The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-07-08
JOHNSON TELLS
Of ARMY EVILS
CONGRESSMAN OF SOUTH DAkO.
IA PLEAsEs LARGE CROWD
AT ChAUTAUQUA
SAYS We MUST HAVE RACIAL SOLIDARITY
Unfavorable Weather and Bad RAIDS
Materially Reduce Sale Of tne
Season Tickets.

"We must have racial solidarity if
we wish TO prevent the domination
of the black and brown race 100 years
from now said Congressman Royal
| {. Johnson OF South Dakota, upon the
Chautauqua platform last evening to
the largest crowd that has yet turned
out in a speech that was highly ap-
preciated by all the listeners. IF the
black and brown races progress at the
same rate as they have in the last so
years, they Will dominate the world
in 100 years The white race is retro
grading. Since the great war the 9th
er races have lost the respect for the
whites which they had since the 18th
century. They are becoming restive
in every country in the world"
The audience was particularly in
terested in what Mr.. Johnson had TO
say about conditions in the army dur
ing the recent war because they knew
that he was in the service and had
actual first hand information beside
the data of a large number of official
Investigations into the cruelty and in
justice of the court martial laws of
the army. Il am trying to create sen
timent," he said "to equalize the
standing of the personnel of the army
so that there will be no class superior
or inferior to the other, so men have
rank only when on duty and to inSti-
tute a humane and just court martial
law One soldier out Of every six of
the four million Americans in service
was court martialed Three hunderd
eighty thousand men were court mar
tailed and SO per cent of them con
victed under court martial laws copied
form Germany over half century ago
and so obsolete that Germany herself
/ revised them in favor of the enlisted
man over 40 years ago"
Mr.. Johnson stated as a matter of
fact no matter which political party
| comes in power next fall, taxes must
be raised to meet immense debts Of
the government falling due next year,
/ He gave some very interesting figures
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the war profiteers and stated that it
was feas Bile for the United States to
/ levy retroactive tax upon those war
profits in a manner similar to that
(which Great Britain employed. He
j also recommended heartily the pay
meut Of a bonus to the men who were
/ in he service The United States
made a mistake" he said, when they
did not draft every man, woman and
child in the country at once and en-
| ploying them all at $50 a month. It
would have saved the people and the
government a lot Of money"
Yesterday afternoon between 400
and $50 a reception was held for
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Royal c. Johnson at the
/ Commercial club in the city hall. A
( large number of citizens were renew
/ ing or making the acquaintance of our
( CONGRESSMAN and his charming wife
r F. Kerr, local manager of the
/ Chautauqua announces that on ac-
count of the very unfavOrable weather,
/ the guarantors fell short in the sale
of season tickets. and would appre-
/ ciate very much if their friends would
/ help them out There are still ten
numbers left on the program which
! closes July Il.
The program began Tuesday after
noon with a splendid concert by the
! FIJI ipino Royal string band. consisting
: of delightful intermngling Of vocal
and instrumental music. In the even
/ ing Bob Seeds, the famous farm phi
lOsOpher. gave a very interesting and
instructive lecture on How God Made
the Soil Fertile" The Lyceum Arts
/ trio entertained yesterday afternoon
and evening with readings and music.
The trio Is composed of three young
women, Miss Madge Vest, an espe-
cally accomplished impersonator, Miss
Beverly Buck, violin-Xylophone solo
list. and Miss Maltby, a singer with a
fna soprano voice. The feature Of the
afternoons program was a reading
by Miss Hazel Dopheide entitled, The
/ Money Maker"
Wv. :. S.