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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-31
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The Associated Press Is exclusively
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not otherwise credited in this paper and
also the local news published herein.
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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04

summons the world to believe %
never willed this war" the fear OF
death with the war still raging grips
him by the throat, and they who wait
| in the porch Of emperors think
curiously of the deathlilxe paleness OF
| the. Prussian emperor's face at such
times.
All official Germany knows the
dreadful secret; it has sped through
the whispering galleries of the east.
The sultan, with his fatalistic tenn
permanent, Is puzzled by the kaiser's
mental Obsession, but King Ferd-
Inland Of Bulgaria, hiding himself in
Vienna, understands. He has felt
something Of the same fear himself.
The German emperor is an ill bal
anced, emotional personality, who
one moment is in the seventh heaven
Of delight, the other moment in the
depths of dependency. On such a
temperament the superstitiOus fear
Of an untimely end easily obtains a
strong hold, particularly as the state
Of his health gives small assurance
Of comfortable old age being reach
ed. Though little has been said on
the subject, it is general gossip in
neutral countries contiguous to Ger
many that the death Of Francis
Joseph was a great shock to the
kaiser, reminding him that it may be
his turn next.
But the chief thing that worries
the kaiser is that he may die before
peace comes. He wants peace before
he dies, and that his end may not be
violent one he wants a German
peace. He shudders at the thought
Of Joining the HohenzoIlerns who
have passed to a chorus of almost
universal curses.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
Tie

II you can keep your head when al
about you
Are losing theirs and blaming II
on you;
If you can trust yourself when all
men doubt you,
But make allowance for their
doubling, too;
If you can wait and not be tired by
waiting,
Or being lied about don't deal in
lies;
Or being hated don't give way to
hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor
talk too wise;
If you can dream-and not make
dreams your master;
II you can think-and not make
thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and
Disaster
And treat those two impostors just
the same;
II you can bear to hear the truth
you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap
for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your
life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with
WORKOUT tools;
If you can make one heap OF all your
winnings
And risk it on one turn Of pitch
and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your
beginnings
And never breathe word about
loss;
II you can force your heart and nerve
and sinew
To serve your turn long after they
are gone,
And so hold on when there is moth
ing in you
Except the will which says to them,
Hold on;
If you can talk with crowds and keep
your virtue.
Or walk with kings-nor lose the
common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can
hurt you;
If all men count with you, but
none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving min
ute
With sixty seconds worth Of dis
lance run,
Yours is the earth and everything
that's in it
And-which is more-you'n be a
Man, my son.
-Rudyard Kipling.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Ruddy Cheeks Sparkling Eyes
Most Women Can Have
Says Dr.. Edwards, a Unknown
Ohio Physician


Dr.F. M. Edwards for 17years treated
scores of women for liver and bowel ail-
ments. During these years he gave to
his patients prescription made Of a
few well-known vegetable ingredients
mixed with olive oil, naming them
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets. You will
know them by their olive color.
These tablets are wonder.workers on
the liver and bowels which cause a
normal action. carrying off the waste
and poisonous matter in ones system.
IL you have pale face, salloW look,
dull eyes pimples, coated tongue, head.
aches, listless, no-good feeling, all out
of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one Of
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly for
a time and note the pleasing results
Thousands Of women as well as men
take DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-tha
successful substitute for caIomel-noW
and then just tokeepin thepink ofcondi-
ton. 10c and Csc per box. All druggista
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
Old Songs and Memories


From The Etude: The riches OF
old age are beautiful
memories. The pauper in the poor
house, with his mind stored with
treasured visions Of a noble past, is
richer than the Croesus in his
mansion, haunted with the ogres OF
meanness, oppression, unfair advant-
age, trickery and perjury. Happy in
deed is the man who has both beau
tiful memories and plenty of the
worlds goods.
Perhaps you have wondered why
old people demand old songs. It is
not that they have a means of dis
elimination whereby they feel that
the songs Of long ago are better than
the same type OF song made today.
Fifty years from now people may
today that the old folks of today
cast over Alice Where Art Thou"
''Juanita" and Ben Bolt"
What is 1T then that makes the old
song hallowed? II is its wonderful
power Of conjuring up memories
the beautiful memories Of the dear,
dear past. When grandma takes off
her glasses and quietly asks you to
sing one of her old favorites, hunt it
up at once and let her have 1t over
and over again. 1t is the magic tails
man which will open the riches of
her memory to her. AS you sing
Nellie was a lady,
Last night she died,
a tall youthful figure with epauIettes
and bright garnet military sash, a
figure home on a furiough after
Antietam, will come into the room
and stand at grandma's side. You
will not see him but she will-she
will hear the strong full voice, silent
for thirty years, joining with her
light soprano, singing
Toll the bell for lovely Nell,
My sweet Virginia bride.
Oh wonderful, wonderful music that
can transport us over the years to
scenes long gone and make us live
again with loved ones long at rest!
Bless the old songs They are the
golden gates to the Paradise Of yes
eerday.
Songs and singing were never
more needed than now. Food for the
soul as well as the body is the call
Of the hour. Moreover, there need
be no saving OF music.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
NEWS STANDARDS HAVE
CHANGED.

The British armed steamer
I.ouvain was torpedoed and sunk
in the Mediterranean, Jan. Il.
Seven officers and PIT men were
lost.-News item.
Il gets a dozen lines in the news
papers nowadays.
Three years ago it would have been
a nine days wonder. But the sink
ing Of a vessel and the killing OF
more than 200 human beings is but
trivial incident, judged by the news
standards Of today. More than that
number are killed every day on al
most any part Of the western lire.
News standards, like everything
else, will have to be readjusted after
the war.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
FOUR OF THEM INSTEAD OF
ONE.

Instead Of one sandy haired boy
from North Dakota, there are four
who are listed in the dispatches tell
ing Of casualties at the front.
Patriotism takes on a new mean
ing with the first of our own North
Dakota boys among the wounded.
The amount of mere flag waving
has shown a decided falling-of, but
the number Of Red Cross workers is
growing daily.
There is less patriotic oratory' but
more scrupulous observations Of the
food regulations.
The war is no longer a mere
stimulus to the emotions; it is the
all-absorbing task.
The men are "over there"-half a
million Of them-and let the man be-
ware who obstructs the free move
ment of food, supplies and munitions
whether by seditious talk, inertia, or
mere incompetence.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
Mines
PRODUCTION is
ABOVE DEMAND
Requirements Increase 100
Per Cent, Production
200 Per Cent

Bismarck, N. D., Feb. Awhile
Minneapolis and st. Paul and towns
just across the Mississippi generally
are enjoying heatless Mondays and
Iightless nights and voorhees, days
because Of a fuel shortage, Ignite
mines here, on the banks Of the Mis-
souri, and west thereof are forced to
inaugurate days because of an over
supply Of coal and an under-supply
of consumers.
Practically every mine in the state
has accumulated a large surplus in
excess of orders now on hand. Many
Of these producers have not suf-
ficient storage capacity to permit Of
accommodating further reserves, and
difficult as 1T has been to find good
workers, these mines have been fore
ed to risk the loss of some of their
best miners through a forced sus-
pension of operations.
Must Find New Outlet.
North Dakota is consuming 100
per cent more Ignite than it did
year ago, but the mines are produc-
ing 200 per cent more, and they could,
with some announcement, double or
treble the present production. There
are Ignite fields covering areas of
many square miles, Immediately ad
joining the Northern Pacific and
other transcontinental railways,
which could be worked by steam
shovels, delivering, direct to the cars,
and at minimum of expense, tens
of thousands OF tons of coal daily.
No effort will be made to develop
the industry on such a scale, how
ever, until a new outlet Is found for
the fuel, whose consumption at pres
ent is confined almost entirely to
North Dakota.
Fargo last week received IL car
loads Of Ignite coal in one shipment,
greatly relieving the situation there.
This coal retailed at about half the
standard price for eastern blum
inous Goals, and for about one-third
the current price of anthracite. 1t is
slowly overcoming the prejudice
which long existed in the Red river
valley against Ignite, and is gradual
ly winning there the same apprecia-
ton which 1t long has enjoyed in the
central and western portions of the
state.
But if every consumer in the state
used nothing but ignite, the demand
would be Insignificant as compared
with the states possibilities of pro-
duction. Ignite producers are con-
templating petitioning Capt. /. p.
Baker for his cooperation in the
sending to Washington of a commits
sion to confer with DR.. III. A. Gar
field, national coal administrator, to
see if there is not some way in which
this Ignite can be introduced in the
twin cities and other Minnesota in
dustrial centers now suffering from a
coal shortage. They contend there is
no freight blockade so far as North
Dakota is concerned; that the mines
can produce the coal and the states
f1ve big transcontinentaI railways
can move it. And, they urge that the
twin cities and other Minnesota fac
tory towns need this fuel now and
that this need will grow greater with
time
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
WHY THE sMILEAaE sooK2

II you were a soldier training to
20 to France; and
II you had a chance to see Maude
Adams play for twenty-five cents;
And II you couldn't attend because
you had sent home SIS Of your $50
monthly stipend, and had paid out
about 81 more for insurance, and
spent the rest foolishly';
And IL one Of your friends at home
sent you a "Smileage book" with four
coupons, each good for one Of the
extraordinary theatrical attractions
offered at such a ridiculously low
price at camp;
wouldn't it be a grand and glor-
Ious feeling?
That's why the Fargo Rotary club
members are selling "smileage
books.
The Forum has some for sale, if
you have somebody at camp who
would appreciate one for his birth
day. They are good at any camp for
any theatrical attraction.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
THRIFT WILL PAY THE BILL

Huge as the expenses Of this war
are. thrift will bear the burden.
America has not progressed be-
vond the first grade yet in its educa-
ton in habits of thrift. A bounteous
country makes for spendthrift ma
ton. Before the war habits of thrift
were scorned as evidences Of Parsi-
mony.
Russell Sage is reported to have
once walked several blocks to save
FIVE cents on the purchase price OF
O pair Of suspenders.
TT is the interest on one dollar for
a wear" he remarked. He left an es-
tate of 500, 900, 900, yet the average
New Yorker, living always just
few steps ahead Of his income, would
have paid the extra nickel and per-
haps told the salesman to keep the
change.
But the war has changed all that
or is changing it.
Thrift doesn't mean skimping on
necessities. It means the avoidance
of all waste-not just waste OF
money, for that is the least import
ant commodity now-but waste OF
any valuable material or article.
Today is Thrift Day. Every good
American is supposed to begin today
to acquire at least one new habit OF
thrift. Every man is the best judge
Of what that habit should be in his
own particular case. The best re-
minder Of it is to get war savings
card and hang it in a conspicuous
place In either the store or the Of
fee, filling in a stamp every time
some minor economy results in the
saving of twenty-five cents.
Thrift won't win the war in Itself
but it will pay for it, If 100000
people conscientiously practice 1t.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04

that there apparently was such an
equal division Of public opinion that
It seemed best to let hear all the
arguments that could be presented by
both sides before trying to reach a
decision.
For a city the size of Fargo to
plan to erect a'high school costing
from $500, 900 to $4,000 in war time,
with prices OF material at top notch,
and bringing the bonded indebted
ness Of the district up to its extreme
limit, seemed like unjustihable ex-
ltravagance on the face Of it, but ap-
parently there is no alternative but
to quit educating the young people
Of the city.
We confess to considerable sym
pathy with those who are opposing
the bond issue on the ground of the
present high tax rate, for wherever
you place the blame, Fargos tax rate
is very high and the burden on the
small property owner a heavy one.
But the only alternatives we have
heard suggested are to repair the
present high school building-very
doubtful economy at the best. and to
continue building grade schools as
temporary quarters.
Neither one Of these solves the
problem right, and no problem is
settled until it is settled right.
Nor does either one of them rem
edy an alarming condition disclosed
by the attendance figures. These
figures show a disgracefully small
percentage of children finishing the
high school course. The first year
high school students number 233, but
they drop to 124 in the second
year. to 1o2 in the third and to 81 in
the fourth.
Why?
Because Fargo has an anttquated
building?
Not that alone,
Because that antiquated building
makes it impossible to offer much
more than an old fashioned, classical
course. Fargo is ten years behind
the times in it's high school courses,
simply because it has not the room
or the equipment to offer anything
more up-to-date.
We have no sympathy with those
who are trying TO make a political
fight of the bond issue. There is one
question and only one to be decided
and that is: does the need of a new
high school justify the expenditure
of the money in wartime when prices
are at such q high mark?"
If there were any likelihood that
prices would take any decided drop
after the war, or that the war would
be over within a stated period, there
would be an excuse for postponing
the building. But there is the prob |
ability that no improvement in build |
ing conditions win come for five
years. They may even grow worse
before they improve The over
crowded conditions now, which are
more than a mere inconvenience,
threatening the health and safety Of
the children, will be intolerable two
years from now with the steady |
growth in school population.
Nobody is going to arise and pro- |
pose three rousing cheers for the
bond issue, but there doesn't seem to |
be any way out of the problem but
to approve them next Wednesday.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
Fear Haunts the Kaiser
Gossip Says He breads to Die Be.
fore Peace Comes

Gossip Says He breads to Die Be-
fore Peace Comes.
III. J. Harshburgh in The New York
Telegram: A grim fear haunts the
conscience stricken soul Of the kais-
err. He is afraid that he win die be-
fore peace has come to the suffering
humanity Of Europe. The fear lies
at the back Of all his arrogant talk;
It underruns all his blasphemOus
boastings.
The fear accompanies him in the
feverish rushes from one blood sod
den battle field to another-an aid
de camp that never sleeps; II Is with
him when the fresh German casualty
lists, still damp from the printing
presses, blankly meets his stare, or
when. with false ringing martial
speech, he sends a new division Of
his country's dwindling reserves to
their death.
Every time the kaiser tragically
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
To Our Girls

10y Amelia Josephine Burr Of The
VigiianteB.)
Our country gives the sons that she
has treasured.
To sutherland to die, perhaps-f0F
you.
BY Gods own standards let your
gifts be measured
And to their highest, hold your
champions true.
To keep our country free, our chill
dren fearless,
Our women clean, they face the hell
Of war.
Arm them with memories pure to
courage peerless!
Give them WomanhoOd worth dying
forg
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
The Devil Writes To
The Kaiser
s-coded bY Eugene n. Blake d
The Viligantes.
Internal Palace. I


Internal Palace, Hades
MY dear Wilhelm:
owe you an apology for my delay
in cougratulating you on what you
have put over lately.
That White Book issued by the
government Of Norway is a real. tri >
butte to the efficiency Of kultur. /
thought destroying a million tons of
enemy shipping by your German
methods was going some, but to sink
all those ships belonging to helpless
little neighbor Norway great stun,
Wilhelml
But the thing / like about il most
is that those five thousand Morse
sailors have tasted the fullneas of
kultur and will be out Of the way
when you get a German peace and
replace them with German sailors.
How are things going with Argen-
tine2 She has few ships yet.
Yours for the freedom OF the seas,
THE DEVIL.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
THE SCHOOL BOND ISSUE.

Up to the present, The Forum has
purposely refrained from expressing
e. opinion on the school bond issue.
II has tried to present the argu-
ments OF both sides fully, in its news
columns, and has urged the import
ance Of studying the issue from all
angles. but it has tried to maintain
q position Of strict neutrality.
There were at least two reasons
for this attitude. One was that The
Forum was not fully convinced that
the bonds wera q necessity; the other
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
TWO BURNED.

Father and Son at BEnbee Injured
when Gasoline Engine ExplOdek.
Bisbee, N. D., Feb. 4.-John BFen-
nan and son. Fretta, were painfully
burned by an explosion of a gasoline
can, which threw burning fluid over
their bodies. The explosion occurred
when the boy used torch to heat a
gasoline engine.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
BUS NEARLY HIT
School Children Escape Injury by
Narrow Margin Near Bisbee.

Bisbee, N. D., Feb. IA schooIbus,
loaded with little tots, on their way
to their homes from the Rolla schools,
Just escaped being run down by a
margin of only foot or two at the
railroad crossing, three miles north
of Rolla. The driver failed to hear
the on-coming freight. A blizzard
IA gnd at the time
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04

regents Of DR.. Thomas Franklin
Kane as president of the Uni
versity OF North Dakota is meet
ing with unanimous approval
among educational circles in the
state.
DR.. Kane comes from the
University of Washington,
where during the Is years
that he was president ne saw the
institution grow from an enroll
ment OF 800 students to 1000, and
his later connection with Olivet
college, Olivet, Mich, make him
an ideal for an institution like
the University Of North Dakota
with its infinite opportunities for
development.
DR.. Kane's character and indie
pendence are shown in the sue
cessful fight that he waged for
the retention by the University
of its valuable school lands, in
Guiding blocks now in the heart
of Seattle.
The Donnybrook Courier. pays its
respects to the mail order houses as
follows:
The patronage Of the mail
order house makes it extremely
ullIACulL AOI lOCdA uGdlGIS 10 8A@
tend credit without which great
numbers OF people in North Da-
kota would be forced out Of
business.
There are thousands Of fami-
lies in our state. wealthy and
comfortable today, who would
have been compelled to leave the
country in pioneer days had it
not been for credit extended to
them by local retailers.
The Park River Herald calls for
closer union between the political
parties, as follows:
The United States is at war
and a. political campaign carried
on throughout the country might
be detrimental to the best inter
est OF the nation at this time.
Why not have a representative
committee of both of the two
great parties get together and
agree upon a method Of cam
paign that would eliminate party
friction at the coming election.
The committee could consist of
an equal number from both
parties and if they could not
agree there might still be some
way out. But we believe that
they could and would agree upon
some method of campaign that
would not only eliminate a cam
paign of criticism against the
Wilson regime but would be for
the best interest Of the nation at
large. Why not let North Da-
bota lead in this movement.
The Tower City Topics has the
following comment on the work Of
the legislature:
The special session Of the state
legislature adjourned Tuesday at
midnight, accomplishing the pur-
pose for which it was called.
The houses spent a nice week to-
gether and the feeling was quite
brotherIy, in spite of Of the fact
that Townley, his papers and
leaders tried to arouse the class
hatred which they so successful
" fOstered a year ago. ToWnley
appeared at Bismarck and after
q day there announced that in
the future he would spend little
time in our state. He evidently
felt that his control was slipping
and that 1t was best to go while
the going was good. Although
the demand OF an accounting Of
league funds has been made on
him repeatedly he has refused
and refused again at Bismarck
last week. Many OF the league
representatives and senators
have openly refused to obey
TOwnley's socialistic dlctatlons
any longer and are working for
the control OF the league by the
farmers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04

WILLIsTON RAISES FUND.
Williston, n. D., Feb. 4.-The Will
istOn Home guard raised a fund OF
S42.7s for the purchase of tobacco fol
Williston soldiers abroad.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
In The Open Forum
A Column Devoted to the Task Of
Keeping Up With North Da~
kota Editors.

The Mandan Pioneer makes the
situation very embarrassing for the
kept press" when fl says:
Wade In, CouTier-News, wade
I'm. You shouldn't let The Fargo
Forum scoop you on this Town
ley bankruptcy hearings. The
testimony Is juicy and your read
ers would like to read IL and
you shouldn't compel them 10
subscribe for that vile rag" that
believes it's first duty is to give
the news to the people.
The Bismarck Public Opinion pays
the following little tribute to the new
president Of the university:
The selection by the board OF
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04

Liked Ocean Trip.
Corporal @. A. Petersen, Co. g,
164th TT. s. Inf, a resident Of Itch
vile, N. D., writes his mother brief
ly, as follows:
"As this is Saturday afternoon,