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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07

first congress on the Democratic ticket He was
defeated. but was elected to the sixty second,
sixty third and sixty fourth congress. While iii
congress he was the chief exponent OF govern-
rnent ownership and operation Of wires. He
fought for It for many years and most or the
time alone. His long fight for government own-
ership made him national figure and ii seems
only fitting that he should have been picked to
help control the wires when the government fin
ally decided TO take them over. Il has been said
81 Lewis that he ID one of the worlds best au-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07

He will now act as assistant
10 Postmaster General Bur-
lesson.
Lewis halls from a small
town in Pennsylvania. He Is
b comparatively young man
when one considers the
heights he has reached, being
only 80 years old. He never
attended school, but he did
60 to Sunday school, and II
was there he learned to read,
When he was nine years old
he started to work la a coal
mine and worked there for
IL years, during which time
ne studied law and Latin by
himself.
In 1892 he was admitted to
the bar and the next year he
left the coal mines TO praov
tice law at Cumberland. That
year also marked the event OF
his marriage. In 1902 he bee
came a member OF the Mary
land senate. In 1908 he was
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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07
Who's Who In The Days News

David John Lewis, who will help control and
operate the telephone and telegraph lines
throughout the country, is self-made man. Be-
fore his appointment to his present post he was
a member Of the United States tariff commission
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07

show the little line
dispatches been received.
he map only allies the
further souhe the Lys salient where
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07

both by the soldiers of Uncle Sam in France
and by the farmers In the great Northwest"
ern wheat belt"s
The Grand Forks Herald discusses the burn
ing of straw follows:
"All up and down the valley threshng rigs
running, and every night there can be
seen on the clouds the reflections from burn
ing straw piles. Straw fires not as num-
erous as they were, but it is unfortunate
that there should be any Straw, after being
worked over by stock, can be applied TO the
land with beneficial results, for, in addition to
its content OF fertility, 1t keeps the soil sup
piled with the humus without which the rails
ing of crops would be impossible. The man
who burns his straw, therefore, and who
keeps it up, is surely burning up a valuable
part Of his farm.
Just now the use of straw for feed for
stock Is a matter to be considered very ser-
ously. In the eastern part Of the state there
is abundance of coarse feed for all the
stock that is kept, more in fact than can be
consumed. But in some other sections there
Is a shortage, not only of grain for feed, but
Of roughage, and there is certain to be a de-
mand In those sections for much Of the
straw that Is now being burned.
The Bismarck Tribune urges the wisdom OF
electing Chief Justice Fisk, In the following edt"
Chief Justice c. j. Fisk was jockeyed off
the bench two years ago by a seryile pander-
ing to the clamors of the mob There was no
case against Judge Fisk, but his political
enemies fashioned one from whole cloth, and
they nodded It to catch the popular fancy of
the moment, and as result one of the abb
est juristg who ever has sat on northwest
ern bench was lost to the commonwealth.
But it begins to appear that North Da-
kota having had time for that sober second
thought which always comes, matter how
great the hysteria may have been, will gladly
reconsider and that 1t will gracously accept
the tender OF further service which Judge
Fisk has been prevailed upon to make.
THE return of Judge Fisk to the supreme
bench would do more than anything else we
know Of to prove that North Dakotas cleo
torate is enjoying a return Of sanity. The
supreme court needs the upright honesty and
judicial clarity of mind which have charac-
terized Judge Fisks long public career He
is today at the height Of his usefulness as a
public servant. .Matured by many years eX-
perience as both district and supreme court.
jurist quckehed by two years closer con-
tact with the people as private practitioner
Judge Fisk should return to his high duties
capable Of stabilizing and restoring to the
first tribunal of our commonwealth that dig
nifty in which it has been so sadly lacking
during the last two years.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07
In The Open Forum
A Column Devoted TO The Task OF Keep
ing Up With North Dakota Editors

The Walsh County Record has this little tribute
to the farmers war effortg
THE government asked the farmers of the
Northwest in the spring to sow a big acre
age Of wheat as a war measure. The re-
quest was compiled with and nature has been
more than generous with her aid. The re-
suit will be the marketing Of a splendid crop
Of high grade wheat The imperial govern
ment OF Germany is being successfully fought
both by the soldiers of Uncle Sam In France
and by the farmers In the great Northwest"
ern wheat beIt".
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

Another yarn from the mercury
lighted editorial rooms of Park Row.
It was six in the morning. The city
editor was there. A reporter came in.
He took off his coat, walked over and
picked up chair and beat it to frag-
ments against a post. This chair
finished, he picked up another and
went through the same process.
Finally the gasping editor called
out: "Here, what are you doing"
"Pm resigning, you gray-haired
idiot" was the reply, "and / am re-
signing in a way that will make you
remember me until your dying day.
And after you are dead want a piece
of the rope"
Then he marched out and the city
editor got him later in the day by
telephone and offered to double his
salary, but he wouldn't come back.
He has Joined his colors. He will
make a fighter, no doubt. New York
Sun.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

it carries thence from sources of con-
Elimination and of the refuse which
it, transfers from rotting vegetables,
meat and FISH. Twenty-Five per cent Of
flies breed in manure heaps.
Besides the diseases mentioned flies
Saye been brought to the bar on in
dictments for having spread cholera,
| IOckiaw, trachOma granular lids),
anthrax (the stable fly is here guilty.,
and something like a dozen more
Germ diseases. The ordinary fly may
swallow the eggs Of tapewOrms and
ether intestinal parasites, and then
distribute those eggs where they may
do hurt to humankind
Before considering other insects l
had better state more clearly just how
these pests perform their part in dis
ease dissemination. The germs may
stick to the bodies of the insects. Or
the germs may he eaten by the insects
and deposited upon human food and
drink with their eXcreta. Or the IN
Sects may eject the germs from their
mouths upon the skins of uncieaniT
people who do not battle regularly.
Or the insects may die after eating
the germs: and the bodies of the for
mer may fall into the food; or the
dead insect bodies may dry up, crum-
bic, be spread in dust and be either
inhaled or injected by human beings
Or the insects (such as the mOsquitO)
may inject into the host with their
sting diseased blood which they have
previously sucked from previous
sufferer (such as malaria patient).
Mosquito Fever.
Doctors prefer to speak of malaria
as mosquito fever, for, as everyone
now knows, it is the species of mos
quito called Anophees, which is sole
ly responsible for the propagation Of
this disease.
AnOpheles breeds in still water in
moist sand or moss, in pools by the
sides of open streams, in permanent
aCcumulations of water Of every sort
where there is green scum, in beds Of
old canals, in old horse troughs and
the like. When the blood of a ma
laria sufferer is sucked into the stom-
ach by anOpheles the malaria parasite
in that blood undergoes development;
and the products Of this process enter
the mosquitoes salivary glands and are
elected into the system of the next
person stung. If this latter unfOr-
tunate has not yet had malaria he
thus contracts the disease unless his
natural antigerm forces are able to
destroy the parasite before 1t can do
any mischief in his body.
Naturally then, the prevention of
malaria depends on the destruction of
all breeding places within the radius
of a mile. The way to do this is to
drain or fill in with earth, or to cover
the surface of any water with tnin
film of kerosene. Houses must be
screened. AnOpheles bites only after
sundown; and only the Lady An
Opheles does the mischief. Here: as
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
European War News

AS a temporary measure, it was Of
ficially announced in London that SiI
William Robertson, chief Of the east
ern command, and former chief of the
imperial staff, has been appointed to
command the forces in Great Britain
The official French report reveals the
fact that the Germans have a new air.
plane which is much larger and more
powerful than any previously reported
The machine has four motors, and was
brought down on June l in the region
of Nantmenil le Haudonin. Its crew
Of eight men was rade prisoner.
A diplomatic dispatch to Washing
ton from Switzerland says that Prince
Won Buchau, the commanding general
of q Bavaran division, has been killed
in the fighting on the Marine.
The executive committee of the
Russian soviet at Moscow decided on
May 20 to call 70 arms several classes
of wOrkmen and peasants in the dis
tricts Of Petrograd, Moscow, Kuban
and in the Don region. A widespread
counter revolutionary plot has been
discovered.
A cablegram received at the Belgian
legation in Washington said that Is
Belgians confined in the fortress VieuX
Dieu had been shot.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

tubtrcle bacillus. This plate to begin
with was a perfect blank - n tabula
yasa, as the ancient Romans used TO
call their tablet before writing on it..
But there soon developed on this gela-
tin plate letters about as ominouS as
those which the Prophet Daniel point
ed out to BelshaZ2ar at his royal feast
Here is the way of 1t:
The laboratory doctor had put on
that plate fly that had got his feet
stuck in the spittle of consumptive; {;
and he had then covered the whole
with glass jar so that the fly could
not get away. This insect, thus heavy
footed, then promenaded all over the
plate. Twenty-four hours later col
onies of the consumption germs, made
up Of uncOuntabe millions Of those
tubercle bacilli, developed on its
tracks.
You may think I cXaggerate when
I compare this fact of the gelatin
plate with the Prophet Daniel aud the
writing on the wall, says a writer In
the Detroit Free Press. Well, be that
as 1t may, l ask you only to reflect
how consumption has up to this time
been carrying off every third or fourth
of us between adolescence and matur-
ity; that in all the wars of the nine
teenth century Gncuding those of Ma
pOleOn), 14000000 suCcumbed while
100000 succumbed to cOnsump-
ton, the captain of the men Of
death: that the advanced ccnsumptive
day by day coughs and spits out sever
bacilli that consumption, besides be-
ing a disease, is the most dreadful
economic and social degeneracy in
civilization: that this great White
Plague exists largely by reason of hui
man supineneSS and neglect Of the sim
plest precepts Of hygiene and santa
tion. The Bahylonian king did not
heed the warning which lay in the
writing on the wall. BY needing the
lesson that lies in that little gelatin
plate we shall be very far on the way,
we and our fellow men and women, Of
banishing the tuberculosis which it
represents from human experience and
from off the face of the earth.
OF course, flies are not the only
agency in the spread of tuberculosis;
for they are active but few months
of the year, whilst that disease is con-
tracted all the year round.
Flies Swell Infant Death Rate.
It Is certain also that flies help
greatly 10 swell the infant death rate,
which is greatest in the fly season.
There are few more congenial culture
media for germs than milk, especially
amid the uncleanliness which obtains
in the houses Of very many poor peo-
pie. especially in the tenements. This
fluid easily becomes contaminated by
flies and with the noxious matter that
is continually clinging to their hairy
feet, their spongy bodies and their
fluffy wings. tuberculosis is thus GER
tainly contracted by children, as are
the various forms Of dysentery prac-
tically all of which are germ ailments.
Breast fed infants seldom have such
whilst bottle fed babies
have them all too frequently. Typhoid
fever is so often transmitted by flies
that doctors speak of this insect as
the typhoid fly. 1t pollutes food and
drink especially your milk, butter and
sugar by means of the material which
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
True Meaning Of "Boomerang."

Boomerang has beaten all records Of
words turned inside out. The term
does not convey the idea Of retribu-
don, as the boomerang returns not a
the throwcr's peril, but to his further
lse. No Australian would make that
5lunder. Colonel Miles, the allied eX-
peditionary forces chief chaplain dur
Ing the war, used the term right when
he declared: We are your boomerang,
flung out by you to conquer a CONT
nent and now returning to your, feet
for another throw.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
AS 1t Was on Earth.

Not long ago an old lady friend died.
Mary Agnes, who lived in the same
building, had for some reason been
chased from the steps by the old lady,
and so she got the impression that the
old lady was always chasing little chill
dren. So one day after the woman died
Mary asked another woman in the
building if she thought that the old
lady was an angel now. II hope So"
was the reply. Then little Mary said,
"Well, bet she is chasing all the little
angels around up there"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
Stand Your Ground.

Remember, each one must bear his
or her own burden. Not soul is free.
We should keep this truth constantly
before us, and then honestly try to
do our best. Furthermore we should
cultivate the habit of smiling. 1t will
help us when all the world seems
awry. A good-natured face is always
a welcome sight, for it makes us for
get our own wearisome affairs. In
deed, the woman who learns to laugh
can master any problem that confronts
her.-EXchange.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
Sponge Industry.

The best sponges come from the
Levant, in the eastern Mediterranean,
and are obtained by diving. The Le-
vantine sponge divers often cut pieces
from large sponges, replant the pieces,
and tie them to stakes to keep them
from being swept away by the current
They soon grow at an enormous rate.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
Was Probably Right.

A li1tle tot, aged five, had fin
ished his private lesson. His mother
was anxious to speak to the tutor, and
BILLY" was requested to leave the
room and work elsewhere. He Oh
jected, and when asked the reason
why, he answered: "If go out you'll
make an opinion about me J"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

cdIy cases of smallpox are Spre"u ''
this insect in cheap lodging houses
perhaps more frequently than ny any
other means. And were it not tor
the frequent vaccinations ordered pS
health authorities epidemics OF thlS
disease would probably not be rare.
Consumption germs have been fouhu
in bedbug blood; also the germs OF
other diseases.
This insect may live for weeks WITH
out food. During the winter it VIII
become comatose and will weather the
winter like any other hibernating crea-
ture. 1t will continue its existence,
will demonstrate its will-to-live'
against the hardest kind of luck, from
season to season, in lumber camps
summer houses, empty apartments and
the like.
FIeas Spread Bubonic Plague.
The chief iniquity of the flea lies in
It's transmission of the germ of the
bubonic plague The roach has also
been proved an injection conveyer.
We must mention also Rocky Noun
tain fever which has for several years
occurred during the spring months IN
Montana and the neighbOring states.
The germ of this disease is transmitted
from cattle TO man by the tick, which
insect is the responsible agent also for
Texas or cattle fever.
| have lricd TO present here the es-
sential facts about the insect trans
mission Of disease. My article would,
however, appear TO be like the play
of Hamlet with Hamlet left out; for
I have written nothing about how to
deal with such insect infection spread
ers. Space has not permitted this;
nor is it necessary. For every cit-
zen's health department, town, city, or
state, will on application, supply full
printed directions. Or such directions
will be sent. without charge, by the
United States public health service
of Washington, D. c., or of the United
States bureau Of agriculture, Wash
ington, D. G.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

HERE is a photograph
shown at Health EXhi-
bitions which many
people at first sight
take for Il picture of
the crusts on the sur
face Of the moon, or of
the canals on the planet
Mars. What it really
shows is a circular
plate containing a gela-
tin culture Of the con-
sumption germ - the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
DioolHed Rebuke.

Two little girls tried to tell aunty
of something exciting that happened.
Finally, rising to her full dignity,
Mary said: "Susle, will you please let
me tell this story? 1t isn't nice to
be chipping in that wHu."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
To Keen Pictures stralaht.

Take small piece of adhesive tape,
moisten one end and attach to back
of picture (near the top in center),
moisten other end and fasten to wall
Picture win always hang absolutely
straight after that.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

"Are you trying to get thln?" eyes"
"Questlon of looks?" mo. Better
chance of getting standing room in q
crow ded ear"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
Foreign

The pope has expressed indignation
over the German bombardment OF
Paris on Corpus Christi day and is re
ported to have sent a message to the
archbishop Of Cologne condemnlng the
act.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
Ink Spots.

To remove ink from white goods,
soak half an hour in vinegar, wash,
soak in solution Of chloride Of lime
wash. ..-.-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

ole for the spread OF sew
cral grave diseases. Some
lice which had been biting
typhoid patients were frst |.
Immersed in a solution Oh
mercury bichloride; thea
they were put in sterile
water. Next they were
ground in Il sterile mortar
and the resultant material
was inoculated into ami
mails and were developed
ON culture media. BY this
means typhoid germs were
demonstrated in those llce'
We have all read how
dreadful an eNeculloher
was the typhus fever IN
the earlier months of TINS
present war, in Serbia ana
in the Balkans generally;
it is tae louse which is the
chief Lisseminator or the
typhus germ.
The bedbuS has from
time immemorial been oD-
noxious enough by just be-
ing a bedbug. But he IS
now proven to he much
more than this. Undoubt-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
W0ShingfOn

Miss Jane DelanO, director of the
department of nursing of Red Cross
at Washington, says persistent bombing
of hospitals by the Germans will not
deter American girls from volunteering
for hospital work. She declares that
tactics Of frightfulness viii tend mere
ly to send more Of them to back up
their brothers in their fight for liberty
Efforts of the national war labor
board to adjust the differences be,
tween the Western Union Telegraph
company and its employees have
failed. Seven to five the board voted
"it does not seem useful to further
prolong the mediation"
The child labor law, enacted by con,
gress last year, after a bitter fight
was held unconstitutional by the Su
preme court.
Official announcement was made al
Washington that 100000 men will be
called to the colors during June. They
will be ordered to report June "a.
The house military affairs commit.
tee has issued a report detailing the
expenditure of last years $640,00O,O06
aircraft appropriation. OF the total
S316,500,000 has been spent. Deliv.
cries to France have totaled 1,136.
There are $3.50 machines in this coun.
try, besides 1,041 Liberty motors.
Appointment OF directors for the &c
industrial zones as finally formed by
the war industries board was an.
nounced. The directors will have su,
pervlsion Of the production of war ma
terials.
Representatives of 100000 railway
shopmen asked the railroad admins
tration not to put into effect the new
wage scale without upward revision
for their crafts, saying great dissat |
isfaction would be created and init |
mating that it might be impossible to
avoid many strikes.
Secretary of War Baker in state !
ment issued through the American Red
Cross, calls upon general public, civil
ian hospitals and training schools to |
cooperate actively to insure an ample |
SuDDly of military nurses,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

Maj. Gen. Henry G, Sharp, who wa
relieved as head Of the quartermaste
corps Of the army, was transferred t'
the post of commander of the South
eastern department at Charleston, S, {
Felix A. Roerg, Elizabeth, N. j.
member Of squadron near Fort
Worth, Tex, was killed when an air.
plane fell on him while it was landing,
He was riding n motorcycle.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

Secretary of War Baker in state,
ment issued through the American Red
Cross, calls upon general public, civil
ian hospitals and training schools to
cooperate actively to insure an ample
supply of military nurses.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

Benjamin Chester Chaplin, moving
picture actor and scenario writer
whose striking resemblance to Abra
ham Lincoln gave him wide popularity
died in sanitarium at Liberty, N. Y,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

Lieut.. G. 3. Evans of Philadelphia,
student pilot at the Miami (Fla.) naval
Air station, died Of injuries received
when his hydroairplane fell into the
bay. Chief Quartermaster Managhan,
with him, was slightly hurt.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

The Red Cross drive went lover the
top" by $70,OO0,000. More than $1,000
600 persons contributed Contributions
totaling S166, ,430,291 have so far been
compiled. These We're the figures made
public at New York by Henry p. Da-
vison, chairman of the Red Cross war
council.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

Almost twice as many volunteer
harvest hands were signed up in Kan
sas City, Mo-, Wednesday as were re-
ported at tabulation Tuesday, when
1903 were listed. The total was over
5000.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

elsewhere In the cos
mos, is the female Of
the species m o r e
dreadful than the
male.
Spreads Typhus.
The insect which In
highbrow literature Is
termed Pediculus ves-
timentorum, but which
in plain language Is
the louise, Is RESPONSE
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14
Personal

Charles Warren Fairbanks, former
vice president Of the United States ant
former United States senator for lndi
ana, died at Indianapolis. Death was
due TO nephritis. All members of the
family except Maj. Richard Fairbanks
who is in France, were at his bedside
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-06-14

The federal farm loan board with
drew further offering Of farm loan
bonds because $GO,O00O00 have been
sold, providing enough funds for loans
until about November 1.