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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
THE CORPORATIONS IN COURT.

The fight for and against government own
ership of the railroads is waxing hot. The cor
porations have begun a battle, the desperate
character of which reveals how seriously they
regard the issue. They have struck with all
their power against the legality Of government
ownership. They intend to settle the whole
question with a sweeping order from the court
commanding the people Of the United States to
keep their hands off sacred private property.
The leading legal light Rho will push their in
terests before the Unit States court is Eihu
Root, lately our extraordinary representative
before the Russian democracy and now much
talked of to represent the people at the peace
table.
On the other hand, J. Hamilton Lewis, sena-
tor from Illinois, has introduced a resolution in
railroads, telegraph and telephone lines, the
express business and fuel sources. This is one
of the biggest issues before the nation. If the
people triumph, it will continue a turning
point in American history. 1t will mean the
beginning of industrial democracy. The citi-:
zen cannot afford to be ignorant of this issue.
One of the most encouraging phases of the
struggle is the permanent victory the people
already won in the realm of public ownership.
The principle of a unified system for the
railroads, the telegraph and telephone systems
and the express business has been demonstrate
ed; and we can't go back
1t has been found, as a result of our war ex-
perience, that these great utilities must operate
in the future as single, unified systems, organ
lied for efficient national service. A signifi-
cant thing is that in a recent discussion of these
utilities in Washington no one dared to attack
the principle of nationalized unity for these
great services. It is an established principle.
The three acknowledgements that were made
to the people by those at the helm were that we
must either have government operation with
out ownership, or government ownership, or, as
the least measure that could be followed: uni
fled national services owned by the corporations.
Grand Forks American.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05

Miss Hilma Setter spent last
Thursday in Souris, the guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Geise.
Miss Clara Wall spent Thurs
day with Miss Tora Noun.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Berg of
Landa spent Sunday at the C. G.
Gorder home and Monday at the
J l.: Gorder home, making the
trip by auto.
Carl Wall went to Omemee on
Tuesday to have some dental
work attended to-.
Mrs. Anton Berge and Minnie
spent Tuesday at Bottineau.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Wall and
family moved into the Ole o.
Berg residence Wednesday. The
house has been recently renovat-
ed by Martin Bardahl.
A class consisting of eighteen
boys and girls was confirmed by
Rev. Redal at the Turtle Noun
tain church Sunday. Among
them were John Glomseth, Ben
Gorder, Adolph Wall, Selme1
Haakenstad, Abel Wall, Huldah
Bakkom, J. Dalen, Edna Haugen,
Clara Haugen, Vendal Mork,
Sina Vestra, Peter Sivertson, J,
Skarphol, Gilbert Iverson, Ar
thur Moen, Gina Hanson and
Ada Haugen.
Miss Selma Haugen returned
from Velva Tuesday evening,
where she has spent the past
few months working.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
MORE SCHOOLS
STANDARDIZED
SCHOOLS OF BOTTINEAU
COUNTY WILL RECEIVE
$39O6.1S STATE AID.

The County Superintendent
office has just received notice of
the schools standardized in Bot
tineau county for the school
year 1917-1918.
They are as follows:
Consolidated, First Glass
Overly Special No. Al, Overly.
Second Class - Abercrombie
Special No. "a, Russell.
Scotia Special No. 90, Landa,
Stone Greek No. 46, Kramer,
Newburg Special No. 48, New
burg, Carbury Special No. 50,
Carbury.
|. Third Class-Fairview Mo. 40,
Michigan No. Is, Newborg No.
43, Peabody No. g., Illinois No,
80.
Graded, First Class-Souris
Special No. 20.
Second Class-Oak Greek No.
A, Gardena.
Rural, First Class-School No.
4, Daybreak No. II.
Second Class-School No. 3,
Perry No. SO; School No. 8,
Scandal No. 20; School No. 4,
Scandal No. 20; School No. 8,
Bottineau No. /.
Third Class-School Mo. 5
Brander No. AZ; School No. L,
Lincoln No. 6; School No. 2,
Cutbank No. "a; School No. 2,
Chatfield No. 80; School No. 4,
Chatfield No. 80; School No. 8;
Dewey No. 16.
The total amount of State Aid
that will be received for these
schools from the state is $685.
Is. Bottineau county has again
made an excellent showing in
the Standardization Of schools.
Few, if any, counties Of the
state will show a larger number
of standardized schools or re-
ceive a large amount of State
Aid. Another year should show
a large increase in the number of
such schools.
In addition. to the schools
mentioned above there are six
standardized High schools in the
county, namely: -
First Class-Bottineau. is
Second Class-Willow City.
T Third Class-Omemee, Max.
bass and Lansford.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
POUNDMAsTER's SALE.

State of North Dakota, Coun-
ty of Bottineau, IS. Town of
Eidsvold.
Take Notice that by virtue of
the statute in such case made
and provided, l did on the 18th
day of November, 1918, impound
the following described animals
One grey gelding, weight about
1900; one light bay mare, white
hind legs, weight about 100 lbs ;
One black gelding, large white
stripe in forehead, weight about
1000 lbs.
And that unless the said ami
mails are taken away and the
fees paid within fifteen days of
the date Of this notice, I shall,
on the 18th day of December,
1918, at Eidsvold Town Hall, Sec.
10, 1852, 70, at 2 o'clock in. the
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
BIDS WANTED.

Sealed bids will be received by
the School Board of Perry School
District, No. SO, up to December
IA, 1918, for the following des-
cribed property belonging to said
School District:
Two one-room School Houses.
Six toilets.
One coal shed.
One stove.
One Smith heating and ven
tilating system.
Address all bids to S. E. Hoff-
man, Mohall, N. Oak, marking
"Bid on School House, Stove,
Coal Shed or other property as
the case may be.
The Board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
Signed, S. p. Hoffman,
ct. School Clerk Of Perry School
District.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
CHANGING POLICY.

The whole question Of whether our north
western states and in time the United States is
going to have a successful progressive move
ment depends on whether we need a change in
policy. Do our farmers and wage-workers in
the cities and small business need an amended
system or a different system from that which
enables large capitalists to govern markets and
industry? If the people can live happily with
the despotism of plutocrats controlling their
livelihood, then we shall not see much change.
We shall go on devoting our political ener-
gies to changes of personnel in the administer
ing of the plutocratic system we now have.
There will be much ink spilled and oratory
poured out over the question as to whether Will
son or Roosevelt, whether Democrats or Re
publicans can the better administer the funda-
mental policy we are now living under. Such
obviously is all that we can do under the old
~two-party system.
We can not change policies with it because
each party is made up of reactionaries and pro-
gressives who might want a change of policy
Both of these elements have to agree on what
the party does, and compromise as it may in
nonessentials the reactionary wing, which sup
plies the campaign funds, will never make a
compromise that strikes at the root of special
privilege. Thus the Democrats in 1912 were
going to abolish the trusts, but all that has been
done in that direction has been to change the
name of the beast to large industrial unit"
The Republicans were going to make the trusts
behave by regulation, but the trusts fiourished
under their regulation.
To change the fundamental policy we must
get all those who demand it and would benefit
by it in one camp. This independent camp
could then proceed to capture the machinery of
one of the old parties, as the Nonpartisan league
does, or it could be made a separate party. I'm
til we succeed in this we Shall merely change
administrations and on our mighty political eff
\ forts will depend such questions as whether we
shall have Democratic or Republican postmast-
erS.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
THE NEW EXCUSE.

1t looks as if many who hoped the end of the
war would mean a speedy return to free speech
free assemblage and democratic law enforce
ment, are doomed to disappointment. The facts
OF the case did not warrant this hope and re-
cent arrests in New York City and elsewhere
bear this out.
The suppression of free speech and free as
semblage and the mob violence such as we have
had in the Northwest against the Nonpartisan
league were at no time caused by the war. The
war has been merely the occasion which the
special interests have used to fight popular op-
position. The old gang leaders in such states
as Minnesota have at no time really believed
that League leaders or members were disloyal.
They fought the League with these weapons
because the League was very close to political
success and therefore very dangerous to them.
Most of the more extreme elements have also
been prosecuted not because the scene-shifters
ever thought these people were pro-kaiser or
antl-democratic, but because the war looked like
a good occasion to make on end of independent
thought and independent action.
Unfortunately for the special interests, this
independence which they hate has grown dur
ing the war. The hard times of the poor, the
unsurpassed profteering, the propaganda of
minds. The nation seethes with a desire for
change. Consequently the cause, the real cause
Tor suppression is stronger than ever. All that
is needed is a new occasion.
The special interests have already invented
this new occasion. They have been building it
for nearly a year. By one-sided news, by har-
rowing tales of atrocities they have made a new
terror to take the place of the Hun called "bol-
shevism." Now whatever bolshevism may mean
in Russia, and we know little or nothing of Rus
STA for the last year because of the censorship
and interventionist propaganda, in America it
will mean any one opposing the special interests.
Any means of suppressing it after they have
attached it to their opponents will be considered
justified.
The issue is here. We must meet it. The
most effective way perhaps is to show the fool
ishness of the new trick. If enough of our peo-
pie think right, the plutocrats can not do any
thing.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
MEETING.

The stockholders of the One
NEE Co Operative Farmers Ele-
vator Co. are hereby notified
that a special meeting of said
stockholders is called for Jan.
9Th. 1919, at 200 P. M. in the
Harrington Hall, for the purpose
of increasing the capital stock
of the Omemee Cooperative
Farmers Elevator Company, Of
Omemee, N. D. from $10,000.0o
to $2O,000.0O, and lowering the
par value of shares from $1O0.to
to $4,000.
BY order of the Board of
Directors.
Claus Ploehn.
President.
j. C. Kerchenfaut.
Secretary.
Jan. 3fd.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
LETTER FROM SON WHO
IS NOW IN FRANCE

Sunday Nov. 10, 1918.
Dear Parents:
I wish you could see me now
here in a $4,000, 900 house where
we can come and go when we like
to. There is plenty Of enjoy
ment such as concerts, games
and shows and we have a chance
to hear noted speakers.
/ can heardly realize it my
self; it seems like a dream. 1t
is such a change to come from
the trenches to a place like this
place is. At the front we
live in holes like gophers and
the noise of the machine guns
and high explosives is the music
while here we have the best of
piano music and singing.
This is one of the most beau
tiful places in France. 1t is To-
Gated in the picturesque valley
along the French Alps, not far
from the Italian border. The nice
buildings here were built to be
used by kings and now North
Dakota farmer boys are using
them as a recreation place. What
do you think of that.
We stop at the incest hotels
and / tell you it feels good to get
into a soft bed with white sheets
after lying on the ground or on
wooden cots for about 6 months,
My room mate and I were the
guests of two of our friends at
another hotel for dinner. We
had a meal consisting Of four
courses and not any bacon and
corn-beef either. The govern
ment pays all expenses.
It is sad to think of the many
who were left at the front. Goo
has indeed been merciful to me
that he has spared me thru these
trying times. !.
/ told you sometime ago thai
| was acting as SCfeCcnef-DeafeT
It was hard work but / came Out
of it alright. / prayed to Goo
every morning that he would 81
with me and help me to do my
duty and relieve some Of the SUI,
fering and it seems he has heart
my prayers.
7 will send you q few pictures
Of this place and it will give vol
8 better idea of it than me trying
to tell it. There is one place
that I soon hope to be at ane
is much more beautiful than 81
this splendor and that Is "fiorns
Nsy CD Is With you til y.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
WHY A DICTATOR

Such news as comes through to us from Rus
STA frequently has peculiarities that are with
out explanation. At least we hear none. We
have been hearing, for instance, of the new all
Russian government the Russians have set up
with the help of the invading forces. Now the
news comes that this all-Russian government
has been put into the hands of a dictator, an
admiral of the old regime. It is a question in
point to ask why it is that if the common peo-
pie wanted the intervention and needed it, our
forces could not have been used to establish
representative government rather han dictat-
orship or rule of the car? In the absence Of
explanation, the only guess we can make is that
the representatives chosen by the people proved
unacceptable and SO had to be kicked out.
A reform movement that puts aside trim
ming to get temporary victory and fights it's
way inch by inch, is the real thing. A clean de-
feat leaves it ready to begin over again, but a
contaminated victory is not only not success but
it kills the soul. The progressives compromised
with Roosevelt in 1912 and are dead. Neither
Evans; Bates or Samuels became a governor in
the last election, but the Nonpartisan league
lives clean and prepared for greater struggles.
The North Dakota victory likewise is the real
thing.
From the recent Roosevelt exposure it would
appear that the Minnesota National Guard fur
nished q handy bit Of scenery for the old-gang
stage directors, Trust the old gang 70 make nsl
pafriotisn pay dividends, ss
2M%M&&G42%I W## &@~4
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
Notice of Bids.

The Hilton School District No.
10 will accept bids on green pop
lar wood in 2 foot lengths, to be
delivered to each Of the following
schools: 6 cords each to school
Nc. 2, A and /. 6 cords each to
schools No. S and 8.
The Board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
Mensvil Larson, Clerk,
st. Bottineau. N. %. r. 1.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05

afternoon, expose for sale and
SEN at public vendue, to the high
est bidder, in cash, the above
described animals, or so many
Of them as shall at that time re-
main in pound.
Dated November 10Th, 1918.
ct. T. T. eleven,
Poundmaster.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05
THE COOPERATIVE DOLLAR.

When comparing cooperation with big bust
ness run for profit let us not overlook the happy
illustration Of fraternal and old-line company
insurance. The first pays back to the policy
holders in death benefits about 70 per cent Of
what they collect for that purpose and the old
line companies about As per cent. Industrial
insurance companies (poor mans insurance
so-called) do we'll if they pay back as much as
25 per cent.
But this is nowhere near all the story. When
the government worked out a splendid system
Of insurance for the boys in the army and on
the sea, we were treated to the disgusting spec.
tacle of old-line insurance men protesting and
bringing political pressure to bear against the
men who initiated the plan. We saw nothing
like this from real fraternal insurance. The
fraternals were glad to see a good plan in oper-
alton, because they were not making money
by something very inferior.
We do not find the farmers mutual hail and
fire companies lined up against the organized
farmers efforts to get real hail or cheaper fire
insurance through state action. But we find a
compact organization of old-line insurance nen
working with slush funds, lecturers, kilograms,
propaganda, political wire pulling against any
action which would free the people from some of
the e~xactions of the insurance trust.
FrateTnal cooperative insurance is free to
take a healthy public attitude. Private profits
insurance can think only of it's OWL profits. The
cooperative dollar brings greater returns and is
always a servant of the people in other respects;
the private profits dollar is the corrupt task
master that measures all by the standard Of
it's own profits. If We can put more of our dol
lars into cooperation, we shall have more SER
vice and less servitude to the special interests.
As we look back over the political experience
es of the last generation, we are struck by the
fact that nine-tenths Of the supposed clever
ness Of the upper classes consisted in their sue
cess in persuading the toilers that the clever
ness existed. The other tenth consisted in max
ing capitalistic purpose appear to agree with the
interests Of the people. The only source Of in
teligence for farmers and workers il the cities
is themselves.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-12-05

meet again.
A loving greeting from your
son, ''
Albert B. Dravland,
Co. G 1928 Inf.
American E. F.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-15
Ell PASO WOMAN FEARS
BROTHER AMONG 20 LOST

When disaster overlook 20 men of
Waterford. Ireland. off the coast of
England, as they were on the way 10
join the army in France, there was
an echo Of the disaster in FL PasO.
Nothing was ever heard of the 20
Waterford meE again, and il is pre-
sumed all lost their lives through the
work OF a German submarine. The
brother of Mrs. L II. Smith. of Hotel
Alamo. Stephen Wadding, had gone
to the front from Waterford, had
been wounded and returned home and
recovering, and had offered his serv-
ices again to his country. Whether
or not he was on the boat that was
sent to the bottom, Mrs Smith has
not learned. and a letter from Water
ford, which she recently received,
was so blurred and censored that she
could get no definite information
from it.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-15
DELAY IN SOLDIERS ALLOTMENTS
PUTS A PENALTY ON PATRIOTISM

while officials at Washington declaring their end Of the
undertaking up date blame any delays local Off
Gals The secretary Of might very well address him
self to finding out where the trouble lies and adjust it.
In the meantime the Red Cross society is again proving
great value by undertaking to relieve soldiers depend
ents who in distress Almost by accident the local Red
Cross officials became cogniZant of conditions here finding
in one instance that soldier families huddled
geher in cramped apartments in order to fuel and that
in many other dependents hungry. The Red
Cross is trying to it that all needy families of sol
deIs are afforded relief To thousand demands the
time human strength and finances of the Red Cross this
burden added and cheerully undertaken This is very
important work for the Red Cross but department red
tape ought to have made that relief necessary
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-15

rOughIy-they are strong, but
much stronger IL they go off in
your hands!
Most care is taken at the guns
themselves After each shot the plug
man must sponge off his breech
block Suppose $50 pounds Of smoke
less powder are showed in for the
next shot Suppose the red hot plug
is swung home to stop the powder.
Before it locks the whole mass may
ignite. And the only possible advan-
tage that can come out Of such care
lessness is the afternoon off you may
get while burying the ashes Of your
shipmates who were in that turret.
Safety orders say SPONGE" And,
believe me. we SPONGE
Then there's the bareback danger.
gases left in the bore after the dis
charge From which arises the Gus
tom Of having the gun captain sing
out, Bore Cleari" before the next
powder comes up. Sometimes pieces
Of burning bags remain in the tube.
Then must the bore sponge be used
And even after the gun is loaded,
every precaution is taken to guard it
until the breech is closed tight. Elec-
trio connections are broken, primers
kept out (these are the little fulmi-
nate cartridges which set off the big
bags), and the firing key kept open.
In smaller guns. firing fixed
force when the shell ease sticks.
Ordinarily ii would he safe al
most TO hammer on the cartridge
to jam IL in. But one sensitive
Cartridge may massacre the whole
gang manning the piece.
If pointer pulls his trigger and
the gun doesn't go off, that is called
a miss fire. If in a few moments the
explosion comes, indicating that the
powder was burning slowly all the
time, the technical expression is
hang fire" Since a miss fire may
always be a hang fire, the gun must
be left closed and not touched for at
least 80 minutes, which is considered
a safe interval OF course, attempts
may be made to fire the gun by using
another electric circuit, or by con-
cussion Striking the firing pin), and
by putting in another primer.
The stop-it-tive safety orders are
intended to guide men after hell has
busted loose" For instance, when
flarebacks or explosions occur at the
gun all powder must be jammed back
into its tanks. All magazines must
be shut Fire hose, already led out
at the beginning Of the battle, must
be turned on. Gas masks are got out
and preparations made for escape if
necessary.
There are over 200 safety orders.
No more important set of commands
exists in the fleet. No day passes
without some drill and instructions