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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-27

Three special trains passed thru
here Monday night carrying soldiers.
The boys from Bon Hemme county
will not leave until Friday morning
and will take the train at Tyndall.
Peter Gemar went to Sioux City
Tuesday to consult physicians. He
has had several bad attacks Of inflam-
matory rheumatism and it has left his
heart in bad condition 80 he decided
to try treatment at Sioux City.
Arthur F. Schaefer from Cincinnati.
Ohio, spent q few days here at the
home of his parents, Rev. and Mrs.
F. Schaefer, before reporting to IT.
Monroe, Va. He has enlisted in the
Coast Artillery Corps, a training
camp for officers, and left for that
place Saturday.
FOR SALE-My residence property
in west Scotland, including eight acres
of land partly in alfalfa and tame
grass; orchard Of about 200 bearing
fruit trees, good soft water we'll,
eight room house, and good new barn
with garage. A reasonable price and
easy terms.
Mrs. IA. A. Mason,
Scotland, s. D.
Nick Roth and daughter went to
Parkston to visit his cousins before
their departure Monday night for the
environment. He says there were So
called from Hutchinson county who
left Parkston. and judging from the
size Of the crowd the Inhabitants Of
the whole county were there to see
them off. ss5s,s
Mr.. Burnham and family, who have
been spending few weeks here with
their daughter. Mrs. Harry Clough,
left last Tuesday for northwestern,
Iowa where Mr.. Burnham has bought
. farm. They have been living the
past twelve years in Charles Mix
county.
Deputy State Fire Marshal Henry
was in town Monday and III company
with the city council inspected some
Of the small buildings that the council
had declared to be fire hazards. We
are informed that some Of them were
condemned BY the fire marshal and
ordered removed.
Howard Bardwell quit hiss position
~ clerk in the Balzer Drugstore last
week and his place has been taken by
Misc Genavie Glasgow. Howard was
registered ia class 4 Ia ArkSusas. but
thinks he may be transferred to class.
on the reclassification. IL he II not
he will endeavor to dispose Of his
Arkansas property and enlist.
Dr. Brooks has decided 10 give up
his practice here, as Dr. Leighton is
expected to return home ia ! fsw days
and thu field will then be- supplied.
He has shipped his goods to Water
town aDdswill make that his head
quarters while his wife and baby will
Sc - the home Of her parents at Clark
until The Doctor gets ! permanent
location.
Miss Lola Campbell was III Vsrmii-
lion last Friday arranging for her
workas primary teaeher "a tho public
schools st that city next ysar. She
was offered "a Increase ia salary 81
live and perhaps tan dollars per month
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-27
svsscaIPTloN $3.50 pEn yEAR.
Thursday, Juhe %. 1918.
CHURCH NOTES

Rev. VIM. R. Scott will preach in
the Presbyterian church next Sunday
at 1880 a. m. Good music. All are
cordially invited to attend. No e
ing services on account Of the Chau-
tauqua.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

used two boxes Of colored chalk in showing
how the Belgians would run at our first ap-
proach Can 1t be that the Belgians ran in
the wrong direction? No; we foresaw every
thing; IL the Belgian army started for the
German frontier instead of the French
frontier, 1t must have been under a delusion
probably some faxed British maps which
made King Albert think he retreating
when as a matter of fact he was coming
to meet us.
Sixth. Have I anything to reproach my
self with about the way things went at
Verdun? Absurd. The campaign was a
masterpiece. The outcome was preordained.
Look at the facts as Falkenhayn outlined
them to me after exhaustive study of the
files of the Fliegende Blatter. In the first
place, there were no Frenchmen to stop u3,
In the second place, they had no general
equal to the task of handling 100000
Frenchmen. In the third place. they would
run away. In the fourth place, we had to
do something. In the fifth place, the quar-
termaster general was threatening to seize
the Crown Prince as a nonessental industry.
Verdun was triumph; we annihlated the
French army and so learned how to go about
annihilating 1t again on the Somme, and
again on the Disc. and again on the Aisne and
again on the Marine. ! did have my doubts,
l Will confess. on occasions l asked our good
old Schmidt the other day--he is professor of
informal logic-why we had to go on an
nihilating the French army for SO many
weary years. and he said "All Highest 1t
can't be DONE The French army doesn't exist.
Can you annihilate nothing? Obviously not.
Better have somebody write to Caillaux."
Seventh. Did overlook anything about
Russia. Not thing. We were prepared in
the field; we We're prepared politically and
morally. We passed remuneration resolu-
ton and took only 100000 square miles. We
prepared a no-indemnity resolution and took
only $4,000, 100000.
Eighth. Did miscalculate on Gott?
Never. I called in all the theological facul-
ties, and they brought the proof with them
In eight motor drays and hatbox. Sieg-
fried. of the homiletic department, showed
that the People of the Book means the People
of the White Book. and they were not stiff
necked race, but a stiff-kneed race, referring
to the goose-step and that the Promised
Land, stretching from Dan to Beersheba, Is
a misprnt for Danzig to Bassora.
I have checked up the figures. They are
right to a dot But they don't add up. The
answerphould have been at the latest Christ
mas, 1914, and 1t is now August, 1918.
have created a new morality and new logic
Must devise new ARITHMETIC?
p SITS the professors who are at the
bottom Of 1t. Not my kind of professors, but
the other kind: for there are bad professors
son kind. A professor who would rather
make happy phrase than grab a couple of
provinces who spouts words about the people
instead of to the people, who blurts out the
naked truth instead of relying on the naked
sword-Woodrow Wilson, May his Phila-
delphia dentists hand lose its cunning!
Copyright. 19lS.)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
THE VALOR OF THE HUMBLE

THE flaming ordeal through which the
l. world is passing has revealed in heroic
and heart-touching ways the qualities of
courage, frugality and plain sense that
live in the souls of the common people.
Average humanity. with all its faults, has
amazing fibers Of stole idealsm Even in
the wrath and anguish Of terrible days
1t is never the hearts of the humble that
are first to whimper 1t is the grave re.
sponsiblity of statesmen to see to it that
the conduct of our war shall do no hurt
to the infinite valor and patience of those
who have committed all that is dear to
their leadership.
1t has sometimes been said that Kipling
has faltered Of late years In his high task
Of voicing the song that lives in the soul
of the Anglo-Saxon race. But the unlau-
relied laureate Of English speech is still a
great singer, as witness his latest poem,
just cabled from England:
I do not ask for sanity souls to help me on
my way.
Or male and female devikins to lead nv
steps astray.
If these are added / rejoice-if not shall
not mind.
So long as ! have leave and choice to meet
my fellow-kind.
For as We come and we go (and deadly
quick go web
The people. Lord, Thy people, are good
enough for me
The Atlantic cables are fortunate when
they are permitted to sing to such a
rhythm as that.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
EXTRAXAGANT ZEAL

THE raid which agents of the Depart
= ment of Justice and the Federal vice
squad made on Woodside Park the other
night Is said to have been effective. The
value of its spectacular aspect is more
questionable.
If, as has been reported more than two
thousand persons were lured into an in
closure in order to secure some two hun
dred alleged draft slackers, wisdom and
zeal seem to have been imperfectly blended
In that case hundreds of innocent per-
sons were compelled to undergo a hui
initiating investigation.
Surely if the Government deputies were
as sure of their real game as the COM
prehensiveness of their plans suggests,
there was no need of stalking so many
superfluities. The search Of such numbers
Of decent law.abiding men and women,
young men and girls bears taint of in
suit.
1t would appear that man dressed in
little brief authority" has not yet ceased
to play his angry tricks"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
THE SIX.INCH SPEAKS
By Crantland Rice
Lieutenant, I5th Field Artillery, A. E. F

MY VOICE is not Caruso's and I'm just
ANA trife loud: '4
The odds are you can hear me in the midst
Of any crowd;
My accent isn't pretty when get the last
command
But l speak the only message that the
Hun can understand.
Give me the right DETECTION and the
proper range to boot;
Give me a keen-eyed gunner who Is hep
to how I shoot;
Give me the ranging angle and before the
minute grows
I'll give the boche lesson in the only CAB
he knows.
I'm just a wee bit throaty and perhaps a
trife hoarse;
My accent isn't soothing and my diction's
somewhat coarse;
I've never studied grammar and my style
Is poorly planned,
But I speak the only language that the
boche can understand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

is a growing shortage of domestic serv-
ants in this city and. of course, an average
mind will turn instinctively to the old
times when servants waited In crowds at
the employment offices to be lorgnetted,
selected, questioned and led to their toll.
There was servant problem in those
days, too The servant problem began
with the Magma Charta. But 1t isn't a
problem that housekeepers are facing now.
1t is famine.
The reasons are various and they lie
deeper than the war industries. which are
claiming almost all the cooks and parlor-
maids. Every servant feels In her heart
las good as her mistress" Every mistress
feels in her heart better than her servant.
The servant rarely reveals her secret con.
viction. But the mistress does so rather
frequently. There is no arguing these
things. That way madness lies.
The fact remains that the relationship
between servant and mistress, unless both
are ideal types, is usually strained. And
since the longing for independence and
a free foot and a free spirit is the dom-
nant phenomenon of these rapid times, it
isn't strange that domestic servants are
hurrying to what they consider ideal en-
ployment in the war factories where the
wages have suddenly gone skyward.
1t is likely that good many of them
are making mistakes. Domestic service
is in reality an uncultivated art that has
peculiar rewards for those who go into
It in the right spirit. The environment
of well-appointed home, relatively easy
work. the same food that the rich and the
well-to-do buy for themselves, freedom
from rush. time clocks and crashing ma
chinery fall to the housemaid who has a
touch Of philosophy in her makeup and
a little Of patience to serve her when she
is annoyed by an enforced consciousness
of what the mistresses used to refer to as
her station"
But adventurousness is an American
trait Even the folk who are born abroad
acquire the national characteristic of i'm
patience when they are here while. The
thing beyond all always looks better. So
it is with the domestic servants who are
deserting Philad, lphia homes in crowds.
Ultimately they will learn, as men and
even nations sometimes have learned that
independence isn't all that it is cracked
up to be-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
John Bulls "EnsiRn"

Sir Eric Geddes. the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty. tells an amusing story of the grand
aeet. I'VE had an American unit with our
grand fleet" he said; they took turn and
turn about with us they were one navy out
there. The American admiral. on going aboard
the flagship one day. said to Sir David
Beatty, For the first time have seen the
royal standard flying in the grand fleet The
British commander -in:chief looked puzzled
and asked where the flag had been seen.
passed 1t just now came here the ad-
miral replied. Look There it is" Sir
David Beatty looked. and the American off,
Ger remarked: That's your royal standard
John Bull on a flag The flag shown was
a blue bull white ground. and denoted
a meat ship with supplies for the fleet
New York Evening Post.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
Member of the Associated Press
THE OUJSTCONCk

TT WILL be high tide on the Delaware
= today when the Quistconck is launched,
but only the beginning of a monumental
ascendancy will be registered at the
worlds greatest shipyard.
Any launching nowadays drives deeper
home Americas answer to the Hun chal.
lenge.. Hog Islands official debut how
ever, presages something truly titanic.
High tide at q shipmaking plant whose
magnitude is unparalleled in history can
now be foreseen, and the splendor of that
flood of ships for liberty fairly dazzles the
imagination.
With the Quistconck the rise begins. AL
ready she is n fortunate vessel, for so is
any ship that plows the waves for free
dom. In still larger sense she is un-
rivaled. When within six months trans
ports and cargo boats are turned out at
Hog Island almost with the rapidity of
ubiquitous make of motorcar and the
rollcall of Indian names borne on each
hull as it dips into the Delaware overtaXes
the memory, the Quisconck will be unfor-
gotten. Whatever fate has in store for
her. she will be illustrious. She is tho
herald of high tide and of a maritime
pageant whose brilliancy will gleam as
the oppression turns to ashes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
FULL MOBILIZATION OF POWER

rqyHE principle Of an unlimited army for
E rhich the Administration stands and
the establishment of narrow draft age
limits do not harmonize. Mobilization OF
the nations full man-power is the need Of
the moment. The application of these vast
resources can be safely left to the War
Department and to its extensive dscre-
tionary privileges under the selective
service rule.
The coming legislation in Congress
should be comprehensive enough to OBJ
>xiate the possibility of all age-limit tangles
for the remainder Of the war. Fixing the
low year at eighteen and the high one at
forty-five would not necessarily mean that
mere boys and corpulent middle-aged men
would be at once compelled to fight. Should
the army chiefs for some months desire
soldiers of from nineteen to twenty-one
or from thirty-one to thirty-siX 1t could
have them. Should the pressure for troops
ultimately make it imperative to enlist
1ISeither younger or older men the authority
issue such call would be at hand.
The whole question is really very sim
pie. All Americans Of military age, in the
hrcadest construction of that term, should
~ registered. If Secretary Baker, as IL
now reported. desires to take Class l mer
\ between nineteen and thrty-six that res.
orvoir can be drawn upon.
s But it's exhaustion should the war bt
greatly prolonged ought not once more
{ bring US face to face with the need Of
attending the limits. The new registration
= faw about to be passed should have the
supreme merit of ftnality.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
CUBA LIBRE

noUBTs that have existed as to the
~ precise role which our Latin-American
allies are to play in the great war are
lowing our answer TO German insolence
same foe, and it is increasingly evident
that every word of her declaration OF
hostilities was strongly meant.
& The House of Representatives in Havana
has Just approved the Cuban Senate's
amendment to the obligatory military
service bill. empowering the President to
eend to France all the regular troops he
deems expedient, together with all volun.
teers This is unquestionably the real
thing. Valuable fighting material can be
secured from the gallant insular republic
whose population now numbers nearly
three millions
B The spirit of whatever contribution will
made is wholly glorious. On the
oarkling Malecon that faces Moro Castle
3|nA the blue Mexican gulf ,tands pic
paque statue of the patriot Maceio
nholical originally of the liberty Of his
orland. that memorial now takes or
Soper meaning. suggestive not merely
q horne resistance to tyrant. but also
4 u any beast that assaults the worlds
froedom. 1t is patent that in. saving
CUBA from oppression we helped raise q
nation well worthy Of liberty's preciou,
+ Irivileses
4 Our surrender of the island after break
- the Spanish bondage amazed the Huns
1k1>Inss present unselfishness will, of course
&jak q incomprehensible TO foul mind,
Ilk - 0nderstand any instrument thai
~ fair>r dsstinx of this roll
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
What Do You Kno,u?

QUIZ
1. Where is YekaterinburE?
2. Who Is head Of the Air Ministry in Great
g. When and what were "The Hundred Days"f
4. What % territory is meant by ''rhe Holy
s. Who was Citizen Capet?
Q. What is the Golden Gate?
I. Where In Ellington Field?
9. What Is tho capital Of Pennsylvania
0. Name the author Of the Had?
10. Who said. "God be praised! die happy'f
Answers to Saturdays Quiz
1. General Desoutte Is the commander of the
Sixth French Army 60 sSSvsisinE erin a. the sector m
which the LARGEST force Of Americans is
Q. Batum, IN important city on the Black Sea.
2. THE Marseiiaise." by Rouget dc Lisle. 10 the
national hymn Of France.
4. The lions share; the biggest portion in .
dlysion. The The aiiusion is from one OF
8. Teheran Is the capital Of Persia.
been appointed director of supplies for the
A. ASssisan the Am.resn marinss
Chateau-Thierry.
=. Maithuslan doctrine; the theory that the
Pcpulstioa q the world Is ., E.Swins i fs:tsr .s
thu. i sho f'ss *. theory from
CT. 3 sss. s:s:s:s .s'; q. dSsrs;':ss': "a
., A.ssss,: !..s ;:.;:s s:a Z ..'s z As.s = nA.
< "ss3;:' ;I''I; 1''z
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

Admiral Won Holtzendorff is the latest
German mogul TO have been retired on ac-
count of "ill health" The crossing of sew
eral hundred thousand American soldiers
every month seems to give the German naval
heads seasickness
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
THE HOUsEMAID's DAY

LIVERY now and then when We are in
~ mood to appreciate fully the BEN
ests Of trolley cars and submarines. air.
planes and lishtless nights. wheatless days
and the scarcity of coal. some one rises to
take the. Joy out Of life with an intima-
.|ss r. n. .. o's q. ,..''. ~. bette: ,s.:.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

Berlin is melting down her statues.
which is the first sign Of an artistic renais-
sance in Germany Lovers of art will now
be inclined to deal more generously with the
Huns when theyIsue for peace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

George w. Nicholson. of this city. made
two efforts to enlist, despite the fact that
his heart was on the right side. And when
you come. to think of 1t, that may have been
one of the very reasons why he was SO eager
to fight for liberty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

The chief reason why King George
would probably be surprised to learn that he
had been said by an American visitor to
resemble Kansas Mayor is that his power
q 90 Infinitely inferior to such an officials.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

Considering the way Finland has re-
fused to defend the cause of liberty. 1t is not
at all surprising that predominating color
In the new flag of one of her merchantmen
lately arrived at an Atlantic port. should be
yellow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

Il hear. Mr.. Bones
Something to that the German daily
"Resm- -ember" journals will soon be
unable to appear"
why. how's that, Mr.. .Interlocutor." Why,
because all the Kaiser's presumptuous claims
to Rheims have lately been reduced to mere
scraps Of paper"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
Wilhelm's Phrase Book

THE Kaiser and Rosner having rapidly
l. evacuated their debating headquarters
at the intellectual town of Braisne on the
Vesle River, a much-marked phrase BOOK
was found among other abandoned goods.
A careful examination of the book seems
to indicate that Wilhelm has been study.
ing English The following useful phrases
were heavily underscored; evidently VII.
helm will be ready for any emergency:
Neper mention Chdtedu.Thierry to me
again.
I am about to cross the Vesle back
1Udrd.
Send Rosner the pulmotor.
oh boy (Ach KndbeD
Which Is the free lunch counterP
Hop much is the Communication to st.
Helendp
A ticket TO st. Helena, please; one tcdy.
SAY, nei0hbor, direct me to a mems
lodging house.
Waitress, I 1ciH haze tec turnips.
Is this the employment Department.
beg vour pardon, but aohere Is the
nearest firing Squddp
Hndenburg's ghost is exhibiting a
most reconciles one to the old mans death.
His latest quip is telling the German pub
lie that he allowed a million or more
Americans to cross the Atlantic unmo-
Tested by submarines so that he could leap
upon them and massacre them while they
were wrestling with the French language.
And with these good things chuckling
in from Hindy almost every day who can
doubt the truth of communication with
departed spirits?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

The proverb about ignorance being bliss
is thoroughly refuted by General Tasker
Bliss, our able representative on the su-
prene war council at Versailles.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

New York is the
Nothing Novel quaintest and most
whimsical of towns
It was greatly exercised the other day by a
hold-up perpetrated in Broadway office
building. Doesn't New York ever visit its
own hotels. restaurants and barber shops?