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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-04-26
The Lutheran Churches.

The Lutheran Churches.
Bottineau-Sunday School at 1000.
Ladies Aid meets in church next Wed
nesday, May 2, with Mrs. Erlandson
and Mrs. Peregrin as h%ostesses.
Mangers-Young Peoples meeting
at A. Monson's next Sunday at $3.50.
Ladies Aid meets with Mrs. Philip
Paulson on Tuesday, May 1.
Observation-Disclosures in church next
Sunday at II.
H. N. Bake, Pastor.
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Church.

II A. M. Morning Service. 8 p. M.
Evening Service. 1915 P. M. Sunday
School. 300 P. M. Junior C. E. 700
P. M. Y. P. S. C.. E. Wednesday, 500
P M. Devotional Service. Thursday,
500 P. M. Choir for Mothers Day.
Saturday 1880 P. M. Quartette re-
hearsal. u.
Ladies Aid Society Thursday 300
P. M. Mission Society Friday, 8:OO
p. M. at the home of Mrs. Darling.
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At the Churches
Baptist Church.

Sunday School at 1910, B. Y. P.
U. at 700 p. m. Evening service at
500 p. M, in charge Of l.. D. Trent,
assisted by the Sunday School. We'd
nesday, May 2, Prayer Meeting at
500 p. m. Sunday, May 9Th, Rev.
G.. R. Crockett, the new pastor, who
will arrive during the week, will
preach morning and evening.
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Prof. C.. N. Ainslie of Sioux City,
Iowa was the dinner guest of Mr..
and Mrs. C. H. Wasem Sunday. Prof.
Ainslie is an old time friend and
neighbor of Mrs. Wasem's family
during their residence in Rochester,
| Mimi.
Mrs. S. Sigurdson was hostess to a
number of her friends when she en-
tertained Monday evening at her
home. The evening was spent with
sewing and cards, and a delicious
lunch was served by the hostess. Mrs.
w. Husebye of Williston was an out
of-town guest at the party.
Mrs. C. A. Leonard, auditor for the
second district of the N. D. Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, left this morn
ing for Devils Lake, where she will at
tend the district board meeting to be
held the latter part of this week. Mrs.
H. E. Layne, County Chairman, and
Mrs. Shuler, President of the Botti-
neau Woman's Club, will be unable to
attend.
Ruth Rishoff was eleven years old
yesterday and in honor of the occasion
her mother, Mrs. Rishoff, entertained
a number Of her friends at a supper
party. Nursery rhymes and children's
stories on the Victrola afforded the
afternoons program.
At the special meeting of the COM
mercial club Friday night the matter
of a Ladies Auxiliary to the club was
taken up for discussion. Sentiment
among the club members favored
such an organization and a ladies
committee vas appointed, consisting
of Mesdames Leonard, Gleason and
Rishoff. These will ascertain the SEN
timent among the ladies and perhaps
be prepared to report at the next reg
ular meeting Of the club.
Mrs. G.. K. Vikan will entertain a
party of girls and young married
ladies this evening at her home in
honor of her daughter, Mrs. Husebye
from Williston, who is her guest. Mrs.
Vikan will entertain again tomorrow
afternoon with a Kenslngton.
Mrs. M. Guam and son Roland are
spending the week in Rugby with
friends.
Mrs. C. Kirkeby is at Landa on
professional business this week.
Mrs. 9. l.. Blades was hostess - the
? club at her home Wednesday eve
ming.
Mrs. O. M. Knopper has as her
guest Miss Lenora Swanke of Kram-
er.
Mrs. L. C. Holz entertained the EN-
broidery Club at her home Wednes-
day afternoon.
Mrs. J. A. Johnson and Miss Min
ME Crogen entertained a number OF
their friends Wednesday evening at
the home of Mrs. Johnson. A pro-
gram of amusing stunts was the order
of the evening, after which the guests
we're taken to the Dyckman, where
luncheon was served at a long table
made attractive with a center piece
of yellow snap dragons and pussy
willows. The same color scheme pre-
dominated in the luncheon appoint
ments.
Mrs. w. Peck, who has spent the
winter here at the home of her uncle
and aunt, Sheriff and Mrs. Mclean,
will leave Saturday morning for Min
neapolis, where she will visit her sis
ter.
Mrs. O. N. Hendrikson and daugh-
ter Diverne went to Antler Saturday
night and visited with friends over
Sunday, returning home Monday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. WATSON return
ed this morning to their home at Ben
nett, Colo, after a five weeks visit
here at the home of their daughter,
Mrs. 1. D. McBain.
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Vinie Lutheran Church.

Vinje Lutheran Church..
Y. P. S at church Sunday evening
at 8. Ladies Aid at H. Hasledalen on
Thursday afternoon. Confirmation
class at the church Thursday morning
at 10.
Joseph Lunde, Pastor.
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On the eve Of the expiration OF the
American rights in the SlX-PoWer
Chinese Loan Group on June l-lor
two months is no more than the To-
morrow Of today in affairs OF this
magnitude - the administration an
nounceS its denial of official support
10 the reorganization OF the group.
The view OF the administration re-
mains unchanged-that American
bankers should not participate, IN
combination with bankers of other
nations to make 4 join loan TO China.
In the course of preceding articles;
| have explained the original andd
present status Of the Six-Power Loan
Group in its bearing on loans granted
10 the Chinese government for purely
administrative purposes. as matters
distinct and apart from loans for other
purposes, and from enterprises and
investments in China which are not
of governmental scope or application.
And ! have endeavored to make 1t ap-
parent that. for all loan investments
and enterprises undertaken As ordi-
nav private business in China. there
is every certainty Of safety as well as
profit, however consistently the
United States may adhere. on. the off,
cial side, 10 its traditional policy or
isolation. Indeed, short Of such
complete vote face as would be re-
ouired to reduce China to another Bel
GUM, on the part Of the very four
powers now In arms to the death In
defense Of all national integrity, and
liberty, no factor could intrude to
endanger legitimate foreign invest
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Lexington
which battle but
Many dim
About half
collected together number Of fifty sixty were
it. the meantime the troops
(Brth having intelligence Of their
whom they
house. This be-
until sight Of militia
Immediately their appearing suddenly and so nigh Captain
themselves fire Upon this dispersed
might have One the
officers heard his Now will have them
Upon
officers horseback One
Ie Villains rebels dsperse The second these
time fired pistol towards the militia they dis
who within bndiShed
them With said Fire
followed discharge from the
through divine good
preserved this murderous
The War of the Revolution
related by the participants 1t is simple
called unsued and undimnished
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mehts in China unless it should orig
mate with the Chinese themselves.
And this last contingency is unthink-
able to anyone acquainted in the
slightest measure with the national
character of the Chinese.
1t is a remarkable fact-curiously
evidentiaI of the ignorance regarding
China prevailing throughout the
United States and affecting all classes
Of investors, from bankers to those
manufacturers whose level Is that of
the trade adventurer taking a flyer
out Of sheer idleness Of capital or
plant-that few or US here have de.
sCribed any Of the innumerable oppor-
tunities existing between the extreme
of a government-backed, taX-secured
loan to China on the one hand and
that OF selling goods for cash through
a travelling salesman on the other. It
is very true that any considerable
loan by American bankers which
could have behind it the pledge OF
our own government for its ultimate
collection, and below it some Chinese
government as a pledge of safeguard.
ing payment OF its interest and its
ultimate liquidation must afford for
some OF our surplus capital an In
vestment ideal in security andd ade-
quately remunerative in interest-bear-
in gbonds. 1t is true, also, that
various manufacturers and corpora
tions of the United States, having
planned and executed selling CAM
paigns in China for their products on
g basis Of ample capital, complete re-
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sources and an intelligent regard for
the Chinese market in all O. its
idiosyncracies, have reaped, and are
still rcaping, very rich returns IN the
direct profits Of manufacture and sale.
Gut the simple, and painful, facts are
that government as now administered,
and as it will be administered in
human likelihood for the four years
next ensuing, definitely declines to
back a Chinese loan unless purely
American; while it would not be very
hard to count upon ones fingers the
actual number OF American firms and
corporations that have made more
than very slight dent In the real pos
sibilities of trade that awaits us here.
If it is surprising that Americans,
in the mass, remain SO uniformed as
to those possibilities, it Is astonishing
that among the few great and sue
cessful exploiters of the Chinese mar
ket, we have thus far had so few en-
dowed with a discernment extending
beyond the noses they have buried IN
their own ledgers. Even the bankers
who have been so eager to loan mil
lions to China's government provided
our own government. shall underwf1te
their venture, have been SO absorbed
Ill pldCluS tuA0o III lASAA "a
prises and war loans that they have
spared no time to consider the vastly
larger profits attended by equally
sound security that inhere in any
broad, straightforward, typically Amer
lean exploitation of the Chinese field.
/. speak with accurate information,
from both the American and the
Chinese standpoint, when I say that
what is needed II this time. and what
will necessarily be realized from the
very circumstances of the case, is
some combination Of capital that will
overpass our previous gatherings with
government endorsement; dependence
on foreign bankers; hesitant@ adven-
lures in trade that approach the limit
less field of China in timid dread of
getting ones fingers burned; and, the
Grass folly of .surrendenng without a
second thought, without a pang OF
patriotic regret that dominance over
the rich freights- of our birthright, the
Pacific, which was once our boast
and our treasure trove Of. trade.
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" WHAT'S IN A NAME?

There is something in the argu,
ment that the words draft" and con
scription" are distasteful 10 the
American spirit, for they undoubtedly
have the flavor Of outWern au.
tocracy and Prussian militarism. For
those who entertain ethical ntceties
some term must be devised that will
not offend or jar on the finer sensi-
blities. One thing is sure, however,
if volunteer enlistment fails the more
drastic scheme must prevail. II we
must have softer words for conscrip-
ton and draft how would selective
service or obligatory government ser
vice doo Surely there Is nothing OBJ
no1ious in these terms.
There is another feature OF the slow
enlistment situation. that should be
corrected in the ridicule that is
heaped on young men who go to re-
cruiting stations and who are hailed
as '"slackers" if they do not come for
ward and enlist. The average Amer
lean young man is anything but a
Stacker" but to go after him with
a bitter and abusive tongue is bad
way to get him to join the colors.
Molasses always is more effective for
catching flies than vinegar.
The situation in Congress is grad
ualIy swinging around to the Presi-
dents views on the subject. The Sem
ate Military Affairs Committee yes
terday voted to recommend the pas
sage of the general staff selective
draft bill, which is substantially the
form asked by the army general staff
The House Military Committee Is the
stumbling block, but opposition there
to the administration measure IS said
to be weakening. The opposition is
almost wholly among the Democratic
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THE FARMERS PART

While the large cities, especially
the industrial centerS are urging the
recruiting of farm labor supplemented
on every hand by the vigorous appeals
OF the press Of the country, it seems
that the farmer should do more Of
the enticing than he has been doing
in the way of offering attractive
wages. The average farmer Is amply
able to do this. He is getting and has
been getting larger returns for his
toll, with prospects of still higher
prices for his products. Besides he now
has government aid and exemptions
which no other private industry or
enterprise enjoys. The government
has instituted banks for his special
accommodation. and the Clayton act
exempts him along with. organized la
Dor from the operations of the anti
trust laws. No such benefits and
privileges are extended to iron and
steel and coal mining enterprises. yet
they have met the rising market
prices with wage increases.
The successful farmers. and very
few of them are not who know their
business. must realize that the day
of the $40 and So month farm wage
has passed, and that to get the help
he needs 10 keep up or increase his
output he must come to the $50 or
$40 standard, or higher if he would
increase. his cultivated acreage and
add to his barn stores. At present
prices for farm products he can we'll
afford to do this. Besides it would be
= matter of greater profit for him. The
. more acres under cultivation the more
he will have to sell and the greater
will be his income 1t is as much to
his interest to increase his wage
scale as it is for the employers OF
: consumers to raise wages to meet the
, higher cost of foodstufts. Let the
: farmers. think this over.
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PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED

= The administration Is to be COM
mended for it's foresight. The Presi.
dent has appointed a committee of
three, one representative each from
= the Departments Of State, Justice and
Commerce, to consider whether any
commercial legislation is necessary in
view Of the war, and, if so, what. 1t
may be that this committee Will find
that the President is clothed with am
pie authority under the present laws
: to deal with all emergencies which
can now be foreseen. Or. and as is
the more likely, it may be that the
committee will find that additional
Legislation will be required Of Con-
gress.
Within the scope of the investiga-
ton will come the question Of the
authority now vested in the executive
officers Of the government to meet
the emergencies which may result
from the entry Of the United States
Into the war as an active participant.
1t will involve an estimate of what the
conditions are likely to be. 1t will
mean a study and compilation of the
various measures that have been
taken by the European Governments
to meet similar conditions which have
developed with the progress of the
war
There are some very delicate ques-
-tions which will have to be taken up
during the course of the investigation.
among them being those OF trading
with the enemy, black lists and white
lists, embargoes, blockades and eco
nomic alliances; the latter both for
the duration OF the war and for the
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THE INCONSISTENCY OF 1T

Sometimes these Southern DEM
cratic members Of Congress make one
actually weary with their economic
sophistries and their obvious incon-
sistencies on the suffrage question.
But the other day one of these Solid
South" representatives hailing from
Alabama was tripped up nicely while
he was paying a glowing tribute 10
the patriotism of the Southern negro,
100000 of whom he has In his dis
trict. He characterized the colored
people as a loyal race that have few
spokesmen and few to stand up Tor
them"
Does not the gentleman believe"
interrupted Congressman William r..
Wood of Indiana, that in view Of this
beautiful tribute he has paid to them
they are entitled to the full rights OF
citizenship and the right TO vote?'
The question caught the Southern
Representative unawares. and he mad
to escape the embarrassment OF an
attempted reply by saying that ne
had not the time to explain why II
was that the vote should not be CIV
on to the negro. If he is good enough
10 fight the negro certainly is good
enough to exercise the elective fran
chise.
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after-war period. On some Of these
points, for example trading with the
enemy and black lists, the fullest CO.
operation with the Entente Allies will
probably be found both possible and
desirable, but it is improbable that
the United States will be able to sub
scribe to all of the policies which
have been adopted by those countries.
This country cannot, for example.
concur in the British order-in-council
blockade restricting neutral trading
in non-contraband and conditional
contraband without completely re-
versing position taken early in the
war. and emphasized in diplomatic ex-
changes.
In conservative and sound thinking
quarters it is insisted that whatever
measures looking to the restriction OF
enemy trade, and of enemy traders In
whatever part of the world they may
be found, may be adopted, as result
of the Investigations Of this joint
commerce committee, should be con-
fined to the duration of thel war. For
that period following the close Of hos
tilities this country must reserve to
itself the greatest freedom Of action.
If it still be the purpose Of the En-
tente Allies to insist upon CONNER
cial warfare against enemy countries
following the close Of the war. as
recommended by the Paris Economic
Conference of last June, this country
cannot follow in the same path. The
United States cannot be a party to
any measures which would be suici'
dial in a commercial sense to the
world at large and to this country.
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TIE HIDDEN LI1H.

We live our Utmost lives alone
Al best we are but little known.
And even those who know US best =,
Have probed to find within our breast
That secret place. that hidden source :.
OF Life's expression. But. OF course,
They probe in vain. The life lived there
No mortal soul may with US share.
Deep in the confines Of the heart,
Where all Life's mighty issues start,
There is a hidden sphere. unknown
To others-there we live alone.
Alone! Alonel We long in vain
For sympathy to ease our pain.
For some heart that can understand.
But no! How wisely God has planned
To keep Lies center and its throne
Reserved to him. and him alone;
We turn to God. and. seeking. find
What friends. however good and kind,
Gave not. He understands and feels:
He every bleeding heart-wound heals;
The realm VIC occupied alone
He fills. Our lives to him are known.
Grace Howe Burby.
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SALOONS VOTED OUT.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 18. Figures
compiled today by the Anti Saloon
league show that 142 saloons were
voted out of business in elections yes
terday in various cities and towns
OF Illinois.
The "drys" won in fourteen wet"
cities and towns, but lost three dry"
towns. The liquor forces retained
twelve wet" towns besides winning
the only three dry" towns where the
local option elections were held. The
largest city to enter the dry" column
Yesterday was Danville, Of 10000 in.
habitants, where IS saloons will close
Nav l.
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Shoe
Costs
Not in Sight

Service in a shoe store IS some.
thing more Than having a clerk take
a pair OF shoes from the shelf and
put them on your feet.
To US it not alone means fitting GUS
toners properly. but keeping them in
formed as 10 style and price changes.
And so we feel it is our duty at this
time TO tell YOU that indications point
TO 4 continued scarcity of feathers and
the possibility Of higher prices.
We have no further object i'll telling
you Of this than 10 advise those in
need Of shoes to take advantage of
the low prices which prevail now,
rather than TO wait little longer and
perhaps be obliged TO pay for in
creased costs in good shoe manufac-
ture.
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AHM ACQUITTED.

CHARLESTON, ". Va. April Is
Richard Akers, IS years old, indicted for
killing his father, John Akers, of Lind
side, was acquitted by the circuit court
jury. of Monroe county, on tho grounds
that the boy was protecting his mother
when he shot and killed tho man.
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In helping Great Britain we give Aid
10 Canada. There were thirty thousand
Canadian soldiers in the Federal armies
in the war for the Union. :.
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Help swell the throng mt the Audi-
,o-i,,r, tonight. and bring your voice
with you.
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II you haven't n backyard to work on,
! start Il widow box. De something.
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Naybo a baseball pitcher could locate
the home plate" of the German S"o'i''
rincs In tho north Atlantic
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A sock knitter" was one OF the eN-
hibits at the .. A. r. Congress at Wash
inSton. She piled her needles on the
stage while the women fused on the
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Little Tips" Republican throat stlll
shouts for patriotism.
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The lamp Of liberty lit at Lexington
still burns with undimmcd brightness.
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members Of the committee, the Repub-
lcans generally favoring the general
staff selective scheme.
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Let the bunting hy in honor Of the
great anniversary.
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Congress has. at last established a
unanimous unanmity" record.
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Should Search Ships.

Every ship arriving from neutral
European harhors should be searched
before IL is permitted to dock and all
passengers coming to our shores on
these ships should be subjected to Il
careful investigation. The German spy
system has learned during nearly three
years OF war how to avoid many traps
1t has been able To get much informa-
ton past the British authorities. 1T
kirkwall. Thousands of Americans.
too. have been in correspondence with
Germans through neutral European
countries. While much of this letter
writing Is harmless all letters To these
countries should be- censored in the
United StatcS3
ton which might be of use. or which
might interest the enemy, must BE- pre-
vented from reaching Germany.
Port authorities should examine. also,
all CarEOrS md ConSignmentS to neu-
trail European countries. German
agents have smuEEl"d Information in
these carEueS. even in goods consigned
for Belgium by tho American Relief
Commission. And. furthermore. many
American merchants have been SELL
ing goods TO Germany via these n"u-
trail countries. All shipments Of sup
plies tn Germany from the United
States. in this indirect way, should be
stopped. Tho United States must help
make the blockade of Germany effective.
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formed the overt act" all right, all
right