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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21
five Stock" Special
to Be Run Over the
Lines of 500 Road
Will Traverse More Than 1000 Miles and Will Take to
Farmers Facts Concerning Live Stock Raising
Will Be Under Auspices of Director Thomas Cooper of the
State Experiment Station

North Dakota's first livestock
Special will be operated over the 500
lines within the state June s to 1S
traversing more than 1000 miles of the
states best agricultural regions and
visiting more than forty cities and
villages. Arrangements for the spe-
cial were completed yesterday by Di-
rector Thomas P. Cooper of the
State Experiment station and W. l.
Martin, vice president Of the 500
Railroad company.
Although special farm demonstra-
ton trains have been frequently
operated by the various railroads of
the state, this is the first time that a
special train has been devoted ex-
clusively to the interests Of live
stock in North Dakota. The train
will be we'll equipped for its work.
Palace stock cars will carry types Of
the best grades of livestock; fiat cars
will be fitted for lectures and demon
stration purposes and Pullman
coaches will be attached for the
Experiment station experts who will
accompany the special.
Each stop will be for at least two
hours. Lectures on live stock topics
and demonstrations will be given and
visitors to the train will be given
ample opportunity to inspect the
types of livestock represented.
The trip will take eleven days. The
train will be fitted out in Fargo but
the start proper will be made from
CogswelI, in the southeastern corner
of the state. Practically every mile
of the 500 lines and branches will
be traversed by the special and the
long trip will end at Westby in the
extreme northwestern corner Of the
state.
The purpose Of the train. according
to Director Cooper who is making
the plans for the trip, is educational
pure and simple. 1t Is the aim Of the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21

Experiment station authorities to
call attention to the value of live
stock on the farms and in this con-
nectlon to call attention to the types
and classes of stock best suited to
North Dakota conditions. Attention
will also be called to the factors which
enter into livestock maintainence in
North Dakota. While the 500 lines
furnish the train, the speakers will be
experts from the State Experiment
station.
We believe that the train just at
this time meets an economic need in
North Dakota" said Director Cooper
in making his announcement Of the
plans for the trip. North Dakota is
very rapidly increasing it's livestock
population. Farmers are showing in
creased interest in the production Of
mat animals as well as dairy cattle.
THE success of corn and alfalfa as
crops in all sections of the state has
paved the way for the production
of livestock on an economic basis.
In the territories through which the
train will operate livestock must
soon become the dominant factor in
the agriculture and the major portion
Of the income from the most success
full farms will in the very near future
be produced from livestock.
THE production Of hogs had
doubled in North Dakota during the
last year. Dairy products have doubled
during the last three years. More in
terest is now being shown than ever
before and still greater increases in
all the livestock industry are bound
to come in the very near future. A
general knowledge of the classes and
types of livestock which prove most
profitable and of the factors which
enter into their profitable produc-
ton is therefore necessary and it is
to meet this special need that the
train has been arranged for by the
Experiment station.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21

Today more than $500 women
are pretching as regular or
dained ministers in the United
States More than 1000 others
are regularly certified pyhsi-
clans and surgeons Probably
1000 more are registered as
members of the legal profession.
and thousands I, are scattered
among various professions and in
dustries which half century ago
were considered solely fields for
masculine endeavor. Many cit
les today have women as mayors
and heads Of civic departments.
State and city school boards are
headed by women. There are a
score of women who have the
right to practice law before the
Uniter States supreme court.
Many colleges have adopted CO.
education, while there are more
than thirty colleges devoted ex-
clusively to the femme sex. In
the universities, colleges and
technical schools in the United
States during the last year there
were over 5000 women professors
and instructors and more than
100000 women students.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21
THEN AND NOW

The first woman to become a
regularly ordained minister was
porn SO years ago today. She was
NAntoinette Louise Brown, later
Mrs. Samuel G. Blackwell, the
& Nughter of a farmer of Henriet-
=. N, Y. When she came to con-
. "a college education in 1S43
\ r Nllegiate institute, now Ober-
III % ege, was the only institution
OF Q, md in America where wo-
men q pursue a collegiate
educa She was graduated in
the litN ,.ry course and in the
theological school, but although
she established later reputa-
ton as a brilliant speaker. she
was refused a license as preach
er She turned to lecturing upon
Women's rights, and was a leading
member Of the first Woman's
Rights convention that met in
Worcester, Mass, in 1850 Three
years later the bar against her
entry to the ministry was lower
ed and she was ordained as pastor
of the Congregational church at
South Butler. n. Y. Later she
Joined the Unitarian ministry all
ways continuing her agitation
for woman suffrage.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21

SOUND"
NEXICANS

Niagara, May 21.-The three South
American mediators in an informal
conference with the representatives of
Huerta, sought to learn in general
way the viewpoint of the Mexican
Representative on the various tenta-
tive plans for a solution Of the Mexi-
can problem.
The mediators pursued the same
course with the Mexican delegates as
they did with the American peace
commissioners last night. No formal
expression of views was required, but
the mediators suggested hypothetical
steps looking toward settlement of
the Mexican imbroglio and learned
the trend Of thought Of the delegates.
No proposals Of definite character
have been made to the Americans, and
1t is understood none were contem-
plated today with the Mexicans. In
fact, one Of the principals to the con
ference expressed the opinion that II
might be several days before a def
mite. comprehensive plan could be
submitted for formal consideration to
either side
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21

|. LOSES OUT
ON GOLF
Last of American Golfers
Eliminated in
England
.SCOTCHNEN turn TRICK
Last Years English Cham
pion Also Went Down
to Defeat
SCOTCHNEN turn TRICK

Sandwich, England, May 21.-
Charles w. Evans. Jr., of Chicago. and
Harold Weber, of Toledo. the only
American survivors in the fourth
round of the British amateur gon
championship, met defeat at the
hands of two Scotchmen, c. B. Mac
Farlane and Captain Cecil K. Hutch
inson. .a
Harold Hilton, holder of the title
shared their fate being beaten by
Edward Blackwell, another Scottish
player. .. "
Evans was beaten two UP, four to
play. Weber was beaten six up,
four to play. Hilton was beaten by
three up in the fourth round.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21

John L. Billiard, aseu 40, .v rnys-
terious millionaire, was called to
the witness stand in the interstate
commerce commission investiga-
tion of iae New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad in Washing
ton the other day. He told little
about himself.
In 19CE the New Haven held
109,94S Shares of the Boston. &
Maine railroad. A Massachusetts
court declared the New Haven had
no legal right to hold this stock.
Thereupon Mr.. Billiard of Meriden,
Conn. a harmless coal dealer, or
ganized the Billiard Co. He wrote
to President Mellen Of the New
Haven he would give $120 IL share
for the Boston & Maine stock. Mr..
Mellen phoned to him he would
sell at S12a. The deal was closed.
Mr.. Billiard gave a note. and then,
with the stock as collateral, rails
ed some SI1.000,000 to pay the bal
ance. Later he sold the stock to
the Boston Railroad Holding Co.
. for s15G a share. The holding
company afterwards sold the stock
back to the New Haven.
Mr.. Billiard had made a profit of
&a$2. 74S.00e, He swore that no Off
Ger of Tho New Haven shared in
cent of this. Asked for the books
OF the Billiard Co., he said he
didn't know where they were
Asked fer his personal books, he
said he had burned them
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21
Biggest Ocean Liner
in World Was Adrift
inn. Y. Harbor Today

New York, May 21.--The giant new
liner, tVaterland, of the Hamburg
American line. the biggest ocean
steamer in the service arriving on her
maiden voyage from Hamburg, furnish
ed an exciting episode for shipping on
the Hudson river The big craft broke
away from the tugs conveying her to
Hudson, carried by the tide. At times
jGhe swung broadside across the river.
When the Vaterland headed for her
pier, more than fifty tugs had her in
hcharge. AS her bow neared the pier
q strong ebb tide caught the vessel at
the stern and began to swing her
around. heading her straight for a
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21

shouting of megaphoned orders. the
big whistle on the liner doomed and
the hawsers on the tugs let go.
The vessel began to back under her
own power and was soon in the stream
again almost directly in the path Of
Lackawanna ferry boats. The tugs be-
gan to maneuver about her again, but
the big liner drifted southwark more
than mile before the tugs succeeded
in getting her in tow again and she
was headed up stream under control.
The Vaterland on her run yesterday
made 594 miles, an average speed of
1913 knots. She was launched April 8,
1913. She is 904 feet in length, 100
foot beam and her tonnage is $4,000
tons. She carries one commodore, four
captains and a total crew Of 1924 men.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21
LOCAL BALL GAMES FOR A WEEK


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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05

clerks from the efficiency standpoint.
Ii Is our policy to increase the number
OF our women employees until we have
so per cent. women to 40 per cent. men
In the junior clerkships. and so per cent.
each in the senior -clerkships and from
there on UT to the higher executives.
who are. and will be for some time to
come. ! suppose. all men.
II think that the full value Of women
In business offices has not been realized.
Women are contented as IA class and
their cares do not increase. With men
II is just the opposite. A chap enters
here as an Office boy. The first step
is for him to acquire IA sweetheart and
then he needs more money to take her
around. Pretty soon he marres her and
then he needs more money to take care
Of her. Then they have children and
he needs more money to take care OF
them. Then the children grow up
and he needs more money to educate
them and get them started in life.
Always it is more money and more.
There is no true efficiency where
there is not an open mind for ones work.
II "A man is discontinued and harassed
by worries. bothered with debts and
anxieties. or II he feels that he il worth
more than he is getting; IL he is dis
contented and looking around Cor
another place he cannot settle down to
work with any remarkable success.
"a woman on the other hand is much
easier to satisfy and keep contented.
Give a woman a fair salary and she will
settle down perfectly content.
The problem OF losing girls through
marriage Is not such a grave one. for a
good many Of these girls are too wise
to marry. A girl who is interested in
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most spectacular salaries and careers
to women of any line OF industry.
Salaries of women buyers and heads OF
departments run up 10 the ten thousand
mark and even beyond II, according to
report. Catering chiefly TO women. the
department store offers a conspicuous
opportunity for woman 10 use her in
st!nctive knowledge of her sex and It's
foibles W her own personal profit. j.
II. Emery. president of Lord 4 Taylor,
was glad TO acknowledge the impor-
lance Of women in his business. lie
said:
THE reputation Of several OF our de-
partments has been built up entirely by
the cleverness and ability of the women
managing them. Women have con-
tributed great deal To our success and
we are very glad to acknowledge the
fact. There is probably greater
chance for advancement for capable
women In department stores to-day
than in any other line Of work.
"We have women drawing salaries
we'll up in the thousands which COM
pare very favorah'y with the salaries
Of men of the same grade, While ow-
women their salaries may not No In every
case as high as these paid to men WI
try TO treat the two sexes with absolute
fairness, recognizing only individual
ability and achievement and making no
discrimination whatever for sex.
THE fact that women when they
marry usually leave their work for the
home is OF course handicap to the po-
sition of women industrially. An ON
ployer has a feeling OF security with
men that no has not with his capable
and attractive women executives. From
time to time we lose "A woman executive
by marriage. but IN tho individual case
I am always glad TO have them go. for
I think that q woman happily married
is much better off. | do not think that
there Is an increasing tendency for
women TO keep their positions after
marriage. ] should be sorry to think
that such was the case.
II believe that mon and women en-
ployecs should be treated as nearly a.
possible on exactly the same basis.
Benefits or favors extended to one
should include tho other, That will AL
ways be our policy. AS long as women
Vontlnu" 10 WORK nope tnat they Will
continue to climb AZ they have done in
the last twenty years, am always
full of hope, and am especially hopeful
for the woman Of to-day, for | think
that she has splendid future
1t seems to be IN factory and the
heavier types of work that woman is
at disadvantage when il comes to pro-
motion. She lacks the actual physical
force to back up mental determination
and put things through, according To
&. NJ. Fairbanks, advertising manager
Of the clothing house of browning. King
* Co. Mr.. Fairbanks said:
I'VE employ several hundred women.
but none Of them hold the recognized
executive positions. This is partly be-
cause In the workrooms. for instance,
where there are great many women
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Wonan's Chances for Promotion
and Equal Pay in Industrial World


OF tne poiicy Oh the company ne saiu:
we make as httic dis'ihctioii pe
tween men anu women as possio'e'
Ihere are CERTAIN kinos OF WORK wnicil
are petter auapteu 10 men, SUI" 10
executive positions III tne mahuiac'ur
ing departnents' where the suporuihates
are all men OF men ana women Nie''
90 not IKE 10 WORK uhder Iore-
woinah' IL puts theh at oisauVu"
tase. Ihey sui nave preJuuice
against taking ORDERS from woman
wnicn tends 10 cause irlctioh anu o'S
satisfaction.
we Try 10 pay men anu women vi
exactly the same scale Ihere are GER
tam xmas OF WORK winch women uo
petter than men, ana vice versa. Col'-
sequently we take them ACCORDING as
they are better suited Tor the WORK anu
pay them IN proportion To their api'i'y.
ieHperaihentaiiy women nave ee'
tam characteristics which MAKE ,.e"'
In some respects more Vaiuapie 'hai'
men. Iney are undoubtedly '"o '''oS'
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against the question OF what is j living
wage for a young woman. Here In
New York So week is the very least
on which a young woman can get room
and board in a respectable family. Then
there are all the details of clothes. doc
tors and dentists bills and medicines
and the recreation which everybody
must have to maintain wholesome
equilibrium; it all counts up. even on
the simplest scale Into an astoundingly
large budget"
The telephone companies have made
as extensive and scientific investga-
lions into the methods and conditions OF
their employees work as any modern
industry. Employing. as one concern
does, about 10000 women. their conclu-
sions have the Significance of Wide ex-
perience. Angus s. Hibbard. who is
connected in an advisory capacity with
the American Telephone and Telegraph
Company. has made q special study Of
the statistics in regard to women en-
ployees.
"Out OF 10000 employees about TO-
900 are girls and women. We have
women supervisors and women chief
operators. and in small communities,
and counts for something. we even have
women as managers OF the exchanges.
But in cities we ind It necessary to
have man to hack up the authority OF
the women executives working over the
girl operatives and the managers of
city exchanges are always men.
This Is due not to lack of ability in
the women. who are perfectly capable
ne hainp N IA q dr. ~. ho
public. who practically demand man
as final authority. our work brings US
in constant contact with the public
Girls make the best operators in the
world. but they and the supervisors and
/ the entire organization need the steady
ing and backing up which n man In
! final authority alone can give.
we give our girls and women ahso-
lute!y equal pay for the same work as
the men, and they share equally in all
the benefits-sicls benefits accident ben
eilts, old age pensions and death ben
| eilt.
"a city bred girl OF Irish extraction
makes the best telephone operator in
the world, according to our experience
They do the work without hitch
where a roomful OF boys would go crazy
l
much more patient as rule with girls
than with boys In the second place. In
spite of the fact that women are sup
posed to be so very personal in their
point Of view and to bc unable to take
things in "A big lmpersonal way. we
find that they manage the public over
the telephone wires In more imper-
sonal and successful way than any men
and boys who ever lived.
The typewriter employs a vast army
Of women. j. ". Earle. president of
the bennington Typewriter Company
| In thirty-seven years experience with
the company has had unusual oppor-
tunlties OF studying the efficiency and
! the limitations OF women In business
offices. He emphasizes their faithful
ness, loyalty and discretion" Speaking
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her work and is receiving salary OF
sl.500 up is going To think twice before
she throws 1t away TO marry some chap
unless he is doing at least twice as
well.' -
j. G. Wallacil, head OF the Wallach
laundries. in his interview coined a
phrase which Is expressive. He says
that one of the chief difficulties in APP
pointing women as executives Is that
their breaking point IS lower than that
of men," They cannot stand up to the
emergency and the unusual strain.
Speaking of women as compared with
men Mr.. Wallach said
Mentally woman is mans equal, and
from a business standpoint she is often
his superior in that she Is moro de-
pendable. more honest and more devoted
than man. Her limitations are physical,
but in business these are serious. be-
cause there are many managerial posi-
tons. especially in such work a. laun-
dry's. where 1t takes actual sense OF
strength and the physical force to back
1t up to dominate room and turn the
work out.
ut is no question OF equal wages for
men and women. We want women in
tations will permit, and we pay them
as high wages as the business will
stand.
PERSONALLY l believe that woman has
no place in the business world. think
she should devote herself to home life
and let men, who are the coarser ami
mails. do the real hustling outside.
For positions of responsibility and
trust woman Is far superior to man. In
twenty-five years experience | have
known only two cases Of dishonesty
among my women. ard about - per
cent, of my 400 employees are women.
one of these girls who robbed me was
engaged to young man who found out
her opportunities for dishonesty and
practically forced her to take advantage
OF them and hand the money over to
him.
MY cashier. who has been with me
for years and whom | trust with blank
checks and control of the finances when
am away for four weeks at n time, is
not even bonded. know of no men
who could he trusted TO such an extent.
In positions of trust women give n
quality OF devotion and fidelity to their
work Of which men are not possessed"
FRANK Iucker, Vlce-preSident or the
Provident Loan Society, has had un-
usual opportunities for comparing the
opportunities of working women with
those of men in his study OF the mini.
mum wage and allied problems as pres-
dent of the National Conference OF
Charities and Correction. Mr.. Tucker
has both faith and interest in the work
ing woman and believes In giving her
the utmost opportunity. He said
supply and demand. the element Of
competition, must enter into the de
termination of womens wages ~ we'll
as those of men. II Is not difficult "a
find capable woman executive entirely
adapted to swing a responsible position
at $4,000 year. That II n good salary
for a woman. A man for the same job
would be worth at least s5,ooo-and be-
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zone may argue that in providing
benefits for the men one thus Indirectly
helps the women, for there IL no douh-
that after the children come it is the
woman who carries the burden OF H. r
support. The man works all the Week
and draws his pay, and that Is all there
is TO 1t. But the woman has the SPEND
ing of il, the managing and Cuntriyin;
To make Il do, the responsibility aud
worry In case of illness and death.
Il understand that Mr.. Ford says that
he expects his women to marry and he
taken care of in that way. That g a
nice idea. but | think that whore women
are contributing TO the profits of an
establishment they should be included
in any profit sharing scheme on exactly
the same scale as men.
AS fer Mr. Ford's plan it is not bust
ness-it is merely a splendid pyrotech-
meal display. No one else can do II, and
he can't keep 1t up. Therefore | do not
oonsider 1t business or a matter for the
community TO take very seriously or -
worry over
George Gair Of the Gair paper box
plant in Brooklyn feels that a manufAc-
turer is equally indebted to his mon and
his women for the success uf hi bust
ness and that therefore they must ne
treated alike. MIR Gair said:
81 do not STE how a manufacturing
company employing women on a LARGE
scale could regard them differently f-um
men. Women excel in their own Wur>,
which may be along different lines from
that of men, and their employer uiut.
give them equal recognition in any -,G-
eral distribution of benefits OF raise e
wages.
I'VE try to treat men and women ~.
actly alike. or our 900 employees
nearly half are women. As an oNamulN
of our policy, last Christmas We rat =
every employee an insurance policy
equal To a years income. and We should
not have thought Of giving this only 20
the men.
The women's work IS different from
that of men, So that it is difficult 80
judge or to compare whether thcy get
equal pay.
The fact that women leave 'r..- ~
sitions when they marry Is undoubtedly
handicap TO them, h"c1us" tu-v IN
not be considered as permanent , "A
Of employees as the men