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The Wahpeton times., 1918-06-13
MtSDAMEs CROSS !
AND STEPHENSIN| !.
B. G. BENEFIT

About 800 music lovers Of Wah-
peton and surrounding towns list
eaed for two hours at the opera
house Friday evening to the Red
Cross benefit concert rendered by
Mrs. Irving d. Cross assisted by
Mrs. Manbanita E. Stephens OF
Fargo College Music conservatory.
Mrs. Cross piano solos were all
strictly classical. The marked in
terest and perfect attention from
the first which the entire audience
gave indicaed the perfection G
her work. It also proved that the
musical taste of this vicinity has
been much developed during thc
past few years. Mrs. Cross merges
q beautifully sympathetic quality
of touch with her brilliant execu.
tion, 80 that everyone loves to hear
her. Her Interpretation Of the
Hungarian Raphsody' YES marvel.
GUS and was especially enjoyed.
The house also certainly enJ0yv
ed Mrs. Stephens. She has a strong
soprano. her singing is lively and
animated; her manner winning
and her pianissimo effects are es-
pecially charming.
Naturally the mixed audience
enjoyed most of the numbers
which were most commonly recog-
nized, like Mrs. Cross encore Pad
erewski's Minuet and Mrs. Steph-
ems encore Joan of Arc; but ev.
cry selection was a gem and appre.
ciated as such.
The next proceeds amounting
over $3.50 were donated to the
Red Cross movement.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-06-13
PRIMARY ELECTION DAY IS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE Is

Wednesday, June 26, is prom
ary election in North Dakota. On
that day the voters will be called
ON to select candidates for all the
state offices, from governor down,
Tor congressman and a complete
set OF county officials where full
tickets are in the field.
The big fight in this state is
between Governor FRAZIER, head
Of the Nonpartisan League state
ticket and John Steen present
state auditor who is running for
governor on the platform of the
Independent Voters association.
The fight for the nomination on
the Democratic ticket for gover-
nor is between Wilkinson and
Doyle, both, of Fargo.
Both organizations OH the Re.
publican ticket are working hard
to win and the Steen hackers
claim that the election in Mime.
sofa on the seventeenth of this
month will have q big effect on
the election in this state. In case
that Lindbergh, the league cand;
date, is defeated these hackers
claim that it will result in thous
ands of two-years-ago league votes
being cast on the Steen ticket.
While the league hackers are do
ing everything they can to put
Lindbergh across they claim that
the election cover there" will
have no effect on the farmers of
Norh Dakota who "will stick"
As it can readily he sen ferv-
ant eyes are now being turned
eastward and expectant hopes will
son he either realized or crushed.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-06-13
GERMAN MIEH FEMALES
MUST REGISTER NEXT week

German alien women Of the
United States will begin on Mon
day, June II, to register their
names for the records Of the gov
ernment. Registration will .eoptlll-
ue to Wednesday, June 26, at S
o clock in the evening"
Regulations covering the regis
tration Of German allen women,
say that in cities Of 5000 or over
registration will take place at the
police stations, but that in smaller
towns and in rural sections the
registering will be done at the
postotfice serving thei immediate.
communities.
\ female alien. is d woman, no
matter of what citizenship that
..nlarrles an alien who is not natur-
allied. A girl over ii years of age
whose parents are aliens. The first
mentioned is the most impertan1
as there are probably in this coun.
ty number Of women who have
married Germans who have never
been nat'lraIized and they must
register. This holds good even
with the death Of a husband or
an absolute divorce.
In Wahpeton. the German allie,
women living in the city will, reg
ister at the postoffice as will thost
who live on rural routes served
through this postoffice.
According to President Viii
sons proclamation of April 19
1918, all females natives, citizens
denizens or subjects of the Ger
man empire or of the imperia
German government, being fe
males of the age f14 and up
wards. now within the United
States and not actually naturaliz
ed as American citizens, are re
qnired to register as German alier
females. Females who are natives
OF Austria are not required to reg
lister under these regulations.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-06-13

Joe lngle a resident Of this coun
ty for many years but now living
at Dawson, this state, was in the
city last week calling on old time
friends. Mr.. Ingle is a member OF
the Nonpartisan league and a cer-
tifcate holder in their United
Stores. He thinks that he and 9TH
er certificate holders are being
buncoed. He is so thoroughly i'm
bued with that spirit, that he is
making state wide campaign
against the leaders of the league.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-06-13
OFFICIALS VISIT WIAAPETON

Saturday morning an autom6-
bile OH railroad car wheels and
the roadbed the Great Northern
railroad tracks pulled up to the
passenger station in this city and
a two minute friendly call was
paid Station Agent Harris. In the
party were j. NJ. Gruber, vice
president; F. Bell, Asst. Gen.
Mgr; L. w. Bowen. general sup
erintendent; E. c. Huffman, sup
erintendent; A. s. Mathews, mas.
ter mechanic; and F. A. Nolan.
roadmaster. This party were on
an inspection tour of the road.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-06-13

The Citizens Reserve of Wah-
peton at it's Monday night session
voted to put on real celebration
on the Fourth of July this year.
The money derived will go for the
entertainment Of draft men as
they lea, e from time to time.
Reserves .McClintdck, Harry
Wilson and w. w. Thomas were
named as a committee, on arrange.
ments and Reserves .Stillwell and
Wolfe as committee ON publicity.
These men are well known and
their ability to handle such q prop
oition is beyond criticism and 50
therefore Wahpeton is guaranteed
a day Of entertainment and in
struction and knowledge of the
9reat world war, that never will
bef orgotten.
At the time Of this announce
Bnelnt df arrangements has been
mAde. but only the preliminary
outline. but by next week things
no doubt will be running smooth
" and the different committees
perfected.
This year Of all years. it is more
than beftting that this day Of lib
erty should be recognized and ex-
ercises reverently thereof should
he the forethought Of all citizens.
In years gone by this day has been
a day of fun and noise making {;
a Jubilee of liberty; day Of care
free thought; day when we
thought not of the armor clad war
rior but Of the tin foil soldier and
that we were safe on this side of
the Atlantic. But: at this time the
United States (you and y are en-
gagged in the bloodiest and great,
est war that this country or the
world has ever witnessed. \ war
that this day symbolizes, war
that you and l must do our part
in, so that day will be more to us
in the future, than it has been in
the past. :.
At this time We are being at
tackled along our eastern coast line
and at this time the German
hordes are trying to reach Paris,
and are being contested every fooT
of the way by the English. French
and lastly in numbers but not
least our brothers in arms.
1t i&.a race between HinGen-
burg and the people Of the United
States. He is t,ryia5ygg .tN,.end' TIL"
war before the arriIal'of the vast
army of Liberty e,,at i being qr.
ganized' and trained here before
it can ARRIVE on the battle front.
All the citizens inl the county
are invited to Wahpeton on this
day. It is day where Loyalty
shall reign supreme. Your pres
ence here will many times repay,
YOU for the trouble of coming.
Your presence here will show tina,
you stand for liberty. Justice 10
the weak and mostly of all victory
for the allied cause. =
The Wahpeton times., 1918-06-13
TO HOLD ANNUAL MEET

The annual meeting of the Wal
colt Equity Elevator and Trading
company will be held at Walcott
Wednesday afternoon at 2 p. m.
sharp, for the purpose of electing
two officers for the term of three
years and such other business that
may come up before the stockhold-
erS
The Wahpeton times., 1918-06-13

Miss Mary PAIL Of Lidgerwood
spent Sunday with her sistars.
Mrs: w. F. Eckes and Miss Kate
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Lumbering De Luxe in the North Woods To-day

dreadful suspicion had become a Ger
'ainty.
"Nare of lc bon Dicu!" exclaimed
Joe Bouvicr in awcstruck whisper.
Name Of lc bon Dieu and tout 10
saints! Dees plac' she's head ot1ic' for
all de bccg l1ans dat run de hole she.
bang, for sure! Not scengl' dam one
lect' bug!"
Wien tho eighty-fvc lumbcrjacks
who composed the camp tramped in
from their work to supper that night
Joe Bouvicr got many more surprises.
Every man jack Of them washed his
face and cor1bed his hair before sitting
down to such meal as Joe BouvfcS.
had never heard Of There were SOUP
and fish IL YOU wanted it, roast Of
IiS, cold corncd beef, beans and side
dishes Of vegetables, cake, pie and
pudding, and walters to serve it all,
and you could send back your plate for
more just as often as you liked. Joe
Bouvicr remembered when you sent out
Jour one tin plate and one tin cup, re-
Giving from the cook one portion of
either beans or meat (never both). a
ladlcful Of muddy coffee and quarter r
loaf Of stale bread, which you were
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which feat comes pretty near being
the piece de resistance of lumberjack
t,om. lie had known the North Woods,
her moods, her ways and the methods
Of her exploitation as a good house
wife knows her kitchen Or keen law
yer the contents of his brief. And he
had returned to the camp now because
the lure of the woods had drawn him
irrcsistibly, just as it draws all others
Of his breed.
Yet his heart sank and he could
on his snow slippered crutch and
looked about him. What used to be
the long, unpecled log bunkhouse in
Joe Bouvier's time was only the wing
of the bunkhouse now, the main part
of which rose two stories high, with
twenty real glass windows in two tiers
along the length of it, real clapboards
on the sides and real shingles on the
roof, and an imposing brass rallied,
plate glassed structure at one end with
huge sign in gilt letters reading
"officc."
Joe Bouvicr knew it for messroom
table because of the many plates,
bowls, cups and saucers, knives and
forks. but he could not understand how
they came to be so neatly arranged or
why the top of the table should be-
covered with oilcloth, spotiessly white.
At the end of the long room a door
opened into another wing, and Joe
Bouvier poked his head inside A gi-
gantlc range stove" with a. yawninp
oven and thirty griddle lids, threw out
an appetizingly blended warmth, In
ono mammoth pan half pig roasted,
almost bushcl of beans baked in an
other; the whole top of the stove was
crowded with other pans, pots and ket-
ties in which carrots, turnips, bects,
onions and potatoes boiled mcrrily.
The old lumberjack hobblcd back
INTO the messroom and sank heavily
into chair. A dreadful suspicion was
creeping into his fuddlcd senses. Was
the wound in his side broken out
afresh? Had he gone off his head
again? Or. bah Gar! could it be =?
Joe Bouvicr thumpcd up the banis-
tered stairway to the room above.
What he saw stunned him. and La
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Copyright 1918, by The Tribune Association)

unrestrained from without and
lacking all self-control, they took
what they wanted, and spreading
through Russia they gathered to
them all the elements of disorder
and crime; like swarms of locusts--
armed and deadly locusts-they in
tested the cities and flooded the
countryside, and they added new
meaning to the word terror.
Million-Headed Horde
Let Loose Upon Russia
About five million men, disorgan-
lied, demoralized as soldiers and as
men, brutalized beyond Occidental
notions of brutality, have been let
loose like flood upon the Russian
cities and villages; these in addition
to three and half million that had
deserted the fighting lines since the
overthrow Of the provisional gov
ernment set up by Kerensky. They
are inundating the land, undermine
ing the ediice of civilized life and
blotting out civil, social and ethical
landmarks. They are to be found
everywhere, along the railways
stopping trains and robbing passen-
gers, in the cities melting pogroms.
committing burglaries and assaults.
destroying property.
These men have lost everything;
material possessions and even the
sense of human values. There is no
law in their lives, no beacon of hope
on their horizon, no God in their
sky. The thing that was their
souls is now the chaos Of the dregs
Of war, brutality, humiliation and
the shadow of defeat that goes be-
yond any hitherto realized antithe-
sis of victory; children crying in the
night and crying the jungle cry of
revenge. They have left to them
one unfortunate attribute of man:
the power and desire to kill, and
they kill indiscriminately. They
appease their hunger that way;
that is their only JOY.
Let us start at the beginning, in
the trenches. AS soon as the revo-
luton had become established all
officers were shorn of power. Dis
cipline was supposed to be main
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

mighty glad to eat standing or sitting
on stool.
That evening the mess small talk
centred about the Klowtowski who was
leaving camp tomorrow for another
outfit down the river, because he could
get $SS L month and "found" for lum-
bcrJacking there, while Gould's was
paying, then, only $50. Joe Bouvier
:ccallcd how glad he had been to get
s22 month and any old kind of
"chuck" when he had worked that same
Logging camp six years ago and he had
ncen one of the best axemen in the
Adirondacks, while these lumberjacks
ut the table were saying Klowtowski
could not tell whether tree he was
telling was going to fall north or
south.
Altogether it was too much for Joc
bouVlcr. He had seen strange. un-
Helicvablc things while fighting the
Germans in France - things that he
never could have dreamed of, that
dnzed him and left him without power
to think. Blu. never had he seen things
as strange as these-this awful change
right in Gould's old Adirondack log
glng camps, where lumberjacks washed
their hands and faces, ate two kinds of
meat and vegetables off a table with
an oilcloth cover and slept in hunks
with actual quilts, sheets and pillows
and not another living creature in
the beds.
The change in the wages, the habits
and the care of lumbcrjacks amounts
to metamorphosis. Even the working
methods have undergone transforms.
ton to a great extent. And it is un-
Questionably true that an old lumber
man. brought up in the ways of The
woods of twenty, fifteen or even ten
years ago, would rub his eyes in
amazement if he were to return to
them now. Also, the old landmarks,
famous Or notorious of yore, have al
most entirely disappeared, and scoro
of towns on the edge Of tho forest tina,
used to be Meccas for tho hundreds of
lacks who swarmed upon them in sa-
12n'c carousals when they had accumu-
lated their "stakes" in the woods havo
sunk into innocuous desuetude.
Tho time is not so long since when
women Of unarmed men dared not Ap-
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
tanned by committees made up of
the soldiers themselves. Every order

tanned by committees made up of
the soldiers themselves. Every order
given by an officer, even the officers
appointed by the committee, could
be made the subject of an appeal
from the soldier to the committee,
and of political campaign in the
company. Politics ran rife through
the army. Men became generals be-
cause they were orators. Officers
of training and strength were fortu-
nate if they escaped death at the
hands either of some rebellious or
revengeful soldier or pt the decree
of some revolutionary tribunal. The
new illiterate generals forced many
to do menial work in and around the
barracks. Within a few weeks the
number of officers-real officers
who could not stand the disgrace
and committed suicide either at the
front or in the Petrograd hotels
ran into hundreds.
Thus within few weeks the army
lost all power inside itself, as it was
already powerless in the field. Each
soldier did as he pleased. If he
stayed with the colors it was be-
cause he there had food and lodging
If the spirit called him elsewhere
he went, and there was none to him
der. In the first eight months, SO
far as facts could be discovered IN
this confused mass, three and half
million men deserted. The final
DISARMAMENT Of the armies did not
let loose SO great horde upon
Russia.
Under the Cars regime the Rus
sian soldier in the presence of an
officer could use only two words Of
the Russian language. They were
"Tak tochno" for yes, and "nikak
MET" for no. He had no right to
ask questions, to dispute, to reason.
"Obey" was the one rule Of the army
and the iron discipline in addition
to the natural bravery of the Rus
sian soldier had made the Russian
army one of the finest in the world.
Now, since Kerensky issued the
famous "Order No. /" giving the
soldiers full civil and political rights
and also the right of self-govern-
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

Kerensky was brave enough to go
personally to the front for the pur-
pose of restoring discipline in parts
of the army. For a time a success
full, but short lived, offensive fol-
lowed, and Russia was overwhelmed
with joy at the thought that free
soldiers would fight better than
slaves of the Gar. Kerensky was
hailed as the hero of the day, his
portrait being carried in public dem
onstration all over Russia.
But, alas the work of the Bolshe-
Wiki and German spies on the Rus
sian front was deadly.
Disquieting cables one after an
other were received from the COM
mander in chief.
Army completely demoralized.
Revolt growing on the whole 'front.'"
was their general tone.
The first Russian army retreated
before the Germans without showing
the slightest resistance.
Talking Takes
Place of Fighting
Even the strong man, Korniloff,
could not restore discipline. He be-
ing a Cossack, the army thought him
too brutal for democratic chief, and
being connected with the high mill
tary officers of the old regime, New
Russia was afraid of his ultimate
dictatorship and the return of the
reactionary regime.
The last hope for the restoration of
the Russian army as fighting unit
was gone long before the peace dele
gates met at Brest-Litovsk, and the
Germans knew it.
Soldiers on the front were no long
er busy with fighting, but with DO
litical discussions and strikes. All
authority was in the hands of the
soldiers committee and they had to
decide on every movement of the
army and on each appointment of Of
ficers.
The whole army was turned into
political bodies, and the lower ele-
ments in the army took advantage of
the situation and deserted. Accord
ing to trustworthy statistics, over
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He Gave the Beds
A Close Inspection

Joe Bouvicr was past gasping. Yet
there was final, infallible test. Limp
ing cautiously over to the side Of
one Of the beds, he whisked off the pill
low and pulled down the covers with
one swift motion of his hands, bent
close to the tick and peered at it
anxiously, the whole soul, of him in his
eyes. Gulping hoarsely for breath. he
whlrlcd upon another bed and repeated
the, rapid operation. Then he sank limp
~ back against the wall, drawing one
forearm dazcdly across his. eyes. The
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Then the Whole
Old Order Vanished

Then came the revolution. There
was little disturbance at first. But
slowly and then with increasing
speed the whole of the old order
vanished. The policemen went, the
courts collapsed, the banks closed,
the food stores put up their shut
ters, the streets filled with rowdies
and robbers, and we lived in terror
of our lives, kept half-starved in
side our freezing homes, trembled
for the safety of any man and more
for the safety Of any woman forced
to go out, waiting helplessly for the
raid of the bandits against which
we had no other protection than
prayer. Death walked at large
among US.
The real centre Of disorganization
was the army. In this first article
l wish to tell you Of that-to show
how the theories of brotherliness
and equality in which most of us
believed when the revolution broke
worked out when applied to the
fighting forces, how the canker
spread and how it overfowed the
nation. 1t was when the Bolshe.
vik ascendancy broke the last OF
the dam of discipline that, even
under Kerensky, had somewhat held
the army in check that the wors,
came. Discipline became matter
Of politics, and the soldiers left their
camps with no more fear than an
American workman quits his job
Ignorant, but seldom vicious, armed
and uncontrolled, Ivan began to
foci homeward.
armies returned from the
-seacnes as no other army in the
world has come home, whether
elated by victory or demoralized by
defeat. 9aildish and fierce. hungry,
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

lines of the German trenches have
changed. The place of German SOL
ciers is occupied by German spies.
Fraternizing goes on on the whole
line. The German spies have en-
couraged the new Russian line of
thought. "Why fight? Are we not
comrades?"
The soldiers were busy with poll
tics. They were organizing their
own committees, condemning their
officers as "bourgeoisie" and remov-
ing them from their posts. In many
instances officers were killed.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Labor Shortage
Basis of the Chance

dozen causes have combined to
cnange all this. Pulp wood and con-
structlon lumber are now so scarce
ana so high in price that the Adiron
dacK companies have been forced to
more than treble the wages they paid
ten years ago to the men who cut
and haul their logs. To-day the aver
age !umberJack receives between SIS
ana $50 month, besides wholesome.
substantial food, far better in both
quantity and quality than the average
boarding house serves, and lodging in
warm, clean, we'll equipped bunk rooms.
Inc scarcity of labor forced the com.
panles to this last reform. They had
20 compete for workmen with the fac
torres employing skilled labor. They
must not only pay a competing wage,
but they must feed and lodge their
employees as we'll as they would be fed
and lodged in town.
But more than any other thing re-
sponslble for the regions .tral sforma-
t!on IS the prohibition ballot. In Frank
I'm county, where almost half the logs
IN New York State are turned into pulp
or Lumber, only three towns allow the
selllng selling or even the possession of liquor
within their limits. AS a result loss
than onefourth the camps lie within
days journey of saloon. Dcreft Of
easy access to his "budgc" the lumber
jack becomes changed be nr, or else
nc becomes no lumbcrjack at ali. To
the oid-time lumberjack whiskey was
moro in his life than his food. III there
mad existed no other cause the success
OF no-licensc campaigns in the Adiron-
dncks would have changed the whole
complexion Of lumberjackdom.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

rcclcd. For there, stretching the full
length of the 150-foot-long room, stood
row after row of clean quilted, white
pillowed, caster legged bcds-.bcds that
looked as neat and sweet and comfort
able as the rows in the hospital near
Montreal. Besides, there were big
washstand and looking glasses sans
cracks, towels cleaner than tAe faces
they were made to wipe and moro
pictures on the walls