The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-11-13
Isn't 1t L0Mghable!

Shortly after noon Thursday the re-
port became current in the city that
Germany and the Allies had signed an
.rmistice. The report had been made
by a bulletin in the Journal Of
fee windows to that effect. Very soon
the World Office was beseiged by in
phone calls asking us for
of that report. We had
taken steps to this end but to each in
quiry we were forced to say that from
our sources of information we had
every reason to believe that the report
was premature, and in this connection
we might here add that our sources
were of the most reliable We did not
blame the journal for this report but
we do take exception to the article
appeared in their evening ed
ition on the same page with the big
scare head "Great War Is Over" the
editors ire no dobt having been raied
by reason that instead Of taking the
reports for the truth, anyone should
question their reliability. This arti-
Gle is vicious, unwarranted and was
penned without any just aus The
pin headed editor Of the "Candle" had
no reason for making as
sertions of this kind against any res
ident of the city, for if asked for facts
to support his insinuation he would
have trouble in setting himself right.
is the article and if any fair
man can read his without
questioning it's authors motives there
is something amiss with the reader:
"Evidently there are people in Dew
rs Lake who are not anxious to hear
at the war had come to an end.
they don't want to believe the news
,;,ich good people had been praying
Or so long.
They are here in every community
the flag-waving, shoot-mouth pay
t~riot-eers, who snuggle behind the
breast-works Of reactionary stand-pat-
ism. They didn't feel a bit like cele-
brating-so they started the story
that the report was untrue
The basement gazette, still cropping
along under the illusion that it is a
newspaper, telephoned the official or
gan Of standpatism (the G. F. Herald)
for confirmation, Of coure the Her
aid could not give confirmation, be-
cause it never gets the news until it
has whiskets on it longer and thicker
than Judge Robinson's.
But along some 'steen or twenty
hours after. the poor old Herald vii.
come along with big black scare lines,
and then the little (minded) boys and
girls who insist on taking their news
thru the G. F. straw will clatter about
what has happened-the day before"
Yes, "the poor old Herald came
along" not esteem or twenty hours af-
ter" but in an evening edition on the
streets but an hour or so after the
Journal. and they did not say the
"Great War is Over" but they did say
that the United Press report to the
effect that the armistice "terms were
at 1900 this morning" was in
error for they cited facts as follows,
which were equally as available to the
United Press as they were to the AS
ISOLATED Press:
"Oficial dispatches from France to
the state department at Washington
testify that the German commission
ers were not even to meet Marshal
Foch until s o'clock this afternoon,
and dispatches received today from
the American army on the Sedan
front show that at $50 p. m. the
troops were still advancing"
Any school boy could take the two
reports and tell in a minute that the
United Press report was not true,
Neither was the United Press report
of a recent date true when it announc-
ed the death Of Pope Plus the tenth,
which really occurred some hours AZ
ter the report was in type. Neither
was the report carried in the Journal
some days ago true when it reported