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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
MAYOR OF EAST ST. LOUIS.
And SECRETARY INDICTED.
Are Accused of DiIatOriness I'm TAX
ing Steps to stop Recent
Race Riots.
(By Associated Press.)

Belleville, Ill, Sept. 11.-Fred Moll-
man, mayor of East st. Louis. and his
private secretary. Maurice Ahearn,
were indicted here late Saturday aft
ernoon in connection with the grand
jury inquiry into the recent race riots
in East st. Louis.
Indictments also were returned
against thirty-seven other persons in
connection with the riots. but their
names were not made public.
The grand jury submitted to Cir
cult Judge Geo. A. Crow q report
scoring the mayor for his alleged
dilatoriness in taking means TO curb
the rioters, who took part in the slay-
mended that he be removed from Of
fee.
Mayor Mollman," says the report.
must be judged by his actions as
ure to give directions to the militia
and IL his failure to call upon the
sheriff and to deputize citizens who
offered their services, were the result
Of a lack of ability or of fright, the
once should be taken from him ana
given TO an efficient person.
s'If mis- failure to act was because
his sympathtes were with those who
sought to drive the negroes out of
East st. Louis, he should make room
for a chief executive who is In favor
Of enforcing 100 per cent OF the laws"
The grand jury denounced Maurice
Ahearn, secretary to the mayor. The
specific charge against the mayor Is
malfeasance in office, based on his al
legged negligence at the time OF the
riots The charge against Ahearn is
conspiracy with the rioters in that he
ordered the police and militia to de-
stroy cameras, thus preventing NOV
ing picture men from photographtnS
the mobs".
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
Lesson No. 20.
CLOSE.ORDER DRILL.

Preceding lessons: /. Your Post of
Honor. Making Good as a Soldier.
3. Nine Soldierly Qualities. 4.
Getting Ready for Camp. 8. First
Days in Camp. 6. Cleanliness in
Camp. Z. Your Health. s. March
ing and Care Of Feet. 8. Your
Equipment and Arms. 10. Recrea-
ton in Camp. II. Playing the
Game. IL. Teamwork in the Army.
49, Grouping Men into Teams. IA.
The Team Leaders. IL. Fighting
Arms Of the Service. is. STAFF
Branches of the Service. II.
Staff Branches Of the Service-II.
IS. Army Insignia. 10. The Army
System of Training.
Close-order formations are seldom
used in actual fighting; nevertheless,
they should be thoroughly mastered.
They have been worked out during
centuries of experience as the best
means of training men in soldierly
habits Of thought and action. They
teach precision, teamwork, and that
prompt and unhesitating obedience
which is so necessary to military con-
troll. The fact that you and your
comrades are thoroughly drilled will
be your best protection in tho hour
of battle. 1t will give every man
confidence in himself and in his COM
rades and will insure steadfastness
in the face Of the enemy.
However, close order drill will not
yield these results-it will be worse
than useless-unless II Is learned
thoroughly and practiced with snap
and precision. You must drill, drill.
drill. 1t is one of the most essential
steps in your training. Enter these
drills with enthusiasm. Try to make
a distinct improvement every day.
Grades of Close. order Drill.
There, are four sections of grades
of close order drill, which are called
school of the soldier, school of the
squad, school of the company, school
of the battalion. The word school
as here used, means a fixed method
OF training.
First of all. you will get the train
ing included under the school Of the
soldier. This training is in turn
divided into two parts: Instruction
without arms and the Manual Of
Arms.
The very first thing you will learn
is the position Of the soldier which
has already been explained in lesson
4, then you will be shown, among
other things. how to face to the right
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
Garfield Family
Becoming Famous
Tn This War Also


Cleveland. o.. Sept. 1.-THE name
of GARFIELD may become az famous in
this war as IL did in the civil war, for
the whole GARFIELD family, sons ana
grandsons, descendants of the twenti-
eth president OF the United State&
upholdinR the traditions of the family
by serving the flag.
At the outbreak OF the civil war,
James A. Garfield had Just been ad-
mftted to the bar. lie at once onered
his services 70 the governor OF Ohio,
and became lieutenant-coIonel and
then colonel of the Forty-second
Ohio volunteers. After serving in
Kentucky he was promoted to be q
brigadier general OF volunteers in
Shiloh, was chief of stan In the Army
of the Cumberland in 1858, fought &c
Chickamauga and for gallantry ~
that battle was made q major general
of volunteers, resigning his commits
sion to take q seat in congress.
Two sons Of the martyred president
are holding important executive posi-
tions in the present war.
DIR. Harry A. Garheld, eldest SON
and president OF Williams college,
has been appointed coal administrators
by President Wilson.
James r. Garfield, another SON, sec
rotary of the interior under President
Roosevelt, Is in charge or RED cross
work in the Take DISTRICT Onlos IN
diana and Kentucky. His wife has
some OF the most import
ant work undertaken by the Cleve-
land Red Cross and works daily at
headquarters making bandages or d.
recting the departments.
Mr.. and Mrs. James r. Garfield have
four sons. Two of them, James A.
and Newell, were commissioned cap
tains at the Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ofiicers' Training camp and have gone
to the cantonment at Chilltcothe, O.
John Newell Garfield, the third SON,
is a lieutenant in the Second regi-
ment, Ohio Field artillery. He served
with Troop A, of Cleveland, on the
Mexican border. The fourth son, Ru-
dolph, is too young for military serv-
ice.
DIR. Harry A. Garfield has one SON,
serving in France with the
American ambulance corps. Another
son, James, is at the Plattsburg, N.
Y, training camp.
The only girl in the late presidents
family, Mrs. ]. Stanley-Brown, has
only one son, Rudolph. He was for
merly with Troop A, of Cleveland, but
won q commission as first lieutenant
at Fort Benjamin Harrison training
camp.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
The German Balance
Sheet
What She Has Gained and What
She Has Lost by the War.

Three years ago Germany began
this war for the conquest of middle
Europe. What has she gained? What
has this gain cost her?
She has gained by her arms the
territories OF Belgium, Luxembourg,
Serbia, a small but rich section Of
northern France, and parts of La
thuania, Poland and Rumania-a to-
tai of a little less than 100000 square
miles.
She has lost:
Except for an insignificant corner
In southern Africa all her colonies,
over a million square miles.
Practically all her shipping not
bottled up in Bremen and Hamburg,
loss estimated in tonnage as g.
500 900.
OF the flower of her youth. over
1000, 900.
In cash, nearly 10000, 100000 TO
be added to her national debt.
Before the war, although unpopular
as a people, Germany was honored
among all nations for her intellectual
scholarship and her industrial eff
cheney. She has lost irretrievably
this respect and won In its place the
mingled hatred and contempt OF the
civilized world. Scarcely a consider
able neutral nation is left except
those whose safety compels their
neutrality.
NO one thinks Germany can retain
her gains. No one imagines that she
can recover her losses. It is not
strange that some Of the German
people are seriously discussing
among themselves the question
whether it is not time to change their
business managers. The Outlook
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
LEARNING TO THINK.

The country is learning a gil
gantic lesson in political economy.
II is learning to think on prob
lens ID once left to college pro-
fessors.
Problems created by the war
cannot be solved by catch phrases,
or ready-made formulas. There
is no panacea for all ills of the
body polite in war time, nor will
the problems be solved by appeals
to the emotions, or to class hatred.
At least two great problems in
political economy are confronting
the country, and there is grave
danger that both of them will be
obsCured by appeals to the emo
tiOns rather than cool judgment.
One of these is the delicate bal
ance between what is fair taxa
ton and what is ruinous; and the
other is the fixing of prices.
Transcription of wealth" is not
really opposed by any patriotic
citizen. Only the profiteers are
lighting against it, and they are
no longer the powerful organiza-
ton they once were. But there is
a very grave question as to how
far legitimate business can be
taxed without being stifled. You
can't kill the cow and continue to
milk it, and excessive taxation de-
feats its own aim.
The problem of price fixing
presents a hopeless maze, and the
food administration evidently is
backing away from it. Mr.. Hoover
has announced that prices will not
be fixed on meats and dairy prod
ucts. He has announced that no
price has been fixed on grain, but
has called attention to the fact
that all that has been done is to
name a price the government will
pay for its purchases.
1t is impossible to fix the price
of any single article without
reaching slender tentacles into
every branch Of the country's
business. There is no half way
stopping point. Fix the price of
wheat and you must fix the price
of the products that enter into its
production. Fix the price of but
one of these, harvesters for ex-
ample, and the entire steel indus
try is affected. That is but one
problem the food administration
faces. Another is the direct clash
of the interests of the consumer
and the producer.
Mr.. Hoover is not superman.
Neither are our members of con-
gress. All of them are sailing UNI
charted seas. II is not a cause
for rejoicing if they strike a
rock. 1t is a time for patience, for
intelligent and sympathetic CO..
operation, and for thoughtful
criticism or none at all.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not
Square With The Forums
Opinions.


The New York Sun: The President
of the United States, Chief Execu-
tive of a nation OF Ito, 000,00 peo-
pie, thought it a patriotic duty and
an honor to march at the head of.
the new recruits, the Army Of Free
dom, in Washington.
Behind him marched evrry cabinet
officer; Major General Scott, chief
of staff of the army; Admiral Ben
son, chief of operations of the navy;
sixty two senator's, 278 representa-
tives, hundreds of Civil war veterans
and representatives OF scores of pa
triotic societies.
Four senator's who are veterans Of
the Civil war, and who now have
passed or closely approach their three
score years and ten, marched side by
side. Nelson of Minnesota and War
rem of Wyoming fought for the
Union; Bankhead of Alabama and
Martin of Virginia fol- the Confed-
eracy. But under the tossing flags
that bedecked Pennsylvania avenue
they kept step to the national airs
and to the sentiment of a nation
united in it's war upon German au-
tocracy and barbarism.
Five senators who have at many
points been at odds with the. war
policy of the administration never
theless attested their loyalty by
marching with the patriotic column
stone, Vardaman, Gronna, Norris
and Kirby.
Champ Clark, a strenuous oppo-
nent, of the CONSUMPTION law before
it's passage, testified to his support
of it now that it is a law by step
ping off the miles between the
Capitol and the White House. By
his side marched Uncle Joe" Can
non, whose eighty-two years were to
him no obstacle to giving expression
to his patriotic fervor.
One figure. sturdy. fat even pudgy,
was missing from the parade. Sem
ator Robert NJ. La Toilette was con-
spicuously absent.
How does Wisconsin feel about
this incident?
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
down With
Traitors" Is
Their Slogan
az Associateo Press.l

A&AH &416QCA6AEA 1AG1Est
New York. Sept 11--Under the
caption Down with traitors" state-
ment was issued here Saturday by
the American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy which recently held a
loyalty conference at Minneapolis
declaring that the cause OF the up
heaval in Russia threatening the sue
cess OF the revolution rests with the
hired traitors in America; traitors
hired and paid for with German
money under the false pretense that
they represent American labor.
These traitors have conveyed the
idea that American labor is against
the war and for a separate peace in
Russia, the statement continues.
Russian labor thought It heard
the voice OF American labor and
instigated a counter revolution. The
Russian divisions and regiments that
have abandoned the field of battle
did so because OF the reports that
reached them from the traitors in
America. This must cease. The
masks of these traitors must be
stripped from their faces.
For this purpose it was announced
q mass meeting will be held here
Sept. 15, at which Charles Edward
Russell, a member OF the American
Mission to Russia, Samuel Gompers
and others will report to the Ameri-
can people on the CONSERVATION
caused in Russia by the work per-
petrated in America by these
traitors"
The speakers 1t was announced
will voice The disgust and loatn-
ing of the willy Vaccinations of the
Kaiser's tools, the sense of loyalty
which actuates every true American
In contemplating the debacle of Eu-
rope.
The malicious falsehoods spread
by the so-called Peoples and Work
mems Councils will be nailed to the
mast. The destinations against the
American labor movement will be
assailed by labor's only spokesman.
American labor is loyal to the needs
of the nation, loyal to it's war pur-
poses in aiming with blows at
Kaiserism and Prussianism-loyal to
its allies. Organized labor will
seize this opportunity to learn the
truth from the lips OF its representa-
tives and to express it's devotion"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
Keep a Goat"
Latest Appeal
To Patriotic
fRv Associated prAaa. )

Chicago, Sept IL. That the
hitherto despised goat may aid
materially in solving problems aris-
ing from war conditions by increas-
ing the milk and cheese production
is the opinion advanced by II. l..
HOLSTER, publisher of a farm paper.
Governor Lowden, of Illinois, Is quot
ed as considering this theory sound.
The keeping Of a goat or two may
become as popular a way Of doing
our bit in the world war as planting
a war garden, according to Mr..
HOLSTER, who says that even the
dooryard or. roadside may be profit
ably made to serve as a pasture for
this animal. IL you are a suburban
lite, your goats will make you inde-
pendent OF the milkman and may
enable you to slide safely through
tight times. resulting from sickness
or lack of employment.
Do away with the useless family
dog, Mrs. HOLSTER urges us, and
substitute the profitable goat. It is
hardy, free from disease, adaptable
to all conditions and ID easily
domesticated.
Some Swiss goats are hornIess,
have amiable dispositions that quail
fy them as pets, and often yield as
At the present price of cows milk
Mr. HOLSTER estimates such a goat
would produce fully $3.50 a year.
The goat has a great advantage
over the COW, in that 1t costs only
about a fourth as much to maintain,
and gives milk ten months a year.
The milk is easily digested and
makes excellent food for the baby.
Coats flesh has the same food value
as mutton.
Governor Lowden, of Illinois, has
asked Mr.. HOLSTER to appoint a
commission to investigate ways and
means to educating the American
public in the value of the milch goat.
Mrs. c. H. Cahill, one of Mr.. Hollis
ter's experts is already on her way
to Europe to investigate the extern
sive goat milk and cheese industry
In various countries there. An at
tempt is being made to persuade
governors of other states to take ac-
ton similar to Governor Lowden's
and thus bring about a concerted
to induce suburbanites,
villagers and small farmers to take
up goat raising and to make the
milch goat a permanent American
family institution.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
DEACON bailey DEAD.

Boston Transcript: The Quakers
Of Maine, who have several societies
in the southwestern part of the state,
have probably lost their wealthiest
member in the death Of Deacon Chas.
M. Bailey, famous as an oilcloth
manufacturer at Winthrop. The
Springfield Republican says: 'This
picturesque man, who has died at the
great age OF 81, started his manu-
featuring career in an abandoned
barn and left at his death a plant COW
ering 81 acres of floor space. Reii-
gion was the chief interest of his life
apart from business. His benefac-
tons to the Moody schools in this
state and TO the well known Quaker
school, Oak Grove seminary. at Vas
salboro. Me-, were considerable, and
for is years he maintained BaiIey's
praying band, a group Of evangelists
who toured the state annually from
Kittery to Caribou. He was content
TO remain a provincial figure, but he
was true to his own Interpretation OF
the inner light.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
"A 100 PER CENT WAR.

Wesley Frost, American consul
at Queenstown when the Lusitania
was sunk, and who spoke in Fargo
Saturday night, has some most
interesting theories on war.
Saturday afternoon he was in
formed by The Forum, Of the dis
closures Of the manner in which
Germany used the Swedish consul
late at Buenos Aires 10 send out
information for the use Of sub
marines.
Its not surprising" said Mr..
Frost. Germany is fighting a
400 per cent war. No decent, self
respecting nation will fight a 100
per cent war, but Germany is do
ing Gt. She will do anything to
win. That is what / mean by a
100 per cent war. The United
States is lighting about a 40 per
cent war.
1t is interesting to speculate on
the other go per cent that Ameri-
ca is not employing. Included in
it, doubtless, would be the raiding
of unprotected cities with air
planes, to terrorize the pOpu.acc
of Germany and keep airPlaueS a.
home. Another step would be a
complete instead of a partial en-
barge on all food and supplies to
all neutrals, to prevent anything
of value reaching Germany. An
other step would be the intern
ment of all enemy aliens, in Am
erica and the suppression of all
foreign language newspapers,
with the prompt execution or
Imprisonment of all who inter-
fered with the conduct of the war
in any way.
We don't want a 100 per cent
war, if that's the kind Germany
is fighting, but about a so per cent
one would stand a better chance
of being successful, if the extra
10 per cent covered the offensive
against the Hun at home.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
TWO GREAT EXPLOITS.


What's this that comes from
London?
America is congratulated on the
second great exploit of the war by
its intelligence service.
Can it be possible that there is
anything efficient in America?
Anything we'll planned? Anything
that is not typical of the bungling
of a democracy?
Ever since the war began, the
American public has been hearing
from critics of the government
here at home, that its navy was a
pitiful little collection of leaky
and antiquated tubs; that its army
was totally inadequate and its
methods so antiquated that it
could be of no service if it were
ten times as large; that American
shirt-sleeve diplomats were no
match for the foreigners; that
this country had no secret service
and no intelligence department
worthy the name.
But here comes London, telling
us of the second great exploit of
the year..
The first coup was the expose of
the Mexican plot, that bungling
effort of Germany to make trou-
bic with Japan. The United States
Intelligence department not only
dealt this plot its death blow, but
brought Japan and America into
closer sympathy.
Now come the sensational rev.
Citations from Argentina, made
public at a most critical time,
when Germany is desperately try
ing to keep one of the few re-
naming neutrals out Of the war.
II may cause al break between
Germany and Argentina and it
may not, but the mask is torn
from the treachery Of the Ger
man foreign Office, and ii stands
revealed as a cold-blooded MUIR
6erer Of neutral citizens.
The Intelligence department of
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
COMMITTEE TO PROBE
DEFECTIVE AMMUNITION
Investigators Are Clothed with Broad
Powers by Congress.
nv Associated Presa.l


Washington, Sept. 10.-Armed with
broad power for investigating the
ammunition situation. including the
sending of defective cartridges to
American troops in France, a house
committee was named by Speaker
Clark following unanimous adoption
of a resolution for its creation intro
duced by Chairman Dent of the mill
tary committee.
Five Democratic and four Republi-
can members of the military commit
tee were appointed. They are Repre-
sentatives Dent Alabama, chairman;
Fields, Kentucky; Quinn, Mississippi;
Gordon, Ohio, and Shallenberger, Ne
braska, Democrats; and Anthony,
Kansas; Mckenzie, Illinois; Greene,
Vermont, and Norm, Pennsylvania,
Republicans.
Appointment of the committee came
after a week of agitation on the sub
ject.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-11
War Departments Lessons For
Men of The National Army

or left or about in a soldierly man
ner, how to salute properly and how
TO march.
The Manual of Arms takes you a
step further. It teaches you how to
handle your rife properly. It does
not, however, include practice In fir-
ing or in bayonet combat.
In the school Of the squad you will
execute all the movements learned in
the school of the soldier; in addition
you will learn to keep your correct
place in ranks, to stack and take
arms, and to march as a squad. The
school of the squad includes also
some practice in extended-order
drill.
The school of the company carries
you still further in your training. In
the close-order drill you will be
taught to march in line and in column
and to execute a number Of simple
but very important movements. Most
of these movements are by squads;
that is to say. they simply apply to
a number Of squads working togeth-
er, the same commands and move
ments already learned In the school
of the squad.
School of the Battalion.
The school of the battalion in turn
applies on a somewhat larger scale
the movements you have learned in
the school of the company. The COM
mands Of the major will be repeated
to you by your own captain, or
through him by your platoon COM
mander.
The battalion is the largest unit in
which an officer can make his COM
mands heard and clearly understood
by all the men; hence, II is the larg-
est unit in which there Is instruction
in close -order drill. Regiments,
brigades, and larger units are con-
trolled through orders given to COM
handing officers which they carry
out by issuing other commands or
orders to the officers or men i'm
mediately under their control.
A very important thing for you to
remember is that this progressive
training in the close order drill Is all
based upon some very simple move
ments which you will learn in the
school Of the soldier and the school
of the squad. If you get these basic
movements right so that you can
perform them exactly and promptly
and you ought to be able to learn
this in a very short time-you need
have no fear of the complicated
movements of the school Of the com.
pany and the school Of the battalion.
In reality, these movements merely
lcok more complicated, because they
are carried out by larger bodies of
men.
It can not be too strongly impress
ed on you that the closest attention
to your training during the first few
days will make your whole period of
service much easier and more salts
factory. Don't lose your grasp on
this thought. 1t is of the first inn
portance. Put 1t into practice and 1t
will help you to get ahead.