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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
THIS is NOT DEMOCRACY.

We are having In Russia just now an example Of an
extreme character Of the working out OF q spirit which
has manifested itself insnot a few places. In the United
States Of late. This is the conception OF democracy as q
system In which order and authority are forgotttn, and
each individual. or each little group Of individuals acts
or refuses to act precisely as the spirit of the moment
moves, regardless OF the rights and interests Of the great
body Of which all are MEMBERS.
In the striking description Of conditions on some of
the battle fronts the statement issued by the Council OF
Soldiers and Workmens Delegates says that in numerous
cases bodies OF soldiers who were called on for aid for
comrades in danger have spent hours in discussions in
meetings whether the call should be answered or not.
And, most naturally, in such cases when aid was attempt
ed, 1t was too late.
Democracy is not anarchy. It is not a system in
which each individual is a law unto himself. It is a sys-
tenn in which all individuals have the most complete OPP
portunity to assist in shaping the course Of the common
wealth, but in which each. is nevertheless under obliga-
ton to stand Loyalty by the commonwealth, to obey the
laws made by the constituted authorities, and. in moments
OF emergency such as mark the great war, to obey in
stantly and without question the orders isHued by those
whom the will Of the commonwealth have placed in COM
nand.
Some OF the discussion in this country has seemed to
indicate the possession OF the spirit which rules on those
sections OF the Russian front.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
Pacifists ! Have Met
A Red Blooded American Tells What He Thinks OF Them.

this Armageddon. bids fair to be the
last OF It's kind: ever II Germany wins,
you know. IL lie apt to be the last great
war, for then Germany would rule the
earth with the mailed fist and keep
down war. The world is not yet ready
TOR such q peace as the dreaming pa
cifsts" hope for. Our veneer Of civil.
much Ignorance, too much savagery.
IN us yet. It Is still a game Of the
survival OF the Attest and the destruo-
ton OF the unfit. In here is the real
evolution Of the human race; It con-
sists Of fighting, upward through the
dim centuries. from the dust toward
the glimr1ering light of the godhead.
And the "paoilsts' Of today are a part
OF that which mankind must fight Va
his old. old and long Journey toward
the glimmertns light Of the godhead.
II you are q "pacifst"-I can't bear
that word in this connectionl-to
which class do you belong? Il to the
first, you should be imprisoned as an
agent Of tho enemy. II to the second,
you should dye your skin black and
take your place as a dwarf among the
black Nubians. II to the thtrd-weli.
about the only thing that can be done
for you is to take you back to the nuf-
sery and give you a sDgar-coated pa
cifier.
"PaciiEm'' now is treason. Notrthe
Benedict Arnold kind pf treason. but
treason Just the same and just as
black. why can't they see that peace
now is impossible without WARP WIZ
can't they see that this Is the one
chance that the world has seen ID
make all nations safe in Democracy
safe from the divine right Of kings
and the curse Of autocracy7
And why do those puny worms OF
the dirt set themselves up as wiser
than the sages Of the Nation?
MI. "Paciflet," you're going to have
to shake hands or fight. Which Will
It be?
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24

it at the Marine with an army inferior
in numbers and in artillery. During
that first winter less than 100. 900
British held their lines against $780,
600 Teutons and never yielded. The
1ower of all Germany massed at YER
dun, her best and NEST experienced
troops, her finest guns, the supreme
product OF her munition factories, her
tried genius and her concentrated
might. Day and night they battered
at a weak line, but 1t held until rein
foroements arrived. and into verdun
no German flag could come. Invtnci-
bility was not OF the German side.
She won, indeed, in the butchery Of
the Masurfan Lakes after her money
had bought Russian generals to be-
tray their troops to slaughter; but
Brussiloff drove them back SO long as
he had ammunition. Germans rode
through little Serbia with their NIGH
ty guns and dug their heels into Ru-
mania, but Sarrails has held them fast
above Salonica and Bagdad has fallen.
The Wanted efficiency Of the vast MIL
itary machine has shrunk into a des-
perate' defense that turns its eyes In
|suppiication to the assassins OF the sea
and begs OF them d~eliverance from
the threatening pit.
Mo. Prussian efficiency and Prussian
|superism have challenged comparison
with Gaul, italian, Britain and Ameri-
can and the challenge has been met.
In no respect has Prussianism proved
superior except in assassination, and
assassination never yet saved man or
nation.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
Robinson Crusoe Joins y. s. Army
air grow long. just IKE a real wild

hair TOW long. just like a real wild
That was not my first taste Of the
Fout-of-dcor existence. Several years
ago ! was considered doomed to tuber-
culosis. ! left Denmark and went to
and lived on fruits and nuts in the
unsettled places. Then I went to the
Argentine cattle ranches in the north
country. working nude, except for a
loin cloth. In Paraguay I spent some
time with a band of Indians.
Later ! worked my way on a Danish
boatEto New Orleans, and from there
up to Los Angeles. whereri set out for
the Santa Barharas. A Mexican took
me across and left me ashore on Santa
Cruz at midnight.
The next morning I discovered a
large rock cave, with q sand bank in
front, which served handsomely as a
home. Out of the hard, blue rock j
made a stone hammer, Indian fashion,
with q stick for a handle. 1t was for
protection against wild pigs and for
ioffepse In obtaining animal food. AS
necessity demanded made other I'M
plements} for my daily life.
There are many ipconveniences in
the cave-man life, but the pleasure of
building up q splendid body overhaul
anGe6 nArdSnlp. swimming out TO a
reef to. get mussels for breakfast Is
not a home comfort but vastly invig-
Grating. I was also able to get small
fruits and berries to vary my diet. SO
I did quite we'll,
Running clothesless over the island,
piunging into the sea as ] wished,
seemed a glorious life to me. My body
is as hard Is nails and I no longer fear
the threat of disease.
When I heard from me on a fish
ing boat that the United States had
gone to var / felt it my duty to offer
my services to the country.
when the nloon'i s shining over the bay
I feel the old call to discard my cloth
ing and run out into the water. But
the camp training Ia nearer the simple
life than anything / have known ex-
cept the caves in the wtlds.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
MARTYRDOM PREVENTED

The action of the president in pardoning the sixteen
women who had been arrested and committed to the
workhouse for sixty days for persistent disorderly con-
duct as suffrage pickets at the White House gates is crti-
sized in a good many quarters. At this distance 1t APP
pears that the president has taken the right course. II
the women had served their terms they would have
posed as martyrs to a great cause. AS it is, they have
no such opportunity. There Is nothing specially heroic
about spending a day or two in the w%orkhouse and then
being let out just as might be done with any other dis
turber who had committed no very serious crime. It
makes the whole campaign in which these silly women
have been engaged fall rather fiat.
The sooner thinking people who are in favor of
general woman suffrage realize that there is no proper
connection between woman suffrage and the historical
escapades of a few women who ought to be about better
business, the better will it be for the cause Of woman
suffrage.
The women who have just been pardoned have had
a lesson which, If they are wise, will last them for some
time. If by any chance 1t should not, and they persist
in a series of annoyances which, under existing condi-
lions, may prove embarrassing to the government in the
prosecution Of its lawful business, then it will be proper
to give them stiff sentences and let them serve them out.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
Disease Term $
CONTAGIOUS"
"INFDCIOUS,.
"COMMUNICABLE.r

Contagious" and 'anfectiouls." Ere
auently Intelligent people do not
know the difference between them.
A contagious disease is one that is
readily communicable or Coaching"
Inc word is derived from com
tngere," meaning to touch and was at
one time confined 70. diseases which
were supposed to be f"caught" by per-
sonal contact.
An Infectious. disease is usually
one not conveyed directly ana obvi-
ously as in the case Of contagious
diseases. but indirectly through some
other medium. Typhoid fevSr was
often taken as q type Of infectious
disease.
These distinctions are entire11 arti.
fetal. infectious diseases NAV "a con
tagious and contagious diseases in
fictitious. Both terms leave out a large
class of communicable diseases con.
veyed by insects.
The word "communicable. 4 there
fore, is much better ana broader IN
every way and should be used Ill pref
erence to either of the above trims.
A communicable" disease Is one
caused by a specific ''virus,"' trans
ferred In a great many ways. Thus
the virus Of diphtheria is the diph-
$500 5oAAt' Al typitUlu IeVer aI1S the
typhoid germ; in malaria II the
malaria parasite carried by mosqui-
toes. .
The term communicable ignoIss the
method by which the virus is cSnvey-
ed. Some diseases, as measles ana
smallpox, are conveyed readily from
one person to another, while Sthers
are communicated only with diflcalty.
tuberculosis is communicable and,
yet q long time may occur between
the time when an Individual becomes
infected and when he develops Smp-
toms. - 100
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
English women. royal or noble or COM

mon.
That SHUTS is as usual sensible we
fear will be no defense. He jeopardizes
his popularity when he dares to pro-
pose a change in royal custom so rad
ical.
The Kaiser. who Is the only king
we have left who got his credentials
at home. He i've forgaye his father
for marrying an English woman. He
decided while 1t vas good to plant
H-ohenzollerns in other royal families
his own should be kept purely Ger
man. The present King of England
married an English gtrl-because his
grandmother made him. Grandmotta-
ers was q wise old lady.
The practice Of royal intermarriage
IS designed to cement royal and there
fore International friendships. That lie
the, only easo for It. But 1t doesn't
work. AS defense against friction
rising to flame between nations it is
a CHASTITY joke.
It isn't Of much consequence whom
the royal princes in England Of any
where marry these days. Germany is
the king counts for much. But we
should think that princes, like other
folk, would rather prefer to marry
people of their own language, religion
and country; and we know that the
people would generally feel better
pleased 4f they did 1t. II there aren't
royal and noble ladies available, q
girl who is neither royal or noble, but
who has talent and beauty would be a
welcome addition to the household.
All we should asl'of England. IL in
a reckless revolutionary moment It
should decide Upon a homegrown
royalty henceforth, is that America
should moi be considered as part of
the premises. We don't want English
princes marrying out heiresses. We
lose too many of them to dukes and
counts and such folk now.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24

form all the duties imposed BY that body. Does any
one deny that2
Before the creation OF the board OF regents the af-
fairs of each state educational institution were managed
by the trustees OF that institution. The trustees HAD
full Jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to the manage
ment OF the institution. including the selection and dis
missal Of president, faculty members and other employees.
Is that quesioned2
The board of regents succeeded to all the powers
formerly possessed! by the trustees. Is there any doubt
on that point?
Then the board OF regents has absolute authority
over the selection Of the heads of all the educational in
situations and their subordinates and from its decision
there is no appeal except on matters, Of law, in which
appeal must be made to the courts. The governor has
no more authority over the work Of the board than the
board has over the work of the governor so long as the
boards work is conducted in a lawful manner.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
THE GERMAN MYTH
1t is Being Rapidly Dissipated By
Exposure to Cold Facts.
Philadelphia Evening Ledger

SrToin HHllaQelpn1a Evening Ledger.o
The myth of German invincibiity in
trade and war has been sedulously in
culcated in all the peoples Of the
world. Never was there a nation, we
are told, like this German nation.
whose Industrial giants have brushed
their pigmy adversaries to one side
and laughed at competition. And who
could measure swords with them or
hope to meet in equal combat the
super-legions of the super-scientihc
war lords, who had nodded from raw
human material the machinery Of in
ev1table triumph? Aye, the Almighty
a been conJured by Prussian in
carnations TO breathe omnipotence IN
liver to them the dominion OF the
earth.
Where were these Prussian giants
when the Standard Oil
reached its long arm into Berlin itself
and drove German oil interests to
pitiabie supplication for government
relief from uncomfortable Yankee
competition? How miserabIyf weak
We're Prussian agrarians wheniAmert-
scan-manufactured meat was driving
their products out of the markets of
Berlin, Hamburg and the F~rankfortsi
We're these su~per-scientists asleep
that American agricultural machinery
titled the fields or al Europe. that
American typewriterk4sand American
sewing machines brooked no rivals.
and that even the economic doctrines
on which modern Germany rose to
wealth and power were imported from
the United States? The Germans have
driven no great American firms from
any field where they have met us In
free competition. ana seldom have we
sfa41ads N ref f7ae yha<farS NJ " ,a,,s tlav
have wrecked 10 carrying trade Of
which w b6asted. and NE have sold
cur locomotives which they politically
dominated.
But what Of this German lighting
machine The world has nothing to,
match that Maybe not: but Is this
worth considering since that great
horde Of trained soldiers butchared It's
way through Belgium and Northern
France Il has 1 Q its credit not one
single military victory Of major inn
portance when opposed BY trained and
disciplined troops Of anything like
coxxaApa1Ainx nnEnhskIenr broke
H-W4-f& .+t -+-S r|fr4-1
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
SHOULD THE ARTIST BE EXEMPT?

Some little time ago a discussion ran through the pa.
pers as to the propriety Of talented actors serving. or be-
ing required TO serve, in the armies of the countries in
which they claim citizenship. The discussion has recently
been revived. but this time it is musicians instead Of act.
ors who are under consideration. The same principle ap-
plies to all who are engaged in the work OF creative art
and the one argument APPLIES with equal force to ALL
namely, that while there are many men who are capable OF
performing acceptably the duties Of a soldier, those men
are rare who are capable OF taking positions of leader
ship in the field Of arr, and that the loss OF one such man
Is irreparable. Those who have been impressed by this
argument, and who have looked no further, have reached
the conclusion that the actor or musician who has DEM
onstrated the possession of genius, or something akin to
1t, ought not to be permitted to risk their lives on the
field Of battle.
The same rule would apply, OF course, to the poet,
the painter, the sculptor. We see no reason why It should
not apply equally to the orator, the financial genius, the
college professor and the lawyer. And it requires no great
amount of stretching to make 1t cover all the manual oc-
equations. so that we would have nobody left to fight.
The simple fact is that fighting 10 bad business. View
ed in the abstract, 1t Ia the least productive OF human oc-
equations. The life Of the humblest individual is too prec-
ious to be wasted in a fight. And yet-
When the artist in whatever field sees a child in dan
ger, will he hesitate to risk his own safety In order that
the child may be saved Scarcely, II the artist is also a
man. There will be no nice balancing OF qualities to de-
ternine which life is the more valuable. The spirit OF
the race governs. and the artisk, who is first Of all a man,
springs to the rescue OF the child and takes what fate the
gods send.
When the Titanic sunk, and whom the Lusitania was
,nurderously destroyed-to mention but two CONSPICUOUS
.cases-it was women and children first" What women
and what children they were. nobody inquired. : They
were the weaker and In the greater need, and that was
enough. Accordingly. humble men from the. steerase,
nilio4aires from the private cabins, men Of all sorts and
conditions, quietly stood aside or rendered what aid they
could. comported themselves as gentlemen, and died hon.
orably, as mon. And who says the life Of the genius is
wasted when for a time he abandons his chosen field and,
at the scan of duty. serves and suffers and dies as a COM
mon man? His tongue may be stilled. hts fingers numb
cd. his brain become inert, but in the performance Of
duty, the duty that transcends rank and station and oc-
CInQ and + Nalffi fhot III S1~ rho We AL
genius. there is an Inspiration which may, and no doubt
often does. find expression later on in noble works by
those who could not otherwise have performed them.
The genius that forgets it's manhood is but a poor
sort of genius, after all.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
GET IT STRAIGHT

The Herald is quite willing that it's editorials should
be criticized by the Fargo Courier News, but fair criti-
cism implies at the outset correct quotation. The prac-
tice of the Courier News is to garble and wilfully mis-
interpret. For instance:
A. few days ago the Fargo paper quoted certain
sentences and phrases which had been used In a Herald
editorial relating to the powers Of the board Of regents,
and in the course of the article said:
THE publication (The Grand Forks HeraId) pro-
tests against the mistake made by Barnes county farm-
es in assuming that they have any right to be heard on
the question of the removal OF President LAID and other
faithful members OF the faculty of the Agricultural col
lege.'
This is a plain and perverse~ distortion Of The Her
AIDS comment The Herald said nothing about the
right of anybody to be heard. It did say that the per-
sons who had petitoned the governor on the subject had
made a mistake in referring to the effort Of the board
to remove DR.. Ladd and others because all the effort that
would be needed under the circumstances would be for
the board to dismiss any employee whose services the
board no longer wished to retain. The mistake, as was
very plainly shown, was not in seeking to be heard, but
in assuming that the board had been trying to do some
thing which it has thus far been unable to do, when.
in fact the board had complete authority to perform that
act at any time. The further mistake was made of ad-
dressing the petition to the governor who has no author
iy over this particular subject.
There is also quoted the statement of The Herald
that from the boards decision there is no appeal" In
the original article that statement was made with the dis
tinct qualification that appeal could be taken to the courts
on a question Of law, but not otherwise.
1t is a poor case that must be bolstered by nisouota-
ton and misinterpretation.
Now. for the sake Of clarity, let us look at some of
the facts again.
The board of regents was created by an act of the
legislature Of North Dakota. It has all the powers con-
ferred on it by the legislature. and is required to per-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
EcLIPsE AT souri, POLE.

At the last meeting Of the Ameri-
can Astronomical Society, Professor
William r. Rigge called attention to
some remarkable features Of the n
nular eclipse Of the sun which Will 90
cur December 10, 1917. The ceptral
line Of the eclipse passes through the
South Pole Of the earth; hence the
eclipse will be visible I'm all longitudes
and at all hours OF local time.
The most curious fact which Profess
sor Rigge brought out in connection
with the eclipse Is this: II we think
Of the South PoIeSas lying at sea level.
then the central line passes about
four miles from the pole, and the axia
of the shadow cuts the prolongation Of
the earth's axis SLOT feet above the
sen and Scott we know that there Is 1
lofty plateau at the pole, with an ele-
Walton Of about 10000 feet, IN view
eT this elevation f the ground. It may
be said that the central line of the.
eclipse passes exactly through the
aaakh Eel=aoiaBHAa Ame9iceA
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
MEN WHO DO THINGS
We Need Them, But We Do Not
Seem to Know How to
(From the Toledo Blade.,

The trouble with the Council for
National Defense is twofold. Fol one
thing It has too many members, it's
duties are too infinitely divided. For
another thing 1t Is merely an advisory
institution. with no powers at all that
1.-The fussieBt, least important bureau
1crat in government pay cannot over
lrule.
The council is now recognising it
self. It is reducing It's Committees.
wedding out the ornaments OF the
membership. There yet remains the
larger task of obtaining authority.
We DO not see how the council can
secure this under the present laws.
But we do o the vital necessity Of
the passage Of laws that viii grant
these powers.
The conception of the Council for
National Defense was the work Of
lgentus. It concentrated in Washing
ton such patriotism and abilities as
the national capital has never beheld
before. Without II, the administer
tive Offices would have broken down
from mere weight Of the work Of the
war brought on them from complete
Ignorance Of industrial America. The
council has prevented collapse. It
has done more to co-ordinate the
multtudinous war activities than all
THE government machinery combined.
lUnquestionably. IT has saved thaJad-
}niristration from mistakes which
might have ruined It. To let the coun-
Gil distntegrate. TO let such able men
las Comm, Baruch and RosenwaId de-
part In despair and disgust. would d
i0niy be stupid, bur 1t would aiso 'be
tragic. We could do little worse to
ttie the war preparafiona IN = hard
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
SMUT MAKES A BREAK.
But it was Not a Bad Break and Whas
he Says Goes.

General SHUTS is the idol of all
England today. He has won glory by
his military achievement. He has won
respect by his shrewd advice in i'm
perial council. He has won popular
applause by his public speeches. Still
h general is an outlander who can
never thoroughly understand the baf-
fling English adherence to tradition,
English tradition is always stubborn
when It is royal tradition It is Inn
mutable: yet SHUTS tells Englishmen
that their princes ought to marry
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-24
Health Questions Answered.

Mrs. X. L.; What causes e&ema
in a young baby?"
Usually there Is something wrong
with the child's diet. Sometimes too.
strong soaps are being used Oh the
skin. Often 1t is because the hhiid
does not get enough fresh air. The
diet Of q child inclined to ecterna
should be alkaline.