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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR.

France will never make peace until
her lost provinces have been restored"
Former Premier Viviani told New
Workers according to an Associated
Press dispatch published in The Forum
last evening.
France is fighting for more than the
lost provinces. however. She is fight
ing for the right to live as a democ-
racy, and to rear her sons and daugh-
tiers in an atmosphere of freedom I'M
clouded by the German menace at her
borders.
To ask what America is fighting for,
Is pertinent. President Wilson sum-
med it up in two paragraphs of his
famous message of April 2. 1t can't
be repeated too often. Here it is:
But the right is more precious than
peace, and we shall fight for the things
which we have carried nearest our
hearts-for democracy. for the right of
those who submit to authority to have
voice in their own governments, for
the rights and liberties of small ma
tons. for a universal dominion of right
by such a concert of free peoples as
shall bring peace and safety to all ma
tons and make the world itself at last
free.
ITO such task we can dedicate our
lives and our fortunes. everything that
we are and everything that we have,
with the pride of those who know that
the day has come when America is
privileged to spend her blood and her
might for the principles that gave her
birth and happiness and the peace she
has treasured. God helping her. she
can do no other"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
BEGIN HEARINGS
|. ON war TAX BILL
Objections to Income Taxes
On Stock Dividends
Heard
NV Associated Press.)

washington. May 12.-Public hear.
ings on the war tax bill began yesterday
before the senate finance committee
with representatives Of industries
facing heavy taxes under the house
bill protesting against many features.
Republicans of the committee par
ficipated in the hearings yesterday and
will work with the democrats In
amending the house bill.
Objections to the income taxes on
stock dividends were made by I. u.
Cravath, representing Bethlehem steer
company stockholders, j. A. Katz. or
the Lackawanna Steel company ana
e. w. Wakely of the New Jersey pub
lie service corporation.
IAN income tax on stock DIVIDENDS
before the diversion into cash is an
unfair and unequal distribution" said
Mr.. Cravath.
Exception from income taxations OF
stock dividends of subsidiary corpor-
ations already taxed was urged by
the Lackawanna company. Limitation
of excess profits tax to capital and as
sets of foreign fire and marine insur-
ance companies actually used in this
country, was urged by A. r. Thatcher
of New York, representing various
foreign corporations.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
eooo-sYE. COP BLESS YOU.

In The Forum Office yesterday Uncle
Sans call was heard and answered
]. E. Finfrock member of The Forum
reportoriaI staff, received his orders to
report at Fort Smelling. There was
hurried handshake all around, and a
goodbye old man." Today there is
a desk swept clean and a vacant chair.
The incident is being repeated in
scores Of offices, stores and ware
houses in Fargo. Goodbye old man.
God bless you" may be a perfunctory
farewell or a prayer. We hope the
boys who 20 will believe it is the lat
ter,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
aTHALATTA! THALATTAw

/ stand upon the summit of my years;
Behind, the toll, the camp, the march,
the strife,
The wandering and the desert; vast,
s--.-+ affair." s-=--+-----
Beyond this weary way, behold! the
seal
The sea o'erswept by clouds. and winds
and wings,
BY thought and wishes manifold, whose
breath
is freshness and whose mighty pulse is
peace,
Palter no question of the dim Beyond:
Cut loose the bark such voyage itself
is rest,
Majestic motion, unimpeded scope,
A widening heaven, a current without
care.
Eternity Deliverance, Promise, Course!
Time-tired souls salute thee from the
Joseph Brownlee Brown.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12

different, far more sinister-an at
tempt to use every means Of science
to put the world under foot.
Scientific Destruction.
Science has enormously expanded
the ways and means OF destruction
but always it has believed and hoped
that this would be. controlled by con-
Eiderations of humanity. We have been
taught, however, different lesson by
the ruling force Of Germany. We have
been taught that war has been made
more heinous than ever. There is not
Ia difference in any part of the world
that German diplomacy has not tried
to increase, that German money has
not tried to aggravate.
World Wet With GOOD.
That is the danger we all have to
meet. IL we have seen the world wet
with blood from Armenia to the strait
of Dover, If we have seen horror
heaped upon horror. we can rightly
attribute it to that enemy. Shall we
know that freedom is to be the hum
BILE and obsequious servant of such
a caste? The free men of the earth
cannot do so, and If any proof were
necessary, this great gathering Of the
three great democracies would give
that answer"
Speaks In French.
M. Viviani. whose address was in
French, was the last speaker. He drew
a distinction between the German
ideas and those of democracies. In
every thought Germany had been
thinking and planning world domino
ton, he said, not only hy militarism,
but by finance, diplomacy and trade.
The whole state directed every energy
to this end.
Given Warm Welcome.
Members of the British mission re-
ceived a welcome of amazing proper
tons on their arrival from Washing
ton late yesterday.
The commission was met at Jersey
City by a group Of leading citizens
among them Robert Bacon, j. p. Nor
approach across the river to the bat
terry landing was heralded to waiting
thousands by continuous salutes from
the river craft.
Mr.. Balfour showed keen interest in
the Statue of Liberty on the trip to
Manhattan. $50 that's the famous sta
tue" he said. He gazed at it for sew
eral minutes. The greeting accorded
to the distinguished Britishers APP
peared to be no less enthusiastic than
that given to M. Viviani and Marshal
Joffre.
Will Bear Great Share.
"You have told us that America
could no longer stand aloof," Mr.. Bal
four said, but must take her part in
this worlds struggle and must bear a
share-and it will be a great share
in that contest for the liberties OF
mankind which is now moving every
corner Of the earth"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
WORTH Will EFFoRTs.

To the pioneer in any line, civiliza-
ton owes debt. Several of the mem
beFs OF the music section of the Fine
. Arts club have been among the musi-
cal pioneers Of Fargo and during the
last year they have as a club earnest
ly and sincerely striven to open and
broaden a pathway into the wonderful
world Of music. Knowing the vistas
Of enjoyment it offers. they have tried
to show these to others.
Among other enterprises they have
undertaken to assist in the education
Of AttiIIio BaggiOri. Concordia con-
servatory student who is the fortunate
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
SIMPLE MENU
FOR GREATEST
OF BANQUETS
British and French War
Missions Guests at Nota-
BILE Dinner
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
AT SPEAKERS TABLE
Welcome Extended British
Equal of That Extend
ed To French

New York, May 12.-The British and
French war missions TO the United
States were, last evening, guests al
one of the most brilliant banquets in
the history of America.
| The guests included Arthur James
Balfour, British foreign minister; Rene
Viviani French minister of justice;
Marshal Joffre and two former presi-
dents of the United States-Theodore
Roosevelt and William H. Taft.
The distinguished representatives OF
Americas allies in the war against
Germany arrived at the Waldorf AS
toria in one party. The streets on all
sides of the hotel were packed with
men and women eager to pay their re-
spects to the city's guests.
y Flags of Three Countries.
Outlined in electric lights upon the
front of the hotel were the flags of the
three nations represented, while far
up and down Fifth avenue a sea of
flags floated over parallel lines of pat
riotic citizens who jammed the side
walks on both sides for a mile and a
half.
Stretched across one end of the
great banquet hall was great curtain
of horizon blue. In the center was the
American flag. thanked by the colors OF
France and England, and with the
flags of the ten other allies surround
ing them. Below the flags was a copy
of a medallion representing France
and England supported on a golden
panel bearing the now famous words
of President Wilson, ito make the
world safe for democracy"
Menu 10 Simple.
The menu was one Of the simplest
ever served at great public dinner in
New York. It was limited to five
fxyYnia,1fly America n
dish, and was designed to exemplify
the Spartan simplicity that should
govern the nation in its hour of dan
ger.
At the close of the banquet Mayor
Mitchell presented to Mr.. Balfour and
NJ. Viviani gold medals emblematic of
their visit to New York.
Mr.. Balfour moved his hearers to
high enthusiasm, when he said:
1--WE have not come here as instruc-
tors of the American republic, but 1t is
important for me to proclaim my un-
alterable conviction that we have
reached a crisis when the whole of
civilization must rise up and voice its
appeal for the preservation of human
liberty.
why have millions enthusiastically
greeted us?"
Could Not Hold AIoof.
Answering his own question, MT.
Balfour said, that the American peo-
pie could not hold themselves aloof
when they realized the world was suf-
fering and that America had to have
its share in relieving mankind
The Germans have co-ordinated
every means of science, not to better
their own people, but to dominate 9TH
ers. The world has been too full of
unscrupulous ambitions for us not to
recognize 1t in the present case. This
is not an instance Of an individual
genius, another Napoleon seeking to
overcome the world, but something far
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12

possessor OF a wonderful natural tenor
voice. The education of a singer is a
long and expensive process. A natural
singer may be as far from being a
great artist as an ore deposit is from
being a great producing mine. If these
Fargo women can give to the world a
great artist, the efforts of the Fine
Arts club will be we'll worth while, and
The Forum has the warmest wishes
for the success of the effort, not only
for the sake of the young man himself
hut for his SPONSORS.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
Proper Food For Weak stomaehs.

The proper food for one man may be
all wrong for anothers Every one
should adopt diet suited to his age
and occupation. Those who have weak
stomachs need to be especially careful
and should eat slowly and masticate
their food thoroughly. 1t is also inn
portant that they keep their bowels
regular. When they become constipat-
ed or when they feel dull and stupid
after eating, they should take Cham
berlains Tablets to strengthen the
stomach and move the bowels. They
are easy to take and pleasant in eff
fect.-Advt.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
q IN THE OPEN FORUM


Little beds of flowers,
Little cans of paint,
Make attractive neighbours,
Out of those that aint," chirps The
Brinsmade Star.
But we suggest,
Little beds of onions,
And few potato hills,
Cut a bigger figure
In the grocery bills"
eve do not believe merely because
the nation is involved in war there
should be nothing but long faces and
melancholy sighs,' says The Minot
News, in justifying baseball as
usual"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
THE UNJUST FUTURE.

The New Republic: Things will
turn one face to posterity If Germany
loses, and very different face if Ger
many wins. Can the Unietd States be-
gin soon enough to turn out ships that
can feed England long enough for her
seamen to reduce the submarine dan
ger to unimportance? Then the next
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
TO AID RUSSIA
American Railroad Experts Hold Meet.
inc in Minneapolis.
1Ru AssnoiatAd Press.l

Minneapolis, May IA commission
of ten American railway experts who
were appointed by the government to
assist Russia in solving her great
transportation difficulties, met yester-
day in Minneapolis.
The commission is headed by John
s. Stevens, former chief engineer OF
the Great Northern railroad and later
in charge OF Panama canal construc.
ton
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12

THE Fargo Forum now looks, feels
and smells like The Grand Forks
Herald says The Parshall Leader
Thank you, Dave.
The Mandan Pioneer commends the
action of the school board in eliminat-
ing a part of the course in German
from the curriculum and substituting
Spanish, it's approval not being based
on any idea of "strafing" Germany, but
merely on the belief that Spanish will
be of more use than German in trade
relations after the war.
Made in Germany" is not likely to
be a good advertising slogan for some
years to come. s.a o.. -... q.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12

age will exaIt Mr.. Wilson. If we have
entered the war too late and too I'M
greatness and call his patience by
another name. The one thing it will
surely not do him, is Justice. The
great war will be too near for that.
Get wise and order Flavo Flour from
the manufacturers. Phone S9.-adv.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12
GET Rid of Your Rheumatism.

Now is the time to get rid of your
You will find Chamber
lain's Liniment a great help. The re-
lief which it affords is alone worth
many times it's cost-adv.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12

Entered at the postoffice at Fargo
North Dakota, as second class matter.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-12

AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
.FAREWELLING THE MIDWAY

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Years ago.
there was belief prevalent among
fair mana gers, that all sorts OF gamo-
ling devices, ETC., were necessary to
the success of the fair They even
declared that if it were not for these
things, sometimes hidden away in a
corner, at others occupying promi-
nent places on the grounds, the pub
lie, and more especially the farmer
would not patronize the fair. In the
course Of time. the demonstration
was furnished that the public simply
would not patronize the fair where
such features were tolerated. and
there was talk of the fair having out
lived its usefulness and having
ceased to be an attraction. Some of
the fair managers made I'D their
minds that the game was up. Others
shrewdly surmised that the public
wanted a good, clean fair, and pro.
ceeded to arrange and give that kind
OF fair, and then the discovery was
made that the fair was more POM.
lar than ever before.
However, the old idea that all sorts
OF iil-smellfng, more or less disrenu.
table features, were an indispensable
adjunct to the agricultural fair. seems
to have retained it's hold upon some
fair managers. and then the midway
came into being. 1t offered nothing
quite as raw" and vile as some Of
the things that were permitted in
some Of the old fairs, but it was
usually cheap and nasty and served
no other purpose than that of reIiey-
ing fair visitors of large portion
of their loose change
The experiment does not seem to
have proven a real success any,
where, and the probabilities are that
the midway will soon be a thing Of
the past at midwestern fairs. where
perhaps it should never have been
introduced. This does not mean that
there should not be all sorts of good.
clean entertainment, and more
especially all manner of entertain
ment for the children as well as tho
grown folks. But rather that such
entertainments should be provided by
the fair management itself and that
all sorts of mere fakes and catch.
penny schemes should be barred
from the fair grounds just as the vile
show and the skin game" were !
barred at an earlier time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
DAIRYING ONE OF BEST
"CASH CROPS' FOR FARMER

/, farmers living adjacent, but to every
merchant in the city The hauling of
cream to the creamery means that
the farmer makes at least semi
weekly visit to town, and the towIs
visited regularly is the town where
he does his buying.
Then, in addition to the cash that
the farmer receives. his dairy herds
store up for him future farm divi-
dends by returning to the soil much
that the crop raising has removed.
The increased fertility of the farm
that boasts a herd of cows gives it
a big lead over the farm that has
none.
The man with silo and a herd
of cows will feed his live stock far
cheaper, and receive far more in re-
turn. year by year, than the man who
sells his grain. The silo is the great
est utilizer. of what once was re-
garded as waste material. that exists
on the farm today, and in addition it
gives to the animal succulence which
few years ago was thought impos-
sible in the winter time.
Proper care and proper feeding of
a good dairy herd means more
money, greater independence and bet
ter farm land for the farm owner,
and they will bring him in closer
touch and relationship with his
brother In town. There cannot be
too many herds of well bred, cattle
about this city.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
CANADA GETTING RICH.

Bache Review: We are beginning
to do what Canada has been doing a
proportionate way for three years,
and 1t Is interesting to note the CON
dition of that country brought about
by conditions which may prevail
here. Canada is in the midst OF rails
ing a third loan. The governme
loans there are called Victory" loans.
The circulation OF the vast sums of
money raised and expended in Can
ada has created a high tide of pros
perity there. Sir Thomas White. in
an address to loan mass meeting,
said that in spite of the unpreced-
ented times due to the war, Canada
is far richer than before-perhaps
twice as rich. The deposits OF Can
adam people are $400,0oO.O0o more
than before the war. notwithstand-
Ing the fact that they have raised
three large war loans. But the PEG.
pie of Canada he said. with all
their virtues. are not born savers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
TODAY,s BIT OF VERSE
THE HOUR oE LONGING.

Always when get longing the ending Of the day,
When work done with and the striving put
away
wearied of the tasks I've had to do
Not ALL knowing there's the sound OF dane
ing feet,
And the sound Of happy voices all along the old home
street,
And the big and walk beneath the spreading
trees,
And the whole bunch buzzing like hive of honey
bees
That's is irksome and long to get away
yonder it's the homing time OF day.
Just If out there sure child or two
Among all passing children would wave howdydo
And I'd lean ence and listen to their dancing
feet
And the music voices they went adown the
And I'd laugh to hear laughter, and I'd their
glintine eyes,
And I'd watch and listen till I'd and heard their
last goodbyes.
been working in shop think at ALL
should away yonder where the naturevoices CALL
Then when school out, and children were turned
loose and play,
could go and leave and could end work
ing day;
It's hard the people who forget they not
young,
Who can't recognize that their lives gladdesr
songs
Who forever keep wishing the ending of the day
keep wishing, always wishing, they might away
and play.
Houston Post.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
ART OF NEWSPAPER MAKING.

Atlantic Monthly: Suppose you
We're managing editor and the biggest
story you can think of broke upon
you'-Manning stopped and search
ed What is the biggest piece Of
news you can imagine, Dr. Latimer?"
The other man examined the CELL
ing.
.'Well, say an authenticated case
OF the persistence of life after
DEATH" he ventured.
'Bully.' cried Manning His eyes
sparkled, the color mounted to his
forehead and his fingers twitched-
was it for the missing pencil and
copy paper? Then he found himself.
Suppose you were in charge and
that flash came. What should you
do?"
Il should probably develop a VIC
met headache" said Latimer.
Here's what. you'd do, DR.. Lati.
mer. You'd yell up the. tube to the
makeup man to tear open the first
page for seven column double rib
bon head. You'd then get the tele-
graph editor to write that head: Life
Holds Beyond Grave, Says French
Savant.' You'd then turn loose sew
eral men on the Encyclopedia Britain
MICA looking up opinions on immor-
tally by Plato, Solomon, Lucretius,
Thomas Kempis, Nine Blavatsky,
Huxley. You'd have the city room
get all the local clergymen on the
wire. You'd telegraph to President
Wilson, Billy Sunday, President
Eliot. Anna Howard Shaw, Henry
Ford. Mary Pickford, the pope, the
sultan and the chief rabbi of Petro-
grad. You'd have your Wall street
men interview Mr.. Morgan as to the
probable effect of immortality on the
stock exchange. You'd ask the presi-
dents of the insurance companies
how Immortality would affect their
special business. Next day there
would be follow-up stories, with re.
productions of the most famous paint
ing of the resurrection. BY the end
OF the week your hair would be
slightly grayer, and If anybody men
toned Immortality to you you'd bite
him Next week something would
break loose in Mexico"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
Love, hope, fear, faith-these make hui
mainly, these are its sign and note and char
acter.-Browning
CONGRESS AND THE DIsLoYAL1sTs

The congress of the United States is in ses-
sion at Washington. In normal times the gath
ering Of that body would be occasion for little
comment or attention. In the past the assem-
bling Of senators and representatives has been
considered one of the necessary evils of popular
government, and unless some formative or de-
structive policy under discussion. with
probability of its adoption as the law of the
land, our people took the good with the bad and
determined to live life up or down regardless
OF the peculiar slants of the minds of the ma
tional legislators.
But now all is changed This world war is
responsible for that. All other questions that
have risen within the past three decades are
dwarfed IN the patriotic resolve that humanity
shall be free and that one of the factors en-
gagged in the task Of bringing about this free
dom shall be the United States of America
1t is bound to come-a resumption of the de-
spicable pacifst and pro-Prussian onnosition
open or covert, to every measure calculated 70
help us win the war. La Toilette seems +o bavo
been scared into a sullen silence by the demands
for his expulsion from the senate: but other nm
Americans will show their hands as far &c +bo,
dare, and representatives from constituencies
where imperfectly assimiated citizens Of for
eign birth are numerous will attempt as haro
tofore by lukewarm patriotism to curry favor
with the undesirable element whose votes thew
seek. 1t may be that the storm Of denunciation