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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18
Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not
Square With The Forums
Opinions,

The Kansas City Star: II the house
would take President Wilson's ad-
vice and return to the practice OF
concentrating all appropriations in
the hands of one committee II would
undoubtedly effect very large econo-
mics, The practice of splitting up
appropriations among several COM
mittees, which did not develop until
after the Civil war, divides RESPONSE
bility and tends to log rolling and ex-
travagance.
Now the agriculture appropriations
are submitted by the committee on
agriculture, the naval bin by the
committee on naval affairs, the dip-
lomatic and consular bill by the COM
mittee on foreign affairs, and so on.
The result is that each committee is
trying to look after its own inter-
ests, and that no committee is re-
sponsible for seeing that the total
appropriation is kept down.
In England the government Is re-
,sponsible for the appropriation bills
and members Of the house are not
permitted to offer amendments. BY
this system the ministry feels re-
sponsibility. If the appropriations are
extravagant the nation knows who
Is Au uAanASs A. W00AA bS q bA@~s1 4ANsR
In this country IL the cabinet should
submit a budget to congress for all
the expenses Of the government
which it administers. But such a
change would be too radical 10 COM
mand support in congress. The Presi-
dents suggestion for concentrating
expenditures in one committee would
be a long step forward. IT has long
been advocated by influential con-
adoption lies i'm the members OF the
committees that now handle approp-
riations 1t isn't in human nature 70
abandon power without a struggle.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18
Wilson Picture to Irish
Painting Recently Completed b,
American Artist Was the Result
of UNIQUE Contract

Il
From The Washington Star: In
a sleeping room at the White House
hangs q portrait OF President Wilson,
remarkable in itself as a work OF art,
but unique, perhaps. in the circum-
stances that led to its painting.
The painting iseby John Singer
Sargent the American who is rank
ed by most critics as the worlds.
foremost portrait painter It only re-
Gently has been completed. It had
been known that the President was
sitting for Mr.. Sergeant, but it was
generally supposed that the portrait
was being done upon. the order OF the
Presidents family. Such was not
the case.
The story dates back nearly three
years ago. Shortly after the Eur
opean war broke out Mr.. Sargent Of
fered to paint a portrait for the
benefit of Va war charity. Ii was
stipulated that this guarantee should
be put up at auction and the subject
to be painted was to be determined
by the highest bidder.
The auction was held and the
promise was bought by Sir Hugh
Lane of London. at a price reported
to have been $4,000. without tax
ing any steps about the designation
OF the subject Mr.. Sargent was to
paint for him. Sir Hugh came to the
United States. He set sail for Eur
ope again on the Lusitania and was
lost when that vessel was torpedo0R
by a German U-boat.
When Sir Hugh's viii was opened
it was found that he had bequeathed
his art treasures to the National
Gallery of Ireland at Dublin. In the
settlement of the will the question
OF who was to own the portrait Mr..
Sargent had contracted TO paint, and
who was to name the subject, was
brought into court. The court de-
cided that the implanted picture was
the property also Of the Dublin gall
lery, and that the directors Of that
institution should determine what
they desired Mr.. Sargent to paint.
The directors, in compliment to
President Wilson, requested that Mr..
Sargent paint his portrait. Mr.
Sargent sought permission to do so,
obtained it in view OF the circum
stances, and the portrait, now COM
pleted, ultimately will be delivered
to the Dublin gallery. Besides the
members Of the Presidents family,
only three persons are known to have
seen the portrait. IL Is said to be an
excellent example OF Mr.. Sargent's
work
Whether 1t will be exhibited in
this country before Ii Is sent to Ire
land or will remain In the White
House until 1t is to be sent abroad is
not known.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18

William Fox, film wizard. decided
to make motion pictures especially
for children. He waved his magic
wand at the Fox Western Studios,
and 10 and behold, there sprung up,
as if made by fairies, the beautiful
spectacular age-long fireside tale Of
Jack and the Beanstalk." 1t comes
to the Strand in Fargo on Thursday.
Friday and Saturday.
Everybody knows the story, which
has been handed down from the ear
lest days of the English-speaking
peoples as a heritage Of delight 10
the little ones Of modern times. IA is
filmed for children, by children, and
will be released by the Fox Film Cor
poration as the first Of the regular
monthly Fox Kiddie Features" soon
to be inaugurated.
How many grOwn-ups recall the
moments Of real joy when as a child
they listened while someone read to
them from a book about the giants
and pigmies, the fairies and other
wonderful marvels Of the make-be-
lieve world. Now these wonderful
stories are to be visualized by master
hands and placed before the delighted
eyes OF the children Of the world.
To more appreciably realize the eff
feet OF this announcement one has
but to recall the desire, after hear
ing the tales, to see the pictures in
the book-of the giants and dragons
and dwarfs, and then would come
the longing for pictures Of the whole
story. No one has appreciated this
longing more than William Fox,
whose love for children has been
largely instrumental in the picturing
on the screen Of these wonderful
subjects.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18
STOMACH TROUBLE AND
CONSTIPATION.

Those who are AFFLICTED with stom-
ach trouble and constipation should
read the following: II have never
found anything so good for stomach
trouble and Constipation as Cham-
berlain's Tablets. ! have used them
off and on now for the past two
years. They not only regulate the &C
ton Of the bowels but stimulate the
liver and keep ones body ia a
healthy condftion.g writes Mrs Benz
1amin Hooper, Auburn, IN. X.--AdVt
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18

people are not so much generals or
coloneIs, or presidents or servants or
ice-cream or tailors or scrubwomen
or kings, as fellow human beings;
and how the hope Of carrying on
what thousands of radiant youths
have died and are to die for, centers
upon the little children.
This is thinking in Red Cross
ways. For the ideal OF the Red
Cross treaty signed In Geneva by the
delegates of nations. is merely this:
that every suffering human being in
war; whether belonging to friend or
enemy, shall be sacred to the Red
Cross. Yet the symbol Of that
treaty is so great. that it is the
meeting ground Of the most con-
fiicting races and the most conflicting
creeds; OF men and women and chill
dren; OF black and white and yellow
and red; Of rich and poor; OF jew
and Gentle; Of Catholic and Pro-
testant; Of Buddhist and Confucian:
Of artist and artisan; of materialist
and idealist; Of soldier and civilian;
OF general and privates Of foe and
adversary Red Crossl
So we put candles In our windows
this Christmas Eve. that the flicker
ing point Of light shining through
the Red Cross on the window pane
may say to the wayfarer and the
soldier and the sailor. things too
great for words. They viii under
stand For in this overwhelming
trouble we have begun to be simple
of heart together. The poor and the
rich have begun to understand the
others sacrifices.
And so we can sing Christmas
carols and not he hypocrites; for the
guns that are killing men so an-
guishingly dear to us are blasting
out old wrongs and old hypocrisies.
The Red Cross is our home way to
help. The need Is too great for us
to compass even in our minds. The
organization Of the American Red
Cross can do the things we cannot
do ourselves can arrange the
shipping. and carry our gifts. II can
get them % our men. IL can, if we
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18
The BOYS HERO PASSES.

Mvery American boy with red blood
d. his veins, will feel almost a per-
sona1 loss in the death of Frank
Gotch, worlds champion wrestler,
and one Of the greatest athletes Of
III time.
Boys are the greatest Of all hero
HwnrahippeTs. Frank Gotch in his
prime. probably was the hero of more
American boys than any other man
"a the public eye. the President not
excepted.
The oldest Of ali sports has fallen
into disrepute in the last few decades.
and the professional wrestler is look
"a upon by some classes OF society
as little bit lower in the social
scale than the professional pugilist.
But Frank Gotch did three things as
b wrestler that entitle him to the
respeet of his fellow men. He proved
that It is possible for a professional
wrestler to make money honestly,
save it and invest it wisely; he set
b new standard of sportsmanship and
honesty for a sport that sadly need
ed its and he made himself one of
tine greatest living examples of what
clean living and exercise will do for
b boy or a man.
Tho boy who sets out to. emulate
Drank Gotch won't so very far
wtang He win get over the idea of
becoming professional wrestler in
plenty Of time. but Ii he forms habits
Dt clean living and regular exercise,
thy may stick with him all his life.
Ieng as boys are the hero wor-
81 rers they are. the country needs
De right kind Of boys hero. Frank
1oh was one Of them, a clean liv-
honest straightforward farmer
Boss nth the courage Of q lion.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18
MAKE 1t A Red Cross Christmas
:: Tronsloting The Christmas Spirit Into Service =:
Fifteen Million Members By Christmas

On every side, from now Until
Christmas, we are going to see
and hear the slogan, Make ii a
Red Cross Christmas" On every
side we are going TO be asked to
enlist in the Christmas campaign
drive for 1000, 900 new members
of the American Red Cross. And
every member is asked TO place
a lighted candle in a window OF
his home on Christmas Eve,
shining through a Red Cross
Service flag on the window pane.
This will be of paper, with one
large Red Cross (five inches
square), and one small one for
each member of the household
who is also a member Of the Red
Cross.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18
WELCOMED WITH CHEERS"


The people welcomed the Britt
tsh with cheers, and threw flow
ers at the soldiers"-News item.
There is q world Of significance in
that one sentence. 1t sums up the
vast difference between British and
German rule; between autocracy and
democracy.
can anyone recall an instance in
this war where the Germans were
Welcomed by the populace with
cheers and flowers? To Belgium.
France, Serbia, Rumania, Italy and
Rhssia they brought murder, fire,
destruction and crimes unspeakable.
They were received with fear. rage
ahd despair.
But in the territory occupied by
The Allies, the troops have been re-
ctiVsd with every manifestation of
5cS They have been hailed as de-
aiterers. In the villages OF Alsace, in
reconQuered France. and in Palestine
the citizens have wept for joy at the
hppearance OF the flags Of France and
G4aat Britain.
1f any proof were needed that the
seFraans come as oppressors, and
The Allies as deIiverers, the attitude
81 the people of conquered territory
khonid convince.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18

let 1t, look after our mems little
children left at home.
II you are not a member Of the
Red Cross, you are needed beyond
your imagining.
Please help-because you are so
needed.
TO get the Red Cross to our boys
and our men
This is Red Cross Christmas!
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18

''Pa, what is meant by the psychic
logical moment2"
ssHave you never seen your mother
ask me for a check, SOM
"0hs yes pa.
aAnd did you ever notice that she
always waits until I have had a good
dinner and she has brought my slip
ners and has pulled my easy chair
around to the light and struck q
match for my cigarg
Yes. pa
"WelI. that is what 81 known the
psychological moment foF maHiuE
domestic touch
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18

unless actually seen for themselves.
Harry is sending you a German
spike helmet worth more than 20 Of
the kind you have. I'll give mother
its history. I've collected number
of coed souvenirs since coming out
here; many in Harry's safekeeping.
One is a bronze horse 10 inches long
with copper French soldier riding 1T.
Found in the same place as the hell
met just mentioned. Another, an ink
well taken from a pile OF brick. How
1t came there without being broken
is a wonder.
You see. father, take an interest
in these things to take my mind of
the real issue OF the day. Conse-
quently / am still well and enjoying
the best Of health. Bruce.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18
CANApA's DECISION.

chada has decided that she viii
actively in the war.
exc has deelded that the men she
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18

Potatoes were first grown In South
America. Pizarro, the explorer
Spain.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18
THE LATEST "scRAP OF PAPER

There Is cold comfort for the Allies
IN the terms Of the Russian-German
armistice.
Leon Trotzlry insists, with a great
show Of Nehemence, that the clause
forbidding the transfer Of troops
from the Russian front by Germany,
ss vital, and must be observed, claim
ing that the new Russian govern
Emsnt win not aid autOcracy to win
the war.
But the joker concealed IN this
clause, undoubtedly Is the fact that
Germany already has removed from
the Russian front all the troops she
desires to send to the west. Nor is
there any reason why she should not
continue to move the remaining for
ces IL she wishes to do so. When the
criminal is stronger than the law,
there il little hope of bringing him
to Justice, and Germany undoubtedly
wiz interpret this latest scrap Of
paper exactly as she wishes It in
terpreted.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-18
THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE.

Next Monday evening, II q candle
doesn't shine through n Red Cross
service nag in your window. you are
going to be one Of a very uneom-
Portable minority.
That candle and the service nag
will carry this message: ION this an
niversary OF the birth OF Our Saviour,
I send . message OF good will toward
men. This red cross is a sign that
I am taking a part in a work that
urohahly would be the first to appeal
to Our Saviour himself. IL He were
Pm earth today. It is displayed not
~ a boast OF this fact. but for the
purpose Of aiding those in charge in
checking their lists and advertising
tie greatest humanitarian work in
the world"
Surely the response should be un-
anlmous. Surely nobody can find fault
With the aims of the Red Cross.
surely the nag should be in the win
dow. II the family within has to do
WITHOUT q Christmas dinner to
qualify.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-04-21
LABOR OPPOSES
THE DRAFT PLAN
Maryland State Federation Votes 14e
to IL, for the Volunteer
System.

The Maryland and District of Col
umbia Federation of Labor, which is
holding its annual session at Cumber-
land, after nearly three hours of de-
bate, went on record yesterday as op-
posing the selective draft as proposed
by President Wilson. The vote was
LAT to IL. Those who opposed the
draft stood by the volunteer system,
which they said they wanted tried
first.
President Ferguson opposed the
draft system, as did Gertrude McNal-
ly, Washington; Miss Ida Glatt, Bal.
timore, and B. A. Spellbring, Wash.
ington. Delegates George Rollman
and Clinton S. Hancock, G. N. Steigle-
man, Frank Simmons, Henry ]. Har-
dy, Baltimore, and Charles o. Roe
mer and r. A. Bryant, Cumberland,
spoke in favor of it.
Washington and Hagerstown are
being pressed as the meeting place
for the next convention. There is
also spirited fight on for ocers for
next year.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-04-21
NOTABLE MOVEMENTS.

OF the many significant economic
movements now engaging attention,
nothing is more noteworthy than the
unchecked rise of commodity quota
lions. Without exception, each month
of the last eight has registered some
advance in the general level of the
wholesale markets, and not in modern
times has it equaled its present posi-
ton. The April l figure, s19O.012.
represents net gain of 90 per cent
over the s1S6.244 a month earlier and
contrasts with $145.690 on April 1,
1916, when the trend was also strongly
upward. Going back to August I,
1914, or to the outbreak of the great
war, it is seen that prices have risen
fully 81 per cent, and in many indi-
vidual instances the changes are, of
course, far more striking.
Considering the extreme limits to
which the advance has been carried,
it is not strange that signs OF def
mite reaction have been looked for in
some quarters. Nothing in previous
experience has paralleled the action
of prices since the memorable sum-
mer Of 1914, and as the markets have
gone higher month after month with
comparatively little interruption many
people have viewed the movement
with increasing amazemeut.
That recall from the present OK
traordinary levels must inevitably fol
low is obvious, yet those commodities
which have yielded from time to time
have invariably resumed their rise
with vigor, and in all save one week
this year there have been more gains
than recessions in a list of over 300
wholesale quotations. How prices will
ultimately be affected by this nations
participation in the war is uncertain
but that on regular business the tor
has not yet been reached by some o.
the leading materials and products
seems logical inference
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-04-21
Pale Faced Women Take Phosphates to Make
Rosy Cheeks and Beautiful Forms.
Men Need Phosphates 70 Make Strong, Healthy,
Vigorous Bodies.
Athletes increase their strength and endurance 20O
by simply taking treatment Phosphate

Atlanta, Ca DR. F. A. Jacobson saws
that Phosphates are just as essential
to any man or woman who tires cas-
lily, is nervous. or irritable. worn out,
or looks haggard and pale to make a
strong, robust, vigorous healthy body,
as they are to cotton to make it grow
The lack of Phosphate is the cause
of all enemic conditions and the ad-
ministration of 5-grain Argo- Phosphate
tablets will increase the strength and
endurance of weak, nervous, care worn
men and women 800 per cent. in two
or three weeks time in many instan-
ces, and their continued use will build
up the whole nervous system, and
give new life, vim, vigor, and vitality
to the whole body. | always prescribe
Argo-Phosphate to patients who are
pale and colorless, and it is surpris-
ing to see how quickly few weeks
treatment viii transform a pale face
to rosy checked beauty. There can
De no rosy checked, healthy, beautiful
women, without their system is suf-
fciently supplied with Phosphates. In
recent interviews with physicians on
the grave and serious consequences of
a deficiency of Phosphates in the blood
Of American men and women. ] have
strongly emphasized the fact that doc
tors should prescribe more phosphates
in the form of Argo-Phosphate for
weak, worn out, haggard-looking men
and women when the skin is pale
and flesh habby, it is a sign OF anema
When the phosphates 90 from the
1 blood, the pink cheeks 90 too. The
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-04-21
RUSSIA, OLD AND NEW.

President Wilson has given us a
picture of the Russian people as they
stand today in view of all the world.
free people throwing on the shack
les of absolutism and beginning new
era Of self-government.
What was 1t that reduced the Rus
sian people to the state in which this
war found them?
Along with that iunceasing subju-
cation of minor nationalities, by
which Russian imperialism is display
ed, what do we see within its own or
ganization?" asked Herbert Spencer
20 years ago. He answered in these
words:
1--WE have it's vast army, to service
in which every one is actually or po-
tentially liable; we have an enrmous
bureaucracy, ramifying everywhere
and rigidly controlling individual
lives; we have an expenditure over
outrunning resources and calling for
loans.
AS the result of the pressure felt
personally and pecuniarily, we have
secret revolutionary societies, perpet-
ual plots, chronic dread of social ex-
plosions; and while every one is in
danger of Siberia. we have the all
powerful head OF this enslaved nation
in constant fear OF his life
1t was that popular discomfort that
was the salt that saved the Russian
people. America goes forth to war
in order to protect her own people,
her own country. her own commerce.
her own interests, from the agrees
sions OF military monarchy. They
will see to it that the close of the
war there is not left in America, at
any rate, any of the poison of militar-
ism.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-04-21
SCHOOL BOOKS TO
STAND RIGID TESTS
Upon Their Durability in the Primer
Grades VIII Depend the
Contracts

Durability Of school books for use
in the primary grades of the public
schools of West Virginia will have
much to do with the award OF CON
tracts for such books by state school
book board on June 5. The text
books offered by the various book
concerns are being given careful ply
steal test by officers OF the department
of schools, and they are required to
stand rigid tests. The contents of
these books are also being carefully
considered and the recommendations
which follow probably will have much
to do with the selection of these books
for use in all the public schools of
the state in the rural districts and
in the towns of less than $500 popu
lation.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-04-21
NEW ORDERS ISSUED
TO NATIONAL GUARD

Orders have been issued by nation
al guard officers of the Second West
Virginia regiment, now on duty on
railroad bridges somewhere in West
Virginia" warning al river craft, ath-
err than the big steamers. away from
the structures after nightfall. Guards
men on duty have instructions to halt
all boats, and fthe order is not he'd
ed, they will shoot at the occupants
and shoot to kill.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-04-21

muscles lack tone. They become nery-
Gus, irritable. Respondent, melancholy.
the brain flags, and the memory fails
Therefore If you wish to preserve
your youthful vim, vigor and vitality,
TO ripe old age. you must supply
the deficiency of Phosphates lacking
in your food by using Argo-Phosphate,
the form of Phosphates most easily as
simulated
NOTICE: go-Phosphate which
is recommended and prescribed by
physicians in all enemic cases, is not
a secret or patent medicine, but one
that is sold and recommended by well
known druggists everywhere. and ply
sicians are daily subscribing the con-
stituents contained in it. Being en-
tirely unlike many other Phosphates.
it is easily assimilated and will be
found effective in the treatment of in
digestion and stomach troubles, as
we'll as for care worn, nervous condi-
tions. The manufacturers of Argo-
Phosphate will forfeit to any charita-
BILE institution $4,000 if they cannot
treat any man or woman under S.
who lacks Phosphates, and increase
their strength and endurance from
100 per- cent to 800 per cent or more
in one months time. if they are free
from organic trouble. 1t is dispensed
by all reliable druggists.
If your druggist will not supply you
send s1.00 TO the Argo Laboratories
10 Forsyth St. Atlanta. Ga, and they
will send you a two weeks treatment
by return mail.