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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-11

and soon thereafter came the deafen-
ing noises that started last weeks
celebration.
The Associated Press and newspa.
pers receiving its service were, deluged
with telephone calls asking If the
whistles were announcing the actual
cessation Of hostilities. =
One Of the .onisiest celebrations was
in the italian quarter, where men and
women danced in the streets while re-
volvers were discharged and nearly
ment spread rapidly and every section
Of the greater cityturned out to cele-
brate the news.
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New York.

New York
New York. Nov. 1.-THE fact that
news Of the actual signing Of the ar
Imistice terms came at an early hour,
caused delay in the celebration in
New York city. It was after s o'clock
when the first of the whistles began
to announce the news to the public
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COMMUNITY NUNlIIlD1)l.
STATES IS Cu CELEBRATING AND
ALL BUSINESS ECLOSED

Duluth, Mimi, Nov. 11.-one thou
sand Duluth men, women and chill
dren towed the kaiser's goat through
the principal streets early today.
The goat-which was Of the stuffed.
variety-was publicly burned this
morning while thousands Nof people
sang, "Hail, Hail, The Gangs. All
|Here.@% SN4 e,
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Minister
At Hamburg Arrested

, Paris, Nov. II, e:o5 a. m.-The
Prussian minister at Hamburg has
been arrested. at his home in that
city, according to a Basel dispatch.
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REPORT POLES
HOLDING SWAY
OVER GALAClA

Amsterdam. Nov. 1o.-Professor
Lammasch. the Austrian premier. has
received official notification. says a
dispatch from Vienna that Poland has
assumed ~povereignty over Gal'cia-
Galicia is a crown-land OF Austria
Hungary north of the Carnathians.
1t has an area Of 30,307 square miles
and in normal times had a population
Of some 100000.
Amsterdam, Saturday. Nov. "a
message from Cracow announces, the
formation Of a Polish republic under
the presidency of Deputy Daszynsk.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-11

Washington.

Warrington.
Washington. Nov. 11.-Upon the
appearance of a proclamation by the
president formally announcing the
armistice, all government depart
ments were ordered closed for the
day.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
Why They Want Hin,
tFrom The Nc,o York Times,


There is a queer misapprehension amonr
some of the opponents of Mr. Henry Ford,s
burst INTO the Michigan primaries. Thus
"Thc Detroit Free Press" ascribes to him
contempt for the political processes by which
the government is carried on. "Mr Ford"
says "The Chicago Tribune" "has INDUCED
himself for years in the qualification of not
knowing anything about the country's politi-
cal procedure, of not connecting himself
with it or of having anything to do with it,"
This is a little uni ust Mr.. Ford remem
bers that he cast his first vote for President
"for Garfield" in 1884. If his memory. husv
with so many weightier matters, has misled
his candidates name, at least Mr. Ford once
voted, and he knows that there arc Pres-
dents.
But 1T IS not as an authority on politics, on
the American political system, that he has
been picked for Senator by an expert and
an INDUSTRIOUS hand. Just as the Prussian
Hcrrcnhaus includes number of life-pccrs
who are chosen by the King from among
great landholders rich industrials, "nation-
al cclcbrtics"; just as the House of Lords
has among its members great men of busi
ness, of letters, so should not our Senate hc
in part Chamber of Notables, of Marnates.
a House of Fame in another than Chaucer,s
sense?
Few men arc better known than Mr. Ford
In the matter OF swift, romantic, inexhaust-
iblo riches Monte Carlo was lazarus COM
pared to this Wolverine machnist He is
one OF the greatest carriers in the world. In
what hamlet is the sound of his wheels un-
hcard? HIS experience on the ship Of peace
makes him an authority on shipping. His
Christmas evacuation of the trenches makes
him an authority on military affairs. Yet
not ns a common politician but AS a rare
natural, an unconscious genius, do his en-
thusiasts push him toward the Senate.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
The Seditious Sugar Bowl

The help-yourself sugar bowl has been
interned for the period of the war, and
nobody is any the unhapper that we can
discover. A sweet tooth is like any other
habit of indulgence. 1t looks larger than
life when we first try to part from it..
But once put a few days in between and
start counter habit growing, and it
dwindles to nothing before we know it.
The main part of the job is mental, but
the mind can be helped enormously. "Out
Of sight, out of mind" is the secret of the
sugar bowl psychology. If sugar is lying
about yearning to be used we all want it
and yearn in return. If it isn't we
don't.
Can the principle be applied further?
We think it can. 1t has been already in
such things as automobile tires and, to
limited extent, shoes and clothes But
why should not the idea be applied
vigorously all along the line? If there
were but "a few styles Of mems clothes
we should all be quite content with them.
Hats, shoes, shirts--is there anything
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
Courtesy

Courtesy is an elusive and difficult
thing to put into an institution. Tradl-
ton counts for something. Personal lead
ership counts for much. Is the govern
ment's hand fatal to politeness? The
express companies-some of them, that
is-held all records for plain and fancy
discourtesy in olden days. And they
were as privately owned and operated as
a corporation can be. The postoffice
may not be famous for courtesy, but it
has done we'll enough in most communi-
ties and very we'll indeed in some-well
enough to offset the express companies
at any rate.
Mr.. McAdoo means to have the real
thing in the government operated rail
roads, something distinctly better than
we'll enough. His statement to railroad
employees is timely and the right word.
1t ought to start much. There is no uni
form tradition in ralroading. The
Pennsylvania system has been a model
of courtesy for years. Other roads, not
many miles from New York, never heard
VI IIlC WOlO ulltli NCIy ICCCuCly. GU
other roads might be called neutral on
the subject.
Out of this heterogeneous practice it is
Mr.. McAdoo's hope to build up uni
form custom Of courtesy. Many roads
will be with him from the start. Many
others will have much to learn. 1t is
huge task and a difficult one. But if
any one can do it we think Mr. McAdoo
can. He has the gift of leadership. He
is an old and avowed believer in courtesy
to the public by public-serving corpora
tions. He knows what he wants and
how to get it, and with this prompt be-
ginning stranger things have happened
than that we should see established a
new standard Of governmental courtesy
for our rude and democratic states
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
A Subway Primer

The defects in Mr.. Shontss mind are
so elementary that it is difficult to know
just where to begin his education. He
knows, for instance, that rails carry
trains and that trains-when run far
enough apart--carry passengers
But he is quite ignorant, childishly
ignorant, Of the facts that passengers
are people, that people vote and that
the surest way to obtain public opera
ton of subway is to make private
operation so hopelessly inconsiderate
and indecent and outrageous that the
evils Of public operation pale by COM
parison.
We don't know just how many belev
ers in public ownership and operation
Mr. Shonts is manufacturing hourly by
his present preposterous service. But
the figure must be high. 1t is not as if
we had failed to provide a system of
regulation. We have the most elaborate
and most expensive batch of regulators
in the country in our investigating Pub
lie Service Commissioners. 1t is private
operation in it's most up-to-date form
that Mr. Shonts is doing his best to
pound to death.
Passengers are people.
People vote.
We suggest that Mr.. Shonts paste
these two simple truths on the window
of his mind and spell them over in odd
moments when not too busy figuring
H. ~, a. oJ1
stuck together can be packed in an air
less six-car train running twenty min
utes behind the ?. S. G.. schedule
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21

American brothers who refused and r.
fuse to sell their wheat. They are hea
ing it for higher prices. The Nipm
farmers are being civilized evidently an
are helping the spectators materially il
their black work of coming the hungsr
of the poor people of Japan into tanted
money.
The upshot of it all is the present riot
1t is unique in one significant respect
this uprising Of the many--it is nation
wide; it is by no means local. Anothef
thing which is even more important il
that the uprising did not confine itself to
wrecking rice merchants and rice stores
The mob attacked the wealthy ever
where. In no sense is it a revolt agaim,
the government. 1t is the revolt Of tn
poor against she tyranny Of the none
power.
In the city Of Kobe, where, according ID
a special cable report from Toxic to tn
"Nichi-bei," Of San Francisco, the ric.
ers numbered more than 1000, the mo-
attacked. wrecked and set fire to ts'
store of Suzuki G. Co, the largest whole
sale rice dealers in the city. They sIs'
burned the Offices of a newspaper Gale.
Kobe News" which criticised the MOI
violence of the rioters.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
Conscription Subtleties

Mr.. Frank Morrison, the secretary of
the American Federation of Labor, lacks
subtlety. He complained yesterday be-
fore the House Committee on Military
Affairs that the Thomas "work or fight"
amendment to the new draft act is a
transcription Of labor in covert way
What is there covert" about the
Thomas amendment? 1t applies only to
men already conscripted. 1t makes no
distinction between those who are affil-
ated with labor organizations and those
who are not so affiliated. 1t simply saws
that man who has obtained deferred
classification because he is employed in
useful industry cannot retain that de-
ferred classification if he ceases to- be so
employed. That is common-sense rule
universal in its incidence, just as the
principle Of conscription is 1t is based
on equality before the law.
Mr.. Morrison and Mr.. Gompers want
to create a privileged status for union
lied labor. They want TO have union
laborers in the useful industries enjoy
deferred classification whether they re-
main at work or not. Their programme
is undcmocratc and unpatriotic. Every
American should be willing to "work or
fight"
Mr.. Morrison is attacking the Thomas
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
Ferdinand. the Exile

A Washington dispatch says that Fer
dinand of Bulgaria is not at German
spa for his health, but is held there
virtually as German prisoner. Stranger
things have happened than this. Ferdi-
nand has a reputation. Berlin knows
that his word Of honor is worthless and
that no promises he makes can be
trusted unless he is under lock and key.
The Germans bought him for cash
and have kept him under surveillance
ever since. In Sofia he was surrounded
by German officers. Won Mackensen
was sent to command his armies. While
Germany was overrunnng Russia,
crushing Serbia and humiliating Ruma-
MIA Bulgaria was satisfied with Ferd-
nand's bargain. She looked forward to
acquiring Macedonia and the Dobrudja
and to beco ming the leading Balkan
state. Her soldiers under Won Mack
ensen made the conquest of Wallachia
possible.
But when Rumania, crushed and de
serted, had to make peace with the
Quadruple Alliance, Germany gobbled
the Rumanian spoils--the railroads, the
oil and mineral resources and the Black
Sea ports-and left Bulgaria and 1'ur-
key to quarrel over an eventual rever-
sion to them of the scraps from the
table. Then the Bulgarian people grew
indignant. They upset the government
and clamored for an immediate liqui-
dation Of Bulgaria's claims. Germany
couldn't liquidate them without incens-
ing Turkey Ferdinand's position be-
came highly uncomfortable. Being IA
miliar with his propensites, his German
encourage probably thought that it was
time to get him out of Sofia and to in
tern him somewhere where he couldn't
try to sell out to the Allies
Ferdinand used to call himself Ger
dinand the European" There are no
Europeans in Germany for him to con-
sort with. There are no Europeans out
side of Germany who want to consort
with him. He is an outcast, an Ishmael.
The Turks hate him. The Austro-Hun-
garians despise him. The Germans i'm
prison him.
Now he is hostage. But what would
Bulgaria pay to redeem him? Probably
nothing He has brought her to the
brink of ruin To save her own skin
she would leave him marooned in his
German watering place and auction off
his empty throne.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21

amendment from the wrong angle. If he
had mind as subtle as Secretary
Bakers he would not worry about pos
sible transcription of labor" Mr.. Baker
said Monday before the Military Affairs
Committee: 81 do not agree with Mr..
Morrison that the amendment is con-
scription of labor. 1t is not, unless 1t is
used that way"
Conscription is also not conscription
unless men are conscripted. If Mr..
Bakers friends could only attain his
metaphysical self fcontrol, all this useless
discussion of the Thomas amendment
would cease. Labor is not going to be
conscripted. 1t is already conscripted,
just as every other class in the COM
munity is conscripted. Conscription is
not theory, but condition. The only
question is whether the conscripted shall
actually "work or fight"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
AIoft With the
Rule of the Many

1t was a crude and lawless way Q
dealing with a vital situation, Of coufs
The point is that the mob violence n
made profound impression--even up'
the gentlemen of the Toxic rice q
change. The government has perrnlis
the reopening Of the exchange, accora@
to a special Toxic cable to the Japans
newspaper in San Francisco aforens
toned, since August IA, and the pffa
have broken considerably. A v'f'
break in the price of rice has been r.
ported from provincial exchanges or
all the country.
What the government was powerless
remedy, it would seem the uncouth n'
has accomplished through its uos''
acts. 1t is not a pretty preface 70 D'
story of democracy in Japan. 1t telh >
no shadowy manner, however, that y
rule of the many in Japan is resi
violently real, thing now
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
Great Madness

Surely the Russian infatuation, having
cost so much, will not be wholly wasted.
1t may serve to keep the rest OF the
world a little bit more sane.
There is now the inevitable reign OF
terror in Petrograd. 1t was inevitable
because license in the name Of liberty
and unrestraint in the guise Of freedom
end always in tyranny more cruel and
beastly than that which has been de-
stroyed Then comes the reaction.
1t is reported that 10000 arrests have
taken place in Petrograd since the first
of August, mainly of the hated middle
class, owrers of little property, called
the bourgeoise. But the Bolsheviki
chiefs are said to be on board a warship
in the Kronstadt roadstead, ready to set
sail as soon as their power of terror is
at an end. Where will they sail? Any
where, anywhere out of the world, even
perhaps to Germany.
1t seems too abject, too pitiable, too
futile to be true Of men. The answer
is, perhaps, that they are not men
these Bolshevik leaders-but children.
For consider what they meant to do.
They were going to make the world over
and have it perfect They were going
to do more than God had been able Or
had wished to do They were going to
abolish evil.
The undertaking was solemnly writ
ten in the constitution Of the Soviet
Republic "to put an end to every i'll
that oppresses humanity" 1t is like
something you read out Of the historic
twilight. Reality was admitted only to
this extent-namely, that an end could
not be put to evil merely by wishing it.
Something had to be done. SO ways and
means were considered, and we find the
conclusion in the Soviet constitution
that in order to set the world abso-
lutely free and abolish every evil op-
pressing humanity it was necessary first
to have dictatorship
To make the world over in perfection
required unlimited power, with respon-
sibility to no one on earth--cVen the
power to commit the unpardonable
political sin without incurring the slight
est Eu1lt. his was Lne SIN or making
secret treaties. The single most formi-
dable count in the Bolshevist Indictment
of imperialism was that it committed
people to things they knew nothing
about and might be called upon after
ward to fight for; but it is disclosed that
the Soviet Republic itself, through it's
leaders, entered into a secret treaty with
Germany concerning the exploitation OF
Poland and agreed not to conduct any
world-liberating propaganda in the land
of the Teuton
One of the Bolshevist leaders, two
of them, twenty of them, may be utterly
Infamous. They may have sold their
souls in the German market. But as to
hundreds and thousands this cannot be
believed. They have been mad, as peo
pie are mad in dreams; they have wasted
themselves and their country upon a.
mirage aside in the endless journey.
The warning is there
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
The Spark That Fell
In the Powder Chest

But the price Of rice in Japan has no
doubt been the immediate spark which
fired the powder chest. AS the cable re-
port indicates, it is not scarcity Of rice
in Japan this year which has brought
about the absurd rise in the price of that
basic food staple. Mr.. Nakashoji, our
Minister Of Agriculture and Commerce,
has repeatedly emphasized that point
and is eminently correct in his conten-
tions. Yet rice is retailing at Toxic at
SO sen a sho (1-20 Of busheD. In 1915
the price was in the neighborhood of Is
sen for the same quantity of rice The
gulf between Is and SO sen in the price
of rice is chasm which is quite beyond
the imagination of the people who are
appalled, at 10-cent loaf of bread. And
just what brought about this rise of
more than 800 per cent in the price of
the food staple infinitely more vital to
the Japanese than wheat is to the Amer
lean?
Money mad and daring spectators
have manipulated and cornered rice
That is patent and evident cause and
perhaps the most potent of ALL This fact
is not new to the Japanese governmental
authorities. They have been thoroughly
aware of it for months The repeated
statements from the Minister of Apri-
culture and Commerce support this
assumption. The government served y
warning on some of the leading specula
tors to desist from their nefarious acts.
Mr.. kwanlchi Masuda is perhaps the
most notable case. A representative of
the Department of Agriculture and Com
merce accompanied by an officer of the
metropolitan police of Toxic waited upon
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21

The German government has always
conducted a defensive propaganda at
home. But the counter offensive now re-
ported is new. There has been an often
sive within. There has been, for ex-
ample, an alarming pamphlet on "The
Happiness of the Future-a Peace
League of Nations" and there has been
praise for both Prince Lichnowsky and
Herr Dr.. Miihlon, who for the crime of
bearing witness against the Junker now
sit in outer darkness. Leagues are being
organized to combat these dangerous
tendencies of mass opinion The dcci-
sion to combat them in that way, instead
of suppressing them by ruthless tech
nique, may be very significant. Deep
down in his heart the Junker is horribly
afraid Of people.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
Democracy in a Tantrum

THE high, and what the natives over
there call the tenjo-sliraSu Chat
which knows no ceiling), cost of
rice has something to do with the rice
riot reported in the cable dispatches from
Toxic, of course. But not very much.
There is more of the newborn democ
racy in Japan than plain rice about this
rice riot. People Of Nippon are hungry
to-day, many of them because of the
ever Fuji-peakng price OF rice no doubt.
But, then, they have been hungry before.
They have not rioted as they are rioting
to-day, if the reports be true. People
are rioting because they have wakened
have come to realize that the many arc
quite as powerful as the few. In that
flower scented native home of poltencss
and gentle polish. as in cruder corners OF
the earth, the mob is coming to its own
coming to it violently.
The growth of democracy among the
people of Japan has been sensational, al
though the enlightened American people,
quafing deeply and daily at such foun-
tains of enlightenment as the German
propaganda and the Hearst papers, have
all along been sweetly and utterly inno-
cent of the fact and have insisted on
thinking of the japanese as the poor be-
nighted children of Oriental autocracy.
1t has been more than sensational, this
democratic evolution of political Japan;
it has been violent at times.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21

that could not be limited to the equiva-
lent of one level teaspoonful of sugar?
There would have to be conferences
and standardization-farm more standard
ization than has yet been reached. But
we wager that once the result was
gained and the lavish variety put out OF
sight, off the counters, off the streets,
everybody would be quite as happy as
beforehand decidedly richer-and the
war, if it should be long war, aided by
just so much freed wealth and labor.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21
The Rice Riots in Japan
By Adachi Kinnosuke

him at his own home and handed him a
written warning against his speculative
activities. But Mr.. Masuda is power
full figure ON the rice exchanges of the
empire and kept on his daring way in
spite of the fact that the government
suspended him from trading on rice
exchange for the period of~three months
little later the authorities had to ar
rest him and Jail him as an example to
the rest of his class.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21

Possibly in this the dog month al, air
craft Investigations will be finished and
reported on. The verdict of the Senate
Military Affairs subcommittee is now
due. The more elaborate Hughes report
may come very shortly. The sooner the
better. Not only is the suspense insup-
portable, but the plague of suspicion has
become epidemic. Nobody is immune. 1t
is now intimated that the Department of
justice, for its own reasons, is keeping
an eye on Mr.. Hughes.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-21

Germany's Gott is failing. The crops
are on this side. The International In
stitute of Agriculture at Rome believes
from it's statistics that the wheat crop
in the principal exporting countries of
the Northern Hemisphere, which in
cludes the United States, Canada, Brit
ish India and Tunis, will be one quarter
greater than last years yield and about
one-seventh greater than the average.
Hail the Liberty crops.