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The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-29
REST OF SOUTH DAKOTA
BOYS ARE COMING HOME

Last week we suggested that il
was no easy task guessing what
the war department would do from
one day to the next, but that the
chances were that some of the
South Dakota boys would 60 into
the army of occupation and not
come home soon. We referred to
the 9Th division and the 88th div
ision, both containing Haakon
county boys, but it now appears
that we guessed wrong, even the
the guess was based on orders OF
the war department and fortified
by letters Of the boys themselves
to their parents. Both the 9th and
88th division are coming home
soon, and all other units contain.
ing South Dakota boys are shedul-
ed for early return. This appears
from an associated press dispatch:
Practically all Of the South Da-
kota boys who saw service overseas
will soon be out of France. This
was indicated today by a dispatch
from Washington stating that the
first units Of the 88th division had
already sailed and were expected
to arrive before the and Of the
month.
1t, was also learned that nearly
all of the 700 South Dakota boys
drafted were in the 89th division
returned to the United States yes
terday with the units on board the
transports Leviathan and Impera-
tor.
There are 500 South Dakotans in
the 88th and their units may be
expected to follow soonafter those
now on the way. Thus while some
will, Of course be retained in scat
tered units for some time it would
seem that the greater part Of the
soldiers from this state will soon
be bsck On home soil again.
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-29
OUR NEIGHBORS

That Governor Norbeck went all
the way to Philadelphia to meet
them, and that they were served
their first ice cream and cake in
sixteen months on their arrival in
this country, seem to be two out
standing features Of their landing
in the good old U. S. A." in the
minds of Pierre boys Of Battery G
147th F. A. according to letters
which home people are receiving.
Pierre Capitol-Journal.
So long as it is absolutely neces-
sary for part of the folks in town
to run their cows on the street
and the City Marshall appears
helpless to prevent it, shouldn't
there be some standard set for the
COW to come up to before she is al
lowed the privilege g grazing on
the lawns. gardens and streets.
Some of the cows are such hard
lockers and they are always the
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-29
Local Espionage Cases Continued,

The local espionage cases, involv-
ing Orville Anderson and Fred
Fairchild as defendants, which
were to have been argued before
the United States Circuit Court at
Saint Paul last week, were contin-
ued until November.
Both of these cases arose out of
a transaction in Philip. Both de-
fendants are residents of this
county. Although not charged in
the same cases. both were found
guilty at the October 1918 term Of
federal court ii Deadwood and
Anderson was given a seratene9 If
four years ii the pcnitntiary and
The pioneer. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-29

one year upon recommendation of
leniency by the United States Dis
trict Attorney.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Going Back 10000 Years Behind the Garden Of

philosophy of. immancnt reason had been
OF record only in Indian. Egyptian, Persian,
Heilenic and Hebrew theologes, and the
earliest important reference to it was in
the sixth century b. c. The translation
OF Babylonian tablet made by Langdon
shows that the theory was known and
rather widely cNpounded as carly as $500
years before Christ
These and other researches convinced
Langdon and other archaologists years
ago that the buried and forgotten cities
OF ancient Mcsopotamia contain far older
records than anything 50 far brought to
ilght. Chief among these cities is Ur of
inc Chaldccs. referred to in the Scriptures
as the birthplace Of the prophet Abraham
OWING to its inacccssbility and other DIFF
hcultlcs with which the archnolocist has
had to contend. no extensive exploration
ever mas been started there.
The same is true Of many other cities
khowa to historians through the dcvclop
mcnt OF the comparatively new science Of
Archaeology, which is less than one hun
area years old When it is considered that
IL Is less than eighty five years since the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06

obscure the newspaoern,an
F.' ~ u'"' source of information and
gets them cleared IN ana
- me practice at a stated ,ooo.
ing II the person holding it bas 49,.
one language, TO have an intor..~. '
present Sometimes, however -, - vel
'eS' on"ehS not speaking the lanonaao
i" 'sa mnst depend On his f'.;ans,
among inc other correspondor.1 .N''.S
translate for him. Private eo,,,.a W
information are among those with vvhs','
ore can converse more or los. g..
,,,,s+ -, special interviews an inttrpreter
must be provided if needed ''e'
with ne > l., censorship is provided
wiz" large staff of foreign lanrnaoo
, :. Some Of whom are exnert a
ulApa'ch written in English ja band,ad
~ o''e OF the experts in Ensl;sh II
'oeS "o' nave to be transla.od ,,,,o.s
" po'"' comes up about which the con-
s'r is d"btful. In that case no rskas
- 70 'he chief censor. translates tho
passage IN question and gets a rp];no
!" 'he correspondent is dissatisfied with
.''e ruilng he first sees tho cepso, who
'"no.ed the dispatch, and if still un-
s 81 may see the chief censor In
'''a' event he would better be able -
Spe". I rench freely, for it is very I'M
:, "c'o'y TO conduct Il dispute with
VIC ch!e1 censor thrcu1b ,n ;,,ta,,,4
and 1t is generally useless anyway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06

Aquarium, and up at Madison Square Gar
den tho circus is still the circus
oddly enough you arc glad the have
lived up to their tradition, that the fish
still swim in the midst OF doubtful Veto
rian surroundings That the artist is yet
to come who win put art into the circus
poster In pictures at any rate. tho lion
end the tiger, thc giraffe and the gnu and
lot Of other animals, whose names are
too hard to spell. still lie down together
III blazing riot Of color.
No artist has improved Inc composition
Of tbs eallepine horses and lheit daring
riders, They gallon on Ire H#l outside ~
eli theu pristine ebatm, and .oaide fhe eii4
eas eternal Che GteDlesl FHgN oa hauh is
stiil The greatest shoe
10 you Wendef rs y0u WaHder home
through The bright liQhis bow The ojreus has
managed TO do il, and perhaps you conclude
that sadly enoHgb and strangely enough the
circus has never bad j. e1unro deal. In tie
cou's" q tmo some one has succeeded in
takns almost cyerything seriously some Of
the TINE, bat for some obacure reason tho
circus has been left OUT You can't explain
it. even granting the possibility that the
circus IS intended TO be funny. fox tn3 hardly
seems Il valid reason for such perennial
charity. We have analysed most Of our
hunoIists with thc same care that we nave
sought tho alcohoc content in our better
known beverages. We have discovered that
comedy IS merely Il miXturc OF a few rather
drab and conventional essentials. Away back
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06

sou answer, you will End yourself in a
maze of contradictions. You arc flooded
by rccollcctons Of other circuses; YOU
struggle with comparisons. You may even
pause to analyze your feelings. fatal
step that adds to your confusion. Yet in
any event the same answer will be vrune
from you. out of the maze Of Uniformed
thoughts and visions Of bright colors and
l'npossibilitles. You viii hear yourself say
ing the same thing you said last year:
We'll. It's the same cid circus
fou may have said il about the problem
play the other night, but tbs time souf
voice contains no regret. YOU say i With
tHllef' pfoud VI your discovery, The gold
blana and her bow does not look over lha
roofs Of Madison Squire any longer She
gazes, lnstend, into the windows If office
buildings md ont upon u park whero the
fountain pnys a decorous accompaniment
to soapboN orators Time has swept nway
the Eden Musde and its chamber Of hor-
rors. Pillars of victory stand on the ground
where tcamstcrs used to loco their wheels
IN Jo'la debate and q. Ilcnry was wont
to lay his plots of tho -Four Million" The
whirlpool Of traffic has moved up twenty
blocks. They have added an amendment
to the Constitution. The world is grow
ing better or worse, depending on how you
look at it. But out Of tho chaos Of change
you feel sure that two things have re.
manned the samc---two institutions have
withstood the ravagcs Of reform Down
at the Battery the Aquarium is still the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
What Language Does Peace SneaE5

delegates arc accompanied by their own
interpreters, who translate for them.
Official documents of the conference
arc also printed in the two languages
and copies in each language are dis
trlbuted among the delegates
This method Of procedure simplfics
the work of the conference as much as
IS possible among SO large number
OF delegates speaking so many different
languages. They Ill know they have
to understand or have some ono with
them who understands one of two lam
guages, and confusion is avoided and
delay is mnimized
or newspaper men the problem is
very much the same. They must be
able TO handle freely one or both of
two languages, but they must be. at
the same tlmc, prepared to make ex-
curslons into various other lanplIance
as the special need arises Most of the
old hands among foreign corrcsDond-
ents have French and English and can
always get an Interpreter for what other
't LAX '"eS lecC. ne men who
nave gone to Paris for this particular
JOB nave harder time, but the way has
oeeh made as easy as possible for them.
secretary Lansing receives the nova
paper men at ! o'clock every morn
ing and gives them information about
what the conference is doing. This
meeting IS primarily for the American
correspondents, but there is no proh-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06

paper men and will talk freely TO those
""o"' 'hcy know car be trusted not TO
oe'r"y confidence or divulgc q source
% INFORMATION. Some among The Amer
lcah delegation arc also accoec;h,o
WINE VI. Iardicu can always be seen
"hen ne has the time to spare.
mere are, of course, a thousand and
one sources OF information ahont ,ho
aolngs OF the conference. but tl,;s
ne'hod OF procedure applies to all Of
t"e'a. IL IS matter of knowing whoro
20 go Tor a piece Of information, ,bat
IS required, gaining access to tbc ,,,,,
VINO has 1t and persUading him Ia "con,o
''ioueh. Moreover. it is n,attor Of
gaming the friendship OF NOR IN 40
S'''oA TO Know things so that they will
make point Of keeping you informed
IL IS a matter of being known az = man
% discretion, one who knows what
should be published and what should
"o', ana as man who can be trusted
WIN Woighty secrets that are confaaa
10 nm IN order to clarity his unaor-
s'a"a'hs OF a situation and guide HIM in
what he writes ~
IN inc stated meetings, at which anv
properly credentialed newspaper man
Is received the person holding the meet
ing Is always careful and guarded IN
"hat ne says, for some ndscreet nor
son may have slipped in will, the crowd
:, some or the points touched on at one
Oh these meetings remain pcrsstentlv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06

btion against newspaper mon from
oth"r countries. At these meetings.
questions arc freely asked and answered
with such freedom as the Secretary
chooses. The condition is that Secrc-
'ary Lansing is not to be quoted di-
rcctly. and that all dispatches built on
thc meetings arc to be sent as informal
t'on and not as official statements. IN
other words the dispatches go on the
authority of the correspondent.
Lord Robert Cecil holds the same
KIND of meeting for the British dola-
cation and Stephen Pichon speaks Of
hclally once week for the French gov
ernment NJ Pichon is quoted. Andre
lardleu also speaks officially for tbo
frcnch government from time to tn,o
and is quoted directly.
Ihcse are recognized routine sources
Oh information. In addition to then,
'"c" correspondent cultivates particular
sources of news; that is to say he cul
tVates friendships with men in :. M
s'''oh TO know what the conference is
oo'hS and what the delegates are think
"'% ABOUT. These sources are often more
VaiuabI" than the recognized and ron
'ihe sources. The correspondcnt III
ways seeks. if possible. to make b;s
friendships among the delegates to the
conference who are attending the daily
sessions
Several members of the British do,o
s"''o'' are readily accessible to news
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06

scum il is planned to establish, probably
at Fagdad a clearing house in which a
corps OF experts representing all the in
s;ltutions in tho field will examine records
found. They will then be packed up care
tally and sent to the respective museums.
with the danger eliminated of losing the
information contained upon them
at is the hope Of archaologists.o saws
the University Museum, chat, with settled
conditions assured for the future, trans
portatlon will show a rapid devclopmcnt.
and that contra point may be established
10Y the purpose Of cleaning, COMPARING and
deciphcrlng tablets. As an instance Of
what this will mean. it may be mentioned
that the tablet in the University Museum
containing tho Sumcrian story OF the flood
is broken off at a point where it starts ia
give Information about the relation of tbc
ancients 10 their gods. The collection
from the Nippur library had to be brourht
back IN such shape that it has takcn
twenty-five years to clean all tho tahlct,
" hen labor and other conditions mako
1t possible to resume work it ia presumed
'hat the British government win follo,, IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Gossip of no
Centuries Ago

The survey now being made is uuccr the
direction Of one Of the worlds mos.
distinguished arch@oogisty, DR. Stephen
herbcf, Langdon, Don of Jesus College
and curator OF the Babylonian Section of
the University Museum. Dr.. Langdon left
his post here nearly two years ago TO Join
the British army. Announcement is now
made by the University Museum that he
has been detailed by the British govern
sncnt to make an archaeological survey Of
aiesopotamfa, and to report upon all sites
available Tor excavation. iMngdon has led
many expeditions into Baoyonian fields
and has been active for years In ,ae r.
daction OF the great clay tablet libraries
in the University and British snusenma
In the former he was the discoycrer Of the
famous tablets Giving the ancient Suoer.
Ian version OF the creation and the fall
of man, the flood and the twelfth book Of
the epic Of Gilgamish. He aso found and
Translated tablet containing what Is said
TO be the first recorded enumeration Of the
doctrine OF the logon. Previously this
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would reach q certain height Yoa can find
out shat the wild man cats for breakfast.
what tune mos; cheers the musical seal in
deed. you can End cut Almost anything. ex-
cept thc great essential that the press agent
touches upon ever so Lightly End hoveIs about
gingerly the dramatic 9alde Of the greatest
show on earth
/. seems strsnge tnat tba circus e,ades
il. Il may be that It's rotieaaee is a pars
Of the great, anshahabia ;fadil.on taa' has
painted the posters nus 9,itt-n the pro
aramtas. Surely the circus Is not asnAned:
Is hgs no reason T. be. beeaNss. II 1oa sop
70 tiihh Of It. fme and custom avs ffsee-
fully combined ~ insse !. one Of lbe great
est Of ogf dfaifas. 'late i from DC bes
ginning LYejy aea.oid feature. from The
gRy abandon Of The rush 10 the ticket Office
10 DE grand opening pageant which Was
marching when Nero huug bis rug oyer he
rniling Of the Coliseum, forms part, an
essential link in the great play.
Right from Tie beginning you get the
clement o. suspense You get the thing
that every playwright strives after the mo-
mcNt YOU pass uudcr tho colonnadcs oF The
yellow brick building. Il you have your
tickets. YOU wonder whether the show has
started; ii you ha>c thea not. you Wonder
if You viii he able 10 bay thcm. Although
IT Is the aomc feol.ng you have experienced
every year, il is is poi~n;l; as it ever wa.
"llave yohv moneN .cady.' some one ia
shouting IN pohtc monotone, and you
search your pockets inst as frantical!y as
ever. Nor do YOU feel am. particular relief
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06

has oeen made by the Unsuitable instinc
of the British pioneer for order and prog
rcss. Huge tracts of land that were fer
tile fields in the days Of Ncbuchadnezza
and have been deserts ever since have bee
brought back to cultivation fiostiiy
toward outsiders is beng dssipated
Years OF painstaking research will be
necessary before the world can have any
thlng like complete knowledge of The
early inhabitants of Mcsopotamia. But in
the light of what has been accomplishsd
the task ahead seems comparatively sim.
pic. SO recently as the time Queen Vie
tora assembled the English throne scholar
were dcnouncing the new science of Assn
loloGy as a igment of the Imagination
Archplshop Ushcr's scheme OF compus|
'ion, by which ne estimated that the caril'
and man were created about 1904 B. G..
was widely accepted. It is interesting to
note that this date is still printed in the
margin of man, Bibles, in the first chapter
of Genesis.
French and English scientists started hi
excavation of Ninovch in The 40s Poss
bly II they had known the difficulties 4
the way Of finding key to the then III
known script upon tablets uncarhcd The
m'eht nave given up in disgust. But afhI
the script had puzzled psychologists II
some years 1t was discovered that the Pei
SANS had adopted the Assyrian wedeI
SNAPPED stroke as the foundation for the
written characters. With this as a Ml'
inc work Of rclac,ion was SIN furthts
he'ped by the discovery in Persia Of tvs.
'aplet with what Vas later found TO be is,
same narrative ia the early Assyrian az
the later Pens IAN Characters Archgoe
siSts now know that the Assyrian scriFl
contained about 500 characters, each wiz
at least two different phonetic values, "
with the key obtained they have learned Il
declpher tablets with accuracy and unsF
unity Of opinion.
One Of the chief difficulties IN the stud
OF ancient peoples has been to detcrm'
the'r methods of chronology Until a'
years ago 1t was thought that no approx
mate accuracy had been attained by ar +
early civilization until within about 81
teen hundred years of the Christian e'' +
before the war science had carried bsf' F
ITS records and had fairly well establsAs
the sequence of years to pcint from 80 T
to 6on0 Il C.
The university has also made dseo'e'
les IN recent years that, when followed
aions lines indicated, may lead to no"
definite information about the connecsioi
that undoubtedly existed between the ear
Chinese and other ancient peoples. Qa'' I
recently the museum aquired the hcfse
oass-reliefs of the horses of Tsan-ls !
known and revered by Il quarter OF p'E
earth's population for centuries rs
Heavenly Horses" Research BY Dr. esE
w. BISHOP. curator Of the Orcntal see''sE
OF the museum, and by other authority
has established the fact that the Empsp
VINO immortalixed these animals by hasis
them reproduced in stone got them ire
Persia by sending out powerful arm
force which has been described as y.
largest horse stealing expedition of sncss.
times.
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this case its historic policy Of hberalitv
toward the sciences. and will permit all
properly organized bodies to operate under
Its protection. The opening of Palestine
VIII be good news to all archaoIogists.
Particularly in the south, where there has
oeen virtually no work done. 1t is known
that ruins Of ancient cities lie buried at
various points in this region but many of
them have never been visited by white
men because they arc under the protection
OF fierce bands Of natives
"A great number of educational and
othcr institutions in this country are now
taxing preliminary steps to engage in
acknowledged research. not only in Mcso-
potamno' but in Asia Minor and thc
islands Of the .Egcan Sea. whore il is
known there are buried MANY Of tbo
nncst specimens of Greek civilization
these fields have been practicable c,osod
10 science 1t is true that in recent vears
the Turks did permit a certain amount ~
eNcaVa'on' bat invariably they refused TO
permit anything to be taken ont of tho
country.
ndcr supposed present plans Of ,ho
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peace conference. Greece viii get portion
of the Ionian littoral. Greece ALWAYS has
been favorable to archaeological research.
But back of the Greek holdings there arc
immense fields for exploration in territory
whose political status is not now deter
mined If Armenia. for instance, obtains
anything like the borders she seeks. it
VIII open to excavation all of ancient Cap
padoc'a, home of the Hittitcs. Absolutely
nothing was known concerning this people
until DR.. A. H. Sayce. of Oxford. opened
the way to the translation of Hittite tab
tets few years ago. Here is wonder
ful ield for the archnolocist.o
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riia, who slides and stumbles, suddenly
1eeomes the best equestrian of them all.
1ratiflee. you watch the dogs and the seals
Oh watch the chario. race sure which
chalo' viii WIN, pleased that you always
guess sht. little dazed you see dozen
mer and women swinging from the vaulted
looi, rneh balancing poles. holding noun
fans e other men on their heads You
watch Tire gay vortex below goa. but you
are aivasS waiting ~ einaN is bound
e come. though t9a can never seli Ahen
or ~ "tgs fof3. Perhaps 4 IS your u,d-
btslla wlieh slides through Il etaek - ths
ho9f fefhaHs Il is soda bostie lbat eH.
pieles de"n yoHi heek OF the bog u pes
nuts you spilled under your seat, o. some
one eise's balloon you Inadvertently broke,
The point is you nre sure Of a elimaz
some time,
You kno" when YOU have reached it, Re
lieyed, you watch the great pageant, the
glowing stream Of bright colora. You Won
der whether people in dress SUITS ever aId
ride galloplng percherons after dinner or
wander about on their hands. Suddenly tho
old feeling comes over you, the vague wish
that once made you break two chairs - .hc
dining room. You realize that people GOWN
there IN the rings arc dong the things tina.
YOU would like TO do. Is it possible YOU arc
eceing tho world as you would like TO 500
Ii? II IS the old. nvctcrate call Of tho cir
cus, and you know that the drama is draw,
ing TO its close.
Then YOU become a part Of the parcant
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matte unity-has it got it? The climax
is it there? No one has told us. The circus
has not stood in the X-ray of the critics,
and therefore the circus has not had a square
deal
This is probably the fault of the circus
as much as any one else Plenty of things
have been said about the circus The only
trouble is that they all have the insidous
ta'nt of circus propaganda, obscuring the real
issue. The circus itself has seen to it that
no one has ever taken up the circus in a
serious way. Every year we have the Joke
about the tall man. They chang something"
on the bareback rider and they write the
biography of Jumbo the elephant Then thew
begin story with the statement that the
circus has come to town, and. cmbroidcrinc
on the news, get as far as the ringmastor
and the orangcadc and the popcorn Some
times they discuss the reason why the young
boy leaves home to JOIN the institution; some
times you read the facts and figures story
If You stood all the bales Of hay consumed
by the colossal institution end on end. thew