The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-11


these horrors?'' and answered it with the
one word "Nothing." They are not all
pro-Germans-just ungrammatical.
IF man who is only charged with disloy-
atty makes a good drawing card as Non
partisan speaker, and is advertised as a
headliner by our delicious contemporary,
who not make bid for Won Papen or Boy
Ed? Why pike along with mere suspect,
if you can get one who has been convicted,
for a speaker?
McAdoo is going to abolish the names Of
'crack" trains. There will be no more
twentieth Century Limiteds," or North
Coast Iimiteds' - or "Overland Expresses. -
They will be the "12 40" or the al 80"
or whatever their time of departure may
be.
Fargo solves the problem of train nomen-
clature quite simply. The old time Dakotan
can be spotted instantly by the way he re-
fers to trains by their numbers. It is a well
established custom here, and the newcomer
finds it almost as essential to learn the
numbers Of trains as he does to learn the
names Of streets.
McAdoo may decree that we will leave
on the "Five-ffty mine" but we will con
tinue to take Number One" as we have
been doing under private ownership.
The blacRbirds are back, very busy with
their spring building enterprises
Fargo has an unusual number of black
birds. They seem to be as numerous as the
robins.
The blackbird, or grackle, is a peculiar
combination Of exclusiveness and gregar-
iousness. Two families of the birds seldom
or never nest in the same tree, but as soon
as the family is reared they gather in focks
and remain together.
There are two kinds Of grackles common
in Fargo. The purple grackle is the big,
shiny, glistening fellow who struts about
the lawns so chestily. The rusty grackle is
little smaller and not so brilliant as to
plumage.
The red-winged blackbirds are not SO
common in the city, but may be found on
the edge Of marshes, in great numbers.
They have changed the style in Jap
anese spies, on us.
They" refers to the motion picture
producers. A.
In the old days before the ,war-it seems
aeons ago-the Japanese spy was always
plotting against the American govern
ment, or starting revolution in Mexico,
or building submarine bases on the Mexi-
can coast, or doing some such sinister act.
But this week we sat breathlessly
through a film showing brave and heroic
Japanese secret service agent engaged in
defending his country's honor, which was
pledged to the safe transport of American
troops across the Pacific. We thrilled
when the wonderful little brown man -
got the best Of the Hun, and glowed with
friendliness for the brave subject Of the
Mikado
''Banzai for Nippon" or whatever the
Japanese for "hurrah' is. A few such
motion pictures will do more to cement
friendship with the Japanese than batch
of Secretary Lansing's treaties.
The romance of the Castles was some
thing of a public affair, and newspaper
readers followed their temporary estrange-
ment, their reunion, and their final separa-
ton by the death Of Vernon Castle, with
more than ordinary interest. Therefore,
the following verses by Irene Castle, pub
lished in Vanity Fair, have some sentiment
tai interest aside. from any literary value
they may possess: ...
There is no sunshine, dear, for me-. f.
However fair the day may be-
With you away. But know, too ia
Each day will seem year to you
So great our Love
When / have climbed Life s winding way,
My grateful heart will pause and say
"There has not been day slip by
Wherein to find tear or sigh
So great our Lowell ..
When sleep, at last, shall beckon me
That peaceful sleep, Eternity
Our souls will wander, hand in hand,
Throughout the mystic Shadowland-
So great our Love!
The everyday heroism Of the trenches is
not of the spectacular type of that wit
messed in the air, and the airman appeals
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