The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-20
CITIZEN REPUBLICAN,
p. a. BLISS, Pue.
SOUTH DAKOTA
The traffic manager Of a large

The traffic manager OF a large
manufacturing concern writes: Dur
Ing the past winter l have seen Of
flee men of mediocre physique spend
night after night in various railroad
switching yards out in the snow and
rain to make sure that their ship
ments were moved. j have seen these
same men roll up their sleeves and
help transfer stuff from one car to
another. ! have seen farm tractors
do switching work day after day
switching h a technically was the
duty of the railroads. During the
express handlers strike over half of
our office force went down into the
railroad yards and spent day after
day-sometimes far into the night,
unloading Express cars containing
our product IN order to expedite de-
liyerieS to Our customers.
Boston believes her new y lice force
is h finest In II world. Nearly all
are ex-servire men, and their .'cr-
e age is 81 years. This fani alone
will a v Boston thousands OF dollars,
as the new poiice will not bs re civ
ing pensions for 20 years. Boston
says the new men are quick on their
feet n there are few that can out
run them. They are not afraid OF
anything. anil 80 after the men they
want without calling the rese. res to
he!i. Ne-.a: ;GTe have So many
doors been fond unlocked at night
or so many crooks nailed at their
work as since he new forcs started
doing business ut the old stanG.
Patience Worth has appeared
again behind an ouija board. She has
sent word that the U. S. S. Cyclops
was sunk by a mammoth wave and
that there were 10 men survivors,
h are still alive il a cave along a
key near the Bermuda islands, but
h a these men will never bn found.
She also says "colored people 80 to.
heaven, but do not remain colored,
BIS everybody is the same there"
A London preacher recently ex-
hibited before his congregation a
basket containing 4S eggs. This"
he said, lis what a predecessor OF
mime got for a shilling rs years ago.
Then he showed a basket of "a eggs,
saying: This. the next minister pur-
chased, for a shilling IS years age.
Today, I get two eggs for my shilling"
The preachers salary va doubled.
In Germany u ere is a great army
of mercehary. professional soldiers.
In France they are having trouble
with rehabilitation. In England
there is a wave of crime blamed Upon
soldiers. In Italy men are clinging
to the army because Of assured RAJ
tioas. In America the army has dis
appeared, comments q traveller.
A vigorous diplomatic counter Of
fensiVe apparently has been,
launched to meet the campaign OF
anti British propagandists in the
United States whose activities are.
causing worry to statesmen on both
sides of the Atlantic. Sir Auckland!
Geddes, the new British ambassador,
has been entrusted the task Of lead
ing the fight.
A result of the overall campaign in
birmingham is an offer by the local
clothing merchants of hat city to the
Overall club and the Patchem and
Wearem club, the women's auxiliary.i
to sell all cotton garments at cost
and in future to confine their net
profits on wearing apparel to is per
cent.
a Washington surgeon wants Wo-
men to boycott the fashionable shoe,
He says they cause weakened archea.
sprained ankles, poor circulation, pre-
vent necessary exercise, cause bad
tempers. fatty degeneration. rheu-
matism and divorces, among other
things.
Forty thousand Chinese in Mexico,
without consular protection, have PEI,
tilioned the state department for ner.i
mission to cross the border in case
they are threatened as a result Of the,
present revolutionary activities In
that country. The matter is under
advisement at the department.
THE power of the soviet in Russia
is very slight" writes a correspondent,
"The peasant accepted from commune
Ism all that suited him and then he
listened to the npopes, 81 Village
priests, who resist the unchristtaM
government vigorously.
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