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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03

State Councils to act as it's represen-
tative in passing upon proposed on
struction. This is a part of the new
plan of the War Industries Board by
which permits from the board will be
required for all construction projects.
The procedure will be as follows:
l. The person interested in a con
.struction project will apply, with a
full statement Of the facts under oath,
to the executive committee Of the
County Council of Defense where said
project is located.
2. The executive committee of said
County Council of Defense will then
investigate the necessity of the pro-
posed construction and transmit it's
recommendation, with a summary of
the facts, to the State Council for re-
view.
3. The State Council, or it's execu-
tive committee, will review each case.
(a) If the State Council decides in
favor of the construction, it will at
once send its recommendation, with a
full statement of all the facts. to the
Non-war Construction Section of the
Priorities Division of the War Indus
tries Board. The Non-war Construc-
ton Section will then grant or with
hold the permit and notify the State
Council of Defense, and also the in
dividual concerned of it's action. (b)
If the State Council decides against
the proposed construction, it will no
tlfy he person concerned that his
project has been disapproved.
A. The State Council will report
monthly to the Non-war Construction
Section all applications submitted 70
it. including those decided adversely.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
RED CROSS NOTES

Miss Ella Lindskog has been APP
pointed nurse instructor for a class
in home nursing and is now organic
ing and desires that a sufficient num-
Der apply at once to take the course.
Miss Lindskog's appointment comes
from division headquarters and she is
a graduate nurse fully qualified to
give the instruction required. Call
on Miss Lindskog or the chapter
chairman if you desire to join this
class.
Gauze masks are being prepared by
the chapter for use in handling cases
of influenza, the disease that is pre-
vailing all over the country. If you
would help stem this scourge, learn
how to make and use these masks in
caring for patients, or join the home
nursing class.
Yarn has been received and one
hundred sweaters must be finished by
November 1st. One hundred women
who will do this in the time named
are called to volunteer at once and
take this yarn home and have the
sweaters returned on time. Remem-
Der the time and the necessity and
don't call for yarn unless you can do
the work as required. But 100 sweat
ers must be ready November LIST and
this chapter must fill the order. Vol
unteers wanted at nee.
DR.. Seaman of Volga. is in charge
of the registration of nurses and will
answer all questions regarding that
service.
J. Fl. Hubbart, Y. M. c. A. secretary
for the S. A. II. G. at State College,
is acting as Red Cross representative
in connection with college work among
the soldier students. Sweaters were
supplied this week to all those who
came to college without them.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
WILL YOU SAVE THEM?


Chicago Tribune-The food controll-
er has made one of the great appeals
or the war. 1t is comparable to the
presidents summons of the fighting
men to the colors. 1t is an appeal to
us here at home. Are we going to
answer it as u fighting men have
answered?
Every word of Mr.. Hoover's appeal
Is vital truth. Save food and we save
lives. Save as he calls upon us to
save and we shall save 1000. 900
American lives, not counting the lives
of our gallant allies.
There is something worth saving
fori
There is no shadow of doubt how
the American people will answer that
call. In every household in the land
to save will be a sacred duty. a 10y
full sacrifice, and waste will be a
crime.
Save, save for a million lives! What
a stake! A million of our men are
at stake. Think what they are. Think
what they mean to us, to America, to
the world.
Save for them and their comrades,
u loyal allies of France, Great
Britain. Of Italy, Of all the nations
fighting u common cause. Save for
them, save them. A million Ameri-
cans, and our allies with them.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
LIBERTY DAY

Philadelphia Public Ledger-It was
a happy inspiration of the president
to name the 18th of October as Lib
erty day. AS the anniversary of the
discovery of America it has been cell
ebrated in recent years, especially by
u Italian citizens; and the plan to
link it with "the great principles for
which we are fighting" will give it a
new and happy significance. The new
world which Columbus founded has in
the centuries developed ideals which
are c%onquering the old world. Amer
leans should be glad to make fitting
public commemoration of the great
part which a mighty conflict has
called upon them to play. They will
thus renew enthusiasm for the cause,
speed their efforts to advance it by
further sacrifices and by the measure
of their devotion, show their appre-
citation of the men who are maintain
ing their liberties and their sacred
honor on the battleields of France.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
VIGILANCE

Eternal vigilance is the price of
safety, and that is n reason why at
this time when the Allied armies are
smashing the Hun on every front,
that we must not for a moment relax
our preparations to carry this war on
to a victorious ending. There always
has been, and always will be, a ten
dency for us to forget the purpose
that Is back of our being in the war.
when our armies are gaining victor
ious. When we are successful we are
apt to stop preparations for pushing
on to the ultimate end, we are in
clined to think that the present vic
tory means the sudden ending Of the
troubles now besetting the nations of
the allied world. But the right thing
to do at this time is to realize that
though the Germans are being defeat
ed on fronts that they themselves
have made. that they are not yet
whipped. They are still on conquered
soil, no purely German ground has
been captured by our side Of the war,
and until then we are in no position
to believe that they have felt the
sting Of defeat with sufficient force
to make them relaize the end that
must come before a lasting peace can
be assured. In the fight until the right
kind OF victory comes, these United
States must not relax for a moment
the spending Of money, the sending Of
men or the many other activities that
are necessary to place the Allies in
a position to dictate the peace that
means what we are fighting for. In
stead of allowing these victories to
unduly elate you, let them spur you,
on to harder efforts to make our boys
the masters Of the fighting line in
France. From there let us help them
to press On to the day when they will
be the masters of the line,-in Ger
many. When they will be so strong
and so successful. that the peace that
We all want will be an assured fact.
Now is the time to tighten our belts
and wade into al the work OF the war
civilian as well as military. with an
increased vigor and a doubly conse
Grated purpose.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
OUR VICTORIOUS DEAF

Cedar Rapids Republican-While we
are rejoicing in the strength of our
patriotism and in the Incompatible
achievements of the men who have
been part Of the great battles between
the Marine and the Aisne, on fields
of France which have been stained
with blood not once but many times,
where the Huns under Attila were de-
feated fourteen hundred years ago
and where Joan of Arc led her ar
mics as one inspired of God-while
we rejoice that we, too, as a nation
have been privileged to fight for the
glory of humanity-yet shall we be
filled with sadness when the lists of
the dead and wounded are sent to US.
They will be long lists. There are
no victories without sacrifices, no
gains without losses. This is the
eternal principle of human life. Anx-
iOus hearts and teal filled eyes there
will be in the land and in Iowa, for
Iowa is also and always there on
that field of honor and of glory. But
yet there will be no regrets, though
there be sorrows without number, for
among us in the brave times of sac
rifice and suffering even mothers
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03

eagerness to lend every possible pen.
ny, and to lend 1t quickly.
Thus the fourth Liberty Loan NAV
become a message of far-flung encour.
agement to our boys across the seas:
a message of unpleasant augury to
their foes. For every bulletin of the
mounting millions will cry out in
tones unmistakable:
I'VE r raising a greater fund thar
men and women have ever raised.
We are raising it in three weeks,
when smaller loans have taken four.
Money is nothing to us-we sacrifice
it gladly for the sake of speed. For
the sake of a quicker victory, and the
return of our boys to their homes"
In the spirit of that message let us
face the greatest loan in history: a
loan too large to be subscribed by
banks and business houses-so large
that it must come out of the little
economies Of women A Mothers
Loan-a cry from the heart of Amer
lean ~womanhood for Speed.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
SPANISH

DR.. p. NJ. Hall of Minneapolis, writ
Minneapolis Journal, says as follows
Of the disease that is raising havoc
in our cities and camps:
whether it came from Spain or
Russia. whether you call it Russian
grip or Spanish influenza, it is all one
and the same thing and it is spread
by contact.
The great epidemic of 1890 was in
troduced to the western world from
Russia. 1t served to introduce la
grippe as a medical entity to the po1-
ulace and it will never be forgotten.
A new disease had come to the world.
a new name had been coined ard it
still sticks. The individual human
unit takes a kind of person pride
when he is sick in being laid wv by
a new disease. There is something
of distinction about it. So la grippe
will probably no longer be entirely
too common for average folks now.
THE outbreak Of la grippe in 1890
was a contribution of the east to the
west. The Spanish influenza undoubt-
eddy was sent to Spain early In the
year from the United States and has
already returned to us. So influenza,
which first in 1890 travelled from the
east to the west, under the name of
la grippe, and in 1918 went from the
west to the east and acquired a new
name. the Spanish influenza, has re-
turned and may be said to be interna-
tional.
ut only proves that epidemics fol-
low the beaten paths of commerce.
We are bound to have it in MinneapO-
lis just as certainly as iron rails con
meet us with Boston and the east.
"The prevention of the disease, as
of any other infectious or contagious
disease, is a personal matter. The
word contagion conveys more than
we used to think. 1t means contact,
and contact is the largest factor in
the spread of contagious disease. The
passing along of Spanish influenza is
by the exchange of mouth and nasal
secretlons. This may not be nice to
contemplate, but it's the truth. 1t is
the exchange of these %secretions with
the hands usually the medium. Civil
lized peoples encourage this by the
insanitary practice Of shaking hands.
The watchword of prevention should
be hands off, Keep up the resistance
by not over heating homes and places
Of business, keep the windows up in
sleeping apartments. eat plain. whole
some food, take some exercise in the
open air every day and avoid contact.
There is a whole sermon on pre-
vention in the last sentence"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
THE CROW'S-NEST

. . .
Copied from a down town bulletin
board:
"Wen de mules a-kickin' he hain't
a-pullin',
An wen he's a-pullin' he hain't
a-kickin'."
We are learning a lot of geography
these days. When it was announced
on the bulletin board that Bulgaria
had surrendered and signed a treaty
of peace many people had to hunt up
their maps and locate the little Bal
kan nation. 1t was in the foreground
a few years ago but had been almost
forgotten in the light of recent events
on the western front.
o. o %
1t isn't a good thing to become too
optimistic over the surrender of Bull
garia as Fastening the end of the war
this year. The matter Of the surren-
der of that country and the probable
collapse of Turkey in the near future
does not insure the defeat of the 9TH
er Central Powers in another month
or two. There is plenty of fight in
them yet and it may take another
campaign to bring them to the terms
that the Allied nations are demanding
before there can be a permanent
peace.
1t is reported that there are more
applications for place in the S. A. T..
c. in the college than can be accom-
modated. The number is limited to
275 and the entrants must be high
school graduates. Young men who
have not yet completed the high school
course or even the eighth grade were
ambitious to enter the training school
when they learned that the govern.
ment proposed to feed, clothe and pay
wages to soldier students. They will
fall to get into service under such
favorable circumstances because of
the lack Of scholarship. Some. no
doubt. have never had an opportunity
to get a high school education but
for those who have had the chance
and failed to improve it it is a striking
lesson for them. 1t does not nav IN
the long run. to fritter away ones
time in school.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03

have learned to say that they give
gladly what of all is most precious
to them. May they knd comfort who
shall mourn because they shall see
their brave boys no more. But there
are violets and roses and lilies that
grow in France and in Flanders, BOD.
pies that blow. They will rest among
the beloved of the earth. Their tombs
will be the perpetual shrines of man
kind. They will be remembered, cher.
ished in the heart of the world-and
thousands of us are doomed to lie in
Indifferent graves, even If we have
heen permitted to live a few years
longer han they who dared all and
who have given up all and done all,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03

ties. Looted, taxed beyond enaur
ance, her towns devastated or ue'
stroyed. her able bodied inhabitants
condemned to industrial slavery her
old men and children murdered her
women abused and ravished, Belgium
is now asked to take the hand OF her
in friendship, forgetting
wrongs so deep and deadly that any
thing like real reparation 1or thell
is impossible. Germany does not
ever hint at attempting to undo these
wrongs. She would wipe the slate
clean and renew friendly relations as
if nothing had happened.
ONLY in the distorted minds of Berlin
could it be supposed for a moment
that such an offer would be accepted
by a heroic people who have suffered
everything for a cause with unoroh-
en- spirit.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
ONLY WAY TO WIN THE WAR

Kansas City Times-''There are two
ways Of prosecuting this war. One
is to make every possible effort
to do =: now, and the other is to pro.
ceed somewhat more leisurely and do
il late. The obvious advantage from
every standpoint, social, military, in
dustrial and economic, is to put forth
every effort in this country and win
the war as soon as possible."-From
Secretary Bakers statement before
the house committee on military al
fairs yesterday.
Rightly spoken, well said!
SO good, indeed, that the country
has wondered why Secretary Baker
didn't say it a year or more ago.
There is only one way to win the
war-and that is the way Mr.. Baker
recommends. There are not two ways.
The theory that it can be done by
proceeding in a leisurely way and
do it late" all but cost the allies de-
feat. We tried that way and found it
disastrous.
Now that we have found the right
way, Secretary Baker will find the
country squarely behind him in every
plan to follow that way with all the
forces the United States a COM
mand.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03

Woman's Home Companion-He is
a member of the British Commission
10 this country, and he was m
ing On the achievements of America
in France.
When the full story is told. Il will
De one Of the most inspiring records
o. history" he said. mo one who
las not been there a imagine il.
The port where your troops land has
been transformed as IL by a miracle.
Great piers stretch VI into the har-
Dor; lines OF railroad. laid with Amer
lean rails by American engineers and
Travelled by American locomotives.
stretch away toward the battle lines.
Huge storehouses cover the adjoining
acres for miles. l tell you, it is mar
Velous what you have accomplished"
And then he added, in afterthought:
You are pouring out money as if
it didn't cost anything"
Pouring out money as If it didn't
cost anything-that is our record In
the war thus far. Our first year cost
us billions more than the first year
Of any other nation. And now we are
asked to raise in three weeks the
largest loan ever subscribed by the
people of any nation.
We are running this war in the
most e~xtravagant fashion; and there
is not a man. woman or child in
America who wants it conducted in
any other way. Why? Because we
value speed more than money; and
speed Is always extravagant.
Speed means more guns brought
more quickly into play, and more am
munition to feed them. Speed means
ships built at high cost because of
overtime wages; it means airplane
plans discarded as fast as new i'm
provements come along. 1t g
all this-and we bear the cost of 1t
gladly, without regret. For speed
means a quicker, surer victory. and
our boys earlier home again.
IL beat the Austrians because they
did not know the value of FIVE min
utes,' said Napoleon. His rule for
victory was to be on the ground first
with the most guns 81 wv all my
success in life to having been a quar-
ter OF a hour before my time," Lord
Nelson once remarked. His victories
too. were victories of speed.
The cry of every American m
to her government today should be
Speed money fastar!" Every ounce
of her thought and energy during the
three weeks dedicated to the fourth
Liberty Loan should be employed in
arousing In her own household and
lths households Of her neighbors an
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
THE IRREPRESSIBLE POET

DR.. Frank Crane-The poet is the
one man you cannot keep down. You
can prevent a boy from being a sue
cessful banker, Or crockery dealer, or
statesman. In a hundred ways you
can circumvent his ambition. You
can cheat the laborer of his just due
and grind him under your capitalistic
heel; you can refuse to promote the
deserving dry goods clerk; you can
overlook the merits of the aspiring
schoolmarm; as a member of the beef
trust you can combine to crush the
honest butcher; but the poet-nay,
You cannot stop him.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
WE DO NOT DOUBT IT

A letter just received from Lieut. r
s. Knappen. son Of MI and MIS-. G. r
Knappen, in ordering q change in the
address OF his Register. contains the
following postscript: You ought TO
start q campaign TO send a Register
20 every company that has a Brook.
ings county man in IL. II is as good
as a letter from home every week,
and gives a lot nor news" 1t has
often occurred to the Register that
perhaps our work In getting out a
newspaper was not so very much a
war work, but IL the above expression
OF opinion by Lieutenant Knappen is
correct, then after all. perhaps the
who get out the Register are real
ly doing something that counts to help
win the war.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
NOW THE TIME FOR FIGHTING

Washington Times-Burian thinks
there should be "a calm exchange of
views" The only immediate import
ant exchange of views is going on now
on the battle front of France and Bel
GUM. It is an energetic exchange and
progressing satisfactorily. There is a
time for peace talk: President Wilson
gave the Prussians their opportunity.
That time has gone. There is a time
for fighting and this is the time. It
will be a busy fall and winter for the
central empires.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03

H. H. Peters Of the White Leader,
a purchased the Mobiles County
Democrat at Adrian, Mimi, and moves
this week to that place. Untl he can
dispose of the Leader it will be con
Quoted by the foreman. Horace Len
nox. Mr.. Peters has given White a
good newspaper and has been a pleas.
ant associate in the business. and the
Register is sorry to see him &C. We
however. wish him good luck in his
new venture and commend him to the
people among whom he will live as
q real man in every way.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
cERMANY'S INSULT TO BELGIUM

Philadelphia Public Ledger--It is
a~mazing-and 1t would be amusing in
less tragic circumstances-that Ger.
many should have the presumption to
address to Belgium peace proposals
SO fantastic that the first impulse is
TO refuse to believe that they are SER
iously meant. No nation. except Ser
bia. has suffered more horrible cruel
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
-Mw. 8. SO

The suffrage amendment was beat
en- in the senate. not having the re-
qufred two-thirds majority. 1t would
appear from an analysis Of the vote
that the southern democrats are the
boys who think that the "old women
Of the senate furnish enough of the
feminins In national politics. Steri-
inx ana johnson Of South Dakota both
voted tie way they eat. Wise lads.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03

Well, ii Is real nice to have that dirty
mess cleaned up so far away, where
the muss won't bother us. Have you
ever thought how far off the nasty
part OF the war is?
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03

The German chancellor told the
reichstag, I'VE have lost cour-
age" With most of the rest Of their
assets taken by the Allies, it is a
nice thing to have something left.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
BUILDING RESTRICTED

The United States War Industries
Board. through the National Council
OF Defense, have asked the various
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s. s..

Now that we have gathered in the
Bulgarian buttermilk, it should be
very possible for us to get bold of
enough Turkey before Thanksgiving
so as to make u national bird an
international dish over which to give
thanks.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03

The 6ailies cay that the British are
cIsaninS ~ ~ Tusks y Palestine.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-16
MANY COUNTRYMEN To
COME TO STATE FAIR

General Manager Connie Saunders
of the State Fair association. has re-
turned from a trip through the coun-
ties of Virginia, where he finds the
people enthusiastic over the prospects
OF a visit to Richmond and to the fair
in October.
Many of the counties will send
county exhibits, while individual farm
ers will have some OF the most attrac-
tive exhibits ever seen at the fair
Manager Saunders says he found the
farmers more than anxious to have
the opportunity OF coming to Rich
mond, first to see their sons. who are
in camp al Camp Lee and next to see
the wonderful exhibits which the state
and the government will have at the
fair.
Il have never seen such unanimity
among the farmers" said MFR. Saund-
ers last night. They have raised
bumper crops this year. and will not
only be prosperous but happy and
they will take fair week in studying
the problems which confront the
farmer, as demonstrated and explain
ed by the government experts who
Will be here that week"