The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-06-12

time ago adopted a system of basing
wages upon the prices of necessities. II
Is called the 81 c. L. pay plan. The
workmen are said to like IL, even though
II does Involve the cutting of a
whenever the cost goes down somewhat
Ninety-six items are considered in COM
putting the rate For every 20 points OF
variation, ! per cent OF the months SAL
AIRY 10 paid In addition. The cost OF lv-
Ing was 31s points higher in October than
me preceding January. 90 on November
4 q bonus OF 16 per cent was paid. Sala-
RES are increased for skill. irrespective
OF the bonus.
h army's champion stowaway is IL
ycar-old Michael Giihooley. Michael ar
rived for the first time shortly after de-
mobilization began, was deported by the
immigration authorities; ~reappeared two
months later. and was r~edeported; and
now makes his third appearance ON the
transport Agamemnon. On the two pre-
vious occasions he wore Q soldiers uni-
form. but this time he tried to better his
luck dressed as q sailor. The boy SAYS
that his mother was a Belgian and his
father. who came from Cork, died in 1919.
He wa living with his mother at Charlie
voix, Belgium, when German airplane
oropped a bomb on his home, killing her.
A Berlin dispatch says: 1.-The ever
recurring strikes Of miners are causing
SShA1 Ia NIC 1kLSllIbh-
Westphahan mining region. One com
pany has declared itself insolvent be-
cause OF strikes. The demands Of the
miners have ruined h number OF mining
companieA Two, which in November
last had o reserve OF 15,a00, 600 marks,
now have overdrafts at the bank of IA
oco. 600 marks and have been refused fur
ther credit"
A new trade market, ready for business,
And AhIa In nnU aUuntfn Aha 90
the United States. Lithuania, tina little
Baltic republic OF 100000 inhabitants
wh0s blockade has Just been lifted by the
American war trade board, looks to this
country for immediate shipments of raw
materials, machinery N seed. Ameri-
way OF the ports OF Memel, K~oenigsberg
and Libau, on the Baltic sea, which ara
easily accessible. - 80
Maxfmiiian HAYDEN, In Die Zukunft,
supported by 10 pages OF advertisements
OF German banking companies, a that
the My weighty statement In The recent
speech by President Scheidemann was
contained In the phrase, 1--WE night no
longer" Germany must submit Har-
den enuInerates the various steps by
which the allies could force their will
as soon as the Germans formally refused
90 sign
Mrs. J.. 7. Harahan, widow OF a former
president Of the Illinois Contra railroad,
who volunteered as q "searcher'' for the
military bureau Of the American Red
Cross in Paris, is said not only to have
been the best searcher Of them all, but to
have gotten better results In, locating the
killed. or missing than any
other two searchers put together. 20 She
ascribes her success to the fact that
she simply ~disregarded all red tape"
Francisco villa a threatened to cut
the line OF railway between Juarez and
City before the end of this
week. He ts reported to have a con-
stantly growing force. now estimated to
be 1000 men. and ts known to have cap
tured 1000 rides n q large quantity OF
ammunition at Parral on March s, and to
have taken 10000 rounds Of rife ammu-
milton at villa Anenoe. In the same dis
trict.
considers that II win be impossible ever
TO reconcile the Monroe doctrine with the
hea OF q league of nations. He says In
lie Matin: "Is II Violated by the League
OF Nations? 1t seems to me monument
tally paradoxical and a trths ~infantile to
pretend the contrary" 2
The 10th annual convention of the m
ternatonal Association of Rotary Clubs,
TO be held in Salt Lake City June ls to
&vp AhSAuo4NCS Will DC one Oh Tile rev
conventions held in that section of III
country that attracts such a large at
tendance that use Of the famous Nor
mon tabernacle win be necessary.
The Rand School Of Social Science, the
anarchistio school OF New York city
which Ii mainly supported by Prof.
George Heron, once a resident of Iowa,
IL seeking to restrain the postoffice de-
partment from interfering with it's eff
forts to send a pamphlet by Nikolai Lee
nins through the mails.
In performing his famous leap for
hfas" In which he rides q bicycle down q
s0-foot runway n dives into a tank OF
water, for the 2,o20th time, Max Schrey-
er was probably fatally injured last week.
This time he was doing the stunt for
charity: a paid all the expenses him
self and had promised his wife ii was to-
be his last performance. ..,,.- u.s..
A one-week drive throughout the ma
ton win be started on June % to raise
3 $1,000 c0 for a national victory memo
rial building to be erected in Washing
tered by the regents OF the Smithsonian
institution. and will be used for interna-
tonal conventions. ~ s--
London girls are not buying small
handkerchief n more. During the
war, while In uniform, they became used
20 mems handk erchiefs, about IS inches
square. and the general demand, espe-
ciaily La the country. is for the ban-
dana in all colors and designs.
The American system of settling farm.
ers upon government land, by distributing
Il among them either free or at nominal
cost has ipspired N. Petroff, the minister
of agriculture Of the An-Russian, or
anti bolshevist government, to formulate
q similar plan for dividing Russian land
among the peasants.
When . Brazilian statesman returned to
his native country recently with the &C.
port that the United States was about to
annex Canada, the Toronto Globe re-
marked: Canadfa1s live nearer to the
United States than Brazilians, and they
know better" /
Demand that official action be taken to
prevent a recurrence Of demonstrations
by soldiers n sailors, who raided It's
office. has been made by the (socialist)
New York Call In kilograms to Secretary
Glass. Secretary Baker n Secretary
Daniels i
It Is possible to 60 into air Of a |
temperature. of. 800 degrees withoutrtheI
body's temperature being raised more |
than 90 degrees.
A Kansas City church has prefaced its |
adoption of advertising, as recentIy ad- |
sised. by adopting . trade mark. ]
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On the theory tha no one would steal !
Q tombstone. a marble worker OF Oregon |