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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-20

the claims made Tor 1t. The fact is
that no SINGLE tvpa az motor can pos
stbly serve as the driving power for
the various types OF planes.
The repeated failures OF the Lib-
ertv motor TO do the work expected
have been caused IN many instances
because those Ia charge OF the
experiments have ignored the warn
inEs Of foreign experts that q motor
and its aircraft must synchronize to
a close and unvaryimg degree.
The United states took no part in
the quest for aircraft perfectlon--or
50 slight a part as to count for moths
ing Of value. That was the fault Of
congress. which now has set aside
$e40.000.000 for aviation purposes, and
those placed in charge OF ii seem to
have calmly ignored much Of that
which was learned abroad in the
years whenwe sc0rned to take advan-
tage OF the pioneer inventions and
experiments Of American citizens.
Training az a Standstill,
II was planned that the Liberty
motor would include an adaptability
produce the Liberty motor in quantity,
eombined with the failure to order
the large production OF foreign
motors known TO be fitted for this
class OF service. has brought our
training activities to a practical
standstill.
It fortunately happens that the
Hispana-Suizas motor is specially fit
ted for just this duty and q large
and first class plant is turning them
out in gratifying quantities. Thus,
regardless Of the Liberty motor, we
are now. or soon win be. in q posi-
ton 20 complete the training of our
aviators. and the credit is wholly
due to the enterprise Of American
manufacturers acting on their own
initiative.
There Is no reason to doubt that
the Liberty motor has reached
stage OF design and possible produc-
ton. which, under sane and co-opera-
tive governmental supervision, will
permit the private concerns operating
under contracts 20 deliver from now
on a steadily Increasing output Of
these motors.
The Ford Motor company, the
Packard Motor company. the Lincoln
Motor company, the Nordyke and
Marmion Motor Company and sew
eral other great plants are restrain
ed from quantity production only by
the oficial lack OF system. There is
ample justification for the belief that
under the direction Of capable offi-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-20
BAD BREATH
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets Get
at the Cause and Remove 1t

Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the sub
stitute for calomel oct gently On the
bowels and positively do the work
Peonle afflicted with bod breath find
quick relief through Dr.. Edwards Olive
Tablets. The pleasant suE2r-coatsd
tablets are taken for bad breath BY
al who know them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets ct gently
but firmly on the bowels and liver
stimulating them 90 natural action,
clearing the blood and gently purifying
the entire system. They do that which
dangerous caiomel does without any
of the bad after effects.
All the benefits Of nasty. sickeninE.
gripping cathRrtics are derived from
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets without
Eriping, pain or any disagreeahle effects
DR.. f. NJ. Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years Of pTac-
tice among patients afflicted with
bowel and liver complaint, with the
attendant bad breath.
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets are pure
~ q vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil; you win know them by their
olive color. Take one or two every
night for q week and note the effect.
Joe and sc per box All drugziSta
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-20
RED CROSS HAS
WELL DEVELOPED
CANTEEN SYSTEM
ON FRENCH FRONT

The March report OF the Red Csoss
department o. military anairs, in
France. just received az national
headquarters. indicates a large de-
velopmsnt OF the Red Cross canteen
service hack Of the American front
according 20 a telegram received zk
the Northern division headquarters.
A network Of SO Canteens Tor cur
troops, the telegram continues. has
been established three miles on the
rear mont line trenches Besides sup
plying hot drinks and other rhrwesh-
memts 70 soldiers. these cantesnE also
are undertaking distribution Of such
articles az pencils. paper. envelopes
safety pins, playing cards. handnEes
iodine, canes for the wounded men
and sewing kits.
-Four rest stations near the AznHri-
can lines OF communication supply
food and hot drinks, and American
fruits en- route 20 camps from various
ports Of declaration. No charge Is
made for drinks or any OF the articles
distributed.
The great German drive created a
new refugee problem for Paris and the
department. Of military Affairs de-
tailed a large number OF its workers
10 assist the civil authorities IN day
and night work caring for thousands
Of unfortunates who ned from the
battle zone TO the Chu-tty OF the
French metropolis. Food and shell
ter were provided for large groups
OF refugees until they left Paris for
points in the south.
shortly after the German offensive
started, q Red Cross field kitchen
was dispatched 20 the front, and fed
more than $4,000 refugees and sol
diers. The March report shows s.
600 pairs % socks. Tg sweaters 1900
pairs OF gloves. 1900 comfort kits and
141 mufTlers distributed 20 American 1
soldiers during that month.
The bureau Of donations also ship /
ped for American soldiers in hospitals
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grown along
nfen origin cannot % traced but the plant
being aoodd ~ oyeaevs from Ice o feeng and hag
e h TOP taken from part e s Won aFst prize az
m test shqw The following records eeaaton e per cents purity
seeds e interested buying
3 this write
AaNER r. VErcH. wli.ssu. Bskssa
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A Delayed Rssoanitien,


The Aircraft Production board
uade q delayed recognition Of the
wisdom Ct this policy BY entering into
a number cf small contracts for the
HfSp2niR -SuiEa motors i'm the latter
part q 1877, The experts attached TO
the signal corps. however. could not
reEiHt the temptation TO tinker with
this mo3el-a model which had prov
ed Its worth in tens OF thousands OF
flights. have no means Of knowing
TO what extent this intsrference has
retarded production. but am reliably
informed that the Wright Martin
Aircraft corporation Is now deliver
ing daily q considerable numehr 0f
80 h. p. motors. and that Ii Is in a
position to build IN quantity more
powerful motors
There seems TO be no reason why
the Rolls Royce should not be built
In this country. IL has been amply
demonstrated that the Liberty motor
thus far has proved more dificult 20
build than either the ROlls-Royce or
the HiSpana -SuiEa- We need several
tyres OF proved aviation motors in
large quantities at the earliest posSi-
BE nHaHHmh
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-20

cIaI aviation production direction the
building OF acceptable Liberty motors
would soon mount TO. 1000 a week.
This large production Of Liberty
motors can be supplemented within
a comparatively short time py the
building of a very considerable OUT
put OF the Hispana -Suiza, doubtless
the Rolls-Royce sand probably other
foreign types. The false theory that
aircraft success for the United States
depends on a single type OF motor,
and that type yet in the experimental
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-20
PRODUCfIONOF AIRPLANES
Is NATIONS NEED


nnh01lt aviation motors. IRE point
to act On - thfss There In no reason
why the United States should not
now speed up the wholesale pFpduc-
kionS o. al C the types Of motors and
atrplaneS needed for itself and for
its Allies. lie the Liberty motor IL
&c for certain purposes. the obvious
thing 70 % - 70 quit experimenting
and produce il. In the meantime.
production should be encouraged and
expedited BY al possible means Of the
Htspan2- SuiEa. the ROlls-Royce and
any other O. thu foreign types Of
demonstrated Rsae~@SN
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-20
NEW CREAM RATE

Bismarck. ~. n. April 2Qs-Ihn
North Dakota railway commission has
SEQ line points via AFdoch and Forest
River. 20 Grand Forks. based On q
smaller transfer charge 1T these Two
points When the new cream rate
was established some months age an
allowance of is cents per car for
transfer at Ardoeh and Forest River
IVES made. The BrtdEeman-F1uEEati
Co. OF Grand Forks. protested against
this charge as excessive. and - re-
suit Of 3 recent hearing the new rate
has been nxed at S cents Tor ten
gallon cans and S cents for ave and
eiEht-Eatiou cana
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Bismarck. ~ d. April 2a.-Ths
state now las s1.eSR.oaa o. its uni
NREstty and school land funds invested
In cN2Eey SEED ana feed bonds. reports
DSnnty state Auditor LuE6 OF this
total all but 88&a. coo has been paid
o1c q warrants and the money now
Is At w0rA raising . wTtn-Eha-War
eEcn- S9me 90 the counties have not
lzse& all az their m1ouay.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-20

stage. has happily been shattered
and is now abandoned.
The signs ere unnzs stakable that
the period of tinkering and muddling
with our aircraft program is at an
end. The day is at hand when the
mechanic and the engine lathe will
supplant the drnughtsman and when
the alert production expert viii no
chair theoFist. The way to get ayia-
ton motors Is to build them, not
draw them.
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
SIBERIANS
MAY JOIN
INVADER
German Goods Already in
Manchuria, Where Ex-
Prisoners Work Mines.

Harbin, Manchuria, Saturday,
have reappeared far east of
Irkutsk, according to Information
received here. German meT-
chants are active in Harbin and
the Bolshevilzi are arning reIeas-
ed German prisoners to guard the
Siberian railroad and facilitate
the movement of traffic.
A British mining engineer
named Piper, who has arrived
here from Krasgoyarsy says the
Bolshevil1i have seized the gold
mines there and that Austro- Ger
man prisoners are working them.
The Austro- o-Germans have plenty
of money and are purchasing per-
mits allowing them to circulate
freely in Siberia. The Germans
are taking charge of electric pow
er stations, railroads and depots.
Quantities of raw materials are
shipped to Germany from the dis
trict. Most of the Germans are
said to speak Russian.
Piper declares that unless the
Allies take immediate steps to
send supplies and raw materials
into Siberia the intellectual and
present classes will throw them
selves into the hands of the Ger
raanS
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
BUNKER RULES
NOT FOR SWEDES

Stockholm, Feb. 21-Ira Nelson
Morris, the American minister, re-
ceived yesterday from Washington
announcement that the new bunker
regulations are not applicable to the
hundred thousand tons of Swedish
shipping included in the proposed
agreement between the two countries.
1t was communicated Immediately to
the Swedish government as Minister
Morris had learned that an attempt
to apply the regulations to the ships
in the agreement would imperiI the
negotiations.
The announcement from Washing
ton saves for American use the 100,-
600 tons of shipping. The bunker
regulations aroused the indi gnation of
Swedish shipping companies who con-
tended that they would enable the
United States to control even Swed-
ems coasting trade and compel the
cessation of long established traffic
with Lubbock and Stettin, Germany.
The Swedish government also was
somewhat disquieted.
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
Senator Lewis Predicts
Public Ownership Pol
icy for u. S.
RAILROAD HEADS
ADMIT FAILURES
Government Control of
Telephone, Telegraph,
Etc, Inevitable.

Washington, Feb. 21 Sena-
tor Lewis of Illinois, speaking
in the Senate today, declared
the administration railroad bill
is a forerunner Of government
control over various public util-
ties and predicted that the
question would be the great
domestic issue in the next
presidential campaign.
Let US not deceive ourselves as to
the meaning of this measure" Senator
Lewis declared. This is the be-
ginning of the government taking the
railroads as a government agency
The roads will never be permitted to
return to the former state of per-
sonal control for private benefit. Al
the same time this country takes over
the railroads it will take the tele-
graph and telephone privileges and
then the products for fuel, particular
ly the lands of coal and oil and put
these under government direction.
"All agencies Of this nature in this
republic, necessary for the public
welfare of man, will be taken by the
government as a necessary protection
of the republic"
The railroads, Senator Lewis de-
clared, confessed their inability tt
meet the situation and by surrender
ing to the government admitted tha'
the one power capable to carrying or
the work under the existing condi
tions was the government itself.
''The government now conducts tht
roads and directs them as the proc
of its power and ability to do so,' ht
asserted Private ownership of rail
roads. failed US for the purpose O.
sending supplies to ships or for trans
port of soldiers for foreign service
What would be the calamity undel
private ownership if enemies were a
our gates and in possession of oul
country.
LET us announce that the United
States is a government and shall as
sumo governmental responsibility il
protecting all public agencies of hu
man welfare from being a monopol
OF private pilIage."
If this is done, Senator Lewis said
any Bolshevik uprising in the Unitet
States will be avoided.
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
HOLCOMB SENDS
NUTMEG STATES
men A MESSAGE
Major Giddings Carries
Greetings to Connecticut
Soldiers in France.
CITES HISTORY OF
THEIR FOREBEARS
Army Officer Personal Rep
resentative of Governor
in Europe.

Hartford, Feb. 21-Gov. Holcomb
has sent a message to Connecticut
men fighting in France, voicing the
appreciation of the people of Connec-
ticut for their services. The COVER
nor took advantage of the trip of
Major Edward A Giddings, a mem
Der of the Connecticut state council
of defense, to France as a member
of the federal reserve bank Liberty
lean mission to send his message
to the sons of this state serving over
seas. Word has just been received
from Major Giddings announcing his
safe arrival in a British port.
Hartford, Jan. %, 1918.
Major Howard a. Giddings, Hart
ford, Conn.
please extend to the officers and
men of the 102nd United States infan-
try, the 1O1st machine gun battalion
and to all other Connecticut men in
the military service of the United
States who you may meet in your
trip to the front the greetings of the
people of Connecticut and our appre-
! citation of the great service our SOL
diers are rendering in this world war,
and our gratitude, pride and conf
dence in our Connecticut soldiers and
sailors. They are performing our part
in defending and maintaining the lib
critics we have inherited and in OBJ
tanning for all nations, great an6
small, the opportunity for the equa
rights which were obtained for the
| United States in the war of the Rev
olution.
THE soldiers of Connecticut have
ever been faithful in fighting under
the Stars and Stripes to ultimate vic
tory in every contest in which thi:
nation has been engaged, and we
have the utmost confidence that they
will do so in this, the greatest war OF
history, against the most dangerou:
and unscruDulous enemy the forces Of
human liberty ever faced.
May the God of Righteousness
watch over them. inspire them will
courage, give them complete victory
and bring them safely home again t.
receive the greetings and honor!
which the people are hopefully wait
ing to give them.
I'm behalf of the State of Connect
cut, I am
Most sincerely yours,
! f'M. H. HOLCOMB, Governor
Major Giddings also represents Gov
! Holcomb personally and the Con
necticut State Council of Defense an
will make certain Investigations il
France for the council
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
u. S, AERO CLUB
SEEKING REMEDY
FOR AIR Menace

New York, Feb >21 - A special
meeting of the executive board of the
Aero Club of America was called
here today to consider and take action
on the aeroplane situation on the
American front in France as told in
dispatches from the American front.
THE reports would indicate that
the situation is indeed Serious" an
official of the club said. Cur execu-
tive board will meet tolay and we
shall take immediate steps to ascer-
tain whether we can do anything
that will assist the government in re-
moving the menace. 1t has been truly
said that the war will be won in the
air. and if the Germans, as the dis
patches say, are in control, we must
speed up our preparations to wrest
it from them"
The dispatches said control of the
cir in the American sector belongs to
the enemy" German machines COM
ing and going almost at wilr' over
the American lines.
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
After Two Months Peace
Sisters Would Take
Farm From Gustav.
ALSO SEEK MONEY
FOR LANDS USAGE
Will of Mother Left An
Estate Of 100000 to
Three Daughters.

The Molls are at it again.
After two months of peace, lit
igation in the famous Moll pro-
bate case has again broken out,
starting on its 25th year in the
Probate Court. The principal
in the case was Theresa Moll,
who died, a nonogenarian, last
year. Gustav Moll, her son,
had been conservator, and filed
his final account Jan. 25.
The report was accepted by Judge
Daniel B. Bradley, acting for Judge
Paul L. Miller.
Today. Mrs. Lille Moll Thorp filed
notice appealing from the acceptance
of the report, representing that she is
aggrieved by the action. The other
two sisters, Mrs. August Stadtler and
Theresa Oberly, are in sympathy with
her.
In addition to the appeal from the
acceptance of their brothers report
! the sisters will file a writ of election
| in the Superior court today and will
also file suit to recover total of So
900, which they allege their brother
owes them for rental.
Gustave Moll has been living on his
mothers farm on Madison avenue foI
| 20 years or more. The sisters claim
rental on the theory that the place
was decided to them by their mother
during her lifetime.
The aged woman left a will giving
her estate, estimated to be worth
more than 100000, to her two daugh-
/ tiers. Lille Thorp and Theresa Oberly
cutting off Gustave, Mrs. Stadtler ant
another son, who lives in Chicago
The will was accepted in the Probate
court, but an appeal is pending in the
Superior court.
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
ELEVEN HELD FOR
S5,OOO,OOO THEFT
OF WAR SUPPLIES

New York, Feb. 21-Eight cloth
ing manufacturers, two employees and
a clerk in the quartermaster depart
ment of the army were indicted by
the federal grand jury here today,
charged with being concerned in eX-
tensive army uniform cloth frauds.
Cloth and other army supplies
worth approximately $4,000 600 were
stolen, according to Lieut.. George D.,
Barnit of the New York police, who
in conjunction with the federal au-
thorities investigated the alleged
frauds which he said included thefts
in other parts of the country. He
asserted that a plot OF nationwide
proportions had been uncovered and
that Investigations in other cities
probably would be undertaken.
The indictments are based on evil
dence gathered by the federal dis
trict attorneys office in connection
with the arrest about two months ago
of Louis Davidson, head of the Uni
versal Cloth Shrinking & Refnishing
works here.
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
VAST AMOUNT OF
BOOTY TAKEN BY
HUNS IN RUSSIA

Berlin, Feb. q, via Lon
don-The war office an
nounced that 1854 guns
and between 1000 and
5000 motor cars have been
captured from the Rus
slams.
The Russian town of
RovnO has been cleared of
the Russians, the war Of
flee reports. Trains with
about 1000 cars, many
laden with food, have been
captured, as well as aero
planes and an incaIculable
amount of war material.
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
B0LSHEvIKISTS IN
China PROMP
ANOTHER REVOLT

Peking, Saturday, Feb. 16.-BoIshev-
Xxi from Russian Turkestan as well as
Germans and Turks are inf1aming the
Chinese Mohammedan population of
province of Singiang, Chinese Turke-
stan, against the government, says a
report from Gen. Yang Tseng Sin,
governor of the province.
The general warns the government
that arms and ammunition are sup
Piled by the enemy. He says there
are prospects of a Mohammedan re-
bellion similar to the one that began
in 1851. Even the loss of Chinese
Turkestan is possible, he added.
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22

Every now and then aeroplaneS on
this side attack the enemy. They
always do this when, they get a
chance. But the boche is clever
while flying and manages to come
over and take pictures, make obserV-
ations and do virtually whatever else
he desires and then calmly sail home
without interruption. Nearly always
he is at an altitude of about 5000
metres where he is comparatively
safe from anti-aixcraft fire and knows
it.
1t is not permitted to name any Of
ficers of the American eXpeditionary
force. 1t is not permitted to quote
them, If both were allowed it would
be possible to carry quotations from
virtually every officer at the front urg-
ing a speedy appearance of large
numbers of American aeroplanes
with American pilots.
For there is only one way to wres'
control of the air from the enemy
That is to fight him for it in the sky
and to relieve him of it by force OF
overwhelming numbers,
Right now, if the Germans knew
American aeroplanes were waiting
for them every time they came ovet
the line their trips would be less fire.
ouent. Neither would they dare to
attempt such a bold piece of work
as when they recently flew over the
line in an aeroplane disguised with
the Allies red, white and blue bulls
eve marking and cut loose with ma
chine gun on American soldiers i1
the trenches.
Had there been American planes
nearby the chances of the Germans
getting back home after such trick
would be small. And it is extremely
doubtful, officers say, whether they
ever would have tried 1t.
Any officer also will say the safety
of individual soldiers depends or
keeping the enemy from doing as he
pleases overhead. For days the Ger
mans have been flying over certain
towns where American troops have
been resting after periods in the
trenches. Once or twice these day
light observation tours have been fol
lowed the same night by visits by en-
emy bombing planes.
So fre eand unrestricted are thu
German airmen that in some town!
the commands are unrer strict order
to disappear under cover the momen
a German aeroplane is sighted.
Moreover, officers say, more ant
more Gemman planes are appearing
in the sky, and in various quarter
there is a growing belief that thes
are the first of the machines that tn
Germans have been building fever
ishly to offset the large number of ex
pected American aeroplanes in &C
cordance with plans announced in tn
United States.
Whether this belief is true or no
the fact remains that American troop
are holding the sector and are endan
gerad daily because there are n
American aeroplanes with them. Th
question most asked from one end {
the American front to the other is:
s'When are some American plane
coming here?"
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
BRITISH TROOPS
TRUMPETING AT
JERICHO WALLS

London. Feb. 21-A further adj
vance of three and half miles on
a front of seven and three quarters
miles has been made by the Brit,
ish forces in Palestine, the war
office announces. The British are
now within four miles of Jericho.
The operations are continued.
The British losses on Tuesday
when an advance was made on a
is mile front east of Jerusalem
were very small. Yesterdays
losses have not been reported.
The British also advanced
northwest of Jerusalem to a maxi
mum depth of one mile on a front
of four miles.
Republican farmer., 1918-02-22
CARGO SHIP DIVIDENDS

London, Feb. 21-An analysis of
the earnings of seventy British cargo
steamship companies for last year
shows that dividends were paid ag-
gregating $13,000.000 or 1926 per
cent on their capital. The earnings
of the same companies in pre- war
days averaged S.3 per cent.
The dividends of twenty-three lin
er companies were IA per cent on a
capital of $1S9, 900, 900.