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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18
ITALY HARD HIT
BY COAL famine
All Other Problems Pale Before
Paralysis Of Big
industries
LACK OF FUEL STOPS WORK
Nation viii BE Ruined " Aid 10 Long
Withheid-Price Of Coal 10 $50
q Ton When II is to BE
Had at All.

Rome.-Italians are struck by the
similarity of problems which face cit
izens of this small country and of the
big, rich and most prosperous United
States. They read of food ~profiteering.
of rent profiteering, of railroad defi-
cits, rub their eyes and exclaim: SIS
1t possible that even America, that
gold-mine amongst countries, has
these worries, just as we have?" Even
the Italian public school teachers
strike which has driven millions of
mothers to distraction, seems to have
a faint reflection on the other side.
But one problem here has no coun-
terpart In America. 1t is the coal fam
Inc. This Is the worst trouble this
country has to face. Everything else
pales before II, for the lack Of coal Is
paralyzing industry, closing factories
and casting thousands Of men and wo-
men out of employment. People who
listen with or without approval, to
D'Annunzio's wild diatribes against
Americans and especially against Pres
ident Wilson, know ut the back of their
minds that only the coal famine really
matters.
Coal Scarcity Threatens Ruin.
Every thinking man and woman here
knows that unless the coal famine is
stopped, ruin will soon stare Italy In
the face. Her coal supply which must
be entirely imported. Is enough
to last for more than a few weeks.
Italy pays $50 a ton for coal that
costs SIS I'm France, $40 In England
and So I'm Germany. The Italian gov
eminent has tried to get big coal con-
tracts with American mine owners.
American coal, at the pits mouth is
cheaper than any other. But Italy IAN
not get the transports except at such
rates that make American coal a pro-
hibitive luxury. Italy had no coal
mines destroyed during the war, be-
cause she had none to be destroyed, 1t
ally has suffered from coal shortage
worse than any other country, and still
suffers.
Lack Of Coal Basis Of Problems.
The question Is like a magic circle
you go round and round all the prob
lens which are causing strikes
throughout the country-dear living
lack of raw materials, transports
dear foreign money. and you always
get back to coal. Without coal there
are no industries, without industries
there are no exports, without exports
there Is no money. And so 1t goes on
Discomfort with economic conditions
Is general. yet Italy has no coal al
hame and no transports to go and
fetch 1t from America. where she
could get 1t cheaper than anywhere
else.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18
Prospector Wants to
Dig Up Old Gold Bar

Topeka, Kan. - James Fore
man, SO, one of the old pioneer
settlers Of Salina, created some
comment there when he de-
clared that there was a bar OF
pure gold beneath the street car
track on Santa Fee avenue-that
1t was a bar of gold taken from
him In the early days and
buried. He Is now In Salina for
the purpose of getting the gold,
but he can't get permission of
the president of the street car
company to do any digging
around the tracks. Foreman
says the president of the al
company knows exactly where
the bar is, because he told him.
Local officers succeeded In To-
eating a sister and a brother of
Foreman in Indiana, and they
have been notified to look after
their brother. In the meantime
the county is keeping Foreman
and paying the bill Of expense,
but Foreman says when he gets
his bar Of gold he will repay the
county and have a comfortable
fortune left.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18
VISIT RoME's RUINS BY AFT
italian Navy Establishes DirigibIe
Service Of Aircraft for Use
Daily.

Rome.-American tourists may here
after visit Roman ruins-the Coliseum.
Forum. Pantheon, Caraballa baths and
the basilica of Constantine, st. Peters
and other Roman gems, not In anti
quated horse-drawn carriages, but In
airships. The Italian navy has estab-
lished a commercial dirigible service
for visiting Rome and its e~nvirons
from the air. The venture has met
with complete success, for daily the
aircraft are filed to capacity. The cor
respondent Of me Associated Press
viewed Rome from the Italian navy'a
dirigible Nj.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18
THE CITY.
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Social dance at Lake Madison
Tuesday evening, Aug. 10. Music by
that poppy Pipestone orchestra.
For Sale. Sand and gravel.-Claus
Hexom.
Wanted. Position by lady stenog-
raper. Call at this office.
Upholstering and trimming auto
mobiles. Over Browns garage.-A.
T. ireland.
For Sale. 1918 Buick four road
ster.-Dr. Willoughby, Winfred, S. ID.
Wanted at Once. Ten good houses
In Madison. III you want to sell your
home, call ON me. Let III put Ii on
our list. We get results. For a cash
deal, see +. j. Mundt.
For Sael. Well located modern
house. Phone $500.
For Sale. Waterloo Boy tractor
with three-bottom plow.-Ed. Bar
tells, phone 1907.
Social dance at Lake Madison
Tuesday evening. Aug, 10. Music by
that poppy Pipestone orchestra.
Piano for rent.-H. C. Ball, phone
2124.
Patronize Clark's barber shop.
Patronize Buds place. Coolest ice
cream parlor In town.
He is not giving her the best un-
less he treats her to Fem Bros ice
cream at Osborn's.
Rays restaurant open all night.
Meals 35c.
Let us show you and price fixtures
of all kinds. Madison Electric Shop
phone 2192.
S5 In cash for any person bringing
to my store a standard make watch
canno: repair.-Guy e. Hanson.
All kinds electrical time savers al
the Madison Electric Shop. Phone
2132.
When your a doesn't work prop
erly, go to Laughlin's garage.
Buy IL from Guy Il. Hanson, n II
10 diamonds or watches. where you
find the largest assortment.
House wiring and repairing a spe
cialty. Phone 2192, Madison Elec
trio Shop.
Wanted. Good girl for genera
homework. Good wages.-Mrs. Jo'
Ryan.
Have your car, tractor or truck re
paired at Laughlin's garage.
Shave ut the o. X.
For Sale. My house and three lots
Easy terms.-Dr. Daniels.
The Daily Leader gives all thu
scription list and get the hest.
For Sale. Three dwellings an'
five quarters of land; improved.-A
e. Fuller.
We shall be pleased to list city res
idence and other property. There ar
many calls for residences. We will
give the sale of your house GU
prompt personal attention.-Lak
County Land Co., Inc, phone 220S.
A new shipment OF waists at Mrs
Struble's Ready-to-Wear Shop.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18

See Rensch Hardware Co. for sug-
gestions on how to ave fuel. If you
could get fuel at a reduction of from
one-third to one-half you would Ger.
tainly be interested. Saving one
third TO one-half your fuel amounts
to the same thing. See Rensch Hard
ware Co., the fuel saving experts, and
let them tell you how II can be done
The Mission Circle OF the Baptist
church will meet Wednesday after
loon with Mrs. j. E. Petheram.
Wanted. Two mattresses at Rays
restaurant.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18

here with her mother, Mrs. E.. G..
Sims, since Saturday.
Mrs. Jas. Bramley and three chill
dren departed this forenoon for Earl
vile, Ia, after an extended visit of
several weeks with Mrs. Bramley's
mother, Mrs. w. G.. Abbott.
Mrs. S. E. Woolworth departed
this forenoon for her home al Jack
son, Mimi. She has been in the city
for three weeks calling on her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mabel Dovenberg.
Misses Sada and Irene Weber,
also Miss Katheryn O'Brien returned
today to their college work at Sioux
Falls following a pleasant Sunday
visit here with their parents.
Miss Clara Dahl went east by a
morning train to Minneapolis after
attending the funeral services held
in this city yesterday afternoon fol
her deceased brother, Albert Dahl.
Miss Queen Bell, who was the
guest for a week of Mrs. George
Kehrwald, departed in the fore part
of the day for her home at Dennison,
la.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Dahl, who were
i'm the city to attend the funeral Of
the formers late brother, Albert
Dahl, returned to their home al
Bryant by an afternoon train.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Motley and two
daughters departed today for Mime
apolis and st. Paul. For the pas
ten days they have been entertained
at the home of Rev. and Mrs. C. Nc.
Kibbin. Winnipeg. Canada, is theil
place of residence.
Mrs. Richard Walden and Mrs. N
r. Walden and daughter, Miss Mary
made their departure today fol
Lanesboro, Mimi. They have beer
receiving the extended hospitality o.
the Walden and Berther families fol
the past two weeks.
ID. r. Perrin and family were
morning departures for Cherokee, la
These people have been in the cit.
for a week calling on a brother-in
law, L. l.. Moothart. Mr.. Perrin ha'
not been in Madison for eight years
He was greatly surprised at the gen
eral improvements found everywhere
especially at the large number of fins
new dwelling and business blocks
that have been erected within tn
past few years. The fine smooth paw
ing on Egan enu seemed to MI
Perrin the greatest of all the i'm
provements made.
The funeral of the late Albert O
Dahl, of Plaza, N. D., was held iron
the Trinity Lutheran church yester
day afternoon and was largely at
tended by friends of the family. TIL
Rev. G. A. Solberg, pastor, preache'
the sermon, his comforting word
based on the faith of Job, Il kno,
that my Redeemer liveth." Mis-
Myrtle Bornstad sang two beautifu
solos, Miss Edna Sogn, piano accom-
PIANIST. The pail bearers were Messrs
N. Bornstad, Andrew Nesheim, Henri
HOLE, liver Brorby, Hans Urdahl an
p. j. Hoidal. Burial was in Grace
land cemetery, the profusion of flow
ers Sent to the church by friends be
ing placed in the grave with the cas-
ket.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18
AUCTION SALE

will sell at public auction, on the
lawn at my residence, 314 Liberty
avenue NJ, Saturday, Aug. %, at 2
O'Clock p. M, my new household
furniture, including everything in the
housekeeping line.-O. A. Augustad.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18
NOTICE.

Bob's special Scalp Ease is now on
sale at the o. X. barber shop. Abso-
lutely guaranteed to cure dandruff
and stop falling hair. Come in and
let us explain 1t to you.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18
War ShipbuiIding Loss
Is Billion and Halt

Washington. - The United
States win have to write off on
Its books a loss Of approximate
ly 81, 500, 600, 900 on account of its
merchant shipbuilding program,
It was said by congressman ia
miliar with the merchant ma
rine problems that confronted
this country at the beginning of
the war, and the herculean
efforts made by the government
during the wal to supply the
needed ships.
Had the war lasted another
year the advantages and bene-
fits Of this wonderful effort and
vast outlay of money would
have been clearly apparent 10
ALL" commented Representative
Alexander, former chairman of
the house merchant marine
committee.
Alexander Is assisting In shap-
Ing a permanent national mer-
chant shipping policy and In
fashioning legislation that will
guide the country In its future
handling Of the great fleet of
merchant ships 1t now owns and
may continue to own for some
years to come.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
omans New Duty-Settng Americas House in Or

draft it became manifest that one
OF the greatest handicaps to swift
mobilization lay In the inability Of
thousands Of men to understand Eng
llsh commands or to read camp direc
tions.
DR.. Claxton, head Of the Federal
Board Of Education, tells of the re-
quest of one commander for a machine
gun corps. Out Of the group sent him
one hundred and thirty seven men had
to be sent back to be taught suni
Gent English TO read their instructions.
Army figures for drafted men showed
that ono quarter Of the 1,552,256 men
examined were unable to read Ameri
can newspapers or to write home to
their families. They were unable to
understand the signs posted about the
camps or the written orders from
headquarters
In the first draft, thirty to forty
thousand men hampcrcd the speeding
up OF the army preparations because
they could not sign their own names
read their manual Of arms, understand
signals Or follow the signal corps in
time Of battle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

thoroughly informed on federal, state
and local problems.
To this end, make the following
nine proposals for better America:
I. Compulsory Education in Euery
State.
Most Of our educational Laws are now
inadequate and the period Of school
attendance is not sufficiently enforced.
Schools or teachers should be furnished
the remctcr sections OF the country;
and there should be definite period
set beyond which not one child over
fourteen should be found in this
country who cannot read or write.
And that time ought not to be far off
not later than 1925.
II. Education of Adults.
This is an end which will be difficule
10 attain, since adult illiteratcs are
apt to be apathetc about learning
Extension courses in the public schools
will not be enough to arouse the am
bition of those wearied by a hard
days work. But the flip to ambi-
ton from knowing that American
citizenship depends upon it. should
help to awaken eagerness for the study
of American institutions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

Jones" and her mixers in brown nil.
grim cloaks, who had travelled on foo
all the way from New York to present
to the new Democratic President on thu
day Of his Inauguration the petition Of
women for democracy.
Woodrow Wilson arrived in Wash.
ington on the afternoon before his
Inauguration.
where are all the people? ," he
asked, gazing blankly at the almost
empty streets.
"Oh, everybody's over on the ave-
nue. looking at the suffragettes," an
swered the reception con,mittee.
This parade was the first "militancy'
in Westinghouse militancy which con-
sisted merely Of parades and pageants
and visitors at the White House who
insisted on seeing the President. Sedate
Washington, however, was much
stirred, and the affairs attracted much
attention in the press of the entire
country. Mrs. Gait and DR.. Shaw,
startled at the energy of their young
assistants, tried to curb them, but the
two youngsters had worked with Mrs.
Pankhurst, and they cared not a fig
for the decorum of Washington. They
broke away from the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association and
from the Congressional Union, attract
ing to their ranks the malcontents and
radicals from the mother organization,
and swinging into line also a number
of newcomers in the suffrage world
The real break, however-the break
which broke hearts as we'll as suffrage
letterheads-the break which made the
peculiar contribution of the Congress
sional Union to suffrage annals-a con-
tribution whose value to suffrage is
going to be debatable until the final
authority speaks many years from
now-was Alice Paul's invention of the
theory of party responsibility.
"The Democratic party is in power"
said Miss Paul, therefore it is up
to the Democrats to pass our bill.
The Republicans couldn't do it if we
asked them to. We will hold the
Democrats responsible, and if they
don't pass our bill we shall defeat
them for reelection"
In the Congressional elections of
1914 the Congressional Union orga
nized the women voters of the West
into fighting group, who campagned
against all Democratic candidates, for
the one reason that the Democrats had
not passed the suffrage amendment.
Undoubtedly the Congressional Union
made enemies.
DR.. Shaw with tears in her eyes
cried:
"They have lost our amendment for
us! shall never forgive them!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

permit the interruption of work by
education classes.
When the war ended the task of
Americanization was still incomplete.
Soldiers and ammunition workers have
come back to q peace programme and
to the pcrils and friction of recon
struction but dimly understanding the
meaning Of the democracy which they
fought to save and which they must
now work to protect and CHERISH
1t is right at this point that the
women Of the country have sad knowl~
edge Of the use which may be made Of
the illiterate vote to defeat righteous
ends
Read the lists Of referenda through
which state after state has passed to
gain the ballot for it's women. Often
paigns have been descendants Of
Revolutionary ancestors. In their veins
has flowed perhaps the blood of the
very men who devised and created
stood powerlcss beside the polling
booths while illtcrate men, often only
few years in this country, have been
voted in blocks against them.
These new citizens, drifting into this
country through the naturalization
courts, whence they emerge at voting
citizens, without knowing how or why,
tire often the articulate voice of an in
visible government which somehow
manages to speak its will through
them.
In the whirlwnd campaigns con-
mon to dcmocraces the final frenzy
FOR success makes men turn to strange
and hhrricd methods to gain it. They
ind themselves driven into last
minute compromise and unholy alli-
anccs In order to turn votes this way
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Impressive
Oath

VII Erery Citizen, Male or Female
Notlue or Foreign Born. Educated
or Ignorant, Should Take an I'M
press've Oath Of Allegiance to the
United States as One Qualification
for the Vote.
VII. There Should Be Schools Of Ctn-
zemshir in Every Rural School Dis
t''ict and City Ward ~ Conjunction
Nth the Pubic School,
Attendance should be made com
pulsory for all youth and would be to
all intents and purposes compulsory
for adults if certificate from such a
school were made qualification for
naturalization and for the vote.
Such schools, with the effectiveness
OF their programmes proved and with
their functions coordinated with the
naturalization Courts and election
boards, would doubtless require q gen
GRAFTON for effectiveness, but if national
support could be given this ideal a
certificate of citizenship ought event
ually to become the proudest token of
successfully applied democracy.
TX. There Should Be an Educn .ioyoJ
Qualification for Every Voter in the
United States After Desnit. Oar,
inns test ought to be sufficiently
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

thorough TO signify real intelligence
and to eliminate any need for EN-
blems on the ballot TO guide The voter
to his party ticket.
There is in these United States a
rapidly increasing number Of women
who arc full voters. partial voters or
near voters. These women haze not
only striven for their citizen rights as
no other group ~ the United States
has ever striven, but, in thousands Of
instances, they are daughters ANA
granddaughters of other women Who
have longed and worked for the bal
lot. In proportion as they have worked
the significance OF the symbol Of
political freedom has become OF I'M
portance. These women can never es-
TEEN lightly or treat with unconcern
the citizenship which it has cost them
time and energy and sacrifice 10 OBJ
tain. Neither viii they train their
sons to regard as purchassole or neg
ligihle this gilt bought at e great
price.
Il is to these millions Of new w.
men citizens. whole-hearted for Amer
lean betterment. that the nation must
look for aid, and they are willing to
give that aid.
They are equipped to give it. Taey
are democracy-conscious as no Other
group is conscious.
In hundreds Of thousands of cases
they are the mothers of BOYS who
fought for the world freedom, and to
whom that fight was more sacred be-
cause Of their mothers belief in HUI
man freedom
Within four months women Of eight
states have been granted the right "a
vote Tor the President of the United
States Within six months the women
OF three other states have been granted
suffrage on equal terms with men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Women
viii Lead

There are organizations Of women,
whose vision is broad, who are eager
and willing to enlist themselves in
the patriotic service of creating a bet
ter national spirit, who could and
would give a sympathetic and under
standing leadership to such a move
ment Much has been done, u -
great handicaps, by these women. How
much more might be done if they had
the support of national policy to
sustain them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

III. English Should Be Our National
language.
This does not maan that the knowl-
edge of other languages needed in
commercial and diplomatic positions
should be taken cut of our public
schools. 1t does mean that no school.
public or private, giving courses Of
general education, should be conduct
cd in any language other than ENGLISH.
During the war it was discovered that
there were large numbers Of public
schools in rural districts conducted in
the German language and where no
word Of English was spoken.
". There Should Be Higher QuaNfca-
ti0ns for Citizenship and More In,-
pressiye Ceremonies of Naturaliza.
ton.
Our naturalization law is more than
hundred years DID, and has been
but slightly modified since it was
drawn up. In the meanwhile our i'm
migration has become gigantic, its
problems complicated and immense.
What began is 4 small stream of new
corners to this country, with interests
differing but slightly from those of
the native stock, had become, just be-
fore the war, practically unrestricted
and Immensely diverse. Our naturali
zaton law needs amending.
7. There Should Be Direct Citizenship
for Women, Not the Present Indi-
rect Method 1p Which Women Nay
Be QaalNed to Vote Through Citi-
Senship 6y Narriage.
Woman's qualification for the bal
lot should include individual natu-
ral'zation, compelling the wife to at
tam the same degree Of intelligence
Tor her duties as has her husband.
W. Education In citizenship Should Be
Extended to the Forefgu-born
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
"MiraCIe.
Perhaps"

1t Is miracle, perhaps, that so
hampered America made such progress
az she did. But what might she not
have done had this handicap not
existed7
Quickly organized efforts to teach
these soldiers In few weeks what
they should have known before the
war began wcre phenomcnally success
fu|, yet there were some factories.
where huge government orders we're
being rushed, whose owners would not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

AM for the vote have had occa-
y sion to know we'll how
great is the menace to
american institutions from an illiterate
hon-hnglish speaking electorate
These women did not wait to be
awakened by world war which should
laH the national consciousness almost
70 the breaking point They had met
the slack spots in American citizenship
before. They had seen groups of men,
unable to read or speak the English
language, marshallcd TO the polls to
defeat the ideals of freedom for which.
az americana born women Of democratic
ancestry, they had long struggled.
when the National American Woman
outrage Association made it's offer Of
ssF|ice to the United States Govern
Mens IN February, 1917, its programme
'"'Vnszized the need 81 a campaign of
decentralization, which at that earlv
ssase u the war WAS elsewhere gem
crazy looked upon AZ of slight i'm
o'stance. One governmental officer
S'seFeo openly at the idea that Aneri-
'~"ization was needed in war prepara-
sien.
Ha' the Nationai's prediction, based
y" "omsn's experience all over the
.''"'FT' proved correct II wss not
''hx oefors the Federal autboritjsr
we're appealing 10 Governors and state
councils OF defence 10 push forward
'"'s movement, and n national Amer;.
.1'''~@'''n conference was called BIZ
'hs government.
what was the reason?
A'most az soon as practical efforts
sh 70 mould into homogeneous
-'"y me mass Of men gathered bv N.