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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
CANDY GOOD FOR AGED.

other sweets as they wish. They can
take the lid off with safety. II they
have not already achieved diabetes
they are not liable to do so. Besides
diabetes in old people is not a very
serious malady.
They no longer have to woyry about
obesity. The tendency of old people is
to lose, not to put on, flesh. They dry
out and their tissues harden, and this
is responsible for some of the tendency
to lose weight. In addition there is a
tendency for some of the subcutaneous
fat to disappear.
Obesity is a bugaboo in h late EOS
n throughout the 3Os and 4Os. After
that it is Increasingly a nj and
by IS it is no longer a source of appre-
hension. From that age on a little
extra fat is a very good form of in
surance Persons 65 and over no longer
need to keep the lid on because of
danger of obesity.
The sweet tooth has been lost at G5.
We still like candy, and other sweets,
but we are not disposed to eat ex-
cessively of sweets. as was the case in
youth. The fact that a person over
s. is satisfied to stop eating candy
before he makes a hog of himself
- Ouc ISdSou LUZ ldNII1S lNe III OIL.
Lack of restraint on the part of those
in the sweet tooth days is one reason
for keeping the lid on so far as they
are concerned.
So much for the reasons why an old
person need not refrain from eating
candy and other sweets. In addition
there are some reasons why he should
eat them.
Metchnikoff set old people to taking
Tactic acid bacilli and drinking sour
milk because the Bulgarians drink sour
milk and brown bread. and many Of
them live to be very old. The distin-
guished scientist of the Pasteur insti-
tute thought to lower high blood
pressure by planting in the %intestines
bacteria Of fermentation.
1t was later found that the first es-
sential was to feed the old people with
carbohydrate food and that If this were
done the proper bacteria would live in
the alimentary tract and would kill
out those which contributed to high
blood pressure.
II there is plenty Of sugar and
starch in the diet, and only a limited
amount of Mea Inc other proteins, the
bacteria of fermentation will! thrive.
Therefore a fair allowance of candy is
not only permissible, bat is even adj
visable for an old person. If he pre-
fers some other form of sweet he can
nave it. Plenty of good bread, cereals
and pastry serve the same purpose.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
The Borrower.

1 used to have a host of friends, but
now 1 walk alone: a cherries sky
above me bends. my heart feels like a
stone. once had friends in hut and
hall. in mansion and in shack; / bor-
rowed coin from n and all, and failed
TO hand it back; and now no pleasant
smiles I see, I've won such punk re-
nown: no window mas a light for me,
in all the clammy town. I ICE NRs
welcome in the homes of sages and of
seers, and there l borrowed treasured
tones. and kept them seven years. And
now the sages view my fac with sor-
row and disdain, and seers remark I
ought to chase myself into drain. 7
borrowed Thompson's loving cup, and
JaclSson's safety shears. n Hirma
Eostwick's setter pup, nj Watson's
brindled steers. / borrowed Wilson's
fountain pen, the best in all the grad:
I borrowed Simpsons setting hen, and
Ecdall's liver pad. l borrowed this,
1 borrowed. that. from every one 1
knew. a squirt gun and q s%tovepipe
hat, and hen an oyster stew. And
now / go my way alone. devoid of joy
and mirth, and neighbors say they'd
give Il. bone if I'd fall off h earth.
Light criticisms men will pass OF those
who boldly steal: but for the borrower,
alas, no sympathy they feel.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
New Gold State.
rom the San Francisco Chronicle

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The statehood of Nevada was a product
of the Civil war. AT the time it was not
supposed to be much of a state, except in
area. but was needed for political reasons.
But it has kept fooling the country ever
since. When they began to dig out silver
by the ton from the Comstock groups
of mines. Nevada lost it's original narne
of Tho %Sagebrush State,'' and became
Known to the whole world as the ''Silver
State" And in those days silver was a
metal which mankin set great store by,
as it seems likely to do again If one may
judge by the price it brings since Uncle
Sam got off the I'd. But recent develop
ments in the Divide district seem to in
dictate another change of name, for they
say that the gold is SO thick just a little
under the surface that the owners of tho
mines refuse to dig it lest they be ruined
by the excess profits tax. They just take
out Il .shovelful or two from, time to time
to pay living expenses n sit Sight over
the whole where they took it out till
they need a little more. Possibly, also
these mine owners are influenced by pa
triotism as not wishing to disturb values
by flooding the world with gold and thus
adding TO the economic confusion. Cali
fornia has hitherto taken pride in calling
itself the. Golden State" but even in
Nevada they are getting ready to demand
the belt and the title and say they are
going to get it.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
He Aa. No Country.

From the Los Angeles Times.
The case of Paul Freeman is cited As
that of another man without a country.
He was a labor agitator in Australia and
because of some violent and unpatriotic
remarks made during the war period was
ordered deported. He was placed on the
steamer Sonoma, which had a cargo for
San Francisco. At San Francisco he was
listed as al undesirable and, as it was
claimed he was Il British subject, he had
to go back to that flag. He couldn't
get off the Sonoma. s. he had to return
with that vessel to Australia. There he
was again denied a landing and at last
accounts he was being shuttled back and
forth and eating his meals with the
ships company. He is a Jonah. but they
can't throw him overheard. neither can
they find a harbor where he will be ae-
cepted. The League of Nations ought to
start a South sea island colony for agi-
tatcrs who can get along with no gov
eminent and let them work out their own
salvation. When they ave developed
their Utopia they might be admitted to
the league.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
The Bucket.

wv SNSNS.
The day is approaching when booze
will be b%anished, the lights will go out
in h gilded saloons: the bartenders
all from their posts will have vanished,
along with the jugs and the brazen
spittoons. Alas for the soak and the
bum and the drifter! The tale of their
anguish no poet can tell; they'll hi.,
when they long for a four fingered
%snifter, the old oaken bucket that
hangs in the,well. The old oaken buck
ct has been a back number. it slept
with the has-beens for long weary
years; but now it comes back from its
cobwebby slumber, consoling the boys
in the absence of beers. Doom faces
Old Booze, he can't dodge it or duck
it. the sections preparing to ring out
his knell; n so we get back to the
trusty old bucket, the moss covered
bucket that hangs in the well. I stand
with h poet who boosted the bucket,
who said that it struck him as liner
than silk; we've long chung to whiskey
but now we will chuck it, and sample
such liquids as water and milk. Oh.
then we'll be clipper and blithe in the
morning, as gay as a kitten, as sound
as a bell; the wiles of the bootlegger
manfully scorning, we'll hit the old
bucket that hangs in the we'll.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
"rhe whea. Problem" Today.

Neither the brilliant scientific feats of
Sir William Crookes' 81 busy years nor
the spiritualistic studies of his later zeal
impressed the new world as did his warn
ing, announced in 1899 in 1.-The Wheat
Problem that the race was facing a
Wheat famine through the growth of pop
ulation and the chemical exhaustion OF
available lands.
Wheat scarcity was a fact. but it was
curing itself automatically through the
Use in prices. which. in 1896. did SO
much to defeat Mr.. Bryan for the presi-
dency. The American crops OF 1S95-6-7
had caused the prediction that the United
states would soon need all its wheat at
home. In the three corresponding years
at the next decade our yield was 900. OOO.-
Co0 bushels greater, and vast new areas
were being developed in Canada, Argen-
TIA and Australia.
In the next decade. again. Europe did
face a wheat famine. but because of the
var. The American yield continued to
grow under the stimulus of need. In the
five war years. in spite of partial crop
failures in 1916 and 1917, we produced
nearly 1000. 900. 900 bushels more than in
the corresponding seasons of the previous
decade. The 1000. 900. 900 bushel r,ark
was passed for the first time in 1915. and
another record breaking yield OF more
than 1000. 900. 900 bushels in 1919 is prac-
tically assured. Wheat and flour ex-
ports have been greater thar our en-
tire crop in the years following the civil
war.
The war has centered the thought of
the world upon food as no warning by
any scientist. based upon chemical rea-'
son1ne. could have done. For American
farmers the problem now is not SO much
to find additional wheat land as to double
the yield per acre-a feat quite possible
and doubtless proftablc-and so add to
world supply another 1000, 900, 900 bushels
a year.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
Bismarck. Frvit..
From the Kansas City Star

From the Kansas City Star.
The latest b%iographer of Bismarck, C.
Grant Robertson, calls attention to the
way in which the great German chancel.
.or was responsible for his own destruc.
ton. 1t was Bismarck's aim to build. not
n constitutional government, but an au.
tocracy. In himself he concentrated the
whole owe of the state.
Then came the young William III to the
throne. restless and ambitious. The two
clashed. Had Bismarck been the parlia-
ment made minister of a constitutional
sovereign. it would nave been William
who would have had to give way. For
the chancellor had the confidence of the
nation. But, as Mr.. Robertson says,
while a piebiscite would nave retained
him in office. the nation could n. save
him. He had made that impossible. AS
a result of his fail Bismarck denounced
as "Byzantinism and Caesar worship
this very irresponsible power which it
had been his life work to build up.
The same ironical fate may be traced
in the further development of Bismarck's
handiwork. The state which he founded
on iron and blood came to ruin by at
tempting to expand his policy.
In the long run, honesty is the best
policy, even in international affairs.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
Like to Show LEGAL Acumeo.

I!OHt lle NEW iDFk IlneS.
1T is all very we'll for republican lead.
Frs to believe that opposition to the
League of Nations will be unanimous on
their side. and that they will get some
democratic votes. too. Let them cherish
this delusion until congress meets. and
maybe for a time after. Senators are not
different from other politicians in their
attention to the voice of the people.
Presently they will discover this phe-
nomenon. which Senator Poperene brings
back from Ohio:
The only opposition to the League
OF Nations that I found was among law
yers. who seem to find intense delight in
attempting 20 discover constitutional
flaws in it,"
Certainly. 1t is the lawyers day. Every
republican lawyer in the Senate has con-
stituted himself counsel for the Defend
ant. and is busy preparing an answer.
drawing up a demand for n bill of partic-
u'ars. and filing a demurrer. If the de-
murrer is overruled. if the bill of par
ticulars is denied, if the answer is incom-
plete, then the republican Senate will re-
quest the court for so lays in which to
hle an amended nswer and possibly will
file an application for alimony and coun-
sell fees. That is the glorious and noble
spirit in which the lawyers on the re-
publican side approach the question of the
future of the world, the United States be.
ing a part thereof.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
stee, at Old Tricks.
From the New York World

iIOAas SA'S
After all that has happened IN the way
of cooperation for war and generous
price fixing by the government. it is a
disagreeable surprise to learn that the
responses of the steel makers to the navy
departments proposals for bids for plates
to be used in the construction of battle
ships authorized by the late congress
were identical. Showing no indication
OF competition"
During the years preceding the war the
complaint was that our manufacturers of
steel charged their own government much
more than foreign purchasers. and var
ious Investigations by congress estab-
lished the fact. 1t was proved also that
in the matter of armor plates designed
for American ships, blow holes and other
inperfections were concealed OF passed
by benevolent inspectors.
The navy department meets the new
issue by communicating steel at a price
subject to later adjustment" but it
ought not to be necessary to remind the
steel industry that laws intended to meet
such collusive bidding as it has rcsorted
to in this instance are still in force.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
BUILT IN CALIFORNIA BIGGEST FISH cANNERY
From the Commercial and Financia
World.

From the Commercial and Financial
World.
Among the progressive industries of
this country is the canning of fish
s%ardines, salmon, etc. Not many peo-
pie have ever visited Y canning plant,
but hundreds of thousands have seen
the various processes reproduced by
he moving pictures. Great credit is
due to the able men who have brought
the industry to its present state of
perfection. AS q matter of fact, some
IT the ablest business men during the
last few years have revOlutionized it's
methods.
These remarks are suggested by a
study of the remarkable work tina is
being done by the Nielsen & kittle
Cunning Company, Ltd, of East San
Pedro, CAL, who have just completed
at that place what is undoubtedly the
largest II most complete sardine cam
merry in the world.
1t appears that A. F. Kittle, who has
been in the fish canning business in
Norway for about Is years. was led to
investigate the possibilities of the fish
industry of the southern California
coast. AS a result he found that the
finest sardines in the world were found
in California; waters, AS a conse-
quence OF these Investigations the COM
pany under notice was established
about a ear ago with q capitalization
of $4,000 A plant was built and
placed in operation at East San Pedro,
Cal. which is near San Pedro,
the harbor of Los Angeles. The output
of this plant-sardines. tuna fish, ETC.,
met with immediate public favor. The
consequence was that the original ia
~cilities became wholly inadequate. and
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
What viii You Remember?
From che Como Back.

What will you remember, you soldier about to be discharged, of
your service in the wars?
with full pack, up long hills that seemed to have no endingi Or
the horse lines where OF grooming and stable cleaning there was no
surcease, while captains and majors and colonies and generals in
spected and poked and commended? All the things that have made
you join the Never Again Club?' The drudgery. the pain. the days
on scant rations, the snarl of the exasperated first sergeant, the rasp
in the voice of the officer who hadnt learned his job? The weeks
game was over and yet they wouldn,t let you catch the car for home'
All this is fresh in your mind now, and it seems to you that it will
be fresh in your mind forever: Soldiers have thought that way at
wars end since wars were-and that's a long. long time.
But it ism t so.
The years will pass, and back in the home town, OF countryside,
work-s-day life will claim your thoughts and actions, until. of the
of that time.
Off in the distance, some summers dusk, you IL hear the high
clear notes of the bugle: 'Come, all who are able, and goeo-o to the
stable, and give the horses some cornnnn!"-and back will flood
your memories of comrades CHEEKY voices, smoke of camp fires, fra
grant odor of bacon and coffee, pricked ears of the horses that weren't
such poor plugs after all, creak of leather and clank of accoutre-
up from the marching columns, the songs of home that soldiers sing
when they are headed the other way; the silence and mystery of the
first night on outpost lin the presence OF the enemy 81 the poignant
thrill that came with the first whine of a hostile bullet overhead; the
high suspense of the last minute before you went cover the top;'
the fierce exultance of the successful entry into Jerry's trenches; the
way You wrigged in your uniform and grinned a sheepish grin when
corporal, good work! and the lump that came in your throat, and
the tinging in your eyelids, when "To the colors'' sounded the last
evening before demobilzation and the steady ranks stood for the last
time together as soldiers of the great war!
You'll see again, the way the ''top" used to twist his face when
he yelped "Fa' in!' and you'll chuckle at the recollection of how YOU
and your bunkie put it over the M. p S that day in 'Paree'' Cor was
you'll sight over the memory of the merry girl you met in Admission or
San Tone, or Boise or Coblenz excepting your signs to yourself).
And you'll tell the mMsus you have to go to town, and you'll
crank the Ford, and presently you'll be looking in at the drug store
or the postofhce for somebody else who wore the uniform with you in
Is, and you'll 'tell the tales, the tales of old until the "wee sma'
hours
you know the wars been over 20 years!'
1t WASH t such a bad war, after all? Was it?
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
The Sentence of the Kaiser.
Contributed to Over Here.

O0SSN y v u
We are sure William of Hohenzollern
will not be condemned to the quick death
Of a bullet. the electric chair or the moose
of a bigget.
The likely decree will be Punishment to
some lonely. unfrequented rock, far
away from steamer lines. his jailers
named. his prison barred against all peo-
ple-all his intercourse with human be-
ings to be confined to his warders.
u the writer were to presume to sug-
gest some fitting trimmings for his flu
ture. lie would write this in the verdict:
1t is hereby stipulated and decreed
mat his jailers shall include one SOL
der from each of the allied nations, so
dtsfgured by the war that the pris-
oner never could pass one without re-
membering that his infamy cost 5000
co lives. His household shall consist
OF n cook. she to be q Belgian
mother whose daughters were defled
and whose sons were slain: one serv-
ant boy. who shall be q French lad
whose right hand was cut Off by the
soldiers of The kaiser SO he might
never raise a rifle for France; one
h~ousekeeper, she to be a Canadian
woman whose husband was cruciiied
on q barn at Ypres.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12

so this new plant has been built, which
is, Is already indicated, the largest
and best equipped in the world of its
kind. 1t has a capacity of from 1000
to 5000 cases per day.
The new plant is a two-story brick
structure of 200x31O feet, and from 700
to 1000 hands are employed in it dur
ing the busy There is a re-
markedly fine equipment of the latest
and most improved machinery, by
means of which the fish is put through
IL different operations, being ouched
by human hands only twice from the
time it is taken from the water until it
is packed in cans ready for shipment.
The company has it's own fishing
fleet of so boats, which operate in Cali
fornia waters. Some $50 men are en-
ployed on these boats.
The principal business of the COM
pany is the canning of fancy sardines in
imported olive oil, and the canning of
tuna fish. But it also has a special
salt fish department, and also manufac-
lures fish oil and fertilizer by-products.
The president of the company is Carl
o. Nielsen. who is at present in Nor
way. for the purpose of securing a
force of expert Norwegian fish Gamers
to work in the company's plant. They
are expected to reach this country in
the near future. Mr.. Nielsen divides
his time between Norway and Cali
fornia. making several trips a year in
the interests of the company.
Vice president and manager, A. F.
Kittle. through whose personal efforts
this great industry was founded. be-
lieves that there is a brilliant future
for the fish canning industry in Cali
fornia.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
MoRrALs MoRrE IMMoRrALs,

Here rested the body of Laurence
Washingtons. antientlie of Washing
ton, in the Countie Palatine OF Dur
ham: Register of the Highe Court of
Chancery xvii yeares. He had two
wyyfs. Martha. daughter of Clement
Newce. of Hartfordshire. Esq: and
Mary. daughter of Sir Raynold' Scott.
of this Count!e. knight. He
havinge lived "A Vertuous life of Sin
gula. INTEGRITY in this place. being of
the age of lxXvii years, died the xxi
of December, A.. d! 1919.
A faithful believer in the merits
and mercies of his Saviour.
To whose memory his Sonn hath
erected this monument.
Though after my skinne Wormes de-
stroy this Body, yet ! shall see God in
my flesh.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
Peruvian. Drug Addiet..
From The Americas

From The Americas.
Practically all of the natives of Peru are
drug addicts. The coca plant, from which
cocaine is made. has been cultivated by
these natives since prehistoric times. its
leaves being chewed to get the desired
effect. 1t has been estimated there are at
least 100000 persons living in the central
of coca.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12

Perhaps of all the services OF the Y.
N. c.. A. in Siberia, the most popular
are the entertainments given in the In
ternational Hut at svladivostok,, where
soimSthfng Is doing every day in the
tainments include band concerts. cho-
ruses. boxing contests. popular lectures,
-,ovinR pictures and amateur shown
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
Where Did He Get Balance?
From the Cedar Rapids Gazette.

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
The Kansas City Times makes mention
of a country editor who started 20 years
& and has retired with a fortune Of
$4,000. The money was acquired through
industry. economy and conscientious eff
forts to give full value. indomitable per-
severance n the death of an uncle who
left the editor $49, $50. so.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12

France will spend about 1000. 10000
francs on newspublic work. besides about
!. 000.0OO. 009i francs for the rebuilding Of
"a -lroads' in the devastated regions. the
Associated Press was told by ~ Cha.
veiYe. minister OF public works.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12

Premier Lloyd George will visityWash-
ington next fall to attend the ,frst ,ses.-
sion Of the League OF Nations. HI via
travel on a battle cruiser and remain
In America for Q week. He will be away
from London alto9ether less than three
week..
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
Lost at


Secretary Lansing slipped out of the
council m and went souvenir
hunting in the palace. Luck was with
him. he said. for he found a remarkable
piece of antique. wall paper. Next day
a frantic Japanese ~stenographer was
looking for his shorthand notes.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-06-12
All Tired Out.
From the

From the Washington Star.
Money lis circulating very FAST 70.
marked the economist.
Yes" replied the ordinary person. 10y
the time a dollar bill gets around to me
1t is so tired that It can't an anything like
the work it uaed Ia"