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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
INERTIA AND THE LIBERTY
BONDS.

Inertia is the biggest foe of the
Liberty Bond.
In the last campaign to sell bonds,
the biggest results were obtained in
the last few days of the sale. The
early weeks of the campaign were
devoted to overcoming inertia and
developing enthusiasm.
What an amount of valuable en-
ergy is wasted in overcoming this
inertia. The loyal citizens who are
handling the campaign are forced to
so into the byways and by a per-
sonal canvass induce citizens to sub
scribe when those same citizens had
already decided to subscribe, knew
st was their duty. and were waiting
90 be approached.
Why can't Fargo handle the new
sale that opens today in a more bust
nesslike, more efficient way?
Why can't every citizen sit down
today and figure just what she or he
can afford to subscribe for and do it
even before the canvasser approaches
him?
One $50 bond means saving-not
spending mind you, or giving away.
but saving for yourself dollar a
week for the next year. Every man.
woman and child in the city Of Fargo
should be saving toward a Liberty
Bond. Learning habits of thrift and
economy is no hardship and can
hardly be classed as bleeding for
ones country. The last Liberty Bond
sale did more to teach thrift to
Americans than any other one thing
IN the last hundred years. but the
surface has been barely scratched
yet. There should be rush to buy
the bonds instead Of a campaign to
ED them.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
DIPLOMATIC FRIeHTFuLNEss.

Fact is being piled on fact. proof
on proof. in the amazing series OF
exposures being made by the state
department, regarding the activities
Of German diplomacy.
Secretary Lansing and President
Wilson show their wisdom in max
ing the disclosures in serial form.
The country could not digest the
story in any but serial form.
The invasion Of Belgium stunned
the world into partial disbelief. Few
appreciated the horror Of the crime;
many could not believe 1t and CROPPED
for an explanation of 1t or some facts
that would condone II.
Had the entire bill OF complaint
against the German consular service
been given publicity at one time. 1t
would have been received with the
same partial disbelief.
But in serial form it is sinking in.
Those left in America who still be-
lieve that Germany has not violated
every principle OF humanity and
decency in her conduct of the war,
will be unable to face such an over
whelming array OF facts. The story
of military frightfulness is now an
old one. After the invasion Of Bel
GUM. the sack Of Namur, the sink
ing of neutral vessels, the atrocities
in France, the murder of Armenians,
the war on babies and women, moth
ing in the line of military barbarism
can shock the civilized world.
But the state department is prov
ing with its almost daily exposures,
that the German secret agents pur-
sued the same ruthless course, and
were deferred by none Of the con-
siderations of humanity, fair deal
ing, or common decency.
First came the plots to blow up
factories in friendly nation; then
the Mexican plots; then the foment-
ing of industrial warfare in America;
then the Luxburg activities in Buenos
Aires and the deliberate scheming
to murder neutral citizens on neutral
ships; then the similar disclosures
the Swedish consulate in
Mexico: then the plot to spread an
thrax and CHAMBERS in Rumania:
then the plan to influence the Amer
lean congress.
Civilization is fighting a wild beast
that knows no rules of fair play, no
honor, no humanity. 1t is to the
everlasting credit Of France and
England that they haven't discarded
all thoughts of humanity and re-
taliated in kind.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01

depot brigade now is finished and the
men probably will be mustered Tues
day. Physical examinations in these
two regiments were first completed
and the reflections were about the 2
per cent mark.
Depot Men Go Soon.
1t is expected the depot brigade
men will be entrained for Deming
this week, the officers after muster
Tuesday waiting only for orders from
Washington.
Rushing of the new troops through
the sixteen-week drill schedule has
been temporarily halted in infantry
and artillery regiments. BY a divi-
sion headquarters order TODAY the
men will be kept on the first weeks
work of the schedule until full quotas
are in camp, when the first of the
mapped instructions will be taken up
by all the troops at the same time.
1t is expected the men now here
by that time will develop much good
material for noncommissioned officers
to aid in instruction.
Make Moral Crusade.
Between cantonment workers who
are well paid but cannot stand pros
perity and as a result become easv
victims of the professional gambler
and the bootleggers who work vari-
GUS kinds of schemes to sell LIQUOR
to the soldiers. the military police
at the Eighty-eighth division can
torment have been kept busy the
last week.
The gamblers in camp have been
pretty well cleaned out and the milf
tary authorities are now working to
prevent their location in the zone
just outside of camp. Mai. Gen. z. II.
Plummer, division commander, per-
sonally has taken a hand in the cam
paign to wipe out the bootIeggers in
Des Moines. and he has told the
state. county and city authorities
that he will call on the federal de-
partment of justice to act IL the
bootleggers continue selling liquor to
men in army uniform.
Col. J. b. Harbeson. commanding
the military police here, personally
led a squad Of 100 soldier police in
a series OF five raids on poker parties
conducted in barracks occupied by
cantonment worAmen. As a result
more than a score OF men are in iail
pending action OF thefederal court.
Elaborate Protection.
At one Of the barracks elaborate
preparations had been made to avoid
detection. a lookout was posted in
the hallway, ard just as the military
police closed In the sentry for the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
NEW RUSSIA IN THE 1AtING
Written Exclusively for Hearst's by
Charles Edward Russell

IN bloody Monday, in the
" great square before the
Winter Palace In Petrograd,
5000 women and men who
asked only for bread and
freedom were moved down
by machine guns.
Today their royal murderers are in
exile. The flag of the Russian Re
public flies over the palace. An
orchestra that used to play God Save
the CA" wplaysthe "Marseillaise.
In Mr.. Russell's great articIe-the
frst-of series that he has written
exclusively for Hearst's Magazine
you meet every actor in these great
events. Kerensky, the iron Premier
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
Vigilantes War Notes

A welfare worker, who has just re-
turned from the front tells of the thou
sands of men who can walk, or get
about with a comrades help,-Walk-
ing Wounded. they call them. He
said there were sometimes three
hundred in a line waiting their turn
outside a First Aid station. FIRE.
quently officers were among them
whose rank would entitle them to
take precedence, but who refused to
avail themselves Of the privilege.
Under such conditions 1t is hard to
wait patiently-think of it, stand
ing in line waiting for a hundred and
fifty or two hundred men to be
treated when you are suffering from
wounds and the exhaustion of five
days battle!
Up and down that line went well
fare workers,-Red Cross, Y. NJ. c.
A. men, Ambulance - carrying hot
drinks and cigarets. To the
weakened and impatient men. those
cigarets were the greatest solace.
Just picture that line of Walking
Wonderland sent in on the little
flags"
A government official in England
showed Gertrude Lynch, special cor
respondent for The Vigilantes. a let
ter taken from a German prisoner.
This man was one of the crew of
submarine which was sunk. He
escaped death but was captured
The extract given below shows what
the Germans have been telling their
people-that the hated English are
being starved out
Il can feel nothing but gratitude,
dear mother, for the way the Eng
fish saved us and have treated us.
/ have always said that they were
decent people. We hardly notice
anything of the war. There are no
cards for anythIng-not even for
bread, and a plentiful supply of food.
II is sad, but it is true."
Mr.. Oliver Bodington, British pa
triot, has an American wife, and
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
LETTERS FROM THE BOYS.

After you read that letter from
Camp Dodge or Camp Greene. won't
you send 1t to The Forum?
Eliminate the personal touches, If
you wish. and let The Forum have IL
for publication.
We're all one big family in Fargo
now. and we ought to pass the let
tiers from the missing ones around.
The quickest way to do it is through
the newspapers, and The Forum has
started a department especially for
the publication Of letters from the
training camps. The Associated Press
leased wire. which began ticking in
The Forum office this morning, will
carry the news of general interest
The Forums special correspondents
at both camps will amplify this
information, but the personal letters
about our own boys are of chief
interest. We want to know what the
boys are getting to eat. what they
are wearing. what they are learning.
how they like the life, and every lit
tie scrap Of personal information
Leave as much of the personal touch
in the letter, as you feel you can.
Nobody is going to scoff at a little
bit of sentiment from one Of the
family.
If your son or brother is made a
corporal the rest OF us want to know
about it. II he contracts a cold, we
want to know it. II they have adopt
ed camp song, we want to know
it. If there is a camp nickname for
him, we want to know it. Let's keep
this correspondence column we'll ALL
ed every night.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01


and mothers want to know IL Bob
or Henry have recovered from their
colds or if marching seriously af-
fects their corns. One newspaper
in southern Illinois asked the stats
teal officers to furnish 1t with a
comprehensive description OF the
camp and list OF the officers, some
two thousand in ALL
A man arrived at the statistical
Office today looking for his son,
laude Borland. The father did not
know If his son waR an officer or a
private, as he had been west several
months and had not kept in touch
with the son. Statistical officers in
formed the father that Borland had
graduated from the Smelling training
camp as second lieutenant was now
on duty with the Rainbow division
at Camp Mills.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01

-Tschaidse, the hawk-eyed, cold
blooded President of the National
Council-members of the different
political parties, syndicalists, maxi
malists, patriots and traitors.
And out of it all, says Mr.. Russell,
out of these dark days free and dem
ocratic Russia will rise to dazzling
heights to do things beyond the
records of any other people what
soever.
You cannot be truly informed about
the Russian Revolution, you cannot
sift what is true from what is false
in the daily newspaper reports, UNI
less you see Russia through Russell's
eyes. Read his first article today in
the October number Of
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01

tions, and the negro. After the
parade through town, the procession
wound up at the church where
speeches were made and hymns were
sung. The superintendent is Fred,
w. Young, and the pastor Is Rev. w.
M. Grafton The Red Cross move
ment, the Army 7 and the Liberty
Loan have been heartily supported
and enthusiastically promoted.
Addresses were made by the Misses
Jessie Haynes and Hazel Beach and
by Messrs. John and Hamilton Reed.
They were all patriotic to the core.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
couRTENAY CELEBRATES.
Sunday School Parade and Program
Featured-Town 10 Patriotic.

Sunday School Parade and Program
FeatuFed-Town 10 Patriotic.
Courtenay, N. D., Oct, IA great
Sunday school rally and parade was
held Sunday in Courtenay, in which
nearly 200 persons took part, with
features such as the girls Red Cross,
the Army Y. Nj. G. A. foreign mis-
sions, home missions, freedmen, COL
leges, ETC., being specially emphasize
ed.
Little Red Cross girls in costume
carrying flags, hymns and speeches
for the Army Y, flags represented
% foreign countries where the
Presbyterial church is at work, girls
in costume represented exceptional
populations, such as the Indian, the
Esquimo, the Mormon, the lumber
jack, the immigrant from forty ma
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
WINS IIaERT

Breckenridge, Mimi, Get. When
Sam Kandian, tailor, was charged
for violating the act of May is in
failing to register. FIVE of his friends
were brought here from Winnipeg
and gave testimony that they had
known him for years, that he was
born in the province Of Galicia, Aus
tria, and that he was 35 years old.
There was nothing else to do but to
give him his liberty.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
TopAY,s quotation

"ssason Of rrists and mellow fruit
fulnsss!
Close bosom friend Of the matur-
ing sun;
conspirfng with him how to load
and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thateh leaves run;
To bend with apples the moss cot
tage trees
And m all fruit with ripeness to
the core"
Keats ode to Autumn.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
(Farso courier-News, June as.)

NJ.
600 persons Starkweaher Cando
of old
Bread butter today
Bread problems
are all Americans he
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
ARRAY REAL STRIKING.

GAINESVILLE, Mimi. Oct. 1.--Moans
and smacking lips had to be hushed
by Judge H. G. Strumnas' gavel in
this dry town when in climax to the
trial of Anton Mallinger, charged
with bootlegging, fourteen full pints
were arrayed on the table as evil
dence. The case was given to the
grand jury. and viii probably come
up at the December term.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01

The MinOt Messenger hands the
to The Nonpartisan league
leaders:
Boss Townley attacked the
Liberty Loan bonds but found
himself against the patriotic
farmers Of this state and immed-
lately hedged. Now his news
paper. The Socialistic Courier
News, comes out under big head
lines stating that President
Townley, Of the National Nonpar-.
tisan league. has wired Secretary
McAdoo that the league is be-
hind the new bond issue. Thus
the great head Of the farmers
organization makes a complete
flop in order to keep his stand
ing with the farmers, Townley
wants those SIC membership. fees
and he will flop from one thing
to another until he has Topped
just once too often and the farm
ers of North Dakota will awaken
to Just what he is and what he
has attempted to do. Waf breeds
patriotism. a fact that Townley
and Frazier are beginning to dis
cover.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
The Ananias Club CONTROVERSY
Third Party Is Drawn Into The Merry Little Game Of
"Who's Liar Now?" Z
tFsrao courIsr.Nsws, Sept. so,l

Washington, D. &c. 1917
Fargo argo N. D.:
ans not an issue This statement issued by the opposition
Colonel Rooves distinguished criticism would advise him
49, "N - $50 M
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01
In The Open Forum
A Column Devoted 10 the Task OF
Keeping Up With North pa
kota Editors.

Here are two pertinent editoria
paragraphs from The Valley Cts
Courier:
Present indications point to the
possibility that La Toilette may =
lose his seat in the u. s. senate.
which IL accomplished. will be a
potent factor In the early closing
of the war, and we hope an early
closing Of his ever-open mouth.
Senator Gronna is giving the
state of North Dakota much ad-
vertising along his particular line.
Eastern dailies now speak or
North Dakota as the one pro-
German state in the union.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01

Flavo -four. creamery white. delic-
ious flavor, goes further. Phone SO.
-Advt.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01

The Griggs County Sentinel Cour
Ter deals in this frank manner will
the recent meeting at st. Paul:
We do not for one minute be-
lieve that the rank and file of
the farmers are in sympathy with
the disloyal attitude displayed
by Senator La Toilette in his
speech at the big National Nom.
partisan meeting in st. Paul. and
it is extremely regrettable that in
abandoning his set speech and
launching forth upon a TRADE Of
disloyaIty and abuse Of the gov
eminent, he has cast a stigma
upon the farmers of the north
west which they do not deserve
and for which they are in no
wise to blame. The senator al
lowed his bitterness toward the
administration and the war to
outweigh any shred of sound
Judgment which he may still
possess. and as a result, the in
nocent must again suffer with the
guilty. There are no more loyal
citizens in our country today
than the majority Of our north
western farmers, and the yap-
pings of a ghost dancing sedi-
ZIONIST of the La Toilette stripe
should not be charged up against
them.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01

The Casselton Reporter devotes q
column to a very able and vigorous
condemnation of the sentiments ex.
pressed at the st. Paul meeting
Here is an extract from it:
The mass meeting held at ST.
Paul last week under the aus
pices of the Nonpartisan league
resulted in no good to Minnesota
or North Dakota, and has cast a
slur on the patriotism of both
states. In such a time as this
the influences of a public gathH
ering must be wholly behind the
administration, or they reveal
disposition to hinder it. The
st. Paul convention gave express
sion to sentiments that called in
question the wisdom Of laws rel
alive to the successful Waging Of
the war now going on. These
laws we're no longer in issue
they were in force-and to COM
bat them at this stage OF affairs
was nothing less than to give
comfort and aid to those who are
willing TO see the United States
fail in their undertakings. The
league members are not unpat-
riotic as a whole-on the con-
trary they are truly patriotic.
But disappointment in crop
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01

We like this paragraph from The
Courant:
If you are for peace, help to
push the war along to a hasty
and successful completion. That
is the only way in which peace
Of a permanent kind can be at
tanned.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-01

The Minot Messenger hands the
following to The Nonpartisan league
leaders:
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-11-20

the Billy sundays. Sensational Sunday
saves Soul~ but il is difficult for the rcsu,,
Ter pastors Ia keep them saved after Sun
day has gone 10 another city. They miss
the ''hot stuff which drew them to sun
day and lacking interest. they drift away.
There j. the argument on the other side
that nj least slime of those who are
saved BY sensational preaching stay
and that the churches never would
have reached them in the regular way. and
II Il true, too. The question Is one for the
ih~eologians 10 decide. Bat IT = very cyl
den; that the trend Of the best thought IN
religious circles is steadily away from pie
o%ratory, hell fire and damnation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-11-20

any sort Of preaching whereby even a sin
Gle individual were brought into Z better
way Of living were it not that the convic-
tion has grown that while sensational
evangelism doc~ aid in the redemption ~
many persons, it average effect T. not
good. Many people. perhap, mo-t.i do not
ike it and viii not hear II. They VIII re-
main away from churches wherein IL 4,
preached. A, for those who are brought
into the church by ,casationalism. They
are hard to hold after the evangelist j.
gone and they are left ~ The more sober
and les exciting ~preachment~ OF the aver
age, steady going pastor. Lake one who
has become accustomed 70 highly season
ed food. ordinary y%ictual~ do not satisfy.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-11-20
fH
SENSATIONAL EVANGELISM.

The decision of the bishops conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church, meet
ing at Atlantic City. TO do away with en-
~satonal evangelism in the church can not
be passed over without comment. for ii
means an up>cttIn- of one Of the Iradi-
tions OF the church. Perfap. ii means II
undermining. Perhaps to some, who like
their religion in large and biting doses. il
seems a retrogressive step. periervid
evangelism long has been linked with the
Methodist church and ii il but fair TO say
that some millions of good men and WON
en- have thrived Oh it or in spite Of Il.
One would hesitate long in conforming
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-11-20
PRICES YlRY
! DIFFERENT sEcNollS
Need Of Standardization Shown
in Reports to Food
- Administration. TIA

Reports on bread prices made by
consumers to the United States food
administration from 81 points In all
sections of the country show NJ wide
difference for the same size loaf and
emphasize the need for bread stand
ardization.
In Pleasantville. N. J.. q 16-ounce
loaf OF bread was selling for six cents.
This was the lowest price record re-
ported for the United States. "A 16-
ounce loaf was reported selling for
Is cents In Rock Falls, H.; PASSPORT,
Me-: Red Bank. N. s.; Miami. Okla. ;
Gallitzea, Pa; Nashville. Tenn. Lara
mic, Wyo.. and Newport, Conn. BUT
the high price record went TO Para
gould. Ark. where 20 cents was being
charged for a 16-ounce loaf.
In Eagle Pass. Tex. a 18-ounce loaf
sold for ~ cents. II sold for elfht
cents In Lansing. Mich, Houston. Tex.
and Chippewa Falls. Wis, and fors15|
cents In Grinnell. Ia, West Point
Miss. and Lowell. MASS. vi.
A 14-ounce loaf sold for six centsi
In Lock Haven. Pa. and Nashpl1e, |
Tenn; for seven cents In Winfield,
Kan. Grafton. W. Va. Evansville, Ind,
and Ann Arbor. Mich; for ten cents}
In jefferson. Ia, West Point. MISs.,
and Corvallis. Ore; and for Is cehtsI
IN P%aragold. Ark. Rtdgewood. N. J.,
and Arlington. Mass.
A 12-ounce loaf sold for FIVE cents
In Rock Falls, M. Bfo~nsvilIe. Tex,
and Douglas. Ariz.; for six cents In
Santa Monica. CAL. Annapolis. Ma
Westminster. Md, Camden. N. j., and
Remove. Pa; for ten cents In Para.
gould. Ark, RIdgewood, N. J.. Glovers-
Vile, N. Y. Lock Haven. Pa. Herrin.
ILL.,. Peru. Ind. Mononeahela. Pa. and
Nashville, Tenn; and for II cents ID
Laramie, Wye.