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Rat Week.
Milk for America.
Roper for Secretary.
Fear, a Queer Poison.
BY Arthur Brisbane

A picture in good old London Puncs
describes the attitude of certain pros
porous people in the United States to-
ward nBolshevism," ''radicalism," etc.
In England they are having Rat
Week" to clear out all the rats. The
picture in Punch shows two nice old
English ladies going up in balloon
to get away from the rats during Rat
Week. They do not realize that just
when there is most attention concen-
trated on rats those rats are least apt
to be dangerous.
Otto H. Kahn, musical financier, and
Elisabeth Marbury, human dynamo
are working together on a campaign
to get milk for the children of Amer
lea
1t was time to start such a cam
paign, for children of America also
drink milk, and with milk as high as
21 cents quart in great cities 1t is
time for charity to come home and
roose awhile.
One of the ablest doctors in the
country, said yesterday: For children
up to fourteen years of age, not bread
but MILK is the staff of life. Physi-
clans realize more and more that milk,
pure and abundant is absolutely ne
cessary to the well-deveioped child !"
II Mr.. Kahn and Miss Marbury will
make themselves the missing link be-
tween a few hundred thousand cows
and few million American babies,
they will go to Heaven without the
slightest doubt.
Miss Marbury was geing, anyhow.
"A new Secretary OF the Treasury
is to succeed Mr.. Glass, who goes to
the Senate. Why not put Mr.. Roper,
Collector of Internal Revenue, at the
head of the United States Treasury?
Mr.. Wilson likes to appoint men
that are specialists in their line. Mr..
Roper is the leading specialist in the
finances of the United States. If he
would take the job, he would attend to
it well, and his knowledge would be
useful to a nation that before all,
needs just now to save as many bill
lions as it can.
In France where one extreme radi-
cal candidate advised his hearers to
seize the land, the French have elect
ed not extreme radicals but "moder-
ates." They have put sixteen of the
extreme radicals out Of the Chamber
of Deputies.
With six million Frenchmen owning
the land of France, you can easily go
too far when you talk about Selling
land.
Give human beings something worth
conserving, and you will find them
conservative.
| A butcher, cheating with his scales
robs poor people of so many ounces
on each sale. A judge fined him $50
an ounce high price for meat even
in these days.
That was witty but was it satisfac
tory justice?
The butcher STOLE so many ounces
of meat from his customer, why not
lock him up? If poor woman had
gone into his shop and stolen the same
number of ounces SHE would have
been put in Jail. not fined humoreusly
Why is stealing from butcher
| punishedwith Imprisonment, and steal
ing from a customer punished with &
fine?
The London Daily Express says tha
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REoRG ANIZATIoN
ARMY ADVOCATED
Secretary Baker Says System of
Universal Training Should Be
Adopted-Corps of Expert Off
GERS With Huge Reserve.

Washington, Nov. 30.-War expe-
rience plainly shows the necessity for
fundamental reorganization of the
army and of the War Department it.
self, Secretary Baker declared today
in his annual report. He recommended
that the emergency organization, re-
duced to the peace-time size, be made
permanent, and approved the General
Staff bill for a regular establishment
adequate in size to be the nucleus
of any great military mobilization the
country may be called upon to make"
and backed up by system of univer-
sal training.
"In such a policy" Mr.. Baker said,
''the accent is upon the citizen and
not the soldier, the officers becoming
a permanent corps of experts and the
men a body temporarily devoting a
portion of their time to military train
ing in order that they may enter civil
life with, sense of national service
and with superior equipment for sue
cess"
at is difficult to believe he said,
denying any danger of militarism,
that an army could be formed of
Americans. educated in our common
schools, raised in the free and demo-
cratic atmosphere of our institutions,
which would still be hostile to those
institutions and liberties. The world
war has shown quite clearly that
armies reflect the spirit of the people
from whom they come rather than
create a spirit of their own, so impor-
from the point of view now under con-
sidaration as the kind of an army !"
Service An Education.
The selective service law was ac-
cepted as a fair means of assigning
men to military service in time of war,
Mr. Baker said, but compulsory SER
vice in time of peace would be "a poor
substitute for the volunteer principle
properly applied" Raising a standing
army by financial inducement is too
costly to contemplate, he added,
leaving only the method of making
enlistment in the army and education
al opportunity" to furnish the troops.
The recommendation for an increased
standing army, he declared, should not
be taken to indicate a disinclination
toward the prospect of disarmament.
''Those who know the spirit of the
American army" the secretary said,
twill not ascribe to it any uroyoca
tive temper. There is glory left in the
career and the sacrifice of the soldier,
but the mild and spectacular contests
of an earlier age have become stern
and cruel business, and while there is
cheerful willingness to encounter the
iprivations and make the sacrifices
which war demands, the men of the
American army are abreast with en-
lightened men everywhere in the hope
that more humane and rational pro
cesses of adjustment will supersede
the waste and loss of armed conflict
They are, however, of the belief thai
so long as it is necessary for us tt
maintain an army at all we are not
| justified in having an inefficient
army. and their recommendations are
to be viewed as setting them apart
as men who, by reason of their ex'
perience, are qualified to speak upor
the provision which should be made
for the common good and the common
protection should the test of war be.
come unavoidable.
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PUBLICSALl
| will sell at Public Auction at i
Handy farm IL miles soushs.s
of Wickes, Ark. on
WEDNESDAY, DEC. II, 1914
(Beginning at 10 o'clock
the following property:

LIVESTOCK good work Mia
weight 800 lbs; l Mare, 10 US II
l Mare, IL yrs. old; 3 Colts, 3 rs III
l Mule Colt, 4 mos. old; / Jsak, NJ
old, black with white points, g4
breeder; 8 Cows and Calves; Yen
lings; 4 Heifers, coming 2 yn ii
20 head of Hogs.
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XMAS is COMING! With every
new or renewal subscription for One
Year, up to December 20. The Star
will send FREE, ONE DOZEN BEAU
TIFUL XMAS CARDS, assorted de-
signs. Look at your subscription date
IF your time expires within the next
year, now is the time to renew. Ask
for the cards when renewing. Address
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FL Paso. Tex, Dec. An unveri-
fled report is current here that Will
liam O. Jenkins. American consular
agent has been liberated. No verifi-
cation Of the rumor has been received.
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Seven Passenger Studebaker Gu
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Yours very truly,
Adv. - go & 40 S. J. Oslin
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For Sale--156 acres; small house; l5a
in cultivation; wire fence, fine
spring soft water, good timber, pine,
some oak; 215 miles Bog Springs, 6
miles west of Wickes. Cheap at $500
per acre. " cash, terms on balance.
Some trade considered. Address Box
7s, Crannis, Ar.--Ady. 266-6t 46-3t
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Wanted TO Buy-Good span mules.
Phone 277, Mena. 47-tf
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NEARING The end
LEGISLATURES SCHEDULED TO
ADJOURN TOMORROW.

Pierre, March with the last
week of the legislature well on its
way, and with just one more legisla-
tive day after this, the senate has 10
bills in committee which are of SEN
ate origin, and perhaps 20 more de-
ferred. The house has SO house bills
either still in committee or to be act
ed on in some other way. From
lamong those still in committee, it
may be expected that most OF them
are still there for a purpose, and will
never get out. That puts both houses
pretty clear to use the last days of
the session measures originating in
the other body, and the general opin-
ion seems to be in favor Of clearing
up the calendar before adjournment
every night, so that it is hardly .ex-
pected that there will be the jam on
the last day hat has featured former
sessions.
A delegation from Sioux Falls.
comprising an attorney and two
priests. was in the city over the week
end to try and gets the temperance
committees to put in an amendment
on the prohibition law which was en-
acted this session to put more teeth
in the bone dny law of the state. The
bill. as passed, limited the amount OF
wine that could be used in any church
to eight gallons a year, and while
there seemed pretty general agree
| 4, nnt ~ ~ JI@ l,,.rI-,o - tl<
state here at the time the bill was
passed that this vas fair enough and
would mean nj deprivation. one
priest stating that three gallons wa!
sufficient for his church and he helt
as many services as any of them
still this delegation wanted the linn
itation removed. The Temperance
committee declined to act on the rec
ommend alton.
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action when the proposed amend
ments are submitted.
A bill was introduced in the SEN
ate allowing certain tax exemptions
on residences on a percentage basis
to allow the man who builds a home
a privilege in the taxation charge
against his property which is not
granted to, the holder of a vacant lot,
or unimproved farm.
The senate bill for placing the
state forest reserve under control of
a park board instead of under the
state land department is before the
house and the senate has the house
bill TO begin improvement on the hos
pital grounds at WATERFOWL on it's
calendar.
The senate passed the land settle
ment bill, which carries 100000 and
81, 100000 bond privilege to assist
such returning soldiers who desire to
avail themselves of assistance in get
ting started ON farm homes in the
state. The senate confirmed the re-
appointment of C. HI. Preston as a
member of the state tax commission.
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APPROVES BOND BILL
President Signs Measure for
Fifth Liberty Loan.
Treasury Is Authorized to Issue Sever.
Billion Dollars In Short
Term Notes.

Washington, March 5.-Presidenu
Wilson signed the Victory Loan" bin
authorizing the Treasury to issue
s 1000, DOC, 00o in short term notes and
providing 81, 200, 900 900 for the use Of
the war finance corporation in stimu-
lating the country's foreign commerce.
In a statement issued coincident
with the Presidents approval of the
bill, Secretary Glass pointed out that
hinder the act interest on both cor
porate and individual holdings Of First
Liberty Loan, converted, and Second,
Third and Fourth Loan bonds, valued
at not more than $50. 900 received on
and after Jan. 1, 1919, would be exempt
from all surtaxes and excess and war
profits taxes.
The secretary also called attention
to the provision of the act authorizing
conversion of bonds of. the First Lib
erty Loan. converted and four per cent
bonds Of the Second Loan into Az per
cent bonds.
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scented to William Jones by N. b. For
rest" which is believed at one time
to have been the property Of Gen.
Forrest, the celebrated confederate
leader during the civil war. The
weapon has been in possession of the
Nelson family for a great many years.
washington Springs-At the E. c.
Barber sale last week A Poland
China sows of the big type brought
an aggregate of $21,885, an average
of $497.27. One yearling SOW sold
for $1,7O0, two yearling gifts. litter
sisters, brought $1,000 and $1,000,
respectively, and several others came
close to the $1,000 mark. Buyers
were from Iowa, Minnesota. Nebras-
ka and South Dakota.
Sioux Falls-Father John O'Ma-
honey one of the Catholic mission
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ASsAILS SENATE GROUP
Issues Statement On FiIibuSter-
ing S0lons.
Charges They Deliberately Chose to
Embarrass Administration to
imperil Railroads.

Washington, March Con the ad-
journment of congress with important
legislation killed by a Republican
senate flibuster, President Wilson
issued a statement declaring that "a
group of men in the senate have de-
liberately chosen to embarrass the ad-
ministration of the government, to i'm
peril'the financial interests of the rail-
way systems of the country"
The presidents statement follows:
"A group OF men in the senate have
deliberately chosen to embarrass the
administration of the government, to
imperil the financial interests of the
railway systems of the country and
make arbitrary use of powers intended
to be employed in the interest of the
people.
ut is plainly my present duty to at
tend the peace conference in Paris.
It is also my duty to be in close con
tact with the public business during
a session of the congress-. l must take
my choice between these two duties
and / confidently hope that the people
of the country will think that l am
making the right choice.
Holds Extra Session impossible.
ct is not in the interest of the right
conduct of public affairs that | should
call the congress in special session
while it is impossible for me to be in
Washington because of a more press.
ing duty elsewhere, to cooperate with
the houses. a
Il take it for. granted that the men
who have INSTRUCTED and prevented the
passage of necessary legislation have
taken all of this into consideration
and are willing to assume the RESPONSE
bility of the impaired efficiency of the
government and the embarrassed f.
nances of the country during the time
of M enforced absence"
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LOCAL NEWS.

PfeIre-Gov. Norbeck has decided
to appoint Frank NJ. Anderson. of
webster, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death. of Judge Bouck, OF the
Aberdeen-Miibank circuit.
Garryowen Probably the first
person in South Dakota to become
insane AZ the result Of an attack OF
influenza is Frank M. Lynch, a farm
er Of this vicinity. His mental con-
dition became SO serious that he had
to be taken before the county board
OF insanity, which ordered that he be
sent to the state hospital for the in
sane at Yankton.
Mission Hia-Norman "a. Nielsen,
of Mission Hill. has in his possession
- I family heirloom an old revolver
which bears the Inscription, Pre-
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aries of South Dakota, formerly To-
Gated at Parker and who has served
on seven fronts with a New York reg
iment in France, has been invalided
home, according to word received by
Rt. Rev. Bishop O'Gorman yesterday.
Lieut.. O'Mahoney vas brought to
New York several days ago and plac-
ed in a hospital and has since been
sent to a hospital at Hot Springs,
Ark, to from shell shock
and gassing. He expects to return
to South Dakota as soon as he is
strong enough. He writes he is inn
proving.
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SUNDAY SCHOOLS
ANNUAL CONVENTION FOR LAKE
COUNTY NEXT SUNDAY.

The annual convention of the
South Dakota Sunday School associa-
tion for Lake county will be held at
the high school auditorium in Madi-
son next Sunday, March 8.
Officers of the Association. l..
Burnett, president; Rev. w. S. Ar
gov. vice president; F. j. Mundt,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Department Superintendents-Ele-
m%entary, Mrs. II. w. Brown; second
airy, Mrs. Daisy Ainsworth; adult, w.
w. Walters; temperance. Rev. j. T..
Booth; missionary, II. j. Wesseling.
The following Sunday schools of
Lake county are members of this as
ISOLATION: First Baptist, German
Baptist, First Methodist, First Pres
byterian. Madison; Congregational,
Winfred; Methodist, Chester; Yer
million Valley, Clarno; Presbyterian,
Wentworth; Tabor Evangelical, RAJ
mona; Methodist, Junius.\
The prize loving cup now held by
the Ramona Sunday school, will be
awarded to the Sunday school having
the largest delegation present, same
to be based on their enrolment of
scholars as given in last annual re-
port. This applies only to Sunday
schools outside of Madison, as Mad
ison does not compete.
The following program will be OBJ
served al Sundays convention:
Afternoon
2:30. Community Song Fest, w.
w. Water, leader. Scripture Read
ing and Prayer. Rev. L. L. Mann.
500. Address, Adult Bible
Glasses, ]. j. Hull, state represents
tive from Portland, Me.
3:45. Solo, Mrs. c.. H. RI Hovde.
$3.50. Secretary's Report
400. Business session followed
by address, Pres. II. K. Warren,
Yankton college. Yankton.
Evening
1880. Song Service, Prof. r.. II.
Kendrick, leader. Devotional, Rev.
II. w. Minish.
500. The Sunday Schools Evan
gelistic Opportunity, Rev. w. s. Ar
gov.
Special Music.
Our Annual Free Offering.
$40. Convention Address, Pres,
H. X. Warren, Yankton college
Yankton.
Adjournment.
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Daylight Saving Again Assured.

Washington, March 6.-Failure Of
Congress before final adjournment to-
day to take any action on pending bills
providing for repeal of the daylight
saving act made certain that the Ia
TONS clocks again would be advanced
an hour during the period between the
last Sunday in March and the last
Sunday in October. Opposition Of
farming interests to the act led to the
Introduction of several bills providing
for its repeal, but all of them failed.
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CONSIDER THIS WOMAN's CASE.

Mrs. A. l.. DeVine, Of Los Angeles,
Cal, says: after / had suffered
from a female trouble for years, not
being able to do my ~housework, or
get any relief from doctors, Lydia f..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
made me a well woman, and | want
to tell the world the good this med
Iicine does" This woman is perfect
Ily justified, and should be commend
ed for telling others how she regain
ed hen health.
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LETTER TO IRISH SOCIETY
Sim Eein Leader Has Faith in Presi-
dent Wilson.

London, March 5.-At a meeting Of
the ultra-Nationalist Irish society in
London a letter from Edward de Val
era, the Sim Fein leader. who recent
ly escaped from Lincoln prison, writ
ten in cipher, was read. The letter
contained the following advice to the
society:
Pronounce no opinion on President
Wilson. 1t is premature, for he and
his friends will bear our country in
mind at the crucial hour
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SIOUX CITY LAVE STOCK MARKET

Sioux City, March 6.-The wal
trade board. having lifted all restric-,
tions on the export of pork and pork
products, the food administration an
hal no further hog prices
would be fixed.
Lifting of the pork Embargo be-
ome effective today.
With today's advance prices
mounted to the highest level of the
year, in general the market today
was around zoe higher than yester-
day from the opening, with the close
lower.
Top hogs sold at SITS and the
bulk of sales was made at 1880
1850.
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We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
To- any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. ]. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, O.
We. the undersigned. have known f.
J. Cheney for the last is years. and be-
ueve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out my obligations made
by his firm.
National Bank of Commerce, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure IL taken Internal
ly. acting directly Upon the blood and
-monials sent free. Price IS cents Der
bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take
Halls Family Pills for coDstipat.5n.-
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~ nNr.-
DAILY MAnNEi kePORI
Minneapolis Grain.

Minneapolis, March Oats, May,
59Kc. Rye, May, s1.47. Barley,
choice, 84989c. Corn, No: 3 white,
$1.25@1.26; No. 8 yellow, $1.29@1.3 80,
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SCHOOL BILL PASSED
MEASURE ALLOWS BIG SUM FOR
RURAL INSTITUTIONS.

Pierre, March 6.-The house of
the South Dakota legislature passed
the senate bill appropriating $685.
900 state aid to consolidated rural
schools, making that amount avail
able for the next two years. They
took up the state stock yards bill by
Grace. of Buffalo. and it is ready for
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New Tyne Of Wireless Phone.

London. March Experiments in
q new type OF wireless telephony are
SO far advanced that it is hoped with
in a few weeks 1t will be possible to
speak between London and New York.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-06
BOASTS SECURITY LEAGUE
House COMMITTEES says 1t Violated

House Committee Says II Violated
Corrupt Practices Act.
Washington, March 5.-The National
Security league violated the corrupt
practices act in not reporting contribu.
tons, the special house committee de-
clared in its report, submitted. 1t
criticised the league severely on ac-
tivities of the organization in the last
campaign.
: Capitalists, mary Of whom made
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while the establishment of a regular
commercial service by wireless tele-
phone between London and New York
early next year is expected by the Mar
conf company, according to a state
ment by Godfrey C. Isaacs, managing
director of the Marconi Wireless COM
pany to a correspondent of the Daily
Mail.
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chicaoo Live Stock,

Chicago, March Gu. S. Bureau OF
Markets.) - Cattle-Receipts, $4,000;
beef cattle, good, choice and prime,
$16.35@20; common and medium,
$1O.5O616.35; butcher stock, cows and
heifers, 81. 5O0l5.50; Gamers and cut
tiers, $6.25Q7.50; stockers and feeders,
good, choice and prime, s11.40015; in
ferior, common and medium, $3.50
lao: veal calves, good and choice,
$17.25@1S.
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Wanted. To hear from owner OF
good farm for sale. State cash price
and full descripMon.-D. f.. Bush,
Minneapolis, Mimi. .
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CARAVAN SUCCEEDS PALMER
President Names New Yorker Alien
Property Custodian.

Washington, March 5.-Francis P.
Garvan of New York city was ap-
pointed by President Wilson as alien
property custodian, to succeed A.
Mitchell Palmer, who becomes attor-
ney general. Mr.. Garvan has been d.
rector of the bureau of investigation
in the custodian's office, and has been
largely instrumental in establishing
enemy interests in many corporations
over the country.
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Minneapolis Butter, Eggs and Poultry.

Minneapolis Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Minneapolis, March g. BUTTER
Extra, 53c; extra firsts, soc; firsts,
49c; seconds, 4Sc; diaries, $780,. pack
ing stock, 33c.
EGGS - Fresh, prime firsts, new
cases, free from rots, small, dirties and
checks out, per dog, 40c; current re.
ceipts, rOts out, $11.40; checks and
seconds, dOz, SIC; dirties, candled,
doz, SIC; quotations on eggs include
cases.
LIVE POULTRY-Turkeys, fat, 10
lbs and over, Csc; thin, small. cripples
and culls, unstable; stays and cocks,
Zoe: ducks, 2ac: geese. NJ. Zoe; hens.
4 lbs and over, 27c; under 4 lbs, 23c;
springs, young. smooth, 25c; guineas,
dog. IS.