Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-05-09


men. and to the men of few words.
plowed perhaps" Iplanted eff"
and sadly harvested 1T Might Have
Been"
How's this: Swat the fly, shoot the
spy, cut out the lie, swear off the pie,
and quit drinking rye.
The soldiers are singing annie
Laurie" on the battle front as it was
sung by their ancestors on the conti-
nent q hundred years ago.
New York World: The assassin
who caused the war is dead, but the
assassin who started and continues
it is still waving shining sword.
The allotment of meat purchases
for the army, navy and marine corps
and the allies has been consolidated
in a single bureau with headquarters
in Chicago.
Russia is now learning that the
German idea of just peace is about
on par with what wolf would ad-
wise lamb was just meal for
hungry wolf.
Failure of farmers to release by
May Is, approximately 50,000,000
bushels of wheat-the surplus of the
1917 crop-will result in the govern
ment requlsitioning it.
The expression being used in Amer
ica of doing ones bit is not in accord
ance with it's real meaning 1t is an
English expression, Over there they
called upon every one to "give all
they thought they could give, then do
bit more"
The kaiser picks out some nice fresh
volets every day which he sends to the
kaiserine. For most of his subjects,
however, he picks out a nice appropri-
ate obituary or some new form of sac
rifice for the Hohenzollern family
| Argus-Leader.
One-third of all passenger trains be-
tween Chicago and the Pacific coast
will be eliminated after j June /, accord
ing to reports from Washington. The
step is taken to save approximately
S12, ,O00,00O year and cut off 11,728,-
900 miles of train haul.
1 Sergt. Gianfelice Gino, of the Ital-
ian Flying corps, has established
i what is claimed to be a new world e
record for speed, when he flew from
Langley Field, Hampton Roads, Va.
to Washington in a Spa fighting plane
in one hour. The distance is 14E
miles.
| Swimming is to be taught soldiers
in some training camps this summer
as military requirem ent, according
to the commission on training camI
activities. A statement by the com
mission shows that lis, 900 soldiers ir
camps participated in organized bas
betball last season.
/ France has taught US how to dea
with the spy. Let there be no more
foolishness. The man who under
takes to do the kaiser's work i1
| America should pay for it with bis
his life. if caught. Internment il
nothing; the firing squad is the true
remedy, ,-Argus-Leader.
II The state is 99.9 per cent American
1t is now the business of the good peo
pie Of the state to take care of the
other one tenth of one per cent. 1t il
the plan to convert them if possible
and if that cannot be done they will
have to be locked up in Jail. Our peo.
pie are intensely in earnest and will be
increasingly so until the war ends in 6
German defeat. Springfield Times.
n Switzerland is in want because il
can get no wheat. The United States
is ready TO send them all they need
but the Huns sink the ships carrying
the wheat and threaten to keep it w
unless Switzerland will turn over Q
portion of the cargoes- which would
] be in violation of the agreement with
America. That is what Germany
calls making war. and it is making
war, not on the enemies of Germany
but on helpless neutral too small to
defend its rights.
Andy Lockhart, editor Of Chain
Lightning, sentenced to serve three
years and q half in the federal peni