The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-07-13
NeU,S and Comment

with a bountiful cotton crop. and a lenient
federal administration that has not yet fit
| to limit prices, undreamed up prosperity prevails
in moist Of the rural regions south Of the Mason
1 and Dixon line.
This prosperity is extending even to the
| groes and every coIored man who has little
| patch OF cotton he can cali his, own. or which
he is working on shares, is in condition which
/ by comparison with former Indulgence. might be
| described as rolling in wealth"
The colored brother is never prone to hide his
/ light under a bushel, and he Is not backward
in permitting signs Of his prosperity to appear.
Many good stories are drifting northward about
| the unaccustomed prosperity in the black belt
] and it's effects. Here is one of them:
| A negro cotton grower who had received n1ors
for his crop than he ever expected to in an
entire lifetime. had Solomon in all his glory
looking like q tramp as far as clothes went. and
as grand climax purchased an automobile. He
ram the car steadily and enthusiastically from
Monday until Saturday. when he stopped sud
| denly-against q telegraph post The garage
man was consulted. #
~ guess can have it running for YOU again
by Tuesday" said the garage man.
Tuesday. Not until Tuesday? Lawdy man,
gimme another cyar.'
Just ,sixty-eight years ago next Wednesday,
Daniel Webster, in a speech delivered in Wash
| ington, gave voice to some thoughts on patri-
| otsm that are worth recalling at this time. Here
! is an excerpt from the address,:
mean to stand upon the constitution.
country: The ends aim at shall be my
country's, my Gods. and Truths. was born
an American I live an American; I shall
| die an American; and intend to perform the
duties incumbent upon me in that character
TO the END OF my career ! mean to do this
Quences. What are personal consequences?
What is the individual man. with all the
mr. N An$f IA hiYS sS.
parison with the good or evil which may
befall a great country in a crisis like this
! concern that country's fate? Let the conse-
| quences be what they will, am careless No
man can suffer too much, and no man can
fall too soon, IL he suffer or If he fall in de-
Tense OF the liberties and Constitution Of his
country.
The paragraph is not only inspiring. but in
teresting because Of the almost forgotten use Of
| the word Careless"
Before the war If the King and Queen Of Bel
| GUM had decided to pay airpane call to the
King and Queen Of England on the occasion of
I their twenty fifth wedding anniversary, . the
| event would have been nine days wonder.
1t was done this week and the royal journey
| by airplane was accomplished without untoward
incidents. The newspapers devoted but a few
| lines to the event.
ave are planning to celebrate Bastille day
! tomorrow. so for little light Sunday reading
Carlyles French Revolution should be- timely
He gives very vivid and thrilling description
OF the fall Of the Bastille.
From the time of Richelieu onward the Bas-
tile was used for the incarceration of political
prisoners, and 1t typtfied tyranny and oppression
On July II, 1888 it fell before the Paris mob
and the prisoners were released. This event has
come to stand for the spirit and success of the
French Revolution, and Is viewed as in the ma
ture Of a French Bunker Hill. are ceIahra+-
ing it because gallant French allies were
courteous enough to observe July Fourth as If
IL had been a French holiday instead OF an Am
| erican. The least we do is to read about IL
and know what it Signifies and Carlyle has
much the best report Of the event.
The other day it was announced that Uncle
TOMS Cabin" was being produced in the movies
with one Of the most popular of motion picture
! stars as Little Eva.
Why not?
Uncle Tom" made countless fortunes in it's
theatrical history, and it was the bread and but
| ter Of hundreds or even thousands Of actors and
managers during the course Of more than half
a century.
It ought to make a much better picture than
a play for think what a movie director could
do with the bloodhound scene. In place of a few
NANCY ours racing across the back of the stage
picture whole pack Of real bloodhounds And
the slave market; and the death Of Little Eva!
Probably half OF the present generation of
theater-goers had their first Introduction to the
theater through the medium of Uncle Tom"
The coming generation will learn that "you NAV
own ma body, but ma SOUL" etc. through the
medium Of the motion picture screen Bit we
doubt if the children Of the coming generations
will get the exquisite pleasure from Topsy that
was given in tent show on the corner lot by the
Uncle Tommers" who have gone to their re-
ward