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ABOUT SIMPLE NURSE
WHO TURNED OUT TO Be
BARONESS R0ThSChuD'

II RAJ working in q Paris hospital
ono day when q young French doc
tor was brought In. He was only
an agonized mass Of brofled flesh.
None OF us lelt he could live.
But he did live. His case was n
Of the flrst great victoties fqr m
Urine: Today he is without q scar
a child's. He is in this room now"
We Americans sized up everybody
in the room, failing to pick out the
victim. The nurse called q young
physician over. a9 stN
This is the man." she said.
your" said the doctor. Il am SO
grateful to madame here for the ex-
cellent care she gave. me that I have
come to this hospital to help her.
We learned the hospital had been
founded by the Baroness Rothschild,
whose husband Is one Of the richest
men in the world.
that noon we found Baroness Roths-
child had sent us an invitation to dine
with her that evening. She lives in
a beautiful chateau on the edge of the
town..
We had been told that the dinner
would be strictly informal. We
stood for several minutes in an ante
nounced.
Presently the butler said:
The Baroness Rothschild!" z
In the center Of the drawing room
stood the baroness, at her right a
somewhat younger woman. The bar
onees approached us smiling.
"Ah, gentlemen she said, IT am
happy to see you again."
We all looked at her ~intently.
The woman before us was the nurse
around whose table we had gathered
that morning in the hospital!
Her companion was Madame Van
Cleef, rich Paris beauty who worked
at the other operating table.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22
IEy G. 9. Lyon.)

LEY G. q. Lyon.) III
Somewhere in France, Nov. 22:-
One morning we came to 9 small city
where there had been established a
hospital especially to administer
burns. @
lege professors. two writer's Of books
and myself, had been taken as guests
Of the French government to visit the
original "Hindenburg line" and the
French territory laid waste by the
Germans in their so-called strategic
retirement" of last spring.
These hospitals. from the stand
point Of nursing, are less desirable
than. others because most Of the sol
dier-patients are brought In writing
in agony and for weeks are CHASTITY
On this side Of the Atlantic lam
brine is hailed as the greatest medi-
cal discovery of the war. An obscure
French physician discovered 1t. but
because he was not famous enough 10
not ACCEPTED for q long time.
Now. however, it is used by all the
armies on the western front .and is
a daily God-send to hundreds of poor
fellows horribly burned from liquid
fire and bursting shells.
French r were busy In the
operating room when we American
entered. 1t was evident women Of al
stations had been brought together
lin the humanitarian work.
Two Of the nurses spoke excellent
| English, SO around their operating
tables we gathered-and asked. ques'
lions.
The elder was,sperhaps 40, charm.
ing in manner. The, other was abou'
| 25-and beautiful. /,
am deeply interested in the miracles
performed by ambrine," said the old
Ter one, as she continued Fedressine
the burns Of a soldier who was al
most unacceptable.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22

The London correspondent Of an American news
agency has sent out dispatches stating that the great
mission Of Colonel House and his American associates
on the war commission that has recently been sent
across the Atlantic is to induce all the Allies to join in
a definite statement of their war aims, and that the
primarily submitted by the various lowers
will be studied and compared. revised and fitted together,
to the end that there may be made a single statement on
are the principles and purposes for which they are at
war. &M# ~
The news agency in question is one which hab!tually
deals in sensations, and which apparently. encourages its
correspondents to write readable stories regardless OF
the facts. On many occasions the startling articles thus
circulated have been found to have, no basis in fact, OF
such a slight basis that they might as we'll have been, en-
tirely imaginary. There is every reason to believe that
such is the case now. s+t H.
The American commission was sent to Europe, ac-
cording to an explicit statement from Secretary Of State
Lansing, that it went solely as a war commission, that
it was in Mo sense political in its functions, and that II
would have nothing to do with the discussion Of condi-
tons of peace. There is every reason to believe that
that statement is true.
The aims of thes Allies have already been stated w:;h
sufficient clearness to satisfy any intelligent human. be-
ing. What is there, for instance, that can be added to
the statement made by President Wilson in his reply to
the peace note Of the Pope, and the acceptance of that
statement by our allies as the expression of their views
That statement is complete. The conditions have not
lieving that the situation could be improved in the
smallest degree by a restatement or by varying the terms
of the one just made.
Discussion Of war aims and peace terms at this time
is idle. The aim of the United States. of France, OF
Great Britain, of Italy, is and must be to whip Germany
That is the job that must be done before there can be
any peace. And that is a job Of sufficient magnitude to
require the conce oration on it of all the force available
without difusing force and dissipating it in discussions
of what the war is about.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22
SMASHING THE LINE
The new British drive toward Cambria /

The&new Britiyh drive toward Cambria has smashed
some thirty-odd miles of carefully prepared German
front, and the British troops have forced their way into
the German positions to a depth of five miles. with the
movement still in progress and the French cooperating
on the south. This, following the French success along
the Aisne and the British victories in Flanders, means
big things in a military way, for it indicates the rapid
approach of the time when the Germans will be driven
out of France, and when no readjustment of their lines
will be possible without rendering inevitable the Ger
man grip on the Belgian sea coast.
The things that have been done in France and Bel
GUM have another aspect, as we'll, and one that must
bring cheer to every friend of democracy. We have been
regaled with stories of German invincibility. We have
been told that the Germans are a race of supermen.
We have been assured that because of their innate su-
periority and the marvellous system which they have
introduced into their affairs the Germans have created a
military machine which could not be resisted or over
come. What are the facts?
AS the price of peace in her war of aggression of
forty years ago Germany took from France two of her
fairest provinces containing. enormous mineral wealth,
and assessed against her a war indemnity in a sum at
that time unparalleled. France has since remained in
constant fear of another German invasion. And yet
France, drained as she was of wealth and deprived of
her territory. debilitated as the Germans believed her
to be, has presented to the German alta cks a front like
adamant, and has driven her enemy back from the lands
which he had occupied.
Great Britain, whose non-military character brought
sneers from the Germans, in less than three years placed
in the field great armies which, with the conditions any,
thing like equal, have signally defeated the flower of the
German armies notwithstanding their forty years OF
preparation.
The Germans have repeatedly been outfought and
outgeneraled by the forces of two nations whose inefi-
cheney they had despised, and OH many a bloody field the
British and French have proved themselves not merely
as good soldiers as the Germans but better soldiers.
B We have before us, and repeated from day to day in
terms that cannot be misunderstood, the proof that in all
the things that go to make for effectiveness in the affairs
of government, whether in the arts Of peace or in the
dread test Of war, free peoples, under a system: of ordered
liberty can rise superior to the best that a herded and
driven people can do, and that in the affairs of men
neither car nor kaiser is necessary. -.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22
THE YELLOW LIST

No man has a right to enjoy the protection of a gov
eminent who will not contribute to the support of that
government according to its needs and in proportion TO
his ability. Some people-a very small number in pro-
portion to our population-are trying thus to enjoy ben
efts without assuming obligations. 1t has been suggest
ed that as a matter of justice and right there should be
prepared a yellow list" which would convey to the puo-
lie information as to the identity of such individuals. in
order that they may he dealt with in some appropriate
manner. There is merit in the suggestion.
We are in a situation in which no one Of us can
say that his affairs are his own business and concern
no one else, that he will give or not give as he sees fit
to the support of the government in the war or to the
has delegated special duties in connection with the war.
We cannot be permitted to take shelter behind the fact
that We are paying our taxes. Everybody does that. But
in addition to the payment of taxes, which will be taken
from us by force if we do not pay voluntarily, funds
are needed for purposes for which no provision is made
by means of taxation. These needs must be met by sub
scriptions which are intended to be voluntary, and yet
which cannot in all cases be permitted to be wholly vol
untary.
When a man declares that he has not loaned the
government a dollar, and will not; that he has made,
A. war fund, or to anything else for the purpose of aid
ing in the work of the, war; and when he is known to be
able to contribute-that man needs attention and should
have it.
1t may be granted that such a man cannot be made
a good citizen by any treatment that can be given him.
But it ought to be possible to make him understand
that he cannot do business in the United States and
n1Sntain that attitude. Such people have been dealt with
in other countries. They should be dealt with here. And
ters, or should do so, why not have the names Of such
people, after propers investigation, posted on a yellow
list" i'll order that suitable treatment may be applied to
theSn. in their only sensitive spot, the, pocket?
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22

night a soldier, Hans Voegel, home on
leave, saw four boys trying to break
into a shop in Knesebeck street. The
soldier approached them, but they
took to flight.
""Voegel informed the police and
detectives took up the chase. The
next night four boys were seen to
enter a tramcar. The detectives ar
rested them, and later at the police
station they confessed. All were UNI
der-17, and investigation showed they
had entered and rifled no fewer than
30 houses and shops within the past
week.
"It also appeared the lads, posing
as sons of rich and influential Of
ficials. lived In two fashionable hotels,
where their existent supply Of ready
cash and an abundance lof jewelry
gave color to their story.
Questioned as to the disposal Of
their plumber, the boys confessed they
sold it to a restaurantkeeper, on whose
premises a great quantity Of valuable
jewelry was discovered-the pro-
ceeds no only Of these robberies, but
of the operations of other gangs Of
burglars, out of whom the restaurant
keeper made a fat living as a fence
or receiver of stolen goods"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22
STRAIGHT TALK
(Rx Reeton RH.lexA

We've got to get this fact under cur craniums. and keep it there
in a place where W can't get away from 1t: '
We're either Pro-American o Pro-German.
H@ There isn't n in between.
There isn't any neutral territory separating tho two classes.
All there is is a fence-a fence Of thought and feeling and cold
hard fact-which divides the false from the true, the diAoyal bunch
from the loyal one.
Pacihsm, profteering, sabotage, sediious agitation, soap box ora
tory-any and all of these things which hamper the nation from going
into this fight with all its strength Of men and money-are Pro-Ger-
man propaganda, whether they r meant SO or not E"
However honest may be the motives of those who oppose the war,
those who stir up opposition to the.draft, and those who SOW discord
and discomfort under the banner Of free speech, they LIZ working for
the kaiser and not for America. %
Criticism Of the government for lack of efficiency in conducting its
preparations; for dearth Of energy Or misdirected effort in doing the
enormous Job before it, is the truest sort of loyalty and needs n o x
cuses: but the questioning of purposes. the impugnng Of motives, the
consider themselves good Americans indulge IN, is sheer disioyalty and
nothing else. e. ~ :S
Such folk are not good Americans; they're agents of the kaiser
Just as surely a s though they drew pay from the Wnhelmstrasse. =
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What Is Going On
In Germany
Az Told By tbs Newspapers We
Get IRON the Teusua1s Dmp&Fos
and Neutral Nations.
THRONES RUSH vA1NLY
X

The scarcity Of potatoes in Ger
many is brought out in the following
story from the Hanover volkswille:
1.-THE news spread like wild1re
throughout the town Of Coslar that
Ohlhof estate, and at S a. m. the road
to Coslar presented the picture Of an
exodus. ri
I'm many hundreds, boys and wom-
en- on foot, in country carts and on
in an endless chain towards Ohlhoff
to procure the much-desired potatoes,
the taste Of which they had all but
Never was seen sdch a wild. mad
served. Yet all this energy proved
misspent. for when the end OF the
pilgramage was reached the ominous
words, Potatoes sold OUT were
shouted forth at the eager throng
through a megaphone.
Afterwards the information leaked
out that or the previous day q party
Of well-to-do citizens from Hide
sheim had bought up the whole stock
of potatoes at fancy prices. When
this was asce1tained, the incensed
people took their revenge on the In-
patriotic farmer by setting FIRE to his
mill, which, notwithstanding the en-
ergetic efforts OF the local fire brigade.
was entirely destroyed"
ARREST FOUR BOY
BURGLARS IN berlin.
The Berlin Lokalanzeiger reports:
While walking home the other
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22
News Among Scandinavians

Under the auspices Of the Society
Of Book-Plate Bibliophiles at Boston,
Gerhard Gade, a son of Norwegian
Consul =. Herman Gade, Chicago, has
published an attractive book about
Norwegian ex-libris s,(book-plates)
It's chief appeal is to connoisseurs of
things photographed.
Dr.IW Ernst Cordseln, who arrived
from Denmark a few years ago.. has
peen appointed professor in chemistry
at the Temple university, Philadel-
phta. Last summer he gained his de-
gree as doctor OF chemistry with q
thesis which attracted considerable
attention in the scientific world.
About thirty women have formed a
Swedish division Of the Red Cross so
ciety at a recent meeting in Chicago.
Meetings will be held twice a week,
and It Is the aim of the executive
board of the division to make a per-
sonal appeal to every Swedish woman
IN the Windy City and its immediate
vicinity to enlist them as Red Gross
Theodore H. Lunde. a Norwegian
who for some time past has been the
publisher Of a periodical. 1.-The Peo-
pies Councillor" was arrested in
Chicago last week charged with q vfo-
iation Of the espionage law. In a let
ter written by Lunde the authorities
round the desire expressed that EN-
peror William should have an oppor-
tunity to be presidential candidate in
the. United States. More serious
charges are, however. pending against
Lunde.
A young Danish woman. Anna
Chrtstoffersen, in Omaha, Neb.. has
been informed that she has fallen heir
to about $4,000 left her by her
grandmother in Denmark. Miss
Christoffersen was surprised not only
to find that she suddenly had become
prosperous. but also at the news that
she had q grandmother living. The
young lady will for the time being
continue to work as an employe of the
Omaha Telephone company.
A movement to establish Swedish
libraries in various sections Of Canads
has increased to respectable dimen-
siohs during the last few weeks. A
Swedish national committee is in
charge Of the preliminary work which
has met with a great deal of success
and Swedish settlements throughout
the dominion are readily responding
to the requests for information re-
garding the need and desirability OF
having Swedish libraries established.
Last Tuesday DIR. Fridtjof Nanser
and other members of the special
Norwegian commission which has
spent several months in this country
in an effort to make satisfactory ar.
rangements regarding the future ex.
ports of food stuffs from this country
to Norway, departed for their homes
ai.er having succeeded in making the
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22
Letters From
Our Readers
Editor Grand Forks Herald:

Editor Grand Forks Herald:
The lack of enthusiasm shown at
the time of Governor Frazier's visit
here last week has evoked considera-
I'ble comment. One likes to think Of
our governor as a man who is sought
rather than evadeds a man who at
tracts. but not repels. But familiarity
beyond mere acquaintance was not in
evidence. and the cause thereof nay
be found in the very one-sided opin-
ion Of former admirers.
True, the governor has his defend
lers, the ult~ra-radicals, who can not
unbroken chain of plumbers which he
has forged. link by link, the past six
months. These men constitute a
small minority Of the N~onpartisan =
league, and their responsibility is.
therefore. negligible.
The conservative element, however.
have not forgotten the governors at
titude in the first Liberty Loan cam
paign. and the unpatriotic utterances
Of President Townley. and Congress-
man Baer. These might have been
passed over had they not been closely
followed by the governors famous l.
w. w. proclamation and the disloyal-
tty meeting at st. Paul. where ne
presided. This was the last stand.
The farmers are loyal to the core. and
they feel, with concern akin to shame.
the %indignity of the governor of our
splendid state being made the tool OF
designing destructionists and COM
PEELED to maintain order at the most
disgracefulG and disloyal meeting held
so far since the beginning of h a
Their chagrin was further aggravated
by Bill Langer's onslaughts. on Sena-
tor Kellogg at the st. Paul meeting.
not to speak of the disgust they felt
when Congressman Baer openly inn
pugned the motives of Knute Nelson.
the idol of every Scandinavian in thi
country.
They feel. too, that the league pr
Eanization should have come boldly to
the aid of the government in the LIB
erty Loan drive, sought subscriptions
from its own members, thereby en-
trenching itself where political dis
Judgment might have been difficult.
This opportunity e by the board,
so far as the organization was con-
cerned. The farmers subscribed most
!%liberally, but through no efforts Of
the league and only as individuals.
All these unhappy incidents are
welded into primal cause for omin-
GUS fo~rebodings. Dark pictures are
being drawn in the minds of men
whose dissatisfaction with the cad
ership and management has brought
them to a halt. So far, but no fur
Their. The farmer stands out Is a pa
triot, a resolute patriot-not as an ac-
!, cessory to a4camouflage such as was
staged at st. Paul, with Townley,
Manahan,l Frazier and LANCER among
the star actors.
Grafton, N. D.. Nov. 81, 1917.
81, -ObserveF.
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and fest rules which had been laid
down to almost entirely prohibit
American exports to Norway.
A number Of friends 81 the late
Danish author and philanthropist,
Jacob A. Riis, have placed g monu-
ment on his grave IN Massachusetts,.
Riis died q little owe three years ago.
and his work has become known all
over the country. One OF those who
contributed to the raising Of the
monument was ex-President Theodore
Roosevelt, one Of Riis' most intimate
friends for q number OF years. Jacob
A. Riis was the author Of "The Max
ling of An American" a""The Battle
books. r~fs
Last week a swedish-American
tunion- of singers was organized at q
meeting in Minneapolis, It will be
afiliated with the national american
Union Of Swedish Singers and en-
braces nine local associations which
will arrange for a series Of annual
musical festivals in the Twin Cities.
At the constituent meeting a num-
Der of loyalty resolutions were adopt
ed and under the direction OF, that vet
eran among the singers Of Sweden,
Bjalmar Nilsson, the delegates sang
1.-THE Star spangled Banner with tre-
;.mendous effect. 1t has been said that
the national anthem is w more
solemn than when Swedes, natural
singers as they are. present 1t In male
choirs. s a
Hjalmar Branting, the Swedish so
cialist who has become minister Of n
nance 81 his country, is quoted as say
ing: peace will come through
triumph Of democracy. Germany's
regime cannot be r~econciled with the
spirit of our age. Belgium must be
completely reinstated and reparation
made. Alsace-Lorraine must be re-
stored to France" The Cologne Ga
cite, one Of Germany's leading jour
nails. asks whether this statement ig a
true expression OF neutrality on the
part Of the Swedish government-Dr.
Mowinckel, during a debate in the
Norwegian Storting last week, ex-
pressed great satisfaction with the
conunued solidarity Of the three nor
theran countries. He also said that
Norway would rather starve together
with Denmark and Sweden than make
compromises in order to obtain food
stuffs from the United States-As an
illustration of how prices are soaring
lin Denmark, 1t may be mentioned
that a bottle of the national brandy"
Aquavit. which formerly cost one
retails at IL kroner. 1t Is said by
merchants that after New Years II
will be practically impossible to buy
liquor in Denmark because the sup
plies are running low. and the raw
materials necessary for the manufac-
turing of distilled liquors cannot nov
be obtained from abroad.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22
BREAKING THE. NEWS.

Poor Tim Murphy went up in a
premature blast, and Mike Mulligan
was delegated to break the news to
the widow. After q few casual re-
marks, Mike asked. HAS Tim any
insurance on his life 2"
ply.
N"Well," said Mike, 1--WE can't col
lect yure pore husband. but we'll help
ye collect that"-Boaon Transcript.
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a A LETTER FROM
COVER THERE"
lscientifc American.l

Every one is interested In the work
that our boys are doing on the other
side and in the spirit they are show
the sound Of battle. One of the truly
encouraging things about the present
situation is the splendid morale Of
these young men, their complete read
mess for sacrifice. y
The following fragment Of a letter
from a young college student has fall
en- into the hands OF the editor, ana is
presented as a striking example of the
state Of mind that animates our men
reading indeed to us who have heard
SO much about babbling and disloyaity
from II. certain group Of senator's,
Whentw read such self-sacriacins
sentiments as are printed below. Il,
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SOOTHING.

Doctor-I'm afraid your poor hus-
band is beyond help. I can hold out
no hope. ri.
Voice from Bed-'Ere, 90 are yer
gettin' at? I amt agoin' to snuff
out!
wife-You leave 1t to the doctor,
dearie. e knows bestl-The Passing
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22

Our guess is that some OF his New
York pals wouldn't he much surpris-
ed to see NJ. Trotzky coming back
on the runzky.
II the Italians take our advice thew
will send their Venetian eathedrals
to somewhere in Switzerland.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22

american government agree to cer-
tain alterations Of the originally hard
and fast rules which had been laid
down to almost entirely prohibit
American exports to Norway.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22
ARREST FOUR BOY

the Berlin L0kalanzetger reports:
while walking home the othel