davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24


incomes when they should have given
In other words. they have given 81
to SIS a month when they should have
given $50 to $50 a month
All will be asked to raise their
pledges materially.
Little Fellows" Give Big.
IT is the little fellows, those with
small incomes, who have given the
most literally in the campaign.
In a great number of cases the
amount an P1edsed, to.the knowledge q
Girls, boys, men, women and heads
of families have given from 81 to SO a
month, representing as high as per
cent OF their wages, salaries or in
The liberality of these little fell
lows" stands on the records as an
accomplishment of real merit.
Reports Are Small Today.
Reports today We're the smallest
since the opening of the campaign.
Eleven OF 25 districts reported 16S
pledges for $162.77 a month, and "A
service pledges.
Reports today were, however. ex-
pected to be small as the workers,
generally, were not active Sunday.
The total to noon today is 2,610
pledges for SO, ,459.34 a month, an an
nual income of $41,512.0s. Seven
hundred service pledges are in.
District No. IL High.
District No. IA, Rev. Thos Graham,
chairman, was high today, reporting
73 pledges for $73.25 a month, with
but one service pledge.
District No. /, w. III. Barnett, chair
man, was next in line, reporting
pledges for S20.0S a month.
BY Wednesday Night.
Ohicers of the Fargo branch were
hopeful today that with the plan as
mapped out, the goal will have been
reached by Wednesday night. but said
that unless the goal is reached the
campaign will be extended to Sat-
urday night, and longer If necessary.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24

men were here and sought them out.
The visit involved long motor trip
but the sight Of their brown faces
and the sound of their cheeful deter
mined voices more than repaid for
the long journey.
Fips and Healthy.
They are a fine healthy looking lot
and nearly two months Of hard work
In the open under real campaign
conditions has put them in shape. and
they are ready for anything.
In fact, their only grievance is that
for the present they are not permit
ted. except where necessity demands
to expose themselves to the big
guns They want to feel the thrill
experienced when explosives are ge-
ing up all about. Until a stringent
order was issued recently the AM
erican officers had a hard time keep
ing their men out Of the British
front line trenches. II is said that
more. than one American soldier has
crept away when on duty and, after
making friends with the 'Tommies"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24

Some regular licks'' will have to
be put in to bring the annual income
for the American Red Cross in Fargo
up to $4,000 by Wednesday night, Of
The fund hit $3,459.S4 a month, OF
$41,512.0S a year at noon today, lit
tie better than two-thirds of the way
to the $4,000 month and $4,000 a
year geal set by the district chair
men at conference early in the cam
Z Many. of the chairman reportedxto-
day that their districts were pretty
we'll covered, while others reported
that another day would finish their
districts.
Not enough unworked territory re-
mains, however, to bring the fund up
to the goal.
Plan Drive ON "sIackersn.
A drive on "sIackers", and those
citizens who have thus far been in
different to appeals is the next step in
the campaign.
District chairmen were asked today
to report as soon as their districts
were cleaned up in preparation for
the onslaught.
The "sIackers" and Indifferent will
be cornered, and have the PROPOSE
tion of support for the Red Cross put
up to them so squarely that 1t will be
either a case of "come across, or to
forever. be branded as one of the
While giving to the Red Cross is
not compulsory, there is no alterna-
tive. One is either for, or against II.
Every real American is, and should
be for il.
Seek Pledge increases.
In addition to the drive on Slack
ers", especial attention will be paid
to big guns" in Fargo, who have not
given to the fund anywhere near the
amount their resources will permit.
~ Iv.ar vfrRep
big salaries and owning much prop
erty,t in other words, having a big re-
serve, have on the average given less
than one-tenth Of 1 per cent of their
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
DdStdrdly Plot in Run1dnid by
Germans Is Barred to the World

, dossiers which / had sealed.
DIR. Bernhardt also stated that all
these objects had been brought to
the German legation after our lega-
ton had accepted the protection Of
German interests, which agreed with
the statement or servants. A similar
confession was made 20 the minister
by this man
The protection Of the United
States was in this manner shame
fully abused and exploited. In this
instance, at least, the German gov
ernment cannot have recourse to
its usual system OF denial
Fffty-one boxes were taken from
the ground in the garden. Fifty OF
them contained each a cartridge liIl-
ed with trinitrotuoluene, saturated
with mononitritoluene, am0Dg the
most powerful explosives known.
one-hfth OF each one being SUE
ficient to tear up railroad tTack.
In the other box were bottles of
liquid found to be civilizations OF the
microbes of anthrax and glanders.
1t bore a seal showing IL came from
the German consulate at Kronstadt.
Hungary, and inside IL was found q
typewriter note i'm German saying:
Enclosed four phials for horses
as formerly arranged. Each phiaI is
sufficient for 200 head. To be intro
duced, IL possible, directly into the
animals thiESats; IL not, into their
fodder. Please make a little report
on the success obtained there: in
case Of good results, the presence OF
Mr.. Kostoff for one day here would
be desirable"
Foreign Minister Porumbaru ac-
companled his letter with documents
to prove the origin OF the boxes and
their contents.
1T has been possible to prove in
an indisputable way" he said, that
before our declaration OF war to
strict neutrality and keeping up
normal relations with the German
empire, the personnel OF the German
legation, violating all rules Of neu
trality and all duties of diplomatic
missions, introduced clandestinelg
considerable quantities Of an eN-
tremeIy powerful explosive and cul-
tivations of microbes destined to in
feet domestic animals and in conse-
quence susceptible Of provoking ter
rible epidemics also among the hum-
an population.
Stringent police measures at All
frontier stations prove sufficiently
that these explosives and microbes
cannot have reached this country
otherwise than in the diplomatic
course.
There can be no doubt that the
explosives and microbes were des-
tined to be used in Rnmania. very
probably in time Of peace. From all
this results that IN time Of peace
--=----------
Continued on Pags Two
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24

hearts, wives and brothers Of the
drafted men, given preference, at the
station platform that they might say
their last good-byes to the boys, had
hardly had an opportunity of seeking
out their own when the train Started
moving. They were going. A cheer
mounted the. air. Soon III was hush
ed, and as the band struck up the
Star Spangled Banner, the boys OF
Cass county were taken away.
Some cheered because they prob
ably thought 1t was the right thing.
Others cheered to hide the real depth
of their feeling. And in the crowd
that wended its way from the sta
tion, mothers supported on the arms
Of their daughters, bravely battling
to keep back their own tears. were
given right of way. They were the
ones to whom the crowds paid hom-
age now that the boys" had gone.
"A Fathers Goodbye.
Yes, fathers were there, too.
Goodbye, son, take good care OF
yourself. said q stalwart. Cass far
neF ais he bade his boy goodbye, and
father and son clasped hands through
the car window.
A button on the lapel of bis coat
revealed that the father was a
veterafl--and once. back there in the
days Of the Rebellion. he, himself.
had gone from home. His father
had in his turn, said to him. Good
bye, son, take good care of yourself !.
And now, years and years later, he
was saying the same words to his
own boy.
cass county bade her boys goodbye
Continued on PAGE Two.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24

Washington, Sept. 24.-How Ger
many "shamefully abused and ex-
plotted" the protection Of the United
States by secreting in the German
legation at Bucharest after the Amer
lean government had taken charge
of Germahy's affairs at the Ru-
manian capital, quantities of power
full explosives for bomb plots ana
deadly microbes, with. instructions
for their use in destroying horses
and cattle. was revealed last night
by Secretary Lansing.
II was another Of the series of Mr..
Lansing's disclosures Of German in
trigue. made public without comment
in the same manner as the Won Lux
burg kilograms which have brought
Argentine on the verge Of war with
Germany, the Won Ecckhardt letter
from Mexico City and the Won Bern
storff telegram asking the German
foreign office for AUTHORIZATION to
spend $50, 900 to influence congress.
The latest story is told in a report
to the state department from Wil-
liam Whiting Andrews, secretary OF
the legation a Bucharest, in a letter
from Foreign Minister Porumbaru of
Rumania.
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German consulate at Bucharest with
display of great precaution aroused
the suspicious of the Rumauian gov
ernment. On Aug. q, 1916, the even
ing prior to the date Of Rumania's
declaration Of war, some Of the cases
were taken to the German legation,
located in q different building from
the consulate. Convinced that the
boxes were not taken away from the
legation by the German diplomatic
mission on its departure from Buch-
Arrest. the Rumanian authorities lat
er ordered the police TO find and ex-
anime their contents. The police
communicated with American Min
lister Vopicka, then in charge Of Ger
man interests. who reluctantly as
signed Secretary Andrews to observe
the search. The boxes were found
buried in the garden OF the German
legation.
Mr.. Andrews report says:
Upon my return from the exam
ination which resulted in the discoy-
cry Of the explosives and of the box
Of microbes, both Of which the lega-
ton servants admitted having plac-
ed i'm the garden, the former conf
Dental agent of the German min
lister, DIR. Bernhardt, who had been
left with the legation at the German
minister's request TO assist in the
care of German interests. admitted
his knowledge OF the explosives
placed in the garden; told me that
more were in the garden than had
been found; that q still larger guam
tity had been buried in the house
OF the legation: and taat still worse
things than this box Of microbes
were contained in the legation. and
insinuated that they would have
been found even in the cabinets OF
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
SAYS EIGHT SHIPS
sunk BY U-BOATS
IN GREAT BATTLE
Officer of British Vessel in
Halifax Gives Addi-
tional Details
fRv Associated PressN

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept. "a
The British steamship. Virginian, is
said to have been one Of the victims
of the massed attack by German sub
marines on a convoy fleet Of British
merchant vessels OF the Irish coast
early this month. Persons arriving
at an American port on Saturday
brought word Of this attack, their
statement setting forth that five mer-
chant men and two conveying
destroyers were sunk.
An officer on a steamship now in
Halifax said eight steamships In
cluding his own were destroyed, and
that the Virginian. in a sinking
condition, managed, to make the
beach. The officer was unable to say
definitely whether any U-boats were
sunk by destroyers as reported
previously.
I'VE were scattered over quite an
area," he sa.d. "The destroyers were
busy, however, and l am quite sure
some of them got what they were
aiming at"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
CheerSAreHuShed
As CdSS Sons Enter
Service Of Nation

Cheers and tears for the departing
soldiers of Liberty, 154 stalwart sons
of Cass county. marked the departure
early Sunday morning of this coun-
ty's second quota of men to Camp
Dodge, to enter training for the
great adventure.
Cheers that were hushed almost
before they were given. as the grim
ness of II all came home probably to
each of the thousands of people who
made up the great throng at the
Northern Pacific passenger station
TO see the boys of. came mostly from
the boys aboard the cars. They
waved their hats from the car win
dows as far as the crowd could see.
And as the people Of Fargo and
Casss county TUNED from the station
to their homes. it was with a new
appreciation OF what it all means.
Mothers in that crowd went to their
homes with q new interest in the
war. Their boys were now soldiers;
soon they will be in France, and the
West Front. which has grown to be
such 1an impersonaI thing in Ameri-
ca, viii become something different
III will become a living reality to
these mothers-whose thoughts win
ever so to that great line OF human
ity and steel thrown from the coast
to Switzerland, to stay the hand OF
the frightful Hun, and drive him back
across the Rhine whence he
came.
IL was with this new realization Of
what It all means that were hushed
cheers that might have been raised
from the throat Of each person In
the great crowd.
Relatives Get Preferences.
Mothers, fathers, sisters sweet
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
Sdn1n1ies Get to Front Line
Trenches on the British Front

has taken his place beside them, for
a few glorious minutes while minor
battle was progressing.
Officers, Too, Make Trip.
It would have been unwise. per-
haps, for the correspondent to in
quire too closely whether any Of the
American officers had done their
bit" in this manner Nevertheless
the correspondent had grave suspic-
ions that some OF them had been
"over the top" with their allies in
early days before orders forbade IL.
None, however, now Is disregarding
the 'edicts which have been issued by
the higher command.
Visits Two Camps.
The correspondent visited two diff
ferent camps and in each there were
the same scenes of methodical acti-
witty, characteristic Of American
methods. Things were moving
smoothly. Emciency was the watch
word everywhere.
II was noon when the second camp
Continued on page I'VE.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24

Somewhere Along the British
Front in France. Sept. 24.-on a his
toric battlefield which merges into
the fighting lines are encamped
many American troops far removed
from the rest of their compatriots,
who form the vanguard Of Uncle
Sans expeditfonary force In France.
For military reasons 1t is impos-
sible to tell the world just where
these men are. who they are, or what
they are doing to further the interest
Of the entente allied cause, but 1t may
be said on authority TO friends az
home that they are a credit to the
Stars and Stripes. which for the first
time In history fiy over a camp OF
American soldiers in this part OF the
war-wrecked world.
Two Are Wounded.
Some Of them have been working
continually IN a zone covered by
German guns and already two Of
their number have been wounded, q
fact, whereof they are exceedingly
proud
The Associated Press heard these
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
Real Work and Liberality
Required to Attain Goal
FEDERAL GRADES
TO BE RETAINED
BY GOVERNMENT
Elimination of Abuses As
sured-Declare Abuses
at Primary Market

Washington, Sept 24.-Suggestioas
coming from the northwest that the
grain grading standards established
by the grain standard act, which
takes the grading of grains from the
states and puts it under the federal
government, be suspended during the
war are turned down by the govern
ment.
Following the receipt OF the sug-
gestion, the matter was taken UP by
G. j. Brand Of the bureau Of markets
with the food administration, with
the decision that instead of suspend
ing the enforcement of the law DUR
ing the war 1t be the more rigidly
enforced on account of the war.
The following announcement car
ries the decision of the government:
"AlI purchases of wheat over which
the food administration grain cor
poration has control will be made aQ-
EcoFding to the grades Of the ofiicf8l
grain standards OF the United States
from No. to No. 3 and below No. 3
after examination of actual samples
of wheat.
No Suspension OF Act.
"The enforcement of the grain
standard act will not be suspended
trary the food administration and
the department of agriculture will
cooperate in carrying out it's pro-
visions so as to obtain the most
beneficial results to all concerned.
It appears that confusion, has arisen
on account OF the unfamiliarity of
many persons in the grain trade witN
the new standards and also on ac-
count. of unwarranted practices that
have arisen recently, such as the
arbitrary assignment OF a lower nu-
merical grade to wheat by reason Of
the presence OF dockage. notwith-
standing the fact that dockage does
not properly enter into the assign
ment of the numerical grade.
''Of course, every effort will be
made to eliminate these abuses and
to bring about the just application
Of the official standards and to es-
tablish fair dealings.
Fixed Prices For Buying.
''It must be remembered that the
grain corporation is compelled to buy
within the limits of fixed prices, and
that the department of agriculture
must see that the standards are cor
rectIy applied. Cooperation Of pro-
ducers, the grain trade and the mill
ing fraternity with the food admins
tration and the department Of agri-
culture is required in handling the
situation due to the war crisis.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
EXPECT 1000
TO join STRIKE
6Rv Associated Prsss.l

Portland, Ore, Sept. 24.-Pursuant
to action taken at mass meeting
last night, 1000 men employed in
the steel ship yards here were ex-
pected to strike today. About $500
men employed in wooden ship yards
already are on strike.
San Francisco. Sept. 24.-Unions
affiliated with the Iron Trades coun-
Gil here were sending out notices to-
day Of special meetings at which the
question of ratifying the temporary
wage schedule agreed upon last
night by their conference commit
tee and their employers will be voted
upon.
ship building contracts which was
completely tied up by the strike If
80, 900 metal trade unionists, last
Monday was expected to be resumed
by Thursday. 1t was said today by
employers.
settlement of the controversy fol-
lowed the appointment by President
Wilson of David Gavin McNabo, as
mediator,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
(By Associated Press).

Washington, Sept. 24-Whe there is no indication
of what will be Americas next disclosure of Ger
intrigue in America elsewhere, it is known dis
closures sensational any yet published being
held in reserve and may be made at any time.
One of the things the state department has is list
of persons who received German money, in the pass
port frauds the munitions plots, and practically all the
other activities of German intrigue here which took
place between the beginning of the in August 1914
and the entry of the United States into the conflict This
list said to contain scores of and the amount of
money represented runs very high.
From time to time the department will make pub
lie certain evidence to dispose of the denas of those
who have been involved in the disclosures already made
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
$2,5OO BAIL IS
ASKED BY COURT

Frank Moran, alias Frank Moore,
about 40 years old, and j. j. Burke,
alias Edward G. Ray, 36, are being
held in cass county jail in default Of
$2,500 bonds, each, on a fugitive
warrant, charging them with obtain
iEs money and property at Great
Falls, Mont, by a confidence game
and fleeing into the state of North
Dakota. The men were arraigned
before Police Magistrate Roberts this
morning.
They were arrested in a fashion
able hotel on information communi-
Gated to Chief of Police Dahlgreu
through an anonymous letter, which
stated they would probably operate
here.
Sheriff, Louis H. Kommers Of Great
Falls, Mont, is on his way to Fargo
to get the men, who says-they will
return without requisition papers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
LOYAL, ;, LEAGUE
Head DECLARES

st. Paul. MINI, Sept. 24.-Eforts
of ~the Loyalty Lyceum to have
Colonel Roosevelt speak here this
week in what some OF its members
declared an effort TO Offset the
speeches made at the Producers and
Consumers conference recently,
caused A. c. Townley, president Of
the National Nonpartisan league, to
write Colonel Roosevelt protesting
that farmers and workers are loyal.
The patriotism" and loyalty Of
farmers and workers are not ques-
toned by any but those who make
huge profits out Of the war. Mr..
Town1ey wrotes
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
Charges That Food Admin
istrator Was in Chi
cago Branded "Lie"
TOWNLEY REFUSES
TO GIVE ANSWERS
Conscious of Rising Storm
He Pays to Publish
"Loyalty Resolutions
MADE CHARGE IN FARco

MADE CHARGE IN FARGO.
The charge that Herbert Hoov-
er had ignored the Nonpartisan
league meeting in st. Paul, and
would. instead. attend a meeting
of the grain exchange rep
resentatives in Chicago. was
made at the mass meeting
of the league in Fargo last
Monday by Mr.. Townley. and,
according to press dispatches,
repeated at St. Paul. 1t is this
charge that Mr.. Hoover has
characterized as a reckless lie,"
as related In the following st.
Paul dispatch:
St. Paul, Sept. 24.-Herbert c
Hoover. federal food administrator
has called on A. c. Townley of thu
Nonpartisan league to retract wha
Mr.. Hoover bIuntly characterizes al
a reckless lie" uttered by Townle!
in the course OF the latter's speech
at the auditorium last Tuesday aft
ernoon. =,
Gives Out Telegram.
Townley gave out the telegram anC
his reply to his twin cities organs
Saturday afternoon. and then. aftel
he was sure the evening editiens o.
(Continued on Page Sd
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
"GodKnoU How" They Got Papers,
Teutou Comment on Us, sE1boser

London, Sept. 24.-In commenting
on the latest Washington disclosures
concerning the activities OF Count
Won Bernstorff former ambassador to
the United States The Cologne lei
tung, according to an Amsterdam
to Reuters Limited, says:
The affair, If true, has a very dis
character and IL Is highly
The American govern
ment, God knows how, was able to
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
EQUITY GETS
U. 5. APPROVAL

st. Paul. Mimi. Sept. 24.-Activity
OF the Equity Cooperative ex-
change, limited only by the 1920
price for wheat, which diverted a
great number of cars OF wheat to St.
Paul In preference to Minneapolis,
has forced the governments recog-
milton of st. Paul as a federal grain
market.
Shipments to Minneapolis were
subject to federal grading, which
cut prices as much as IL cents for
No. 1. Prices for the poorer grades
were better in ST. Paul than for the
best grades in Minneapolis under the
arrangement. (.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
DiSloydlists In
. Whole, Nation, Fits Plea

1im in
mem In be condu of the war Is
is notw be
e penca
b cast tot
be in
o slMced'.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-24
Three Sensational Exposures In
As Many Days Hold Attention

world. and Sunday night the German
intrigue against Rumania was pub
lished.
The continued publication of start
ling revelations OF German intrigns
is world wide in it's significance, and
the effect upon the few remaining
neutrals is regarded as highly
important