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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
EXCHANGE EXPRESSIONS.
Helping the Farmers.
[Kenmare Journal

The ants who are opposing the
league all agree that the farmer has
a right to organize, but he is going
about it in the wrong way-that is
he should not build an organization
and seek to run it himself, he ought
to turn it over to them and let them
run it for him.
We have an example of how this
would work out in the Federal farm
loan association, which is an organi-
zation established by law for the ben
eft of the farmers and was in a fair
way to come into the hands of the
farmers in it's management and opers
alton.
The crowd which is so jealous in de-
voting it's efforts toward promoting
the farmers welfare saw that this
would not do SC a meeting was called
in Minneapolis and steps were taken
to cripple the farm loan banks and
the sum Of $4,000 was raised to
maintain a lobby at Washington to
block any Legislation that might be
passed to defeat the conspiracy.
AS a result of this meeting, four Of
the largest bond brokers who were
marketing the bonds Of the farm
loan banks refused to renew their
contracts with the banks, and there
is no longer any market for the farm
loan bonds.
The president of the farm loan
bank at st. Paul has appealed to
Congress for a hundred million dol
lar bond issue to meet farm loans al
ready approved and a further issue
for a like sum as a reserve to take
care Of loans until such time as leg
islation can be passed permitting the
banks to establish their own agencies
for marketing bonds.
We don't see the anti-league sheets
saying anything about this plot to
destroy the banks which were fur
nishing cheap money to farmers.
These harpies who cry out against
the farmers way of organizing are
solid in their approval of any means,
fair or foul, by which the present
swarm Of parasites car continue to
drain the life blood out of the bust
ness Of farming.
BY vile, SANDER and malicious false
hoods these vultures seek to defeat
every effort which the farmers make
to rid themselves Of unjust economic
burdens. But the eyes Of the people
are open. They have the cleanest
brains in the world to think with, and
we reckon they will Just keep on or
ganizing and sticking until the day
when their mudslinging enemies shall
be nc more.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.

In a recent newspaper interview Hiram johnson, United
States senator from California, is quoted as having said:
Government ownership of public utilities, but a brief period
ago thought the vagary of the visionary, today looms large on the
horizon of the nation.
There has been a never-ending refrain about the efficiency
of private ownership of railroads-an efficiency which, it was as
serted, could never even be appropriated by the government.
But wars demands put to the test the claims of private own
ershp efficiency, and demonstrated their holoWness.
When the crucial time came for the railroads to respond to
the nations emergency, their private arrangements admitted they
were not equal to the task, and so the government took control.
Whether we will eventually have government ownership will
depend upon the next few months of government administration.
If this administration is sympathetic with government own
And what will remain will be the settlement, in one fashion
or another, of a just compensation to be paid the owners.
Today, in my opinion, is the crucial period.
Successful government operation now. with just guarantees
fair to the railroads owners and holders of legitimate railroad
securities, but fair also to the people and to the poicy-will make
certain government ownership.
Unsuccessful government operation, or pledge or payment by
the nation Of exorbitant sums, will retard for a generation what
seems now at hand.
I am in favor of just compensation to the owners and holders
OF railroad properties, stocks and securities-but only just COM
pensation.
While paying 4 per cent to the man who buys from his slender
store q liberty bond, | would not pay double or treble that sum to
the holder Of railroad securities.
Government operation now, with fidelity and justice to the
people and to every private interest, logically and inevitably will
lead us to government ownership.
The adjournment Of the special session Of the legislature on
record time, and after it had performed in a most expeditions and
highly satisfactory manner every one Of the duties for which it
was assembled. and without having fulfilled q single one Of the
numerous baeful predictions which were 50 freely made by the
sion had been called, must have been 4 most disheartening dis
appodntnnent. TO those wiseacres, and especially 10 to the Grand
Forks Herald and the Fargo Forum, both of which were, - usual.
ne chief prophets % evil.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
RECOMPENSE.

it, a
just to sing a song Of y eering as you 60;
Just to find the truth and throw your arm around it
Won't bring fame-but you'll be happy living 50!
just to even up the rough and rugged places
Over which your fellow mortas daily 90;
just to set contentment glinting in their faces
Won't bring fame-but you'll be happy living so!
Just to see the hidden beauty IN the common,
Loving life, but fearing moi. from il to so;
Having faith in One who loves and leads the human,
Won't bring fame-but you'll BE happy living a!
s4@ Fsss
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
Mail Order House Wisdom.
[Pollock's Newspaper News.l

Do your merchants complain Of the
competition Of the mail order houses?
Here is the answer: The advertising
manager Of one Of the greatest mail
order houses in the country told the
Minneapolis Advertising Forum this
fall that they kept careful watch Of
the local papers and where the local
advertising was weak there they con
centrated their efforts, for they knew
it was useless to work in a field where
the local merchants were live adver-
tisers.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07

erS upon the reservation who cannot
afford to pay the price for coal-in
some cases they are pinched for the
bare necessities of life. In view Of
the circumstances, it does not seem
fair that with the vast store of Ignite
coal upon the reservation and the ex-
IRENE Importance Of conserving coal,
that the government will not allow
this coal to be used, the terms of the
treaty whereby the land vas thrown
open to entry to be lived up to by
the payment of a small royalty to
the Indians. The reservation could
do in a pinch without a pound Of for
iegn coal being shipped in, and yet
the poor homesteader who is penni-
less is refused permission to burn a
few pounds Of coal that is allowed to
lay in the ground and do no good to
the country! This seems to be on a
par with the permission said to be
refused Of hauling driftwood from the
Missouri river that is laying there rot
ting while the administration advo-
Gates the conservation of fuel.
1t is such instances as this that
causes the observer to experience that
Don't give a damn" feeling. It seems
to be a rank injustice, inasmuch as we
are all trying to do all in our power
to conserve in the way both Of fuel
and food. It is about time that the
Fuel Administration looked into this
matter, for it is one Of vital neces-
sity to the homesteader who staked
his all on this years crop and exper-
fenced a practical failure. Give the
poor devils q chance!
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
Why Should They Worry
IDonnybrook Courier.

The Nonpartisan League people
should not worry over the extra hard
fight that is being made on the
league just now. It is simply = sign
that the fellows who are against the
league are worrying more than usual.
Their main efforts just now are di-
rected against the leaders Of the
league-the men who had the ability
to organize this great farmers union.
They evidently figure that il the lead
! can be killed off they have got
the league wrecked.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07

I oW patiently the proverbial. dislike for . fat man applies 70
- the ~profteering hog. During times of peace his nefariouS
: : operations were tolerated, and even condoned by many who
believed that economic wrongs should not be righted for fear O
disturbing business" But what a tremendous change has been
wrought in the public mind since America was forced into . war
for DEMOCRACY and world freedom. While the profteer was waxing
fatter and fatter at the expense Of the struggling nation, his apollo
gists were becoming fewer and fewer. Today he is looked upon
with contempt as one of the most vicious enemies Of the govern
rnent, with every prospect that his nefarious operations will be-
come the object of federal investigation.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07

ut looks as if the railroads have passed permanently from
private control in the form that we have known it. Whether or
not this is a good thing must now remain to be SEEN" declared
Frank A. Vanderlip, president Of the National City bank, and
director , Of the war thrift and war savings stamp campaign, in 2
port of the truth of the contention that Coming events cast their
shadows before"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07

If the story from Bismarck, which is going the rounds of the
state press, to the effect that $4,000 600 is being annually sent
out Of North Dakota to the eastern mail order houses be true,
and there appears to be small reason to doubt it, then Mr.. Town
ley's "utopian scheme" looking towards the establishment of a
chain OF cooperative stores throughout the state is far from being
us believe, and the sooner he gets it into general operation the
better for the state and for the majority Of its people.
The attention of all who may be interested is directed to a
communication from Collector of Internal Revenue James Coffey,
which is published in another column Of this issue of the Courant.
AS stated by Mr.: Cofey, the time in which to make the required
returns is very limited, and the necessity Of complying with the
within the prescribed time is imperative, therefore it behooves
all of those who may be affected to give the matter their immedi-
ate attention, otherwise quite serious consequences in the way of
annoyance and expense will be the result.
A late Associated Press dispatch from The Hague says that
travellers in Germany bring an account Of q recent conference at
Berlin at which Field Marshal Won Hindenburg received the edi-
tors of thirty German newspapers and discussed the food stu
alton with them. The editors told Won Hindenberg that by next
May there would be no food in Germany. my reply is" said the
field marshal, that by next April / shall be in Paris" Let's hope
that he is-as a prisoner of war.
"t looks ~ if tho ralirooaa hauo nassod norroanon+lu froro
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Canadian Police
Arrest 2 in Spy Drive
Especial Correspondence

MONTREAL, April 4-Since the
Quebec outbreak the military authori.
ties and the Dominion police through
out Canada have followed many trails
which may lead to nipping in the bud
enemy plans at stimulating Insured
ton and disloyalty
Captain Carer, of the provost mar
shal's department, to-day decided that
sufficient evidence had been obtaine d
to warrant the arrest on charges on
espionage Alfred Perkins, an automo-
bile agent, residing on Park Avenue
and claiming to be an Englishman, born
in London, and his partner J. Miller
who admitted he came from New York
and said he was an American citizen
Perkins was arrested in his apart
ment after Captain Carter's men had
Swallowed him for three weeks. In
eliminating correspondence from resi-
dents in Quebec, Three Rivers and OF
tawa was found, it is said. Other docu-
ments brought about the arrest of Mil
Ter. Mrs. Perkins was not allowed to
see her husband alone after his arrest
Other arrests are expected to follow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Judge Urges Round Up
Of Spies in Kentucky

LEXINGTON, KY, April Especial
Circuit Court Judge George c. Webb
told the Fayette County graAd Jury
here to-day he had reliable Information
tending TO show that many emissaries
have been sent into Kentucky TO injure
the horse industry as part of the Ger
man propaganda. He charged the jury
to do lis Utmost 10 uncover any activi-
Ties Of German spies and either indict
them for treason or furnish the Fed
eral government with evidence to deal
summary with them.
Men Of this ilk" said the court in
his charge to the jury, who SOW seeds
Of dissension or work against the
United States government and it's peo-
pie. should be prosecuted. imprisoned
and shot, il necessary. There is not
state in the Union" he continued,
that Is rot infested with German
spies. and they do not hesitate at any
thing TO spread German propaganda,
which Is the most villainous, barbarous
and extensive menace that the country
has to cope with"
The statement, which follows the
recent poisoning Of large number Of
government owned horses at Coving-
ION, was greeted with cheers by the
spectator
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Arion Hall, Home
OF German Singers,
To Be War Hospital
City to Buy Property of
Brooklyn Organization for
Governments Use

Arion Hall, in Brooklyn, which be-
fore the war was the headquarters Of
one of the best known and largest of
the German singing societies in the
United States, is to become base hos
pltal, probably for the navy, on May l.
For twenty-five years it has been
identified with the Arion Singing So
ciety, of Brooklyn, and gave its name
to the street on which it is situated,
Wall Street giving way to Arion Place.
The city has offered to buy the
property foy use by the government,
and as it's sale at this time would
prove profitable to the society, there
is every indication that the deal will
go through. Already the society is
preparing to float a bond issue for
the purchase Of the Pope mansion, at
Bushwick Avenue and Himrod Street,
to serve as the new Arion Hall. The
price of that property is said to be
$4,000.
Membership Reduced
Despite excellent dictatorship, the
Arion Singing Society of Brooklyn has
not been prospecting. It's membership
has been dwindlng since the outbreak
OF the war. From more than six hun
dred it has fallen to less than five
hundred, of whom three hundred are
associate members. Last week only a
dozen reported for the singing, and
consequently there was no singing
Such occasions are no longer excep-
tional
A definite schism between the older
and the younger members developed
in 1918. The former were, for the most
part. German born and keen partisans
in the world war; the latter were
American born and inclined to the
American viewpoint When loyalty
year the society declined at first to
have anything to do with the notion.
Two months after the refusal the
younger element got control, and a
loyalty pledge was posted for sigma
lures that was far more binding than
the one originally proposed
THE Brooklyn Arion," said John v
Diehn, chairman of the house commit
tee. last night. lost its dignity be-
cause Of the demeanor Of some Of its
members and the parsmony of the or
ganlzation. There are too many Ger
mans who had big mouth against
America and now don't dare to patron
ize Arion Hall"
1t is hoped that in new surroundings
the society will he regenerated, while
the great halls of its original home
that have rung to German songs and
German toasts, and also to the voices
Of Grover Cleveland and Colonel Roose-
welt, Will prove commodious and com
Portable quarters for wounded sailors
Of the United States navy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Seek Return of Man
On Bad Check CHARGE

The New York police are preparing
extradition papers to enable them to
bring Burton Wilson from Pittsburgh
to stand trial on the charge of de-
frauding the Hotel Aston and the Hotel
McAlpin.
According to detectives of the Burns
agency, Wilson has been operating a
unique Fraudulent check scheme which
has covered twenty years and eighteen
states.
His plan, they say, has been to reg
lster at hotel ostensibly as a travel
ling salesman. Almost coincidentally
letter containing a check has been
received by him, addressed to- any of
the twenty odd names he employed.
He would present the check to the
hotel Office usually for $50 or s75-
and casually explain that it was his
periodic emolument, dispatched by his
firm. The money was paid withou,
question in virtually every instance
say the detectives.
At the time of his arrest, it is said
1900 blank checks, made out to his
fifteen or twenty aliases, were found
in his possession. The checks repre-
scented twenty seven banks in Mich
gan, Ohio, New York, Illinois, Virginia
and Maryland
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Clean Advertising Praised
Tribune Gets High Praise for
Many Fraud Orders

Those important newspapers of the
country which have followed The Trib-
une's lead in taking up the cudgel for
clean advertising come in for nigh
praise in "Patrolling the Avenue of
Publicity" an article contributed to
the April Worlds Work. by Merle
Sidener, chairman of the National Vigi-
lance Committee of the Associated Ad-
vertising Clubs of the World.
No small share of credit for the
smoking out of get-rich-quick men is
given by the writer to Richard H. Lee,
business manager of The Tribune. Mr..
Lee, serving the Vigilance Committee
as special counsel. gathered the evil
dence on which fraud order was is
sued against tina. golden graft, the
international Automobile League. The
story Of the crusade on the league
and also that of the exposure of the
Emerson Motors Company by Mr.. Lee
and The Tribune figure prominently in
the article
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
New Loyalty Tests
Named for Stransky
Editor of "Chronicle" inquiries
Whether Director Did Not
Defend Doctor Muck

Resuming his criticism of Josef
Stransky, director Of the New York
Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard FLEET
cher, editor of "The Chronicle" the
official publication of the Metropolitan
Social Bureau, yesterday asked furthe r
questions of the musician by which he
seeks to determine the extent Of the
latter's loyalty. he says.
After saying that "Mr. Stransky's
nine articles Of faith may convince the
casual citizen. but he avoids the lead
ing issues" Mr.. Fletcher asks of the
director:
Glow much has Mr. Stransky invest
ed in Liberty bonds of the first and
second series?
Didn't Mr.. Stransky defend Doctor
Muck when he was attacked last No.
venaber for not playing The Star Spang-
led Banner and hasn't Mr.. Stransky
continued to befrfend him and retain
his publicly friendly relations with him
until he was sent to jail?
Wasn't Mr.. Stransky appraised of the
fact that at meeting of the directors
of the New York Philharmonic Mrs.
William Jay, then a director, made a
complaint about the preponderance of
German music on the programme dur
ing the last season?
"Will Mr.. Stransky announce the per-
centages OF German, neutral and Allied
composers who have figured on his pro-
grammes during the season?
"Win Mr.. Stransky announce the
amounts of his contributions to the
war charities of the United States?"
Mr.. Fletcher also makes public q COM
municationfrom H. D. Burrell, secretary
of the New York headquarters of the
American Red Cross War Fund, in
which it is said that no records are
obtainable, showing Stransky ever
contributed to this charity. This is
Mr.: tletcher's answer to Mr.. Stransky's
claim he had made such contri buttons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Germany Upholds Mark

WASHINGTON, April A new eff
fort by the German government to
bolster the falling value Of the mark
by concentration of more of the coun-
try's financial business in the hands
Of the government, was reported TO-
day in official dispatches. The i'm
perial postofiice authorities propose to
require all firms in the trade register
to open postal checking accounts. OnIy
100000 Of the $4,000 firms in the reg
igter now have such accounts.
This would concentrate huge sums
in the hands of the government and
make the currency more elastic. The
circulation Of paper money would be
reduced and the percentage Of gold
cover correspondingly increased, which
would improve the German rate of ex-
change.
The German postal check system
was established March 20, 1914, shortly
before the war began.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Oil Official Charged
With Stock Theft
Charles Secor, of Utah Petro-
leum Co., Took Shares
Worth $3.50, Saws Aid

Charles Secor, vice president and
organizer of the Utah Petroleum Com
pany, II Wall Street, was arrested
yesterday in the office Of Assistant
District Attorney Broran, of the bu-
reau of commercial frauds, charged
in short affidavit with the theft of
$4,000 shares OF stock of the concern
valued at 35 cents share on Septem
Der a, 1917. The complainant was
George Hynes, secretary of the COM
pany.
According to Mr.. Brogan, Secor re-
served for himself 2999,0O0 of tn.
100000 shares of stock, par value 81,
for promoting the issue 1t is al
legged he took the $4,000 shares from
the company's vaults and placed them
in the North Side Bank in BROOKLYN as
collateral to balance an overdrawn &C.
count.
Mr. Brogan says secor induced
Henry f. Cochran, of Brooklyn; J.
Boardman Cam and T. J. Thayer, of
New York, to become directors ana
gave them $4,000 shares of stock.
These directors Mr. Brogan said. dis
covered last October that all was not
we'll with Secor's management of the
concern and they gave back their stock
to the company.
The concern had options on the
property of the San Pedro Oil Com
pany, which had one we'll in operation.
Mr.. Brogan said. The prospectus rep
resented that the Utah company hao
leases on the San Pedro company and
that five 'gushers" were working night
and day to line the pockets of in
yestors. Secor. Mr. Brogan says. sold
- 800 worth of stock to Catherine
Wenz, his stenographer, and an equal
amount to his sister-in-law. Mrs. ]. !
McLochlin, of the Hotel Belnord
Secor lived at SO Madison Avenue. He
was locked up at Police Headquarters