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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

an old-countryman,> who had squan-
dered many dollars in trying to find
that Elusive best place, said to me not
long ago: New place, new troubles.
It costs too much to find the best place.
] stay where I am"
Here Is wisdom itself. New place,
new troubles. How few think Of that:
and being new troubles, how hard they
ARE to overcome. I haye travelled ex-
|tensively on the coast, in Canada and
in It's south, and the more T know of
their hidden drawbacks. and how
|overdrawn their few advantages are,
the more I firmly believe that the part
of the country represented by this
meeting, is one of the very safest in
which TO settle down and make a per-
lmanefnts farm home. That one place has
no greater advantage over another that
has not a corresponding great disad-
vantage.
Ours is a land of staple products,
near, steadily improving markets and.
la climate that turns out healthier,
brighter and happier men and women
than any other land know. And
agriculture Is by the far h safest
Occupation here. So the safety and
economy of staying where we are and
lstaying by our farming Is only too
evident. And still this Willingness to
lchange, to try something new, has be-
leone a disease in sOme parts, malig-
nant and wide spread. 1t prevents the
Iplanting of windbreaks, the putting out
of trees and orchards, the making of
permanent fences, the painting of
buildings and the growing of live stock,
(which is the very foundation of sub
~lstantial agriculture. 1T prevents maxi
ling the home convient, pleasant and
Iattractive. lit even discourages build
ling up our soils and driving weeds
from our fields. Tt does more than
this. The constant talking Of other
land better places, trades and callings,
Icreates a general uneasiness and dis
satisfaction which becomes not only a
Ipart OF our children's education, but
la part OF themselves, and they not
Ionly look forward to leaving the To-
Icality, but to leaving the land Itself
the only thing that can bring them
disability and real independence intthe
I~overcroWded future. This inbred rest
Iessness also disqualifies them for
sticking to anything very long, and be-
fore we know lit we have graduated q
professional fault finder--somettirnes 2
tramp. s,s
In this connection let me say. that IN
I3LBsH eua M 4eul 81 AZ .srHl puE
my Judgment the instability in hand
Yalues, particularly o~yer-valuilg much
of lit, has done much to cause the vege-
table instability referred to-
.MAA m M MhH 10y Mek
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

a country when its people for any
reason desert the soil and crowd to
the city? When its country school
houses are empty n churches aban-
doned? And when it to dollars,
have they forgotten who paid the
great war debt to Germany? Who
are loaning millions, almost billions. to
the great powers Of Europe today? Is
it the big farms Of Russia or the great
estates of England? No, they are the
borrowers, and the five, ten ana TWEEN
ty-acre garden farms of France are
furnishing the money. Not only for
them, but for the borrowing world.
Small farms well titled add nightly
to the safety of any nation and moth
ing would add more to our north
western agriculture than smaller
farms.
But there Is one great change COM
ing to this magnificent farming Sec
ton no n would wish to hinder or
defer and that change is to more
stock, farming. 1t is coming too at a
most opportune time, just when al
falfa and corn are coming, and when
the farms OF the northwest and not
the ranges Of the west, are to furnish
much Of our future meat supply.
In making this change too great
care cannot be taken. or costly insta-
bility may hinder its best Develop
ment.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

is a clean. we'll printed newspaper
that faithfully chronicles the happen
ings of the week and boosts every
nov for the advancement Of the COM
munity.
The soil Of the land around Finley
is a rich black loan with a good clay
subsoil and it Is free from sour land
alkali or gumbo and is very fertile. It
is well drained and very productive Of
diversified crops. The farmers Of this
section are going in for stock raising
and silos are being erected on every
hand. Corn is being raised with good
results and the transformation from a
one-crop country that North Dakota
is now going through is very evident
in a drive around Finley. The value
of Steele county land is higher than
that Of any part Of the state and Fin
ley is right in the midst Of the richest
part Of the county.
The railroads report that the largest
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27
FARM JOURNAL
EDITORS TALK
M. F. GREELEY OF ABERDEEN,
EDITOR or. THE DAKOTA FARM
En-. GAVE EXCELLENT TALK ON
PROGRAMME OF TRI-sTATE
GRAIN GROWERS CONVENTION.

The address of M. E. Greeley Of
Aberdeen, editor of The Dakota
Farmer, was one Of the speeches omit
recent Tri-State Grain Growers con
vention. It is now given below and is
as follows:
sit has been a number of years
since I, stood upon this. platform, n
during that time a great change for
the better has come to our local agrl-
culture. Corn has come in from the
south and is fast spreading to- y
beyond our most northern
Alfalfa has broken over u western
border, swept across our entire terri
the east of us. Livestock of every kind
is slowly following these alluring for
age plants in their mild invasion and
a great safety and stability in our
farming is written in unmistakapIe
bettering n8tle gold OF corn and the
green OF alfalfa and in herds n
droves clear across the territory repre-
scented in this meeting. ! wish could
talk only at this time of the bright
side and our successes, but there IS
another side. which 1T may be well for
ssto- not wholly ignore. I refer more
particularly to the atmosphere OF
!. change and instability which, lis 50
much more pronounced in this great
northwest than in more eastern, farm
;ng communities.
AZ willingness to sell, to- start up
1gains somewhere else. is perhaps one
&c the greatest drawbacks to- per
manent advancement, which we have
10 contend with.
ttI4et me say. right here that a very
large per cent. of our farm people are
not troubled this way. but. Judging from
the many homes 4 have visited and the
bic lii widespread and is doing much
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

ments which give the youth an ex-
ceptional opportunity to prepare for
the best in the educational needs Of a
business or professional life.
A live incorporated commercial club
Is constantly at work advancing the
best interests of, the town and COM
munity and its members are boosters
for all that will tend to increase the
business of the city OF aid in the ad-
vancement of the people Of this Sec
ton.
Finley is a large grain shipping
point and tt handle the golden grain
that at harvest time pours into the
town four elevators are required, one
Of them being the property Of the
farmers of the section and this draws
a large amount Of trade to the town.
Three large general stores which
might ittingly be called department
stores provide ideal shopping facilities
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

When land Is too high, the discour-
aged man trying to pay for 1t Is
strongly tempted to sell and move on.
If he cannot pay for 1T he must move
on. The mar who has his land paid
for thinks he can surely do better with
SO much money elsewhere. and so he
moves on-often to lose all he has
made. This knowing M has done our
country inestimable harm. I am firm
~ convinced that it is to the interest
of all real farmers to do what they
can to keep land down to its real
value. Not necessarily, a cent below
it. but certainly not l cent above 1t.
EVERY dollar we allow boomers and
scoundrelly promoters to add to the
investment price of our land above its
Ireal value is a distinct injury to- our
business and to the country. It not
only dishonesty adds to u taxation.
but it prevents our children owning
Hand near us, and drives both them
and the man Of small means to the
ends of the earth for land the price Of
which, regardless Of climate. market
or location, fits their pocketbook or
their ability to ave and earn. 1t pre-
vents thousands who otherwise would,
from having self-supoprting homes
among ~us-building up both city and
country. These overnight prices can
10 us no earthly good, unless we wish
~ Cll, oit IAAc Az Ao WOiA
located farmer in the territory repre-
scented in this meeting should ever for
one moment think Of doing, unless n
der very exceptional circumstances.
A railroad may water it's stock to
three or four times its value, and it
may pay 1T to do SO, for the people
are expected, and frequently do, pay a.
fair per cent of profit on the greatly
inflated values. But the farmer must
| pay dividends on his own Watered
stock. or some day he, or some city
friend or expert, will figure up and
show that he is not being paid so well
for money invested as some other
business pays, and he will do one of
two ~things-either become discomfort
ed with farming, turn into an all
around fault-fnder and sell out to try
something easier or better paying, or
lfe will work himself and family to
ldeath trying to pay dividends on his
watered stock. his own over-capitaiiz-
alton.
iowa ana Illinois have allowed land
boomers and spectators and AZ few
Il FARMERS who wanted to sell. to SO in
fate their land values In sorne parts
that they first drove out the country
churches, then the schools and all
social life, and finally the people
themselves, and as a consequence III
gone parts OF southern Iowa. land has
N.&
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

to hinder u permanent advancement
Nor is this the fault of the country
itself. Few who have their eyes on
other lands, complain Of u soil, mar
kets or location, and but few of u
climate; but they invariably begin to
quote from highly colored advertising
handed them by land companies, rail-
roads or some, other interested par
ties who are to prosper just in pro-
portion to the discomfort they can ex-
cite. These people seem to not know
that this is the advertising and pro-
noting age, that every art has been
called upon to lure people to tine
places and occupations, n to magnf-
fly the advantages of these places and
schemers are bright enough to know
that it pays to spread their bait where
have means. and know how to do
things.
The head man of Canadian imni-
grafton told me at Winnipeg some
time ago that they would rather
have one Dakota mai who had won
out there, than a carload of men fresh
from England OF the east. Again,
all in this comparatively NEW
country have moved once, sometimes
twice. and every time a MAJ moves he
can be moved easier the next time.
BY the time he has moved two or
three times he. will generally keep
moving till. she dies. Now, the time is
no longer coming; it is here, when we
ought to stop this moving and settle
down to the great and sufficient bus
mess Of faTTning-concentrate our
whole energies upon developing and
making the most Of what we have and
forever stop dreaming of other lands
trades Or occupations.
Heretofore. when we made mistakes
or failed. free. Or nearly free land, rich
and ready. awaited farther on. Bui
Ethat time has gone. We must know
what we are doing now. Change oil
all kinds is costly and more or less
risky.
This is. particularly true when ONT
changes location and especially wher
that change is tt distantapart of tht
country and to sa different kind o.
farming. Even to change extensivel,
and suddenly into as kind or branch o
farming with which one IFS wholly I'm
acquainted is extremely risky. and hal
lcrippled many.
JUST as surely asaexperience is wax
liable to us in anything, inexperienc,
Isl a handicap. But in spite Of al
this, a Willingness to Jump from on
thing to anpther--eyen from on
countrysto another, has greatly harm
ed our agriculture.
The fact is. no place is perfect A
4Xp
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

modern and are placed in large and
beautiful lawns. which are all we'll
kept. The home life is the ideal one
and no town of it's size in the state
can boast Of better or happier homes.
Finley is the home Of many profess
sional men among whom may be men
toned DR., L. P. Larson, dentist: P.
o. Satire. attorney at law; States
Atty. c. J. Goodheart, M. D.; and M. J..
Heimark. NJ. D. -'-
Two banks with ample capital fur
nish financial accommodation for the
community and they are both well pa
tronized by the people of the COM
munity.
The Finley Beacon is an ideal home
newspaper which under the editorial
guidance of Editor Monteith has won
a place in the homes of the section. It
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

volume of business between Casselton
and Devils Lake is transacted at Fin
ley and the openings for the man who
desires to live in a community Of So
ciable happy people. to educate his
children in the best manner and to en-
joy life as it should be enjoyed can
none Of them surpass that held out by
Finley; Steele county, North Dakota.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

The characteristics Of lefthanded,
people as a whole give them, in hia
eyes, an unfavorable. eve a ~degener-
ate aspect and he pours ridicule on
the attempt to revert to the ambideX-
terity of monkey times which is now
attempted in our training schools.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

tips briskly. See how quickly it brings
reIief-how speedily the pain disap-
pears.
And there is nothing like MUSTER
OLE for Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Tom
%silitis, Group, Stiff Neck, Asthma, Neu-
ralgia, Headache, Congestion, Plenrisy,t
Aches of Back or Joints, S~prains, Sore
Muscles, H-uises, Chilblains. Frosted
Feet, ColdS Of the Chest (it prevents
gpneurlonial.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27
Lefthandedness Is a Stain.

New York Independent: A German
philosopher, DR.. Ewald Sitter, has set
himself with true Teutonic thorough,
ness to discover the inwardness of be-
ing Iefthanded. According to the mod
ern fashion. he begins far back, in,
fact. with the monkeys, which, he
says, are completely ambidextrous.
there being no signs Of righthanded or
lefthanded individuals among them.
The examination Of tools and imple-'
ments Of the stone and bronze age
leads DR.. Stier to believe that in pre-
historic times, perhaps one-half Of the,
population was 1efthanded. Modern,
lefthanded people he looks at askances
as a kind of reversion to stone age
manners. as remnants of a variety Of
homo sapiens in process of extinction.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

Company, Cleveland, Ohio. and we WILL
0. T. g. Emery. al. d, So. Waterboros
Me-, says:
sMusterole is much better lei every
respect than the mustard paste pr fne
on hand Tor ready use ait any time.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

To prevent poisoning by accidental
swallowing of bichloride of mercury
tablets in mistake for others a Gin
cinnati druggist has invented blotters
impregnated with the drug, with which
the antiseptic solution can be made.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

AT your druggists fin
csc and soc Jars. and q
special large hospital
size for $3.50.
Accept no substitute.
If your druggist cannot
supply you, send csc or
5nc I'd
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27
If Our GRANDMOTHER Had Only
Known MUSTEROLE

How they would have welcomed 1t.
For they knew the blessed relief that
the ~old-fashioned mustard plaster gave
for colds, aches and pains.
But they had to take the blister and
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27
TT SOMETIMES HAPPENS.

He dragged his shotgun
Through the fence, muzzle first,
But the gun didn't catch. -
And the shell didn't burst,
And his wife through the cleaning
In tears did not wait,
And she doesn't wear black,
And no crepe's on the gate.
Houston Post.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

EINFI5 d LfSIT1s WHINE III |0"1." 60" "I.. ~
inent, made with oil OF mustard. Tt Is
scientifically prepared, SO that it works
wonders. and yet does not blister the
~tenderest skin.
Don't spread MUsTERoLE ON d
cloth. Don't bind it on With a piece
OF flannel,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

FOR STATE NEWS READ THE FORUM
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Continued on Page Four.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-27

the burn with the plas-
ter.
You can get mustard's
wonderful effect. with
out. the plaster and
without the blister.
does it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-25
Presidents Plans Reported in State of Utter Collapse
 in Upper House.
WANT DISAPPOINTMENT
Another Plea to Be Made to President tO Permit Passage of Trust Com-
 mission Measure and Adiourn-
 ment-Fight on Reserve Board.

Washington, June 24.-The pres- dents trust program in the senate is in a state of utter collapse. So ,.opelessly are the members of the committee on judiciarytand interestae commerce divided on various phases tru-t bills as passed by the house that another appeal is to be made to the president to permit the senate to enact a trade commission lill and go home, study the entire subject thoroughly in the meantime end return prepared to legislate in telligently. There is little confidence that the president will listen to tAis appeal.
 Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia member of the judiciary committee, called on the president this evening OH matter of patronage and took the opportunity to discuss trust Legislation. Other senators will go to the white house tomorrow and at tempt to make the president realize tie situation in the senate.
 One of the big stumbling blocks is the exemption from prosecution sranted to labor organization in the housebill.
 Letters and tlegrams in protest against this are coming to senators from every section of the country. They are particularly emphatic from every section of the country. They arc particularly emphatic from the South. One of the most influential Democrats today received long tele- gram from a leading Democrat of his state, business man of affairs, who characterized the provisions of the impending bill as "the most airocious piece of class legislation eyer proposed, compared with which any thing the Republicans ever fostered was harmless" He assert eG that Such a law would drive the Democratic party from power, shock the intelligence and. common sense of all self-respecting men and in the end would work untold harm upon labor itself.
 Senate Must Confirm Appointments.
 Washington, June 24-The presi- dent is making the confirmation of Thomas D. Jones. of Chicago, noml- hated to be member of the federal reserve board, personal matter.
 Today, Secretary McAdoo and Postmaster-General Burleson, who have charge of the political affairs Of the administration, were at the capital holding conferences with senators relative to the fight now on against Jones and faul M. Warburg Of New York. The president demands ECint -hlank that hotr men shall be confSmed, and declared that support | Of these nominations shall be further test of party loyalty
 Senator Owen was unable to get a Quorum of his committee today so the Jones case will not come up un- til tomorrow.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-25
BIG FLYING BOAT
 C0NQUERs STORM Through Inky Darkness and Heavy Wind, the America
 Sails Like Gull.

Hammondsport, N. Y., June 24.-To- night in a bldckness that hid every thing except the waters of Lake Kue- ka, the flying boat America, which is destined to make aerial history next month by attempting to fly across the Atlantic ocean, made two mysterious flights into the darkness. A nasty south wind, which during a storm this afternoon almost wrecked the flyer as she lay in the aviation shed, buffeted the America with tremendous force as she made her second flight, but steady and true she flew like a swallow through the New York circled bluffs with all the ase of a huge bird.
 She experienced just a taste of which she is to encounter when she begins her flight against the winds, the waves and the cross-currents of the ocean, but she weathered her trials like a gull, and travelled at the tremendous rate of 60 miles an hour as she did it.
 John Tyrell Porte, the English naval officers seiected to pilot the America on her voyage across the Atlantic, was at helm. Glenn Curtiss, builder of the great flying boat, and George Hallett, the mechanician, who is to do the hard work when the America is speeding toward England, were in the cabin during the flight.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-25
TRAIN HITS AUTO;
 TWO CHILDREN DIE
Miss Bernice Brakeman, 20, and Two Others are Frightfully Mangled
 at Kalamazoo.

Kalamazoo, Mich., June 24.-An. auto- mobile driven by Miss Bernice Brake man and containing four children was struck by Lake Shore passenger train near here this afternoon and every occupant was probably fatally injured. Clair Brakeman, 11-year-old brother of Miss Braweman, died on the operating table at the hospital. John Ralyea died this evening in the hospital. Another brother, Louis, s, Marjorie Hall, 5, and Miss Brakeman. 20, were all frightfully injured. All are at the hospital and attendants there this evening said it was impos- sible to tell whether any would recov- CT.
 Miss Brakeman took the children out for pleasure ride in her fathers automobile. When the train struck the machine, the children were scat tered along the track for distance of 200 feet. Miss Brakeman was caught in the twisted frame of the auto and the steering wheel was driven almost completely through her body.