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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-07
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD
OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

The or County commission
ers of the County Of Bookings, South
Dakota, met in special session in their
room in the court house in the city
Of Brookings, S. D., at 2:30 o'clock
p. H., Saturday, the End day of Octo-
Der, 1920, as per call of the county
auditor, as provided by law.
Commissioners present were H. {.
Halvorson, A. E. Bunday, r. o. Tol-
lefson. Thos. Kidman, c. II. Davis.
The board was called to order By
the chairman, II. C. Halvorson.
The object Of the meeting being
that a petition signed by w. M. erase
and 1872 other legal resident voters of
the county having been filed in the
office of the county auditor, praying
the board of county commissioners to
submit to the voters Of the county, at
the general election to be held in all
the voting precincts Of the county on
the 2nd Of November next, the prOpO-
sition of appropriating the sum of
twenty-five hundred dollars; the same
to be used for agricultural extension
work in the county, the same TO be
available on the LIST day of January
next. The above matter to be sub
mitted in case the board of county
commissioners refused to make the
appropriation direct.
It was moved by Bunday and sec.
onded by Tollefson that the board of
county commissioners do not make
the appropriation as asked for by the
County Farm Buerau, but that the Pc
tition as presented to submit the ques-
ton of such appropriation to a vote
at the general election to be held on
the 2nd day of November, 1920, be
granted, and that the question be sub
to the voters of the county
at such election.
On roll call Commissioners HalVor-
son. Bunday, Tollefson, Kidman and
Davis voting aye, the motion was de-
clared carried
It was moved, seconded and carried
that the board adjourn.
II. G.. H~alvOrSon.
Chairman of the County Board.
Attest: John Alton, County Auditor.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-07

where the principal issues OF the day
are discussed and threshed out. 1t
Is the rallying point of loyal senti-
ment. And it is the aim Of the new
officers, as it was with the retiring
executives, to make it more so by
absolute cooperation.
Il remember in the early days Of
the Legion when a great universal
organization of those who served our
country in war was an idea rather
than a fact; there were many who
said it could never be done. Why?
We asked. Well, they tod us, How
will you ever get the North and South,
~estranged as those sections are on
political issues, together? How will
you get the capitalist and the labOreE,
the farmer and the city man, the So
c~ialist, the Republican and the Demo
crat, the Catholic and the Protestant,
how will you ever get them all 10
agree on anything?'
ut was pointed out that wee were
ali lOStluti III Tie wal. llCI ANU
lea was fighting abroad and working
at home in 1917 and 1918 there was
no internal dissension nor petty dis
agreements.
"'Ah, WE'LL said the doubters, but
then We were at war. A declaration
of war ends discussions. The flame
of patriotism that war kindles purges
the soul and casts out narrOwness.
The war is over. The fire is out.
Your aim is comendable but impossi-
ble.'
But the men and nm who con
ceived the Legion idea believed that
in peace as we'll as in war could be
perpetrated the fine ideals for which
we fought and which made America
a nation Of Americans in 1917.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-07

has been a political tornado in the
south for a good many years. HIS
election is on the democratic ticket.
but he starts in decidedly at outs with
his party upon their national issues.
1t is recalled that Senator Tillman
roared around the South until he got
into the senate. where he roared some
more for awhile, but finally he be.
came as tame as a kitten. JEFF Davis
from Arkansas roared a good deal at
first, but he subsidized like the rest of
them.
The senate has many great minds,
and no one has ever made any head
way against its methods by processes
of roaring, or transforming. Senator
Watson is said to be a very able man.
and if he can introduce a strong per
sonality in the senate, backed by n
determination to look a little closer
to the public interest than the aver
age senator has been doing, he may
"fll a long felt want" There is a
well founded conviction in Washington
that the senate is long on political
interests and short on consideration
of the public welfare. The fiery Wat.
son may help put the reverse acton
on this state Of affairs. If he does he
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-07

The American Legion as it stands
today is proof that the vision of these
men and women was prophetic.
The Legion of today girds the
world, $500 posts, 1000, 900 members,
in every city and town, every village
and community in the land anu in our
island and overseas possessions and
in ten foreign countries.
There is nothing like the Legion
in the world.
1T is national, not sectional. Men
and factions, absolutely irreconcilable
on no other grounds, stand together
and work together in the Legion, all
for the achievement of the same
ideals. No question of creed, polit-
ical amliation, rank or station enters.
In the Legion there simply are Ameri-
cans. And | shall help sustain such
to the best Of my ability,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-07
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

By J. f. Jones.
The country has been thrilled by
the news that Miss Mabel BOardman
has been appointed by the president
as one of the three commissioners Of
the District of Columbia. Former
President Taft has been particularly
joyful in commencing the appoint
ment. Miss Boardman was at the
head Of the American Red Cross So
ciety for many years, and her fame
has not been increased by the fact
that she has been designated as a
commissioner of the district. The APP
pointment is, however, a fine recog-
milton of Miss Boardman's sex, all OF
whom outside the District of Colum-
bia will be entitled to vote. But Miss
Boardman is the same kind of a pc
lit;cal exile as are all the other resi-
dents of the District of Columbia.
There are a little less than half a
million inhabitants of the small area,
which has been set down along the
shores of the Potomac to be used as
a capitol for more than a hundred
million people. By some ~eXtraordl-
nary method of reasoning all resi-
dents of the district are disbarred from
voting, and although they may see
their president riding about mostly
any day, still the price of living in
this little spot known as the District
of Columbia means that one must
forego all political rights.
The three commissioners take the
place of a mayor and common council
such as are provided in ordinary cities,
and they have broad powers with ref
erence to the local government. They
appoint most of the subordinate Off
GERS. including police heads, assessors,
and the dog-catcher. They are, how
ever, separate from the school board
which has special powers, and Their
members are appointed by the presi-
dent. Taxpayers, public utilities and
others who have grievances take them
to the district commissioners, and if
the commissioners do not give them
a fair deal they have no redress, as
there are no electors or public tribu
lals to appeal to. The commissioners
are most always friends of the presi-
dent, or some member of his family,
md while they are usually high types
of citizens, yet they are not response
BILE to the public which they are sup
nnoa6 IN rQnrQGnnf Mona nf thp1n
take the active part in civic matters
that falls to the lot and duties of a
mayor.
Notwithstanding the Tennessee leg
islature and the appointing powers of
the president Of the United States,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-07

with many failures and disasters the
waves have been out for the eventual
triumph of American shipping.
The forest service has issued an
other statement to the effect that all
pulp wood that is needed for paper
is to be found in Alaska. Paper
manufacturers who go to Alaska can
count upon the supply Of raw material
indefinitely" says a statement by
Colonel w B. Greeley, chief Of the
forest service.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-07

This column will be devoted to informa-
ton and news Of interest to the soldiers,
sailors and marines.
Col. F. w. Galbraith, Jr., the new
national commander of the American
Legion, has written the following eX-
elusive interview for the Register or
what the organization means for the
nation and our boys:
Il have been asked particularly to
speak on the American Legion organ
ization in the smaller towns and the
rural communities. Nowhere is the
Legion stronger than in such places.
The local Legion post is fast becom,
ing the dominant factor in the life
of the smaller communities. 1t is a
social center. 1t is a public forum
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-07
ORCHARD AND GARDEN

An attempt is being made to list
and describe all the varieties Of
dahlias under cultivation. Between
5000 and 5000 names have been listed
and this does not include many for
eign kinds.
Apples carefully picked and wrapped
in newspaper keep late into the fall
and winter if kept cool.
Currants should have the branches
prevent the snow breaking them down.
Wv. S. S.-
There is no wheat without chaff.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-07

There is no wheat without chaff.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1920-03-12
MISSOURI VOTERS
ENDORSE LEAGUE

Republicans chose TO make the
special Congressional election iu
the Third Missouri district test
OF popular opinion with respect 10
the League of Nations. Senator
Hiram w. Johnson of California,
imported into the district TO sup
port the Republican, candidate, re-
minded bis audiences that this
election was to be made and con-
sidered referendum on the league.
This statement was repeated by
all the other Republican orators,
aud, indeed, was a declaration of
the Republican platform upon
which the Republican candidate
conducted the contest.
The answer of the voters was un-
mistakable. The Democratice can
didate was elected by majority
of nearly 1900. This Democratic
majority was greater than that OBJ
tanned by the Democratic candi-
date in the regular Congressional
election fifteen months ago. 1t
was at once cordial endorsement
of the league and a reputation of
Republican propaganda.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1920-03-12

II never in my life used such
thing as poster ordodger or hand
bill. My plan for twenty years has
been to buy SO much space in a
newspaper and fill it up just as I
wanted. I.would not give an ad-
vertisement in newspaper of five
hundred circulation for five thous-
and dodgers or posters.
IF wanted to sell cheap jewel
ry or run gambling scheme l
might use posters, bat / would not
insult decent reading public witk
hand bills.
"The class of people that read
them are too poor TO look to for
support in mercantile affairs. /
deal directly with the publisher.
| say to him:
"How long will you let me run
column of matter through your
paper for 500 or $500 as the case
may be. [ let him do the figuring.
and if / think he is not trying to
take more than his share, [ give
him the copy, lay aside the profit
on particular line of goods for
advertising purposes
"At first laid aside$3, 900 ; last
year | laid aside aud spent 10000,
have, done better this year and
snail increase that sum 8 The prof
It's warrant it | owe my success
to newspapers aud to them | freely
give asscertain profit of my yearly
business"
In late years Mr., Wanamaker's
advertising, of conrsp, reached
much more.-Fourth Estate.
The Chronicle and Progressive
Farmer! 50.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1920-03-12

Eversince the Atlantic City con-
vention of tie 4 merican Fedora
ton of Labor last june, organized
labor has been the firm ally cf the
movement originated by the saw
ings division of the Treasury De-
partment to make saving and safe
investmentin government securities
a National habit The benefits to
labor hy that policy have been
clearly demonstrated since that
time and tie labor leaders Of clear
vision are ~urging trade unionists 6
throughout the country to renew
ed efforts in support of this policy
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1920-03-12

object fair, equitable and just
treatment of all taxpayer alike.
We, oppose discrimination as
among the d different classes of tax
payers and demand that all prop
erty-reaI, persoBel, mixed-be
compelled to bear its proportion
ate part of the tax burden, subject
only to those exemptions author-
ized by the consultation of our
! State"
The General Assembly was in
structed, "That Tax Commission
be created and empowered to make
all tax assessment uniformly
and thoroughly"
In his message to the General
Assembly of 1915, Governor<Rye
said:
"lf the property of the State
were listed for taxation at its fair
market valuation, and if all the
hidden personal property that
never shows up on the tax lists
were brought to light, the general
assessment OF property for the
Statewould be increased threefold.
Reasonably good laws have re-
suited in more than double the
amount of property being listed
for taxation and in reductions
of the tax rate. The most effec-
tive machinery for making assess-
ments and administering the laws
relating to the assessment and
equalization of property values is
State tax commission, with broad
and ample powers in matters of
administration and in the employ
mept of assessors" The Democrat
ic platform strongly expressed the
policy of the party on this subject.
Again, in May, 1916 the Demo-
cratic platform declared unequivo-
Galley for the equalization of the
tax burden and demanded legisla-
tion necessary to secure adequate
revenue.
The General Assemblyzin 1919
knew, as every well-informed citi-
zen knew, that this fundamental
law was being openly and fragrant
ly violated, that in some counties
of the State the average assess
ment ofproperty was below twenty
per cent of it's actual value, while
IN other counties the average as
sessment was rs high as sixty per-
cent. The Legislature also knew
that there was a wide difference
between the assessments of diff
ferent classes of property even in
the same country or civil district.
1t followed that some citizens were
bearing more than their fair share
of the burden of taxes in Tennes-
see, in spite of the plain umam-
biguous provision of the consti-
tuition declaring for uniformity and
in spite of that fundamental natur-
al law of justice which demands
equal and exsct justice for all men
and special privileges TO none
SO the last General Assembly, be-
lieving that the law as it has been
written for more than generation
ought to be honestly enforced, pro.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1920-03-12

vided that all property should be
assessed sat its actual cash value. y
Under this act the Assessor was
required to make oath that he
would assess all property "at lie
actual cash value" and, after hav-
ing made his assessment, he WAS
required again to swear that be
had IN fact assessed all property
"at its actual cash value" In
this act it was also provided that
it was "unlamfal to wifnlIy,
knowingly or negligently assess
any property at less than its cash
value"
The succeeding General Assem-
bly, in 1901, under Governor Nc
MILAN, passed another assessment
law requiring all property to be
assessed cat its actual cash valne," "
This act remained in force until
chapter 602, acts of 1907, under
Governor Malcolm r. Patterson,
when another comprehensive as
sessment law was passed which
provides that all property shall be
assessed "at its actual cash value. ,
tbs this act, passed in Govern
or Patterson's administration,
which is now in force in Tennessee.
That act stands today just as it
stood then, so far as the standard
of values in making assessments is
concerned.
The Supreme Court of Tennes-
see, speaking through Judge John
S. Wilkes, in the case of Carol VS..
Alsnp, 23d Pickle, page 273, uses
this language:
"There are, then, two fundame en-
tai principles to be taken as guides
In assessing property under our
constitution and laws: Q) That
all property shall be assessed at
its actual cash value; and, (2)
that taxes shall be equal and uni
form. The latter proposition flows
naturally and inevitably as a corol-
larry to the former, for, when all
property is assessed at its actual
cash value, then all taxes become
equal and uniform. However diff
ticult it may be to arrive, at the
first result, it is imperatively de-
manded by the constitution and
laws and the second unavoidablv
and from necessity follows it and
to adopt cash valuation is the onlv
basis upon which it is practicable
to make taxes equal and uniform"
This decision of the Supreme
Court was rendered in 1901, and
this is the law under which we
have been operating in Tennessee
ever sirce and is the law today.
The Democratic platform adopt
ed in 1914, on which Governor
Rye was first elected, declared:
In the assessment of property
we favor a policy having for it's
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1920-03-12

vided an effective agency for it,
enforcement. The Dtmocratiepal
ty had declared for legislation oil
exactly this character. With 4
long line OF distinguished Cover.
nors, men who were constitutional
lawyers, as we'll as patriots, ap.
proving "an actual cash value" as
sesement based upon the consti-
tuition aud approved by the Su-
preme Court, it is proper for the
people of Tennessee to know that
the policy now being carried ont
is no new or fantastic doctrine,
but that it is the old Democratic
principles of right and justice as
interpreted by every Governor
who has held that office in Tennes-
see without single exception.
The Board of Equalization, elect
ed by the people, has been en-
powered and directed to enforce
the old assessment lave. For fifty
years we have lived under the pres
ent State constitution aud the peo-
pie of the State at the ballot box
have expressly refused to change
the present constitution. So, the
General Assembly aud the Govern
or, who had taken oaths to uphold
and support the constitution and
in obedience to platform declara-
tions Of the Democratic party,
favored legislation which would
compel the fair and honest enforce
ment Of Tie assessment laws pass
ed during Governor Patterson's
term.
1t is worthy of note that during
this unbroken period of half CEN
tury~ no other plan or method than
a cash valuation has ever been
seriously urged upon the people
OF course, no fair-minded citizen
would for a moment insist that
the act of 1907, approved by Gov
ernor Patterson, contemplated a
speculative or inflated value of
property of any kind. But values
rise and fall, like the tides and it
was contemplated that assessments
should always follow actuelIvalues;
and when a sliding scale.of rate is
applied to such plan, under which
the same amount of revenue is
produced, whether the assessment
be high or low, no injustice can
result to the taxpayer From Ed
itorial in Nashville Banner, Feb
ruary %, 1920.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1920-03-12
THE ASSESSMENT
LAW OF TENNESSEE

The General Assembly of 1919
did not change the law in any re-
'spect ia so far as the standard of
assessments of property 'at actual
cash value" is concerned. TIE
code of 1858, section 564, is as fol-
lows:
All property shall he assessed
at toe same vaIue atwhich it ought
to be appraised in payment of a
gust debt, in cash, due from a SOL
vent debtor. The law thus stood
when the constitution of 1870 was
adopted That constitution pro-
vides that all property shall be
taxed according to lis value, that
value to be ascertained in such
manner as the General Assembly
shall direct, SO that taxes shall be
equal and uniform throughout the
State"
The phrase actual cash value"
as applied to assessments, SO for
as has been ascertained, was first
used by the General Assembly Of
lo7l, in an act approved by Gov
ernor John G. Brown, who was
president of the constitutional con-
vention which adopted the consti-
tuition of 1870.
Various assemblies since that
date in their assessment bills, pro-
vided that property should be as
sessed sat it's cash value" but the
General Assembly of 1895 (Gov-
ernor Turney) introduced into our
system the policy Of having the
County Assessor to make two aft
"davits, FIRST to swear before max
ing his assessments that he would
assess all property "at its cash
value" and then again swear to his
assessments after their compile
tion that he had assessed all prop
erty cat it's cash value.' SO solic-
'itous was the General Assembly
that this law be complied with in
spirit as well as in letter that this
one public official, the only one in
our whole governmental system,
was required to take an oath be-
fore the performance of his duty
that he would obey the law and
then take an oath after the per-
'formances of his duty that he had
.obeyed the law. The various
agencies of the law may take the
life of citizen or deprive him of
his liberty or propertywithout be-
ing required to take but one oath.
The General Assembly in 1897
aGovernor Robert,L. Taylor) pass
ed an assessment bill requiring all
property to be assessed "at it's
cash value" still requiring two
'affidavits of the Assessor.
The General Assembly of 1899,
under Governor Benton Mcmillan
passed a most comprehensive as
sessment bill in which it was pro-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1920-03-12

The Chronicle and Progressive
Farmer 81 50.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-07
CRUSHED AT NIAGARA.
Two Women and a Man Killed by a
Slide of Shale in Cave of Winds.

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, Sept. -
Two women and a man were crushed to
death and two men were injured yester-
day afternoon when slide of shale forced
out bridge leading to one of the stair
ways in the Cave of the Winds under
Niagara Falls.
A hundred or more tourists who were
in the cave at the time had narrow es-
capes, many being bruised and cut by
the falling rock.
The dead are A. Hartman, Brooklyn;
his wife, Louise Hartman, and Clara NJ.
Faust, Pittsburgh.
The injured are T. w. Lee, Pittsburgh
and Frank E. Haehling. Detroit.
The dead and injured were members
of party of tourists just completing a
tour of the cave With a guide leading,
the party was in the middle of one of
the four bridges in the cave when the
slide came, its noise drowned by the roar
of the cataract. The guide was not
touched by the slide, and his first init
nation of it came from the screams of
the women in the party.
To recover the bodies of the dead it
was necessary to take a rowboat from
the steamer Maid of the Mist, which had
been run up as near as possible to the
falls and cave. 1t was a hazardous ven
ture, but the rowboat crew finally
brought the bodies out of the pool and
regained the steamer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-07
NELLIE WOODSFORD
SPEAKS TO MOTHERS

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Woodsford and her children "live happy
and grateful to the kind neighbor who rec
commended DR.. True's Elixir to them. Mrs.
Wood sford says: MY bowels were out of or
der and my breath was bad was shaky all
over. / had terrible headaches and it seemed
/ had suffered years before your DIR. True's
Elixir was brought to After short time
] was myself again my bowels were all right
and I'm full Of gratitude" at may interest
you to know also that once since my youngest
child was terribly sick and it was a serious
relieving her Of stomach worms
Dr. True's Elixir, the Family Laxative and
Worm Expeller, has done wonders for children
and grown-ups since 1851 Pleasant to take,
mild in action.-Adv.