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Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-01-31
GRADING POTATOES
PUBLIC WILL NOT BUY INFERIOR
QUALITY PRODUCT AT
HIGH PRICES.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City, the Various
state institutions and from
Many Different Parts OF
the Sunshine state.

PIERRE
Potatoes should he graded before
placing them on the market, urges
the South Dakota food administrator
at Aberdeen, who authorizes the FOL
lowing statement:
American people in 1917 produced
the largest crop Of potatoes on rec
ord, but unfortunately the quality is
not equal to the quantity.
Many OF these potatoes are still
held by growers who are confronted
with the problem of moving them
before the next crop comes in. Inc
food administration is interested IN
this problem because it wants these
POTATOES in order to save wheat and
other foods that can be shipped.
In order that poor stock may not
be foisted on the people at high prices
the food administration and the state
bureau of markets are urging the
grading Of potatoes before they are
placed on the market.
Unless potatoes are so graded thal
the consumers are protected from al
influx OF frostbitten, injured, diseased
and small, deformed stock, they VII
rebel as they did ten years a.o whel
an attempt was made to force croI
of inferior apples through the mar
kets at high prices. Use of apples al
most ceased. Apple growers ane
handlers lost millions of dollars, ane
thousands of bushels OF fairly gooe
apples we're never consumed.
Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-01-31
To Develop Indian Lands.

Senator Edwin S. johnson, OF South
Dakota, has introduced bill looking
to the development of unused Indian
lands in South Dakota. He proposed
an appropriation of $1,920,000 for this
purpose. He would use not to exceed
$500. 000 for the development OF water
power to make irrigation possible. In
der the direction of the secretary o.
the interior he would have a portion
of the remaining money used 10 aid
lessees OF the unused land. The biz
authorizes the secretary to take oyei
and develop the land not leased.
Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-01-31
Farmers Overcome Anthrax.

The farmers of Haakon county
cleaned mp an outbreak Of anthrax
projecting 2,47S cattle at a cost al
less than 26 cents a head. including
vaccination, isolation of affected ami
mails and general cleanup, by burn
ing all carcasses. Leon Anderson
county agent, enlisted the help OF the
state live stock sanitary board, the
extension specialist and the head OF
the state college animal health lab
oratory. The cooperative plan OF &C
ton called for farmer committees
with a foreman to isolate infected ami
mails, to burn dead cattle, to secure
veterinarians and necessary materials
and to keep night watch over the unin
fected animals.
Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-01-31

William c. Rempfer, of Parkston,
S. D., executive secretary Of the South
Dakota branch of the Peoples Coun.
Gil of America, and a delegate to the
state convention of the socialist party,
was forcibly elected from Mitchell
and the convention which he was at
tending broken up on orders of Mayor
]. E. Wells. Rampfer's election from
the city followed later He was cap
tured" on the street by five unknown
men and hustled into an automobile
in which he was driven five miles
from town. There he was set out
upon the prairie and, according to re-
ports, was told to proceed afoot TO his
home in Parkston and warned not to
return to Mitchell. No violence was
done to Rempfer.
After not having seen one another
for six years, to suddenly come free
to face when their two ships steamed
into port in the republic OF Panama,
was the experience which befell two
Sioux Falls boys, George and Harry
Elliott.
Roy Caesar and Archie Porter, two
boys sentenced by Judge Skinner. of
| WATERFOWL to serve year and a half
and a year, respectively in the state
| prison at Sioux Falls. with the alter
native of enlisting In the United States
army, were started for Sioux Falls by
the states attorney Of Grant county.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
-L'Echo de Paris

other perfectly and establish the frendliest
relations. This mingling of blue and khaki
has changed the color scheme in some OF
the scenes Of war, and gives one a sense of
closer union with the spirit and valor of
France. French ambulances and British
ambulances. with their wounded pass one
another down some of the roads, and on the
same battlefields men of France and Eng
land are together.
"a day or two ago I saw some British
walking wounded in Flanders making their
way slowly to the field dressing stations.
They had their arms about each other for
mutual friendship, and limped painfully
through a village which the enemy was
harassing with scattered Shells Two
French officers standing by watched the
wounded pass, and one of them said:
"'Those English boys know how to suffer
bravely.'
"Presently French soldier, hit in the
leg, stumbled by on the arm of a British
comrade, and the officer said:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

few showed warmer feeling or greater
unanimity than those picturing the
scenes following the arrival of French
reinforcements to the hard pressed Brit
ish. The work of improvised armies, the
terrible German defeat at La Bassee
Canal, the work of the British Medical
Corps-not even the dramatic end of Won
Richtofen-stirred the various CORE
spondents as did the evidences of blood
sealed fraternity between British and
French troops.
Writing to "The New York Sum-"
Perry Robinson sad
"When certain French troops came on
April 18 to relieve some of ours who were
fatigued beyond human endurance, they
were told that in the fighting on the pre-
vious day at certain farm one British
subaltern and a detail of twelve men had
been cut off. The French did not hesitate:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

now in the battle of Picardy at the point
of greatest pressure.
The attack followed great lull in the
fighting. The twenty-ninth day of battle
saw the Germans, blocked at Mount
KENNEL, south of Ypres, shifting their
attack to the southern flank of the Ar
mentieres salient without success.
Five days of virtual pause ensued dur
ing which time the British improved
their positions somewhat at various
points, while the Germans clearly indi.
Gated their intention to strike again at
Amiens. During this time, too, it became
known that Italian troops are now min
gled with British, French, Belgian, Por-
tuguese and Americans on the Western
front. Other events of note were the
death of Won Richthofen, the greatest Ger
man aviator, and the completion of the
ruin of Rheims by a new bombardment.
Then, on the thirty y-sixth day of BATTLE
the Germans again struck at Mount
KENNEL, whose fate at this writing
hangs in the balance.
When Blucher Came
or THE many vivid pictures of the
battle sent back during the week by
special correspondents on the ground,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
II Shakespeare Were Alive To-day

Food wasters: "They are as sick that
surfeit with too much as they that starve
with nothing"
Executioners of Edith Cavell: "Murder
cannot be hid long"
The Kaiser's thoughts when he read
President Wilson's message that we in
tended to employ the utmost force to crush
tyranny: "Here are few of the unpleas-
antest words that ever blotted paper"
Apropos of Prussia's letter after sting
ing US once about a premature peace:
What! Wouldst thou have a serpent sting
thee twice."
The British to the Turks in Palestine:
"Now, intidel, have you en- the hip"
For the destitute of Poland, Belgium and
France: "And he that doth the ravens feed,
yea providently caters for the sparrow, be
comfort to my age"
CANINE to the boche as he "goes over
~ the top: II will kill thee a hundred
and fifty ways"
General Haig with 'his back to the wall":
"IIl not bulge an inch.'
Ambassador Won Bernstorff, the Kaiser's
agent who was fired from Washington: "He
must needs go that the devil drives"
Hindenburg's promise to be in Paris on
April 1: "Oft expectation fails and most
OFT there where most 1t promises.
Another thought for the Kaiser to rumi-
nate: "Thus England never did nor never
shall lie at the proud foot of a conqueror."
When Uncle Sam comes to make peace
terms in Berlin: "He will give the devil
his due"
The pacifists' idea Of conducting our war
for democracy: "Brain him with his lady's
fan"
National prohibition amendment: IT fain
would die dry death"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
Asst Tuesday was Shakespeare's
birthday. If still alive he would
4 have attained the are of thrae


IL have attained the age of three
hundred and fifty-four years.
And, according to Mr.. Herman Leroy
Collins (whose pen name is "Gerard"),
writing in "The Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph" the bard, were he writing
to-day "about the war and other things"
might very effectively adopt some of his
own phrases to present uses, as follows:
Concerning the Kaisers talk that he tried
to spare the world the horror of war: "a
very ancient hsh-likc SMELL"
Ex-Ministcr Czernin, Of Austria: made
such sinner Of his memory to credit his
own lie."
Our valiant soldiers in France: ale that
dies pays all debts"
OF the fine service rendered every war
enterprise by the fair sex: II have no other
but womans reason"
The Austrian Emperor's affection for the
German Emperor: "Ah, how this spring of
love resembleth the uncertain glory Of an
April day"
The Crown Princes failure to win
battle from the French: "A man am
crossed with adversely"
General Pershing to the boches: "Come
not within the measure Of my wrath"
OF the Hun clan generally 20 base
Hungarian wight"
Approval Of our daylight saving plan:
1--WE burn daylight"
Uncle Sans new building operation for
Hog Island worimen in Philadelphia, "Like
= fair house built on another mans
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
Would Whole of His Choicest Sentiments
Be Arranged to tContem

United Allies under General Foch on the
Western front: "Let's go hand in hand, not
one before another"
To France for the execution Of the traitor
Bolo: "Thank God you are rid of knave."
Germany's seizure of Belgium: "Flat
burglary as ever was committed"
Those Bolshevik leaders who betrayed
Russia and put a third Of Russias popula-
tion under the German flag: "Write me
down an ass"
Mr.. Hoovers orders have not yet driven
US to these extremities: "He hath never
fed of the daintes that are bred in Book;
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
XI&&LYeESL4Z -
ParadoxicaI Russia

THE Russian situation is notable for
two events. First, British, French
and Bolsheviki troops combine to fight
the Finnish White Guards and protect
the port of Murmansk, on the north
east coast of the Kola Peninsula, in the
Arctic Ocean. Murmansk is an ice-free
Russian port and the terminus of
railroad to Petrograd.
The Siberian situation appears SIM
plifed by the resignation at Toxic of
Foreign Minister Motono and the arrival
in the United States of Viscount Ishii,
new Japanese Ambassador to Washing
ton. Motono is succeeded by Baron Goto.
Meantime German penetration con-
tinues unchecked in Poland, Finland, the
Ukraine, and Russia as whole Sebas-
topol is cut off by the capture of Sim
feropol, the capital of the province of
Taurida. Fighting continues between
L
Diplomatic Diversions
Z UST what estimate to put upon the
gravity of the dispute between Hol-
land and Germany is not certain at this
writing. Apparently Holland is nearer
to being made another Belgium than at
any other time during the war. Reports
that Germany had threatened Holland
and had even presented an ultimatum
have not so far materialized, but that
Germany is pressing Holland closely is
clear.
Briefly, Germany wants to transport
sand and gravel through Holland to Bel
GUM. The Allies recently stopped this
practice when it was pointed out that
the quantities transported far exceeded
the needs of the Belgian roads, for
which the Germans said the materials
were used. In other words, Germany is
demanding that Holland facilitate the
sending of materials to Belgium to make
concrete pillboxes against Allied troops
With her troops massed along her
frontier, Holland parleys. To her diff
Guilty is added the report that Germany
is demanding that Holland guarantee
Germany supply Of raw materials from
Dutch colonies Immediately after the
war, while certain amount of Dutch
tonnage is also demanded for the same
period
At this writing the Dutch Minister at
Berlin and the German Minister to the
Netherlands have both left for their re-
spective homes, presumably for consul
tations. In England it is frankly said
that if Holland yields to Germany's de-
mands Holland will no longer be neutral.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

rT>HE U-boat when an American destroyer
. Il gets after it, 81 have a kind of
alacrity ilr sinking"
Those poison gases let loose on the bat
tie line: "Thc rankcst compound of viii
famous smell that ever offended nostri."
Liberty bond buyers who are 5000 miles
from flying bullets: "Your hearts are
mighty, your skins are whole"
OF pacifists: "Our doubts are traitors"
Our failure to deal promptly with alien
spies: "The law hath not been dead though
it hath slept
livery Of hell"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

it was night, but in the darkness they went
straight out and found the post lightly held.
Some of the garrison they killed; the others,
something less than a score Of Germans,
they brought back as prisoners, and they
told how in the post they found the Brit
ish subaltern and the twelve men dead, and
around them ring of German bodies. Mon
Dieu,' said French officer, but they had
fourhtl'"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

"'C'est lentente cordiale de Ia souf-
france"
The same strain is to be found in the
dispatches of Percival Phillips to "Thc
New York Herald":
"The Germans would be puzzled and dis
concerted could they see British and French
soldiers fighting side by side like brothers
instead of separating into two armies. This
offensive has drawn them closer together.
For the first time we see British and French
battalions under the same command In
some places the French command, in others
the men are under the British staff.
"The poilus are eager to show their ap-
probation of the English. They play foot
ball with our men. What more could one
ask?"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
Tie Salonica Drive

~ ORDER to keep the Central
Powers from further reinforcing the
western front, particularly with Bull
safian troops, the Allies also started a
diversion this week all along the Balkan
front. British, French, Serbian and TtaI-
ian troops assaulted the Austrians,
iuxks, Germans and Bulg&rians from tho
Ads1atc t. The Kgsan. A number Of
tcsns wsks fadEsn without decisive results
helng stteaned.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
49, a.

Philip Gibbs thus wrote to "The New
York Times" of the fraternizing of the
men, their attempts at conversation:
"These French and English conversations
are interesting and peculiar. With few
words like good, no bon,' 'ini' and sale
boche,' eked out by shrugs, winks, bursts of
laughter and the language of signs, the SOL
diers of both nations understand one an
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
W ar's
Panorama
Diversions Both Military and Political
Prelude the Renewal of the
Drive for Amiens

-HE fifth week of the German
drive has witnessed number
of diversions. While the Ger
Il mans were perforce hating In
Flanders and preparing to renew the
drive for Amiens-which they did on the
thirty-ffth day of battle-a neat variety
of lesser developments, both military and
political, temporarily divided the worlds
interests between the Western front
proper, the Belgian coast, the Balkans
Holland and South America.
Bottiing Up the U-B0afs
4 SHORT distance apart on the Bel
a glan coast are the harbors of Zee
brugge and Ostend At point in the in
terror, almost equidistant from each, lies
Bruges. connected with both ports by
canals. These three
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

he hath not ate papers as it were: he hath
not drunk ink"
For those guilty Of the crime of sinking
the Lusitane: "That would hang up every
mothers son."
German philosophic writer's who preached
miltarism: Lord, what fools these NOR
tails be-"
Hndenburg's futile onslaught on the
Western front: "The true beginning of my
end"
THE army Stacker seeking to evade the
draft: "Why should man whose
blood is warm within sit like his grand
sire cut in alabaster?"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
The Battle of Seicheprey

ne Bdfle OF SelCHeprey
WHAT was, in effect, further diver
sion, except that the Germans start
ed 1T, was the battle of Seicheprey on
the American front, east of Verdun. The
minor conflicts between the Germans and
Americans in the Toul sector have been
slowly growing in intensity for the past
month. That the Americans have at
tracted considerable forces against them
IS shown by the fact that General Won
Gallwitz commands the German sector
in this region.
More than 1900 picked troops assault
ed the Americans at Seicheprey. A ter
rifle battle at close range followed, dur
ing which the Americans were forced
back. Later, with the French, they re-
captured the lost ground, inf1icting heavy
casualties, but also themselves suffering
severely-a fact which Berlin promptly
exaggerated for home consumption dur
ing the lull in the great drive. Without
question the Americans, though outnum-
bered, fought gamely and held their own.
Amiens Again Attacked
THE necessity to win forces the Ger
mans forward. Hence the end of
the fifth week of battle found the drive
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

and Hobson at San
t!ago, the British attempted to block the
two outlets at Zeebrugge and Ostend.
Under cover of smoke screen, British
raiders crept up to the ports in the early,
misty morning, and despite heavy fire
landed forces, while other volunteers
sank ships loaded with stone, planted eN-
plosives, and generally fought hand
to-hand battle with the defenders. At
Ostend the harbor was apparently
blocked, but at Zeebrugge only consid-
cradle break was made in the mole pro-
tecting the harbor from the sea.
Whether the diversion is to be consid-
cred on par with the Gallipoli expedi-
ton, where the British might have capt
ured Constantinople had they maintained
their bonnbardment day longer, remains
to be seen. According to C. w. Gilbert,
writing to The New York Tribune from
Washington, the opinion is growing that
the Allies lost another opportunity by
falling to land larger forces at Zee.
brugge, which is well behind the Hinden
burg line. Apparently, the feat was pos
slble, but the psychology of the dead
lock-" which still seems to impair the ef-
forts of the Allies, limited the attenort
TO raid instead of an offensive.
The Weeks Losses
4 SIDE from other naval skirmishes
by the Germans against the Elan
ders coast and by the British near
Heigoland, the week was notable for the
cessation of the weekly return of the
British shipping losses. A monthly re-
port will be issued hereafter. 1t is stated,
however, that in the last three months
l'lz5,510 tons of British, Allied and neu-
'fai tonnage have been lost.
Gains
MARKED increase in Allied ton
mage is accomplished this week
The United States charters 100000
tons Of Norwegian sailing ships;. con-
ctudes agreements with Japan securing
sixty-six ships, aggregating $4,000 tons.
and frees 157 900 more tons of shipping
by new import bans. Meanwhile
Mr. Schwab plunges vigorously ahead,
secures priority of steel for shipping, and
plans to turn out 10 ,000, 900 tons in 1919.
All OF which adds point to renewed de-
bate In the Reichstag concerning the eff .
Iectiveness of the U-boat, which Won
Capelle says is still winning.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

places constitute
the Principal u
boat lairs.
Following the ex-
ample of the Japa-
nese at Port Arthur,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
In South America

THE diplomatic balance is against
Germany in South America this
week. Guatemala follows the lead of
the United States in its attitude toward
Germany, making the nineteenth enemy
of the Central Powers. Uruguay and
Argentina are expected at any time to
follow suit, according to advices from
Berlin.
Affairs in England
CERTAIN English developments re-
lated to the Western drive deserve
attention this week. Lord Miner sue
ceeds Lord Derby as Secretary for War.
a move which is interpreted as further
proof that Britain shas her back to the
wall" There are other signs of fermenr.
General Maurice, known for his compari-
son of the battle of Flanders to Water
loo, with the further query of "But where
is Blucher?" has been assigned to duties
in France.
Viscount Northcliffe's relations with
Premier Lloyd George aye reported
strained on account Of the appointment
of j. Austen Chamberlain to the War
Cabinet. Britain's air minister, Lord
Rothermere, brother to Viscount North
cliffe, is also under fire. Reforms limit
ing heredity are introduced in the House
of Lords. The Irish situation, still un-
decided at this writing, is more fully dis
cussed elsewhere in The Review.
The Domestic Front
THE appointment of John D. Ryan,
Montana copper king, as director
of aircraft production is the govern
ment's move to put the American avia-
tion programme on par with other war
preparations. The aviation section of
the Signal Corps is simultaneously re-
organized, General Squier being relieved
Of further connection with military aero
nautics in favor Of Brigadier General
kenly.
A plan to draft men up to fifty is sug-
gested. Secretary Baker says that the
future size of the army depends first of
all upon shipping available. In drive
to free Philadelphia of vice menacing
army and navy men the police are super
seded by the military
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

for Anllens re-
newed on a thir-
teen-mile front,
where the Brit
ish and French
forces join. In
addition, Ameri-
can troops are
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
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DiSSenterS

DiSsenterS
THE weeks news of anti-Allied ele-
ments in this country is sensa-
tional. The trial of Hindus at San
Francisco charged with designs to pro-
woke mutiny in India sees the shooting
in crowded court room of one of the
defendants by another, who is imme-
diately shot dead by a United States
Marshal. Twenty-nine of the defendants
are later convicted.
The trial of "The Masses" ;nteras+s
because the defendants assert that an
Objectionable advertisement was nassed
by George Creel, who says that he said
1t epltomized treason absolutely, but that
there was no law to stop it. Mrs. Rose
Pastor Stokes is indicted at Kansas Citv
for violation of the espionage act. Ger
man and Austrian women are bv nroc-
iamatlon required to register, but thu
President blocks the bill to trv s,snected
spies by court martial.
Business
THE war strikes the automobile bus;-
ness. Its output may soon be cut
81 to rs per cent, Washington an.
nounces.
The Overn,an Bill Winnino
CLOWLY Mr.. Wilson is winning the
- fight to have the Overman bill
passed. Despite severe criticism during
the week, he gains the support Of Sena-
tor Chamberlain.
Labor
ABOR continues restive regarding
Tom" Mooney, so much so that it
IS warned by Mr.. Gompers against a
sympathetic strike likely to delay war
work.
Finance
HE third week Of the third Liberty
Loan sees the total past the two
billion mark. April 26 is celebrated "a
Liberty Loan Day the country over.
Scores of cities have oversubscribed
their quotas, but the New York district
still lags. Germany's latest loan is Just
completed, with total of So, ,810.-
900. England's war budget for the COM
ing year is nearly fifteen billions.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-28
Lost
Money to Loan

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