The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04

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war.
The news that potatoes are cheap does
not appear to have reached some restaur-
ants yet. The "eat potato" movement
is an excellent one, but when two orders
are needed to get whole potato in some
eating places, it is discouraging.
Guatemala is No. 10 in the list Of Ger
many's enemies. Can you name them all9
Let's see Serbia, France, Russia, Great
Britain, Montenegro, Belgium, Italy, Ru-
mania, Portugal, Japan, United States,
Brazil, China, Greece, Cuba, Panama, Lii
IBERIA and Siam. That's our guess
Then there are dozen more that have
severed diplomatic relations.
President Wilson is reported to have
purchased Third Liberty bonds to the ex-
tent of $4,000. The Presidents salary is
| $4,000 year, so he is buying on basis
of about u per cent of his yearly pay. OF
! course, after you get above tho $4,000
mark in income, they come easier, but con-
sidering the high cost of living in the
White House, we should say that was prac-
Using what he breaches up to about 100
per cent.
Everyone seems satisfied with the re-
suits of the Zeebrugge raid. The British
admiralty calls it a successful venture, and
the German war office announces it was
complete failure. However, the German
commander at zeebrugge has been dis
ciplined for being caught mapping.
The secretary Of the German treasury,
speaking in the reichstag announced that
he "did not yet know the amount of the
indemnity we shall win If he is think
ing Of indemnity from the western allies,
we IL undertake to pay it ourselves out of
the first interest coupons on our Liberty
bonds, and we won't miss it.
Even julius Caesar didn't like the
Huns. Here is what he wrote of them o.
900 years ago: "That treacherous race
is bred from the cradle to war and rapine.
They practice base deception, first asking
for peace and then openly beginning war.
They are outside the pale of negotia-
tions."
Reading that over again, it looks like a
very fair answer to the new peace often
Rive. +. ~. s. ,
The Ukrainian government has commit
ted the crime Of being weak. Consequent
ly, the kindly, friendly Germans are go-
ing to give the Ukraine a nice benefcent
military rule while the grain supplies are
being skilfully, efficiently and in proper
Prussian way, removed from danger.
Germany, in answering an inquiry
| through the Spanish government as to the
treatment of American prisoners in Ger
many, declares that they are accorded the
same treatment as prisoners of other ma
| tons.
That confirms our worst fears.
Franklin P. Adams better known as "F.
P. A. used to run column" in The
New York Mail, and later in The New York
Tribune. He was as famous aa humorist
in New York as is B. L. T. in Chicago,
and New Workers, therefore, didn't take
him very seriously when he threatened the
Kaiser a year ago, that war with America
would mean the browning horror of the
| discontinuance of "The Coming Tower, :"
which was the name Of his column. But he
made good his threat, and although he is
so years Of age, got into the army some
way. He is now running column" on
''The Stars and Stripes" the official trench
newspaper. Here is a sample Of it:
There were a lot of authors in Paris during
| the air raids, and some of them unconsciously
| gravtated toward the six best cellars"
Things we used to beef about The size
of the hunk of ice cream they put in crushed
strawberry ice cream soda.
When was civilian In the tipping days Of peace,
1 spilled column daily, vacation or SUR
cease
whitfield many mournful wheeze and many
hating rhyme
TO cop the deeting 1itney and TO snare the
elusive dime
TESTED by the carload and frolicked by the
when I used to write column on the
York
Mail.
The years continued fitting. the years are
wont to do.
Until one New Years Eve went and shifted
wrote ton of tribes and mass of metric
TO give me daily ammunish for my Barrage Of
| Bunk.
oh. many a paragraph ! pulled and many a
when / ran q daily column on the
York rrls.
zood-by o dull serenity!
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