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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
SCHOOL DISTRICT NOT
KEEN FOR DRAIN DITCH
Becker County Project Questioned
in District Court Aetion-Argu.
ment Made. Here Tuesday.

School district No. 107 objects TO
the building of the-highway across
its premises by Becker county and
it's contractor. The application for an
injunction was argued before Judge
William l.. Parsons IN chambers at
Moorhead today. This district was
formerly q part OF Detroit school
district No. /, and the schoolhouse
is located on the south side of the
state road about three miles west Of
Detroit.
If the road is constructed as now
laid out it will leave the schoolhouse
fronting Immediately upon the high
way is one of the contentious of
the school district advanced by. its
attorney, Peter F. Schroeder. It is
further claimed that the county fall
ed to proceed properly in the estab-
lishment of the road.
County Attorney Henry N. Jen-
sen, on behalf Of the county, claims
that the proceedings are all that
they should be and that the notices
were adequate. He further claims
that the schoolhouse now stands
upon the right-of-way of the North
ern Pacific Railroad company.
After hearing arguments by coun-
sci Judge Parsons announced that he
would decide the matter within the
next two or three days.
The road in the controversy is
the new federal aided highway
leading from Detroit to Fargo.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
France In The World
Eyes

The New York Sun: Views Of the
French troops marching through
Paris on the occasion of the national
holiday, July IA, are being presented
nightly at one of the largest moving
picture theatres in New York. AS
the pictures are flashed upon the
screen the orchestra plays the Mar
seillaise. With one accord the audi
ence rises to its feet and stands with
the same reverence that is accorded
to our own national anthem. Observ-
ant attaches of the house who have
witnessed the demonstration night
after night declare that 1t is the
rarest thing to see even q single
auditor retain his seat.
This is an extraordinary evidence
of the respect and even affection
which the gallantry of France has
won for her. In such an audience
are hundreds of other than pure
American blood-men and women to
whom the tradition of American graf
ltude to France, dating back to the
Revolution, is wholly foreign. But
they join in the demonstration with
the same heartiness as those to whom
La Fayette is a very real and vital
parsonage in our national history.
This universal good will, sympathy
admiration and affection will be pre-
cious assets to France when the war
shall have ended. She has won all
by the courageous and uncomplain-
ing determination with which she
has met the crisis in her life. From
France have come neither boasts nor
whines. Her orators like her SOL
diers have addressed themselves SOLE
ly to the business in hand. She has
no world grabbing Emperor to make
fiamboyant proclamation of the ex-
tension Of the nations power over
half the world. Her victories are an
nounced with restraint and her re-
verses are not concealed. But above
ell she is not guilty of querulous
complaint. When her foes, and some
of her friends, were describing her
as bled white she issued an official
statement showing that her man
power at the front was never great
er.
When the, war is over France will
only have to ask of the world to re-
ceive. Such worldwide respect and
sdmiration is an asset Of incalculable
worth to a nation soreIy stricken
materially but with its morale I'M
shattered.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
final LIST OF
DRAFT CLAIMS
ARE PASSED ON
Clay County Board An
nounces List of Addi-
tional Exemptions

The Clay county selection board on
Tuesday disposed of all claims for de-
pendent exemption in which support
ing affidavits have been filed. Action
on several other claims awaits the
filing of the required proof. Nothing
has been heard by the board from the
district board at Duluth, and members
of the local board do not know what
claims have been made on occupa-
tional grounds or what disposition
has been made of them, or of appeals
on account of dependent claims dis
allowed by the local board.
Claims DfsaIIowed.
The following claims, on the ground
of dependent relatives, were disal-
lowed by the local board Tuesday:
ole Nelson, Moorhead.
Alfred Benjamin Strand, Moorhead.
Anton E. Wine, Rolalg.
Lawrence N. Nelson. Moorhead.
Claims Allowed.
Following are the claims allowed
by the local board Tuesday, on the
ground of dependent relatives:
Axel Serum, GAINESVILLE.
Merle Schenck, Baker.
Anton J. Tungseth. Hawley.
Allies Mayer, Moorhead.
Philo v. Blake, Ulen.
Otto Worum, Sabin.
Olaf Jacobson, Hawley, r. 4.
John Frolund, Moorhead.
Peter A. Thompson, GAINESVILLE.
Peter Solwoid, Hawley, r. /.
Frank M. Crume, Glyn0on.
Ludwig Blomseth, Moorhead.
Holcom o. Locke, Moorhead.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
Lesson No. IS.
FIGHTING ARMS OF THE

We have spoken so far as II all
soldiers were infantrymen; that Is,
as If all fought on foot armed with
rife and bayonet. AS we all know
an army is much more complex.
There are two other fighting arms"
of the service, the cavalry and the
artillery. These three branches Of
the army are sometimes called the
''line"-a term which comes down to
us from the day when soldiers in
battle were always drawn up in line.
The other branches to be described
later, are included under the gen.
eral term staff" However, the en-
gineer corps and the signal corps
are in part troops of the line. though
they are herein described for con-
venience under the heading of stan
branches of the service
The infantry Is the backbone or
the army. 1T is the infantry soldier
who must bear the greatest stress Of
battle. and war is more dependent
for success upon his individual &C
ton than upon any other factor"
Bv far the largest number of men in
the national army will go into the
infantry branch of the service. In
the present war the Importance of
infantry is even greater than in
previous wars.
The Value Of Infantry.
It is not enough for infantry to
know how to defend itself, 1t must
know also how to attack. It is not
enough that 1t should be able to
move forward in masses. The infan-
try soldier must also have the in
telligent -self-reliance that will en-
able him to act as an individual; al
ways, of course, within the limits OF
military discipline.
The chances for initiative in pres
ent-day warfare can best be illu-
strated by recounting the story OF
Michael O'Leary, a lance corporal or
the Irish guards in the British army
On Feb. /, 1915, the guards were or
dered to retake a trench which had
been temporarily lost to the Ger
mans. O'Leary was off duty and need
not to have joined in the attack at
ALL But that did not stop him for
a moment from using his courage
and his brains to help his regiment
win.
Jumping out OF the trench he ran
at full speed to a railroad cut on the
right of the first German line where
he was partly under cover from the
enemy's fire. With five shots in sue
cession he killed or disabled five men
before his comrades reached the
trench. Not satisfied with this
achievement he ran ahead until he
came up from the railroad cut beside
the second German line. Here was
a machine gun. The officer in COM
mand had just pointed the gun at
the Irish guards in the first trench
and had his finger on the firing but
ton when he was dropped by a we'll
aimed bullet from O'Leary's rifle. He
shot two other Germans who were
attempting to FIRE the machine gum
whereupon the remainder of the
squad threw up their hands and sur
rendered.
Thus it happened that when his
company of Irish guards reached the
second line without the loss Of
single man they were amazed to find
O'Leary ahead of them in complete
possession. He was made a sergeant
on the field, and later given a VIC
toria Cross. After other exhibitions
of bravery and initiative, the rs
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
EAST SIDE NOTES

ole Erickson and his daughters,
Misses Florence and Louise, left Mon
day to spend the week at the Minpe-
sofa Statef air,
John CorneIiussen was up from his
farm in Kurtz township this morning.
He said the frost had killed most or
the potato vines, although those IN
his fields were not injured, the. pota-
toes being ripe. Corn, he, said, was
also hard hit and 1t is doubtful II any
of the ears mature. Most of the farm
ers are already cutting their corn for
silage.
Regular meetings of the woodmen
and Royal Neighbors will be held at
Masonic hall Thursday evening. All
members are invited TO attend.
Esther and Irving Whaley left Mon
day night for Colorado Springs, where
they will live with their aunt, Mrs.
M e. Lewis, while attending school.
Walter l. Gasaway was in the city
this morning and said he had finished
threshing and already begun plowinSs
The yield of wheat was about nine
bushels to the acre, fair one constd-
ering conditions this year
Alton Rendell and family, of Blue
Earth, Mimi, were visitors In the city
Tuesday on their way home from q
trip to Montana. They made a short
call on the family Of George l..
A regular drill of the Moorhead
Home Guard will be held at the Con-
cordia college campus this evening.
Sam Halland, the general merchant
of Comstock, was a Moorhead visitor
Tuesday evening. He said most Of
the potatoes in that locality were
killed by the heavy frost on sunday.
Practically all OF the vines in fields
on the prairiew ere frozen, but along
the river, where they were protected,
some escaped.
Tuesday night for the twin cities and
the State fair.
County Treasurer Paulson, Otto ].
Mortenson, James A. Clarity and III.
M. Webster made an automobile trip
to Hendrum on Tuesday
Ed H. Rudd, former Clay county
farmer, is down from Climax today.
He says the crops in that locality
were exceptionally fine this year, and
his wheat averaged twenty-thiee
bushels to the acre. Potatoes, he said
were hit by the frost and ne thought
the yield would be between eighty
and 100 bushels.
James Peterson came up from his
farm east of Sabin today and said the
potato in that section is of very fine
duality but the yield will probably be
only sixty or seventy bushels to the
acre. only from one to three tube/
are set on each vine. Mr.. Peterson
had a crop of choice barley that yitsd-
ed twenty-seyen bushels.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
CLAIM TOWN BOARD ORDER
is WITHOUT LEGAL EFFECT
Highland Township Omcera Post No
tice ForbiddIng Hunting~-LOcal
Sp0rtsmen Question Legality.

The board of supervisors of High
land Grove townhis has published no
tees forbidding hunting by nofl-resi-
dents of the township. These notices
recite that a resolution was adopted,
at an election, to that effect.
This may frighten some hunters
and 1t is probable that all gunners
will give the township a wide berth
on Sundays. The action of the town
board and the publishing and posting
of the notices has no legal effect, ac-
cording to Moorhead sportsmen.
Under section 47S4, no person may
enter standing grain for the purpose
of hunting without permission from
the owner or the person in charge. No
person shall at any time enter upon
any land not his own to hunt after
being notified by the owner or occu-
pant not to do so. Such notice may
be given orally or by posting written
or printed notices to that effect, in
the English language, in conspicuous
places on the land so protected.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
Hints To First Aiders


With Apologies to the Red Cross.
BY Louise Marry of The VigiIantes.
i. For Food Spectators: A farm
in Belgium. When successful, pro-
mote to northern France; from there
to Poland, Siberia, etc.
2. For Pacifists:I Expose to the
bite of a rattle snake. When well
bitten, allow them to kiss that snake.
Repeat treatment until cure is as
sured.
8. For Conscientious Directors: A
dose of German frightfulness. Repeat
as often as necessary.
4. For towards: The firing line.
Warranted to kill or cure.
5. For Misguided Socialists: Hot
Concentrations Of common sense, alter
mating with change of views.
. s. For Neutrals: A holiday in No
Mans Land.
Z. For German Sympathizers: A
pleasure cruise In the danger zone
and a clever, little German submarine
for a friend in need.
8. For Pro-German German Am
orleans: Send at once to Germany.
No return ticket.
9. For Anarchists: "Do unto
them, as they would like to do unto
you-and do 1t first"
10. For German Spies: Edith
Cayell tire atrnent. Never fails. Cures
the most obstinate cases. No dis
agreeable after affects.
In all other cases send for the
doctor.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
SUCCESSOR TO THE MARKET
BASKET.

The death knell of the market
basket has been sounded.
No more will the thrifty house.
wife. when the birds are shrilling
their carollings to the dawn. saun-
ter forth with a basket over her arm
to purchase the days supplies.
Instead, she will trundle forth
THE Ally" and instead of a few
stalks of celery, a bean or two, and
a pat of butter, she will be prepared
to bring home the winters supply Of
potatoes, and the next months coal.
The Ally is the invention of Mrs.
Samuel A. Bullock of Philadelphia,
and The Forum offers her this free
advertisement Of it. 1t is a little rub
Der tired truck not unlike those used
by baggage wreckers, but with one
handle instead of two. A khaki bag
is attached to it, and the whole at
fair can be trundled along the street
very conveniently.
Mrs. Bullock states that on one
marketing trip she brought home,
without inconvenience, a 5-pound
chicken, two pounds Of butter, one
basket of peaches. one box Of ber-
.ries, an eggplant, four punches of
celery, a quart of beans, a. dozen
oranges. a quarter peck of apples.
four squashes. watermelon, a loaf
OF bread, and some veal outlets.
We are strong for "The Ally, but
why should Mrs. Bullock foster dis
content by boasting Of her wealth in
this way?
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not
Square With The Forums
Opinions.

The Christian Science Monitor:
AS defined by the Constitution of the
United States, treason against the
nation consists in lcvying war
against It, or in adhering to its
enemies, giving them aid and com
fort. The enemies of the United
States, at the present time, have no
reason to complain Of a lack Of aid
and comfort from persons within the
borders Of the country. A case in
point is that of the publication
known as The Masses. This Is
radical monthly. at the present time
under the ban of the postoftice de-
partment, and denied the privilege
of the mails. because Of violent at
tacks made upMl the President, the
government, ana the army and navy.
The periodical has openly and per-
sistently antagonized the war poll
cies of the nation. 1t has been as
seditious in it's Itterances Is some
of the most pronounced of the Ger
man Language weeklies. In the seLse
that it is adhering and giving aid
and comfort to the enemy, 1t is re-
garded as a seditious newspaper. And
Il Is proud of this. 1t is making CAPT.
tai out of its situation. 1t is parad-
ing as an advertisement the fact that
1t has been excluded from the mails.
According to it's business manager,
who appears to be as defiant Of au-
thority as its editor, its circulation,
since the postoffice department took
action against it has jumped from
10000 to $4,000 a month. I'VE are
reaching our market through the
news-stands and by express. he
adds. by express we reach about
300 cities and towns, from which
points copies are reached by the
newsdealers". The Masses Is indie
pendent of the government. What
does II care for the government, II
1t can make merchandise Of sedition
at a profit?
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man, Baer, said that farmers Of
this state had adopted for a mot
to wen stick, but IL price of
wheat was not fixed at three doll
lars q bushel by the food commit
tee that they would change the
motto to "we'll strike.
Senator Gronna has made him
self and North Dakota conspicu-
Gus by attaching himself to the
coat tails of Senator La Toilette,
and with him has hindered all the
war measures as far as in his
power on the floor of the Senate.
Here we have these three;
Gronna, Baer and Governor
Frazier; and the greatest Of these
three is Mr.. Townley.
This is the sort OF stuff that is
being published by newspapers
and the elected officials of North
Dakota.
Eastern people, who know
nothing about North Dakota ex-
cept through these public repre-
sentatives Of ours are beginning
TO wonder.
They reason. with good reason,
that North Dakota people want
peace. e. They don't want to
fight themselves, but they want
to prolong the war by giving aid
and comfort to the enemy be-
cause the longer the war the
higher food products will sell
for.
Is North Dakota to secede from
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05

chairman OF the committee on ath-
letic instruction of the training camp
activities.
Associated with Mr.. Corbett are
such doughty knights Of the Cauli-
flower Ear as Norman Selby, better
known by his soubriquet Of Kid Nc
Coy; Joseph Choyinski, famous for
a memorable debating contest which
he staged with Mr.. Corbett; Packey
Mcfarland, an eminent real estate
owner and former exponent of the
noble art of self-defense; Thomas
Ryan who once. If we recall cor
rectly, waived weights and met the
originator Of that famous epigram
the bigger they are the harder they
fall.
Truly 1t is notable committee,
but its personnel is open to criticism.
1t is wholly militarlstfc In its make
up and ii is too highly specialized.
Why was not a Hurry-up Yost in
cluded? Nothing more deadly than
his team OF 1906 was ever organized.
And why was the Minnesota doctor
who met the onslaught of Heston and
his men and turned 1t back at North
rup Field, overlooked?
Also the peace party should de-
mand that the soldiers of the Am
erican army be drilled in the sports
of peace as well as the sports OF
war. Rise in your wrath. oh We
Eastmans and Jordans. and insist
that our soldiers be not left in the
hands of purely militaristic instruc-
tors.
Here is a field of agitation worthy
of the best efforts of the Obstruction
lists. Let them devote all their eff
forts to 1t until the committee is
thoroughly aroused. Then save US
two ringside seats.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
BANK CASE
BEFORE JUDGE PARSONS
Land Deal Is Involved I'm Proceed
ings--Order Filed In Rite
man-Eid Action.

Judge William L. Parsons is hear
ing the case of J. A. Kemp, as receiv-
err, against The0. Kroening in Clay
county district court at Moorhead to-
day. This is one of the GAINESVILLE
National bank-Cary cases in which
land deal is involved. Francis Z.
Cary, former president of the Barnes
willie National bank, was in court this
morning as a witness in this case.
Charles s. Marden is attorney for
Kroening and C. g. Dosland repre-
sents the receiver.
An order for judgment has been
made by Judge Parsons in the case
of William Ritteman VS.. John Ed on
the ground that there was no cause
for action. This case was tried be-
fore Judge Parsons last week and
grew out of the disposition of certain
property of the Hawley firm, Rite
man e. Eid, that was dissolved after a
receivership suit about ten years ago.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
the United states?

The Grand Forks Herald comment!
on the manner in which habitua
law breakers always appeal to thu
law for protection, as follows:
Habitual law breakers have q
fashion of appealing for protec-
ton to the very laws which they
have violated and held in con-
tempt The ]. w. w. agitator is
essentially q law breaker, but
when an effort is made to sup
press him in the interest Of
society he appeals to the laws for
protection. He who has denied
and defied the constitution claims
his rights under that constitu-
ton.
Some one in authority in the
Peoples Council has said that
the proposed meeting of the
society viii be conducted strictly
according TO law. The governor
of North Dakota has intimated
that the society will be given pru.-
lection In this state so long as
its proceedings are conducted
lawfully The announcement Of
these conditions is a miserable
subterfuee
There can be no lawfully con-
Quoted meeting Of the Peoples
Council because the very exist
ence Of the society Is predicated
on opposition to the laws OF the
land.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
Lemon Juice
For FreCkIes
GIrIsI Make beauty lotion at
home for few cents. Try TEL

Squeeze the juice of two lemons M
to a bottle containing three ounces
orchard white, shake we'll, and you
have quarter pint of the best
freckle and tan lotion, and complexion
beautifier, at very, very small cost
Your grocer has. the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces OF orchard white
for a few cents. Massage this sweet
ly fragrant lotion into the face, neck.
arms and hands each day and see
how freckles and blemishes disappear
and how clear. soft and white the
skin becomes. Yesl It is harmless.
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"Fourth-That doing or saying or
writing anything which tends to
hearten or encourage the enemy,
whether aimed against these United
States or in form against any ally
in war Of these United States, is as
much within the provision of the
constitution as would be the render
ing Of material physical aid to the
common foe.
"Fffth-That the test Of modern
conditions will be applied in deter
miningN whether the speaking or
writing may be reasonably deemed
to have afforded aid and comfort to
the enemy, to have encouraged his
resistance, to have heartened his eff
fort
And, finally, that there is sure to
be a popular demand for the execu-
ton Of traitors as soon as the lives
of our men commence to be taken.
For experience has shown that such
a demand arises in every country
under such circumstances: being
urged as matter of common prudence
for the protection of the land; and it
is hard to successfully show in eY-
cry instance that it is not justified.
Wherefore 1t may befall that all Of
the admirers of autocracy may not be
saved from the results OF what can
not but de designated their own
criminal folly.
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To One Who Boosted
BY Amelia Josephine Burr Of The
Vigilantes,

by Amelia Josephine Burr of The
Vigilantes.
You think it is an aims, all that we
give?
You talk of Belgium, France and
Liberty
AS If they were our pensioners? oh,
blind .......
We missed our chance of magnanimi-
ty.
Rather say humbly that we fight
with France
And Liberty. The time is long since
past
When we could say we fought for
them alone.
There is too real an enemy Of our
own
Against whose armoured breast we
bend our lance.
Say that we see at last
Our danger, that we are at last
afraid,
But dare not claim as ours the
martyrs palm
That ruined Belgium on Gods altar
laid.
We have been wise in time. No 9TH
er balm
For what we bear have we a right to
claim.
Save US, o God, from pride-lest we
remind
The nations OF our shame.
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The EoUILIRRIsrs.

The meeting of farmers called to
protest against the price of wheat.
has been changed to a meeting Of
both producers and consumers to
discuss" the price of wheat.
It is difficult, isn't 1t. to get SIS
apiece from workingmen in the towns
and cities of the country to support
a campaign to raise the price Of
flour.
Why not turn it into an explana-
ton meeting, and explain why the
war chest was kept tightly locked
and the key in st. Paul while the bat
tie ragged in Washington?