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The Dickinson press., 1913-10-04

With the commission form of govern
ment there can be no discrimination
against any n district or ward. At
present the strong man in the council
is much more likely to get the strung
mans meat. than Is the timid man.
The talker pulls the wool over the eyes
Of the non-talker, but with the commits.
sion form you are represented by a nom
partizan, and non ward man, because
It is the city.
II certain improvements have been
withheld from you, it is more than
likely that the nan with a pull has
'.usurped your rights for the benefit
of some one else.
The entire city's good will be your
good, the control of it's affairs will
eliminate any discrimination and the
commission government will represent
the entire city directly, rather than
BY the man that seeks the Office. Vote
for the Commission form of govern
ment.
BY the Committee.
The Dickinson press., 1913-10-04
The PEOPLE CON-
ING TO THEIR y
From the Committee on Commission, Form Of
G~overnment).

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(From the Committee on Commission Form Of
Government.
A second communication. Much has
been said in the past about letting the
people rule. This mean in everyday
language. that the common folks are in
the ascendency. or at least that they
are coming into their own.
The tariff bill. currency reform. direct
primary. popular election Of senators
and other such advanced measures
speak of q personal touch with the man
behind the counter, In the mill. the
farmer and the artizan. The days Of
the bosses are numbered and the demo-
cratic spirit Of this commonwealth is
asserting itself as Of old.
The commission form Of government
is not popular with the major portion
of bosses. any more than it is with
the majority Of those who hold Office
today. The law Of class against the
mass; the law that made the bossee
fight. every known progressive measure
in the past was the law Of control, the
law of power. the law Of self and the
same law holds good with Office seekers
everywhere.
The old form is that the man seeks
the Office whilst that of the commission
form is that the Office seeks the man.
Coming to ones own is the man
aeement Of ones own affairs by ones
own elective power. It Is the manage
ment Of the civic household by direct.
rather than by indirect means. It is
the assertive quality Of individuality
in place Of corporate management. or
collective government.
There are middle men in civic affairs,
as we'll az in business. and If the high
cost of living is due. az many. say to
the middle man, it is because he comes
between the buyer and consumer. so
is the council the middle man between
the elector and his business as an inter-
ested civic investor. The councilman
cannot but work for his own ward and
prestige, whilst the commission govern
ment does not cater for the ward but
the whole.
We ask: Shall w come to our own
on the nth of October?
Shall we allow others and not our
selves to govern our affairs?
Do We want to govern OF be content
to be governed?
Shall we base our civic business on
abstract government?
The Dickinson press., 1913-10-04

school,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rasmus Jensen took the
formers sister to New England last FRI
day. From there she took the train 70
her home in South Dakota.
On Friday evening a threshine outfit
from near Black Butte ran partly of The
Grading on the road south of the bridge.
The next morning Mr.. Motley pulled
them out with his engine.
The Chas. Colerove family received
quite a fire scare the first Of last week
when their little grandson. Teddy Ken
niston. lett a lighted candle on q table
up stairs. The flame caught in some
neckties hanging above the table and
soon spread to other clothing rear by.
1t was discovered just as 1t reached the
ceiling and 80 was soon extineuished.
The Dickinson press., 1913-10-04

The Third State Exposition at Bis.
marck. from October 7th to 10Th, will
long be remembered by it's special
days. on all OF which occasions special
effort will be made to render the day
essentially different from anything
previously shown, the idea being to
maintain unfaeeing interest throughout
the whole twelve days and removing
the least possible trace, of ''tameness''
in the proceedings.
Thus 'Hetttinger Day." Indian
Day." ELK Day. Bismarck Day."
and many others will each be 90 ar
RANGED as to present some distinctive
features in keeping with its title.
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The Dickinson press., 1913-10-04
RAIDER Township

Schools were granted a holiday on
the last day of the fair.
Chas. Peeler purchased Florence
Knaub's saddle for his son. Elmer.
Mr.. Riemer of Wisconsin is visiting
at the Motley home and looking after
his business interests here.
Miss Florence ,Knaub left Monday for
Devils Lake. where she expects to attend
The Dickinson press., 1913-10-04
LOCAL NEWS


NJ. and Mrs. VIM. Gardner wsSsEs II
the city Monday from their farm near
Daglum. Is
Miss Bertha Lyken and Mrs. /. I.
Crawford were received to membesahip
ID tho Methodist church last Sunday
evening.
&C. Gordon and Geo. Hettenbdueh
and families were among those up from
Relaxation for the last day Of thessStark
county fair. sss1a.
Miss Pauline Wallace. who issteach-
Ing near Zenith this year. spent Stature
day and Sunday visiting friends IN
Dickinson. sssSs5sss
G. E. Falk. formerly with Nj. Tim
norman IN Dickinson. has permanently
located . harness shop in Nofthnsad,
MINI. He is doine we'll and both tie
and Mn. Falk enjoy the place.
Mrs. F. L. easier and baby 81 Fay
cite are guests Of Mrs. casler's sister.
Mrs. Harry Childs. Their father, James
sTsumbulf, Of Oakdale was in the city
over Sunday visiting his daughters.
Mics Rose Mittag arrived the past
week from Fergus Falls. Mimi. and
after spending 9 few days here Waiting
her sister. Miss Helen Block. che left
TnnSIo1, kn.An<na .,hn.~ n
The Dickinson press., 1913-10-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07

restored by the Senate or raised to an
even higher level.
With the exception of the members
from Louisiana, the congressional
leaders of the democrats have held
their forces together most admirably.
They have profited by the experience
of the republicans, who pledged them
selves to reduce the customs as fixed
by the Dingley law and then increased
them under the Payne act.
Some criticism has. been caused by
the long consideration given the tar
iff bill in the extra session. This has
been due in the main to a desire to
treat every interest fairly. The fact
that the Payne -Aldrich measure was
signed by President Taft early in
August need not be taken as an indi-.
cation that the democrats have pro-
The Underwood Simmons
bill will not be repealed as speedily as
was the last legislation along tariff
lines by the republicans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
The New Haven Inquiry

The news that two men are being
held under charges of culpability in
connection with the latest New Haven
wreck may prove that, after all, there
is something new under the sun. Too
often in the past the so-called Sin
vestigations" have proved farcical.
Trains don't just run themselves to-
gether; factories don't set themselves
on fire. "Cui Culpa? ?" asked Franklin
P. Adams more than two years ago
in these vigorous verses:
A train collision killed few; 'investiga-
tion" came;
The probe" was sharp, the probe was
deep, but mo one" was to blame.
The overworked dispatcher true, had
fallen fast asleep.
But that was not the railroads fault
and the probe was sharp and deep.
A hundred souls, a thousand souls were
sacrificed to flame;
The probe was long, the probe" was
deep but where to fix the blame?'
" Twas panic killed the audience the
loss of life was due
To trepidation of the mob" said Twelve
Good Men and True.
Pray God we grow not bitter, but 1t
makes the vision red
This hellish truth of crushed out youth,
this tale of needless dead
No single name shall bear the blame, go
probe ye ne'er SO deep,
For the Cost of Living rises high, but
the Cost of Life is cheap.
The public's patience has been worn
threadbare. The New Haven probe
should be sent to the bottom. In this
day and time when precedents are be-
ing smashed, it might be we'll to
establish few.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
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THE POOL SHARK
From the indianapolis st.

From the Indianapolis 81.
The pool shark may not swim In the
best society, but he often gets an oppor-
tur,ity to bite some of the best young
men in town. He tells them he will
spot them six balls and let them sbreak :"
They break and the p. s. does the rest
said young men having about as much
show as a paper napkin in a blast fur
mace. =
The real pool shark does nothing but
play and eat and sleep. His life work
Is polishing the rim of q pool table. Tn
asmuch as a good player cannot work
and play too, the champion never works,
though he will walk is or 20 miles a night
around table and declare life is a hard
proposition.
After he has played until he has the
county scared out he. like Alex tho Great,
has no more worlds to conquer, so he
must find something else to do. 1t often
happens that his second occupation Ia fol-
lowing the ponies or the misfortune Of old
HI. This being the case, 1t Is not long
until his clothes look shiny and his meal
ticket like a shotgun target. Any way you
take It he loses. thus showing that the
life Of champion pool player is just one
''break' after another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
sPDOKs
Maurice MaAterlinck in the Century Masa-

Maurice MaAterlinck in the Century Masa-
zine for September.
In considering our destinies beyond the
grave. we need have no reason to iinger
too long over these apparitions or these
revelations, even though they should
reallv he incontesta bic and to the point.
They would seem, all told, to be only the
incoherent and precarious manifestations
Of a transitory state. They would at best
prove. IL we were bound to admit them,
that a reflection of ourselves. an fter-
vibration Of the nerves. bundle of emo
tions a spiritual silhouette, grotcsdue
and forlorn image. or, more correctly, a
sort OF truncated and uprooted memory.
can, after our death. linger and float in
a space where nothing remains to feed
1t. where It gradually becomes wan and
lifeless, but where a special fluid, ema-
rating from an exceptional medium. sue
ceeds at moments in galvanizins IT..
Perhaps 1t exists effectively, perhaps
It subsists and revives only in the rec
objection of certain sympathies. After
all. it would be not unlikely that the
memory whioh represents us during our
life should continue to do SO for a few
weeks or even few years after our
decease This would explain the evasive
and deceptive character OF those spirits
which, possessing only a mennonite ex-
istence, are naturally able to interest
themselves only In matters within their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
Going Home

sHome- Coming Week. has become
an established custom in this coun-
try. 1t is growing in popularity from
year to year and in some communities
already ranks as the one festival that
makes for most enjoyment. People
have been yielding to nostalgia and
going home for visit ever since man
kind began to go away from home and
take I'D his abode elsewhere for vari-
GUS and sundry reasons, chief among
them, no doubt, the necessity of a
livelihood. Probably Father Adam
and Mother Eve were attacked with
an acute case of nostalgia Immediately
after leaving the pleasant environs of
Eden, but for them there was no going
back and they probably never ex-
perienced the thrill of a genuine
Homecoming"
While not a strictly original idea,
"Home- Coming Week" has become a
celebration typical of this country,
with a rich American flavor. Wher-
ever it is observed, along with the
state fairs and other events that get
close to the "plain people" it is a
great and growing success. 1t is en-
joyable to meet old friends under any
circumstances, save those of great
misfortune, but when they are met
along with many others at time
when the very air is surcharged with
good fellowship and joyous reminis-
cence, there is something in the ex-
perience singularly appealing.
Why do people go back home ?
Principally we think, because of the
tender ties and loving recollections
that hover round the spot called
shome." 1t is good thing, a noble
sentiment. The man who ceases to
love his home, the old friends and the
old scenes misses something very
great out of his life. Your cynic may
say that some people who have pros
pered merely go home to "lord it,
over their less fortunate neighbors
who 'knew them then," but you will
notice that the chronic failure is just
as glad to go back as anybody else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
Purging the Pension Lists

Examiner Brooke believes that Ala
bama's example in dropping from. its
pension rolls those who are drawing
money Illegally will be followed by
other states of the south and that
even the national government will be
spurred to emulation.
Bad as are the conditions prevailing
In the states, they are as nothing to
those which exist in regard to the
federal government. The raids upon
the national treasury by deserters,
suffers, fake widows and other i'm
posters have long been notorious.
Each year the scandal has increased
instead of diminished. The right of the
ragtag and bobtail to dip its hand into
the government Golfers has long been
considered inalienable.
Has there come time for reform
It may be so, but the average citizen
will have to be convinced. 1t will be
admitted, however, that there is some
hope that the ng-delayed house
cleaning will be undertaken. A differ
Aent set Of men are now in charge of
Affairs in Washington. They may have
the patriotism and the nerve to eff
feet reform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
Birmingham's Great Need

The auditorium proposition, upon
which the people of Birmingham will
vote tomorrow week, will, it is be-
lieved, receive a good majority. The
auditorium is one of Birmingham s
great needs and favorable express
sion of large majority of the voters
will mean even more than would ap-
pear on the surface. 1t would indicate
that the people of Birmingham were
thoroughly imbued with the co-opera-
tive spirit-the get-together spirit
which is the making of all progressive
cities.
Birmingham in recent years has de-
veloped a great deal of the get-to-
gether spirit but it needs even more
of it. As was recently remarked
by prominent citizen, Birmingham
has group consciousness-suburban
consciousness-but the real city con-
sciousness is, in certain sense, lack
ing. If an auditorium with seating
capacity sufficient to accommodate
great national conventions is deemed
an urgent necessity by decided ma
jority of the representative people in
the central section the population as
a whole should take the same view of
it, for what is good for the central
district is good for the outlying sec
tions-is good for the entire COM
munity.
Atlanta has been more benefited by
it's auditorium, built few years ago,
than by any one institution. The city
of Atlanta owns the auditorium and
instead of its being financial bur-
den it is a profit in more ways than
one. When Atlanta has any project in
large way under consideration af-
fecting that community all the people
work together for it.
Birmingham has greater resources
than Atlanta or any other city in the
south. We are having ample hotel ac-
| oommodations to attract large nation
al meetings. The only thing needed is
the auditorium. The city should build
and 0wn it. The sum of 100000 will
be enough, it is said, to provide a
suitable building. Bonds bearing per
cent interest can be sold readily to
local investors.
The auditorium building should be
completed by next spring and then
Birmingham would be a convention
city of the first class. Let every voter
cast his ballot for the auditorium.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHE

From the Chicago News.
1t is natural for some women to act I'm
ma atural.
Love based on pity Is apt to come out in
the laundry.
Getting a husband is an art; keeping
him is a domestic problem.
A kiss In the dark may bs . divine
spark, or it may be mistake
warm friend is one who Is willing to
divide his cold cash with US.
Give the old fashioned woman the lye
and she will make batch of soap.
Orchestras in some hotel dining rooms
are useful when the guests eat soup.
If man has no brains there's nothing
in his head to cause him to know it.
There are times when man feels that
he either has no friends or too many.
Even If man does have fairly good
sense he can easily write a few love let
tiers.
The average young woman is willing to
marry brainy man If she cant do any
better.
Tie woman who goes around lecturng
about the way to make home happy
doesn't fool anybody
We admire a woman who prides herself
on her ability to understand things with
out giving thsm . thought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07

tilator of the wounded. a violator of
women, burner Of homestead5, and
slayer of helpless babies. Their moth
ers had frightened them into silence by
stories of the fearful blood ferocity of
the Bulgar, and whAn they knew that
ne was coming in the wake of the
routed Turks, they loaded the slow bull
lock carts with what they could ana
fled
But Mardukian did not fly. The hour
OF his deliverance was at hand; and he
would wait in hiding to greet the de-
liverers. Let these stupid Turkish cat
tie run. to die day or two hence
from cold or hunger. He. Mardukian,
would stay in his barricaded house until
the Turkish rearguard had passed. Then
he would come forth and greet the
Bulgarian victors as saviors and fellow
Christians.
He had food in plenty. and Babe
Tepe did not lie in the line of the Turk
all would be we'll.
So he waited The last wretched
wagon had creaked away through the
marshes. with its load of babies and
mattresses and household goods, the
cooking pot swinging from the axle,
and the clumsily swathed women plod-
ding DULY in It's rear. The last I'M
Fortunate peasant had tried to buy
from Mardul1ian tho bread he would
not sell che would sell 1t later at a
higher price to hungry Bulgars); and
the village was empty save for NANCY
prowling dogs and one Armenian.
He stayed all day in his house, and
nothing happened. On the second day
tufted rise that overlooks the Kara Su,
and there he saw the shattered Turkish
army making its painful way to the
south, and rejoiced at the sight. But
suddenly his rejoicing was turned to
terror, for a group of stragglers, seeing
the rough thatched roofs of the village,
came toward 1t in search of food.
Mardukian fled, and hid himself in
the cellar of his house. He heard the
tramp of the ravenous soldiery over
head and quaked at every sound. They
ransacked the khan and every build
ing In the village, shot such stray poul-
try as remained. trapped rats, ate even
roots dug in the fields, and garbage
from the middens. They set half the
little village ablaze with the fires OF
their pitiful cookery, but fortune was
good to Mardukian. and they did not
find his hiding place.
They can1ped that night In Baba
Tepe; and next day more came. and
took the place of those who went
away. The wretched Armenian, hiding
In his cellar. suffered intolerable pangs
OF hunger. Yet he dared not venture
out to seek his hoard of food. Even
could he have done so. there was little
hope that 1t had escaped the eyes of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
Tariff Legislation

: After many weeks of discussion and
uncextainty, the tariff bill is ap-
preaching the stage of completed leg
iSlation. The democrats have done
their work thoroughly and patriotical-
". They have endeavored to keep ab-
soluts faith with the people, and have
astriyen to carry out the promises made
"a the Baltimore platform.
A committee from the Senate and
sne from the House will whip the
Underwood Simmons bill into the
form in which it will become law.
mere il no vital difference between
~ House bill and the Senate bill. No
1nsroasss have been made by the SEN
! ~. but Il has made some reductions.
5Is y : reversal of past history. 1t
y boin the custom Of the lower
11zno sus duties only to have them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Register: New York is to have
hotels soon that will cost as much as a
battleship
"That $4,000, 900 crop moving fund
starts south" says headline What are
you looking so chirp for-going to get
80 cents of 1t?
Marion County News BY all means
the government Should manufacture its
own armor plate, and Birmingh am
will be an ideal place for such a plant.
Andalusia Star: The Age Herald says
'in the large sense Birmingham en-
braces all of north Alabama" Sure, and
in the same sense Covington county Is
about all there Is to the wiregrass,
Dothan Eagle: Americans will learn
in time that there is no use going
to Mexico. or anywhere else, to do
we'll They can stay at home and take
Mexican things by the movies.
Centreville Press: Captain K olb has
surprised the public in his opening
speech. when he failed to charge his
opponents with being liars and thieves.
The captain has at least set the others
should follow
Wetumpka Weekly Herald: And while
we are on the subject of cutting down
expenses we might also mention that
- 4
pealing the immigration commissioner
law. If this office Is of any practicable
benefit to the state we don't know It.
Colbert County Reporter. The Bir-
mingham newspaper boys arc to have
the finest club in the south. It is des-
tined also to be the most popular one
in the state That's as 1t should be.
Nothing is too good for the penpushers
of Birmingham.
Fort Payne Journal: A Birmingham
exchange heads a page Interesting
Gossip of Birmingham Automobiles. y
The most interesting gossip about those
people-at least to the victims--is the
number of people they kill and cripple
during the week.
Goodwater Enterprise: Birmingham
did herself great last week In the man.
ner IN which, the merchants OF the
state were entertained at the Mer-
chants convention. Quite a large num-
Der of merchants who attended the
meeting feel more friendly TO the big
town than ever before going to the
convention, and have come to realize
that they can trade in Birmingham
with as much success In getting what
they want as by trading in Atlanta or
some other city out of the state. Good
for Birmingham. Good for the mer-
chants.