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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-12

rapidly toward an enemy furnishes a
poor target. Remember also that a
man lying fiat on the ground is not
easily observed from the enemy's
lines.
This principle applies also If you
are ever fired upon while scouting or
acting independently; drop to the
ground and seek cover, and then try
to locate the enemy.
These are some of the main points
to keep in mind; many others will
come up during your training. Grad
ually you will become highly skilled
in this form of attack. Not only will
your skill increase but also your
confidence. You will learn in time
that troops standing on the de-
fensive behind entertainments seldom
fire upon an advancing enemy with
steadiness and accuracy. The great
err determination and energy you and
your comrades show in the advance,
the smaller will be the chances of
your suffering severely from the en-
emy's fire.
The advance Of a company in ex-
tended order is directed by COM
mands transmitted to the individual
soldiers chiefly by the use of signals,
since the noise of the firing makes
1t impracticable to use the voice eff
fectively. e-.
Practice Fighting.
The problem Of each individual
soldier is to obey the commands and
at the same time to use his own
judgment and skill in taking advan-
tage of cover as he advances. 1t is
especially important that you should
obey at once any directions that may
be given to you as to resetting the
sights on your rifle and that the
rapidity of your firing should be con-
trolled by the orders Of your cap
tain.
Going a step beyond the extended
order drill your company and regi-
ment will take part in field and com
bat exercises, in which conditions
and movements OF actual warfare
are reproduced as closely as posi-
BILE. Here you will put into practice
everything learned during your
previous drilling. You will practice
correct methods Of attacking and Of
defending yourself both with the
rife and bayonet and with other
weapons now in use. Don't fail to
enter into the spirit OF these exer-
cises with as much enthusiasm and
intensity as II you were on the act
ual battle field. Use your magma
ton. see the enemy in 'front.' or you
and act precisely as you would act
If the enemy were real. Only in this
way can you get the full benefit of
these exercises.
Don't fail to keep in mind also that
you are member Of big team and
that every member plays an import
ant part in contributing to the sue
cess of the team. The one requisite
necessary to win the battle is inteIli-
gent teamwork. The army is handled
just like a football team. A part is
on the first line facing the enemy.
Another part, like the half backs, Is
held back as supports. Another part,
like the full backs, is held as a re-
serve. Each unit, like each player,
has a certain duty to perform. When
the signal is given, all work together
all play the game-teamwork"
manual for Noncomn1issioned ON
GERS and Privates, p. 1870. 81
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Germany Making Great Efforts To
Reorgdnize And Strengthen It's
Agitation Branch Of The Service

Paris, Aug. Correspondence of
The Associated Press).-The en-
trance of America into the war and
the probability that it soon would be
lending the allies tremendous aid in
the aerial department Of the strug-
gle has led Germany to reorganize
and strengthen its own aviation
branches materially, according to
The Temps. This reorganization does
not date exclusively from the break
with the United States, but rather
from the battle of the Somme, but
1t has been accelerated and intensi-
fed by the reports that hundreds II
not thousands Of airplanes with the
corresponding aviators TO man them
are soon to be supplied to the en-
tente forces.
The reorganization of the German
aerial forces has taken the form OF
creating four principal divisions into
which the fliers are now placed,
roughly as follows:
Army Filters.
Army Squadrillas or Army
fliers division" which are directly I'M
der the command Of the army chief
of aviation and the work of which
consists mainly of expeditions far to
the rear of the lines. They also are
employed for commandments, night
flights, Photographic work, and the
airplanes employed are Of the most
varied type, according to the charac-
ter of the work they are to do.
Recently captured prisoners say
that a recently constructed biplane
of the Albatross type Is vastly super
ior to anything heretofore used by
these squadrillas. 1t is equipped
with a $50 h. p, motor and attains
speed of from leo to lis miles an
hour. 1t can rise to an altitude OF
more than 1000 yards in nine min
utes, and carries two machine guns.
The machines travel in groups OF six
or eight, according to the position
and needs Of the army to which they
are attached.
Corps squadrillas or troop
fliers" which are attached to the STAFF
headquarters OF the various German
armies and which are commanded by
captains. These generally remain
within the sector of the armies to
which they are attached and are used
in general for Reconnaissance
photographing trenches, batteries and
making patrol flights.
Hunting Airplanes.
s.-Hunting squadriIlas, as they
are called both by the french ana
the Germans, are the main attacking
instruments OF the German air
forces, and for chasing enemy ma
chimes which venture over their lines.
They are charged at with the de-
struction OF the stationary balloons.
On the west front, 1t is estimated,
there are about forty Of these squad
riilas, with about a dozen machines
to each. Others In the same categ ory
have as their duty the protection Of
the large German cities that lie With
in airplane flight Of the French and
English, such as Strashurg, Freiburg,
Mulhouse, Friedrichshafen, Stuff
CART, Essen, Cologne and Treves. The
pilots Of these squadrillas are care
fully chosen from among the best Of
the German aviators, and their ex-
ploits are encourages by frequent
mention in the general staff reports.
battle squadrill8s or +fiotillas'
are under the direction Of great
headquarters, and shift from army TO
army 20 carry out bombardments on
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tBy Theodore RooseveIt.)

10y lneooore ROOSEVELT
Colonel Roosevelt issued the ring
ing declaration Of loyalty printed be-
low from his home in Oyster Bay
for publication today. The Colonel
had previously sent il to q number
, OF prominent citizens of foreign birth
or descent and received great many
signatures. These are still coming
in and the Colonel hopes to have the
name of every good American of for
eign extraction behind this move
ment.
We, Americans are the children of
the crucible.
1t has been our boast that out of
the crucible, the melting pot of life
in this free land, all the men and
women of all the nations who come
hither emerge as Americans and as
nothing else; Americans who proud
ly challenge as a right, not as a
favor, that they belong" just exact
ly as much as any other Americans
and that they stand on a full and
complete equality with them; Ameri-
cans therefore. who must, even more
strongly, insist that they have re-
nOunced completely and without re-
serve, all allegiance to the lands
from which they or their forefathers
came, and that it is a binding duty
on every citizen Of this country in
every important crisis, to act solidly
with all his fellow Americans, hav-
ing regard only to the honor and
interest of America and treating
every other nation purely on its con-
duct in that crisis, without reference
to his ancestral predictions or anti
pathies.
If he does not so act, he is false to
the teachings and the lives of Wash
ington and Lincoln, he is not entitled
to any part or lot in our country,
and he should be sent out Of 1t.
Must Melt All.
If he does not act purely as an
he shows that in his case
the crucible has failed to do its
work. The crucible must melt all
who are cast in it; it must turn them
out in one American mould; and this
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-12

New York, Sept. 12.-(Special).-
Donald Macmillan, just back from a
vain search for Croker Land, explor-
atoms greatest mirage, does not re-
turn a disappointed man. Instead he
is trimming over with enthusiasm
for the wonders he has seen and the
wonders new expeditions may reveal
in the regions he has been travelling
The Croker Land expedition is by
no means failure, for it has estab-
lished certain definite scientific facts
without which the photographers of
the world could never rest content.
1t has shown that Croker Land
which Admiral Peary thought he saw
in 1905 from the top Of Cape Thomas
Hubbard, Is, in the words of Mac
Milan "a wonderful image. It was
but mirage, but so clear that you
could see green hills covered with
vegetation rising high above the
water"
"Peary was deceived by mirage"
Macmillan goes on to say, "due to
layers Of air at different densities,
suspended close to the ice. Peary
sighted this supposed land from a
cliff 1000 feet high. We mounted
the same cliff and for four days were
deceived. Finally when the sun lift
ed 1t was no longer there
1t was supposed to be 12O miles
northwest from Cape Thomas Hub.
bard, but we sailed Isl miles north
west, passing over the supposed
Croker Land. 1t deceived the whole
party and Small Jonathan c. Small,
mechanic and general add insisted
that Croker Land was somewhere
near, but finally we had to admit
that Peary was mistaken.
Don't think however. that Peary
was taking. 1t would deceive any
man, no matter who he was"
Peary's Reports Alluring.
Admiral Peary's announcement
upon his return from the Arctic ex-
petition of 1867 that he had dis
covered q new continent occasioned
the greatest interest in the scientific
and geographical world. The ex-
plorer's failure to furnish exact data
and his inability at the time of his
discovery to visit the mysterious
land which he had seen brought on a
controversy that ragged from then to
the day that the cables first brought
word from the Macmillan party
puncturing the bubble
1t was in 1912 that the American
Museum of Natural History. in con-
junction with the American Geo.
graphical Society, and the University
OF Illinois, proposed to send an eX-
petition to investigate the Peary-
claim. In 1918 Macmillan, who had
been one Of the admiral's lieutenants
on his successful dash to the pole,
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Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not
Square With The Forums
Opinions.

st. Paul Dispatch: It remained FOL
Former Governor Lind to strike tn,
highest note of the devotion tt
Americanism of the citizen of for,
eign antecedents. What he said a
the patriotic meeting at Saltwater
is the sublimated conception of tn,
duty and obligation of such a citi.
zen to the United States and 1t.
ideals. Speaking of the situation
created by "the government of Swe.
den permitting itself to become the
lackey of the kaiser" in the Argen.
tine affair. he said, as a citizen oi
Swedish blood:
Whatever kindly feeling we
may have towards the people of
Sweden, we say to them that I'M
less they choose to have a gov
eminent in harmony with the
aspirations of the free peoples
of the earth they must suffer
the consequences Of the actions
Of their rulers. AS to us Amer
leans of Swedish blood or de-
scent, they are our friends in
peace; aye, more than friends,
for they are kindred. But in war,
If such should come-which God
forbid-they are enemies.
This is and is not a remarkable
declaration. 1t is what America has
the right to expect and in that re-
spect is not remarkable: it is what
America is not getting from all OF
the sons of it's adoption and in that
respect is remarkable.
But it expresses admirably the at
titude that should be taken by every
American Of foreign blood and de-
scent-and all Of US are such, If we
go back far enough. 1t applies equal
ly well to Germany and Sweden. 1t
goes right to the heart of the sit
uation in Minnesota. 1t should be
subscribed to by every man in the
state whose citizenship is the result
of the opportunity offered by the
great republic
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-12
. MAKING RUSSIA SAFE FOR
KINGS.

Russia is giving the world an
object lesson in the results Of
anarchy.
This beautiful! political dream,
where every man is a law unto
himself, is being exemplified in
the newest Republic. The horrors
of a civil war seem imminent.
Nothing but tn. activity of the
allies in the west is saving Russia
from a restoration OF CZardom with
a German car on the throne.
Each new leader who can gain ar
audience procIains his particular
brand Of democracy as the bCst.
Meanwhile instead OF bending rV-
cry effort t. make thAir county
and the world safe for democracy,
they are making it safe for the
HohenzoDern3, as far as it lies
within their power.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-12
1T PAYS TO FEED
CORN TO THE PIGS

Shoveling out $3.50 corn is like
feeding dollars, but with good judg-
ment behind the scoop and healthy
pigs in front, IL will pay. The fol-
lowing results are obtained from ac-
tual tests, charging corn at $1.6s a
bushel. ..
Comparing 1 per cent and 8 per
cent corn rations on alfalfa pasture
at the Nebraska experiment station,
the / per cent lot Of pigs ate 1872
pounds OF shelled corn for each 100
pounds of gain and gained one-half
pound daily per pig. The 3 per cent
lot ate 336 pounds of corn per 100
pounds of gain and gained los
pounds daily per pig. On the basis
Of cents per day per pig for pas
ture on the l per cent lot, and
cents per day per pig on the per
cent lot, the actual feed cost for 100
pounds gain was 1896 on a l per
cent corn ration and $12.S6 on a
per cent ration.
At the Minnesota station last year,
pigs were fed per cent and 4 per
cent rations Of corn with alfalfa pas
ture. With corn at $1.6S per bushel
and pasture at $40 per acre, the feed
cost Of 100 pounds gain was SIPS
on the 3 per cent ration and S11.36
on the per cent ration. On the 3
per cent lot gains were at the rate
Of 1850 pounds per acre OF pasture
and 1859 pounds on the per cent
ration.
In addition to the cost of feed such
expenses as interest on the invest
ment In sows and buildings, labor
and risk must be considered as well
as market uncertainties.
Growing pigs should have at least
two pounds Of grain daily, on pas
ture. for each 100 pounds live weight.
-R. G. Ashby, Minnesota expert
nent station.
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STABILIZE BANKING.
Efforts to Avoid Fluctuations Ii
Money Market In Collecting
Liberty Lean.
(By Associated Prees. !

New York, Sept. 12.-Plans for
making a close study of banking
conditions for the purpose OF work
ing out methods to be applied in
collecting the next Liberty Loan in
order to prevent wide fluctuations in
the money market each time an in
stallment falls due, were announced
here yesterday by the federal re-
serve bank. The experience Of the
first Liberty Loan showed that a
sharp stringency in money was caus-
ed by every installment.
To assist it in its efforts to obviate
this the reserve bank has requested
the banks and trust companies here
to give 1t daily information as to the
total amount Of balance they carry
with institutions outside New York
city and the amount of strictly call
loans carried by them for out.of-
town accounts.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-12
lesson No. 81.

Lesson No. II,
E%TENDED-oRDER DRILL.
breeding lessons: /. Your Post OF
Honor. 3. Making Good as a Sol
der. 3. Nine Soldierly Qualities.
4. Getting Ready for Camp. 8.
First Days in Camp. 6. Cleanli-
ness in Camp. Z. Your Health. s.
Marching and Care of Feet. 0.
Your Equipment and Arms. 10.
Recreation in Camp. IL. Playing
the Game. II. Teamwork in the
Army. 10. Grouping Men into
Teams. II. The Team Leaders. Is.
Fighting Arms Of the Service. .16.
STAFF Branches Of the Service--I.
II. Staff Branches of the Service
II. IS. Army Insignia. 10. The
Army System of Training. 20.
Close Order Drill.
Extended order drill will give your
squad its first lesson in the methods
Of advancing against enemy lines
actually used in present day war
fare. You will first be shown how to
deploy as skirmishers. Moving at a
run you and the other men will place
yourself in one rank. the interval be-
tween men being about IS inches, IN
stead of inches as in close order
drill. This is the simplest form of
deployment, which may be roughly
defined as spreading out a body Of
troops in thin open lines so that they
may more easily advance even in the
face OF enemy fire.
This means that you become to a
greater extent an independent unit.
When pushing forward in skirmish
lines you must rely in part on your
own initiative and judgment
The next step in extended
drill is to practice kneeling, lying
down, and advancing at a run. In
the meantime, you will be getting
practice also in rife loading, and a
little later will begin to carry your
rifle when advancing as a sSirmisher
and to practice loading, aiming, and
firing from the skirmish line.
Use of Cover.
One of the most important features
Of this part Of your training will con-
sist of learning to conceal yourself
from the view Of the enemy by TAX
ing advantage Of hillocks, trees,
heaps Of earth, rocks, gullies, ditch
es, doorways, windows, or any other
cover that may be at hand Your
object is to reach the enemy. The
more skillful you are in the use Of
cover the smaller the chances of
your. being disabled during the at
tack.
But you are not to remain too long
in one place, no matter how we'll
you may be concealed. Your value
as a soldier depends on your ability
to advance from cover to cover, al
ways selecting before you leave one
place the position you are going to
occupy. Learn that "a man running
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The Children Of The CrucibIe

must be the mould shaped a hundred
and forty years ago by the men who
under Washington founded this as a
free nation, separate from all others.
Even at that time, true Americans
were of many different race strains;
Paul Revere and Charles Carroll,
Marion and Herkimer, Sullivan,
Schuyler and Muhlenberg, stood on
an equality OF service and achieved
respect with Lighthouse Harry Lee
and Israel Putnam. But the majori-
ty Of the leaders and OF their follow
ers were OF English blood. They did
not, because Of this, hesitate to resist
and antagonize Great Britain whan
Great Britain wronged this nation;
they stood for liberty and for the
eternal rule of right and justice and
they stood as Americans and as
nothing else.
All Americans Of other race origin
must act towards the countries from
which their ancestors severally
sprang as Washington and his asso-
ciates in their day acted. Otherwise
they are traitors to America. This
applies especially today to all Am
orleans of German blood who direct
ly or indirectly in any manner sup
port Germany as against the United
States and the Allies OF the United
States; it applies no less specifically
to all American citizens of Irish
blood who are led into following the
same course not by their love of
Germany but by their hatred Of Eng
land. One motive is as inexcusab Bile
as the other; and in each case the
action is reasonable to the United
States.
Paeifists as Enemies.
The professional pacifists have,
during the last three years, proved
themselves the evil enemies of their
country. They now advocate an in
conclusive peace. In so doing they
nave shown themselves to be the
spiritual heirs Of the Tories who in
the name of peace opposed WASH
.ington, and Of the Copperheads who
in the name Of peace opposed Lin
coin. We regard these men and
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-12
MAY BAR COUNCIL
Paeifists May Not Be Permitted To
Meet In South Dakota.
(By Associated Press. )

+ Sioux Falls, s. D., Sept. 12.--Indi-
cations yesterday were that the Peo-
pies Council OF America for Democ-
racy and Peace would be prohibited
by state authorities from holding &
conference here Sept. Is. Governor
Peter Norbeck has issued orders to
state sheriffs that no unpatriotic
meetings or gatherings which would
tend to create discord or disturb
ances will be permitted in South
Dakota.
Mayor Burnside of Sioux Falls,
has ruled that the council will not
be permitted to meet in any public
building over which the city has
control
Former United States Senator r.
A. Pettigrew, OF South Dakota, III
was reported, would preside as
chairman at the proposed meeting
which was called for the purpose OF
perfecting a state organization. No
move has been made by the council
to cancel the conference.
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tendance at this meeting was not
large and displayed, in compari-
son with almost all other points,
an apparent apathy. Fifty young
men have gone from this city
into the army, and yet at a
meeting called in the interest OF
those boys less than 90 people
responded.
The Kenmare News compare.
Governor Frazier to Thomas Var
Lear. the Socialist mayor of Mime
apolis, in the following:
Governor Frazier by inviting
the Peoples Council OF America
TO meet in North Dakota placed
himself in the same class with
Van Lear, the Socialist mayor of
Minneapolis.
While the citizens of Mime
apolis can once more hold their
heads high through the action Of
Governor Burnquist of AIinne-
sofa in stopping the meeting,
the patriotic citizens of the great
commonwealth OF North Dakota
must needs hang their heads in
shame that their governor in
stAhNS 9NSA - NAASSS SAA0dAA 30 AdA
forget the duty that he owes
the state and the nation as to in
vite the delegates of an UNI
American propaganda to spill
forth to the world the poison or
disloyalty.
The Peoples Council is for
peace at any price. 1t Is for
peace even though German au-
tocracy remains intact. Accord
ing to an admission of one Of
the officials of the organization
pro- Germans are among the
most liberal subscribers to the
movement.
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Hounds Run
Down Boys Who
Fired Hay Stack

Bismarck, N. D., Sept. L.
Within three hours after two
careless boys had fired and des-
troyed a Cotton stack OF hay
owned by G. G. Wachter, the
guilty ones were known. The
prison blood hounds in charge Of
Keeper A. p. Alternately took UP
the scent at the stack which led
directly to the homes Of two boys
living in Bismarck.
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REVERSING CONDITIONS.

Suppose you were a resident OF
Germany.
And suppose you were publish
ing a newspaper in the English
language in Berlin.
And suppose you day after day
and week after week, consistently
sneered at everything German or
Austrian, and praised everything
American, or French or English.
And suppose you published in
structions to American synpath-
izers on how to evade the postal
laws, and get mail out of Germany
which might contain information
OF great value to America?
Just what do you think your
chances of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness would be?
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NOT WORTH THE PRICE.

Il don't blame the person
who sold it so much as do
you poor chumps for paying
50 a pint for whisky.
There is a world Of good philos-
ophy in the police chiefs remark
to those held for buying intoxi-
cants illegally.
Whisky is less worth the money
now than it ever was. In the first
place the price is soaring since the
distilleries closed and the dealers
have a corner on it. In the second
place there were never so many
other ways in which money
should be spent. In the third place
it is necessary to become a sneak
and a law breaker to get it.
Why not just give up the strug-
gle and quit being poor
chump"?