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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-07-26

llSCeu men 1nhCne N8IlOnal Gu4xQ IIOm
this county, the quota to be Allied Nv
conscription il only AL Following is
the list Of those drawn under the
selective draft, in the order drawn, to
fill said quota:
Nos. i to 50, Inclusive.
258 Joseph Npvay, Tyndall
458 Harry D.i Armstead, Pattons-
burg, Mo-
854 Edgar G. Hornstra, Springfield
783 Vaughn 81. McM lillian, sEyndall A
837 Stewart j. Kro1, Springfield
337 Paul g. Weisser, Tyndall
GIG Alois B. Rokusek, Tabor
275 He1ry Tripp, Tabor
500 Ed Radak, Avon
564 Geo. Mesmer, Avon
945-Garret g. Dykstra, Running
Water
500 Peter Y. Beevar, Tyndall
536 Alex Hubner, Avon s
548 Richard 1urrens, Avon
126 Rudolph Beran, Scotland
784 Norris Il. Curl, Tyndall
755 John Al Kortan, Tabor
107John ]. Hayes, Scotland
616John N. Hack, Tyndall
373 John Al. Pekar, Tyndall
775EJas. 3. Mcclure, Tabor
466 Morris Maupin, Avon
692 Edward u. Burke, Tabor
600 -Reubin r. Conklin, TyndalI
$40 John Wyhia, Tyndall
507 Chas. Gruner, Avon la
800 Fred ]. Welter, Kaylor
437-Emil Kondelik, Avon
604 Rudolph Pavel, 4 yndall
4S Christian Steiner, Avon #
924J John Logterman, Springfield
420- Martin A. Bertus, Avon
1014J0s. lie Due, Springfield
81 Cornelius Lukkes, Avon
433-James Leo McKinley, Mound
City, Mo.
10--Henry Marek, Evon
487 Robt Griffith, Avon NJ
1877 Walter Voigt, Tyndall
40Ray M. Cation, Scotland
arthur g. Il. Wissman, Poplar
ransis Van DuySsan, Won ~
652John w. Bystricky, Tabor
927-John H. Mickolash, Springfield
739 Mike j. Pekas, Tabor
601Emil v. NJ. Bame, Tyndall
COG James Hisek, Tyndall
513 Darrell Perry, Avon
462-John w. Vernon, Avon
1920 Roye Frye, Springfield 81
223 Jas. Hubeling, Springfield
Nos. 81 to 100, inclusive
lit Qness II. Dixon, Scotland
6O2 Frank E. Lapour, Tyndall
John F. Kropuenske. TyndalI
75 Emanuel Klink. Scotland
772 Chas. L. Hausman, Springfield
721-Frank Beranek, Tabor
1856 Albert Z. Wordehoff. Spring.
field sF7=ss
28O-Jos. Fridrich, Tyndall
4 972 Herbert II. Dreyer, Springfield
983 83Fred w. King, Springfield.
757 Emil IA. Peska, Tabor
966-Joel H. Wallace, Springfield
1863 Arthur G.. Perry. Springfield
1872 WIN. M. Hahn. Tyndall
379 Thos. Ryan, TyndalI 5Ht,F
542 Theo. Steckler. Avon
1 194C Charles Carda, Tripp. RI.
874-Peter j. Ferwerda. Springfield.
552- Hubert Schmidt, Avon
165 Otto Schmierer, Scotland
Y 298 DeWitte e. Glass;, Scotland !.
CTS Miloslav Filipi, Tabor
343 Frank C. Hron, Tyndall
982 Gerrit Talsma, Springfield
726 Jos. Jarolim, Tabor
15-John Vogel, Jr., Tyndall
I 9O5 Paul Gramkow, Avon
452 Lloyd q. Pyper,. Avon II
933 Tobias Schultz, Avon
355- Orrie Britton, Tyndall
$50 Geo. Genant, Avon
300 Fred Anderst, Jr., Tyndall
I 645 Peter Gall, Jr., Lestervilie
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-07-26

Sf1(l-R0hf q Il chr IsVnf fiE III
s571--l5aorpe Stahl. Isvndall
488IoInE j Schroeder. Avon
7()4 Frank Hatwan. Tabor
72Bruce q Homan. Scotland
356 Walter q. Abbott. Tyndall
112Rudolf R. Mueller Scofland
128-Paul a. WeiIand. Scotland
674--yac nj. Kortan. Tabor 4
SO5-Jos. q Barber. Tvndall
11-I,or,is Marek. Avon
9OO-Wm. H. Powers. Avon
363 3Tnhn i Tanlett :'Tvndal m
6---FnlIert F;shar Avon
Fredericl, Schmoll Tvndall
4 664-,Ias. q. Cuka. 7Tabor ggs7s
Anton Reran' Scotland
+ as7 Chas Thomas SnrinpfieA
345Jna H Nader sisundaI ii SO ~
1fl3 (;enrce ri osf scnfiand ,
q RIG Dick plaat;a' Avon
81 Otto "a, MAJ. Scotland
51-,John Hubner' Avon
717-Adnlnh SadiacaL Tabor
30 Andrew Schmidt. .Jr.5 Tvndall
100 Ios' @ Rraz;na ; = no. scot1and ss.o "A III 3
388-Beni. 81. Jacobs. Tyndall
773--T nu;s Hatwan- Tabor
sos Alois Rrosz. Tvndan
4O6-Elmer p. Cole. Tvndall
SIG Emanuel Pritzkau. Avon
Nos. III Ia 2Ofl. Inclusive.
25Adolnh q. Marek. Avon
392 Nick Brewer. Tvndall
889-David Ruchniz. Tr;nn
383( ,,vr,,s q Gondness Tvndall
5s3 3Anton Sin Tvnda1I 5 ~
856-sinlon Dirks. Springfield
7O5 Klemance +, Szvmanski1 Tabor
- = -
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-07-26
The Corn Bslt National BlJIllk
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j. doing business and desi1es
- meet The financial reqU l1e.
ments of the substa ntiial ne
and Inercantile element of
the comm unity . we'll - to
serve the individ dual deposit
or. How well We are able
10 do this We are willing ~
let our customers testify.
DIRECTORS:
JACOB VAIL u
s5 NJ. A. VELLEKs
NM. WIETERs
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22
The original lay figure of

The original lay Inquire OF
American ineptitude sat upon
a soapbox at the crossroads
grocery store while his hogs
provided him and themselves
with a kind Of living by root
ing up a richly generous coun-
try. For some time it worked
and he didn't. But his box is
overturned. Modern life Is
roofing him up now, and |
would rather think OF the
average American as setting
out in the morning with a
bucket in his hand and coming
back at night with a little more
than enough to fill it on an
other day.
And to-day your worker
of the fields and mills will help
to pack another bucket. for
getting his own, maybe. 1t is
the national bucket, the one
TO which the man who drops
the tools of peace must turn
for aid and comfort. The
country at his back is the
stomach and the storehouse
of the body national and
hands must toll to see that it
is full"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22
Changing Aspect
Of Our Relations
With the World
Lessons that Must Be Learned if
Progress Made in War Is
To Be Maintained
BY w. S. KIES,
Vice-President, the National City Bank
of New York

prom Article in Tie Amsricasl
Our wartime experiences ought GER
tainly to have brought home to every
body the Importance to our domestic
peace and prosperity of having a
strong position and outlook in interna-
tional affairs. Everybody low knows
that no nation, however big and pacific,
can keep out of war simply by sim
cere desire for being left alone. Like
wise that no nations bread and butter
is Independent of international condi-
tions. The rest of the world has forced
hectic prosperity upon US, and at the
same time international commerce has
reached right up to our domestic
hearthstones and raised the cost Of liv-
ing to heights never before known. Only
as a nations statesmsnship and BUSH
ness leadership is shrewd and strong
and skilful in international relations
cen it avoid being forced into trying
economic conditions at times by the
stress of international circum stances.
There was a time when we were so abb
sorbed in our own development that we
got along without realizing how much
we were internationally indebted for
the means of our rapid growth. Now
our national economic machinery has
become too big and complex and valu-
able TO risk going it blind any longer.
Misplaced Romance
The essential thing in practical inter
nationalism is a working acquaintance
with the people Of other nations and
with international commerce. II is all
very we'll 20 read descriptive articles
and books about foreign countries and
people in which the strange, bizarre and
all that is different from ordinary civ
ilization is featured, presumably be-
cause the real life is not thought inter.
esting enough 20 print, but We get en-
tirely wrong impressions and only cul-
tivate provineislism II these are not
supplemented by information about the
ordinary ways Of peoples. South Amer.
lea, for instance, has been so misde
seribsd that the Fsnuins thrill nov
comes from being told Of what 10 really
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22
Jobs for All
Who Will Work

There is work for all who would
have it. The United States Depart
ment Of Labor has been mixing jobs
and men of the same kind, with
marked success, for several years.
And there is little that has more
room to admit efficiency or more
loopholes TO let it out again than
fitting the work to the worker. They
take a man and a job, and then
they see that he is the best man for
that one job that can possibly be
found. If he isn't, they will set out
to find another. The other day
George A. Malone, who is helping to
show one city, Baltimore, that his
Labor Department is rightly named,
said to me:
up to the present time | have
had no instructions which would
lead me to believe that the employ
ment work is to be discontinued; on
the contrary, if l might hazard an
opinion or belief at all, should say
that the Government Employment
Service could be made a very valu-
able vehicle of effectiveness to the
government in the times upon which
we are entering" And the last re-
port of Mr.. Mahone's department
shows that he is nearly right. He is
using one brand Of efficiency.
There are those who claim that
efficiency, whether national, indus
trial or personal, agricultural or just
mechanical, dehumanizes work and
workers, detracts from the living,
working life. They have never tried
it. Economy does not earmark
penuriousness, nor efficiency a field
of work lacking good will or human
interest. While personal efficiency
may be largely self-made. there is
no question as to the value of its
system. Efficiency in any de-
partment is about one-tenth special
training and nine-tenths of ind-
vidual capacity, both we'll devel-
oped. The field is wide; the oppor-
tunity is great; the lack is present.
l call the policy that many of the
broad-gauge railroads show in max
ing friends Of neighbors along their
rights of way an instance of bust
ness efficiency with a personal effect
that pays a very high return. The
other day three Of them-the West
ern Maryland, Baltimore e. Ohio and
] Pennsylvania-took time, busted as
they never were before, for a
strongly patriotic move. a few days
more and they will present TO the
Preparedness and Survey Commits
sion of the State of Maryland a
nins-esr hospital train that is up-to-
the-minute and cleared for action. Il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22
No Place Left for
Soapbox Farmer

Granted a continent of largely un-
earned, unbuilt resources, ready to
Rand and easy to own, the American
people has had the chance to be a
set of MASTERS, too often with i'm
punity. Inefficiency and prodlgality
have often travelled hand to hand,
and no one suffers for time. The or
iginal lay figure of American inepi-
tude sat upon a soapboX at the cross
roads grocery store while his hogs
provided him and themselves with a
kind of living by roofing up a richly
generous country. For some time it
worked, and he didn't. But his box
is overturned. Modern life is root
ing him up now, and | would rather
think of the average American as
setting out in the morning with a
bucket in his hand and coming back
at night with a little more than
enough to fill it on another day.
And to-day your worker of the
fields and mills will help to pack an
other bucket, forgetting his own, may
be. It is the national bucket, the
one to which the man who drops the
tools of peace must turn for aid and
comfort. The country at his back
is the stomach and the storehouse
of the body national and hands must
toll to see that it is full. Willingly
should they labor now, and most eff
GENTLY, for the man behind and the
chap before have never had oppor-
tunity to expend themselves more
fully in a greater, larger cause nor
to a so illimitable extent as now.
Scientists, soldiers, scholars, all la
Dor "to do their Bit; to the layman
falls the privilege of Offering the
sort of service that reinforces
things all down the line.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22

instances at 20 per cent over the
1915 area of 1OS,62O, 900 acres. AS
suming that the American farmer
plants the same area to corn this
wear. with good weather conditions
later on the country stands an even
chance of producing the greatest
harvest in its history, exceeding the
record yield of 3,124,746,000 bushels
of 1912 produced on 107, Os3,OOO
acres. That year the yield per acre
was 29.2 bushels. Last year the
yield was 25.6 bushels.
The Importance and value Of corn
as compared with the other cereal
crops is underestimate for obvious
reasons. For one thing the bulk of
it is not converted into money direct
". Wheat and cotton are the big
cash crops. The great bulk of corn
raised, instead Of going to market
as such, goes in the form of beef.
pork, poultry or eggs. This is why
S1.25 corn fails TO excite the mag
nation as does $2.25 wheat or 20
cent cotton. But the basis Of pros
perity is there just the same, and
failure of the corn crop would be a
serious matter to the country at
large. For every dollar in gold taken
from the mines of the United States
last year the American farmer har-
vested S23 worth of corn. The corn
belt of the country is a small empire
in itself. 1t has been estimated that
if the corn fields could be brought
together the total of their areas
would equal the combined surface
measurements of Ohio, Indiana, Hi
nois and West Virginia. Those four
states, considered as a whole, extend
east and west 800 miles. Here is a
territory that would cover England,
Ireland and Scotland, Wales, Swift
zerland and Denmark with margin
left around the edges to blanket the
home states of Delaware and Rhode
Island.
1t is a difficult matter for the mind
to grasp the meaning of billion.
That is why most people do not COM
prehend the enormous proportions Of
the impending S7,OO0,O00,000 war
loan which this country is about to
sell. 1t is as hard to comprehend the
size of the corn output. To visualize
the meaning of last years yield Of
corn one must imagine 18,4OO freight
trains, each 100 cars long. Fill each
car with forty tons of corn and you
have a measure of Americas great
est cereal crop. If the American
farmer took it in his head 70 move
his corn crop to market-which he
doesn't, as he uses most of it for
stock feeding purposes-the Ameri-
can railroads would have a car
shortage worth talking about.
The by-products Of corn are in
Vulnerable. Corn even helps in the
manufacture of high explosives.
Sugars and syrups have long been
made of corn and so have starches,
whiskey and alcohol. Glue, mucilage,
celluloid and collodion, varnishes and
guncotton, gelatin and smokeless
powder, artificial silk, dyes, soap and
paint, carbon filament for incandes-
cent lamps, and even rubber by vul-
canizing the oil, are now being made
from corn. The refined oil of corn
is exported to Italy and returns, it is
said, branded as olive oil. Corn -four
is ground almost as finely as wheat
-four. Then there is "corn-pone," ia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22
US AMERICAS corn crop to help

US AMERICAS corn crop to help
determine in the last analysis
Il who is to be the victor in the
worlds terrific struggle between the
armed forces Of democracy and au-
tocracy? Is our greatest Of fodder
and cereal crops, taking precedence
over a large production of wheat
and other cereals, to provide the
Grand Alliance with the sustenance
necessary to bring peace with VIC
tory over the Germanic allies? Time
may give an affirmative answer.
From Europe have come reports
that the potato may settle the out
come of the struggle. Important as
the potato crop may be to Germany
and her enemies, to the United States
the corn crop is probably Of far
greater relative Importance, and
without our immense yearly yield OF
Indian maize it is certain that the
exportable surplus of wheat and
other grains would be cut to a mini
mum. Corn is largely eaten indi-
rectly, and as the greatest of our fod-
der crops it furnishes the United
States with enormous amounts OF
food products.
Chemical analysis, as well as COM
mon experience, proves that corn is
a very nutritious article of food. In
richness in albuminoids and nitrog-
enous matter it compares favor
ably with wheat and the other better
known and generally used cereals,
vet the amount Of corn used directly
as an article of food is relatively
small as compared with the huge
amount produced. Corn, for one
Trims, does not make good bread, but
a mixture of rye and corn meal, how
ever. makes most excellent coarse
bread. formerly much used in the
United States. A similar bread is
now the chief coarse bread Of Portu-
gal. The field for the development
of corn and corn products as an ar
ticle of food as a substitute for
wheat and other higher priced ce-
reals is rich in possibilities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22
WEAVING THE NET OF
NATIONAL SECURl 7
Adoption Of Efficient Methods Is Emitting individual Industrial
and Government Activities Into Strong
Bond Of Cooperation

concern which has no time for eff
cheney during the war, or before, will
possibly not have an opportunity to
try IL on after that war is over.
War-made needs have bred abun-
dance Of trade and volume Of bust
less, and Of business growth the end
is not yet. See to it we'll that quality
keeps pace, that when at length the
quantity goes down, perhaps, a good
name still remains. For a good name
in business. as of product, is the
single foundation Of the solid success
that unafraid sets out to meet re-
verses, if reverses there may he,
Give dollar for dollar, keeping the
old-establishment brand as it is, and
the jerry-built goods for another
time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22
Heavy Increase in
Yield Expected

In the present crisis in the worlds
supply of foodstuffs one hears a
great deal of the American wheat
crop. Partial failure Of the current
seasons plant of winter wheat has
given rise TO direful predictions OF
famine. But even in the best year on
record, 1915, when the country pro-
duced 1000, 100000 bushels, wheat
fell short of corn by nearly 2,OOO,-
100000 bushels. Over a fve-year
period the corn crop has averaged
an annual yield of 2,792,0OO,OOO
bushels and an annual market value
of approximately s2,O0O,OOO,OOO.
Last year the United States, in an
off season, produced but 2,583,24l,-
900 bushels of corn, but the value of
the crop was $2,295, 1888, 900. Along
side of this the wheat yield Of $685.
$4,000 bushels had a value of but
s1,O25,765,O0O, while cotton yielded
the planters a market valuation of
only S1,O79,59S,O0O. Corn leads in
both quantity and value.
The new corn season is already at
hand. From the great corn belt of
the Middle West reports are already
coming in telling of the planting.
Many districts report heavy in
crease in acreage, estimated in some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22
CORN THE, BULWARK
OF AMERICAN FARMING
Annual Yield Vastly Exceeds That Of Other Cereals and
NAV Prove the Vital Factor in Worlds
Food Supply in 1917

nous in the South. Breakfas :,
is also included in the list Of =.
kinds of foods made from com.
Methods to Improve
Crop Being Studied
The great importance Of The -.
has been emphasized by the Den.
ment Of Agriculture by hayins :.
of its staff devote his entire tim.
studying ways and means for irr,.-
ing the industry. Charles p. "a
ley, the governments corn sn,-
was quoted recently in this rnsrr,.
81 do not belittle tobacco a. !
agricultural or manufacturing s,,I
uct, but it is not in the same A.,
with wheat, hay, oats, cotton, va
or corn, and yet the national COVER
ment is spending less in learning h,
to increase the crop Of corn ia.
private interests are spending IN /,
effort to increase the crop Of :ob,en
Corn is the biggest thing raised ,
manufactured in this country. /
might say that it is the real fours,.
ton of our prosperity. Subtr
corn from our yearly assets, even. a,
a single year, and good times Will
at once turn bad. All merchant
manufacturers and railroad shan
holders would suffer, and with as-
all labor. We talk about corn, Lsr
about it, read about 1t, but we Ne,
lect to get at the root Of the mas,s
Men and boys, and even girls 1
some places, are being taught how /
plough for corn, to plant, cultiut
harvest and sell it, but when tie
die thsi- knowledge vanishes sa
them.
The efforts Of the department an
now being directed toward fndin
out how corn growers may produa
larger yields per acre Of better qusl.
ity and with less labor. The aver.
age yield to-day is twenty-eshi
bushels. 1t has neither gone up nor
down for a generation. New Eng.
land, with its cold, thin soil, has in.
creased its average. The sane b
true, generally, Of all the corn re.
gions east Of the Mississippi River.
Growers have become more irtelE.
gent than we're their fathers and
grandfathers. The average yield fcl
the entire country has been ksTi
down, however, by the growers Sesi
of the Mississippi River. MetaodI
there are still wasteful. Land !
planted in corn that should b
planted to some other crop.
"Now, it is not our purpose TO u
crease the supply of corn and thu
bring down prices to q point ths'
would temporarily ruin the indcst1
and hurt all kinds Of business" san
Mr.. Hartley. when corn was J
cents a bushel in the West, no GAS
in the country was prosperous. Be-
ter corn, as ! have said, Is our %
ject, along with an increased yield .
the acre. If we were producing ffiy
six bushels Of corn, instead Of tsen'
ty-eight, then the area planted ecrlf
be reduced one-half and there Eoue
be no diminution In the apPg
About 100000 acres Of land IN
planted yearly in corn. 1t mus' y
ploughed and cultivated and the t1l
plust be harvested. If 5o,0Oop~
acres can be made to produce us
same quantity, the remaining 0O'1e'
900 acres can be used for other gr'h
and for hay, cotton, wool and D"
stock"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22

Of living. It is distinctively Ameri-
can.
Now this question of efficiency can
not be cared for hotchpotch at any
point. System should not only 60 on
in the Office and factory; it must be
taken home from there. Its ramifi-
cations are as varied as its benefits
are sometimes unexpected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22
BY GORDON DoRRANCE, ?. z.

~FFICIENCY is a good Eng
~ lish term that had its Amer
r. lean origin as word in the
dictionary. To the mechanically Gu
rious il read; The ratio OF useiu
work 20 energy expended; to the
average-minded it conveyed nothing
But some one discovered that II
Rad a meaning outside the book
nart in a modern world Of industry
much gwen to hurry and generously
dedicated 20 waste, and efficiency as
an active, working science was miro
6pced 20 a lukewarm, non-receptiVe
nublic. Then people worked with II
and found that it was good. others
Hved Il and saw that it was needed.
wholesale efficiency is now estsb-
lisbed. Yet general efhciency--and
industrial readiness-exist IN 50
varied and numerous ramihcations
that if any part Of them is to DC
clarified and plainly assimilated the
whole must be taken apart and each
individual phase Of it viewed IN us
own light and from a single angle.
Industrial efficiency is taking
where IL has not already, a strangle-
hold upon the country. This Is as II
sbould be. Probably, in due course
economy Of utilization, with efficiency
Of management and supervision
would have achieved the vogue at
homo that they have held abroad LOT
several generations. Through the
war they have reached America
sbead of time. We may not IKE
some Continental ways, but admitted
n must be that their industrial estao-
,;sbment has been building better
thar ours. Two years or thereabout
600 since it seemed necessary, ell
c;encv was welcomed by the mill
owner and accepted by the millhand
and no one who has felt 1t no"
would be without it. To the farmer
Il proved a long-required tonic while
labor. albeit a bit skeptical at first
Of stop-watch methods and a stand.
ard day, soon discovered for itsel1
hat industrial efficiency at work
meant the topnotch in safe employ
ment, sane methods and remunera-
tive service in direct proportion to
Individual performance and capacity