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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-04
Commercial School Is Doing
Much to Promote Business
Success.
OPENS OPPORTUNITIES DOOR
Thousands OF Honorable Careers
Start in These Insti-
tutions.

For more than half century the
commercial school has been training
young men ana women for self-reli-
ancc No other influence or institu-
tion has done so much to open the
way to business success for .ur boys
has the commercial school 1t has
opened the door OF success to them By
giving them q business training that
enables them TO go out in the nyld of
business and compete honorably nd
successfully with their fellow mon.
With no other equipment than their
natural strength and good health. th.ir
ability and Willingness To work the
honesty of their Intentions. the insplra-
tion OF their ambition. and the business
training that the commercial school mas
given them. They enter the race and
make good
Fifty or sixty years ago the business
college. the commercial school or 10y
whatever name you may choose to term
IT. was but little heard Of and its
graduates few in number demand
for instruction in bookkeeping and
commercial arithmetic led to the es-
Enlistment of the first bushes college.
The commercial school since that time
has supplied need and is filling most
nobiy a place in our educational sys-
tom. 1t has grown rapidly in public
favor and at the present time every
city or town Of any pretentions what
ever has its commercial school.
| The high school course is incomplete
without tho commercial department.
and the college and University. nave.
! upon large scale established depart
mcnts Of commercial sciences all OF
which is the outcome or tho outgrowth
or the thought suggested by That young
man some mfty or sixty years ago. who
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-04
YOUNG ARE TRAINED
FOR SELF-RELIANCE

sought instruction tn bookkeeping and
commercial arithmetic. The CONNER.
cial school as We have it. is purely
an An -rican institution. 1t nils a
two-fc mission It not only trains
us students for positions. but it in
PRODUCES them TO the business world
by securing them employment
y business education Is the shortest
and surest pain 10 success. thousands
OF young men owe their successiu!
careers TO it. 1t gives opportunities
10 young men which would otherwise
be heyond their reach BY its aid the
humo!est man may hope to win for
himself an honorable position. Hun
drcds have reached national prom
!nencr through their commercial train
ing 1t opens avenues by which a
young man may pass from the SER
wees OF Others TO a safe and remuner-
atvc business of his own Young mon.
Non VIII md II a good thing: there
Tore get g. and having obtained it.
use II as stepping stone to honcsi
independence. Let me not forget our
girls The onward tendency Of tho
times is toward more practical use.
full education for our girls. i'm prepar-
ing them for active. prosperous bus!-
ness pursuits and for the sterner
. realities OF life-getune their own !iv-
/ Ing and making their own way Ia
acif-reiiance
i-ife's great ambition is to DC nnc
40 Life is search for power. the
power TO know and the power to be
and the power to do the work tho
orld wants done To woman the com.
ileFcial school has ben an emancipa-
/ tor 1t las lifted her up from a life
! OF dependence. from domentic servi-
tude and drudgery. to higher and
more lucrative field Of usefulness and
! pFoht IN the business world. i, can
ne trrthillly said that since the es
taollfhment OF the commercial school
woman has become more Independent
ana receives better compensation 70,
nor services than ever before in the
hstory Of the world She has gone
INTO the blsines office and made her.
sen indispensa bic, and by her presence
mas made b, place Of business re-
"nement. Through the training re-
,eiNed in me commercial school she
nas become in the fullest sense more
IMAM ever before mans ha.pmate-man.s
counselor and friend
INC commercial school is doing a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-04

grand and noble work and fonows
closely the Biblical Injunction. "T1
serve is to bless he wao is greatest
among YOU shall be Your servant" In
this we have tho education OF useful
ness. 1t is the mission Of tho CONNER
eial school to impart that Sina OF
training
This school las passed through its
first season. and ioolTng ov.- tie ,esti-
moniais. etc it has met win eminent
success, and has enrolled many more
pupils than tho highest Expectations
called for Students may enter ans aay
In the year legal holidays Excepted
and no entrance examination is r.-
CURED The illl term begins :he nrs,
Monday In Scptomber ana tho wlutor
term, the hrst Monday in January. 81.
or the following subjects ar. taurh,
by STAFF of experienced and oficien,
teachers. business writing. commercial
raw pookkeeplng spelling. grammar.
business English, shorthand and ivue-
writing. correspondence ana ;unllua-
tlon, rapid calculations and banklns
visitors are always welcome und ;n.
public is Invited TO inspect the school
and its equipment. and tho parents ana
friends OF tho students arc given a
warm reception.
The nroprictors of this INSTITUTION.
nave had years OF experience as busl-
ness educators and actual business az.
peFlence in some Of the largest busl-
nes frms In the country. ouahiln.. ,h.,,
70 give tho student instrtc:to, in III.
latest and most up-to-date methods used
by these mrms. This institution has
adopted the best system Of bo6-keeping
and shorthand that can be ioIa-i giving
great advantage over schools ,la, hold
t. old ideas OF business ,~arsnc,io,s
and the result is. the student ia be,to-
aCPualnted with the business oiiica
"nen he accents position
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03
RATION

Grafton. May 3.-W. W. Reyleck
went to Crookston on Tuesday even
Ing to spend a few days at the store.
H. B. Grover and NJ. O.. Berg were
business visitors in Grand Forks Mon
day evening.
Roscoe Mccabe of Minneapolis Wis
McCabe.
Mrs: McBroom and daughter re-
turned last week to their home in
Northfield. Mimi, having visited here
as the guests Of Mrs. A. r. T. Wylie.
Mesdanes II. A. Ball and T. Hood
went to Grand Forks Thursday even
ing for a short visit with friends.
Mrs. Pete Briems returned Tues
day from Pembina, where she visited
with friends.
E. A. Sell Of Forest River was a
prominent business visitor here on
Tuesday.
Sam Rinde left Tuesday for saska-
toon where he will spend a short
time looking after bushes interests.
Father sevigy Of st. Yhomas spent
"Wednesday evening here with Father
Turcotte.
DR.. Morton Of Mimic was a visitor
In the city on Thursday.
j. ". Phinn Of Grand Forks spent
Thursday here transacting bushes.
J. Donovan left Tuesday for Ford.
Vile. where he will have charge Of
his brothers elevator for a couple
Of weeks.
Miss Emma Swenson Of st. Thorn
as, formerly cashier in the Chicago
store. went to Grand Forks Tuesday
evening to enter the hospital for an
operation.
Programs for the boys and girls
defamation contest are as follows:
Leatta Hostetter.
The Vitcor of Marengo.. .Headley
Henry Swiggum.
The Unknown Speaker. ... .Lyspard
John Frame.
The Heart Of Old Hickory. .......
.Abomgoole
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03

(salient featured is '"Their Great In
viving energies. The complete W.
~heritancc." a delightful story of Penn
sylvania-German life. by Elsie Sing
master, who has already made a name
for herself along these lines with her
clever short stores. The theme Of
Their Great inheritance" has to do
with a quarrel which divides the in
habitants of Raub's Station, an erst-
while placid and peaceful little VIII
lage. into I'VE warning factions. A
relative of both sides, long known as
a ne'er-do-weel. is reported by a
newspaper to have died and left a
fortune to his kin. There is a great
to-do in consequence. each side
maneuvering to outwit the other. The
story is often intensely funny. some
times pathetic, always entertaining.
The climax is pretty sure to bring a
lump into the readers throat, and
you're glad when the quarrel is
leave such really lovable folk happily
situated.
Another important contribution is
the first of, a series of three hard
hitting articles by Hubert Bruce Full
Ter on How Congress Squanders Our
Money This deals principally with
the army and navy expenditures and
the pension appropriations. The read
err cannot but wonder that such a de-
plorable condition in the nations af-
fairs should be permitted to exist.
There is nothing exaggerated or
muckrakish about it; it is a calm,
and figures of-well, let us say. bad
business methods at the capital. Sem
ators and representatives, please an
SWer.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03
CIVIL WAR BATTLE
WON WITH WATER.

Such a desperate state of affairs was
that in which the southern c%onfeder-
acy found itself the last of April so
years ago! The men in charge of it's
infant government whistled to keep
up their courage-they needed to-;
they did not see n way out of the
certain ruin that confronted them
more. that was bearing down on them
with everything Of warlike destruction
known in that day.
For Mcclellan. with his 10000
men. armed to the teeth. trained to
the nail. equipped to the last shoe
string. and furnished with every mill
tary munitiOn. had disembarked at the
lower n of the peninsula formed by
the James and York rivers, bent
straight upon Richmond. The Merri-
mac. after her spectacular perform
ance. had become a mere dream, sunk
in the waters of Hampton Roads.
leaving both rivers in the hands Of the
Union forces. And here came this
hundred thousand armed force. swing
ing swiftly up the peninsula. blithely
on its way to cook and eat Richmond.
the capital of the Confederacy-cook
and eat not only Richmond. but Presi-
dent Davis and the Confederate con-
gress and whatever incidental small
bunch of soldiery might presume to
play at standing in their way, calling
themselves the army of the south.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03

L-onsstreet. whom he had attacked
with an ill-advised impetuosity. and
only saved himself by a retreat, which,
drawing the enemy after him in dis
order of victory. enabled him to turn
and administer a singing rebuke to
their enthusiasm.
Throughout the day the tide of bat
tie swung back and forth, ending in
material victory for neither side. Fol-
lowing this battle. the southern troops
fell back to tho defenses around Rich
mond. while Mcclellan betook him.
self along his march up the peninsula.
Put the battle of Williamsburg eX-
tended over more than the two days
fighting in tho vicinity of that town.
1t commenced when Gen. Mrgruder
drove the first pile into the first dam
that made the stream of the Warwick
an impregnable obstacle. The siege of
Yorktown was wholly secondary to the
main object of Mcclellan. What he
wanted was. not Yorktown. but a road
up the peninsnla-and the succession
of ponds" of which Gen. Keyes spoke
so dissustedly in his letter to Senator
Harris, was the real battle of that re-
sion.
IT was a stroke of military genius
that. though not recognized ut the
time. being ohscured by the hurrying
'iit Va ou' y . NdIieS
and the seven days battles around
Richmond. which followed fast on the
heels of that brilliant period. has since
ONE to be regarded as one of the
most remarkable feats of strategy in
military history. 1t is ranked with
Hannibal's movements in Italy. Ma
polcon's Italian campaign. and Well
ington's celebrated lines of Torres
Nedras. to which it has often been
likened. The scheme of that success
sion of ponds is today taught in the
military schools. not only of America
but of Europe. and. were there no
other feat of strategy throughout the
four Years from Bull Run to Appomat-
toX, this n brilliant stroke would
give the lie to the charge made by
Gen. Won Rorck, of the Germany army
that the conflicts between the north
ern and southern troops We're merely
collisions between armed mobs.
But for Magruder's strategy on the
Warwick creek there is small doubt
that Mcclellan would have been in
Richmond within a fortnight after he
reached the banks of that stream
with the probable result of a total
collapse of the southern confederacy.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03

ing crowded through the house of
commons by the closure and the gull
lotine. backed up by the purpose OF
the controlling Irish members to get
the parliamentary decks clear for
their home rule bill. the opponents
of the insurance bill. or those who
were doubtful as to the wisdom of all
it's provisions. pleaded that more
time should he given for discussion
and amendment. Lloyd George
not listen, but drove headlong
forward. with the result that, after
the project became law. he was fore
ed to postpone the date when the
law would become operative once,
and. according to our recollection,
twice. The date now fixed. We he
lieve. is July l next. lie has had
speakers going up and down the Uni
ted Kingdom for weeks. trying to
commend the law to the approval of
those whom il was designed to bene-
fit. This amend the Act league" Is
the popular response which these
speakers, some Of whom have been
working at treasury expense. have
brought forth. Mr.. Asquith made a
neat oratorical point at the opening
Of the present session of parliament
by asking Bonar Law il he would re-
peal this compulsory insurance
scheme If his party came into pow
er. Mr.. Law detiantly answered
yes" and later explained that he
meant to say that he would amend
the law. We do not SEQ how the Law
can be amended To bring 1t into &C.
cord with English habits without TAX
Ing IL the compulsory and penalty
features of ii. and these features arc
its backbone. Mr.. Laws plain but
premature yes is quite likely to be
right in the end AT any rate Mr.. AS
quith is right in one particular. He
is on record AS saying that the new
law is not an asset for his party. hu,
a liability. The difficulty is that thi:
party liability appears to be growing
larger from month to month.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03
A LIABILITY.

$50 long cometh the pot to the Va
ter hat it cometh home broke"
said an old French proverb of the
year 1910: or. as is generally said In
these days. the pitcher that goes too
often to the we'll is pretty sure to he
broken. This is the fate that appears
to be slowly overtaking Lloyd
Georges compulsory insurance law.
the latest OF his ingenious gentle
mans schemes for taking care of the
poor and winning elections in Eng
land.
An amended Act league" has
now been started, the purpose Of
insurance law before 1t goe into
ton against the act is very simple.
A rather pretty stamp has beer made
which sells for an English penny
Two cents in u money. This stamp
carries an allegorical figure and is
printed in brown. Forms are sent
out with these stamps. each of the
forms having twelve squares upon
which the stamps are to he stuck.
Opposite each Of the twelve stamps
is a place for the name and address
Of the buyer. Every purchaser Of a
stamp thus becomes a member of
the league. the name and addresses
serving as the register Of this organ
ization.. and the pennies furnishing it
with funds. The league already has
fifty specially informed speakers, In
addition to such members Of parlia-
ment as are interested in the matter.
Applications for the opening meeting
in London are reported to be five
times more numerous than the ac-
commodations. and Everybody is
dom it," from mayoresses to lady
typists.
Lloyd George tool his stamp-lick-
ing method from the German sys-
tenn. as indeed he did pretty much
the whole of his plan. The Germans
lick stamps with exemplary submis-
sion, and appear to regard it as part
Of the order of nature. In England
this usage is new. and neither the
housemaid o the mistress Of the
house likes it. In order to emphasize
this popular dislike the originators of
this league have made licking stamps
a feature Of their opposition to the
law. Their explanation is reasonable.
"It is better to lick a stamp once"
they say, ito help in getting the in
surance you want. than to lick stamps
for years in payment for what you
don't want"
When the insurance bill was be-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03
FRIDAY. a 3. 1912.
THE ATTORNEY GENERALS
F1ASCO.

1.-THE mountain lahored and
brought forth a mouse" This clas-
sic could we'll be applied To the re-
suit Of the forts of the state legal
department to have the law requiring
the registration of the voters by party
affiliations declared unconstitutional.
Some time ago the attorney general
issued an opinion in which he held
the law invalid. The opinion was so
himsy both in its law and its logic
that the layman could pick it into
shreds. But the laws of the state
gave it controlling merit until the
opinion was set aside by the properly
constituted tribunal.
A test case under the Law was pre-
pared and taken to the supreme
court. This procedure was
liable and proper since judicial inter-
probation has become so much q
practical part OF legislation along
new lines. The court held the law
constitutional except as to the imma-
terial clause. 1t was prope hat the
case he cared for by the attorney gem
eral before the court and that all the
enlightenment it was possible to give
the court he offered. The decision of
the court should have been final. But
by a rapidly increasing practice In
this state. a petition for a rehearing
of the case was filed. asking the court
to set aside its former decision and
see il another one could not be OBJ
tanned.
A few days ago the court refused
to grant the petition for a rehearing,
as asked for by the attorney general
and the case is closed. The law
stands and tho assessors who have
stopped the registration work every
time the attorney general has wob-
bled. will he required to go ahead
as the law provides.
We are not now inquiring into the
reasons which may have prompted
the line of action taken by h legal
department of the state: but it is diff
ficult to soc why anyone who be-
lieves in a square deal in politics
should object TO the law. 1t merely
compels the voter to keep within his
own party when helping to make
nominations in that party. Certainly
no one IAN honestly claim that a re-
publican has any right to say whom
the democrats shall noninate: nor
has any democrat any honest right
to say whom the republicans shall
nominate. Tho application tf the
law cnforces. except with those who
commit perjury by swearing they be-
long to the opposite party. this regu-
lation. The attorney general held
the law invalid. and he must not
have had a Very sound opinion in
the matter or beer Influenced by
some e~xtra-oficial reason. There is
n decided difference in a lawyers
opinion in a case in which the appli-
cation of the law to certain facts to
he established in the trial is concern
cd and the official opinion OF an Off
Ger when such opinion has the legal
power of direct legislation-of re-
pealing the acts Of the properly cun.
stituted lawmaking body.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03
Review of Current
MAGAZINES
May Woman's Home Companion.
The Max Woman's Homo co,

The May Woman's Homo Com
panion contains Il most interesting ac-
count of the recent dramntization
and staging of Louisa NJ. Alcott's
Little Women" 1t is quite a re-
marllable story-how Miss Alcott's
heirs nave objected for years to put
ting h story on the stage, but how
at last they have consented. Among
the other articles in the number are
the following: Seeing Europe on
$3.50 a Day.' "A Mothers Account
of the Effect of the Boy Scout Move
ment on Her Son. Women Writers
as Humorists," "How to- Attract
Birds and the first of a new series
on the American girl by j.. Nilsen
Laurvik.
On the fiction side. the leading con-
trlbutions are from kathleen Norris.
Susan Glaspell, Annie Hamilton Dom
nell and Mary Heaton Worse.
In the practical dressmaking,
housekeeping and entertainment de-
partments appear MANY interesting
contributions, among which are arti-
clcs on Sensible Shoes" The Heal
thy Baby" Tho Practical Kitchen"
How to Make IA Sun-Dial." "How to
Make a Summer Shack The Appe-
tlzing Eeefsteak' and "a Dozen Good
Desserts"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03
& BEGG

on penology, presents the value Of the
indeterminate sentence and parole
when the Prisoner Returns" and
Nahum Wolf makes out a strong case
for the creative genius of the Jew in
an interesting paper on Are the Jews
an Inferior Race" The fifth article
the series on Aspects Of Public
ownership" by the English publicist.
sydney Brooks. deals with the owner.
ship and management Of the telephone
companies. American Ideals and
Race Mixture" is a hopeful argument
for immigration and a sincere belief
in Americas power Of assimilation, by
Percy StSickney Grant. The poetry
IN this issue of The Review Is The
gardener OF h Sea-" by Samuel Nc
Coy, and Music by Louise Morgan
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03
willard Goodrie.
Spartans TO the Roman Enjoys.
SanGank

opartahs 10 the Roman Enroys...
l.. Henry B%rosnahan.
The Unknown Rider .......B Billiard
olney Archer.
Speech on Being Tried for Treason
z Grant MeDonaid. A''
Girls Quartet. 1.-THE Last Rose Of
Misses Ho,,veen' .cs:on
son. Hostetter.
judges. L. Hyddle. Hoople:
Prot. e. A. Bixler and Prof. p. III.
Lehman of Grand Forks.
This contest will be given on MAY
10. The girls contest will be given
Piano Duet. Les sylpher. .Boohmann
Misses Maxwell and Elizabeth
Hoisveen.
The Rescue Of Lygia. .sienkiewic.
Estella Garvey.
King John. Act w, Scene I...,.
Helen Countryman.
Keeping q Seat at the Benefit. .Fizk
HARRIET McConville.
Denora Christensen.
Hiawatha, The Famine. .Longfellow
"ole Mistis'. Moor.
49,. Leatta Hostetter.
"Gentlernen, The King. Barr
. Mabel Vail.
Girls Part Song, Summer Fancies"
Misses Hoisveen. Eiiendson. eA
.. Jackson, Nelson, Carlson,
Tombs.
Judges-Mary T.. Black, instructor
In English. university; Flora r..
Balch. instructor in mathematics, uni
VerSity; Superintendent e, r. Ed
wards, Mimic.
Rev. Ingram rendered his resirna.
ton as pastor of the Baptist church
and will close his work here the first
Sunday in June.
Chris. johnson Of Hoople was a
business visitors here Wednesday. Mr..
johnson had the best paying load Of
grain IN the vicinity last fall. receive
Ing $500 for a load Of timothy seed.
r. G. Jackson of Corvallis, Ore.
has been appointed federal dairy ex-
pert and will arrive shortly to take
up the work.
N. T. Hadelin Of Medford transact
ed business here on Tuesday.
May devotions are being held in
the Evenings in the Catholic church.
Father Stark Of Chicago, a Paulist
father, will conduct a weeks mission
In the Catholic church commencing
May 10. A cordial invitation is ex.
tended to the public.
This evening plans are being made
to form an automobile club. The
meeting will be held in thu Office Of
j. j. O'Brien.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03
NortI, American Review.

THE Unwritted Law and the Great
Emergency" is the timely title of the
leader in the April number of The
North American Review. written by
the editor, inv hich he sets forth the
historical opinion of the third term.
a Japanese estimate Of republican
conditions in China by Adachi Kin
nosuke in Can the Chinese Republic
Endure?" The distinguished French
professor of the University Of Paris,
Gustave Lanson. writes informingly
of his country under the title France
of Today" o. F. Lewis. an authority
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-03

Madame "

Expert critics in New York, Paris.
London n other cities where Mad
anne y" has been scoring so great a
triumph, unite in the verdict that it
is the most powerful mclodrama With
in memory. They have o hcsitated
TO say that this play by Alexandra
Bison holds in the hearts of the pres
ent generation of p~lay-goerS a place
comparable to that held in Years gone
by of such famous works as ARTICLE
A. East Lynne" Camille" or the
wonderful Sardou te%tralogy, La Tos-