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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
FEDERAL CONTROL OF RAILROADS.

The directors of the Commercial club have Just voted
in favor of federal Incorporation of railways, and of fed
eral control Of intra-state rates where such rates affect
commerce.
The vote was cast in the carrying out of q referen-
dunn on tho subject conducted by the Chamber of Com
merce Of the United States, Of which the Grand Forks
club is a member.
The subject of federal control of railroads and rates
has been under discussion for a long time. In many quar-
tiers 1t has been vigorously opposed. There has been a feel
ing that railroads should be controlled as completely as
possible by the governments Of the states through which
they pass. and acquiescence in that doctrine has resulted
in a dual control which is confusing and embarrassing,
and which is an obstacle in the way of the development
of a real system Of railroad control in the public interest.
In many cases we have the illogical condition of a
shipment between the same two points on the same road
paying one rate if shipped in interstate commerce, and
another rate If the shipment does not cross the state
boundary. Travellers find it impossible to keep in touch
with the conflicting arrangements, and shippers are often
utterly at sea. The railroad people themselves cannot
tell what to expect next, nor from where to expect it.
There was a time when a reasonably distinct. line
could be drawn between state traffic and interstate traf-
fc. Such a thing was possible when our only roads were
wagon roads, and when industries were largely local in
,sible even in the early days Of railroading, when the rail-.
roads were almost as local as the wagon roads and bride
paths had been. Those days are gone. Commercially an6
industrially the various sections Of our country have beer
growing together, and today almost all Of our traffic Ii
either interstate in itself or is intimately related to tina,
which is.
The railroad Of today is a national rather than
state institution. The service which it performs is nation.
al IN character. And there is every reason why its con.
trol shouid be national, in its organization, its financing
its rates and the conditins of its service.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27

Ions are used monthly in France.
Lives have been saved because sur
'geons have been enabled to treat
wounds otherwise too painful to be
dressed. Edwards and his supporters
foresee a new era-the painless era!
The man who first gave Edwards
a chance at the Vanderbilt clinic is
DR.. John c.. Vaughan, now on h sur
gical staff at Bellevue hospital.
st remember Edwards well,' said
DR.. Vaughan today. Ills solution
is not new. It is quinine urea. But
too much credit cannot be given Ed
wards for re-discovering this forgot
ten anaesthetic and applying it for
the first time to open wounds.
"Quinine-urea, or nikalgin, is a re-
compound. 1t is both an
anesthetic and an ~antiseptic. It both
eliminates pain and heals the wound.
Edwards deserves the thanks Of all
suffering humanity, and especially of
the wounded soldiers Of the allied
armies"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27

been a surprising success, something
over three billion dollars being Sc
cured. +.
The American people are determin-
ed to match soldier for soldier with
the kaiser until he is defeated. We
are determined to match dollar for
dollar with the German nation-and
then some. We have the opportunity
in this second Liberty Loan.
If we agree with u president in
his stirring and noble words, in which
he dashed the Prussian masters Of the
plain people, if we resent the slurs
and ridicule heaped upon the brave
lads who comprise our army and
navy, If we do not wish to be placed
in a position where we will have to
pay a humping indemnity to the
kaiser, we will show the feeling that
is in us by making the second LIB
erty Loan, go billions Owe the mark
set by the treasury department.
Only in that way can millions OF US
show the kaiser that we stand by our
president. Only in. that way can we
help convince the kaiserists that our
army is something more than a phan-
tom and that we are going to equip 1t
with something more than ghostly
rifles and hot-air bullets.
Only in that way can we force the
Prussians to believe that we are go
ing to see this war through to the end
until the H~ohenzollern autocracy Is
crushed to earth never to rise again.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
HE CONQUERED PAM MAY
MAKE AMERICAN ANGEL OF
MERCY A GREAT WAR HERO
Gordon Edwards Finally
Succeeds in Getting War
Hospitals to Use. New
Anaesthetic Nikalgin.
(By j. Herbert Duckworth.)

(By b. HefOeft DuCkWOrtn.)
New York. Oct. 27.-He conquered
pain!
Will that tablet place Gordon Ed
wards name in the hall Of fame?
While thousands upon thousands of
wounded soldiers are writhing in
agony Edwards has appeared on the
battlefield as an angel of mercy, with
q simple chemical solution he calls
Nikalgin, which he has at last sue
ceeded in having war hospitals adopt
as a mean Of killing pain. He As
now n Of the great war heroes.
had a long uphill fight. 1t is the old
story of the snubbed pioneer or in
ventor at last coming into his own.
Edwards. now about 80, q graduate
of Stanford, worked a few years as
an electrical engineer. Later, while
orderly in a hospital, he heard doc
tors bemoaning the fact there was no
Reffeet-anesthetie for dentistry He
determined to discover one. He
plunged into the study of medicine.
After a years research he came across
a. long-forgotten formula for a So
luton that has remarkable analgesic
properties. ~ 5-4,
Edwards came to New York, . al
most penniless, to go in for dental
anethesia, and get back some Of his
money. Then the war broke out. In
September. 1914, while in the Red
Cross headquarters, he saw his chance
to serve humanity by conquering pain.
He asked for a tryout at the hospitals,
but was b%rusquely turned down every
where.
Finally he interested Miss Anne
Morgan. With her letter OF intro
duction he visited the Vanderbilt elm
ic. There he was given opportunity
to try his solution on an old woman
with painful leg ulcers that the physi-
clans admitted were "a scandal to the
profession" Nikalgin killed the pain.
Twenty-Five other cases were success
fully treated in the same way.
Encouraged, Edwards sailed for
Europe. He offered his anesthesia to
the French and British governments.
He was treated as q patent medicine
fakir. Even tho American HOSPITAL
at Neuilly turned him down. Sym
pathetic Americans in London and
Paris helped him with money. He
started q producing laboratory in
England and sent nikhlgin free to the
hospitals. A few surgeons tried It
and asked for mor 3
Finally a famous Jspanese BAG.
teriologist in a Paris hospital wrote
that he had verified the a%ntiseptic
properties Of nika1gin. It killed the
germs of streptococci, s~taphylococci
and lockjaw. But France would not
take It up
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
SCORES
LIBERTY LOAN
Socialist Charges Present
War is Business War
for Millionaires.

Milwaukee, Wis, Oct. Cliff ever
this country was infested with thieves,
it is now" declared Alderman Emil
Seidel, socialist, in the common
Gil last night when that body, 20 nom
partisans to IL socialists, passed a
resolution for the city of Milwaukee
to subscribe $4,000 in Liberty bonds.
Alderman Seidel admitted that he
might be indicted for what he said in
the council chamber. Three nonparti-
sans and one socialist were absent. "a,
Seidel charged that the present war
is a business war; that it is making
millionaires out Of contractors and
that workers have been intimated into
buying bonds for fear of losing their
jobs and that hesrefused further to
support measures tending to bully or
fool the people any longer."I
Alderman Cornelius 'Corcoran, pres
ident of the council, took the floor and
resented the remarks made by the
socialist alderman. He declared that
In some countries Alderman Seidel
would be backed against the wall',
for making such remarks. Seidel serv-
ed n term as mayor several years
ago.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
WILSON'S SUFFRAGE
SPEECH DOES NOT
SATISFY ONE U

Seattle, Wash, Oct. 27.-Presiden>
Wilson'S endorsement Of woman suf.
rage does not satisfy the national
party. according to Miss An.
who criticised the presidents attit"d.
here today in a speech at a businsss
woman's luncheon.
President Wilson's amiable Al.
pressions for the New york ststa
campaign. where he has no power.S
said Miss Martin. ARE in i'll accord
with the fact hat he is blocking the
national suffrage amendment in con-
gress. "
W must remember in reading his
words that more than twenty women
To-Day are serving severe sentences in
prison for peacefully p%etitioning him
to support the suffrage amendment.I
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
SEVENTH DAY
,ADVENTISTS NOT
OPPOSING DRAFT

Minneapolis, Oct. 27.-The seventh
day adventists opened its annual
North American and General World
conference here yesterday with dele
gates from all parts of the globe pres
ent. The convention, which will con-
tinue two weeks, was called to order
yesterday by Rev. d. G. Daniels Of
Washington, D. c., president Of the
General Worlds conference.
Leaders Of the adventists asserted
though they are opposed to actual
fighting, they are offering no resist
ance to the drafting of young men, Of
the church for the national army. APP
proximately 1000 young men Of the
faith r in the service.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
Germany Begins TO Realize We Are in War
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PRuss1AN MUD BATTERIES ARE TURNED ON PRESIDENT, ARMY AND NAVY

ton of American. bumptiousness. Lee
submarine warfare go on q little long
er and the enemy will learn
acter Of the German government az
the peace conference table, and Will
then have to accept 1t as 1t Is
ter Zeitung, the Deutsche Tageszett-
ung and the Berlin .Lokal Anzeiger, TO
lust g.. few, all parrot-hke
proclaim that Wilson sts tnsolent ana
that the German people Q their
kaiser.
The solitary exception is Ru-
dolf Kommer, formerly American
correspondent of the FranlEfurter
Zcitung. He yarns his country
men that the president has the
majority of the people behind
him and admits American prep
arations look menacing for Ger
many.
Next to abuse of the president
comes ridicule Of our army and navy.
Admiral Won Tirpitz. chief advocate
of submarine frightfulness, in an In
Americas military help in the war
as a phantom"
The Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten
said 'the American regulars resem-
bled F%alstaff's guards"
The weser Zeitung ridicules the
statement that $4,000 American
troops have already arrived in France
and that later a million are coming.
It claims America can find the
shipping to transport them and their
supplies.
Captain Persius, well-known naval
critic in Berliner Tageblatt. tells his
leaders, the American navy cannot do
what the allied fleets failed to accom-
plish.
Admiral Tirpitz recently said sub.
marine warfare was Germany's legal
right and that Belgium had received
her lust deserts. He further declared
peace without a heavy war indemnity
meant Germany's defeat.
With an eye to future attacks upon
America. Emil Zimmerman, in m
,Vossische Zeitung. demands a great
colonial empire in Central Africa,
which would be the natural ally OF.
the Latin South and Central Ameri-
Professor Ans Meyer in Deutsche,
Politik. wants Germany to grab all
Of Portugals African colonies and her
islands in the Atlantic as links to the
Panama Canal and America.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
LOAN AS AN
ANSWER TO GERMANY

In the past few months the German
rulers and press have suddenly ceas-
ed their pretense Of paying little at
tention to what America is preparing
to do in the war.
The full state of facts may not be
known to the plain people, but the
"all-highest circles reveal enough to
make the Germans view the future
with apprehension.
They are, therefore, acting true to
form. They are now singing their
hymn of hate about us. d
First it was leveled at the French,
then at the English. Now it is our
turn.
Abuse is heaped upon President
Wilson for declining to talk peace
with the murderous crew now in con-
troll of the German empire. #
T., Cheer is brought to German hearts
by assuring the faithful the American
army is a joke, and that u navy
cannot hope TO cope with the sub
marine menace.
Editors lick their lips over fond
dreams of indemnities they ARE going
to exact from us. and owe visions of
preparations to secure outposts for
the future war they are going to
make upon us.
We are told Germany's answer to
President Wilson'S insult to the Ger
man kaiser and the German people
will be shown in the success of the
seventh war loan.- And, indeed. it has
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
MURDERER
ADMITS HE KEPT ~
SKELETON in L L

New Brunswick. N. j., Oct. 81
Cross examination of Dr.. VIM. +. Con.
don, army medical reserve officer on
trial here for the murder Of John v.
Piper, a Rutgers college student. was
concluded late yesterday and the de-
Tense closed its case. It is expected
that a verdict will be returned before
night.
Testimony of a negro witness for
n prosecution, that he had seen a
body in the cellar of DR.. Condon,s
nome, wrapped in an automobile COW
er, brought the explanations from the
accused man that he invariably kent
a skeleton In the cellar which he had
USED at the installation Of officers of a
ooge. He admitted ownership Of an
au~soiaoplle cover, In which he testi-
neo ne Kept the skeleton wrapped.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
WHAT CAN THESE FOLK BE DOING IN
LONDON'S STREETS, RECENTLY EMPTY?
By Kenneth ". Payne.

London. Oct 27-Londons latest outdoor sport ISL hrapnel hunting
thousands Thousand have become addieted to the game: It begins some time
at that tme-the chances r that certain bombing activities will
about ove the sidewalks and pavements in the dim glow Of SD street
lamps. .@s@' ##=& .E &. - .rW0
Here is q group Of youngsters that ought to be home in bed-or in
the celars-walking about beht double, searching. An excited cv
from n brings them all about him. There + EXPLANATIONS a scmf
file, then the kids go with their search.
In other places ar. officer n leave and his sweetheart re repeat
ing thiss strange performance, o. a group of girls in front of a board
ing house door. Several American bluejackets will be- seen search
Ing under one lamp. and a number Of Australian Tommiesu under n
other. EfM@@ n $40 ~(DE
1t is shrapnel fragments they're after. Almost any little backened
piece will DO. but the man who finds a battered nosepiece of a shell
is winner
AS soon a tina humping Of the d License guns which has sprtnkled
London With shrapnel and the distant crash Of raiders bombs dies
before the special constables bicycle through the hazy moonut hiRh--
ways giving the word "l Clear"
The popularity Of the ew game indicates how little the morale OF
London has been affected by the moonlight air raids.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27

turn aside from the shameless hypo-
critic (Wilson) who seeks to hide be
hind high-sounding idealism his
anxiety about the blood-money which
he has advanced to his English col
league" The president. is referred as
the crafty hypocrite who with the
simple impudence Of an uneducated
parvenu has the insolence to inter-
fere in our domestic affairs"
The Rheinische Westphalische Zeit-
ung, munition makers organ. says the
presidents note exhibits colossal ar
rogance and insolence. It continues:
German ~self-respect is aroused by
these words which act like strokes of
a whip The. red flame of fury must
rise in the cheeks OF every honest
German when he reads such produce
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
SOMETHING TO AVON

The executive council Of the American Federation of
Labor has declined to take part in the Socialist Congress
to be held under the auspices of the organization of Sol
diers' and Workmen's delegates of Russia. In the replv to
the invitation, the committee expresses its belief that the
holding of such a conference at this time can be Of no
benefit.
The decision is a sensible one, and a patriotic one. It
was one which was to be expected in view of the atti-
Sude which the federation has shown through the war.
And II the committee had not reached any decision on
similar subjects in the past, the experience of Russia un-
DER the influence of the organi><1on which is responsible
Tor this gathering ought to be conclusive that such a
gathering, under such auspices, is a good thing to avoid,
In the circles which control the action Of the Russian
Socialist group the spirit which is manifested is ono Of
destructtveness. Agitation for freedom has taken the
form Of agitation for the destruction Of government. We
have seen something of the working out of that idea in
the recent history of Russia. It has reduced the arny to
a condition Of incompetency. It has tied the hands of
those VINO have been laboring for the industrial develop
ment OF the country. And it has brought the country face
to face with the prospect Of civil war.
me American Federation of Labor is not in sympa-
thy with that spirit, and it declines. very properly, to be-
come involved in any movement wherein that spirit pre-
walls.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27

Three weeks later he sent q similar
message to the Catholic Peoples
Union of Essen, where the Krupp
cannon are made.
Count -Hertling, Prime Minister Of
Bavaria. in an address to the Bavari-
an diet, attacked Wilson, saying:
What makes his note insufferable
and must challenge the sharpest pro-
tests are his v%illification and insults
heaped upon the imperial govern
ment, as we'll as the transparent effort
to SOW dissatisfaction between the
government and the German people,"
The Town Council of Potsdam,
where is located the main residence Of
the kaiser. passed resolutions which
said:
"Filled~with contempt our citizens
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27

Again Anne Morgan came to the
rescue. She got Edwards a hearing
with the Second army in Verdun.
= al used ca peer sell
der whose whole front had been
burned out with German flaming fire.
Excruciating pain prevented dressing
the wounds. The bandages were sat
removed. The surgeons regarded this
as a miracle.
Now Edwards cannot make nikal-
gin fast enough. Thousands of gal
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
BY Milton

Washington, D. c., Oct. 27.-DurinE
n past two months the governing
powers Of Germany and the servile
RUSSIAN press have suddenly awak-
ened to the fact that the United States
IS really preparing to make its force
smashing indictment Of the -Hohen-
zol!erns written by President Wilson
In his reply to the Pope's last peace
proposal, have caused all Germany to
talk more of America than of Russia
or of peace. The empire has runR
with a new hymn of hate, in which we
have been the ones they want Colt
to strafe. The hymn contains four
sections:
Violent abuse Of prea-
dent Wilson.
2-Ridicule for our army and
navy.
3-Anxious discussion of the
Indemnity they would like to ex-
act from us.
-Eagernees to get new ter
r1tory from which they can
menace US In tho future.
Immediately after the presidents
note to the Pope. all kinds Of organi-
cations passed resolutions denouncing
Wilson. These formal declarations
were sent to the inner circle Of the
empire.
. For instance, the painters of Ber-
lin sent such a telegram to Kaiser
Wilhelm, and he replied thanking
them for their loyal pledge regarding
the attempt to seduce the German
people into a breach Of faith against
their kaiser and the empire"
The crown prince proved himself
an apt "Me-Too' by thanking the
Hamburg Chamber Of Commerce for
the refreshing candor with which
he presumption Of the American
president was deservedly declined.
Old General Observation-Disclosures
Backards-was the busy boy. He did
more fighting with his pen than with
his sword. He gave out a message
assuring Germans that they had plac-
ed themselves firmly behind the kais-
er as an answer to the "presumptuous
words" Of Wilson,. A few days later
he wired to the Cologne Chamber Of
Commerce:
"By his attempt to create disunity
President Wilson has succeeded In
uniting the German people. 1 don't
doubt that Wilson will receive q clear
answer by the seventh war loan. May
he in the future continue to be a part
of the force which ever intends evil
and does good"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27
FRIED H. FOSTER DEAD.

Billings, Mont, Oct. 27.-Fred H.
Foster, registrar of the United States
land office here and six times mayor
Of Billings, died Unexpectedly from
heart disease, aged So. He was a ma
tive of Minnesota Inc is survived by
a wife and five children.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27

q Q folds Of white and scarlet! Q blue with yoTr silver
$rtarS! May fond eyes welcome you, willing feet follow you,
a5Ryarm hearts cherish You, and dying lips gse you their
Sa3lessing! Ours by inheritance, ours by allegiance, ours by
Tlnection-long may you float on the free winds Of heaven,
emblem of liberty, the hope Of the world.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27

People arc waking UP to the fact that this republl
at war In a just cause, @
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27

The economic side Of everything IL of sper
%portance now.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27

This Italian reverse is the direct result Of the Rus
FAns paralysis which has seemingly affected the entire
Russian line. With the Russian army practically out Of
Pie fighting the Germans have been able to hold that
[ne with regiments where divisions were formerly nee
tssary, and great numbers Of men have thereby been re-
based for service elsewhere. Many Germans from the
Russian front have been transferred to France and
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-27

When = woman ~ ! marty.
waists svesycsesto aknsw]tE sss r
The Butler weekly times., 1917-07-19
(Too late for last week.)

Sterling Watkins of Joplin came up
about ten days ago to visit and help
his grandpa, JOHN Foster, of near
Virginia, on the farm until snow flies.
Uncle Geo. Oldham of Foster is
visiting a few days with his relatives
on route 5.
Cyrus Nestlerode's 100 acre Scully
lease is for sale on Amsterdam phone
line and route g.
Westover brothers have cut 900
acres of oats and wheat with their
harvesting tractor with two 8-foot
binders. They cut it cleaner, faster
and with less expense than with
horses
F. B. Collins on route 8 sold his
I2 I-2 acre farm to young widow
from Mexico, Mo, for $3.50. Mr..
Collins is going to try the northern
part of Oklahoma. --~o
lin Welch has his new Ford car
in operation.
Arch Seelinger, Will Welch's farm
helper, had to quit the oat field Mon
day morning and, take his eyes to an
eye doctor in Butler.
Uncle Payton Burton sold two
sucking mules to Pink Ellington for
5000. They are Jim Welch's stock.
= w. w. Park. on route 5, bought
the Virginia school house and has
moved it on his farm.
Mr. George OF Butler is looking for
a lob with threshers. Those wanting
a good hand to help had better get
him.
Jackson. .Westover and Burris
made trip to Olathe, Kas., to visit
Mrs. Emma Mccullough, Mr.. Wes-
towers daughter, in Mr.. Burris' car
last Sunday.
NJ. H. Meinen says it was not his
sister in Germany that was dead.
His brother and wife had three boys
OF war age in the army and two of
them were killed and one has never
been heard from. The mother wor-
ried until she died. The father died
10 days afterwards. They died nat
ural deaths, The report was that
they had starved to death, but he says
that they had plenty OF means.
Pink Ellington wants to buy a
second hand flax self rake machine.
He is on route 1, Butler, Mo.
w. N. Westover wants boy in
his teens or an old man past average
age to work for him by the year on
Amsterdam. route, 2.
NELS.