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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
. YOts Get Better Cough
Syrup By MdIciSag
&c at Home

what's more, you save abcue 90 By
Ct. Easily made and costs little.


You'll never really know what q fine
cough syrup. you can make until you
prepare this famous homemade remedy.
Feady-made kind, and you win also have
q more effective remedy In every way.
1t overcomes the usual coughs, throat
even whooping cough quickly.
Get 235 ounces OF Pinex so cents
WORTH from any good drug store, pour
it into q pint bottle and I'LL the bottle
with plain granulated sugar syrup.
Here, you have 9 full pint=.-a family
supply-of the most effective cough
syrup that money can buy-at q cost OF
only 65 cents or less, IL never spells.
by this pleasant tasting cough syrup
have caused it to be used On more homes
than any other remedy. It quickly
1oosens q dry, hoarse or tight cough
heals the infiamed membranes that line
the throat and bronchial tubes, and re-
lief comes almost Immediately. Splen-
did for throat tickle, hoarseneSs, bron-
chitis, Group and bronchial asthma.
Pinex is highly concentrated COM
pound of genuine Norway pine extract.
and has been used for generations for
throat and chest ailments.
Avoid disappointment by asking your
druggist for "255 ounces of PinexS with
full directions, and don't accept any
thing else. A guarantee Of absolute sat
isfaction or money promptly refunded,
goes with this preparation. The Pinex
Co, Ft. Wayne. Ind.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not
Square With The Forums
Opinions.

The Commercial West: In his Buff
falo address before the labor council,
A. G. Townley, head Of the Nonparti-
san league, refers to the men who
work the workers" and farm the
farmers. Mr.. Townley ought to
know all about farming the farmers,
as he has been actively engaged in
that pursuit for several years. In
fact, he has reduced this scheme Of
film flaming the farmers down to
an exact science.
In the first. place. he smothers the
farmer with all kinds of misstate-
ments and twists figures around to
suit the game he is playing. In his
lions of dollars is annually paid for
farm crops in this country, but the
figures for 1917 were thirteen bill
AS the department of agriculture
figures for 1917 were thirteen bill
lions, Mr.. Townley was only exag-
gerating 100 per cent in his attempt
to make the middlemen appear as
robbers.
In another sentence he states that
a harvesting machine selling for $225
costs only $25 to build. Probably
before his bankruptcy proceedings
are concluded, in which the Interna-
tional Harvester company Is the
principal creditor. he may be asked
to prove the correctness of his figures
regarding the cost Of agricultural
machinery.
Il is to smile at Mr.. Townley's
phrase used on this occasion when
he states that city people have been
trying to make it appear that 1--WE
farmers" are capitalists. I'VE farm
ers' is good. Mr.. Townley's particu-
lar experience as a farmer wound up
with his going into bankruptcy and
owing his creditors $4,000. Said
creditors might very well retort to
Mr.. Townley that working the
workers and farming the farmers
was not all Of Mr.. Townley's accom-
plishments. He was an adept at
putting 1t over on supply houses,
bankers and merchants, as a long
list Of creditors will prove. Possibly
1t is such practice that put him in
trim to fool the farmers with his
political league. designed to give his
party political power under the ruse
Of eliminating the middle men.
It has been said that all writings
are more or less of a confession Of
the writer. and so public addresses
proclaim the character and record
of the speaker. Mr.. Townleys utter
ances on the platform should be
quite sufficient to discredit his
propaganda.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04

the reigning comedy success which
Wincheil Smith and John Il. Golden.
will present at the Orpheum theater
on Monday evening, Dec. 10, deals
with the regeneration of two nimble-
witted young crooks through the in
fIuence of a sanity old LADY, and her
rescue from the hands of a grasping
money-lender by the nimble-witted
pair.
The two crooks, Mugs and Gilly,
are nails OF young Joe Bascom, the
erring son of the old lady, and they
appear at the Bascom homestead di-
rect from a stretch in Sing Sing.
With a bumper crop Of peaches
about to rot on the trees, the trio
set forth to convert the fruit into
cash via the jam route, the recipe
for the jam having won a reputation
for Mrs. Bascom throughout the
countryside. All this they accomp-
lished after a dip into high finance
with Deacon Tillinger, the town
Shylock who was about to seize the
farm for debt, on the losing end of a
scheme that only a slick pickpocket
and a daring safe burglar could ex-
ecute.
The reformation of Joe Bascom
and his pals is complete and sincere
and everybody in the audience is glad
to see them Turn to the Right" and
follow the road to happiness and
success.
The play will be presented here
with the original cast and produc-
ton, exactly as IL ran for nine
months at Cohan's Grand Opera
House. Chicago.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
FOOD PROVIDED FOR
ARMY IS EXCELLENT"
But National Guard Camps Are Not
Provided With Proper Kitchen
Facilities.
fBv Associated Press.l

Washington, Dec. flood provid-
ed for the national army and ma
tional guard units training in this
country is excellent in quality" says
a report Of the food division of the
surgeon generals office, made public
yesterday, but conditions surround
ing its preparation in the national
guard camps leave much to be de-
sired.
in the national army canton
ments", the report said. the cooks
have the advantage of permanent
kitchens, provided with a plentiful
supply Of hot water. good store
rooms, large refrigerators, etc. The
national guard organizations, housed
in tents. have temporary kitchens,
often with dirt floors, poorly con-
structed store rooms, smoky stoves
and refrigerators too near the fire.
The surgeon general, upon the re-
ports of the officers OF the food divis-
ion has recommended The inaugura-
ton of systematic instruction of
cooks, mess sergeants and mess ofii-
GERS in the national guard camps
The quartermaster general has acted
upon these suggestions and such in
structions will soon begin.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04

agitation, class legislation, class Bit
terness, and if carried to its logical
conclusion, civil war.
North Dakota has had a very mild
attack Of the class movement disease
that is afflicting Russia today. The
leaders of North Dakotas class
movement don't want democracy any
more than Lenine and Trotzky want
it. They want Socialism, a class
movement, with their select little
gang in control.
The bitter irony Of it is that the
average citizen in Russia, looking for
a real democracy. is offered the choice
of being terrorized and dominated by
a self-indulgent, profigate court, or
a tribe of wild-eyed soap boxers from
New Yorks East Side.
He might well repeat: "a plague
on both your houses.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
German General Predicts
War Will Not End In
a Draw
HINDENBURG'S VIEWS
ON UNITED STATES
Wonders If Japan Will At
tack America After
Troops Go Abroad
(RV Associated Press.l

Amsterdam, Dec. 4.-General Won
Ludendorff, right hand man Of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg is quoted
by a correspondent Of the Vienna
Neue Freie Presse as making the
prediction at German headquarters
that the war will not end in draw
but will be decided in favor Of the
Central powers.
The correspondent, says the dis
patch obtained this expression from
Won Ludendorff in conversations with
him during a visit to headquarters
where he also talked with Won Hind
enburg.
With reference to the Russian
army, Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
gave out the information that no
more activity on a large scale could
be expected. He thought 1t possible,
adds the correspondent, that some
despot or other, like Grand Duke
Nicholas, might seize power and in
cite the war-weary Russian army to
a final effort.
Regarding the supreme war coun-
Gil OF the allies the field marshal said
with a smile:
such institutions are always a
sign of incapacity and helplessness.
When they are at their wits end, a
war council is established"
Won Hindenburg continued:
at is certain that the United States
is making efforts to create big
army and the war is an opportune
pretext to do what would be impos-
sible in peace times. Japan, too,
would not have looked on with in
difference. The Americans will hard
ly send their newly created army to
Europe at once. as by doing so their
own country would be rendered help
less in case Japan should show a
sudden inclination to square up old
accounts with America.
Moreover, the transport question
would offer difficulties not less than
supplies. German U-boats would be
a further obstacle. 1t certainly may
be easy to build thousands of air
planes, as America has announced,
but it is difficult to esuip them. But
wherever they may appear the Ger
mans will not be wanting"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04

should wish to know about the
resources in question, and to
study them seriously. / am abb
solutely convinced that, If en-
ployed with due method, de-
terminedly, and scientifically, in
accordance with a special tech
nique, these resources, after a
comparatively simple prepara-
tion,-much less in any event than
those which have been made in
other enterprises,-would lead to
very important results which
would contribute materially to
the final decision.
The editor Of the Atlantic monthly
adds the footnote that M. Cheradame
has written much more fully of his
plans, but that it seems best to put
in print no more than he has suggest
ed.
Here is the 100 per cent war that
The Forum has referred to on prev
ious occasians. Germany alone Is
fighting such war today. America
can't use all Of her methods, but there
are other weapons besides guns and
armies which can be used, and as
far as the laws Of humanity permit
they should be used. and used at
once. If this Frenchman has a prac-
teal plan for bringing. about an up
rising OF the kind he outlines, it would
more than offset the detection OF
Russia, and bring the war to a speedy
snd.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
THE THRIFT STAMPS.

Thrift stamps are going to be with
us for at least a year, and perhaps
for the duration Of the war, so it is
Just as we'll to begin to get acquaint-
I'd with them.
Americans knew little or nothing
about government bonds until last
June. Now the average citizen can
discuss coupon clipping as intel
ilIgently as a banker.
Before many weeks several million
Americans will be owners OF thrift
stamps, II they are wise.
Here Is the way they work: You
20 to the postoffice and ask for
thrift card. You purchase one or
more thrift stamps at 25 cents each
The stamps bear no interest but
when you have purchased sixteen of
them, you add from IL to % cents to
It, according to the month on which
the final transaction takes place, and
you get a thrift card calling for IS
on Jan. /, 1923. That figures out
AZ per cent interest.
No person may buy more than
81, 900 worth, and anyone who wants
j, his money back at any time can get
it, plus per cent interest on what
! he has paid in.
This means that anyone may in
EYest as small sum as twenty-five
cents in a government bond, and his
money draws interest as soon as he
lhas $412 invested. The $4.12 rate
holds until the end of January, and it
increases one cent month there
after
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
lcLosINe DOORS TO CIVILIANS,

Slowly but surely the lines are be-
J ing more closely drawn about the
army commissions, and it is in
creaslngly difficult for a civilian to
step directly into the officers class.
The first officers training camps
accepted virtually all Of the men who
offered themselves. At the second
camp the wedding out process was
much more strict; the course itself
was more strenuous; and it was more
hicult to make high grade than in
the first camp.
At the third camp. soon to open, the
students will be men from the ma
tionaI army with the addition Of a
few college graduates who have had
some military training. The ordinary
civilian is barred.
Virtually the only route left open
TO the civilian looking for a commits
sion, now, Is in the signal corps.
There sti1l is an opportunity for him
to get into the balloon or aviation
service as a first or second lieutenant,
by taking the course at a ground
school and being accepted for train
! ing as a pilot.
This is as it should be. When war
was declared the most pressing de-
mand was for officers. They had to
be made from the most promising
raw material. Now that the first
draft has reached the camps, the
commissions should be held out as a
prize to the most promising men.
New officers should come from the
ranks Of the army as far as it is
possible.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
DRIVE AWAY HEADACHE
Rub Musterole on Forehead
and Temples

"A headache remedy without the dans
gers Of Headache medicine" Relieves
headache and that miserable feeling
from colds or congestion. And it acts at
once! Musterole is q clean, white ONT.
ment made with oil Of mustard. Better
than q mustard plaster and does not
blister. Used only externally, and In
no way can Il affect stomach and heart,
Is some internal medicines do.
Excellent for sore throat, bronchitis,
Group, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia.
congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism. Ium.
bago, al pains and aches of the back
or Joints sprains, sore muscles, bruises,
chilblains. frosted feet, colds Of the
chest lit often prevents pneumonia.
Soc and 60c jars; hospital size $50.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
Simple Way TO
End Dandruff

There is one sure way that has
never failed to remove dandruff at
once, and that is to dissolve it, then
you destroy it entirely. To do this,
just get about four ounces of plain,
common liquid arvon from any drug
store (this is all you will NEEDY, ap-
ply it at night when retiring; use
enough to moisten the scalp and rub
it in gently with the finger tips.
BY morning, most If not all, OF
your dandruff will be gone, and three
or four more applications will COM
pletely dissolve and entirely destroy
every single sign and trace Of 1t,
no matter how much dandruff you
may have.
You will find all itching and dig
ging of the scalp will stop instantly,
and your hair will be fuffy, lustrous,
glossy, silky and soft, and look and
feel a hundred times better
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
SHIPPING PROBLEM HAS
been SOLVED SAYS COLBY
Program OF United States Is Ans.
wer to Submarine Says Shipping
Board Member.
(By Associated Press.l

Paris, Dec. 4. The problem OF
shipping has been solved by the
allies, cambridge Colby, representa-
tive Of the American shipping board
at the inter-allied conference, said
today. The solution is found in the
enormous shipbuilding program Of
the United States.
Il am not permitted, by the nature
Of things, to discuss the work Of our
mission and its results, said Mr.
Colby, who has been one OF the
busiest members Of the commits
sion.
II can at least say, however, that
it has been OF the highest value and
Significance. MY time has almost
been entirely engaged with the ship-
ping problem, which is In a sense the
problem Of the war.
IT think can fairly say that the
problem is solved. The stupendOus
building program Of America Is the
answer to the submarine, the an
swer which the defective psychology
OF Germany could not foresee.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Rudy Cheeks Sparkling Eyes
Most Women Can Have
SAYS Dr.. Edwards, a Well Known
Ohio Physician

DIFF. NJ. Edwards for 17yesrs treated
scores of women for liver and bowel ail-
ments. During these years he gave to
his patients a prescription made Of a
few well-known vegetable ingredients
mixed with olive oil, naming them
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets. You will
know them by their olive color.
These tablets are wonder-workers on
the liver and bowels, which cause q
normal action carrying off the waste
and poisonous matter In ones system.
IL you have a pale face, salloW look,
dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head.
aches, q listless, no-good feeling, ali out
of sorts, inactive bowels. you take one of
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly for
q time and note the pleasing results
Thousands Of women as well as men
take DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the
successful substitute for cal0mel-
and then just okeepin thep pink ofcondi.
ton. 10c and 25c per box. All druggists
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
CLOSE PLANTS
TO catch UP"
Two Weeks Vacation In
All Pittsburgh Factor
les Being Considered
CBy Associated Press


Pittsburgh, Dec. Proposal that
all manufacturing plants in the
country shut down for the period be-
ginning at noon Saturday. Dec. %,
1917, and continuing until Monday,
Jan. z, 1918, has been made to the
Pittsburgh chamber of commerce by
a group of large manufacturers 1t
was announced last night. The
manufacturing and mining committee
of the chamber will meet Friday to
consider the proposal as regards the
Pittsburgh district.
1t is suggested that the suspension
of industries would accomplish the
following results: Relieve railroad
congestion, relieve enbargoes that
are resultant from railroad conges-
ton, enable the plants to clean up
their mills and factories, prevent
worse shipping conditions that will
prevail during the winter season If
relief is not soon afforded, and pro-
duce a general, better and more salts
factory business condition.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04

from Petrograd.
Those who howl loudest for free
dom OF speech" and freedom of the
press" generally mean freedom for
their own views and a gag for the
other fellows.
Until war came there never was
any attempt at censorship Of the
American press. AS long as the libel
laws were not violated, and nobody
violated the laws of common decency,
anything might be published. When
the nation was threatened with an
enemy without, and internal harmony
was an absolute essential, the lid was
clapped on views tending to hamper
the government in its prosecution Of
the war. Nobody pretends to believe
that lid will be kept on when the war
is over, but instantly the American
Bolshevik press and a few periodi-
Gals suffering from ingrown intel
lectualism, set up a yowI about the
menace to free speech.
It is interesting to note the steps
taken by their brothers in Russia.
The Russian Bolshevil1i are close kin
to the American tribe. One Of the
two chief leaders, Leon Trotzlzy, was
q New York agitator before the rev.
olution. The first step they take on
gaining control OF the situation, is to
suspend all newspapers which do not
support them. They have inaugural
ed reign Of political terrorism that
IS scarcely second to the old regime
OF Car Nicholas.
If the American Bolsheviki ever
should gain control OF the American
government. is anyone SO foolish as
to believe they would permit the OPP
position the same freedom that has
been accorded the radicals in normal
times ia America?
ID isn't democracy that the Bolshe-
wiki of either America or Russia
want. II Is class rule. and rule by a
class that Is tar less fitted to rule
even than the old ruling class. The
arraying o. class against class doesn't
mean democracy. II means constant
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04

among our workers, we must
have, ready at hand, adequate
plans for employment.
The National City bank of
New York, one of the great fin
ancial institutions of the coun-
try, has taken a special interest
in this after-war Industrial or
ganization and in a recent bull
letin it suggests that the cleo
trification of many Of the Ameri-
can railways would both i'm
prove the earning power and
the efficient operation of these
lines, and give employment to
many thousands, of men who
might otherwise be idle.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
HAS PLAN TO CRUSH GERMANY.

In the current Atlantic monthly,
Andre Cheradame has a most strik-
ing article on The Best Way To
Crush Germany.
He starts with the premise that
there are about 176,00O,c0O inhabit-
ants Of Pan-Germany, as it is at
present constituted. OF these, he
points out, about 100000 Germans
with the backing OF 100000 Mag
vars, Turks and Bulgars have reduc-
ed to slavery about 100000 allied
subjects, consisting Of thirteen diff
ferent nationalities.
He argues that there are $4,000, 900
slaves of the Germans capable Of i'm
mediate action favorable to the En-
tente, among them being 5000, 900
Arabs; 22,OO0,0O0 Polish-Lithuanians;
100000 Ruthenians; $500, 900
Czechs; 10000 900 Jugo-slavs; and
100000 Rumanians. These people,
he argues, are determinedIy hostile
to Germany. In addition there are
5000, 900 Ottoman Greeks and Armen-
ians, and 12.SOO.OOO French, Belgians,
Alsatians and Italians. He also in
cludes about 100000 vassals of
Germany who might be counted on as
possible rebels, consisting Of the
down-trodden Magyars.
He calls attention to the immense
results achieved by German propa-
ganda in Russia in barely FIVE
months.
He makes an excellent case for his
possible revolution. and then pro-
ceeds to a demonstration Of its prac-
ticability, as follows:
But, some one will say, a revo-
luton is not possible without
material resources. Naturally,
shall discuss this point only so
far as the interests OF the En-
tente will allow me to do il
publicly. In the first place will
call attention to the fact that, by
reason Of the immensely Of the
territory they occupy, simple
passive resistance on the part Of
the oppressed races Of Central
Europe, provided that it is offer
ed in concert and accompanied
by certain essays in the way Of
sabotage and strikes, which are
easy enough to practice without
any outside assistance, would
Z create almost inextricabIe diff
culties for the Austro- Germans.
But there is something much
better to be done. At first sight,
it seems very difficult for the
Allies to bear effective material
aid to the oppressed peoples of
Germany, because it is sur
rounded by impregnable military
lines. In reality. by combining
the results of the tremendous
development OF the aviation
branch made possible by the adj
hesion of the United States, with
certain technical resources which
are available, the Entente can,
comparatively quickly and easily.
supply the Poles and the rest
with material assistance which
would prove extraordinarily EN-
cacious.
I am not writing carelessly. I
have studied for twenty years
these down-trodden races and the
countries in which they live. I
know about the material re-
sources to which / refer. If do
not describe them more explicitly,
1t is because no one has yet
thought Of employing them. and
ia such matters silence Is q
bounden duty. But am. of
course, at the disposition OF the
American authorities II they
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-04
Taking CathGrtics EUery
Day for Weeks DONE
Cure Stomach Trouble

They do not eliminate the poison
Gus Bile Accretions fromfthe System,
50 declares a leading Chicago Stom-
ach Specialist Often Gall Stones,
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Jaundices Appendicitis and other dan
gerous ailments are the consequences.
Mayrs Wonderful Remedy is the ideal
prescription for Stomat Liver and
Intestinal ailments. 1T has restored
millions. One dose will prove that IT
viii help you. Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy is for sale by Fout q Porter
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