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Vote to Take Up Army Bill.

After an hours delay the vote to take
up the army bill was cast and Senator
Chamberlain continued his explanation
Of the bill. Answering questions, he
Continued on Eleventh Page.)
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WEATHER.

Fair today and tomorrow; moderate
Temperature; gentle, variable winds.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending 10 pm. last night: Highest. 81 at
2 pm. yesterday; lowest, So at am.
yesterday.
Full report on page 3.
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Minister Balfour's Statement.

While unable to grant a regular in
terview before presenting himself to
President Wilson. Mr.. Balfour willingly
consented to say a few words as to his
general hopes for the conference and
the fundamental purposes behind it,
verbatim copy follows:
.AlI will agree that my first duty As
CONTINUED on Second Page)
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Planosravure Pictorial Section.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-09
Fire Loss In United statea

II one could imagine all the build
ings destroyed by FIRE in the United
States In year arranged along one
highway, each building occupying q
lot 60 feet wide, the highway would
extend from New York to Chicago
and the buildings would line 1t or
each side. Such Is the calculation Of
the department of interior. Further
more. a person travelling this scene Of
desolation would pass In every thou
sand feet q ruin from which an In
jured person has been taken. At everJ
three-Quarters Of a mile he would en-
counter the remains of q human be
Ing who had been burned to death.
For years, It is estimated, the
value Of actual property annually
consumed by fire In this country
reaches $3.50 600, 900. and another sun
Of about like proportions il spent fol
the maintenance Of FIRE departments
waterworks, insurance premiums, etc.
to prevent still greater losses Ceve
land Plain Dealer.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-09
SOCIAL NOTES

John Mccormack, the Irish tenor who
appeared in recital in Fargo Thursday
evening, spent an hour yesterday Wis
iting the Victrola parlors of the Luger
Furniture Co. During his visit there
he asked especially to hear his latest
record, Tommy Lad, on the New Model
Victrola XVII. Mr.. Mccormack ex-
pressed himself as greatly delighted
would be a great favorite with the pub
lie.
Supt. and Mrs. w. e. Hoover, who are
soon to leave Fargo for their new home
near Ann Arbor, Mich. were dinner
guests Thursday evening at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. r. M. Pollock, on
Eighth street south:
Mrs. H l.. Mcdowell, of Minneapolis,
will arrive in Fargo this evening for
weeks visit at the home of her niece,
Mrs. H. o. Kalgren, Tie Twelfth avenue
north.
c. A. Mclean has returned to Fargo
after a business trip to western points
in this state.
The Young Peoples society OF st.
Paurs Lutheran church will meet this
evening at the home of MIR. and Mrs.
T. Tolfson. 1O17 Third avenue north.
Miss Stella Tuskind, of Davenport,
N D., is expected to arrive in Fargo
Saturday evening to be the guest of
Miss Florence Tyrer, Second avenue
south, for a few days, and to attend the
Co. B military ball at the K. c. hall
next Monday evening"
~
The Fourth division of the Womafl's
union met Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. A J. Clark, on Sixth street south.
The ladies spent the time in sewing,
accomplishing considerable work, after
which a social hour and lunch were
enjoyed. Mrs H. w. Buck is chairman
of that division.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-09
HOLDS BALANCE EVEN
Creatures That Prey and Those Thar
Are Preyed Upon, Have Natural
Increase Limited.

However smart and awake to the
frequent dangers that may at any
time assail them, the creatures that
are preyed upon are often caught; the
preyiHg ones get them from time to
time, and If this were not so they
would Increase beyond all bounds. II
Is true also that those that prey often
go hungry, and they, too, have enemies
or diseases, which later amount to the
same thing in the struggle for exist.
ence and the limiting of numbers. So
nicely is nature balanced as a gen.
eral thing between the killers and the
killed that IL but an unusual influence
enters in, as an additional number Of
carnivorous creatures in any neighbor-
hood, or the growing up Of an addi-
tional amount of cover, there will be a
falling of, on the one hand, or a con-
siderable increase. on the other, Of
those animals that are preyed upon.
Thus is seen the influence, both
ways, Of mans part In natures com.
plicated contest. The gunners and
trappers weigh heavily In overbalanc.
ing the otherwise normal balance
against both flesh and vegetable eat.
ers, and where. in the unusual good.
ness Of his heart, man has endeavored
over considerable areas to protect
nearly all wild life. the result is
shown by rapid increase among the
protected animals.
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TOKYO STREETS A PUZZLE
Even Old Residents Are Said 70 Find
u Hard 70 Make Their Way
About Them.

Tokyo is made up of group Of small
towns which expanded until, like the
old lady's two teeth, they hit. 1t is the
most conservative city in japan, and ID
the one most lacking In unity of spirit
Each district has its own market and
It's own shops. Homes and stores are
mixed together in bewildering confu
sion, and even old residents find II
hard to find their way about the
crooked streets.
On my motorcycle, the only way ]
have mastered the problem is by mem
orizing the numbers Of the tram linea
and then riding till see car. Their
know where / am. The city ID
grouped around the. imperial palace
and segments, like dehorned pieces OF
pie. radIate from the center Of the cob
web. >As one cannot start from the
center of this mixup, due 10 the fact
that that is where the sacred person Of
the emperor holds court, he must play
"ring around the rosy" at some dis
lance from the center. If he is neal
the outer circumference, two miles on
his Speedometer mean one thing. IF hG
circles the inner moat, they mean an
Other.-Chrfstian Herald.
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ssDeceptive Experience.s

Nation: Reporting the chancellor's
belief that the submarine campaign
would end the war quickly, The Berlin
Kreuz-zeitung said. We must hasten ten.
then 1t added, perhaps with more sig
nihcance than 1t was aware of: God
grant that we do not renew with our
submarines our deceptive experiences
with Zeppelins." Thereby hangs q long
and melancholy tale of German .disap-
successive strokes each OF which, the
general stan assured the German peo-
pie, was going to end the war. But
there Is a peculiar appositenees In this
present comparison of the hopes pinned
to the submarines running wild, and
those earlier pinned to the Zeppelins.
In both cases the German public was
led to believe that the extraordinary
genius of Germany for war had pro-
duced an engine of destruction which
no enemy could match or meet. It was
not merely that the Zeppelins held Lon
don at their mercy. Englishmen were
to be so terrified by death raining from
But deceptive experience" has shown
all those expectations to have been
false. London is now az
secure against air raids as is Paris. The
latest flights of Zeppelins over England
were more disastrous to the invader
cred that she had incurred the odium
of adopting q means OF war incredibly
inhuman. without reaping any practical
military advantage from 1t. And It 10
plain that into some German hearts the
fear il creeping today that something
similar will result from the plan OF
wholesale devastation and death at Sea.
After the failure of the Zeppelins, could
even German tenacity fail to break UNI
der q failure OF the submarines3
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THEY WOULD CONTINUE
PROBE AFTER SESSION
Farmers Legislative Investigation
Likely Will Bring Changes
Very Shortly.

st. Paul March 9.-Two things in
connection with the legislative in
vestigation of farmers markets are
likely to happen shortly.
A joint resolution will be introduced
in the house for the creation of an in
term commission composed of three
representatives and two senators to
investigate grain and livestock ex-
changes.
If the members of the legislature
look with favor on this resolution,
some member OF the Teigen special
committee now investigating the same
concerns expect to move that the
committee be discharged.
Dozen Likely to Sign.
The Joint resolution will be signed
by Representative Magnus Johnson,
N. T. Moen. Pascal H. Frye, A. G..
WEIGH, A. v. Anderson and others,
perhaps a dozen in all
power to summon Witnesses. admin
lister oaths and examine papers.
An appropriation of $4,000 for ex-
penses will be asked.
Some members Of the house COM
mittee are thoroughly dissatisfied with
the investigation being conducted at
this time. They have other important
business before the house. and object
to absenting themselves during the
sessions or from other. committee
meetings to attend this Investigation,
which they say can accomplish moth
ing worth while in the short time re-
manning before adjournment.
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Several Clay County Transaction,
Listed With Register of Deeds.

The following deeds have been filed
in the office of Register of Deeds
Stalley: .....
c. o. Aune, administrator of estate
of John o. Haarstad to Ole o. HAIRS
tad, SEA 21-138-45; $6,910.
M. o. Wentzell and wife to Ben o.
Hanson, lots and 5, blk 8, Spragues
first addition to Moorhead; $500.
Mary f. Lamb, Elizabeth e. Lamb,
John T. Lamb, Anna T. Lamb and
Frances A. Lamb to Richard K. Frey,
lots % to &c, block 4, Lambs addition
to Moorhead; $3.50.
Herbert Glaisyer and wife to VIM.
Ritterman (north rs feet of lots and
Van M. Storm and wife to Amos C.
Huxley. NEA Of sec &c to 81 sen
Sec 23-138-47; $40, 400.
Amos c. Huxley and wife to Julian
S. Thompson, lots Is. IL and Is, block
z, GAINESVILLE; $3.50.
Bertha 8. Tracy Osborn and hus-
band to Norman II. STADIUM and Jay
w. Greer, undivided Is interest in
lots Z and .. block 9, Glyndon: $500
Della Ritteman and husband to
Leonard Reidberger and Augusta Reid
Reidburger, NEA and M SEN Sec
33, and SEA Sec. 3s-140-45; $40, 900.
part OF SWA of sen 33-14o-44; $500.
Archie Whaley and wife to VIM.
Ritteman S 80 IT. OF N So IT. of lots
z and s, block 20 and N So #. of lots
and 10, block 20, Haw1ey; $1,000.
Northwestern Improvement Co. to
heirs or devisees Of Paul Ritzlxe, de-
ceased, lot 8, blk 4, Dilworth: SLABS.
Ole Syverson and wife to Knut Sy-
verson. 81 and sen 17-142-44: $4,000.
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EAST SIDE NOTES

The MeIander Printing Co., with e.
"a. Melander as manager is now ready
for business in the Kiefer block. The
new printing Office is on the same floor
as The Moorhead Citizen formerly was,
but on the opposite side of the hall.
The funeral of Steve Stainbis, who
was killed in the Northern Pacific
yards at Dilworth on Tuesday, was
held this afternoon from the Beck 8
Morrow undertaking parlors. Rev.
Francis Boone conducted the services
and the remains were inferred in
Riverside cemetery.
H. Baller was a visitor this morn
ing from his farm southeast Of the
city.
w. M. Akers was in this morning
from the Bodkin farm in Kragnes
township.
Sam Farris, q brother OF w. NJ.
Farris. the Front street merchant.
trip to Nebraska. Mr.. Farris has a
number Of business matters to att
tend to while there and will also visit
relatives.
ID. s. Packard of Georgetown and
r. q. Burtenhoff of Baker were among
the guests at the New Columbia hotel
last night
Gilbert Kragnes, the Morken town
ship farmer, and Jacob Olness, the
general merchant at Kragnes were
Moorhead visitors today.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. "A. Seaver are over
from FELTON, today on business.
q. w. Wilhelm of Minneapolis, is in
the city today on his way home from
the west.
Harry Tufts who has been critically
i'll for several months. was taken to
the Northwestern hospital yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Loferen were
over from Ulen to hear John Me-
Cormick at Fargo last night.
L. w. Schruth was up from Detroit
last night and was among the COM
stock hotel guests.
M. A. Ziegler, a general merchant
Of Frazee, was among the business
visitors in the city this morning.
Thee s. Nelson, the Georgetown
Banker, and f. M. Scheeb. the Sabin
hardware merchant. were Comstock
hotel guests last night
The play. Back to the Farm. will
be produced by members Of the Oak
Mound community tomorrow evening
at o'clock ait the Oak Mound con-
solidated school.
Ted Kittelson. who has been em-
played by the F'reeberg Grocery Co,
has accepted a position with the Far
go branch Of the Dodge Motor Co.
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JOHNSON SCORES
CONTINUED From Page One.)

taxation to begin with. everyone in
the state would have contributed his
share. the burden would not have fall
len alone on the farmer. and everyone
would have shared alike in the reduc-
ton in the tax rate which would have
resulted when the prison reached a
paying basis. Its as long as it is
broad. Whether it's a bond issue or
a direct tax, it must be paid in some
way. The bond issue. however, puts
the entire burden on the farmer, and
the direct tax passes the burden
around and gives everyone a chance
to help. The same thing would apply
to terminal elevators and -four mills
The Equity has taken several
tumbles, but 1t always has got up
again and kept going. don't think
the Equity has finished its work in
North Dakota and Minnesota. can't
say what our next move will be. but !,
for one, have no intention of quitting"
Was Not Bound.
8. B. No. 81 gave Governor Frazier
authority to name his own commits
sion, to spend any part of 100000 in
investigating the feasibility Of terminal
elevators, and to stop there, IL the
plan did not appeal to him as prac-
teal. His hands were not tied in any
way. It was the first measure which
has passed the North Dakota legis-
lature which made any adequate ef-
fort to look into the terminal elevator
proposition. The people last fall ap-
proved a bin calling upon the railway
commission to conduct an investiga-
ton, but by the time the votes had
been canvassed, but thirty days re-
manned in which the rail board could
carry out the provisions Of the act,
and the investigation was more per-
functory than real.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-09
Weather Map.
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY
Pan Hellenic Banquet
Leading Attraction
Here This Evening

At noon there had already been sixty
acceptances for the annual Pan-Helen-
ic banquet which is to be held this eve
ming at the knights of Columbus hall,
and If the precedent of previous years
is followed. considerable more than
that number will no doubt report at the
hour of the banquet, as any Greek let
ter fraternity man in the city this eve
ming will be made welcome.
Several outside towns will be repre-
scented in the gathering this evening.
such as Grand Forks. several of whose
fraternity men are coming; Valley City,
jamestown and Wimbledon. N. D., and
Great Falls. Mont, the representative
Of the latter city being William Bacon,
state.
The Phi Delta Thetas Of Fargo are in
charge this year of the banquet, and
carry out the Greek idea, which will
make the occasion one to be long re-
membered.
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the storage places are all accounted

the storage places are all accounted
for"
Locally the supply of seed, still in
the hands Of the growers, for sale is
only nominal. Many of them have
been tempted by the high prices to
sell part Of their own seed reserva-
tions. A few still have some surplus
on hand; but most of the growers
have already sold all that thew can
spare. 1t will be several weeks be-
fore all that have been sold are
hauled and shipped. What surplus
seed is still in the hands of the grow
ers will be needed for home planting
is the general impression, although it
is not the one expressed by the majori-
ty of the buyers.
Kansas Prices.
Yates Center, Kas., March 9.-Those
purchasing seed potatoes here this
spring are paying 81 per bushel for
them. Planting is well under way
here and the majority Of fields will be
in by March II.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-09
REFLECT OFFICERS
Minnesota Crop Improvement Asuoclm-
ton Awards Are Announced.

Paramount, Mimi, March 9.-Re-elec-
ton OF all old officers except one mem
Der of the executive committee marked
yesterdays closing session of the thir-
teenth annual convention of the Mime
sofa Crop Improvement association.
G. III. Lieu, of st. Cloud, was chosen
member of the executive committee to
succeed III. G. Cooper. Of1cers re-eIect-
ed were: G. LIE Blanchar, Sherburn,
president; G. w. GotfeIter, WaterviIIe,
FIRST vice president: L. III. Robbins. Osa-
kis, second vice PRESIDENT IT. H Gibbs,
Paul, treasurer
a. D. Van Sickle, Of Warren, won
first place in the barley and flax divi-
sions. In the oats class, ~. G. Rasmus-
sen, OF Hartlin, took first place IA the
southern section, winning D S185 binder,
and George Copp, Of Warren. won the
northern section price. q S1s2 binder.
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TALKED TOO FAST



At the hearing before the house com
mittee to investigate grain exchanges
in st. Paul. the charge was made that
employees of the state weighing and In
spection departments were compelled
to contribute to election campaign
funds. Then everyone tried to talk at
the same time.
One of the house stenographers. Miss
Frances Paul, struck early in the pro-
ceedings, declaring she was not a court
reporter and could not keep up with the
testimony. Miss Fanny b. Sykes, of
Minneapolis, the other stenographer
stayed through the hearing but deliver
ed an ultimatum.
Don't you fellows say a word IL my
transcription is not all right" she
warned. The witnesses go too fast and
the committee members ask too many
questions at once. / can't even under
stand their dialect, to say nothing of
getting 1t all" The house stenogra-
piers are paid SIS day, while the court
reporters who took the labor commit
tees testimony are trying to collect a
bill amounting to about $3.50 day.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-09
BETTER ALARM SERVICE
ASKED BY RETAILERS

At the meeting of the Moorhead Re-
tail Merchants association last even
ing o. d. Hide and Louis Olson were
appointed committee to confer with
the city council on the matter of i'm
proved fire alarm service. There has
been considerable complaint because
of the failure of the system to work
and this committet will urge the in
stallation of q new one of the present
system cannot be made efficient.
The committee on street flushing
was continued and instructed to lay
the request before the city council aft
er comforting with the commercial
club.
President EvenSon was appointed
committee Of one to request the Flee
trio Light & Water Works commission
to improve the grounds at the power
plant
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-09

When Miss Jennie McAlpin ID
Doyle, La, was confronted by bur
glar in her home the other night she
outwitted the intruder, who demanded
money, by leading him into hes
grandmother's room. catching up the
elderly woman's SNUFF box and quick
~ 'dashing the contents In the aston
ished miscreant's eyes.
She then grappled with him and
wrested the revolver from his grasp
but when she marched him toward the
front door, calling for help, the rob
Der leaped blindly down the steps ant
escaped.-New Orleans Times-Pi cay
une.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-09
YARROWDALE'S
CREW IS OUT
OF GERMANY
(Bx Associated Press.

London, March "A dispatch from
Berlin says that the Americans and
other neutrals who were on board the
captured British steamer Yarrowdaie,
left Germany on Wednesday.
The Spanish, American and Brazil
liam Yarrowdals prisoners were sent
from the prison camps at Brandon
burg to Switzerland by way of Lin
den on Wednesday afternoon, accord
ing to a Berlin dispatch to Reuters.
by way of Amsterdam. Members Of
the other neutral. crews were sent
home through various frontier towns.
The dispatch says that the prisoners
were released on the expiration OF the
quarantine imposed by the discovery
of a case of spotted fever.
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LABOR TO
DISCUSS.
WARPLANS
tRy Associated Press.l

Washington, March s.-The execu-
tive council of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, at special meeting
today discussed in a preliminary way
plans to be considered here next Mon
day at a general labor conference to
determine what part its 100000
members shall take in national pre-
paredness. Several hundred repre-
sentatives Of all unions affiliated with
the federation and the four railroad
brotherhoods, who have an unofficial
working agreement with the fedora
ton, are expected to be present next
Monday.
Nothing has been made public as to
what plan would be proposed but 1t
was thought Samuel Gompers, pres
ident of the federation, would have
one to suggest. His membership on
the advisory commission of the Coun-
Gil of National Defense has brought
him in close touch with the prepared
ness needs of the country.
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Soldiers Had Gone on.

As the British transports poured
forth their freight of Australian-NeW
Zealand troops at Gallipoli. a young
officer on one Of the battleships no
ticed that the men went only a little
way, then stopped. 'Why don't they
advanceY' he cried. An older Offices
by his side looked through his glasses
and remarked quietly, 'They have ad
xanced." Nothing more pathetically
beautiful has come out of the war
Surely the Anzac troops could ask NJ
faner spitaph.- Youths Companion.
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q slow retirement until their new line
extends approximately from Bucquoy
to Bapanme. thereby accentuating the
dangerous salient from which the
enemy wishes to retire rather than
risk meeting our offensive along, that
line.
I'm the east our cavalry is within
twelve miles Of Bagdad, which lies in
a valley and is indefensible except
along the river Diala, six miles away,
where the Turks may make a stand
and which point General Maude
Commander Of the British forces)
may have reached by this time as our
last news was sent March g..
This campaign is by no means an
isolated action and the last where q
series OF operations have blasted the
German plans The Russians have
been rapidly clearing Persia, but on
account of the physical difficulties OF
the country rather than the resistance
ef the Turks. IL may be SLOW"
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lege. where she received a bachelors
degree in 1897.
The following year she attended the
Moorhead Normal school and was grad
uated with the class of 1898 in the ad-
vanced course.
Her masters degree was conferred by
Columbia university, where she was
graduated as an NJ A
In 1907 she was elected dean of Hom-
en- of the University of Minnesota. and
remained in that position until she was
elected to the one she now occupies,
dean of Smith college.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-09
NAME GUARDIAN
Sons Ask Appointment Because OF
Fathers Old AGE.

Hearing on the petition for the ap-
pointment Of b guardian for Carl A.
Hallenberg is set for 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning before Judge James
H. Sharp in probate court.
The petition is signed by the four
sons of Mr.: Hallenberg, and among
the allegations is that he is unable to
manage his business affairs on &C
count Of old age.