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father does. You've always told me
you're not Jewish"
"Wait minute! I'm not through
with my diary yet! Wednesday aft
ernoon we thought we'd have five
minutes together, didn't we, but the
Raskinskys took us out in their
machine that I might see Water
bury 1 didn't want to see your fool
library and Farmers Bank and park;
I wanted to see your settlement
House and your Baby Clinic and your
slums you have any. Remember
what your Mrs. Raskinsky said: we
never go over on the west side. You
can catch anything from those
"kikes," you know And we talk
about the goyim having prejudice!
Another dance on Wednesday
night and on Thursday"
He interrupted her impatiently.
you're really unjust, Reba. You
know my sisters are doing society
and they're young and have to enjoy
themselves. If you lived here
'I'd be expected to be like them.
None of the young girls or married
women I've met here do an hours
productive work a day if they can
afford to have it done for them. On,
yes, know your mother spends half
a morning in the kitchen sometimes
slaving over a fussy dessert, but that's
not work. She'd have nervous pros
tration if she had to scrub her kit
chen floor and clean the fish and bake
the challah like my mother every
Friday. And / don't call sewing a
few dresses for the Orphan Asylum
the way they did at the Ladies' Aid
Thursday real work. Several of the
older women did work steadily, most
of them were too busy talking about
that nasty Marcuson divorce business
to finish their jobs. And about
fourth of them came from some caro-
party or other and left before the
speaker was half through. They
had the English professor from the
high school and his lecture on mod
ern poetry was so simple they
wouldn't have been bored if they'd
stopped giggling and whispering long
enough to listen to him."
''Do you think it's exactly good
manners to talk like that about peo-
pie who have tried to be nice to
you?" he demanded.
She laughed harshly. Good
manners! I've never seen such rot
ten manners in my life. These ele-
giant ladies would be shocked at my
mothers table manners but where
was brought up it was considered
good manners to observe the Sab
bath. And tonight your Temple So
ciables had New Years Eve dance
on a Friday night"
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IL
the only one she had brought for the
many affairs of Waterbury's holiday
season; but he was not troubled.
Irma and Louise even in their i'm
ported rags" (as he irreverently
dubbed them) were not above FEELING
envy and trying to hide It,
'How have your friends in Water
bury tried to give me good tlme!
she repeated. I'll tell you she
enumerated slowly, counting on her
ringless fingers, beautiful taperlng
fingers which were her heritage from
some not ignoble ancestor: Monday
cards; Tuesday-luncheon at the
hotel with a group of fiappers who
tried to make conversation by talk
ing about New York musical shows
which they were just dying to see;
in the evening a dance, ending with
a supper where enough food was
wasted to keep a dozen children over
in Europe well-fed for a week; We'd
nesday-another luncheon at your
Mrs. Grossmith' s.
"she's the leading Jewish woman
in town." His voice had grown
slightly resentful. "It was mighty
nice of her to entertain for you"
"And she's the leading Jewish
woman in town. My God!' The girl
was frankly Mortified. "She can't
talk we'll, she hasn't an idea in her
head and her social ideas wouldn't
be too advanced for the Stone Age.
Why, she spent half the meal lament
ing how hard it was to get good
help when the foolish girls preferred
to work in the factories. Then she
took the opportunity to rant about
the unions knows nothing about
them but was undoubtedly quoting
her fat-headed husband-but took
up the horrible example of the fac.
tory girl again who spends half OF
her enormous salary on silk stock
ings. I was so wild I asked her
whether she wore them and whether
it was any more shocking to spend
your hard-earned money on such
trash than to get them by being
nice to some man who can afford to
buy them for you. Then she kept
still and let the others CAB"
"You shouldn't have done it,"
YEARLY. "Of course, she's never
thought and read and studied the
way we have, but
Then what right does Sne nave "
be the leading Jewish woman in
town? Because she knows how to
plan an elaborate luncheon or can
afford to have an extra maid help
her poor over-worked guests take off
their wraps? I hate her and all she
stands for"
"You can't reform people like that
in day." he warned her.
"You can't reform them in CEN
tury merely by guzzling and dane
ing and playing cards with them.
Not that I want to reform them
God forbid. Your rabbi is paid for
that and the way the ladies at Mrs.
Grossmith's raved over him I guess
he's not reforming them hard enough
to lose his job. Mrs. Appelbaum
said it was such joy to have a
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you've always claimed you
weren't religious!"
''I'm not. What shocks me is the
hypocrisy of these people who pre-
tend to be good Jews and belong to
a Temple they. desert on Friday night
because they prefer jazz. It's that
way at every turn. You pretend to
be good Jews and you turn down
scholar and a gentleman like old Mr..
Levine because he speaks with an
accent. You pretend to be charitable
and 1 heard your own father say that
he was going to drop his subscription
to the Denver Consumptive Home
because business was getting tight
and he couldn't afford to support
everything. But he could afford a
new car last month-he could af-
ford
"Reba, why get so intense"
"I'm sick of it. Your sisters.
They pretend to be so modest they're
shocked if I speak of prostitution or
social disease. Yet tonight they
danced those disgustingly intimate
wv
dances with several men they knew
modest to wear evening dresses that
might have seemed extreme on a
streetwalker several years ago."
He caught her hands, tried to kiss
her. "Reba, please, please, try to
look at things calmly. You've got to
fit into this environment after were
married.; try to be a little more char
table now. I know how it strikes
you at first" he confessed, 'I know
how it sickened me. But fathers
right; you can't change everything
in a hurry. You've got to overlook
a lot of things and get used to it
as I did"
She flung him off. eyes, you're
used to it. You've deserted; you
belong to these people. But, thank
God, I don't And I never SHALL"
Her voice suddenly grew very quiet.
Tomorrow I am going back to my
people,"
He wilfully misunderstood her.
"You mean your father and mother
and the life you wanted to escape
from?"
She shook her head. "No-for
they are not my people-any longer
not any more than yours" Sud-
denly she flung out her slim young
arms in a gesture so sincere it did
not seem theatric. II belong to the
workers and the dreamers. I'm go
ing back to finish my term and then
I'm going to work hard-and dream
hard. Maybe" whimsically, II may
discover a new Judaism I can ac-
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was little or no ain. They developed
in abundance with no rain to wash
them down into the ground. AS a
result the spores were blown over
onto the corn, where the dew furnish
ed the needed moisture for germfna-
tion
After visiting hundreds of fields of
corn during the summer DR.. Evans
says that smut has been present in
varying amounts from a very low per-
centage to as high as so or 60 per
cent. This fact. in the light of a
very slight attack by this disease last
year, has brought many inquiries to
the afronomy department concerning
the outbreak.
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Avoid Recurrence Of
Corn Smut Epidemic

Brookings, Aug 16.-Rotation OF
crops SO as TO carefully avoid plant
ing corn on land where smut attack
ed this crop the previous year is the
best known method of preventing a
recurrence of the epidemic OF corn
smut, which will cause noticeable
damage TO South Dal.ota's bib crop
this year, according TO DR.. Arthur I.
Evans. associate agronomist at State
college.
Land on which corn is smutted
this year will be full of spores and
should the season be favorable next
year for their development, the far
mer will very likely lose heavily from
the smut. Seed disinfections is OF
little avail in combating this d.
sease, says DIR. Evans. since the at
tack is directly on the young plant
from spores which would not be kill
ed by seed treatment.
Weather conditions were just right
this season for the best development
of smut. At the time the air conidia
tspores) were being formed. there
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IRISH REPUBLIC
THE only BASIS
DE VALERA SAAS THIS Is THE
ONLY WAY SIM FEINERS
WILL DEAL.

Dublin, Aug. 16.-Only ON the ba-
sis OF our recognition as an Irish re-
public. will we deal with any foreign
country whatever, declared Eamonn
.-s.14a ksTs5sing Oar Gil eann
today. The Sim Fein parliament
met here to determine upon the re-
lection or acceptance of the British
peace offer or reference of the ques-
tion which means peace or war for
Ireland TO plebescite. the election of
this very parliament itself was prac-
tically a plsebescite De Valera said
in the uncompromising speech with
which he opened today's session. The
Dails election was an expression Of
the will of the Irish nation. Because
the British proposals were unjust we
sent the reply we did, De Valera
said. The session adjourned after
his speech There will be another
open meeting Wednesday and clos
ed sitting Thursday at which the
British proposals will be further dis
cussed.
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MOTOR|sT PER|SHEs
ON ARIZONA DESERT
WANDERS TO DEATH SEEKING
WATER FOR HIS FAM
lily.

Prescott, Ariz., Aug. 16.-The
body of August Kaufman, automo-
bile tourist from Pasadena. CAL.
missing since last Wednesday was
found on the desert 80 miles west
of Congress Junction, 40 miles south
of here by Mohave county officers
Sunday. The man had perished from
thirst and exposure the officers said.
Kaufman, according to the officers
upon their return here, left his wife
and three children in their automo-
bile Wednesday i'm search of water
when he discovered their supply had
run low. Friday night when he had
not returned his family still waited
in the automobile and Lillian, a g.
year-old daughter, died of exposure.
Kaufman wandered through the
desert for about - hours and COW
cred approximately go miles in a zig
gag course before he finally collaps-
ed according TO officers. The body
was found near Signal, near the
Yuma county line.
In his search, Kaufman had pass
ed within so yards of an artificial
reservoir of water for sheep and cat
tie. the officers said.
The Faufmans We're travelling ov-
erland from Pasadena to ranch IN
PinaI county. Arizona. Kaufman ap'
parently had taken short cut be
tween Yuma and Congress Junction
When he stopped his automobile he
was within five minutes ride of the
Clarance Ham ranch. Friday night
4S hours later. Mrs. Kaufman and
the children were discovered in the
auto by Joseph Ruddy, who with MS
wife was motoring from Yucca to
their ranch nearby. They removed
the family TO the Ham ranch where
Lillian died.
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at s676, go, 900 are still in the hands
of investors.
Three notable results have been
accomplished by the savings cam
paign conducted by the treasury de-
partment, according TO Mr. Lester
"It has raised substantial amount
for the government. he said. "It has
popularized the investment of small
savings in government securities. 1t
has helped create a national senti-
ment for thrift No element has
contributed more to the practical ap-
plication of sound thrift principles in
America than have government saw
ings securities. These small secur-
tiles. These small securities have
been the means of starting thousands
of people TO save money who had
never saved before"
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Twenty-Eight Persons
Burn To Death In Year

Pierre, Aug. 16.-Twenty-elght
persons were burned to death or died
as the result of burns in South Da-
kota during the calendar year OF
1920, a report soon to be issued by
the state insurance department will
show. This is almost twice as many
as were burned during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1920. and establishes
a new high mark for the state.
Next to accidental burns, including
burns whose true cause is unkonwn,
which claimed Is victims. kerosene
took the greatest toll of life, with
nine lifes credited TO its use. Case
line was next, claiming two. One
moving picture film explosion and
one steam boiler explosion make up
the remainder of the list.
One entire family, including a
father, mother and four children, liv-
ing IN Tripp county. were burned to
death at the same time from an ex-
plosfon Of kerosene, the report viii
show.
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OPINION ON CERTI-
FIcATEs OF DEPOSIT
GENERALS DEPART.
MENT RULES CONCERNING
DATE PAYABLE.

Pierre. Aug 16.-Certain certifi-
Gates of deposit which have been is
sued by many state banks since the
beginning of the present financial
stringency have been made the SUBJ
ject of an opinion from the attorney
generals department because of
their unusual featurse.
The certificate regarding which
the opinion has been rendered reads:
"A. has deposited in this bank ST.
900 to the order of himself in cur
rent funds payable on the return of
this certificate properly endorsed 6
TO IL months after date, with inter
est at six per cent per annum, no
interest after maturity"
One holder of such a certificate
presented il for payment at a state
bank eight months after the date of
issuance and demanded payment and
interest for six months. The ques-
ton arose as to whether the bank
was Obliged TO pay the certificate so
presented.
The certificate of deposit. such as
the one referred to. is in substance,
and legal effect a promissory note.
Assistant Attorney General V. r.
Sickle says in his opinion. 1T is
payable in six or II months after
date. The holder could not legally
demand payment before the maturity
of the instrument according TO its
terms, and had suit been instituted
before il would have been prema-
turely brought.
The date of maturity of the GER
tificate, was undoubtedly II months
after date, for il recites, no interest
after maturity 1t is plain that the
certificate would bear interest for
IL months if not presented for pay
ment at the expiration of six months,
While the fixed maturity of the GER
| tificate is IL months, the holder has
been given the privilege of returning
endorsed for payment at the expira.
ton of six months. and if the instru.
ment had been presented at that time
he would have received six per cent
interest thereon.
Not having availed himself of the
privilege of accelerating the date Of
maturity at the time provided for In
the instrument, the holder waived
his rights to payment until the ex
piration of the IL months from date
and I am therefore of the opinion
that the bank is not Obliged TO pa,
| it until that time"
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CASH CHECKS FOR.
HONEST HODCARR|ERS
OWNER OF A CHICAGO RESORT
DISCOVERS LATER HIS IRISH"
GUESTS WE'RE FRAUDS.

Chicago, Aug. 16.-"Come on.
now, have a drink on me-" and jim
mie Mccarthy laid his pay check for
S46.56 on the bar.
There were six appearing honest
hod carriers. You could tell it by
the marks of toll on their clothes,
shoes stained with mortar. overalls
with dust of bricks, hats that had
weathered many a day. They had
come into Joe Marses's saloon at
1888 West Chicago avenue to have
their checks cashed, to talk. TO laugh
at jokes, to tell stories. to sing, and
TO jig.
1t was an entertainment that
would have delighted the Kerry
Patch il the Kerry Patch existed.
Here's to yez, ould banthry bay"
called John O'Shea, land yer childer,
and yer childers' ehilder. May We
live to be a hoondred and then be
arrested for bigamy. I'm buying
the next drink, which entities me to
sing yez a little song"
| O'Shea placed his pay check on
| dry spot on the mahogany. rinsed has
throat. took the change from 1856
and started a song the burden OF
which was that whisky was still be-
ing sold in Ireland.
Even the bartender Joined in the
applause at this. And Peter Boren
insisted on buying the next round out
of his check for s46.56.
MY father ushed to give ms
whusky," said Tom Sullivon; AN
them was the days. Back there In
Derry Beg"
Are yez from Derry Beg?" cried
Pat Madden in surprise. There was
a colleen there / knew. God rest heI
sowl. We wint to all the fairs to-
eether. and. wait till | buy ye all
Bit of the old cratur." and he slapped
his check for $46.56 among IN
| glasses and the wet rings on the par
So IL went. Tach one cashed ms
check and bought a round of drinks
And Marse spent a pleasant evening
until he found that the "hod car
riers" were imposters. The Irish
were frauds. The checks were DO
/ gus.
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COMPENSATION
PLAN ANNOUNCED
SPECIAL BOARD TO HELP SERV.
ICE MEN TO VISIT NINE SOUTH
DAKOTA CITIES.

Sioux Falls. Aug. 16.-Final plans
for the visiting of ex-service men,
who are entitled to compensation are
being made by the government, and
a cleanup" squad will be sent over
the state with headquarters for a
time in nine centralized cities of each
district to examine the men. Every
man who is entitled to compensation
will have to appear before this board
and present his claim.
Transportation and subsistence
will be furnished TO ex-seryice men,
who 90 to the cities to confer with
the board and to make their claims.
Blanks for this purpose are being cir
culated by the American Legion and
by the Red Cross. but any ex-service
man who has a claim and does not
receive a blank, may go to his dis
trict city and there get the transpor-
tation.
The board visiting the state will
consist of a medical examiner, COM
pensation and insurance claims con-
tract examiner, and route man. In
the party will also be representatives
of the American Legion and of the
Red Cross. In each case the medical
examiner will be a man who is thor
oughly familiar with the work and
will be able to classify the men and
put them into the division which
they rightfully belong.
1t will be the duty of both the gov
ernment and welfare representatives
in this campaign to see that deserv-
ing cases are given attention. Care
will be taken to see that no person
making a claim is Disseminated
against and that those rightfully en-
titled TO benefits under the War Risk
Insurance act are given them.
Following is list of the towns
where the squad will meet, and the
counties under which each town
acts:
Mobridge-for counties Harding,
Perkins. Ziebach, Corson, Dewey
Armstrong, Walwarth.
Aberdeen-For counties Campbell,
Mcpherson, Edmonds. Brown, Mar
shall, Day, Roberts. North half OF
Grant
Watertown-For counties Clarke,
Codington. Hamlin. Deuel., Brook
/ ings.
Huron-For counties Faulk, Sphinx,
HYDE. Hand, Beadle, Kingsbury.
Rapid City-For counties Butte,
Meade. Lawrence. Pennington, Gus
ter. Fall River. Washington. Shan
non. Jackson, Washabaugh, Bennets.
Pierre.-For counties Potter. Sui
/ ly. Hughes. Stanley. Haskon.
/ Mitchell-For counties Jones. Ly'
man, Buffalo, Brule. Jerauld, Aurora
! Sanborn, Dawson, Hansen, Mellette
Yankton - For counties TODD
Tripp. Gregory, Douglas. Charles
/ Mix. Hutchinson. Bon Homme. Yank
ton, Clay, Union.
/ Sioux Falis.-For counties Miner
Lake. Moody, McCook, Minnehaha
| Turner, Lincoln.
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WORKING ON
THE TAX BILL
SOME BIG REDUCTIONS ARE NOT
ED IN REPORTING NEW REV.
ENUE BILL.

Washington, Aug 16.-Federal
taxes are reduced three hundred
eighty-four million dollars for 1922
and seven hundred ninety million
dollars for 1923. Chairman Ford
ney of the house ways and means
committee declared today in formal
ly reporting the new revenue bill to
the house. The insurgent republican
movement in the house was strong
enough to force delay in the repeal of
the excess profits levy and a reduc-
ton of surtaxes on high incomes un-
TIL January 1. 1922. Consideration
of the tax bill will be started in the
house tomorrow and completed Sat
urday afternoon.
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Epidemic Cause
Is Unexplained

Aberdeen, Aug. 16.--Acc0rding to
a statement made by DR.. j. III. Swat
ford. Brown county health officer,
the typhoid epidemic at Stratford was
not caused by either the water or the
food supply. Both have been ex-
amined and show no traces of the di-
sease. The milk supply. tested By
state authorities, has also been re-
moved from the list of possible caus-
es. Suspected carriers of the disease
have been isolated In an effort to
stop the epidemic. No new cases
have been reported this week.
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Daily Market Report


Minneapolis. Aug. 16.--Corn--
Unchanged; demand fair and offer
ings moderate. No. 3 yellow closed
at 40 and soc. No. 3 mixed at AZ
and 49c-
Oats.-Unchanged to firm; No. 3
white September price to u under;
offerings large. but elevator demand
good. No. white closed at 20 "
and 30Isc; No. 4 white at 27s and
28ssc.
Rye-Easy; demand sluggish: No
Q at liz and 2hc over September;
No. 2 rye closed at s1.03h and
s1.03ss.
Barley.-Prices off l and &c Will
quiet demand; offerings fairly large
Prices closed at Al and 62c.
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Posse S. arc hin g
For Negro Kidnapers

Anniston, Alabama. Aug. ia
posse headed by military and police
authorities is searching for three ne
groes who last night kidnapped the
young wife of Gail Stormer, of Bir-
mingham, member of company X,
fourth infantry Alabama national
guard, in training at Camp Mcclellan
here Stormer said he and his wife
were walking when three negroes
leaped from an automobile and kid
naped her.
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Nature Student
Finds White Crow

Tyndall. Aug. 16.--C. v. Eymer,
of Daisy Valley township. who is per-
haps the closest student of nature
and wild life in this part of the
country, reports that he has observ-
ed an elbino crow in the fields on his
farm.
He states that ii is not often that
mother nature slips cog in the us
ual color of fowls or animals. bn'
that she occasionally does.
Scientists report having occasion
ally observed white crows. but the,
are extremely rare.
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THRIFT HABIT
Is GROWING
ss7e, ,52o. 900 IN WAR SECURITIES
STILL HELD By PEOPLE, REC
ORDs REVEAL.

Washington, Aug. 16.-America,
long considered the spendthrift ma
tion of the world, is gradually ac-
quiring the habit of thrift, reports
Orrin C. Lester, acting director of
the division of savings, treasury de-
partment, who has made public hold
ings Of outstanding war savings
securities amounts to $40 for con-
tinental United States. After making
reduction for redemptions on sales
extending over a period OF three
and one-half years, securities valued
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Narrow Escape As
Lever Enters Mouth

Salem, Aug. 16.-Elmer Kirby, the
12-year-old SON of Charles Kirby, liy-
ing on a farm near this city, met with
a serious accident when the plow
on which he was riding struck a rut
and threw him forward from the seat
upon the hand lever of the plow.
The pointed edge of lever that
regulates the operation of the main
lever entered his jaw and passed up
into his mouth.
His escape from death was a mar
row one.
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Still Catches
Fire In Home

Minneapolis. Aug. 16-One of five
children was seriously burned when
a still in the home of Mrs. Tiiia
Rubin caught fire early today. Otn-
ers escaped through wall of flames.
Police arrested the woman.