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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27
BAND
TO PLAY in CITY

The band of the Norwegian Con-
|cordia college at Moorhead, Iowa, is
making preparations for its annual
tour of the northwestern states, and.
according to announcement received
here today, the. organization also in
tends to give two concerts in this city.
Dates and other details have not yet
been determined, but 1t is expected
that final arrangements will be made
very DOR
The Concordia college band is one
of the best known in this section of
the country and has been well receive
cd in a number of cities from year to
wear. 4I.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27

and it's value is attested by an i'm
mense number of appreciative users
who through these many years have
put it to the severest tests with the
most satisfactory results.
"About Z years 6 l was SO weak
and worn out that l could hardly
work. After trying other things
without relief, l tried Warmers Safe
Kidney and Liver Remedy. In a
short time the pain left me, mi the
rheumatism and DYSPEPSIA vanished.
We have used Warmers Safe Rene
dies ever since with ~great-success in
our family" q. f. Rose. B%urtonville,
kentucky. U. S. A..
Sold by druggists everywhere. Sam
pie sent on receipt Of ten cents. War
ner's Safe Remedies Co. Dept. 436,
Rochester. N. Y.-Adv.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27
Health Depends
Upon Your Kidneys


fany organs take p~art>ina assimila-
y of food, and a number arc active
eliminating those portions of the
I which are. not taken into the
bd for the .upbuilding of the body.
the eliminative7 organs. the liver
kidneys are ok:a1aJor Importance.
are most like1ys.to%be :overworked
become dtkeasAd when such is
case, various troubles of a diges-
Rnd elimfnhtivsi character occur,
such ronbles are. SO frequent and
common THAT tits absolutely nee.
Try to find some relief. Warmers
Kidney and Liver Remedy was
pounded oy4ersS4O years ago to help
hlize the work Of both kidneys
liver.s HoswstsIccessfnls it has been
Evidenced bSs9its widespread sale
-Af~A-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27
BURNQUIST HEARS
ARGUMENTS IN CASE
TO GUST OFFICIALS

st. raul. Mimi. Feb. 27.-Gover-
nor Burnquist today heard arguments
in custer proceedings against Sheriff
Thomas p. White Of koochichinc
county. Mayor Frank keyes Of Inter
national Falls and Mayor Peter Glib
bon of Rainier on charges of non.
f%easance in Office preferred by the
state public safety commission.
The governor is expected to decide
soon whether the accused officials will
be reinstated or permanently rcmoH'
cd from Office.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27
RESPITE GRANTED
FIVE NEGROES WHO
WERE TO BE HANGED

Washington. Feb. 27.--An indefinite
respite has, been granted five negro
soldiers of the twenty-fourth infantry.
sentenced by court martial to be
hanged for participation in the Hous-
ton riots. The number and character
of appeals for clemency reaching the
president from clergymen and negro
organizations caused the resnite. Thir-
teen OF the rioters already have been
hanged and a large number are serv-
ing heavy prison terms.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27

chased there to conserve shipping
space. agy
high school text books used in the
educational department of the, Young
Mems Christian Association which has
established. classes for the instruction
OF men in5camps who desire to devote
g part Of their idle time to study. Mr..
Ferguson said any modern text book
US ed in the high schools and even in
the grammar schools could be used.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27

Thomas Helmuth Ritter. formerly
with the German army, is now being
pect in connection with the disap-
p%earance Of valuable military papers
from Camp Lewis. where he was SER
geant-major, u. S. A., at staff head
quarters. In San Francisco he is said
to have conferred with former Consul
General Franz Bopp, now interned,
and a few days later enlisted in the
14th infantry. While on the Mexican
border he deserted, but was later re-
stored to duty. ..
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27

OVERLOOKED PENCILS.
Why hasn't somebody thought to
raise the price ofNlead pencils to Z
on account of the increased cost
rubber? recklessly asks the Kan
Industrial list.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27
CAMP GRANT IS
INSPECTED BY
FRENCH MISSION
Progress Nothing Less than
Marvellous Says Head of
Inspection Body.

Rockford, ILL.,. Feb. Clamp
Grant is being inspected by the
1'ronch training commission, at
who's head is Lieutenant Colonel
Paul Azah. commander of the famous
French Iron regiment"
"The progress here is nothing less
than marvellous" said Colonel Azan,
land the willingness n understand
ing OF both officers ana men Is strik-
ing"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27
Defendants In Gary
Election Conspiracy
Case Discharged

Indianapolis, Feb. 27.-Former
Mayor r. Q. Johnson of Gary. Ind,
and six other Lake county Rcpubli-
cans whose trial in the United States
district court here OH charges OF
election conspiracy was started. ended
suddenly today when all the defend
ants were ordered discharged by the
court.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-15
WARE REPRIsALs--AND EFFICIENCY

THE Wares seem to have a shade Of ad-
vantage in the campaign Of frightful'
ness which Is making municipal place
holders tremble for their Jobs. and by the
same token reducing their efficient
and concentrated service to the city.
The Vare-Smith combine has been
zeppelined by the foe and its reprisals have
been swift. The Ware leader OF the Thirty
seventh Ward was chucked out of his Job
as n court clerk to make room for an
anti-vareite. leader of the Forty-sixth.
Thereupon the Vareite, instead of staying
politically scrapped, was shunted into the
assistant city treasurership by his spon.
sors. But the victory is with the Wares so
far. Their man lost a $4,000 place and his
faithfuness was rewarded by one paying
$4,000. Anti.Vareism won a Pyrrhic tri.
umph.
The fact that two city officials haYe been
disturbed in their routine, to which they
were trained and in which they were
doubtless efficient, Is mere trifie in com.
parison with manning the trenches with
reliable ward statesmen and loyal division
bell-pullers forninst the next election.
Where do the people stand? Appar'
emily they only stand for It.
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VICTORY WILL SPROUT FROM SEEDS

M1E KNOW that food will win the war.
w That means food production we'll as
food saving. Translated to lowest terms, It
means seeds will win the war.
Many war essentials of obvious neces-
sity are clamoring for priority of handling
and especially transportation. In the gen.
eral pressure for place and precedence
things not ostentatiously of military I'M
portance stand chance of sidetracklng.
They may be unmilitary as seeds, yet
as vital to victory The impression is cur.
rent that seeds are not receiving the right
Of way due their function Of making our
harvests this year the vastest of record.
We need more than bumper crops. They
must be superbumper, and that war aim
will fail unless we have free movement of
seeds not only to the farms, but to the two
million home gardens which made back
yards and vacant lots to bloom last year,
gardens which this year the National War
Garden Commission is driving to increase
to five million.
Seeds must be made priority freight from
now on, as the planting season impends.
They bulk small enough. as packed for
transit, not to interfere with other legiti.
mate war necessities which are entitled to
| precedence.
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e9 ACoRNs Al.(:yl),l.l>'.:,
Being the Little Beginnings Of Sd
Worthy Timber

A S THIS department. is devoted to
"A evolution of big things from little.
particular reference to the fostering esfq
what more fitting than that we should ~
today of one who by grubbing In the 4
early and late accomplished his own ~
development? Our hero whose name
Howard was born on June 20. 1869 Fol
while, but net for long. he busted hin'
with schoolbooks When he quit this TO "
work he was still young enough to be ss'
fled with wage of 81 per week. That's VI
w. Atlee Burpee Co. paid him to ma
fires, clean windows and run errands. Dun
the summer he kicked" a Gordon press
which he was expected TO get on soVV
pressions day. Just after the blizzaru
'SS he went to Fordhook Farms. near Dcyp
town, and began his real anprent cesnip
the business which became his lifework 4
SO a week he cleaned seed direct from
field hand-weeded until his fingerDails v
worn to the quick, spread manure ana io'
most of the 100000 varieties OF insecw
entists tell us there are In the worid \
many years he toiled from xteen 10 cyl
cen hours a day. plus about ten hours y
days and holidays. and eliminated vacs,j
y
self with a complete knowledge OF SEED
duction. The incubation took. In iSss
boss sent him to Europe to observe mstnj
practiced there, and, incidentally, 10 ~
any vegetable or flower novelties being
petrated in those parts. But several "
before that he had Travelled about ,amons
grow ng crops In New York and cAn']
There he srent his days In the fields ana
voted his nights to- the study of the p.'1
works of noted horticulturists ana "
horticultural and agricultural press, ~
believe that his boss was a slave drive.
deed he was always one OF the kinnhsss
most considerate men in the world. Ios
hero planned himself this line OF activo n
In time he became the firms business y
ager and recently. because OF the incro1
the volume of business, production mA.
We haven't room here to mention az NV y
and-horticultural associations OF wn'cn y
a valued member. but without rear ~
cessful contradiction. ladies and gent'.
we present Howard NJ. Earl, rremisr NJ
49, T. All
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-15
GETTING THE JUMP ON THEM

TNHE announcement that American artil.
l. lery very effectively" supported French
troops in their capture of German positions
in the Champagne region reveals the fact
that or efforts are not confined to the
sector of Toul and Nancy in Lorraine The
Champagne is some distance from there
on the other side of Verdun. 1t is good to
learn that more than one part of the
French line is experiencing the encourage.
ment of working with re-enforcements from
overseas.
The news of the last two weeks gives
the impression that it is the Allies and
not the Germans who are starting a big
offensive Was this what Lloyd George
meant when he told Parliament he would
rather resign than reveal "the military de-
cision of the first magnitude" which had
been reached by the Supreme War Council
at Versailles?
Estimates of the German strength In the
West have greatly varied, but our pessi-
mists have failed to show that we are out
numbered. There is every reason to be-
lieve that we outnumber the enemy. and
the infusion Of fresh American troops into
the Allied ranks would seem to be a good
reason for getting the jump on the foe in
the way of offensives.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-15
VALENTINE FOR MARGARET
Whimsical Appreciation of Miss Wild
demer's Stories and Poems

To the Editor Of the Ercntng Public Ledger:
Sir--Why not start "Our own Who's
Who? I'll begin it:
Miss Margaret Widdemer. one of our
talented native novelists and poets who are
keeping Philadelphia well forward in the
literary barrage, was born in Doylestown,
the daughter of the Rev. Howard T. Wild
depler. of St Paul's Episcopal Church. There
is no date mentioned in the docket, but 1t
was not so very long ago--cant have been,
because Miss Margaret graduated from DreX-
Ell Institute in 1909, where she took the Ii
brary science course. better known as bibl'o-
therapeutics. Her first poem was written
at the age of four, and as hay fever VIC
tim. we blush to state that it was on "The
Godenrod." Miss Margaret herself claims
to be immune to goldenrod, poison ivy, rat
tesnake and fattery.
Her first merry jaunt after leaving the
shetering turrets Of Drevei was to cata-
logue the Anatomical and Biological Lii
brary at Wisar Institute. Then she worked
for year among the precious manuscripts
and incunabula at the Rosenbach Galleries
on Walnut street. but she found many de-
pressing statements In the rare books and
first editions that she left to take less
paid job in the library of the University Of
Pennsylvania.
Miss Widdemer says she was fired from
the University library for incompetence. but
that sounds like a publicity canard Every
famous author sooner or later claims to
have been fired from somewhere. 1t adds
prestige and is such an easy way Of knock
ing ones former employers.
Well, next she wrote her well-known and
cheerful novel, THE Rose Garden Husband
which was published by Lippincott about
1913 Also a book of poems. '"The
Factories" issued by the John c. Winston
Company.
Since then Miss Widdemer has written two
more novels and several books for girls. Her
latest novel, THE Wishing Ring Man" was
published by Henry Holt In New York, who
will also issue her new volume of poems,
1.-The Old Road to Paradise" this spring, One
of her diversions is lecturing and reciting,
which she does with great charm and emo
tional power. Her lecture on Poets at Play"
OF the poets craft. No issue of the Good
Housekeeping magazine is complete WITHOUT
one Of her poems stories.
She has abandoned Philadelphia for the
| nonce living with her mother in the heart of
| Il young literary colony at Larchmont, N. V,
only two verses from where Dom Byrne
and Joyce Kilmer are intrenching the slopes
of Parnassus A theosophst once told Miss
| Widdemer that she born two hundred
years ahead of her scheduled incarnation
| She says she has got to hang around for two
| hundred years waiting for her proper soul to
catch up and she may well put in the
| time writing books any other way. She
| has two lovely gray cats whose names are
| Mehtabe and Edward Grey. Mehitabel was
| cast off by undertaker because she was
| 'too lively with the corpses" Nch'tabel was
| anemc for a while, but Miss Widdemer built
| up her constitution with three star brandv.
| Philadelphia. February IL. S. V.
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McAroni Ballads
FORTISSIMO

FORTISSIMO
My frand, you have been kind /,
To me cen nanny way. A6.
You tai me / weell find NJ.
Da gooda wife SOM day. &.
"Som' girl weell COM along" &
You say, "an' smile on you-
OATS Ler!" But 'theeng's wronl
Eet ANITA comm true. n
/ am afraid l need
Som othra kind of sign
Dat / can easy read
An know da girl ees mine.
Eef only dere would be
Som seemplc kind of treeck
For know she's mash weeth me
sure would grab her queeck.
Eth? Sure, you bat my life!
Dere's SOM have smiled; but w'a
say, "You be my wife?"
Dey start to smile again.
You theenk dat pleasa me
An maxi me glad an proudf
All, no, my frand; you see
Dey smile too damma loud!
TOM DAILY,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-15
AS FREE AS AIR AND WATER
A WATERWAY is to a railroad as water

A WATERWAY is to a railroad as water
power is to coal.
bridge over a waterway is to a boat as
m airplane is to a mailcar.
Too many of us have forgotten vital
chapter in our arithmetlcs. We have been
shortsighted about rations, but even shorter
sighted about ratios. We have been
90 quick to take the easy middle route
that we have neglected to see both ends,
without which there can be no middle.
Failing to note the plus signs in our equa-
tions we are naturally disconnected by
irrelevant minus signs in our proportions.
Not the least impressive reflection sug-
gested by the Governments taking over of
the waterways as an urgent war necessity
is that for years the men who demanded
their development were looked upon by
many as IL they were as wild as the strange
sect of Doukhobors-or, at least, as some
kind Of bores. Many of the railroad inter.
ests obstructed waterway improvement as
II TO foil a would.be rival, just as the first
transatlantic cables were cut by the agents
of shipowners who feared that the trans.
mission Of information by wire would cut
down their mail-carrying profits. If truer
sense of proportion had not been learned
we should expect to see the plan for
Delaware River bridge opposed by ferry
owners, the PhiladelphiaN New
York air.mail route deprecated by railway
stockholders.
No owner of wires can cut the route of
the wireless. No franchise holder can stop
an airplane. No nitrate-bed owner can
prevent the use of the nitrogen In the air.
Science is giving US the freedom OF the
air, and thus the freedom Of the land, the
freedom of the sea and the freedom Of the
arms Of the sea; If not always directly, at
least Indirectly by the strong force Of
analogous -oeoning.
Freedom is so remarkable thing tnat It
enriches even those who have tried to op-
pose it. The transatlantic cables finally
aided the shipowners tremendously by ex-
pediting their commercial arrangements.
Aircraft will connect railroads that are In
competition or separated by lakes and
mountains. and thus increase their pas
senger and freight receipts.
NJ OF course the development of waterways
will help the railroads. as all railroad men
now know. The volume of freight in this
country has become so immense as to be
out of proportion to car capacity and the
cost of new equipment and upkeep. There
is no country so lavish with transporta-
tion. Materials are shipped across the con-
tinent and back again as finished products
with little regard for the cost and proper
use of coal. Part of the freight rates we
pay is paid for coal that ought to be In our
cellars.
The railroad needs the waterway as much
as the waterway needs the railroad. They
are the logical compliments of one system,
as the spur of war has driven home to us.
The Germans put the Kiel Canal on the
map and we never saw it. Possibly If they
had given us the design of Lewis machine
gun or dye recipe some Of US would have
shelved it. But we had what they lacked
the air of freedom. And in spite of our.
selves that air will set us free.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-15
"UNTHINKABLE"

DEOPLE can easily sympathze with the
! relatives of Mark Twain for wanting to
suppress q book purporting to be a mes
age sent by the author from beyond the
grave. But when It comes to suppression.
~ which any group Of persons is to lay
down the law as to what humanity shall
not believe about debatable subjects. we
must draw the line. There are so many
things we knew to be impossible and which
came 10 pass. We could go into court and
testify that on June l5. 1914. a distin-
guished young woman author said to us
1--WE must not be pessimistic about the
world; for instance we are all agreed that
. world-war would be impossible" To
which we solemnly assented and said some
thing nice about her latest book.
& Again. on July 2s. one of the most re-
1txble newspapers In the world sam: "Of
ooorse there viii not be war. because such
= war would be unthinkable."
Consider the word "unthinkabie" II
1<1es itself. II you can think a thing.
oc|er absurd. Il Is thinkab!e. We are
&Qme things that were unthinkable
Iom,a Frnpklin because for some
~ 6I1u't think Of thern. But they
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-15
Perfect Coordination REQUIRED

So we have learned to take no chances I'm
trehch warfare and by the appl cation Of
ulsclphhe we nave so endeavored to train
our men that whenever necessary they DE-
come IKE the men in game of cheun.Is ,uyt
as rigid IN their squares and entirely DO
pendent upon the master mind controlling ,bo
game An attack now presents perfect co-
ordination between artillery and infantry ana
each works with the clock. Hence. personal
courage is kept in its place
/ remember going out one night I'm Eroroo
just before the battle Of Loos. II was aboy,
1880 in the morning. and being or,lerlv q q, :
GER 1t was my duty to visit the sentries As
! approached No. 3 gun emplacement 7 sou,
the sentry sit down and after few seconds
he rested his head upon his hands, SentrIa.,
do not sit down, so / asked for nm av,,,a,ea
tion. 1t could not be satisfactory but 7 l,na,,,
the man to be good fellow so I asked Nj,
at what hour he had been posted. He ro.
piled:
'"ren o'clock, sir.'
when do you expect to be reIieved2n
AT o'clock, sir"
And Corporal Jecks is the N. C. O. Of tbs
guard" ! continued. '"e
"Yes. sr!'
! knew Corporal Jecks well, so had hin,
produced a sood-ior-nothing kind.hearted
perfect specimen of the "old soldier y ~. -
had received his promotion in the davs NJ Gov,
NJ c, O.'s, tumbled up the durout sters ~, ~
approached with the disarming smile of his
type. waiting until he should regain his com.
posure said to him bitterly: ''''''
Corporal Jecks, has Gunner Haryay A.,
sentry on duty, ever harmed you in any
| way?' "'
mo. sir !" he replied
"Then your object In arranging IN bav,
| him shot was merely coldblooded murder 30 a w
| not revenge You know, of course tbst .,n'. IT,.
| this new order has come out had ,onnt
| him sleeping he would possibly ba,,a a.. III"
shot within the next week. For what nerio1
| Of time were you ordered to keen your ms,
| on sentry duty?"
For two hours. SIR"
1.-TWO hours on and four off, is that right >.
eyes sir"
II found him on duty though. lust ready
| TO sleep" continued. He states tha, =,
relieved the previous sentry at 10 O'Clock
| Please explain"
| well. sir; the men said that they pre
| ferred 10 do Their nights duty In one perio1
and then spend eight hours resting. 80
| thought"
''You thought" broke in. that this W.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-15
UNFIT CAMPS MAKE UNFIT MEN

CURGEON GENERAL GORGAS con-
~ demns Camp Greene as unfit" 1t
should be made sanitary at once. We can.
not expect ft fighters to be developed in
unfit camps. And we don't want Char
lotte, n. c., or any other place to dupli
cate the scandals of Camp Alger or the
Chickamauga encampment, of unsavory
and unhealthful memory, in the Spanish
American War.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-15
EDITORIAL EPiGRaus

Germany makes a raft Of singles douh,a. ana
three -haRgers, but somehow most ~ her ,,nn mnn
are. left out there on the bases Honolulu Star
Bulletin "
So far AS treaties are concerned one sty,.d n,
Trotsky is Just good a. one OF the Ksdsasu Kdsu py
New York Morning telegraph. s' -,
II must he consolina TO Rumania TO know tb.,
she rRs the Teutons " front of her and the Boi
sheyiki behind her.-St, Louis Star S Do'
An optimist Is one who reads eagerly about
a. Louis Globe Democrat
uven the Ksiser's best friends In Coprre.. -
,,,iIing To declare war on Turkey and Ruira r,s
The bulgarian and Turkish vote lsnt imporas ~ "a
Allies can stand another verdun. hut can Gar
many?-wai street Journal. w - Ns'
Russis's Reds appear 70 be givins the people
tn: qsyssc y:..,ss sCps tss cssns!ns q.
~ s1>->
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-15
A LANCASHIRE WAR sToRY

A story Is going the rounds IN lns
of England OF a certain Lancashire vss''
on the Cambria front. The battauo"
trudsing back from the trenches, aite..
relieved in the small hours OF the ~"
Suddenly It was confronted by an
who ordered II to halt and dig
trench where It was. The battalion
OF course. without q murmur. but
moment there came n voice from W.
ness: I'm six days Z Lord made
earth, and then. ont seventh.
COON an dug Il sn COP agstn.
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sort we ever heard of was that out OF moth.
ing there should be created a man who was
SO wise and witty that long after his death
ne could still make people laugh and weep
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-15

Urges reconstruction Of war machine
Headline
To be continued. They were still recon-
structing the Union army when the bows
were marching back from Appomattox.