Argus-Leader from Sioux Falls, South Dakota • Page 4

Friday, December T7t leij. T'OITR THE ''DAILY' ARGUS-LEADElt, FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA." population of two thousand, and only THAT TERRIBLE ITCHING. SIIGM ME PROGRESSIVE USURPATION. HuTi)jre' tftcrlliig jas not associated with the progressive movement In this state until the last primaries, when he warta. to becume The Daily Argus-leader "Sonth Dakota' Greatest Bewtptpw." CEAKI.ES m.

oat, EDITOR. Fnbliihed by THE ARGHS-LIADIB CO. THE DICKENSON RECALL. It if announced that the required 15 per cent of the voters of Sioux Falls have feigned the proposed recall of Commissioner Dickinson, that the. papers will be filed soon after the beginning nf the new year, and that another special elec tion will be called in Sioux Falls.

This is a plain, fiat imposition on the taxpayers of Snnix Falls. Those who lack of tills recall must know that they not stand the ghost of a show t' di if. Ccmtnissiiiiicr Dickenson. No doiii hundreds of men who did nt fur the commissioner in the first place will vote fur him in the coming the devlish germs of catarrh mine your health and dest oestroy y0Uf Quit sprays and douches not penetrate into the nooks fo, can-crevices of the irreeularV. "1Js nd brane eNither catf" and where germs thrive nrt If you believe air tubes, try swallow ii.8c'h the "wrong way." SiTh demonstrate to wiil theory that sprays and douch Wl cure catarrh.

"ouches ca Hyomei Is a pleasant which, when breath VenetrMPtir si' the foulds and crevic ItVh int' germ-infected membrane and iaf deep into the air" cells oDk soe killing all germs. of the A HYOMEI outfit costs 11 an bottle of HYOMEI. if needed For-catarrh, coughs. eniH. c- Booth's Dunning Drug.Co.

Buaranteed. f. czar would be interested in the fair, of President RooseveU't'dau repliedMr. Taft with broad smile on his face, "becausl was a present from Nicholas ti of all the Russias. to his wife A The Popular Magazine Allce BUY HAIR IN CHINA.

In a fiction story about China in th. January American Magazine, appear, the following: "There is certain to be an enurmoui market for western clothing in chin, after the revolution, both good ma terials and the cheaper grades of readv made suits. These poor devils a fe hundred millions of them, are' detr mined to catch up five thousand yeari at a clip and some folks are going to make a lot. of money exploiting them It might as well be you, among others' Besides the Chinese really want thi clothes. "Also, now Is a grand time to pick ud human hair for a song.

Pigtails are falling by the million. And there is nothing your Chinaman won't sell You can even buy the right to disturb an ancestral grave for ten dollars Mex If you have any friends In the hali business, tell them about it." DON'TsT" Don't sprinkle salt on the tail ol temptation. Don't try to get the better of a man who hasn't any. Don't snore In church. It's mean te keep others awake.

Don't be satisfied to pay as you go. Save enough to get back. i Don't get married with the sole idea that misery loves company. Don't follow the beaten track unlesi you are satisfied to remain beaten. Don't accept advice from a man wh never offers you anything else.

Don't expect Opportunity to come you with a letter of introduction. Don't trust to luck. Nine-tenths ol the people in the world guess wrong Don't buy your friends. They nevei last as long as those you make yourself. Don't envy the rise of others.

Manj a man who gets to the top is men froth. Don't greet Misfortune with a smilt unless you are prepared for a one-sidej flirtation. Don't make a good resolution tinles; you constantly carry a repair kit witl you. Don't place too much confidence Ii appearances. Many a man with a ret nose is white all the way Don't forget in times of peace to pre pare for war.

That's about the only us some of us seem to have for peace. Don't fail to have an object in view Many a man leads such an aimless ex Istence that he could fire at randot without hitting it January I.lppln cott's. v. tot all conditions where pAfuapromlni-ml urau-acnea, ntnraifia. acute or cornmr I rneumftimn, sout.

Derrouanesa, kuomaia, pitiiifl peculiar to women, etc ANTI-KAMNIA TABLETS Mm a JHwal.ui. ar AcMrron) Tit thatnt At All Drwcclets Oc a 3S United titatcs In the campaign of 190S and 1910 he was out speaking for the old reaction ary machine. Mr. Sterling never madeTa speech or contributed a cent to tne progressive cause till he saw a chance to get the office of Vnlted States senator through the popularity of the progressive movement. Mr.

Richards who was the political instigator of the progressive move ment In South Iakota, and who brought out Mt. Crawford for gover nor and started the 'first primary law petition nearly- years agoj was cheated out -of the 'popular prestige of the progressive factiotiarlabel Jn-the last primaries "by -Mr. Sterling and his managers. Sutherland, Clark -and Basford "advertised Mr. Sterling as the progressive republican candidate by their machine decree Not representative, expression had been by the members of the progressive faction choosing Mr.

Sterling its candidate. It was pure presumption and usurpa tion on Mr. Sterling's part and that of his managers to advertise him as the progressive republican candidate. It is fair to assume that Mr. Sterling obtained towards 15.000 votes by this trick.

Mr. Richards wasr -unquestionably entitled to the progressive republican factional label if anybody in the state was. '3 The progressive label was stolen from Mr. Richards in the primaries and appropriated by Mr, Sterling. Sterling managers Insidiously and persistently circulated the argument ail over the state that no progressive should support Mr.

Richards, because it would split the progressive vote and return Senator Also that Mr. Richards was a Lor mer politician. By this sort of subtle argument and assumption, Mr. Sterling surreptitious- secured thousands of progressive votes which would have otherwise gone to Mr. Richards.

A plurality party nomination, by a few hundred votes, secured through cruel misrepresentation of opposing candidates in the primaries is a doubtful credentil. Especially, so, because Mr. Sterling changed to three differ ent presidential candidates during the primaries: Taft La Follette and Rtfosevelt, respectively," and played two parties at the general election. He supposed the bull moose national ticket and the state republican ticket. Mr.

Sterling's whole career as a can didate has been anything for office. Advice to Those Who Have Lung Trouble Tuberculosis Is said to be curable bv simply ltvinir in the onen air and taking an abundance of fresh eggs and milk. no an you possibly can to add to strength and Increase weight: eat whole some, nourishing fopd, and breathe the cleanest and purest air, and then, if health and strength do not return, add tne tonic ana Denenciai streets or Kck-tnan's Alterative. Head what it did in this case: 405 E. 5th Wilmington, Del 'Gentlemen: In January.

1908. 1 was taken with hemorrhatrcs of the limes My physician, one of the leading practitioners, said that it was lung trouble. I took eggs and milks In quantities, but I got very weak. The doctors said I would not gain in weight as long as I stayed in the store; but I kept on working and prayed each day that 1 might get well. 1 believe my pravers were answered, for Mr.

C. A. Lippincott, my employer (Lippincott Department Store, 306 to 314 Market street. Wilmington, Del.) has learned of a remedy called Eckman's Alterative that naa aone great gooa, ana upon Jus recommendation I began taking it at once. This was about June, 1908.

I continued faithfully, usina- no other rem edy, and finally noticed the clearing of the lungs. I firmly believe Eckman's Alterative-saved my life. I sent ray spittle later to the State Board of Health to be examined for tuberculosis bacilli, and none were found. Mv mother died from Consumption when I was about two years old. i make tnis statement so that others may learn of the wonderful merits of Eckman's Alterative.

I regard my recovery as being miraculous." tsworn amaavit- JAS. SQUIRES. Eckman's Alterative is effective in Bronchitis. Asthma. Hay fever.

Throat and Lung Troubles and in upbuilding the system. Does not contain poisons, opiates or habit-forming drugs. For sale by A. H. Stites and T.

Dunning Drug Cos- and other leading druggists. Ask for booklet telling of recoveries. and write to Eckman Laboratory. Phila delphia, tor additional That's the Proper Waj to Pro- nounce- Booth's HYOME the Famous Catarrli Remedy Made from Australian Eucalyptus and Other Antiseptics-Jast Breathe it i It Banishes I vCatarrti i When you can go to any drug store in any civilized, community on earth and secure for a remedy that will quickly rid you of hawking, spitting and snuffing, why do you allow He has been -guilty of inconsistencies, vacillation and weakness. I It is understod that Mr.

Richards Will not accept a senatorial election now, even if the legislature should offer it to him. Perhaps he feels that he dqes not wish to place himself on a level with those who stole the progressive label for Sterling. HIGHLAND DIXIE. The mountaineers of the south are marked- apart from all ther folks by dialect, by customs, by character, by self-conscious 1 isolation. So true is this that they call all outsiders It.

matters not whether your descent be from Puritan or Cavalier, whether you come from Boston or Chicago, Savannah or New Orleans, in the mountains you are a A traveler, puzzled and scandalized at this, asked a native of the Cumber-lands what he would call a "Dutchman or- a Dago," The fellow studied a bit and then replied "Them's the outlandish." Foreigners, outlander. it is all onef we are we are to the mountaineer. He knows he is an American, but his conception of the metes and bounds of America 13 vague to the vanishing point. As for countries oversea well, when a celebrated Nebraskan. returned from his trip around the globe, one of my backwoods neighbors proudly informed me: "I see they give Bryan a lot, of receptions when he kem back from the other world." Horace Kephart in the De cember Outing.

THE AMENDE HONORABLE. New York Herald During the months of July and August the Herald in its news and editorial columns made serious reflections upon the Associated Press, upon Mr. MelvUIe E. Stone, its general manager, and upon its news service in connection with the trial of a number of Coreans at Seoul. These criticisms, it now proves, were based upon misconception and misinformation, and the Herald Is convinced that grave injustice was done the Associated Press, its news service, Mr.

Stone and the correspondent of the Associated Press, in Japan. It therefore takes this "earliest opportunity which has presented itself of saying that it regrets the injustice into which it was led. The Herald convinced that the Associated Press reports were truthful and adequate, and gladly makes this amende honorable. "FROM NICK TO ALICE." When President Taft headed the dis tinguished party which made its trip around the world and added to its fame by having as two of its members Representative Nicholas Longsworth and Miss Alice Roosevelt, the courtship between Nick and Alice had reached its romantic height when the tourists arrived at St. Petersburg.

Mr. Taft was received -by the czar, and he came back with something. The more he smiled, the more the members of the party plied him with questions. he said, "it's a wonder how news flies and how the evidence of love affairs travel. What do yon think I saw Inscribed in a book in the drawing-room of the czar?" "What?" he was asked.

"'From Nick to Alice'," he replied. "Why, how on earth did they know and how did the book get there?" chorused his hearers, knowing tliat the WE ALL FEEL POOR Can Be Cured Quickly by New Inex- pensive Treatment. Don't suffer rn3 Jlonger with skin troubles, but Kt'ledJv and purchase 'jar of Hokara.itlMS an tiseptic skin tJ)d, slid see for yourself how quickly it relieves and cures all skin diseases or irritations. Hokara not only cures pimples, blackheads, acneetc but the worst cases of eczema, salt rticumn. ulcers, are quickly cleansed and healed by this wonderful treatment.

T. Dunning Drug local agents, are selling a liberal jar for 25c and they Truarantee to refund the money of Ho kara does no do what is claimed for -ft: Larger sises 60c and $1.00. (Clselv this loose detlntion of the word 'progressive" that cowardly politicians ae hiding1 behintit today. The word "progressive" has become a noun in stead of a verb. As a name it designates the arch foe of the remihliean party and it la its intention fo destroy the republican party as soon as possi ble.

It Is perfectly apparent that it is the intention the, group of political opportunists who-at present control the government of the state of South Dakota to deliver the republican party, bound and gagged into the hands of the hew progressive party should the turn of events persuade them that by doing s6 it will be possible to retain their -rip on the offices of this state. 'When will they drop the black mask of this hypocricy? But let the progressive party but evince the slighest evidence of weaken ing and not a man of these politicians who now shout so loudly I am a pro pessive!" but w.lll instantly cleat; up the ambiguity that exists in his use of the word and shout still more loudly i a ma republican," so that there shall be no danger of his being misunderstood. "Let these gentlemen stand In the clear, let them say that they are republicans who stand for things pro gressive, or let them proudly say that they are progressive party men. This. Siting of saying one thing and another has reached its ena.

s-very. iionest man will declare himself, fte Jrgue alone continue to hidel-t hind the ambiguity that exists in tne usage of this word. The majority or the electorate of this state is truly, genuinely, republican, and not third Dartv. and the men who betray it will pass into permanent political retire ment. C.uy f.

squires. Humboldt, S.D. tl FIRST MAN, THEN CLERGYMAN. First a man and then a that is what Phillips Brooks was, though he loved his life as a preacher1 with a deep, abiding love. "I would not be anything but a parson for-4h world!" he exclaimed; and "The pul- Vit of Trinity? i the dearest Bpot of earth to me ii Jdther words, is home.

To know this -great man perfectly we Bhould seef him with children, go with him on his travels, read his open letters, hear him in the pulpit and talk with him alone. Even then we can hardly catch, ths spirit of fun that danced over the surface of his seriousness, as phosphorus sparkles in the sea. Children were Phillips Brooks" special delight. Welcome as he was in hundreds of homes, the grown folks took back places when ths children were around. Ha sometimes told the little ones who seemed shy that it was great fun to be a minister.

Once he played Goliah so that a tiny boy might shoot him with a sling. When, at the death of his parents, the old North Andover homa became his, he made it a rallying place for other people's A stove was put up In the old corn barn so that his nieces, Agnes, Gertie and "little could play at cooking, and he used to take tea with them there big, jolly and at home. From Adrladne Gilbert's "More Than Conquerors" in December Nicholas. Want a Pennant-Winning Manager. Philadelphia Record: Montenegrins are not satisfied with the small amount Of spoils their king has been able to get i or them.

ir J. P. la a Past Master in the Art, Brooklyn Picturesque," Romanesque, Morganesque is the art of being cross-examined without damage to grace or calm. Or Baseball Manager. Washington Post: Of course isnnft Is a fair salary, but it is too bad that Mr.

Taft early training didn fit him to be a football coach instead of a professor. i A WAIT AD lit THS DAILY ABOUS-LEADEH 1 is sums to bsiito QUICK RESULTS. The property you have for sale Is worth S50 to $1,000 MORE to the buyer who NEEDS and WANTS it than it is to the investor who buys it on specul-tlon. Adequate advertising will thus mean MUCH to you! Every day readers of this paper clip out and answer furnish ed room ads. lour ad will not be overlooked.

Many "business women" in this city live in hoarding houses. When they, decide to move, they answer a few likely looking boarding house ads. The workers of the city those capable of efficient service in office, store, factory or homa watch the "help wanted" ads with, never-diminishing interest If your lost article Isn't worth advertising for it isn't worth worrying about; Unless the xtpeal eta te you Xor sfe is "worth advertising" -IT'S NOT LOCATED IN OK NEAR THIS CITY! i If you hjiveA something "for rent" you have Something to ad- vertise. if An tnevnensive "for sale" rA will find a "cash buyer" lor that superseded furniture! Tell what that apartment is like and the description may bring you the kind of a tenant you'd like! If' you're earnest" about wanting a feb.ur ad will be read by emjtoyta who are very much in eaiaest Jsbout wanting workers'. The CLAS8IFI CATION of your "For Rent" ad will make it "stand out" even if it contains live or six lines of You'll find the worker best qualified to serve -you not by hiring some one to oblige it friend, but by personally deciding between the applicants who answer your "help, wanted" ad! A rood Tmtfy "Heal Estate For Sale" ad are printed some of thein repeated many tunes.

If thev failed to SHI. KKAL there would not be ANY of then printed! one physician for them Mr. Friedman is certainly' right whe he says that "this government ha; hardly scraped the. surface of th In riian hearth problem." It miht bo Ha that the government has not ct JLuuch ed the jiroblem at all. If Cfftgres waits much longer, all it will have to do will be to provide for the funeral expenses of the "good Indians" at wholesale rates.

In a few days on new- parcels post law will gIirjjvf fert. The country has into zones to protect the smaller deal er from too close competitioo-w 1th the mail order houses. The tubtif rfJk will result in a great saving, to.hj consumer. The new plan will be of great help to the distributing point in the various zones, and possibly a corresponding set-back for the smalt er places. A city like Sioux Falls I certain to get much benefit ffotn ie plan which will put Sioux Falls mer chants almost next door to thg, con sumers in an area of fifty miles 'In eV- ery direction from Sioux Falls.

All the Sioux Falls merchants fe port big business during the holiday season. Good roads, fine weather, bigr stocks and intelligent and persistent advertising make a combination that is hard to beat. Traders 'calti' Hk Sioux Falls by auto from a distance of forty miles and helped to swell the total of pre-Christmas sales. The ex perience of Sioux Falls merchants proved how keen is their interest in the good roads question for the better, the! roads 'leading into Sioux' Falls th greater'thfc trade which will 'flow, in 4 our merchants. Sioux Fallsfshouljf (o the most active boomer for goods roads In the state; but she Isn't 'i Invitations have been received In Sioux Falls for the 14th annual ban quet to be given by the Commercial club of the city of Aberdeen on the evening of January 3rd.

This, banquet has become one of the midwinter fea tures of commercial-life in the northern part of the state, and every man who has ever attended a banquet in Aberdeen knows what he is missing if he fails to accept this Invitation. h.e.yAr gus-Leader hopes the coming RanqueX will score the usual suecesjp. AlMMeefl, like Sioux Falls, is growing fist; jirid has many plans for the new year. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND PROHIBI- TION. I I Editor Argus-Leader: You have al ways maintained in your opposition to woman suffrage, that votes for women meant prohibition.

The attitude that women would assume toward measures. of this kind has kept man.men from becoming interested in the cause of equal suffrage. In the recent election in Colorado, where women have had the ballot for some time, the prohibition amendment was badly defeated, and the women evidently helped to do it. In California, where women have the rlht to vote a charter amendment providing for the creation of local option units in the residential districts of; San Fran- Cisco, was defeated by a vote of 4 to 1," at a special election last week. In a recent municipal efectton in "Los Angeles, where the percentage of women voters exceeds that of the men, a drastic saloon regulation ordinance was beaten by more than 3 to 1.

Since then the harbor district of Los Angeles voted "wet." In the campaign of a year ago, preceding the election at which woman suffrage was adopted, the liquor interests supplied the most formidable opposition to the proposed innovation; Of the thirty-seven charter amendments voted upon all those which, through increased salaries to city officials or employees, would have increased taxation were decisively defeated. This is In keeping with the arguments advanced in favor of women voting. As a matter of fact th women will vote more intelligently and will give the states and cities cleaner, purer and better results than the average voter does now. There is not a prohibition state In the union where women have the right of the ballot. So your strong objection to equal suffrage goes glimmering.

John Cogan. Sioux Falls, S. I). "SOME PARTY FACTS." Editor Argus-Leader: Permit me to express my approval of your editorial on "Some Party Facts." I could not help but feel that you had given a fate and dispassionate resume of the poilt'-ical history of the republican party, in South Dakota for the last sijc.monthsX During that time leading politicians of this state have hid behind the ambiguity that exists in our rcent of the word As tised at present it may mean a repubiican-whb is progressive in spirit and stands" for progression "within, for and by the republican party," for the -highest good of the state and nation. In this use of the word it is a verb.

If also de.ilgn.Ates a political party whose Interests a. a party are inimical to thei republican-party and whose hope for ultimate sue-' cess can only come through the eJttlnc tion of the republican party, la. UriC ius interests and existence as a party aw diametrically opposed to-the interests-and existence or the republican "party and it Is the avowed intentwui. of -4ts leaders to destroy the republican imrtv at the tarliest possible moment- "We, are through with the old. reoublWan party once and forever, said Theodore Roosevelt in his appeal for their' snf-.

frage to the New Orleans democracy; The tenth of this month has witnesnd' a gathering at Chicago where the sama pur oses and ideas were reaffirmed and expressed. I hope and trust that I may always oe a progressive within the first mentioned meaning of his-Worct -Bt progressive party man fertatnly am not. I am convinced that It is Just 'this vagueness in the use of this word that leading -politicians of this state1 have been hiding behind for the 'past six montns. xaiKing to repuwicans-they say they are "orogressiv republicans. meaning men who are dvvatinr'the' progressive movement within the re publican party, and talkin to proftaa4 sive party -men they have said nM they are "progressives." meaning'tiro-gressive oarty men.

When a man says that he is a "Catholic we accept instantly and without question th fact of his membership in the Roman "Catholic communion. Usage has given that church a right to the word, and it has become a noun instead of verb. In Its origin- the word means "good and liberal minded." It ispjre- lit the ArU- Mun i ii- I'. IPiMttes of- r. I 1 1 t.

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WHEN OUT Or TOWN. rilx ri- tcMvina the city Kinpo- have tin Areus-Lcadcr them. Address- wilt be i.jlfn as re'iuested. GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE. 'iluii ill i i it) one!" prayed Tiny Tim, and dwarfed of body, yet so i.til Mud.

Kf earth look uii him. High towering ovit all. He loved the iovebss win Id, nur dreitmcd. indeed Tliat it. at best.

giie to him, the while. Hut pitying glances, when his only need but a cheery smile. And tiwis he prayed. "Ood Mess us every one!" Knfokling all the deeds within the Of his child-heart; and so, despising none, Was nearer saint than man. I like to fancy iod in Paradise, Lifting a lliiKPr o'er the rhythmic KW ing 'f chiming harp and song, with eager eye Turned earthward, lislening-- The anthem stilled the angels leaning there Above the golden walls the morning sun if Christmas bursting flower-like with the prayer, "'Hod tis every one!" Turkey shows up a great deal stronger in a pence conference than fhc does on the hattlefield.

Milk is only flvevcents a quart at Yankton and there Is no more feed around about Yankton than there Is In this vincity where milk brings 50 per cent more. A parachute for aviators has been Invented and was on exhibit at Paris the other day. The death roll of Mrdmen for 1912 shows that there Is a distinct demand for the parachute. It Is said that at the recent conference between Wilson and Bryan the name of the latter was not mentioned in connection with a place In the cabinet. Perhaps Governor Wilson intends this for a surprise on the distinguished Xebraskan.

Perhaps a relief expedition should be organized in the balmy west for the blizzard swept sections of the east. While New York was wrestling with a blizzard, shirt-sleeved men were working undisturbed on buildings In Sioux Falls. The yellow tag on express packages made good during the Christmas season and it will hereafter he a regular part of the equipment of the express rompanies. It puts an end to the, system of collecting express charges at both ends of the line. Two attempted assassinations of public men last week closed a nasty year in that respect.

The disturbing thjng about It is that there seems to be way to protect a public man front such assaults. It must be accepted as part of the penalty he pays for bis prominence. The man who does work In church or lodge is recognized and rewarded by official position for such services. Should not the same rule apply In political movements and should not effective work for the welfare of the state bring its reward? If so, is not Dean sterling trying to fill his lamp v. tth another man's oil? In s-pite of the reduction In the pi-Ice rf upper berths the Pullman company irned $40,000,000 last year.

At this paoc a little cut in the price of the loner berth might not be out of place. Hut perhaps the first thing the company should do Is to pay its porters a living sali-ry so that the burden of maintaining them would be takmi from the shoulders of the patrons. When he retires fiom the white liouse, President Taft Is to get a $5,000 a ear as a college professor. I "rank Chance, the baseball captain, is Just now entertaining an offer of II a year and a percentage of the chili's profits to manage the New York giants next year. The moral is plain; if you are after the kale, keep out of politics and education and get tu lit I bast-bal! field manager.

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Ask Your Doctor. fcH election, if the llfllicr Jirt filoit ea a protest a eainst the use of the recall when then is no popular demand for it. The tact that there is no such demand is shown in the first place by the. failure of the commissioners enemies to lime out into the open, in the net place by their failure to give to the public the reasons for the recall, in the third place by the difficulty experienced in securing the required number of signers, and in the fourth place by, their inability to Induce any well known man so far to declare himself a candidate against the commissioner. The Commercial club should appoint a committee at once to see some of those who have signed the recall petition and induce them if possible to withdraw their names.

No doubt many signed the petition without giving the matter much thought, and would not want to be put In the attitude of helping to force a needless election. Failing in this, the business men of the city should organize to give to the candidate against Commissioner lickenson such a walloping as no man has yet had in a city election In Sioux Falls. It is about time to register a protest that some people in the city will understand. If a 3 to 1 vote will not do it. as was recorded in the last election, it can as easily be made 5 to 1 and perhaps then the matter would be understood.

And next should come an increase in the percentage required to invoke both the recall and the initiative and refer endnm. The legislature should, this winter grant this relief. The percentage for the initiative and referendum is now only five. It should be raised to. 25 at least, and possibly 30.

The per-centage required for the recall is now la. It should be raised to 20. It is harder to secure signatures to a recall which affects an Individual than it is to a referendum or an initiative which deals only with an Impersonal question, and hence the percentage for the latter should be higher than for the recall, but the appearance of a recall petition against Commissioner Dickenson when there Is no public demand for it shows that the percentage for recalls is now too low. INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE. Superintendent M.

Friedman, of tha famous government Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is hot satlstlei with the way the Indian medical service Is conducted and hac Issued a statement as what Is needed to prevent it from being a farce that will lead to numberless tragedies. It seems that at present there Is but one physician entrusted with the medical care of a whole tribe. At least, if this is not the rule, it is nearly what Is found In the Indian medical service in most cases. Mr. Friedman says: "The government has hardly scraped the surface of the Indian health problem, and until every home on every reservation is reached there will continue to be unnecessary sickness, suffering, and death.

This is a national problem, as It not only affects the lives of three hundred thousand Indians, but of millions of white men, women, and children, who live on and around the reservations. The work must have the same amount of definite attention which every city in the country finds it neeessary to give to its population. "While these conditions will, in a large measure, improve as the Indians become educated, self-supporting, and acquire more civilization, there Is a present problem to be met, not alone In guarding the health of healthy Indians, but more particularly in taking care of the sick, and preventing the spread of the disease. This work calls Insistently to be done and, if we are to save the Indians must be done now." There are about 300,000 Indians now that are considered as the "wards" of the nation and treated accordingly. The Indian, by adopting the ways of the elvilized man, has become also the prey of the common ills that afflict the white brother.

They live in unsanitary surroundings, have no idea of the need of ventilation and other Indispensable factors in the maintenance of good health. The death rtte among the Idf dians is thirty-five per thousand, while it is but fifteen per thousand among the whites. The number of physicians is pitifully inadequate, and if the Indians are to be allowed to live a little longer before they all become "good the government will have to alter its policy. The trouble with this, as with other policies of the government is that tradition and precedents are too strictly adhered to. It was customary to have so many physicians for the Indians, and, therefore, that number is enough today.

On the Crow reservation, there is hut one physician, and there are two thousand Indians scc.ttered over a territory of half a million acres. In North Carolina, the Cherokee Indians occupy an area of about sixty thousand acres and have a iopulation of two thousand. And they have but one physician. In a city, with Its good streets, automobiles, street car, telephone and the like, a plysician witl one thousand patients wreild pretty, well occupied night and day. Hit think of a mountainous district in North Carolina, covering istv thousand acres, with an Indian Jf g-s S'.