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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
GERMAN DENIALS

The German minister to Mexico denies that he had
employed a former Swedish official to convey Information
to the German foreign Office, denying that he had recon-
mended the official for a decoration to be bestowed secret
ly, and denying everything charged in the recently pub
lished accounts of his activities.
Those who are interested in the subject will note these
denials with only faint interest, and the denials will not
change the belief of anybody In particular. AS a rule
the specific statement Of the official representative of a
great nation is received as truth. Even If it appears to
be in conflict with known facts, judgment is suspended
until there can be full investigation, and 1t Is usually be-
lieved that such discrepancies, when they exist, will prove
to be due to a misunderstanding. Diplomats are suppos-
ed to be gentlemen and men of honor.
This does not apply now to the diplomats Of Ger
many. German official falsehood and treachery have ut
terly destroyed confidence in everything emanating from
the German government or those who represent it. From
that source we have learned to expect promises that weNe
never intended to be kept; protestations of friendship while
deliberately hostile acts were being committed or while
preparation was being made for them; equivocation in
stead of direct speech; and deliberate falsehood when
falsehood seemed likely to serve the purpose.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
HYMN OF HATE"
WAKES HYMN OF LOVE

BY Edith M. Thomas of The VigiIantes
Did I love the world-did /, love my
kind?
That was the question I pondered so,
That was the thing I did not know. &.
But, seeing with heart, or soul, or
mind
How hateful is Hate and the works
thereof,
tIt was then that I knew that my
choice was Love.
As over the seas a song was blown, 4
In another tongue, but of import clear,
Blended Of wrath and malignant fear,
A Hymn Of Hate-of the DEVILS own,
It was from that moment my heart
began
An u~nceasing Hymn Of Love for Man!
If ever from Evil has come forth
Good,
May it not be that the wide worlds
heart
Given as mine) has understood
How hateful is Hate, and has taken
Loves part
Even for them who yet blindly fight,
Enslayed by the foes Of Freedom and
Right. J N' t.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
A Stick in Civilizations Wheel

clear itself of the charges Of being at
war with freedom, with law and with
humanity itself, nave proved beyond
a question that it is upon these deep
est aspirations of the world that it
does war.
Prussianism, as we have come to
call the doctrine on which Germany
bases it's attack on the world, believes
In itself and its superiority to the rest
Of us. 1t believes itself called to
spread itself over the rest Of us in
spite of our liking 1t or not. It be-
lfeves in war as the divinely APP
pointed instrument for our CONVEX
sion. Believing this, it made good and
ready for it's great crusade. It de-
veloped a great, healthy, busy, trained,
obedient people-people who, for the
sake of the security they enjoyed in
the perfectly adjusted machine, were
willing to accept wal which was to
make them richer, more powerful,
rulers of the earth. This war is but
the first campaign in the series which
was to Prussianize the earth. Study
Germany's own teachings, follow the
patient, intelligent worming into every
nook and Granny of the earth and
you annot escape her intention, fan
tastic as it seems, hard as it has beer
to believe 1t.
Germany struck a group Of nations
cropping towards an entirely different
ldeal-nations only ha~lf-heartedly
military and that hlaf SO only by their
sense OF necessity. These nations
wanted only their own. They were
coming and more to feel that
every little land should have its
tchance. They wanted above all peace
that the visions Of the possibilities for
peoples h lived and worked hon
estly, visions still dim but yet un-
Observation-Disclosures be realized.
With every month of this three
years Of war it has become clearer
that either P~russianism or democracy
must go down. What was true Of
slavery in this country sixty years ago
I'VE must become all one thing or
other Is true today. We must
become all Prussian or all democrat.
There is no peace in the world with
both. The stick must come out OF
The vince or we must take the road
t a world imperialism.
What folly to talk OF boundaries
now, to pirate of ~indemnities and an
~nexations. They are not the question,
MOI q they be until the one question
is settled. Free the wheel, and Ali
these matters will be adjusted by q
world free to be just, free SO to ar
range things that each shall get the
chance and that all nations-Germany
Itself included-shaIl have d free play
peaceful democratic ambition.
10 talk Of terms now is to play the
game OF autocracy. What greater
help within Germany-with the Ger
man people-could this autocracy ask
than propositions from the allies? II
would enable 1t to say to them-tYou
see they must sue for peace. They're
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
WHAT is GOING ON
In GERMANY
AS Told by the Newspapers
We Get From the Teutonic
Empires and Neutral
5 Nations.
GERMANS FORCED no
iRIIY IQW-GRADE FOOD.

buy LoW-GRADE FOOD.
The Anhalt volksblatt complains Of
the tendency of government authori-
ties to follow the INSCRIPTIONS prac-
tees Of some retailers. An article
READS: SEf{A III,
The practice Of making the sale Of
certain articles dependent on the! pur-
chase of others frequently unfit for
consumption has again and again call
ed for the censure and even severe
punishment from the authorities.
Now, however, it has come to this,
that the public authorities are actual
" compelling the people to buy more
or less worthless OF half-decayed vic
tuals. Several cases of this kind have
occurred recently. y.
BY way of example, we here repro
duce an order issued by the authori-
ties Of g certain commune in the Co
logne district:
On Saturday next, oat prepara-
tons and jams will be furnished to
all holders of food coupons 2 and 8.
Every family is compelled beforehand
to procure from the shops which will
be hereafter designated, one tin of fish
or one pound of cheese, or four pack
cts of pudding powder. Whoever fails
to comply with this order will be ex-
cluded from the list Of recipients of
the wares mentioned in the opening
section of this order" sis
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
WHAT is THE WAR WORTH?

We discuss the cost Of the war. We consider its
cost in money, in material, in human lives, in human suf-
worth? .y
It fssinpossible to place q value In dollars on i'm
material things. But it is important to remember that
out of the war. deplorable as it is, will come things of
vast value to the human race.
In the large sense it is a war for human freedom.
1t is a war for democracy. It is a war waged on the
part Of America and her allies to establish permanently
and unassailably, the right of human beings to enjoy in
peace the fruits Of their own labors, and to establish and
maintain such systems Of government as afford them
the fullest opportunities for the developm emit of the best
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
tBy Ida M. Tarben Of the vigilantes

(By Ida M. Tarbeu OF the V~igilaDtes.)
Playing cutie fish," as Lincoln
called IL, is one Of the commonest
tricks in polemtcs. In attack, in de-
Tense, in escape, your partisan cuttle-
fish can throw out its black fluid,
darkening facts until the straight line
of reasoning Is in a hopeless tangle.
A favorite form of this sort of polemic
trtckery is ~obscuring the issue by de-
claring your opponent has mo policy
Lincoln, the openest Of ~reasoners,
he who at every point in an argument
took almost Quixotic pains to make
his meaning and policy clear, was
forced always to keep an eye open for
this particular cuttle-fsh trick. 1t
was played on him constantly in the
Civil war by the northern pacifsts.
They wanted his termsi-He had
stated them repeatedly from the start
the unton-that was his object and
that alone. Whatever he did or said,
he did and said because he believed
1t would help save the Union. What
he did not say or do he did not say
or do because he did not believe the
doing and saying would help save the
Y Union.
But the north was sprinkled with
people who were not satisfied with
that me clear aim. They wanted him
to set down in writing what he meant
to do with the ~Confederates should
they be defeated, what kind Of gov
eminent he proposed to establish in
the revolving states; whether or no he
would give the negro a vote; that is,
they were busy from morning until
night ~obscuring the end-the saving
OF the Union. -
Every great contest breeds school
OF this pestiferous cuttle-fish. We
have them mountaineering our
troubled waters with their t.We-don,t-
know-why-We-are-fghting' ink. They
want terms" and threaten to hinder
b war in every way possible until
they get them.
There are two ways of explaining
b people who today declare that we
have been hurried" into shis wal
n that we don't know whit weSare
fighting for-one is that intellectual
blfndnessEthat ability to think what
you want to think, to. see no more
Ihan you want to see-engendered by
fanatfcal devotion to a particular
formula or schemeAoften yerv GOD
IN ttsef;;-the other Is plain intellec-
tual dishonesty.
I y ever the reason for a war was
clear II yer q people came to a war
BY solid IL slow argument, 1t il nov.
x 1f ever4t the aim OF a conflict was
stated fully and unanswerably twas
go stated by the president OF tIIa
United States In his message of Anril
2, declaring war. That message Is
our aim. We are Ii Val Because fhe
wheel Of civilization Is Blocked 80 4
stick OF such prodigious and hideous
fotghneas that It never again will re-
yplye in the path b i demccratfc
progress unless hat part BIZ the world
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17

In the agony OF a mothers breaking heart as she
gives her best beloved I'd the nations. call to save ciyili-
zation, i plead with you to make certain that the spies
and the pro-Germans in this country, whether holding
allegiance to- Germany or claiming to be Americans. shall
not be permitted by a continuation Of the work which
they have been doing to lessen the chance for the life of
my boy and the millions Of other boys who are answering
your call ana offering themselves on the altar of the ma
TONS life. WHILE
Mr.. President, those Of us who are giving sons and
husbands or other loved ones, are giving all that we have
in life. Bravely we are trying to bear the SORROWS which
have been placed upon us. Bravely we are trying to look
forward with some hope of their return.
They are going out to fight the most desperate,
diabolical enemies ever known to mankind, and they
are going because you have called them to this holy
task.
We would not hold them back, for we know that
they are going for our honor and to save us and all
womanhood from the fearful fate which has befallen
Belgium and much of France.
But, Mr.: President, we know that their lives are be-
ing menaced because of pro-Gernan activities. We know
that many a soldiers life will be lost which might 9TH
erwise have been saved had these pro-German activities
been suppressed with a ruthless hand.
The men who in this country are fighting the United
States by working for Germany are infinitely more our
enemies and the enemies of these loved ones that we are
sending to battle than are the men in Germany, even
than the kaiser and his associates. These men at home
are seeking to stab our loved ones in the back, and you,
Mr.. President, know it. These black-hearted traitors to
humanity are walking our streets, doing business with
our people, and yet are allied with Hell in an effort to
make sure that many thousands of our sons who might
otherwise be saved shall be left on the battlehelds of
Europe.
In the name of the mothers, and the wives, the sis
ters and the sweethearts of all these soldiers who are be-
ing called, and Of the other millions who will be called,
I plead with you to suppress with an iron hand every
man and woman in this country who secretly or openly
is endeavoring to bring about the murder of these be-
loved sons and husbands and sweethearts-the very
flower Of the nations life.
It is within your power, Mr.. President, to suppress
this German element.
1t is in your power to shorten the length of this war
and to save to us thousands and tens of thousands of
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17

forms Of speech, the Hyde nature
too plainly. What I said in reply had
nothing to dc with the narrative ex-
cept that it ended the friendship be-
tween us for all time. Only this: we
had already walked away several
PAGES from one another, when down
the broad drive of Inter den Linden
came a cavalcade Of four equestrians,
at full gallop-the sons of the kaiser.
vile Difference paid them by the on
lockers gave me a prophetic view OF
the future. I fastened back to Herr
Grossenheimer and pulled him by the
arm none too gently:
There I said to him, pointing at
the fast disappearing horsemen,
there is your world menace!"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
(By Daniel Louis Hanson of the
Vigilantes.)

I first met Herr. Grossenheimer in
Chicago during the worlds fair year,
one of that large army of educated
and enterprising Europeans which the
Dream City on LAX Michigan drew
into the heart of the United States.
His specific mission was to study de-
partrnent store methods at the source
of recognized authority-Marshall
Fields. There he secured a position
and there he made such4a record for
faithfulness and efficiency that, If he
had remained he would long since
have held a high position in the es-
tablishment. And I urged him to re-
main, for apparently-and sincerely
too, I believe-he was an enthusiast
government alike. He was eloquent
and fervent in his expressed admira-
ton for America" At this stage of
his life, Herr Grossenheimer was a
son Of democracy.
He went back to Germany, however,
and started q department store in one
Of it's largest cities. There he prac-
ticed, S 10 well what he had seen and
heard at Marshall Fields, that he be-
came n Of the great merchants OF
Germany. ,le
I met Herr Grossenheimer again in
1905, this time in New York city.
He had taken on smoothness, as well
as flesh, and had lost some of his ear
lier love and admiration for the Uni
ted States; or rather it had become
part and parcel of the tolerance, yes
passion, that he now possessed for hui
mainly as a whole. In short, Herr
Grossenheimer was so much good in
all na%tionalities and in their various
forms of government that he was a
lcosmopolite-more SO, more attrac-
lively 50, than n other mar I ever
had met. Nor in fact have I since
seen one who has come as near to be-
ing a citizen Of the world, as did Herr
Grossenheimer in 1905.
We met again in 1911. Our third
and last-meeting occurred that sum-
mer in Berlin. I was glad to see him
and still glad that 1 knew this now
burly and somewhat bumptious bust.
ness man. He had prospered to a re.
markable degree. He had made Of
his department store a marvel Of at.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
Letters From
Our Readers
The Dogs OF war.

I notice in The Herald your state-yl
ment that the government will draft
into the war service 10000 dogs. This
must be a misunderstanding OF facts;
it possibly is not meant to be the four
legged CANNES Of which a few names
of different breeds were given. r am
inclined to believe that it. is the two
legged disloyal dogs that are referred
to- Many of these two-legged yellow
CANNES have taken advantage Of and
benefited by the tliberality OF our
American government and Its splendid
institutions, and under government
protection have, in many cases, ac-
cumulated wealth or at least a fair
competence, but when our govern
ment is in dire nee Of men and money
to defend and protect our liberal In
stitutions, as well as institutions Of the
same kind in other places of this
world. Then these disloyal ours yeIp
and whine that patriotism does not
extend outside Of ones immediate
home.
For shame! If ignorance Of the
actual situation is the cause, theser
people are to be pitied and to some ex-
tent excused. Otherwise they GER
tainly ought to be drafted and, imme-
dlately sent to the front as they are
none too good to be shot at by the
ruthless Germans.
What we need here in America now
to defend for 1perpetuation of our
liberal institutions is authority to send
these winners into the ranks at once
and train them into loyalty. The only
trouble, I apprehend, would be$lourg
loyal boys In tan would refuse to fight
the Prussian tyrants in company with
these d1sloyal ones who practically
trough this war to America and are
still hindering and abusing u gov,
ernmentHwith their whining. /
- ~ -ChaS. j. Foss.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17

A CAESAR

-4EE.-ENEEE rEs4rA asas-b ri -.yU gHFzTTgII7 ~
(By Clinton Scotland OF the VigiIantes,
Obsessed with dreams Of power,
Brooding, ambition-mad,
He saw the world his dover
From Berlin to Bagdad;
And SO his hosts of. i'll
He loosed in steely streams;
And he is stills still
Obsessed with dreams. S
Had he but held his hand,
Gmperious as old Rome)
Lo, no. one riven land, s
And not n ravished home!
But he must have his will
Vouch. desecrated Rheimsl
Behold him blinded still,
Obsessed with dreams!
Some day across his sleep
May there be visions borne
OF countless eyes that weep,
How AUTHORIZATIONS MOURN
Were it not just until
The earth's last: dawning CLEANS
That he be haunted still,
Obsessed with dreamsi
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17

as severe as the most intolerant ally
might NAME. a.
The German people have believed
their government impregnable. They
still believe it so. The only possible
way to break the superstition is to
break autocracy in Germany. Break
1t until it is on it's knees suing for
peace. Then and only then will that
great and wonderful people come to
itself. And then only will civilization,
as those of us who now call ourselves
democrats understand it, have a
chance.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
THE GRAND FORKS HERALD
NFe5nber. a., the A-saofaa,ea So.

Member Of the Associated Press.
The Associated Press u exeIu-
siyeIy entitled TO the use for repub-
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not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news Published
herein.
All rights Of republication 81
special dispatches herein ars also
reserved.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
IT'S UP TO YOU.
BY Berton Braley,

HI L. .eG~ MrgE F1SAf+t.IN
You a take advice while the takinessS
good, 7>
AS to things you shouldn't do. things
you should;
But this must always be understoodaSt
Cts knowledge from VISIONS
shelly
That the, final word as to whatayou do
And whether you choose the false Or
true
Is quite exclusively up to you
you've got to decide yoursenl
In luck or trouble that fortune sends.
You may have plenty OF loyal friends.
VINO boost Q on in your aims and
ends, ID
And help you to fame ana pelf:
But when you come down to the olds
bed rock. S
Your friends may cheer and your foes
II is YOU alone that will bear the
You must stand the gaG your
The world may smile or the world
may frown
May strive t. lit you q keep youi
But whether you climb to. high renauvn
Or stay on the bottom shelf.
The CRUCIAL battles you cannot
Alone You do, and alone YOU dare. y
Each 5mortaps cross is his own to bear.
And It's up to you--YourselfI
REAL VALUE.
Pittsburgh Ttmes-Gazette: The nav
of American soldiers has been IN.
creased to so a month, SO when +
spaseDall players are drafted some ~
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
HEAP HEAT FOR HOME.

Baltimore American: "Bragley saws
his new house. is heated with hot air"
Then it is we'll heated. I've heard
Bragley talk
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17

Lives now needlessly sacrificed
could be saved if the patient would
go to the surgeon promptly as does
the average person attacked by APP
pendicitis.
It is clear, however, that a diff
ferent attitude toward cancer v
and Is the cause of many deaths. The
almost superstitious dread Of the dis
ease and unwilltngness to admit its
existence or to seek medical advice
in time are well known and difficult
obstacles to progress in its control.
Proof of this fatal neglect is found
in the experience of a prominent sur
|geon who recently studied his case
records In order tolobtain definite in
formation as to the delay in the
average case.
OF 65 recent patients, 35 were. mel
and 80 were women. Further study
of these IS cases showed that after
the first discovery of suspicious
n men had waited IAN
average of 12.2 months before con-
sulting the doctor and the women
months or practically a years. DELAY
In all
Winter OF Konigsberg the pioneer
In the education of the public in re-
gard to cancer. examined the records
OF 1862 operable cases and showed
that 81 per cent of these patients
could and should have applied For
treatment much earlier, when they
would have had a far higher chance
OF recovery than was actually the
case.
Warts or moIes which are rubbed
and irritated by clothing or from n
other cause frequently develop into
cancer. Men frequently get cancer
OF p lip or mouth through chronic
Irritation caused of overuse Of 4 nina
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
POINTS FOR THE ARTIST.


Every act every impulse OF virtue
and voice, affects In any creature, face.
voice, nervous power and yfgor and
harmony of invention at once.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER Il. 1917.

9 fo,ds IF white and scarlet! o blue with your silver
warm hearts cherish you, and dying lips give You theiIf;
Dtsssing! ours BY inheritance, ours BY Allegiance, ours by
the emblem OF liberty. the hope of the world.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
CANCER
Kills Thousands Yet is Durable In
Early Stages.
Thousands Of lives are needlessly
sacrificed to ancer Many people who

,er. Many peopl who
are afflicted could
be saved. It Is
largely a question of
getting early medi-
cal and surgical at
tention. Any sore
that refuses to heal
should be seen by a
physician.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
Notice to Contractors

Sealed bids will be received at the
County Auditors office until 3 O'Clock
p. M. April Srd, 1917, for engine to
pull elevated grader and blade grad
er on road work on the automobile
road in east half of the county. Bids
must be for engine and all help re-
quired in running engine and grader
per hour. Bids may also be sub.
mitted for aoing this work per day.
j. p. Erickson,
County Auditor.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
LANG, THE EYE MAN,
COMING AGAIN

At Hotel in Ft. Pierre Monday,
March Is, a. m. only.
AT Hotel in Pierre, Monday, March
II, p. m. only.
At Hotel in Higbmore Tuesday,
March ID, a. m. only.
AT Hotel in Harold Tuesday,
March ID, p. m. only.
If you are nervous, have headaches
or don't see we'll, come in. Save the
%children's eyes. Largest exclusive
eye business in South Dakota.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
9TH and 9Th Grade Final Examina-
lions

Tie final examinations for 7th and
sth grade Hughes county pupils will
be held in the school house at Har-
rold and Blunt, and in the Court
Room at Pierre March % %, 1917,
beginning promptly at 8 O'Clock a.
N. Only those pupils will be per.
mitted to take this examination WHO
have completed their work i'm those
grades, or who attend schools closing
early ION or before April 2Osh.)
DAISY A. SoLBERG,
County Superintendent.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08

Do you want to borrow money on
your land? If so, write or call on
]. L. LOCKHART. Pierre, S. D.