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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

So when the trump Of war was blown,
Those whom his monkey tricks revoltcd,
On hearing that the bird had flown,
Assumed that he had funked and bolted
But they were wrong; the goal he sought
Was in the neighborhood Of "Wipers,"
And there for three long months he fought
And faced the German shells and snipers.
To gain him entrance to the ranks
His real age required corrections;
But this involved no trouble, thanks
To his immaculate complexion.
And though before the Grand Assize
He may not be adjudged veracious,
In this, the last of all his lies,
He was quite "splendidly mendacious."
His regiment had fought right through
From Mons, and suffered heavy losses:
Among the dead they mourned were two
Who won but never wore their crosses
And though their souls were unsubdued,
Their courage high and lion-hearted,
Small wonder was it if their mood
Was not so gay as when they started.
The colonel whose unerring fair
Sized up this elegant newcomer,
At once encouraged him to air
His talents as a mime and hummer.
He wasn't handy with a spade,
But, as they all acknowledged after.
His singing and his stories made
The frozen Tommies roar with laughter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

Now, in all Christian fairness may we beg
the American exporter to see the simple fact
that neither the dusty two or three miles which
stand between the American samples and the
Chinese buyers nor the utter minus Of Amer
lean stores in Mukden are Japanese in their
nationality? Both of these handicaps, which
strangle hold American business in Manchuria
are American in origin, in persistence and in
all the vigor of it's disastrous operation
Now, the Japanese have their stores and
warehouses planted right in the city of
Mukden with the Chinese respect for con-
venience as the sole reason for their existence.
They carry goods in stock, in their modest
way. And the gentlemen from Missouri born
and bred in Manchuria, are invited to make
their selections and purchases out of the things
they with their eyes.
Another thing is the Manchurian vernacular.
A trader who commands it can turn il into a
commercial machine gun-a repeating rifle at
the very least-while he who does not COM
nand it is doomed to a muzzle loader. lap
anese trader speaking the vernacular can do
business direct with his Chinese customers
An American-too busy for any such tortuous
and leisurely occupation as the mastery of the
Chinese, let alone the Manchurian vernacular
does his business through an interpreter or
a comprador.
Comprador3 Why, he is the crown Jewel of
the foreign trade in China. He is a go-be-
tween, a commission merchant and cross be-
tween an interpreter and banker. To an
American trader who looks down upon the
language Of Confucius as heather brogue
utterly below his scholarly dignity good and
competent comprador is more precious than
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

price, in American money, does he receive on
the day of settlement? Neither he nor his pur-
chaser knows. Whether heaven is as much in
terested in the tortuous tangles Of human
money as to know that is in itself debata-
BILE affair. All depends on the luctuation Of
silver Now, doing business under such con.
ditions as this is not altogether frankncense
and myrrn to those who live by earthly bread
alone. Americans can sell their wares else.
where-at their own doorsteps, for example
rather easily. And, being a sensible people,
they 60 elsewhere Manchuria is fine school
for patience and has the most excellent eli
mate for trade heroism; Americans admit that
handsomely. But they have Mexico which is
a magnificent field for moral athletics, and
Mexico is much closer to their homeland than
Manchuria One result follows A:G.rcan
trade in Manchuria withers. Nothing could be
more natural than this And the Arctican is
astounded and shocked over the decline Of the
American trade in Manchuria, as though he
had seen a mile of bread line fed full on five
loaves of bread and two fishes" right on Broad
way He exclaims, "Ah, the Japanese compe
titonp-not because he is cross, but because
he cannot find anything handler to explain it,
because he has been too busy to read further
than the headlines of morning newspapers.
Still another closer of the open door rose
of late on the already much troubled horizon.
This time it is spectre, nothing more SUBJ
stantial than ghost 1t is the political I'M
rest in Eastern Mongolia. After the tradition
al manner of ghosts, it has dealt very rudely
and unkindly with the trade Of Manchuria.
The fact is the Manchus have no particularly
eager appetite for the sight of either the Jap
anese or the Russian soldiers. After Lao
Yang and Mukden in 1905, who can blame
them? A mere police guard gathering togeth-
er scares them to the bottom o. cyclone cell
lar. And the Manchurian trade is even more
tir1id than the popular imagination OF Man.
churia over wars and rumors OF th:m.
This disturbance, this particular closer Of
the open door, is Japanese in its nationality
at least one-half Of it. Although Japanese
Russian in nationality, this hslf-breed closer
OF the door is no respecter of nationalites. 1t
closes the door against the Russian and the
japanese as against the American
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
By ADACHI KINNOSUKE.

o FAR the Japanese demands on China
have brought forth versions enough for
a canonical text of a forgotten seer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
WE INQUIRE INTO THE DARK WAYS
OF A CERTAIN HEATHEN COUNTRY.

And at this psychological moment what OF
the game Japan is playing at Peking?
Are the heather trying to bang shut the
open door Of Asia in the face Of America at the
very precise point of time when America is to
lay aside the knickerbockers and put on the
long trousers Of a world merchant?
For the answer let us look the following
facts in the eye. And let US first Of all look
at the facts as we find them in ManChuria-for
there is where the tricky, heather ways-that-
are-da1k Japanese are particularly active.
Fact No. J. then There are many people
and things and entanglng events, too. for the
matter of that-who are closing the open door
of trade in Manchuria, as indeed in other parts
of China But the one particular thing which
is closing the open door in Manchuria in the
face of America is neither a people nor
thing. 1t is the absence-just an utter zero
that is doing all the mischef-it is the utter
absence of an American house big or small,
representing an American manufacturing in
terest, in Tairen Niu-ohwang, Mukden, Chang
chun and Hardin (and they the principal
distributing centres in Manchuria). OF course,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

lie wasted four expensive years,
And then superannuated
Cambridge denied him a degree
His failure in exams. was chronic
But en- rerGnche the A. D. c.
Crowned him with laurels histronic
Slim, elegant with ample means
Which he miscalled the merest pittance-
To Fashions most exclusive scenes
His talents gained him prompt admittance.
For he was full Of parlor tricks;
Could mimic Little Itch or Sarah
And danced with caracoles and kicks
Like Lottie Collins in Ta-ra-ra.
He shone at trimming ladies' hats;
He wore the most expensive clothing;
He seemed the tamest Of tame cats
That ever moved an athletes loathing
At country houses where he stayed
He never shot, he never hunted;
And only boated when he made
Secure of being rowed punted
BY normal men and women barred,
Adored by Amazons and minxes,
He was a riddle quite as hard
To solve as any Of the Sphinx's.
The many laughed or loathed, but one,
His mother, widowed and bairdden,
Found in her fond and only son
The heart that from the world was hidden
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25


, a canonical text of forgotten seer.
and, like so many sutras, they seem to
meander on through multifarious labyrinthine
mazes of mystery to-to nowhere One hand
some thing they have done however They
have called into a new life Secretary Hays
classic DNrase-the open door
The oocn door has remained academic rhet-
ORC 70 this reason: Until August IS, 1914
when tic Panama Canal opened, there stood
between the manufacturing centre OF the
United States, which was and IS on the Allan
tic seaboard, and the ports Of Asia gigantic
spectre q am wrong for it was big, tall,
solid and sordid fence), the transcontnental
freight charges All this has changed. Not
that the fence has been torn down. But the
canal has given Boston. New York and balt-
more the al-waterway route to Tairen, Shang-
hal. Hankau, Canton, Tien-Tsn and Hong
Kong The spring of the year of strife, 1915
brings with it the spring Of new era tor
America, for American manufacturers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
THE OLDTIME POTENTATE TO COME
DOWN FROM HIS PEDESTAL.

From now on the United States is going to
begin a career as world merchantmen the
casual, lordly, indolent, old-fashoned poten-
tate who has said to the kowtowing customers
from the Far East: "Oh, don't know whether
] can accommodate you or not. We are pref
ty busy at home, you know. But If l have
little surplus goods I shall be glad to do what
can for you" Not that. Nor the kind who
sits in the swivel chair in his New York or
Chicago Office and sells wheat, corn, cotton and
steel simply because the outside world has to
have them.
America is to be world merchant in the
same sense as a German pedler (whom the
lordly merchant princes from England and
America, fond of white ducks and week ends,
have not deigned to honor with look. This
pedler stakes out his market places by some
thing bigger than misty horizon and hustles
for business as the Americans say they do,
but don't. Last year, and for the hrst ume'
American drummers were in Manchuria. Her
aids of the coming Of the new era, they were
blossoming like so many dandelons-perhaps
not so golden or so shy and numerous or quite
so sunny in disposition as the ower-announcer
Of spring. but withal eloquent with the promise
Of things to come so far as American &C
tivity in the Asatc markets is concerned. One
of them, the representative of an American
watch manufacturer, was very successful in
Mukden, in fact And we have just been told
that in the six months since the opening OF
the Panama Canal 287 1872 tons of merchandise
have passed through it from the Atlantic coast
of the United States bound to the ports of
Asia
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-11-18
SCHOOL NOTES

At their last meeting the board
voted to install medical inspection in
the grades. This work will be taken
up some time in the near future.
In convocation period last Friday
Miss Hirsch gave a very interesting
talk on her trip abroad. The main
topic Of her talk was the city Of Ber-
lin.
New pupils are coming in every day
and there win soon be question rs to
where to seat them, - every seat in
the assembly room, library and eighth
grade room is now filled.
The seventh grade took IN examine
tion in "Town and City" last we-k.
Both teacher and pupils are pleased
with the results.
During the past month four new pu-
pills have been added TO the sixth
grade.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-11-18
MOTHERS STUDY CLUB
AGITATEs SCHOOL NEEDS

Our city needs q new high school
building and needs it badly. Every
grade in the building is overcrowded.
A teacher can take care Of a large
number Of pupils if there is room for
them, but where there are more pupils
than seating capacity difficult situa-
ton is faced. The last year the con-
gested condition is becoming rapidly
worse. Since the number Of school
children is increasing the citizens
should certainly have new building.
The air in the rooms is bad. This
can not help but be the case where the
number Of children is out Of proper
ton 10 the number Of cubic feet of air
in . room. A fire with its horrors of
childrn burned and crushed is not the
only disaster that can befall boy or
girl in school. Surely, though it may
be slowly, his health is undermined
when he lives many hours Of many
days in IN overcrowded, poorly venti-
lated room.
Surely 4 splendid, progressive little
city like Oakes can provide for the
satisfactory .ducation Of its children.
We want new people to come here to
live. Let us make our public school
IN induc:ment to them.
Mothers Club.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-11-18
RETR1AL DEMANDED

Ahardeen American: Judge Ray
mond L. Dillman Of the twelfth ju-
dicial circuit arrived in the city Tues
day morning from Timber Lake and
took up the adjourned session Of cir
cult court where it was left by Judge
James McNenny last week.
L. T. Van Slyke, attorney for the
defense in the case Of State W. James
Schmidt, charged with the murder Of
Ross c. Farrar, = North Western
brakeman, on the evening Of Septem-
her 9th, demanded retrial Of the case
at this term Of court. In the former
trial two weeks ago. the jury dis
agreed, 10 to 2 in favor Of acquittal.
The Judge withheld any ruling in the
matter until the states attorney should
be present
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-11-18
THANKSGIVING BALL

The Glendale Fire Company has
given Thanksgiving Ball every year
for The past thirty years, but nothing
they have done will compare with the
one they are preparing for next Thurs
day night. In addition to Heckelsmil-
lsrs Orchestra, which will furnish mu-
sic for the occasion, q free smoker
will be given in the Masonic club
rooms for the pastime Of those who do
not can. to dance continuously or at
all, with card, billiard and pool tables
and free cigars at their disposal. The
Ellendale Fire Boys want to zee all Of
thLh friends at this dance, and guar
antee = good time for everybody. In
stead Of the supper being served in the
hall q heretofore, arrangements have
been made with the cafes to tal, care
Of the large number it is expected will
attend.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-11-18
LET NORTH DAKOTA
BE WELL REPRESENTED

r. r. Flint, Commissioner of Agri-
culture and Labor, favors The Times
with the following of interest to corn
growers:
"Thc commonwealth Of North Da-
kota needs assistance from its citizens
to help establish the fact that it is in
the corn belt. Only individuals may
enter ten ear samples at the First Ma
tional Corn Show, St. Paul, which be-
gins Dec. LIST and continues throughout
thu month.
"This was not favorable corn sea-
son-for other states rs we'll as ours.
1--WE have, however, considerable
acreage that did mature and if there
ar. large number Of exhibits by
North Dakota growers it will assist in
giving a desirable impression.
| "An absence of exhibits is likely to
leave the impression that we cannot
grow corn successfully.
: ENTRY blanks may be procured
from the First National Corn Show,
/, st. Paul, or through your local bank,
and must be certified to by bank be-
fore forwarding to the First National
Corn Show.
| "Other northwestern states will be
represented; we should b.. There is
no entry fee, and twenty-four trophy
cups are offered to exhibitors from
North Dakota.
"There is class for both boys and
men.
i 1--WE are all interested in establish
ing and maintaining an excellent influ-
ence for North Dakota and right now
the corn crop reputation needs your
/, assistance"
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-11-18
HOME OIL COMPANY TO
INSTALL LOCAL STATION

G. w. Wolbert, representing the
Home Oil Company, has been in the
city from New Rockford this week or
ganizing to put in a local oil station.
To get this it was necessary to sell
shares of stock to the amount of 81 400
and The Times is informed that this
amount has already been subscribed.
A meeting of those interested was
held Monday night, when a site was
selected and a secretary elected to
handle the local end. The site selected
is on the N. w. right of way just west
of p. j. Aasen's machine shop and the
secretary is w. R. Whitver. Work on
the building will begin soon.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-11-18
NECK BROKEN IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
DIR. POTTER OF GLENDALE
MEETS DEATH SUNDAY
Was Returning from baldwin Ranch
in Kent When Auto Turned
Turtle

DIR. C. H. Potter, a we'll known vet
erinary surgeon of Ellendale and an
alderman from the Second ward, met
death some time Sunday evening while
returning to Glendale from q profess
sional visit near Clement.
The accident occurred late Sunday
afternoon. Doc. had been to the Bald
win Ranch, recently occupied by Jacob
Wehl, and was being accompanied
back to Glendale by two men. They
only rode ways with Potter as the
car was going at too reckless pace.
There was a chance to get ride on
another car this way and the two men
left Doc. to go it alone.
They hadn't left him more than
twenty minutes, it is estimated, when
Doc. in going over new graded road
south of the Geo. Hatfield buildings
lost control and went over. He was
not discovered until three o'clock the
following afternoon. 1t was found
that the doctors neck was broken and
death must have been instantly. The
remains were removed to Ellendale
and the funeral took place Tuesday.
DR.. Potter was one Of the best
known characters of the county. He
was an early pioneer. He has occu.
pied positions of alderman and mayor
of Glendale, and at one time was dep.
uty state veterinary. His wife is {
daughter of the late Captain Perry anc
sister of H. H. Perry and o. S. PER-,
of this county. He leaves family oi
two-a son and daughter.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-11-18
MOTORISTS MAY NOW
PAY AS YOU RIDE
Local Maxwell Representative An.
nounces . New Deferred Pay.
ment Plan
IDEA is LOGICAL
TO That Employed With Pi-
amos, Real Estate And
Other Sales

Acting on the sound principle that
automobiles can and will eventually be
generally sold on tn. same basis as
pianos, real estate and other commod-
tiles of value, Mr. j. y. Gronbeck, To-
cal Maxwell representative, announces
in this issue a time payment plan by
which the pros pectivc motorists of this
city and vicinity can secure Maxwell
cars without any app,v ciable cncroach-
ment on their financial resources and
investments.
"Pay as you ride" is the concise
way in which Mr.. Gronbeck summar-
izes the details of the plan.
"Modern conditions often demand
that man make use of his entire cap
ital in his business or in his profess
sional equipment" declares Mr.. Gron-
beck. "Often even the relatively small
amount necded to pay the cash-down
price of even Maxwell automobile is
large enough to keep him from taking
his money from the channels in which
it is at work.
"The automobile business must rec
ogniza this condition. l have worked
out plan which l am putting into ef-
feet here, for the benefit of my Gus
toners who may be so situated.
"This plan enables the man of ay-
erage means to buy car and enjoy it
while he is paying for it, and enables
him. as we'll, to pay for it out of his
regular income. This plan am put
/ ting at work today. 1t will be eligible
in the case Of every car l can secure
from tn. Detroit factory, and my
schedule cats for more Maxwell cars
than have ever been delivered here in
any cold-weather month. At present
can mals. immediate delivery undc,
this Pay AS You Ride plan"
The experiment is being explained
to buyers frankly and without reserve
and the local Maxwell salcsroom was
crowded today with interested motor.
lists.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-11-18
ANOTHER ACCIDENT SUNDAY

Another auto accident took place
south of Silver Leaf Sunday, on the
road from Ludden to Glendale, when
Guy Lynde and three others from Ell
lendale-two Of them being Dwight
Crabtree and Floyd Randall-were re-
turning from duck hunting trip near
Ludden. The car went over, throwing
three of the occupants clear of the
machine, but the driver. Mr.. Lynde,
was not so fortunate and the upturned
car came ON him across the thighs.
The accident will lay the injured one
I'D but temporarily.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-11-18
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
st. Marks Episcopal

Morning service with sermon. 1890.
Sunday school at 1880. Services beld
in Union Temple.
Albert E. Martyr. Rector.
Thanksgiving Union Service
Thursday, Nov. 25th, lO:3O 4. m., in
the M. 4. church.
Union choir will take part, accom-
panied by the focal orchestra. Ser
mon by Rev. James Opie, supported by
other ministers of the city. Offering
on behalf of North Dakota Children's
Home.
Thank God in His house.
Swed sh Lutheran
Services next Sunday at II a. m.
and Sunday school at II m. Also ser
vices at s p. IN. in Am rican language.
All are welcome
j. Edor Larson, Pastor.
First Presbyterian
Extracts from last Sundays sermon
All progress is spiritual in its incep-
tion, but we face dangers today in the
absence of family worship, in the fact
that the public school no long gives
all around training to the conscience
as we'll as the intellect, and the Amer
lean Sabbath is losing its influ nee for
the highest ideals. While at the same
time the church of Jesus Christ, the
center of mental and spiritual aspira-
tion, is allowed to soak in the shame
of irrcverence and moral ignorance.
1t is no wonder that youth is inso-
lent disobedient and lawless, and even
the gang spirit no longer develops into
social service.
The vital call Of today is that: We
enter the wisdom Of study, prove our
selves to be approved of God, not men,
enter into the experience of work, and
that we receive the joy that comes
through discrimination.
Services next Sunday:
10 a. m.-Sunday school.
(unv ling the memoriam TO late
Geo. Battcy.)
$50 p. my. P. S. C. E.
1870 p. m.-Evening worship.
Wednesday 1880 D m.-"Hcsring
and Seeing. Fourth episode of the
course.
Notc-Why do men and women la
Dor for weeks on committees for social
standing, but not one hour for spir-
itual standing?
Fl. c. Oliver. Pastor.
Hauge's Lutheran
Services in Oakcs n xt Sunday, Nov.
21st at II a. m. and 8 p. m. Also in
Clement, Y. p. NJ, at 3 o'clock.
n. Moe. Pastor.