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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-29
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~ The Lesson
Bunny Rabbit
Learned.

JACK and Evelyn heard daddy coming up the stairs and thought they
would pretend they were asleep, Sc they Jumped into their beds, and
when daddy walked into the nursery there they were apparently asleep.
- "Boohr' said Jack, sitting straight up in bed. "Boohv' echoed Evelyn.
ooh dear" said daddy; 81 thought, Of course, you were asleep!" "No indeedg'
they both answered together. ave are all ready for III story"
"Once upon a time" began daddy there were three little rabbits a daddy
rabbit a mother rabbit and their little Bunny. Now, Bunny was cry old for
his age-or at least he thought he was-and when Daddy and Mother Rabbit
would go out n search of food Bunny would leave bis little bed, which was In
a hole hidden by leaves, and go out to see the world a he called it.
"One day daddy and motherh had both gone out and before they left they
told Bunny to be sur not % leave his little home, for they had heard from
son Of the other animals that a awful fox had moved to their neighborhood
and the night before had eaten up all Of Mr. Jack Rabbits children.
"But Bunny wasn't afraid of anything. He had never seer q fox, and he
thoughtit would be lots Of fun to go exploring, and If he should lei Mr. Fox he
would hide and be perfectly safe
HE started out toward the river Tat was at the foot of the bank where
he lived. He had not gone very far when he saw bounding through the woods
straight for him an awful looking creature with a great long face, and, fright
ened almost out of hs poor little wits, he thought, oh, dear; that's Mr.. Fox,
and he'll eat ne ue Bunny turned and ran as fast al his we legs would
carry him., not daring to look around.
"fBang, bang? gounded through the woods. Bunny was Sc frightened he
thought O. course, he was killed and was very much surprised to find he was
still running. He kept m and on, lot knowing that the Bang bang! had killed
Mr.. Fox. Then, very tired, he started slowly for home. He felt very tmid
reached home before his Daddy and Mother Rabbit and when they came back
HE didn't say anything to them about his little trip. He hoped very much
they would not find out about it,
Just before Bunny fell asleep he heard Daddy Rabbit telling Mother Rab-
DIT that Farmer Jones had succeeded in shooting Mr. Fox that afternoon. q
Mr. Fox had been stealing Farmer jones' sheep Bunny then knew that was
what the Bang, bang! meant and he firmly decided he would never g into
the world alone again until h~ really became a big rabbit"
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Reasons,

New York World: Members of the
united States senate committee are
giving reasons for their failure to
agree upon a bill reforming the bank
ING ana currency systems. Some OF
these reasons deserve attention., but
there are others of more importance
which nobody names.
On the first of November last, ac-
cofdlng to the report of j. B. Niven,
c"rtified public accountant, there was
|Ij,653,OOO reasons why the senate COM
mltee should not act; why things
should be left as they are; why party
promises should be forgotten.
Every one of these 1913, S53, 900 rea-
sons was a dollar deposited by 1905
DahkS throughout the United States in
thlrty-tWo banks and trust companies
IN New York city, ali downtown-all
or these 1913 1853, 900 reasons, 24o,4So,-
600 We're loaned by the New York
banks for the account of their country
correspondents. The remaining rea-
sons, 4S3,373,000 in lumber were in
ciuded in the loans which the New
York, banks had made on their own
account.
Not all of thces reasons were in use
TOR the carrying of speculative hold
lngs of securities, but many of them
were so employed, and all Of them
were Withdrawn from the local com
mefclal and industrial activities of the
United States as completely as if they
IL AAS W = aL %
These millions of reasons were in
New York because, under existing
~tatutes bank reserves are irresistibly
drawn to the metropolis, partly by
law, partly by the desire of their GUS
todlans to earn 2 per cent interest, and
partly by the expectation on the part
or these custodians that when there is
a real or artificial stringency here,
inuch greater returns may be had.
1T Is the desire OF the authors of the
new banking and currency bill to
establlsh regional-reServe banks
throughout the country and to relieve
American finances of the monopolistic
control In lower Manhattan, which has
lot worked to the satisfaction of any
the inner circle.
This purpose has been frustrated for
the moment by the millions of reasons
which we have FAMED. These reasons
plead powerfully for inaction. They
speak now, as they have spoken many
times IN the past, with more authority
than the reasons that are to be found
in the commands of millions Of men.
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Courtin. Christina.

At the present time there is a strong
movement in England for the intro
duction Of co-education as employed
in America. For centuries the system
Of bringing up children in Great Brit
ain has been based upon the theory
h a boys and girls should be kept
separate. The boy, as a rule, is sent
out of the home to a. boarding school
and only becomes acquainted with his
sisters during the holidays. Leaving
the school he goes to a university and
it is not till he is a man that ha ONE
into direct contact with the feminine
element in life as "a serious factor.
This means that woman in England is
regarded with an extraordinary REL
spect which, up to q point, is based
On lack of knowledge. Tt must be con-
fessed that in countries where co-edu-
cation is in vogue, the ~chivalrous
respect for woman is not q very prom
inent nationals characteristic. She may
be more Of a mans companion, but she
does not call forth his. ideals to the
same extent. ..,
In Courtin' Christina, by J.. J. Bell,
a picture is given of a Scotch boy
growing up to manhood and his two
first love affairs. Nothing, like it GOULD
happen in Notwithstanding like it in
its pathetic a~wkwardncss and nothing
like it in it's idEllic drama. The Amer
lean hoy would not have been aWed
by girls of his own, age, neither would
be have been so willing TO serve them.
This humorous and quaint story
casts much indirect light upon 4 prob
lem to which educationalists are de-
voting much Of their attention. George
III. DOran Co.. New York;. r
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Journalistic floveIis&s..

Samuel Blythe and Irwin Cobb, two
Of the most recently arrived of our
American novelists, have been friends
for Years. They met on the same paper
at tho very outset Of their journalistic
careers. Both Of them gained their
first experience Of writing on. The New
York World. Then, for q time, they fell
apart ard each followed his artistic
ideal in a different direction, Cobb
making his speciality hulnor, and Blythe
taking as his The exact knowledge of
American politics. Again they have
come together as contributors to The
Saturday Evening Post, in which their
work appears regularly. Both of them
have reached the point in their careers
at which all eyes are watching to see
them make good" in a new direction
as novelists.s rs
In The Price of Place Samuel Blythe
has accomplished what the secretary
OF the navy calls the best political
novel that has been written in u
~genetaaion.'' Tt deals with national
situations with 81 power n grasp
which is rarely given to a writer who
is not also q. man Of action.
Irwin Cobb, on the other hand, in.
The Escape of Mr.. Trin1nl, deals with.
humanity las MISUNDERSTANDING
and curious individuals full of faults
and kindness George III. Doran Co,
York;. 12
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N WAY TO HELP.
A s~eaSOnable hint:

A S~caSOnable hint:
. Every purchase that is made be-
tween now and Christmas with refer
cnce to the day which comes but once
a. year" will, unless it be carried home
by the purchaser, have to be delivered
by a boy or a man, in charge Of an
auto delivery or a horse and wagon.
These men and boys are sufficiently
weighted down with duties in normal
seasons. During those days which
precede the mid winter holidays they
are pushed to the limit.
Therefore the early purchase of
Christmas gifts will mean that the
work Of a comparatively large corps
of people-deliverers as we'll as en-
ployes in the stores-will be divided
into many days. instead Of crowded
into a few days.
. That's reason enough for getting
busy.
:. is hard to perceive the goodness
or g~ladness in a heart that remembers
one or more individuals with kindness,
only to disregard the comfort and
wclI-being Of all others beside.
Thoughtful people will do their best
to Tighten the burdens of a body of in
dividuaIs who are sure to have their
hands pretty full, even under the best
managed conditions. Nor will it be
amiss if thousands of people decide
that their purchase, not being over
large or burdensome, might as we'll be
carried with them, so that the delivery
man need not be called upon.
Finally Git may be w~hispered) there
is a general belief that things bought
several weeks before Christmas do not
cost as much as during the period i'm
mediately preceding Christmas.
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From a German Tripod.

Milwaukee Sentinel: And now
| comes the editor of The Hamburger
| Nachrichten and a%ppraises the presi-
dent Of the United States as a villain
Gus hypocrite in respect to his Next
can policy, which. he elucidates as
follows:
1.-The whole procedure of President
Wilson shows a desire to cause Mex
leo to bleed to death so that when an
opportunity. offers the exhausted coun-
try can easily be gathered Under the
wings of the American eagle"
So the German readers of his pro-
found oracle are led to regard the
painfully conscientious Wilson as a
sort Of diabolical compound Of Chad
! band and Bill Skies!
The man is so wildly and preposter-
ously wrong in his attempt to eluci-
date Mr.. Wilson's rather "goody-
goody'' policy, that he is more comic
than provoking. AS an expositor, he
| recalls the Hindoo student who was
called on to expound these lines from
| Keats Ode to a Nightingale:
Thou vast not born for death, i'm
mortal bird;
No hungry generations press thee
After deep thought, he turned in the
following: ..--
"The nightingale is not game bird
for the table, therefore the hungry
sportsman pare to tread on him."
That is about as neal to the original
as the Hamburg oracle is to the real
Mr.. Wilson. 81. H.
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THE IDLE SOIL,

civilian Borsodi and Potion Hall
are on the verge of starting some
thing again." says The Duluth Herald.
More power to them! They are
men with a hobby, and their hobby is
one from which incalculable benefits
Will f1ow if their dreams can be made
true. Their hope is to lessen the evils
of congested cities by helping to move
the surplus city population to the
country; and thereby also to lessen the
evils of the high EOS Of living and Of
social Embellishments by ~peopling
acres.
Some time ago Mr.. Borsodi wrote
along letter to Mr.. Hall, and the re-
suit of it was that Bolton Hall wrote
two books, Three Acres and Liberty
and The Garden Yard, which must
have been a powerful influence in fir
Ing in thousands of city hearts a long
ing for the freedom of the soil. We
remember publishing a review of the
former book in which we wished that
some philanthropist would buy enough
copies Of it to supply every city work.
er.
Now William Borsodi has written
again to Bolton Hall; and this time
his suggestion is that Mr.. Hall start a.
nationwide organization to, help city
workers get to the soil and become
established there; particularly immi-
grant city workers who come from
farms in Europe.
t"Mr. Hall writes a letter TO The
Herald suggesting that somebody take
up this movement.
itMr. Borsodi writes a letter to The
Herald urging it to urge Mr.. Hall to
take it up because he is the best man
to do it--a thing that we can readily
believe.
'&"And Mr.. Borsodi in his letter tells
us something about Bolton Hall:
Few persons know the real Bolton
Hall. The Little Land league had
great m~ilIionaires, such as j. Pierpont
Morgan, ". Everit Macy and Joseph
FEELS. on it's general committees; but
Bolton Hall paid all the bills. He
bought from his publishers enough of
his books to send to people who were
interested, but who could i'll afford to
buy the publications. TO those en-
tkusiastic souls who were carried
away by the vision Of a better life
through getting back to the soil, who
wanted to dispose Of their little bust
nesses and risk all on what they
thought vas a great opportunity, he
pointed out all the dangers. TO those
who appeared to have the right Quail
ties. he said. go flrst and work on a.
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THE I'm AMPLE NEXT DOOR.

New York World: President Wilson $
hand is not to be forced by Huerta's
insolenr", by the intribues OF British
ConceSStonartes or by AMERICANS who
lack his responsibility and patience.
Tho presidents purpose is not war.
1t Is peace. 1t Is in behalf of peace
and not Of strife that he has demanded
the retirement Of the dictator. This
may be brought about in various ways,
but time is likely to be one of the most
powerful factors.
Wholly aside from his public obliga-
tions, the president Is profoundly in
the sacrifice of life, war means more
taxes, more debt. more pensions, more
graft. War would defeat or wreck eV-
cry high aim TO which his administra-
ton Is pledged.
1t is through his triumph that after
nifty years of rXtortiOnate war taxation
me people have gained their first re-
lief. 1t Is as a result Of his election
that any hope whatever of a reform OF
our War-created finances is held out. 1t
Is to him that the country looks for the
correction Of vicious systems and poll
cles, every one of them a product of
war and of evil passions that war al
ways breeds.
There is no public motive for war,
because the president has already an
hounced that never again will the Unit
ed States seek one additional foot or
territory by conquest. There is no
private motive for war, because this
administration is known to have no en-
tanglements with predatory big busi-
ness. There is no foreign incentive to
war, except possibly in Great Britain,
and public opinion there Is rapidly dis
c~ouraging official bumptiousness md
the greed of selfish interests.
If time and it's eXhaustions do not
work against Huerta with enough
CELEBRITY. events may easily be fastened
by opening up traffic in~arms with the
constitutlonalists and by a blockade of
the Mexican ports. A tyrant who IS
already doomed at home, who has lost
control except in his own camps, whose
most powerful neighbor is hostile and
VINO can awaken no sympathy any
where on earth cannot prevail.
The processes of retribution may be
slow, but they are sure. Mexico itself,
with reasonable help, shOul provide its
own deliVeranCe. In no other way can
Its welfare be so certainly assured. In
no other way can there be established
ingly the relationship oS good n~eighDo"-
hood.
On this side of the Rio Grande there
Is strength. On the other is weakness.
ON this side there is regard for law,
for humanity. for civilization. On the
other there is arrogance and violence.
on this side there Is popular govern
ment under restraint. On the other
there is an attempt by one man to rule
despOtiCally in defiance Of right and
reason.
The American people have been urg-
ed, even now are urged, to accept gov
eminent by executive decree. What do
they think of it mex door?
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farm. Do not sell your shop until you
are sure you will like country life and
can make a success in the new field
He bought land In New Jersey fol
twenty or more worthy New Workers.
The land he bought he called Free
Acres" and he helped those people to
become self-sustaining.'
"Mr. Borsodi seems to be right
about Bolton Hall being the right mar
to start the movement. Both are
right about the need of its being start
ed. The increase in the cost Of food
prices, largely due to the fact that not
enough people are producing food, is
increasing the burdens and tho misery
of the surplus city population. The
mcrest glance at the increases in these
prices is enough to prove it worth
while to get men to nov from the
city to the countrJ-.
"Somecody ought to start it~~somc-
body who knows how fatal 1t would
be to transplant bodily n multitude Of
city dWellors TO the country and leave
them there TO swim or sink-some
body who knows ttat without wise
and kind guidance 80 per cent would
surely sink.
IF Bolton Hall will do it, he should
be the man II he wont, somebody
else should. An equalizing Of popula-
ton between city and country would,
if it could be brought about, promote
the happiness and we'll being of thou
sands, and lessen the high cost Of liv-
ing Tor everybody"
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SATURDAY, NOV. 20, 1918.
A NORTH DAKOTA LADS THESIS

New York Evening Post: What dc
school prizes or Phi Beta Kappa keys
mount to in comparison with the
symbol bestowed upon an 1~1-ycar-old
North Dakota lad for breaking the
record for the number of bushels OF
corn raised upon a SINCE acre? One
hundred and six bushels is his proud
achievement, and the suitable rccog-
milton of it is the sum of SITS in gold.
This must be at least the equivalent
in "thought-units" Of tra~nslating a
hundred lines of the Had, or solving
ten "originals" in geometry, in an
hour. The glory of tho new learning
is that, besides the mcntal exercise.
one has 1O6 bushels of corn. One can
imagine the preCocious boy listening
to the boasts Of his elders as they re-
cite the ~pondcrous titles of their Ph.
D. theses. and then saying, simply, as
he points to his pile Of corn: THAT
is my thesis"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-29
A Book For Fathers,

The eugenic campaign is taking very
practical form in England, especially
in the matter of practical literature
which can be used by both children
and parents. Cosmo Hamilton's
Plea for the Younger Generation, pub
lished in America, has been taken UP
in England by the Boy Scouts as a
text book. 1t seems highly probable
that it will be adopted for the same
purpose by the headmaster Of many
Of the big public schools, such as Elton
and Harrow. 1t is a highly human
book, saying to the boys everything
that the father ought to say and what
many Of them would like to say if
they only had the courage; things
which if said would save many a
youngster from bitter experience and
ultimate Disgrace. George H. Doran,
New York.
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LITERARY NOTES

Houghton Mifflin. Co. announces
that owing to congestion of press
work, the publication Of the final vols
ume of Emerson's Journals has been
postponed until January. The ninth
volume was published Nov. 20. Other
books to appear on the same date are
Mont st. Michel and Charities, by Hen
ry Adams; The Russian Ballet, by A.
e. Johnson, with illustrations by Rene
Bull; The Life of Charles +. McKim,
by Alfred H. Granger; The Ride
Home, q collection OF poems by Flor
ence Wilkinson Evans: Bull Run, by
r. M. Johnston, editor of The Corsi-
can, and a limited Riverside Press
Edition of Carlyle's famous essay, The
Diamond Necklace.
"That J, e. Patterson's descriptions
of sea. life have q freshness of touch
and that they are true to life is not
surprising" says The Outlook in it's
review of Mr.. Patterson's latest novel,
that the author spent four or five
years of his youth at the fisheries and
was a mate at IS. AS a novelist" The
Outlook remarks. "Mr.r Patterson GER
tainly has independence and virility.]'
"a group of most human and de-
lightful boys"-this is The Outlook's
SiAII lcNISA I6CLIIOI1 " IltS Z I'LL
untamed Kentucky feudists who are
responsible for many amusing things
in Miss Furman's book, Mothering on
Perilous. y.
"Truly the disclosure of the heart
and mind of a child is IONA Gales
When I Was a Little Girl says The
Outlook. 1.-THE book is an unusual ad-
dition to the very limited number Of
OnnH y 81 Z Il -
The outlook says that Gin ripeness
and mellowness Van Cleve is the best
Of the three excellent novels which
Mrs. Watts has to her credit and it
may be added that all three are enti-
tied to a place Of honor in American
fiction Of this century"
To make philosophy popular-the
aim, we + told, of A~ddison-is what
Agnes Edwards has accomplished in
the little essays gathered together
under the title. Our Common. Road,
published this fall by Houghton Milf
lin CO. Astounding good spirits is the
keynote of the papers, and a happy
sanity that recognizes and respects
our small ordinary difficulties even
while it laughs them away. A Plea.
for Playfulness makes fine distinction
between polite cheerfulness and un-
p~remeditated fun. "Cheerfulness," it
says, "is a much abused word, and
seems to cover everything from sac
charine sentimentality to levity and
flippancy. But ~playfulness has not
come into it's own 1t deserves both
cultivation and appreciation. It is. the
dash Of color, the snap of flavor that
makes all the difference between a,
ISlum day and a bright one. It is the
merry cap and bells that lightly drive
dull care away"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-29
NOSE and HEAD STOPPED UP FROM
COLD OR CATARRH, OPEN AT ONCE

drugstore. This sweet, fragrant balm
dissolves by the heat of the nostrils;
penetrates and heals the infamed,
swollen membrane which lines the
nose, head and throat; clears the air
passages; stops nasty discharges and
a feeling Of cleansing, soothing relief
comes Immediately.
Don't lay awake tonight struggling,
for breath, with head stuffed; nostrils
closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrh
or a cold; with it's running nose foul
mucous dropping into the throat, and
raw dryness is distressing but truly
needless.
Put your faith-just once-in "Ely's
Cream Balm" and your cold or catarrn
will surely disappear.-Advt.