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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
THE INSURANCE MEN.

Fargo is entertaining this week, one Of
the most abused and one Of the most use
full classes of society-the insurance men.
Any man who has reached the age Of 10
years or even 30 years, can look back and
bless the day that some insurance salesman
talked him into buying policy.
He can remember what a favor he
thought he was doing the agent in taking
the policy, and he can recall some Of the
countless times he wished he had taken
double or triple the amount.
Probably 95 per cent Of the policy hold
ers in the $4,000 class or under have
found their policies veritable ifeboat in
time of financial storm. The man who
lives to regret taking out an insurance
policy in any reputable company, is a rare
individual indeed.
Just one more charge we want to make
against the insurance men. When the sol.
diers went to camp and the government
announced it's war insurance plan, did the
life insurance agents hold back and com.
plain that the government was killing tn cir
business?
They did not
They jumped in, took off their coats,
and actually sold government insurance to
the soldiers, at no profit to themselves,
and in direct competition to the policies
on which they depended for their daily
livelihood. Maybe other business men
have given finer display Of practical pa
triotism than this, but we haven't heard
of it.
We shouldn't forget that record. It
should stand to the credit of the insurance
men of America for the next 50 years.
Mothers, wives and dependents of Ameri.
can soldiers will thank the insurance men
for that act for generations to come. It
may mean the difference between COM
parative comfort and actual poverty to
thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands
God forbid that-of American women
and children.
We are more than glad to have you in
Fargo, gentlemen, and the best fortune we
can wish you is better appreciation of
the goods you have to sell and the service
you have to offer society.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
MOtO, Registry
Without Funds

Bismarck, N. D., June 26. The
motor vehicle registration depart
ment Of the state is without funds as
a result of the supreme court deci-
sion, recently made in the case in
voIving the constitutionality of the
motor vehicle registration act.
The court held that the legisla-
ture attempted to vest in the secre-
tary Of state, powers that belong to
the legislative assembly. These i'm
cluded the administration of the de-
partment out Of funds collected for
automobile registry, the expendi-
lures being wholly within the prov
ince of the secretary of state.
In an opinion given to the secre-
tary of state, Thomas Hall, by E. b.
Cox, assistant attorney general, he
holds that expenses incurred by the
secretary Of state and remaining I'M
paid, cannot at ehis time be paid.
He also holds that the secretary Of
state is without power to purchase
the automobile tags for the 1919
registry. The contract usually is
made six or eight months ahead of
the time they are required.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
THE ALTERNATIVE IN ITALY,

Two alternatives are now presented to
General Foch in the italian war theater-
for General Foch is now supreme COM
mander on the, Italian as well as the
French front
He may be content for the present with
driving the Austrians back to the eastern
bank Of the Piave, which he has already
accomplished, terrifying more strongly the
positions there, and improving the situa-
ton in the north to guard against sud
den thrust for the Italian plains
Or he may decide to push the offensive
begun 80 auspicious1y, and try for a
knockout blow at the disorganized Aus
trian army.
The decision depends upon the extent Of
this disorganization, the number of the
Austrian reserves, and The troops and sup
plies Immediately available 10 the Italians.
1T is presumptuous for any office strate-
gist TO attempt TO decide which alternative
should tie chosen General Foch and the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

company Roy married Miss Jennie Barrett at
Sharon and came to Fargo in 1918 and engaged
in automobile business. Miss Alice married AL
mond Barrett at Sharon, and died September,
Grand Forks the last ten years. Percy w. is in
the coast artillery that just sailed from Cali
fornia. Paul G. married Miss Ethel F. Barrett
at Sharon and Is in the service at Camp Lewis
and about to sail for France.
MISS ANNA NJ DYER, 1883 from Belleville,
Ont, to Casselton with her mother. member
Of Territorial Sunday School convention in Fargo
cipal address. Active in Presbyterian church
ever since Was treasurer of Cass County Sun
day School association eight years Has been
in the Cass County National bank with her
brother the past fifteen years.
o. A. OLSON, 1880 from DEBORAH, Iowa, was
q member Of the firm OF Olson and Ellison, gen.
eral merchants Front street. Member Of the
Norwegian Lutheran church that was organized
in Moorhead October 8, 1872, and since moved
to Fourth avenue and Roberts street, Fargo.
w. J. CARIILE, 1890, from Canada to Dawson.
Worked on farm. Came to Fargo and was mar
ried to Mrs. Ella B. Hughes in 1893. Has served
the N. P. railroad as passenger brakeman twenty
five years. Resides Eleventh street north,
and has large and we'll kept war garden
CHARLES N. SMART AND WIFE 1882 from
Moorhead, where they had resided three years.
The former has been engineer on the NJ P. rail-
road ever since They built their home on Eighth
street north when that locality was part Of ''the
s. g. Roberts wheat field Mrs. Swart during
her life time, which terminated a few months
dreds of people who came to Fargo until they
became established in homes Of their own. She
left a. record Of unsefish devotion to others whom
she helped and was most devoted member Of
the board Of managers Of the North Dakota
Children's Home society.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

Italian leaders under him, know better
than anyone else can know, just the posi-
bilities of the situation. If they see a
chance for Knockout blow they will need
no urging to choose that alternative, for
General Foch is above all else, an offensive
fighter. 4>.. a..:
If, on the other hand, they decide not to
push the offensive east of the Pave for the
present, it will be because they do not be-
lieve it would be warranted. Nor should
that detract in the least from the i'm
portance Of the Italian victory. The sue
cess won by the Allies on the Piave and in
the Trentino is one Of the most substantial
and certainly the most heartening and
spectacular since the battle Of the Marine,
and it may well mark the beginning Of the
elimination of Austria from the war.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
Other Mems Views
The Duluth Herald:

The Duluth Herald:
Townley and his Iieutenants will exhaust
all the possibilities Of demagogic rhetoric to
make their followers believe that Mondays de-
feat was a blow at the farmer and his interests,
but it isn't so, and on sober second thought
we doubt If many farmers will believe 1t to be So
1t was blow, first, at disoyalty and at any
thing that Of disloyalty.
But 1t also blow at quack Socialism and
and at the irresponsible adventures who pre-
sumo to lead the farmers. 1t reflected loyalty
first, and then a profound distrust Of the char
acter of the men, plans and methods that are
foremost in the Nonpartisan league.
It was in no sense a denial that the farmer
has grievances, or that marketing conditions
are all that they ought to be, or that the road
from producer to consumer Is straight as 1t
should be. Nobody can logically deny any Of
But it WAS a denial that Townlsyism is
the right remedy for the ailments or agriculture
ley and his fellow Socialists in the leadership
of the Nonpartisan league are the right doc
tors .a# ..s
and rebuffed the farmer and put itself on record
as opposed to the farmers interests is utter non
sense.
Take. for instance, Freedom county, a typical
farming county, where Lindbergh got something
like eight hundred votes to Burnquists three
thousand--nearly four to one against Townley-
ism. It's population by the 1910 census was g.
282. OF these only 6,l92 are caased 90 urban"
that lis, living In places OF $500 or over, and all
of these live in city Albert Lea, the only
community of more than $500 people. The rest
5000, live farms or in smaller communities
that are actually farming villages. Though there
10 large native population, those OF foreign
birth or parentage are predoninantly Danish and
Norwegian.
Is such a county as this likely 10 vote against
the farmer? Is it likely to deny that the farmer
has grievances If he has any? Is 1t likely to set
itself against his best interests? lis 1t likely to
be dominated by "big businesg?" Are its news
papers likely to belong to what ToWnley loves to-
call 1.-THE kept press?"
1t would be a pity IL this result attained
through the patriotism and common sense and
sound Judgment of the plain people of Minnesota,
those who live on farms as well as those who
live iTl cities, should be distorted into a defeat
for the movement Tor better marketing methods
and for shorter and honester route for the
producer to the consumer. Having rebuked and
defeated all that Is worst Ia this movement,
Minnesota should take active and aggressive
steps TO save all that Is best III It
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN TIKI
WORLD.

OF course the election is over, but it
won It do to let Walter Thomas Mills, So
cialist, get away with one statement he
made at Island park yesterday afternoon.
He said President Wilson's war aims
were emo annexations and no indemnities"
and that the Nonpartisan league stood on
that platform.
The answer, of course, is that it ISM
so.
Those are not President Wilson aims,
though they may be Mr.. Townley's and
Mr.. Mills.
President Wilson's aims and Americas
aims, are no annexations except to give
freedom to conquered or oppressed peo-
pies, and no indemnities except to make
amends for damage done.
The difference between the Presidents
aims and Mr.. Mills is the difference be-
tween freeing Armenia and leaving Arme-
MIA under Turkish control; between free
ing Alsace and Lorraine and leaving them
under German control; between leaving
Belgium to her ruin, or forcing Germany
to pay for her restoration.
It is the difference between the Russian
Bolsheviki peace program and the Amer
lean peace program; between Mills-Fra-
zier-ToWnley and John Steen; the differ
ence between Socialist and loyalist.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Norman Ness is a Boy Scout residing at Steele,
N. D.
The name boy Scout" means something these
days The Boy Scouts have their spurs.
and they proving their right to wear them
every day the lasts. Therefore when Nor
man sends The Forum verse about War Saw
ngs Stamps, going to publish it. even
If it should have much less merit than this one
has. Here it Is:
There are boys on the land. there are boys on
the sea,
And they need the assistance Of you and of me.
Kaiser Bill, and his pack Of low theving Huns
Are shooting at Paris with long range guns
But of nation tustrious and rich
Can put the old Kaiser and Crown Prince in
a ditch
BY backing the boys in France and the camps
Through investing our money in War Savings
Stamps.
And so came the end Of a perfect day at
Minot. The Magic City. whatever its faults may
be, doesn't lack originality, initiative and a
contempt for the conventions Minot citizens
must have given Townley and LANCER the idea
that they were not warmly welcome there.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
The Editors Mail Bag

To the Editor of The Forum:
It is within my heart to express thanks to you
for the splendid fight you have made, and are
making against the forces Of disloyalty in North
Dakota. 1t is my fervent prayer that your reso-
luton in favor Of good government will receive
an overwhelming second from the otherwise loyal
people within the fair domains of your state.
Let us hope that the electorate the coming
Wednesday will have in mind the welfare Of the
boys at the front. If they do, Honorable John
Steen will be the nominee by majority indica-
tive Of true-blue Americanism.
Yours for the brotherhood of mankind
E. w. ZINGG.
1920 Stevens Avenue,
Minneapolis, Mimi, June 49,.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
p OrthDakOta
Kernels

Three young fellows who tore the
desks and caused other damage in
school houses near Stanley were
bound over to the Mountrail county
district court.
A controversy is on in Dist. No. %,
near Casselton over the teaching OF
German in parochial school.
scoutnaster A. H. Beer and is
boys OF the Casselton patrol are
spending week camping on the
Sheyenne river.
The publisher OF the McGregor
Herald hopes the Washington hand
press will hold together so he can
get out this weeks issue when his
contract will expire and he will turn
over the plant to the owners. O..
A heavy cloudburst near Hensler
caused a washout Of the railroad
track last Wednesday.
Thomas Lease, employed on the
Watt farm, near Leonard, had to be
patched up by doctor after a horse
jumped on him while he was working
in the animals stall.
e. L. SylNSStS4' ASo0 oA Lh0 ayr
cultural departments of the Glyn-
don, Mimi, consolidated school, will
head the departments Of agricul-
turaI and manual training of the
Sheldon schools.
The Great Northern railway is
looking for a reserve water supply at
New Rockford.
John Rylanee, former register of
deeds of Cavalier county, died last
Friday at his home in Loan town
ship following stroke of paralysis
Deceased settled in 1879. His wild
ow and eight children survive.
District officers Of the Re-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26


Steele county. 1909 went
to California. Returned a
few weeks ago when Mrs.
Miller passed away in city
at home Of her son and
daughter. Their son Harry
L. resides In Los Angeles;
Cal. Margaret now Mrs.
Bentley, resides in Fargo
with Albert G., who taught
school in home district and
principal of Oberon and
Esmond schools, 1901 -03,
and county superintendent
In Steele county 1907 90,
and Is now vice president
and sales manager Of the
Northern School Supply
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
Hail Damages
Gr0Wjng Crops

Westby. Mont, June 26.-Hail,
which fell during a severe thunder
and rain storn, did considerable
damage to growing crops. The farm
home Of Thomas Cowley, near here,
was struck by lightning during the
storm, and burned to the ground,
entailing a loss of $4,000, with no
insurance. 81
Buy w. S. S.. -....
Following are the new officers of
the Mandan Musical club: Presi-
dent, Miss Cecilia Connolly; vice
president, j. A. Biggs; secretary,
Mrs. o. NJ Larson; treasurer, Mrs.
w. H. Vallencey.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
North Dakota s Builders

BY ReV. Eben {, Saunders, Fargo NJ o
MR.. AND MRS. ANTON MILLER, 1882, to
Portland; started furniture business. Then home
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

bekahs elected at the meeting held
at Langdon are: President. Mrs.
Anna Hamilton Of Langdon; vice
president, Sadie Lawson of Hannah;
secretary treasurer, Jessie Prior of
Hannah. Delegates attended from
the lodges at Langdon, Hannah, Park
River, Inkster, Larimore, Grand
Forks, Mayville, Caledonia and Bux-
ton. The next meeting will be held
at Hannah.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

Out Dickinson way-thieves kill
the hogs on farms during the night
and haul them away by automo-
bile.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
DEPENDS ON THE AUDIENCE.

II believe that one can say with
out fear of contradiction as a result
of revelations, that the deeper we go
into the cause Of this war, the clearer
it becomes that the power which plan
ned and desired the war, was Rus
STA; that France played the next worst
role, and that Englands policy has
very dark pages to show" DR.. Won
Kuehlmann, to the German Reichstag.
That all depends, sir, on the identity
of the person to whom you say it.
You might not need fear contradiction
if you chose your audience carefully
enough, and restricted it to Pan-Germans
although even there the hymn of hate
against England might be revived.
But your own ambassador to London al
the time the war began, Count Lichnow,
sky, didn't see it that way. Nobody was
in better position to fix the blame for the
war, for nobody was in closer touch with
the negotiations with Great Britain. His
historic memorandum, published but few
weeks ago, lays the entire blame for the
war upon Germany, and he is one German
diplomat we will believe.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

Railway mail service has been es-
tablished on the Midland Continental
between Jamestown and Wimbledon.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

County Agent Wolf Of Richland
county will be the speaker at the
meeting of the Colfax Farmers club
on Thursday.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

Farmers Of the Agate are plan
ming consolidation Of all of the
farmers elevators under one organ
ization.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

The people of Minot will cele-
brate the Fourth of July by hold
ing a picnic for the benefit OF the
Red Cross. a~ w..
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

An interesting program was given
at the dedicatory exercises of the
Woodbury. consolidated school house
near Pierce.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

Favorable reports are received
from the donate an acre Of crop to
the Red Cross campaign in Stark
county.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

Buy w. S, s..
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26
In The Open Forum
A Column Devoted To The Task OF Keep
ing UP With North Dakota Editors

The Mandan Pioneer has this comment on
German vote: - "
IF 1 can't be elected to congress with s
out the vote Of the disloyalists, 1 would
Norton.
Your many friends in the Third Con-
gressional district will see to it, Mr.. Norton
that your vote is so overwhelming that you
won't miss the pro- German vote.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

A controversy is on in Dist. No. %,
near Casselton over the teaching Of
German in a parochial school.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

The Wells County Farmer has two brief loyal
sentiments that would bear repetition. They
follow:
Don't waste a single bread crurnb. We must
lick Germany. SAVING FOOD will help!
Uncle Sans business just now is to WHIP
GERMANY, to beat her to her knees and
! make her yell for mercy. That done, "busi-
ness as usualR
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-26

District officers of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-10

the first time. The deans of the col
lege and their wives assisted in re-
ceiving the guests. tho there was no
formal receiving line. Mrs. Womer
was assisted in the dining room by the
following young women who are men,
bers of the junior class: Miss Esther
Lauterbach, Miss Genevieve McMil-
Ian, Miss Uarda Baird, Miss Thomas
and Miss Lulu Wiser.
Miss Meek, of the expression de-
partment, gave a reading: Mr.. Theo-
dore Gundry. a violin solo. and Miss
Ethel Grant played the piano.
The colors for the party were pink
and white. The dining room was
decorated in flowers of that color, and
the ices and cakes were in pink and
white.
About sixty guests called during the
evening.
X x X
Mrs. T. r. Paxton gave a dinner
party Thursday evening at her home
in Western avenue, for the girls of
the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority who
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-10
BONDS READY JULY |
May Convert Old Ones Then-Sale of
Third Loan at 1910.

Washington, May 1O.-In announc-
ing today arrangements for convert
ing first and second liberty loan bonds
into bonds of the third loan bearing
Az per cent. Secretary McAdoo ex-
planned that the new conversion bonds
would not be ready for delivery until
July 1. and requested bondholders not
to ask conversion before that date,
altho legally bonds may be converted
any time from today to next Novem-
Der 3.
New York, May 10.-Bonds of the
third liberty loan appeared in open
market for the first time today, sales
totalling $1,542.00O. They opened at
1910. Low was $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-10
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
Mrs. w. A. Johnston Not At 9
Court Trial.

An article appeared in this paper
Thursday connecting Mrs. W. A.
Johnston with the Roam hotel case
1t appears that someone has misrepre-
scented the facts to the State Journal
that Mrs. Johnston was never in the
court room; did not even read the
articles as they appeared in the daily
papers; only the headlines; was too
busy successfully working for the
third liberty loan; that she never dis
cussed the case with any woman or
anyone Hence this correction A
lady in the court from day to day was
pointed out to the court reporter by
two different people as Mrs Johnston
1t was clearly a case of mistaken
identify
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-10
Looking Blackboard In State
Journal Society Column
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

Mrs. H. c. Cross and her granddaughter,
of Emporia, are visiting Mrs. Harry Hor-
ton.
DIR. and Mrs. George P. Ashton have re-
turned from a trip to Missouri
The Research club will meet next Mon-
day with Mrs. Walter Noble.
Mrs Theodore Hammatt will go to EN-
poria Saturday to visit her mother, Mrs.
Calvin Hood.
The Cosmos club will meet Thursday
with Mrs George Hanley. Mrs. w. A.
McCarter president of the City Federation
will be present and make a short address
Miss Helen Moon will go to Ottawa
Saturday to remain over Sunday with
friends.
Mrs A. H. Horton is attending a meet
ing of the state federation at Ottawa.
Mr. Guy Morgan, a well known young
man in Topeka, who formerly attended
medical college here, has been appointed first
lieutenant in the company that was
formed in Junction City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-10

When introducing one person to
several each name must be men,
toned Never say: Ladies, this is
Miss Smith or Miss Jones, this is/my
friend, Miss Smith" Since most of
the people you introduce are your
friends. there is no need to mention
the fact.
Questions Answered by Alicia Hoyt.
KATHERINE. The girl who be-
HAYES so Improperly on the street, and
attracts so much attention. should be
deserted by all her friends. No nice
girl cares to be seen in public with
girl who does not carry herself in
dignjfied manner; and a girl who SO
misconducts herself does not deserve
any consideration.
G. L. B.: The tuxedo" or dinner
coat is worn a great deal more than
it should be. It is really out of place
anywhere except at informal stag
gatherings. at home for informal din
ners, or at other very informal eve
ming affairs Correctly speaking, its
uses are very limited. In households
where the family dress for dinner,
1T may be worn every evening when
there are no guests.