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The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred ScholIander
and family, S12 Eighth street north,
have returned from jamestown, N.
d., where they were guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. T. NJ. North
rup and family for Christmas.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-28

!. number ~ TIaylefa 6s1TInss fI1a re-.
nainder OF the winter, under the di-
rection OF Miss Margaret Cruick
shank, at the meeting held at the
Y. w. G. a. parlors Friday evening.
1t was also decided to give a Sam
my party" in the association rooms,
Friday evening, Jan. 10. A social
time was enjoyed after the business
session.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-28

Miss Ruth Baker entertained the
active and aIImnae members and
pledges OF the Sigma Theta sorority
of Fargo college at a Christmas. par
ty at her home. Ninth avenue south.
Friday evening. Christmas green's
and coIors decorated the living room,
and the evening was spent In dane
ing. Light refreshments were serv-
ed. A special pledge service was
held for Miss Madeline Stout, who
was ill at the time Of the regular
pledge service.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-28

The Sunday school of Che Gethsera-
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-28

The first party OF the Coterie club
for this Season will be given Monday
evening in the knights OF Columbus
hall. This viii be Christmas party
and Mrs. f. +. Briggs, Mrs. w. c..
Nichols and Mrs. H. H Wooledge are
the committee in charge OF the ar
rangements for the affair
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-28

A meeting of the Ta-Ta-Pochom
Camp Fire group will be held this
evening at the home of their guar
dian, Mrs. G. G. Ladd, Second avenue
south. Three new members will be
initiated, after which a social time
will be enjoyed. A ceremonial ses-
sion will be held Friday evening,
Jan. 8, at the home of Miss Dorothy
Burton. Eighth street south.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-28

Miss Catherine Eddy, is spending
a part of her holiday vacation at
Jamestown. N. D., and is a guest at
the P. w. Eddy home.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
The Labor Campaign

There is no duty that the war laws
upon every American more pressing than
that OF studying and comprehending the
labor problem of this crucial period. It.
has many aspects. The goal is one TO
secure maximum production from the
nation as whole. Without maximum pro-
ductlon we cannot win the war at all: or
II we by luck do win it, the end can come
only after much avoidable agony.
The Department of Labor is begin
nlng campaign Of education, through
advertising, through volunteer sneakers
through every source of public appeal. to
explain to every employer and to every
workman exactly where waste occurs and
how 1T can be avoided The central feat
ure of the mechanism for minimizing
waste is the United States EMPLOYMENT
Service. There has been unlimited bid
ding for labor, and as a result we have
seen colossal waste of labor THROUGH
frequent shifts, through long trips.
through confusion in the labor market
beyond all experience. This central
agency aims to reduce this confusion to
minimum. 1t is organized upon vast
scale. One of it's first aims is to create
labor recruiting system to be known as
the Public Service Reserve, with 100000
skilled men registered, literally a mobile
army OF labor. Through a system of
branches and labor clearances it is hoped
to NIL all labor needs promptly and fairly.
with a minimum of disturbance to in
dustry and at minimum cost to the
individual and to the nation.
President Wilson outlined at once the
ideal and the practical bearing of the en-
deavor IN his plea to the country:
Therefore, solemnly urge all emnlov-
ers engaged in war work to refrain after
August /, 1918, from recruiting unskilled
labor in any manner except through this
central agency. | urge labor to respond
as loyalty as heretofore to any calls is
sued by this agency for voluntary enlist
ment in essential industry. And | ask
them both alike to remember that no sac
rifce will have been in vain if we are
able to prove beyond all question that the
highest and best form of efficiency is the
spontaneous cooperation of q free people
Much depends upon the will with which
the nation answers this call We shall
be able to measure in blood, the lives of
our sons, our husbands, our brothers.
the degree to which employers and labor
ers respond. The overwhelming might
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31

four armies. 1t provided for an increase
Of the strength of the regular army to
about 100000. 1t took over the State Ma
tional Guards and provided for an cx-
pansion of this force to more than 500,-
000 1t authorized the recruitment of four
special divisions of United States volun-
teers (the so-called Roosevelt army.
Then it directed the conscription of two
bodies of 100000 men, with reserves, to
be known as the National Army.
The Administration never made use of
the authorization to raise four divisions
of United States volunteers (approxi-
mately 100000 men). But the other
three armies were organized and were
kept distinct in name. They are not very
distinct in other respects, for Congress
provided that drafted men should be as
signed both to the regular and the State
Guard organizations, if sufficient volun-
tary recruits were not forthcoming SO
the regular and the guard regiments al
ready contain an infusion of National
Army men, and through the replace
ment of losses will gradually become
more and more indistinguishable in COM
position from National Army regiments.
Whether Congress wills it or not the
two minor armies will be swallowed UP
in the great conscript army. 1t is, there
tore, sensible to recognize the inevitable
and to accept unifcation in form as we'll
as in substance
Another thing: The old regular army
is moribund. 1t is a survival from the
past After the present war is over 1T
would be undesirable to go back to it as
the basis of our military organization.
We shall need a really national army.
however large or however small it may
be; that is, an army composed of men
drawn from the classes liable to military
service, renewing itself rapidly and act
ing as a school of rational military
training. Only the officers corps will
need to be permanent In this army all
the ancient distinctions between regu-
lars, state guardsmen, volunteers and
drafted men will be abolished.
They are being abolished to-day in the
field. Let us dismiss them to the past.
where they belong. Hereafter we should
have but one homogeneous national
army.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31

sor in Office, and candidate for reelec-
ton, he accuses Of using a tennis court,
which Farmer Jim," if elected, prom
ises to turn into cow pasture. So
it may be seen that Mr.. Smith may
have missed some interesting read
ing. He is going to see the thing
through having filed suit for actual
damages of 2 cents and special damages
of $19998, or 5000 in all Meantime
newspaper makers will live in suspense.
With Maribell Brown failing to find any
mention in the papers of the fact that
she sold $8325 worth of thrift stamps
between reels at the movies, and j.
Hampton Jones hunting in vain for an
nouncement of his enlistment with the
marines, and his maiden aunt's Red
Cross work going unheralded, the courts
would be clogged in no time with an
avalanche of breach of contract suits.
And anything may happen in the hot
weather Of war time.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
One Army

A single army is now the War Depart
ment's aim. The idea is sensible. We
have three armies now. One is enough.
When Congress was compelled little
over year ago to transform our tiny
military establishment and to call into
service ten men where one had been
called before, it found its hands tied by
our antiquated military tradition. In all
other wars we had supplemented our
small regular army with big volunteer
army and had kept the two organiza-
tions distinct. Regular officers were
transferred temporarily to volunteer
commands, but regular and volunteer
troops were not mingled.
Congress was also handicapped by the
tragic Hay army reorganization fasco,
forced on it by the Administration. The
regular army had been prevented from
expanding in such way as to make it
real nucleus for a national army. So
Congress was caught unprepared. 1t
had reverted mechanically to the old
plan of raising armies. Yet the expert
ence of Great Britain compelled rec
ognition of the fact that the volunteer
idea would have to be waived in large
part In favor of conscription.
More or less entangled in it's own red
tape, Congress set out by authorizing
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
IF Japan Goes In
By DR.. Etsujiro Uyehara, M. P. of
the Meiji University. Toxic
tFrom East and West Ncws)

(From East and West Nc,Ds)
F THERE are any Americans who en-
tertain suspicious as to Japan's ambi-
tions in Russia steps should be taken
to dispe their delusion. Japan will send
troops to Siberia only when necessary for
the protection of her proper interests and
to insure the peace of the Far East.
American policy after the war will not
be left to American opinion alone, because
the people of the United States will have
to abide by the decision of great congress
of nations.
Some Japanese hold that this war will
not destroy German ideas of militarism,
and that after peace is concluded all nations
will go on building up armaments-Ger-
many most of all-but I believe there will
be popular uprising in Germany against
ornaments. Had SO intelligent and indus
trious a people as the Germans devoted
their scientific and other agencies to COM
mercial and industrial purposes their coun-
try would have been much more benefited
than by war After the havoc this conflict has
wrought in Germany, all sane people of that
country WILL have had enough of war and
of mlitarist opinion that brought it about
They cannot want a better proof of the fail
ure of their policy.
Had Germany placed the interests of
humanity above those of selfish greed and
inordinate territorial ambitions she would
have won the respect of mankind and be-
come a leader among nations.
Hereafter any people that adopt mill
: tarist policy will be cursed by the rest of
the world. Although the United States has
not yet suffered to the same extent as
other belligerents, she will abide by her
determination to oppose fliitarism and to
exclude it from her policies after the war.
Thus it is not difficult as some imagine,
to ascertain how America will use her
armed strength in the future. Her great
army and navy will not be employed as
menace to other nations, and Japan need
have no fear
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Leave 1t to Wilson

Like true Irishman, John Dillon,
Nationalist leader in the House of Com
mons, has soemnly added an immortal
stroke of humor to the perpetual tragedy
of Ireland. "Let President Wilson do
it," was his suggestion, and it is easy to
believe that the House of Commons ap-
plauded What Englshman would not!
Then Mr.. Asquith stated the objec-
tions with his usual reason and pro-
priety. And Ireland was left where she
was-never so near a settlement of her
problems and never SO far. The compli-
ment to President Wilson is clear and
outstanding. The gain to John Bulls
other island is exactly that which re-
suited from Mr.. Lloyd Georges famous
convention: exactly nothing.
Yet why should not humor be tried as
a solution of Ircland's insoluble difficult
ties? We are thinking of the benefit
which might result to all the rest of the
world Let President Wilson have his
hand at restoring peace and good will
to Ireland. Then let M. Clemenceau.
Then let G. B. S. Every one would be
the wiser. Ireland could be in no worse
frame Of mind And who knows at what
moment the jest might strike home and
convert all Ireland into one happy,
laughing family, to the astonishment and
disarray OF a whole world!
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
The Eternal Gullible

The Federal officials have again
stepped IN to interfere with the OPERA
tlons of Jacob Simon Herzig who lat
terly has operated under the name of
George Graham Rice. The deputy marsh
ais, when they arrived, found 1875 clerks
sending out letters on "investments" to
list of $4,000 persons, "the majority
OF whom'-so runs the account-"Rice
has long numbered among his clients"
This Rice, or Herzig, is a fraud of pict
uresque record, and the record, we be-
lleve, is widely and generally known to
a large public, including, we surmisc.
considerable part of his clientele. Yet,
since his last incarceration this swindler
IS reputed to have cleared up large
fortune, put by the newspaper reports
at S2Oo0,OOO.
All of which seems to reveal the an
parently llmitless number of people who
can be gulled out Of their small SAVINGS
by the lure Of fantastic profits and al
most any kind of "get-rich-ouiclv
scheme. Neither the widest newspaper
publicity nor the tireless and hiphlv
credltable activities of the Postofice De-
partment seem able to stop it. Part Of
the reason may be that the SAVINGS of
most people are too small to brine in
dependence, and they therefore WELD to
their infantile fancies and part with
their money for even the briefest dream
of riches.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
heSpeed ofSports
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent Mr.. P. w. Will
son is doubtless good and patriotic an
Englishman as can be found, but for some
reason best known to himself he often con
trvcs to present his fellow countrymen in
an unfavorable light. He appears to en-
joy bclttling them, even at times sneering
at their habits. Take this, for instance
in to-day's Tribune: at (cricket) is about
the most vigorous thing we do, and yet
nothing seems to be happening. If
play baseball we shall start by walking
and not too quickly"
If Mr.. Wilson knows anything worth
knowing about English sport he must be
aware that association football is as fast
a game as can be played. Many authori-
ties on sport and athletics consider it to
be the fastest game in the world. Base
ball is perhaps so per cent faster than
cricket, but association football is 500 per
cent faster than baseball. Cricket is a
manly and delightful game, popular in
many parts of the world as we'll as in Eng
LAND, and it calls for plenty of running
Football is much more popular. however,
and played for eight months of the year,
is as much the national British pastime as
baseball is that of America.
The above excerpt from Mr.. Wilson's
article gives utterly false impression of
the manner in which Englishmen pursue
their favorite sports, and l cannot for the
life of me understand why he wrote it,
AN ENGL1SHMAN WHO HAS PLAYED
BOTH CRICKET AND BASEBALL.
New York, July &c, 1916
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Too Much Creel
(From The MiurennoHs Tribune,

.9y (From The Minneapolis T,lbune)
Mr.. George Creel's Bureau of Public In
formation" at Washington has branched
out new lines. Mr.. Creel now asks that
all historical and magazine articles and all
books dealing with any phase Of the war be
submitted to his bureau for examination
before publication.
This work would call for an army Of
readers large as the American army now
in France and would necessitate largely
increased appropriation. What good pur-
pose it would serve is not clear Mr..
Creefs bureau is already costing about
$2O00,000 year, most of the printed mat
ter going into the countrys waste baskets.
Soon after Americas entrance into the
war the Creel bureau did some very etfec-
tive and necessary work in circulation of
intelligently and carefully prepared PAM
phlets filled with reasons for our participa-
ton in the world struggle. That service
was worth many times its cost More re-
Gently the bureau has been flooding the
country with lot of news" that is not
news and volumes of specially prepared ar
tlcles that are neither interesting nor in
forming The scope of the Creel 'organiza-
tion should be curtailed rather than en-
larged
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31

to be forced by Foch's troops withot
long preparation. The capture Of Vii.
lagos, the daring and splendid valor =
our troops, the dramatic incidents of n.
current news, are therefore in a senxo
OF minor Importance. Ludendorff ba,
lost his Gettysburg and is going back n
new lines. He is going back, on tho
whole, with as little peril to himself =.
Lee ran in his retreat from Pennsvlya
ma to Virginia; indeed, recalling tha
hood IN the Potomac during that tims
one IS bound to recognize that Luden
dorff's situation is the better.
All this does not disguise the fart +b..
great battle, the third great battle ~
the Western front, has been lost bv A.
Kaiser, with consequences which na,.
prove as fatal to William the Litt,a ~
those of Leipzig were to Napoleon ths
Great. e
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Income Tax Slackers

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t has always been mystery "
me why have never seen the least reiei'
ence in the newspapers to what l cons'as'
the most unjust feature of the income 'sA
law-the exemption of government en-.
ployes of every grade. If this is not ciA''
legislation, what is it? Can you give nv
any reason, good or bad, for this discrim'
nation? | believe that, as rule muh'S,
pal. state and national employees are .e''
paid for their work and | cannot unus.
stand why they should be favored WIZ VIE
emption HENRY c. ELSlN''
Ridgefeld Park, N. j., July 3, 1915
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Incredible Audacity

Having failed by threats, by absurd
allegations Of conspiracy and by injunc-
ton proceedings to bully the people of
Mount Vernon into welcoming back his
newspapers, Hearst now seeks to accom-
plish that end by acts of Precipitation, one
of which is gorgeous portfolio in colors,
entitled "Mount Vernon's Part in the
World War, 1915" produced by The
New York American for free distribu-
ton. This is Mount Vernon. West
chester County, New York; not Mount
Vernon on the Potomac, where Wash
ington's shrine is.
There are several pages Of halftones,
showing Mount Nernon's soldiers ready
to march, portraits Of group of Mount
Nernon's young men "who are carrying
the Stars and Str; pes forward draw
ing of the Liberty Loan ball that rolled
through Mount Vernon and loose sheet
printed in red ink saying that a new
page of photographs will be supplied
daily to buyers of The NeW York Aneri-
can. These are all minor features.
The big stroke is an autographed por-
trait of the President, in brown ink on
cream paper, with the following au-
dacious caption:
-Ehc Presidents Latest Photograph, Auto
sraphed Especially for he New York Amer
ican for in this portfolio.
The "use" of "this portfolio is to re-
habi.itate Hearst ir town where the
people have denounced and barred his
newspapers because of their seditious
character!
Did the President autograph his por
trait especially for that use by the news
paper that deleted the prayer for victory
from his Memorial Day proclamation?
We DO not believe it.
Yesterday we sent our Washington
correspondent, Mr. Carter Field, to the
White House, to ask if it were authentic.
He asked the Presidents secretary,
Joseph P. Tumulty, who writes notes on
White House stationery indorsing the
Hearst newspapers and is the public
friend of Arthur Brisbane, who is writ
ing the programme Of the Hearst revolu-
ton. Mr. Field reports the following
conversation:
"I don't know anything about it," said
Mr.. Tumuty.
"Will you find out whether the auto
graphed portrait authorzed?"
"I will not" said Mr. Tumulty
"That would seem to leave the infer
that you don't mind people thinking
it was authorized"
81 don't care what inference you draw"
said Mr.. Tumulty
Our inference is that Mr.. Tumulty
knows much more about it than the Pres
ident knows. And we trust that some
one will succeed in getting past Mr.
Tumulty to the President with the in
formation that hereafter when people
wish to make bonfres of Hearst news
papers as a protest against their dis
loyalty to the war and their abuse of our
allies they will have to examine them
first to make sure that they do not burn
also "The Presidents Latest Photo
graph, autographed especially for The
New York American
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31
Income Tax Slackers


A correspondent whose letter is pub
lished elsewhere on this page asks why
the newspapers have not more generally
condemned the unjust determinations of
the income tax law in favor of govern
ment employees. The Tribune has re-
peatedly criticised Congress for creating
privileged class of officeholding in
come tax slackers. Now that the war
tax law is being revised, this hierarchy
of tax dodgers ought to be abolished.
Our correspondent is wrong in think
ing that Federal employees and state,
county and municipal employees enjoy
the same degree of immunity There are
two grades of exempts. All public en-
ployes pay taxes on their private in
comes. Federal employees pay normal
and super taxes on their salaries, but
are exempted from the special per
cent tax on individual earnings in eX-
cess of $4,000
Congress tried last fall to exempt it's
own membership from the so-called ex-
cess individual profits tax. Stung by
criticism, the House of Representatives
subsequently passed a resolution wav-
ing exemption, on the ground that Rep
resentatives and Senators are not "offi-
GERS under the United States" sat least,
so far as collecting pay checks is con-
cerned. A ruling by the Treasury De-
partment confirmed this legal fiction.
Congressman now pay income taxes Oh
the samesbasis as ordinary citizens. But
other Officers under the United States"
are still exempted from the excess in
dividual profits tax.
The real tight privileged class con-
sists of state, county and municipal Of
tceholders. They need not worry about
income tax rates. Every dollar of their
compensation is made safe from the tax
collector by enactment of Congress-.
Congress acted on the ancient theory
that comfy required the Federal gov
ernment to abstain from interfering in
any way with the instrumentalities of
state government.
This theory is a juridical inheritance
from the time when fear Of Federal en-
croachments on state rights was still
acute. There would be something to saw
for this contention if the nation should
try to discriminate against or discipline
the states by levying taxes on state and
local officers, as such. But when it
comes to laying a tax on all citizens, as
citizens, for purposes of national de-
fence, the comfy tradition becomes an
absurdity. Moreover, if there ever was
any foundation for it in constitutional
law or Interpretation, that foundation
was destroyed when Congress and the
states adopted constitutional amend
ment which permits the Federal govern
ment to tax incomes "from qohoteuer
source derived"
No patriotic state, county or munich
pal ofiiceholder wants to remain an in
come tax Stacker. In order to carry on
the war every one should gladly pay ac-
cording to his means No state capitol
and no municipal building should be
turned into sanctuary for tax dodgers.
Let all citizens share the burden EQUALLY.
Even officeholders are citizens. Con-
grcss should lose no time in annulling
the foolish discrimination which segre
gates state, county and municipal off,
GERS into an invidious and pampered
class group.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31

The Dallas Euening Journal is the de-
fendant in one of the most unusual suits
IN the history Of newspaper making. 1t
is charged with breach of contract bv a
subscriber who did not find printed an
item of news in which he was interested.
The plaintiff is Wilford B. Smith. who
publishes The Pitchfork, a monthly mag
azine in Dallas. Mr.. Smith contends
that as purchaser of the Journal for
which he had paid cents. he had
right to expect to find in it news reports
OF all happenings in Dallas. Mr.. Smith
was looking for a report of a speech bv
Farmer Jim" Ferguson, now seeking
reelection as Governor of Texas after
having been impeached and removed
from that Office. One can hardly blame
Mr.. Smith for wanting to scan the utter
ances Of the deposed Governor, who, it
will be remembered, made war on the
University of Texas because, as he put
it, Texas has gone hog wild over higher
education" Governor Hobby, his success
New-York tribune., 1918-07-31

of America working as one, working here
at home to the last limit of efficiency and
devotion as our men are fighting over
there, can shorten the war, can save un-
told lives. Let all understand, and who
will hang back?