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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-25

the date proclaimed, declarations OF
amnesty to all the political opponents
of the Bolsheviki government. There
are murders in Russia, but some Of
them are counter-revolu And
this country has lent it's support to the
suppression of democracy in Finland.
The Bolsheviki say that our failure to
support them forced them to sign the
Brest-Litovsk treaty and submit for the
line being to Germany. And now
ibis country is to be represented in a
peace conference at which Russia APP
parently is not to be represented Is
this standing by the Russians as Presi-
dent Wilson promised to do? Is it
standing by the Russians. to take our
news and views Of Russian affairs
through governments hostile to Russian
democracy and from a leftover repre-
sentative of the car in Washington?
There are people who say that the
present Russian government is function
ing fairly we'll, that it is government
both de facto and de jure, that Lenine's
book '.The Soviets at Work. shows
Russia to be anything but the chaos
described in cablegrams censored in
London. The reaction against the
soviets is fomented, organized and led
by the one over-shadowing tyranny Of
Russian life, the landed aristocracy,
dispossessed by the revolution Russians
ravolted for the land. They took it.
Now this country with others joins in a
military expedition, or two of them, to
reinstate the land tyrants in their power
to perpetuate all the old evils of serfdom.
So at least the situation appears to me-
Public opinion is being cooked up
against Russian democracy by means
of fixed news. All we get is matter that
comes from the enemies of Russian
democracy, which, wild though it be;
cannot be as bad as the conditions which
so far as | can discern we are trying to
re-establish against the will of the long
oppressed people who destroyed them.
We should be for the Russian democracy
even though it be all blind and drunken
for the time being. We should help
it to sight and soberness. We should
not kick rising democracy in the face.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-25

That we may know what Christmas
spent in the Flanders mud would be
hike the weather man has been busy
giving us the most unreasonable De-
cember weather we ever enjoyed (D.
But at that, the fact that none of the
boys will be obliged to sleep in shell
hole tonight, wet, and cold, and miser-
able, under the stars of the Flanders
sky, will help us to greater enjoy
ment of the day than ever before even
tho the weather man should not relent
Tor another month. We who have
slept IN warm, comfortable beds for the
whole period Of the war, we who have
eaten from table spread with snowy
linen and gIittering with silver and
crystal while the men have been living
thru the awful days and worse nights
of the trenches, for weeks at time, we
at home must feel shame to make a
single little complaint, no matter what
the weather, Or how unpleasant some
o-her circumstances may be. We
should all feel so much joy at the thought
that the fearful struggle is past and our
brothers on both sides of the line may
once more act as human beings that
not one little cloud should appear in
the skies of our Christmas day We
may remember the griefs of our friends,
Uur neighbors whose boys sleep over
there in Flanders, the long sleep that
knows no waking again to the joys Of
Christmas days at home in the midst
OF loved ones We should remember
their griefs and feel the heartache with
them and we will be grateful to them,
100, and filled with pride as we'll,
while we remember that their boys
have helped to bring about the most
wonderful, most joyous Christmas the
world has ever known, this Christmas
Day of 1918.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-25
A Neac Day daaons

Every energy OF the whole nation
must now be bent toward the solution
of the problems of reconstruction. Many
there be who think the world is going
back to the same old ways of doing
business that obtained before the war
but comfortable as that would be for a
good share of the people, it can never
be. Those who for years have submitted
to the rule Of the upper classes have been
awakened to the fact that they have been
used by those upper classes and the
war has taught them their own value
in the world scheme. Never again will
they submit as docile children to the
will of those who rule. The German
people are not the only ones whom the
world war set free. The workers in al
lands have. come to a Consciousness OF
their own worth and they have determined
to live up to it. That this is going to
take REIMBURSEMENT all around may we'll
be believed. A definite program has
been mapped out in England by the
British Labor party and conservatives
in America as well as in the British En-
pire must now take cognizance of this
program.
Arthur Henderson, leader Of the
British Labor party has formulated the
program part Of which follows here
with Further instruments Of the article
viii appear in succeeding issues OF the
Review. Any one interested in the
reconstruction Of the social fabric will
! find these articles intensely interesting
| Rebuilding The Social Order
I 1t behooves the Labor party, in formu-
lating its own programme for reconstruc-
ton after the war, and in criticiZing the
various preparations and plans that are
being made by the present government,
to look at the problem as a whole. We
have to make clear what it is that we
wish to construct. 1t is important to
emphasize the fact that, whatever may
be the case with regard to other political
parties, our detailed practical proposals
proceed from definitely held principles.
The End Of Civilization.
We need to beware Of patchwork
The view Of the Labor party is that what
has to be reconstructed after the war
is not this or that government depart
ment, or this or that piece Of social
machinery; but, so far as Britain is con-
cerned, society itself. The individual
worker, or for that matter the Individual
statesman, immersed in daily routine
ike the individual soldiers in battle
easily fails to understand the magnitude
and far-reaching imp rtance Of what is
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-25
TO be Continued

We are glad to note that Editor
Churchill of the Cottonwood County
Citizen is willing to admit that there
are some features in the program of the
Non-Partisan League which are good
and which he would almost be willing
to espouse himself, but he balks at
public ownership because of our own
experiences along these lines within
the past year. We hold no brief for.
those who advocate public ownership
of all public utilities, but it is unfair
to draw. conclusions from a comparison
between war time and peace time con-
ditions. Churchill known that if the
government had not taken over the:
railroads, that the whole war program
would have been hindered and possibly
would have broken down. So far
az the newspapers are concerned they
were not, under government control
There We're certain departments created
to supervise production and distribu-
ton. Being inexperienced, not having
sufficient data on hand, and crazy to
issue orders, they did SO with the result
that the orders had to be modified or
repealed altogether. We were about
as hard hit by these conflicting orders
and regulations as any one but have
said nothing because we felt that these
men were honestly endeavoring to do
their duty as they saw it. What the
War Industries Board did to the news
papers in some instances is not gov
eminent control as. advocated by those
who believe in it, but it was autocracy
and bureaucracy in its widest form.
There are bound to be things Of this
sort happen in abnormal times and things
would adjust themselves as the system
settled down into working order Some
of those who have raved and ranted will
find their fears were quite groundless
and Brother Churchill will be one Of
them.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-25

The local post Office has received
notice that large number Of foreign
newspapers are barred from the mails
in the dominion Of Canada. This in
.cludes the publ cations printed in the
languages used in enemy countries
Of Great Britain, notably German,
Austrian and Bohemian
What dye mean Austrian?
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-25

ment has, we believe, down to the present
hour, formulated no plan, and come to
no decision, and neither the Liberal nor
the Conservative party has apparently
deemed the matter worthy Of agitation
Any government which should allow
the discharged soldier or munition
worker to fall into clutches Of charity
or the Poor law would have to be i'm
stantly driven from Office by an out
burst of popular Indignation. What
every one of them will look for is q
situation in accordance with his cd
pacity-
(To be Continued.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-25
The Pillars of the House.

& p z . u z r +, 81 . j
We need not here recapitulate, oneby
one, the different items in the Labor
party's programme, which successive
party conferences have adopted. These
proposals, some of them in various
publications worked out in practical
detail, are often carelessly derlded as
impracticable, even by the politicians
who steal them piecemeal from us! The.
members of the Labor party, themselves
actually working by hand OF by brain,
in close contact with the facts, have per-
haps at all times a more accurate ap-
probation of what is practicable, In
industry as in politics, than those who
depend solely on academic instruction
or are biased by great possessions. But
today no man dares to say that anything
is impracticable The war, which has
scared the old political parties right
out of their dogmas, has taught every
statesman and every government official,
to his enduring surprise, how very much
more can be done along the lines that
we have laid down than he had ever be-
fore thought possible. What we now
promulgate as our policy whether for
opposition or for office, is not merely this
or that specific reform, but deliberately
thought out, systematic, and compre-
hensive plan for that immediate social
rebuilding which any ministry, whether
or not it desires to grapple with the
problem, will be driven to undertake.
The four pillars of the house that we
propose to erect, resting upon the COM
mon foundation Of the democratic con-
troll Of society in all its activities, may
be termed: n & si
(d) The Universal Enforcement OF
the National Minimum; HI
~ The Democratic Control of 81 In :
dustry;
(c The Revolution in National
Finance; and
"a The Surplus Wealth for the
Common Good ..5s .s
The Universal Enforcement Of =
National Minimum.
The first principle Of the Labor party
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
news OF NEBRASKA,
BIG REAL ESTATE TRANSFER
BUT NO REAL ESTATE

harrington. Neb., Jan. ia peculiar
real estate transaction passed through
the county clerks office when "a niece
Of land was transferred which did not
exist. The alleged real estate was the
northwest quarter of section is, town
ship "3, range 2. east. and the parties
10 the conveyance We're DIR. T.. j. En-
mons. of Sioux City. and Frank Archer.
jr.. the latter being the purchaser. The
consideration was $4,000. and eyerv-
thing was all right and legal enough
with the exception of the small detail
that the land did not exist. having been
practically all washed away bv the
raracious Missouri river.
RANDOLPH-The Randolph wonan.s
club elected the following officers: Mrs.
Wiley. president: Mrs. Reese and Mrs.
Farrow. vice presidents: Mrs. Courtney,
secretary; Mrs. Peck. treasurer.
MARTINsBURG-At the annual meet
Ing Of the Martinsburg telephone com
pany the following officers were elected.
Arthur Macy. president: Guy Romhar
treasurer: a. e. Bagley, secretary.
RANDOLPH-Jess vo,k and Miss
Amanda Zuhlke were married at the
lutheran parsonage by the Rev. Franzen.
They Will make their home on a farm
south of Mclean.
EMERsON-A home gunra has he.u
organized here with a memt. rshjn of ~
c. c. Childs Is the captain ard Pcy A,,an
ana r.. q. Carhart are the lor,enants
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
CAN'T DELIVER CORN
OF PROPER GRADES

Nermiilion. s. H.. Jam. la.-The ques-
iloH arises in clay county as to whether
~! rot =. farmer can sign ~ contract TO
deliver No. 3 corn, and. not being able
10 make good. is liable for damages.
fH" McCalli- Webster Elevator com
pany has brought suit against seven
farmers TO COY damages on slch
contracts, and tie cases will come up
ut the M3rch term of circuit court.
contracts We're entered into '@et
sUmnno" for thc delivery OF 80. ) corn
al a fixed price of from Sl.o5 to Si.lo
par bushel. l;ut there is no corn IN
Clay county thi~ season that will grade
thai high. The farmer cannot make
good ON his contract. He is willing 10
deliver the corn. such rs it is. and take
market prices, but will not stand II
d"cka:;e ot from 80 to 10 cents because
Of his contract With the company.
The peculiar situation is that these
same farmers are delivering corn to the
McCaull-W Webster company AT the reg
u!ar market price of from Sl.25 To sl.35
per bushel, but not under the contract.
They are getting more money for their
corr than it was sold for originally,
but will be out money if the elevator
company can win out in the courts.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
SOUTH DAKOTA BLUE
SOCK is FINALLY OUT

Pierre. S. ID. Jam. 1S.-Thc legisla-
i've manual. popularity known as the
'Blmc Book" is at last received from
he printer and is being distributed to
departments of state. and can also he
secured by the public from the secre-
AIRY of state. The volume contains.
necessarily. Il few more pages than the
1915 edition, and includes the usual
material of the state constitution.
United States constitution. Magma
marta. South Dakota chronology since
1853; annual review of the states prog
ress; record of all officials down TIC
late, from organization of the territory:
All legislatures down to date; list OF
South Dakota newspapers: all state APP
propriations since statehood: consider
able census statistics: all official votes
of the state: all party platforms. since
statehood: senate and house rules: in
formation about each state institutions:
photographs and biography of present
state officials. and those OF the last
legislature, list of current county Off
clals; presidents of the United States:
and closes with the words of America.
The volume comprises 6S5 pages.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
SOUTH DAKOTA MAN
is GERMAN PRISONER

Huron. :. T.. Jan. ~. Mrs. Robert
Harvey. whose son. David l'arlin.. was,
reported missing after the raid by Il
British cavalry regiment. of which h.
was a member. on German positions in
the Cambria area, has received word
from officials of the Canadian govern
ment at Ottawa that the boy is a pris-
oner in Germany. 1t is presumed that
young Farling was among the band of
British cavalrymen who. on returning
from a successful raid into the German
lines. found themselves surrounded by
he German infantry. Many of that!
party. however. slashed and cut tlei,
way through the enemy lines and re-
turned in safety To the British lines
Several. however. were taken prisoner
by h Germans. and it is possible thai
young Farling was among the humble
taken by the enemy.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
SOCIAL DISEASE UNDER
BAN I'M SOUTH DAKOTA

Aberdeen. s. d.. Jan. l9.-Hereaiter
IN South Dakota all vonereal diseases
must he reported. ana iii those cases
which the health board decides war
rant, quarantine regulations viii! be en-
forced.
rms is a war measure which prom
Uses 70 become Il permanent rule of the
state. Already il is effective in Mime
sofa n other states. The enforced
quarantine will he for purpose of treat
ment and under the law the quarantine
can be enforced by authority of law.
1T is the first step in q nationwide
movement to combat venelcal disease.
and through cooperation between lay
man and the medical profession stamp
it out. 1t is durable and responds to
treatment VIXEN opportunity is given
for treatment through a long term.
Assistance of parents and teachers
VIII be sought, warning cards to be
posted and the secrecy which has
shruuded social diseases is to be torn
aside I" let in the light of instruction
and treatment.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
THIS POSTMASTER PUT
ACTION INTO WORK

Pierre. s. D.. Jan. 1S.-A postmaster
in the northern part of Haakon county.
demonstrated his ideas of patriotism
in a militant way a short time ago. He
had been enlisted in the Red Cross
drive for that county, and was asking
natrons of the office for memberships.
one man when approached with a card
refused on the plea that the Red Cross
is a bunch of grafters. and that was
as Ear as he got. When he landed on
the prairie battered and bruised. and
Was able to get to his feet again. he
wanted TO come back and get his mail.
out Was told to wait where he was and
it would he handed 10 him. Since that
time he has been sending Fer his mail
trough his ~neiehbors. and has not
shown any further desire for y special
meeting with the postmaster. who was
not willing to allow the Red Cross to
he ciassed. as among the grating class
of the country
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
THREE COLLEGES ARE TO
HAVE TEAMS I'M DEBATE

~Erookings, S. d.. Jan. Estate coll
lege will hold a triangular debate with
Huron college and Yankton college on
March IA to discuss the question,
Should the Federal Administration
Have Absolute Censorship of the Press
in Time of War?' Berth Goddard. of
Hot Springs; Harry Solberg, Of Brook
ings. and Marshall knappen. of Brook
ings. will support the negative at Yank-
ton: and Robert Nipple of Pierre, David
Donor of Bookings will uphold the
negative against Huron at Brookings.
Only two men or the teams have had
previous intercollegiate debating eX-
perience. The forensic work is under
The direction of f.. r. Brown. professor
of public speaking.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
COAL SHORTAGE IS
cAUSE or TRAIN CUTS
Milwaukee Roads Service Grip.
pied OF Its Hastings and
Dakota Division.

Aberdeen. S. D.. Jan. 1S.-Eecause of
GOAL shortage the Hastings and Dakota
division of the Milwaukee road has dis
continued passenger trains Nos. I and
between Aberdeen and Milhank. and
~ trl-Weekly way frei:hts on the di-
vision. The o. has but ~ 10-days'
supply OF coal in the Aberdeen yards
ana Sllpt. f. NJ. Melin says he cannot
cell when further supplies viii! arrive,
and the present curtailment may be
"ut toe beginning. Other roads enter
tnS the town have sufficient coal.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
PRC-GERMAN OFFENDER
AT IRERTX ON q

Aberdeen. :. H.. Ian. ~. William
l.ahlnan head of the notorious pro-
German family of hat name, furnished
$4,000 bonds and was released from
the county iail, whore he has been he'd
on a charge of seditipus utter;tnces.
l"ahman was given his freedom by
Sheriff WNckoff upon authority from
United State Marshal Thomas Tauh-
man, who Wired the bonds had
been approved by Judge Elliott. of the
lnitcd States court.
l.ahman will! probably be tried at the
May term of federal couit in this city.
Frank l-ahman. his gun toting son.
who was wounded while resisting ar
rest by deputy United States masshals-
is conNaleScing at ST. LMlle's hOspital
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
DRAFT EVASION AND
FORGERY ARE CHARGED

Madison, S. D.. jar i6.-Sheriff KEEL
Ter has returned to Lake county, having
in custody Bennie Rimple. alias Steve
Scion. a selective draft man, who is
tered at Omaha. Neb.. and a his card
forwarded to the Lake county board
of exemption. he claiming to be a resi-
den of South Dakota.
While a resident of Madison about 3;
year ago it is alleged that he passed
q nnmber OF forged checks. 1t is said
he had a habit of changing his clothes
and appearing in a different suit after
Zach act of passing 4 forged check.
He was drawn under the selective
draft in he first cali and failed to re-
spond to the notice to appea before
the exemption board. The case was re-
ported to the federal authorities. who
located and arrested the delinquent in
the Rosebud country a few days ago.
where he had gone from Omaha.
IT is expected the Lake county au-
thorities will first prosecute him on
the charge of forgery, ana when the
county is through with him he will be
J turned over to the federal government
to answer to the charge of attempting
to evade h draft. The latter charge
will send him to Fort Leavenworth
after he has satisfied the penalty for
forging checks.
VERMIILON-An investigation as to
the occupations of the $40 alumni Of thu
University of South Dakota who wers
graduated between lsSs a, q ,sl7. ;rc'n.
reveals the fact that ai7 ~ tho s-adnt-
Of that period are lawyers. IS6 are \p,c
ers. 1S are housewives, ~ are ene z.
business. ~ are pfat t'c:r.> &, e.. ca,'.
are farmers !? are preachers, nt,ss.or,
or y. M. or y. ". &. a. se~rr,a-ias.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
SOUTH DAKOTA NURSES
ARE TO ORGANIZE

Sioux Falls. :. d., Jan. lS.-A con
ference relative to the organization of
the South Dakota State Association OF
Graduate Nurses has been held here.
and all plans were completed.
The state is divided into three dis
tricts as follows:
First-Deadwood, Hot Springs. Rapid
City. Sturgis, Belle Fourche and Pierre.
Second-SiouX Falls. Mitchell. Cham
berlain. Madison, Flandreau. Deli Rap
ids and Iankton.
Third-Abordeen, Watertown, Red
field and Huron.
The following towns were repre-
scented by Sister NJ. "ophael. l." ~.
Aberdeen, My!es Wesiey Hickok. s. y,
Mitchell; Margaret O'Donnell, II. ".
WATERFOWL; Blanche Townsend. X. n.
Dell Rapids; Clara :. ~Susruison. II. ~.
Flandleau: western part of state rep
resented by Mrs. Elizabeth DrNbcrough.
president of the state association.
After reorganization it VIII be known
as South Dakota state Registered
Nurses Association.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
S. DAKOTA hOMESTEADER
DIES ON NOME pI ACE

Woonsecket. $. D.. Jan. 19.-W. T.
Briggs. died Tuesday afternoon at his
home in Oneida township, this county
of cancer of the stomach, aged 60
years.
Mr.. Briggs homesteaded the place
m which he died. in June. 1879. and
was one of the wealthiest farmers of
the county. He served two terms as
county treasurer. and at the time of
his death was serving his first term
as a member of the board of county
commissioners. He had beer a mem
Der OF the Masonic fraternity more
than 40 years.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
DRAW CLOSER LINE
ON ALL NATURALIZATION

Of courts throughout South Dakota
have received notice of a recent de-
cision of he supreme court which holds
that persons who look ou first citi-
zenship papers seven years ago and
have not since awaited themselves Of
h opportunity to become fulHedged
citizens OF the United States must make
an entirely new declaration. the former
papers being null and vGid. Unless
they do his they will be treated as
aliens and will have no right TO vote.
Those having the right Or citizenship
will have to take out new papers at
once II they wish To vote at the sprim-
primaries.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
TRAINING SCHOOL
FOR DRAFTED MEN

Mitchell. s. d., Jan. lin order
that drafted men, or those about to be
drafted. may have some training be-
fore entering the cantonments. a rain
ing school for selected men has been
started here.
The men. of which there are about
400 i'm this county. will he given in
struction in the ~rudimentary branches
OF military work. including the schoo!
of tho soldier, the squad and onpan
movements. instruction will be in
charge of Fred p. Meyer. Il Spanish
war veteran. who took the officers
course at Fort Sheridan. The men will
drill in the local armory three nights
Il week.