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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-11
SIX MONTHSO OF WAR

SlA MON l I'D of AK
America, rounding out its first
six months in the world war has
made marvellous records. From q
nation of peace and unprepared-
ness, the country i'll six months
has developed into a powerful
fighting machine - the greatest
factor in the war. Congress, on
the eve of adjournment has COM
pleted a program which, for mag
nitude and money has no equal in
the history of the worlds parlia-
ments.
On April 6-the day President
Wilson signed the, declaration of a
state of war--the American army
was small and unsupplied. The
navy was not fully manned. The
railroads, under equipped, were
unable to move their vast freight
shipments, much less to handle
gigantic troop movements. Amer
ica's merchant marine was a joke
among nations. The army had
less than a dozen airplanes. No
call existed for the development of
an army and navy, no money was
at hand for the unprecedented ex-
penditures necessitated and no
authority vested for carrying OH
the war.
Today, after six months, more
than 1000, 900 men are under
arms. Millions more are register
ed for service subject tocall. Six
teen environments camps, each cap
able of housing 40, 900 men have
been built at a cost Of $50, OOO,-
900. There are now three times
as many vessels i'll the navy as six
months ago. The enlisted strength
of the navy has been been incrcas-
ed 100 per cent and other branches
from 800 to 500 per cent i'll per
sonnet.
The airplanc program assures
thousands Of American aviators for
Europe soon, The shipping board
has contracted for 455 ships. Seized
vessels are rapidly being put into
service. 1t is planned to build ap-
proNimately 5000, 600 tons of
shipping within the next is months
and thereafter at least 5000, 900
tons a year.
Since April the United States
has advanced So, SIS, 400, 900 to the
Allies. The country today is
spending approximately 50, OOO,-
900 an hour for war.
To meet these vast war expendi-
lures congress has authorized by
tax and bond measures raising
$50, O0O, 900, 900. The first Liberty
Bondsof So, OOG, 900 has been sue
cessfully hoated and the second for
S., 600, 600, 900 has just been lau1l-
ched.
While these great movements
were going on congress placed i'll
the presidents hands authority
such as is not possessed by any
king or %potentate.
June IS the espionage bill, Civ
ing the government broad powers
to handle spies, seditionists and
antiWar propogandists was a law.
Answering a wide appeal for a
great air service, congress respon-
ded promptly with appropriations
of $3.50, 900, 900 for an aviation
program and later provided a spe-
clal board to direct the work
The American embargo, work
ing in conjunction with the allies,
is curtailing shipment of supplies
to neutrals who might feed Ger
many.
And out of this six months pre-
paredness there are seen the first
indications of a gradually weaken
ng Germany.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-11
Adjustable Draft.

general plan Of the arrangement. The
smaller cut shows the end Of the con-
trolling bar with a sprocket wheel,
which raises or lowers the draft-bar,
by turning the wheeled handle on the
opposite end Of the rod between the
handles.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-11
Exclaimed,

"What seems to be the matter with
him?" asked the doctor, approaching
the bedside Of the man who lay swath-
ed in bandages.
"He found the gas leak" briefly ex'
planned the nurse.-London Tit-Bits.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-11
WEE BITS OF HORSE SENSE
Young Animals Should Be Educated,
Not acknowledgements Caused
by Training.

Educate the young horses, don't
break them.
Severe bits often ruin the DISPOSE
tions Of horses.
Heavy horses are not calculated for
hard driving.
Vicious horses are generally made
60 by their training and associations.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-11
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP,

Of the Courier. Democrat, published weekly,
at Langdon North Dakota for October 1, 1917.
State of North Dakota, County of Cavalier-ss
Before me. a NOTARY public, in and for the
State and County aforesaid, personally appear
ed A. 1. Koehmstedt, who having been duly
sworn according to law, deposes and says that
he is the owner of the Courier Democrat. and
that the following is, to the best of his know
ledge and belief, a true statement of the own
ershlp, management, ETC., of the aforesaid pub
LEGATION, Tor the date shown in the above cap
ton, required by the Act of August "a, 1912.
embodied in Section 443, Postal Laws and
Regulations, printed on the reverse of this
form, to-wit;
1. That the names and addresses of the pub.
Usher, editor, managing editor and business
manager are:
Pnblisher,-A. l. Koehmsted, Langdon, N. Dl
Editor.-A.1 l. koehmstedt. Langdon, N. D.
Managing Editor james w. Woolner, Lang
don, N. d.
Buiness Manager. "A. I. Koehmstedt. Lang
don, N. d.
2. That the owner is: (Give name and adj
dress of individual owner, or if corporation
give it's name and the names and addresses of
stockholders, owning or holding one per cent
or more of the total amount of the stock.)
A.. l. K~oehmstedt, Langdon, N. d.
3. That the known bondholders. mortgages
and other security holders, owning or holding
one per cent or more of the total amount Of
bonds, mortgages or other securities are:
None.
A. I. KOEHMSTEDT. Owner.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th
day of October, 1917.
THOMAS DEVANEY, Notars Public.
My Commission Expires Aug. ii, 192O.)
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-11
All Letter Perfect.

All Letter Perfect.
you've been to the altar three times,
1 believer"
Eyes"
"And I twice. The minister is an
old timer. I guess we won't have to
rehearse kansas City Journal.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-11
ADJUSTABLE DRAFT ON PLOW
Advantage of Appliance, Easily oper.
ated by PIowman, Is Easily Seen
plan Outlined.

The advantage of a pillow with an adj
Unstable draft appliance, readily adj
justed by the operator from his posi-
ton between the handles easily is e
writes G. j. Lynde in Farmers Mail
and Breeze. The larger cut shows the
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-11

Unusual clearness of the atmosphere,
unusual brightness or twinkling of the
stars, Indicate rain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29

denatured with methylene blue a /
sent to Barren Island to be converted
into tallow and fertilizer.
1t was Just two years to the day
since L had begun an unofficial clean
up of this market. The change that
at last had taken place was little
short of uncanny.
At the beginning of my activities
the health commissioner, aided by his
entire inspection force, did all he
could to interfere with my efforts,
even going so far as to throw one of
my witnesses into Jail.
During all this time j had been la
belled by commercial scientists, po-
litical scientists and other friends of
the inner circle of privileged and pro-
tected businessmen muck-raker, an
official scandal monger.
Here, Jan. Z, 1915, the naked facts
hammered at for two years, stood up
and voluntarily placed themselves on
exhibition. Instead of attempting to
conceal their contraband meats the
dealers were slapping tags upon the
carcasses in order to give themselves
some sort of protection for having
them in their possession.
These tags We're homemade and
bore the initials "B. of H." and the
words Held for Inspection" The b.
and II. meant Board of Health. 1t was
a pretty subterfuge.
The owner of such a carcass in tie
event of its discovery by an inspec-
tor, could point to the tag and say,
See, L have been saving this speci-
men for you. I had doubts about it
and did not intend to dispose of it
until you could pass upon it."
One of the curious features of the
Jan. episode lay in the fact that the
officials of New York State, under
whose jurisdiction many of the dis
eased carcasses originated, refused
point blank to interfere. They were
not interested in the situation and
although | notified them of the facts
they did not appear upon the ground
1t was quite evident then as now
that the so-called farmer is immune
when it comes to shipping diseased
meats to city markets.
Were such charges uttered in the
form of general or sweeping state
ments they would excite no interest.
1t is for thsi reason that I offer spe-
cific instances of the truth and pro-
vide the proofs.
The conditions described here are
common. They will never be changed
until the people themselves become
familiar with them.
In the mean time we shall review
briefly a number of typical crimes
against public health which, in their
many damning details, should have
inspired city, State and federal off,
cials to action, but which had no eff
feet at all upon the monstrous
crime, now commoner than ever, of
preparing the flesh of diseased ami
mails for human consumption.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29
State College Needs Armory
to Obtain Government Aid

State College, Pa, Jan. 29.-Laclx of
a suitable armory in which to drill the
1900 students now under military
training at the Pennsylvania State Col
lege and the need of quarters for stor-
ing their arms and equipment has de-
prived the institution of the privilege
of establishing an officers reserve
corps as provided for in the national
defense act, recently passed by Con-
gress.
Major o. w. Bell. of the Fourteenth
Cavalry, United States Army, detailed
at the State College as professor of
military science, has reported to the
board of trustees that without these
accommodations it is impossible I.
begin the work of training officers for
the reserve corps.
To provide the required armory, as
recommended by Major Bell, who also
serves as commandant of the college
regiment, the committee is planning to
ask for State appropriation for that
specific purpose. 1t is generally be-
lieved that 100000 will be needed to
build such an armory as will meet the
requirements at State College and
compare favorably with the armories
supplied to other state colleges by the
legislatures of the states in which they
are located.
The authorities at Penn State want
an armory that will take care of in
fantry, cavalry and artillery as we'll ais
the specialized branches. such as hos
pital, signal and engineer corps, and
machine gun companies. The Uni
versity of Illinois and Cornell Univer-
sity both have armories such as State
College needs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29

was combination or tragedy, farce
and minstrelsy, lin which everybody
talked at once and all about suspi-
cious carcasses.
| called Health Commissioner DIR. S.
S. Goldwater on the phone and asked
HIM to send veterinarians to the mar
ket as quickly as possible. Within a
half hour DR.. Marion b. Mcmillan,
chief of the Bureau of Food and
Drugs Inspection; Drs Kent and No
back, Johnson avenue veterinarians,
and Inspectors Taylor, Salthe and
Cooney appeared. In a group we
made the rounds.
In one establishment we discovered
the carcass of. an emaciated cow, the
bones of which were protruding
through what once had been a thin
layer of flesh. The pleura (chest
cavity had been stripped to conceal
the evidence of disease in that quar-
ter, but all the glands still remaining
in the carcass were diseased. The
spinal bones were also diseased.
This specimen, destined for the hu-
man stomach, had been shipped from
Hobart, n. Y, famous dairy center
which supplies milk for children. The
carcass had been expressed through
Jersey City, but Lad not been de-
tected by the federal officials.
In another establishment was found
the carcass of a boar in such an ad-
vanced stage of generalized tubercu-
losis that the shipper, like the ship
per of the diseased cow at once be-
came a marked man. The boar had
been killed by so-called farmer who
after signing his own certificate, ship
ped the carcass into interstate COM
merce.
In another establishment was found
tie carcass of a tubercular hog that
had been shipped by a so-called
farmer from Middletown, Del.
In a fourth establishment was
found an entire rack of skinny old
cows on exhibition. Some of them
had been shipped from Cadyville,
N. Y; some from Centerville, N. Y,
and some from Monticello, n. Y. So
called farmers had dressed them all.
In another establishment were
found three tubercular hogs that had
been shipped from Kennedyville, Md
All the carcasses were cut down, Of
ficially condemned, hacked to pieces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29
NEWS OF THE LEGISLATURE
NEW FOOD BILLS
FOR THE ASSEMBLY
They Will Be Presented With
Administration Backing
During This Week


The bills prepared by. the State
Dairy and Food Division to require
dealers in rotten eggs to take out State
licenses, to prohibit misbranding and
adulteration of liquors without notice
and to take out the kinks in the cold
Legislature this week. The rotten egg
law will make it unlawful, under PEN
atty of fines or imprisonment, for
anyone to engage in the business of
separating good and bad eggs and the
candling of decomposed eggs without
having secured a s25 license, which
will be for a specified location.
The cold storage act will provide
that cold storage food shall be food
which has not been stored at a tenn
perature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit or
less in a cold storage warehouse for
fifteen days or more" The use of
spices and similar condiments would
not be considered as used for preserva-
tion provided the use is as ordinary
in the food business. Hides, feathers,
etc, not removed but in clean con-
dition would not be considered as
offensive parts' The Jail penalty is
changed to read not less than thirty
nor more than ninety days instead of
not more than ninety.
The liquor bill would make it un-
lawful, under penalty of fine of from
$50 to 5000 or imprisonm for from
thirty to sixty days, to manufacture,
sell or offer or have in possession with
intent to sell liquor which is adulter-
ated or misbranded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29
TONIC FOR GROWING GIRLS

Most growing girls need tonic,
especially during the years when they
are springing up most rapidly and
when their appetites are most tickle.
A diet of tea and candy will ruin any
girls chances of future happiness. A
plentiful and scientifically correct diet
might meet all requirements but this is
next to impossible. Hence the need
for tonic. Almost every Doctors
daughter is given tonic during her
period of rapid growth but because your
daughter does not actually break down
you do not call a doctor and she gets
thin and pale, fidgets so that she can
not sit still on chair, eats the wrong
things, eats too fast, gets too little out
of-door exercise and perhaps faces st.
Vitus' Dance, or a nervous breakdown.
A great responsibility rests on parents
and DIR. Williams Pink Pills are the
best and most convenient tonic to aid
them in bringing their daughters to
healthy and happy womanhood. They
supply needed elements to the blood,
and enable it to meet the unusual de-
mands upon it and help tolay founda-
ton for future health.
The price of DIR. Williams Pink Pills
is fifty cents per box. Your own drug
gist sells them or they will be sent on
receipt of price by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29
PAPE'S DIAPEPSIN
FOR INDIGESTION
OR BAD STOMACH
Relieves sourness, gas, Heart
burn, Dyspepsia in five
minutes.

Sour, gassy, upset stomach, indiges-
ton, heartburn, dyspepsia; when the
food you eat ferments into gases and
stubborn Jumps; your head aches and
you feel sick and miserable, that's
when you realize the magic in Pape's
Diapepsin. 1t makes all stomach mis-
cry vanish in five minutes.
If your stomach is in a continuous
revolt-if you can't get it regulat-
ed, please, for your sake, try Pape's
Diapepsin. It's so needless to have
q bad stomach - make your next
meal a favorite food meal, then take
a little Diapepsin. There will not bel
any distress eat without fear. It's
because Pape's Diapepsin really
does" regulate weak, out-of-orderI
stomachs that gives it its millions of
sales annually.
Get a large tifty-cent case of Pape's|
Diapepsin from any drug store. 1t isl
the quickest, surest stomach relief
and cure known. 1t acts almost likeI
magic it is scientific. harmless|
and pleasant stomach preparation
which truly belongs in every home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29

AS a Specimen of the Manner in
Which Trafficl<ers in Diseased Meats
May BE Driven to Respect the Law,
the Following Diseased Hog Incident
is Eloquent.
Jan. z, 1915, terror stalked through
West Washington Market, New York
City. That wholesale institute was
maintained largely for the purpose of
issuing certificates to vendors of dis
eased and tainted beef and pork.
The convictions of two. of the re-
ceivers of meats unfit for human con-
sumption and the promise made by
Justice Collins that he would send the
next diseased meatmonger WHO ap-
peared before him to Jail had thrown
the whole market into a panic.
A half dozen messengers represent
ing as many dealers were running
across each others tracks hunting
anybody that might look like an in
spector. They actually wanted an in
spector to come to their coolers and
examine certain old COWS and hogs in
their possession for the physical con-
dition of which they were ready at
last to disclaim all responsibility, say
ing they would not dream of selling
them-no, not for all the money in
the world until the Department
of Health might pass judgment upon
them.
The sudden outburst of the meat
men was more than seri-comic. 1t
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29

Speaker Richard J. Baldwin says it
will be possible for the House of
Representatives during possibly the
first two months of the session to take
nine-day recesses every other week
and at the same time accomplish more
in the way of advancing bills on the
House calendars than has been done
in some past sessions when the House
was in session two or at most three
days a week.
The Speaker told friends here that
he wants it understood that this is
merely a suggestion on his part and
not plan that the lower branch
necessarily must follow. 1t is a sug-
gestion which can be made reality
if the movement is started on the floor
of the House, because, once started, it
would meet with his support and ap-
proval. incidentally, he is again look
ing after the interest and convenience
of the rural members of the Legis-
lature. The Speaker is desirous of
helping the country members in ways
that have not been practiced in recent
many of them have to come a long
way to Harrisburg and can not return
each week to their homes like the
members living in the big cities be-
cause of the lack of convenient trans
portation facilitie and the expense of
travelling. His plan is to have the
House meet on Monday and continue
in session until, say, Friday noon, as
xKyae 1NNN@ s.,
doing the calendars can be cleared and
the bills introduced and referred to
committees can be either reported
back to the House or at least a good
start obtained in giving them the con-
sideration that is their due. He is
very keen for having bills properly
drawn and then analyzed in commit
tees SO that they can be readily ex-
planned in case questions are raised on
the floor of the House.
This plan would also permit the
House to dispose rapidly of any bills
which may come over from the SEN
ate and at the same time keep the
upper branch acting on the House
bills. He thinks it is possible and good
legislative practice for the House at
it's adjournment on Fridays to vote
not to reconvene until the following
Monday week and still know that
the lower branch is doing it's full duty
TO the people or the state. Contrary
to the thought that might arise from
a superficial consideration of this Bald
win suggestion, the Speaker says that
it will positively result in shorter
session of the Legislature than is the
outlook at this time.
Speaker Baldwin is not satisfied
with the appropriation that is bien-
nially given to the country school
houses. He wants greater sum for
what he calls "the lite red school
house" set aside by the session of 1917
for the upkeep and maintenance of
the common schools. At the present
time where there are no high schools
in rural communities, the Speaker
says, the common school appropriation
is drawn upon to maintain the COM
mon school student in the higher
grades, and by the analysis he offers
he declares that the common schools
are really receiving less money all the
time because of the drains due to in
creased population.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29
Says Man Existed
$4,000 Years Ago

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 29.-"Man has
dwelt upon the earth as a thinking
being at least $4,000 years and prob
ably four times that period" asserted
r.. Waite Joslyn in the third of a series
of lectures on evolution he is giving
before the Society of Evolutionists at
z430 West Jackson Boulevard.
From birth to two years of age
every human being is an animal. with
the instincts and demands of an ami
NAL. From two to sixteen years every
child is a savage becoming civilized.
1t is only when reason awakens and
thought becomes active that the child
enters into its heritage as a human
being.
'The impulse of every boy is to dig
caves; to hunt and fish and fight is an
inheritance from our savage ancestors.
The tendency of girls to deck them
selves in brightly colored ribbons is
the habit of the savage grandmothers
showing itself in them. A child's fear
of the dark is the remnant of the time
when the dark places were filled with
wild animals and the enemies of men,"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29
OUCH! PAIN! RUB
OUT RHEUMATISM
Stop suffering! Relief comes
the moment you apply
"St. Jacobs Oil"

rheumatism is pain only"
Not one case in fifty requires inter-
nal treatment. Stop drugging Rub
the misery right away! Apply sooth-
ing, penetrating est. Jacobs Oil'' di-
rectly upon the tender spot" and re-
lief comes instantly. "St. Jacobs Oil"
conquers pain. 1t is harmless rheu-
matism liniment which never disap-
points and can not burn the skin.
Timber up! Stop complaining! Get
small trial bottle of "St. Jacobs
Oil" at any drug store, and in just a
moment you'll be free from rheuma-
tic pain, soreness and stiffness. Don't
suffer! Relief awaits you. "St. Jacobs
Clip is just as good for sciatica, neu-
ralgia, lumbago, backache, sprains
and swellings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29
AND THIS FROM THE LAND OF
UNCHANGING FASHIONSi

When a middle-c class Japanese lady
goes out to any little function, her
clothes. exclusive of pearl hair orna-
ments and any other jewelry, of which
the Japanese women wear little, are
worth from $500 to 5000. If she is of
the wealthy class her obi, or bright
belt, or sash, or surcingle, or what
ever is the translation for the over
grown necktie which is to the Japan
ese woman what bright scarf is to
a. quietly dressed man - her obi is
worth probably $500. 1t will interest
all women to know that, each year,
new designs for the inner kimono are
drawn by recognized artists, and that
q Japanese woman of society would no
more wear last years kimono pat
tern than you would wear balloon
sleeves or a wasp waist. - Maynard
owen Williams, in the Christian Her
aid.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29
Japan Turns Chinese
Coin Into Silver

Pekin, Jan. 20. During the six
months from July to December. 1915,
Japanese firms are said to have
realized profit of $6O,OOO,0OO silver
from Chinese brass cash bought in the
northern provinces of the republic
This cash Is the old fashioned Chi
nese money. with square holes in the
center. Much of it is very old and its
value as a circulating medium is so
far below the market value of the
metal it contains that there is a profit
of at least 200 per cent. in buying the
old coin and melting it down.