The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-10-08


HE kept the Scripps boys out OF
war; is the latest Cox slogan.
1t can't be possible that Wilson is
''golng in'' because he thinks the W.
ter's fine.
Prices. we are told, are coming
down every day. Probably going up
again during the night.
The only thing solid in the entire
Democratic programme is the south
and that is getting wobbly.
There Is one doubtful state that
will cost the Democrats the election.
It's the state of jincox's mind.
This country is neither at war nor
at peace. But it is at attention.
Just watch it on November 2nd.
Motorists are playing in hard luck.
They are forced to pay exorbitant
prices for gas, and get no rebate on
the stink.
Our latest operate stars are a
tNinkling success, You can't tell
whether they are singing or having a
fit Of Mysteries.
One of our excellent citizens is sore
" puzzled these days. lie wants to
scare up "a laugh and has forgotten
how to go about it..
No matter how the election goes in
November, there will still be a hun
dred million people left who are will
ing to work or be work. Wen get
along.
Washington dispatches tell rs that
the coal situation is becoming serious
Our own common sense tells us that
the lack of coal is becoming more than
serious-it will soon be a freezing cal
amity.
You've got to hand it to some of
our political spellbinders in at least
one respect. They can make other
people believe a line of bunk they
wouldn't even dream of believing
themselves.
/. With the advent of suffrage the
the henpeck e d husband
should breathe a profound sigh Of re-
lief. Women will be too busy settling
the intricate proplems of state to
waste time on the minor affairs Of
life.
Paris, they tell us, is full Of Ameri-
can men and women who are blowing
money to the winds in a wild orgy Of
fashionable debauchery. If they
would only blow themselves along
with their money the rest of us would
feel cleaner and less contaminated by,
their absence.
Time was when most any kind OF a
foreign nobleman could PICK up an
American heiress merely by indicat-
ing his willingness to accept her along
with her dough" Now, however,
handsome chauffeurs are much more
popular than ordinary dukes, princes
and counts.
The public doesn't seem to be able
to work up any fearful sympathy for
the gamblers who got stung in the
base ball scandal, but at the same
time it would like to see crooked play
ers placed where they belong-behind
straight bars. The national game is
in a fair way to be regarded with sus-
picion with every honest person.
When an irate citizen gets on his
high horse and orders his paper stop
ped he rushes right over and borrows
his neighbours copy to see what we
have tosay about it. They just can't
get along without a little editorial
sunshine, oven when they are revel-
ing in virtuous clouds of disapproyal
Of the enormities Of the meek and
gentle editor. All of which Is some
complimentary to We ed, but rather
rough on the neighbor.
a reader wants to know the differ
ence between a politician and a states
man. Well, We don't exactly know,
but we imagine that the present day
politician Is q descendant of the o'd
time statesman, now extinct. We
might go a little further and eluci
date d little more clearly, and state
that the Shiny green worm that de
YOURS our cabbages is the offspring o
one 8 the most beautiful of all wing
ed creatures-a multi-c9io utter
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