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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-27
PROMISE TO WHEAT
GROWERS COST U. S.
OYER A RALF-MlIO
Bill Is In Preparation Provid.
ing For Extension OF Grain
Corporation.

Washington, Dee. 27-The keeping
Of Uncle Sans war promises to his
farmers is going to cost half billion
dollars and perhaps more. 1t will take
this amount to pay the difference be-
tween the market price of the forecast
one billion bushels 1919 wheat crop
and the price of 1926 set BY the pres
ident during war time, Chairman Lev
er Of the house agricultural committee
estimated today.
Lever today had in its first stages
of preparation bill extending the
life of the United States grain corpo-
ration and increasing its capital stock
from $l50,000,000 to about $500, 700 900
The bill is the result of Joint recon-
mendation of the food administration
and the agricultural department, which
called congress attention to the fol.
lowing facts.
Bumper Crop Expected
All indications now point to the sow-
ing of 75,000,000 acres of wheat, with
the greatest of bumper crops reach
ing over billion bushels.
Of this, only about 100000, 900 bush.
els can be used at home.
The most this country ever export
ed was 3l0,000,000 bushels. and this.
when it stood as the world s only wheat
shipper without the scompctition foil
Australia and other coun-
tries.
"The United States cannot fail to
keep its promise to wheat producers
and it cannot compete with the rest of
the world with 1926 wheat" Lever
pointed out today. cit cannot even
sell 1926 wheat to domestic consum
ers when much lower prize i' ;u2ti'
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-27
DON'T LET A COLD
KEEP YOU AT HOME
Dr.. Kings New Discovery
almost never fails to
brin9 quick relief

Small doses once in awhile and that
throat-tes-irg, lurg-splittirg cough
soon qu;ets down. Another desc ard a
hot bath before jumping into bed, a
good sleep. and back to normal in the
morning.
DR.. Kings New Discovery is wen
known. For fifty years it's been
relieving coughs, colds and bronchial
attacks. For fifty years it has been
sold by druggists everywhere. A
reliable remedy that you yourself orany
member Of your family can take safely.
60c and Sl.20.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-27
FREE FERRY PROVIDED

At the Clackamas county taxpaycis
budget meeting Saturday at Oregon
City an expenditure of $4,000 for the
purchase Of the Wilsonville ferry was
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-27

The public service eommissiCa, acting
as arbiters to settle n disprto between
the 0.-W. II. 4 N. and tho Warren Con
struetlon company over the amount O
demurrage the construction companJ
should pay for ears held at Fairview
station, today issued an order fixing tht
amount at $453 80. The railroad com
panY claimed $3.50.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-27
Train Those Stubborn Bowels

Hep nature take its course, not
with a violent. habit-forming purga.
tive. but with gentle but certain and
natural-laxative. DR.. Kings New Life
Pills. Tonic in action, it stimulates the
lax bowels. Sold BY druggists. 2Sc.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-27
STATE HOUSE NEWS

G. P. Harrinton, government enfi-
neer of Santa Fe, N. NJ, is in Salem
visiting his two small children who arc
living with their grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. p. Harrington.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-27
THREATEN QUEENS LIFE

Amsterdam, Dec. e7.--Queen
Wilhelmina has received a let
ter threatening her life unless
the kaiser is forced to leave
the country within eight days,
according to the Telegraaf. The
letter was mailed In Amster-
dam and is anonymous.
X X X Il X Il X * K x X X
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-27
Our Second Lesson
In Economy
Make a
Dollar

Read These Prices and Compare Them With The
Price You Pay Elsewhere
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
North Dakota's Builders
By Rev. Eben z. saunders, Farao, N. ..

AL. MARTIN. Rolette county "old settler
and county commissioner, was reported in an
item in The Forum published August 10, 1911,
as an expert road builder"
w. L. VAN HORN. 1889, from southern Ohio.
Was first met by the writer in Good Templars
lodge in Fargo that year. Was pastor of the
harmony with the tenets Of the Order. Incl
dentally he attracted the attention of young
the same views on the liquor question. To-
gether they undertook to rid the gateway city
of its 40 Saloons" A detective was employed at
the expense of SIS per day for salary and liquor
bills" In conversation with Mr.. Van Horn
who Is here from his present home in Minneap-
Oils, today learned that the Job" was sue sue
cessful The news Of the clean up" reached
Montana and brought an offer of hundred dol
lars for defraying the expenses. The offer was
accepted and resulted in check for the amount
being promptly received from California, which.
added to the funds raised locally, greatly helped
and the proverbial grass" ceased to grow on
the streets Of Fargo" because they were paved
The late Dan McLaren sheriff. and Judge
W. b. Mcconnell was on the bench. Several
saloon men were arrested. The court room was
packed with w. c. T. u and l. O. G. T. women
and men to watch proceedings Convictions
promptly followed and later Rev. Mr.. Van Horn
was called to preach the funeral sermon over the
remains Of one OF the former saloon Keepers
and Attorney Pollock subsequently elected judge
Of the district, continued for more than 20 years
to fight saloons and blind pigs and uphold the
prohibition law of which he was the author.
Judge Pollock thereby gained an international
reputation. This bit Of history" will be Of par
ticular interest to the friends Of the late William
H White. E. Ashley MeaTs and several others,
who financially and morally backed the move
ment.
ROBERT B. BLAKEMORE, 1888, from St.
Johns college, Annapolis, Md, to Fargo. first
met Mr.. Blakemore at the Devils Lake Chau
tauqua in 1904, where he was an enthusiastic
champion Of single tax" the Initiative and
referendum and "Jefersonian democracy" for
which he still stands. For. some years Mr.
Blakernore has had charge of the gateway city's
water supply and now advocates an enlarge
ment Of the filtration plant
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
All Soldiers On Tuscania Insured

Any American soldiers lost the torpedoed
transport. Tuscanta. were protected by United
compensation, Secretary McAdoo announced
Those who had not applied for insurance were
covered by automatic insurance which is payable
to a wife, child, or widowed mother The auto
matte insurance aggregates about $4,S00 netting
S25 a. month for 240 months. Insurance that had
been applied for is payable to much larger
class of benehciaries and can go high as So,
600, netting $3.50 a month for 240 months.
How many Of the men on the transport ap-
piled for government insurance is not yet known.
Two Glasses Of Payments.
The compensation in case of death, given by
the government without charge and regardless
based on the number of dependents. Payments
under the compensation feature Of the military
and naval insurance act in case Of death are
payable to widow, children, or dependent wild
owed mother.
Thus two classes of payments. insurance and
compensation, will be made to the widows, wild
owed mothers. children Of any who may have
been lost on the Tuscania. Where specific gov
eminent insurance had been taken out the
amount of benefits will be much larger.
The automatic insurance ceases on February
IL. 1918. After that date persons killed in mill
tary or naval service will be protected by gov
eminent insurance only if thew had applied for
the same and paid the necessary premiums.
The compensation feature of the act is separate
and distinct from the Insurance. however.
Payments under the automatic insurance are
rayabla to wife during her widowhood or to
the child widowed mother while they sur
vive him.
Payments under the compensation feature of
the act to widow or widowed mother continue
until death or remarriage. Compensation to a
child ceases at the age Of IS, at marriage,
unless the child is incompetent.
Scale of Compensation.
The scale of monthly compensation in case of
death follows:
(al For a. widow alone, $25.
(b) For widow and one child, $35 -ro,
with S. for each additional child up to two.
Cd If there be no widow, then for one child,
$40.
(e) Tor two children $30
60 For three children, $40, with SIS for each
additional child up to two.
(g) For a widowed mother. $40. The amount
payable under this subdivision shall not be
greater than a sum which, when added to the
total amount payable to the widow and children,
does not exceed SIS.
Insurance can be applied for in amounts rang
ing from $1,000 to $4,000. The latter is payable
in 24O monthly installments of $3.50 each, to
any one or more Of the following benefciaries:
Wife. husband child grandchild brother, sis
ter. adopted brother, adopted sister. stepbrother
stepsister parent, grandparent, step parent
of the insured. and parent, grandparents or step
parent of the insured's wife or husband.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
SEIZURE JUSTIFIED.

International law IS a closed book to the
average reader, and the seizure Of the
Dutch ships was a rather discOncertlng
move to those who did not have even a
bowling acquaintance with what is consid-
cred ethical between nations.
They salved their consciences with the
thought that it was necessity, and no
moral wrong was done, inasmuch as the
Dutch were recompensed for the seizure.
But not only was the step justified by
expediency and the moral law, but inter
national law itself upheld the position Of
the Allies.
The German press, which saw no moral
obliquity in the rape Of Belgium, whipped
itself into a fury over the seizure and
forcible purchase Of the Dutch ships, yet
as far back as 1912, DR.. Erich Albrecht, a
German and recognized as a leading au-
thority on international relations wrote
book in which he sets forth at length the
fact that existing treaties have universally
recognized the right Of belligerent nations
to requisition foreign vessels, and that the
neutrals are entitled only to the rights Of
the citizens of the requisitioning country.
cit makes no difference" he writes, in
what manner the neutral property has
come into the territory of the belligerent.
Everything which is to be found in the
territory Of the belligerent party is subject
to acquisition under the same conditions
and rules"
Those who have repressed secret ques-
tionings and qualms of conscience regard
ing the episode with the Netherlands, need
not be afraid to face the question on its
merits. 1t does not have to be justified on
the ground of expediency, nor excused
with the statement that no harm was done.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
The Revival Of The Monitor
William Q. Stevens in the Apri YaIe Review:

William o. Stevens in the April Yale Review.
A curious by-product of the undersea warfare
is the revival of the monitor. At the outbreak
of the war, certain monitors were being built
in England for the Brazilian government for
use in the Amazon. At that time monitor
was regarded as only q shade less obsolete than
a. frigate. But since the admiralty requisitioned
everything in the yards that could be called
man-of-war. these monitors took the sea, and
because Of their shallow draft were used in the
shoal waters off the coast Of Belgium. There
they proved themselves most useful. They were
able to co operate with the troops more than
one important occasion; they moved as rule
in waters too shallow for submarines to pursue
and even If exposed to attack their draft was
so slight that the ordinary submarine torpedo
set to run at a depth of IS feet. would pass far
below their keels. Consequently these despised
monitors banged away most effectively and stay
ed ahoat at time when it began to look as
if every other type were doomed to 20 down.
The result has been that monitors of all
shapes and sizes have been built and operated
ever since. There has been considerable mys-
terry about them, but it be said that the
largest monitors mount the heaviest naval ord
nance in the feet, and that as special protection
are adorned with cushions" or "blisters' The
value Of these protective devices has never been
put to proof because monitor has yet been
hit by a torpedo. It Is this enviable distinction
that enables the venerable monitor to cock it's
hat in the presence Of younger but more vul-
nerable men of-War
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
A HEALTHY CHILD.

The Fargo War association is a very
healthy infant. +
Less than two weeks old, it has between
500 and GOO members.
The association is Fargo's 100 Per Cent
American Club" It is not an exclusive
rganization-just the contrary-and it has
no dues. But it has stiff pledge that must
be signed, and to be elected a member a
man must have passed careful scrutiny.
The present membership is but fraction
of the membership sought. 1t will be
doubled or tripled within the next two
weeks, for new members are being taken in
just as rapidly as their records can be
checked up and the "Okeh" placed against
their names.
The membership of the association should
be as broad as the citizenship of Fargo, for
the man who ism It qualified to be member
ism t the kind of citizen wanted in Fargo or
in any other American community.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
The Editors Mail Bag

To The Editor of The Forum:
1t is the ambition of this letter to express to
Ninth district editors unbounded appreciation of
their Third Liberty Loan service.
You all know what the Ninth did-how she
started last finished first, how every county
oversubscribed, how almost every person sus-
pected of having dollar bought, how all kinds
Of records were smashed in one magnificent
burst Of practical patriotism.
The district executive committee know that all
this would have been impossible without the
splendid support Of the editors. You gave all
you had in the shop and then some. I think you
would have given the presses If Uncle Sam had
called for them
No man was more keenly alive to and appreci-
ative Of this than A. r. Rogers, district director
Every time he saw country paper Ne wanted
to write the editor special letter of commenda-
ton until convinced that all the editors were
giving this same unqualified support.
But what a wonderful success the loan in the
Ninth was And do not forget that the executive
committee knows and appreciates full we'll the
service which the newspapers-city and country
gave their nation
Very truly yours,
CHARLES f. STUART.
.. Director News Column Publicity.
Minneapolis. May 10.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
NORTH DAKOTA WILL GO
QUOTA IN R. c. DRIVE
CONTINUED from page one.)

ing in the northeastern part of the
state, will be a speaker.
Major Anderson is expected to ar
rive in Fargo Wednesday, and will
be dispatched to Slope county. For
the balance Of the week and all of
next week he will be available for
addresses in Slope, Bowman. Adams
and Hettinger counties.
Young at Sherbrooke.
Judge n. c. Young. Fargo state
Red Cross director, is at Sherbrooke,
Steele county today, where a meet
ing of Steele county workers for the
coming drive is being held. He re-
turns to Fargo tonight.
Harry Curran Wilbur, executive
state secretary, will make addresses
in Dickey county Thursday and Fri
day, leaving Fargo Wednesday,
night.
Call For Volunteers.
State headquarters has received a
call for men for work in camps and
hospitals, and five good Office men
for England.
Headquarters has also received a
second call for women for social
service among the sick and wounded
in the American hospitals in
France. Absolute volunteers, that is,
those who can pay all of their own
expenses, are preferred and will be
given first choice, but expenses of
others who can qualify for the work
will be paid.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
I Am The Red Gross
HENRY PAYsoN DoWsT.

with Acknowledgements to Robert III. Davis
author OF II Am the Printing Press."9
I am the Symbol Of the pity of God
I burgeon upon the Haunting banner OF victory
and the dropping gutdon of defeat.
/ am the token OF peace in the midst Of battle
Of gentleness shining through the sombre
mists of hate.
1 am q chevron on the sleeve of mercy, an honor
mark set high upon the brow of compass
/ am the color Of blood spilled for democracy
the form of Christ's tree Of agony and
my followers, at need, cruelty themselves
to make men live.
carry the hope Of life into the red pits Of
death and a dying soldier salutes me and
smiles as he goes to touch the hand Of God
Almighty.
I stand for the organized love of mankind the
co-ordinated impulses OF young and old to
do good, the sacred efficiency Of human
service.
/ mark the flag under which are modified the
forces of industry and finance, Of church
and school, Of capital OF labor, OF genius
and Of sineW.
am Civilizations Godspeed to those who defend
her; ] am the message from home
/ am the symbol Of the pity Of God.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
OF THE SAME BREED.

Only one inference can be drawn from
Governor Frazier willingness to be billed
as a Joint attraction with man who has
been tried, convicted, and sentenced for
disloyalty, and with another now under in
dictment.
They must be his kind Of people, like
the Kate O'Hares and the Max Eastmans.
They must be Of the breed with which he
likes to associate.
When charges are filed against a min
lister, he is promptly removed from the
pulpit and not allowed to preach again I'M
til the charges are disproven. He is not
dismissed from his charge unless found
guilty, but he does not appear before his
congregation.
When charges of disloyalty are filed in
court against Nonpartisan league speak
ers, and even after they are convicted, they
not only remain on the stump, but the gov
ernor of the state prostitutes the dignity
of his Office by permitting himself to be
advertised as a joint attraction.
Governor Frazier has the brazen effront-
cry to permit his name to be linked with
those of Leo Horst and n. S. Randall. The
latter has been found guilty, and sentenced
and his appeal is pending. The former has
waived examination and is held for trial.
Yet they continue their preachings, under
the league auspices. Governor Frazier not
only ignored the protest sent to him, but
Joined the party himself as a speaker.
Governor Fraziers act is one Of three
things. It is deliberate, studied insult to
the loyal and patriotic people of the state );
it is a laundering bit Of stubborn bone
headedness; or it is a desperate attempt to
give some standing to the two suspected
disloyalists and make the charges against
them seem less serious than they are.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
The Wars Recompense

(The original OF this verse was found on an
American soldier who brayely fought and as
nobly died. The man is yet unknown.)
Ye who have faith to look with fearless eyes
Beyond the tragedy OF a world at strife,
And know that out of death and night shall rise
The dawn of ampier life.
Rejoice whatever anguish rend the heart
That God has given you a priceless dover,
no live in these great times and have your part
In freedoms browning hour
That We may tell your CONS who see the light
High In the heavens-their heritage to take
fI saw the powers Of darkness put 10 flight
saw the morning break.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14

bands and lost wives and lost children.
When the war ends, the Red Gross will
be left the work Of cleaning up
Therefore this immense industry which
has been built within year for the pur-
pose Of applying Christianity to the war,
and which now ranks as the greatest bust
ness enterprise in the world, is not tenn
porary affair. 1t must continue to func-
ton for at least two years more, even if the
war should end at once
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14

, 9ra1 or the navy. he IS the
lead of the bureau Of supplies
md accounts.
Sam" az his associates call
aim. is a red blooded human
Who talks plain United States
o American food hogs"
Last December he was ap-
pointed chairman of the food
purchasing board, created to
buy foodstuffs for the armies
and navies of America and her
allies.
He got on the job at once.
E. o. Heyl. one Of Swift's men,
was a member Of the advisory
committee Of the council of
national defense. He asked
MCGOWAN to waive regulations
regarding poultry. There was
an unusual supply Of it.
use part Of the big surplus
in warehouses in Boston, New
York, Buffalo. Chicago, Kan
sas City and as far west as
San Francisco. that red meats
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-14
MADE MILITARY SUPERVISOR.
-.s -
Captain Griffith, Of Mott, Has 1900
Under His Command.

Mott, N. D., May H.. Captain Grit
fifth, OF Mott, has been made military
Supervisor of all the regimental streets
and roads at Camp Greene, Charlotte,
N. c., according to word received
here. He has under his command
about 1900 men, besides all the pris-
oners in the camp, of which there are
several hundred, Captain Griffith
urges the planting Of big war gar
dens and the keeping up of the spirit
Of the home guard