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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
A Man in Ten Million.
From the Chicago News.


Introducing o ladies n gentlemen TIC a novel Individual man who does
not believe it is quite right to gouge the public. He vas in Dor 212 Hotel
LaSane, mi ne is Earnest J Stevens. vice president and manager II he hotel
"Why did you do t?" was thu question the visitor put afMr the .howdIes"
wereo over He referred to he announcement that the Hotel LaSane la mad q
wholesale tut in its room rates and in Its restaurant prices. Business getting
poor?" @
Stevens laughed. and drew U the records for the night.
Looks poor doesntit ?" lie said w AVE 1000 rooms 1900 people
here last night. We tut neariy5 10 men on cots in a ball room, and some In
the parlUs. We're booked we'll up for the next two months. We kept q ma
busy all lay yesterday calling smaller hotels nd roomMg houses trying to end
accommodations for people n then had to turn some away"
well what made yu do h? Who thought of it? What's the ideal"
Stevens leaned back, crossedh his knees answered a telephone call or two and
then told his story. @M
h only way to gel I'D Oft the vicious circle of Increasing prices ad increasing
get a reduction of prices unless som one starts it. That's wha we've lone. In III
hope tina. the noysment back toward. reasonable profits will spread through all
oeny nm hotS nm N.Y. ave- e . gEmsd rs raes ts seems ns pc pc sss very 1na M osou,aur $50
i'm IN mgi history sna ~ nf 9ch9rn ON Ybu ann"ath u ass ana ENG an me 9 ggIs c nrt no nmmm1onmnan
now md viii be for the est year But we're cutting our prices because we var
to be fair with the public. r
when, he learned what we were we're going TO- DO; stevens you're a d - fooi we're
sport that will hold the public Lup. when the public has 10 other recourse. l don't
after all IN the long run. And the time TO cut prices is when business is at
usual in order to start the pendulum swinging toward normal again
The hotels are a barometer T. business, A classes of hotels have a patronage
asses wa tomW o md the s eyn shon ns de- a m Mramn has m nr a right to rb be g9sghns 100 TO- to
run that will pay every one golden rule is a good business basis"
The 10 rooms hav been cut to 81 and the $3.50 rooms, to lat the Lasane. Tho
VVay between 50 cents to @a room or Suite. 80 eN'
In foods the price has been gut very near to thee cost Of service. The table dhote
menue from Is to As cents oysters have cen cut from 40 cents to rs cents md
eyery entree hsb been reduced at least 10 cents
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
Poland and Galicia.
From the New York Times.

NAoAAA kA0 < 4O1h A0
The peace conference has decided to civ
Poland a 25-year mandate over eastern
Galicia, at the end Of which time the
disposition to be made of the territory Is
70 be determined by the League of Ma
lions. Paris Observers see in the form
OF the decision evident Indication that IL
the Polish government, after a quarter Of
g century, is satisfactory to the bulk. of
the population of the territory is to belong
to Poland as it did throughout almost all
Polish history until the partitions. In the
meantime, there will apparently be a con
siderable degree of autonomy under .
federal tie with Poland.
The majority Of the population OF Galicia
is P~olis-about 60 per cent by the last
Austrian statistics-but the Poles, while
in an overwhelming majority in the west
ern half Of the province are heavily out
numbered east Of the River San. Here
they are a majority in Lemberg n some
other cities. but the vast bulk OF the
rural population is Ruthenian, which Is
more or less the same as Ukranian. Tho
bitter hostility wee the two races, no
torious during the years of peace: broke
out into open war early this year, and the
Polish troops conquered the territory
after sharp fighting.
But the decision Of the conference does
not depend for its principal sanction on
the military situation any more than on
the historic connection Of all Galicia with
Poland. These factors entered into 1t, be-
You'd doubt; but the decisive cause was
something else. The decision is to be read
as a vote of confidence for tho Polish
government.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
Gas the "Flu" Germ.
From the London Times.

The progress CT the Influenza wave In
England continues, but the number of
cases remains small by comparison with
too, which follow the influenza in some
cases are Of a milder character than was
encountered formerly.
Som progress, meantime, is being made
in the method of prevention and treat
ment 1t was found during an epidemic
of cerebro-spinal fever that il the popula-
ton Of a camp was passed daily through
an inhaling room where the air was kept
charged with droplets OF a solution Of
zinc sulphate the incidence Of the disease
was checked. Following on that obser-
vation Doctor Gregor noted that certain
Industrial employees who worked in an
atmosphere charged with a small amount
either of nitrous oxide or sulphur dioxide
gas exhibited what the British Medical
Journals calls "a relative immunity to
influenza at a time when fellow employees
who were not working beside these gases
were heavily attacked. Doctor Gregor
found that the air in the rooms where
the gases were was distinctly bactericidal,
yet quite satisfactory for breathing.
The medical research committee has
taken the matter UP and provided Doctor
Gfegor with assistance. 1t Is evident thai
II gas could be admitted to the atmosphere
Of workrooms during epidemics of influ.
enza or other infectious conditions Of the
nose, throat, and bronchial tubes, and II
thereby the spread OF these diseases was
checked, an important advance in pre-.
ventive medicine would have been made
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
Australia Hard Hit.
From the snring1leld Republican,

From the Springfield Republican.
Australia has evidently suffered a great
in what is called the most devas-
tating drought in the history Of the coun-
try. Destruction seems to a been
greatest in the northwestern part of New
South Wales. presumably he region be-
yond the Darling river. This region de-
ponds for its meager enough water supply
upon those curious seasonal winds called
the monsoons, which are set up by the
difference in the temperature between the
ocean and the vast table land of Asia
which the Himalayas bound Normally
the monsoons impfnge upon the northwest
coast bringing moist air which fills the
sources of the Darling. But the monsoons
are subject to considerable fluctuations,
which shippers in the days Of sail power
Used to study carefully, and the occasional
droughts, worse than those of what used
to be called "the great American desert"
which afflict regions usually habitable.
are probably to be ascribed 20 abnormal
weather conditions many months before
and thousands OF miles away. Coming on
top of the burdens due to the war this
new disaster will cause much distress.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
Leveling Up Ludendorff.
From the Review.


I wonder If the world seems as queer
and topsy turvey to you as it does to
L~udendorff and me. Ludendorff and L
are writing pieces for the papers. It's
my regular job. I am used to it. It's
a new game to ~Ludendorff. but it's his
way and my wav of making a living at
the present juncture in the onward march
Of civilization. After all the turmoil and
CONFUSION, after all the rack and ruin, as
the murk clears and the dust settles down.
Ludendorff and I are revealed each at the
old typewriter pounding out copy. 1 am
sure there Is a great moral lesson in the
spectacle If I could only formulate 1t and
drag it to light.
The whirligig of chance and the s~portive
little gods that control mems destinies
have never done anything more comic.
When I think of what Ludendorff was!
Only a year e I was huddled in a hole
wondering whether he was going to gobble
me up. He was a menac to the world,
breathing fire and slaughter and destruc-
ton. His word put great masses of armed
men in motion, and death and devastation
followed in their track Now. in our office,
his stuff goes upstairs to the composing
room at night slugged "Heinie'' and gets
put on page four with the furniture ads.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
Physically Fit.

From the New York World.
Figures made public by the war depart
ment show that Of the 2,5n,o4s men called
in the draft in New York state 1901, 200, OF
rs per cent, were found physically fit for
military service. That is to say, three out
of every four of the young men who were
compelled on the instant to leave the shop
and the store and the mill to take up a
soldiers duties were sufficiently healthy
and robust to pass the exacting tests of
the army examiners.
For a soft and flabby' race of men this
is a pretty good showing. 1t is, in fact, a
demonstration of physical preparedness
altogether remarkable. Fully one-half OF
these young recruits were from the city,
where life to youth is one temptation after
another. Many of them were the sons of
foreign born parents and all were prod
ucts of a civilization about the debilitating
influences of which moralists have had
plenty to say. Yet there they were, fit
for war. No doubt the fact has been as
disillusioning to the pessimists as it proved
to the enemy at Verdun and In the Ar
come. But it inspires a whole lot Of con-
fidence in those who believe In American
manhood. They will regard the living
conditions as fairly satisfactory which
could crate as fina soldiery as this fresh
from civilion pursuits. n the test win
serve to discount a large amount of similar
depreciation for the future.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
The Cheap Dollar a Big
Investment.
Roger w. Babson.

worth Of anything you buy; that is, unless yons buy stock il some Of
these promising oil promotions, whose chief selling talk is, Take
9 chance, Columbus did. ! In which case you get nothing but hot air
for your money. ~
bonds, where it will draw, say 4 per cent, at the end Of five years il
will have grown to $l.2O.
But there is another and much more important phase Of the
matter. Our scientific, social and business worlds are all governed BY
the great basic law of action and reaction. AS business travels its reW-
lar cycle Of prosperity, decline, depression and Improvement; comno-
diy prices and the cost Of living travel with it.
At present we are at the peak Of a period of prosperity q period Of
high costs. Five years hence, when your 81 in the bank has grown
to $120, the wheel will have turned, and we will be in q period of
decline Q = depression. n al probability the dellara nil be back e
its 1914 basis, where it will buy about twice as much as it will today.
# you spend a dollar today, you lose SO cents Of it. n spending
500, you lose $50. A thousands spent today shows a real loss Of $500
q 20 cents e Your 800 will earn $40 for you: The $1,000 win grow into
$1,000, netting you 5000 profit without risk or effort or your part
Further and much more important, every one Of these dollars
should then buy twice as much as it will now.
If you want to make a safe investment That will net you q real
profit of about 40 per cent in five years, or % per cent a year, put
aside every dollar you can possibly spare.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
Have You a Crown?

From the Dearborn Independent.
Over lin Russia. the soviet governments
are taking Town the statues of royalties
and carefully labelling them in historical
museums in order that the people of sue
ceeding generations may see what the
nations of 18th century Europe were ruled
by. But not all reyolutionaries are so
thoughtful. In other countries the crowns
of dethroned monarchs are being offered
for what they will bring. Crowns, all the
way from those of ducal to those Of i'm
perial decree, will eventually find their
way into collections, private or public.
The crown of Hungary was put up at
auction by the Budapest government. a
price of $4,000 being set upon it, and a
newly rich war profiteer bought 1t. AS a
symbol it has had a rare history. The
lower ban was given by Pope Sylvester
to King Stephen 1, of Hungary, and the
upper part was sent by Emperor Michael
Ducas to Geisa, the first duke Of Hun
gary. The two parts united have been
nsed in the coronation OF % nonarchs in
600 years The crown consists Ut q broad
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
Tripped on Slang.
From the Westminster Gazet

From the Westminster Gazette.
Admiral Mayo had a good story to tell
at a trends dinner table the other eve
ming. Its all very well to decry slang
he said, but / know a case where a
knowledge of it would nave saved a mans
life. The man was a German spy. Dis
guised as a major of the Australian forces,
he penetrated the Australian lines. His
English was perfect, but not so his Aus
tralian slang. Australian slang, by che
way. Is the weirdest in the world. Fair
Dinkum' in that lingo means a real AUS
t~ralian.' Well, the German spy freter-
nized with the Australian officers, and all
seemed to be going well when a blond
giant gave him a searching look and said.
Say. look here, are you fair dinkumg The
German spy nodded n smiled. Yes he
said, I am Maj. Fair Dinkum.' Then he
Sas taken out and shot"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
Honor Our Admirals.

From the New YORK POSc.
An unfortunate instance of congressional
delay and cross purposes is furnished by
the failure, at the recent session, Of legis-
lation to reward our chief admirals for
their great services in the world war.
The house OF representatives on Septem-
Der 8 passed q bill naming Admiral Sims,
commander OF naval forces in European
waters, and Admiral Benson, chief of
naval operations, full admirals, their pay
not to be reduced upon retirement for
age.
The Senate naval affairs committee
properly amended the bill by adding the
name OF Admira, Mayo, commander of the
Atlantic fleet, and unfortunately still fur
Their changed 1t by making the rank con-
ferred tina of vice admiral instead of ad-
xuiral. Even in this form the bill was not
reported out and never reached a vote.
No excuse except economy has been ad-
duced for reducing the rank recommended
by the aavy department.. The full rank Is
necessary to the prestige of our naval
forces ahead. Both Sir David Beatty and
Sir John Jellicoe were made admirals, IN
addition to titles and estates for which we
have no parallel. General Pershing was
made general4of tl,a armies. Less than q:
year after his victory In Manila bay.
George Dewey was made admiral. a prece-
dent fora greater war.
1t is earnestly hoped that upon Its re-
assembling in regular session congress Will
pass the naval promotions bill with the
three names and the fun rank of admiral
restored. In hon0ring Its leaders we shall
be hOnoring tina navy and its prosmpt,
humane and gallant work
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
The AGE.

why watch to see If the boy is ssurrep-
ltlously shaving? Why catch the light
Ilsht and look for a mustache? Why lis
zen closely for auditory evidence of the
sosiings? Why do n of these things
when all you need is to look for black
heaos around the nose? The oncoming of
puberty, and this is true of both sexes.
AS TINS period approaches a few black
!ieaos appear on the nose and in its vicin-
lty. The absorption of the internal secre-
lions OF the Sex glands causes the body to
STOW with increased rapidity. Especially
IS there rapid growth of the bony frame
WORK and the muscles which move 1t.
Certain organs develop more rapidly than
otners. shape of the body changes
considerably. Hair grows on the face.
Inc voice changes its quality.
Whlle all these minor changes are TAX
ing place the grease glands, Jul
ny the secretlonS responsible for the
changes enumerated, are stimulated to
oVerWork. The skin becomes greasy, the
scalp needs frequent washing, and black
heads appear. If the overdistended
grease glands become infected by pus
germs the results are pimples and boils.
II does not follow hat because pimples
are q quality OF adolescence nothing the
Findividual does makes them worse and
nothing he can do viii make them better.
SssssStins, aii especially the overeaiins
OF sweets, starches and fats, increases the
supply Of raw material easily made into
grease. The young persons who wish to
nave an attractive complexion should I'm
defstsnd the risk they run when they eat
candies.
This leads quickly into suggestions for
relief. We make some Roadway when we
recognize this as the greasy age. There
is q little more chance hi we will go
ilght on the grease making foods.
4 know boys who ave a n idea that
blackheads are due to something they
should be ashamed of. OF course they are
not. A sensible boy will spend some time
periodically in squeezing out blackheads,
just as he spends some time shaving. and
he Will not apologize for it, either.
Whenever the skin sweats freely. ST.
simultaneously the grease in the grease
glands becomes more liquid and flows
more freely. Blackheads result when
the grease in the grease glands becomes
dry and semi-solid. Hard work and
violent play are fine cures for black
heads. The hair will get greasy and the
skin dirty n the amount of washing
which suffices in the earlier years of
life will be found insufficient. Unfor-
~tunately. the grease age comes on just
as the boy becomes too large for his
mother to take him by the ear and lead
him to the bath tub,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
The v~aaabond's Return.
Tho tramp disappeared during the W

but statistics are now published proving
that he is coming back. Harsh critics will
no doubt find in this another nail to drive
into the coffin Of our new Ideals of recon
struction. But the tramp is not wholly
the result of shortcomings in our indus
trial organizations: often he is the outcome
of an ineradicable trait in human nature.
The tramp has always been with US. His
vocation, or rather his lack Of one, is in
many instances simply the expression of
the wanderlust. The tramp is often one
whose restless spirit would find a settled
spot n job in life impossibly irksome.
And though the sociologists argue with
justice that the tramps is a drag IN the
economic life of a community, in other
ages the tramp by nature found plenty Of
scope to do the state some service. ventur-
ing on ~uncharted seas, following in the
train Of crusades. He did not miss his
chance in the war. and now there is moth
ing for him but the road.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
Time to Know the Cost.

From the American Legion Weekly.
Congress. we understand. is set to spend
S4,OOG. 0JO. 200 a year for the next few years.
In its consideration of the cost of govern
nent S,OG. 900, 900 apparently is the small
est sum that the congressional mind cares
to reckon with under the present financial
system of conducting the government.
1t is high time that the conduct of the
greatest business in the world-the United
States government-be brought to a BUSH
ness basis There should be enough, fore
sight and enough system, provided to
forecast the annual cost of government
and reduce the estimates to a definite
budget. a budget system would save
millions of dollars without curtailing IN
OF the necessary functions of government
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25

Il TO OFFER.
Arthur Balfour.

= = NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The League OF Nations has had
many critics. but I am not aware
that among the multitude OF criti-
cisms that have been Offered any
suggestion makes its appearance
Tor finding q substitute for that I
organization which we desire to e
intrusted, I admit, with the great
task Of preserving the peace Of the
world. Those who criticise the
League Of Nations have no substi-
tute for the League OF Nations.
They are prepared. it seems. for the
civilized world to go on In he
future as 1t has gone on in the past.
osci!lating between those scenes OF
violence and s~anEuinary disturb
ance and the intervals in which
great and ambitious nations pile up
their ornaments for q new effort.
To me such an ideal appears to be
absolutely intolerable, and / am no
prepared, seriously, to discuss with
any man what the future of inter-
national relations should be unless
he is prepared either to accept In
some form or another the League
OF Nations, or to tell me what sub
stitute he proposes for 1t.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
Things With Wrong Names.
From Pacific Travel.

rTOn TAClIlC 1Idpcl.
Articles in common use that have mis-
leading names are responsible for many
mistaken notions.
Nothing is more natural than to assume
that India ink comes from India, but 1t
does not. any more h q does India rub
Der. The former comes from hin and
should be called Chinese ink, as it is In
France. while India rubber comes from
Central and South America.
Camel hair brushes are not made from
the hair of camels, but from the tails OF
Russian and Siberian squirrels. Genuine
French brier root pipes are not made
from the roots of brier. but from the root
of a white heath, which reaches a con-
siderable size, and is cultivated in the
south of France Silkworms are not
worms, but caterpillars; sealing wax con-
tains no wax; heartburn has nothing to
do with the heart and sweet spirits OF
nitre contain no nitre.
Finally a centipede hasn't 100 feet. The
largest OF them has only 80 feet.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
EnqIish Prices Jumped.

From the London Times.
"A white paper issued by tie board OF
agriculture and fisheries on the prices and
supplies of corn, live stock and other
agricultural produce in England and
Wales for 1918 shows that these various
commodities nave Increased on the aver
age in selling value by 153 per cent above
the prices Of 1906-190S, and by 142 per cent
over those of 1914. The greatest increase
is that Of beans n peas, which have
gone up since 1906-19Os by .4o3 per cent.
Fruit comes next, with a rise of 1853 per
cent, and vegetables with 2s per cent.
The farm products showing the smallest
increases are sheep. which are f3 pei
cent dearer: wool, t0a per cent; potatoes,
ts per cent: hay. In per cent. and huttes.
IL per q
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
7They Never Despair.
From the New York Post.

From the New York Post.
1t does not follow that because the Jenkins crisis has been averted
other perfectly good Mexican crises cannot be discovered. Thus:
An official in a position to Know the facts described the o IL situation a
Likewise there is a. high authority for the statement that when the whole
is laid before he senate in a public "a the triangle of American
Japanese relations will appear in a. significant relation to the whole
course of Mexican fairs in recent years-The New YorkS #e
If not jenkins, then the Tampico oil wells. IF not Tampieo, then
japanese conspiraces with Carranza against the United States. II not
Japan, then the bombardment Of the United States by boshevist
from across the Rio Grande. One would imagine that
from purely tactical considerations the anti-Mexican eampafgners
would refrain from so swiftly following up Jenkins with oil and
Japan. In our relations with Mexico that country has been far from
the innocent lamb drinking Of the stream, and the United States very
far from the wolf, but some of the propaganda methods employed tend
strongly to recall the ancient fable.