they pointed to it rs evidence
Of their influence. Moreover. the
stimulated" kilograms sent to Con-
gress In the days preceding the war
cost easily more than $4,000.
The real importance of the publ
cation of the BernstOrff note lies in
its revelation Of the despicable quality
Of German diplomacy. Taken with
the zimmerman note to Mexico and
the trick Count LuxBrRG played on
the Swedish Charge at BuenOs Ayres
1t forms an Infamous triad of Teu-
tonic treachery sufficient to put every
German envoy to neutral country
under suspicion.
The sun., 1917-09-22

Official GermGn notice posted on the tcdils
Of email village. Hoiaor, norfhTen of ~.
QaenGn. II bears the onictoi seal Of the Ger
man commander.
HolSoS, July 10th, 1915
All the workmen, with their wives and
children of fifteen years. are obliged to
work In the heids every day. Sunday In
cluded. from four o'clock in the morning
until eight o'clock at night
Half an hour in tho morning. an hour
at noon, and half an hour In the afternoon
will be allowed for rest and recreation.
Infractions of this rle will be punished
az follows
The lsborer who refuses to work will
be thrown, In company with other OBJ
tectors during the harvest time, In jail
under the charge of German non com mis-
stoned oficers. After the harvest the OBJ
jectors will be imprisoned for six months.
Every third day nourishment of bread and
water will be provided,
Tho women who refuse to work wfll be
transported to the fields TO work there,
After the harvest the women will be i'm
prisoned for six months.
Children who refuse 10 work will be
punished by being fiogged with stick,
In addition, the Commander reserves the
right to punish obtecting laborers by
twenty strokes OF the lash every day.
The workmen OF the village OF Verduilss
have already been punished severely.
The sun., 1917-09-22
FOrgetting the war.

VoN HrNDENBuRG has telegraphed
to the head of the new patriotic
Party" Duke JOHANN ALBRIGHT. the
following message:
your appeal to the men Of East
Prussia has filled me with great Joy
because II seriously warns US Germans
not to forget the war during internal
dissensions."
CaYmany in three years Of war has
lost 4,OOO,OOO men in killed. wounded
and captured. 1t has serving In the
ranks now 100000 men Of the class
Of 192O-that is to say, boys of IL
and has just asked the people for
permission to call out boys year
younger, who under military regula-
tions should not be called for nearly
two years yet.
Does HINDENBURG. man or bloOd
and iron as he is, think that the Ger
man people can forget the warf
Not until many generations have
passed away is there likelihood thar
Germany will forget this war, the
coldly ambitious and covetous men
who provoked it, and the brutal and
callous men who have prosecuted and
prolonged it.
The sun., 1917-09-22

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrN--Sn: Tho
loss through the misuse and destruction
Of milk bottles on the part OF the con-
sumers is small compared with the loss
through the carelessness and extrava-
gance Of drivers.
withing a stones throw OF where I
reside there lie at least six dozen milk
bottles that have ended their usefulness
A careless driver allowed them to re-
main there for some days. which was
ample time for boys to discover and
destroy them.
do not believe that consumer would
put an empty bottle In an ash barrel
unless he were dsgusted at the driver
for not collecting bottles within a rea-
sonable time.
purchase one quart Of milk a day.
and there are Ave empty bottles await
ing the drivers own good time for pick
ing them up. b GORDON.
RRoOKLYN Septeuber 9l
The sun., 1917-09-22

and disregard Of precedents. Amer
lea must supply these or the produc-
tion Of twenty thousand alrplanes
with Liberty motors. or fifty thou,
sand, or a hundred thousand will not
be decisive in this war.
Tactical ideas are not the exclusive
property Of the men with military
training, any more than mechanical
invention is restricted to men with
scientific training. The military mind
can sift and reject tactical ideas, and
a West Point education enables men
to tell offhand In many cases whether
q novel suggestion is practicable or
not. But military education Is not
a copdition Of military genius.
The problem confronting America
Is dual, and one side of 1t is in danger
Of being lost sight Of. American in
ventors do well to experiment end
lessly on airplane parts. Americans
generally ought to think on airplane
tactics. How can the airplane be
used, singly or in large numbers, with
an efficiency approaching that Of the
U-boat? The destruction of airplanes
Is, secondary. The destruction they
can infict is the important thing.
Germany can very we'll stand heavy
U-boat losses If she can irreplaceably
damage the worlds shipping. Her
enemies can deliberately sacrifice
thousands Of airplanes II by so doing
they can irreparably destroy German
military power.
Americans should be urged to read
about airplanes. study their construc-
ton and think about their possibili-
ties. They should he melted to put
their ideas on paper and send them
to the War Department. Along with
800 foolish or impracticable proposals
for using the airplanes extensively the
trained expert may get suggestion
worth trying. And for the trial OF
such suggestions as give evidence Of
possible value this country should
build an aviation laboratory dupli-
eating a section Of battle front.
This is not to say that the United
States and her allies are without
definite ideas Of the tactical nse to
which large numbers Of airplanes may
he put. Lord NoRrHCLIrFE observes
in discussing the production of an
airplane engine on large scale in
this country:
1T is an engine designed for ccr-
tain specific air programme, the nature
OF which the Germans will learn in due
course"
The programme. like all other pro-
grammes, is not final. 1t may be
bettered before 1t can be put into
execution. Its execution may show
IA rticulars in which it failed. The
assurance that there is programme
for the tactical use OF great num-
bers of airplanes should encourage
Americans while It spurs them on to
think for themselves.
We are going to spend s64O,O00.-
600 on airplanes. We must know
, how to use them tactically to get max
imum results.
The sun., 1917-09-22
Tho Call Of Russia.

Haste thee. America Hsarken Russia.
Sore ia her need; and sore will need OF
thine
And all earth be, II trembling Moscow
fall.
Lend thou thy strength to hold tbs wa
verins line
Across Gaiician front, ere Russian sway
Shall from the earth forever pass away.
Severed in fragmsntA, rent In pieces
ninel
II Russia fail, naught then upon the East
Need hold the Teuton armies that. re-
leased,
VIII turn again. victorious. to France;
And what shall check their Jubilant ad-
vance7
Not that brave land. nor burdened Italy.
Nor England from her island In the sea.
Though all their forces shall united bel
o young America, on thee would fail.
Untried. improved. the burden Of Il all!
Thinkest thou art In training for the
Which thou, young giant, wouidst be called
to deal
Upon a mighty and triumphant foe
That tramples all the earth beneath its
heel?
O thou America, arise, awake!
And grid thy ioins, for all the worlds at
Lend of thy strength to Russia In her
need,
Lest by her fail the sister nstiaaR bleed
And ruthless hordes all world dominion
n C, BuuIul
The sun., 1917-09-22
TRADE BRIEFS.

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f., a..-, &, D,,uat,, r,.
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nr,n,,,s r,och,rsrv :, per- po,,v,. .ro
Ecuador has been prepared by the Bureau
Of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
American paper has replaced that formerly
,,nported into these markets by Germany,
4, o1s.,-,. ,,vh,i,s r,ar, 10 nrono,.,
for Cartas.ra, Colombia Firm. inter.
estsl in the installation OF this plant
should write TO the president OF the mum.
c!paiiiy OF cartasena.
Experiments are to be made In Uruguay
TO determine whether iocusts. which are
formidable pests to crops can be used Tor
industrial purposes It Is said that they
can be utilized in the making OF fertilizer,
soap, lubricants and as stock food.
American high bred poultry IL well re-
celvei in Rio Grande do SUI, Brazil. De-
eer'ptNe h'era,"re IN roFtusuese OF span
'sh "ou'' 'e"" !" '"''.a' s"0'' "a hs'
The sun., 1917-09-22
4 short speech and . GOOD Prece.
dent,

Some 5000 longshoremen who had
been on strike met on Thursday to
vote on the question Of arbitrating
their quarrel with their employers.
Captain WILLIAM Il. BAKER, in the
uniform of the Quartermaster Corps.
made brief speech. reported to have
been as follows:
"Boys, you have known me for FIVE
years. I have been connected with the
transport service for that length Of time
We have been in touch with each other.
and you know that when 1 say a thins
I mean it II give you my word you
know It's going to be carried out.
'T know you will be treated right
Take my tip and vote for, arbitration.
II you don't. and II you tie this port up,
the United States Government will make
. military reservation OF the port OF
New York. In case you don't know
what that means. 1t means conscription.
and you will have to load these ships
whether you want to or not
As the homely phrase runs: I'm
not a.larnin' ye, I'm a.tellin' ye."
Now. rightly or wrongly, Captain
BAKER's speech is credited with
changing the dominant sentiment, and
the longshoremen voted to arbitrate
the dispute.
In doing so they have set a prece-
dent for all Americans. While the
war lasts the first duty is to keep
every wheel turning. Whatever diff
ferences may arise must be settled
while work goes on. When work stops
the enemy captures trench 5000
miles back of the first line.
The sun., 1917-09-22
A NOTABLE PRECEDENT,
The Expulsion Of Jesse d. Brieh
From the United states senate.

To THE EpTToR OF THE SUN--SN. u
Is announced that the Associatlc7 ~
Commerce of Green Bay, Wis, has
adopted a resolution demaniirs tAat
Robert NJ La Toilette ne expelled iron
his seat In the United States Senate
II the Senate should take such actor
concerning the Senator from W.sC7tst-
IL would not be without u lrece4r.'
that is a close parallel
Jesse II. Bright. a native Of 81" N""
State. after being Lieuteraut-GHy'~r' '
Of Indiana and also serving OF ~" '"r'h
was elected United states Sr' ''.C f."I
that State for three successive t'-rs
1t was noted that he steadily voted "l'.
the Southorners on all questions 'e'at'ns
TO slavery. In March. 1861. he wrote t.
Jefferson Davis. President of IN" N'''H5
eracy, introducing Il man who wished
to dispose of an improved hrcsrE
To this, which was a sper'nca' -r u
the charge Of disloyalty brought lE"'r'
him. he made the curious an-vr- t!A'
at tho time of writing 'he iett"r .o"
month before Sumter was fred or ''
had no idea that there would he IA
and he wrote the letter merely - se
rid OF the inventors importunity
The judiciary Committee dcc''ei ~
this alone was not sufficient ,lu.r r.
expulsion. In fact, there was 10 1,'."t
on snap judgment no attempt a' 1911.
roading but the mans gross lts.'' ''''
was too evident TO he denied. S1'e'4
Senators made strong speeches ana Oh
February 5. 1854. Mr. Bright "as eH
The sun., 1917-09-22
MISSING MILK BOTTLES.
The Retailer Can Find Them Lying
Cncalled For In Cellars.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-ST: l
can readily believe that part OF the
eighteen cents n quart I am paying for
certified milk for our baby's use is to
cover the cost of glass bottles. But the
fearful lament of the milk distributor
who saw several bottles lying in the
streets Of Brooklyn and the more in sad
ness than in anger reproaches he heaps
upon us consumers move me not. ex-
cept to irnpotent rage.
II he will cali at my apartment house
at the proper day and hour-the event
comes off every ten days or sol will
show him Joseph, the negro janitor,
smashing a gross of bottles with ham
mer and tossing the shards into the
ash can. He is good janitor His
rival in the next building doesn't bother
about the ash can; he simply crashes
them against the brick wall bordering
an empty lot.
Why? Simply because the milk wagon
drivers will not take them away. This
is not a guess; It Is a fact. The other
morning the dumbwaiter would not
work. I went to the basement to get
the milk and found tho cause. The top
Of the car, or elevator, or whatever the
contrivance Is called. was laden with
milk bottles. a. thick as they could
stand. The milk wagon driver instead
of taking them away, had showed my
two fresh bottles aboard so that two
empty ones were forced OF. They had
fallen and were wedged between the car
and the shaft.
talJ ,ln @
covered with milk bottles-sauads and
companies OF them In close order forma-
ton.
The drivers, | assume. report to the
distribution depots that the bottles are
missing. and no one in authority takes
the trouble TO inquire whether they tell
the truth. ! don't blame the milk driver
very much. The empties must be a
nuisance and the poor devils work hard
long and fast
A suggestion-whyn not introduce pint
and quart paper containers which can
be thrown away? They would be clean,
which bottles are not eve recently
turned over to the Health Department
an eighteen cent bottle Of certified milk
with a pea sized bit of stable refuse
stuck to the inside of the elass) they
would not be so heavy; certainly the cost
could not be much more when breakage
Of glass-deliberate and accidental--is
considered. and It would seem the ob
stacles in the way OF conta!ner which
would stand transportation and icinG
would not be insuperahlc.
ONE OF THE GouGED
NEW YOPK SaDtemhpr 81
The sun., 1917-09-22
Wisconsin D~pravity.
From the Viroq,A Leader


While the two Southeastern trains were
passing each other at Coon Valley Tuesday
forenoon some one on the La Crosse bound
train. presumably a passenger. threw
beer bottle through window Of one Of
the coaches Of the train coming this way.
The missile was said 10 have been thrown
with great violence and came within threa
inches OF striking lady passengers head.
Great CONSERVATION prevailed smon5 the
passengers. and the railroad company has
been instituting an investigation concern
ing tho matter, we Understand. II Is
needless to say that the bottle was empty
and that LIS contents had probably gone
into the stomach Of the depraved wretch
who hurled It, II matters little whether
the bottle was secured In this city. Westby
or Coon Valley, tn" lawless scamp who
perpetrsted the deed ought 20 he severely
punished.
The sun., 1917-09-22
ITALY'S FINE WORK.
Note OF Deserved Praise for the
Campaign Against Austria.

To THE EDITOR oP THE SuN-Sir:
hope that a great many persons will
read your editorial article on "Italy's
Opportunity"
1t Is desirable that the American pub
lie should realize the increasingly I'm
por.ant part which Italy is playing IN
the war. From all accounts the italian
campaign was planned with great ability
and is being conducted with skill and
thoroughness. combined with fortitude
and bravery on the part Of both officers
and men.
Continued Italian success Will certain
ly show weighty results in favor of the
allied cause. And II is to be hoped
that transportation will be available to
furnish TO the Italians the supplies Of
wheat, coal. munitions dc. which .hey
need. Their accomplishment in the line
Of aviation and military engineering
seem truly remarkable. r
NEW YORK, September 81.
The sun., 1917-09-22
War and the street Corner.

Hurried as may have been Amer
ica's martial preparations. it is evil
dent that the War College thought
we'll in advance upon the placing in
the training camps Of the various
social units Of Manhattan's militant
youth. Hence the relief on reading
that the conscripts Of the Gopher gang
are at least mile from the Gas House
gang at Camp Upton, and that the
Hudson busters are well removed
from the quarters Of the celebrities
named. BY the exercise Of the same
method of separation there will he
no propinquity to arouse the rival
emotions Of the gentlemen from Hell's
Kitchen and the warriors who were
drafted from the region Just north
of the Kitchen where The McMANUs
strokes his pale beard and laughs G.
WASH. PLUNKIrT to scorn.
The relatives of the more modest
young members Of the National Army
may have some nervousness over the
news Of the arrival at Camp Upton of
lads whose names and regional affili.
atoms suggest a wild manner Of life,
but We beg to reassure them. The
gangster Of to-day Is more so in name
than in fact. The Battling Kid Sheas
Of the Gopher outfit are not the
Mickey Morans of other and redder
days. There may be Hudson Busters
who talk Of carnage, but there are no
more Bill Poolcs.
The gangster OF bloody memory is
gone. in so far as district bands are
concerned. The police, who had al
why's the power to end the gangs by
persistent effort, were already at tho
task before the Becker case took the
lid Off the remains of the gang sys.
TEN. There are no more Monk East.
mans or Humpty Jacksons or Ynkey
Yake Bradys or Biff ElllsOns or Jack
Zeligs. PAUL KELLY, we believe, pur,
sues legitimate calling under a more
national name and at any time may
come ont for the Uplift
The gangs Of to-day are but The
remnants of traditional groups. They
The sun., 1917-09-22

A Picture Of the Clipper Ship Dread.
nOught.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--sr: II
may interest your correspondents who
discussed the sailing records Of the
clipper ship Dreadnought TO know that
In the window OF Leonard & Co.. As
Bromfield street, Boston, Is a colored
print of n full rigged ship poughins
through the sea at what one could
imagine to be a twenty knot speed. on
the white margin below tho picture Is
printed the following:
clipper Ship Dreadnought of Taskar
Light. leh days from New York on her
celebrated passage into Dock at Liverpool
In IS days IL hours. December, 1884, To
her Commander. S. Samuels, Esq, this
print Is dedicated by the publisher, n.
currier. Copyrighted, etc. by N. Currier.
1866.
n. Curriers' place OF business was
then at l52 Nassau street, New York.
W, A. DUNN,
BOSTON. September 10.
The sun., 1917-09-22

produce more boxers than gunmen.
Life in the army is likely in most
cases to knock the street corner fresh
ness out Of the young men. No drink
Ing, no swearing; discipline. good
food and cold baths; these might have
made something Of even Dopey BENNY
FEIN II the war had started In time.
After a month on the plains Of Yap-
hank no barrier will be Necessary be-
tween Gopher and Gas House.