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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-12-18
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HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

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stop Thief" the play selected for
the Junior class play, is one OF the
brightest and wittiest farces produced
in recent years. Since the first pro-
duction at the George Conan Theatre
in New York City until the present
season, it has been great success
wherever it has been played. The
plot of the play is original and the
complications which arise are sure to
please the audience. The characters
are well presented and in every class
are life-like. The play will be given
the latter part of January. The class
: hopes to make the play both a dra-
matte and financial success. The pro-
ceeds of the play will be turned over
to the annual fund.
Vacation in the public schools for
the Christmas season begins Wednes-
day evening, December 18th, and con-
tinues until Monday, January 5th. If
for any reason the supply OF coal Is
inadequate, notice will be given
through the press of any change in the
date of opening of the school.
Since the football season has closed
there is a very encouraging activity
in the high school for debate and de-
clamatory. 1t is the ambition of all
to see as fine recognition in the state
from debating and defamation as the
football interests secured through ath-
letics during the past season.
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MAKE AMERICA SAFE

An empty coal bin at the factory is
preferable to the surrender of the
sovereignty of our government to
little group of willful leaders in the
coal strike, is the declaration con-
tanned in an open letter by Stephen
C. Mason, president of the National
Association of Manufacturers, sent out
on Thursday, December A, to the sew
eral thousand members Of that organ
alton in every section Of the United
States.
Mr.. Mason declares that "the coal
strike has now become purely an IS
sue between the government Of the
United States and the coal miners
unions as to which is supreme" In
order that the loyal and patriotic
manufacturers of the country should
not aid or abet the policy Of savage
coercion which the miners union
leaders have deliberately adopted" Mr..
Mason urges the factory managers and
operators to refrain from embarrass-
ing the government authorities by max
ing requests for liberal rations OF
COAL"
This is the time to make America
safe for Americans, says Mr.. Mason,
who epitomizes the challenge of the
leaders of the mine workers as, give
us what we demand or we will not
mine a single ton or permit others to
do so, even IL the people freeze and
transportation and industry cease!
Manufacturers will cheerfully ac-
cept any financial loss incident to clos
ing down their plants or curtailing op-
erations, declares Mr.. Mason, rather
than encourage in any way the policy
OF coercion which the miners union
leaders have adopted.
We, therefore, urge upon manufac-
turers, as a wise and patriotic course.
strict economy In the use Of fuel and
heartiest cooperation with the gov
ernment and the Fuel Administration
in meeting and overcoming the seri.
GUS situation now confronting the
country as a result of the revolutionary
tactics of the miners leaders.
"In this critical hour of our ma
tional existence" says President Ma
sons letter to the manufacturers,
when a small group Of willful men,
in control of the miners unions, pre-
sumo to set themselves up as more
powerful than the government Of the
United States and to regard their per-
sonal interests as being more import
ant than the health. safety and pros
perity Of the American people, 1t is
time for all loyal American manufac-
turers and good citizens to stand SOL
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w. s. s.
vOLGA

From the Tribune:
James F. Brooke Of Brookjngs. rep,
resenting the Inter-church Movement.
was a visitor in this city Tuesday
getting information from Rev.
J. ]. Workman about his denomina-
ton and from the writer regarding
the local hospital. For number of
years Mr.. Brooke was associate editor
of the Brookings Register. but is now
actively engaged In work connected
with the church survey that is now
being made in this state.
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SOCIETY NEWS

This department is edited by Mrs Rila L.
interest will confer a favor on the Register
by phonng Mrs. Ziegler 316.
..Friendship Club i Mrs. e. Sheldon
entertained most pleasantly this hap
py crowd, 1.-The Friendship Club" on
Thursday afternoon. Lively chatting
over dainty needlework furnished
amusements for the early hours, and
later a most delicious two-course din
ner was served a la cafeteria.
Evering-On Wednesday evening Of
last week Miss Phelps of the high
school force entertained very charm
ingly the ladies Of the H. S. and a
few others. Fancy work, social chat,
and dainty luncheon passed the time
all too rapidly.
Twin Sixes-A very pleasant after
noon was spent by "The Twin Skies"
at the home of Mrs. Robt. Phelps on
Thursday afternoon. Christmas work
and visiting and fine lunch provided
ample amusements.
Surprise - On Thursday evening
some of Mrs. J. F. Vrenegor's neigh
bors very happily surprised her by
dropping in with their fancy work
and nne lunch. A number of parcels
were handed to the honoree which on
opening, she found dainty and useful
remembrances Of this happy occasion.
Saturday Literary cIub-A pleasant
meeting of the s. L. C. was held at
the home of Mrs. R. A. Storm. Roll
call was responded to by one-minute
talks on a favorite musician. Miss
Hjertaas favored the company by y
very interesting reading. "One Christ
mas Day" Mrs. Raak read a fine arti.
Gle by DR.. Van Dyke Several fine
selections suitable for Christmas were
given on the Victrola.
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closing down in west. Trade ham,
pered by storms and thirty-six-hour
week, but resilient beyond previous ex-
perience. Train movement west cut
by lack of coal, cold weather and deep
SHOWS. Commodity prices steadier al
top, both for foods and materials.
Stock market unsettled. Call money
again rises. Big breaks in foreign ex-
change. Heavy snow covering for
wheat. Building enormously active.
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STATE OF TRADE

The state Of trade over the country
reported by Bradstreet's for last week
cheerful. Coal strike settlement
cheers industry, which was rapidly
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w. 3. 8.

Lyle Bunday OF Brookings. spent
Thursday and Friday in Bruce with
relatives.
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ADOPTS
RULES FOR
LABOR
Wages and Hours of Work
ers, and Other Trifles,
Will Now Be Regulated
by Capitalists, Perhaps.

Paris, April 12.-The report of the
commission on international labor
legislation, which drafted a program
to govern international regulation of
employment conditions, was adopted
by the peace conference yesterday
with amendments proposed by
out portfolio in the British cabinet,
and one OF the representatives of his
country on the labor committee.
When Mr. Barnes was recognized,
he offered a motion approving the
draft of a convention to create a
permanent organization for the pro
motion of international labor condi-
tions and requesting the various gov
ernments to nominate delegates
forthwith.
A series of amendments proposed
by the British members also was
presented by Mr.. Barnes. One OF
them would extend the period fol
ratification OF labor proposals to Il
months instead of one year. An
other of the amendments follows:
In framing an act, recommends
ton or draft of a convention of gen
eral application the conference shall
have due regard to those countries il
which climatic conditions, the impeG
feet development of industrial organ
izations or other special circum
stances make industrial conditions
substantially different, and Shall sug
gest notifications, if any, which i
considers may be required to NEE
the case of such countries"
In moving the adoption of the la
Dor amendment, Mr. Barnes said i
was anticipated that the first meet
ing Of the permanent organization
would be held at Washington mex
| October. This announcement brough
President Wilson to his feet with iii
assurance that such a labor gather
/ ing in the American capital would b
/ given the warmest welcome and sur
| port.
The motion adopting the repor
| provides that each country shall an
point four delegates to attend tn
conference in October. Two of thes
! delegates will represent the govern
ment, one of them the employees an
! the other the employers, with tw
advisers, including one woman, o
questions affecting women.
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LARGE INCREASE
IN BATTLE
FLEET
United States Navy Adds
One Super -Dreadnaught,
Ten Destroyers and One
Submarine.

Washington, April 12.--America' S
battle fleet was augmented last
month by 10 new destroyers and one
submarine besides the super-dread-
naught Idaho, which will join Ad-
miral Mayo's forces on their return
from Guantanamo bay, Cuba, within
few days. Five auxiliary ships also
were completed in March and pre-
sent expectations are that more than
$50 additional ships will be delivered
before the end of the year.
Vessels commissioned last month
include the destroyers Gridley, Will
liams, Barney, CoWell, Maddox,
Kalk, Foote, Hopewell, McDermut
and Laub the submarine R-4 and
the mine sweeper Seagull. Four har-
Dor tugs We're also completed.
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AMERICAN BOYS
ON TRANSPORTS
SOON DUE
Three Vessels, Carrying
Many Units of Overseas
Forces Have Sailed for
Home.

Washington, April 12.-Transport
sailings were announced by the war
department today as follows:
Cruiser Seattle, due New York
April 10, with casual companies for
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania
tWo), Vermont, Kentucky, Maine,
Mississippi, Oregon, Florida and Illi-
nois; headquarters troops Fifth
army corps, field hospital No. 1886,
companies l. and NJ, Fifty-second
pioneer infantry; 4o6th telegraph
battalion, 25 casual officers.
Virginian from ST. Nazaire, due
New York April 20, with the 316th
sanitary train and field hospitals and
ambulance companies 361 to 364,
Inclusive; 301st clothing unit, 316th
ammunition train, headquarters and
companies A to G, inclusive, about
900 men as detachment of the
Ninety-first division headquarters
and companies A to d, inclusive,
347th machine gun battalion; 362d
infantry machine gun company, num-
ber Of scattering casuals.
Santa Paula from st. Nazaire, due
New York April %, with base hos
pital AZ, 316th supply train head
quarters and companies A to F, in
elusive; 18th company, transporta-
ton corps; 346th aero supply squad
ron and 356th areo squadron;
Fourth trench mortar battery: head
quarters and batteries A to D, in
elusive, Second trench mortar bat
talon
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The group of men-and it is com
small who manipulate its
policies, direct its activities and con-
troll its destinies. are English.
In the last analysis, the same fam
lilies, few in number, who largely
control and dominate and govern it
today, are the same in name and
blood and ideals as they were when
England, under Elizabeth-then but
little island ngdom-started out
upon a career Of diplomacy, eXploita-
ton and conquest, which has made
the British Empire what il is today.
The statesmen of England in many
generations have been able and mas
terful men. From purely material
point of view, probably no race in the
history of the world has been quite SO
successful in making its way toward
the goal of world control and domi-
p1pn I'ipn
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Especial United Press Wire

Especial United Press Wire.
Berlin, April 12.-The present
German government is much more
stable than appears on the surface.
1t can throw half million we'll
trained and equipped troops in the
field il necessary and is in a position
to maintain order by force. But the
government is not adverse to strikes
and other troubles $50 long as they
do not get out of hand) until peace
is made. Then we will probably see
the Germans bringing order out OF
chaos like the American business
man Wading into a days work.
The Bavarian affair is not serious
and will not be unless there is a gen
eral communist outbreak. Organized
resistance by the deposed socialist
government is steadily gaining fol-
lowers. because the real Bavarians
resent the way the Spartacans have
flocked to Munich and seized control.
Even if the Observation-Disclosures gov
ernment should, by some chance, be
overthrown the foreign office would
remain the same. That means that
the same old machine will conduct
negotiations in Paris.
Inasmuch as the workmen are dis
armed and cannot fight, the only
thing able to force out the new gov
er. nent would be tremendous
strike-much larger than the pres
ent one--Which most observers be-
1ieve the radicals will not be able to
swing.
Danzig messages reported a rail
way strike in that district. The
strikers, numbering 10000, are de-
manding the establishment of the
soviet government and alliance with
Russia and Hungary.
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BY JUSTICE DANIEL f. COHALAN.
COf the New York supreme court anu
chairman of the Irish Race
Convention

The close of the war leaves one
great, dominant, overshadowing DOW
er, outside our own country-a power
which controls more than a quarter
OF the worlds land surface, and
which is seeking to continue it's con
troll OF the three-quarters of the
world which is covered by water.
This power is known as the Brit
ish Empire. Its territory is TO be
found on every continent and on all
the islands of the sea. It's CONNER
cial and financial ramifications ey-
tend all over the globe. 1t dominates
continents and controls by close al
liances many of the powers outside
its own territory which are them
selves great moving forces in the
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LOU FREUDENsTE|N
WANTS PUBLIC MARKET

All organizations or individuals
interested in the establishment of a
public market for Butte are invited
to attend a public mass meeting to
be held in the city hall next Tues
day evening. The call was issued
yesterday from the office of the city
clerk to all union or other organiza-
tions likely to be interested.
Alderman Lou Freudenstein is the
father of the proposal to float bonds
of small denominations, and he was
one of the stanch supporters of the
measure passed by the voters in
April 1918, authorizing bond issue
of S15,0 900 for the purchase of a site
and the erection of a suitable build
tContinued on Page Three)
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RECALL OF OFFICIALS
DEMANDED BY
CRAFTSMEN

Tacoma, Wash, April - The
Tacoma Metal Trades council,
which managed the February
strike here, last night approved
the plan to recall the five city
commissioners because of the ar
rest of tag sellers for the soldiers
and sailors council last Saturday,.
The council also went on record
for a siA-hollr work day, and a
committee was appointed to carry
on propaganda work among union
men and women of Tacoma.
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TROOPSHIP AFIRE TN
HONGKONG HARBOR
Especial United Press Wire. }

Especial United Press Wire.)
San Francisco, April 12.-The
Canadian Pacific liner Monteagle,
requisitioned by the British govern
ment three days ago to bring the
American and British troops from
Siberia, is on fire in the Hongkong
harbor, according TO cablegram re-
ceived here. The message gives no
details of the fire other than that
the flames were discovered on the
big liner as the anchor was being
lifted.
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Especial United Press Wire. J


London, April 12.--The crisis in
northern Russia has passed, accord
ing to an Archangel dispatch. The
message says that the melting of the
snow is paving the way for the ar
rival of reinforcements. 1t is fur
ther stated that the bolsheviki army
on the Archangel front now num-
bers 10000.
War Minister Churchill, in a
speech last night, declared that
Great Britain would make no effort
to negotiate with the Russian soviet
government. He said:
England cannot negotiate with
the bolsheviki. The allied troops in
Russia will be relieved, the premier
having given me full power to ac-
comDlish this
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GRAND Old CHAMPION
REFUSES TO
kNUCKLE

Terre Haute, Ind, April H.
Eugene Y. Debs, under sentence
for violating the espionage law,
said at his home here yesterday
that he was getting ready to begin
his sentence in federal prison. He
declared he would not ask for one
minutes delay OF respite.
Regarding statements to the ef-
feet that he had threatened to call
"a general strike if sent to prison,
Debs said:
This charge is absolutely false
and baseless. y
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AMERICAN DELEGATES
HAVE ARRIVED

Especial United i1@ess ire.)
Paris, April t2.--in American
commission representing Irish So
cietics in the tinted STATES is
makinG arrangements to confer
with Presiden: Wilson regarding
Irish independence. The commits
sioners arrived yesterday andwere
met by john Kelly, delegate of
the Ifis: republic 10 Che peace
conference.
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LLOYD GEORGE: SHOULD
GET SOME BUTTE
GUNMEN
'4t in holSheyi9m after all.

London, April l.. The coalition
g oy err m n suffered another
heavy defeat, the second since the
election of the new parliament, in
the by-election in the Central Hull
district yesterday, when Com
mander J. NJ kenWorthy, an
Asqnithian liberal was elected by
a majority of 917 over Lord
Eustace Percy, coalition union
list, The vote was: Kenworthy,
S,61G; Lord Percy, 7,699.
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ALLIES NOT READY
TO RECOGNIZE SOVIET
Especial United Press Wire J

Basle, April 12.-The allies have
notified the German government
that Bavaria will not be included in
the peace treaty, a Stuttgart dispatch
reported. Such action by the allies.
it was stated, would be regarded as
a virtual recognition of Bavaria,
though not necessarily of the new
soviet government.
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COLD CASH CONvINCES
CAPITALISTS

Especial United Press Wire.)
Paris, April 12.--It is learned
from reliable sources that the big
four" today consid cred the pro-
posal of selling fool to the Rus
SLAMS. What decision. if any, was
reached could not lie ascertained.
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Especial United Press Wire. }

Especial United Press Wire.)
Paris, April 12--A roll call of the
whole peace conference may be
necessary TO determine whether the
former kaiser will be hanged or
otherwise corporally punished for
his crimes. The committee on re-
sponsibility for the war was divided
on the question of personal punish
ment to Wilhelm. Britain, France
and Italy favored it while the United
States and Japan were opposed to it.
The ultimate decision may have to
be rendered when the plenary COM
mittee discusses the report of the
committee The American objection
was based on the inability to find
any international law sanctioning
the prosecution of the heads of
states. The Japanese protested that
they could not subscribe to a doc
trine contradicting their theory that
the emperor is sacred person reign
ing by divine right There is some
talk in British circles that Lloyd
George will demand Wilhelm's head.
II he doesn't get it the former en-
peror's principal punishment is like
ly to be a paragraph in the commit
tees final report condemning his ac-
tions. since there is reason to believe
that the American legal objections
will carry greater weight in the con-
ference than they did in the commit
tee. The report, as finally drawn,
includes still another ground for in
dictment of persons responsible for
the crimes of the war, making a
total of 80.
The thirty-second relates to "or-
ganized terrorism" as deliberate
war policy. Under this number of
high German officers might be sum-
moned before the international
court even if the former kaiser, the
crown prince, Won Tirpitz, Hinden-
burg and Ludendorff escape under
the technical objections of the
Americans.
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ILLNESS OF JUDGE
STOPS THE HEARING

Owing to the illness of judge j. j.
Lynch, Tampering Treacy Crafty
Crowley and Creeping Vines did not
plead to charges of election frauds
this morning.
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Japan Upholds Theory That Emperor
Is Sacred Person, and the United
States Cannot Find international Law
Sanctioning Punishment, Therefore,
Paragraph Condemning His Actions
Will Be Sum Total of Punishment
Especial United Press Wire.)

p9Fs April l2Ihe taIl OF Easler peace has given
way to the promise OF May Day peace While most chronic
tms admitted last night that the hope Of by April
90 has apparently vansed there general feeling that the
treaty will be ready for presentation to Germany by the first
of May.
Persons close to the big four the miliarv
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Is Expected to Quiet
Unrest and Discomfort Among u. S.
Soldiers at Being Held in Service
Against the Bolsheviki. England Will
Not Negotiate With Russian Workers.
Fake Ebert Government Confident
Especial United Press Wire.)

Washinaton April f2-Yankee troops in northern
Russia will be assured by the department that their
tenure Of arctic service against the boshevk will soon be
over. This is expected to quiet the unrest among the
soldiers some whom nearly mutnied several days ago,
climax to the long period of discomfort at being held
in service.
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aerial terms of the treaty have
been completed for weeks. The re-
vision of the league of nations cove
nant will be ready for submission at
the plenary session. The league COM
mittee, at last nights meeting, ap-
proved the remaining articles of the
redraft.
1t is understood that neither the
Japanese amendment for equality
nor the French amendment of an in
ternational general staff were added
Although it was at first reported
that the acceptance of the Monroe
doctrine article was unanimous it is
now understood that the Chinese op-
J posed it on the ground that it might
\ validate Japanese claims to China.
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THE WEATHER.

Montana = Generally fair today
and Sunday; cooler in the east por-
ton Saturday.
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B u RGLARS And
BOOZE COME
TO GRIEF

Lucille Howard, proprietress of the
Crystal Springs hotel, had a noun
tain of whisky cases with whisky in
them, stored out on Emmett street.
About IL O'Clock last night the
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CLAIM CAPTURE
OF ALLIED
CAMP
Bolsheviki Say Enemy Was
Forced to Retreat in the
Struggle. Russ Are on
the Offensive.
Especial United Press Wire


London, April 12.-The capture OF
an entire allied camp in northern
Russia is claimed by the bolshevilii
in an official communique received
by wireless. 1t said: ION Saturday.
near Maiburoskoye, in Pinerge re-
gion, we assumed the offensive Our
thanking maneuver compelled the en-
emy's hasty retreat. We captured
his entire camp. IN the direction OF
Morhgorek, the enemy's attacks
failed.
General staff officers have reiterat-
ed General March's recent declara-
ton that the American forces in
northern Russia are perfectly safe
and able to hold their own against
any bolsheViki attacks.