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PAGE TWO DAILY CALL, LEU), 800TH DAKOTA. SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1H. The Lead Daily Call Published every evening except Sunday By J. A. Stanley.

wherever they think It should be altered. The riot of amendment that Is sure to follow when once a change in language has been agreed to will so transform the covenant that It will bear no resemblance to the original draft. After American independence of action and the guaran GROCERY DEPARTMENT THURSDAY AND SATURDAY, MAY 29 AND 3 1 hntered at the Post Office at Lead, S. as second class matter. tees of our constitution have been Best Made Flour 481b tack Subscription Price Daily By Mall 50 cents a month; $2.75 for six months; $5 a year.

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2081. properly safeguarded It probably will then be in such shape as to be unacceptable to the other nations, parties to the covenant. Without the surrenders of sovereignty that they 2.75 2.75 $1.00 25c 35c 25c 22c Charter Oak Flour Helmet Coffee, 40c Grade, 3 pounds Quaker Rolled Oats, large size 20 oz. Olives One pound can Salmon Boiling Beef, pound hoped to exact from America, the league will have little value to Europe, and the result will be that the covenant will be discarded as unworthy of further effort. MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.

All rights of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. Buys a 7-room dwelling in Bender Park. Also one on Sunnyside. Good barn and chicken houses. Liberty Bonds accepted as first payment Curran Curran 1 1 GERMAN RESPONSIBILITY 'P-yCENUIHE Premier Clemenceau, with charac (Mi BUTTER-NUT v-a a.

BREAD Rtci Nul' Mrs. Carrol D. Dotson, formerly of Sioux Falls, has been selected as hostess in the Hall of States, New York, for South Dakota. This gives the returning South Dakota soldiers a place where they may feel welcome and are given entertainment during their stay in New York. HEARST MERCANTILE GO.

The' Price is The Thing Phone 2188. Democratic leaders complain that the chief opponents of the league of nations are lawyers. Well, what of it? Wasn't It a lawyer who, in the consideration of the first declaration of Independence, said "Give me Liberty or Give me Death." If we immortalize the lawyer who uttered that sentiment, why condemn the lawyer who would perpetuate national liberty now? oughfare to real prosperity." The president informs his countrymen that agencies of international counsel and suggestions are presently to be created in connection with the league of nations, and he urges the committees on labor of the two houses of congress to interpret into laws the new spirit of the world which he has discovered ln the 'great He does not tell congress what to do along these lines; and in this position he has undoubtedly chosen the pathway of safety, since congress Just now Is per teristic directness, has shattered the argument by which Germany has lately been trying to dodge responsibility for the war. The German representatives, both In their official statements and in their propaganda utterances, have tried to obscure the facts by ingenious perversions of the "Fourteen Points" on which, as a fundamental set of principles, the armistice of last November was based. They have argued that Germany intended, and was permitted, by those principles, as set forth and explained by the United States government, to lay down her arms honorably and set about asking peace as an equal, not a conquered, nation.

They have arguea particularly that in the armistice negotiations Germany did not acknowledge responsibility for the war that whatever blaem existed on Germany's part was that of old, Imperial government, that the German people were not culpable then and cannot be held culpable now. The German people, as represented by the present government, they maintain, "would never have un dertaken a war of aggression." To all this evasive flubdub Clemenceau replies: "In the note from Secretary of State Lansing of Nov. 5, 1918, which you approve of and quote in favor of your contention, it is stated that the obligation to make reparation present from Sturgls. Mrs. Mary Borsch, aged 72 years died at her home Just west of town on Wednesday morning after a four months illness of the flu.

She was one of the pioneers and very highly honored and respected woman. Funeral services will be held from the Presbyterian churcn at two o'clock Saturday afternoon. Mr. G. A.

Lancaster, one of the prominent and old business men of the city, has Just let a contract to builder John SJolander to erect at once a beautiful modern bungalow on Junction Ave. It will cost In ELECTRICITY FOR ALL PURPOSES Even the democrats are getting uneasy about the president's long absence from home duties. The democratic club of Masachusetts met at Boston the other day and sent the following cablegram to Mr. Wilson: "The citizens of the United States want you home to help reduce the high cost of living, which we consider far more important than the League of Nations." fectly willing to accept constructive suggestions along general lines, but the neighborhood eight to ten thou-is Jealous of any encroachment upon dollars. Ground has already DON'T WASTE IT.

been broken for it and it will be a Consolidated Power and Light Co. FINANCIAL PATERNALISM The original purpose of the War Savings Stamps plan was to help finance the war by providing a steady in-flow of money to supplement the Victory Loans With th war over. its constitutional powers. The new congress is certain, In fact, that the people of the country have placed it in power to declare and exercise Its independence of the executiv. It has ben clear to all right-thinking people that most of the legislation for the country has come from the White House for the past six years.

A good many people believe that this policy has been productive of wise results. But whether this viewpoint is correct, or wrong, It was decreed from the moment the country went republican last fall, that 1910 would be a year in which there would be emphasized at the capitol the fundamental rights thm.Th nt vfit bv anv meanse all.ari8ea out of 'Germany's aggression valued addition to the already many beautiful homes of this city. Dr. E. W.

Swafford has Just had finished a beautiful large porch on his commodious' residence. It adds much value to the residence and helps to beautify it. Wm. D. Hall is also beginning a new large porch on his home js well as making many other improvements to his residence.

It is expected that at least a dozen houses will be erected here this summer. The prospects for Sturgls were never brighter! Both the banking Institutions of tlie city as well as the general business houses have all increased in volume of their business. From all reports Meade county will yield a bumper crop this year. It is beginning to show the need of 1 paid for, that purpose has become of land' air aud sea Aa the Germ-secondary importance. government did not at that time less the government is continuing to make Irote8t aKalnst thi alea-sell stamps jtion, it thereby recognized it as well "If the 'sole end of the savings funded.

Therefore Germany recog-oampaign were to' finance the ln 1918 implicitly but clearly, rnment," explains the director of i botn the aggression and hnr own re-the federal treasury savings division, i sponsibility." "it is unquestionably an expensive I And tnat ,3 a11 there is t0 U' Bnno nH ih vfirnmRTH unHm.hf- I Whether Germany technically admit- of the legislative branch to do as it pleased, even to the extent of thumb- Hiv mM nhtain nf fhn flm I ted her guilt or not is possibly unim- Ask your Grocer for Meadow Qold gutter Churned Fresh Every Day Made by Beatrice Creamery co nosing its disapproval of the executive branch of the government. Amnt.nt of mnnfiv with iA. Mnenaa. I Portant from the standpoint of plain rain, hut atill tho crnna npver IaaVaH from banks or private Investment truth and Justice her own admis companies." S10n or reIllsal t0 admit canno Why. then, does the government chanBe tne facts ftnd th" moral re The condition must be accepted bo- beUer Umn nQW Mofe land thaQ cause that's the way things are lined pver beeQ broken.

the garageg up. But Just as sure as there will gold many traetorg a oyer tne be Christmas in December and Inde- i county and unlesg a long dry spelI pendence Day in July there will be hits tfle country the ouUook for ln. fireworks on Capitol Hill at mostly rpflsrt nrnsnfiritv anH hi go to the extra trouble and expense sponsibility to pay in full for the of raisintr nionev hv so elahnratA a wrong done. But inasmucn as Uer- method? For the sake of encour-! manv has raised the point, it is well aging the continuance of the habit of 1' na it settled in this conclusive every performance between now and never so good es at this time. The thrift fnrmfirt hv tho HnHnir fashion.

And It Is well especially uv that the clinching nature of Clemen ceau's reply should be recognzed bi Americans, at whom Germany Is njw the war. People with small incomes are thus given the best opportunity they ever had to get ahead financially. Uncle Sam offers them a form of Investment that is safer than anything else ume, late next xaii. men nere are daily answering No matter what happens among scores of inquiries from eastern part-the politicians the public can make leg and the reputation of the stock, no mistake in arriving at their own dairy and grain products of this awakening," and in inform-1 tion is bringing here numerous parting themselves as to what takes ies anxious to close deals and get es-place along lines that lead toward tabllshed in this promising and fruit-constructive results that will bring ful land for gong forward in ranch- directing her last great propagtnda campaign, in the hope that they will help her out of the mess she has got in the world, which pays a liberal i nerself lnt0 YOUR GROCERS Who have for so many years en-deavorod to please every patron, are now as always carrying The Best the Market affords in Groceries, Fresh Vegetables, Fruit, aud all articles wanted for the table. All orders by phone or otherwise receive prompt attention and quick delivery.

May (8L Grocers. 7 Main St. Phone rate of interest, and which can be entered into without any formality, ing and general agricultural lines. capital and labor, and employers and employees closer together, giving to as easily as one buys a postage each and all their share in the com I FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAJi I By JT. IS.

Jones ORDINANCE NO. 333 Be It Ordained by the Board of stamp. forts and benefits of life. Most peaople still feel, as they Bad Roads and Blind Alleys Congress is off again, faced by a buy their Thrift Stamps or Savings atamps, that they are doing their patriotic duty and "helping Uncle Sam" They are, to be sure, to some extent. STUKGIS STORIES legislative period of momentous im port.

At the very outset the politt cal pot is boiling over. The repub But they might as well recognize On last Sunday the annual Mem licans are already attempting to orial services for the G. A. R. Vet prove that practically all the money erans, the Spanish American veter 'that they are helping thmselves a great deal more that the government is doing more for them than they are for the government.

in the treasury has been spent by ex Commissioners of the City of Lead: That Section 38 of Chapter 4 of Ordinance No. 94 as amended by Ordinance No. 270 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 38. At the first meeting 'of the Board of Commissioners held after the first Monday in May of each year there shall be appointed a Health Officer, who shall be a physician in good standing and in active practice in the City of Lead who shall hold his office for one year and until his successor is appointed and qualified.

In case of illness or inability of the Health Officer to act, or if he shall desire to be absent from the City, he may appoint a physician possessing the qualifications descrbed in travagant democratic officials, and ans and the Meade county boys of the late world war at the Presbyterian church, it was one of the largest the democrats retort by charging the republican leaders of playing poli assemblages of Us character ever tics with the peace treaty and the held in this city. league of nations. It's all half Following the exercises the ladles truth stuff! of the church served one hundred The "president in his overseas mes sage to congress pulls a flowery 55 WOULD AMEND A poll of the senate indicates that fifty five senators favor amendments to the covenant of the league of nations, regardless of whether the document goes back to the peace conference or not. That number being six more than a majority, it is evident that they will succeed in making changes in the language Ther eis probably not a single senat and seventy five guests to a chicken dinner, soldiers and their wives were the honor guests. This took place Wilsonian phrase in which he says the foregoing paragraph of this see- that "the question which stands at in the church club rooms.

Several I tion as Health Officer pro tempore, the front of all others in every coun addresses of welcome were given and which aPPintment shall he in writ- inff anH filori with thn fMtw AiiHfti ing and filed with the City Auditor. try amidst the present great awaken it was a complete success In every ing is the question of labor." In way. arguing the point he observes: "We It begins to look as if another WE are glad to announce t0 the trade that we received notice from the Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. of a reduction in prices amounting to 15 on all Pneumatic Casings and Tubes. Effective at once.

Black Hills Overland Co. bridge were soon to be erected over the Belle Fourche river in Meade county. On Monday flften hundred people gathered down near Elm cannot live our right life as a nation or achieve' our proper success as ah industrial community if capital and labor are to continue to be an-tagnostlc instead of being partners; if they are to continue to distrust one another and contrive how they can get the better of one another." Mr. Wilson has given clear utter Springs, at the Huddlestons cross ing, in the big grove near the river for picnic and to voice their petition or, either democrat or republican, "who thinks the covenant is perfect in every detail. Those who oppose any amendment of the document do so largely because they wish to avoid sending the treaty back to Paris, with another period of prolonged delay and the containuation of the war status which that action would in-, volve.

When the covenant Is taken up for consideration those senators doubtless will oppose any amendment until one is successful in adoption. Their purpose ln holding the treaty Such Health Officer pro tempore, having first taken the proper oath and said oath being properly filed, may during the absence of the Health Officer or his illness or inability to act, perform all of the duties of the Health Officer. His compensation, however, shall be paid by the Health Officer. The Health Officer shall be responsible on his bond for all the acts of such Health Officer pro tempore. The salary of the Health Officer shall be Four Hundred Eighty ($480.00) Dollars per annum.

First reading May 22, 1919. Second reading and passed and approved May 29, 1919. WIGHT CASNER, (Seal) Mayor. Attest: RUTH FITZGERALD, City Auditor. for such a bridge.

Governor Peter Norbeck, State Chairman of the Highway Commission Andrew Mar- ance to the spirit that Is prevailing in industry, where the old methods of coercon by and bluffing and bluster by labor agitators, are considered out of date. "That vick. State Engineer Frank Peck and Rev. C. D.

Ersklne of Sturgls were the speakers. The Rapid City military band furnished the music. The M-ade county commissioners at- intact then have Deen lost and they will be free to Join with their, bad road has turned out a blind al- -colleagues In changing the covenant ley," he says, since "It is no thor- tended In a body and forty were.