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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-18

The rapid growth Of the Nonparti-
san League in Nebraska has brought
that organization to the front as a
topic for newspaper discussion. That
there are substantial reasons for this
organization and a need for it in Ne
hrasRa may be judged from the fol,
lowing excerpt from an editorial in the
Omaha World-Herald:
VINO is the Nonpartisan League?
Take a case here in Nebraska.
thousands of bushels OF potatoes,
grown in this state last fall In re.
spouse to the urgent appeal Of tho
government, 7 rotting in the hands
of the producers. At the same time
many consumers are stinting their
consumption of potatoes because the
price is too high for them. SCOTS
bluff reports that growers are glad to
sell their potatoes there at so to 70
cents a bushel. The railroad charges
to Omaha are 21M cents per hundred
pounds. This makes the cost of the
potatoes laid down in Omaha from 70
to SO cents a bushel. They are sold
to the onsum at $3.50 a bushel.
ct costs 80 cents, say, to plant
these potatoes, cultivate them, dig
them haul them to market, put them
in cars and ship them $50 miles to
Omaha. And when they get to Oma.
ha. 1t costs a dollar to get those pota-
toes from the switching yard to the
housewives kitchen!
ut is just an instance-a little iii.
stance among many others that com
bine to make socialists in the cities
and nonpartisan leaguers on the farm.
"a certain type of politician thinks
that all the situation calls for is to
shrek treason and sedition.
so, some thirty years ago, the same
kind Of politicians thought that the.
way to dispose Of the Farmers ALI.
ance first, and the populist party
later, a to sneer at pigs in the par
lor' and make jokes about the farm.
er's whiskers and attire. That seri-
ous mistake shattered a great politi-
cal party in Nebraska into so many
pieces that it is not even yet reas-
sembled. The major parties of today
would do well to profit by that object
lesson"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-18
KELLEY TO SPEAK

Hon. John E. Kelley will deliver an
address at the court house, in Pierre on
April t2S, 1918, at 2 O'Clock p. M, he
will address democrats of Pierre. S1g-
gestlons for candidates for county Of
fcers will be made after the address.
L. e. CUMMINGS.
Hughes County Chairman,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-18

VIM. Argobast of Rec Heights is a
patient at the hospital.
w. l. Walker arrived TODAY from
Omaha to look after property interests,
Miss Edna Thomas has returned
from a visit with friends at Vermillion.
w. w, Underwood, district leader
for the farm bureaus west of the
river, went to Rapid City Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. F. keenan, of
Highmore, were over Sunday guests
at the w. N. Van Camp home. Mrs.
keenan, is a sister of Mr.. Van Camp.
The high school oratorical contest
was held at the high school last night.
The competitors in defamation were
Miss Ruby Williams, Clara Sterud and
Wright Olander. Miss Williams carry.
ing off first place, her subject being
1.-The Little Rebel" The contestants
on oratory were Misses Freda Kindley,
Katherine Holland and Marvin Kemp.
FIRST place vas awarded to Marvin
Kemp, his topic being the ''The Policy
That Failed" These contest were
held under the supervision of Mrs. D.
w. March and Miss Hobt. The judges
were Miss Sadie Robinson and Stanley
Stevenson. Miss Ruby Williams and
Marvin Kemp, winners in the two con-
tests, will represent the Pierre school
in the district contest to be held tonight
at the high school. The district in
cludes the Highmore, st. Lawrence,
Fort Pierre and Pierre schools.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
MAY Be Forced
TO DRAW UPON
Deferred CLASS

Ansonia, May with less than 30
class 1 men available and call for
216 men to go in the May rs draft,
the Eighth exemption district, COM
prising Ansonia, Derby, Seymour, Ok
ford, Beacon Falls, Middlebury and
Southbury, is waiting to see whether
it will be forced to draw on the de-
ferred classes. The district has prac-
ticaIly exhausted its class 1 men after
having sent more than 500 to camp
so far.
Adj.t Gen. Cole would not give a
decision today to a local newspaper
man, who asked whether the district
would have to dip into the deferred
classes to fill the newest call. The
adjutant general said he would not
decide until the local board had Of
ficially taken it up with him.
The local board has examined every
class / man of the 6,2S5 registrants
and has sent all those physically quail
fed except about 80. These are all
that are left to meet the call for 216
issued yesterday. Preponderance OF
aliens, who are So per cent. of the
registrants, is responsible for this state
of affairs.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
DEALERS
FINED FOR RED
CROSS Benefit

AS a penalty for overchargfng onj
sugar deliveries and lieu of attempt
ing to make refunds to the trade af-
fected, Blake & Backes, sugar brok-
ers in Hartford have been ordered to
pay $1,000 to the American Red
Cross.
It appears that the viofztionS or
the administrations sugar regu1a-i
tons extended over several months
and the $1,000 penalty well covers!
the total pro1teering by Blake e.
Backes Joseph Reiter, a Brooklyn /
sugar wholesaler was recently COM
PEELED to donate 1882 to the Red
Cross as the equivalent of his excess
sive prif1ts from charging SIT per
1000 pounds of sugar. Both these
concerns will be permitted to continue
in business provided they hereafter
conform strictly to the adn1fnistra- /
tons rules and regulations, further
violation of which, however, VIII en-
tail further penalties and publicity
with the possible indefinite revocat1on
of their licenses.
The specific charges against Blake
& Backes appear to be that they
charged more than twenty-five cents
profit per hundred pounds plus the
freight. This twenty-five cents in
cIudes carriage both to the buyer s.
warehouse and to the retail dea1er,,
except in cases, where, before the
war, it was customary to charge re-
tailers carriage. This drayage charge
is seldom allowed and is alwaysvery,
carefully scrutinized by the Food Adj
ministration.
1t was explained that Blake 2ndt
Backes promptly stopped suc1
charges when notified weeks ago by
the Food Administration that they!
were violations of the regulations.
Another factor in favor of Blake and
Backes was that during the sugar
shortage they did everything possibhel
to effect an equitable distribution
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
Vendors Costume
Represents Flag

Paris, May IA coa1-black negro,
a citizen of the Belgian Congo, dress
ed completely in red, propelling a
push cart painted yellow, may be
seen on the boulevards of Brussels
says Libre Belgique, the Belgian news
papers which the Germans have been
unable to suppress. The negro IS
selling shoe polish. Belgians who
still possess shoes take great pleas
ure in buying from the negro.
He is doing a rushing business and
will probably continue to do so unAl
it filters through the Germans thick
Uranium that tie quality OF the shoe
polish is not the reason for the ne
gro's popularity with purchasers but
because as he perambulates down the
boulevards his black visage, red cos
tune and yellow cart represent a Iiv-
ing flag.
Then it will be the 'tKommandan-
tur'' and the cool shade of St Giles
prison for the black, red and yellow
man.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
ITALY ALLOWS
LITTLE MONEY
OUT OF COUNTRY

Rome, May NO money can now
be sent out of Italy by means of bank
drafts unless the sender can prove
the absolute necessity for so doing rs
by the presenting of bills to be paid.
This is particularly true of large sums
of money. This is one of the meas
ure's taken by the government to sta
billie exchange and prevent specula-
eion in Italian money. Exchange
rates are also fixed by law weekly, to
prevent artificial fluctuations
According to Oscar T. Crosby, who
was recently here representing the
United States Treasury Department
in connection with efforts to assist
Italys finances, the real difficulty of
not only Italy but also England and
France is that they are in need of
American money to stabilize their
exchange. What they need is dol
lars he said.
By the plan of Minister of the
Treasury Nitti, so far as concerns the
Americans here who desire to send
money home for any reason, or to
any foreign country, they must fill out
in duplicate blank form provided
by the bank selling them drafts and
| on this blank they must give the
name of the person to whom money
is sent, with the exact reason. Peg
sons travelling may buy the money
| of the country to which they are
| destined on presentation of passports
| or other papers
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
ESCAPING RED CROSS
WORKERS fired UPON
AMERICANS FLEEING FROM ODESSA SHELLED BY GER.
MAN BATTERY NORTH OF CITY-MISSION TO
ROUMANIA HAS EVENTFUI. TRIP

The train on which the Americans
travelled was one of the most extra
ordinary combinations of railroad
rolling stock ever seen. American
doctors and officers had a third class
sleeping car while the nurses had a
second class sleeper. Both cars were
of ancient Russian vintage and with
out water supply or heating facilities.
The engine which pulled the train
dated back, to 1876 and only burned
wood, which was picked up along the
way. The engineer matched the en-
CINE. He was an elderly Russian of
Bolshevik opinion and had to be fed
with roubles and cognac almost as
frequently as the engine required
wood. He carried his. family along
with him in box car next to the en-
CINE and whenever meals or other do
mestic affairs required his attention
he stopped the train and went home
to his box car. .,-..,
just outside Odessa the engineer be-
came dissatisfied with the flow Of rou-
bles and cognac and went ON a strike
and departed with the engine and the
box car. He had chosen rather a
critical time for reports were current
that the Germans were likely to reach
the railroad at any moment. After
some delay the French succeeded in
finding another engineer and engine
and the train proceeded.
AS a matter of fact German bat
talions entered Odessa only IS hours
after the Americans passed through
the city and it is probable that some
of their advance parties already were
in. the suburbs at the time that the
engineer went on strike.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
RAISING BIG FUND TO
RESIST CONSCRIP ton
IRELAND REMAINS QUIET ON THE SURFACE BUT SITUA-
TION BRISTLES WITH ALARMING POSSIBILITIES
-SINN FEN CONTROLS.

London, May Ireland remains
remarkably quiet, says the Dublin
correspondent of the Daily Mail in
reporting on conditions there Incl
dent to the anticonscription campaign.
Although the church is raising"
he adds, ian enormous national de-
tense fund which is ostensibly collect
ed to fight CONSUMPTION, it apparently
does not prefer to accept RESPONSE
bility for the manner in which the
money is spent, and control of the
fund has passed into the hands of the
Sim Fem. The lists of names of men
who signed the anti-conscription
pledge under the direction of the
priests is said to be in the hands of
Sim Timers as a basis for registra-
ton system.
Conditions appear daily to be
growing worse as nationalism Is
spread further along on the Sim
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
lU KLUX WARN
oilers TO FIND
EMPLOYMENT

Birmingham, Ala. May 7-One
undred and fifty white robed men in
q klux khan uniform carrying an
.merican flag and a fiery cross at the
cad of the procession, rode through
he streets of Birmingham last night,
Farming idlers to find work to do.
The riders distributed cards saying
|he United States is at war; that ev-
|ry man is needed-except those
hose attitude is hostile to the gov
rnme nt-and that the khan intends
% see that there is no idleness. The
ards say in part:
eff you would be Justly entitled to
he liberation and protection you are
|njoying, find work to do and do it.
10 able bodied man, rich or poor, has
right to consume without produc-
Ing. Take heed and go to work. The
I've of scrutiny is on you.
BE respectful to the flag of our
|ountry and loyal to the government
lid by every means at your com
hand the suppression of disloyalty
" either speech or action. The ku
lux khan is pledged to the enforced
bent of the above tenets.''
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
INTERNATIONAL
EGG CONTEST

In the twenty-sixth week of the con-
test at Storrs the 100 birds laid total
of 1888 eggs, which was % eggs more
than the best week of production in
last years contest, and represents a
yield for the week of 64.8 per cent
The first honors for the week went
to pen of Leghorns belonging to
George Phillips Of Seymour, Conn.
This pen laid 60 eggs thus establish
ing a new high weeks record for the
present contest. Albert T. Lenzen's
White Rocks from North AttEeboro,
Mass, were a close second with So
eggs. A pen of Oregons from the
Agricultural College, Corvallis, Ore.
made an equally close third with So
eggs. Obed G. Knights White Wy
andottes from Bridgeton, r. L, were
fourth with 81 eggs, while pen of
Barred Rocks from Corvallis, Ore,
tied for 5th place with a pen of White
Leghorns from Lakewood, N. j., each
with yield of Sc eggs.
The total production for all pens
to date is 69285 or about 3700 eggs
less than the corresponding figure last
year In previous years the birds
have produced about "a per cent
of their total yield during the first
six months of the contest; on this
basis the 1000 birds now at Storrs
may be expected to lay about 164 eggs
for the contest year.
At the end of the twenty-sixth week
last year the leading individual had
raid a total of 14S eggs; her record
andotte in the present contest be-
longing to Obed G. knight has laid
in the corresponding period 1856 eggs;
if she has laid the same proportion
of her yearly total that the best hen
last year had produced in rs weeks,
she is due to make a record Of ap-
proximately $50 eggs by the close of
the contest. Needless to say the
management does not entertain any
very strong hope of her reaching this
figure.
The three best pens in each of the
principal varieties are as follows:
Barred Plymouth Rocks.
Jules F. Francois, West Hamp-
ton Beach, l. L, ........... go
Tom J. Adamson, Laurel P. O.,
Quebec, Can, .-....-.... S13
Richard Allen, Pittsfe1d, Mass. 8S1
White Wyandottes.
Obed G. knight, Bridgeton, R.
l., ................. .1O4S
J. Frank Dubois, East Lynn,
Mass. ..-..-..-'....- $50
F. W. Harris, Melrose, N. w, -. S76
Rhode Island Reds.
Richard Allen, Pittsfeld, Mass. $50
Ches. H. Lane, Southboro, Mass $50
Prnecrest Orchards, Groton, Mass. S4S
White Leghorns.
]. o. LeFevre, New Pa1tz, N Y. 912
A P. Robinson, Calverton, N. Y. 8S4
Braeside Poultry Farm, Stouds-
burg, Pa, 6T4
Miscellaneous
Ore. Agricultural College Gore
gons) Corvallis, Ore, ...... 957
Cook : & Porter, (Buff Wyan-
dottes) Easthampton, Mass. $50
H. P. C1oyes, (Buff Wyandottes)
East Hartford Conn, .-... SIT
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10

London, May Tn an eventfu1
flight from Jassy, the Rumanian cap
ital, the American Red Cross mission
to Rumania which now has arrived
in London, escaped from Odessa So
hours before the Germans entered 1t
only to be fired on by a German bat
terry in the Ukraine zoe miles north
of the Black sea port.
The German shells did no damage
to the Red Cross train, falling about
half a mile from it, but several mem
bers of the mission breathed a sign
of relief when the commandment came
to an end after five minutes which
had seemed like hours.
When the mission left Jassy it was
known that the journey likely would
be a dangerous one. Reports in
Jassy as to the whereabouts. of the
Germans varied greatly, but it was
fairly clear that the Germans were
within SO or 60 miles of Odessa and
that their advance parties might be
encountered along the line.
The members of the Red Gross
mission left on the third of six trains
the carried the Allied missions from
Jassy. The first train left at noon
on March and the other trains fol-
lowed at intervals of two or three
hours.
Each train was provided with food
for a month There was no dining
car and the food was cooked in two
military food kitchens abandoned by
Russian troops and which were car
ried on a freight car on the end OF
the train.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
AVIATORS TAUGHT
BY COMMANDER TO
LEAD SOBER LIFE

American Aviation Camp, Southern
italy, May 7.---(Correspondence of
The Associated Press. )---Control of
Dung men on a foreign soil is con-
idered one of the main difficulties of
heir training by the American COM
handler here. The instruction in the
TT of practical flying is far easier
han teaching them how to avoid the
|1evitable temptations presented to
isitors in a new and interesting
|ountry. AS the very life of the avi-
tors depends on their mental and
lhysical condition, without counting
|lachines worth 5000 or more each,
ne commander is doing all in his
over to teach his aviators to lead
Cher lives in every respect.
The rough and ready discipline ap-
. lied to infantry or artillery or cav
/ lrv has not been found adapted to
viators on whose morale so much
epends Downright drunkenness and
he contraction of avoidable diseases
re the only two offenses which meet
Nth severe punishment, and the lat
er always means court martial.
. For the rest, persuasion is used. In
he nightly lectures on flying, the av-
Ators frequently are reminded of this
tern fact: ''You have been sent over
/ ere after great expense by the gov
rnment of the United States. A
vhole lot of money is being spent on
lou, probably more than some of you
re worth. But you were picked out
S frst class men, and it's up to you
1 q rroye T."
A small handbook entitled "Prac-
ical Flying Hints has just been pub
ished for the benefit of the camp
~ one of the Italian instructors, and
he foreword by the American COM
nander deals with the care of the
body.
'The first requisite for an aviator
a strong and healthy body" II
-eads. SIN addition to that he mus
rave the proper nervous and menta
makeup, always on the alert ant
With absolute control over his body
He must not be of an excftable ma
ure nor know fear, for aviation i!
hot the branch of service for mar
with a yellow streak"
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
Navy Department Reports
Details Of Tidewater's
Fight With Sub.
SHIP MISSES RAINING
HUN CRAFT BY 20 FEET
German Boat Was Sighted
$50 Yards Away and
Gunners Opened Fire.

Washington, May "A fight
between American steamer
Tidewater and a German sub
marine on March II, in which
the submarine was defeated
and probably sunk, was report
ed today by the navy depart
ment.
The announcement said:
THE commander of the armed
guard on the steamer Tidewater re-
ports to the navy department that on
March II, about 1870 p. m, a sub
marine was sighted off the starboard
bow, heading toward the vessel, about
$50 yards off. AS the ship turned it
missed the submarine by not more
than 20 feet. The submarine was
then submerging. The ships guns
were brought to bear and the first
shot hit some distance ahead of her
wake.
1.-THE pointer fired the second shot
and had what the captain, the chief
engineer and myself and other mem
bers of the crew called clean hit
and we were satisfied that it was eff
fective The third shot was fired by
the boatswain's mate in charge of the
after gun, having her spotted and
firing in the position she last sub
merged in. We resumed our course
and commenced zigzagging, standing
by for an attack, but the submarine
did not appear again. We made all
preparations for an attack at day
break, but there were no signs of a
Submarine"
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
i've Navy Gunners Go
Down With Steamer
Off French Coast.
HIP WAS BUILT
FIVE YEARS AGO
Report of Sinking of
Vessel is Received in
New York.

New York, May 7 The
lsnerican steamer Tyler, for
rerfy and Old Dominion
reighter, has been torpedoed
nd sunk off the French coast,
ccording to information re-
eived in marine circles here.
Eleven members of the crew
we're lost. She was sunk May 3.
The Tyler was of 1928 tons gross
nd was built in 1913.
Os the II who persisted, six were
|iembers Of the merchant crew and
We were navy gunners. The members
the merchant crew killed were f.
Y. Mears, third assistant engineer,
yashe Creek, Va; Clarence f.
-nowlton, oiler, Norfolk, Va; f.
auamato, mess man, no address;
oseph Rodriguez, fireman, Gregarto
AFRO, coal passer, Fernando Lasse,
reman, the three from Corunna,
pain.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
COLLEGE men
ARE GREETED
BY LONDONERS
Prof. Mclaughlin and Chas.
Moore Welcomed at Din
ner at U. of L.
VISCOUNT BRYCE
ACTS AS CHAIRMAN
Hope That Interchange Be-
tween Professors VIII Be
Continuous One.

LONDON, May PROF. Andrew G..
INCL Earghl1n, head OF the department
VI history in the University of Chi
caeo' and Charles Moore, who have
come from the United States to lee
lure IN the universities of Great Brtt-
ain on the causes leading to Ame4i-
"a parttclpaton in the war and the
Ldeas Tor which she is fighting, were
welcomed at a dinner given last might
at the University of London. The
guests included the duke of Con-
naught, former governor general OF
canada; the archbishop of Canter-
bury; Robert P. Skinner, the Amera-
can consul general; the lord uaayoe
OF London and the chairman Of the
London county council.
Viscount Bryce, former AMBASSADOR
to the United States, presided and in
proposing a toast to the Allies and
the Allied cause, said he had heard
recently from President Wilson that
Harvard university had sent in pro
portion more men to this war than
she had sent to the Civil war on the
side of the North.
The entire energy of the young men
of America, he said, was now being
spent in making themselves efficient
to take part in the great European
war, which was the most wonderful
thing that ever had happened in his
tory.
The duke of Connanght in toastang
the visitors and the universities OF
the United States said it gave him
great pleasure in joining in a very
warm welcome to the American
guests. He hoped they would accept
the rationed dinner offered to them
as a slight token of the welcome
given by the University of London.
I'VE in England he added, hardly
know how great is the position oocu-
pied by the professors of the great
universities in theh United States
There have been very kindly inter
changes between the professors Of
the United States and those Of Can
ada and I only hope they may con-
tinue. 1t is fAr the best Of the two
countries"
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-10
ALIENS APPLY
FOR AMERICAN
CITIZENSHIP

Judge John E. Keller of Stamford,
who will assume his place upon the
Superior Court bench in Norwich,
New London county, May %, occupied
a seat on the bench beside Judge
John P. Kellogg at the opening Of
perior Court here today. Judge
Keller will succeed Judge William Z.
Bennett, who retires under the age
limit, May. 10.
Joseph Fedak of Stratford, was the
first applicant for citizenship papers
to appear before the court, but his
aspirations were deferred until the
end of the war because he was born
in Hungary. He answered many Of,
the questions acepbably, but was a
little hay about our methods of max
ing laws, and believed he could be-
come president of the United States
if opportunity offered. He was ad-
vised to study before his next ap-
pearance. Fedak was vouched for
by Lynn w Wilson and Michael
Kane, both positive he would be-
come desirable citizen.
There was not the usual big rush
for papers on the first day, but a
considerable number appeared, and
several were admitted before the noon
recess The session of the natural
ization court will take most of the
court week.
On the list of applications there are
206 names, including one woman, of
whom 11o GRO epemv aliens that ,
born in countries with which the
United States is now at war. They
cannot be admitted as citizens until
the end of the war. The woman who
makes application for citizenship,
Marie Lachowska, was born in Ger
many.