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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-06
GROW WHEAT. Is
APPEAL MADE BY
.LADD To TILLERS
ON LIBERTY DAY
Says Americans Have Not
Felt Pinch for Food
Urges War Gardens
U. S. FULFILLING
ITS OBLIGATION
Need for Food Greater
Now Than Any Time
Since War Cloud Broke

Wheat. wheat and then more wheat
and -four is the crying need IN order
that this world war may be won, Or.
e. r.. Ladd. federal food administra-
tor for North Dakota declared today
in issuing an appeal to the. people Of
the state on NATIONAL Win the War
Day..
The appeal calls upon every pa
triotic citizen in North Dakota to
grow wheat-every possible acre
and other cereals as well that may be
used as food products. especially
wheat, barley and oats. DR.. Ladd
advocated the organization Of poultry
clubs and called upon everybody in
North Dakota both in the cities and
on the farms to plant gardens.
Every family in town and out OF
town, Dr. Laid asserted, should
have a garden in which is grown the
necessary supply Of garden products
for home use. and as far as possible,
furnish foods for another winter. We
have not begun as yet to feel the
pinch for food. and what we grow in
our gardens and have in our homes
we can be sure Of" DR.. Ladd said.
In advocating the organization Of
poultry clubs DR.. Ladd said:
Every family possible in town and
out on the farms should have poultry.
Keep from ten to twenty hens and
use the waste from the table and
kitchen to feed them. Help organize
poultry clubs. There should also be
an increase in pork so as to ensure
a good supply for another year" the
food administrator for North Dakota
continued.
IF the war continues, America like
England and France, before the. crop
OF 1919 win need every article of
available food to be had. know that
our people OF North Dakota are as
patriotic as any in the country but
let US not forget any Of the things
that we should do to protect our own
families. our stock industry to help
feed thenation and the allies. as well
as our soldier boys at the front
"One year ago TODAY the United
States ceased to bes a neutral nation.
BY entering the war we tacitly pledg
ed the allies our fullest measure OF
support. They needed men, hundreds
OF thousands Of them-and we are
sending them. Thew had to have food,
we have been sending it
Their need is greater today than
1t has been at any time since the
war cloud first broke. They stu need
men, but they must have food. We
can send millions Of men, inexhaust-
able supplies Of ammunition but
they will be Of no avail IL we fail
to support the troops over there and
the people behind them. 10 the food
fails them, they will fail.
The whole country is asked today
10 celebrate National Win The War
Day. Its observance has a two fold
1t may be observed as
he first anniversary of our entry in-
10 the war. Of thanksgiving for the
progress we have made. Or 1t may
be made a day upon which we pledge
md reDledge our efforts. thought and
sacrifice that we may be able TO ex-
end the allies the fullest possible
Measure OF assistance.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-06
MOVIE NOTES

Royalty has gone into the movies
in the person OF the Hon. Mrs. VIII
liam de la Poor Beresford sister
| in-law Of the English admiral, Lord
Charles Beresford, and wife of the
| Hon. William BeresfoFd, brother Of
Lord Decies, husband Of Vivian
Gould. Mrs. Beresford has made
her entry into the industry via
World pictures, appearing in THE
Cross Bearer and other big World
productions.
Something to do while my hus-
| band is away over there is being
| given as one reason for Mrs. Beres-
! ford's sensational plunge into the
| celluloid ranks. Her action has
caused wide spread comment in
London and New York society cir
Giles. where she is well known.
Before her marriage in New York
three years ago Mrs. Baresford was
Florence Miller, a Providence, Rhode
Island, society girl. She is sister
in-law of Kitty Gordon, internation-
al famous beauty, who herself is a
star for World pictures. 1T is said
that Miss Gordon secured for Mrs.
Beresford a small part, after which
her ability became responsible for
her advancement to better roles. I'm
til a few weeks ago the deepest
secrecy was maintained as to her
identity when she worked at the
studio. Mrs. Beresford's appearances
in THE Cross Bearer" will be await
ed with interest.
The Yonkherr Isidor Louis Bern
ard Edmund Won Dommeler has be-
come a full hedged citizen OF the
United States, final naturalization
papers having been granted him.
Otherwise the Yonkherr, ETC., is
known as. Lou Tellegen. BY becom-
ing a citizen OF the United States he
has foresworn allegiance to Holland.
May Allison, the popular screen
star, who appears with Harold Lock-
wood in Metro wonderplays, was
born on a plantation In Georgia. AS
a young girl she nursed an ambition
to be a grand opera prima donna.
She possesses a rare lyric soprano
voice which she cultivated for three
years.
Miss Allison's first public appear
ance was when she was still in her
early teens. She wrote the lyrics
and composed the score for light
opera, and she played the leading
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-06

mother accompanied her to New
York, where she went to seek an en-
gagernent.
Miss Allison9s striking beauty at
once impressed Henry w. Savage
and he engaged her for the role Of
Vanity" in his big stage production
"EveryWoman." Later she was giveI
the part Of Beauty" 9
After several other stage sue /
cesses Miss Allison listened to til
urging Of friends and took a role il 1
the screen production Of "Davi,
Harum" Next she appeared on tn, 4
screen with Edith Wynne Mathisor
in "The Governors Lady" and thel Il
became a full-fledged screen star
with the American-Mutual in Tho
House of a Thousand Scandals II
was then that she met Mr.. Lockwood
and they have appeared together
since.
Clay M. Greene, former shepherd
of the Lambs, and one OF the best
known writer's OF the screen, went
suddenly blind in Los Angeles few
days ago while enjoying a card game
at his club. Greene, who had been
AFFLICTED with falling eyesight for
some time. fell n victim to vitreous
henorrhage. He lis being attended
at a local hospital: but Ii IS feared
that any possibility OF restoring his
eyesight is far removed. The many
film fans who have enjoyed his work
in the past will regret the affliction
visited upon him, and Join in extends
ing heartiest sympathy in this hour
Of his affliction.
Douglas Fairbanks declares that
he is considering the advisability Of
getting together a wild west show
from the recent rodeo staged by him,
and playing 1T across the country for
the Red Cross or the third Liberty
loan. He has stated that this Is the
only way he will make the trip
Several theatrical offers were turned
down by him.
George Denton, we'll known actor
Of the screen, was found dead a few
nights ago in his apartments in New
York city. Gas, which escaped from
small stove near the bed, was the
cause OF death. Suicide is not sus-
pected. Denton has won quite bit
OF fame In the films. His demise
win be regretted by his followers.
Harry McRae Webster, president
of the organization bearing his name,
has commenced work on n seven~reet
feature. Reclaimed" by Richard
Field Carroll. A special company
has been engaged for the production.
The story is both new and original,
1T is promised Webster started his
screen career as a director for Es-
sanay.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-06

Contrary to the general policy an
nounced, in some counties the Nom
partisan league conventions put up
candidates for county officials. In
Renyille county. for instance. they
put up a full ticket
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-26
DELIVER US FROM HATRED

There is one vital point upon which
we as citizens must guard ourselves in
the great contest before us, and that
18th at there grow not up in our hearts
spirit of hatred toward those in our
midst with foreign blood in their veins.
We have said that we are not to
prosecute war of revenge, but con-
test for right and justice. This senti-
ment comes easy enough at this time.
The danger will come later, when the
real shock of war is felt and grim
death fans us with his sable wings as
he takes son from this home and a
husband or brother from that one.
Americans can not afford to harbor
hatred, and especially can they not af-
ford animosity toward our citizens of
foreign descent. If the citizen of Teu-
tonic blood is loyal to our country,
though he grieve at the necessity for
war with his fatherland, his burden is
heavy enough without the added
knowledge or suspicion that he is view
ed with antagonism and distrust.
There are some who are unquestion-
ably traitors to the land Of their adop-
ton, but they will soon come to their
just end. Time will efface them. But
their acts should not prejudice in our
minds those who are loyal and who are
stanchly supporting the government,
even though it be with hearts saddened
by regrets.
If Americans are even approximately
true to their ideals they will not permit
the loyal to suffer for the acts of the
disloyal To do so would be to defeat
the very aims in view in the struggle
before us.
We are now impelled by one congum-
ing desire. the freedom of humanity in
it's broadest sense, and the greatest
freedom to which we can attain is free
dom of heart from rancor and bitter
ness.
No great cause was ever won with
out martyrdom. Some must suffer
greatly, all must suffer some. 1t is
natures way in which she works out
human redemption. But if bitterness
and hatred is permitted to creep into
the martyrdom and suffering, their up
lifting and purifying influence is multi
fed.
Let us pray to be delivered from all
bitterness, that when the contest is
ended even our foes may be brought to
the light as we see it.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-26
Rehabilitation of Our
Wounded

Perhaps none of the various uses to
which the proceeds of the Liberty Loan
are to be devoted appeals more strong
ly to the American people than the re-
Mobilization and reduction of our
wounded men. To teach these men, to
train and fit them for useful and gain
full occupations, when by reason of loss
of sight or limb or other injuries they
are rendered unable to pursue ordinary
vocations, is work in which every
American has heartfelt interest.
Compensation will be allowed them
and family allowances will be paid
their families as if they were in actual
service while they are taking training,
and every method known to science
will be used to restore our wounded
men to health and usefulness.
This work has been delegatee by
Congress to the Federal Board of Vo-
cational Education. The board pub
fishes at Washington monthly bulle-
tin, dealing with it's work, called The
Vocational Summary, which will be
sent free to anyone upon request.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-26
PROTECT FOOD RESERVE
AGAINST DAMAGE BY FIRE
Food Must Not Be Endangered When
Needed for Future-Suggestions
for Fire Prevention.

Farmers are the only large handlers
of food supplies upon whom the Gov
eminent depends, entirely without su-
pervision by inspectors, to guard their
holdings against losses by fire; and
in view of the supreme Importance of
guarding this seasons stored crops,
farmers are asked to consider destruc-
ton or spoilage of food through fire
as a misfortune to the Nation and the
Allies as well as personal loss to
the holder.
Prominent among the many sources
of fire in rural districts are lightning,
defective fiues and stoves, spontane-
GUS combustion, carelessness with
matches, incendiariSm and sparks
from chimneys and locomotives.
Effective means of fire prevention and
control are understood by the major
ity of property owners, but particular
attention is called to the Importance
of removing infiammable trash from
the vicinity of buildings, and to ade-
quate equipment in ladders and buck
cts when more modern equipment for
extinguishing fires is lacking. Prop
erly installed systems of lightning
rods and conductors are suggested as
protection against lightning. The para
mount thought is to save from loss
not only farm buildings, but the food
they contain.
With it's increasing drafts of sol,
diers or munition workers, the world
will be short of farm help and conse.
quently will produce less and less
food If this years harvests prove
abundant, it will be necessary to store
all possible grain for future need.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-26
$4,000 Women Wanted
to Enroll In the u. S.
Student Nurse
Reserve.

The Government is calling for 5000
young women to join the United States
Student Nurse Reserve and hold them
selves in readiness to train for service
as nurses.
The war is creating an unprecedent-
ed demand Tor trained nurses. Only
those who have taken the full training
course are elibible for service with our
forces overseas. These nurses are be-
ing drawn largely from our hospitals
at home. Their places must be filed
by student nurses enrolled for the full
training course of from two to three
years. Every young woman who en-
rolls in the United States Student
Nurse Reserve is releasing a nurse for
service at the front and swelling the
home army which we must rely on to
act as our second line of hospital de-
Tense. Upon the health of the Ameri-
can people will depend the spirit of
their fighting forces.
Age.-The calls for women between
the ages of nineteen and thirty-five.
Observation-Disclosures, respon-
sible women of good education and
sound health are wanted-the pick of
the country. A college education is
asset, and many hospitals will
give credit for it. Credit will also be
given for special scientific equipment
or for preliminary training in nursing,
such at that given in special courses
now being conducted by various col
leges and schools. Some schools, on
the other hand, do not even require
full high school education.
Women will be given
an opportunity to enroll in the United
States Students Nurse Reserve in any
one of th;ee ways:
1. AS engaging to hold themselves
in readiness until April /, 1919, TO ac-
cept assignments to nurses training
schools. These women will be sent to
the schools as fast as vacancies occur.
Those of superior qualifications will be
given preference, and it is, of course
possible that not everyone who enrolls
will be accepted.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-26

2. AS desiring to become candidates
for the Army Nursing School recently
established by authority of the Wac
Department, with branch schools in
selected military hospitals.
8. AS engaging to hold themselves in
readiness until April 1, 1919, to accept
assignments to either civilian train
ing school or the Army Nursing School.
Those who so enroll will be called
where the first need arises. The Gov
eminent hopss,,that majority of those
who enroll will thus put down their
names for both.
The Nurses Training Schools.
There are 1879 nurses training
schools in this country. Their need is
as great and imperative al that of the
Army School of Nursing. Those who
enroll for these schools will be assign
ed as vacancies occur.
The enrolment card will indicate
two classes of egistrants-Preferr
and Deferred. The Preferred class
will be those who are ready to accept
assignment to whatever hospital the
Government directs them, although
they may state what training school
they prefer to be sent to. Those who
register in the Preferred class will be
assigned first, and all possible con-
sideration will be given to their pre-
ference as stated. The Deferred class
is composed of those who limit their
pledge of serviee-that is, who will
not engage to go except to certain hos
pitfalls. This class is intended largely
for those who, for family reasons, can
not accept training at distance from
their homes. Those who register in
the Deferred class will be assigned on
ly after the Preferred class is exhaust
ed
The Government relies on the patrio-
tism of those who enroll to fill out
Preferred cards if they possibly can,
thus volunteering to go where they
are most needed.
Nobody will be assigned to any
schools whose conditions of training
are not approved by the State Board
of Nurse Examiners.
Terms of Training term OF
training varies from two to three years
according to the requirements OF the
particular school to which the student
nurse may be sent. No course takes
less than two years nor more than
three.
What the training course prepares
for.-At present every woman who
completes satisfactorily her training
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-26
How Germany Makes War
By M. S. SLAUGHTER, Professor of Latin,
University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin of

latest edition of Wheatons "Interna-
tional Law, we read: MANY host
ages were shot. many were held in
oppressive and humiliating confine-
ment, many were carried off to Ger
many. They were treated far worse
than prisoners of war"
The German government has DELHI
erately adopted policy of EXTERN
mating its enemies by the imposition
of enormous and illegal fines and lev
les, by the destruction or wholesale
theft of the peoples means of earn
ing a living, and by the starvation of
men, women and children.
The imposition of fines and Ievies
upon invaded countries out of all pro-
portion to their ability to pay serves
the double purpose o. enriching Ger
many and impoverishing the conquer
ed people. The incredible sums of
100000 dollars, now collected every
month in exhausted Belgium, are paid
only because "Germany's knife is at
her throat"
The German armies have deliber-
ately destroyed the factories of Bel
GUM and Poland and sent to Germany
the machinery and raw material used
in manufacture. They have system
atically driven off all the live stock
from the farms. These things form
part of the plan to reduce Belgium to
poverty and ruin.
The starvation of the people to
make ready the country for the pos
session of the Germans is a deliber-
ate plan of the INVADERS Said Gen
eral Won Kreis to F. G.. Walcott, an
American sent by our Government to
investigate conditions in Belgium and
Poland: starvation is here, so we
set it to work for Germany. BY
starvation we can accomplish in two
or three years in East Poland more
that we have in West Poland in the
last hundred" But how came starva-
ton to Poland? The answer may be
found in. the book, when the Prussi-
ans Came to Poland" by Laura Black
well de TurcZynOwicZ, an American
woman resident in Poland. She
writes, Notices were posted by the
commandant, Anyone touching or US
ing any grain, potatoes or vegetables
from his own garden or field will be
punished to the full extent of the law
and the Germans took the crops to
the last bean and potato"
Of all the war practices of the Ger
man government, the most brazen is
the deportation of the people from
France and Belgium and Poland to
work in mines and factories in Ger
many. Men, employed and unem-
ployeG, women and children, are
taken; more than a hundred thousand
from Belgium alone. Few ever re-
turn and these are worn out or dis i
eased. In spite of protests from all
nations the deportations still con-
tinue. In October, 1916, Cardinal Mer-
cier wrote: 1.-TWO years ago it was
death, pillage, fire, but it was war
Today it is no longer war. 1t is cold
calculation, intentional destruction,
the victory of force over right, the
debasement of human personality,
cry of defiance to humanity"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-26
EveryOne's Bit of Wheat is
Sent to Grain Corporation

The several thousand bushels of
wheat received by the Wisconsin Food
Administration are sent to the Grain
Corporation at Chicago where it will
be forwarded for shipment abroad.
Confiscated wheat and voluntary of.
ferings by grocers, housewives and
farmers of their extra supply of wheat
make up this shipment. Farmers are
thus enabled to sell small lots Of
wheat at a proper pirce, for a patri.
otto cause, and at time when wheat
is badly needed. All small millers are
being encouraged to grind all the
wheat they can. The success of these
shipments shows what can be done
when Americans do their bit. No
contribution is too small to do some
good.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-26

When the stories of German atroci-
ties in Belgium first reached the
United States, many men were I'M
willing to believe them. Even now,
when abundant evidence is available,
some still doubt, and even question
the fairness of persons who have
the facts in order to keep our minds
alive to the real nature of the con-
fiict which we have entered.
To tell in detail the story of Ger
man atrocities since August, 1914,
would be long and painful task. The
evidence is open to everyone in the
reports of numerous commissions, in
the testimony of Cardinal MERCER of
Belgium, of other foreigners of undis-
puted standing, and of our own min
listers and ambassadors to the coun-
tries affected by the war. This evil
dence is supported by the diaries of
captured German soldiers and the
proclamations of German officials.
These documents have been subjected
to the closest examination by experts
trained to deal with testimony of this
kind. There can be no doubt as to
their truth. And the more the Ger
mans have tried to justify themselves
the more they have convicted them
selves by the acknowledgement of
deeds which they can only excuse un-
der the pretext of MISREPRESENTATION"
1t will be enough to describe briefly
a few of the crimes committed against
unarmed citizens to show that the
spirit of a German army of invasion
is one of ruthless cruelty and intimi-
dation.
Germany has repeatedly used I'M
armed men and women as screens to
protect her soldiers. The proof of
this comes from all the invaded coun-
tries. Cardinal MERCER testifies that,
eat the time of the invasion of
Belgium, civilians in twenty
places were made to take part in
the operations of war against
their own country. Peaceable
citizens were forced to march in
front of German regiments to
make a screen before them"
German military leaders have or
dered the burning and pillaging of
towns and villages, sometimes because
of the acts of individuals, sometimes
in mere ruthlessness. To cite one in
stance from the diary of an officer in
a Saxon regiment:
"The pretty little village of
Cue d. Ossus was apparently set
on fire without cause. A cyclist
fell off his machine and his rifle
went off. He Immediately said he
had been shot at. All the inhabi-
tants were burned in their homes.
l hope there will be no more such
horrors"
Germany claims and practices with
out mercy the right to take prominent
citizens and hold them captive in or
der to protect herself from attack
from the civilian population. Numer
GUS proclamations of German officials
give proof beyond question. AS a part
of the system of ''frightfulness" these
hostages have been repeatedly mis-
treated by German officials. In the