The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
p. A. BLISS PUB.

INC ~ SItCiS pI I'ACktdS
ing living costs and wages. BY a bin
which has already passed the assembly. a
scale OF living costs Is TO be formulated
by the board OF trade. The maintainsnc<
OF the children OF workers will be met by
payments from a fund administered by
the government. Employees receiving not
more than SIS above the declared living
wage, VIII he paid the rult amount ascer-
tained 10 be the cost OF maintaining eaci
child, The fund Is TO Ire established by
monthly payments from employers. exch
employer paying in proportion 10 his aver
ASc daily number OF employees. No pay
naenss are DUE on account OF children OF
employees who are 90 strike. The bin will
nppay 10 practically ali employees who's
esrEstntss 30 not exceed s. annually.
The following facts regarding the mag
nitude 81 The reconstruction task con-
front the French minister OF the liberated
regions: Building work alone would re-
auire ZOO. 900 tons OF Material and the
labor of 10000 people fer one year; l0o. 900
houses are to be entirely rebuilt, requir-
ing 5,ooo. 900, 600 bricks. 100000 cubic meters
of sand, 100000 tons of lime. 10000
square meters nf ,iGes ard , anA nAa c"h.e
meters OF wood. Reconstruction OF high
ways and railroads would require 5000. o0s
tons Of materials. and the labor of Is 900
men for onc Year. An addition of 5000
trains and 500 trucks would be required.
The British ministry of health is plan
ming tG take over old army camps 10 pro-
vide sbeiter for families of deHaobllized
soldiers. Berlin Is said to be renting cells
OF the cid cits prison for living quarters.
Georgia tEurope) is sending q trade rep
resentativc 10 the United States TO ex-
plain that that country does not need
corsets and Silk stockings as much as it
does, iron. tools and seeds.
Insurance companies statistics show
the interesting facts that the city woman
OF 60 may hope to survive for 1905 years,
while the country woman OF that age may
expect TO live for l5,93 years more. At 70
the city woman may expect TO live S.9s |
years more. while the country woman
probably has 9.Ta. AT 30. the figures are: |
rural, $40; city, So But at 20. the city
woman may expect 3.ll years against only |
fa for the country woman.
There is a Sudden speeding UP in the
WORK al the two big muuition plants. II
Is runored that the critical Mexican situ-
alton may be behind the energetic actiy-
tiles. Agents we're here today seeking
former employees of the two establish
tnents and offering wartime wages to go
BACK 10 their former positions. say a dis
patch from Atlantic City.
DIR. Harvey ". Wiley. formerly of the
United States department of agriculture,
says everyone can live well on II cents a
say, Cor1lTaesl nush, and plenty OF it,
a. 4AS H3aGa!OI3 q the pfGu4ell- SIKH aD-
piled 10 the industry Of eating will bring
down costs" he declares. Eating is an
industry in which there are fewer skilled
iahorers than In any other"
Grstificetion over the amendment 10 the
limited States constitution forbidding the
sale OF liquor is expressed by Abraham
Effendi, Sfiiek-Ul-Islam. spiritual head OF
the Moslem church at C~onstantinople
Drink is the mother of all evil he said.
n n Inv frarn IL
fall"
Goods valued at II. 000. 900, 900 marks have
been struggled into Germany through a
mole in the west since last spring. IL
was stated at the office of Herr Wissel.
minister OF economics today. Scandina-
vians are engaged In handling American
and import business. officials
Rent payers of Berlin VINO are unable
10 OBTAIN heat or light owing to the short
age OF coal will receive a rebate of that
proportion of their rent which ordinarily
would pay for these comforts. A Berlin
has appointed a commission to
the SUM which shall be credited
@ TIE rent payers.
Speedy and satisfactory means of COM
and transportation between
the United States and South America are
me most important factors in the reaIiza-
ION OF an actual. concrete and. unsenti-
pan-Amerlcan relationship" SAYS
". Morgan. United States ambassa-
dor to Brazil.
More than $1,000. 0oo. 600 worth Of Liberty
ponus were bought by the treasury and
retired during the last is months, yield.
ING the government a profit of approx
nately 100000 and reducing the public
iebt.
A British Columbia company is prepar-
lig TO send ready made wooden houses to
Great Britain to help solve the acute
housing problem over there. The houses
being built ON a 6o-acre site In Van
Inc extra session the supreme court to-
lay returned indictments against 10 al
eyed anarchists. rounded up during re-
cent raids in New York. Names Of tho
PERSONS indicted were withheld, pending
arrest.
II you talk to one Rhineland German
ie abuses Prussia: II there are two Of
hem they make excuses for II; II there
ire three, they defend IT," is a contribu-
ore comment printed by the Echo dc
Paris.
For is said to be b. first time In
history the likeness OF q musician has .
peared on a postage stamp. It IL that az
lgnaee P~aderewski. president Of the Poll
repnblic on . new issue Of Polish
stamps.
Under contract TO supply the Evansville
municipal water works with coal, James
More. president and manager OF an
Esvensyiile mine. with i've Of his offca
men. dug moro than 40 tons OF coal In
their first days work
Wen 90 back to RurziA and ger Lenine
md Trotxky to appoint Us ambassadors To
the United States" says Emma Goldman.
The democratic national commits s
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