Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-20


The farmer with a field of maturing
corn finds more in the weather report
than the average person in column
OF war news,
i Sioux City Tribune: Wilson is
| surely trying hard to represent the
great majority-he now suggests
| that congress adjourn.
Producers are uneasy regarding the
activities OF the food administration
but the consumer carries the add
tional burden of paying.
The Maine election in which the suf
frage amendment was defeated nearly
two 10 one, is tile first referendum or
the White House pickets.
| Japan agrees with the United
States TO get in the war and stay in.
A streak Of yellow in Russia right
now would Go great deal CT good.
| Cur navy ia one of the most i'm
portant factors in the war of today,
but the ships cannot start Gu q cruise
until the crews start OH the ships.
1t is one of the curious incidents OF
the debate over war finances that
practically no attention has been
paio so the formal statement of the
economiats Of the United States.
The Carranza government has final
~ secured full reorganization by the
United States government. About
the FIRST thing he Mexicans have ask
ed, since The recognition has been ex-
tended, is s loan.
Another thing, get your child in a
school and keep him there as long
as possible, You are not building
for tomorrow when your Child ac,
cepts q position Which takes him out
of school.
One thousand appeals from the
draft have been made to President
Wilson direct, en- the grounds that
the men are Indispensable to war IN.
dnstry. Possibly some of them are,
but it is a safe bet they will have to
show itooncusively.
A New York youth who was unable
to enlist in the army or navy because
under weight and under height has
squeezed into" the Canadian Infantry.
The same route to war service is no
doubt open to other ambitious youths
who failsto quality here.
And now it is said South Dakota
will have bumper corn crop as we'll
as email grain crop that is larger
that ever known before. Aud it is
estimated the value will be several
million dollars more than the state
over before received for it's crop.
Galveston Tribune: The only way
IN which America can shorten the
war is By bending every energy to
the development of armies, the pro.
dnction Of food and munitions, and
the creation of q great aerial armada.
There is no other way ofiimposing a
victory by force of arms.
Some papers are putting up strong
arguments in support of the honesty Of
the japanese. The man who tries to
strike match made in Nippon will
read them with mental reservations.
And the merchants who buy articles
made by the Japs are learning to keep
their samples.
South Dakota has no law provid-
ing for the general inspection and
testing of weights and measures. We
are one of the few states lacking this
very necessary protection for the
consumer. Why this abgencein one
of the wealthiest states in the union?
Many Young Americans while they
have been going through the high
schools and colleges have thought it
time lost, the time they were required
to devote to the study of the French
language. Many of them are now
discovering IL was time we'll spent,
since they are being sent into
France.