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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
COMPLETED THEIR TASK

The commission appointed to
set the price of wheat completed
their work last Thursday, fixing
the price at 1920 in Chicago for
No. 1. Owing to the present
grading system, however, there
is no No. l in the country, and
most of the grain will be graded
No. 3 or lower. No. 2 is Sc less,
No. 3, &c less and No. 4, 1Oc less.
This will make the price in Hope
about 50 or less. %. >.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
SONS
IN U. S. SERVICE

A letter from our son, Harold,
who is in the U. S. Marines, dated
June 81, informs US he is now
a sharpshooter, and only missed
making expert rifleman grade by
three points. He was about to
leave Guam for Cavite, Philippine
Islands, and thought possibly he
would be leaving for this side of
the world the last of Septem.
ber.-Finley Beacon.
Ira Malmin, eldest son of the
writer and wife, arrived home
last Saturday from Bismarck,
where he is in military training,
a member of Co. A., N. D. N. G.
That our boy is making good"
as soldier is proven by the fact
that he has already been promot.
ed to first class private, which is
the first step in promotion, with
a small increase in pay. He left
again yesterday for Fort Lincoln.
AS the regiment will soon leave
for some mobilization camp for
further training before going to
the front, this will. perhaps, be
his last visit home.-Sharon Re-
porter.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06

IT WAS A LIE Them
AND, IT IS A LIE NOW

Senator John Sharp Williams,
in the current Leslie's makes
this sharp retort to the demagogs
who have been attempting to pro-
mote class differences as means
of unpopularizing our part in the
war:
A senator wants to persuade US that
it is the rich mans war and the poor
mans fight. heard all that CANNON
demagogry in the South after the Civil
war. 1t was a lie then as it is now. I
am getting tired of somebody saying
it is a Wall street war. 1t is lie.
Wall street and the money power of
the capitalists did not sink the Lusi-
tania and send to the judgment of God
those men, women and children un-
shriven. Wall street did not sink the
Arabic. Wall street did not sink the
Sussex. Wall street did not sink the
Algonquin with the American flag on
her main staff.
Senator Williams might have
added that no rich man or "spe-
cial interest," violated Belgium,
tore up treaties, outraged inter
national law and the rules of civ.
ilized warfare. Neither was it
any conspiracy of Wall street that
blew up American factories, SOW.
ed the country thick with spies
and plotters and intrigued to
align Mexico and Japan against
the United States
The man who declares that this
is rich mans war and poor
mans fight" is either a fool or 9
knave-most probably the latter
Finley Beacon.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
THE METAOD|STS TO
TRY TO RAISE $4,000

Do you want to do something
for the soldier boys to help make
them the most efficient soldiers
in this great world war? Of
course you do. OF course every
patriot is going to do his best to
help the United States win this
war. 1t is the history of every
army camp ever established that
in the wake there follows all man
ner of wickedness, all manner of
persons are bent upon Turing
into the ways of vice the young
men of the encampment. Wo-
men and men with this in mind
are already buying up land and
erecting buildings around the
new camps to entice our soldier
boys into sin. Unless something
to offset this influence is done at
once many of our boys will be-
come physical and moral wrecks
before they reach the battle
fields, and therefore be unfit for
soldiers. Several of the leading
religious denominations have al.
ready started to erect buildings
around the camps to provide
places of worship, reading room s
and places for recreation and
wholesome amusements for the
boys at camp. At some of the
camps this work will be inter-
denominational. The Methodist
Episcopal church has undertaken
to raise $250,OO0 for this purpose.
On Sunday morning, Septem
Der 16, Rev. G. T. Ensign will
speak of this work and take up
a collection to help carry it on.
Some of the Hope boys will be in
these camps and we want them
to have the best influence posi-
BILE while there. Everybody in
vited to this service and asked
to give literally for this import
ant work. If you cannot come,
send your money.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06

The Pioneer would like to Sc
cure several correspondents in
the neighboring townships. If
you know of anyone who would
make a good correspondentplease
let US know or have the party
call at our Office and secure sup
plies. We would also like to
have representatives at Colgate
and Blabon.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
STOPPED THE THRESH|NG

A light rain fell for a couple Of
hours Sunday evening and put
stop to threshing operations
Monday. In general threshing
is progressing rapidly and a few
days more of nice weather will
see it all cleaned up Not many
people are plowing yet, owing to
the ground being so dry.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
PULLED Down CURTAIN

Last Thursday evening A. G.
Watkins pulled the curtain in
his barber shop for the last time,
having closed a deal whereby he
turned over his business to G.
F. Husome. The two shops have
been consolidated in the latter's
shop and Mr.. Watkins is now as
sisting there.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
THE SIM FE|NNERS

Many newspaper reader-and many
a newspaper writer, too-if cornered,
would be in the same position in re-
gard to the Sim Feiners, as the man
who was asked ii he liked Keats and
replied: II don't know, what are
they?"
The Sfnn Feiners have been occupy
ing more than their share of attention
with their revolutions and riots, and
many Americans have come to view
them in hazy way as the I. w. w. of
Ireland.
Sim Feinism is far from that. 1t is
a powerful political party with quite
definite aims, and if vote could be
taken today it would probably be found
that the Sim Feiners represent a ma
jority of the voters OF Ireland.
Sim Fein translated means "For
ourselves alone" and the policy of
the Sim Feiners might be briefly stat
ed as absolute independence of Eng
land. not just home rule.
The Sim Feiners are taking no part
in the Irish convention, called for the
purpose of deciding upon solution
of the home rule problem, because they
claim the convention was not repre-
sentative, and because they do not be-
lieve in agreeing upon a new plan for
England to rule Ireland, but want a
plan whereby Ireland will rule herself
They want an Irish republic.
Probably the shrewdest political
moye they have yet made is the policy
they have adopted in refusing to sit in
the British parliament when elected
One by one the Sim Feiners are carry.
ing the by-elections in Ireland. They
ptan to elect just as many members Of
the British house as possible, but none
will sit in London. They will sit in
Dublin and do what they can for the
cause of an Irish republic uno officially
1t is even proposed to send am bassa
dors to other countries.
The Sim Feiners are proving very
serious handicap in the prosecution o.
the war. They declare they had nc
! voice in declaring war, and refuse tc
fight it or be taxed for it. They threater
to resist with bloodshed, if necessary
the imposition of any war tax or wal
debt on ireland.
- When the peace conference finally
comes the Sim Feiners will present 8
real problem to be solved.-Farge
Forum.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
RESIGNED As. AUDITOR

At the meeting of the city
council Monday evening F. w.
Ehred presented his resignation
as city auditor, to take effect at
once.~ He will leave in about two
weeks ior Courtney, where he
recently organized new bank.
of which he will take charge.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
FAIRLY GOOD YIELDS

4 Reports on yields of grain
show that fair crop has been
harvested IN this vicinity. Some
fields are better than others, ow-
ing to the difference in the time
of planting. The average for
wheat will be about IL bushels
per acre, altho several sections
have been going from Is to 1e
bushels.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
SPREADING the "VARN|SH"
WITH A BB|S1LE BRUSH

A Texas editor got tired of be.
ing called a liar concerning the
things which were printed in his
paper, so concluded to print
nothing but the truth. Here ares q
few of the interesting items from
the columns of his paper after
making the commendable resolu-
tion:
"John Coyle, our groceryman, who
voted with the Republicans in 1895 and
consumes more mail order whiskey
than any other member of the Baptist
church in this county, is doing poor
business. His store is dirty and dusty.
It is wonder he has any business
at ALL"
The Rev. Sly preached last Sunday
night at the Christian church. His
sermon was punk and unintesting ex-
cept some stuff he quoted from Bob
Ingersoll, for which he failed to give
Bob any credit. He also recited few
passages from one of William Ebert
Munsey's sermons and had the gall to
palm it off as his own.
Dave Charter died at his home two
mites north of this place last Thurs.
day. Dock Holderness, who is an old
friend of the family, attended him few
minutes before he died. He gave it out
that Dave died of heart failure. That
is darned lie. Dave died from drink
ing too much of a very poor grade Of
mail order Ticker. This paper prints
the truth.
Tom Spadin married Miss Cordis
Mesdor last trades day at the county
seat It amt generally known, but
the marriage was brought about main
ly by Remington shotgun manipulat-
ed by the BRIDES father, Tom con-
cludin' that marrying was the healthi-
est thing he could do until other ar.
rangements could be made.
Roger Lloyd, cashier of the State
bank at Smudge Grove, died Wednes-
day and was buried Friday by the Odd
Fellows. He had been taking this
paper years and so far hadn't paid
US cent, we thinking that he, being .
banker, would pay some time. We
will sell the account for two bits worth
of fresh green's.
MARR1ED-Miss Susie Scruggs and
Horace Gufin last Saturday at the
Methodist parsonage, tho Rev. James
G. Williams officiating. The bride IL
a very ordinary town girl, who flirts
with all the travelling men she meets
and never helped her mother three
days all put together in her whole life.
She is anything but beauty, resem-
bling gravel pit in the face, and
walks like duck. The bridegroom IL
natural born loafer and bum. He
never did lick of work until his step
daddy run him OF from home last fall.
He went to the county seat, and just
before starving tn death accepted job
as chambsrmaid in lively stable. AS
soon as his ma found out whore he vas
she went and got him and brot him
home. He now resides at the home OF
of the wife's father, and says that he
has no definite plans for the future.
Susie will have q hard row to hoe."
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
Has a High Opinion Of Chamberlain
Tablets

II have a high opinion of Chamber
lain's Tablets for biliousness and as q
laxative" writes Mrs. G. A. Barnes,
Charleston, III. 81 have never found
anything 80 mild and pleasant to use.
My brother has also used these tablets
with Satisfactory results. ADV
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06

All the women have to do these days
to get rid of husband is to tell Uncle
Sam that she does not need him and
your Uncle Samuel says, Come,
sonny, I can use you" If you have
wife you had better keep on the
good side of her-until the war is over,
anyway.-Ex.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06

An authority states that the majority
of the girls knitting sweaters for the
soldiers made the arms just the length
of their belts.-Ex.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06

Please, Mr.. Exemption Board, my
father owns 240 acres and has only
one eye, SO he can see only half the
farm at once. I have to watch the
other half. This is one reason for an
exemption.-Ex.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06

E. H. Hibbing, who owns a farm
southeast of Hope, left this week
for Paullina, Iowa, his old home,
where he will spend the winter
visiting old friends and relatives.
Mr.. Hibbing finished up havest'
ing and threshing and the crops
produced a very fair yield.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06

There is no truth in the report that
Gott was ch ucked out Of the German
government along with Bethmann-
Hollweg, Zimmerman and the rest.
The Kaiser again mentions Him in
language of distinct approval --Griggs
County Sentinel
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06

Some men are always looking for
trouble. Others remain single and
are sued for breach of promise. .-Ex.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
WELL PLEASED

P. A. Leese, of Hartley, Iowa, was
in Hope Thursday and made the Pion-
eer Office a pleasant call. Mr.. Hart
ley owns $40 acres of land North OF
Colgate and came up from Iowa to
oversee to the harvesting and thresh-
ing of his crops. He is highly elated
over the yield and says this is sure a
great country and has q wonderful
future before it. Mr.. Leeseis a real es-
tate and live stock auctioneer in and
around Hartley and has prosperous
business built up.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06

Fuller's auction sale Sept. Is.
See tine big ad on page 8 in this
issue.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06

For fall sewing the old reliable
1.-THE Singer" Motor attach
ment. Easy terms. Lowest prices
for cash. MCLAUGHLIN.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
Stove for Sale

Base burner in good condition,
price reasonable. Inquire of
Mrs. ]. A. Bowen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

To obtain pointers for the thousands
upon thousands of young women working
in the financial district on how best to fit
themselves for responsible, high-salaried
posts, interviewed half dozen of Wall
Streets most successful women workers.
Miss Annette l.. Smiley of j. p Nor
gan & Company, who has established
more filing systems for great financial
firms than any man or any other woman
in America, feels that service can be rem
dered by warning young girls against
leaving school before it is absolutely neces-
sary for them to do so. Many girls who
could go through college regard such
course as unnecessary to equip them for
business. Miss Smiley declares that few
young women can hope to reach the more
important places in the financial world
unless they have the groundwork of
full education.
Miss Smiley has the reputation of being
able to do as much work in one year as
most people can do in five. When she
entered the Morgan firm in 1914 the books
and records of the firm and it's individual
partners were not systematized. She has
corralled and co6rdinated every letter,
record, pamphlet, periodical, and book in
the place, and to-day j. P. Morgan &
Company's library while not among the
largest, is recognized as among the best
eXtant.
The rise of the City Bank of New York
to first place among the country's national
banks has been facilitated in no slight
measure by Miss Florence Spencer, who
is walking financial encyclopedia, con-
suited more often than any officer in the
bank. She is more familiar with what is
going on in finance, in commerce, and in
industry, here and abroad, than most
mere m9n.
Graduating from the famous Armour
Institute of Chicago, Miss Spencers abil-
ity attracted notice, and ten years ago she
was given charge of the library of New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

strewn on a floor. To-day, if any one
of these 5000 bankers wants the very
latest facts or arguments about any sub
ject short of astronomy, all he has to do
is to telegraph or write, and off to him
will go Package Library" covering the
whole subject. Miss Glenn has scores of
these mail-order libraries constantly trav-
cling to and fro.
At pinch, she even outlines speeches
for members of the unaccustomed-as-I-
am-to-public-speaking order of bankers.
Her speciality is not ponderous volumes
of ancient vintage, but an amazingly
complete compilation of up-to-the-minute
articles from newspapers, periodicals, pam
phlets, etc.
The story of how Miss Glenn found her
job illustrates her originality, ingenuity,
and pluck. After a library training in the
Middle West-she halls from Kansas
she sustained an accident while horse
back riding, and lost both health and
position. When convalescing she took a
telephone book, copied the names of con-
Germs listed under American "Consoli-
dated, General" National, "United,'
and other titles that sounded as if the
enterprise might be large enough to need
a trained librarian. Then she sent out
letters of application. She did not get
further than american Bankers Asso-
citation" when she found job exactly to
her liking. To-day, six years later, her
creative work is known whereverAmerican
banks hang shingles.
Miss Alice Carpenter, the suffrage
leader has been captured by Wall Street.
She is now manager of women's depart
ment in prominent Stock Exchange firm,
and has livened things up so much that
competitors are worried. She made her
first sale after only two weeks expert
ence, and now she can hold her own with
the best of the male gender. Several
other investment houses are breaking
in women to undertake selling cam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

The woman who knows
the greatest number of
bankers in America is Miss
Marian r. Glenn, who origi-
mated a unique plan to sup
ply all kinds of information
to the 10000 members of
the American Bankers AS
ISOLATION, with which she
is connected. Miss Glenn
started her nationwide work
with nothing but an idea,
enthusiasm, and a pile of old
magazines and pamphlets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

York's largest bank. By starting work
early in the morning, she was able to look
over every worthwhile. newspaper and
periodical, clip from them every pertinent
article or paragraph, digest the whole
mass, and place on the presidents desk
every item calculated to interest him or
the other officers, the whole classified and
neatly attached to cardboard. She devel-
oped what the newspapers call "a nose for
news, and became extremely expert in
distinguishing the important from the I'M
important, the useful from the useless
the wheat from the chaff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
How to Learn the Ropes"


TO her such volumes as "Poor's Manual
of Railroads., "Moody's Manual of In
dustrials, bound volumes of the Financial
Chronicle from the year 1899, and similar
tones, became more fascinating than
fiction. Her favorite authors were not
Richard Harding Davis, Winston Church
i'll, or Robert w. Chambers, but John
Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, Ricardo, and
Others of ancient days whose speciality
was not light literature. Miss Spencer
has become far more than librarian.
Not only does she know where to put her
finger on every one of million facts and
figures, but she can analyze things; she
can study cause and effect; she can draw
logical deductions and make suggestions,
often of the highest value, to the officials
of the bank
what path or paths should young
women enter in order to attain success in
Wall Street, asked.
"First of ALL" said Miss Spencer, 4as-
pirants should be naturally equipped with
keen and intelligent interest in current
events and their relation to banking and
finance. The best way to learn the ropes
is by apprenticeship in some firm or bank.
Courage, energy, and keen discrimination
are absolutely essential to success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

women. Managerships of departments
are also among the plums recently pluGked
from the financial employment tree.
The largest private secretarial salary in
the financial world is drawn by a woman.
The creation of the finest financial libraries
in the country has been and is being
achieved by women receiving several times
the average salary paid Wall Street
employees.
And why shouldn't there be women
financiers, women bankers, women bond
statesmen" women managers of security
departments? Is it not of official record
that half of the Pennsylvania Railroads
100000 stockholders are women, that the
percentage in the case of the New Haven is
even larger, and that the same thing
applies to seasoned industrial stocks like
American Sugar Refining?
The science-and it has become a sci
ence-of filing the millions of documents,
letters, statistics, etc, handled daily by
the financial community has been evolved
almost entirely by clever women, in most
cases trained librarians. So efficient are
women in this field that such houses and
institutions as J. p. Morgan & Company,
MUM, IIoSp ~ SoiHpdhy, OHe 1NdUiOHdl
City Bank, and the Guaranty Trust Com
pany would not dream of intrustng the
management of their libraries and files to
men.
Women on the Stock Exchange?
WALL STREET offers more and bet
ter opportunities for earnest, educa-
ted, persevering young women than any
other field. So far, no important financial
firm has been established solely by women;
but that no doubt, will come in time. Now
that the rustic of petticoats is to be heard
on the floor of Congress, perhaps the day
is not distant when Hetty Greens will
invade the flo)r of the New York Stock
Exchange, a floor never trod by women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

Half of the Penn
syludnid Railroads
100000 stockholders
are Women, the per-
centage in the case
Of the Ne,o Hapen
is even larger, and
the same thing
applies to many
industrial stocks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
TIME highest paid wo-
men in the world work
in Wall Street.

DTHIIly WU1IIVII HTV
blazing new and very profit
able trails in the financial
world. Two or three have
won positions as bank Of
ficers, a class of position
formerly enjoyed exclusively
by men. Several influential
Stock Exchange firms have
lately experimental with wo-
men as bond and stock sales
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

Brainy mOmen are
blazing ne,o and
profitable trails in
The financial ,Oorld.
And ,0ly shouldn't
there be Wom en-
fndnciers, ,oonen
bankers, women
managers of Sc
curly departments?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-25
COMMISSIONS oEdW66
NOTHING so STABLES AS REALITY

THE in
Il had hotel He
visible to anyone the day before an opening night
Il had heard the curtain hurried the wings from
which must make my entrance Just in time catch the torrents
the stage a
Now baby child do best started for did not know
before had to give that little gggng laugh off stage which must
Il Philadelphia did not
know and the ouakes than skeps from Missouri
I'm minute and again the
g aa OF h ~o Sas
est was at his best tried to keep on the same key
Of act But repeat all
again those which supposedly told Earnest
straight from heart to his.
roar of applause stood casped in his you do love me
don't you? Then he had to take from his neck and tell
that engaged to another but did not hear the words
the play he saying and when he instead of
Speaking should have done stood there with my hands hanging
Love you since morning
s Ss Te love you when chaos spreads
The everyone, speech said it
circumstances and that said with which seemed almost
surprise
spoke mastery that his light hesitation the end of
avowa was one OF the big moments of the play
T that critic could have known that not acting but
tonal story,
For the love Of what made change that speech
moment thought you had suddenly gone crazy
But you asked me if loved you, l said -.
However I'll forgive 1t speech not only for the
even spoiled the could have been
only girl as OR the Ega you were sd to
me again hal, j.. A. ,oo .ouo.o. 49,, ro.no.. o,so.os .
Every little while my speech.
sweetheart he asked
than You must remember you affirmed lot and prom
the table and covered mine as again he said almost
how much would do how much would
(To Continued)