The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-08
In The Open Forum
A Column Devoted to the Task Of
Keeping Up With North Da~
kota Editors.

The New Rockford State Center
doesn't see any complicated prob
lens in the QUESTIONABLE. 1t says:
1t is all very we'll for the law
yers to chip in and help out the
men liable to war service in the
matter of the QUESTIONABLE, but
the latter is not at all the formi-
dable documents 1t is generally
supposed to be. 1t may be confus-
ing by reason of the multiplicity
of questions it carries. but all
these questions are of a simple
character and the parties in
terested will find that only a
small per cent Of the questions
apply to them. The Philadel-
phia Record contends that there
is nothing at all complicated
about the QUESTIONABLE and
anyone who will take the trouble
to read the questions asked viii
have no difficulty in answering
them.
The Bismarck Tribune sees in the
grocery boys the future leaders in
finance and business, and counsels
a respectful attitude. 1t says:
Forbes Magazine has got up
a list of so of Americas foremost
leaders of finance and business,
as selected by a popular vote,
which contains some interesting
data.
of the so, "a are sons Of par
,ents who were in poor circum-
stances, nine had rich parents
and II had parents only moder-
ately well-off.
There's only one school teach
err in the list of those who be-
came big and rich and we hold
our breath while announcing
that 16 per cent of those who
started poor began as grocery .
boys. There may not be a whole
lot of high instruction in Bro.
Forbes list but it surely has a
warning to be kind and respect
full to your grocery boy, whose
potentialities probably don't ap-
pear on his surface.
The Schafer Record sees the war
getting closer to American homes
every day, and says so as follows:
The war is coming home to us
by leaps and bounds. We have
meatless and wheatless days and
Ightless nights; we have meat
less mince meat, Wheatless bread
and people living a distance from
Ignite mines are looking for
ward to coaIless heat. Last but
not least the casualty lists from
"over there" are beginning to
arrive daily.
The Bismarck Public Opinion
thinks it time to call attention to
one of the good points of the elm
ate. as follows:
oh. hold on! WHAT'S the use
in getting off that old gag about
going to leave the. state IL this
weather continues?" TCu said
that last winter-But l over
heard YOU say something else
last summer! Do you know what
ii was? Well, I'll tell you: You
said. "GoIly, I'm glad to live in a
state where the nights are cool
enough to allow fellow TO sleep
when he's tired; / couldn't do
that in the summer down in
Missouri, where / came from!
: The Dickinson Press has this
little envoi to the Nonpartisan Lead
er:
Many Of the farmers Of North
Dakota assisted In forming The
Nonpartisan Leader. ueWspap-
er eStanllRhen TOT IuFlHeIAhS LnD
interests of the league in this
state. They had headquarters
at Fargo from where the paper
was published
As a North Dakota institution,
the Leader was founded by
North Dakota money and the
farmers saw no reason to think
that after the paper had been
established on their money, the
plant would be moved entirely
out of the state.
III has just been taken to 81.