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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-11-02

Seven hundred foreign-tongued
soldiers of Uncle Sam at Camp Gus
ter are in the Y. M. c. A. English
classes, not only learning to speak
and write English but to be good
Americans. First they learn to speak
then to write, and then they are
taught civics and history. The Peter
Roberts dramatic method by which
the word is acted out as well as
sounded, long used in the Ford school
in Detroit, is the system in use ir
Camp Custer. John Dague of De.
troit, who introduced the Roberts
system in Detroit, is one of the Sec
retaries at Custer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-11-02

Rev. and Mrs. w. T. Hacker start
ed Monday for their new home in
Indiana. Mr.. Hacker has filled the
pulpit in the Christian church for
several weeks, and has made many
friends here who join in best wishes
for him and his in the new home
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REPORT SAYS ABUNDANCE FOOD STuFFS TWELFTH
 RESERVE DISTRICT

a crop of 100000 tons having been more than confirmed. This compares with about 55O,OOO tons last year The output of beans, of which it is said that California produces one third of all grown in the United States, will reach 6,4S0,000 bushels, a 30 per cent increase over last year
 The corn production in this dis tilct is relatively unimportant. Ore gon. Washington and Idaho show a prospect of more than 7,00O.00 bushels, which is 100 per cent increase Over last year.
 Rice acreage in California is rapid ly increasing and this years product is expected to be greater than ever The pieid of potatoes has been gener- ally large.
 Reports from Utah and Nevada
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SAYS GERMAN SOCIALISTS
 FOLLOW FOOTSTEPS JuNkERS

"The Hohenzollerns and the Haps- burgs must go in order to have a durable peace in Europe" declared Jean SIgg, member of the Swiss Ma tional Council chief of the Socialists in Geneva and one of the most in fiuential members of his party in Switzerland, in an Interview with The Associated Press correspondent re- gently.
 ''rhe hour of the Hohenzpllerns and the Hapsburgs has sounded" he con- tinued. The tide of democracy which is sweeping across Europe will also sweep them away, not perhaps during the war; but soon afterward. Millions of men will not agree, will not allow in future, that their des- tinies, their lives should be ruled by a handful of autocrats. In this sense
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this terrible war has wrought good; it has opened the eyes of the people. The Russian Emperor has gone, more Emperors will follow"
 Mir. Sigg has the greatest faith in new Russia, if allowed to rebuild it's own regeneration without foreign, es- pecially German influence. He con- siders the Stockholm Conference more or less a farce owing to the di- vergent views of the socialists dele gates from the different countries. He fous the work at Petrograd of Rob- ert Grimm, the Swiss Socialists who endeavored to make peace between Germany and Russia, who, he says, never represented Swiss socialism and who acted like Hoffman on his own authority without consulting his colleagues.
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SAN FRANCISCO-The bulletin of the twelfth Federal Reserve bank made public recently says:
 "The Industrial Workers of the World menace is important in certain sections. Instead of everyone, pro- pretor, clerk and laborer alike, feel harder and little longer in order that we may spare men for waging the world, efforts were made to di- minish both hours and output of work. The result is of course to hamper the effectiveness of this country's efforts, which in effect is the same as aiding to increase the enemy's effectiveness"
 It appears clear, says the report, that the total of food production of the twelfth district will substantially exceed that of last year.
 In announcing an abundance of foodstuffs generally the report says two unfavolable clements were con .. spicious. Heat and through in the Northwest have considerably curtail- ed the yield of grain. wheat and oats crops being reduced, in spite of in- creased acreage to not over 75 per cent of last years production. The orange and lemon crops in California suffered so greatly from the extraor- dinaIy heat about the middle of June that the government report of Aug l gives the condition of oranges as 45 ard lemons 55, compared with a ten year average of S7 for each The ef- fccts upon the citrus fruits of this un- usual heat are not all harmful, how ever, as it has destroyed or reduced some of the citrus pests.
 California's yield of both wheat and oats, though only 6,000,OO0 or 100000 bushels each, has been in excess of that of last year. Barley is an impor- tant California crop and shows a large increase, the earlier estimate of
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have indicated unusual production of all crops.
 Ii is estimated that the yield of grapes will exceed that of last year 1by 10 to 20 per cent, and that the pro- duct of decidous fruit will reach a re- cord total in California although in the Northwest there will probably he no increase over last year.
 one possibility of a new supply of meat has been brought to the atten tion or residents of the Pacific Coast in placing whale meat upon the men us of leading clubs and hotels. It's flavor is not unlike that of becfstcaR
 Lumber production in the North west is now much below normal be- cause of labor conditions
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WYATT STRICTLY
 GERMAN CLOTHES

AMSTERDAM--In response to tho old demand throughout Germany for a new mode of wOman's clothing that shall e entirely German and absO- lutely independent of Paris, the Mun- ich Weiland has brought out, after long preparation, a special supple ment entirely German Fashions" containing a series of color designs absolutely German in inspiration and elaboration"
 The supplement has attracted wide attention in the German newspapers, but almost without exception the criticism is adverse. The Berlin Tageblatt says: "The illustrations might well be taken for caricatures. The body from the waist upwards ap- pears far too short and humpy, the lower part is padded to appear as an enolmity. Bulging pockets; hats too small or too large, falling over one ear; wide outstanding collars and other absurditles complete a figure from which any rational man would turn with loathing."
 The Tageszetung and other papers declare that if this is fair specimen of German genius for designing la- dies fashions German women had far better depend as in the past on Paris.
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German socialists, With few eXcep- tions," said Mir. Sigg, "have betrayed international socialism hy following like a flock of sheep in the footsteps of German Junkerism, but they are now beginning to awake from their false dream"
 Though, like the Swiss, l ardently wish for peace. l don't see it in sight A peace treaty now-I say this as a neutral-would be all in the favor of Germany, a status quo Rte, The allies, backed now byUmrica, right ly will not premit this in the cause of justice and humanity. The social questions after the war will be diff cult to solve-but wait first until the war is finished
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WEATHER REPORT
 U. $. Weather Bureau.

September 2i r. m. Tcmperaturc-MaX fl. min. 37. Barometcr-29 5S7 inches. Weathcr-C Cloudy. Wind NE. 9 miles per hour. Precipitation None.
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Following ar~ the lowest recorded temperatures for his year and last on the days designated. The minus sign before number means below zero
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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
NEED GREATER A YEAR
HENCE, SAYS SELLER
jamestown Attorney Says Country
Needs More Farmers and Eff
cheney Board Must Act.

Bismarck, N. D., May S0.-That lit
tie more can be done to increase ac-
reage this year, but that much may
and shall be done to insure bigger
crops next year was the opinion ex-
pressed today by Attorney Oscar J..
Seller Of Jamestown, secretary of the
North Dakota efficiency commission.
I'VE are not preparing simply for one
years war" said Mr.. Seller. I'VE an
ticipate that the need will be greater
a year hence than it is now. The eff
fitiency commission during the next
twelve months hopes to work out plans
for a great crop in 1918. What we need
most is more farmers. believe the
farmers we now have are this year do
must have more farmers, and the eff
bring them into North Dakota"
r. ]. Leth, field agent under w. j.
Spillman, chief of the office Of farm
management in the United States de-
partment Of agriculture, who is here
for the joint meeting of the efficiency
commission and national defense coun-
Gil today, advises that farm labor as
It finishes with the harvest in south
ern states will be rotated to the north,
in an effort to supply the needs of
every state for skilled help as the
harvest season advances.
A plan of organization embracing a
committee in every county, with men,
bers in each township, and considering
full survey OF the states acreage,
crop conditions and labor needs, was
announced at today's session.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
DECISION OF
SUPREME COURT

Lawrence Henry Random, plaintiff
and respondent, VS.. Eliza Random, de-
PENDANT and petitioner.
Syllabus ~ - ssA
/. Section 7S40 of the compiled laws
does not confer upon the judges of the
supreme court the power to stay the
order or Judgment of district court in
regard to the custody of children pend
ing an appeal from a judgment in an
action for divorce.
3. The supreme court will not, un-
der the provisions of section IS of arti-
Gle 4 of the constitution, which gives
to 1t g. general experimenting control
over all inferior courts, interfere with
the discretion of trial judge in regard
appeal in divorce action when the
decree entered finds the custodians,
whom 1t has appointed, to be proper
persons Off the purpose and the claim
ant to be absolutely unworthy and in
competent and such finding is subse-
quently reaf1rmed on a motion for a
superse IDEAS bond which is made before
the trial court anG it's wisdom lis not
disproved but rather emphasized by
supreme court.
8. In all divorce actions where the
custody of children is at issue the par
amount consideration is the welfare of
the children and the rights of the par
ents are merely secondary.
4. Order nodded as to right to visit
children.
an order of the district court in regard
to the custody of minor children pend
ing an appeal in. divorce action.
Petition denied.
Opinion of the court by Bruce, CHI. ].
Robinson, j., concurS specially.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
RECRUITING
IS FAILURE
(Ry Associated Press.l

Washington, May 30.-War depart
recruiting figures as proof anew that
the volunteer system again has broken
down in time of national emergency.
Yesterdays regular army recruiting
brought in 2,237 men making total
of S7,518 since April /. Illinois was
first with 800 men and New York Sec
ond with 295.
But army officers declare that a
great drive for volunteers to fill the
army and national guard to the new
war strength will be necessary unless
there is to be serious delay in organ
izing the newly authorized regiments.
These, of course, are for the regular
army and quite apart from the army
to be raised by selective CONSUMPTION.
Despite the fact that the. nation is
at war and American regulars are I'M
der orders for the fighting front in
France, fewer than 100000 men have
enlisted since April /, in the regulars
and national guard.
The present rate of enhstment-1,2 200
to 1900 a day-officials say, must be
Increased to 10000 or 10000 day il
the forces which in all probability will
be among the first to follow Maj. Gen.
Pershing's division to. Europe, are to
go forward promptly. An appeal to the
country from the president may be
necessary. to get the men.
The national guard is in even worse
situation. The present total strength
of the force is less than 100000 and
raised to a war footing. as has been
ordered, should total 100000. In addi-
ton 1the 16 national guard division
plan on which the war department is
working, would require nearly as many
more TO fill necessary additional regi-
ments.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
BASEBALL TO BE GAME
OF HOUR FOR SOLDIERS
Committee on Training Camp Activities
Says Game VIII Be Relied Upon
to Relieve Camp Monotony.

Bismarck, N. D.. May SO.-Baseball
will provide one of the principal
amusements of the $4,000 or more
troops whom the government antic-
ipates mobilizing at Fort Lincoln.
The committee on training camp
activities recently appointed by Sec
rotary Of War Baker advises that the
great American game will be relied
upon to very large extent to relieve
the monotony OF camp life.
Raymond B. Fosdick. chairman Of
the committee, who has made study
Of the Canadian training camps, says
that the English, or Aldershot system
will be employed, except that baseball
WIN be substituted for cricket. Under
the Aldershot system competitions are
organized between units so that prac-
tically- every man in training camp
will find q place in some nine.
There will be boxing championships
and basket ball games, track and field
events and competitive drills in the
use of the bayonet.
Next to athletics, which the Cana
dian officials have found a necessary
adjunct to military drill In hardening
muscles, will come singing. Well
known choir and choral leaders will
be appointed TO stimulate group sing
ing.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
CAR SITUATION In
NORTHWEST EASIER
New Cars Being Built as Fast az La
Der and Material Can be Obtain
cd, says o. =. Ohlsen.

Bismarck, N. D., May 30.--The car
situation throughout the northwest is
much easier, announced today c. F..
Ohlsen Of the Northern Pacific, who is
here representing the American Rail-
way association in preparing for the
mobilization of North Dakota troops.
1--WE are giving the mills on the coast
all the cars they can load" stated Mr..
Ohlsen. 1.-THE order to send west all
empties has been modified, and the
present instructions are to send out
only surplus cars. We are furnishing
all car orders locally UP to 100 per
cent of the normal demand. and we
are sending west only as many cars as
can be loaded each day. The railroads
are doing their utmost to speadily re-
pair old cars and get them back into
commission, and new cars are being
built az fast as we can procure labor
and materials.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
DISTRICT CONVENTION
=. +. OF AT BISMARCK
L. o. Stavnheim of Minneapolis, One
of Distinguished visitors-Speaks
Tuesday.

Bismarck, n. D., May 30.-Delegates
from lodges in North Dakota and from
all parts of the dominion of Canada,
comprising the Fourth district of the
Sons of Norway. poured into the city
last night and today for the fourth
annual district convention which open
ed at the knights of Pythias hall at 10
o'clock this morning. IS
Between so and 20 delegates, repre-
senting every lodge in this district, are
here. Among the distinguished visi-
tors is L.sO. Stavnheim of Minneapolis,
supreme grand secretary of America,
who will be one of the principal speak
ers at the banquet which is to con-
clude an important two days session
Thursday evening. The dinner will be
staged at the Mckenzie, and some of
the most prominent Norwegians in the
northwest are on the program for
responses.
The sessions began this morning
with an address of welcome from
Mayor Lucas and a response by M. F.
Hagge of Hatton, district president.
Officers of the year will be named and
reorganization will take place during
the day, and a series of reports and
addresses is scheduled for Thurs
day.
Entertainment will be offered by the
commercial club, in the form of auto
mobile rides to nearby places inter-
est and other features which Secretary
Remission has planned.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
LION OF LITTLE
SCHOOL ARRESTED.
BY U. S. OFFICER
Fight Made in Fargo For
Possession of Matthew
Usatuck
SENTENCED TO
TRAINING SCHOOL
Raised Refund Slip From
Chicago From 6 Cents
to 1896

Little Matthew Usatuck, son of a
Russian farmer living near Max, N.
d., wanted to buy colored crayon and
other things that he saw in great
big" catalog which had been sent to
his home from a Chicago mail order
house. He dreamed of sending east
for the pencils and distributing them
among the children of the school he
attended. Little Matthew was to be
the lion of the school.
But the little school house in which
he was to share his gifts was the
scene of his arrest. On May 10 a Unit
ed States marshal arrested the IL
year-old boy after he had been indict-
ed by the federal grand jury on the
charge of using the mails to defraud
in raising a mail order refund slip,
probably the first case OF its kind in
North Dakota and the northwest.
Matthew was brought to Fargo, plead
ed guilty before Judge Amidon OF the
federal court and was ordered to be
committed to serve a term of five years
in the national training school for boys
at Washington.
The Judge in passing this sentence
and selecting the national training
school for the youngster believed that
ne was aCpluR 10 the UeSI Oh The DOy y
advantage in view Of the fact that the
parents OF the young man paid no at
tention to the arrest nor offered to give
to the lad any counsel when the ar
raignment was made. However,
friends OF the father persuaded him to
act and he sought to trace the boy to
Minot but learned he had been taken
to Bismarck and then to Fargo. Then
he came to Fargo and through an
interpreter and his attorney made a
motion for a writ OF habeas corpus to
get possession OF his boy.
Arguments on the motion for the ap-
plication were heard before Judge
Amidon this week with the result that
the Judge vacated the order and re-
called the commitment, and the plea
Of guilty which the young man had
made was withdrawn and instead he
pleaded not guilty, bond was fixed at
$500 and the lad was turned over to
his father to await trial at the next
term OF federal court to be held at
Bismarck.
When young Matthew appeared be-
fore Judge Amidon on May IL, he adj
mitted raising Montgomery & Ward
refund slip from 6 cents to $7.96. In
vacating the order and the COM
mitment, Judge Amidon told the faith
er he was living In the United States
and not Russia and that what happen
ed In the courts Of this land would be
legal in regard to the disposition Of
the case involving the son.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
"Old Man" Tn
Again AS Matter
Of Preparedness

Bismarck, NJ. D., May 3o.-"old
Man" Mulloy, who has spent about
half his life behind state prison
bars was picked up by the police
yesterday and lodged in the coun-
ty jail simply as matter of pre-
paredness.
MuIIoy, the police claim, does not
feel at home outside Of the peni-
Tertiary. He resorts, they state, to
any petty offense which will land
him once more in his favorite re-
sort.
After serving a sentence from
-Minot, he was sent up from Fargo
for swiping q cIothier's dummy,
clothing and all, and dragging 1t
about town with him until some
obliging cop ran him in. 1t be.
ing circus day, and the police
fearing the excitement might prove
too much for MulIoy's SUSCEPTIBLE
ties, he was incarcerated.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
ITS LAST DOLLAR
ON DEMOCRACY
Britain Must Win or Be
Bankrupt Is Balfour's
Message
(By Associated Press.l

Ottawa. Ont. May sO.-Arthur James
BaIfour, British minister Of foreign
affairs and head Of the mission sent
to America, in an address late Mon
day before the two houses OF the
Canadian parliament declared that
'the British empire had staked its last
dollar on democracy, and that II
democracy failed England and her
possessions would be bankrupt In
deed"
Mr.. Balfour added, however. that he
knew democracy would not fail.
81 know the democracies OF the old
world and the new will come out of
this struggle, not merely triumphant in
the military sense, but strengthened In
their own inner life, more firmly con-
WINGED that the path OF freedom is the
only path to national greatness" as
serted Mr.. Balfour.
81 do not believe" he continued,
that anything more unexpected to the
outside world ever occurred than the
enthusiastic self-sacrifice with which
the great self-governing British
dominions have thrown themselves In
to the great contest at the side of the
motherland. Foreign spectators about
the British empire, before the war be-
gan, said to themselves, that this
loosely constructed state could not
raise q cOrpOral guard III 1dHdAd'
Australia, New Zealand or wherever
you will; that she could not raise a
shilling by taxation. She had no pow
err except the power which a certain
class OF politician never remembers
the moral pawer of affection, senti-
ment, common aims and common
ideals. No greater miracle has ever
happened in the history of civilization
than the way in which the co-ordtnat-
ed British democracies worked togeth-
er in the cause in which they believed
not merely their own individual securi-
ty but the safety of the empire and
the progress of civilization and liberty
itself were at stake"
Premier Borden, in introducing Mr..
Balfour, paid a tribute to the United
States.
THE people of Canada" said the
premier, welcome the advent of their
great neighbors into the fight for the
liberties of the world. / am sure the
sympathies. ideals and efforts of both
countries will join in the mighty
scheme of united endeavor in the great
common purpose of this war"
Speaker Rhodes asked Mr. Balfour
to take to England the message that
Canada is in the war to the end
Sir Wilfrid Lauier, the opposition
leader said that Canada today stands
prouder of her British allegiance than
she was three years ago.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY
is SOCIALISTS PLEA
"NO Question of Separate Peace" Says
Russian Minister.
(By Associated Press.l

Petrograd, via London, May 30.-The
newspaper organ, of the workmen's
and soldiers delegates, says
I'VE must not allow any misinter-
probation of our watehword. 'Annexa-
ton means the forcible seizure of tef-
ritory in another state on the day of
declaration of war. Without annex
alton means not a drop of the people
blood for such seizure"
M. Tchernoff, the Socialist minister
of agriculture, addressing congress
of delegates from the front, said:
Peace must be concluded in which
there are no victors and no vanquished.
There is no question, however, of a
separate peace. Appeals have been
published for an Immediate attack but
the army should utilize the present lull
to organize itself. Then 1t will need
no prompting, it will know itself what
to do"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-30
CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE
COLONEL.

New York Tribune: The Tribune
|congratulates Colonel Roosevelt upon
two notable achievements. To him
more than to any other man is due the
education Of the American people on
the issues of the European war. Had
the Colonel not proposed to take vol
unteers to France the general staff
might have had its way and prevent
ed the prompt dispatch of American
troops in response to the request of
France.
The principles Colonel Roosevelt
proclaimed for more than two years
have been adopted by President Will
son and written into his message to
congress. The action advocated by
Colonel Roosevelt was adopted by
President Wilson and expressed in his
decision to send General Pershing to
France.
Colonel Roosevelt will not be missed
on the European firing line as long as
he continues to render distinguished
assistance on the American firing line,
and he remains useful and valuable
reserve for new battles II the cause
for which he has fought so consist
emily and courageously for many,
many months again requires his SER
vice.