The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-10
The Editors Mail Bag

Life in North Dakota is just one thing after
another. Grand old states and grand old parties
participate in the pentttude of good harvests.
Only this evening the doctor said to the depot
agent:
Charlie how'd you like this weather
Say Doc 1 wish II would last till next sum-
mer." says the boss Of Big Business.
The high cost of living has cracked again. Pop
has gone up to s cents per bottle. Sugar scar
city caused the popmen to cast about for a
recipe which calls for syrup instead Of sugar.
What Is the result? Why better pop. of course.
And that's what we are fighting for; to make
things better.
About the time became reConcied to the in
creased cost of pop the Havana creamery man
goes and gets drafted and has to sell out his in
stltution to farmers. Not Of the new stock
holders knows a lick on earth about making glu
cose ice cream and the next night the 9:25 train
on the 500 docs not drop an ice cream freezer on
the depot platform. Calamties come in strings
Of four; so surgeons tell us and waiting
to see what will happen next.
Up to this moment not sure whether it
has not 1t is like this. The school trustees
hired teachers to teach our schools at the proper
time and let it be known how the paid appointees
were extraordinarily good to look at. One of
these school teachers has let it be known she
will not come. Don't you situation? We
have not been able to her photograph and
cannot tell how much we are losing. The custom
of displaying the pictures Of school teachers en-
masse, without gives rise to msunder-
standing. An old bachelor might make a con-
tract to beard one Of the teachers believing he
had cinch on a young man who would do chores
with hearty good will for the sake OF exercise in
the fresh air. In reality he finds he is loaded
to the gunwales with a fat lady with seven
diplomas, who offers to instruct him in foreign
languages in exchange for pitcher of hot water
in the morning.
Everybody is enthusiastic when the news
reaches Cayuga. We should worry Maybe the
Allies will have opportunity to duplicate
Shcrman's March Thro' Georgia. Berlin would
make a tar barrel big enough to burn in ratifica-
ton Of a victorious peace The pacifists can SYM
phathize with the Kaiser if they want to but most
Of us are built so it will not give a pain to see
prairie fire in the direction of Potsdam
One farmer in this vicinity is a sadder and
wiser man today. Yesterday he finished up his
threshing all but one ten-acre patch. His yield
was so satisfactory he thought Of wiring
the State Council Of Defense for instructions on
canning his straw stacks. What does he take and
do but set fire to them. The display was mag
nificent and reminded the of his youth when
he used to paint the town red Suddenly his wife
ran to the barn door and said kindly but firmly:
Jake, the farm is fire..
Sure enough the ten acres of wheat burned to
the ground and the price of an automobile dis
appeared before dinner leaving only grease
spot back of the potato cellar
Such a calamity will not break the but
it will interest him in poverty fighting devices
which will to the front when the war is
tale that is told; and matter how long this
tale may be the end will be reached in due time.
So many giant successes have come to the front
lately that nothing will surprise the people of the
United States. The Germans calculated their big
guns would win this war but American big guns
are going turn the trick, Four Liberty loans
in little more than year are some pumpkins
when it comes to big guns. Insurance for the
soldiers is another big gun. 1t encourages us to
hope for governmental ownership Of building and
loan associations in the sweet pretty soon.
Well I got to go plow. You should see the
acreage Sargent county farmers are going to SOW
in the next campaign which win wind up this
world disturbance. Jasper Selkirk.
Cayuga, n. D., Sept. 8.