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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-09-12
WASHINGTON NEWS.
CONTINUED from page 1.)E

Livestock association, J. Weller
Long the Equity, Grant Slocum
the Cleaners and E. w. Houx
the Kansas City Livestock Elk
change.
It seems to be high time for
the organized farmers Of the
country, and the organized wage
workers as well, give congress q
few thousand letters on this sub
ject Of taking over the machin-
cry through which. the packers
hold their monopoly. Congress-
man Madden Of Chicago has be-
gun the packers defense on the
floor Of the house, accusing the
federal trade commission OF
making a misleading report, and
adding to his own speech some
IA pages Of a pamphlet that was
issued by Swift & Co. against the
governments verdict on the
packers.
Staying in their Offices or at
hotels here, the members Of the
house and senate are constant
ly meeting the packers argu-
ments in the local press, or on
the tongues Of clever lawyers
and lobbyists. They need to get
a few breaths Of fresh air from
home, and that is why letters
and resolutions make an impress.
sion when they come.
Nonpartisan league members
who came to the conference in
cluded State Senator Cahill OF
North Dakota, John A. Simpson,
Of Oklahoma and G. F. Lowrie
of Montana. They were partic.
ularly pleased at the Endorsement
of the resolutions on public own.
ership Of the natural resources
of the stockyards.
North Dak0ta's War Record.
The war record Of North Da.
kota was set before the nation
for admiration in a recent speech
in congress by Representative
John M. Baer. He said:
North Dakota is proud Of its
record in response to the select.
i've service law. The reports OF
Provost Marshal General Crow.
der reveal that the record fol-
North> Dakota is $1.85 per Ger
titled man, as against an aver.
age of 1923 for all the states.
when our government asked
that wheat for our country and
our allies be taken at a fixed
price Of $2.21 per bushel, and at
a time when such wheat was &C.
tually worth over a dollar more
than that in the open market,
the farmers Of North Dakota,
complaining not and without
sending any delegates to Wash
ington to protest, loyalty and
willingly accepted and received
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many Of these acres are owned
by nonresidents, many by spec
ulators who have been holding
them as an investment for in
crease in land value as the sur
rounding land is broken up BY
actual farmers and made pro-
ductive. In North Dakota the
council of defense, operating un-
der a Nonpartisan administered
ton, has taken noteworthy steps
to aid in crop production.
1T enacted a regulatory or
der providing that any farmer
Of the state upon q showing be-
ing made that there were idle,
vacant and tillable lands which
he could utilize for crop produc-
ton could secure a permit from
the council TO enter upon the
lands and make them productive
for the year 1918 for raising flax
and for the year 1919 for rails
ing wheat. This he was permit
ted to do providing he would
carefully farm the same, having
the ability to do so, and provid-
ing he agreed to pay the owner
a just rent for the use of the
ground.
"This measure has worked out
beautifully and in every part Of
the state the willing and loyal
hands of the farmers went to
work to add to the acreage Of
North Dakota 100000 acres Of
idle lands. Some complaints
have come from land owners and
spectators who desired rather
to hold Stacker acres and virgin
prairie than to make them pro-
ductive.
1.-THE result has been in &C
cordance with estimates made
that 900, 900 acres have been adj
ded to the productive lands of
North Dakota. Flax this year
has been prescribed to be seeded
for the reason that the order was
issued too late for wheat seed
ing and since the usual course Of
good farming requires that land
first broken be Seeded to flax.
Furthermore, this same ses-
sion Of the legislature, controlled
Eby a Nonpartisan administration
enacted a moratorium act for
the benefit of our soldier boys
who are in the service, prohib-
iting the foreclosure of liens or
mortgages upon soldiers proper
ty during the period of the war
except under necessary circum-
stances and also an act giving to
our men in the service the right
to vote wherever they may be
stationed"
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the price IlXeQ Q tnelI plUuuSs
and quickly delivered it to the.
nation. y.
whenever our government
has asked for financial response,
to our Liberty loans, North Da-
kota, even though impoverished
by severe crop failures in the
years 1916 and 1917, neverthe-
less has gone over the top upon
every request with magnificent
oversubscriptions.
I'm active support Of the Red
Cross, North Dakota continuous
" set a record Of high loyal de.
votion and worthy achievement.
In support of the Red Cross
magazine. North Dakota leads
the entire United States for
copies received per capita. In
the second Red Cross drive this
state led the states, of the Union.
with an oversubscription Of 800
per cent. Furthermore, thru
out the state, here and there and
everywhere, Red Cross acres
may be found donated by the
farmers as to the proceeds from
their crop productions.
"When again the government
requested that every effort be
made to increase our crop pro
duction, to aid and maintain our
boys and our allies at the front,
North Dakota, upon it's own in
|itiative, Immediately took action
to insure as greatly an increas-
ed acreage as possible. Cover
nor Frazier, the executive head
of the Nonpartisan administra-
ton, realizing that the crop fail
ure in 1916 and 1917 in various
parts Of the state had not only
greatly impoverished the farm
ers but in many counties had left
them without the necessary seed
for a succeeding crop and with
out credit to obtain seed, called
into special session the legisla-
ture, proposing the enacting OF
a seed and feed act for the ben
eft of the farmers and the ma
ton and to enable needy farm
ers to borrow money to secure
sufficient seed and feed for crop
production in 1918. This act
was adopted by the legislature
and became a law practically as
proposed.
The increase in the wheat
acreage was 10 per cent and in
rye 100 per cent. The increase
in total acreage of all crops in
ll918 over 1917 is 100000 acres
or in round numbers 10 per cent
increase. The operation of the
seed and feed act enabled the
farmers to seed more than L.
OOO, 900 acres. This is one of
the factors. The other is this:
"There are thousands Of acres
of land in the state vacant, till
able, idle and reproductive;
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SUPPOSE FARMERS sQUEALED THUS.

ITO assume that the investor is disloyal,"
says the Wall Street Journal, Gin following
lines of economic rather than Of sentimental
cleavage, is to maintain that the private citi-
zen must throw common sense to the winds in
dealing with government securities"
Remembering the recent reports of the fed
eral trade commission and the secretary of the
treasury on rampant proiteering, we have to
hold our noses when a representative Of the
United States Chamber Of Commerce spouts
about making labor democratic" and getting
the struggle for democracy down to labor"
Where would the country be if city workers
and farmers adopted the tevery last cent" pol
icy now pursued by the trusts?
The anti-farmer political crowd doesn't mind
giving the people laws if the people can be in
duced to be satisfied with laws and with letting
the gang enforce them. The great objection
the gang has to North Dakota is that the peo-
pie there took it into their heads to get the law
enforcement, as well as the law-making ma
chinery, in their own hands.
Prize pieces of bunk from the Wall Street
Journal anent the new draft law: "Wall street
is not squealing but somebody must be left to
handle the essential bushes Of the country"
Well, suppose you leave it to the. farmers.
The United States Chamber Of Commerce has
come to the defense Of the packers and is de-
handing that President Wilson fire the federal
trade commission. Legitimate business men
would do we'll not to pull the plutocrats chest
nuts out Of the fire.
The height of muniicence was the reftsal Of
the Arkansas Republicans to put up a fight, as
may expect the old gang IN North Dakota to-
concede Governor Frazier's re-aection.
Enemies Of the farmers Nonpartisan league,
should take heart. The irst hundred years are
always the hardest.
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For Sale-Eight room house
and five lots, north Of Bottineau
Court House. Arthur Gar
netzki, Gardena, N. D. If.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-09-12

When J. P. Morgan the elder died his execu-
tors found to their surprise that he had left
more than a million dollars in bogus securities
in his vault. This shrewd ~fnancier had been
a poorer man. Morgan's case merely shows
that when the big ones fall they fall hard.
The same things turn out to be true in the
instance of a group of st. Paul and Minneapolis
milionaires. Ever since the Nonpartisan league
started, these barons in the steel, flour, meat,
lumber, grain and other mammoth industries
have been fighting the organized farmers. 1t
now develops that they have been pouring their
money into a rat hole.
These big business men are shown to be the
real suckers in some correspondence that is be-
ing printed in the Nonpartisan Leader. They,
and not the farmers, appear the victims of un-
scrupulous agitators. The confidential letters
were interchanged between two publicity sharks
who edited the defunct magazine, ION the
Square" They are F. 6. r.. Gordon and H. M.
Van Hoesen. These men for the last year have
played the part of agitators, calling on corpora
ton presidents and soaring them into fits over
the aims of the Nonpartisan farmers.
Having aroused the fears of the profteers
over the danger of public ownership ending
some of their graft, this pair would then set
about raising huge publicity funds. They would
get out expensive pamphlets attacking the
League and mail them to farmers. The more
they could scare the profteers, the more pro-
shows clearly that the downfall of the League
was the last thing in the world they desired.
For if the League were defeated they would be
out of a job fighting it.
The revelations in the Nonpartisan Leader
of this secret correspondence between Gordon
and Van Hoesen name the milionaires who were
MIXED for funds to fight the farmers. An or
binary citizens business standing would be SER
iously impaired by having fallen for this scheme
But If you are rich enough, you do not have to
show even common olnaption.
The ST. Pau Pie-Near Press says in AN
editorial: Magma est veritas ct prevalibit."
Trying to fool US with some Latin, but it said
that Great is truth and it will prevail" Well,
NJ are glad that this paper realizes the truth,
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-09-12

Enemies Of the farmers Nonpartisan league
should take heart. The flrst hundred years axs
always the hardest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
"OutWiHing the Hun"
By Lieutenant Pat O'Brien
1918. by Pat Alva o'Brien.)

chance to construct the necessary
stills remained to be seen.
There were a good many bicycles
in use by the German soldiers in
Belgium and it had often occurred
10 me that if I could have stolen one.
the tires would have made excellent
gloves and insulated coverings for
my feet in case it was necessary. for
me to attempt to climb over the cleo
trio fence bodily. But as l had never
been able to steal n bicycle this ave-
nue. of escape was closed to me.
I decided to wait until arrived at
the barrier and then make. up my
mind how to proceed.
To find a decent place to sleep
that night, crawled under a barbed
wire fence, thinking 1t led into some
field. AS I passed under, one OF the
barbs caught in my coat and in try
ing to pull myself free 1 shook the
fence for several yards.
Commanded to Halt"
Instantly there came out of the
night the nerve-racking command.
Halt"
Again I feared I was done for.
crouched close down on the ground
in the darkness, not knowing
whether to take to my legs and trust
to the Hun missing me in the dark
ness If he fired or stay where I was.
1t was foggy as well as dark, and
although know the sentry was only
q few feet away from me, I decided
TO stand, or rather lie pat. l think
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

equipment 1t would have been quite
feasible to have walked out OF Bel
gium as possible in that way, but
whether or not was going to have
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
Stills WouId Re Easy
Another plan that

AnOtner pi3n lhaI
seemed half way
rea sonable was 20
build a pair of stills
about twelve or
fourteen feet high
and. walk over the
barriers one by one.
AS a youngsaer !
had acquired con-
siderable skill in
Stilt-walking and 1
have no doubt that
u-sfh che nrnnnr
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. = Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

Ito Be Continued)
The Washington times., 1918-09-08
Ranks With CheVriIlon
As English Scholar.

at has always been a question with
me which OF two French friends Is
the more wonderful English scholar.
NJ. Jusserand or NJ. Andre ChevriIlon,
Taine's nephew and literary executor,
and himself one of the leaders OF
French letters. with whom, as with
NJ. Jusserand, / may reckon now some
thirty years of friendship. No one
could say, that NJ. Jusserand speaks
out our tongue exactly like an Eng
lishman. He does much better. He
uses it-always, of course. with per-
feet 1uency and correctness-to eX-
press French ideas. and French wits,
in n way as nearly French as the
foreign language will permit.
THE result is extraordinarily stimu-
lating to our English wits. The
slight differences both in accent and
in phrase keep the ear attentive and
alive. New shades emerge: old
cIiches are broken up. NJ Chevrillon
has much less accent and his talk is
more fiowingly and convincingly Eng
lish, for which, no doubt boyhood
partly spent in England accounts,
The Washington times., 1918-09-08
LOTS CHRONICLES OF CAPITAL SOCIETY DOINGS
FadS, Fanctes and Foibles of
Fashionable Sodety-How
The Capital Anaases Itself

family has lived for many years
made q great fuss oyer him. He
very young. only twenty-five, but al
ready he's made q fine record for him
self a. q flyer. A year ago he wa
recommended for . captains commiO
sion. but II was held up on aeeoup
of his youth, and he only got his cap
tain's bars the day before be lsf
Warrington
He has been in charge OF the nyint
At Ellington Field. Tex. and CAV
such q good account Of himself tina
the record for bombing work mad
there bettered the record OF an.
training camp IN the United States
France, or the United Kingdom A
least, that's what q friend Of Captain
Oldys told me. ] couldn't persuah
him to do much talking about him
self.
Captain oldys is the son Of Henri
OIdys. a distinguished scientist ans
an authority on bird lore, and 4
grandson OF General Meigss for whom
Camp Meigs Is named, His sister
Margaret Oldys-there are four girl
and all OF them pretty As pinks-wS
married last spring to Charleg J
Benedict. son of DR.. and Mrs Jane
EVerard Benedict Of woodside, Nd
The two families have been neigh
bors In the country for many year
and are old friends.
The Washington times., 1918-09-08
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The Washington times., 1918-09-08

while for vivacity and ease there 10
little or nothing to choose.
But to these two distinguished and
accomplished men. England-and
America-owe q real debt Of graft
tude. They have not by any means
always approved of our national be-
havior. N. Jusserand during his Of
fetal career In Egypt was. I believe.
q very candid critic Of British ad-
ministration and British methods. and
In the days Of our early acquaintance
with him. can remember many an
amusing and cAustic sally Of his at
the expense Of our politicians and our
foreign policy.
M Chevrillon took the Boar side In
the South African war, ano took It
with passion. All the same the friend
ship of both the diplomat and the man
of letters for this country, based upon
their knowledge OF her, and warmly
returned to them by many English
friends, has been q real factor in the
growth OF that broad-based sympathy
which We now call the entente. II.
Chevrillon's knowledge OF US Is really
uncanny. He knows more than we
know ourselves. And his last book
about us--L'Angleterre ct II Guerre'
-is not only photographicaIly close to
the facts, but full 81 spiritual SYM
pathy which Is very moving to an
English reader. Men OF such high
gifts are not easily multiplied in any
country. But, looking TO the future Of
Europe, the more that France and
England-and America-can cultivate
in their citizens some degree, at any
rate, OF that intimate understanding
Of q foreign nation which shines so
conspicuously in the work OF these
two Frenehmen, the safer win that
future be-"
The Washington times., 1918-09-08

ing scheme; of the splendid recreation
grounds to which lower Potomac Park
is to be devoted; OF the development
and Identification Of the region about
the Anacostia river. and many other
projects. "Pipe Dreams" murmured
a skeptical person somewhere behind
me: but. after all, isn't every fine and
splendid project nurtured first by
dreamers?
The ferry which is to be established
from Seventh street to Potomac Park
Is the rst step in the playground
project: and I understand the plans,
at least the dream plans. call for q
stadium large enough to accommo-
date the famous army and navy foot
ball games, a ranal cut through the
point connecting the two branches OF
the river and designed especially for
the use OF canoes and other small
water craft. and many other jolly
things.
The development out Anacostia
way and aIong the Eastern Branch Is
to start with the Improvement OF the
water front. whiCh Is to be made so
attractive that Pretty homes will
spring up everywhere, and the growth
of Washington in the direction in
which II was originally intended to
BTO" WIZ Nv oI.ldNihbig ShAihNAotSN-
And everywhere there are to be splen-
did bcuieSsrds, :he one thing which
contributes MOS to the building Of a
city beaur.ful. or course, this Is
principally an after the war" pro-
gram.
Sounds inspiring. doesn't It? And
NJ. Moore knOws what he Is talking
about. for he mas made a study of
civic deve. pment in the cities OF this
country and Europe. He has known
Washington intimately for nineteen
years. Martin Richardson. who has
sung in grand opera In Italy and who
is now singing fer the Y. NJ. c. A,
gave Il brief I.cia al to bring an agree
able evening to a close. Warren
Akers was chairman Of the entertain
ment committee. with Mrs Akers and
Miss Helen Wright as hostesses.
The Washington times., 1918-09-08

ington since the outbreak OF the war
save to take part in some such dem
onstration as that Of Friday, to pre-
side at the annual meeting OF the
Federation Of Alliances Franchises. or
for one patriotic purpose or another.
Their little visit to the Misses Loring
( at Beverly Farms, Mass, ten days
ago would seem to be the one shining
exception. a real vacation. though
brief, and devoted entirely to rest and
recreation. The Jusserands made a
short trip to the North Shore two
years ago, II I'm not mistaken, but
they went primarily on account OF
some official or patriotic gathering
at which N. Jusserand spoke and their
little visit to the Misses Loring was
merely by the way.
n. Jusserand has greatly endeared
himself to Americans during his long
residence in Washington, and II is
pleasant to read such comment as
Mrs Humphrey Ward makes on the
distinguished Frenchman In her
memoirs. "a Writer'S Recollections, I"
which are now appearing in HarpeTs
Magazine. She writes principally OF
the time when he was attached to
the French embassy at London, and
says:
when 1 think of n. Jusserand
playing tennis on the big lawn at
Hampden, and determined to master
1t, like all else that was English,
memory leads me behind that pleas
ant scene to earlier days still. We
first knew the future ambassador as
an official OF the French foreign Of
fee. who spent much of his scanty
holidays in a scholarly pursuit of
English literature. In Russell Square
we were close to the British Museum,
where NJ Jussersnd. during his visits
to London. was deep in Chaucerian
and other problems, gathering learn
ing which he presently began to
throw into a series of books on the
English centuries from Chaucer to
Shakespeare.
"who introduced him to us I don't
remember, but during his work at the
Museum he would drop in occasion
ally. sometimes for Luncheon or tea.
so that we soon began to know him
well. Then, later, he came to Lon
don as conseiller d'ambassade, under
NJ. Washington, an office which he
filled until he became French minis
ter to Denmark in 1900. Then in 1904
he was sent as French ambassador to
the United States, and there we found
him in 1905, and we stayed for
delightful few days at the British
embassy with Mr.. and Mrs. Bryce.
The Washington times., 1918-09-08
MrH. Morris Tells
OF Stockholm.

OF Stockholm.
Mrs. Morris told me many interest
ing things about Stockholm, one of
the most delightful and picturesque
cities it has ever been my privilege
to visit, and remarked on how ex-
traordinarily the town has changed
since the war, of what a cosmopolitan
place ii has become. 1t Is full of
Germans, of course; the Russians are
there in greater numbers, and pris-
oners are exchanged there in droves.
Many high-class Russians escaped
into Sweden when the revolution
broke out-some barely with their
lives-and hundreds OF them are
making their home IN Stockholm.
Withal food is scarct. coal is scarce,
and the town is feeling the pinch of
want like the rest of the world-per-
haps more than the rest of the world.
Interesting. OF course, but a far cry
from the gay city of the summer of
1912, when the Olympic games were
in progress. Stockholm was en- fete
and the Swedes were leagued to-
gether to welcome the visitors from
the four corners OF the earth and
make their stay enjoyable. ! have
never seen more perfect hospitality.