The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-04-22
CITIZEN REPUBLICAN
p. A. BLISS, PUB.
SCoTLAND. SOUTH DAKOTA

AIco NpIHcS SCuOoIS SOVD vi DC VA
American walnut which was originally
cut and seasoned for the United States
government for airplane propelers. 1t
was sold by the United States to France
and when the war ended France turned
It back TO this country. 1t was sold and
resold several times when the schoo'
board started out to buy quarter sawed
oak to build desks and furniture. The
oak was found to be costly. 1t was then
that the secretary OF the board heard
of the shipment OF walnut and invest
igated. The school furniture is made by
manual training instructors who arc
employed the entire year around In the
schools and in this way the cost OF
manufacture is reduced to about one
half.
Prohibition has reduced the alcoholic
cases in the New York city hospitals in
the last year 20 per cent. In Bel1eview
hospital alone, II has released so many
attendants and so much equipment that
nearly 1000 more cases can be cared for
than formerly, based on a stay of five
and a half days. which is the hospitals
average. The city's ambulance calls in
February last year were 1864, and for
February this year L3. In Belleview
where most of the alcoholic cases were
rared for, tho ambulance calls for such
cases dropped from 1G in January 1918
10 10 in February 1920. The hospital Is
now giving more care to mental and
maternity cases, and constructive treat
ment to tubercular cases.
Millions of horses have worked from
the time they were three years old until
they were IL years of age without the
expenditure of a dollar for repairs, the
Horse association said, the horse carrie
a reserve power that the truck doesn't
have, and therefore does not often get
stuck in q tight place like the motor
vehicle" During the recent snow storm
In New York when every means OF NOV
ing traffic was said to have failed but
the horse. Merchants paid oas high as
$50 a day for the use Of the horse.
A prominent educator recently startled
his hearers by saying: Mankind would
not. IL 1t could. forego the right to make
war. Excitement Is necessary to the
physical well being Of the race. War
exercises our highest virtues-courage,
sacrifice, scorn of ease and social soil
darity. If war is ever eliminated, We
must nave a moral substitute that Will
call into play these same virtues. Take
war away from human life would flat
ten out to defeat. This would be a
cattleyard of n planet with war gone
and a Sunday school peace established
for all time. The recurrence of wars
will be reduced only by education and
the cultivation OF human fellowship"
Thousands of German refugees the
VI tAiStli "tS hAc
on the northern Swiss frontier and UNI
successfully demanding entrance into
switzerland. The efuseeS declare they
consider the occupation OF Frankfort
and other southern Germa cities by
the allies a question of only a few days
and therefore are anxious to leave Ger
many.
Before turning back German property
seized in this country ongress should
consider the claims American citizens
have filed against Germany, Allan
Property Custodian Caravan declares.
While individuals ought not to be made
to pay for injuries inflicted by the
German. government" he said, II am
In favor of holding seized property un-
til Germany furnishes security
Anarchists and socialists, meeting in
Milan, this week, voiced their disap-
prevail of the United States govern
mcnt's attitude toward Lenin and his
followers, and suggested the reform OF
the United States through the boycotting
of American ships. They also voted dis
approval of the action of the mayor OF
Milan in presenting a boquet to MRS.
Woodrow Wilson when she visited that
city with her husband.
A cable from Trieste reports the
reaching OF an agreement on the Adri-
atic matter under which Italy obtains
sovereignty over Fiume. while the Jugo
Slavs will receive several other ports.
Tho reports gives Lloyd George as
author of the settlement proposition.
1t also says the D,Annunzto is very
strongly opposed to the arrangement.
The commission appointed by Presi-
deni wilson 10 make a STUDY or con-
ditions I'm the former Turkish empire,
reports that a mandate over Armenia
would cost the United States 1851, $50.
900, and would require from 25,0oo to
E ann nnn I'LL -~~-- ~. f.-.A $500
AT the end of five years, the commits
sion reported, the mandate might be
hoped to be self supporting.
A solution of the problems Of the
world Is TO be found In the brotherhood
of a based on the fatherhood OF
God, a John D. Rockefeller, jr. The
ruthlcssness with which Germany
planned the world war. he says, was
followed by a trend toward utter In
failure.
Attorney General Palmer is planning
to send a corps Of special accountants
10 Denver to assist the district attor-
ney there In investigating profits in the
beet sugar industry. Justice depart
ment Investigators in Denver found 1t
difficult to obtain accountants there
who had not formed opinions in favor
of one side or the other.
The punishment which the navy pro-
vides for disgraced men furnished IN
unusual spectacle at The Charleston nav
yard recently. Instead OF drumming
them out as in former days, bluejackets
with fixed bayoneta drove from the
yard a seanan on tho q. 6. s. van
nah. who had been discharged Tor ~
conduct.
Provisions for enlistments In the ma
sional guard for three-year periods with
subsequent enllstInents for one year
periods is made In q bill passed by the
Senate last week. Men honorably dis
charged from the army however. would
be permitted to enlist Tor one year
periodg.
Inc presence ut Amerongen OF his
slaughter and soninlaw, had brought .
change in the former German emperor,s
ray of living. Since the arrival OF the
Duchess OF Brunswick, Wilhelm has not
sawed . single tree. Both he and the
former empress have grown much
cainer.
IA Chicago Judge Of the superior court
has resigned from that branch becaupe
he Is sick and tired Of hearing divorces
cases. Idle4women women seAk-
ing excitement. are the chief offenders,
q the