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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15
THE CANDIDATES

The list OF candidates filed with the
city auditor for election next week
discloses some very good men and
the voters and taxpayers of Brookngs
can hardly go astray in supporting
any one of them,
T. /. Flittie is well known as the
president of the Bank of Brookings,
one of the strongest banking institu-
tions In the state and to which he has
given his close attention since becom-
ing citizen of Brookings.
John III. Roberts has been a resi-.
dent here now for many years. Starting
in small way and with limited capi-
ital, as contractor he has made
sewers. contracted buildings, bought
and sold city property, plated an ad-
dition to the city and has been doing
things in his quiet way that men with
capital have feared to do. He has
shown that he is a genuine city
builder. Anyone familiar with what
he has accomplished must give him
credit for a vision and farsightedness
possessed by few, IL any, Of our capl-
talists and old.time business men. In.
our Judgment Mr.. Roberts is keen in
his knowledge of and Judgment on city
affairs and what is needed to produce
better results for money expended,
and understands the handling of men,,
III. B. Mathews. several times city
mayor, needs no introduction except
to the more recent comers of Brook
ings. His knowledge and experience
in city affairs should make him an
ideal candidate for commissioner and
coming as he does from the first ward,
should more nearly represent their
Important interests than any other
candidate
e. j. Ray has been resident Of
JBrookings twenty-one years and dur
ing all that time he has been en-
Hp,oyed in contracting and building and
IN more recent years engaged in the
plumbing business. He is an ener-
getic, economical and practical man.
slways on the job and understands the
handling of men. He is one of our
-successful business men and good
-..lan to tie to. He has the reputation
I doing things well and should make
very practical commissioner.
John F. Randall Is an old-tinae resi-
snt of Brookings and now serving
alderman from the third ward He
rs been employed by the Northwest
N railroad as q locomotive engineer
ON almost the time when the mem
Of man runneth not to the con-
ary. Mr. Randall is good citizen
d his long term with the railroad
mpany certainly bears evidence Of
thful service well performed.
49, 4 "
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15
AW q 6 q

The Kimball Graphic is starting out
on its thirty-ninth year. In noting
this fact the editor, Walter G. Fox,
says, Suffice 1t is to say that the
only strictly moral is doing the big
gest and best business in its history"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15

1t would be interesting if the UNI
States census now being taken wo'
disclose the number Of dry hole
with lists Of the investors who
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15

holes you must realize that, owing 20
causes not in control Of oil operators.
it is exceedingly expensive to produce
oil.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15

ronrietors of handsomely htho-
-ronhed stocks. II some Of these peo-
.1o tnaw their abc's they would appre-
"1ate the truth
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15
A New Trust Company

Under the provisions of the Federal Reserve Bank
Law the FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BROOK
NGS is chartered to act trustee executor admins
traitor, and in all fducary capacities that usually
granted to Trust Companies organized under state
charters.
You are invited to remember this when necessity calls
for you to decide some one to act in such capacity
The advantages of corporate trustee far ex-
ceed those possessed by any individual acting as
such. To all who have such an appointment to
make would be glad to explain these advant-
ages and talk the matter over with you.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-13

rIAMI Fla, March IA few miles
MI from this town is a factory which is
said to be the only one of its kind
in the world. 1t makes high grade OF
starch out OF a common weed which grows
all over the country and in every vacant
lot in the town, and which long re-
garded by most people not merely as use
less, but as positive pest.
This factory is owned by one man, who
invented his own process, built large part
of his own machinery, and does large
part of his own work. He has perhaps the
most absolute monopoly in a monopoly-rid-
den republic. He maintains his monopoly
by keeping his process of manufacture an
absolute secret He will tell you anything
about himself and his factory, except how
it works. His name is A. B. Hurst and he
is big, gray-haired man, very good-nature1
and having more fun with his little factory
than a boy with a new sled.
The coontie berry, sometimes known as
the comte berry, upon which Mr.. Hurst mas
founded his fortune, is a small shrub, US
ually less than a foot high and decorated
with large bright red berries, having very
tough skins. If you pull up this plant, you
are surprised to find that it has very large
root, resembling a sweet potato and seeming
out of all proportion to the size OF the plant
The scientific name of this plant is Zam1a
Floridana, and it is a species of arroWroot
1t grows literally all over the sandy pine
can walk ten fet from the road anywhere
and find specimen. Mr.. Hurst has an enor-
nous supply of raw material to draw upon,
and he gets it for next to nothing. He pays
farmers a very small sum for the right to
cart away the coonties on their lands. Starch
is made from similar plant which is Gull
tivated in the West Indies, but as far as
could be learned Hurst is the only man who
has made a success of utilizing the wild
one.
This coontie is very we'll, or rather badly
known to the natives because 1T is the nat
ural enemy Of the turkey. When the white
men first moved into these parts, they were
surprised to discover that there were no
wild turkeys on the east coast although the
interior and the west coast country were
full of them. The reason for this they dis
covered when they introduced domestic tur-
keys. domestic turkey would get along
fine until he came to his first coontie plant,
which would necessarily be soon after his
arrival H ewould then pause and scru-
tinize those bright red berries with a glad
dened eye. He would seem to feel sure that
they were food of very desirable sort.
In Just few minutes he would have filled
his crop with the big, misunderstanding fruit
and for time thereafter he would enjoy
a sense Of personal well-being and content
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-13
THE DUCTLESS GLANDS
By H. Addington Bruce

~ ORE and more the attention of the med
MI ica world is being turned to the action OF
the thyroid, adrenal, and other glands
of internal secretion. Steadily the belief is
growing that in them lies the key to many un-
solved problems of health and disease.
Certainly number of old-time difficulties
and perpexiteS of medicine have already been
wholly or partly cleared by research into the
workings and influence of the ductleSS glands
Thus the discovery that cretiniSm is aSSo-
ciated with deficiency in thyroid secretion
has had important practical consequences.
In cretinism there is subnormal mental and
bodily development Also there is abnormal
development. Cretins not merely dwarfiSh,
but they tend to have unwieldy bodies and
heads dsproportionately large.
Nothing could be done for them in former
times Today remarkable curative results, men
tai and physical, are reported as following the
administration of extract of the thyroid gland
Of animals.
Which has given rise to a, suspicion that fee
ble-1nindedneSS other than that tound IN Gre
tnism may in many instances be the proouct
of some glanduar disorder.
Proof or disproof of this awaits turther re-
search. Similarly with the theory that glandular
disturbances may be responsible, at least IN part
for the mental diseases paranola and aememla
precox. , that
such disturbances often contribute to the deVel-
opment of epilepsy. Marked improvement IN a
number of epilepticS has been recorded as a
SEQUEL to treatment with glandular extracts
Improvement amounting to positive cure IS
likewise attributed to glandular extract treat.
ment in numerous cases labelled "neuraStnenla.
Ivo Geike Cobb, the English specialist, says:
"Adrenal extract often is OF great beneTt 10
those patients who are weakly, debllltatea' WIN
low blood pressure and constant tatlgue''
And when it is question not OF raising the
blood pressure but of lowering it, as IN afterlo-
scleross, thyroid extract has been found help-
full. Thyroid, again, has distinct usefulness
lin promoting convaleScence and "tattenlng up
patentS-'if used in mlnlmal doSeS, as one
physician warningy remarks. -,
Further than this, general benefi!S 10 hea,tn
have so frequently been observed In 2lahoui3l
extract treatment that some enthusiasts are ao-
yocating it as means of poStponlng Ola age.
eve are only beginning to reallze, eXciaIhS
Bcdley Scott chow much Senlllty depends on
| internal gland inSufficiency." And Coob al
| firms: It'll, - ~
"Even the organic changes which we are
| accustomed to regard as inSeparabe from MD
die and old age may be remedlea or aVetteo
hv the employment of organic extracts"
And: u
"By their prompt use there can be Smali
doubt that many arrangements may be righted
before they can become diseases"
May future medical Developments pear OUT
this hopeful viewl ,.o \
Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-13
DemObOlizing the PAYROLL


Washington at last reports progress toward
the rehabilitation of the army OF govern
ment employees hanging on since the war.
The high record in the capital was $4,000,
compared with $4,000 before the war. 1t is
now down to 100000 and as result of the
slashing of appropriations by congress $1,000
more will be out of the government service
by July 1. Even then the payroll at Wash
ington will be nearly twice the number be-
fore the war, but some of these are held by
closing up war work and others have been
added by new peace-time creations.
The country is to be congratulated on the
fact that congress has reached the point Ut
not only refusing to increase the number Of
jobs, but actually to make a good beginning
toward bringing the federal service back to
something near it's pre-war status. With the
emergencies arising out Of the war ended,
there is no good reason why there should not
be an approximate return to the normal gov
eminent expenses before 1916. When it is
figured that the government bill on the con-
trary is three and half times what it was
in 1916, excluding the sinking fund aAd in
terest on our war debt, there seems to be
room for great deal more reLrenchment
and reform. The billion dollar reduction in
expenditures promised by Chairman Mondell
is not too much to ask.-PITTSBURG DIS
PATCH (Ind.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-13

i1v transformed bears striking witness flrst
of all. to the South's wealth of resources
for livestock raising. Only land rarely en-
dowed by nature could have progressed IN
less than a decade from one Of the most
backward to one of the most advanced OF
Americas hog and cattle producers. But
there is something behind this impressive
record other than a long grazing season and
a bounty of native forage crops. There IS
something more also than proximity to the
countrys great consuming centers and some
thing more than superior transportation Ia
cilities There is an aroused and eff1clentiy
directed interest in the minds of thousands
of farmers who aforetime gave almost no
heed to the wonderful opportunities for anl-
NAL husbandry lying about them
It is largely our educational institutions
and agencies that we have to thank for
this aroused and ever increasing interest.
Theirs was the trail-blazer's stride and the
kindling touch. Back in the days when it
seemed virtually impossible to break the fet-
tiers of an all-cotton system of agriculture
and when advocates of diversification were
looked upon as we'll intentioned but unprac-
teal theorists, the colleges and commissions
and pioneers kept working for the larger
and sounder plan. The goodly change now
manifest together with the prosperity which
has come and the still richer store that lies
ahead, is attributable in the first instance
to those who had the vision to plead the
new cause when it was so poorly appre-
ciated and to those who had the sagacity
then to practice it.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-13
MR. HURST AND THE COONTIE BERRY-By Frederic j. Haskn

ment. But this would not last long, for he
would soon begin to weaken
Not that the coonties poisoned him. Ac-
cording to the most reliable accounts, the
whole trouble with them is that their outer
integument is capable of resisting all the
mechanical and chemical agents which
turkeys gizZard can bring to bear upon them.
They do not afford the bird any more nour-
ishment than so many marbles. They oc-
cupy the bunker space, but do not deliver
the fuel value. After few days, the turkey
who has eaten coonties dies OF starvation
and disappointment
Mr. Hurst is, therefore, not only making
use of a hitherto useless plant but he is
avengng the turkey, and making the east
coast of Florida safe for him.
Mr. Hurst used to be an orange-groWer'
but he lost heavily in the great freeze IN
1894 and resolved there and then, as he
put it, "to go into some business that didn't
depend on the weather.
He got interested in making starch py
working for a company Whlcn was tlyins
IN manufacture it out OF the west lnolan
Cassava While so engaged he saw specl-
men of the root of the coontie, and reaLzeo'
that here was rich and abundant source
of starch if only a way could be 1ound OF
getting at it. He went to work at Ilnolhs
this way The way proved much longer anu
harder to find than anyone would nave De.
Iieyed possible There an abundance OF
starch in the coontie, to be sure, but there
were also a great many other things. The
difficulty was to make starch free of all
impurities on a commercial scale. And Mr..
Hurst took no chemists or engineers into his
confidence and formed no connection OF any
kind His was the cautious, secretive meth
cd of the countryman. He intended to work
the thing out for himself and to be sole
owner when he succeeded. He spent all OF
his own money and borrowed all the money
he could. He invented machines that no.
body would try to make, and he made them
himself. He scored failure after failure
But he had the creative mind and the single
ness of purpose that goes with it. The max
ing of starch out of coontie berries became
the one object of his existence. Finally, after
he had worked more than twelve years, and
spent $4,000 mostly borrowed, he had the
satisfaction of seeing perfect yellow starch
almost impalpably fine of grain and pro-
nounced by government chemists as abso-
lutely pure He now produces three thou
sand pounds day and all of it is bought
in advance at a very good price by one OF
the great biscuit companies. They use 1t in
certain products to which they wish to i'm
part special keeping qualities. Mr.. Hurst
expects soon to take out a trademark and
to put his product on the market in little
packages for household consumption.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-13
Whom First to Thank for
Our NeqU AnimalHusbanryd

~ F all the four-footed aristocrats ex-
hibited at the recent international
hog and cattle exposition at Chi
cago, none carried off such number and va
riety of prizes as those from Georgia and
neighboring Southern States. In the So
called "fat'' classes alone, in which the South
had relatively few entries, fourteen high
awards were won by the Heretords Short
horns, Aberdeen-Anguses, Berkshires. Hamp-
shires and Duroc-Jerseys from this region
remarkable showing is this when we re-
fleet that five ten years ago, in the larger
part of the South animal husbandry was
an infant and weakling industry Georgia
spent millions upon millions of dollars in
purchases of pork and beef products from
the West. Such hogs as we had were mostly
the pioneer "razorbacks,' and such cattle
as were lucky enough to escape the tick had
as rule, no ancestry to boast of and little
pride of posterity.
That these conditions have been SO speed
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-13
Fair Play and Common Sense
& On H0oUer Issue in Georgia.
U doesn't take a supporter of Herbert
4 Hoover to recognize the right of Geor

X doesn't take supporter OL herpefC
Hoover to recognize the right of Geor-
gia Democrats to vote for him if so they
wish, in the coming Presidential primary.
It takes simply a fair mind and common
sense. Here, for example, is Editor Hugh
Rowe, of the Athens Banner, who declared
for Palmer long before the issue of the peo-
pies right to an unfettered choice in this
matter was precipitated Loyal though he
is to his first preference, Mr.. Rowe neverthe-
less characterizes the action of the rule
makers of the State Executive Committee sas
"an outrageous piece of petty politics." The
Committeeman, he explains, are his friends,
for whom he has the warmest personal re-
gard, but
THEY have made serious mistake,
and it has done the party no good.
Hoover sentiment is very strong here
Tin Athens and Clarke, county,, and the
people resent the action of the sub
committee. We ought to have a meet
ing of whole State Executive Commit
tee and let them hear from a delega-
ton of Democrats representing those
who wish to place Hoovers name upon
the ballot, and decide the question it
: ought to be decided Although, l
say, Palmer is my choice, I believe in
= fair play. If the Democrats of Georgia
wish to choose Hoover as their prefer
ence, let them do it. They are entirely
capable of exercising a sound political
judgment. If they not, then we
ought never to have any primary or any
election"
Speaking as he does from the viewpoint
of one who is partisan to another candidate
but impartial where right and justice are
concerned Mr.. Rowe voices Statewide
conviction which the Executive Committee,
out of respect for Democratic principle and
in fairness to the Democratic rank and file,
cannot afford to ignore.
1t is highly significant, moreover, that so
additionally Democratic and rarely cultured
a community as Athens and Clarke county
should be so pronouncedly for Hoover
Judge Andrew J. Cobb, scion of one of the
noblest families in Southern history and as
honored jurist as ever served on the Geor-
gia bench; Mr.. Harry Hodgson, a business
leader of the highest order of ability; Mr.
Thomas J. Shackleford, distinguished both
as a lawyer and in the realm of affairs; Mr.
Frank Shackleford, his brother, equally well
known and esteemed, and q host of other
citizens of this quality, declare themselves
emphatically for the nomination OF Herbert
Hoover by the Democratic party and
keenIy resentful of the rule which would rot
them of their rights at the polls.
AS in Clarke county, so throughout Geor'
gia. the soundest, the strongest, the mos
truIy representative opinion to be found II
overwhelmingly for the voters right to I'M
restricted expression. Surely, the State Elk
recutive Committee will no longer gainsay 81
earnest an appeal in so just cause
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-13
WHAT is A GINK?
BY DR.. Frank Crane

There are terms in all languages for stu
pid, dull people and for cyclists, terms u.s.
ually borrowed from the lower animals. as
donkey, goose, owl, pig, mutton head, and
the like; but for the peculiar combination of
cantankerousness and cussedness found in
the kind of people 1 have in mind there is
no word; so we have to invent. Hence, Glnk.
1t is absurd, irritating, impossible; conse-
quently it is suitable.
Gink is person who does not consider
human values Anything weighs more with
such one than being obliging. A Glnk
is often polite; then he is meanest. To
him rule, or custom, or number, or any
dead thing is of more value than human
being.
Keep track of the Ginks of all kinds you
meet during the day, adm then make cal
culaton of the enormous human energy con-
sumed by encountering these clods on the So
cial and business highway.
The janitor will not sweep up the litter
on the back porchway, which you made by
opening box that came today, because this
is Saturday, and he only sweeps Fridays.
Then there's the business man who keeps
you waiting fifteen minutes while he finish
es his cigar, so that you will think he. is
rushed with important affairs.
And don't overlook the physician who is
discussing baseball in his private office with
an acquaintance while half dogen suffer
ing patients are sitting funerally in his wait
ing room. But when you most desire to
brain the said physician is the time when he
stands around and bubbles over a point OF
professional etiquette or "ethics of the pro-
fession" while your child is sick unto death
in the other room.
To the Ancient and Dishonorable Order of
Ginks belong also the officers Of institutions
who observed all kinds Of red tape while
people are in need or in peril.
Some day you want check cashed in a
hurry. You go to the bank, stand in line at
the paying tellers window, and finally in
your turn present your paper The teller
looks at it. Then some clerk in the next
cage speaks to him. He goes away and con-
verses pleasantly with his fellow clerk while
you wait on pins and needles. When he is
done talking he returns, and after inspecting
his finger nails slowly counts you out your
money.
woman of my acquaintance, my WIG
to he exact once woke one of these Bank
Ginks up. She had received her money and
stepped aside Counting it she saw that the
Clerk had made an error.
Excuse me- she said, you made mis-
take in giving me my money.
you'll have to fall in line, ma am" said
a policeman.
And the lcerk said, eve never rectify
mistakes after the money has been taken
from the window"
Every WE'LL" was her reply. "Only you
gave me $40 too much!"
That was different. Clerk Gink and
Policeman Gnk Immediately climbed down
from their high perches and became human
and courteous. They allowed her, kindly,
to rectify the error.