The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-04

North Dakota Appreciation week,
Jan. 81 to %, 1917. Put the date
down in your date book, and plan now
10 observe it properly.
This is the week the people OF
North Dakota wall resolve themselves
into committee for the express pur-
pose of presenting to the world facts
and figures on why North Dakota en-
joys the remarkable prosperity that
has fallen to her lot
1t is to be a week of big things for
the state, according to the plans of a
general executive committee consist
ing of officers OF the North Dakota
Press association, commercial club
men and public spirited men, who are
willing to give Of their time and mon
ey TO further the prosperity Of this
great state.
II is to be a week during which the
people of the state will, If they accept
the spirit of the movement as they dld
last year. devote themselves to state
service. 1t will be time for arou-
ing state pride among the people VINO
already make North Dakota their
home-and it will be week devoted
10 putting other people in touch with
the splendid opportunities offered by
the state.
Last year special attention was call
. ed during Appreciation week to the
gigantic crops raised that year, but
this year a new departure will be
taken up, that of livestock, and nat
mral resources that make this state
one of the greatest in the galaxy of
= states in the union. In other words,
THE people Of other states will learn at
first hand about the tremendous depos-
its OF coal that will eventually come
into their own, the great deposits OF
clays that will soon be used in the
OF oil O.
51ured products that have clay as one
s,of their constituent parts. The dairy,
Mhe garden, the hogs, the beef cattle,
Sfhe sheep, even the humble chicken,
twill come into their own this year.
J North Dakota has much to be
t6hankful for 1t is the Sunshine
Estate" the Rose State" the state Of
ffiful sunsets, unrivalled anywhere else
on earth, the cold, crisp days Of WIN
kfer time, when me red blood courses
Through the veins Of the people and
kEturdy health asserts itself in winter
sports that even kings do not enjoy.
Conditions are just right for such
an Appreciation week. The herds OF
1.-THE state are constantly increasing.
and North Dakota is being reckoned
with as one OF the few states that can
be depended upon to furnish the meat
OF the nation. IL not the world. Beau
StifuI homes are the rule in North Da-
kota, and in an incredibly short time
the sod shack has crumbled to decay
through disuse. The farmers have
their automobiles--over 41.0OO OF them
now being in use in the state. Pros
perity is here to stay, and why not
rejoice. and rejoice heartily.
North Dakota, during Appreciation
Week, will try to point out to the peo-
pie of other states the splendid adj
#yantages open here-and the praises
OF North Dakota will be cried up and
down the highways and byways OF
the world.
Appreciation Week will be observed
in many ways:
The week of state effort will be
, opened on Sunday, January Goth, with
the expectation that ministers Of the
gospel through the state will use APP
probation Week as their theme in
their sermons and services.
Commercial clubs, civic organiza-
tions OF all kinds, will hold booster
I meetings throughout the week, pre-
ferabIy on Thursday, January 25th,
when the humble baked potato will be
Used as the principal and exalted part