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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17
THE BEST CHRISTMAS FARGO
. EVER HAD"

What about Christmas in Fargo
tbs year?
Of course 1t can't be Christmas
as usual. It can't be an altogether
merry Christmas-that is out Of the
qnastIon, but II can be the best
Christmas Fargo ever had.
Why not make 1t so?
why not get back to the old-time
spirit Of Christmas? Why not re-
member that 1t is Christ's birthday
that is being celebrated? or course
Eae unessentials must be eliminated
tgsls year. Nobody would have the
spatit for . day Of feasting and
hliarity.
But a dignifed Christmas does not
mean a sombre one.
A wholly unseifsh Christmas does
not mean an unhappy one-far from
Nor need the practice Of conserva-
zion interfere with the best Christ
mas Fargo ever had.
Al a meeting held this week, the
women of the Fortnightly club Of
Fargo, voted to invite the women Of
tlle city to join in making this, the
Nrst wartime Christmas, a simple
rather than a commercialized Christ
mas. They passed the following
xesolution:
Be it resolved that the mem
bers of the Fortnightly club
urge a simple Christmas, with
the elimination of all social gifts
and all wastefulness including
that Of spruce trees which are
Sacrificed by the thousands an
rually. and that the money thus
saved be given in some form to
Uncle Sans fighting forces on
land and sea.
IL was excellent, as far as 1t, went,
and The Forum believes it should he
1oIlowed, but Il didn't go far enough.
1t outlined what Christmas should
not be, but 1t gave no substitute. That
Substitute is outlined, better than We
can DO it. in a letter published in
The Mail Bag this evening.
Why not make service the keynote
30 the coming Christmas? Why not
Riait the Associated Charities, or the
Salvation Army, or the Glad Tidings
mission, and get the name Of some
family that will have even less cause
Tor hilarity than you on Christmas
day? Study their needs and see how
1ar you can go toward filling them.
And the men in camp and trench,
what can we do for them?
And the little customs that are
atch a large part of Christmas. There
~ no need to sacrifice them. Can't
ne. have the pretty old custom Of the
hsi1ted candle in the window this
Ehristmas eve? Couldn't carol sing
sng be revived? And the municipal
christmas tree, If 1t could be done
wholly by voluntary service, and
Without a dollar of expense?
We mustn't let this be a gloomy
Christmas, for the children's sake, If
f0r no other. 1t can't be the old,
hilarious Christmas, but it can be a
heautifuI. dignifed, happy Christ
fn-ths best one Fargo ever had,
because it can come nearer than any
other to typifying the spirit that was
Born into the world more than nine
teen hundred years ago.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17
HELp oN BURGLARY ct4ARoE
DRAMATIC MANAGERS

jamestown, NJ. d., Nov. I7.-Stu-
dents OF jamestown college have
chosen for the college dramatic
board OF the year. The following
Hugh Wright. chairman; Alex BUR-
business manager; Roland Badger
advertising manager: Grace Fulton
and Ralph Lands. Hattie Perry and
Laura Cootey are hold-over MEM
hera Of the board.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17
The REBEL YELL, IN FRANCE.

The Rebel Yell will be heard by
she Germans when the American
soidiers go over the top in France.
The famous battlecry Of the Con-
fnderate soldiers Is being taught al
she environments. The men are in
tfIcted TO charge with a yell, on the
3haory that it lends the necessary
inch" to an attack. The famous
nId yen is a combination Of shout
and q cheer, which rises to a faIsetto
lek.
The Christian Science Monitor has
boxed up the history of the yell. II
cribes the raw federal troops 60
md into battle for the first time al
he first battle Of Bull Run. 1t says:
They were in a strange coun-.
.y, and at the very beginning Of
strange experience. They knew
nothing OF what was coming.
least Of all did they know how
heir Southern fellow country
men planned to go into battle,
md when they saw them ad-
ance. leisureIy at first, saw
hem break into a run, and heard
hem unite in one of the widest.
eifdest, sfriilest shouts that
ver woke the echoes Of the Vir-
lnian countryside, something
cry nearly akin to a panic seiz-
"a them, and many turned and
led
What they heard was what
me to be known, from that
me on, as the eRebeI Yell" Il
vas an awful thing to hear then;
Is an awful thing 70 hear even
how. 1t was heard from Bull
Run to Petersburg, although il
REV fainter in the latter days OF
he war, when the cause OF the
outh had become hopeless.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17

supported by countless afFidavits.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, the
famous Brooklyn pastor, has con-
firmed all that has been written or
said and goes further, in his lee
lures. These are but a few of the
many contrnations Of tho newE-
paper reports. atA
For good general knowledge of
the war, begin with the white books
and the blue books and read the
Bryce and Toynbee reports. Then
go back to Won Bernhardi's Ger
many and the Next War" to get the
German militarist's viewpoint on
war. Ian Hays The First Hun
dred Thousand" tells a graphic
story of the first few months of the
Gerard's MY Four Years in Ger
many, and then follow 1t UP with
such books as "Over the Top, "A
Student in Arms, Under Fire,
Flying for France" and as many
others as you find time for, but
these will give you a comprehensive
view of IL, and they are we'll worth
while as literature aside from their
value as sources Of information.
To The Editor of The Forum:
Can you give me a good recipe
for making corn bread? have
tried one or two with but fair sue
cess, and ] thought / might do bet
ter with a new recipe.
One Of the Signers.
Fargo, Nov. 16.
Here is the official Boston recipe:
A cup of corn meal, a cup Of wheat
-four. a cup of sugar, cup Of sour
cream, half g. teaspoonful soda, two
eggs, and a teaspoon of salt. Bake
for thirty minutes.
But when this recipe was publish
ed in Louisville, a Louisville writer
scorned it, He declared that sugar
ruined corn pone, and asserted that
corn pone is the simplest bread mix
ture known. He insisted that Il is
made merely from corn meal, water
and a pinch of salt, with a small
quantity of melted lard if desired.
Take your choice.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17

Arriving in Brooklyn from Russia
twenty-five years ago at the age Of
seventeen. Louis ]. Horowitz began
work in America at $3.50 "a week. He
was recently drafted from the presi
dency Of d large New York con-
struction company to take charge of
the foreign relief work Of the
American Red Cross. Mr.. Horowitz
will act as link between the Red
Cross commission abroad and the
organizations in the United States
and he is entrusted with an im-
portant post.
HELD, ON BURGLARY CHARGE.
jamestown, N. d., Nov. III. =
Andrew Caviness, 16, was arrested
BY Chief Obermiller at the request
Of Sheriff T. III. Hartung. Of Stark
county stating that the youth was
wanted at Dickinson on q charge OF
burglary. Caviness was taken from
train while en- route to st. Cloud.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17
The Editors Mail Bag

To the Women Of Fargo:
Through a blur of tears, and with
a sick feeling at the heart, we all
recall the other Christmases. when
we were all home, dear friends, when
love and mirth and happiness were
found around each family lamp. We
won't all be at home this Christmas,
you know. Some Of us, about a
million to be exact. will be in far
away training camps, going about
the business OF defending our coun-
we think-will be across the great
water, at what haA been termed
that hell on Gods good earth known
as the Front" This Christmas
will be like no Christmas we have
ever known. Let us do our best,
which is much indeed, to be consist
ent. Let us all condemn as UNI
patriotic and hurtful the blunder Of
eXtravagant giving. Let us continue
= until there shall be no more
Christmas-to give to those who lack
joy, to the poor. and to children; a
letter to an old friend, card to a
send to our dear lads away from
home, and prayers and faith and
high hopes for the light that is
surely coming out Of this darkness,
the universal eternal Peace on
Earth. II will be easy If you all
help. VIII you? w. B.
Fargo, Nov, Is.
To The Editor of The Forum:
There are several questions that /
would like to ask you about war
literature. First, Is there any way
of getting at the official history of
the war? Second, is there any
confirmation, outside OF newspaper
and Belgium? Third. what books
would you consider most important
in getting a good general knowledge
Of the war?
Yours,
Fargo, Nov. Is.
Each government has issued it's
official statement OF how II became
engaged in the war. These are
known as the Official white books
or blue books" Of the various ma
tions. Copies OF some OF them at
least, doubtless can be found at the
public library or the Masonic library,
or failing that they can be secured
from the department of public in
formation at Washington.
Certainly there is confirmation Of
the Belgian and French atrocities.
Professor Bryce made an exhaustive
study OF them. He is one Of the
most famous historians the world
has known, and his report is a cold
biooded scientific document lit has
been published In book form. The
works OF Professor Toynbee on the
atrocities i'm France and Belgium
also are unimpasaioned statements,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17
Brazil's National
Holiday

Republic Was Instituted Without
Violence or Bloodshed On Nov.
IS, 1889.
Brazirs actual entrance into the
war on the side Of the United
States and the allies, aWakens a
new and widespread interest In that
great sister American republic.
AS Sept. and Nov. l5 are the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
RECRUITING PARTIES
IN RURAL DISTRICTS
Scouts Are Placarding the Entire Ma
tion in An Effort to Obtain 25,-
600 Men in Short Time.

Naval recruiting parties are scour-
ing the entire nation in an effort to
comply with recent orders by the
navy department to recruit the navy
to full war strength by the addition
OF $4,000 men. The navy will look
to the farmers of the nation to sup
ply large portion of the recruits re-
quired for present warships for war
service.
The recruiting officers starting out
from the various city stations are
placarding the entire nation. They
establish emergency stations in
small communities for three or four
days and then move on to new
section, leaving one or two men be-
hind to care for those who are late
in making applications. The farm
er drive" is the first of the kind ever
made by the navy, as the boys in ru-
raj districts usually have inclined to
the army, especially to the cavalry
branch of the service.
Army enlistments are higher than
in many months. Recruiting stations
in the populous centers are remain
ing open all night and on Sundays,
but no recruits are accepted on Sun
days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
GERMAN WAR BURDEN
TAKES ANOTHER LEAP
AGAIN HUGE WAR CREDIT is
GRANTED AND TAXATION is
BOOSTED 20 PER CENT-LAsT
CALL FOR $4,000, 900, 900.

LONDON.-War taxation in Ger
many has been increased 20 per cent
in the budget presented to the reich
stag yesterday by Count Won Roedern,
finance minister, according to an
Amsterdam dispatch to Reuters.
In the course of his speech, in
which he announced the war credit of
15,00O,000,000 marks (about $3,000,-
000,000), Count Won Roedern ex-
planned that the increase in taxation
was necessary because the budget
provides no new money, while the
safety law" enacted last year called
for an increase of SO to so per cent
in the legal reserve.
Dealing with the proposed new coal
tax, the finance minister said that the
question of taking over the coal mines
by the state had been deemed i'm
possible. He maintained that
an average taxation of 21s
marks on coal and 80 pfennigs on
Ignite was not too high. In addition
to the coal tax there will be levy of
10 to is per cent on railroad tickets
and per cent on all frieghts.
Monster Sums Needed.
Count Won Roedern said that the
war credit voted last October was
nearly exhausted and continued:
las in all the belligerent countries,
so also here the war expenditure in
the last few months has created a
certain tension but it is certainly not
greater with us than with our enc
mics. have no reason to suppose
that the proportion of two to one
which estimated in October as ex-
isting between the expenditure of the
of the entente and the central powers,
has changed. The war expenditures
of the world exceed 100000, 900, 900
marks (about $50, ,00O,00O) and
not more than 100000, 100000 is
our share. The cost in the next few
months will not relax and therefore
| ask a war credit of $4,000, 900, 600
marks. Next month we must issue
another war loan and this budget pic
ture is certainly serious, but our
economic life gives us no reason to
look 80 the future less confidently
than hitherto.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
!P;IUNGER GOT MILLION
BY TIP FROM LEAK"
.SSE LIVERMORE, WHO WAS
DOWN AND OUT, GOT CLEAN
UP" IN STREET-WAs ONCE
A BANKRUPT.

Jesse L. Livermore, the "boy
plunger" of Wall street, made nearly
million dollars on the "break" in
stocks that followed the leak on
President Wilson's peace note. More
over, according to Oliver Hartman,
his broker, he may have Cleaned up
another million during the last few
weeks.
1t is said that Livermore has been
playing wide variety of stocks, and
that at one time in December he had
as much as $8,0OO,OOO at stake. But
on December 20, Hartman told the
leak investigators the young specu-
lator obtained a tip that peace note
was coming out of Washington and
he started covering"
Now MIR. Livermore has paid off
the $1,250,000 he owned; he had a
nice little bank balance, and is en-
joying life at Palm Beach. A few
days ago he found that he could not
get a lower berth on the regular
sleeper between Jacksonville, Fla,
and Palm Beach, SO he hired whole
train.
A Power When He Was Sixteen.
This youthful looking Spectator is
one of the most spectacular figures
who ever flashed across the Wall
street horizon. At the tender age of
sixteen years he played the stock
market game for the first time and
broke bucket shop in Boston. Be-
fore he was twenty he had made and
lost two or three fortunes. At %
he extracted something like $1,000
900 from the New York money mar
ket. Two years later he cornered
cotton and made 100000 in one
day.
A little later he took another
"fiier" in cotton, and his millions
faded like the frost before an April
sun. He ''went broke" fell into debt.
got into bankruptcy court, and was
figured among the financial worlds
many down-and-outers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
100000 SPIES ARE IN
THE UNITEDsSTATES
Flooded With Secret Agents From
Foreign Countries-Senate Acts
to Thwart War Plots.

to Thwart War Plots.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-There are
100000 spies in the United States,
according to Senator Overman of
North Carolina.
Speaking in the senate for the ad-
ministration, the senator loosed this
thunderbolt to back up a plea for
prompt passage of the spy and con-
spiracy measures suggested by the
department of justice.
Is Poorly Protected.
The senator declared there was no
country so poorly protected against
espionage as the United States. He
said the department of justice, ever
since the outbreak of the European
war, had been unable to cope effect
lively with conspiracies. The four
teen laws urged by the administra-
ton were not nearly so drastic, he
explained, as the laws of other ma
tions.
The senator made it plain that he
did not doubt the loyalty of any
American. Naturalized citizens, he
declared, could be counted upon to
keep their oaths of allegiance. How
ever, it was we'll known in govern
ment circles, it was explained, that
foreign countries had flooded this
country with secret agents imme-
diately war was declared between the
nations of Europe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
RYAN OPPOSES
MORE AUTHORITY
PlnkS Power Conferred by Congress
'hould Be Very Limited-Rush-
es to Capital.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-"Whatev-
power is conferred upon the presi-
%n' should, I think, be so limited as
T. TO constitute a surrender of the
g@er of congress-" declared former
Spuretary of State w. j. Bryan, to-
IN passing through Jacksonville
route to Washington from Lake
ou' fla, to oppose the presidents
SgueSC for authority to arm ships
H. use force to safeguard American
'S and rights or the high seas.
Rush to Capital.
upon reading the presidents mes
r. 70 congress, Mr.. Bryan cancelled
speaking engagements in Florida.
pn living here this morning he sent a
r. Hoer OF kilograms to Washington
~ II was after the reseipt of an
C III to these that he decided to pro-
IFS "a to the capital.
Eo "F. Bryan declared that he has
latest faith in the presidents high
In EInlp3PSe, but it is his opinion that it
a pe very unwise to delegate to
y Ghlef executive the authority
F 5os Tor, no matter how much con-
'Sn $ we have in the executive"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
WAR IS BEGUN ON
HIGH FOOD PRICES
AROUSED BY HUNGER RIOTS IN
THE EAST ACTION AGAINST
SPECTATORS is EXPECTED.
MANY REMEDIES OFFERED.

Aroused by the widespread agita-
ton throughout the country and by
serious food riots in New York, Phil
adelphia and other cities in the East
federal, state and city governments
are taking drastic measures to RENE
dy the food shortage in certain large
centers and to check the rapidly
mounting cost of living. In addition
to the practical efforts being made to
relieve the crushing burden on con-
sumers, especially the poor, a number
of Investigations have been launched
in an attempt to find the real causes
of the outrageous prices of food
stuffs.
Probe by the Trade Commission.
In Washington President Wilson
and his cabinet, the department of
justice and congress have taken a
hand in the relief movement. In ac-
cordance with the presidents recon-
mendation the house passed an
amendment to the sundry service bill
appropriating 100000 for a thor
ough probe of the whole food situa-
ton by the federal trade commission.
AS to the causes of this collapse
number of theories are given,
some of them conflicting.
Plenty of Food in the Country.
AS proof that there is plenty of
food in the country, if it were prop
erly distributed, it is declared that in
the one state of California thousands
of tons are awaiting purchase and
shipment East. Of rice alone
there are 125,0OO,OO0 pounds,
and the price is lower than it
has been for several years. Au-
thorities also say that there are
millions of bushels of potatoes and
beans, besides canned and dried fruits
and vegetables aplenty. A traffic ex-
pert of the San Francisco chamber of
commerce estimates that California
could ship between 200 and 800 cars
of foodstuffs a day if the proper cars
were available.
In an attempt to eliminate the mid
dleman measures have been intro
duced in the state legislatures of
ANCW AOIh anu 0ulISy1YdH1d 10 per
nit cities to establish municipal
markets, so that food may be bought
directly from the producer and sold
to the consumer at cost plus the over
head charges. The establishment of
such markets was especially urged
upon Governor Brumbaugh by mass
meeting of citizens in Philadelphia
which passed resolutions saying
''The problem demands quick action
if the serious outbreaks on the part
of mistreated and hunger-driven cit
liens on the streets of our city shall
not be repeated on even larger
scale, not only in Philadelphia but
throughout our entire state"
Mayors Committee Buys Rice.
In both New York and Philadel-
phia action already has been taken
by public spirited citizens and civic
organizations to establish stores in
which food shall be sold at cost.
Although these movements are not
yet backed officially by the state they
have the support of public officials.
In New York the mayors commit
tee has arranged to buy immense
quantities of staple articles, which
will be thrown into the breach if
prices should go any higher.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
HOUSE PASSES BILL
FOR ARMING SHIPS
Failed to Give President All the Pow
err He Sought-With "Other In
strumentalities" Eliminated.

WASHINGTON, D. CA bill to
empower the president to arm mer-
chant ships, but not extending the
authority he requested to use "other
instrumentalities" in defending
American rights against the subma-
rine menace, was passed by the house
tonight by non-partisan vote of 403
to Is.
Speaker Clark announced the vote
amid enthusiastic applause and cheer
ing. Opposition to the bill had faded
during the day before the patriotic
appeals from leaders on both sides of
the house and when the roll was end
ed only nine republicans, three dem
ocrats and the one socialist voted in
the negative.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
$4,000 900 CATTLE RANCH
NEW GEORGIA ENTERPRISE
Embraces 10000 Acres in Mcintosh
and BRYAN Counties.

A corporation, capitalized at $2,-
100000 has begun operations in
South Georgia. Their land embraces
10000 acres in McIntash and Bryan
counties. Two thousand head of cat
tie and 400 sheep have already been
purchased and more are being added
daily. Four pastures Of $4,000 acres
each are already fenced off, requiring
los miles of wire fencing. This big
enterprise shows what confidence
capitalists have in Georgia as a meat
producing state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
ALL CHURCH BELLS ARE
SEIZED BY GERMANY

COPENHAGEN. - Germany now
is drawing upon church bells for war
An order appropriat-
ng bronze church bells after March
l, is published in the German press.