The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-08-05

transformed sterile areas of that
country into some of the worlds best
agricultural land. He says: 1t rs an
Vld axiom of agriculture that the
subsoil cannot be productive and the
French government acting on this
premise, had condemned large por-
TONS Of what used to be the mosG
productive areas Of France. ! WIS.,
tied one of the worst bits of tie Aisne
5 war zone which was taken and re-
taken IS times and the soil was over
turned to the depth of two to five
feet. 1t appears that the blowing
done by the shells brought to the
surface the deep soil which contains
valuable materials of which the top
soil used for generations had been
depleted. Riding through France, one
can trace the lines of the trenches,
now filled in and planted, by the
richer. darker green of the wheat
growing in the deep plowed soil.
The Russian soviet government ex-
plains that it planned to conquer the
Polish government whole month
ago; that recent events on the Polish
front makes it absolutely necessary
to take measures for their complete
determination as nation; and that
therefore, iii is absolutely necessary
to inaugurate reign of terror against
Poles; 10 confscate grain; to place
Jews and foreigners on an equality
with psles; and to shoot anyone in
whose possession is found cart
ridge.
A Chicago judge has ordered one
Slovene to pay his wife $l2 week
for the support of their rs children.
old aynl9ina1
to the judge that for % years, he
has been tinkering with an oil burner,
and every cent he makes he puts into
the invention" The salary OF her
daughter Rosie was all she had to
support the children on.
Frances expenditure abroad of l.,
600,0GO,000 francs last year for gaso-
line has aroused parliament and the
newspapers to point where the gov
Arnment has renewed efforts to bring
about Industrial use 'of alcohol. Elk
periments here have proved to the
satisfaction Of investigators that au-
tomobiles and combustion engines
may be operated satisfactorily upon
varying mixtures of alcohol and pc
troleum products.
Because of a curious survival of old
customs in Great Britain when the
number of ones windows was talSer
as an indication of ones financial
status, aid window taxes" were a
source of considerable revenue, it
happens that the new ruling making
British women eligible to jury ser
vice, applies to those who occupy
houses with not less than Is win
dOws. II know an excellent woman
who keeps boarding house with far
more than the requisite number of
EWindows," writes Louise Heiisers, the
English short story writer but she
ran hardly read or write, and her in
exorable theory about every prisoner
In the dock is He must have done
something, or he wouldn't be there"
O. b. u. workers have but one con-
sistent line of action-stop work and
wages. Lets all get mad and starve
to death and starye everybody else,
too,' is the practical philosophy of
this crack Drained movement. In the
United States this manifestation of
lunacy has been knocked out so often
by sane labor that it is regarded as an
annoyance rather than as a menace,
but the annoyance is of malignant
type, like the !. w. w. tumor.-The
3 Trades Union News. Philadelphia.
In recent case in London court
the following question was argued:
''Nokes, an airman, flying over the
4 field of Styles, dropped a lighted pipe
which fell On, and ignited, a stack of
hay there which Styles had made.
The government had rehnquished the
hay, but had not removed or paid for
any Of it. In an action, Judgment has
= sso1n gwen against fSoi1ea TOR a sum
equivalent to the market price Of the
hay at the time OF the burning of 1t.
Nokes appeals. The Justice said that
for an airman to take lighted pipe
and smoke It when flying at a point
About 600 women student either
wholly or partly worked their way
through Madison University during
the past year. One girl, who worked
her way entirely through all four
years. had 5000 saved up at gradua-
ton, after paying all her expenses.
Some things come to the girl who
earns her way through college that I
don't believe she would get any other
Way. She gazing frienda OF a different
kind. = moro worth while kind, and is
constantly meeting with new expert
ences, ana new fields are being opened
70 her an the time"
a cable from Berlin states that an
ox-captain has Just been sentenced at
Liepnitx to pay fine Of 100 marks
Tor charging Herr Ebert with drunk
ennesA The prosecuting attorney had
demanded : two months Jail SEN
eence. 5 Il
Chicago seems to be tired Of
trouble. The caption Back to Jail
with Umbrella Nike apparently best
Us <51nfenaAa the sentiments OF the pub-