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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-27
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS

The schools are getting into shape
now. schedules arranged satisfactory
ly, absences counted, and the students
are settling down to work.
900
The Athletic Association has been
organized with Bert Wix for presi-
dent, Harold Sharp for secretary, Rob
ert Haroldson for treasurer. with Ruth
Atkinson assistant treasurer. Bert
WiX was also elected cheer leader.
So many men have been getting in
to football that the coach has been
able to make three teams. A fine
schedule has been arranged for the
team which necessitates hard work on
the part of the players, much roofing
and pep from the rest of the students
and a strong backing by the town.
The schedule is as follows:
Flandreau-Oct. 6, at Brookings.
Madison-Oct. Is, at Madison.
Watertown-Oct. 10, at WATERFOWL
Pierre-Nov. 3, at Bookings.
Huron-Nov. 10. at B%rookings.
The remaining dates are still open,
but are sure to be filled with games
that promise a stiff fight. Our men
are not as heavy this year as in form
err years but all high schools seem to
be affected in the same way. But if
one could judge by the untiring efforts
of Coach Nelson, We are sure to have
a winning team. The students are
prepared to back them.
COO
The football team is not the only
live thing about the school either in
numbers or pep. The entire high
school is larger than ever before and
promises to make a good showing this
year. The Freshman class is COM
posed of 81 members, the Sophomore
So, the Junior 60 and the Senior 50.
The Junior and Senior classes have
organized as is the custom and have
the following officers: Senior,
President. Marshall Knappen; vice
president, Harold Sharp; secretary,
Viola Williamson; treasurer, Robert
class mother, Miss Ann
Wilson. Junior-President, Venie Oh
rams; vice president, William Mast;
secretary, Amber Ellis; treasurer,
Samuel Blocker; class Wother, Mis-
Titmarsh.
The periodical committees have
been appointed to choose the period
icals for the coming year.
900
The Literary Societies are to be re-
organized on a new plan this year,
which will more evenly distribute the
and we feel safe in promising
big things from them.
The Silver Links met at the High
School building last Saturday after
loon and entertained the new girls Of
the High school. An interesting pro-
gram and light refreshments finished
afternoon spent in lively games.
600
The faculty are proving themselves
to be splendid and capable in their
work and the board is to be congrat-
upon securing such efficient
teachers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-27
RED CROSS FUND REPORT

To the officers of the Red Cross
War Fund, Bookings, S. d., and
Washington, u. c.:
At the request Of Rev. Paul Roberts,
of the Brookings Red Cross War Fund,
| have audited the accounts of Van
ID. F~ishback, treasurer of the local
Red Cross fund, and | have the fol
lowing to report:
| have gone through all the sub
scription lists representing the sub
scriptions for Brookings county, and
/ find the grand total subscribed by
Brookings county to be $14,505.S0. l
find that the local treasurer has de-
posted with the First National Bank,
Of Brookings. for the credit Of William
G. McAdoo, treasurer of the National
Red Cross War Fund, $13,7S7.05 and
therefore find that S71S.75 has not
yet been collected.
| looked over all the accounts or
subscriptions that have not been paid,
and | find the following ~delinquencies.
subscriptions have been handed to
banks for collection, and not yet paid
and still due from townships and
towns. are as follows,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-27

was ordered to go last week, but since
he has reported to the board and Civ
state and came back as soon as ne
was advised of the fact of his call,
by his family. He will go with the
next call.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-27
THE RETORT Feminine

She-"What do you suppose Har.
old meant by sending me those flow.
Also She-"He probably meant to
imply that you were a dead one."-
Jack O. Lantern.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-27
FORGlViNG PARENT

War-Bride (who had eloped)-"Oh,
Jack! Here's a telegram from papa.
Bridegroom (eagerly)-"What does
he say?"
War-Bride-"Do not come home
and all will be well."-London
Opinion.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-27

At a special meeting of the execu-
tive committee a committee on Civil
ian Relief was elected-Mr. MINER,
$. j. Rudolph and Prof. r. f. Kerr.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-27
Y. w. c. A. ANNOUNCEMENT

AT a recent meeting of the advis-
DRY board of the Young Women's
Christian Association, the work for
the year was divided among different
committees. The committee on social
work for the young women Of the
town has met and arranged to form
different clubs and competent teach
ers have been secured to give instruc-
tions in basketry, millinery, sewing,
knitting, cooking and fancy work.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all young women Of Brookings and
vicinity who are interested in any of
the following classes: Cooking-Miss
Eva Gregory. Knitting Mrs. Dewing
and Mrs. Fishback. Basketry- Miss
Ada b. Caldwell. Millinery-Miss
Louise Leaton. Fancy Work-Mrs.
Heintz and Miss Halle Hyde, to call
at Miss Joern's millinery store on the
following days, Friday, Saturday and
Monday afternoons, from one to six, to
register their names and designate
the club in which they wish to take
part.
The committee in charge is anxious
that every young woman in Brookfngs
interested in social club work may
have an opportunity to choose from
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-09-27

Total still unpaid ...... .$71S.75
| believe that the handling OF this
money by the local treasurer could
not be improved upon in any.
Respectfully submitted.
Theodore |. Flittie.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

The American commission to Russia
is in Petrograd and has an opportun-
ity to see at first hand just how Sc
riously the Russian situation happens
10 be. Whether the Americans will
be able to stave off the threatened
cave-in Of Russia as far as being OF
advantage to the allies is concerned
remains to be seen.
Not only is the Russian soldiery de
moralized to the extent Of paying
slight attention to authority, but the
Industrial and business life of thu
nation likewise is at an anarchists
cbb. The Russians, delirious in thei
new-found freedom, are intent upol
duplicating the French revolution, /
seems, so that life and property i
getting to be as unsafe as it was II
Mexico during the last few years.
The American commission will hol
conferences with the Russian provis
ional government. 1t would seem
however, that the commission like
wise should hold conferences with tn
soldiers and workmen's committed
which seems to be more of a powe
than the provisional government.
Elihu Root has a problem such a
he never faced before.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
WASHINGTON BECOMES DRY.

Olympia, Wash, June 6.-The state
Of Washington, in which prohibition
of the liquor traffic has prevailed since
Jan. l., 1916, now becomes "bonc
dry" as a result OF the stringent law
passed at the last session of the leg
islature and signed by Governor Lis.
ter. The new law is considered to be
the last word in prohibition legisla'
ton. The act prohibits the manu-
facture, sale reception, possession OIL
handling of any Intoxicating liquors
other than alcohol.
A unique feature Of the law is {
definition of the terms "'jointist" ant
"bootlegger." A "jointist' is defin
ed as person who maintains place
where liquor is sold, and bootleg
ger" is one who sells liquor withou
!; any place of business. Persons con
victed of either offense incur a tern
! in the penitentiary.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
PATRIOTIC NEWSPAPERS.

1t will come as a surprise to many
persons to learn that when the Liberty
Loan campaign started the govern
n1ent thought seriously about adver-
Using in the public press Of the ccun-
try, but that officials finally came to
the conclusion that the government
could obtain all the space it wanted
free of cost, and that the $5,O0O,OOO
appropriated for promotion purposes
need not 90 to the papers.
The newspapers, without whimp-
er, went right in for the bond selling
campaign with the eclat of cavalry
charge, and in reality handed the gov.
eminent about $10,Q00,000 in free
space.
And all they have gotten in re-
turn, it seems, is an attempt by the
administration to censor them and a
kick out of the state department
Funny, isn't it:
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

Commander James Proctor Morton,
U. s. N, in command of the Scorpion,
which vessel was reported recently to
be interned by the Turkish govern
ment at Constantinople, is regarded
as one of the most cool and cOurag-
eous officers of the United States
navy. During the war with Spain he
was an assistant engineer, and was
in charge of the engine room of the
little gunboat Vixen. While on block
ade duty, off the coast of Cuba, an &C
cident occurred to one of the boilers
of the Vixen. At great personal peril
Engineer Morton entered the fireroom
of the vessel and directed the repair
ing of the machinery. He was IN
charge of the Wisconsin, Kearsarge
and Kentucky, in reserve at the Phila'
relphia yard, when assigned to COM
mand the Scorpion in the early part
of 1916
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
LESSON ON A TOMBSTONE.

On one Of the old tombstones in
Bellwood cemetery is this:
Gas you are SO | was"
Besides indicating that beneath the
stone rest the bones of a man who
was a keen student of human nature
a man broad and tolerant, the epltah
serves to teach Us that we are much
the same as those of old.
We are all weak, and we are all
strong. AS somebody hath said:
"There is so much bad in the best of
us and SO much good in the worst Of
us. it hardly, behooves any of us to
speak i'll of the rest of u.s."
The man whose remains rest under
the TOMBSTONE lived during the early
part Of the 18th century. But he had
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
HOW LONG?

James Gerard, former ambassador
to Germany, is of the opinion that
the great war will last two years
longer. He says the kaiser still has
~ 900, 900 men to draw from, de-
spite losses.
Specializing as to the length of the
war is an amusement open to all, ane
one mans opinion is about as good as
another's.
We do not think the kaiser has IL,
COO 900 men to draw from, however
and we don't see how Germany cal
hold out two years longer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
DISCUSS WAR CONDITIONS.

Pittsburgh, Pa, June 6.-The annual
meeting of the National conference OF
charities and corrections, which had it's
formal opening in this city tonight
and will continue in session an entire
week, is to be converted into a war
council for the consideration of the
great social problems arising from the
war. The care of the families of SOL
diers is one of the important subjects
to be discussed. Economy of food and
the maintenance of standards of liv-
inc are other matters to receive atten-
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

Raising $4,000, 100000 is no sun
rise to sunset proposition, an editor
remarks. That amount of money, even
in the richest nation in the world,
most assuredly does not spring to
arms overnight. Some persons don't
hesitate about giving their lives to
their country, but when it comes to
parting with their money for the
same cause, they hesitate. It's a
queer world.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

Casualties on the western front have
been low for a few weeks, but our
automobile casualties are always with
US, thanks to the the driver without
brains, and a goodly assortment Of
unguarded railroad crossings.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

ton. Still another subject to be pre-
scented by experts will be the FARMS
place in sociological work.
Among the persons of prominence
who are expected to participate in the
conference are former President Will
liam II. Taft, Earnest C. Hoover, Sir
Herbert Ames, DR.. Stewart Patton Of
Princeton university, and DR.. G. E. A.
Winslow of Yale university.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
NOTARLEs BORN THIS DAY.

Rt. Rev. Joseph H. Johnson, Episco-
pal bishop Of Los Angeles, born at
Schenectady, N. Y, 70 years ago to-
day
Albert S. Burleson, postmaster gen
eral of the United States, born at San
Marcos, Texas, 50 years ago today.
Sir Harry Verney, M. P, chair
man of the British departmental COM
mittee on the Settlement and Employ
ment of Sailors and Soldiers on thu
land, born Sc years ago today.
Malcolm r. Patterson, former gov
ernor Of Tennessee, born at Somer
vile, Ala, Sc years ago today.
George Chalmers, former majo1
league pitcher, now with the Kansas
City American association baseball
team, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, q
years ago today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
How About Some lorna
do Insurance?
Cost Is Very Low.
Phone 20.
R. II. M. MILLS & SONS

learned not to be harsh in his judg-
ment of others, nor to assume the
'holier than thou attitude.
The world would be more pleasant
place to live in if more of the present
generation had learned the same great
truth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

Joffre is back on the west front,
but discussion as to how his name is
pronounced will lremain with us un-
til the end of The war.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

The new tax on coffee, sugar, cocoa
and tea is to be paid directly by i'm
D0rters and manufacturers, congress
tells US; which will be good excuse
to triple the tax to the ultimate con-
Sumers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

Two things Uncle Sam is bent or
doing after the war: Maintaining his
financial supremacy and having g
merchant marine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

Optimism is requisite of effective
fiehting. The army that lacks con
f;dencc is half-beaten before the bat
tie begins.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

Mr.. Edison might get to work on
inventing cyclone-proof city.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

Reckless driving of automobiles
must be checked. Jail sentence in
stead of fines will do it. The aver
age speed fiend is we'll able to pay
a small fine; but he can i'll afford to
spend a month in Jail.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
One Year AGO in the War.

June :, 191G-Germans forced the
British back. east of Ypres; Petro-
-~' grad reported Russians had cap
tured 10000 Austrians in three
days fighting; Austrian offensive
reached it's greatest development
with the capture Of 800 square
miles of Italian territory.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

Those who don't go to war can sta!
at home and serve on the juries.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

One Hundred Wears Ago.
1S17-President James Monroe was
welcomed in Philadelphia on
the beginning of his tour OF in
spection of the military posts
of the country.
Seyenty.fiye Years Ago.
1S42-Charles Dickens, concluding
his first American visit, sailed
from New York, in the packet
ship George Washington, for
Liverpool.
Fifty Years Ago.
1S67-An international salmOn-flSh-
cries congress assembled in
London.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
national convention
met at Minneapolis with Will
liam Mckinley of Ohio presid-
ing.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
WORTH RENDERING.

Once to every man and nation
comes the moment to decide,
! In the strife of Truth with False
hood, for the good Or evil side.
= Lowell.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

It's rough season for slackers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

The Chinese government is about to
open an aviators' school at Canton.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

Last year 100000 frogs were
placed on the markets Of st. Paul and
Minneapolis. i y
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07

is guaranteed for
one bottle to benefit
any case of Pella-
gra, Rheumatism,
Ccrofllla Sunhilis
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
One Hundred Years Ago.

. j. II Il i 4 = :. :. u y :; 4 y * !; 4;
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-03-02
Americans petcst Quiet

OF all things which Americans de-
test quiet comes first. Take as proof
this matter Of pianos and talking ma
chimes, says the Philadelphia Ledger.
Every workday there now comes
from American factories an even 1000
pianos and about 1880 talking ma
chimes. You will notice that the plano
has not been entirely silenced by me-
chan1cal music. Indeed, the value OF
pianos made daily in our country 10
3h times as great as the value OF
monographs, but the number of pianos
now turned out Is smaller than 1t was
nve years ago, while the number Of it's
great rival has increased by half.
Uncle Sam tells US that two years
ago we paid $15,0OO,00O for talking ma
chimes and $11,00O,OOO for the records
which they played. No wonder talking
machine stock is quoted at about SLIGO
a share and stockholders bank upon
dividends Of S120 share this year.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-03-02
Responsihilitx.

That person who feels no RESPONSE
oility leads an empty, aimless, useless
existence. Broadly, of course, there
are no persons, not insane or public
charges, wholly without responsibility.
Even the insane and paupers in public
institutions are answerable or account
able In degree to the authority under
which they live, in that they must CON
form to fixed rules to the limit of their
capacity for understanding them. For.
answerability Of the individual to the
whole body being the very foundation
OF the security Of society at large, tho
primary step in elevating the child.
the backward or the crushed adult,
even the Predetermined, is the awaken
ing OF self-respect through incubation
OF a feeling of responsibility.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-03-02
WORTH KNOWING.

Electricity is the only agent that
will thaw frozen water pipes without
disturbing the ground in which they
are buried.
Peat covers about one-seventh of the
area of Ireland, and deposits are esti-
mated to contain 100000 tons of
fuel.
A process has been invented In Ger
many for Timing small articles by
placing them In a centrifugal ma
chine which is revolved In molten
metal.
Operated by current from light
socket, two-fan electric ventlator
has been invented for Offices and resi-
dences that, when set In a window,
draws in fresh air and expels that al
ready In room
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-03-02
College Loses Intellectual Leadership
When Coach Gets Twice Professors Paw
BY STEWART PATTON
Lecturer in Neurobioosy ct Princeton University

Consider extraordinary opportunity existing
this world affairs for universities adequate provision
for supplying the leaders of thought urgently needed triumphant
democracy be assured Is the contribution of these institutions
the intellectual awakening progress only by
amateurish interest in military preparedness?
Have not perhaps to demand
that universities shall not base their chief claims for recognition
institutions of learning merely upon traditional hereditary rights
One proof that the gravity of the situation has been
caed might be found effort to break with the restrictive nf
imposed by trying satisfy the paroc notions of the alumni and
by placing governing
tive citizens competent realize the value of scholarship
and the Importance of cuivatng broad national ideals
The of the threatening
the of great intellectual leadership from institution that
little value upon the influence example
athletic coach receiving than double the
Der of its faculty?
Judged by their spirit and works. the universities have failed
taby the present situation Today
ney seeking the abolition of petty sectional feeling
oldest institutions of learning substitute find
Yale Princeton sentiment tending dera from the idea of
to the general government
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-03-02

Seventy-eight gold watch fobs have
been awarded employees of the South
.ern Pacific railroad who did efficient
safety-first work during the last year
The prizes are won under a point sys-
TEN, credit of so many units being
given for suggestions which are cassi-
fled as to value and the number of
prize points merited by each.
Mohammedans are supposed neither
TO drink wine nor to eat pork. but
Ali-ben-Hamoun. dethroned sultan of
Zanzibar, who now lives afiluently in
Paris, has bold and original way of
doing both. At the table he places
his Koran beside him, urges "Oh, holy
prophet, may thy Koran protect me-"
and falls to with a will.
In the first nine months last year
the United States imported 1880. 900
pounds of sugAr-beet seeds, mainly
from Russia.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-03-02

B Paper making Is being tried out In
South Africa. One of the materials
under investigation has been the tam
bookie grass which grows luxuriantly
over vast tracks of country In the
Transvaal, particularly in the northern
parts. This grass has been proved to
yield, under the same conditions. more
pulp than Algerian esparto grass, but
little less than Spanish esparto. Not
only Is the yield high, but the pulp Is
of good quality and can be easily
bleached. The most remunerative use
for the grass will probably be to con-
vert 1t In South Africa into half
stuff" which can be exported to Eu-
rope or used for paper-making locally.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-03-02
OWE WEALTH TO PETROLEUM
Vast Fortunes Of Oil Kings All Have
Had Their Foundation 10 That
Substance.

OIL Is one Of the financial backbones
Of the world. There are more oil kings
than any other kings-barring royalty.
Yet multimillionaires, whose money
came from oil, owe their fortunes to
the mother Oil, petroleum. BY this it
is meant that petroleum is the basis OF
nine-tenths of the oils other than vege-
table oils.
Petroleum comes from the earth .
liquid substance. 1t is then run into
huge tanks, where it Is vaporized, the
product Of the process being collected
This product is petrol. The substance
left In the tanks is vaporized by the
same process only under greater heat,
and what is collected and condensed ia
paraffin.
Parafln and petrol are the two light
est oils, and for this reason they are
the first to be obtained. They are also
known as the 'Infiammable oils" and,
as such, far the two most important
oils in existence. When these have been
extracted the heavier oils are driven
off. Firstly the thin, then the thick
lubricants.
The residue, on cooling off, forms
solid paraflin. Another substance OBJ
tanned from petroleum Is naphtha.
There are huge petroleum wells In
Russia and America. In both places
the oils are extracted at the wells and
are conveyed through underground
pipes to the sea, where they are
shipped away. The longest oil pipe IL
about forty miles In length.