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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

Nelson Pease was a Brookings visit.
or Monday, Miss Eva accompanied him
home.
Lewis Olson was visiting at the
Christopherson home Tuesday.
Marvin Olson was visiting home
folks Sunday.
Harold jerks was visiting Lester
Pease Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. I. L. Sutton was called to
B%rookings Monday to care for Mr..
Sutton's mother.
o. E. Steen went to Madison Friday
and returned Monday evening.
Mrs. Wick, who has been quite sick.
Is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Laddusaw autoed
to Madison Friday after their daughter
Ethel, who is attending Normal there.
Vernon Christopherson and Lester
Pease were Volga visitors Monday
evening.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

for popular government. He acquires
fame of a different quality o As a
fighter in behalf Of the designs and in.
terests of %autocracy. The senator who
once stood for initiative and referen-
dunn and recall of judges in order to
bring to the people absolute democra-
cy now stands for the things desired
by a foreign emperor who rules his
subjects with practically absolute
power. He has always held that pub
lie officers in this country are too in
dependent Of the will Of the people. too
free t. do as they choose and become
corrupt, too much disposed to act in
obedience not to the peoples but their
own wishes. He now gives aid in his
own country to the propaganda of a
group OF foreign public officers who are
utterly independent OF the will Of the
people they govern, who are free to do
as they choose and who have become
corrupt, who act in obedience to their
own, not the peoples, wishes.
Progressive republicanism, which
once gave La Toilette recognition be.
cause of his fine record in Wisconsin
and his powerful aid in breaking down
the autocracy within the republican
party, is ashamed of the Wisconsin
man. His state certainly can no longer
be proud Of him. His nation feels
that it must watch him.
Aware of the fact that Germany's
submarine policy has cost nearly $50
innocent American lives and a score of
American ships, La Toilette said in the
senate that Germany had the right
blindly to destroy ships by submarines
and mines in her own blockade zone
The laws Of nations and of humanity
do not recognize that right, but La
Toilette does. Cognizant of the at
tempt Of the German government to
incite attack on the United States by
Mexico and Japan. and in possession
of the facts which show that German
agents, acting under the orders and
by the pay of the German government,
have conspired to destroy property in
this country. ~disorganize industry and
government, and divide the American
people, La Toilette said Germany has
been patient with u.s. America be-
lieves it has been patient with Ger.
many almost to a degree of national
humiliation, but La Toilette thinks the
enemy has been patient, not his own
country.
We congratulate our fellow citizens
of the United States that Robert NJ. La
Toilette never moved his belongings
into the White House.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12
IA TOILETTE

The Register had promised admirers
OF Senator La Toilette here that 1t
would print his defense of his position
during the closing hours of the last
congress but owing to his position on
the question of entering the war last
week it feels that it cannot do so now.
Rather, we are giving the following
from the Sioux Falls Press. the leading
progressive paper in the state. and at
one time the strongest advocate the
senator had In the west. Here Is what
the Press says;
Has Senator La Toilette ever taken
time to think how inconsistent he now
is with his past records Or does the
wisconsin battler do any thinking at
all any more? He became nationally
famous. and q formidable candidate
for president Of the United States, on
the strength Of his record a. q fighter
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

Last year the majority of the
houses that We're built or improved
were painted white and that seemed
to be the color scheme for the city
other towns around us were priding
themselves on the fact that most of
their houses were painted white. An
aviator, who made a flight over this
city a few years ago., said that the
most striking thing that impressed
him when viewing it from a consider
able height was the prevalence of
white houses among the regular rows
OF green trees. This year the tendency
seems to be a breaking away from
white to brown and other darker
shades. Why not keep the practice Of
the last few years and confine our
selves to the lighter colors for our
houses. Let nature add the variety in
the green of its trees.
Are we as a city going to take part
in the nationwide celebration of the
anniversary Of the battle of Lexington,
April 10Th? The program is to repeat
the ride of Paul Revere on the 18th
and the 10th Is to be designated as
recruiting day. Who will start the
movement for such a celebration here
q O q
The poorest advice that a father can
give to his son is, do as I say and
not as l do" There is nothing better
than example in which to give a boy
the right start in life. 1t is sometimes
true that a frightful example has a
beniicent effect upon members of q
family but that is not a safe proceed.
ent. To indulge in excuses of any
kind and then expect a boy to abstain
from the very things that one knows is
hurtful to himself has never been a
success and never will be. do as
do" Is the better advice. provided the
best ideals Of manhood are being fol-
followed.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

No n will ever know what it really
to be homesick in a large city
until they have tried it. With thous-
ands surging about you on the streets
you can feel as entirely alone as
though you were located a thousand
miles away on a big sheep ranch. 1t is
not the crowd that warns the heart,
but the friends tried and true who
touch elbows with you every day in the
home town which makes home the best
place on earth.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12
PARN ELL

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Huska and fam
lily took Easter dinner at the Guy
Lovejoy home Sunday.
Miss Katherine Pauls was shop
ping in Bookings Saturday.
Miss Lois Huska visited home folks
Sunday.
Reuben Phillips was a guest Of
Leslie Wilson Sunday.
Those who ate Sunday dinner at the
Nelson home were, Mr.. and Mrs. Mat
Carls and son and Tom Nielsen.
Miss Sena Nielsen made a brief
visit at the James Finnerty home Mon
day.
A great number Of people from this
vicinity attended the Easter exercises
in Aurora Sunday morning and even
ing. A fine program was reported by
all who witnessed it.
Miss Laura Dancer was a guest of
Miss Lois Huska Sunday.
Mrs. Hugh Smith made a brief visit
at the Fred Langner home Monday.
Tom Walsh was autoing in Parnell
the first of the week.
Mrs. Paul Greeves was visiting in
Parnell the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Goldsberry at.
tended the Easter exercises in Aurora
Sunday evening.
Mr.. Culhane "a in Elkton Satur-
day.
Miss Vernice Wilson visited at the
Hendricks home Sunday.
Everybody Is enjoying this beautiful
spring weather.
James Brown was autoing in this
vicinity Sunday.
Spinning over Parnell highways"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

The Register wishes to go on record
for nothing less than vas offered AT
Tuesdays bond election. We are for
a greater Bookings, have been for
over a quarter of a century. and are
still in the game. The Register don't
pay quite as much taxes as some of our
neighbors who opposed the measure
but we have paid an average of from
three to -four hundred dollars a year
for the past ten or fifteen years and
are still not afraid of the cars when 4
comes 10 building a city.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12
SIOUX VALLEY

We have been having lovely weather
and the roads are good also.
Clifford Pease was Smelling corn fol
Mr.. Smith one day last week.
Ray Pease was hauling hay from
Sioux Valley one day last week.
Mrs. Earl Plumb and Matte Tufty
we're visiting Mrs. o. e. Steen Satur
day afternoon.
Clifford and Raymond Olson have
been having the measles but are better
at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. C.. C. Laddusaw enter
tanned a houseful of company Sunday
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12
THE RAILWAY IN WAR

AS in several other important con.
s~iderations on the material side, Ger.
many foresaw more clearly than did
France or Russia the great part that
would be played by the railway il. the
event of a general European war, and,
as a consequence, she entered upon
the present struggle with a system of
strategic lines which was not MY in
%comparably superior to that of her
enemies to the east and west but also
one that has proved more nearly equal
to the demands made upon it ten the
German army, the German navy, or
even the efficient German munition
factories.
Frances railway system might best
be described as resembling the spokes
of a wheel radiating from Paris as a
hub. There were fairly adequate pro-
visions in 1914 for rushing troops to
her German frontier, but not for throw.
ing them to the line where her from
tier marched with that of Belgium, or
for moving them back and forth be-
hind the line from the North Sea to
Switzerland, where the western front
was generally established.
Germany's railway system, on the
other hand, might be described as a
cObweb, with it's outermost strands
reaching to her frontiers, about which
the spider-her army-could move
freely to attack or defend. 1t included
all the lines that were essential to o
complete and efficient commercial rail-
way system. with the addition of a
number that need never have been
built II normal %exigencies alone had
been considered.
Germany built up an excellent motor
truck system, but kept the railway as
the wheel horse" France banked
heavily on the motor truck and failed
to build adequate strategic railways.
Just how much Of a price France has
paid for this neglect it is impossible
to say, but it is conceivable that the e K
istence Of such a system might we'll
have made it possible for her to have
forced the establishment of the present
front well inside of Belgium and very
close to, il not across, the Alsatian
frontier.
In railway destruction and recon-
structiOn the war has developed moth
ing especially new. Bombings from the
air have been the merest pin pricks,
effective only when trains were de-
rallied or stations worked. The vul-
nerable parts Of a line are It's tunnels,
bridges. and ~culverts, and the dyna-
hitting Of these is the last work of the
rear guard of q retreating army. II
there is time. this is followed by the
tearing up of the rails and ties. The
rails are then thrown on ares made
from the piled ties. the heat Of which
warps and twists them beyond further
usefulness. When steel ties are used.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12
Make Every Square Yard Of Fertile
Sunny Soil Produce Food for

SuSSeStlOuS.
Make Every Square Yard Of Fertile,
Sunny Soil Produce Food for
Your Family
Make your ground work for you and
the nation. Idle ground is waste; this
is no time for waste or idleness.
You can raise some vegetables for
your family no matter how small a
piece of ground you have.
II You Can't Raise All Your Own vege-
tables, Ae Least Raise Some
All idle ground utilized in the produc-
ton of vegetables means more food for
those who have no ground at all.
Keep your garden working all season.
Hasten early crops by starting seed in
boxes in the house, in hotbeds and cold
frames if the weather prevents outdoor
planting.
Get your ground ready for planting
as o as the soil is dry enough to
work.
Plant for early crops as soon as the
weather permits. Make successive
paintings of lettuce, radishes, beans,
and other short seaso crops.
Start new crops between the rows of
plants that are soon to be removed.
AS fast as the ground is cleared of
one crop start a new crop.
See that your garden toward fall is
full of potatoes, beets, turnips, cabbage,
and other staple foods that can be
stored for the winter.
Boys and girls can help to make the
soil in your gardens, back yards and
vacant huots produce food for the fam
iiy. Last year they raisel in their
gardens and helped to can more than
1000, 900 packages of valuable food.
If your garden at any time produces
more than you can use immediately do
not allow the surplus to spoil.
Can surplus beans, peas, corn. to.
matoes, beets, spinach, pumpkin and
squash for winter use.
Can or preserve apples, peaches,
pears, cherries, ounces, berries, and
other cultivated and wild fruits.
Every car of vegetables or fruit and
every jar or preserved food means that
you have saved food materials that
would have otherwise been wasted.
Can or store root crops, cabbage, and
other vegetables properly so that they
will keep well and supply you with food
when the garlen ceases to produce.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington. d. c., or your state agri-
cultural college or county agent will
give you explicit directions for raising
vegetables, and will tell you simple
methods for canning vegetables and
fruit at home with ordinary home uten.
sils.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

Royal C. johnson of this district
and c. II. Dillon of the first district
voted against entering the a These
two congressman will have a hard time
defending their position il they ever
come up for reelection again. The
chances are that different men will
represent the first and second districts
in the next congress.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

Disloyalty to this country during
this trying time should bring swif'
ana sure purishment no matter what
the form Of disloyalty is displayed. The
man who Is not for America now has
no business here. If he is not man
enough to ask for ! passport out Of
the country the authorities should see
81 Il that his departure II FASTENED
M property which he made under ou1
1vss Instiutions should revert back r
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

Persons who have been worrying
over the way President Wilson handled
the trouble with Germany the past two
years may now turn over and have A
sleep. History will say Of Wilson that
he acted the gentleman with a rowdy
for a long time, and when the rowdy
could not be handled in any other way
Wilson whipped him like a gentleman.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

Uncle Sam has the u and
men and before this fuss is over the
Kaiser won't think it such a joke. Stalk.
ing out the ocean and telling the world
to sail around the stakes may have
seemed an amusing thing for the
Kaiser when he first pulled it off, but
the end won't be at all funny. 1t will
be a tragedy for the King business.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

Cuba has entered the wal by the
side of the United States, but the big
thing about her entrance into this
world war Is the fact that there was
not a vote against the proposition In
either the house or senate. Hats of to
the new Republic of Cuba!
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

Rice as a substitute for potatoes is
alright until the exploiters shoot the
price OF rice up TO the prohibitive point.
What will we do then, go back to po-
tatoes?
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

There is one thing about most OF
farm girls and that is you can put
an apron on them and turn them loose
in the kitchen for a few minutes and
they will prepare a dinner fit for Alex
Romanoff or any other common man ia
eat. Hats of. gentlemen, to the ef1c.
lent country girls.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

It is to be wondered what the Kaiser
has promised the southern negroes II
they will revolt against their govern,
ment. Forty acres and a mule went
with the negroes during carpetbae
days. but they have learned a lot since
they have realized what freedom in
this country really means.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

Friends of the school bond issue
need not be discouraged, it took several
votes and a number of years to build
the court house that is now the pride
of every citizen in the county.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

The fellow who says that 50 wheat is
a fine thing for the farmer forgets that
the farmers sold most of their whea.
last fall, and that it is the terminal
elevator fellows who are getting the
long price.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

The British authorities took the rub
Der heels off Won Bernstorff's shoes
before they let him sail through TO
Germany. The British know how to
handle the gumshoe crowd.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

The Iowa legislature voted 81 ZOO, 600
right off the bat for defense IN
the wal against Kaiserism. There is a
large German population down in tina:
state but they seem to be true Ameri-
cans when it comes to a show down,
Iowa is some state.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

seems to be the fad now days es'
pecially those who are possessors OF
"tin cans"
Mr. and Mrs. Winters of Clear Lake,
s. D., were visiting in north Parneii
the last of the week.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

Those European monarchs who have
not recently been photographed in
their court toys had better attend to II
at once. 1t may be too late after corn
planting time. The people may take
a day of in May and remove the whole
bunch.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

divine right" could not keep him on
the job a m after the people de-
cided to remove him. God seems to be
letting a lot of such fellows shift for
themselves lately.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

While the majority of mankind have
lost their heads the modern paradox
stands out in the fact that hats have
gone UP in price. Lay it TO the war in
Europe.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

The H~ohenzollerns and Hapsburgs are
hanging like a puppy to a root to their
so-called "divinely appointed" jobs, but
when Uncle Sam gets through with
that bunch they will be ready to work
in a garage or pick potato bugs for a
living.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12

the government and be used as a re-
source against the common enemy OF
mankind.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12
HELP FEED YOURSELF

The United States Department of
Agriculture is offering the following
suggestions:
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-11-10
Notice Of Dissolution

We. the undersigned: :. H; coithsrp: I pres .;
The c,oitharp stores Company, corpora.
under the Law: 81 m bss t. e
,.,nSt;na AZ the ock holders Of said corpora
called for The o. sid
.nS .ston and held at the ONCE Of said cor
PP oretion At RanssIy, Colorado. on the 18th
day Of August A. i9i.: purshh arsns n IN he
msene r. provided BY law for the calling Of
stock holders meetings for the p1 inp ss S
ssncI hoIders, BY . vote Of more than TWO:
thirds Of the entire capital stock o! 40 IL
cornnrsffon, ordered said corporation 10 Do
We further certify that all debts owing ~
said corporation have been ou's ""0 '1"'
paid. h.~. made and
.,rneG this notice Of dissolution :, ana am1e S
hScsto he seal Of said corporation TINS Stn
oey W Guy i. H, CoLrHAHP,
Jr,c,ora President.
Secretary.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-11-10

Mira, the wonderful star in the con-
stellation Cetus 1.-THE Whaie). stands
foremost among those variable stars
which have produced 30 much guess
work. Besides the theory that it,
even months variations are due to the
pickering up and down Of gas. 1t has
been conjectured that this distant sun
is subject to particularly acute sun
spots. that its observations are due to
eclipse by huge planets revolving round
1t and even. according to Maupertuis.
that It Is not spherical in shape. as
other heavenly bodies are, SO that we
see 1t sometimes In sections. some
times in plane. Occasionally. as In
1850 and 1899. 1t has blazed up actual
~ to first magnitude. while from 1872
to 1915 1t disappeared altogether.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-11-10
NEGLECTED. CHILDREN.
n There Wers Fewer Of Them There
Would Be Less Crime.

II There Wsrs Fewer Of Them There
Would Be Less Crime.
A st. Louis Judge recently made the
statement in an address delivered be-
fore q local bar association that ''if
one fourth As much as IL spent for
keeping up our courts. jaiIs. poorhouses
and paupers was applied to help neg
lected city children make proper start
in life the high tide Of crime surely
would decrease"
This ID a remarkable statement to
make; but, coming from the source It
does. 1t is. worthy Of consideration Of
all philanthropic men and women. Had
the speaker made his statement more
general and applicable to the country
as well a. to the cities It would all the
same be worthy Of credence.
The life Of every one depends largely
upon the start made. There are those
who are started right and then depart
from the straight but narrow path. but
they are the exception and not the
rule. Thousands of little unfortunates
may be said to be born criminals. the
offspring of criminal parentage. II
not SO born they are 10 bred. But 1t
Is true, as said by this st. Louis Judge.
that II benevolent and righteous pub
lie would deal with the problem as 1t
might there would be less crime and
fewer criminals. - Knoxville Journal
and Tribune.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-11-10
Our Publis Health ssrvIes.

In the fields Of preventive medicine
and In all matters in which the public
health Ii concerned the public health
service does work which IL not only un-
surpassed but unequaled in any coun-
try of the world. This Is recognized
and fully appreciated In Europe. and
recently In one of the chief medical
journals Of Europe high praise was
given to the service for the extremely
valuable Information with regard to
disease and preventive medicine which
was disseminated by the agency Of its
bulletins and other publications. In
fact. the United States public health
service il unique and is an institution
Of which this country has every reason
to be proud. 1t remains as an ever
ready foundation upon which to erect
the department Of public health when
ever congress shall see at to establish
it.-Medical Record.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-11-10
Stung

A well known judge went into
butcher shop one morning. After =
brief talk the butchsr said: Judge,
will you give Inc II little legal advice?
Suppose dog should come into your
shop app steal n piece of meat, what
would you do?'
"Suo the dogs owner" said the
Judge. WAS 1t a valuable piece OF
meat?'
at was fine roast, worth five
dollars"
Well" said the judge, II should
sue the owner. then, for five dollars"
Good" said the butcher, with y
grin, sit WAS your dog, judge"
The Judge sinilingly paid the
butcher and left.
Soon afterward the butcher met
the judge.
Judge" he said. II have here
bill from you for five dollars. What
is that for?'
The judge smiled again. That"
he said, sis for the legal advice I
gave you about that dog"