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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
THE PRICE OF. PRINT PAPER.

Fixing the price of news print
,aper at cents a pound Is a partial
.melioration Of present conditions
tut more than that. 1t is a temporary
guaranty that they will not be
worse. -
This price, which has been agreed
lpon by manufacturers, prodded into
BY government agencies, is little
,eiow the ruling market. Some of
he more fortunate publishers have
zen getting paper at 3 cents and
ven less. From that figure the
rice has ranged to 3.25, S.5 and
ven cents a pound. Few have
teen forced to pay over the cent
mark, except for short periods.
hose publishers who have been un-
BILE to get contract, and have been
orced to buy from hand to mouth,
ave been MIXED for whatever 1t
vas thought they could stand, and
lrices as high as AS have been paid
or small lots Of paper.
But even the figure Of cents a
sound is terrific drain on the
mblisher. A year ago the ruling
lrices were cents and under. That
means a fiat increase Of at least so
,er cent in the biggest item in the
ost OF publishing a newspaper.
The publisher is the one manu-
acturer who has not raised his
irices to keep pace with rising
osts. The white paper item is but
ne OF many. The new postage
ates will add greatly to the second
1rgest item of cost in the publish
ng business. and the new war taxes
iii take a generous slice Of the re-
naming profits.
BUT, with a fixed price, the pub
sher win be able to cut his gar
nent according to his cloth, and
dust his business to meet costs
thich are fixed anad not changing
rom month to month.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
ARRESTS SOON
Virginia Authorities Expect to Run
Down Murderers.
fBv Associated Press. }


Virginia, Mimi, Nov. 3o.-Two
weeks at the most and we are going
to have three men under arrest and
at the same time have sufficient evil
dence to insure conviction
This announcement was made by
the investigators in the Virginia axe
murder case today. It was made aft
er conference between Joseph
Vukelich: the police and sheriffs Of
fee agents, with an investigator sent
here by the state, The sheriffs o.
fee today declared that three men
shared in the murders. They gay
one used the axe, another the knife,
while the third wrote the note and
acted as lookout
Word Of the additional $500 state
reward flew fast on the north side
The prospects of $500
for "squealing," however, did not
produce one discriminating word from
foreigners there. 9heriffs watched
closely for suspects to bolt, but none
stirred from work or homes.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
PIFFLINe DISPATCHES.

"Pitiless publicity" on the war has
ucceeded to date in making the
ews dispatches that come from
rance regarding the American
roops, the most silly piffIe.
Tho average reader is coming TO
hun instinctively the dispatches
ated eAneriean Headquarters" not
ecause he ID not interested in the
american troops. but because he
nowss unconsciously perhaps, moth
IS of importance is being sent out
rom American headquarters.
The reader no longer Is interested
the fact that "the German bat
sries threw few shells into the
merican positions, and the Ameri-
- runners responded with ave
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
Slow Work In Kansas
Farmers There Not Showing
Any Eagerness to Join
League.


From The Kansas City Star:
Topeka, Nov. 9.-The managers of
the Nonpartisan league in Kansas
assert that they will poll $4,000 votes
in the next primary in Kansas. That
is prophecy.
Confidentially they will admit that
the membership, actually, is less
than twenty-five hundred. That is
the present situation.
A careful investigation made by
correspondents of The Star in two
counties where 1t Is reported that
the Nonpartisan league is growing
very rapidly fails to bear out the
rumor.
In Topeka, among the politicians
who always are frightened at every
report of farmer organizations. be-
cause Topeka recalls the old time
Populist movement, one can hear
that the Nonpartisan league is
sweeping things" in Morris and
Dickinson counties.
Organizers Get Few Recruits,
In these two counties, a visit
among the farmers themselves. does
not disclose any excitement over the
Nonpartisan league. and only a few
members. Drive down almost any
country road in either Morris or
Dickinson counties and eight out OF
ten farmers YOU meet will tell you
frankly that they know nothing
about the Nonpartisan league except
as they have read of it in the news
papers.
In Morris county, as near as The
Star correspondents could learn. the
membership in the Nonpartisan
league is less than twenty members
In Dickinson county it is less than
one hundred.
Official organizers are working In
both Dickinson and Morris counties.
soliciting membership, scattering
literature and working up public
meetings.
No Appeal Like PopuIism.
A meeting was held at a country
school house in Morris county about
a week ago, addressed by two OF the
state leaders Thirty farmers were
present at the meeting-a very good
crowd for a country place-but no
organization was formed and no one
signed up for membership in the new
party.
To those who recall the organiza-
ton of the #. nj. B. A. (Farmers'
Mutual Benefit association in the
summer of 1880. which was in reality
the Organization Of the PopuIist
party in the state and remember
how 1t swept Kansas, almost over
night, can see no similarity at this
time between the Nonpartisan league
and the Populist party.
In fact the organizers themselves
admit that II Is rather slow work. =
in getting the Organization started
IN Kansas.
For Quick Results Use The Forum
UFrewk
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
The End Of
Your Corns
Pain stops at Onee-COrn Lifts
on Clean.


There is nothing in the world like
-"Gets-It" for corns. July apply 1t ac-
cording to directions, the pain stops
at once and then the corn lifts on
as clean as a whistle. No fuss, no
bother, no danger. "Gets-It," you
know, is safe. Millions have used IL,
more than all other corn remedies
combined, and 1t never fails
There is no need for you to go
through another day OF corn agony.
But be sure you get "Gets-It". Accept
nothing else, for remember, there is
positively nothing else as good. Gets
1t" never irritates the live flesh, never
makes the toe sore.
You can go about as, usual with
work or play, while 'Gets-It''. the
magic, does all the work Then the
corn peels right of like a banana
skin, and leaves the toe az smooth
and corn-free as your palm. Never hap
pened before, did It.? Guess not.
Get bottle of "Gets-It" today from
any drug store, you need pay no more
than ESQ, or sent on receipt OF price
by e. Lawrence e. Co, Chicago, Ill:
Sold in Fargo and recommended as
the worlds best corn remedy by Far
go Drug Co. and Fout g. Porterield.
-Advt.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
Sought Solitude In
Exile.
Rodin, French Sculptor, Fled
From Paris to an English
Country Town.

In Rodin. the Man and His Art"
her sumptuous new study OF the
great sculptor's life and work, Judith
CITADEL describes Robins flight to
England during the German drive to-
ward Paris in the early days OF the
war. Mile. Gladel herself conducted
the sculptor and his aged wife across
the channel.
He did not wish to remain in
London" she says. TOO many rela-
tionships would have hindered him
from collecting himself and from
preserving that dignity OF solitude,
that reserve OF refugee, which was
proper to his situation. He preferred
to accompany us to q small country
town, where for six weeks he lived
a modest life, very retired, interested
only, but passionately interested, in
the reading Of English newspapers,
which we translated Tor him.
When we appraised him OF the
burning of Rheims cathedral, he re-
piled with a laugh Of incredulity. For
two days he refused to believe IL, 1t
seemed 10 him an invention of the
press designed to stir the public and
increase recruiting At last, COM
WINGED he said, with inexpressible
sadness:
The Biblical times have come
back again, the great invasions Of
the Modes and the Persians. Has
the world. then, reached the point
where 1t deserves to be punished FOR
the egotistical epicureanism IN which
it has slumbered2 After this he be-
came absorbed in his own thouehts.p
The department OF agriculture ad-
vises the use OF oils for shoes tn-
stead OF biackins. The oil preserves
the leather and saves shoe money.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
NORMAL GRADUATE
WILL SpEAK

Mayville, N. d., Nov. SO.-Louis
Williams, member Of the first
graduating class of the Mayville
normal school, and for several years
a lecturer, viii appear in Mayville,
Dec. 3, and give the next number OF
the normal school lecture course. Mr..
fore.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30

Gently the statement that they would
be welcomed has been heard in the
French chamber Of deputies, but the
bulk Of opinion in the west is still
to the effect that it would be in
advisable for Japan to come into
the western theatre OF the war.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
DRAKE SCHOOL BURNS.
New Building is Endangered BY Stiff
Blaze.

Drake, N. D., Nov. 30.-Drake's
new 800, 600 school building was en-
dangered by q fire which totally
destroyed the old building, a two
story frame structure, and its con-
tents, causing a loss estimated at
$4,000. Citizens formed a bucket
brigade, holding the blaze after a
hard fight.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
Passion Play
Actor Coming

Among the various events of the
near future. at the North Dakota
Agricultural college will be the sec
ond number Of the Citizens Lecture
course. Irving Bachelor, author OF
Eben Holden, will give an address
on Keeping Up With Lizzie, In the
college armory on Wednesday even
ing, Dec. 8.
however. to the third number Of this
course, when the attraction viii be
Marie Mayer, the Mary Magdalene
of the famous Oberammergau Pas
sion PLAY. The war is responsible
for the scattering of many OF the
actors in this sacred play which for
many decades has attracted world
wide attention, and Miss Mayors
visit to Fargo will bring unexpect-
edly close, much that many who Will
be her auditors never expected to
| learn of at first hand. She will be
at the armory on Monday evening
Dec. 10.
THURSDAY, Dec. 6, is the date set
for a very interesting Community
Centre program at The Little Coun-
try Theatre.
Regeneration through mother-love
is the theme of Turn to the Right!
the play which Winchell Smith and
John L. Golden will present at the
Orpheum theater on Monday even
ing. Though labeled a laughing hit,
IL is said to surpass "Brewsters
Millions" 1.-THE Fortune Hunter
and 'aThe Boomerang all Winchell
smith sucesses-in strength OF
story and actual dramatic merit.
Presentation of Turn to the
Right" is to be confined by the new
producing firm of Smith & Golden
to the two original organizations
which introduced 1t in New York and
Chicago. The local engagement rs to
he PLAYED by the original Chicago
comnany that appeared for nine
months at Geo. M. Cohan's Grand
opera house.
IN it's introduction Of characters
typical OF city and village life, the
story of Turn to the Right" har-
mouizes with the other Winchell
smith successes. 1t deals with the
repeneration OF Joe Bascom, an err
ring but honest- hearted boy who
returns to his old home after serv-
ing q term in Sing Sing prison. On
the day OF his return his sanity
old mother and his sister are threat
ened with ejectment by Deacon Tile
finger. the town skinfiint. They are
unable to pay q grocery bill con-
tracted at his store and he has taken
steps to seize their little fruit farm.
In the midst of the Bascom's family
council appear two old pals Of Joe,
Muggs, a pickpocket, and Gilly,
safe burglar Like Joe they have
lust been released from Sing Sing
The nimble-witted crooks think
fast and act quickly in putting it
over on Deacon Tillinger and the
farm is saved. BY converting q
bumper peach crop into Mother Bas-
CONS Justly celebrated jam, a big
deal Is put through and having been
thoroughly reformed through the old
fashioned Christian influence of Joe's
mother, the three youths arc Riven 9
good start toward prosperity and
happiness via the honesty route. The
story carries three charming love
stories and each finds happy cul-
minatiOn Ia the fnal act,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
TONIGHT IN FARGO AND
MOORHEAD PLAYHOUSES.

Orpheum-"Her Unborn Child"
Princess-Ruth Stonehouse in
1.-THE Phantom Husband"
Grand-VaudeviIle
Isis-George Walsh in "This
is the Life"
Strand-Juliet Day in 1.-THE
Rainbow Girl"
Garricl1-Marguerite Clark in
''Bab's Burglar" and Fatty Ar
buckle.
Lyceum-Jack Pickford and
Louise HUFF in What Money
Can't Buy"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
AAvE eApTuRED pETRoaaAD.

Germany appears to have captured
.Petrograd Just as surely as II her
armies were patrolling the streets
How much more Of Russia has
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
BOMB IN sUPERIOR.
Explosive Left Behind Door of Drug
store in wisconsin City.

(By Associated Press.)
Superior, Wis, Nov. 80-A bomb
rudely fashioned of a baking powder
can with unlighted fuse and a dyna-
mite cap attached, was found last
night behind door at the entrance to
downtown drugstore. The sand and
sawdust which composed the filling
was saturated with enough nitro
glycerin to have blown the building
to pieces, according TO the police who
are working on the theory that the
person who placed 1t there were
frightened away before they could
light il. They are without a clue.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
MILD BY COMPARISON.

II Is only in comparison with other
outrages committed by the Germans,
hat their crimes in Italy seem mild.
Reports received at Washington are
% the effect that the German invad-
srs of Northern Italy are forcing the
syilian population to work on the
Qualifications that are being thrown
~ behind the present Austro-Ger-
nan lines.
This is In direct violation Of all the
accepted standards of warfare. The
INVADERS do not respect either the age
u the sex Of the people, but old and
,oung. men and women, are being
,onscripted for the work Of making
,ecapture of their country difhcult.
III the German crimes in France and
Belgium had not dulled the -scnsibili-
les OF the world, this crime alone
would place the Germans outside the
lale OF nations which abide by In
irrational agreements. 1t is but an
,ther proof Of the scrap Of paper"
altitude.
The 10000 Liberty trucks to be de-
iyeSed at seaboard during the COM
nE winter. will help to abate the
abroad congestion, rather than add
it. They will travel by their own
,ower and in addition carry freight
o pay their way.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30
Must Capture Helgo-
land

American Naval Oficers Believe
Islet Should Be Taken For Base.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-30

The department OF agriculture sd
vises the use OF oils for shoes In
stead OF biackins. The oil preserves
the leather and saves shoe moneY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16

two months to settle before sowing where possible.
 2. Compact the late plowed land with roller and harrow.
 3. Don't blow after cultivated crop Prepare such land with disk and har- row.
 4. Make the seed bed fit place for the seed.
 5. Sow with drill. sound, plump, clean seed of adapted variety.
 6. Prevent losses from smut by treating infected seed with formalde- hyde.
 T. Make the soil fertile with manure or fertilizers applied judiciously where needed.
 8. Reduce winter killing by follow ing the above suggestions.
 The accomplishment of this great in- crease of wheat and rye acreage with out disruptng correct farming prac- tice will call for tremendous effort on the part of farmers. However, the United States department of agricul- ture, the state colleges of agriculture, and other state and local agencies are planning to aid in every way possible
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
PECAN POINTERS

The first of series of pecan con- ferences, modelled on the plan of in- stitute work will be held at Waycross, Ga, September 5. at the Municipal building. The Chamber of Commerce of Waycross is cooperating with sever al well known men in conducting the conference, which is designed to put the general farmers of that locality in the way of profiting by the business opportunities this nut offers.
 Wednesday and Thursday, October 10 and II, 1917, is the date announced for the annual convention of the National Nut Growers association, which will be held at Biloxi, Miss. An. elaborate programme is beeing arranged and will be announced several weeks in ad- vance of the convention date. There is much of interest to the professional pecan grower in the Mississippi coast country where the convention meets this year.
 Statistics of cumulative and con- elusive demonstrations show that food supply by means of the flesh of do- nestle animals requires a much larger area of land than does an equal food supply drawn from fruits and yege- tables This is especially true of deep- rooted, deep feeding trees such as the pecan and other nut and fruit trees.
 
 teemed nuts as 8 luxury to be served at feasts for the promotion of good cheer and rejoicing.
 Nuts serve this purpose and more. The nutritive value of nuts is not com- monly understood. Their protein and oil contents are valuable and essential along with the use of other vegetables which have greater bulk and less nutri- ment.
 That which makes nuts such an ex- cellent article of food is that their nutritive elements are almost perfect ly proportioned; that is to say. that a normal body requires so much water, proteins. ydrates, mineral salts and fat to sustain it healthfully each 24 hours, and in nuts these elements are found more correctly proportioned according to the requirements of the body than in any other article of food known to chemists-The Nut Grower.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
MIDSUMMER CAPE

For midsummer the military cape is made of some stunning shade of cotton eponge-beige, military blue, or green while the jacket and skirt are fash toned of plain white or cream in the same color as the cape. The trench coat is subject to similar notifications and adaptations. In it's severest form. double or single breasted, and with regu- lation patch pockets, it makes most at tractive motoring garment. Elaborated for street wear the pockets are clev- erly cut-in-one with portion of the coat or are bulged out to give modi- fled barred effect in startlngly un- military manner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16

spring wheat crops for all past years ex- cept two.
 It is too early to determine the area which should be sown to wheat next spring, but If this is equal to that sown in the spring of 1917, or 100000 acres, and the yields is up to the average Of the last 10 years, a crop of 251, 900 bush els of spring wheat will be harvested, and if the yield per acre should equal that obtained in 1915 the crop will be 250,- 100000 bushels, the same as the greatest spring wheat crop ever produced. Thus, with no increase in the spring wheat acreage but with the IS per cent in- crease over the 1916 winter wheat sow ings planned for this fall, the total wheat crop next year will be more than 1000 000,- 900 bushels, if the crop meets with slight ly better than 10-year average condi- tios. With extremely favorable condi- tions such as were experienced by the winter wheat crop in 1914 and the spring what crop in 1915, the total yield would amount to 1,250, 900, 900 bushels. A 10 per cent increase in spring wheat acreage with favorable growing conditions would add another 30,000,000 bushels. The fig ures quoted above are based upon win ter killing of g per cent and yields per acre of 15.6 bushels for winter wheat and 13.2 bushels for spring wheat, the aver ages for the last 10 years, and a yield
 per acre in 1914 of 19 bushels of winter wheat. and 1S.4 bushels of spring u-he in 1q1S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
PRINCIPAL INCREASES

The principal increases in acreage of winter wheat are recommended in the areas where the acreage devoted to that cereal are already large and farmers are accustomed to growing wheat and are equipped with machinery for producing the crop. material increase also is rec commended in most of the areas where the production of oats and corn Is heavy since much wheat can be sown to ad vantage on oat stubble and in the stand ing corn or ground from which the corn crop has been removed for the slo or cut for fodder. In some districts the increase in the acreage could be made larger but this has seemed inadvisable for fear of disorganizing crop rotations with i n iI1rY to crnns in sllcceedine years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-16
BASIS OF INCREASED ACREAGE

Since the acreages sown last fall are fresh in the memory of farmers, the sowings suggested for this year are com pared with those of 1916. For Kansas, where more than one-fifth of the winter wheat of the country was sown in 1916 and a campaign for an increase already is under way, an increase of more than 100000 acres, or one-seyenth of the total increase, is recommended. Ohio is asked for 100000 acres over last years sowings. This is considered possible and desirable by the agricultural leaders of the state. Because of available land in the state, Oklahoma is asked to increase the acreage one-fourth, amounting to more than SG0,000 acres. Indiana and H. linois are each asked to increase their acreage by somewhat more than 500,0O0 acres thereby equalling what they have sown in the recent past. Oregon, because of the abnormally low acreage sown last fall, is asked to increase the acreage this fall by 250,000 acres. or 50 per cent. These six states. Kansas, Ohio Oklahoma. Indiana Illinois and Oregon, in which nearly one-haIf of the winter wheat was sown last fall, are asked to furnish con siderably more than one-half of the in- crease planned for this fall. Their agri- cultural leaders think it is possible and are taking the necessary steps to see that 1t is done.
 The largest percentage increases arc requested in some of the southern states. Mississippi leads with 455 per cent increase and Georgia comes next with 100 per cent increase. Alabama is asked for. 50 per cent increase; Ar kansas for S7 per cent, and South, Carolina for 37 per cent. These south ern states are anxious to increase their acreages by this amount to safc- guard their own food supply. The in- crease in actual acres. however. Is comparatively small in each of these cases.
 Wisconsin. another state in which the present wheat acreage is small, is asked to increase the sowings 29 per cent. as wheat is well adapted to newly y-opened northern land and as present prices make it a profitable crop in the state Montana is asked Ito put in an even million acres an in- crease of nearly 30 per cent. But this is not large total for the entire state, in view of it's large acreage of unused land suitable for wheat.
 The following states are asked to increase their acreages 16 to 20 per cent over those sown in the fall of 1916: New York. New Jersey, Mich igan, Iowa. Tennessee. Arizona. Idaho, and California. The following states are asked to increase their 1916 acre. ages by II to Is per cent: Pennsyl- vania, Virginia, West Virginia. North Carolina. Kentucky. Utah. Nevada and Washington. The following states are asked to increase their 1916 acreages by to 10 per cent: Delaware. Mary land. Minnesota. Texas. Wyoming and New Mexico. The states of Missouri and Colorado are each asked for per cent increase. while practically the