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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-31
CHANCE BUY
SHEEP CHEAPLY
County Agent and Experts
Offer Services to County
Farmers.

Grand Forks county farmers who
wish to purchase sheep at low prices
in western North Dakota and eastern
Montana may avail themselves of the
service of County Agent Rex E.. Will
lard and two sheep experts from the
state agricultural college. who will
probably go to Montana August Z for
the purpose Of securing such sheep as
may be desired by farmers of this
county.
The services of the sheep experts
are free to all who wish to avail
themselves of the opportunity of using
them. Thus the farmers in Grand
Forks county who wish to buy sheep
are invited to join the party to 20. to
Billings and Miles City, Mont, for the
purchasing Of such sheep as are de-
sired.
Those who wish to buy sheep and
who cannot go to Montana them
selves car place their orders at the
office OF the farm bureau. stating the
kind and quality of sheep desired and
make arrangements for payment for
same through their banks and the
sheep will be secured for them. The
only cost to the farmers desiring the
sheep will be the prorated expense of
the county agent, which will amount
to only a few cents per head where a
considerable amount of sheep are de-
sired. Already requests have been re-
ceived for more than three thousand
head.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-31
PYROMAMAC
MAY HAVE HAD
ACCOMPLICES
Fire Ring" May Have Aid.
ed Self-confessed Setter
of Is Fires.

The probability Of accomplices
working with Ruth Erickson in the
preparation of the series of In
cendiary fires which Miss Erickson
claims to have set in Grand Forks
and East Grand Forks is occupying
the attention Of city and county Of
ficials. since the claim Of the girl
the Central school in East Grand
Forks.
Fire Chief J.. J.. Fitzgerald is con-
WINGED that Ruth Erickson could not
have set either the Foote grocery
store or the Stinson implement house
fire without assistance, he declares.
The very nature of the laying Of the
hres would make it practically inn
possible for the girl to have carried
out the act alone. -
fitzgerald is Of the opinion that
Miss Erickson either set the fires
with the aid Of others or else did not
set them at all.
''F4re Ring" Possible.
The accumulation Of evidence in
connection with the various fires
which mysti1ed' police and, fire Of
f1cials for months, with the Develop
ments added by the confession of Miss
Erickson that she set thirteen of the
incendiary blazes, leads to the belief
ia oIAISAS WCIS CO1HSCJ0Q WITH the
long list of blazes during the last two
years, particularly in. recent months.
Miss Erickson, who early his week
confessed tC having set. the Smith e.
Sinclair livery barn on fire ii East
Grand Forks in May Of last year, re-
tracted her statement when examined
yesterday. before the county insanity
board. In making her denial the girl
said that h knew the barn was to
he set afro and that che ly~~~, -,l
did it..
The self-confessed ,pyromaniac adj
heres to her claim that she set fire
to the central school in East Grand
Forks last February but admitted
yesterday upon examination that she
was assisted by two persons in setting
the fire.
1t is almost %self-evident that others
have been connected with the series
OF ~incendiary blazes, according to
Fire Chief Fitzgerald. for there have
been a number Of attempts to set
fires of which Miss Erickson claims
nc knowledge.
One of these cases was the attempt
to burn the Union hotel in East Grand
Forks, when an arnful of hay was
taken from the rear of the city hall
and placed in a shed at the rear of
the Union hotel n set on fire. Miss
Erickson claims to have no knowledge
of this fire attempt.as we'll as of
several others.
The fact that Miss Erickson claims
to have had accomplices in setting
the Central school fire. the belief that
other fires she claims to have set
could not have been set by her I'M
aided and the fact that several in
cendiary fires have occurred with
which the girl claims no connection.
leads officials of both cities to, believe
that other parties have been working
with her in the destruction of prop
erty.
The girl, who is being held in the
county Jail pending action by the
county insanity board for her con-
fessed setting Of fires and sending Of
false fire alarms and other actions,
absolutely refuses to divulge the
names of her alleged accomplices.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-31
Fighting Machines
OF Uncle Sam TO Be
On Exhibit FRIDAY

1856, nm. gun. one six ton tank, one
three ton tank, one artillery repair
ruck which Is a complete repair shop
on trucks.
The following vehicles from heavy
mobile artillery repair shop will be
exhibited: one air compression truck,
one power saw truck. one generator
trailer. one milling machine trailer,
one welding and blacksmith trailer.
one captured German tractor. one
eight inch howitzer on self propelled
mount. one Mark VIII self propelled
tractor caisson with ten ton wrecking
crane.
Beat French on Own Gun.
There IRE also some rs millimeter
pieces, French design. American
made.
These were the guns that were the
DIE French war secret. When the
United States entered the war, the
French experts came to this country
and instructed our gun-makers how
to max them. Before the war ended
the guns made here were better than
those turned out in France,
Tanks May Wreck Barn.
A wooden structure will be saturat-
ed with. oils and gasoline and set on
IRE n a tank carrying 1t. Andrus
and a passenger will run through the
burning building while 1t is a mass Of
flames. if some local organization can
be prevailed upon to purchase some
old wooden building for the demon.
stration.
The proposition has been preached
to, various. organizations of the city
and every effort will be made to stage
this realistic exhibition.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-31
STREET DANCE FOR
BENEFIT OF BAND
PLANNED TONIGHT

.- ~. EFZ-
Members Of the Grand Forks NUM-
cipal band are expecting a large at
tendance at the street dance to be held
tonight at Fifth street and Bruce ave-
nue. unless the weather should prove
unfavorable.
The street pavement is being care
fully cleaned today, and early this
evening the portion reserved for the
dance will be roped off.
Prior to. the dancing that will COM
mence about 9:15Athe band will pa
rade through the principal streets of
the city playing popular pieces and
drawing attention to the dance.
Dancing will begin at $3.50 o'clock
tonight. The proceeds of the dance
will be used to defray the incidental
expenses Of the band.
A concert Wa given. at Riverside
lark Wednesday evening. n pro
.bers which were given at the Sunday
concert at Central Park.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-31
Fifteen Ca Loads Of Ord
nance Motor Equipment
Forming the Monster Dis
NJ play Of Tanks, Guns, Trac-
NH~@eSNS ~
tors, Mounted Machine
Shops and Other Para
phernalia Will be Shown
Here.
PAGE VEL

E.s E2|ra rE =
The largest and most comprehen-
sive exhibit Of ordnance motor equip
ment. including tanks, tractors, mo
bile repair shops and other material,
ever sent out by the war department,
will arrive in Grand Forks Friday
morning for exhibition during the day.
according to Lieutenant Charles H.
Andrus Of the tank corps who arrived
here this morning.
The display, which is valued 1t a
million and a half dollars, is carried
Z on fifteen fiat cars and will be I'M
loaded early Friday morning at the
Great Northern tracks near where
they cross Alpha avenue. Unloading OF
the cars will only take one hour for
the enlisted personnel of some thirty
EXPERT operators and repair. men.
The, monster exhibit will be on dis.
play in the morning and a parade OF
q tanks tractors, mounted guns, rolling
assskitchens; and other vehicles of war
leNi3fs.bsrstaged at noon. The ordnance
TaSaSeriats will be displayed all after
sS30Ciiaand at O'Clock there will be a
DEMONSTRATION of the operation of the
EE Nnns. Marks, tractors and other war
exhibit will leave Friday night
aGGksSr.sEargo where it will be shown over
ssaS3YAtWrday and Sunday.
Ed,co tional Exhibit
M SsS5Sassa -. 80, 49,. .4
d Il & Z s.a!eu th.s ihornins INA.
~ s aIspIay enat goes unaer tne name
49, ss,... a /. o.oliaice .ioHa. EA
y la1Soass..ls sem o1. Inuei .he oireItion y
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SSxss 1870. ~ as al euu'a..ona 1Ah,pie ~
tha ordnanns denartnoan d,,r;ne
" fieswar and stimulate interest in re-
cruiting.
While the United States was in the
world war. the ordnance department
accomplished as much in the two
years as would have been done in ten
years of peace,
The special train of fifteen cars is
loaded with big fighting tanks. little
tanks, guns. tractors. shops and all
the paraphernalia that goes with the
ordnance section of the army.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-31
Club GARDENS
SHOW BICCR0P
Rural Children Already Be.
gin to Harvest Early
Produce.

Harvest produce from the school
gardens in the rural districts, has al
ready begun. according to o. NJ. Knut-
son. who recently returned from a
survey trip throughout the adjacent
rural community.
It is yet too early. Mr.. Knutson
said today. for the majority of fall
garden produce. but early vegetables
such as peas, radishes. carrots and
beets, have already been gathered in
large quantities. The work of the
children's gardening in the rural dis
tricts is done under the direction of
the head of the city school agricul-
tnral department., and MIR. Knutson.
h arrived the first of July. has
taken up this work.
The children in the country this
year have taken an unusual interest
in the gardens, according to Mr.. Knut-
son, and some very fine gardens have
been cultivated. Water, in some dis
tricts. he said, has done some damage
and. two of the young aEriculturists
have lost chickens also on account
Of the recent floods in the vicinity OF
Mallory. The garden projects are
carried on in accordance with the va
rious other farm projects undertaken
through the county club system.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-31
ARMY PAY WILL NOT
REVERT TO PRE-WAR
BASIS, SAYS REPORT

Pay Of enlisted men in the army
will not revert back to the pre-war
scale but will remain at the present
rate, according to dispatches received
at the local recruiting office today.
The appropriation bill for the fiscal
year 1920 provides that the provisions
of the act approved May Is, 1917, in
SO far as it increases the pay of en-
listed men Of the army, are con-
tinued in force and In effect from and
after the date Of approval-of this ap-
preparation act of the 1920 period.
Under this appropriation pay OF
enlisted men will be at the same rate
as 1t was during the war, thirty dol
lars for a private and correspondents
increases for the higher enlisted
Grades.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-31
SCHOOL DRIVE
RAISING FUNDS
Committees Report Good
Results of Efforts Up to
Noon Today.

Committees carrying on the drive
for $4,000 for the Lutheran Bible
school reported at noon today that
general success was attending their
efforts.
1t is believed that it will be posi-
Bile to get the campaign cleaned up
successfully by Saturday night.
The fact that a number Of citizens
are out of town during the hot
weather has added somewhat to the
difficulty of the drive, but it is believed
that their subscriptions may be Sc
cured later.
In the meantime the work will be
vigorously pushed during the re-
mainder of the present week.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-31
LAPSED POLICIES
MAY BE RENEWED
BY DISCHARGED MEN

Information as to the conditions on
which lapse war risk insurance may
be renewed is contained in a letter
received by J. E. Wineman, in charge
of the local home service bureau Of
the Red Cross. from the Minneapolis
oficeof the bureau.
The letter quotes a telegram from
Washington as follows:
Treasury decision approved today
provides that lapsed insurance may
be reinstated within eighteen months
of discharge by payment of a pre-
MUM for month of reinstatement,
provided applicant states he is in as
good health as at time OF discharge"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-31
W.C.C.S.W WORK
IS DESCRIBED
Letters Sent Out by Secre.
tary to Returned Service
Men of City.

Letters setting forth the plans of
the Wal Camp Community service in
helping returned soldiers and sailors,
are being sent out by William Green
leaf. executive secretary Of the organ
ization in this city.
The letter urges the returned fight
ers TO give the service a chance to as
sist them IN every way possible. 1t
points out that plans are being made
for entertainments, and. to assist the
men in their occupations whatever
these may be.
The men are invited to call at the
home service headquarters in the base
ment of the First National bank
building, get acquainted" n tell
their needs. r
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-12
woman had at her heart. was that we
should keep out of the war.
Humanity Too Strong.

I'VE tried to persuade ourselves
that European business was not our
business. We tried to convince our
selves that no matter what happened
on the other side of the sea no obliga-
ton of duty rested upon us, and
finally we found the currents of hui
manity too strong for us: we found
that a great consciousness was we'll
ing up in us because this was not
local cause; that this was not a strug-
gle which was to be confined to
Europe or confined to Asia, to which
it had already spread. but it was
something that involved the very fate
of civilization, and there was one
great nation in the world that couldn't
afford to stay out (applause), and now
there are gentlemen opposing the
ratification of this treaty who at that
time tainted the administration of
the United States that IT had lost
touch with it's International con-
science. The German nation had no
choice whatever as to whether it was
to go into that war or net--did not
know that it was going into it until
it's men We're summoned to the colorS.
remember not once. but often, sit
ting at the cabinet table in Washing
ton, and L asked my colleagues what
their impression of the opinion of the
country was before we went into the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-12
Ratification Without
Delay Is Urged in His
Speech at Helena, Mont.

HELENA. Mont. September 12.-
President Wilson yesterday asked that
the peace treaty be ratified without o.
lay so that the spirit of universal unrest
spreading from Russia may be Quieted.
The text of the Presidents speech was
in part as follows:
81 want to say to you very solemnly
that notwithstanding the splendid
achievement OF our boys on the other
side of the sea, whom l don't hesitate
to say saved the world (applause), not
withstanding the noble things that they
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-12
Heard the Voice.

But said: That is not what am
waiting for; if they canrst go Ia. with
a whoop there is no US. going in.
don't want them to wait on me; l am
waiting on them. want to know
what the conscience of this country is
saying. l want to know what ideas
are arising in the minds OF the people
of this country with regard to this
war situation When I thought |
heard this voice it was then | pro.
posed to the Congress of the United
States that we should include our
selves in the challenge that Germany
was giving to mankind. And we felt
that Germany knew that there should
be a world fit to live in. but the world
is not fit to live in, my fellow citizens,
if one great government is in posi-
ton to do what the German govern
ment did-secretly plot war and be
in it with the whole strength of its
people-without so much as consult
ing it's own people. A great war can
begin only by private plotting. be-
cause the peoples Of this world are
not asleep. as they used to be. The
German people is great. educated
Continued on Thirteenth page) .s-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-12

did, their task is only half done and II
remains for us to complete it. If we
left the thing where 1t Is and did not
carry out the program Of the treaty of
peace in all it's fullness (applause) men
like these would have to die to do the
work over again and convince provincial
statesmen that the world is one. and
that only by an organization Of the
world can you save the young men of
the world (applause).
Pictures q. S. Graves.
LAS think upon them there is pic
ture very distinctly in my mind. On
can cemetery in France. just outside of
Paris, on the slopes of the Suresnes.
The hill slopes to a little plain. When
l went out there all the slope of the
hill was covered with men in the Ameri-
can uniform. rtanding. but rising tier
on tier as if on great witness stand.
Then below them over a little level
space were simple crosses that marked
the resting place Of the American dead
and just by the stand where / spoke
was group of French women who had
lost their own sons. but just because
they had lost their sons and because
their hearts went out in thought and
sympathy to the mothers on this side
of the sea, they had made themselves,
so to say, mothers of those graves and
every day had gone to take care> of
them; every day had strewn them with
flowers and stood there their cheeks
wetted with tears while I spoke, not of
the French dead, but of the American
boys who had died in the common cause.
Not in War Willingly.
'They seemed to want to be thrown
together on that day and in that
little spot with the hearts of the
world. aud l took occasion to say that
day that those who stood in the way
OF completing the task those men had
died for would some day look back
upon it as those others have looked
back upon the days when they tried
to divide this Union and prevent it
from being single nation, united in
single form of liberty For the
completion of the work of those men
is this that the thing that they
fought to stop shall never be attempt
ed again. l call to your minds that
we did not go into this war willingly.
l was in a position to know. In the
providence of God. the leadership of
this nation was intrusted to me dur
ing those early years of the war when
we were not in it. I was aware
through many subtle channels of the
movement of opinion in this country,
and 1 know that the thing that this
country chiefly desired, that you out
here in the west chiefly desired; the
thing that, of course. every living
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-12

war, and I remember one day one OF
my colleagues said to me: Mr. Presl-
dent, / think the people Of the coun-
try would take our advice ana 90
what you suggested"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-12
TEARS IN MONTANA
WHEN PRESIDENT
REACHES HEARTS
Portrayal of NobIeness of
. Men in the War Stirs
the Bereaved.
by DAVID LAWRENCE.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
EN- ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT
WILSON TO SPOKANE. Wash. Sep
TENDER 11.-Tears of unforgotten sor-
row. not the joy of holiday applause.
will ever be remembered by President
Wilson and members of his party as
the pathetic outburst of bereaved
mothers and fathers in Montana as
they listened to touching words of
consolation from the man who said
their sons had died in a cause even
greater than the preservation of the
Union-namely. saving of civilization.
The President considers that his
was the responsibility: his the orders
which sent thousands of American
boys to their death in France. and
that his is the duty of assuring par
ents and relatives whose. lads made
the. sacrifice: that it is not forgotten
that it is not now to be denied that
America went to war TO save democ-
racy and to prevent further war. And
as he portrayed the noblenesS of
spirit and patriotism that lay behind
the Willingness to give life itself for
the American ideal, the eyes of the
people seemed to reveal an approving
response.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-12
Suggestions to Curb.

First-Remove the food on which
bolshevism feeds, namely. wrongs SUI
fered by the average man and woman
and imposed by class friction and
misunderstanding.
Second-To end class warfare, the
President proposes conference discus
sion, exposure, conciliatory DISPOSE.
ton and willingness on the part of
each class at least to listen to the
others point of view.
Third-So long as wrong exists
there is no legitimate excuse to sup
press agitation. Agitation itself does
not do so much harm he thinks as in
difference to it creates bad feeling
and industrial stagnation.
Fourth-Agitation that has for its
real purpose the attainment of OBJ
jects through ways other than the po-
litical means or the orderly processes
of government should be crushed, and
presumably the whole power of the
federal government will be invoked
to drive the poison of such propa-
ganda out of the veins of American
communities.
Fifth-Destroy every monopoly. no
matter by whom held. the President
adds, that mo minority. no class. no
special interests, no matter how re-
spectacle, how rich, how poor, should
get control of the affairs of the United
Ststes."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-12
Awaits Coalition.

There must come coalition of
democrats and republicans who sim
cerely favor the ratification of the
treaty and the establishment of a
league of nations, and that coalition
must agree upon the number of reser-
vations they believe essential before
there can be any compromise. That
is why the President is proceeding in
his speeches on the assumption that
the real opposition to the treaty and
league seeks to defeat both with or
without reservations. He is painting
a picture of world distress based upon
the chaotic outcome of defeated
peace treaty and an abandoned league
of nations, but most of his hearers
do not believe the Senate extremists
will ever command a majority. Till
it is clearly proved that they are in
the minority it is the Presidents
strategy to portray the dangers in
volved in the acceptance of their
point. of view.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-12
Audience in Tears.

In Billings, Mont, the audience gave
way to its emotion handkerchief
went to eyes of young and old. And
the mere mention of what satisfac-
ton those bereaved parents had today
in the memory of the heroic dead was
sufficient to draw the crowd to it's dis
tinguished speaker.
America lost relatively few in the
war, but here and there groups-of par
ents sit in the big auditoriums which
welcome the President, and they sit
as they had come to hear again from
the President what the war was for,
Wilson did not omit at Billings to
reach to the hearts of such crowd.
Evidently he saw the many in his
audience who were weeping. So, he
uttered words Of consolation and said
that tears of sorrow were also tears
of hope. and he prayed that the sac
rifices would prove not to have been in
vain.
These are curious meetings in the
northwest. Here great waves of rad1-
calism have surged from the Pacific
coast eastward, and Mr.. Wilson felt 1t
incumbent upon himself to say that
the war was fought not merely for
political democracy; for that, he said.
would be useless without Industrial
democracy" but to better the living
Conditions of human beings every
where. 1t was here in the radical
northwest that the President unfolded
for the first time the philosophy which
he thinks will ceckmate bolshevism in
the United States and will do great
deal toward squelching it on the trem-
ulous continent of Europe. Here are
his suggestions: