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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09

in fits present form it is inadequate.
1t was drafted to meet the needs Of
the 160-acre homestead. Today the
average North Dakota farm is of 800
acres. Under the present bonding
act, no county can issue warrants for
more than $50 bushels Of seed wheat
or its equivalent in other grains to
any one farm"
Prohibition Amendment.
It is quite likely that the special
session will take up the national
constitutional amendment and dis
pose Of il in short order. It has been
freely forecast that so per cent of
the legislators will favor national
prohibition.
Should congress adopt the suffrage
amendment to the federal constitu-
ton without much delay, it is posi-
BILE that this might come up for
some attention at theNspecial session,
and that would be a matter to con-
sumo more time than the dry amend
ment.
How They viii Line Up,
It will be interesting to note the
division Of the two houses, should
any clear-cut issue arise as between
the independents and the leaguers
during the special session. With the
vote on H. B. No. "A as a safe
criterion. it may be said that the
senate stood % independent to 81
Nonpartisans at the close of the last
regular session, while the house
stood 81 Nonpartisans to % independ-
ents, with four doubtful members.
The death of Sen. Martin Thoreson
of Barnes county has lost the league
one member in the upper house.
senator Thoreson did not always
support league measures, but in mat
tiers of league policy he was usually
regular, and he voted with the league
minority on II. B. No. Al in the SEN
ate.
John Rott, jr.. Of Hellwig. will be
missing from his place in the Sbth
district delegation in the mousse
Representative Rott having left the
state of North Dakota and pledged
allegiance to South Dakota
The late L. D. Wiley of Morton
county will also be missed in the
house. this we'll known legislators
sudden death having occurred only
few weeks ago. ...-
Mai. Dana Wright, who was a good
Lacquer during the few days which
found him in attendance during the
last session. the Stutsman county
representative being at the. Mexican
border with his battalion until the
middle of February. will not attend
the special session. Major Wright Is
doing his fighting in France this
The Governors Message.
The governors message, is as fol-
lows:
Proclamation.
Call for extra session.
an view Of the extraordinary condl-
lions existing: That our nation needs
all the food products, especially grains,
that can possibly be produced ana
that owing to the poor crops of the
nast two wears, assistance is neces-
sarv in about half of the counties OF
orr state to supply seed grains and
feed: and that all means thus far
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wooden ship program. Mr.. Ferguson
said that he doubted If the vessels
after they were built, would be fit for
transatlantic service. They could be
used to great advantage, he said, on
cosSLwise runs.
Wooden construction was delayed,
Mr.. Ferguson said, because the fleet
corporation attempted too ambitious
a program at the start. Changes in
specifications caused delays, he said,
when, if the corporation had started
with a few ships and developed the
type it wanted, few vessels would
have had to be changed.
Senator Martin Aroused.
S"Would the program in your
opinion have moved any faster il a
practical shipbuilder in the first place
had been put in as general manager
Of the fleet corporations" Senator
Martin asked. .-
YES" Mr. Ferguson replied. $50
far as I know, this is the first time
since the program was put under
way that practical shipbuilder ever
was asked officially for his advice or
suggestions as to shipbuilding."
Senator Martin was aroused over
the housing program.
eff housing is needed that badly"
said he, the government can ret the
money within As hours for the pur-
pose. 1t can get 1t before you leave
the city"
Then I'll stay" said Mr.. Ferguson,
81 have been trying for nine months
to get housing at Newport News and
have talked to government officials
until I am sick of the subject"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
Reduction in Consumption
of 100000 Tons Is
Las Contemplated
LIMITED SUPPLIES
TO MANUFACTURERS
War Enterprises and Do
mestic Consumers Alone
Will Get 100 Per Cent
tRv Associated Press.l

Washington, Jan. "A coal
budget plan" based on the voluntary
agreements of manufacturers not en-
gagged in war work to reduce their
fuel consumption and backed by or
ders Of the fuel administration max
ing the agreements applicable to all
factories Of each industry, was an
nounced last night by the fuel ad-
ministration as its method for ad-
justing demand to supply IN 1913.
Reduction in consumption Of pos
sfbly $4,000, 900 tons of coal for the
year, is contemplated. The army and
navy, munitions works, other war
material factories, public utilities and
domestic consumers will be the only
classes Of consumers to receive 100
per cent Of their needs while the war
continues.
Manufacturers already have been
called into conference to put the plan
into operation and the annual saving
promised by the first group, will be
between 100000 and 2O,OOO,OOO
tons. In 1917 the increased demand
for coal amounted to l00,000,00O tons,
while the increase in output was
about As, OO0, 900 tons. Under the same
conditions, this year, the untitled
tonnage would be taken care Of by
the reduction in factories not con-
tributinE directly to the prosecution
of the war.
Curtailment Of fuel consumption
necessarily implies reduction Of out
put by the factories, so that the fuel
administration sees in it's program
aid I'm the diversion Of labor and ma
teriaIs to war work. The budget by
agreement is adopted in lieu of the
often proposed arbitrary classification
OF industries into essential and nom
essential divisions.
at is believed" the fuel admin
STATIONS announcement says, that
the operation of this plan will for
ever lay the ghost Of the agitation
to 'cut off non-essential Industries
and will automatically balance the
relation between the production and
consumption OF coal and prevent any
repetition of the present coal short
age"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
THOUGHT OF
FAMINE DRIVES
WIFE TO SUICIDE

Bismarck, NJ. D., Jan. g.
Haunted by the prospects Of a
seventh mouth 70 feed in q home
which had found difficulty In
supplying six, Mrs. William
Luer, 24-year-old wife OF a
young farmer residing south Of
Drisooll, il believed TO have TAX.
on poison with suicidal effect,
just before the hour which was
70 usher a new little stranger
into the Luer home. The child
was born dead, and late Friday
night the mother, after lyina IN
agony for three days, followed
the little one TO eternity.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09

devised to make provisions for SUM-
cient seed and feed have seemingly
failed; and that the present laws of
our state are inadequate to meet the
situation: it is deemed necessary
that a special session OF the legis-
lature be called to revise the county
seed bonding law. in order that the
necessary seed and feed can be sup
piled to assure good crop acreage
being planted next spring, and to
provide for any other war measures
that may be deemed advisable.
Therefore, ], Lynn ]. Frazier. gov
ernor of North Dakota do hereby
call the Fifteenth legislative assembly
to meet in special session at the
capital at Bismarck on Wednesday,
Jan. %, 1918, at 9 o'clock, a. m.
Given under my hand and the
great seal Of the state Of North Da-
l0ota, at Bismarck, this Sth day OF
January, 1918.
Lynn J. Frazier. Governor.
Thomas Hall,
Secretary of State.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
PRIEST UNDER ARREST.

Former Librarian to Arehdul<e
Ferdinand, Arrested at Billings.
Bismarck. N. D., Jan. 9. Rev.
Francis Xavier Holmberger, private
Librarian to Archduke Ferdinand Of
Austria when the bomb was thrown
which precipitated the world war
and who, stating that he anticipated
events that Immediately developed
at once procured permission to leave
this post and come to America,
where he served until a few months
ago as pastor of the Catholic parish
at Belfield, is under arrest at Bill
ings, Mont. He is charged with
carrying weapons in violation of the
alien gun law.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
FORKS is SELECTED.

Herbert A. Hard Chooses Grand
Forks For His Headquarters.
bert A. Hard, of Fargo, chairman OF
the Minnesota. and North and South
Dakota Tri=state executive commit
tee, and North Dakota Drainage
Flood Control commissioner and en- :
~ineer, has opened offices in Grand
Forks. The large amount 0Eco-oper-
alive work done by the counties ia
this section made the once neces-
sary.
Mr.. Hard is in charge Of the rec
lamation work in the valley of the
Red and its tributaries His Office is
securing active cooperation from the
federal department of agriculture.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
Mayor of Michigan
City Maintains He
Is American Citizen
nv Associated Press.l

Michigan City, Ind, Jan. Erred
srick C. Miller, attacked as a Ger
man subject, who became mayor OF
this city Monday, asserted yesterday
that he is an American citizen. NOR
ally and legally.
QUO warranto proceedings begun
by s. J. Taylor, defeated Republican
candidate, will be heard Just as soon
as Governor Goodrich names a judge
who will accept the appointment. The
Injunction proceedings begun by
former Mayor Kruger at Valparaiso
AGAINST Miller lasted all Mon
day and then were put over until
Thursday.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
REsuMEs sEssioN-

Bismarck, N. d., Jan, 9.-After
classifying between 900 and 1000
class Al men who had been report :
ed by local boards, the district board
adjourned Saturday until to-
day, from which date it will remain
in session for the rest OF the week.
The board is devoting it's entire time
now to the classification Of No.
men, in order that those who will be
first called may be ready when that
call comes. Chairman Birdxell re-
ports that the task is much simpli-,
fed by the recommendation Of local
boards, and that when questionnaires
are received without such recon-
local boards for further advice.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
SHIPS GET COAL
Vessels Loaded With Supplies For
The Allies Sail After Some Delay.
CBy Associated Press.)

An Atlantic Port. Jan. "a num-
Der OF ships loaded with supplies for
the allies, which have been delayed
here for more than two weeks be-
cause. OF lack of coal sailed yesterday
for European ports. One Of the steam
ers carried the first mail to leave
here in seventeen days. Many yes
sells are still idle at the docks here
awaiting fuel.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
TWENTY-NINE GET
CERTIFICATES.

Mandan, N. D., Jan. 9.-Twenty-
nine school teachers received state
teachers certificates from N. G..
Macdonald, superintendent Of public
instruction, through II. X. Jensen,
County superintendent, yesterday.
All but three OF the certificates re-
ceived are fourth grade teachers
certificates and go to rural school
teachers. Three are for third grade
school teachers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
Menominee Mayor
Purchases Coal
Direct From Mine
fRv Associated Press.l

sMenominee, Mich, Jan. 9.-More
than 1000 tons of coal have been
purchased direct from the mines and
delivered to the consumers or
BfenomInee at cost by Mayor M. b.
Lloyd. A total Of twenty-eight cars
Of coal has already been received
a.he coal is still coming at the rate
Of three cars a week and will con-
tinue to arrive for an indefinite per-
Tod.
Mayor Lloyd was the organizer OF
the Michigan Wisconsin coal league.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
COLONEL HIeaEE DEAD.

Services For State Pioneer Held a
Bismarck Monday. 81.
Bismarck, NJ D., Jan. 9.-Colonel
Ed f. Higbee, for half a century
prominently connected with the de-
velopment Of Dakota territory and
North Dakota, and for at least SIS
years active in the service OF the
United States government as en-
gineer and craftsman at the United
States surveyor generals ofices in
Yankton, Huron and Bismarck, is
dead at the age Of IS. Last rites for
the deceased were held at the Bis
marck Elks' home Monday afternoon.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
JURY OUT rs HOURS.

Jury Disaurees In Case OF Nelson
AGAINST HinsvarlS at Bismarck.
Bismarck, N. D.. Jan. 9.--Some-
thing near record was established
during the last week when jury in
the case of Nelson VS.. Hinsvark, a
claim for $50 on wages alleged due,
remained out twenty-five hours, then
reported its inability to agree and
was discharged.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
LA ROSE HEADS BOARD.

Medical Advisory Board, Apprentices
BY Frazier, Organizes.
Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 9.-The
medical advisory board appointed by
Governor Frazier for the Bismarck
district, met Saturday and organized.
DIR. Victor ]. IaRose of Bismarck
was named chairman, and DR.. L. A,
Schipfer secretary.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION.
= - ----..l. IA Dr... i

Chicago, Jan. 9.-Presidents Of ap-
proxinately $50 colleges and MEM
hers OF church boards Of education
az nineteen religious denominations
with a constituency Of 100000 to-
day began a series Of conferences to
discuss the relation Of education to
the war and to conditions following
the establishment of peace. The con-
ferences will conclude Friday.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
In Another Form

From The Scottish-American
Two British soldiers went into a res
taurant at Saloniki and asked for
Turkey with Greece. The waiter
said:
Pm sorry, gentlemen, but can't
Servia," Whereupon the Tommies
cried: Fetch the Bosphorous!"
When that gentleman arrived and
heard the complaint, the manager
said:
We'll, gentlemen, I don't want to
Russia, but you cannot Rumania."
And so the poor Tommies had to
go away Hungary.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09

The Grand Duchess George Of
Russia's hospital at Harrowgate,
England, is presided over by one of
the islands leading society humin-
aries, Madame de Sloeclkl. Besides
her duties-as nurse she finds time to
direct bazaars and entertainments
for soldier relief.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
NFiss Luz Mendez.

Miss Luz Mendez. daughter Of the
minister Of Guatemala, Don Joaquin
1Iendez, viii wed Paulo de Cooley,
secretary Of the Brazilian embassy
in Washington, in April. The en-
gagement has just been announced.
Miss Mendez It's known in diplomatic
circles as the chatelaine OF the
GuateLnalan legation.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
nAL OWN COMMISSIONER.

jamestown, N. d. Jan. 9.--Word
has been received in this city that
DIR. T.. ID. Baldwin, formerly superin-
tendent Of the State Insane hospital
here, has been commissioned as
major Of the United States medical
.anaTsWm
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
MoRRIs Ill.

jamestown Postmaster Taken To
Hospitai-deart Trouble Cause.
jamestown, NJ d., Jan. 9.--M. II.
Morris, postmaster, has been taken
10 Parkview hospital for treatment,
SUFFERING from q severe attack Of
heart trouble
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
DISCONTINUE REPORTS.

Agents at Bismarck Get First Official
Orders From McAdoo.
Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 9.-The erst
Official order from Director General
McAdoo of the United States govern
ment railways, was received yester-
day by w. A. Mcdonald and L. K
thompson, local agents for the
Northern Pacific and 500 line. The
order is that reports be continued as
heretofore, but that the solicitation
OF new business be left to the gov
eminent
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
So. ss1.4O PAID IN FINES.

Crookston, Mimi. Jan. Q. - Two
thousand three hundred and sixty
one dollars and forty cents was the
exact amount of money taken in dur
ing the year 1917 in fines by the local
police court.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
HEIR TO BIG ESTATE.
A, a, Cary Of Ksnnare, Heir 70 Estate
Nalfrad A. $3.50 00O

Kenmare, NJ. D., Jan. "a. b.
Cary has returned from Des Moines,
Ia, where he found himself, through
the death of his father, Samuel X.
Cary. who owned 200 acres Of valu-
able land near RenWick, Ia, one Of
four heirs to an estate Of $4,000.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
MANDAN GROWING.
Improvements For 1917 Exceed These
of 1915 hv S12nO0O.

Mandan, N. D.. JAG, 9.-Four hun
dred fifty thousand Collars worth Of
new buildings represent the building
and achievements in
Mandan during the year 1917. The
exceeds the building OF last
year by 100000.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
DECEMBER DRIEsT IN HISTORY.

MarmaEth, N. D.. Jan. &c. p.
Graue, cooperative observer for the
Little Missouri district, reports that
December, 1917, gas the driest in the
history Of his citation. The rainfall
for the month was 40 Of an inch.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
LACK OF HOUSING
ONLY BARRIER

CONTINUED from page ~
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-11-14
TURNING RATS TO ACCOUNT
stantlaI Revenue From Leather
Made From Hides OF Pests.

In the nelghborhood of Aomori, ia
pan, the hides of squirrels are tanned
and used as carpets, neckcloths and
for other purposes. This has sug-
gested to Doctor Hasegawa Kiyonari,
head Of the Hasegawa hospital at
Osaka, who is a member of the Osaka
municipal assembly the possibility of
turning to good account the hides of
the numerous rats bought by the mu-
nicipal authorities, IN view of the
great advance In the price Of hides
and leather. Doctor Hasegawa ap-
preached the authorities with the pro-
posal, which was favorably received.
They accordingly tanned the skins of
two rats and sought the opinion of
dealers as to what the leather would
sell for. The dealers estimated that
the skin Of one rat was worth 20 sen
In its raw condition. The public health
authorities are now devising special
means Of disinfecting and tanning rat
skins.
1t is estimated that a great sum
could have been obtained by tanning
the hides of one-third of the rats
bought by the Osaka municipal au-
thorities during the last twenty years,
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The terms are meant to bind Ger
man militarism, hand and foot. For
the final peace terms to be negotiated
with the new democratized German
government. the future will speak.
Democracies will not strange at its
birth a new and perhaps promising
democracy.
We fought this war not only to make
the world safe for democracy but to
encourage honest seekers of democ-
racy; to make democracy safe for ma
tions that essay It, The military armi-
stice is uncompromisingly stern, be
ing meant to disarm for mischief a
militaristic system. For the final
peace terms, President Wilson's words
are significant:
Everything for which America
fought has been accomplished.
1T will now be our fortunate duty
to assist by example, by sober, friend
" counsel and by material aid, in the
establishment of just democracy
throughout the world. Milwaukee
Sentinel.
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"MarssiIIaise" Author a RoyaIist.

The "Marseillaise" is often consld-
cred a hymn by radicals and Reds, be-
cause 1t was first widely used by rev.
olutionists, but Rouget de Isle was,
when he wrote 1t and to the end of his
long life, a convinced l0yaIist, true to
his oath Of loyalty to Louis XVI. Some
months after his great hymn was writ
ten he was arrested as counter-revo-
lutionary, and was saved from the
guillotine only because Robespierre,
the master terrorist, was executed.
Rouget de Lisle was so hostile to
the radicals that, rather than take
part in the wars of revolutionary
France, he retired from the army, be-
coming prominent again only after the
July revolution, when King Louis
Philippe made him a chevaller of the
Legion of Honor and gave him pen
sion.
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Sedan 1870 1918

At Sedan in September, 1870, the
French under Napoleon III, with 1907
600 men, surrendered to the King Of
Prussia. The Franco-Prussian War
ended. Monarchy in France ended.
The German Empire came into being
as a great Power.
Continuously after Sedan the Prus-
sian hegemony plotted against the
peace of the world. In August, 1914,
an invasion, timed and primed to
bring TO the German Empire another
Sedan" another decisive victory after
a few weeks Of war. was in full swing,
the Unlocking world fully expecting
Paris to be taken, Germany confident
of 1t. the German soldiers to winter at
home, in accordance with the promise
Of the Kaiser.
The Teutonic clan was the result Of
more than forty years of painstaking,
maryelously thorough preparation.
Upon paper it was bound to bear the
fruit Of an early victory Before two
months had passed the initial oifens-
i've was a failure. Trench warfare had
been forced upon the greatest army
the world had seen assembled. France
and Great Britain were in the begin
nings of preparation, Italy still was
neutral, Americas participation in the
war hardly was considered as being
among the probabilities. The civilized
world had Just begun to fight, yet it
was plain that the forty years plan of
the German Empire would not score
ultimate victory.
In November 1918, Americans
reached Sedan. Americans drawn
across the Atlantic Ocean in defense
Of the rights,of European Democracy
as we'll as in defense of the rights Of
America, by the venture of a German
Emperor in the Twentieth century,
VINO waged war for conquest, and not
upon proyocatiLn.
And when the Americans were
marching through the streets OF his
loric Sedan the whistles were blowing
Victory and Peace somewhat pre-
.uaturely in American cities. Quite
another Sedan, but not another Sc
dan" in the sense in which the Ger
mans used the term IN 1914
Sedan in 1870 formed the founda-
lion Of the short-liyed German En-
pre. Sedan in 1918 marked the end
Of the German Empire as the menace
to European nations and to the peace
and freedom of the world-Ex.
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RETAIL

There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and for years it was sup
posed to he incursble. Doctors p'e-
scribed local remedies, and by constant
ly failing TO cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a
local disease, greatly influenced by con
stitutional conditions and therefore re-
ouires constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrh Medicine, manufactured by f
J. Cheney 81 Co, Toledo, Ohio, is a
constitutions remedy, is taken intern
ally and acts through the Blood on the
Mucous Surfaces of the S stem. One
Hundred Dollars reward is offered for
any case that Halls Catsrrh Medicine
fills 70 cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials.
FL. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Adv.