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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
Y. M. @. A. Seeks
Regular Fellows

Joseph II. Oden in The Outlook:
In asking for volunteers this Is how
the Y. M. G. A. officially describes
the type OF men needed:
This Is no call to ninnies and
milksops. The Y. NJ. G. A. needs
real men, preferably men who have
had some broad and gruelling ex-
perience of life; men OF education,
yes; but. above that, men capable OF
understanding, sympathy, and an in
definite deal of hard, exacting work.
Men who can turn q Ford inside out:
men who can play the piano and lead
i've hundred others in singing; men
who are trained in athletics; men
six feet high and three feet wide
and eighteen inches thick; men who
understand what Christianity really
means; men with humor and lead
ership who have been earning hun
dred dollars a week and are willing
other words, Men"
And in the camps, environments
and other training stations the asso-
citation has 2,200 such men at work.
Among them are some who have
given up large incomes, others who
have resigned university professor
ships, several college coaches, a
number OF professional musicians, a
sprinkling OF ministers OF known
ability in the handling Of men, and
the balance made up of the most
successful secretaries from the city
associations throughout the coun-
try.
I have seen many of them in ac-
tion-healthy, whole hearted, pa
tent and generous men. who sprang
to their task each morning before
daybreak with q "Hurrah," and went
to their cots at night, dog tired, but
with a song or a joke on their lips.
Beside the regular secretaries
found many volunteers. For instance,
at Camp Dix (New Jersey there
were sixty-four Y. M. c. A. men at
work in the Y. M. c. A. buildings,
but only three were on full salary,
while twenty were entirely on their
own charges.
There are more than four hum
dred Y. NJ c. A. buildings in the
camps, costing between $500 and
So 900 apiece TO erect. The buildings
alone have eaten up about az mil
lion dollars Of the 5 million dollars
raised last spring. / have seen more
than forty Of those buildings, at var
ious hours of the day and in the
evenings. They are always throng-
ed with men-writing home, read
ing, toasting their feet before the
open fire. playing games, watching
the free movies or other entertain
ments, singing Justify in a religious
service, or listening eagerly to a
patriotic speech or to a sex hygiene
address by a medical authority.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
B-a-ad Man of The
West

He hit the floor with . savage
Enough to curdIe the free lunch soup,
And said, with dark. satanic scowl,
That he was a wolf and was there 70
- howl.
In his belt was a gun quite big
enough
To back up any sort Of a bluff,
And we all sat back in q quiet way
To learn the drift OF the strangers
"say, you ROSTERS a-squatin' thar,
Line yourselves up here at the bar,
An do it quick,
Less you want to pick
A sudden fight with a grizzly bar,
I'm Suredeath Dick from the owy-
hee,
An I'm known as a graveyard start
er, see?
That's me!
Just waltz down var fur to have a
An see you tenderfoot ROSTERS climb
On top o. yourselves fur to give me
room
When I feel like film another tomb.
Line up var now fur yer Ticker Juice
Afore I proceed fur TO cut things
loose
An flood the floor
O. this shack with gore
Enough fur to swim a enakeneck
goose!
You Teller thar,
With a punk cigar,
An q downcast comb to yer yeller
ha'r,
An make a start on my usual fun
BY pumpin' you fun o. lead! Well
say,
Amt you goin' to move, you bloomin'
jay?"
The fellow moved like a lightning
streak
And slapped the wolf on the sun
tanned check,
And he grabbed holt on his tangled
hair
And threw him over the back Of a
chair,
And a hotter spanking with open
Was never given q kid in the land,
And the only. bad men in the west
today
Are such as that would-be terror Jay.
James Barton Adams in Portland
oregonian.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
A Magazine Story

(''Why don't you write magazine
story in verse suggested q help
full correspondent. So We did,
The lonely soldier stood on guard at
his Saturday Evening Post;
He'd stood there, as IL seemed 20
him, a Century, almostl
The Outlook was q dreary one, a
chill was in the breeze,
The wailinR winds went twanging by
like Harpers in the trees.
A Metropolitan was he-a true
American
Yet in few short months he'd prov
ed q Cosmopolitan;
He'd crossed the broad Atlantic like
a hero in the strife,
The war was Everybody's now
what was his single Life7
He hadn't sought Adventure In his
somewhat feeble youth
A Woman's Home Companion was
about his Job, in truth:
But he read some Snappy Stories In
the Belgian Blue Book, then
He went across the wide Wide World
to help his fellow men.
To found a New Republic in that
worn and weary land,
He'd given up the Smart Set and had
sought a foreign Strand,
And now, as he was standing, think
ing thoughts of Farm and Home,
His Magazine exploded and blew OF
his marble dome!
Ted Robinson in Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
The Planet Jupiter

This is the month OF all the win
ter to observe Jupiter. That planet
is now the dominating glory OF the
northern sky. Venus Is a tritie
brighter but she. sets far earlier.
None OF the fixed stars approach
Jupiter in stellar magnitude.
Jupiter is attended by q large
body guard OF moons. Discovery OF
the first four Of these is set down
as the beginning of modern astron-
omy. The remaining five. nine in
all, were made known to our little
world within the past twenty-five
years. Three Of Jupidter's moons are
larger than our satellite
The diameter of Jupiter is e8.400
miles, or eleven times greater than
that OF the earth; but its mass Is
only slightly over 800 times as great
as our earth. The material OF which
it Is composed Is one and one-quar~
ter times as heavy as water and
about a quarter OF the eartl's mean
density. Evidently, Jupiter Is sim
in q highly gaseous state: its evolu-
ton has not progressed as far as the
earth or Mars toward a solid condi-
ton.
Perhaps the most curious fact
about Jupiter Is that les entire sur
face does not reyolye at the same
rate-the equatorial regions moving
faster than the planets polar lati-
tudes. AS life therein Is impossible
even for saiamanders, several mill
lion years will pass before specuia
tlon as 70 the character and morals
or IT'S inhabitants is undertaken by
magazine writers. Brooklyn Eagle.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
THE COUNTRIES AT WAR.

Probably not one man in fifty
could give from memory a complete
list of the countries actually engag-
ed in war.
Probably not one in 100 could give
the list Of those az war and also
those which have severed diplomatic
relations.
The odicial Bulletin has compiled
a list OF the combatants. and the
dates on which they declared war.
It Is a valuable list for reference
and should be preserved. In addi-
ton to the countries at war, the fol-
lowing have severed diplomatic rela-
tions with Germany: Bolivia, Costa
Riea, Egypt, Guatemala. Haiti.
Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and
Uruguay
The official list Of war declarations
follows
Austria against Belgium, Aug.
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sNoBslsHNEss IN THE ARMY.

The senate is interesting itself in
social distinctions between officers
and enlisted men in the army and
has written to the secretary Of war
asking about Il. Secretary Baker
has replied, that distinctions Of rank
IN the army imply no social distinc-
lions.
That is, Of course, as 1t should be.
II is hardly necessary to say that
the uniform Of the private is just as
honorable as that OF the general. In
deed there are far more men who
have so-called social position in
civilian life. serving as privates than
as officers.
in q great standing army main
taigied In peace times there would be
q chance for snobbishness to thrive,
and conditions might well become
unbearable for the private with any
pride in his makeup.
But with such a job ahead OF them,
we don't know for whom we have the
greater contempt. the snobbish young
officer who uses his position to snub
the men In his command needlessly;
or the private who hasn't the good
sense and the pride to take such
silly display with the grin it de-
serves. There Is no time to worry
about social distinctions.
81 Washington. Of course, where
majors In the non combatant branch
es Of the service. are thicker than
Bolsheviki in Petrograd, social dis
tincllons between various ranks in
the army may cause some heart
hurnings, but neither the country at
large nor the soldiers are worrying
about that.
Nobody questions the need of dis
cipline Of the strictest kind. and the
man who hasn't learned to observe
discipline isn't At to enforce 1t. But
mere snobbisbness viii not survive
the arEt taste Of the trenches. There,
d man win be judged for what he is
mot for what his grandfather was.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
IGNORING BILLY SUNDAY.
Is Billy Sunday losing his drawing
powers?

Is Billy Sunday losing his drawing
powers?
The most famous OF modern
evangelists IL meeting a decided
frost" at Atlanta He has spoken
to audiences Of less than 800 persons,
whereas in the days before the war
any audience Of less than 5000 was
considered small.
II am ready to die now he pray
ed. "But I want to live long enough
TO see that German bunch licked to a
standstin. want to see the triumph
of democracy. If I can serve my
country in any better way than by
preaching, am ready to 60"
50 you see II is the same old Billy
Sunday. He hasn't changed. But
the nation has changed. What was
a snsation q year ago. bores with its
commonplaceness now. Murder
trials that called for headlines, get
paragraphs in the newspapers. An
evangelist who talks to his Creator
in the targon Of the baseball field
and the race track simply fails to
interest as a novelty.
Mr.. Sunday has been lauded as the
greatest of all evangelists; he has
been denounced as a most sinister
influence in the religious life of the
ration. but previous 70 this he has
never been ignored. His Atlanta
audiences probably more truly repre-
sent those who are genuinely stirred
reiigiously by his appeal The cur
iosity squads and the sensation
renIxay,w have roun aIsevhera
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
His Girl In Overalls

Well, yes, the kids enlisted, we ex-
pected that, you know;
When he heard the call to colors OF
course he'd want to go,
An we're proud an glad an sorry,
for the lads our pride and joy.
An his mother - well, you know
mothers. an he was our only
boy.
An I--weII, there's no denyin'-I de-
pended on the lad,
For he's always been a sight Of help,
an comfort to his dad:
But never fully realized how much
I'd miss the little scamp
Till started for the barn alone the
morn he left for camp.
I was feelin' pretty lonesome, an
somehow my eyes were dim,
When saw someone q standin'
there, really thought was
Jim;
But afore I'd time to speculate, my
little daughter calls
'isay, dad. how do you like my bran
new overalis?"
She had the team all harnessed an
had hitched them to the plow.
i've tried 10 90 H. uGua she ANt1t
"just like jamie showed ma
how,
I'm not needed in the house. you
know. for mother she has
Sue,
An 30 nm goin' to do my bit out In
the field with you.
'sWsve got to send our boys to war
an feed the people. too,
An it's UP to Uncle Samuels girls
to show what they can do
Then she climbed up on the tractor
an drove away on that
MY little gal In overalls an JAMES
old straw hat.
An sirnRou'd be surprised 20 see the
things that gal can do,
An how she works with might and
main to help 20 put things
through.
An guess we needn't worry, sir, when
Uncle Samuel calls
He can trust his boys in khaki, an
his girls In overalls.
Virginia Enterprise.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
Russia No Help To
Germany
Conception Of Country as Source o
Supply Ludierous, Says Editor.

Conception Of Country as Source Of
Supply LudIercus, Says Editor
From The Scientific American: So
long as we speak in general terms,
Russia as a source Of supplies for
Germany appears formidable indeed
but when we descend to details, and
particularize as to just what sup
plies the Boche Is to get from Rus
STA and how he is to get them, we
discern a great light
is 1t food that is to be supplied by
the new republic2 We think not.
The summer just past has not been
season OF hard labor in Russia: her
workers have been working in the,
same way that her fighters have
been fighting-with fine phrases. All
men Of all factions have been too
busy with talking to pay much at
tention TO the sordid details OF work.
Even now the Bolsheviki cry for
bread, and whence Is it to come? AL
ready the food situation in Moscow
and Petrograd is reported as desper-
ate. Hungry already, Russia win be
hungrier before she is fed. and the
thought Of Germany drawing susten-
ance from her Is a ludicrous one.
But, persists the calamity bowler.
think OF all the other resources of
Russial Germany can come in and
help herself to coal and iron and
petroleum and platinum and copper
and all the other things Of which she
has such need. Again we beg to diff
fer. Until coal and oil and metals
are able to take legs unto themselves
and walk from the Trials and the
Caspian to the Rhine. Germany viii
do nothing Of the sort. 1t takes rail-
roads to move all these things
railroads with tracks and rolling
stock, and above all. locomotives in
good shape. The fact that Russia is
crying for 1900 engines to save her
from ruin Is but faint measure of her
transportation conditions Materials
Of which there has been most urgent
need have lain for two years A.
Archangei because they could not be
moved.
transportation conditions in
France are bad. In Germany they
are worse. IN Russia they are in q
state of indescribable decentralization.
At the worst, then. the Russian sit
uation does not threaten us. Nothing
which can happen IN Russia can BY
any possibility afford Germany q
source Of supply for any Of the
things OF which she stands In such
dire need,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
Allies Face Moral Crisis

Frank H. Simonds In The American
Review Of Reviews.
Neither the French nor the British
armies can be conquered in Italy;
and unless the French and British
armies are conquered mean the
millions on the western front-Ger-
many cannot win the war and her
chances OF winning 1t viii diminish
regularly as our troops arrive. But
it is possible that Germany may
conquer the British and French pub
lies by a campaign in Italy; that the
brilliance and magnitude Of German
success, in this local and subordinate
field, may acquire a false value
among war weary and disappointed
civil populations in the nations fight
ing her; while 1t creates a new and
greater confidence among her own
populations q few weeks ago unmis-
takably discouraged.
We went all through this in the
Civil war, and no man could say be-
fore the election Of 1864, whether the
North, whose victory on the battle
field was assured. il 1t hung on, would
elect Lincoln or Mcclellan and thus
decide for war to Victory or for a
peace by negotiation. When the re-
suits OF the election OF 1864 were pub-
lished, the doom Of the South was
written. In the present struggle we
are now to pass through a crisis like
that OF 1864 in the Civil war. The
Marne and Verdun were Just as
logical and unacceptable steps toward
German defeat as were Antietam and
Gettysburg great landmarks on the
road to AppomattoX. The Somme
and the present Ypres campaign are
no more serious and-comparativ
speaking-no more bloody disap-
pointments than the Grant checks
from the wilderness to Cold Harbor.
Let anyone who has doubts look to
the statistics Of the population,
wealth, resources immediate and
eventual. OF the Central Powers on
the one hand and of the British Em-
pire and the American and French
republics on the other, without count
ing Italy, or that contribution In Ger
man and Austrian casualties made
BY Russia before sha quit. Let him
bear in mind also what the command
OF the sea means to the Allies, and
lack OF sea communication TO the
Central Powers: and there should be
clear conception Of the mathema-
tics Of the war problem. Napoleon
had a better chance than William III,
and he lost; Louis xiv faced a far
weaker and more disoreanlsed Eu4
rope than the German kaiser. and
failed because his own people wore
out first Today the Allies face q
crisis Of paipabie gravity. but Il is
moral, not military
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considering his st. Paul speech and
the Wisconsin Loyal league, organ
lied as a result of La Follette's stand
on war measures. is planning to take
up the fight following the legislative
session.
Burning La Toilette in efigy has
become q popular sport at the state
university, and passing resolutions
denouncing him has become a habit
with organizations Of all kinds.
1t begins to look as If Wisconsin
was quite capable Of handling the
situation, and permitting the country
to proceed with more important bust
ness. The Little Giant may have
been a beneficial counter irritant
after all.
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2s, 1914.
Austria against Japan, Aug.
81, 1914.
Austria against Montenegro,
Aug. 9, 1914.
Austria against Russia. Aug.
8, 1914.
Austria against Serbia. July 2s,
1914.
Bulgaria against Serbia. Oct.
IA, 1915.
China against Austria, Aug.
II, 1917.
China against Germany, Aug.
IA, 1917.
Cuba against Germany, April
z, 1917.
France against Austria, Aug.
10, 1914.
France against Bulgaria, Oct.
16, 1915.
France against Germany. Aug.
8, 1914.
France against Turkey, Nov.
s, 1914.
Germany against Belgium,
Aug. 4, 1914.
Germany against France, Aug.
3, 1914.
Germany against Portugal,
March 9. 1916.
. Germany against Rumania,
Sept. IA, 1915.
Germany against Russia, Aug.
1, 1914.
Great Britain against Austria.
Aug. IS, 1914.
Great Britain against Bulgaria,
Oct. Is, 1915.
Great Britain against Ger
many, Aug. 4, 1914.
Great Britain against Turkey,
Greece against Bulgaria, Nov.
2S, 1915 provisional govern
ment).
Greece against Bulgaria, July
2, 1917 government OF Alex
ander).
Greece against Germany, Nov.
2s, 1915 provisional govern
Greece against Germany. July
2, 1917 Government of Alex
ander).
Italy against Austria, May "a,
Italy against Bulgaria, Oct. 10,
1915,
:. Italy against Germany Aug.
Italy against Turkey. Aug. 81,
Japan against Germany, Aug.
20, 1917.
I, 1917.
Montenegro against Austria
Montenegro against Germany,
Aug. 8, 1914.
Panama against Germany.
April z, 1917.
Portugal against Germany.
NOV. 20. 1914 (resolution passed
authorizing military Intervention
as ally OF England).
Portugal against GERMANY.
May 10. 1915 military aid grant
Rumania against Austria.
Aug. n, 1915 ,(allies of Austria
also consider 1t a declaration.
Russia against Bulgaria, Oct.
19, 1915.
Russia rus against Turkey. Nov.
San Marine against Austria.
May "a, 1915.
Serbia against Bulgaria, Oct.
is, 1915.
Serbia against Germany, Aug.
Q, 1914.
Serbia against Turkey, Dec. 2,
Siam against Austria. July %,
CSs~x, ,--ns.-. 60.
20, 1917.
Tur5ey against allies, Nov 20,
20, 1916.
United States against Ger
many. April 8. 1917.
Brazil against Germany, Oct.
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In The Open Forum
A Column Devoted 10 the Task OF
keeping Up with North Da-
lEota Editors.

The Litchville Bulletin has an in
teresting suggestion from. q sub.
scriber, which Is. contained in the
following paragraph:
Tn a letter 10 The Bulletin.
Emil Djuberg makes the novel
suggestion that Jerusalem be
made the seat Of the new inter-
national court after the war Is
over. IT Is an idea that should
appeal to every Christian nation.
Then, IL two nations are In
dispute, let them go TO the an
cient capital of Judea, where
David and Solomon dispensed
justice. where peace was first
proclaimed and where the
Prince OF Peace lived. and there
settle their difference before the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
Wage Slavery In Ger
many
4 Hint as 10 Sourca OF Money Spent
on Imperial Trade Wars.


From Golfers Weekly: Where did
the rulers OF Germany (political and
commercially get all the money that
they have so long been throwing
into trade wars against their COM
petitors, long term credits I'm Asia
and South America, steamship lines
everywhere, propagandists, hired
newspapers, and all the other legiti-
mate and illegitimate apparatus of
kultur?
Mr., Gerard gave hint as to the
answer when he bluntly asserted
that German labor works harder and
longer hours for less pay and fewer
satisfactions than do any other
civilized workmen in the world. And
now comes the kaiser's imperial bu4
rean Of statistics TO fill in the picture
September j. 1917, the Bremen Burg
er Zeltung Tor Bremen Citizen
Times) published an article which
has been translated and issued as q
report by the United States depart
lnent Of commerce. This deals with
an official survey of wages paid IN
369 main Embellishments az German
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
Personnel of The
Navy

From The Scientific American:
The total strength Of the navy, in
Guiding the marine corps, on Nov. 10,
1917. was 272,0OO officers and men.
The distribution Of this force was as
follows:
Enlisted strength Of navy
April g., 1917, day war was
declared .........''..ss.s.s o4,0oV
Enlisted strength Nov. 10,
1917 .......-ss.....s... ,1os
Net gain ........''''...''.. e4s4es
Naval reserve force, Jan. l.
1917 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. oVV
Naval reserve force April s,
1917 .................. AV,OVV
Naval reserve force, Novem-
Der, 1917 4S,OOO
Naval militia, April 8, 1917. $500
Naval militia November, 1917. $4,000
The naval militia in federal service
are known as national naval volun-
teers," and nearly all the militia are
now in the service Of the navy. Only
those who volunteered for federal
service were modified.
Hospital corps April 8, 1917 .z,000
Hospital corps Nov. rs, 1917. >. 1000
The coast guard with about 5000
officers and men are serving under
the navy department for the dura-
ton Of the war.
There are about 10000 officers In
navy, naval reserve force and ma
tional naval volunteers.
Marine corps, enlisted strength
April s, 1917 .............s..l 1900
Marine corps, commissioned Of
flcers April 6, 1917 ....,.... 42S
Marine corps. enlisted strength
Nov. is, 1917 ..............SO so, OOO
Marine corps, reserves and ma
tional naval volunteers in
service. about ....,......... 1900
Marins corps officers $1,000. 1877
Total strength commissioned
Nov. Is, about ..............s 80, 900
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LEAVE IT TO WISCONSIN.

At the approaching special session
81 the legislature in Wisconsin. a
Joint resolution will be introduced
calling for the resignation Of Robert
~. rs Toilette.
1t s. expected TO pass and he is
expected to refuse TO resign.
anWhils the senate committed IS
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-20
ARlnE ~ nRnER

Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 20.-The
city council has decided to abide by
the fuel administrations order for
eighties" nights twice q week until
the FIRST of the year and then will
consider whether on not further
measures viii bs taken.
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An1uSen1entS
TONIGHT IN THE
LOCAL, pIAA

TONIGHT IN THE
LOCAL PLAYHOuSES.
Garrick-Sessue Hayakawa I'm
The Call OF the East
Strand-Jack and the Bean
stalk.
Isis-Francis Bushman and
Beverly Bayne in The Adopted
Son.
princess-The Fighting Trail.
Orpheum - Government war
pictures.
Grand-Vaudeyille
Lyceum. Moorhead Alice
Brady in The Hungry Heart.