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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
TAXI DRIVER is FINED.

r. S. williams, taxi driver. arrest
ed by Fargo police Monday night
charged with exceeding the speed
limit, was fined IS in police court this
morning. He paid
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
DEATHS.

Floyd r. Knerr, %, S02 v. P. ave-
rue, pneumonia following influenza.
Bertram A. Miller, "a, sos Seventh
avenue north, pneumonia following
influenza -@"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
ANNUAL MEETING POSTPONED

The annual meeting of the Fargo
Builders & Traders exchange, sche-
duled to be held in the exchange
rooms Thursday evening, has been
postponed. Announcement OF the
new date will be made early next
week. p
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04

ert Wooing".
Hsll Cat.
Grand-Vaudeville.
orpheum- Charlie Chaplin in "A
Dogs Life.
Lyeeum. Moorhead-Ethel Clayton
in The Man Hunt.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Ole Thompson, Hunter, AMI Agnes
Ackerson, Argusyille.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
Netl's About TOas,sa
TO-DAY DIV THE THEArERs.

PRINCESS - Alma Rubens in The
Strand-AlI-star cast in ssTo He'll
With the Kaiser, return engagement.
Isis-Emy Wehlen in His Bonded
Wife.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
HIRRARD is IMPROVING.

M. L. Hubbard, manager of the I'm
ion Light, Heat & Power company,
who has been i'll for some time is
improving rapidly and expects to be
around again soon.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
MRS. TlLLoTsoN ILC

Mrs. Bradley P. Tillotson is seri-
ously i'll at her home at 1905 Fifth
avenue south.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04

~ district court today. H. B. King.
Grand Forks, is attorney for Mr..
Gets, and Lyman N. Miller. Fargo,
for Mrs. Diemert. Mrs. Diemert has
filed counter suit to abrogate the
contract.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
GRANT TAXI LICENSES.

Dan Polls was granted licenses
for two automobiles to be operated
from his stand at 8 Fourth street
south by the city commission this
morning.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
PIANo CASE IN COURT,

The case of George w. Gets. vs..
Mrs. A. G. Diemert, ct al. Fargo,
involving payment on contract for
piano, is being heard in Cass coun-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04

Washington - Americans owning
property in enemy countries were
asked by the state department to file
q, complete list of such holdings.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
FARGO YOMAN's SON DIES.

and president of the Equity Packing
/ Co., has been Ill at his home several
days with influenza, but is improving.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
RETURN TO FARGO.

Mr.. and Mrs. o. P. N. anderson ant
family have returned to their resi-
dence on Fourteenth street south art
er spending the summer and fal
months on their Ramsey county farm
MT. Anderson was fcImerly a member
of the state railway commission.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
LODGE NOTICES.

Corp. and Mrs. John II. Fitzpatrick
Moofhead, son, in Fargo hospital
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04

! For player rolls call at the
Fargo Music Co. SIG LIST Ave. N.--Adv.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
BANK CI,EARIRGs.

/ James Gould and Marie Tudor. both
Of Hunter.
Garrick- Enid Bennett in His Des-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04

II. M. CASEY IMPROVED.
p. NJ. Casey, of Tenth street south.
member of the state board of control
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04

Today. s455, 47758i year ago, $685.
91l.5S.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-04
VS. at this Busy Store

Two cases mems extra heavy weight
fleeced Union Suits. $3.50 number. all
sizes up to "A. see these c. QG
now, at each ............ ~ - ~
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
EFFICIENCY AND WAGES

1t is estimated that the productive capacity of the United
States is 10 per cent in excess of its consumption require
ments. This means that 40 per cent of our total production
must be sold in foreign markets i'm order to provide contin-
uous employment for all our productive agencies. To insure
this outlet for our surplus production, says the Mining Con
grcss Journal, requires that the prices at which the surplus
can be sold must be such as will permit us to enter foreign
markets in competition with foreign producers.
This may not require a low wage scale, but 1t does re-
quire maximum efficiency of productive forces. wages may
be high, but they must not be high as compared with the
output. Approximately 20 per cent of the production cost
is represented by wages paid. The value of a wage depends
not so much upon its amount as upon its purchasing pow
er as applied to life necessities and luxuries. If the wages
of capital and labor are reduced uniformly, no disadvantage
can come to the wage Garner and, to the point where the
outlet for our surplus production is possible, such reduction
will be a distinct and uniform advantage. Both labor and
capital must understand that that price level which will per-
init a sale of our surplus production is altogether best for
both.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
THE BUCK"

The original war minerals bill was intended to be a war
measure. says the American Mining Congress Journal. It's
purpose was to make conditions under which the ferrO min
eral industry of this country could be made to meet the war
in the enterprise. While the bill was under consideration
by congress, agencies of the government appealed to the
mining fraternity of the country to save the nation by pro-
ducing chrome, manganese, pyrites, tungsten and other rare
minerals, urging that without a supply of these minerals
the steel industry must fail, and that the steel industrys OPP
Grafton at full speed was absolutely essential to the proper
prosecution of the war. Under these conditions and with
full faith that the government which urged this production
would deal fairly with the men who met this demand, sew
eral million dollars have been invested in these enterprises.
The war minerals bill was intended to meet these con-
Iditons and provide against loss to those who met the gov
ernments critical need. 1t is a lamentable fact that the bill
was not put into operation until after the close of the war,
and until the patriotic efforts of the ferro mineral producers
had accomplished what the bill had intended to induce them
to accomplish, viz, created an ample supply of these min
erals of which there had been such a dire and dangerous
shortage. The wording of the bill is such as to make it ex-
tremely doubtful whether it can technically apply to a stu
alton in which there is a surplus of these materials. When
the bill could have served to prevent the gross injustice which
is now threatened to the ferro mineral producers, it's Oper-
alton was prevented by the influence of one man, who de-
sired to add one more power to the already dangerous pow
ers of his organization. When it was seen that the admins
tration of the bill was almost impossible, the gentleman
who had heretofore been so anxious for this power quickly
side-stepped the situation and consented to the administra-
ton of the bill by the interior department, where it should
have been placed before the close of the war. AS a result,
Director Manning of the bureau of mines is charged with a
responsibility which no human being could possibly execute
in such a way as to save himself and his bureau from crit
icism and denunciatiOn. The Mining Congress Journal be-
leves that this is a case for congressional action and that
congress should promptly take such steps as will permit the
to do absolute justice to those who, for patriotic
a position which, without such justice, will force them into
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
PLACING SOLDIERS ON LANDS

The projects to place the returning soldiers on lands in
the west are among the craNest Of all ideas. Why should any
one, assume that going to war should incline all these men to
return to farming? The men who were taken from the cities
will naturally want to return again to the kind of work in
which the war found them engaged. Instead of all now be-
ing inclined to the land, the chances are that some of them
will be inclined to go away from it, for they have been thrown
into contact with other things, and with some things that are
associated with cities. We would not be surprised to see
many of the farmer boys hesitate about going back to the
farms. They have been so habituated to crowds that they
ditiOns in war.
We hope the latter will not prove true, but we fear it.
And we say fear it for the need of the times is to rebuild the
farms more than to rebuild the cities. W. have too many
city folks and we have too few farm folks. We would that
many of them would be inclined to go back to the soil, but
that there will be such wholesale desires of that kind as to
make a large landward movement possible is beyond our
hopes.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
STAND BY THE CONSTITUTION

Now that the war is over, the patriotic reasons which
have stayed public criticism of the actions of public officials,
have perhaps lost force, says the December Mining Con-
|gress Journal, and hereafter the officials whose acts do not
conform to the public view may expect to have their short
openly and fearlessly discussed. During the war
times there were ample reasons why the executive should
have unlimited power in order that the Nation might speak
|as one man with power so exercised as to be most effective
to carry out the great task of Hun destruction.
This being accomplished, the next important step will
be to return not perhaps to the times Immediately preceding
the breaking out of the war, but to the good old-fashioned
times when the constitution of the United States was regard
ed as something more than a piece of paper to be set aside
at will. The experience of the past gives complete support
to the belief that any desired public act which does not con-
form to the principles laid down in the constitution of the
United States is an act which is dangerous to the common
Nation laid down in the constitution should not be disturbed
except after the long and tedious process of constitutional
amendment. Any more rapid changes of the Fundamental
principles upon which our government is founded, are likely
to be dangerous in themselves and particularly dangerous as
a precedent for the justification of mob rule as against the
real will of the people. The United States is a government
of the people. AS a safeguard to their interests, it was pro-
vided that there should be three coordinate branches of the
federal government; the executive, legislative and the judi
cial. Each of these departments was independent of the
other within certain limits laid down by the constitution.
1t will be dangerous to this country when encroach-
ments of one department upon the prerogatives of another
shall receive public sanction. 1t was the duty of congress
to enact laws; it was the duty of the courts to construe those
laws; it was the duty of the executive to enforce those laws
as enacted by congress and construed by the courts. Every
tendency to desert these principles is always dangerous to
the liberties of the people and particularly dangerous in
these times of general unrest throughout the world. The
experience of Mexico and the conditions in Russia furnish
ampl proof of the importance of standing firmly by the con-
sitution.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
BACK TO SANITY"

II is thus that the London Economist refers to the pro-
posals, Just made public, of the English governments COM
mittee on currency and foreign exchanges after the war. lhe
United States, it is needless to say, is not the only coun'r!
which has felt the disturbing effects of a depreciation OF It's
currency during the war.
In fact. i'm percentages. the United States is well down in
the list. Where our wholesale prices have increased, fougn-
ly, 100 per cent, those of England have gone up i4o per cent.
The interest lies in the fact that in England, as IN ms couh-
try. initiation has largely taken the subtle form OF an nfiauoh
Of bank deposits. 1t is true that England has issued nearl!
a billion of uncovered paper. But its bank deposits nave IS
EN- more than three times as much.
The process has been simple. AS with us, the govern
ment has levied heavily upon the banks, and the money so
obtained it has paid out to contractors and sellers OF eooos:
These borrowings of the government promptly reappear on
the books of the banks as deposits" In this way England
bank deposits have been swollen by something ike 9o,ooo'
100000. AS with us. there has been a practical withdrawal OF
all gold from circulation, and for the time being the FINANCES
of the country have been practically upon a paper basis.
But England, as the worlds banker, cannot afford to con-
tinue this one day longer than the wars necessities demand.
Last January a committee was appointed, consisting of its
most distinguished bankers and at least one eminent econ
omist. Professor Pigou of Oxford, and with Lord Cunliffe, head
of the Bank of England, as chairman. In the interim report
lust presented this committee advises an immediate return
to gold payments, which means, of course, taking the embar-
go off gold exports, though it does recommend that such
coin and bullion shall be obtained from the Bank of Eng
land Government borrowings are to stop at the earliest
possible moment. The amount of paper money is to be limit
ed and a sinking fund is to be established to reduce the
floating debt. Money needed for reconstruction purposes is
mot to be provided by the creation of new credit And
1.-The shortage of real capital must be made good by genuine
savings. 1t cannot be made by the creation of fresh
purchasing power in the form of bank advances to the gov
eminent"
We hope the recommendation of this distinguished com
mittee will not go unnoticed by our treasury department, and
especially by our federal reserve board. We have no further
need to conserve" our gold. We have a large redundancy of
gold, and, in the judgment of some of our most cear-headed
financiers, unless we get rid of some of it, it is bound to
raise hob with the expansion of our foreign trade. 1t is fur
ther evident that the federal reserve board ought not to delay
by another month the raising of the rediscount rate to a point
at least level with, if not above, the current commercial rate,
thus removing the present strong temptation to bankers to
rediscount with the federal reserve banks and make a profit
by the transaction.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
ENTIRELY WELCOME. GEORGE

George Creel, chairman of the committee on public in
formation, thanks the publishers of the United States for
their adherence to self-imposed rules of censorship, says the
Chicago Tribune. This is refreshing from a journalist who
has never learned that the first principle of newspapering is:
not what to print, but what not to print.
Mr.. Creels chief accomplishments have been to WELD
censorship over a fraternity that has forgotten more about pa
triOtic self-suppression than he ever knew, and to give an Of
ficial approval to news and photographs so apparently faxed
that no accredited newspaper correspondent could have been
deceived into sponsoring them.
Well, goodby, George. Take keer o. yerself.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
ON X WINNERS

Hartford Courant: What does Carranza think now of his
friend the kaiser? The president of Mexico is doubtless a
shrewd old guy, or he would not have been able to keep his
position so long, but as a picker of winners he is a failure.
The crown prince is still big enough idiot to say that he
has resigned and renowned nothing; in other words, he is
just as big an ass as he was in 1914, when he was in the
habit of threatening that if the old man did not begin the
war he would; and he was at various times in conspiracies
with the extreme pan-German militarists of whom he was
the crowned leader. But it makes no difference whether he
has given up anything, if justice ever hits him he will give
up his neck to a piece of hemp.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT

Oberlin, Kan. Times: Last week several items We're put
back owing to lack of time, space and that sort of thing, which
no one except those initiated quite understands. We always
dislike to leave out something of which we are aware, as
there are always many things taking place of which we do
not know or fail to get details which must perforce be unmen-
toned.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
WOULDN'T THIS MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER?

Barry, ILL.,, Record: The annual fish fry and picnic of the
Spencer Chapel church was held in the Barney Miller grove
on the Mississippi river bank Thursday. Four hundred
pounds of carp and buffalo fish were fried and all consumed.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

1t pust be continually repeated that the Germans are
not good losers. They have done a great deal of complain
ing under the armistice, seeking to modify what they were
glad to accept at that time and which, in any event, was
better than what they would have received in the utter de-
feat with which they were threatened.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-12-27
COMPARING CO.
OPERATION WITH
BIG BUSINESS

When comparing cooperation with
big business run for profit, let us not
overlook the happy illustration Of
fraternal and old-line company in
surance. The first pays back to the
policyholders in death benefits about
70 per cent of what they collect
for that purpose and the old-line
companies about As per cent. Indus
trial insurance companies (poor
mans insurance so-called) do we'll if
they pay back as much as rs per
cent.
But this is nowhere near all the
story. When the government worked
out splendid system of insurance
for the boys in the army and on the
sea, we were treated to the disgust
ing spectacle of old-line insurance
men protesting and bringing political
pressure to bear against the men
who initiated the plan. We saw
nothing like this from real fraternal
insurance. The fraternals were glad
to see a good plan in operation, be-
cause they were not making money
by something very inferior
We do not find the farmers mu-
tual hail and fire companies lined up
against the organized farmers eff
forts to get real hail or cheaper fire
insurance through state action. But
we find compact organization of
old-line insurance men working with
slush funds, lectures, kilograms, prop
uganda, political wire pulling against
any action which would free the peo-
pie from some Of the exactions of
the insurance trust.
Fraternal or cooperative insurance
is free to take healthy public at
titude. Private profits insurance can
think only Of its own profits. The
cooperative dollar brings greater
returns and is always a servant of
the people in other respects; the pri
vate profits dollar is the corrupt
taskmaster that measures all by the
standard Of its own profits. If we
can put more Of our dollars into CO.
operation, we shall have more service
and less servitude to the special in
terests.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-12-27
DEATH OF L. ]. O'BRIEN

Afer five weeks illness Lawrence
Joseph O'Brien passed away at Prov
idsnce Hospital Sunday at 1890 a.
m. He was a young man of "a,
and was employed at the Great
Northern as one of the head boiler
makers. He is a brother of the
Rev. Father j. E. O'Brien, parish
priest of the Riverside Catholic
Church. His funeral took place yes
terday morning at the Riverside
Catholic Church at 10 o'clock.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-12-27
A TRIBUTE TO LABOR

Secretary of the Navy lauds la
boris patriotic part in winning the
war.
In the annual report Of the Sec
etary of the Navy for the present
ear, the following tribute to the
atriotic part that labor has played
Il the winning of the war finds
rominent place:
"The relations between labor and
5he Navy Department have been
highly satisfactory during the past
rear.
"In spite of the general bidding
or skilled mechanics, the workmen
n our navy yards, with surprisingly
few exceptions, have remained loyal
to the department and have refused
% leave their vitality necessary work
n the yards for more lucrative posi-
ions elsewhere. in addition, on
everal occasions when the general
Citations between capital and labor
appeared, under the extraordinary
conditions created by the war, to
have reached a critical stage, the
rarious trades in our navy yards adj
dressed resolutions to the Secretary
Of the Navy so clearly defining their
belief that the duty Of all loyal
American worlmen lay in securing
he maximum production of war ma
1erials by combined individual eff
forts, without regard to selfish
considerations of personal better
ment, as to have no slight effect in
bringing both sides in controversies
going on outside the yards to a
realization of the need of forget
ting their disputes and devoting their
energies toward winning the war.
much Of this satisfactory condi-
ton is due to the loyal cooperation
Of the heads of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor, with whom the
department has maintained the
friendliest relations and whose wise
and patriotic councils have done
much to keep such yard workmen
as were members of labor organiza-