The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-02-26
CITIZEN REPUBLICAN,
p. A. BLISS. PUB.
ecoTLAHD. SOUTH DAKOTA

Meredith the newly Installed secretary
of agriculture, says that useless ems
ployes 10 matter In what line they may
be engaged must be released from non
productive work and given ar opportun-
ity to become producers upon the farm
or in the factory. Let us have six-tcnths
of our people in production and FOUR
tenths in distribution. To do this condi-
tons in production must be attractive,
farming must be remonerative and
offer 10 young man who engages In 1t
an opportunity equal to that offered him
should ile go into bank, railroad,
wholesale or retail establishment.
Ships sailing from American ports
with dangerous anarchists and aliens,
like those deported on the transport Bu-
ford should go out in broad daylight
with flags flying, says F. w Berkshire,
Immigration Inspector al Ell Paso, Tex,
In rela ting the story of the recent Voy-
age of the soviet ark. II do not be-
leve the secrecy surrounding the ships
departure was necessary It's more apt
to make anarchists deported and those
still al large believe we are afraid OF
them"
Secretary OF the Treasury Houston
calls attention to the many ways in
which the United States has been assist
iHg Europe since the armistice, as fol-
lows In addition to government loans,
We have Furnished ;lem $100 900, 900 worth
of surplus army supplies, 500, 10000 for
food relief, probably $500 600. 900 in private
loans to foreign bankers and a consider
able amount of accrued interest on the
government loans, Sc that the total
probably would reach 81, 900, COZ, 600. In adj
dition Europe has been selling securities
here"
Pittsburgh health inspector has
found a small two-room house which
: touscs, III the kitchen: horse, COW
and the kitchen stove. In the living
room a husband, wife, II children and
two boarders. In the cellar. thres pigs.
And he says the place Is kept reasonably
clean. Mattresses on puliy ropes, which
were swung to tho ceiling in day time,
explained how 1t was done.
apparently prosperous, because of the
deluson OF high wages and high prices,
the business OF the United States is be-
ing conducted in fashion that cannot
possibly continue for any considerable
length OF time. Lasting prosperity con-
sists not of producing less than is con-
sumed as we are now doing! 1t consists
OF producing more than is consumed
says the Mechanics and Metals National
bank. of New York.
There were 1.47l ,367 deaths in the
United States in 1918, the highest regis
tration on record. Over 80 per cent of
deaths were due TO influenza and pneu-
monia. The next highest rates were due
to organic diseases of the heart, nephrit-
is, Bright's disease, and cancer. The
tuberculosis rate mad declined nearly
80 per cent.
A correspondent privileged to view the
next summers styles, as privately ex-
hibited in New York last week. reports:
"One modlsh manikin looked stunning
in an oilcloth suit Of exactly the same
texture that still keeps pancake batter
out OF the cracks in the kitchen table.
II was black and shiny, like patent
leather, and trimmed with orange rib
bon coated with shellac."
The New York City Federation of
Women's clubs at it's 51st annual con-
yention last week, adopted reso-
luton attacking the bills providing
an eight-hour day and minimum wage
for women, because they are not wanted
by working women, and p1rVent the
women from competing with men In the
labor market.
A New York judge, last week, SEN
fenced an Austrian who had been in this
country six years and still needed the
services os an interpreter, to learn Eng
lish. The time will come when a man
who cannot speak English will be sent
TO jail. You say you have wife and
two children and can't study 'on the
side?' Tommyrot! You learn English!"
Edwin Thomas Meredith, the new sec
rotary c8 agriculture Is the distin-
guished man believed to nave been in the
mind OF Secretary of the Navy Daniels
one day last week, when he told an
audience thAt he could name the next
president OF the United States.
Bonn university has drawn the atten-
ton of the ministry Of education to the
Importance o. teaching English in high
schools, owing to the threatening eco
nomical. political, and spiritual world
domination OF the Anglo. Saxon race"
- The abandonment of farm life hv man
and boys during the past year for the
city has left more than $4,000 habtable
farm houses In New York vacant The
survey indicates that three men have
left the farm for every one returning
A philadelphia will, filed last week.
provided that the body be not embaimed,
not put on ice until necessary, not buried
for seven days, that the services be in
the Baptist church., and the outside cof-
I'm of slate. with an inner one OF bronze.
Those who cry hands off in Mexico"
say In effect, "let the shedding OF blood
so on said Peter Clark MacFarlane to
the AID clubs this week in Chicago
They are the same who refer to the
Z 1iSAtcan W6T us . piot upon american
history"
In addition to flame throwers for melt
ing the snow Off the streets In New York
city last week. the metropolis found baby
tanks very efficient In hauling motor
trucks out Of snowdrifts.
The department Of justice announces
that S95 food profiteers and hoarders
have been arrested. Thus far only q
small number have been brought to
triak Twenty. eight convictions have re-
suited
The faculty of the University az Wash
ington isa rsct satisfied with the salary
Increase they were given this week The
Increases ranged from to Is per cent,
& and the teachers had asked for at least
so per cent.
After long struggle women have wen
admission TO the bar. The sex disauali-
1ication removal bill received the royal
asset last week, and on Monday two
women entered as students at the an
cient inns. says the London Times.
canal to the Roosevelt canal In honor
of former President Roosevelt Is sug-
gested by Jose Tejada, president of the
chamber Of deputies Of Bolivia aud dele
gate TO n-American financial confer
i ence,
Socialist members Of the Dutch psrliA-
Inents ara agitating to intern former EN-.