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The Oakes times., 1917-01-04
WHEN you SERVE TEA.
Things to Do In Order to Be RealI,
HospitabIe.

lhln9o TO 10 IN OFoer 70 % neAIIS
HospitabIe.
Remember to add us finishing
touch to the tray or tea. table vase
with few flowers. single rose
three or four asters or a yellow datfo
dill OF so placed in bud vase or held
in place in q fiat dish by japanese
frog.
Always serve cream as we'll as lem
on. Many persons do not enjoy tea
without cream, and Of course they will
not he so frank as to tell you so when
they see that the tea tray is not sup
piled with any.
Serve the cut sugar in the small half
Jumps. For small cup of tea Il large
lump often proves too much, and 1t is
always awkward to have to break
a lump or to take lump from the
cup when it is half dissolved.
Take pains to see that the teapot
and hot water jug are both we'll heat
ed before pouring in the boiling water
BY doing so the temperature of tho
boiling water will not be reduced i'll
bringing the teapot and jug to level.
Remember to carry the pot to the
boiling water and pour the water OH
the tea leaves while the water is ac.
tually boiling. Many persons wrongly
feel that II the water has boiled il
matters little whether or not 1t is still
boiling when 1t is applied to the tea
leaves.
Always serve sandwiches or toast
in small portions. 1t is very awkward
for the tea drinker to have to manage
large portions. Bread and butter sand.
wiches should be of wafer thinncss
and should be cut in inch wide strips
A goodly supply should be on hand tc
make up for the smallness Of the sin.
gle pieces.
The Oakes times., 1917-01-04
IMPORTANCE OF
HEALTHY KIDNEYS
Oakes Readers Should Learn to Keep
the Kidneys Well

tNe hluHey6 wen
The kidneys have big work to do.
All the blood in the body is coursing
through the kidneys constantly to be
g S! II '1s44rm snouos!od 10 pseaJ
heavy enough task when the kidneys
are we'll, but cold, chill, fever or
some thoughtless exposure is likely to
irritate, inflame and congest the kid
neys and interrupt the purifying work.
Then the aching frequently begins,
and is often accompanied by some ir-
regularity of the urine-too frequent
passages, sediment or retention.
Thousands testify to the wonderful
merit of Doan's Kidney Pills, rem
edy for the kidneys only, that has been
The Oakes times., 1917-01-04

Did you finish High School last
spring? If so, what can you do? Are
you qualified to accept a business po-
sition? No. Then you should take a
course in the Mankato Commercial
College. Send for their catalog. 1t is
free. 474
The Oakes times., 1917-01-04

Wimbledon, and the latter to Miss
Millie johnson, Hawley, Mimi, who
for some months has been stenograph-
er to H. G. Teigan, general secretary
Of league headquarters at Fargo.
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According to statement issued by
j. E. Robinson, Justice elect of the
supreme court, John G. Lowe, court
reporter for District Judge E. K.
Leighton of Minot, is slated for ap-
pointment as clerk of the new su-
preme court. Mr.. Lowe was formerly
court reporter for Associate Justices
E. T. Burke and E. B. Goss when they
were district judges at Valley City
and Minot, respectively.
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Information sought at the legisla-
tive reference library indicates many
subjects upon which legislation may
be sought. Among the list are auto
mobile licenses; banking and double
liability upon the part of bank share
holders; binding twine and machinery
plants in penitentiaries; cooperative
efforts; corporate and cooperative
laws; county seat laws; county drain
age; economy and efficiency in state
administration; exemption of farm
improvements from taxation; four
year terms for governors; state ex-
animation and inspection of farmers
elevators; nonparttsan ballots; a
minimum charge for physicians fees;
road laws; rural credit laws exclusive
of federal action; school elections;
the selection of jurors; state insur-
ance; state hail insurance; state own
ed public utilities; state owned ware
houses; terminal elevators; the Tor
rens title system; the regulation Of
transient merchants and wrongful i'm
prisonment.
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All this and much other business, It
is expected, will be attended to with
in less than sixty days, for it is the
concensus of opinion that the session
will not occupy the full two months
allowed by law. This idea of a short
session, of economy and efficiency,
meets the approval of Governor Fra.
zier, who has set the example by dis.
pensing with the inaugural ball.
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Many Of the new members elect
are conscious Of the fact that they
will be watched very closely and
critically not only by the state but by
the nation. They affirm their de.
termination to make good, to serve
The best interests of all the people and
to do it at as little cost as possible.
They disavow any purpose of enact
ing so called class legislation or of
intlicting any legislative injury upon
any part Of the people of the state.
Especially the new members seem
imbued with determination to make.
North Dakota the most progressive
and prosperous state of the Union.
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Judge e. T. Burke, retiring Judge Of
the North Dakota supreme court. will
open offices for general law practice
in Bismarck. He is graduate Of the
University Of Minnesota.
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Governor Hanna has appointed
George Hosus Of Steele as secretary
Of the state game commission. vice
Joseph Purcell Of Fargo. resigned.
The Oakes times., 1917-01-04
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Dec. 2.-Cattle-Receipts
400; steers. $7.25@11.s0; cows and
heifers; $4.25@10.00; calves. $9.O0@13.-
90. Hogs-Receipts, $1,000; light, S9-
55@10.20; mixed, $9.00@1O.6O: heavy,
$10.00@10.50; rough. $1000010.16;
pigs. $7.50@S.2o. sheep-Receipts, s..
900; native. $s.1o010.25; lambs. $11..
25@13.6O.
The Oakes times., 1917-01-04
NOTED WRITER DIES EAST

Dr. Hmaiiton Wright Mabie Passes
Away.
Summit, N. j., Jan. 2.-Dr. Hamil-
ton Wright Mabie, associate editor of
"The Outlook" is dead at his homo
here. He was seventy years old and
was born at Cold Springs N. Y. He
is survived by a widow and one
daughter.
DIR. Mabie was the author of sew
eral literary studies, but his most
frequent contributions were to maga-
zines and newspapers in the form of
essays.
The Oakes times., 1917-01-04
MYSTERY IN DEATH OF MODEL
Police Seek Young Man After Find.
ing Woman Slain.

ina Woman Slain.
Philadelphia, Jan. 2.-Mystery sur
rounds the murder of Grace Roberts,
young artists model, whose body
was found in her room in an uptown
been cut and she had been severely
beaten. Furniture in the room was
overturned, glassware broken and
everything in disorder.
Thus far the police have been un-
able to obtain a clue to the murder
They are looking for a young man
who is said to have been a frequent
called on the girl.
The girl, who was twenty-five years
old, lived alone in the apartments.
The Oakes times., 1917-01-04
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
South st. Paul Live STOCK

South st. Paul, Jan. 2.-Cattle-
Receipts, 2,100; steers, $575@1O.25;
cows and heifers, $5.3508.50; calves,
$7.25@11.5O. Hogs-Receipts, $4,000;
range, $9.S0@9.95. Sheep-Receipts,
$50; lambs, $10.50@13.0o; wethers, So
50@S.75.
The Oakes times., 1917-01-04
BADGER SOLDIERS RETURN

First Infantry Regiment 10 at Fort
Sheridan to Muster Out.
Chicago, Jan. 2.-The First Wiscon-
sin infantry detrained at Fort Sheri-
dan and went into quarters prepara-
tory to being mustered out. The
regiment, which is reported in excel
lent physical condition, has been in
camp at San Antonio, Tex, for six
months.
The Oakes times., 1917-01-04


John N. Hagan of Deering, new
commissioner of agriculture and Ia
Dor, announces that he has not fully
decided upon all the appointments to
his department. It is settled, how
ever, that the deputyship will go to
Lloyd RAIDER of Dickinson. Mr.. Ra-
der is said to be eminently fitted for
the position, having secured a scien-
tific education at Valparaiso univer-
sity, served two terms as superintend-
ent Of public instruction in Stark
county, and engaged extensively in
grain and dairy farming on his farm
near Dickinson, where he now lives.
The head stenographership in Mr.. Ha-
4an's department will 20 to Miss Yes.
The Oakes times., 1917-01-04

Governor Hanna has appointed
George Hogue Of Steele as secretary
Of the state game commission. vice
Joseph Purcell Of Fargo. resigned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-08
The Mental Habits of Democracy

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial The Mental Habits OF
Democracy" is a classic, and only wish that
il might be copied by the leading newspapers
in every city in America. If this war should
do nothing more than to take US out OF the
rut of that superficial cleverness which has
so long distinguished US from other nations
who build more slowly but for permanency
which we have heretofore despised, it will
be worth the price, whatever that price may
be. before the last khsk-clsd figure returns.
II sense the situation rightly, one reason
Why we see so few great editorials to-day IS
because the thinker hesitates TO set down his
best thoughts when they will be appreciated
By so few. Accordingly, your little sermon
7 as the merit Of courage as well as peculiar
sdaptability to the times
I congratulate you and wish your essay the
widest possible recognition.
T. NELSON earle.
Long Island City, n. Y, Aug. 6, 1911
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-08
A Menace to the Country
Hearst as Dangerous as German
Secret Service Agents

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your front page cartoon this morning
was one TO which every true American has
been looking forward for long time. nave
often been told that Hearst is too powerful
an individual to attempt to cross, ana tor
this reason newspapers have been very milo
in their attacks on him. Your fearless car
toon has more than made up for the timidits
on the part of other newspapers.
Hearst is as much a menace TO this coun-
try as are the German secret service agents
II, through some force of circumstance, the
Kaiser were suddenly to be deposited on our
shores. we would all vie with each other IN
an attempt to do away with him as speedily
and efficiently as possible. We might even
erect a monument in honor Of the lucky per-
son who would be responsible for the Kaiser's
demise Justifable homicide covers multi
tude of sins. Hearst has been trifing with
the patience of the American nation too long.
New York, Aug. 6, 1917. X. T. b.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-08
Quebec and National Service

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Perhaps you have not noticed that the
United States draft law prescribes exemption
for regular or duly ordained ministers OF
religion, students who at the time Of the ap-
prevail of this act are preparing for the min
istry in recognized theological or divinity
schools" else you might not have reprinted
"The Christian Science Monitors" long dia-
tribe against Cardinal Begin of Quebec for
claiming the same treatment for students I'M
der the new Canadian law.
1t Is considered good politics in Canada,
where there is a project afoot to sell the
government a white elephant transcontnental
railway. to incite the rest of the country
against French and Catholic Quebec while the
trick is being turned. But there does not
seem to be anye good excuse for similar tao
ties here. The American precedent on exemp-
ton is better than THE Christian Science
Monitors" argument j. c. W.
Nav Xork, Aug. 8, 1917,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-08
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In view OF the recent accidents at
Mineola, Great South Bay and West Virginia
with airplanes in which novices were re-
ceivng instruction / should like TO make q
few suggestions which believe will throw
some light on the causes Of the same and
the untoward conditions in our air corps and
its training schools in general.
First of all, from personal experience q
have flown with daring civilian aviator Of
the "record-bresking" type) I must protest
against the vice Of "strapping in" II you
have followed the details of the accidents
at Mineola, Great South Bay and West Vir-
GINA you will probably have noticed that
the observer was usually strapped in" This
deprived him Of any chance of clearing the
machine if anything wrong should happen,
1t is a foolish and unfair practice, which
brings no gain except confusion and disas-
ter. A man who cannot fly or ride in rae
ing car for that matter without being
strapped in" has no right in such vehicles,
whatever his weight, size, condition, vigor or
strength may be. "Strapping in" only ter
rcrizes the novice and masks the very symp-
toms the pilot must study in taking person
up.
There is grewsome suggestion of the cleo
trio chair to the average man when he is
bound hard and fast behind a dronng motor,
a whirring propeller with laundering exhausts
at each side, that spois his nerve" if he has
airy. There are men who are csllous to any
such feeling, but they are few.
Now, imagine the sensations of the average
observer when he perceves that the motor
has stalled or the pilot, whom he has been
taught to trust, has made some blunder and
the earth is rushing up to him with frghtful
velocity. The pilot behind him may jump
for his life at the last moment and clear the
machine, but the strapped in" observer just
behind the motor, which may explode or catch
FIRE, is like rat in trap. He will probably
never have the time or the GOODNESS to loosen
the straps. He crashes into the wreckage
of the machine when it falls, perhaps to be
mutilated and burned. If the accident is not
and he never wants to see a machine again.
am personally acquainted with the editor
of several fashionable New York periodicals
who was thoroughly cured of "aeronits' by
such an accident on Staten Island He was
strapped in and the terror of a seemingly
hopeless fall, from which he finally escaped
uninjured has never left him. No one wants
methods are an insult TO the intelligence, as
we'll as the feelings.
To gain confidence all the observer has to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-08
Where the Scandal Lay

Though the anti Mitchell campaign lacks,
as yet, candidate deemed fit to challenge
the Mayor, there has been no lack Of hot
weather attacks on the administration.
One of the silliest of these issued the other
day from Mr.. Charles HARDWOOD, chairman
Of the publicity committee of Tammany's
annex, the Democratic Fusion Committee,
who averred that the Mayor was endeavor-
ing ito use the American flag as cloak to
cover official scandals" He instanced the
real estate deal by which the Mayors
friends would have richly profted out of
the nations needs for defence" and de-
clared that when the Senate arraigned the
Mayor for contempt he retracted his
charges, which had been directed chiefly
against Senator Wagner.
This is an ingeniously perverted version
of that affair, which fortunately is not so
old that the public has forgotten the facts.
The "retraction" then made by the Mayor
could be put into the eyes of his opponents
without obscuring their vision any more
than it now seems to be obscured. The
Mayor said originally, and proved in the
Senate proceedings, that what was taking
place at Albany, by delaying acquisition Of
fort site for the Federal government at
Rockaway Point, was mot in the interests
of the United States" but in the interests
of her enemy, Germany. The only profit
likely to be made out Of this enterprise
will be made by the Rockaway-Pacifc Cor
poration, which had agreed to sell its land
to the Federal government for S7O5,OOO,
but which under the legislation finally put
through against Mayor Mitchel's protest
will get about all the S2,500,000 appro-
priated by the Legislature to pay the costs
Of condemning this tract.
The net result of Senator Wagner's in
reference has been a delay in the building
of Federal Notifications to protect the
City of New York and tremendous and
unnecessary appropriation of public funds
to get land for those Notifications. Fed
eral officials say they will object to the
governments paying to the state in recon-
pense anything more than the S7O5,OOO
for which they could originally have
bought the fort site. The City of New
York will have to pay in state taxes about
70 per cent of any condemnation award in
excess of that figure. Mayor Mitchell en-
deavored, first, to prevent delay, and, sec
ond, to prevent wasteful, wellnigh scan
dalous expenditure of state funds, most Of
which must come out of the pockets Of tax
payers of this city. Both purposes were
patriotic.
To adopt Mr.. Harwood's phrase, the
Mayor may have used the American flag,
but any scandals in this case were not on
his side of it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-08
Hearst the Hypocrite
.or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As reader of The Tribune | want 10
commend you on the splendid cartoon por-
traying "the stuff" William R. Hearst is COM
posed Of. While pretending to aid the tight
for democracy the hypocrite is doing more
than any other force to defeat his country s
aims. His policies change with every gust OF
wind First he is for our President the
next edition he is criticising him. then he
is in favor of universal military service per
haps only to protect his California interests);
then he comes out with big editorial that
our troops shouldn't be sent to foreign soil;
then he attacks the corrupt practices OF TAM
many Hall, but at present most OF the New
York people know that he is trying to get
that party to back him as candidate for
Mayor.
1t would be a good thing for the whole
nation il he did become candidate for
Mayor. for a decisive defeat might enlighten
him as to how we'll the people see through
his tactics, and shut him up for while.
II has often been source OF wonderment
why the other New York papers haven't
taken issue with the yellow journalism he
continually prints, and it certainly does one
good to see him exposed as your paper does
this morning. H. d. W.
New York, Aug. 6, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-08
Accidents to Airnen
Suggestions Which Throw Light Conditions in A"C
and Training Schools

do il 20 brace his feet hard In the "leg-foom
behind the motor Of most tractors. lheh
he can also clutch anything within hanag
reach with his arms, if he is nervous. In this
vav h. cannot possibly do any harm ana ne
learns to trust himself, not his pilot or SOM
other agency over which he has no coh'r'''
TIE proposition is about the same As rae
ING car. except that the ground friction OF inc
lesvv car at terrific speed is utterly absent
Thi. fac. is usually an immense rciief 10
the fier
His next great surprise comes when nc
repche, an altitude of 1000 feet or more
and begins to look about him. In the dis
lance he sees little white things like chi!drens
blocks which he knows to be large oui!o-
ings. He wonders if he can stand Up ano
gaze straight down without losing his senses
end wishing to dive. He tries it, finds 1t sur
prisingly easy and reassuring; there is no
dizziness. The reason for this ithe same
man could not probably hang out Of fourth
story window without wanting to pitch him.
self head first to the pavement) is that the
brain loses sense of proportion after few
hundred feet, and it is upon this sense OF pro-
portion that the feeling Of vertigo depends
Some Of the terrors of the air are thus
vanauished and the observer finds he can
use his camera, his automatic or machine gun
Just as sensibly as II he were OF the ground
Now he is ready for the worst OF the busi'
ness, and instead of feeling like helpless
slave, bound hand and foot, he contemplates
the descent or landing with more commence
There is a saying among aviators to the ell
feet that "any one can go up, but 1t takes
some bow to land" and this describes the
business perfectly.
Landings are usually made in rapid fwoops
and glides, often at really terrinc speeds
especially with the modern fast fighting ma
chimes. As the earth rushes up to the OBJ
server his sense of proportion is rapidly re
stored, and il he Is nervous or dizzy MS
troubles begin. To the enterprising observer
who is not strapped in" it certainly gives
some consolation to feel that he may be able
TO lump the bus" at the last moment II
anything happens and have about the same
chance of salvation as the pilot, instead Of be-
ing hastily and imy ,tently killed, toasted and
inferred after nosiag into Mother Earth with
the sickening impact of from one TO three
miles a minute.
The airman, who has about the same chance
of saving himself as the average man ship
wrecked, may thus survive many serious acci-
dents with unimpaired nerve, as has been fire.
uuently demonstrated, but the "galley-saye'
method is not likely to inspire confidence
after even one slight accident. Who would
think of lashing ordinary soldiers or mari
ners to their posts and expect good results!
G. A. REICHLING.
Brooklyn, Aug. 8, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-08
Ireland and Empire
.ditor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The government Of England thinks
and has always believed since the days OF
Pitt, and the Navy College of Britain proves,
and rightly so, that the present type Of Brit
ish Empire cannot exist without a weak, beg
ging and a dependent Ireland, and knowing
this the press Of the United States frowns
upon anything said about an independent
ireland, thinking that the dissolution Of the
present structure would mean incalculable
loss to civilization.
Agreeing partly with those opinions, the
question arises: Is it right and just to save
the present obsolete structure of the British
Empire at the expense of Ireland, and would
il not be better to destroy the old institution
and build a new one of the federated plan,
making Ireland an equal partner in the new
empire?
OF course, the position occupied by Eng
land-and England is really the British En-
pire-as the sun in the armament of world
politics and world finance is tremendous
one and hard 10 abdcate, but history teaches
that empires are only human institutions
and that there have been other suns. This
world war came 10 bring a great world
change, and one of the changes will be the
dissolution OF the Csrthagnian type of en-
pire built by England
AN ANGLO-IRISHMAN.
Nev York. Aur e. 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-08
Father Crotty at the Limburg Camp

~ S,,to, Delnar IN The Times Of London
After Easement had exhausted his arts
in irving TO persuade the men 10 desert their
fac, and when a number Of them had been
shaken in their allegiance, Father Crotty,
whom | look upon as one Of the heroes Of
the war, was asked by his German mentors
il he would speak word OF authority to the
waverers that day at mass. Faith, and !
will" said he. 1t must have been a dra-
matte scene-the Irish soldiers gathered to-
gether in their rough, camp chapel, the priest
near the altar, the German officer in uniform
waiting, like Mephistopheles, for the words
70 fall from the priests lips that were TO
betray these men into his power. The time
came for the good priest to speak to his
children.
MEN of Galway, Glare, and Connaught,"
he said, "the German Emperor wants you to
go and fight on his side, and some people
have been telling you that it is proper
thing for you to do. And have been asked
to tell you the same. But have been sent
TO you by his Holiness the Pope, not TO talk
politics 70 you or to mislead you. or to be
the procurer Of any King or Kaiser on earth,
the Holy Church what is good and right for
men to do. As the priest Of God tell you
Il is your duty as good Catholics TO keep The
oath you have taken TO be loyal 20 your King.
And that's all ! have 10 say to you this day.
May the grace of God rest upon you and
holp youlr