The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-26
In The Open Forum
A Column Devoted TO The Task OF Keep
ing UP With North Dakota Editors

The Lisbon Free Press has the following com
ment on the new life Membership:
"Townley believes in getting the money.
and since the famous SIC memberships have
proven too slow to furnish his Golfers with
glittering gold, he is now working the life
membership" scheme. These cost 500 per-
ena anyone , Payng u up receives neat little
Anything to bring in the persimmonses".
The Casselton Reporter resents the failure Of
Fargo newspapers to mention Casselton shock
ers," as follows:
"Casgeiton shockers have made a splen-
did record on the farms about here. We
have compared their work with Fargo and
other towns, reported in the papers and
there are none that have equalled, much less
surpassed, our young people. The Fargo
papers have had columns about other towns
as sending out volunteer shockers-but
never notice Of Casselton. Perhaps some
body can tell why.
The following article in The Kensal Progress
is good Endorsement Of The Forums plan to
CLEAN the fields for the Red Cross:
"A Grand Forks county wheat raiser has
had all his fields ralSed after the shocks were
removed and CLEANED grain amounting to
about bushel to the acre. One man with
a team gathered in $50 worth Of wheat with
a days work The $50 possibly cut great
figure in this case. The main idea was that
this is a bad time to allow good wheat to go
see in the preparation Of hard tack" for the
haversacks Of the soldier boys.
Of backing up" the men in France
with million and half Of our boys in
France few in America still believe that
the war is 1900 miles away. To the faith
ers and mothers and sweethearts of these
boys 1t is close up, and the man who does
will get what Is coming to a deserter in the
face Of the enemy.
The 1itchville Bulletin advocates feeding bar
ley at present prices in the following editorial:
with barley selling at quite bit less than
81 a bushel and hogs almost touching the
$40 mark, we fail to see how any farmer can
afford to sell his barley OF the elevator Why
not convert it into somesof that high-priced
pork?
The Williston Graphic explains why sugar
must be. rationed, as follows:
There are some things money won't buy.
We can't buy victory with money.
Last winter and this spring our friends in
Europe the Allied nations, had to have
the wheat and wealthy America would have
been glad to have furnished more, but money
could not buy wheat that was not on the
markets. The wheat we sent Europe this
year was priceless. 1T did not come from
the markets, but from the sacrifice and de-
votion Of the American people
Now we must send sugar in the same
way. Sugar that does not exist cannot be
bought at any price. To win this war we
must have sugar for our Allies and for our
soldiers in France, We must get this sugar
the same way we got our wheat by the saw
ings made by the American people. That is
why the United States food administration is
limiting the use Of sugar.
The New Rockford State Center gets into the
shocking game aa follows:
1.-THE citizens of New Rockford are going
to put their shoulders to the wheel and show
the farmers just what real community spirit
is like.
1T is not an original idea with us. Fargo
has been advertised from one end Of the
country to the other by the shock troops
that have made nightly incursions to neigh
boring fields Of cut grain and shocked that
grain for the owner.
Business men and women, housewives
laborers, male and female clerks and office
help, school boys and girls, have nightly
claEnbered into automobiles and motor
trucks for an evening in the country, They
the season the other night with a big parade
and sidewalk dance that was one of the big
events OF the year.
New Rockford is going to do the same
thing-at least, SO far as helping the farmer
is concerned"
The, Lisbon Free Press has the following
thoughts on advertising:
II. Gordon Selfridge a London merchant
who was born in the United States attrib-
utes his great success to newspaper 4lyer- 4
Using. He says that any man OF capabilities
who conducts his business honestly can
grow rich II he advertises judiciously and
continually In England. he saws cone
cannot get all the advertising space ne wants
but take every inch can obtain / am paw
ing at the rate Of 81 per agate line for display
space right now and will probably have TO
pay more before the war is over, but wifi
eheerfully do So. Business men who believe
that money expended for ADVERTISING ig
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