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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-01
WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Jimmie Collins Tells What He Saw
What Military Training Does
for Boys.
Number Two

well, here we are !" exclaimed Bill
lie, presenting his chum, Jimmie Col
Inns.
Every glad to see you, Mr.. Collins"
said Uncle Dan with a smile.
"Aw," said Billie, Gust call him
Jimmie. That's the only name he
knows. He's the pitcher of our base
ball nine, and he's some pitcher, too.
Just feel Of his arm"
"Well," said Uncle Dan, feeling,
THAT'S a mighty good arm!"
"Now, boys" said Uncle Dan, "what
do you want to talk about?"
WELL" said Jimmie, 81 was down to
Galesburg a few months ago when the
boys came home from the Mexican
border. They looked fine. Everybody
was surprised to see how straight they
stood and how manly they were. The
boys seemed proud to wear the uni
form. l tell you their muscles were as
hard as nails. I heard Banker Haskell
say that the training and discipline
the boys had had was exactly what
every boy IN the country Ougnt 10
have, and that now these boys could
get a better job at higher pay than
they could have had before. Do you
think that's so, Uncle Dam"
Uncle Dan replied: II have a
friend who employs hundreds of young
men. He always gives boys having
had military training the preference (;
he says it pays to do so. He finds
they are more alert, more prompt,
more courteous; they know how to
carry out orders; they are quicker to
think and to act than those without
training. He said from his experience
he believed that six or eight months
of intensive military training would
add at least 20 per cent to a mans
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-01
A Domestic Inclination.

81 just can't get along With my hus-
band, and that's all there is to it," re-
marked the square-jawed woman
II understand you begged him with
tears in your eyes not to go into the
army if he could possibly avoid it,"
"I did talk rather sentimentally
about the fear Of losing him. And he
made my affection an excuse tc put
up such an argument for exemption
that they'll probably let him out. I've
got to look forward to having c slack
er sitting around the house all through
the war .,"-Washington Star.
DAILY MAKKEI REPORT,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-01
South St, Paul Live Stock

South st. Paul, Oct. 29.-Estimated
receipts at the Union Stock Yards to.
day: Cattle, 10000; calves, 500; hogs,
5000; sheep, 1000; horses, 121; cars,
551.
Railroads entering the yards report.
ed receipts for the day by loads as
follows: Burlington. l; Great West.
ern, 2; Milwaukee, 90; Rock Island
8; Omaha, 90; Great Northern, SO;
st. Louis, 2S; Northern Pacific, 1877;
500 Line, PAP.
CATTLE-steers, s7.O0@9.25; COWS,
$5.7567.25; calves, S7.5O@13.50; hogs,
s14.90@15.25; sheep and lambs, $500
@16.n0.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-01

The two pictures are of the same
young man. The first was taken the
day he enlisted and the second after
he had had five months military train.
ing. His home is in North Carolina.
earning capacity, and that it was the
best investment any young nan could
make.
"Billie, if you will go up to my room
and bring my small handbag, I will
let you see two photographs Of the
same young man, showing what only
five months Of intensive training on
the Mexican border did for him."
The bag was brought. Uncle Dan,
showing the pictures, said: swell
here they are. They tell their own
story and it is a mighty interesting
one The young man, before training.
has a discouraged look; he has seen
but little of the world. There was
very little in his surroundings to bring
him out. When he Joined the colors
and Uncle Sam took him in charge,
life for him took on a new meaning.
He saw a chance to do something and
be something. He woke up. His cap.
tain says he is twice the man he was
when he joined the army. This may
be n of the extreme cases." said
Uncle Dan. II can tell you, though,
hat war or no war, no n thing will
do the young men of this nation SO
much good in so short a time as a few
months of intensive military training
1t fits a man to fight his own life bat
ties in the business world as well as
to defend his country and it's flag.
"Nearly every civilized country gives
Its boys military training. 1t is com
pulsory. 1t is based upon the fact that
1t is the duty Of everyone to help de.
fend his country !; and as war is now
carried on, no one can do much unless
he is trained. Also, the records show
that the killed and wounded among
unframed troops is nearly three times
as great as it is with well-trained mer
who know how to fight and how tt
protect themselves. BY this plan q
nation has trained men to defend hel
and the individual Is a stronger anC
better man for the training.
"If the Chamberlain Bill for Mill
tary Training is passed by congress
as 1t ought to be. the same thing would
be done for millions of other youni
men throughout the land. E~verybod!
ought to demand Of his congressman
md senators the passage Of thli
bin"
~" right, sir, exclaimed Jimmie. w
VIII see Judge Br0wnell, MI. Haskell
and Professor slocum, and get then
busy"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-01
Effort To DeraiI Troop Train Barred.

Effort To DeraiI Troop Train Barred.
Wellington, Kan, Oct. 3O.-What is
believed to have been an attempt to
wreck troop trains was frustrated near
here as result of an accident. A motor
handcar or which Will Jones, Rock
Island track inspector, and an assist
ant were riding was derailed near the
city limits. The men were seriously
injured. An examination Of the track
showed that spikes had been wedged
between the rail ends. An engine
passing over them would have been
aerailed. Troop trains scheduled to
pCss this way werc dotoured.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-01
"Liherty Bo:-ds Educate People"

FL Faso, TeX., Oct. 30.-Brig. Gen.
George H. Harris, commanding the
depot brigade, composed of men from
Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, and the
Dakotas, at Camp Cody, speaking at
the Liberty Loan luncheon of the FL
Paso committee, said: "These bonds
issues are educating the American
people. We as a nation substitute
speculation for thrift, and are a 1.ation
of gamblers. We are careless of Cap
ita!, but deeply concerned as to inter-
est. We ara not bond buyers but &c
are being edueated."
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-01
California Seeds For Allies.

Les Angeles, Oct. 30.--For the first
time i'll history, the United States
is sending vegetable seeds abroad.
Speeding across the continent-5ound
for somewhere in Francois a car
load Of embryonic Southern California
products, the first instalment OF 500
tons that will lie sent to the Allies.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-01
DAILY mAKKEI REPORT.
Minneapolis Grain.
DuIutn EIax

Minneapolis, Oct. 3O.-Oats, Decem,
Der, 57%; May, 50.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-01
CHICAGO Grain.

Chicago, Oct, 30.-Corn, December,
S1.1Sk; May, $1.13h; Oats, Dec.
5SH; May, 60.
The Washington times., 1917-01-10
COST OF WATcHFUL WAITING

"Watchful waiting" has developed
into nothing short of a public scan
dial. The cost of the Mexican mess
for 1916, as nearly as it can be esti-
mated, considering all of the loose
ends of the bill scattered through
forty-eight States, was $162, 000, 900.
And what have the people of the
United States got for this tremen-
dous expenditure? Villa, who was
to be brought in dead or alive, is
freer and livelier than ever. and has
all northern Mexico seething; the
situation is becoming so menacing
that Pershing's retirement may be
demanded by discretion. The invest
ment in Carranza, the Administra-
tons pet, has been wasted utterly,
for he has wsxed only more impo-
tent and captious.
Nor does the 1852 ,000,0 900 repre-
sent all that we have sunk in Mexico
and along the border by any means.
This takes no account of the loss to
the guardsmen individually, who
have been pressed into a police duty
for which they were never intended.
General Scott reported that there
were 151 900 national guardsmen on
August 81 last. Not all Of these
went to the border. But Of those
who did go many sustained substan-
tial losses, some financial ruin. A
Western contemporary suggests that
this personal loss may have averaged
upward of $3.50 each for the officers
and men of the guard. Such an es-
innate is arbitrary; it would be in.
teresting to get an official statement
The Washington times., 1917-01-10
LET IN THE FRESH AIR

DIR. Bolduan's advice to New York
ers to avoid assembling unneces
sarily in crowds" where Turk the
germs of bronchitis, influenza, anc
pneumonia which have increased the
rates of sickness and mortality with
in recent weeks, may be of the sor1
that it is impossible to take. The
subway jam, the elevated crush OF
the surface car press are unacceptable
for the million.
But there should be no necessity
for the director of the city's bureau
of public health education to have to
caution people generally to keep win
dows open day and night for the ad-
mission of the fresh air which is the
surest safeguard against respiratory
diseases. Houses, apartments, offices
and all other places where people are
shut in together, especially in large
numbers, should be carefully venti-
lated.
There is no surer way to invite
colds and worse consequences than
by keeping living and working rooms
hot and stufy.
The Washington times., 1917-01-10
TO DEDICATE HIGH. SCHOOL
Exercises at Dunbar to Continue
From Monday to Friday.

Members OF Congress, school Of
ficials and educators are to take
part in the dedicatory exercises of
Dunbar High School, beginning Mon
day night and continuing until Fri
day.
Monday night, Commissioner Brown
low will present the building to the
school authorities. The Rev. John
Van SchsielS. jr.. president of the
Board OF Education, will, accept to-
gether with Superintendent Ernest L.
Thurston and Roscoe C. Bruce, as
sistant superintendent in charge Of
colored schools.
Various educators are to speak
Tuesday. W. q. DeBois, editor of the
Critic, also will make. an address.
A musical program is to be given
Wednesday. Organ, recitals by Roy
Sibbs, OF Howard University, and
vocal solos by Harry Burleigh, of
New York, will be given.
Thursday, presidents OF the citizens
associations and officers of the Fed
GRAFTON OF Citizens Associations are
to speak.
The students are to have a large
part in the exercises Friday, and the
alumni will celebrate Friday night.
The Washington times., 1917-01-10

that made "The Man From Home"
not the mere creature of a clever
playwright's fancy, but a real per-
son of flesh and blood. 1t was Little
Annie Rooney" who came back to the
New Willard Hotel Monday night;
and they all come back and take the
people with them.
What has become of "Zula Zong,"
and "Roll on Silver Moon" and .The
Lone Starry Hours" and kathleen
Mavournen," and the host of other
songs that were born to be immor-
tai? Some great composers soon or
late will take these old familiar
strains and weave them into their
best works; and the critics will
wrangle about theme and technic
but never about the simple melodies
they'have appropriated; for in these,
critics and commoners alike will find
the words of everlasting life.
The Washington times., 1917-01-10
THE OLD AND SIMPLE SONGS

Administrations come and go,
kings die and are buried, and dynas-
ties pass away, fashions change; but
the old songs endure. Every now
and then echoes come to US from the
temples of Babylon and the cradle
songs Of Time are the cradle songs
Of Eternity. It was Shelley who ap-
pealed ITO Jane" that she "sing
again, with your dear voice revealing
a tone Of some world far from ours,
where music and moonlight and feel
ing are one" 1t is in the old songs
that the heart Of humanity abides.
Only the other night at a great gath
cring IN Washington where there was
a marvellous exhibition of art and in
vention and personal daring, where
all the mysterious forces of nature
seemed to have been assembled for
the entertainment of eye and imag-
nation and intellect, one of the Deep
est effects was produced by the ex-
Guisite rendering of old and long
forgotten melodies, under the influ-
ence of which the cares that had in
tested the day folded their tents with
the Arabs and silently vanished into
the invisible night.
1t is always so when the human
heart is touched. The great artists
Know this and have made their surest
appeal through the simple songs OF
the people. Patti sang "Home, Sweet
Home" and John Mccormack, and
all the other singers between, have
fascinated and captured their audi.
ences not with grand aYias, but with
the simple music Of peasants and
plain people. The familiar songs OF
twenty, fifty or more years ago are
half forgotten and have not beer
heard by many Of the youngsters Of
the present rag-time age; but they
are SO full of soul that when once
heard they stick fast in the human
heart. 1t was Sweet Genevieve'
The Washington times., 1917-01-10

Reception to- members of the Washington
GRADUATE Association Of the Alpha Delta
Phi Fraternity, at home OF DIT. Ralph Jen-
kins, l1S2 Massachusetts avenue HorthWe est,
address, Harry Sandb4re. at meeting Of
Young women's Hebrew Association, In
club rooms, 1850 Tenth street northwest, 8
Meeting. PetWorth woman's Club. at resi-
dence Of Mrs. S. W. Norton. 500 Eighth
street northwest, afternoon.
Reception and ball. Mississippi Society of
WASHINGTON. New Ebbitt, D. N.
BanQuct, Policemen's Association OF the. Dis
trict. Pythian Temple, $40 p. m.
lecture The How and Way OF an Artistic
Home" Frank Alvah Parsons. under aus
pIces Of the Household Arts Club Of the
Public Schools. in Miner Normal School,
ASdTess DR.. Willard s. Small, At meeting
OF the Home and School Association at the
Monroe School p, M
Organization meeting. Washington Athletic
club gold room. Shoreham, .. m.
Lecture, Prof. Robert Russ Kern. to class IA
banking and finance, Washington Chapter.
American Institute Of Banking. l2ll F street
northwest. p. m:
ciety, gold room, Shorehanl, p. m.
Address RAYMOND Crist. on citizenship and
Naturalization" before meeting OF State ID.
r. Committee on Patriotic Education.
al home OF Miss Classic. 1900 5 street north
r.sctur., ''canada's Natural Resources" l.
o. Armstrong. assembly room. Mcmahon
Hall Catholic University. p. m.
Nesting credit mems section OF the Retail
Merchants Association committees, Ebbitt
at dinner.
Masonic-The New Jerusalem, NO. D. Grand
Chapter. Eastern star.
Odd FeIIows-Colmnh ia, No. 10; Excelsior
No II; Covenant, No. Ia
Knights Of Pythiss-WashinEton Company
No. l, Uniform Rank.
National Cniou--Na shington. No. :o6. FRA
tsrnal, No. 6i9.
The Washington times., 1917-01-10
SENATORS PUT OIL
ROW UP TO WILSON
Urge Him to Settle Controversy
Between Navy and Interior
Chiefs.

President Wilson has been appealed
to by Senate leaders to lay before
the Cabinet the. points in the con-
troversy between. the Interior De-
partment and Navy Department over
the provisions Of the Phelan oil leas-
ing bill.
The President has been told that II
the controversy. which has been
growing in bitterness for more than
year. is carried to the floor Of the
Senate, as now seems probable un-
less the President intervenes, the re-
suits are likely to embarrass the Ad-
ministration.
The spectacle Of two Cabinet Of
ficers in. sharp disagreement over a
matter Of policy. with the charges
Of subserylency to present interests
and incidental references to a lobby
Of oil men. may. mean a Cabinet dis
Indignation.
There are a number OF Senators de-
sirops of doing what they feel Is
right in the matter. but the Senators
are mating DcIWccn the .duNlCc Oh Inc
Secretary Of the Navy. which suggests
a recognition OF the needs of the navy
for fuel oil as an important part of
the preparedness program. and the
disregard OF present interests, seek
ing to get oil concessions to which
they are not entitled either by law
or equity, and the advice OF the Sec
rotary OF the Interior that entrymen
In good faith have done development
work in the navy reserves and should
be permitted to enjoy their leases.
The President has been asked by one
or more Senators Of his own party to
lay the facts before the Cabinet and
try to get a compromise plan that
can be approved by all.
Already some of the Western Sena-
tors interested in the recognition Of
Of the private interests have charged
Secretary Daniels with disregard of
statutes and with having muckr8ked,"
the Interior Department.
Charges that an active lobby main
tanned by oil interests has been at
work in the Capitol corridors for sew
eral weeks in the interest OF the pri-
vate entrymen Is also being banded
with threats that the Senate Lobby
Committee may be invited to get
busy.
The Washington times., 1917-01-10
THE WAYS OF THE SUFFRA-
GISTS

"Men wouldn't do a thing like
that"
This is the comment of your typi-
cal politician about the woman suf-
fragists' silent sentinel plans for
their White House patrol. The SEN
timent hints at sosEe deep philosophy
ABOUT the woman suffrage move
ment. The women have done many
things that men would not have done
that men would have not thought
of.
Wont some psychologist give the
woman suffragists credit for one
thing-that they have furnished an
exhibit for the laboratory clinicians
of human nature to study? Mere
male students have been specializing
for centuries about how the mind Of
woman works; the women have sup
piled q sort of suffrage test tube
in which they have given all the ex-
periments any scientist ought to
need, to show how their minds op-
crate.
Maybe mere man stands aghast
at their ways because they are 50
different. He has to admit, if he be
candid, that IN this suffrage cam
paign they have got results. They
have worked a political revolution in
this country in q way no other revo-
luton was ever waged before. There
may be annoyance about these
ubiquitous banners that drop forth
on the most solemn state occasions,
about these piping inquiries in the
midst of dignified ceremonies, about
these symbolic figures, six from the
suffrage States, six from the zen
shaved" ones, marching silently to
and fro in front Of the Executive
Mansion, where things are supposed
to proceed regularly and in order.
Still, there is no bloodshed, and the
thing is all open and above board,
painfully so to some politicians, and
women may yet prove that their po-
litical way is just as good or better
a way than the old.
The Washington times., 1917-01-10
INDIANA SOCIETY MEETS
Pre,iden. c. o. Thompson Presents
Walnut eaveI to Body.

Following a request by the Fedora
ton Of Citizens Associations. plans
were discussed at a meeting OF the
Indiana State Society. held in the New
Ebbitt Hotel last night. for the en-
tertainment of visitors from the
Hoosier State during Inauguration
week.
The. plans were only tentative, and
it was decided TO go further into de-
tails at the next meeting.
a feature OF the meeting was the
presentation to the society by Presi-
dent G. d. Thompson. who presided.
OF a walnut Eavel. made from a fence
rail on his fathers farm In Indiana.
Miss A. b. Sanger. former stenoS-
Iapher for President Benjamin Harri-
son, gave some personal "reminiscences
Other members of the society spoke
and Mrs. r. NJ. Dickey contributed
q few violin solos.
The Washington times., 1917-01-10

on the subject, but any outgiving
from Washington showing that the
mobilization cost the men of the
guard personally some 100000
for a period of six months service is
unlikely fer obvious reasons.
The one thing that the Mexican
crisis has emphasized beyond ques1
ton is that if the United States had
had in effect q system Of universal
military training when Villa ran
amuck it could have thrown across
the border a force sufficient to have
caught him and cleaned up northern
Mexico before the Mexicans knew
what was happening. These opera
lions would have been accomplished
without personal loss to any guards
man; the men who performed the
service would have been young men
whose training was preceding their
permanent adjustment in life. There
would have been no dragging men
away from business and-most i'm
portant of -all-the service would
have been apportioned as nearly as
possible among all the families Of
the United States.
1t is worth $780, 100000 to the
American people to learn this-if
they profit by the knowledge. The
security Of the country would be
worth several times $500, 000, 900 a
year. Are we to learn by expert
ence or are we to stagger> through
successive years of costly "watchful
waiting" with the guardsmen being
marched up the. hill and down again
in barren demonstrations until their
terms of enlistment expire and the
guard as an organization expires
with them?
The Washington times., 1917-01-10
Prohibition and Drinking.

In a number Of the so-called prohi-
bition States provision has been made
for those who are for prohibition only
in a Pickwickian sense, and VINO
must just naturally have a certain
quantity Of liquor OF some sort to
make life worth living. All the news
papers OF these States have been
printing reports of an unusually ac-
tive trade in the forbidden goods dur
ing the holiday season. So extensive
has been this trade that the Colored
women's Temperance League of Co
lumbia, a town made somewhat ia
nous by General Sherman now going
on fifty-two years ago, backed by the
coIored ministers OF the city, recently
petItioned the town council to pass
an ordinance forbidding negro women
to take from the express office the
gaAon a month permitted by the pro,
hibition law Of the State to every
person In the State who has reached
the age of reason. After careful con-
sideration, the council reached the
conclusion that it was without au-
thority to grant the petition, the law
making no discrimination on account
of race, color, sex or condition, the
colored woman being equally as much
entitled to . gallon a month as the
colored man.
The Washington times., 1917-01-10
70 OBSERVE BIRTHDAY.

The 1osth anniversary of the birth
of President Lincoln, February IL.
will DO observed by the Legion of
Loyal Women. In the observance
other patriotic organizations will be
asked to participate.
Officers in charge Of the celebration
who were installed at the last
meeting of the legion are: Past presi-
dent, Mrs. L. C. Calver, installed pres
ident. Mrs. Ada H. Weiss; vice presi-
dent, Miss Grace NJ. Pierce; financial
secretary, Miss Cora c. Curry; re-
cordlng secretary. Mrs. Mary Logan
Tucker; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Helen A. Engle; treasurer. Mrs. Mary
j.. Smith; pianist, Mrs. Florence Don
ohue; historian, Mrs. Frances Marsh
chaplain Ms. Mary Houghton; herald
Mrs. Margaret Knapp; and warder
Miss Marie l.. Byerlie.