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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-15

tated for q mo-
ment or two. But
you would not fol
low Doubt. You
knew, too, that
d o b [ w o | q
never lead you to
the House of Sc
cretS.
But here l
must bid you fare
well, and happy
we have been, in
spite of [ h e
s ( a n g e things
that have hap
pened.
May you enjoy
your trip and
find the House
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-15

SO keen have these foreigners been
to maintain this trade with America
that, it will be remembered, even after
the war began in Europe, Captain
Koenig, Of the German submarine
Deutschland" bobbed up in Baltimore
n Sunday morning with his subma-
rine filled with German dyes for the
American importers, and now some Of
these same importers are now repre-
senting the German interests before
congress.
The director of the bureau of mines,
department Of the interior, declares
that the development Of our national
dye industry will not only mean fu-
ture independence from Germany but,
more important still, the utilization
of u W raw products and the de-
velopment of associated industries
that are vitality tied up with dye pro-
duction." DR.. Manning mentions the
close connection of the industry 70
nitrates, fertilizers and ammunitions;
and among the by-products resulting
are tar for roads, paving materials,
roofing, waterproofng materials, pro-
%flavoring extracts, artificial perfumes,
Photographic developers and wood
pr~eservatives. DR.. Manning warns
that If the German vat dyes are
brought into this country in quantity
that "the new industry would have
no chance of existence"
The age-old controversy about the
wisdom of tariffs still goes on, but
the discussion that has been carried
on in Washington in the attempt to
let the German dye manufacturer
crawl back into our good graces,
seems to leave a very definite i'm
preston on the capital that If the
republican principle of a protective
tariff, and the American weapon of
an embargo for commercial purposes,
has any merit at all, that the place
to begin in applying It's operation is
in finishing up the good work in be-
half of establishing the manufacture
of American dyes that has been get.
ting under way since the day We went
to war.
There Is a lurking notion in Wash
ington that a lot of the federal aid
money for highways is being wasted
in many Of the states. Possibly this
impression is partly due to the fact
that senators and representatives are
prevented from giving their physical
presence to the demonstrations Of eff.
iciency made by federal. state and
district inspectors. whose business it
Is to check up OF the work Of county
and town highway oflcials. In any
event there is a good deal OF the
II want to be shown" sentiment In
the national capital. Senator King
Of Utah, says that the state road
organizations have received from the
government, various road building
equipment and motor driven vehicles,
valued in excess of 800, 900. 900. A
bill for an additional z 5000. 900 Of
federal aid money is in conference
between the two branches Of con,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-15


voices she listened
first to what they
had to tell her.
"Oh, it was aw-
full !" said the girl
"When the first
voices e say
ing such horrible
things 1t became
very dark and
%frightful."
"And when we
listened to the
second voices"
said the boy, I'VE
seemed to be In q
lighter, brighter
part of b q
woods"
You see," said
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-15

Listen. boy"
"Yes, SIR"
I'm my youth ! was frequently M
with the lark at i've In the morning."
you had me outclassed, dad, I
couldn't keep a lark going that long.v
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-15
THE VOICES

When Mrs. Wood Elf was about to
explain to the boy and the girl adven-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
A TEMPORARY RELIEF.

The proposition to enact a temporary tariff
as protection to the farmers at this time is
mertorious, and should receive the support OF
congress There should be~no hestancy be-
cause of the possibility of a veto. The law
should be enacted The veto bridge if it is
built can be crossed when it is reached. The
purpose of the legislation is to keep out COM
peting farm products so as to save the Amer
lean market for the American farmer.
What legislation is enacted on this live sub
iect must be understood as temporary only.
No schedule of the general tariff law should
be changed without changing the counter
balancing ones. However, items on the free
list may be placed on the taxable list without
interfering with the schedules. The entire
tariff law should be re-enacted and revised so
as to produce revenue instead OF encouraging
the importation of cheap foreign-made prod
ucts. lust now the need is to protect the
farmer against that class of imports. II the
foreign farm products were shut out Tor a
few months the market now supplied with
Argentina corn, Canadian wheat and foreign
cotton and peanuts would seek American
supplies, and prices would go up instead OF
down, so that the farmer would be able to
realize the cost of production at least for his
commodities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
A BIG lob AHEAD.

One Of the first measures passed by the
house at the present session of congress and
one of the first to receive favorable action OF
the senate was resolution wiping from the
statute books all wartime laws save one or
two AS similar measure, passed at the pre-
vious session of congress, was vetoed by
President Wilson the popular assumption has
been that the resolution is another bit OF con-
pressional politics. In way it is, but in a
broader and more constructive sense than is
suspected. That resolution when approved
by the executive will end bureaucratic, gov
eminent in this country.
Since the armistice was signed, as well as
before much of the confusion and more OF
the extravaganza of our government has been
due to bureaus created by war legislation.
Needed when the country was strarnng ev-
cry nerve to place adequate naval and mill
tary forces in fighting condition they became
"supernunreraries, not to use a more oppro-
bious term, after hostities ceased and de
mobilization was accomplished. Yet, strange
as it may seem, only one or two bureaus were
discontinued.
All remaining bureaus will have to be dis
continued and the departments returned to
their customary executive duties before our
government will again become stabilized.
Notwithstanding all the talk about foreign
policies Mr. Hardngs greatest undertaking
is to secure that department functioning need
ed to end confusion and extravaganza. In this
task he has the biggest job of the first year
of his term as president.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
The Lady From Oklahoma.
From the Woman's Patriot.

Out of the "227 100000 women" eligible to
vote, and eighteen women candidates tor con-
gresS only one woman was elected to the
house Of representatives-and she was first
vice president OF the Oklahoma ASSOCIATION
Opposed to Woman Suffrage
Miss Alice NJ Robertson, of Muskogee, bet
ter known throughout the state as Miss
Alice" made the run to see if the men meant
what they voted for when Oklahoma adopted
woman suffrage. Her candidacy, always re-
garded lightly by herself, became serious
matter to her opponent, for Miss Alice" on
account of her war work as the head OF the
Red Cross, was the most popular woman in
the state With characteristic humor Miss
Alice said the day after election: They bet
against me and voted for me- Her election
was a personal tribute to an individual, not
an affair of woman suffrage-for it can be set
down as certain the suffragettes OF her dis
trict did not vote for Miss A1ice-and also
that many "antiS" voted for her despite their
general belief that women should stay out OF
politics. Miss Alice now says that she "ac-
cepts the duty" of woman suffrage; again add
ing huinorousy, when asked if she would en-
ploy a woman as secretary that st is a mans
Job" Being a congressman is also "a mans
Job" but so long as so many members OF that
body prove themselves practically neutral in
any question involving real manhood it may
be better to have a real woman or two i'll the
place of the sort of males who are AFRAID OF
women" In fact, the best argument ever adj
vanced in favor of votes and Offices for women
is incompetency and cowardce of many male
politicians. The Indians, among whom Miss
Alice has done great work, have a vivid term
to apply to such men, which means man
afraid of-a-squaw," and while anti-suffragists
will not by any means modify their conviction
that government is a mans job they will
certainly admit that if choice must be made,
that if we cannot have real men, ought at
least to have real women i'll congress. There
FORE let us heartily welcome her.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
When The Year Is Done.

Let us forget the things that vexed and tried
The worrying things that caused our souls
to fret;
The hopes that, cherished long, were still
denied us
Let us forget
Let us forget the little Sights that panied us,
The greater wrongs that rankle sometimes
The pride with which some lofty one dsdain-
ed us,
Let us forget.
Let us forget our brothers fault and falling
The yielding to temptations that beset,
That he perchance, whose grief is unavailing,
Cannot forget.
But blessings manifold, past all deserving,
Kind words and helpful deeds, countless
throng,
The fault o'ercome, the rectitude answering
Let us remember long
The sacrifice of love, the generous giving
When friends were true the handclasp
warm and strong,
The fragrance of each life of holy living
Let us remember long.
Whatever things were good and true and
gracious
Whate'er of right has triumphed over
What love OF God or man has rendered
precious,
Let us remember long
So, bordering well the lesson it has taught us
Unfalteringly we bid the year Goodbye"
Holding in memory the good il. brought us.
Letting the evil die. Selected.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
WOMEN AND POLITICS.

Not much has been said since the election
relative to the part enacted by the fair sex.
No one, so far as we have observed, has at
tempted to explain or analyze that element in
the drama. There were hundreds of women
who ran for office. If they happened to be on
the landslide position they were duly chosen,
and are doubtless becomingly elated. If they
were not, it is presumed they know the taste
of defeat.
1t would be of interest to know little more
than has been revealed just what the female
of the species" think by this time of the polit-
ical pond-its miry borders, the mosquitoes
and gnats of perplexity that infest the atmos-
phere about it, the blood-suckers and snags
that are concealed by its seemingly pleasant
surface. Perhaps out OF the experience will
come if due time new sympathy for "the
male OF the species" who has for so long
borne the burdens of active political life, for
self experience is the touchstone of real sym
pathy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
The Old Fashioned Girl.
From the Milwaukee Journal.


No she doesn't dress all out OF style, Dut
her mother tells us it never worries her when
the style changes and she has clothes TOO goo91
to throw away. It's in other ways she's OLD
fashioned-terriby so. ;,
She really says please" and Thank you
instead of the snapper equivalents that sho"
one is up to date. Her tongue runs on mer-
rilv enough, but she stops oddly when 1ather
or mother speaks, as though they might say
something she cared to hear:
When she is asked to go somewhere she
doesn't answer with a line OF teasing put
saws Eyes" as though she were glad. some
times she even says "No," instead OF making
I'D her mind to tell all the other girls after
ward how she took pity on the man who ask
ed her. .
The Young swain arriving early is likely TO
find her washing dishes and be invited to heip'
And when she is starting she doesn't wig Wa.g
to mother, Don't wait up Tor me- "a! Ia!
Her mother already knows all about the en-
gagement, but this old fashioned girl comes
and kisses her goodby and tells ner just when
she'll surely be home-and she IS ,.
An when she's had good time she lsll
afraid to say Thank you" even II 1t means
little trouble The hostess she VIII not see
very soon again receives delightful httle
note And the escort who has tried to make
her evening pleasant gets the same usury,
These are few of the things that make
her old fashioned but you can see she Is Che
would think she wouldn't get much attention
from UP to date youths, but did you ever see
anyone refuse genuine honey because II was
old fashioned?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
RAILROAD RATES.

While in Georgia spending the holidays with
the homefolk Senator w. J. Harris wrote
letter to the chairman of the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission requesting the attention OF
that body to the very high freight and pas
sepqer rates the railroads are charging the
public by reason OF the good graces OF the
federal government The senator states the
matter clearly and suscinctly when he says:
The present high passenger and frelght
rates are doing more to decrease the amount
Of income received by the railroads than II
a lower rate was in effect, which would
cause more freight to move and more peo-
ole TO travel In other words, the railroads
are not carrying an average maximum OF
freight and passengers since the increase IN
rates. The thing which / am greatly inter-
ested in is the matter of freight and passen-
ger rates being placed within reach OF the
average person, and at the same time give
the railroads a reasonable income Tor their
investment. Both the public and the roads
deserve an honest living, but Tear that both
are suffering.
The freight and passenger rates the public
is now forced to pay are outrageously I'M
reasonable and unjust, and if Senator Harris
succeeds in having them reduced he will have
rendered the people great service, and placed
them under lasting obligations to him. More
power to him!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
YOUTH AND CRIME.

The two eghteen-year -old boys from Min
neapolis who recently entered an Atlanta bus
mess house and at the point of pistols robbed
the store of all available cash have been tried
for their crime in Fulton superior court and
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary
They are not the only instances of youthful
desperadoes in Georgia. A number OF young
bandits, convicted of crimes perpetrated in
the cities-mostly in Atlanta-are serving
sentences in the state penitentiary. 1t one
studies the history of current crime he will
discover that the majority of criminals are
boys and young men.
1t is useless to speculate on what has
driven these youths to criminal careers. In
most instances it is the desire to live without
work. BOYS want clothes that can be bought
only with the results OF constant labor or
with the results of crime. Crime being the
quicker and easier method it is the road ia
ken. No one ever reads of a boy bandit or
robber or purse snatcher clothed in hne appa-
rel or demanding money with which to pur-
chase food They are criminals because ca
reer of crime offers larger rewards, they be-
lieve than a career of industry.
Sometimes there is a girl, foolish, frivolous
and silly, involved indirectly in "the crime
career of the boy. Craving the things that
industry alone can secure she leads her boy
admirer on to purchase jewelry and turs and
to incur extravagances which he cannot al
ford, and which she knows he cannot afford,
until in desperation he is driven to crime as
the only means of appeasing her selhShness'
The deluded moth does not know that the
woman-girl or adult-who gives her taVors
for such things would sell them to more
successful rival if she could. Instead, ne
plunges into a career of crime, lands III prs
on. hears from the girl while waiting Tor
trial. and shortly after his Incarceration Tor
a long term gets letter from his mother or
sister telling him the girl for whom he took
the chance and lost had married reprobate
and left for another city. Such is woman
fckleness towards the man who commits
crime for her benefit.
Wherein lies the remedy? Or is there any
remedy? Probably education of the boys not
vet entered upon criminal careers IS the rem
edy. The swiftness and certainty as well as
the severity Of the punishment imposed on
those found guilty might serve as texts to
warn others. But where the young bandits
escape. as they sometimes do, their success
ENCOURAGES others to initiate them. 1t en-
ho1dens the criminals themselves to repeat the
crime and in time they develop INTO high-
wavmen with their characters set from GRIM
inal careers When boys can defeat the whole
forces of the law and escape after bold crime
thew are well started on the road to bank
BURGLARY murder and their kindred crimes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
Borah's $40 Inaugural
Outdone By Harding
President Elect Would Like to Be
Sworn in and Get Right to Work.


Sworn in and Get Right to Work.
MARION, Ohio.-Senator William
E. Borah's idea for $40 Inauguration
appropriation is extravagant when
compared with President-elect Hard
ing's own idea of how this ceremony
should be conducted. Probably Meth
er of them will realize their hopes in
this decision, but Senator Harding
thought of it first.
You know how I'd like to have
this inauguration" asked the presi-
dent-elect one day as the steamship
Pastores steamed toward the United
States from the tropics "I'd like to go
down to the capitol, be sworn in and
then open up the books and get down
to business. | wonder if the people
would stand for it?
my idea would be to wait until it
was time to go out of office, and then
if the enterprise had been successful,
have a whale of a jamboree."
Senator Harding submitted his pro-
posal for a simple Inauguration to a
group of senate colleagues, and they
laughed him out of the notion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
BIG BENEFACTIONS
BY ROCKEFELLER
His Gifts to Charities and Public Wei
fare S474,oo0,O0o. Awards Reach
Unprecedented Figures.


Public benefactions in America dur
ing the wear 1920 reached an unprece-
denied mark. John D. Rockefeller $
gifts, through his boards. topped the
lists with announced contributions. to
charities and works of public welfare
of S474000,000. Some OF the year S
most notable benefactions follow,
To the London University. College
HOSPITAL and Medical school from the
Rockefeller foundation, $o,00O,0OO;: 10
the Laura Spelman memorial from
Tohn D. Rockefeller, $1,0O0,OOO. TO the
University of Rochester from George
Eastman and the general education
board to found school OF medicine,
surgery and dentistry, $9,OOO,0O0. From
the general education board and the
Rockefeller foundation for medical
school and general education, SZ0,zol,-
600 =,
Carnegie benefactions include $5,.
600 900 to the National Academy OF
Sciences and the National Research
Council, 100000 to the New York
Bar Association for its library, $50
900 to colleges for teachers pensions
Among the many miscellaneous gifts
for public welfare, education, etc, were
100000 to Princeton University and
S11,000,000 to the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
Where the Income Tax Hits.
From the New York Globe.

One of the incidental advantages Of the
personal income tax is the light it throws upon
the distribution of wealth. The most spec
tacular instances of this are in the upper reg
listers of the surtax, but the most ST. slgn ign IN
cant statistics are those of the $1,000, $1,000
and $4,000 incomes. Out of the total number
of returns for 1918, as shown in the report OF
the commissioner of internal revenue, 3,0l3,-
$40 were for incomes of $4,000 or less and l.
,2o8 for incomes of more than $4,000: Ac-
cording to the customary estimates the latter
figure represents about 100000 people; the
former about 100000, who were dependent
upon the recipients of these incomes More
than "a per cent of our population seems to to
be living on an annual family income OF $4,000
or less The money incomes of the agrlcul-
tural population which is about third OF the
whole, do not represent actual standards OF
living, so that about 90 per cent are lett whose
actual standards can be measured by the pur-
chasing power of $4,000 or less.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
SUCH IS LIFE.
In northern Mongolia the doweries OF mar
riageabe girls are paid in dogs.

In northern Mongolia the doWerles OF mar
riageable girls are paid in dogs.
"Step inside!" urges an advertisement post
ed in front of a large Japanese store III loklo:
"You will be welcomed as fondly as ray OF
sunshine after a rainy day. Each one OF our
assistants is as amiable as father seeking
husband for dowerless daughter
Another Jap store has this sign: Goods are
dispatched to customers houses with the
raniditv of a shot from lannon's mouth"
A Tokyo grocer delights the Jap eye with
this card: Our superfne vinegar is more
acid than the tongue of the most hendlsh
mother-in-law."
An authority on the subject finds that in
America only one rich mans son III II DIES
rich. But, on the other hand, it is probable
that if the one poor mans son IN l/0O dies
rich he's doing quite well.
A Persian bride invariably appears at the
wedding with Redeemed features and swollen
eyes, for she is expected to cry tor week be-
for the ceremony. Elsewhere the crying does
not commence until after the ceremony, when
she first comes to learn what poor fish 1t
was that she landed
A burglar who broke into Connellsville, Pa,
shoe shop and stole II shoes found later that
they were all for the same foot
While digging deep into book OF forgot
ten lore Squire Abner Harrington discovered
that you could guard yourself against the
evil eye" by sweeping your tace with
bough of a pine tree.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11

We believe in spending money, but in the
right way. We believe in good roads, in good
schools and the development of our resources
These are properly vital concerns of the gov
eminent, but it is time to quit spending mon
ey, in both nation and state, on clerks hold
ing useless political jobs, commissions, boards
and other unnecessary things which are not
worth the money and which can be dispensed
with without detriment to the public service.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11

Two gentlemen elected to officially con-
strue the laws of Georgia and give legal adj
vice to state departments disagree as to what
is the law Hon. George M. Napier contends
that under the law his term of office as attor-
ney began Jan. 1st, and the incumbent, Hon.
Robert A. Denny, insists that under the law
his termwill not expire until next June, and
has refused to vacate. AS result the courts
will settle the matter. Funny, isn't it?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
BUSINESS ITEM FROM THE WEST
FLORIDA COAST.

From the Florida Fisherman.
Cap'n Bill Hamln of the schooner Phan-
tom. who travels up and down the West Coast,
visited Lemon Bay one day last week. Asked
how things were going UP Sarasota way he
replied: oh bout the same as down here
ali the fishermen say they are going to stop
fishing and go trucking and all the truckers
declare they're going to quit truck growing
and 60 a-ishing."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-11
BLUE SKY IN WALL STREET.

From the Lincoln Journal.
Not all the suckers live west of the Mssis-
sippi Stutz motor stock, which sold up to
500 share during the corner of last spring,
is in the neighborhood of $500 now. When all
the facts are in it will probably be found that
no class or section failed much more than any
other to go up in the balloon.