The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-02-19
CITIZEN REPUBLICAN,
p. A. BLISS, PUB.
6coTLAND. soUTH DAKOTA

The black rotten record OF s,1flion !.
leadership In the southwestern mines H.
". Taylor, president Of the National Coal
Association. saws: ''uhion heads have
inflicted economic loss and even poverty
upon the willing worker In the mines"
by calling ''useless strikes mostly of {.
wild cat variety. There were 3G4
STRIKES in the Kansas district alone in
1918, which cost the micers in lost
~ages. $Gis,60b.
The spec;t. session Of the Kansas leg
islature held from January to ~ put
GS new laws on the statute books. BY
one OF the new statutes. strikes in esaen-
tial industries in KANSAS are prohibited.
Other achievements were: An antsyn-
dicaiism law; increase OF possible school
tax iey.es; state free employment
bureaus; bonas scale for convict
miners over nine tons OF coal dug week
and fixing five to IS years for auto
thieves.
The Society OF ih7 :ten with the Cop
per Masks" has just held its first annual
convention at The Val de Grace military
hospital, Paris. The society consists OF
French soldiers, suffering from sac.al
wounds, who have been provided with a
set OF new features by the American
Red Cross. The American portrait
masks" were the work OF Mrs. Maynard
Laid, OF Boston. and Miss Mare Brent,
"a Frenchman.
tsorsheVist sympath,zse:a In Siberia
have so torn up rails and ties along the
Amur line OF the Trans Siberia railway
that 1t Will take two years to repair it.
What will happen in Siberia this win
ter, says Colonel Lantry. of the Amcri-
can railway mission, lis terrible TO con-
template Thousands and thousands
OF people there are going tn die OF priva
ton.
Every steamer arriving In Buenos
Airas from Holland and the Latin ports
of Europe, is crowded with immigrants.
Most OF those on the Dutch ships are
Germans. Already nearly one half OF
Buenos Aires is foreign born. The en-
actment OF law IS proposed which will
make naturalization compulsory without
remuneration of citizenship in thu coun-
try of birth
"Robber" q. paul Jones" dances, in
which any male member OF the party is
privileged to cut in on any OF The fortu-
nate men who have partners are being
introduced into some London dancing
clubs since the Prince Of Wales returned
from the United States, where he app
proved of this form of dance by dancing
with no less than 80 partners at one
ball. says London dispatch.
Because shipping rates are likely to
drop in the next few years, the United
States shipping board should sell it's
ships now so that private operations
would have time to earn profits susfi-
Gent to justify present tonnage prices,
says C.. w. Morse, New York shipping
promoter.
Plans for the establishment Of a chain
OF airplane lnnding fields have been
worked out by officers Of the army air
service and the Manufacturers Aircraft
Association. Representatives of 80 large
southern cities already have been invited
TO establish landing fields under army
direction.
A citizen of l.rantford. Ontario. has
Just learned OF the death from starva-
tion in Poland during the war OF his
father, his brother, the latter's wife and
five children, and another brotherinlaw.
The family were well to do, but were
forced to turn over all their property to
the Germans, and left to Rtarve.
Overthrow OF the Russian Soviet gov
ernment within q few months IL pre-
dicted by Maj. Joseph Lasies. a member
of the French high commission to the
kolchak government who Is returning
from Vladivostok to France to present
his report
Municipality owned local and terminal
markets for all large cities in the United
States to reduce the cost OF food to the
consumer were urged al the first con-
ference OF the national association OF
state marketing officials "a New York
last week.
More than e5oo5 candidates tor mill
tnry service in this country during the
war were rejected on the ground ti,nt
they were feeble minded. The nurcaut.
age OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..yararad six Ia.
1.-Two and ran especially high among the
Immigrant classes Of New yor,s
The decennial census now being taken.
win reveal that the center OF nopulation
or the United states has moved e,n,-
ward and not toward the west Or the
south as commonly predicted. J. A. Hill,
stattstlcian OF the census bureau, pre-
diets. 80
,.,os. - "a aasa. ~ y, 49,
,he SI,w,on ~, tns. 1, I, ,,,,m %
brought against tho meat packers by the
federal trade commission nearly next
month, In which the hackers are charged
with using unfair methods OF compe,i-
ton.
rhe anr.r n,nntsrs, .ssoc,,,,o, ha.
announced that it has 1000 Itrike
breakers ready to work on the six plan
tations tied up on the island Of Oahu
by the wplkout OF Japanese and Ff,ipinog
workers.
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