The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-19

n uOu-IOIIlnk snip HOS OOOh
ed but, oh, for a non-rolling dollar!
Canadian money In the United
States has become about as popular
as a hop toad in an old maids bed.
If the cost Of food keeps on going
up, there will be but n way out for
the city resident-back tt the farm.
Ii YOU would he correct, don't pro-
nounce It Siberia: let the first s}lla-
bic sin like the bushes, end Of soda
fountain.
A nan has been found who saws he
would rather i've ia the city than In
tie corntry-he admits that he has
never lived In the country.
"Men are asking for justice and our
system of government j. capable Il
Y aldlng just treatment % an" said
Attorney General Palmer ia = recent
address before the National Press
Club in Washington. True enough!
The system Is all right but 1t has been
ruined by too much attempt at one
man government. Germany's eticien
cy system was the eighth wonder Of
of the world untll the Kaiser tried to
force 1t on a few dozen civilized ma
tions.
Former Director Genera Hines at
tributes sewers weather and the coal
strike az the reasons for She deficit Of
sll, 00n,0 900 ia the government opera
tion of the railroads In January. If
It had not been for the allowance by
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion Of $53, 600, 900 In accrued mail pay
due the roads. the deficit would have
been S64, 0O0,G There re thrrrea-
sons, besides Cnusu aecrlUed by Mr.
Hines, for such an appalling dispro-
portion between receipts and expendi
lures.
Any one who won't 20 to church
these days had better read this and
draw his own conclusions: A church
man and an atheist were having a dis
cussion. mo sir, emphatically de-
clared the atheist, 81 don't believe In
heaven, hell or God" The church.
man slowly shook his head and went
his way. Ten days later the atheist
had died and the churchman, gazing
upon his acquaintance who had been
prepared with especial care for burial
remarked sadly: "Poor fellow, all
dressed upand no place to CO."
Hon. Dawes e. Brisbine, railroad
commissioner from the third commits
sioner district. which includes the
territory west of the Missouri River,
has been appointed by Walter A.
Shaw, President Of the National As
ISOLATION of Railway and Utilities Com
missioners, asa member Of the Com
mittee on Railroad Rates. This Is
the most important committee of the
National Association and will have
under immediate consideration the
newly proposed plan of establishing
rates for the entire country on a zone
basis. Considered In the light Of the
return Of the railroads to private own
ership and the proposed scheme TO
change the entire plan OF making
rates, a strenuous effort will be made
by Commissioner brisbine to place
South Dakota, and particularly the
territory west of the Missouri River
In the proper South Dakota Is
indeed fortunate in haying Mr.. Bris-
bine appointed to this very important
committee.
The South Dakota Hail Law fur
nished protection ON 3,95O,667 acres
during the season Of 1919, assuming a
liability OF more than $50, O0O, 600.
There was paid for this amount Of
insurance 81, BOA, O58 .68. The rates In
effect In South Dakota prior to the
passage of the State Hail Law ranges
from Is cents per acre for elO Of pro-
lection In the most favorable sections
Of the state, to 8 .25 per aore In the
Black Hills. while the rate for State
to As cents in the sa me zones. Ii the
State Hail Fund had not beeIi In op-
Grafton last. year and the acreage GOV
cred by the State Hail Fund had been
carried at the rate charged In the
most favorable zone, or Is cents for
$40 Of protection, the farmers would
have had to pay for that protection
So 063, 900, therefore by patroniziig
the State Hail Fund they saved them
selves on the acres covered 81. 204 ,050.6 0
10 this can be added the surplus left
from pRying M 1910 losses ~ 500, OnO
SAVING " we iarlncrs Vi the State
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