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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01
100000 more little item of ss4.2b

|0OV,0OO HCtto item OF $S4.2b
per family.
For the expenses Of congress, the
executive departments and all sorts of
miscellaneous items (not including the
observation-disclosures has been 1915, O00,-
900, and they r coming up soon for
S176,000, 900 more, including a nice
little item Of $28,s9s.o00 river and
harbor "pork'-rnaking an aggregate
Of $33.38 for the average family.
The postofice has 1881. 900, 900. all
Of which must come out. Of the pock-
cts OF the nation in the form Of post
age--$i6.68 per family.
Pensions cost $780, 900. o00--$s per
family.
The president has a lump sum Of
800, 900, 900, a large part Of which is
understood to have been spent for
ships-$5 per family.
War risk insurance funds Of $45,-
100000 have been voted-$2.25 per
family.
Finally. there Ia a little item Of
$f0.000,000 to pay the interest on the
Liberty bonds already issued--$3.50
per family-which is Just a foretaste
Of the rapidly mounting interest
charges that will have to be raised
when the costs are paid with bonds.
And this may not be all; there are
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01

ltion--to see, for instance. that the
wholesaler is supplied with his quota
at a reasonable price, and passes II
on to the retailer, also at reasonapl
prices.
This complete government mon
opoly would control price and distri-
button, Just as European war govern
ments have lone under a like ar
rangement.
The federal trade plan Is doubtless
better than the Pomerene suggestion
Of a fxed-price at the mine. 1t has
been found useless to fix coal prices
at the mine and then leave the
further price fixing and distribution to
SPECTATORS between the mine and the
consumer.
Under the Pomerene price-fixing
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01
then insure its fallare y passlng

then insure Its failure BY passing a
phoney law.
Sherman Of Illinois, Reed Of Mis-
souri, and others Of the gray wolf
pack have said time and again that
Hoover would fail. Then they did
everything in their power to bring
their predictions true by depriving
Hoover Of near to succeed.
It was q merry game-but not 60
Joyous In the lace OF the presidents
determination to put the responsible
tty where It belongs.
President Wilson is not going to
undertake food control without the
necessary powers. He is not going TO
ask Herbert Hoover to ssurn an Inn
possible Job.
The administration determination
has been strengthened by recent coun-
try-wide reports showing the people
the CONSUMERS and producers alike
have done their full duty.
h farmers have raised tremend-
GUS crops In face Of the highest pro-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01

be one Of the fuel difficulties Is not
touched on. This part of the federal
trade commissions plan was left out
because senators felt the Esch law,
passed about six weeks ago, IL prop
erly enforced, will meet the situation.
The law gives the interstate COM
merce commission power to give pri-
GRITTY to coal shipments and to regu-
late car distribution.
II the conference COMMITTEES an
proves the government pooling plan
the mine operators will be paid on a
basis OF cost, plus a reasonable profit,
and the government will become the
proprietor Of all coal at the mines.
This momentary ownership will en-.
able the government to direct the coal
into the proper channels Of distribu-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01
Cold or Coal? Congress Replies In New Food Bill

nlan the mine operator would be
nreyented from charging high prices
but there would be no check on The
s~peculator or on the railroad taking
toll in the guise Of freight charges:
The greatest additions to the price
Of coal are not those added at the
mine, but those added by the specu-
lating railroads, which by owning n
controlling cars n transportation
can create a coal famine al any time
or place they choose.
70 meet this threat the federal
trade commission proposed pooling
transportation as we'll as coal itself.
The conference committee has this
coal situation entirely in its power.
and its work will be watched with
keen interest.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01

strong movements for higher pay for
the soldiers. more airplanes, more
|sub-chasers, and q comprehensive in
surance scheme-which would make
even the staggering total of $4,000
100000 mount like the thermometers
mercury on q hot daY.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01

Q folds Of white and scarlet! o blue with your silver
s.arS, NAY NAY Iond eyes weicome You; wiling feet follow You.
blessing! Ours by Inheritance. ours BY allegiance. ours by
ahectfon-long may you float on the free winds Of heaven,
the emblem Of liberty. the hope of the world.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01

Seattle is still insisting that whale
meat Is an excellent food that can be
bought for about 10 cents a pound.
Even at that price, the man who owns
q few whales should have a comfort
able feeling in his purse region.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01

Cossacks are patrolling Petrograd
to keep pro-German sympathizers in
The Cossacks probably
would have difficulty in understand
Ing some United States senator's and
their pro-German speeches.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01

It is hoped that most Of the self
styled prize fighters will be caught in
n selective draft The country
would like to know If any of them
can fight.
II the bureau persists in predicting
cooler weather, 1t must in the end sue
IN v~ertfcation. But people who
want plenty OF corn and cool weather
az the same time may find the con-
ditions difficult to reconcile.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01

wore american troops In NJ. =.
means more trouble in German nce
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
Not Even a Head Waiter.

What boots it for Russia to get rid OF a Romanoff
and accept in his place a hash-slnger?
Trotzky, the present Bolshevik foreign minister,
was extra waiter at the WaldorfAstoria for
Der of months the princey fee of s. per night His
talents as waiter did not impress the late George
Boldt sufficiently to win him place in the permanent
Waldorf waiter organization. He was not given much
of show to make good in this distinguished profess
sion
In fact, Trotzky, in America, was somewhat of a
drifter and very much of neer-do-well He was not
above putting in an odd night serving coffee and
crrers in East Side lunch when his funds ran
low. Out in Pittsburgh he newsboy for while,
and ultimately to the dignity of a reporter
Slav weekly there
We must accept him true tribune Of the people
and an inspired leader of the Boheviki. His training
in America made him true democrat. He returned
to Russia probably intending to introduce his fellow
countrymen to the incompatible delights of American
doughnuts and American apple pie. But no had
he ned Petrograd than he found palptating public
urging him throw his cookbook into the Baltic and
to accept the portfolio of state. He made the leap
superbly Probably even now when foreign affairs do
not oppress him, he distributes his own homemade
variety of doughnuts and apple pie to the savants Of
Smony Institute. If so, he is doing the cause of the
?es distinct service unwittingy, and offsetting to
a large degree the effects OF German propaganda
We have heard Of reporter who made himself
king of the Sandwich Islands and of banana and pine
apple mpreSaros who set the styles and fashions in
Central american revolutions but of an ex-
Waldorf waiter who ruled nation like Russia. How
long is it to continue pray?
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
Labor Shortage and Labor Exchange.

Labor shortage is a myth declares Charles B.
Barnes, director Of the New York State Employment
Bureau A thousand employers of labor in the coun-
Try will dispute that statement
Whether actual shortage exists is one thing :;
whether industries get the labor they need is quite
another The conventional points of contact beyond the
supply of labor and the demand for labor have broken
down. The clearing houses of labor supply before the
war were antiquated but war has served to destroy
whatever efficiency they possessed.
Today find number of vital war industries
lamentIng the lack of men to work for them Yet
there are experts who say there is no lack of men,
but only lack of in touch with Jobs that they
could fill In the face of this conflicting testimony the
least the nation do is to establish horough-going
system of labor exchanges.
bill for Federal employment service has already
been introduced in Congress. 1t should be passed
Great Britain has 1000 labor exchanges and the United
States has scarcely 400 Yet England is a compact
SMALL well-integrated nation while ours is large un-
correlated, sectional in its industrial outlook One of
our elementary needs is stablizer for the labor
market and machinery for permitting Our millions of
soldiers to beat the sword into the poughshare when
the war is over Much of the stress and strain of that
process can be averted through proper management
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
The Shake-Up.

They are making an inventory of the goats" in the
War Department 1t is high time, with Congress
sharpening its scalpel and preparing to operate with
out anaesthetics The experts of the Alb Club have
been called into consultation.
Mai. Gen. George w. Goethals, of Panama Canal
and Shipping Board fame has been called to the swivel
chair of the Quartermaster General and Maj. Gen.
Sharpe is going to be Kicked upstairs" into the War
Council If he beats he will be "gassed," and the
operation will be made painless the circumstances
will allow.
Mai Cen William Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, also
is to be relieved of "his administrative duties" which
means doubtless, that he will be retained a con-
sutng expert ordnance but that the real power in
the bureau will be vested in other hands This may
be an oshoot of Gen. Croziers recent testimony be-
fore the Senate Military Affairs Committee, but we
are gravely assured that it is not.
1t is wise to prepare for the worst and have the
property goats" ready as the investigating drama de-
velops in Congress. A good deal OF this personally
conducted war is shortly going to be exposed to the
sunlight, and Congress will constitute itself REAL
Committee on Public Information that will make
George Creers blessed bureau look like fake stuff.
Not that any scandals to be uncovered. Errors
of omission rather than commission, crimes of red
tape rather than of neffcency the quarry of Con-
gress.
Keep your comedy eye peeled for the goats"
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
The Kaiser and Hale

What the Kaiser said to the Hon. William Bayard
Hale on the imperial yacht in 1908 is about as important
to the world now as what the gentleman from North
Carolina said to the gentleman from South Carolina
would be to hardshell teetotaler in Maine.
1t appears that the Emperor partook too freely of
beer and light wines this occasion and breathed FIRE
from his nostris and defiance to the world He took
Edward VII BY the scruf of the neck in few choice
epithcts, called France nation of dandfed decadents
insulted the Catholic Church. and acted Just as de-
bauched Hohenzollern should act
incidentally, he predicted that Germany shortly
would war on Europe and make her bid for world
power.
The Hon. William Bayard Hale, whose reputation
was then as spoess the virgin snow rushed to Lon
don with buging eyes and hawked the interview along
reef street 1t was too sensational for the British
palate and the intrepid interviewer sailed for New
York Here also he was filed. The German fore;on
otfee had made arrangements with the press of New
YORK Tor the suppression of the interview. It was
ned mat the publication of these 6reeatng phrase, o
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
THE MEANING.

Liberty never has meant that men
Could do as they pleased without restraint
Never in history has it been
A creed of license, unbridlcd free
To hardened sinner and palid saint;
Liberty simply means that we
Tom and Dick and Harry and me,
Ella Mary and Marjorie)
Shall have decent and equal chance
10 love and labor, progress and advance
So long as we do not interfere
With the rights of others to do the same;
Liberty means that the field is clear
For fair-fought fight and an honest game
Liberty isn't gift of God
Like air and water and smiling sun,
It's something mortals have sought and won,
Won by roughest of roads they trod,
Won by Drawing the scourge and rod
Won by battle on blood-drenched sod
And held today and to be held
Only by struggle and toll and fight
Liberty means the right to give
Our selfish freedom that there NAV live
he larger freedom of all mankind,
It means We freely and gladly weld
ourselves in union of righteous might
That we suffer and labor and sacrifice
For the worldwide freedom we hope to find
Liberty lives at staggering price
And ne who will not pay must be
A serf Of selhshness-siaye, not freei
e-RERTON RRAIxX
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
The King" Is Dead; Long Live the King!

Old, rheumatic John Barleycorn Esq, is defunct.
Congress yesterday decided to cut the slender
thread of life left in him; and did it we are con-
strained say, rather misunderstanding all over his
PROSTATE form after it quite evident there was
fight in him
The vote overwhelming. 1t shows clearly that
the dry interests have the country in the hollow of
their hand Against such verdict there can be no ap
peal now The seam-roller force of it makes opposi-
ton futile.
'Twas a famous victory" as William Jennings Bryan
would say. incidentally, the vote should serve to re-
the liquor question from politics definitely and
for all timeunless there should be reaction which
seems to be as improbable journey to the moon
Once prohibition clause is enacted into the Cons1-
ton of the United States it will take all the forces
the earth and the forces under the earth to remove
it therefrom
1t is up to the States now. If three -fourths of
them ratfy the work of Congress- prohibition assumes
almost the same station Holy Writ 1t is written
into the permanent law of the land And there is
every believe that the States will follow the
lead of Capitol Hill.
The work is done, the die is cast; so be it! The
at the funeral of John Barleycorn, Esq VII
furnish cavalcade but they will not he in sacn-
cloth and ashes long, for they will outgrow their All
cient idol
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
NOT WAR DINNER;
REFUSES TO EAT
Mrs. F. A. Vanderlip Follows Con-
servahon Plan at Hotel.

Kansas city. Mo, Dec. I6-Mrs.
Frank A. Nanderlip, who is aiding
her husband in the trip he is now
making 70 further wartime thrift, de-
clined to partake OF the latter course
Of a dinner in her honor at the Hotel
Muehlbach Saturday. protesting IL
was not a war dinner.
The incongruities Of elaborate menu
In campaign against wartime lux
uries had beset the Vanderlip party
since II left Washington. In 81. Louis,
Mr.. Vsnderlip had 70 make his plea
for simple living al a costly dinner at
which Champagne was served. This
may have helped Mr.. VanderlIp 20
make his point clearer as he dictated
how the persistent American demand
for the nonessentials was blocking
war preparations but he sought out a
Kansas City banker and suggested
there be no repetition here. The din
ner for Mrs. NanderIip was distinct
from the one OF palmer fare arranged
FOR her husband
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
Signs of the Times.

Did you imagine that any concern would ad-
vertse, urging prospective customers to stay away
from its place of business? Picture if you can, the
Standing room only" sign substituted for read
ing please do not buy from us"
Yet the time is here when great railroad system
eager and anxious the country asks prospec
tive travellers to stay at home The good old days OF
soliciting business have gone-the days OF nothing
doing are here.
With yards eongested by freight and passenger
trains with rightofway upsetting the schedules OF
business big railway meets the situation by adver
tising mo business wanted" This is as it should
be and illustrates the fact long known to those who
know that Fairfax Harrison is real railroad and
a real citizen.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
FORM new LEAGUE !.
TO aid SOLDIERS
Viii See that Every Trooper Is Com
fortably Clothed.

The nucleus Of a huge ceutraIised
woman's army service orgauixation
was formed yesterday afternoon at
a meeting at the home Of Mrs. Henry
+. Dimock In which Ii WashinEton
women participated
Under the name Of the Army serv-
Ice League. the organization aims 70
conduct q comfort campaign for the
men at the various cantonmentk. 20
that no American soldier viii en-
bark for France who In not provided
with the knitted garments which are
50 desirable for winter warfare
Committees viii be formed TO take
care Of the needs OF each branch Of
the service. infantry. cavalry. signal
corps, etc. Oficers Of the central
committee Of the league were elected
yesterday afternoon. also chairmeul
for the branch committees.
onicers elected yesterday were:
Mrs. Albert l. Mills, chairman; Mrs.
julius McMurray. hrst vice chairman:
Mrs. Clarence Edwards. second vice
chairman; Mrs. Charles Rush, secre-
tary. and Miss Lucy Lee Perrin,
treasurer
Chairmen OF the various branches
Of army service are: Coast artillery,
Mrs. Erasmus Weaver; field artillery,
Mrs. G. B. Cruikshank; cavalry,
Mrs. G. II. Sands: infantry, Mrs. n.
Nolan; medical corps, Mrs. William
Gorgas: signal corps. Mrs. Charles
Mackaye Saltzman; quartermaster
corps. Mrs. Geo. Downey.
Engineer and ordnance Committees
had previously been formed under the
respective leadership OF Mrs VIM.
Black and Mrs. VIM. Crozier.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19

the Kaiser's would be menace to the peace of the
world.
Ultimately, Hale sold his article to an American
mas szine and it the verge of being launched
when the long of the German foreign officeaided
and abetted it is suspected by the State Department
again succeeded in the suppression of the explosive
document
Those mild, quiet, lotus-eating days Of Ioo8-how
far away they seem nowi The Kaiser was then re-
garded, with certain degree of unsuspecting COM
paisance as the enant terrible of the European world
Statesmen looked askance at Prussia, but really
believed she crazy enough to open colossal orgy
of international harkari would start Suicide Club
Now we know that the curious mental maady that has
cursed the Hohenzoerns since the crimes of Frederick
the Great had infected the majority of Germans. We
are amazed at blindness during the mild
pacific years that opened the present century, and
minded again that eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty"
If the Hon. William Bayard Hale had succeeded in
selling his flaming interview in 1908 he might have
been the Paul Revere of his day-but that of course
is another story.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
Browns Happiest Moment.

Speaking at dinner, Senator Duncan u. Fletcher,
of Florida, referred the bachelor, and ttngy
Some time since dyed-in-the-wool bachelor at
tended social affair, and during the evening he be-
caare engaged in conversation with charming young
woman. Eventually they spoke of the happiness that
fat. occasionally deals out
81 suppose" said the young woman, "that it was a
happy moment in your life when you reached the age
OF and became a voter"
Yes reflectiyely answered the bachelor, but it
not the happiest."
MAY l ask" returned the young woman, overcome
by curiosity what was your happest moment?'
Certainly" the smiling reply of the bachelor.
1T when the jeweler took back an engagement
ring and gave cigarette case instead"
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
DOG LOVER COMES
TO ROVER'S DEFENSE
Critics of Pets Overlook Deeds Of
Canine VaIor.
Editor The washington Herald:

Editor The washington Herald:
One or two Of the District officials
have been trying to prejudice the
public against our noble friend, the
dog. and the subject Of rabies az
an excuse for exterminating all dogs
in the District has become a sort
Of hysteria with them.
Some people have evidently been
securing the country. and have sue
ceeded in one of two instances in
obtaining accounts where someone
has been bitten by q pet dog.
Why net go nfty-hfty. and publish
a few of the many acts Of heroism
and intelligence displayed by dogs
in saving the lives Of their owners
and OF children, in cases Of fire,
drowning. burglary, etc. and also the
part they are playing in the present
bloody conflict abroad. instead OF
keeping the public stirred up over
the many false rumors OF rabies
and mad dogs?
A proper Investigation Of the re-
ports OF children having been bit
ten by dogs will show that in nearly
every instance the dog has been
teased, trampled upon. perhaps by
accident, or roughly handled in some
manner. or has been taught, 70 guard
the store. home or stable. and has
performed his duty well by resent
ing any act of intrusion.
/ have owned many valuable dogs
during my life. have exhibited thor
oughbreds. and attended all of the
dog shows and exhibitions in the
East for the past twenty years. and
while ! do not contend that rabies
does not exist. have never seen
a mad dog.
The dog In subject TO fainting spells
Just the same as human beings. Let
q horse falls exhausted in the street,
all humankind sympathizes and Of
fers suggestions for its relief, but
let a poor dog drop from lack of
food or drink. the public thinks i'm
mediately that 1t is mad, and wants
II shot simply on account Of this
constant agitation about mad dogs
and rabies. and the further fact that
they know nothing about dogs.
There is not q muzzle made that
VIII prevent a dog from biting ~
he were so disposed, and the idea
OF muzzling at any time. and espe-
cially during the cold weather months
Is silly, ineffective and cruel
The attitude OF these people in
regard to this matter is unreason-
able, unscientific and unjustifabIe, and
am surprised that the dog-owners
or Washington have not defended
their animals. and that such state
ments as have been published re-
Gently should go unchalIenged and
uhrefuted. W. NJ MOONEY
The Washington herald., 1917-12-19
Would Make Goethals
Quartermaster General

Secretary Baker has requested Gen.
George w. Goethals. builder Of the
Panama Canal, and former chairman
of the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
to take duty as quartermaster gener-
al of the army. 1t is believed that
Gen. Goethals will accept as he has
offered himself for any duty to which
he may be assigned.
Secretary Baker explained this af-
ternoon that special assistants would
be named to take charge of the ad-
ministrative detail Of all the depart
ment heads named on the war coun-
Gil of the department Gen. Sharpe,
quertermaster general. Is one of the
members of this council.