Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-08

den' is the constant reminder in the
fall that these are from our own gar
den. aren't they good?''
If it is true that so per cent of the
German submarines have been DESTROY
ed it is easy to believe the reports of
mutiny in the German navy among the
men conscripted for uMdersea service.
The Post Office Department turned
into the Federal treasury on October
26 $4,000 600, representing the profit
made by the service during the past
fiscal year.
A third detachment of child well
fare doctors and nurses will be sent
to France IN response to urgent cable
requests from the American Red
Cross commission now in that coun-
try.
Prohibition in the District of COL
umbia went into effect on November
under a special act of congress.
The law does not forbid shipment of
liquor into the District, but applies
to local sales'only.
Hoover did what somebody should
have done years ago abolish the Ell
gin butter board, the trio of jobbers
who fixed butter prices arbitrarily ey-
cry week irrespective of the law of de-
mand.
1t cannot be too often repeated
that if you think the farmer is MAX
ing an exorbitant profit, there is
plenty of idle land which you can put
under cultivation ana share in the
golden harvest.
Just when the fat lady was beginning
to enjoy posing as martyr before her
friends along comes Hoover with his
Less meat, less wheat, less sweet, F"
and puts everybody in the same class,
spelling the fun.
A surveying crew who are running
q proposed new line of railroad from
Leola, S. d., to Bismarck are now
near Hazeltonand are causing good
deal of excitement in that berg -
BurnsteRd IN. ID. J Comet.
kerensky asks where the British
fleet is. A b. That's the secret.
Where is the British fleet? There are
many others besides Kerensky who
would like to know. among them chap
by the name of Hohenzollern.
Two German bankers fed to the
United States from England for safe
ty when war was declared, ana now
Uncle Sam has interned them on
Ellis Island for further safety. Safety
first works both ways. -Brookings
Register
The German crews captured in
France from the wrecked zeppelius
declared that they had had no know
ledge of American troops in Europe.
Many German prisoners captured in
trench lighting profess the same ig.
norance Of the action of this country.
Uncle Sam and Hoover do rot want
your jelly and Jam. When a slick
looking food inspector" comes along
offering to contiscate them all above
a certain amount, call the dog or get
the shotgun into action and do your
duty. He's thief.
We are at war because Germany
made war on us, sunk our ships and
killed our citizens; to assert and de-
tend our rights; tc make good our
claim that we are a free nation: to
have the kind Of institutions we wish:
to live the kind of life we have de-
termlned to live. Secretary of Agri-
culture.
The Illinois State Council of Defense
made public today statement by Ar
thur G. Leonard, president of the Chi
cago Union stock yards. in which he
appeals to the farmers for an adner-
ence to the governments campaign
for food saving and asks them to con-
serve their breeding stocks OF all kinds
and bring their growing stock to per
feet maturity before marketing it.
Before becoming indignant at the
might riders" who took BigeIow
away from his appointment to make
a pacifist talk, wouldn't it be better
to expend some of that Indignation
upon government which permits
such ridiculous individuals as paci.
fists of Bigelow's ilk the opportunity
to occupy the public eye to the extent
that npcnssitatea fhoir