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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-07
MANY MEN GIVEN POSITIONS.

Washington. March 6.-The Fed
eral Employment Service announced
toniRht that during the eight weeks
ending February %, 1t received APP
plfcations for employment. referred
$4,000 Of the applicants to positions
and placed 679,613. =
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-07
TRANSPORT ARRIVES.

Boston, Mass, March 6.-The
steamer vedic, bringing So officers
and 2.044 men,f:om France. arrived
in the harbor late today and will dock
tomorrow at Commonwealth Pier.
The men will be sen to camps in all
parts Of the country for demobiliza-
ton.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-07
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-07
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'gists called their statesmen OF the road
to help fill orders-hundreds wired us
to ship .Vick's VapoRub by the
quickest route. regardless Of expense.
A TREMENDOUS JOB TO IN.
CREASE OUR PRODUCTION.
In this emergency We have tried to
do our part. We secured the country
for raw materials-our Traffic Man
ager spent his days riding freight
cas- in-we shipped raw materials in
carload lots by express and pleaded
with manufacturers to increase their
deliveries to Us.
But is was a slow process. Some
of our raw materials are produced
only in Japan-supplies in this coun-
try were low and shipments required
three months to come from the Far
East. Then we had to recruit and
train skilled labor. We brought our
statesmen int6 the factory and trained
them as foremen., We invented new
machinery, and managed to install It
on Oh :tstmas Day. 50 as not to inter
fere with our daily production.
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MINUTE DAY AND NIGHT.
! By January LIST We had everything
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-07
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
A PLEA FOR THE RED CROSS

IFS true that daughters of he greatest mother in the world be cassed sackers? Red Cross leaders in Birmingham many other parts of the country charge that the armsce signed there general tendency to shk duties which had been performed with failing courage and enthusiasm while the going Indifference succeeded to the spirit which made the Red Cross everywhere great factor the victory of the allies There avalanche of resignaons and who could for mey be depended do task assigned to them found other ways to pass their time
 In Birmingham is stated by Red Cross officials that inn possible do the allotted Knitters won't knit and sock dners won't da and sufficient number of cannot be had large consignment of socks sent from Camp Mcclellan will have to be returned unmended Other under takngs of the Red Cross being neglected
 To be the is but the Red Cross will continue humanity, and it's work though less heroc haps, is just important it There many thousands of American soldiers abroad and in American comments who must be cared for The sick and wounded still have with and will continue to have for sometime Can
 be possible that selfsacrfcng would rather vide comforts for soldier under fire than fellow who longer his country? Quoting the words of local Red Cross official that the dramatics play ing and Red Cross work has lost of it's gamor has selfish ness taken the place of zeal and patriotism?
 Every and girl in Birmingham who is member of the Red Cross urged to "carry on After acqung them selves worhy in the stress of they afford lax their efforts the plea of whas the use? Such
 tude is due to misunderstanding of the situation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
WEAK PRUSSIA

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 OOHE Bavarians are suggesting that
 their socialist premier. Kurt
 S Eisner, go to Berlin and take charge of things. There are no bolsheviki in Bavaria, or not sufficient number of them to make noise. Eisner has governed firm ly and peacefully ever since the Hohen- zollern slunk into Holland to get out of the storm. The BavarianS contem- plate with disgust the wobbly per formance of Ebert at Berlin, who IS so afraid of the bolshevik spartacides that he hardly dares scold them. Were such upstarts, representing small minority, to ply their trade in Bavaria Kurt Eisner would smash them forth with. Such, at least, is the Bavarian opinion; and the opinion carries with it a large mcclure of contempt for the Prussian socialists who dare not af- firm possession of their own souls and quake in their boots whenever Lieb- knecht lets loose a roar.
 
 or any other south German state ac- cusing Prussia of weakness. It was Prussian brutality and arrogance that subjugated south Germany and made it subservient to the whimsies of the Hohenzollerns. Since 1871 south Ger tion to mighty Prussia. And now the chief state of south Germany scorns Prussian weakness and suggests that a Bavarian be sent to Berlin to show Prussia how to eradicate vermin
 Prussia has indeed fallen from her mightiness. With a weak-kneed ruler Prussia is deeply concerned to keep 10 per cent minority from grabbing governmental power and ruling the 90 per cent majority. For the non Prussian states the Berlin government has no concern. They may go hang. All Ebert hears is the intermittent roar of Liebknecht, and it keeps him from speeding at night. All tn ePrus- sian respectables fear is rule of bolshevism that will establish the fir ing squad and contiscate the fat es tates of the junkers.
 Eisner might take brief holiday from his duties at Munich and go to Berlin long enough to haAg few Spar tacides and make Prussia safe for moderate socialist responsibility. Doubtless he would be enthusiastically welcomed despite the humiliation of having a Bavarian do Prussia's work. It would be an admission that in all Prussia there is not a commoner strong enough or able enough to lead the Prussians.
 of kaiserism seems to have spoiled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
A DESERT IN FRANCE.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 Frederic c, Howe. federal commits sioner of immi migra tion, expresses the opinion that the movement of peoples from the various countries affected by the war will be one of the bigges. problems of reconstruction, and infor- nation from Europe furnishes support for his view. Herbert c. Hoover re- ports that northern France is practi- cally a desert. fit for nothing in, pro- ductive sense. and which will require labor and expense at present almost beyond estimation to restore to habi- table condition. Agriculture has been made impossible by the damage done through four years of warfare, and in- dustrial operations cannot be consid- cred until towns are rebuilt and shops refurnished with equipment. There is nothing, in short according to Mir Hoover. but thousands of acres torn into ghastlY holes and towns and vil- lages in abject ruins.
 The 1,500.O0O inhabitants of the de- stroyed area are too much discouraged to even try to take up the task of restoration. but fortunately the Bel gian commission, of which Mir Hoover is chief proposes to shoulder the re. sponsibility of providing the people with homes and means of work before turning the region over to the French government This is one of the fea- lures noted by Commissioner Howe that may be expected to act as an in centive for heavy movements of peo- ples from one country to another, to escape from it's sights of horrors and physical signs of discoura ging pros- poets His view that European gov- ernments in self-defense will prohibit outward flows of workers in an en- deavor to restore wrecked regions, may find verification, as aside from the American movement no foreign as- sistance has been offered or is proba- ble. Commissioner Howe believes that the shortage in the number of ships available for ocean passenger traffic will be the most practical barrier to an unusually heavy flow of travel from Europe to America and from America to Europe. in one direction to escape the war-torn regions, in the
 ,ther to carry individual assistance and good cheer to the depressed In northern France alone 100000 people have no homes. no work and no hope of either until the devastated territory is made over. and America has volun- teered to give the needed help.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
A RIFLE AND AN UMBRELLA

even though he might be forced to hold it for a little while.
 Grotesque as are the incongruous clements In this scene. they had their duplicates in the events transpiring all around the bewildered sentry. Not more than couple of blocks away from that theatre of violence and slaughter countless citizens of Berlin were slaughtering indifferently along the streets and shopping quietly in the storesi
 It is hard to take such revolution ists or revolutions very seriously, az we have said. They seem like opera bouffe Umbrellas and rifles, shop. ping excursions and governmental overthrows cannot be made to hat- monize. We rather think that revo- lution in Germany is different from one in France or Russia.
 It begins to seem as if that strange people care little or nothing about what sort of a government they live under so that they may carry their umbrellas. do their shopping and drink their beer in quietness. That Kaiser whom they have worshipped almost as a god may suddenly become an exile, the glorious empire may dissolve and fade away like a summer cloud; re- public may be formed and anarchy threaten it's destruction. It's all the same to them!
 A rifle in one hand and an umbrella in the other!
 The greatest military nation in the world one day. and on the following pation indifferent as to whether it Is governed by an Emperor, a Presi. dent, soviet or bewhiskered bol- shevist
 We do not understand the Germans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
DAVID LUBIN, BENEFACToR.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The old definition of a benefactor is that he makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, By that reckoning David Lubin was a benefac- tor millionfold. The founder of the International Institute of Agriculture centering at Rome, helped farmers the world over by the dissemination of in- formation. of bulletins telhng how to give battle to the foes of plant life. of circulars assembling the current market prices. Here was a great clear ing house of agriculture, now support ed by all civilized countries, which Mr, Lubin gave 21 years of his busy life 10 establish. But he did more than sit in a watch-tower and dispense knowl- edge. On large farms of his own he illustrated his theories. Mir. Dublin a Russian Pole-had made his own way rom the humblest- beginnings of pov- erty to affluence. He then proceeded to spend his money not on luxurious indulgence for himself but on meas ures to promote the welfare of the race And glory is the least of things that follow this man homeS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

when some wealthy people brag that they have the best of everything they are not talking about manners Every town in the country has it's "eary- settlers" But any tailor can tell you that the "early settlers" are all dead.
 Let three men empty the same demi- jchn of whisky, and one man will want to fight, one will want to sing and the other will want to cry. Jags is jags. It isn't hard to turn a woman's head Almost any milliners window will do the trick.
 Nature is a careless cuss. She fixes things so that one girl is wrassling with a perfect 49 trying to get rid of it and another girl is trying to make perfect 19 look like something. Why are people so proud of family tree? Trace any family tree back far enough and you'll find woodchopper The meanest kind of tghtwad is the one who will cheerfully spend $1O or some other woman when he won't spend 10 cents on his own wife. We would hate to be like some people and feel so holy that we would refer to the sinners as they" and refer to the saints as we" Before she gets him she is always talking about his worth. But after she gets him she is always talking about his worthlessness.
 Maybe the dear girls wear clocks on their stockings because they think they
 are striking. Howda we know? What has become of the old-fash- toned newspaper beauty contest in
 which the homeliest girl in the county won the prize?
 We know as well as you do that you can't unscramble an omelette. But we do wish some one would break the cor ner on eggs. l Sometimes fellow has pocket full ! of letters of recommendation from em- l blowers who wished to get rid of him. If man is careless in his attire some one will start a story that he never takes a bath And if he keeps himself well dressed and immaculate
 some one will start a story that he wears
 8 corset.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
Men of Affairs As
 Prolific Authors

TN the early days of the republic J authorship was confined for the most part to theologians or profes- sional men of letters. Among the founders of the government were many scholarly statesmen who were masters in debate, but being absorbed in practical affairs, their published writings are not numerous.
 In more recent years the literary habit has happily increased and it is not uncommon today to find in Ameri- can bibliography not only the names of men of affairs but long lists of il- luminating books on various topics.
 Great Britain, with its large leisure class and it's centuries of culture, has been prolific in serious authorship and some day it will be so with the United States. Conspicuous examples
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
Universal Interest In
 American Affairs

THE war has not only wrought N momentous changes in inter- national politics, but it has caused the old world to take interest in every
 thing American.
 Time was when the European press
 printed next to nothing in the matter
 of news from this side of the Atlantic.
 Even the London papers paid little
 attention to things happening in the
 United States.
 Former Senator Chauncey M. De- pew used to be an annual visitor to Europe, where he hobnobbed with notables in high life, including royal Ity. The fact is that no traveller knew
 foreign society quite so we'll as the genial orator and jokesmith. In 1889, MT. Depew said in a pub HSneQ lnIeTVleW IldI WAiiO OIitoAio in public office were reasonably fa-
 miliar with the names and records of
 our prominent men of affairs, Lon- don society in general knew almost nothing and cared nothing about them. "English society,"" he remarked, "know who Washington was. Many
 know of U. S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Grover Cleve- land, but that completes the list. So- ciety is entirely ignorant of our lead CTS of the financial world. In Lom- bard street, Vanderbilt and Gould are well known names, of course, but society never heard of them" That was Mir. Depew's report only thirty years ago. It is very different
 today The United States and Europe are drawn close together, and what ever of consequence occurs here IS
 promptly chronicled not only in Lon-
 don but in all the cities of the conti- Inent.
 Y * *
 Katherine Stinson says she will fly
 across the Atlantic. Ruth Law says she will fly around the world. These e.' ~'~sn- vo'r~ women are going
 to break their necks trying to outdo o..-A u,..e. A.. the air
 + 4
 Cannibals of Ecuador want the for mer Kaiser's head to shrink by se-
 cret process. It is not as big now
 as it was when the war started.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
& < < Farmers May Buy Nitrate At Cost

1N HE United States department of
 N agriculture rendered great ben eft to the farmers last year by ac- quiring a large supply of foreign ni- trate and offering it to American farmers for fertilizer at cost. The government Is prepared to render similar service again this year.
 The price to farmers will be $81 a short ton, free on board of cars at loading point. The plan used in 1918 will be followed in a general way in 1919. County agricultural agents or nitrate committees will direct farmers how to file their applications.
 The nitrate will be sold only for cash, and the prospective purchaser will be required to deposit the money covering the cost of the commodity in question with the local bank asso- citation or the individual officially designated.
 The department announces that in practically all counties distribution of the nitrate will be made through county distributors. "If the quantity of nitrate that can be secured will fill all orders, each farmer will be allotted the amount applied for; otherwise it will be necessary to allot the nitrate approximately to those applying for it, so that all may participate on equal terms in it's distribution.
 It is stated that arrangements have been made to secure large quantity of nitrate and that unless the de- mand should prove very much greater than anticipated there will be enough to supply "all reasonable require ments."
 The progressive farmer will be prompt in availing himself of the de- partment's foresight and beneficent enterprise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09

of literary industry among men who occupy or have occupied high places in the public view are President Will son, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the late Theodore Roosevelt and the late Andrew D. White Each of them pub. lished many books. Mr Wilson has written on the science of politics, a History of the American People," Life of George Washington" and has discussed in book form large number of miscellaneous subjects of human and ethical interest.
 Roosevelt was the author of thirty five books, many of them accepted as standard works. He was singularly versatile, but after his history of the war of 1872, he will be best remem- bered, no doubt, by his books treating of animal life and outdoor sports.
 His finest single literary achieve ment, perhaps, was an address de- livered at Oxford on the progress of biology, and for which he received the honorary degree of doctor of canon 1aw-the highest that the university confers.
 No one can glance over Roosevelt's publications without marveling at his energy. It is said that all of his literary work was done at high pres sure, but it is free from the faults of the careless author, who, with am pie time at his disposal, betrays ill., prepared equipment.
 If the former President who was laid to rest yesterday had accom- plished nothing outside of literature, the world would have been his debtor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
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THE WORM TURNS S
,lmouth (KvD Outlook

From the Falmouth (Ky) Outlook.
 NOTICE.
 Here's hoping that my husband vii. not lose any sleep over his wife con- tracting any debts after December H. 1918, as I think I would be as capable of paying them as he is. I was raised honest and to pay my debts and not to fight. I have always paid my debts as long as I had the money to spare and will in the future, if I contract any debts So if I should. I trust my creditors will rest easy until I can see them. will further say that I will have nothing to do with the debts con. tracted before December F. 1918, owing to the bad treatment and sass I had to bear. MRS. MAUD HALFHILL.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 C1 O close to the sublime that heaven N deposited the ridiculous elements " of mortal life that even in trag- edies so great as the recent war and the present revolutions in Russia and in Germany the incongruous elements of life are continually bursting into view. Among them few have excited broader smile than the sight of one of the sentries posted by the red guard at the door of a public buiid- ing in Berlin when the Spartacides at- tempted to overthrow the socialist government a day two ago. He was Spartacide of Spartacides himself; unkempt unturtored, ill at ease and out of place. In his right hand he held rifle, in his left he carried ar umbrella'
 All around him ragged a bloody bat tle Machine guns were popping and people were falling dead or wounded in the streets. Sailors were rushing upon soldiers and soldiers upon sail! ors bent on slaughter. Revolution and counter revolution were locked in one embrace of death, Amid the tumult and confusion there at his post the sentry stood, the symbol of death in one hand and of protection against the gentle rain of heaven in the other.
 It seems impossible to take him se riously. Between the implements he bore exists an irreconcilable contra diction No thoroughgoing- revolution
 st could have clung to an umbrella while grasping rifle, and no peaceful citizen out for an afternoon stroll with an umbrella for protection against rain or sun, could be conceived of as ferocious enough to discharge the rife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
PATS DILEMNysJA

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Ed M. Gatliff of Covington, Ky, claims that the oldest joke is the one about the priest who met one of his flock, notorious drunkard, going along the road with jug of whisky.
 What have you in that jug, Pat?" asked the priest.
 Whisky, yer reverence replied Pat, uneasily.
 "Whose whisky it it?' asked the priest.
 Well, half of fit is mine and the other half belongs to my brother Mike, '" replied Pat
 'Then pour your half out on the road here and be sober man. ordered the priest.
 T cant do that, yer reverence" re- piled Pat. My half is at the bottom
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09

Even when Admiral Beatty is pro- noted and elevated to the peerage he will doubtless continue to wear his cap at rakish angle
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 President Wilson is back in Paris States has no trouble in making him. self understood
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 Army mules in large numbers are being auctioned off. but they are not kicking because they didn't see ser vice in France.
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 As a last resort maybe General Per- shing can tell us the exact origin of "doushboy" as applied to American sol- diers It it were not for women's clothes half the column conductors in the land would have to go out of business * * # The girl he left behind him is now putting him through the third degree as regards heart affairs in France
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 While there may be a balladist here and there who didn't compose a war song. the total output is amazing. + # #
 Riding on many of the railroads in war-torn Europe is like pumping over the hills of Alabama in Ford.
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 At any rate, waiting for trolley car enables the pent-up office man to fill his lungs with fresh air. # # x ~ When Versailles becomes the capital of the nations there will be no quar- ters reserved for bolshevists.
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 MT. Hoover always has something to report. and it's usually the pinch of hunger abroad | President Wilson is a polite man. He always craves permission to express his thanks t * * It is to be regretted that Jeanne d'Arc flourished before the advent of the movies. # + #
 It's a serious question as to whether or not your winter kicks" will last till spring.