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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27
COMMUNITY MUSIC

One of the most marked movements of the present is the
so-caHed community singing, singing in mass. In many cities
this new cult had made some Roadway before this war began,
but the war has given an immense impetus to it. The army
and the navy are filled with singing bodies. AT the Great
Lakes training station they teach men in groups of thousands.
The music has a magical effect. 1t is inspiring and it makes
the labors of the men easier.
There are many cities in which this movement is assum-
ing a most practical shape. We noted one city the other day
where the various women's clubs had undertaken to work
out the musical problem. In conjunction with a number of
the weather. men of the community they are going to employ
a singing master, whose work will be to encourage and to in
struct in music large bodies of men. Musical festivals are to
be given at stated seasons and elaborate pageants, patriotic
and educational and historical are to be staged, all of such
things tending, as they believe, and not without reason, to the
development of a better civic life. The larger cities are add
ing symphony orchestras. In Detroit they have employed a
conductor at $4,000 a year.
All these things, we believe, will help American life i'm
mensely. Life in this country has been lacking mainly in
artistic development. We have made great physical progress,
but we have too long neglected the things that are really of
higher value. We cannot look upon such things except as
progress in the one right direction.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27
PRICES N VOTERS

an price fixing, congress is a political body thinking of
votes" says the esteemed Springfield, Mass, Republican, which
has been trying to stand by them thick and thin. But perhaps
the Springfield paper was trying to pay a compliment to the
president for vetong the bill increasing the price OF wheat.
We are of the opinion that the price of wheat is high enough,
but we are not always sure that we see why there should not
be limitations on some other things like cotton, for instance.
If congress did not limit wheat prices, wheat would be worth
much more than a couple of dollars a bushel; it might be
worth three or four. But before the war cotton was down to
six cents. and ten cents was considered a high price. A war
price to correspond with wheat would be around 20 cents a
pound, but speculation has driven it up three, four and even
five times.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27
THE sLACKERs AND LOAFERS

They have been having a roundup of the slackers In Chl-
.cago, and they have literally found thousands OF them. But
that should not surprise us. The city of Chicago has a popula-
ton twenty-five times that of the entire state of Nevada ana
more. To such cities drift the riff-raff, the ner-do-wels and
the what-nots of humanity. That a few thousand among sucn
a mass should be unwilling to do their duty to their country is
a matter for no surprise, although it may be such for regret.
But it is one of the good things of this war that the govern
ment can reach out and touch the bodies, if not the hearts OF
such men. 1t may mean that they will get some new sensa-
lions, even if no new ideas and inspirations. In this country
many thousands have actually been living without the knowl-
edge or the realization that there is a government over them.
American life has been an easy life and the government has
been a negligible one for many of its inhatibants-they can
not be called citizens, for citizenship implies something more
than a mere existence in a country.
And so we must be glad that the roundup has come, that
we are nearer the great awakening in America, and because
of this it may not be a bad thing that the war has come down
upon us as well as upon the rest of the world.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27
ABOUT HANGING FLAGS AGAIN

Once more, about hanging out flags. If in the open street,
the starry field should be either to the north or to the east, de-
pending on whether the street runs east and west or north and
south. In a north and south street the stars must be toward the
east. And if you hang the flag in az room, or flat against the
building, then the starry field should be to the left as you look
against the building or enter the door. 1t need not be said
that almost half of the flags one sees are hung wrong side to.
Tn one sense, it may be said, it does not matter. But 1t does
matter. Order and uniformity always do better not only III
such things. but i'm all things. If we all do such things alike
the impression will be the better. And there is some satisfac-
ton in knowing that we know what we are doing.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27

If the Germans are sending troops to Russia again they
might unload some of them in Albania, where things are not
going just right. But if it should go all wrong the kaiser may
be able to prove an alibi, alleging that at a critical time his
German Colt laid him low with a Spanish disease called influ-
enza. And the worst of i. is that even if he died all the obitu-
aries the world over, except in pan-Germanic papers, would
carry no mourning. Wonder why he does not realize that his
status is far from what a Christian gentlemen ought to desire
for himself?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27

That Colonel Lynch who recently asked, or challenged Col
onel Roosevelt to assist him by going to Ireland to help him
win the souls of the young men of Ireland to the allied
cause" hardly realized what he was asking the former Rough
Rider to do. AS the Philadelphia Public Ledger remarks, by
the time the colonel has said a few of his customary things
about "slackers' and has given voice to some of his habitual
praise of England, in this war, there would be a veritable
Donnybrook fair raging around him.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27

There is nothing that turns up in which the Germans have
been concerned that does not appear crooked. In America they
touched nothing that they did not defile. If they wanted TO
create a friendly attitude they did not do it along high lines,
as others would have done, but invariably along the lowest
that they could devise, corruption, intimidation and what not
of that kind.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27

1t strikes a casual reader that we are having too many
railroad accidents. Has there been a let down of discipline
under the new managements? You cannot operate trains by
committees, no more than the Bolsheviki have been able to OPP
armies under that dispensatiOn.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27

Even if he should come across tomorrow and ask TO be iof-
given. do not be so foolish as to feel any sentimental qulVef-
ings about the kaiser. What he has done to the world is not
among the things that mankind can forgive. He is what he is
and he cannot make himself different. But the righteous
wrath of the world will render him harmless.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27

The pope does not like what Germany has most recently
proposed for Belgium, but has anyone been able to like any
thing at anv time that the Germans have done to Belgium?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-27

There you have what we have been long saying about the state
of the German mind, and that from a German himself, not a
man who speaks without knowledge or even without authority,
but from one who has been honored in. his country and who
has saved his manhood by refusing to be a party to such trans
actions. and who is now doing what he can from the outside,
for he is in exile, self-imposed, to bring about sanity among his
own people.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1918-03-28
Take German Raider
Of Mexican Port.
U. s. Officials End Ambitious
Design to Seize Mai Steamer.

A Pacific Port. March o.
Germany's first attempt to outfit
a raider at a west coast Mexican
port with which to create havoc
among Pacific coast shipping has
been frustrated.
The auxiliary schooner Alex.
ander Agassiz 80 tons net form.
erly owned-and operated by the
University Of California in re.
search work at sea was captured
fifteen miles { # Mazatlan Mexico
at II o'clock last Tuesday
morning BY an American gun
boat according to sdvices receiv'
ed here today. a..
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1918-03-28
RENDER TO AMERICANS
AND GIVE MUCH INFOR'
NATION.

With The American Army In
France, Thursday, March 21.-
Enemy first and second line pos
tions on part Of the sector east
of Luneville have been destroyed
completly BY American artillery
fire, After the raid into the Ger
man positions lrst night the
American guuners shelled toe
positions heavily this morning.
Today's patrol with out assis'
lance from the artillery crossed
No Mans Laud and found that
the first and second lines had
been wiped out. The patrol also
obtained additional infor nation
and returned without casualties
the Germans apparently having
d. cided not to molest them.
Artillery firing by both sides
on this sector continued all day.
On the sector northwest Of
Toul u number of Germans de
serted last night and surrender
ed to an American patrol in a
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1918-03-28
Germans closing in On
Moscow.
sAre Approaching Apparently
doomed Russian Stronghold
from 3 directions.
DISBANDING OLD ARMY
Soviet Rapidly Eliminates Its
Influence IN Public
Affairs.

MOSCOW, ,i,Tut sday Mar. 10
notwithstanding that peace with
Germany has been ratified by the
. congress of Workmen's anu
Soldiers Delegates, the German
. advance In Russia still continues
the evacuation of Petrograd
having served tnly to change.
.tha German obi .ctive to Moscor.
According to reports printed
in the newspapers this morning
the Germans are moving toward
Moscow from three directions,
south west, .westand northwest.
sFrom the southwest, they
recently have advanced twenty
five mites from Konotop, prov
.ince OF Tchernigov in the general
direction OF B ryansh. which is
235 miles from Moscow by rail.
From the west the Germans are
approaching Smoiensk which Is
about $50 miles from Moscow In
&. the nor h hxesttfey have cap' 'ured
the station of RDsenovhkaya, in
the government OF Vitebsk. The
order to evacnate hospitals and
other institutions in Cjhatsk. .1O(
miles from Moscow, indiclbei
that a further German, advance
is considered imminent by ,hs
oovernmeot.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1918-03-28

the last OF his farming tools,
This again placed another
great bprden4 on Us, which
according Ia his promise We did
not look for. Forcing US to go in
debt for all such tooIs which ne
had 10 have. And had 1t not of
been for one Mr.. :, Schofeld Of
Norwood, trusting US, we would
of been perfectly helpless. in the
matter, which placed US in his
deot for all thesethjngs, even to
a good norton ot,our living.
And we could !. have sold all
we raised, and paid Mr.. Scbo
field off. But an opening coming
up at Fremont, No. with the
Mid Continent Iron Co. And by
accepting it we cnuld help Mr..
Schofeld, and we thought, help
ourselves.
So we went to our worthy
friend Mr.. Schofeld and told
bin, and he also thought it
would be a good thing Tor US to
take some of our men and come
down here and . work AID leave
the rest to run the farm which
was our determinatior to do. So
we made such arrangements to
come here With some Of our plen
and leavL a sufficient number to
run TIE farh. thong the.r rest to
leave on the farm was our Oldest
son Johney Garrett. So we
come here with the above ar
raignments. specified, inor1er
10 pay our honest debts.
But just as soon as L. D. Caudle
heard that we was at Fremont
he owing US a quite "a sum, he
concluded to pay the debt by
taking the advantage Of our
absence, he came to the farm,
land ordered every body eff the
farm. And made them believe
that he would 10 wonders if they
did lot get.Cff.
And by threats he got the man
we left there to consent to move
everything eff the farm, and quit
the farm. This was not done by
him because he did not want our
work any longer, it was because
he realized that we had once
more become free people.
So our readers will see the
sudden change ofCur NOV, when
you notice our man vas scared
into it.
But we must claim damags
J. utf him. as vel! as just debt vel
a We are beautifully locate d here
With promising future before
US. Aud With several goot
!" chances atMt Grove by a pcop!
, we have learned to lose. Hopin,
d that we may 10 understood. AM
'y that We come here to do good
10 and 10 pay our honest debts "
10 Deg TO remain your faithful
h servant.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1918-03-28
Why We Have Moved.

Friends and readers CT the
WORLDS CREssET" you NAV
wonder why we so suddenly
moved, from near Norwood to
Fremont.
This we shal, labor to make to
you plain ii you will be patient
and give US time.
For We know there is in the
human family great curiosity of
knowing all things.
The first thing we shall present
is, that over three years ago as a
colony of people we went to
wCrk for a man by the name of
l.. D. Caudle. Eas: of Norwood
We worked for him for over two
years cutting wood-1'ben we
leased bis farm of over 400 acres
in the fall OF 1915.
Up till this time we had no
rea SOP for complaint. For during
.his time he paid a deat for US of
$4,000 we owed on our sawmilI,
and took u bill OF sale on same
mill.
The mill was worth $1,000 90
And when we eased bis place we
made him a tender OF the $1,000
The same be refused to take
and said that he had saving thai
he wanted US 10 do for him tol
the amount of the debt and al
this time We had q contract
with him to cus.a lot of timber
owned by one Richard .Gosvenor
And there vas 70 specified time
to have the timber Gu. between Us
and. him And Mr.. Caudle claim
ed .!here was 70 specified time be
tween him and Richard Gosvenol
Blu: when the 1st. of march
came Mr.. Gosvenor served not
ice on US and Mr.. Caudle to sior
cutting timber.
And il was ascertaiDeG lta'
l.. ID Caudle's lime Ws.s ont.
We stopped hut Mr.. Caud,e
tried hard to COMPEL US tc con
tinue cutting lie tim ber-claim
| ing The time of his contract was
not out with Mr.. Gosvenor.
And when we would not cou
| tinHe cutting said timber MI
| Csudle lhsn took our mill.
| Aud that too regardless OF
second tender Of the amount l.
tn G debt ON the mil,
This robed US OF our plcate>
means to MAKE Lying by so o,
ing he placed the colony in
helpless condition, Without tt
means Of a support.
| For we as culcny had no
leased his farm of over 400 ,cc!s
TO lot US ~aw the debt out ar
by a promise he made us and
this promise we-intendirg
run;he farm with a portion of u
Il colony And run the saw mill wi
tie rsst OF them 10 make I su
port while We farmtd Tie place.
But we add because we @ou
! not shruw ourselves Liable
} prosecution, by Mr.. Gosven'
! for Oaud'e's sake, he-He repe
, took the mil. regardless of Il
3 two legal tender offers we mac
I HIM. Of the $500.
0 Again WREN we leased the p!a
, from bin, be verbally agreed
e leave all his farming tools on q
e place for onr use And regarlIe
.ot bis promise when be had b
-
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1918-03-28

certain wood. The Germans ap'
preached the Americans shout.
inp "Doat shoot" The prisoner
were turned over to the French.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1918-03-28
British Front Line Bent
Back but net broken
German Offensive in Initial
Stage No Gain to Enemy.

HUN LOSS FRIGHTFUL
Haig s Troops !naict Terrible
Punishment Oh Attacking
..t
H1rdes.
CALL UP 100000 TEUTONS
. Forty Divisions and hummer
able Guns Used: Berlin Claim.
ing $4,000 Prisoners.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1918-03-28
OBITUARY. q e


The little Infant of Eddie and Mandy Mason died March
9th. 1918 months days the only boy Of their family
A few short months with US here below
He was lovely flower
But the gem, worshipped so
Be decked heavenly bower.
And bright in that Immortal cime
Where bis life gldes the condless Cline
Untouched by time where little baby gone.
Sweet baby our joy and pride.
But earthly )ys depart and when darling baby died.
1t amost broke our heart
Twas very hard to give him W.
We wept in grief Alone
And still We drink of sorrows cup since baby gone.
We call our loved boy back would we If could
Well tread earth dark stormy track in lonly solitude
Ere many years Of suffering,
We hope to follow we hope 10 follow
Where darling baby gone
take this little lamb said He and lay him in my breast
Protection he shall find in
In me be ever blest
Death may bonds OF life unloose
But cant dissolve my love.
Millions OF infants souls compose the family ahove.
Written by friend and sister in F. T. T.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1918-03-28
OBITUARY

Mrs. Hste y:onk her maiden mama Miss Hettie Redman
died March the 9h 1918 November 1859 married
Ito Richard Croak on April the Sh 1917 They lived With fe
AH Vile Colony at the of her death She departed this
life in the faith of a Cruc6ed Lord
Friends weep not for the one departed, :
To rest trust she is gone.
Let's pray for happiness to us oe !otted,
And gain heavenly home.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1918-03-28

TWO LINES WIPED ovTl
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-05
Lightning Hits
Werner Teacher

Werner. N. D., June 5.-Miss Mabel
Dingwall, rural school teacher north
Of here, was badly burned by light
ming which struck and burned the
school house to the ground. She was
alone in the school at the time. The
electricity scared her left cheek, left
thigh and penetrated the left heel.
She will recover.
For quick results Use The Fargo
Forum want ads.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-05
High Honor For
Grand Forks Man
(Rv Associated Press.l

Grand Forks. N. D.. June Sword
reaching here is to the effect that
Thomas D. Campbell. who has con-
tracted with the government to farm
large areas of wheat land in Mon
tana, has been named by the French
high commissioner at Washington,
M. Tardieu. as a. member OF an Am
erlcan commission to visit France
and Algiers at an early date to in
vestigate the wheat situation. Mr..
Campbell will carry out his contract
with the department Of the interior,
It was reported here that Secretary
Lane has consented to his acceptance
of M. Tardieu's invitation. Mr..
Campbelrsa contract with Secretary
Lane attracted the attention OF the
French commission to him. @
Mr.. Campbell is the son Of the
late Thomas Campbell, pioneer farm
er. who owned large areas of land
south of9Grand Forks. The son was
reared here and was educated at the
state university. where he specialize
ed in engineering. He managed his
fathers interests and was the first
manager Of the Grand Forks street
railway. Seven years ago he moved
to California and has held a respon-
sible position with one of the largest
construction firms in the west.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-05
GAMERS NAY
Be REGULATED
tRy Associated preaa.l

Washington, June 5.-Sweeping
recommendations for regulation of
the canning industry were made yes
terday to President Wilson by the
federal trade commission. on the ba-
sis Of iniquities discovered in an ex-
haustive investigation Legislation
would be required to put some of the
recommendations into effect. while
others may be made operative under
the food law. <ga
Gamers were found to have aver
aged 80 per cent profit in 1917. COM
pared with 8 per cent the year be-
fore. The food administration, the
report says. was not entirely sue
cessful in preventing large advances
in the prices Of raw vegetables last
year. Rulings which somewhat
checked the price Of finished prod
ucts came too late to prevent unusu-
ally large margins over costs, par
ticularly in tomato and corn canning.
Army and navy purchases and other
war demands, however. now are
tending to place prices beyond con-
troll Of the forces usually adjusting
them.
The influence of the large meat
packing corporations in the canning
trade was given especial attention
by the commission, which asserted
that wholesale grocers consider the
meat packers the strongest rivals.
Swift & Co. was said to control Lib
by, MCNEIL & Libby. the second
largest packer OF canned foods in
the country, which made more than
20 per cent on it's investment in 1917.
Armour & Co.. has become jobber
Of canned goods. probably larger
than any wholesale grocer, according
to the report. Wilson & Co. was re-
corded as acquiring salmon interests
on Puget sound aud canneries in
Canada,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-05
Soldiers Claims
Injustice Done

Bismarck, N. D., June 5.-Another
alleged violation of the state and
federal moratorium acts for the
protection Of soldiers while in SER
vice will come before the council of
defense at it's executive session this
week. The complainant in this mat
ter is DR.. L. B. Derdiger, formerly
Of Minnewaukan. who claims that
after he was called into the national
army at Camp Logan on April /,
Judgment was taken against him in
the Benson county court for $145 on
an actual debt Of but $35, which he
believed he had satisfactorily ad-
justed prior to his departure from
Minnewaukan. and that the sheriff
has levied on property of a value Of
$125 to satisfy this execution. Der
digger, on his return to Minnewaukan
for a brief furlough prior to his de-
parture FOR Frands, was appraised
of the action against him, and he
made an affidavit setting forth the
facts which has been submitted to
the state council of defense by Sin
ness & Duffy, members Of the Amer
lean Bar association advisory board
for Benson county.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-05
Forks Man Is
Thrown By Shell

Grand Forks, N. D., June 5.-Be-
ing thrown high into the air by the
explosion Of a German shell, and re-
turning to earth without scratch
is the experience Of Steve Smith,
brother Of Mrs. c.. c.. Arnold Of this
city, now with the American Expe-
dictionary forces in France, according
to a letter just received.
''On April 26, I bumped into one Of
Fr1tz's big shells, and came out with
out a scratch Smith writes, but
you should have seen what I did to
the shell. broke it into a thousand
pieces; sack which was carrying
was cut to pieces; but none Of the
pieces hit me-.
1.-THE conclusion, however, was a
different matter The shell fell so
close to me that when it exploded I
was given a joy ride through the
air. That was all right, but when 1
returned to earth stopped too sud-
den. fell with the small OF my
back across the sack, and my head
and shoulders in a shell hole. This
sort Of knocked the breath out Of
me and sprained by back a bit. /
squirmed down into the shell hole
where I lay for 90 minutes while
high explosive shells rained all about
me. I knew so long as I lay on the
ground was safe from anything
except q direct hit as the pieces all
fly upward. Many of the shells were
so close that the conclusion from