The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-08-12
MEDALS NOT POPULAR

war departments Ou1CAdlS Colu I'LL
derstand why the veterans of the
Great war are making a joke of their
Victory medal, which has been man.
ufactured by carloads and which will
be awarded to all honorably dis
charged soldiers provided they make
formal application for it.
An official statement dated July Fl
declares that although the depart
ment was prepared to issue about
$4,000 of these medals each day 1t
received only $4,000 applications in
the first month after the delivery be-
gan. Apparently the soldiers don't
care much for this kind of souvenir
of their experiences in the camps or
overseas.
One veteran explained that since
the getting of a medal involves the
giving up, temporarily, of a mans
discharge papers, the men, are salts
fed to hang onto the discharge pa
pers, (which are their most valuable
souvenir of the SERVICE" and let the
medals stay in the hands OF the gov
eminent! Anyhow, the men are all so
busy with their own jobs just now
that they are forgetting the wars
glamour.
OF the first $4,000 medals issued
there were 1904 with one battle clasp,
1924 with two battle clasps, $685. with
three, 3,169 with four, 1897 with five,
149 with six, 16 with seven, 3 with
eight clasps, with nine clasps, with
ten clasps and 1 with fourteen clasps.
OF those who did not take part in
major operations 1860 served in
France, 3 in Italy, 80 in northern Rus
STA, 11S in Siberia and 1850 in the
United States.
PUssYFooTlNG FOR PACKERS
Under the caption, North Dakota
Planning New Industrial Reforms"
this. cautious criticism is printed in
the editorial pages of 'tThe Producer"
the official organ of the American Ma
tional Livestock association, for July:
"Following the decision of the Uni
ted States supreme court upholding
the constitutionality of the measures
already put in operation, North Dakota
now is planning to extend its program
of socialistic experimentation in state
government. Among the new ven
lures scheduled by the Nonpartisan
league for realization lin the near fu-
ture are state-owned stockyards, pack
ing houses, grain elevators, mills and
mines.
1.-THE people of other common
wealths will watch with interest the
outcome Of this laboratory work. 1t
is reasonable to assume that the hand
ling of such strong chemicals will not
pass off without burnt fingers. 1t is
also not impossible that eventually,
out of battered theories and shattered
illusions, something will be evolved
that may prove helpful in solving our
multiplying politico-economic prob
lens. New Zealand fumblingly CROPPED
her way along similar lines and is to-
day prosperous and contented.'
This grudging admission OF what
New Zealand has accomplished is
balanced, on another page OF the
same issue, by an editorial blast at
"Meat Control in Australia A par
agraph from their Australian CORE
spondent's letter is quoted, showing
that the Queensland government has
made an agreement with Swift and the
other meat export companies that the
government shall take 20 per cent OF
the frozen beef and Is per cent of the
mutton from their 1920 output, to be
retailed through government butcher
shops. The government is to pay 6
cents per pound for fresh and chilled
beef, z cents for frozen beef and 3
cents for mutton.
! GLOW long," asks the Producers
] editor, would the livestock producer
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