The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-09-20
Has Been to School for Year with
Experience
Instruction Gained Shows Great
Results
State Finances Best Ever Within
History
HAVE CREDIT BALANCE
Also Big Increase in Taxable
Properties
State Boasts of Excellent Moral
State Boasts of Excellent Moral
Conditions
Morally and Financially South
Dakota Under Just One Year
of Prohibition Has Made Won
derful Strides

South Dakota has been to school.
Experience has been the teacher.
South Dakota has taken the first year
of higher education The results of
one years intensive training under
such a forceful instructor as expert
cnce have been decidedly interesting.
1t is demonstrated beyond question
and doubt that the sort OF training
! that South Dakota has had during this
last year is mighty profitable in
vestment, yielding excellent returns in
actual money, better living conditions
and fewer difficulties, so from the OK
perieslce that South Dakota has had
in this year of special training there
is manifest from that state the desire
that the training be continued.
So it seems that there has been OPP
Grating in this great northwestern
state an order which is satisfactory
and which was adopted in the state
against the recommendations Of va
riety of interests. These interests
were the saloons, breweries and al
lied enterprises that made their mon
ey ont of the designations of victims
of the liquor and vice traffic. When
the matter of statewide Prohibition
was up for consideration in the state
of South Dakota, these allied liquor
agencies. there the same as in every
other state where the fight has been
on, prophesied dire disaster: increased
taxes, growth of drug habits, and also
highly emphasized the matter of inan-
cial distress to the legitimate business
enterprises, which would suffer for
lack of business if the saloons were
closed.
The states balance sheet of fnan-
cial affairs has just been published,
which shows the state to be in very
prosperous condition and the treasury
with snug balance on the credit side.
The total receipts of all funds for
the fiscal year ending June 30 last are
! Sc, 927, $50 The total disbursements
are $6264,337. AS $1,997 was carried
over from the previous year, the total
showing OF the year ending on that
date was approximately two and a
l'alf million dollars. The receip's of
the state general fund were $2,0S0 600.
! The disbursements from thai fund
were $2,773,000 The game fund total
receipts were $4,000 and disburse-
ments from that fund were 500, 500.
This is on account of purchase of
grading machinery and doing grad
ing work to build up the lakes. The
insurance department receipts were
S30,740, and expended from that
fund were $4,000, leaving a good
sized sum to turn into the state gen.
eral fund. The Irvine plant received
| $22,416, and disbursed from that fund
$o58,o73. The receipts of the pcrma-
nent school fund were $1,227,23o
| and loans were made amounting to
| $1,028,000. The receipts of the income
| fund and common schools OF the state
were $4,000, and the disbursements
from this fund were $1,113,000.
| The state tax commission has COM
pleted its work of equalizing, which
shows an increase of $157 ,068,6l5 over
the assessment of last year, and places
the total valuation of the state at
81 1913, 543,870, or an increase of II per
cent Minnehaha county shows the
highest valuation, with $84,731,4 APO.
Brown county is next with $4,000
209. Sphinx is third with $54025,628.
In the crop acreage figures, 3,3l6,074