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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-11-27

help believing it exists when Attor-
ney General Palmer and Samuel Com
pers, who don't agree on anything
else under the sun, are in perfect har-
mony when it comes to entertaining
the ghost that has been soaring peo-
pie, every now and then. Meanwhile
Colonel Arthur Woods, formerly as
sistant to the Secretary of War, has
resigned his post of providing en-
ployment for returned soldiers, be-
cause the normal per cent of these
ment are back to work as usual At
the same time charity organizations
throughout the country find little at oil
for their services, and court records
show no abnormal per cent of law
lessness. 1t would seem that the
open season for rounding up the
reds" is about expired
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-11-27

istic interests across their knees and
padded them good; and the intelligent
observer must agree that the operation
was a fine thing for the country.
The wage-earners of the country
looked on at this performance and
applauded heartily. When the chas-
tisement commenced few clever la
Dor leaders started in to build up a
great organization, and under the mas
terful leadership of Samuel Gompers
they finally placed themselves In the
saddle during the period of war ex-
element American labor stood
squarely back of the government and
was loyal to the core. It registered
100 per cent In helping to win the war.
Meanwhile while lighting for democ-
racy in Europe the conviction settled
itself upon our nation that there
should be more equal distribution OF
1t among the laboring men in the
United States. A few labor leaders
mistaking the desire of the nation to
work out intelligent reforms in the
industrial situation, thought that their
Individual leadership was getting all
the applause. and in the cocksured-
ness that they were cit" they came
forward and def1antiy threatened ev-
erybody and everything that stood In
their pathway. The railroad brother
hoods went before congress and bold
ly threatened to "tie up the railroads
SO they never will run again" unless
their legislative schemes (which con-
gress believes to be wholly visionary
and nnsenndl were passed. The no.
lice Of many cities. including those in
the national capital. became trouble
some owing to their affiliation with
the American Federation OF Labor.
and brave governor in the old bay
state handled the Boston situation
in a way that was later overwhelm-
ingly approved by the voters Of Mas
sachusetts.
In the hops Of finding a better meth
cd than strikes and lockouts the presi-
dent of the United States assembled
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-11-27

gle between these classes. Defiance
OF the United States government al
ways has, and always will fall. A num-
ber of southern states tried it in the
early sixties and and found out their
mistake. Eugene V. Debs tried It
when he led the Pullman car strike
in 1894, and even though he was
backed by Governor Altgeld Of the
great state Of Illinois, Grover Cleve-
Ind as president of the United States,
gave a practical demonstration of
federal power that should have been
an object lesson to the strike leaders
and champions in 1919, not to heap
too many indignities upon Uncle Sam.
There are great object lessons to be
deducted from recent events, since
they have served to demonstrate that
capital and labor have failed in set
tling the differences that exist between
them. Both of them played the
naughty boy" act until their patient.
old Uncle Sam, lost his temper and
gave them their deserved spankings.
1t now remains to be seen whether the
government itself, having demonstrat-
ed its power, and convinced sceptical
people. that 1t, as the supreme govern
ment Of all the country. is bigger than
any one class, or two classes, or group
of classes. will find an intelligent way
to put an end to the foolish strikes
and lockouts that distress the coun-
try, and substitute therefor sort of
league of industry to settle the prob
lens Of employers and employees; for
strikes and lockouts, like those which
have thrown between one and two
million workmen out of employment
during recent weeks, are nothing more
than the militaristic notion that the
world is trying to supplant with peace
ful and constitutional methods.
The coal miners have. without
question, good grounds for complaint
against their employers. since the
conditions In the coal regions do not
properly take into account the rights
OF the workmen. The popular impress
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-11-27

sion that the miners are striking for
a shorter day is wrong; since their
contention is to provide steadier en-
ployment instead of sudden shut
downs, which the operators order
whenever the demand for coal slack
ems. This is one of the burdens that
the miners donot believe they should
be called upon to bear. Despite all
sorts of denials it has come gener-
ally to be believed that the operators
manipulate coal prices by juggling the
supply, and this belief is borne out
by voluminous figures and tables in
troduced into the Congressional Rec
ord by Senator Owen. The coal
miners and the public are always the
sufferers, and the miners want an
end put to the practice Of keeping
them in needless idleness for long
periods at time. The government
recognizes that 1t has a solemn duty
to perform in the coal regions, and IL
conditions are as they appear at this
writing it is probable that even in the
coal mines there will be beneficial ef-
fects from an era of "house-cleaning"
The coal mining crisis appears to be
clearing the atmosphere for better un-
derstandings between employers and
employees, and il the labor leaders
have thoroughly learned their lesson
real progress in bettering the indus
trial situation may be expected.
The usual periodical announcement
that the reds" Of the country are
becoming bold, and that they will be
rounded Gp By tho Department OF JUS
tice. followed few days later by
the news that someone-usually name
less, has been taken into custody.
has greeted all newspaper readers,
who have found the story in detail
under glaring headlines on the 'frst
page" With sighs Of satisfaction be-
cause they have been saved from be-
ing murdered in their beds. the citi-
xens of the country turn to speculat-
ing as to when all the "Bolshevism"
and unrest will be over. For who can
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-11-27

the representatives of capital and la
Dor in an industrial conference in
Washington, and at a critical time In
the proceedings President Wilson sent
a message from mis- sick room appealing
to the delegates to stick to the task
and bring about plan upon which en-
ployers and employees could operate
the industries of the country without
ances. Samuel Gompers and his group
of labor leaders threw deflnace to the
president, to the conference and to the
nation, and bolted; with the result that
the proceedings came to close. The
steel strike was at its height, and the
only prospect for betterment Of the
condition of the wage-earners in that
industry laid in the conference itself.
Next came the coal strike, and the
government again patiently counseled
against it, and offered every facility to-
secure justice for the disputants. The
leaders Of the strike detied the govern
ment, and Mr.. Gompers proved to be
the worst hornet Of all. This was the
same Samuel Gompers who has been
pointed out as the "sane leader" and
the great patriot" What happened
is too well known to need retelling,
and whether or not the attorney gen.
eral was Justified in invoking govern
ment by injunction" need not be dis
cussed here The final result is the
more important, and the only conclu-
sion is that the labor leaders blum
dered on, to their own undoing. The
labor leader got the same treatment
that was administered to autocratic
capitalists years ago. 1t was spank
ing number two. And they got 1t for
the same reason that It was inflicted
earlier In our history upon the capital.
Autocracy Of class is not "at home"
In America
Now. perhaps since capital and labor
have been brought to realize that they
are nst as big as the government OF
the United States, little common
sense may be injected into the strugI
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-11-27

The best and most complete assort-
ment of typewriter ribbons can be
found at the Register once.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15

famine are now under successful re-
lief and as high as 4,5OO tons of food
q day have been transported by rail
from Danzig to Warsaw.
when Mr.. Hoover's Investigators
went to Poland in 1919 they discovered
that the people had just enough food
to exist. The adult death rate was
double and triple the normal one and
that of children was four and five
times the normal
"The city of Lemberg, for instance,
mans but for the American relief ad-
ministration, which made it possible
for the defenders to hold out little
longer. The town had been surrounded
on three sides when Captain Chauncey
Mccormick arrived with the first ar
mored relief train on January 23.
There was no food for children in the
city and no water. Women stood at
the city drinking fountains for three
hours to get water and then stood
again for hours in the bitter cold
waiting for one litre of barley soup,
which was their only means Of exist
ence.
One-third of People Sick
"In the middle of March at Brest, in
the Brest-Pinsk district of Poland,
there was no milk nor meat whatever,
the American relief administration IN
vcstigator found. One-third of the
population was sick in bed. The sick
we're receiving no medical attention.
Nothing in the way of soup kitchens
or milk stations were operating, be-
cause of the entire lack of foodstuffs.
"At Pinsk the priest told lnvestiga-
tors that all of his time was taken up in
performing burials. The soup kitchens
were all closed because there was moth
ing with which to make soup. The
prison inmates had nothing to eat but
frozen potatoes. Refugees were herded
together IN churches and gathering
places In one room visited 200 people
were living and cases of typhus and
other sickness were kept without any
attempt at isolation.
Zone old lady visited by the Ameri
cans was given a twenty-mark note.
But as there was no food to be bought
she simply looked at the bill and said,
What am | going to do with this?'
Inhabitants Kiss Americans
1.-TWO weeks after the Americans first
won't to Pinsk they returned with five
Cars of American food. Soup kitchens
which had been closed the week before
were opened and fed 5000 people. AS
the Americans passed the inhabitants
kissed their coats and thanked them for
the -four which they had sent. The old
lady who had wondered what she could
do with the twenty marks given her
greeted the party with smiles. She
arose from the stove where she had
been cooking cruel, supplied by the
Relief and hugged every member of
the party. In the hospitals where the
patients before had had only infre-
quent rations of war bread they were
eating a wcll-made white bread and
drinking cups Of hot condensed milk
"The same rapid rehabilitation which
is being accomplished by the American
Relief Administration in Poland is be-
ing duplicated in the other countries
which need American food and Ameri-
can aid-in Armenia, Rumania, Czecho-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15
Slovakia, Serbia, Finland and the Baltic
States.
Thousands nf Ch;ldrar Sovod

A"ouednoS OF Children Saved
zone of the most remarkable phases
of American activity Of the present
day in Europe is the way children who
have suffered all through the war from
malnutrition are being restored to
health. In some parts of Rumania
and Poland the men of the Relief Ad-
mlnistration found that many children
were born weighing slightly over four
pounds. In some places the children
were too weak from lack of food to 20
to the soup kitchens which had been
provided for them. They were only
able to sit weakly on the street curb
ings and beg for help. During the
month of April the child feeding work
of the administration has been gen
orally distributed over the liberated
countries of Europe
"On return boats from the Near East
to the United States ARRANGEMENTS
have been made for cargoes of rugs,
carpets, tobacco and licorice. TO
further this work control of the rail
roads in Austria Hungary and other
states was given over to Mr.. Hoover,
who operated through trains to carry
food from coast states into the interior
when needed. He also borrowed cars
from different nationalities in proper
proportion, guaranteeing to return cars
after peace was established and inter
communication between countries was
put on firm and lasting basis"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15
Tariff Wall Needed
To Save Industry,
Warns MarcOssOn
German Dumping System
Declared to Menace New
Production Built Up as
an Outgrowth of the War

Unless a tariff wall is built up to
safeguard them, Americas new infant
Industries Of the war will be perpetu-
ally at the mercy of German dumping
system, according to Isaac F. Marcos
son, war correspondent, who spoke at
a luncheon meeting yesterday Of the
New York Board of Trade and Trans
portation.
I'VE can have no permanent dye, op-
tical glass, nor any other war-born in
dustry in which we have begun to
make ourselves independent of the
Germans, unless we give them ade-
quate protection,' he said. "This pro-
lection may be embodied first in a
system of licensing imports for the
next ten years. as England has done;
or preferably by rearing tariff wall
around these industries. Whatever DO
lltlcal party may be in power, it is
national necessity that such industries
be protected"
Referring to the significance of the
peace treaty to the world Of commerce.
Mr.. Marcosson said:
The peace treaty sterilized Ger
many's international trade aspirations.
1t is the best possible guarantee against
a Teutonic mllltaristic come-b back. The
German business machine and the
German war machine were always part
ners. BY restricting Germany's trade
colonization limitation automatically
IS put on her preparedness for war.
The document framed at Versailles
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15
Berlin Schools to Dust
Ex-Kaiser's Pictures

BERLIN, April 20 correspondence Of
The Associated Press).AMarble hnsts
paih'lngs' autographs and chromos
calculated to keep green the memories
OF the dethroned Hohenzollerns are to
be removed from public administration
buildings, schools and other official
premises in. Berlin, as result of the
resolution adopted by the Municipal
Council. p"'
The Democratic Deputies attempted
to shame the Radicals by telling them
that even the French refused to stoon
SO low as to remove the likenesses Of
the Sourbons and that Napoleon's tomb
was still revered shrine.
Just to what extent the resolution
affects the long rows of marbled H.
henzollerns which flank both sides of
the Avenue Of Victory, in the Tier
garten, is matter of conjecture.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15
Ride! It's
EshiIorafing
Winning a
Birdie---

You can ride in any one of
seven varieties of linen if
you choose your habit in our
Women's Suit Section.
There's coarse and swagger
burlap linen, softer butchers
linen, jasper linen, canvas
linen, linen crash, rep weave
linen and snow white linen.
Do you prefer a paddock
style habit, one with free
dom-giving pinchback, or one
with the new smart KNAPP
sack pockets? S19.74
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15
Training for New Officers
Camps Are To Be Opened This
Summer

WASHINGTON, May 14.-The six re-
serve officers training corps camps to
&c opened on June 81 are not for
officers now commissioned in the Army
Reserve Corps, but for members of the
various educational institutions having
reserve officers training corps units
These camps are intended to train
future reserve officers. There will be
a six weeks course at Camps Devins.
Lee, Zachary Taylor, Custer and Funs,
ton, and at the Preside, of San Fran
cisco.
Reserve officers will not be called
for training this year. Owing to the
absence of legislation affecting the re-
organization of the army, nothing more
definite concerning the annual training
for the reserve officers now holding
reserve commissions can be announced
at present.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15

and dyestuffs. The moment she saw
the handwriting on the wall she
framed scheme to employ them in
wringing moderate economic terms
from the Allies. So far as dyes are
concerned, any dumping of this stored
up German supply would work serious
hardship on new industry that we
have built up in this country at great
labor and expense"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15

Is a declaration of world commercial
independence. 1t proclaims new
economic freedom for Allied nations
and neutrals alike. No longer can
puffer economic state like Switzerland,
or near neighbor like Holland, be en-
ployed and coerced for Germany's self
ish business ends.
ut is no secret that Germany has
accumulated large supplies of potash
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15

We'll made blouses in a large va.
riety of silk and cotton mixtures,
mercerized fabrics and fine Madras.
The patterns are in clever youthful
effects, and the colorings are guar
anteed fast. Sizes 7 to 13.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15
Costumes That
'SerUe'' for Tennis

or golf include a sweater. 1t
may be coat sweater Of
luxurious silk in solid sport
colorings or dashing, bril-
liant hues. 1t may be a wool
sweater of any weight or
weave from the downy chif~
fon mohair to the sturdy
camp sweater. The price
range Of our sweaters is
$3.50 to S51.75.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-15

Because so successful in
other seasons, practically
all Of our stiff straws this
season are made flexible
where they fit the head.
Require no conforming.
The result is comfort
along with the customary
smartness that goes with
stiff brimned Splits and
Sennets.
Of course we've the other
k n d S, too - Panamas,
Bangkoks, Leghorns and
Milans.
Lighter clothing requires
the highest type of tailor
ing if it's to hold it's shape.
We've no fear for ours
because we're our own
manufacturers.
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadway Broadway
at 18th St. -Four at 34th St.
Convenient
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.
at Warren at 41st St.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-12

I do not aim to be prudish. but
we must draw the line somewhere
to save appearances.
First Fur Draws Crowd.
The first fur trimmed bathing
suit created quite a furore here
IL was worn by a prominent Phil
adelphia society girl on the ex
elusive beach directly in front of
the new Hotel Ambassador, which
is in the QuakeF-controlled resi-
dental section OF Chelsea. When
this young woman made her APP
pearance on the beach she attract
ed a crowd OF the proletariot, much
TO the discontinue OF the gorge
ously plumed footman In front OF
the fashionable Ambassador. Event
ually the young WOman's mama
took her under her protecting wing
and into the hotel away from the
gaze of the curious.
Apropos OF FUR lined and other
new style bathing regalia, the
beaches in front of all the great
hotels here are crowded daily with
both fair and unfair bathers New
er before has Atlantic City been
so crowded as il is this summer,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-12

inscn. serior warden of the church
and Ben Doonan, the church treas
urer
following - laying of the stone
a parish dinner was ssl sed on the
Iectory lawn, 103 people sitting
down at the two long tables CON
tanning all manner of good things
20 eat.
After the dinner, Miss Emma
Johnston, in behalf of the parish,
welcomed the bishop, his wife aud
daughter in very appropriate words.
Miss Johnston outlined the history
of the endeavors of the parish to
build a new edifice, making a kind
ly reference to the labors of the
Rev. Albert H. Head, the minister
in charge.
Benjamin Doonan. treasurer of
the church and building committee.
then presented the bishop with a
goIG trowel as d memento of the
occasion in a short but we'll worded
address.
Mrs. John Blake!ey, principal of
schools at Tiskilwa, made a spien-
aid address to the bishop in behalf
Ct the visitors.
The bishop in his reply touched
upon the hospitality re had always
found in the parish amongst the
people. paid tribute to those who
in recent years had passed beyond
and in well chosen words expressed
MS appreciation Ut the gift of the
tTowel
Sees Three Built.
1t was red letter day in the his
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-12

treated that it revives Immediately
in the gay sunshine after icing i'm
mersed in old Neptune's domain.
Ffshy bathing suits are swim
ming right into favor. Denizens OF
the deep, in brilliant coloring
characteristic of FISH caught in the
tropics, are used effectively on
black silk suits Sometimes the
surf rig is perfectly plain with the
fish motif introduced on the rub
Der caps and stockings. Ore piece
bathing suits will be tabooed at the
shore next summer. Early notice
was served this week so that mi
lady will have no excuse as to
ignorance of the stern edict. This
warning was given out as a guide
10 manufacturers of stylish bath
ing rainment for fair femininity
Bare knees are also taboo. Dr.
Charles L. Bossert, chief beach
censor, says: I'VE will not toler-
ate one-piece bathing suits for
women as long as I am in charge
of the bathing grounds. The body
must be adequately covered. The
rule for the wearing of stockings
by women will continue in force.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-12
NEGRO VICTIM OF
UNFORTUNATE DAY
HE TELLS POLICE

Riley Parker, colored, names yes
terday as the most unfortunate day
of his life.
Parker told the police when APP
pearing on a charge of drunkenness
that he started out the day with
s135. After participating in sew
eral crap games and drinking sew
eral pints his sum had gradually
dwindled. By the time the police
got him. he only had enough to pay
a fine of $S.15, he himself being left
with a small amount of change.
Oscar Roth, another arraigned
for drunkenness. paid $S.15. He
was arrested by P. o. Wilson, Rock
Island arsenal guard.
Joe Jenkins paid IS and costs for
disorder1y conduct, while two 9th
ers. James Darmott and r. E. Nc
Call, were dismissed on the same
charge. Darmott was brought up
on complaint by Miss Mary Rails
beck Mccall, although dismissed,
pajd the costs Of the court. -
One speeder, Earnest Sox. was
assessed SIS and costs by Police
Magistrate D. ]. Cleland.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-12

tory of ST Johns parish. all the
old folks attending in mass, among
whom was a very well known fig
ure, John Johnston, better known
as Uncle Johnny" or Johnny in the
Woods" Mr.. Johnston who, despite
being over 80. is in perfect health
and very active, has now seen three
churches started in the district.
Grace church, Bowling. st. Johns,
Presumption, and now has witnessed
TIE corner stone laying OF the third,
iaat of the new St. Johns. II is
hoped that the church will be con-
secrated sometime in November,
when it is hoped that once again
Uncle Johnny" will be present.