The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-19
In The Open Forum
A Column Devoted To The Task OF Keep
ing Up With North Dakota Editors

An article in The Kensal Progress calls atten-
ton to the fact that sometimes wheat is wasted:
a Grand Forks county wheat raiser has
had all his fields Faked after the shocks were
removed and CLEANED grain amounting to
about bushel to the acre. One man with q
days work. The $50 possibly cut no great
figure in this case. The main idea was that
this is bad time to allow good wheat to go
to waste. 1t is the principal ingredient you
see in the preparation of hard tack" for the
haYersaeks Of the soldier boys.
The Cavalier County Republican reminds OF
The necessity of canning for the winter:
Fruit Is too high and sugar too scarce to
ming by the usual methods, but many substi-
tutes are being used and we all get along
nicely for one year with a little less than the
usual amount Of rich sweets The gardens
were never better and there are no reason
abll excuses for not canning O. large amount
OF garden products.
The Mandan Pioneer has a good word to say
of Colonel Henry Watterson, late of The Louis
vile Courier journal:
with the passing of Colonel Henry Wat
terson from the editorial management of The
Louisville Courer-Journal, there retires from
active newspaper work one of the most
ique figures in American journalism.
For some 80 years he has guided the edi-
torial policy OF that paper and IN closing his
newspaper career he says that he has held
the position longer than any man has held
similar position. He has been of the
bulwarks Of the Democratic party and that
party has listened to his advice as to policy
for he held the enviable position of being one
Of the best known and most influential writ
Of the organization.
Although he has now reached an age
where usually men begin to think that they
%Eqd Ill IKE etc., to take thnss Just tte easier
the ranks Of American journalism that can
not be filed.
Editor Donolly of The Slope County News
urges his farmer readers to investigate the seed
situation for next year:
GVo,g aIaa,. Ior5 bod
to locate seed corn the past spring. You
remember the high price you paid for the
imported seed Think about that right now
and If you didn't raise the seed yourself start
looking for the neighbor who has the good
crop. Make arrangements for your seed right
now, You can pick your own seed from the
stalks Of corn this fall and save yourself a
lot OF worry and bother. Get some home
grown seed corn for next season-and start
looking for it right now.
The Parshall Leader compares the German
press statements to boy whistling in a grave
yard:
nounced Germanys new peace terms, that
stipuIate France give up all claims to
Alsace- Lorraine, returning all German colo
MES, the Russian peace terms to stand and
the payment of indemnities by the Allies,
that presume means to include the United
States Did you ever listen to boy going
through graveyard at night and whistling
with all his might to keep up his courage?
Il so, you have pen picture in mind of the
German chancellorE bombastic utterances,
that he shouts with all his might to keep up
Gernany's courage There is not q, German
from the Kaiser down who does not now fully
realize Germany is beaten; not only beaten,
but that she will be beaten to her knees,
forced to make unconditional surrender
made ia. give up every foot Of territory she
has acquired, give up Alsace- Lorraine, re-
store Belgium, Poland and Rumania, evacuate
Russia and the, Balkans, and pay indemnities
to other nations she has outraged. The
Kaiser and other of his military clique Of
beasts will receive fitting personal punish
ment. This Is what expect to enforce on
Germany, and every German knows it-Ger-
many must be made to pay the price for
wholesale murder, child mutilation, women
raylshad and the thousand other horrible
atrocities she is guilty Of That is the United
States answer to the German chancellor's
idiotic peace rawlings.