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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13
Telephone Service Hampered
 By Illness of Operators

Owing to illness from influenza many of the telephone opera in Birmingham absent from duty.
 impossible trained operators to take their paces and as matter public safety it is mpraccabe to bring points and subject them to the dangers of the disease telephone traffic Birmingham so heavy that with every available operator has been difficult for to handle the local and long distance business
 With such large number absent on of illness is inn possible adequate service unless we unanimous cooperation of the entire telephone-using public
 You urged not make local long distance telephone calls except absolute necessity Ordinary business ana social calls must be eliminated so that the may be reduced to the point handled efficiently by the limited number of operators who able to perform their duties
 If you make unnecessary calls you will interfere with the emergency needs of the community ana us from handling the calls which are absolutely essential
 nly through patriotic operation of the entire telephone np public can we successfully cope with this serious situation and render service for the essential needs of the public
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
ACCOUNTS FOR GHOST CoLoRs
Eye Is Especially Sensitive to Two
Kinds OF Perceptions, Light and
Color Predominating.

In reply to an inquiry why are
ghosts always seer clothed in white, a
scientist states:
This is easily accounted for. AS
there have been no ghosts during his
tortcal times, we must assume that in
al cases where ghosts have been act
uaily seen we have to do with mere
Authorizations caused by fever or some
other disorders of the observer, where,
therefore, the organ of sense, and par
tlcularly the eyes, registered impress
sions of objects that had no corre-
spending external existence. Accord
Ing to the minute descriptions OF such
apparitions given by patients to their
physicians, the ghosts, with rare ex-
ceptions, were ''clad in White" Now,
our eye is sensitive to two kinds of
perceptions, viz, light and cclor. In
this case, where no definite color was
perceived, the hallucination, In which
only the organs of the eye sensitive
to light are affected, is declared to be
white.
Still, there are also colored apparl-
lions of ghosts; nay, we can introduce
into the body substances. calculated to
impair our sense of color. Thus, the
%immoderate use of hashish produces
violent visions; of alcohol, blue ones;
of atropin and skopolamin, red ones.
Quinine and too much tobacco like
wise produce red visions, while sail
cylic acid, digitalin and p%henacetin
cause light yellow sensations. The in
halation of carbonic oxide, and snake
bite, too, are said to be followed by
light yellow sensations of sight.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
CEL-EBATEs I'M LARGE NUMBER
Seventeen Millions of Glass in United
States, Many Being Inferior to
Married People.

There are 100000 celibates in the
Omitted States, according to a state
ment which has been going the rounds
of the press, after originating in a
magazine article on the sex question"
says the Journal of Heredity. EXAM
ination of the census schedules for
1910 indicates that this figure includes
all males over twenty and all females
over fifteen.
ga calculation based on such age
limits is misleading, but the actual
facts are quite striking enough. Per-
sons thirty-fve years of age or over
are relatively unlikely to marry, and
it seems fair to base computations on
that age. They show, then. that there
are nearly 100000 unmarried men in
the population, and about 1,250,000 I'M
married women. There are about L.
100000 unmarried women between the
ages of twenty-five and thirty-four,
and a considerable part OF these are
certain never to marry.
"Tbe ceiibacy OF these millions is,
from o eugenic point Of view, not
| wholly to be deplored. While the num-
Der includes many potential fathers
and mothers of a desirable character,
1t is probable that, on the whole, these
lifelong ~celtbates are eugenically infet
rior to the married population"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
Before YOU get mad and .'stop

Before you get mad and 'stop the
paper" says an exchange. just pause
and think that 1t is the editor who is
the last person in the world to say a
good word for yon. Whether you de-
serve 1t or not he will write some
thing good about you when you are
dead. There are many things which
you do that the editor does not APP
prove OF. but he keeps still about the
most q them and tells nothing bul
vour good traits. il 0 have any
when Jon are gone.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
FLOUR FOR ALLIED ARMIES

About 6,975. 900 pounds of bread
can be made from the contents Of one
of the special flour trains which the
government has begun rushing east
ward from Minneapolis for shipment
to the allies. This amount of bread
would supply the allied armies In
France for a week, lit is estimated.
An average carload OF flour is $50
barrels. Bakers obtain from SIC 10
$40 pound loaves of bread per barrel
OF -four.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
Remedy for Caterpillar plague.

An efficient modern remedy for the
caterpillar plague seems yet to seek,
and no n apparently cares to resort
to the methods of the past. LIN the year
1920 this bishop OF Laon sought to stay
such a plague by solemn sentence Of
accommodation against the insects,
and In later centuries this procedure
vas frequently repeated. One admo-
nition, dated 1915, runs: "We grant the
request of the inhabitants of Villenore
and warn the caterpillars to retire
within six days. In default of this we
declare them accursed and excommu-
nicated." With a nice feeling for. jus
tice, an advocate was appointed in one
Instance to plead the cause of the In
sects against that of the farmers be-
fore sentence was pronounced.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
Legal Witticisms.

Stories from the law courts are apt
to be good, legal wit being noted for
its dryness. But this story claims no
particular merit, except as showing
the usefulness of a ready wit, observes
the Christian Science Monitor. The
counsel for the plaintiff was delivering
an imprisoned address. He was
somewhat weighty in person, and hap
pened to be leaning on q very old
chair. In the middle CT The torrent of
eloquence, the chair gave way and the
barrister lay on the floor in the midst
of the w~reckage. He got up and, I'M
perturbed, pointing to the broken chair,
said: 'That proves the strength of
my argument" The court smiled
broadly, but laughed outright when the
opposing counsel promptly replied :
"The learned %counsel's argument may
be all that he claims for it, but it fell
to the ground"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

Thomas A. Edison was offered az
honorary degree by the University OF
Pennsylvania at its Washington BIRTH
day exercises. He Informed the in
stitution that he was too busy to go
after 1t. Mr.. Edison lives some fifty
miles from Philadelphia. Joseph
Pennell, Philadelphia's artist pride,
has also declined q like honor in p
wrathy manner. The institution re-
Gently recalled a degree conferred
shout ten years ago upon Kaiss,
William. Do we take it that our
American heroes have decided that a
degree from a university capable Of
10 rank a blunder is not worth the
acceptance?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
PLYING Ourselves.

Have you heard of the man carry
ing Il load OF sticks, who, when he
became tired threw his sticks down
on the bank of a river, and seating
himself by them, said: 81 am sick and
tired of this. I wish death would
come to relieve me?" Instantly Death
slipped up and said, Here I am, what
do YOU want of me?' 81 want you to
help me put this bundle of sticks on
my back again. said the surprised
man. Plying ourselves is cheating
ourselves. Then flee from discomfort
and encouragement, for they are the
hotheds of deceit. Near them we think
that which is not true, atd say that
which we do not mean.-Exchange.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

There is no standard recipe for
ssssvictory bread" the only require
ment being that it must contain nor
more than so per cent wheat flour,
the remaining 20 per cent being com
posed of corn meal or corn flour,
rice, potato -four or other cereals rec
commended by the food administers
ton. Victory pies and doughnuts
which contain not less than one third
nonwheat -four, may be sold on
wheAtless days If the same recipes
are used throughout the week.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

IN order to assurs prompt and &C
ourate Identification. the war depart
mont has adopted q system of mum
bertng enlisted men of the army.
The system provides for one series Of
nnmbers. without alphabetical pre-
dxsfar al enlisted men. The num-
sber alssisnled 70 q soldier will become
T. pestSof his Official designation, and
Ulll neler be changed nor assigned
H. another man. II will be entered
Standardization tags.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
Notice to Creditors

Estate Of Jane Heron, Deceased.
Notice is Hereby Given, by the
undersigned, administrator of the
estate OF Jane Heron, deceased, to the
creditors of and all persons having
claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within four months after
the first publication of this notice,
to the said Administrator at his resi-
dence in the city of Pierre, in the
county of Hughes, South Dakota.
Dated at Pierre, S. d., February
81, 1913.
John Heron,
Administrator of the Estate OF Jane
Heron, Deceased.
Z9ll Guthrie, Attorney.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
SPRING
a lanv in rennsa.

Like a LADY IN reposa,
In her shiny Simmer clothes,
Breathing fragrance on the ait,
Luriuig on, nor caring where,
Spring comesl
Waking, with her tripping feet,
Roots of erase and blossoms sweet
Bidding them TO mobolize,
For 3 sudden, sweet surprise,
When the birds their carols tilling,
AS n welcome TO The spring-
So--she comes.
Comes with soft and sweet careFsing
All the urge of life confessIne!
Myriads of blind endeavor,
Rouse from sleep to follow ever
So persuasive is her pleading,
And the mystery of her leading,
In fuliliment of her plan,
Ages old-as old as man
For which-she conaesl
Like . lady from repose,
In her shiny, simmer clothes,
Breathing fragrance or the air,
Luring on, nor caring where,
Lifs's fair envoy, passions maid,
Loves pure goddess anafraid,
Spring comesl
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
Notice to Creditors
Estate Of jacob G els, deceased.

ESTATE OF jacob Gels, deceased.
Notice is Hereby Given, by the
undersigned, Administrator with the
Will annexed of the estate of Jacob
Gels, deceased. to the creditors of and
all persons having claims against the
said deceased, to exhibit them, with
The necessary vouchers, within six
months after the first publication OF
this notice, to the said Administrator
With the Will Annexed, at the office
OF Zall Guthrie, Suite s, HiIger Bldg,
resident agent and attorney for said
administrator, city of Pierre, county
Of Hughes, state of South Dakota.
Dated at Pierre, S. D., February
81, 1918.
John j. Gels.
Administrator With Will Annexed,
Estate of Jacob Gels, Deceased.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
!. j. T. !. !. = !. :. : !. X j. F.
MILLI0NAIRES GROW AT :.
UNPRECEDENTED RATE

22.6e6 miIiionaires in 1916;
14,771 in 1915, a gain OF 1925
in one year. This is the record
for the United States, accord
ing TO the recent report OF the
Commissioners OF Internal Reve-
nue Here is something to
think about. From the first
settlement in America to the
year 1915 we had produced H.
III people who possessed a
million or more of property
rights. The figures alarmed the
demccraticaIly minded in 1915.
Vet under n year of war con-
ditions when the sseat mass
of people suffered and sacri-
feed, tie number of our mil
l;enaires Increased over 81 per
Cent. In 1917 fIia number prob
ably Increased at least as fast
as in 1sf5-fef6, and millions
have been atacd to the mil
lions of those Who had reached
this class previously. Can
Americans tolerate the condi-
tions that make this rapid con-
centTation possible and re-
main "safe for Democracy7"
]. = 4, +
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

HIN. Walker and and Joe Stainer came
home from d trip to Redfrela, the Board Of
Control of the State Firemen's association
being in session there. Among The mat
tiers taken up aud considered by the Board
was the handsome prize won by the
Piarre team last year in Rapid City, and
which has been since held up. Mr.. Walk
er now has the handsome silver cup in his
possession, and iii in Pierre.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
Land Where Childhood Is cherishe,

Lard Where Childhood Is Cherished.
Japan has been called the Land of
the Chrysanthemums and the Land Of
the Cherry Blossoms. It may well be
called the Land Where Children are
Loved.
There IS probably no country In
the world where childhood is more
deeply cherished than in Japan; where
such pains are taken to make child
hood happy; where the education of
children is made to brighten instead
Of clouding the sunny morning Of life.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
Smallest Farms in the World.

On the islands of Re and Oleron,
near La Rochelle, France, according to
Popular Science Monthly, are found
the smallest farms in the world. Some
OF them are only one or two square
yards in area, yet these tiny domains
are carefully planted with a variety
Of crops, even including vineyards. The
soil is extremely fertile. The repeat
ed subdivision of estates among heirs
and The dense population of the is
lands explain the existence of these
Lilliputian properties.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

For Member Board of Commissioners
To the Electors of the Third Com
missioner District, Hughes county,
South Dakota:
/ am q candidate for denomination for
office of Member of the Board OF Conn-
ty Commissioners from said District at
the Primary election to be held May
"a, 1918. / respectfully solicit the sup
port of all electors.
Fl. b. GORMAN.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

A committee of thpee has been ap
pointed by Director General McAdoo
TO investigate the inland aud coast
wise waterways Of the United States
and advise him as to the BEST means
of putting them to advantageous use
and solving transportation problems.
The canals of the country and the
coastwise Mississippi bud lake traffic
will be considered.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

The time is right here when q mar is
for or against the government in the
prosecution of the war. The man who
has ifs or ands or apologies for himself
or others is prolonging the war and is
for the kaiger.-Milier Sun.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
For County Judge

To the Republican Electors of Hughes
county, South Dakota:
Gentlemen: | am a candidate for
the Office of County Judge in the Pri-
mary Election, to be held May %, 1918,
subject to the decision Of republican
electors, respectfully solicit the sup
port of all republican electors.
ALBERT GUNDERsoN.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
For County Superintendent

l hereby myself q can
didate for County Superintendent OF
Schools, for second term, subject
to the coming Republican Primaries,
and your support and assistance
will be greatly appreciated.
DAISY A. SoLBERG.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

With the approval of President Will
son, Secretary RedieId has issued or
ders to customs collectors to allow
Canadian fishing vessels to enter and
clear between American ports and the
fishing banks. Reciprocal privileges
have been asked OF Canada for Ameri-
can fishing vessels.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

Raer Pledges Farmers to Reforms.
At a trench dinner in Washing
ton attended by many government Of
dcials John Baer, the Non-partisan
league congressman, testified that the
farmers were going to stand with or
ganized labor for the fixing of prices
all down the line, from food to cot
ton and steel and Clothes" and that
the organized farmers would be the
first to fight to maintain this price
regulation, and to win public owner
ship OF all public utilities, after the
wal.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

The Browning machine rife adopted
for the American army in France and
declared by ordinance experts to be the
greatest weapon of its Kind yet devel~
oped, is now being turned out in three
factories, Secretary Baker announced
and more than 100 already have been
delivered.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

That all railroad employees receiving
less than $3.50 a month or perhaps
$1,000 a year, need more money to
meet the higher cost Of ligir G was ad
mitted to the Federal Railroad Wage
commission, on February -, by j. W
Higgins, of the Western Association of
Railways, in speaking fer the western
roads.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
His Hard LUCY

$50 you're going homer" said the
old mar to the wanderer.
Eyes; tomorrow
= understand they are preparing the
fatted calf fer your,
Jus my luck. The doctor has made
0a cut out oil tat foodas
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

Members of the Seattle N~ewsboys'
Protective Association will not sell
any publication that is pro-German or
anti American during the war period
and will refuse to sell /. W. w. publ
ratinns
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
For Circuit Judge.

/ myself as a nonpartisan
candidate for the office of Circuit Judge
for the Sixth judicial Circuit, subject
to the primaries, May %, 1918.
JOHN II. MCCoRD.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

Since America has blown off q little
steam, it will tighten its bell a notch,
double the meatless and wheatless
days, and hop TO the kaiser for a finish.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
BIG FARIl OWNERS
WANT G10LIE HELP
Californian SAYS Absentee Land
lords Seek Chinese TO Work


The great speculative landlords OF
this country are looking for Chinese
labor to run their farms, workers
weak in the head but strong in the
knees" according TO Prof. Elwood
Mead, University Of California, who
addressed the american association
or the condition OF the American
farmer. He urged the elimination CT
the landowner VINO does not work
his land but exploits those who DO
work it for him,
What Prof. Mead said goes far to
explain why we have the /. w. w,
why less than half the cultivated land
in the United tates is being used;
why opportunity on the land is cut off
to all save the rich; Why people
crowd together in cities and work for
whatever wages the employing cor
porations please to give them; why
there is an agitation on foot for the
importation of Chinese coolies.
inflated Farm Values.
Prof. Mead's paper In part, follows,
Little or nothing has been done to
lessen the hardships or risks of pio-
noer lille or TO protect %cultivators from
being exploited by speculative land
owners. Only a small fraction of the
public land was transferred directly
to cultiyators. Nearly three-fourths
was sold to spectators or granted to
corporations and states which. in turn,
sold mainly to spectators. The re,
salt has been a costly, wasteful mi.
gratory settlement. The nation has
been exploited rather than developed.
Great landed estates have been Great
ed and %ruinously inflated land prices
now prevail.
The consequences of this careless,
short-sighted, unsocial policy are com,
ing home to roost. We are beginning
to realize that the fortunes made in
lard speculation come mainly from
the pockets of the poor; that our land
pollcy is not creating an economic
democracy but the reverse: that in
fated prices of unimproyed land are
like the watered stock of a CORPORA
t!on-not an eTidence of prosperity,
but an instrument for its taxation.
On an average, farming lauds Of the
United States sell for nearly three
times as much as they did in the open
ing year of this century. In 1900
the average price was SIS an acre.
IN 1915 it was estimated by the United
States IcOartmpn+ of aoriarl+rro rs 10
more than $45 an acre. This increase
in the cost of land is accompanied by
a corresponding increase in the cost
of equipment and the expense of oper
alton.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
COUNTY, OFFICIAL PAPER

Entered at the Post~OHice atPierre, South Da'
kota. a. mailmatter of the second class.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28
Want Chinese Labor.

THE America farm laborer is dis.
appearing. In many sections he is
being discrininat Jed against because
he is too INDEPENDENT. Landowners
are seeking men With low standards
Of living but fanlifiar with hard bodily
toll. what we want declared a re-
cent conference, is farm labor weak
in the head but strong in the knees"
and this want is being filled by re-
cruits from Asia "a the Balkan peSin.
sula, who may he good laborers but
who do not contribute to the political
or social strength Of The nation.
Immediate corrective action should
10 taken to prevent the extension OF
this. American rural life can not re-
tain it's h~opefulpess and independence
II ii is to become great pool wherein
are dumped people wno labor without
ambition, without any agreement as
to the standards of life, or any inter
est in II political institutions.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-28
LABOR HAS MOST AT STAKE IN
WAR WITH GERMANY.

Russia, poor, degraded, helpless
Russia, presents an object lesson that
should not be lost on those who have
listened to the seditious propa ganda
of pacifists and the l. w w. Torn
cenary demagogues victims of the
poison spread by Prussian emissaries,
we have the spectacle of 100000, 900
people passively submitting to the
robbery of their domain and abjectly
accepting the terms of peace written
by their Prussian military masters
Under these circumstances it is well
to contemplate the fate of labor in
Russia and see in it a forecast of
what would happen to the working
man of the United States if we should
fail in our fight against Germany. But
this object lesson Gas not necessary
for men of clear vision, who from the
first saw that labor was more vitality
concerned in the outcome of the war
than any other element of our popu-
lation, On Fhis point William b.
Wilson, secretary of labor, had this to
say to a labor meeting in New York
on the 10th:
IF | were asked to state our great
est national need / would say that II
is spirit of sacrifice for the common
good-sacrifice of pride of prejudice,
of material comforts and of lives, If
need be. Only by sacrifice can the
most perfect democracy on earth be
transmitted to our sons.
Some people are trying to tell the
workers of the country that this is a
capitalists war; war waged for the
benefit of capitalists. If this had been
a capitalists war it would have taken
4 far different course, my friends If
this is a capitalistic war; then the
at Washington is dom
mated by the capitalists. If that had
oeen so there would have been no ex-
cess profits tax and other measures
lurdensome to capital.
ANY man of sense knows that il
would have been more profitable for
is to have stayed out, more profitable
or the capitalists who could have
gone on extorting high prices from the
necessities OF the combatants. But
democracy was at stake. There il
much more at stake than some folks
eem to realize"