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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-30

Fargo authorities were
this morning notified by At,
Itorney General William
Langer that the Peoples
Council of America had
abandoned its plan to hold
a meeting in Fargo.
Mr.. LANCER, semitic Far
go by Governor Lynn j.
Frazier, to take charge of
1.-THE local sitaation, created
lhy the patriotic demonstra-
ton against the disloyalists
on Tuesday evening and the
governors guarantee to the
.People's Council that they
would be protected in Far
go, cleared the local at
mosphere quite materially
w h e n he made the am
nouncement.
To The Forum Mr..
LANCER declined to diyuige
the source of his informa-
ton, stating however, that
his "tip was straight
Mr.. LANCER called on
Mayor Alex Stern, Sheriff
A. M. Ross, States Attor-
ney Fowler, Assistant w.
G. Green and District At
torney M. A. Hildreth dur
ing the early forenoon.
Steps Already Taken.
BY the time that Dir. LANCER CALI
ed on the officials, active steps had
already been taken 70 deal with the
situation created by announcement
from New York city that Fargo mao
been chosen as the meeting place
the choice being made because Of the
ORGANIZATIONS failure to find refuge
in Minnesota, and the attitude Of
Governor Lynn Frazier, Of NORTH
Dakota. who assured the Peoples
Council IL would be guaranteed its
constitutional rights"
Mayor Stern Against "Copperheads.'
Mayor Alex Stern, in a statement
to The Forum, declared himself
against "copperheads."
'1n the Civil war, Il was the cop>
perheads who unnecessarily pro-
longed the war; said the mayor.
This is not the time TO be talking
against the government. We are in
war, and we don't want any SUCH
meetings In Fargo. They would olg~
turb the peace, and only cause trou-
BILE, and accomplish nothing good.
Mayor Stern had prepared 70 call
the city. commission in special sep-
sion 10 consider steps that might De
deemed advisable In the event tbs
Peoples Council went through with
its proposal 10 transfer the meeting
from Alinneapoiis 70 Fargo. Attorney
General hangers assurance that the
meeting had been abandoned, made
the proposed step unnecessary.
Ready 60 Use the Law.
Assistant Attorney William Green
informed the attorney general that
the states attorneys Office was ready
to use the law TO prevent disloyalty,
pointing 10 q state statute that bars
meetings likely to incite riot and dis
loyalty.
The Fargo Home Defense league.
The Fargo Home Guard and vari-
Gus other organizations, had already
placed under way preparations Tor
effectively combating the PeopleE
Councils proposal to meet IN Fargo
when word came that the meeting
was on so far as this city is con-
cerned. Only lawful steps, Il ives
announced. were Contemplated PA
the bodies. but, as one official stated.
nothing disloyal viii De tolerated ln
Fargo.
Tuesday NIGHT Action The Cause.
Tuesday nights action against tp4
Max Eastman meeting when the qss-
lovaI utterances Of the Socialist
speaker resulted III patriotic Narse
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-30
RAM SALE OPENS
Record Price Paid at National Gath
erina Of Wool Growers.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 3d.
Another record was established at
the second annual ram sale conduct
ed under. the auspices of the Nation
al Wool Growers association at the
fair grounds when a Hampshire ram
was sold yesterday for $500. More
than 1900 sheep and wool men from
all parts Of the United States. cane
ada. and Australia are In attendance.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-30
Tense Situation Develops
When Cits is Tentatively
Picked for Meeting
OFFICERS FORESAW
STRONG OPPOSITION
So Inform Attorney Gener-
al Who Gets Early Tip
That Plan Is Off

Hudson, Wis, instead OF Fargo
will get the Peoples Council
meeting, IL was announced this
afternoon.
Fargo's warlike attitude to-
ward the council, IL is believed,
Influenced the decision that takes
the proposed convention out OF
North Dakota and back 20 Wis
consin. at a point near Minne-
apolis. where 1t was originally
scheduled.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-30
TELEGRAM OF CONTEMPLATION OF FARGO SPIRIT
FROM MAYOR OF VALLEY CITY RECEIVED TODAY
Valley City N D. Aug so 1917
Unpatriotic Sentiment

Fargo FOrum
Fargo, n. D.
wish to commend the people of Fargo for their Amer
cansm and their proficient of handling proaserism
It's time the city of the rights
saying Hands off, Governor Frazier will say who and
cannot speak in our city,
l. j. MOE, Mayor.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-30
PEOPLE COUNCIL PICKS HUDSON WIS., As CONVENTION PLACE
" Well Done" Is
Defense League
Word On Meeting

Commend Action Taken Tuesday When Max Eastman
Disloyalty Meeting Was Broken Up By Patriotic
Citizens-Within Rights to Curb
Unpatriotic Sentiment
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-30
WEATHER FORECAST.

Showers this afternoon or tonight
Friday probably fair and cooler.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
] MORE OR EESS."

Shrinkage in land deals is often traceable directly to the technical phrase "more or less, used in describ- ing area of real estate in deeds.
 Not long ago the state of Massachu. setts bought tract of land in Belcher- town to be used as site for public institution. The property was bar gained for and the deed made, as per the verbal agreement; the state bought and paid for 888 acres "more or less. '' Instead of having the property surveyed before closing the deal, it was surveyed after, and found to contain 619 acres. A "shrinkage" of 269 acres of land is considerable to pay for mere techni- cality.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1917
MAKING FEN E MI ES

It is not strange that the entire world is becoming disgusted with the German ways of doing things. The Zimmerman plot surely had its effect in the states on the MexicaA border and in the Mississippi valley. for they saw what might come if Germany was able to bring the war to successful issue from her point of view. When the kaiser's agents attempted to start a negro uprising in the south and were exposed, the effect could not make friends for Germany.
 United States tried every way pos. ible to keep out of the war but Teutonic diplomacy found a way of convincing the people that we could not safely stay out of it.
 Does the world wish to be conquered and ruled by Kaiser? The way the countries are falling into line to fight Germany would indicate that they do not relish the idea of seeing the central powers win this war. They have seen quite enough of their mean, low down, tIickish methods of doing business. Speaking of German diplomacy, the Waterbury Republican sizes it up thusly:
 It is so subterranean. so devilish and so far-reaching that tlus would
 be world of perpetual terror if it's aims, when revealed, did not shock
 nations into action and make the
 world world of enemies for Ger many. German statesmanship can be relied upon to grow crops of enemies"
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
RY-PRODUcTS OF MEAT.

Modern science has taught us many things and one of the greatest is to understand the value of so many things that we used to throw away.
 People who stop to think about what a live steer costs the Armour company anl what that concern gets for it, sometimes wonder just where all the profit comes from. The company has compiled some interesting statistics that tell why it can apparently make no money on the beef. For instance, a 1000 pound steer, bought in November last, was paid for at the rate of ST. a hundred. or $76.1 Dressed, that steer. sold for $12.21 hundred and, as the steer then weighed only 560 pounds, the concern got less for the meat by $8.2 21 that it paid for it.
 The money is made in the by. products. For not a bit of that steer was wasted. Banjo strings, drum snares, sandpaper, soap, glue, curled hair, bristles, wool, hide, lubricating oils, poultry feeds, fertilizers, buttons and many other things are made from the rest of that steer and that is why the cost for meat is not higher.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
WHOLEWHEAT BREAD.

Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture, states that no proposed measure of preparedness is more impor- tant than the adoption of whole wheat flour.
 In this country the wastage in mill- ing wheat into white flour is 28 per cent. England, he says, has cut hers to 19, Italy is down to 15, Switzerland to 20, and France to s5 per cert. By adopting the Italian standard, MT. Vrooman estimates we should increase our wheat supplies for the purpose of bread by 60. 900, 900 bushels. Restric. tion of the loss to 10 per cent. would increase the practical value of our wheat harvest by 1000, 900 bushels.
 In commenting on the subject the New York Globe says:
 / Because of the greater food value of the whole wheat flour our gain would be threefold. For not only would the gross return of our flour be larger, the flour would be cheaper, and the bread would go further. Whole wheat hour costs less to mill than white four, contains practically all the clements that sustain animal life, and suffices where white bread, robbed of the elements essential to cell life, fails. It is better as we'll as a cheaper food. To the great part of our population to which bread bulks large in the daily ration it would bring stronger bodies, less susceptible to disease. The mere fact that a man can sustain life with . whole wheat bread and cannot do so with white bread warrants the reform whether we need all our wheat or not. The emergency now upon us demands it. All the bread we use ourselves should be as nourishing as possible, and it is our duty to swell as much as we can the surplus of our wheat for our allies"
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19

people may have their fair share is for each state in the union to forbid the sale of young poultry, pigs, calves and lambs and allow all these animals to grow to mature age and size, so that we may have from five to 10 times as much food from each animal as we get now by killing them at the baby stage. If law covering this would be put in force right now by national legislation as an emer. gency war measure, I believe one of
 the big questions of future food supply would be largely settled. Or, without any legislative action what soever. if the public are in earnest ill
 their exprest desire to keep up full food supply at reasonable cost, just let one and all resolve to give up "broilers', roast pig, lamb and veal and we shall soon have greatly in' creased supply of fowl, mutton, polk
 and beef product at lowering cost from present almost prohibitive prices."
 He who possesses land upon which young stock can pasture and upon which poultry can roam at large should arrange to turn every acre to good account by converting the grass into beef, and the bugs, worms and grass hoppers into poultry. One feature of this business, which appeals to those who work it, is the fact that whi'e ( the cost of grain and market feeds has gone out of sight, the expense of the beautiful green grass on the hillside is no more than of old and the latest quotations show no advance in the price of bugs, worms and grasshoppers.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
FOOD CONSERVATION

There was never time when the necessity for conservation of foodstuffs was as urgent in this country as at the present time and it is high time that epicureans laid their whims and notions on the shelf and got down to common sense living. If Uncle Sam s land is to supply the fighting allies across the water with food, and pave the bottom of the ocean with it, besides feeding our own people, it does not require wonderful stretch of imagination to foresee the conditions which will con. front us next wirte
 Much is sad and written in favor of She "back yard garden" and to read the papers one might infer that practi- cally everyone who had an inch of land would grow crop of some sort on it and that the markets may be glutted when the harvest comes. But is farm. ing so simple that anyone can raise bumper crops by simply putting seed in the ground? The lack of "know howl will keep many city man from producing profitable crops, although the attempt will have good effect in proving to the city people that the far mer earns all he gets for his products.
 However, the experiment. and the experience gained by those who yield to the "plant garden" movement will be we'll worth the effort, and will be the direct means of cutting down the expense of living in many family. Besides the pleasure and satisfaction which many will enjoy as they never have before, Of eating their own home grown "spuds" and garden sass'', the time s1p>t by the batter familias hoeing in the garden and working good health into his system by the introduction of that best and cheapest medicine on earth, outdoor exercise, is we'll spent if he raises only half crop.
 But there is another food economy which many have not thought of, that has been suggested by J. H. Hale, the peach king, who knows thing or two about farming and the problems of liv- ing. His argument, which follows, appl 'o the meat supply, and con. aims considerable sound sense:
 
 of observation and careful thought on the subject, it strikes me that the surest and most economical way to increase the meat supply and reduce the cost SO that the so called common
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19

CURE FOR FouN -..~tTAcE.
 Treating of the foo :i.J. tas: ln q re- cent editorial, the Saturday Evening Post recalls that at a time when the food supply the country over was am-
 pie many poor fam
 orsan'<eo flies ill New York,
 C'S'r'O"''o"' Philadelphia and |er TNa'e o' even Chicago were
 So''l"'' actually going hun "'snt S"re oone gry for lack of the
 a"'s' simplest, common est foods" In New York's east side scarcity of onions and potatoes caused a threat to attack city hall. This sit uation the editor attributes to lack of organized food distribution. Famine and food riots would not occur if for instance "the oil trust or steel trust" was charged with supplying the neces- saries of life. The Post continues:
 Blaming food speculators only touch es the surface. Commission merchants reported that farmers were holding po- tatoes, for which they were offered $10 a barrel, in hope of getting SIP. And when farmers held potatoes at $10 a barrel they were simply trying to get even for the years when they sold their potatoes and onions at less than cost of production, or saw them rot because they would not pay marketing charges In those years producers were victim ized by a haphazard distributing sys- tenn. ** We have long believed that the right and only permanent cure for bad system of distributing food stuffs lies in cooperation. Co-opera- tion by producers has been tried many times, and has always been helpful when it was intelligently managed. Cooperation by consumers has also been tried many times and has failed much oftener than it has sue ceeded, though abroad it has scored great successes. But, even without con- sumers' cooperation, intelligently man. aged cooperation by producers could so far control the business as to cure it's worst faults"
 Perhaps the consumers have less in- centive as a class to face the restraints and burdens of cooperation than the producers to whom it is a matter of business.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19

The majority of the English people, in the face of appeals to economize in order to win the war, are spending money with a roaring extravaganza never known before, says Leslie's. With the government spending $25,000,- 900 day, why should any individual worry about economy? Three out of every five million daily expenditure of the government is spent in Great Brit ain. A writer in The Nineteenth Gen. tury estimates that great majority of those who receive the greater part O. this are paying very little back to the state in the way of taxes. These peo- pie, making two, three and four times as much as they ever before made, are spending it with a recklessness that the placards of the war savings com mittee cannot check. London restau- rants are crowded, fur, antique and jewelry dealers are doing a record busi- ness and taxicab drivers are making small fortunes.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19

costs for assaulting his wife and mother in law.
 Fred Young had charge of the Canaan reading room.
 A Punch and Judy show, while per. forming near the Cummings block in Canaan, was treated to pail of water from above, and Prof. DeAlmo, Punch, Judy and a few bystanders were soaked. The professor ''said things" but the exhibition did not resume.
 Irving Ferguson, ticket agent at Canaan, was appointed station agent at Housatonic.
 Anson Norton of Norfolk died April l6, aged 90.
 W. I. Turner of Falls Village ao. cepted situation in thess Sparks SS Do. store in Norfolk.
 c. R. Morris of Amesville accepted the position of master mechanic of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railroad, with office at It. Wayne, Ind.
 Thiry-six Years Ago This Resk-fSSf
 William Waller and Miss Chloe Lawrence of East Canaan were married April 14.
 P. F. Gilmore of Lime Rock and Mrs. Ida Jane Beach of Canaan were married Ap-il l6.
 c. B. Gardner Was succeeded by Pete Hicks as snare drummer in the Canaan band.
 Reuben Mcintyre of Canaan began firing on the Housatonic road and Jerome Root began as baggage master at Canaan.
 Rev. W. A. Mackey returned to Canaan for the third year.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19

It may be merely a stroke of state craft or again a measure of justice on the part of the new leaders in Russia to grant equal rights to the Jews. The policy means in the end, if not immedi- ately, civil, educational and religious independence for people long oppress- ed by the government and outraged in countless ways by the Russian popu- lace. The United States is on record as strenuously insisting upon this great reform.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19

In 1862 General Grant suggested that the regular army establishment be "scrapped" temporarily, and the mate ral used for the building up of volun- teer units. Some such plan has been suggested now for the creation of d national army. The Chicago Tribune Nys, "Our regular army is too precious 70 be used as an army. It must be saved (demobilized) for instruction"
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
HosrILIrIEs AND PREPAREDNESS

HoSTILITIEs AND PREPAREDNESS It is, of course, recognized that q state of war doesn't necessarily call for immediate and vigorous hostilitieS Mobilization of troops and ships is
 prosecution of the Nations Fiqht to war. The same is
 Win, and true when mobili- Hostile Drives zation is extended May Be Sprung to other resources
 Too Soon. needed to support
 army and navy op- erations. Nations fight primarily to win, not to make a mere show of doing something. A nation attacked and in danger must do the best it can with the powers at hand. But it is an axiom in war that in the long run overpre- paredness is better than underprepar- edness when the clash comes. Rouma- mia was woefully unprepared and in eXcusably so. She thought that the hour of her advantage had struck. That was mistake. The north pushed hostilities in the summer of 1861 and, warned by bitter experiences, spent all the fall and winter preparing for the next move. The masses today little re- alize the extensive and tedious prepara- tions which preceded the grand drives of Grant and Sherman in May, 1864 And they had veteran armies to begin with, likewise superior forces, equip ments and resources. Haste will not redress any wrongs and may delay, if not defeat, the ends of justice. Through mistaken zeal Roumania frittered away her strength. When the United States launches its full national strength something will happen to the foe, and it will be no mere featherweight caress upon his iron jaw.
 (Captain) GEORGE l.. KILMER.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
Appreciated at Last.

You seem to be tremendously pleas ed with yourseS" remarked one so- journer on the banks of the Styx to another.
 q have every right to be" respond ed the shade addressed. "I have just paid visit to earth and had an oppor- tunity to hear my widow describing my virtues to my successor. ."-Rich. mond Dispatch. ..s
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19

Whenever any of Carranza's good people grow tired of the doings in old Mexico they can cross the line to New Mexico and find land just as good in essentials and vastly better in ideals. We now recall that Carranza's notes to the state department were far above the standard of Coahuila farmer and may have been dictated by a brain trained in Germany.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
A Kind Husband.
Mrs. Flatbush-Oh, dear!

Mrs. Flatbush-Oh, dear!
 MT. Flatbush-whats wrong nowl
 "oh, I read today that if the earth were to revolve seventeen times faster than it does bodies at the equator would lose their weight and remain stationary in the air without support"
 Don't worry, dear. If we ever get there I'll support you just the same"- Yonkers Statesman.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
Too Much to Ask.

"Bliggins is little annoying in man. ner, but his heart is in the right place."
 "Yes," objected Miss Cayenne. but you can't be expected to perform Il surgical operation on every disagree able person to ascertain where his heart Washington Star.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
Doino Her Part.

"Wife, will you thread a needle for me? want to sew on few buttons.n
 "Why, certainly. There you are. Now you can sew on your buttons while I go to the bridge club. Some times I wonder how you managed be- fore you were married"
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
MAILS CLOSE GOING

MAILS CLOSE GOING North East South West 9:55 a. m. 8:15 a. m. TAO a. m. 10:36 a. m. 7:16 D. m. 3:46 D. m. 2:35 D. m. GA D. m. MAILS OPEN FROM North East South West S;2O a. m. 800 a. m. 1O:3O a. m 800 a. m. s3:15 D. m. 11:15 O. m. 7:55 p. m. 4:25 D. m
 7:15 D. m.
 z Mail closes on Route No. 1, R. F. D. at 9:30 a. m., and return 3:30 D. m. For Southfield and Mill River, Mass, at 1. pm.
 E. l.. ROBERTS P. M.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19
CONGRESS AND THE EXECUTIVE

In the current number of the Amer ican Review of Reviews Dr. Albert Shaw comments upon the "filibuster' and with vigor as we'll as clarity dis
 cusses the relations
 of the executive and
 ea legislative branch
 o.eoe es of government ooH "ee. U" to each other. All
 ",e' '"e through February
 there was urgent reason apparent, says the Review, for calling the new congress into session. Tt should have been called to meet promptly on Monday, March 5. It had been elected last November. The real filibuster consisted ip the attempt to dispense with calling the new congress. It was inappropriate to ask the expir- ing congress in it's closing hours, with out time for debate, to grant indefinite war powers to the president in order to enable him to carry Oh the government for months to come, perhaps until next December, without calling congress to Washington. Nothing in our history has so clearly shown the rapidity of our tendency to an exclusive presiden- tial government. It is the congress elected last November that represents the public and that should have enter ed upon it's work on the day following the beginning of the presidents second term, which is his by virtue of election also in November. The most essential of the changes that ought to be made in our constitution is one that would not permit an old congress to assemble and do business after new congress had been elected. There is no other legislative body in the world that has an opportunity to do its most important legislative work after it has been voted out of office and after its successor had been voted in by the people. With all respect to him, it seems to us that the president is mistaken in sup posing that the people desire to have him rule the country by himself, with out the aid of the elected representa- tives. The vast and various affairs of a nation like ours cannot be safely managed except through collec- tive wisdom. Congress must not shirk it's duties nor cast its prerogatives away"
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-19

It is we'll to remind MT. Beginner not to be in hurry to dig up his garden seed to see if i. is sprouting. Give Mother Earth time.