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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-21
ABSENT SENATORS SUMMONED.
Want All ON Hand for Vote ON Dis
puted Features War Tax Bill.
(T2v Associated prass

IWashington, Aug. 81. = Senator'S
who have been absent from the capt.
toll were arriving today in response to
telegraphic notice from party leaders
to be on hand to vote on the war tax
bflrs chief features in dispute, the
war profits and income taxes, though
this may not be reached before the
latter part OF the week.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-21
MUST BE EXAMINED AGAIN.
Extension Board Refuses to
Accept Exemption of Stock.
tBy Associated Press.I

Chicago, Aug. ala Chicago ex-
tension board has refused to accept
the exemption granted to Milton ].
phia National league team on the
grounds that he did net have permits
sion to be examined in Philadelphia.
The local board has notified Stock
that he will have to take the exam
nation here.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-21
PAVING NOTICES
Expect TO Have Them Served by sher-
IN Latter Part OF This Week.

The paving assessment commits
sioners have completed the notices
for the Eighth street south paving
and are now at work on those for
Seventh avenue south. All OF these
notices must be served by the sheriff
and the commissioners expect to de-
liver them to Sheriff Mcdonald for
service the latter part of the week.
Henry Smith, veteran farmer of
Riverton township, reported a better
crop than he expected and says the
quality of the grain Is as good as
any he has ever raised.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-21
NOTE NOT YET ANSWERED..
United States Reply to Pope's Pro
posaI Will 90 Through British
Assnciated Press.l

(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 21.-The United
States has not yet acknowledged
receipts of Pope Benedict's peace
proposal but will do so through the
British foreign office which trans
mitted the communication through
Ambassador Page.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-21
WELCOME RUSSIANS
National Guard Army Parades IN
Honor Of DISTINGUISHES Visitors.

Boston. Aug. q. The Russian
Ambassador Boric A. BakhmatieH
and members of the special mission
which accompanied him 70 this coun-
try were welcomed in this city today.
Fifteen minutes before the start OF
the parade OF the national guard
army Of the republic the Russian en-
voys were taken in automobiles over
the same route.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-21
Fargo Man Is
Youngest Major
Of u. S. Regulars

James uIio. jr., "a, SON OF Mrs.
Caroline r. UIIo, Pioneer Life
block, IL the youngest major in
the United States reguIg army.
Major Uli0 hns inst been pro-
mOted fr0m captain, and has been
where he has been stationed with
his company. to Admission, Ala,
according to a letter received by
his mother.
Major UIiO'G father, the late
James UliOs sr., was n member of
the faculty of the North Dakota
Agricultural college before his
death.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-21
APPROPRIATION ron Army.

Release Men Called 90 Qutet strike
Disturbances.
(By Associated PreEB1
Madrid, Aug. -. me cabinet yes
terday decided 10 send home all men
recently called to the colors owing TO
disturbances.
[ The cabinet approved a credit OF
20, 200, 900 pesos for the reoFganiza-
ton OF the army and the manufac-
ture OF material especially anti-air-
craft guns and artillery.
For Quick Results Use The Forum
Want Acs.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-21
WILL LEAVE ON DUTCH BOAT.
Minister Will Cross

Auntro-Hungarian Minister Will Cross
United states, Leaving China.
(Bv Associated Pfess1
Picking, Aug. 21.-The Austro-Hun-
garian minister and his stan and con-
suls, whose departure was made nee
iessary by China's declaration of war,
probably will take a Dutch boat from
Shanghai to San Francisco, crossing
The Dutch minister is arranging the
departure.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-21

Another bargain day Wednesday
at Blacks. See advertisement.-adv.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-21
GOES EAST TO BUY.

Peter Luger, of the Luger Furniture
company, left Sunday on a purchasing
trip to New York City, Philadelphia,
and Boston. He will be absent three
weeks or more.
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RED CROSS NEEDS FUND
Drive" for S100. 100000 Opens
Throughout Country
New York and Chicago VIII Give at
Least $40, 1000, ,ooo-Every Region
Must Be Generous Now.

Uncle Sam is calling for a Red Cross
fund OF 100000 900 to enable the Red
Cross to give the proper care TO the
sick and wounded, the homeless and
the desolate, when his men get into
the fighting In earnest. New York city
has promptly pledged itself TO raise
onefourth OF whatever sum is needed
and is now collecting the money. Chi
eago has been asked for something be
tween $5,OO0.000 and $10,000,O0O, the
levy based on population and credit
rating.
Mr.. o. b. Towne has been appointed
by Washington as director of the Red
Cross war fund campaign. for the cen
tral division, and has opened a drive
for the money I'm nine states.
The money is being raised by sub
scription among the various chapters,
and il has been arranged that each
chapter shall have one-fourth OF what
ever sum II raises Mr. Towne hopes
that the country viii raise enough to
give the national organization its full
500 ,000, 900 over and above what the
chapters retain.
The Red Cross is compelled TO raise
It's fund from the people because IL
has so small an endowment fund
less than $4,000. 0.OO0-while Japan, for
instance, has more than $13,00O,0O0 in
her fund the income from which pays
all expenses,
The money Is necessary 20 keep up
the supplies and equipment OF the base
hospitals. and for relief work in war.
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IL was late on a Saturday afternoon
when news OF the disaster began To
triclde from the telegraph wires 10 the
newspapers. Offices and shops were
closed. and Chicago had gone home TO
its dinner and its Saturday evening
relaXations. The FIRST word 10 the Red
Cross OF The storm came through q
Chicago paper 10 Charles Lee Bryson
OF the central division stan OF the
Rod Cross. one OF the editors called
Mr.. Bryson at his home and told him
what had happened. feeling sure the
Red Cross would want TO got on the
job"
II did Director John J OConnor
Of the central division was In Wash
ingtou attending the Red Cross war
council, at which Il was determined to
ask the country for $l0OO00.000. But
Mr. Brysou located Walter Davidson.
another of headquarters stan. who had
remained late at the Office to finish
some work. and they took hold OF the
situation Instantly
Next morning kilograms began 10
pour into division headquarters. MIR
Davidson, on the scene. reported that
perhaps 30 persons were dead in Mat
toon, 400 injured Goo families home
less. and private property chiefly res.
licences OF working people 20 the
value OF sl,0O0.0OO destroyed lie
called for Red Cross nurses and work.
ers at once Charleston, he said. was
in but little better case than Mat.
toon
John w. Champion. executive sec.
retary OF Chicago chapter, and several
members OF The division stan. reali2.
Ing that the Red Cross would be- "on
the job, hurried 10 The office. and an
day long. and until after ! o'clock at
night, the office was reaching OUT with
telegraph and telephone, snatching
Red Cross nurses and workers from
their SUNDAY diversions and etarting
them for Mattoou and Charleston
Mr OConnor reached Chicago from
Washington at 3 o'clock, Bnd in a
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OUR RED CROSS IS
NOT AIDING ENEMY
NATIONS NOWADAYS

Patriotic Americans who have been
helping the Red Cross have OF late
been making anxious inquiries as 10
whether the humanity and the neutral.
ity OF the Red Cross would constrain
II TO send food. medicines and hospi.
tai units to Germany.
II want to give TO help our boys.
and the stricken people OF France and
Belgium and Serbia" many a one has
written in: but don't feel like doing
anything IL the Germans get part of
IT,"
Americans need be under no appre.
hension. Not a cent OF Red Cross con.
tributions is going TO Germany. or has
gone there since the war was declared
by the United States. General Per.
shing Is now In Europe TO convey 10
the kaiser Uncle Sans compliments in
the form of shells and American bay.
onets but the Red Cross has no part
In that except TO care for such OF Gen.
eral Pershing's men as may need care
The matter OF sending Red Cross
supplies 10 Germany was brought up
III lut ltNtnN iAtu 1iuNS war Aouutll
In Washington Charles ID. Norton
one Of the members. answered inquir
les thus
THE answer Is exceedingly simple
We do not purpose to be tried for trea
son. We do not purpose TO lend aid
and comfort to our enemies. We near
to attend our own American Red Gross
affairs"
Former President Taft, who Is chair
man OF the executive committee. sup
ported this view He said that wher
wounded Germans fell into the hands
Of the American Red Cross they viii
get the same treatment as our own
men, but that il would undoubtedly
be treason to send supplies to Ger
many as we did before we were fore
ed into the war
So Americans can give freely, know
ing that every cent Is for our own and
our allies wounded, and not for the
enemy
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The United States has been asked
to raise $l00.00O,0O0 as an extraordi-
nary fund. in the eight days between
June is and 25, inclusive, that the
work of the American National Red
Cross, which has always been the
hope and succor OF victims OF various
calamities, may be efficiently carried
on in the world war that is now de-
vastating Europe. and provision made
for our own soldiers who are going to
the front as well as their dependents
at home
To the people OF the state OF Mich.
igan has been allotted share OF 49,
GOO. 900 in this nationwide subscrip-
tion, of which Detroit has agreed to
raise half The other S1,500.000 must
be raised in the remainder OF the
state through donations TO the cause.
With This duty confronting them,
there are some Michigan people ask.
ing just what the Red Cross Is; how
it works; how IL proposes TO expend
their donations. But there are many
other Michigauders who need not ask.
who do know tile Red Cross and what
It does and what 1t means They are
the people who lived in and near Metz,
Presque Isle county when forest fires
swept away life and property, a few
years ago, in their ruthless rush 9th.
ers learned OF the Red Cross and its
work when their homes were destroy.
ed IN the forest fires that literally
blotted the towns of Au Sable and Os-
coda. in Iosco county, of the map.
back in 1911 And, just a few days
ago the people of Washtenaw, Jack
son. Calhoun and lngham counties
learned something of the Red Cross at
first hand when a tornado left a wide
swath of death and desolation I'm it's
wake as IL rushed across that rich
farming country
It was I'm the latter disaster that
the nowiyfomed local or county chap
ters OF the American Red Cross most
distinguished themselves The case
In Washteuaw county Is typical The
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R0U S10O,000,00O
FUND WILL BE SPENT
Red Cross Chairman Tells OF War
Relief Plans

The way in which the Rcd Cross
war council plans 20 eXpend the Sl00.
100000 fund which Is being raised was
explained by Henry r. DAWSON. chair.
man. la letter from him to the Red
Cross
The purpose 90 use the bulk OF the
fund in the purchase OF necessary
supplies was made clear IN Mr.. Dav.
ison's letter He gave assurance that
only a small percentage OF each dol.
lar contributed would be required TO
carry the relief TO ts destination"
because OF the volunteer character OF
the best American talent in medicine.
sanitation. transportation. construe.
tion welfare work. purchasing. com.
merclal business, accounting and along
other lines
Base hospitals will continue TO De
organized, to be turned over To the
army at once for service IN France
Units for military aud naval mobilza.
tion camps will be provided Supplies
must be purchased. collected. trans.
ported and stored. Hospital ships nre
90 be bought. equipped and manned.
a sanitary engineering corps will be
formed. The extent OF AN this prepa.
ration cannot now be estimated. Mr.
DAWSON said. because no one knows
whether one or two million men are
70 be- sent forward
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his head In bucket OF water. He
turns to the wounded man. gently feels
his nose, lifts up his closed eyelids. and
at his nod the stretcher is again lifted
and the wounded man Is carried into
the operating room, and soon after
into the little room OF sorrows.
I'm answer to my eager question.
the surgeon shakes his head.
Not a chance.
"A brancardier and / gather the sol
dier's belongings from his clothes to
be sent 10 his wife, but even we have
TO stop for a few minutes after we
see the photograph OF his wife and
their two little children.
An hour later, as our nights work
is Stacking up and several cars have
driven up and been unloaded, the In.
frmier comes In from the little room
and says something to the brancar
diers. Two Of them get stretcher,
and in moment the blesse from
Belleyille' comes past as with a sheet
over him. They lay him down al the
other end OF the room and another
brancardier begins rolling and tying
him in burlap for burial As / look
he changes TO a shapeless log. Then.
out TO the dead wagon with H.
Soon after, go into the little ward
again TO see how the others are com.
ing through the night, and am glad
TO see them all quieted down Even
the little German seems in less pain.
though his breathing still shakes the
heavy bed he lies on.
Through chink | see that day is
beginning 70 break, and hear the
chiefs car coming in from the sap.
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Yankee ingenuity.

In all of the American Red Cross
hospitals and American ambulance sta.
tions IN France are to be found in
genious contrivances to save the lives
and limbs of badly manned soldiers.
one such apparatus, apparently tan
gle OF weights and pulleys and rubber
bands, holds up the legs OF a patient
whose lower limbs have been broken
i'm three or four places by shell eXplo.
sion, and prevents the bones from
growing together improperly, Another.
which looks like a mass Of small rub.
ber drain pipes suspended from a bag.
irrigates deep wounds which have be.
come infected and which must be con
s.antly drained and cleaned with an
antiseptlc solution II the patients life
Is 20 be saved
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Red Cross surgeons and orderlie'
give first aid 20 the wounded in little
underground dressing stations in tht
front line trenches. In these dark. wei
places, cold and illyentilated. IL /,
sometimes necessary 10 perform major
operations such as an amputation, for
instance. War records in France show
chat as many Red Cross workers as In
fantrymen are killed by enemy fire 81
the trenches Red Cross field servio.
requires courage of Che HIGHEST o.
soldiers have the stimulation uf
lug and givine Che ermae saH
and blow for blow Thl o.ae
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tornado tore through that county We'd
nesday afternoon a few minutes la.
ter Dr, Louis = Hall, president Of the
Ann Arbor chapter. was notified. and
went Immediately to the Northheld
district for a personal investigation of
the damage done The same evening
Henry w. Douglas, president OF the
Washtenaw county chapter started re
lief work al Delhi
Early Thursday morning workers
went to both these districts and
arcn. made complete survey OF
pr3cucallg the whole path Of the
storm l}y Thma day evening reports
OF the Hot Cross agents had been
made. 81 800 for relief work had been
raised. the carpenters and muspns of
ann Arhor had offered their services
for three days committee OF es
pcrts had been formed and divided
into four groups assigned 20 four dis.
tricts 10 relieve, and a financial con.
mittee 10 collect additional subscrip.
tons had been named And hy Satur-
day efenug whom rain began ~ TALL
over the devastated district, the Red
Cross workers. rested content ia the
knowledge that every victim Of the
tornado slept that night with roof
over his head and with a good start
trward The REHABILITATION OF himself
and his family.
Here is part of what was done. and
how. when tho tornado OF May &c laid
...tc tho cftfaa of Nathan and Cbar.
lesion. III. with a loss Of nearly 100
iive- n0o' nersons made homeless.
and property worth millions DESTROYED.
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VIVID DESCRIPTION
OF FIRST-AlD WORK
BY RED CROSS MEN
An American Pictures Scenes in
Subway Dressing Staten
Near Trenches.
SURGEONS LABOR ENDLESSLY
Captain, Priest, Private and German
Lad, All Dying, Get Tender Care
From overworked Hospital
and Ambulance Aids.

The work OF the Red Cross surgeons
and stretcher bearers az the front in
France was never more yiyidly illus
trated than In recent letter forward.
ed to America. II was written by
Philip o. Mills to Mr. Eliot Norton.
head Of the Volunteer Motor Ambu-
lance corps which Mr. Mills was sery-
ing. The communication was private.
but was made public because OF the
clearness with which II sets forth the
scenes amid which the surgeons and
ambulance workers labor. day after
day. The text follows
Tonight | am sitting in small un.
derground cellar OF public building.
acting as a sort of timekeeper for the
cars tambulances) going UP to our
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most dangerous post, and handling the
reserve cars for wounded in the town
itself The whole world IS passing
here French Americans. living
wounded and dying
"A long, heavily arched corridor
with stone stems leading down TO it:
two compartments of to one side
lined with vino bins, where our re-.
serve men and q few French brancar.
dlers (stretchcr bcarcrs) arc lying ON
their stained stretchcrB, some snoring:
beyond, door that leads 10 "a little
sick ward the most pathetic little
room I have ever seen-with four
beds OF different sizes and kinds or
one side, and six on the other, taken
evidently. from tho ruined houses
near by; and one tired inGrmier Chos-
pital attendant to tend and Eoothc
the wounded and dying
"In the bed nearest the door n
French priest, shot through the lungs,
with pneumonia setting TN. his black
beard pointing straight up. whispering
for water.
Next to him a little German lad,
hardly nineteen. and small. with about
six hours TO live, calling sometimes
,screaming for his mother, and then
FOR water
y Next 10 him 4 French captain of
infantry, his arm of AT the shoulder
and his head wounded weak, dying
but smiling.
And next TO him a tirailleur dnfan.
tryman) In delirium calling on his col
onel to charge the Germans.
"The inhrmier is going from one to
the other. soothing and waiting on
each An turn lie asks me what the
German Is saying. and ! tell him he Is
calling for his mother.
".Ah. this Is a sad war;! he says. as
no goes over TO hold the poor lads
hand.
"A brancardier comes in with mes
sage: A blcsse ca wounded mani at
-8elleyillc very serious
y ~This Is reserve car call, so one
slides out and Is gone like a gray
ghost down the ruined street. making
All the speed its driver can no easy
matter with no lights. In twenty min.
utes he is back The brancardiers 20
out. They come IN again bearing the
wounded man on o strotchcr and place
Il on the floor. one Of them. who Is
a priest. leans over him and asks his
name. and his town. On answer 20
he question what his wife's name Il,
ha whispers Alice while on the 9TH
er\side another brancardier is Sitting
thd clothes from his body and
,asivcr with the pity Of Il az tho sight
IAce.
sThc sugreon comes out Of his little
operating room Weary with the
nights tragic work after so many,
many other tragic Elghta he douses
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snort time was handling everything.
Right and left he issued orders for
three hours and when ho LEFT FOR Mat.
toon on the next train help from an
over the central division was on tho
way to that town. lie took with him
Miss Ahrons and twelve OF her best
nurses and fifteen trained social work.
trs from The Chicago United Charities.
who had given invaluable help m the
East'and steamer disaster. on the
samo train went six crates OF hospital
supplies.
The head or "a Wholesale drug con.
cern was routed out OF bed. the firms
varehouse opened, and az 2 o'clock
IN the morning q Red Cross man. with
p consignment OF iodine. peroxide OF
hydrogen, chloride of lime and other
needed supplies started for the strick.
en- cities.
When Mr. OConnnr arriyec. with
The nurses and WORKERS. he found both
hia lieutenants on the ground. and
with tho ChicaED Office ready 10 give
instant support be began the relief
work a committee Of business men
was organized number az smaller
committees told Oh to take charge OF
each detail Of the situation. and In
few minutes the machinery was in
operation.
The injured we're given the hest sur.
gical and nursing care. the hungry
were fed. the homeless given shelter.
the dead Identified and made ready for
burial plans drawn up for rebuilding
the shattered homes. and fund start.
ed 20 rehabilitate both wrecked cities.
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Twentyseyen ambulance companies
have been organized by the American
Rod Cross IN this country for sertire
on ihc European battlehelds. So far
Michigan is represented by four OF
those units The Michigan companies
are
No Detroit, Dr Chas Barton:
No. II Battle Creek. Dr James I
Case; No rs Grand RAPIDS nr
Thomas d. Gordon; No. 2l--Flint. DE
Walter II. Winchester.
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and know that the nights work is
over"
This is not a sketch from the imaFi.
nation OF novelist II Is the actual
occurrences OF a night hehind the
front where the French. the Beleians,
the British and soon tho Americans
hold at bay tho German invader This
is Che nish1y work OF the men who
care for Che wounded,
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The list in
Millionaire OF
biggest factories leading
all entered the with
chairman. Mckee
yicechairman Emory W. Clark
publicity Seepers proclamation
Coyell OF
entire Michigan National Guard Fred keeler superintendent OF
asked all
editor
a advisory committee in his home community.
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MICHIGAN KNOWS HOW RED CROSS r
H. WORKS WHEN DISASTER STRIKES

There Is No fbng About During Crisis Whatever Its Nature Because
Trained Workers Know What To Do And How To % lWOnder
Accomplished In Record Tme-Wha Washienaw County Saw
In Recent Tornado Was Duplicated In Jackson ngham
And Calhoun And, Previously In The Metz AuSsbe
And 0scOda Forest Fire CaIamites
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-16

met with even less resistance than on the
previous day when the ban on new buying
had more than the aspect of a temporary
makeshifl. Under the restrictions in force
buyers were so scarce that one break Of be
resulted wholly from the sale Of three small
lots of 5000 bushels each. Bearish effects Of
the restraints on purchasers were supple
mented later By increased pressure from
holders Of July and September options, who
took note OF reports that milers were Only
buying Cnsh wheat when they could sci!
ilOur against 1t as a financial cOunterbal-
ance Besides some interior mtliers who
had wheat bought at terminal markets were
said to be trying 10 resell at heavy losses.
Echnte announcement just before the
close that the conference here Of represent
tatiyes OF leading grain exchanges had de-
tided 10 prolUng beyond any set bounds the
suppression Of unrestrlcted tracing was fol-
lowed by the greatest weakness shown yet
in wheat prices since the collapse which
started yesterday morning began. Some
minutes appeared too spasmodIc TO be vide
Iy taken as Significant.
General apathy which characterized the
wheat pit spread over the entire exchange
floor today, Busienss In corn, oats and pro-
visions was by tar the smallest since the
outbreak of the war. Dealers were in a
uuandary pending the outcome of the con-
ference with board Of trade men here from
other cities. No decision as TO maximum
prices for other commodities than wheat
had been reached by the conference up to
the time the market closed Accordingly the
tone OF feed grains and also of pork. lard
and ribs was one of almost unrelieved de-
preston throughout.