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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14
Newly Rich splsroe.
Associated Press Report.

AH6oCIHt6u 1Ie4S }NePUIV.
En&land's newly rich, the persons who
have accumulated millions during the war
and since. are buying at any price de-
manded furniture from some OF the ancient
houses OF the country, Jewels from some
OF the looted palaces OF Russia and other
continental countries. and paintings from
anywhere il they near the mark of time.
Many oad English families also sre selling
oft their jewels.
Flowers. ana food for the elaborate en-
tertqinments which are beginning to mark
the appearance CT the newly rich are COM
manding fEEs,, prices, such as is for an
prcl!d and si.fSf or a peach.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14
land OF Opportunity

do you ever feel bolshevistic1'
Occasionally" said Mr.. Dubwaite.
You surprise me-"
"Oh, I'm not goingsto make speeches
and throw bombs. 1 merely feel a mild
unrest when l happen to be hanging to
a strap in n crowded trolley car and
see some young chap who used to
work for me wlisk by in u $4,000 auto
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Age-Herald.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14
SELF Defense.

Ia q crowded omnibus a stout wonah
vanity e~ndeavored ,to-get her fare out of
TIE pocket of her cloak, which was tightly
buttoned a q preoaution against pick
pockets.
After che had been working in vain
for some minutes. a gentleman seated ON
her right said: please allow me to pay
your fare"
Tho lady declined with some acerbity
and recommended her attacks On the
pocket.
After these had continued for some
little time her fellow passenger said:
You really must let nae pay your fare.
You havo already undone my uspen e-rs
three times. and I cannot stand II any
longer"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14
.DealersWanted
AT ONCE

To sell heating appliances (which burn
$3.50 air, 40 kerosens) to take the place
Of the coming coal famine. Six modslss
can b Installed In cook stoves, ranges.
heating stoves, ERE PLACES. farnaces, etc.
Big demand. Every household = pros
pcctive customer. You can make from
$4,000 10 100000 per month easily.
Write for Catalogue and Dsatsys Ceasract
OxO-CAS HEATING COMPANY
1905 HARVEY ST. OMAHA. NEB.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14
CAUGHT the Landlord Mapping.

II rented a house today"
Good. Didn't the landlord object
to your six Children
II don, know. talked to hin SO
fast THAI he forgot to ask me whether
or not we had children"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14
Shave w%ithacuticura

Shave With cuticura sse=r ExEHA54
And double your razor efficiency ss
well as promote skin purity, skin com
fort and skin health. No mug, no
Shiny soap, no germs. no waste, no
irritation even when shaved twice
daily. One soap for all uses-shaying,
bathing and shampooing.-Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14

the paralysis ef=piIl In the face Of great
fear may he akin to petis NAL, just as
petit NAL Is akin to epilepsy. However
thai may ber the fact remains that many
road accidents are due to the other fellow
falling to do the expected. and petit NAL
ia one cause of failure of the automatic
h:ain apparatus to work.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14
a Beauty.

From the Louisville Courier-Journai.
Party outside selling q patent pie
knife"
I'm not Interested"
You will be when you see the girl" -
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14
The Variety.

1.-THE fates are supposed to embroi
der life"
'9Then in matrimony they must use
the cross-stitch."
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14
Exact cosy of Wrapper.
Periious Flats.

P%eriious Flats.
General Courtney Dodge of Boston
was praising the doughboy.
1T didn't take the fdoughboy long"
he said, ito learn the European ropes.
l once heard a doughboy discourslng
or Mount Mart, as he called 1t.
Don't never let 10 lady he said,
~'inveigle you into a Mount Mart fiat
nor Why not!' asked his COM
panion.
Mount Mart fats he answered, is
always inhabited by Mount Mart
sha!ps.'"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14

Mclean. Neh-HI want % recoms
mend LYDIA Z ptnkham's Vegetable
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-14
Saves he Bacon

NJ Pleasant, Ia.-sWhen / feund sickness appear.
tcS is ny he.d ! got 2 90 IN. nail of h. A.. Thomas
hog Hemedy.. Before I finished feeding 1t, / was SO
all yell I gots third palt and ind that twice aweek
iced keeps them weli.e Jim Kermeen r. No. ].
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

, tigated it and had It cleaned IN,
tell you
Truly, one thing leads to another
in the Social Unit. Health is related
to housing. housing leads to block
cleanups and Improvement in the
exterior of the block. A vacant ion
may be cultivated and beautified
simply because some one has begun
TO wonder whether it's good for the
place to be used for trash.
A small newspaper has been pub
lished in the Mohawk Brighton dis
trict. 'The Social Unit Bulletin" II
contains much valuable information
which is crowded out of the city
newspapers by big news. 1t also
furnishes many OF the district the
thrill of seeing their names in print
by giving q column of "Neighhor-
hood News" of personal items such
as is found in small town papers.
When the Ohio Health and Old
Age Insurance Commission was
making special statistical study
for the state of Ohio. they asked the
Mohawk Brighton district TO secure
certain information for them. They
made this request because they knew
Of the extraordinary facilities which
this neighborhood had for collecting
social information and keeping il zap
to date. When the block workers were
handed the questions they were shle
to answer fully so per cent of them
without further inquiry, on the basis
of information which had Just natur-
ally come to them. Moreover, the
facts IN the case. with the reasons
why the information was wanted.
were published in The Social Unit
Bulletin" and a great deal more in
formation was voluntarily given TO
the block workers.
The Social Unit has almost com
pleted its laboratory experiment
and has established headquarters
in New York to spread propaganda
as to the benefits and advantages
it has to offer. It's latest tack is 10
show itself as means of combating
social unrest and dangerous Red
movements.
The Mayor of Cincinnati did not
favor the Social Unit. it being
somewhat out of line with old fash
toned municipal government, and
implied that it was a form of soviet.
The Social Unit organization has
come back with a long argument
showing where it will be able 20
meet the needs of citizens who
might hope for the soviet as a
panacea for their struggles and I'M
happiness in municipal life. The
original township government of
New England might be considered
soviet government as far as
form is concerned. 1t is the spirit
and temper that are different.
Franklin K. Lane. Secretary Of
the Interior, is chairman Of the So
cial Unit Organization. Other per-
sons who are backing the plan are
Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany. Raymond
Fosdick, Mrs. Willard Straight and
Mrs. Alexander Kohut.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
BY DEEMS WELLER

paper last week when l was on the
yoad that nine-tenths of the inmates
of prisons and insane asylums are
there because of drunkenness. My
idea is that the jails will close up
soon after the saloons. That's why
I'm for the dry season.
"a question that people are al
ways asking is, Whom are you go
ing to vote for?' The answer to that
is An honest man. No party politics
for me-
II think that, as class, actresses
are more interested in the vote
than actors. In the first place, they
haven't got it, but that is merely a
minor feminine reason Many &C
tresses have places in the country,
and it is only natural that they
should be interested in large seal !
housekeeping, for, after all, it's tn
administration of their homeland
an actress is woman in the fnf.l
analysis.
Being an actress and mother
at the same time is full time job.
But | have little more time to vote
in school elections. For I want the
say-so in the education of my child
An actress must often be separated
from her child when she is travel
ling, and this is an added reason why
she should have voice in picking
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
The New Citizen on the Stage

@ITIZEN is the most abused
z word in Americas vocabulary,
according to Miss Marie
Nordstrom, Of the vaudeville stage.
Everybody is talking about it all the
time, but nobody is doing it. Being
a citizen is like being a member of
a church-either you belong or you
don't belong-and not many of US
60 to church, anyway.
relationship is living for the town
you live in," defined Miss Nord-
strom. Sometimes the woman
actress doesn't get a chance, but
where there's woman there's a
way. Take, for example, the incor-
porated village of Plandome, Long
Island. That is where | live.
"There is house in Plandome
that is mine. The land on which it
stands is mine There are four
other houses on the same block. And
a decrepit old road runs by the five
of US. Each owner is responsible
for the road in front of his or her
property.
"Plandome got together and de-
cided to trim up. A town meeting
was called to decide whether the citi-
zens of PIandome wanted new roads.
| wasn't invited. Women don't vote
on Long Island.
"All the rest of our street went
to the meeting, and this is what they
did: Two Of them voted for i'm
proycments. Two Of them voted
against Improvements. My vote
would have swung the old dirt road
cut Of existence. But ] didn't have
my vote. | told you citizen was n
much abused word.
The town went ALMOST straight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Slackers' Babies Are Be-
ioU Par and the Best
Englishmen Haze
"Cone West''

and 17.6 persons out of every 900
died. The birth rate was lowest on
record; 81 out of every 1000 born
died in infancy--a pretty high per-
oentage.
The answer seems to be that. for
the present, European countries
must preserve the lives of those
children already born and when
they have not funds to do it their
governments must ask people in
other countries, particularly in
America, to help. Not long ago a
New England women's club voted
5000 to an organization to be de-
voted to the cure of a repatriated
Allied prisoner of war whose treat.
ment in German prison camp had
made him mental and phvsica!
wreck. He could recover. with
proper care. But the club re-voted
that the sum should be given. in
stead, for the upbringing of a male
child in either Italy. Belgium or
France. The women arrived at
their decision after much debate and
gave their reasons to the war ari~.
oner's friends.
They said that the repatriatoi
Allied prisoner would never again be
wholly fit and able TO fight for HIS
country or to add materially 10 her
industrial development. The child.
on the other hand, would become.
with proper nourishment and care,
an asset to his country and soldiet
when needed. The best they could
expect to do for the returned nris-
cner was To keep him alive: 4 h.
had any children in the future those
children would not be physically fit.
But the child could establish a
healthy. wholesome line.
Their decision was based on sound
reason. and no reconstruction work
er could feel bitterly toward them.
however deep and sincere the ex-
prisoners claim on our sympathies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

macadam. Everywhere the new
highway was being ironed into place.
Only our street remained-dirt.
"Then my little girl, Ursula, nine
years by the clock, complained.
Mamma she said, Everybody else
has got nice new road, all except
us. Why haven't we got nice new
road, mamma"
"That settled it. l said there was
no reason under the the sun. And
proceeded to order a road. ordered
it right straight in front of my own
roof and shanty. My house, by the
way, is in the middle.
"When that road was finished it
made the cleanest, neatest, smooth
est patch of white that ever met
eye Ny daughter was satisfied.
But the four male citizens sitting
on their four respective porches
weren't satisfied. That glazing new
macadam in front of my property.
with dishevelled dirt to the right
and muddy Jumps to the left, was
unpleasing to the other household
ers on our street. The result was
macadam to the right and macadam
to the lcft-and we had our road.
"1hat is all know about poll
tics, except that prohibition is one
of the planks in my platform. |
believe in it. | read in n Western
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

find time, from their routine home
duties to help look after the neigh
borhood by holding meetings an
making personal Investigations Ia
their blocks.
No "snoopiness" is connected wit
this block investigation. The block
worker is chosen by the votes Of
the block and Investigation Is
known to be one of her duties when
she is selected. The voters know
that the person they choose vii
have to visit their homes and re
port on them.
Common sense and friendliness
are the chief requisites for a GOO
block worker. 1t is her business
to know the block in which she
works and all it's conditions. She
is expected to know city agencies
which exist to meet these conditions
also. She is a friendly visitor who
keeps watch over the welfare of hec
immediate neighbors and at the
same time she is the agent to notify
the community council of their
needs.
In the wake of the block worker
backfence gossip is transformed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

up mean things to say about one
another or to make criticisms of
the young people of the neighbor-
hood.
Where they used to hang out the
windows in their idle hours smacking
their lips, literally and hguratively,
because Sadie Smith always met
that fellow at the corner, it being
mighty queer she didn't have him
come up to the front door of her
pas fat" they now discuss whether
Willie's tonsils ought to be looked
after at once and speculate on what
the visiting nurse will say about
Mrs. Jones's little Emma chat S
looking so peaked lately"
Says one woman of the Mohawk
Brighton district: "That Hungarian
woman who lives down the block
she's not so bad either. I saw she
had a peaked looking little girl about
the age of my girl, Elsie, and made
up my mind I'd tell her how the
health station discovered Elsie's
adenoids. She seemed real interested
and she took her little girl to the
station and then offered to tell about
the Social Unit to all the Hungarian
women in the block. She'll be real
good to help the block worker She's
nice spoken, neat woman, too"
Mrs. Oberdahn, one of the block
workers, expresses herself and her
work thus: 81 try to call on every
one in my block once a month. They
miss me when I don't come, it seems
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
If All EngIishn,en Mar.
RED 90 Per Cent OF
Their Women Would
Still Be Single
TIME loss to the present-day

"HE loss to the present-day
century world in young,
manageable men during
the last four and a half years has
been appalling. According to Brit
ish medical estimates, just issued,
war and influenza, by combining
their forces, accounted for 18,000,-
700 men throughout the entire
world; and besides these 100000
more men are so manned and ener-
waited that they will be incapable Of
again competing with their fellows
in the industrial and financial world,
and so cannot marry.
These 100000 men were the
best Of their race, its youth and
strength. The unfit have survived
tnem-the aged, the weaklings, the
mentally deficient, the towards and
slackers. In the epidemic Of infiu-
enza that ragged near the close Of
The war strong, robust men died
quickest and fastest. Again the
unit survived--for what scientific
reason let who can tell US, The dis
case did not attach itself to them !;
Or a~saching, touched them lightly.
me very young and the very old
oid not die from influenza, but
young men in active life. stalwart
and promising, dropped off like
meg. In our own army and in our
camps this untoward fact was dis
assrouely demonstrated.
sinety-eight thousand nine hun
ored and nincty-cight dcaths--41
per cent of all the deaths In Great
Britain from January to April ! j,
iSla--wcre due to influenza; 81 per
cent Of all these were young men in
% prims and yigor Of thsix days;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Birth Rate
Lowest on Record

Nineteen per cent of these deaths
were among returned prisoners Of
war from Germany, and all died
from malnutrition or disease d.
rectly chargeable to starvation and
abuse. Twelve per cent of ali the
deaths are among wounded soldiers
only per cent were very old
people. This per cent would have
died anyway, as their ages ranged
from 80 to 103 years!
In preceding years births aver
aged an excess of 40,7S5 over
deaths, so, even after deducting the
number of influenza deaths. early
1875 record is still appalling. In
deed, the English birth rate is the
lowest on record. Marriages actu-
ally increased during 1917-'1s. but
births are not keeping pace with
them.
In England and Wales, in 1918
662,773 births and 6l1.991 deaths
were registered. The natural in
crease of population by excess OF
births over deaths was 5O.7Sc. The
average annual increase of births
over deaths in the preceding Years
was 2S7, 664.
In 1918, 1873 persons out of every
900 married in England and Wales
had a child: AZ of every / ,o0C
couples already married had a child
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

we are, and neighbors. and every
one knowing we are there to hear
their troubles and try to fix things
up that are wrong. you learn an
awful lot. 1t was one of my neigh
bors that told me about the house at
the corner where it seemed every
one who moved in died of tuherc,A
losis. The health authorities hadn't
ever noticed anything wrong. but
the woman who lived across the
street couldn't help observing how
many times there was crepe on
the door. Then when / was talking
to her one day about how we had
taken over the care of tuberculosis
by the whole community and about
our campaign and everything. she
told me about the house. We ,nves-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Stern Statistics Back of the Sympathetic Movement Child

10 per cent were young officers in
the army and navy.
War did not kill off women; and,
oddly enough, the death rate among
women influenza patients was far
lower than among men. Women
entered industry to fill the gaps
caused by men going off to war, and
so they kept the industrial wheels
Of their countries turning. There
has been no appreciate loss to the
world among women for this rea-
son. On the contrary, the last four
and half years have built them up,
physically and mentally. They have
healthier children. They can con-
tinue to fill mems places in those
countries where the loss in the male
pOpulablOn mas Deen StupenOOuS.
But the number Of children who
may be born of these women is
alarmingly decreased by the great
loss of males. In England alone 60
per cent of the women must go
unwed and therefore, for the most
part, childless.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Hope in
Soldiers Children

In America we will not see much
Of the sickening aftermath of the
great conflict. We we're not in
volved over a long enough period.
But in Europe even the men who
have "come through without a
Scratch" as it is phrased, may very
we'll number among them a large
percentage of neurotics. 1t is
something the races must foresee
and accept.
The young men who, by one
means or another, avoided war
service will not save the situation,
say the European medics. Such men
are az fit as the women who endured
back of -the-linc hardships, like lack
If food and air raids. But their
children, IL they have any, are not
likely to be very vigorous spcci-
mems, for men Of this stamp are not
chosen as mates by strong women.
They attract weaklings--shirking,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

self-saving wonderland do not take
upon themselves the responsibility
of children, if it can be avoided.
A New York physician has made
an interesting comment anent this
statement as it applies to young
Americans who married to evade
the draft r.who, married, fastened
to have child in order that they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

the woman who will teach her when
mothers on the road.
"An actress is 100 per cent busy
all of the time, but woman always
has time to do the work that is cut
out for her And part of her job
is to elect the man who will make
the country better for the future
generation.
'This sounds like very serious
stuff, and it is. Women haven't any
sense Of humor, anyhow If they
had they would have laughed them
selves to death long ago over the
way the men are running the coun-
try"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
BY JANE GRAY

might claim exemption. Of Ill
such births Of which he has first
hand knowledge not one is a perfect
baby; all are nervous, most of them
puny and eight bid fair to be defec-
tive, although there is no apparent
reason for it. The parents are
healthy and bright.
England places her greatest hope
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Bv HANNAH MITCHELL


n ACKFENCE gossip has be-
come a welfare agent. Such
statement may produce
somewhat the same reaction as the
assertion that garbage represents
potential riches, It is, moreover,
Just as true.
aTalk" may be cheap, but it is
admittedly powerful. Many neigh
bothood has been completely poisoned
BY the effects of idle talk. Had the
very human pastime of talking about
ones associates and neighbors been
turned into the right channels, hon
eyer, general improvement and goo,
feeling might have been promoted.
The Social Unit is the organiza
ton that has found the way intwhich
to cash in on backyard gossip. Bora.
in an atmosphere of intellectualisln
and nurtured on "highbrow" ideals,
the theoretical Social Unit did not
begin to grow and wax in strength
until it was taken into the labora~
tory of neighborliness. Talk, -
backfence gossip, was one of its
chief sources OF strength.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Phillips,
social workers in New York, wrote
book on the Social Unit sever !
wears ago From their work the
had come to believe that in our moo
ern cities ordinary men and Won't 3.
did not feel themselves an importer
enough part of the government. TIE
object attained in the manuscript Of
their book was that of making plain
people" conscious of their RESPONSE
bilities to the state.
This goal could be attained theo-
rstically through the Social Unit, a
ne;ghborhood organization, for the
purpose of bringing the government
closer to the lives of the people, to
develop the community as a unit OF
the nation and to provide for the
people such civic life asawould fulfil
their desires. So Mr.. and Mrs.
Phillips said in their manuscript.
Instead of alternating between the
covers of a book, the Social Unit
found enthusiastic backing in New
York and some twosyears and a half
ago was sent out to Cincinnati for
real neighborhood laboratory test
as a community enterprise.
The neighborhood chosen in Gin
is called the Mohawk
p-;..e district. The National
Sail determination reports
that this district r'p ;+;- sl0,'
Of hard WORKING A--
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Social Unit Stages Human Drama in Cincinnati

not very poor and not rich, ~sub-
stantial people interested in see
4ng their children have better op-
portunities than they themselves
have enjoyed"
The district was organized geo
graphically and occupationally. It
was divided into units of 100 FAM
lilies, each being one city block in
that part of the city. There were