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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
TWENTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
Items Taken from the Daily
Leader Files.

A marriage license was issued to
r. III. Newcombe and Olive b. Smith,
both of Garretson.
Mrs. j. B. Jones and granddaugh-
ter, Marie, were passengers for Full
da, Mimi, on short visit to the fam
lily of Chas. Jones.
Brakeman Geo. Lee fell from Con
ductor O'Brien's train. coming west
at Chandler, Mimi, last night He
arrived here this morning with a bad
ly used up wrist.
Supt. Daugherty is holding regu-
lar teachers examination today with
class of the following applicants
F. l.. Perry. Mae Gregor. Isabel vii.
son, Fred F. Brinker. Florence Pitts
Fannie Pitts, Sara Shepard. Car
Nunnemaker. Ethelyn Durgen, Dora
VanDoren. Madison; Mary Keegan
Jennie A. Griffith. Winfred; Mrs. j
+. O'Connell, Ina Drake, Ramona
Della Fader, Wentworth Howard
Rottloff. Bertha Chamberlain, Old
ham.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
SHOOTING SHIPPERS
AMERICAN SOLDIERS ENJOY THE
SPORT OF PICKING OFF
GERMAN SNIPERS.

With the American Army in
France, Nov. 5.-Some of the Amer
lean soldiers who had just been re-
lieved after service in the trenches
had thrilling stories to tell. On clear
days. especially. German snipers be-
came active Bullets went singing
harmlessly overhead. American in
fantrymen were told off TO attend to
any sniper who became active. and
more than one of them will snipe
Americans no more. This game of
sniping the sniper was highly popu-
lar. The only complaint heard to-
day was that there was not enough
rifle shooting TO satisfy the infantry
men. Several OF the soldiers said
they went out to fight, but did not
get enough. There is no scarcity of
expert riflemen when a sniper starts
in.
A colonel had an exciting expert
ence when the Germans nearly got
the range of an observation post
where he and his aide were. They
lost no time in taking temporary
cover. The artillery on both sides
were rather more active on the last
days in which the first contingent of
Americans were in the trenches. The
Germans fired on the back areas and
approaches, putting shrapnel and
highly explosive shells in that region.
Aside from livening up things for
awhile, nothing was accomplished by
the enemy
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
A BLACK CLOUD
NEGRO WOMEN AT CAMP DODGE,
IA, TO BE A PROBLEM.

Des Moines, Ia, Nov. 5.-Plans
are being made by Maj. Gen. E. H.
Plummer, commanding the Eighty
eighth division of the national army
at Camp Dodge and his staff officers,
working in conjunction with civil au-
thorities of Des Moines. TO deal with
the coming of approximately 5000
negro women whom ii is believed will
follow the negro soldiers from Ala
bama to the cantonment
Past experiences of officers who
have commanded negro troops indi-
cate that at least this many negro
women will follow the soldiers to the
big army camp. There will be about
1000 colored troops. it is estimated,
at Camp Dodge.
Arrangements were made by Brig.
Gen. X. N. Getty. commanding the
One Hundred Seventy-fifth infantry
brigade. today, for the entertainment
of Gov. Frank 0. Lowden, of Illi-
nois. who will arrive tomorrow. The
governor will be escorted to the camp
in an automobile and review of the
Three Hundred Forty-ninth infantry
regiment, composed of men selected
for service from Illinois, will be held
Travel orders were received today
| by about 200 second lieutenants in
the quartermaster' corps attached to
the Eighty-eighth division of the ma
tional army at Camp Dodge.
The officers are to go back tC
Black Point, Fla, where they viii
receive special instructions in the
work of the corps at the government
training school recently completed
there.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
COURT CLOSES
YOUNANS LEAVES FOR
ARKANSAS AFTER SEN
TENCING OFFENDERS.

Sioux Falls, Nov. 5.-With the
sentencing OF the Hutchinson county
farmers and few other offenders,
of federal court came to close Sat
urday morning and Judge Youmans.
who has been presiding on the bench
in the absence of Judge Elliott. left
for his home in Arkansas.
Adison Abrams was sentenced to
three months in the Yankton county
Jail for telling crew of threshers
near Huron that "our soldiers would
soon be in France, but before going
they should put bullet through the
president" 1t was shown that he Is
not mentally responsible at all times
and the judge took this fact into
consideration.
VIM. j. Head, of Mitchell. who was
recently convicted on one count of
violating the espionage law. was SEN
fenced To three years in the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kan.
and TO pay fine of $500.
He was a busy socialist at his
home town and spent some of his
tame circulating petitions to have the
draft law brought to a referendum
vote of the people. He made state
ments which the government charged
tended to bostruct enlistment i'm the
United States army and jury found
him guilty. His bond was fixed at
tended to obstruct enlistment in the
court of appeals. Joe Kirby is his
attorney
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
SHOT in THE BACK
son OF FARMER WOUNDED AS
RESULT OF HALLOWEEN
PRANK.

Carthage. Nov 5.--Eldo Bender,
son of William Bender, farmer re-
siding near Carthage, will probably
die from the effects of bullet
wound in the back, which was inflict-
ed when he and a number of other
young men were engaged in a Hal
loween prank.
Bender and his companions. who
were attending a party at the home
of George Mathews, decided to go to
the Charles Heeter farm, near the
Mathews place, and have some Hal
loween fun with the family. When
they approached the Heeter home,
however, someone opened fire on
them. One of the jokers, Oscar
Johnson, suffered flesh wound in
the ankle. Bender became caught i'm
fence and bullett entered his back
just below the lung.
Heeter's arrest has been ordered.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
ROOSEVELT HELPS mitchell
Leads Big Parade And Appeals For
Reelection.

New FORK, Nov 3-Theodore Roo
seyelt headed one of the five divisions
of big torchlight parade here in
behalf of John p Mitchell, candidate
for reelection as mayor. while
Charles f. Hughes presided at a
great mass meeting in Madison
Square garden after the parade.
The doors of the garden were or
dered closed by the police after a
crowd estimated at 1900 had jam.
med into the building, leaving many
thousands outside.
Colonel Roosevelt combined his ap-
peal for the election of Mr.. Mitchell
with a denunciation of those who
hold "Fifty-fifty" allegiance to the
United States
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
PICKING CORN
FARMERS BUSY IN THE FIELDS
YIELD WORTH $17O,-
100000.

Sioux Falls, Nov. 5.-The busiest
people in South Dakota at the pres
ent time are the farmers, the occa-
sion being the rushing of the work
of gathering their corn crop so the
work may be completed before snow
flies.
The corn crop of South Dakota for
the present year is valued at upward
of $4,000, 900, and a large part of
the crop yet remains in the fields.
The farmers have been too busy dur
ing the fall months with their small
grain crops, their threshing and 9TH
er work to give the harvesting of
their corn crop early attention, with
the result that strenuous efforts now
will have to be made to get the crop
gathered before winter sets in.
The farmers have been greatly
handicapped in the work of gather
| ing their corn crop by a shortage of
help Pickers are demanding as high
as 10 and IL cents per bushel for
husking corn, and numerous farmers
who cannot secure help from other
sources are being compelled to pay
these prices-the highest, il is be-
| lieved, ever paid in the United States
for corn pickers.
On many farms the women folks
and the younger children, both boys
and girls, have volunteered for work
in the corn fields and are materially
aiding i'm gathering the crop.
| BY the strenuous eXertions now
being employed ii is expected every
/ bushel of corn in South Dakota will
| be harvested before there are heavy
| falls of snow.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05

concerted and vigorous action anent
this very matter.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
HELENA FIRES ON AlRPLANE
Plans Made to Secure High Power
Rifles to Solve Mystery.

Helena, Mont, Nov. 3.-SeveraI
hundred soldiers at Fort Harrison,
near this city, have been called from
their barracks and sent to search for
an airplane which was reported to
to have fallen into the fields near the
fort.
For weeks residents of Helena have
been excited by the appearance of a
mysterious airship over the city. The
craft always appeaytd about Z p. m.
and all efforts to identify it were flu
tile.
The machine was fired on from with
in the city. Plans have been made to
secure some high power rifles to fire
on the craft IL its visits continue.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05

People report Incredible results
from pure Lavoptik eye wash. girl
with weak, strained eyes was helped
by one application. Her mother
could not sew or read because of eye
pains. In one week her trouble was
gone. A small bottle Of Lavoptik is
guaranteed to help every case of
weak. strained or inflamed eyes. One
wash startles with its incredible re-
suits. Pure aluminium eye cup free.
j. c. Schultz, Druggist.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
/. W. ". 5iast Plot PeriIs Girls

Cleveland, Nov. 3.-Hundreds oil
girl employees at the n. J. Rich CON-
pany knit goods plant narrowly
escaped death or injury as a result
of an /. w. w. plot to blow up the
factory. it became known when Unit
ed States District Attorney Wertz
received orders from Washington for
the internment OF William Bosinger,
charged with attempting to carry out
the plot. and John Korber both l.
W. W. organizers. Bosinger was em.
ployed as engineer at the plant.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
MAKES GOOD I'M THE NORTH.

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-11-05
90 Negro Rioters In Court.

San Antonio. Texas, Nov. 3-Under
heavy guard. 63 negro soldiers
charged with mutiny and murder in
connection with the Houston rioting
in August, were marched into the
courtroom at the post chapel at Fort
Sam Houston. Only 63 OF the "a
defendants answered, one being sick
The courtmartial was speedily organ.
lied. Preliminary statements as to
conditions in Houston at the time OF
the rioting were agreed upon. and the
introduction Of testimony was started
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Tablets. Sold everywhere.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-10
Getting Rid Of a Menace
Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Yesterdays l. ". W, raids proved con-
clusively that the United States authorities
have at last got down TO serious business.
They really mark the beginning Of the end Of q
refarous practice started by seditionists and
pro- German propagandists. The effect of
these raids will be so marked as TO end for
ever a practice that for time threatened the
buwarks of American democracy. The
fanatic J. ". ". leaders have been made to
realize what Uncle Sans officers are being
paid for. The soap-box orators, the pro-Ger-
man newspaper editors and the other scourges
will soon come into contact with the United
States authorities.
The news that these individuals have been
put under government control has been met
with approval by loyal and patriotic Amer-
can citizens. The /. ". w. raids have shown
the thousands Of people on strike that they
have been hoodwinked and buncoed into going
against their own government. They should
now realize how unpatrotic the l. W. W. or
carnations have been and be eager TO atone
for their mistakes.
With these menaces wiped out the United
States will end this war in such a manner
that the Kaiser will be forced 10 adopt an
American and Allied peace that will forever
end German autocracy and do away with wars
in the future. HERMAN BAUM
New York, Sept Z. 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-10
Police Budget Increases

Police Commissioner Woods has good
reason for seeking the increased allow
ances for the department which he asks
in his annual appropriation estimate, sub
mitted to the budget subcommittee. About
half of the indicated increase over the
budget allowance for last year would be
used to pay for new policemen-$S59, 900
for eight hundred additional patrolmen
end sl4S,OO0 for eighty additional ser
geants. A good part of the remainder of
the indicated increase would go to provide
raises in pay for practically all the pa
trolmen in the force, nearly 1000 men.
| For the need for new members of the
police force war conditions are respon-
sible. A tremendous burden Of work has
been thrust on the department, which at
the same time is losing able and eXpe-
rienced men under the draft and by en-
listment Even the work of the Home De-
fence men, the auxiliary force in gray,
which renders valuable assistance to the
regular patrolmen, cannot bring the man
power up to the needs of the department
these days. If the condition of the treas
TRY warrants it, the budget makers would
be thoroughly justified in approving this
requested appropriation.
There is justification, too, for the slight
increases in pay sought for the men on
heat. At present there are five grades of
patrolmen-the first year man, who re-
ceives $1,000 a year; the second year
man, at S1,150 the third year man, at
$3.50; the fourth year man, at $3.50,
and those who have served five years or
longer, who draw 81, 450 year. Commits
sioner Woods proposes to abolish these
divisions and to establish three grades, the
minimum salary to be S1,O74 a year, that
for the intermediate grade Sl,27S and that
for the highest grade $3.50. On this
schedule patrolmen would receive an in
crease of from $50 to STA a year. The
Commissioner also proposes to allow lieu
tenants and sergeants an advance of $500
. year in their compensation.
These advances are not large, and their
total does not threaten to cause the tax
rate to mount greatly. Policemen are no
more able than any other class to escape
the skyrocketing cost of living. In most
cases the salary increases proposed would
scarcely be equal to the yearly increase in
the mans expenses. The police force to-
day is doing excellent work, and that fact
is recognized by the public. To approve
these new rates of pay would be substan-
tial recognition of the departments good
work much more to the policemen's liking
than any amount of fine words, which
/ butter no pArsnips.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-10
mo Two LoyaIties'
o the Editor OF The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | have read your editorial "No Two
Loyalties" in the issue of September 8, and
cannot let it pass without comment.
Most of us have read Shakespeare Julius
Cesar" or know from history Of the con-
spiracy against Caesar and the part played
by Brutus, Cesar's devoted friend. A super
fetal mind would brand Brutus traitor for
his participation in the conspiracy against
his friend. But Brutus was sctuated by a
noble motive. The good of all Romans meant
more TO him than the welfare of one Roman,
even though the ore happened to be his friend.
these days traitors" enemies within"
and other slanderous names are being used
as missiles against the paciists, Socialists
and so-called soap-boxers, and a word of ,ey-
PLANTATION is timely.
Pacifsts opposed to war on ethical
principles. They hold that it is morally
wrong and not BETTING men at this stage
of civilization to slaughter one another. They
use their constitutional right to appeal to
the people to accept their point Of view.
Socialists base their propaganda on sound
economic law. They hold that not only In
times Of war are life and liberty destroyed
wholesale, but also in times Of peace; that
the great mass Of people are enslaved, drib-
BILE out their lives in poverty, and daily lose
life and limb in the shops, mines and railroads.
They affirm that the periodical outrsges Of
war and the constant cruelty of peace are
both the outgrowths of the social and eco
nomic system that makes private property
and profits paramount to all else. The Con-
stitution Of the United States gives to the
people the right to change the existing form
of government when 1t becomes injurious to
the life and happiness of the people. Social
lists are only using their constitutional right
to revolutionize the present government and
substitute therefor the industrial govern
ment of the people, by the people and for
the people, so that all toilers may receive
the full fruits of their toll and live in peace,
freedom and plenty.
1t is a blasphemy to the lives and endeav-
ors of such men as Jefferson, Franklin and
Washington to interfere with those peace
fully exercising their constitutional rights.
A CONSTANT READER.
Brooklyn, Sept. Z, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-10

lies exactly at hand. II we take the initial
letters Of the words United States Of North
American, we shall have the word Usona, and
this, in fact is the name for this country
that has been adopted by the clever makers
of the various synthetic international auxil.
larry language-Ido, for instance. For COM
mon use there would be no harm In making
this name more euphonious by changing IL
into Usonia. The people Of the country would
then be called Usonians As an abbreviation
for Inhabitants of the United States of North
America" this is good; have several times
proposed it in your columns, but under the
present urgent circumstances such a name
in fact, this name-is really indispensable.
At one Of the international peace confer.
ences at The Hague our delegates found that,
under the alphabetical rule, they, as coming
under the US, would have to sit in the recess
Of the hall, and they thereupon quickly
changed their names to Americans and sat
in front. Americans" is now, incredible as
it may seem, and little as most people know
it, am told by Mr.. John Bsssett Moore, our
official name But after this war we are look.
ing forward to some form of internationalsm
as the one hope of continued existence for
the white race.
II goeg without saying that a decent mod
esty on the part of each nation is an in
dspensable condition to any form of united
action, and for one nation to arrogate to
itself the name not of one but of two con-
tinents is an act of impertinence which might,
more or less consciously, have serious con-
sequences.
Then here's to the Usonians-may they
live long and prosper! There is not
single reason save inertia why they should
not spring into being at once, and there are
a thousand reasons, which | have not space
to 90 into now, why they should. These are
days which demand, even in minor matters.
energetic action and not inertia
CHRISTINE LADD-FRANKLIN.
New York, Sept. 5, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-10
Usoniians
This Manufactured Substitute fol
Americans Is Urged Again

American" Is Urged Again
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: What pity that this country. before
entering the great international complica-
tons, did not have the forethought to dc
such a simple thing as to provide itself with
name! Here We are splitting our heads
as to whether our soldiers In France are to
be called "Teddies" or "Sammies," or what.
"Teddies" and "Sammies" they have absolute
| ly refused to be called, and surely they are
iight when they say that TO trivial name
properly represents their state Of mnd In
this great war. But then what?
| So long as we are inside our own country
we may be able to throw logic to the winds
and think of ourselves as Americans. But
for our men who are ready to fight on the
Western front, side by side with those
splendid fighters, the Canadians, and perhaps
soon also the Venezuelans, it is little abb
surd for US to gobble up the name American,
and In fact we have not even attempted it
there. A Canadian university professor wrote
! lately to the editor Of Science" to ask
apropos Of some statement In that Journals:
what is your definition Of American" The
letter was printed, but no reply was forth
coming. Americans we are not (save inclu-
sively); our country has only one name.
United States of North America, and that I'M
fortunately does not lend itself to the max.
ing of an adjective. There's the rub!
Not one of the names that have been pro-
posed for our poor soldiers without a name
has anything In It's favor, but the worst sug-
gesiion of all is that Of Yankees-we should
be idiotic Yankees indeed if we were to &C
cept that Not only is 1t absurdly unmelli-
1uous, but it was never meant to apply to
more than a small fraction of our people.
To ask the inhabitants of the Southern States
to fight in France under the name of Yankees
would be an incvility Of the worst sort. The
Southerners were not exterminated in the
Civil War, and they are certainly not now to
be ignored Incivilities among peoples are
thirgs to be avoided.
Is there no way out? There Is very
easy one, and it happens that two approaches
to it have, under the strain of necessity, al
ready been made. The French have adopted
the plan Of calling us "the u S. men," but
IL is awkward not to be able TO make an ad-
Jective for our designation, and, besides,
Omitted States" does not apply to US ex-
clusively-there are at least half dozen
United States in the world. II has also been
proposed TO make for US a synthetic name
out OF initials OF words, on the model OF the
term Anzac, which has done such indispen-
sable service during this present war. But
"Amexes' is very far from the riggs thing,
especially when so good name, on this plan.