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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-01-30
REMOVING WAR

So long as you have a parasitic class who
claim as their right the privilege Of taking a
dishonest toll out Of the labor and sweat Of their
fellownen just 50 long will you have war and
bloodshed on the earth. The only power that can
save the present and future generations from a
repetition Of the ruthless struggle that has just
taken place, is q united world democracy. It is
not sufficient that the people shall have q clear
vision of the nesvsworld in which they desire to
dwell, they must organize with 4 unity and the
strength Of purpose which shall give ~concrete
and practican expressions to the spiritual aspira-
tons, social ideals and moral passions of their
syerry beings-R. G. Henders, President Manitoba
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-01-30
HOW LONG SEEK YE A KING?

ION reading of a certain display Of gold-plate
and a 'tquart" of diamonds by q certain king
and queen.)
The masses starving! but the kings may eat
From plate of gold their rare and costly meat:
The flesh Of those who died to set men freeL
Their drink-the life-blood of democracy!
Vying like Nero who the most may spend
While means of widows to the Lord ascend
How long Almighty Father-God, how long
Must the lands listen to their drunken song?
The masses homeless! yet the queens may wear
Gems wrought by Moloch in. their CHASTITY hair
Reeking with battles blight-the wounded one
Crying to God, SO that the day be done!
From palace laden with the fruits Of earth,
While babes are dying, come the notes Of n1irth!
How long We peoples, blinded! stupid things!
Listen We to. the foolish shout Of kings?
The masses starving!-but the kings ma sport
Luxuriously (for peace) from port to port,
Whilst the poor toilerf who the passage pays
Crumbs falling from the banquet-table prays
And is refused!-the kings they need it all,
And all vain-glori0us ones who to their manner
How long o plying Brother-Christ, how long
Must kings and the like ones their race prolong?
The masses freeziing!lLyet the kings are warm!
Their faWning friends seek To avert the storm,
But the right arm of God is stronger still,
Who works at length His very way and will.
Plenty He doth provide for all the nth
Shall the kings eat alone Salone nlaAe nnlirth -
Howlong Almighty Father Of the tace
The day, when an kin6aApas unto thelrssplac
@EgHsSsVA aSNs s@-1 1oEa n3sGoEa84 611sSSas
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-01-30
G SCHOOL NOTEs
Senior 3

Last Wednesday the Seniors met
and decided that it was about time
they began to have some political
doings, 81 the class Officers were
elected as follows: President, Earl
Greiner, V. Pres, Gertrude Scott, Sec,
Ella Woods, Treasurer, Reuben Stew
art.
Perhaps you think our team looks
rather played out since their trip last
Friday but the boys say you ought to
see Rolla, and we believe it. There is
no need to say that Bottineau was
victorious as that is. generally known.
The score being Al to 80.
You can't catch Alice on q question
anymore because she has a patent
answer, namely, "oh tell that to the
Marines"
!, The Girls Glee Club Of Bottineau
High School met and organized last.
Friday afternoon. Helen Falkenstein.
was elected secretary, Hazel Mennie,
treasurer, and Alice Berthiaume, re-:
porter. They intend to meet every
Friday afternoon. The members are
very promising and are sure to ac-
complish great things in the little
time that remains.
The Basket Ball boys will be very
busy for the next month as they are
scheduled as follows:
Jan. 31st. Minot Normal at Minot.
Feb. 7th. Devils Lake at Bottineau.
Feb. 18th, Open
Feb. 21st, Rolla at Bottineau.
Feb. 28th, Leeds at Bottineau.
Senior 2
Last Friday night the III. S. team
played Rolla, winning with a score Of
Al to 80. It was a good game, judging
from all appearances, especially of our
boys. They are planning on polishing
the new gymnasium floor with Devils
Lake on February 7th. Everyone is
thrilling over prospects, Boosting and
Dragging, SO come and see for your
self. there's a reason"
On Saturday evening, one of the
jolliest sleigh-ride parties of>the sea-
son was enjoyed by the Senior 2 class.
Two sleigh-loads, with Professor and
Mrs. Day as chaperons "made" the
town. After the ride they gathered at
the home of Margaret Wilson for
lunch and games.
Miss Daggett is busy practicing
her Sixteen Best H. S. Singers" for
the musical contest to be held soon.
5 Senior 1 ~
Monday Miss Woods collected a few
pins from us for the use of the sewing
class. We feel sorry for the pins, as
their former use was that of daggers.
Our class held a party in the hall
last Saturday evening. We enjoyed
ourselves to the. superlative degree
and r hoping for another good time
in the near future. II
Exams are over now so we can take
life easy, until it is time to Gram"
again.
@ Junior 3
Orville Scott was excused from
school Monday morning on account of
his brothers illness.
The class name is Spartan" which
was decided on last week.
Miss McIntosh-"What would peo-
pie do for a living in a country
where rainfall is light?"
Wilfred- "Hard telling"
Glass songs and yells are the inn
portant features of the class members
this week.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-01-30
THE TOWN AND THE LEAGUE PROGRAM

The program which the League farmers of
North Dakota are about to enact into law is
frequently thought of as merely a program Of
benefit to the farmers. The big press has much
to say about farmer s%elfishness to the exclusion
of the town. But if growth Of business is a de-
sirable thing for a town, how could the farmers
of North Dakota better contribute to this end
than by this program?
The state is going into some industries to es-
cape outside domination. It is going to pull the
milling of it's grain, for instance, back to North
Dakota. Obviously this industry must land in
some of the towns of that state. It is going to
have an elevator system which will enable the
farmers to hold their grain and at the same time
borrow on warehouse receipts, thus adding to
elevator capacity and the amount of elevator
work done within the state. It will clean the
grain for the farmers. Again increased business
flows into towns.
= The state is going to develop the Ignite in
dustry as a profitable substitute for coal hauled
from Pennsylvania for the profit of the rail
roads and to the detriment Of all business in
North Dakota. Again it is the towns which will
get the business. The state will provide a Home
Builders association which will lend money at
cost on longtime payments to home owners in
town and country. This will build up the towns
in two important ways. The present residents
will get cheaper money and consequently have
better homes. immigration into the state will
be doomed. Surprising to say North Dakota is
the only state that can offer a farm to a soldier
on fair terms. The shifting of taxes from i'm
provements and personel property will encour-
age building and Improvement and discourage
idle land speculation. The hail tax on idle land
will increase this latter Encouragement. Lastly,
if the farmers acquire any new prosperity,
where can they spend their money except in and
through the towns?' @
Why, then, the strong antagonism to the
farmers program which we frequently find in
fhn towns? For M ofho1. fhan that Tho 1noa1
agents of the exploiters of both town and coun-
try, and the local ~grafters and parasites are
carrying on a campaign of misrepresentation to
defend themselves. The 'antagonism springs
from the enemies of both town and country,
where it is not simply lack of thought.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-01-30
NOTICE OF BIDS
Scandia School Dist. No. 20

Bids will be received to move school
house No. s, size about 18x28 frame
structure with two toilets. To be
moved934 Of q mile north and 1 mile
west, to BE located on the s. w. corner
Of the N. w. Quarter Of Section 20, to
be put level on stones, s inches the
lowest Moved NOT later than the 18th
day ,of March. Board reserves the
right To reject any 81 all bids. Bids
to be opened o. the 18th of February.
All bids to be sent To the District
Clerk
Ihorald Sveen, Clerk,
Souris, n. Dak r
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-01-30

The Central Bank of North Dakota, to be op-
Grated by the state and to be run for the bene-
fit of the people of the state does not seem to
meet with hearty approval from some quarters.
This is hardly strange. The funds of the state
have been deposited in the banks of the state
each getting its share of the pie according as
it has been a good little bank or a naughty in
surgent bank. The state has gone through the
formality every other year of asking for bids
for the deposit of these funds, the idea being
that the bank would bid the highest interest
rate on average daily balance on hand should
receive the money. But the banks were not con-
tent with competition and an open, field. They
preferred a distribution on a political basis. So
there was inserted into the law calling for bids
the state from receiving MORE THAN TREE
PER CENT INTEREST. The result was that all
bids were alike, and the money was taken at
that rate and loaned again to the people at the
rate of twelve per cent and now at the rate Of
ten per cent. You need no moving picture or
diagram to explain to you how a Central Bank,
taking the money and lending it direct to the
people, may gain the state some revenue and
may make your interest rate easier. Neither do
you need an Sherlock Holmes to ferret out for
you the party whose toes are trodden upon by
the new arrangement. Will the money be safe?
Well, it will be safe, at least as it was when
Andy Jones' banks went bump at Rugby and let
the state down for a few thousands. 1t will be
as safe as the school funds were with the late
attorney general, who managed to get away
with $22, 10000 before he went out Of office and
died. Perhaps they Judge the farmer to be less
worthy of trust and less honest in handling the
states money than they do of the tools the great
corporations named and put in the office in this
state in the days when Alex Mckenzie flourish
ed and told us who we might have for public
officials.-Richland County Farmer.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-01-30
A NEW DEAL

But three weeks ago the Board of County
commissioners of Bottineau County appointed
three official papers for the year 1919, these
three papers being the Willow City Eagle, West
hope Standard and the Farmers" Advocate.
The Courant editor appeared before the Board
in the interests of The Bottineau Courant and
presented to them petitions signed by the farm
ers of Bottineau County asking them to desig-
nate The Courant ONE of the official papers.
These petitions contained in all about 400 sig
natures. -
In appearing before the Board we stated that
The Courant has as large a PAID UP circulation
in Bottineau County as ALL the other papers
published in the county combined. Much as we
would like to have been designated as an offic-
lal paper, in the interests of our large number
OF subscribers, we failed to impress the Board
with the propriety of designating The Courant.
Now it is expected that the state legislature
at Bismarck will take the matter of handling
the county printing out of the hands of the
County Commissioners and a bill will likely be
introduced shortly which will provide for but
one official paper in each county and the paper
so designated shall publish all state and county
matters of a legal nature within it's respective
county. This publishing will include the official
proceedings of the Board Of County Commits
%sioners, Estray Notices, Probate Notices, School
Clerks Statements, etc., and will effect a saving
to this county of at least 100000 per year, as
well as a large saving to all the counties of the
state.
The paper which is to be official in this coun-
ty, and in all other counties of the state, will be
VOTED UPON, and we see absolutely no reason
why the opposition papers of Bottineau County
should put up a howl over the matter. They can
get in the field as a candidate, any one or all of
them, and if The Courant is lucky enough to re-
ceive the largest vote we would be entitled to
be official and to represent the county the same
as would any other Nonpartisan candidate or
anti-Nonpartisan candidate.
In this connection the Farmers Advocate
contends that this measure, which they mis-
represent to their readers, will put probably all
the papers except the county seat papers out of
business. We would suggest that there be estab-
lished a state home for all the editors who can
not possibly get along in the newspaper pro-
fession without getting something handed to
them or else get into another profession where
they will not have to be given a livelihood by
means Of charity.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-01-30
TO CAMOUFLAGE LEAGUE

A "Tom and jerry League was organized at
Bismarck yesterday by such prominent men as
Jerry Bacon, Tom Parker Junkin, Theodore Mel
son, John Paulson, F. O.. Hellstrom, E. B. Nc
Cutcheon and. others. The purpose of this organ
ization is to TRY and induce league members as
well as those considering joining the league to
take a $1,000 membership in the "Nonpartisan
Reconstruction League" It is understood that
receipt blanks have already been printed as
as possible and that in a short time a paper will
be published to resemble the present Nonparti-
san Leader. They are DESTROYS of getting action
before their new move is given publicity and
therefore will no doubt have organizers in the
field at once. At the close of their meeting they
condemned the Nonpartisan League program
and most of it's members. This is similar to the
camouflaging attempt made by the old gang in
Minnesota and real league members are warned
to be on the lookout.
We have been asked why the Courant did not
publish the official proceedings of the Board of
County Commissioner for April, 1915 and from
then until the first of January 1919 before our
issue of January 2 and 9. The explanation is
this: The county auditor did not get us the copy
of same any sooner. They were published the
week w received them although it was necess-
get them into type the same week we received
the copy. We do not mean by this that the aud
itor "held them up" or that he. was negligent in
his duties but the work of his office was in
creased so much with the draft board duties
that the proceedings could not be gotten up
sooner. This explanation is given to those VIII
have accused The Courant of publishing the
proceedings when we cared to do. SO and not
when we received the copy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-15
goNNe TODAYaIN SPORTS 9oxzNa
WILLARD Is RIGHT;
HE WILL HAVE NO ALIBI

1875 and has been in the marines.
He's fast and in good condition, but
Jess was the fresher OF the two at the
finish. / saw Hemple crowd him to
the corner, raining rights and lefts
so fast willard couldn't block all of
them. Jess wanted to get out of the
corner and he reached out and pick
ed Hemple UP by the elbows and set
him down on his feet in the middle
OF the ring.
He's a mighty man.
Jess worked the weights three
rounds. took q round pm the mat,
wrestled with Hemple and shadow
boxed. At the finish he was putting a
little, but not enough to suspicion
his wind not being right.
Jess doesn't skip the rope-it Is
hard on the heart, he says.
He is at Los Angeles now, finishing
q picture in which he Is being starred.
He Is training hard, though. He ex-
poets Walter Monahan, Jack John
sons old sparring partner. back from
the army In a few days and then fur
will fly. Hemple will be a glad boy
then. for right nov he's nearly all in
keeping UP with the champ.
Jess always has kept in good ply
steal condition. But he hasn't active
ly trained since the Moran fight. He's
had two weeks of 1t and the condition
he's in leads one to believe he'll step
into the ring with Dempsey at his
best.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-15
WOODBRIDGE F. {.
REORGAN|zES
v STRONG NINE
"Butch' Neider to Pitch; Johnny
Hunt Will Play First; Other
Crack Players

The Woodbridge Field Club has or
ganized for the 1919 season, and, al
though getting under a rather
late. has some of the best players in
this vicinity signed up. The Wood
bridge combination is now bending
its efforts to so perfect its teamwork
thai it might play and defeat Joe Null
lens Perth Amboys. Of this city,
which team has not as yet been de-
feated this year..
The w. +. c. nine has elected John
]. O'Toole, manager and Andrew Ger
rity. secretary and Treasurer. Mama
ger O'Toole at one time led the old
Marions and 1t was he who plotted
that combination to the city champ
ionship three seasons straight ever
al years ago. The work of banding
together a group of crack players has
been undertaken by Joseph Walsh,
who has been touring the west for the
past three years, and has learned how
to locate real baseball finds" Joe is
out to get a team together which will
not only trim the best combinations
in this section of the state but which
will meet anything within q big ra-
dius.
The Woodbridge fans are behind
this new club and owing to fact that
earby places, including Perth Amboy,
are being drawn on to produce part OF
the team, this new combination will
be supported in these places as we'll.
Butch Neider has been secured to
do the twirling for the Woodbridge
aggregation. Coughlin will be Mel.
der's side-kicker and with the mar
behind the bat the w. f. G. clan be-
lieve the chances of stealing will be
slight.
Johnny Hunt, of this city. who ha:
just returned from e. seas, and one
of the crack first sackers which this
city boasts of. has been annexed. Hunt
is also there with the stick and hi'
addition to the team is a big acquisl
ton. Charley Meisek will be on sec
ond. Farrell, a new man. with a reI
as a hitter and fielder, will hold down
third and Jeager,. of Plainfield, viii
be stationed at short. Jaeger ha!
been playing with Cliff Randolph Q
number of seasons and proven hi!
worth.
The w. f. c. clan expects to have
"murderous row" in the outfeld. A
number of extra men also are includ-
ed in the Woodbridge teams eligible
list.
The Woodbridge team will have @
home grounds which is being put III
shape but will not be ready before
Decoration Day when the Amboys are
scheduled to play the opening game
on the w. T. G. home grounds.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-15
AMBOY READY To
MEET ASbURY
High School Teams Will Clash
Here Tomorrow Afternoon---
Locals Practice Yesterday
(By II. S. Correspondent.)

The Asbury Park baseball nine will
Journey to this city tomorrow where
they play the local high school team
ut the Copper Works diamond. The
Asbury Parkers will come with a
strong reputation. losing but two
games out of eight to crack teams.
Both of these games were not played
on the home diamond but on the OPP
ponent's field. They were defeated by
Union Hill High, runners-up for the
New Jersey state basketball title n
Atlantic High. Union Hill won 7-5
while Atlantic were victors by the
score of 81. Last year Asbury came
out fourth in the race for the state
baseball championship and they are
put for first place this year. Five Of
last years varsity are playing with
this years nine. This season will
mark the opening of hostilities in
baseball between these two schools.
No games in baseball being played be-
tween the two before, while intense
rivalry exists between Asbury and
Amboy IN basketball.
The>F A. nine held their final prac-
tice IN preparation for this game yes
ferdays All the varsity reported and
Coach Burns drilled them for two
hours in fielding and hitting and
should be able to come through a
norrow's tilt with Asbury Park.
Billy Flynn the local twirler. is in
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-15
RESULTS AND STANDINGS
IN TWO MAJOR LEAGUES
NATIONAL

Games Yesterday.
New York, 3: Chicago, 2.
Brooklyn. Z; Cincinnati. o..
Pittsburgh, s; Philadelphia. 3.
Boston, 4: st. Louis, 2.
Games To-day.
Chicago at New York.
Cincinnati at Brooklyn.
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia.
st. Louis at Boston.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-15
BY FRED ~TURBYvILLE
IN. 2. A. Sporting Editorl

4 Don't be misguided in specializing
On the big scrap.
Jess Willard is right.
The champion, to help set the
matter right and answer his critics.
have me q whole day of his time. In
that day he talked. answered ques-
lions, posed for pictures, got on the
scales and then went through ten
fast rounds OF workout.
After the day was ended n Its
events reviewed I concluded young
Jack Dempsey had quite a task
ahead. II Dempsey wins the great
heavyweight championship clash on
July 4, he will have the credit of hav-
ang beaten q mighty good man-one
OF the most remarkable h~eayyweights
who ever wore the belt.
Willard today weighs a little less
than $50 pounds He weighed that
the day I saw him and he's cut off a
few pounds sNce for he is in strenu-
Gus training now. Fol the fight with
Jack Johnson he weighed 239 pounds.
He expects to weigh between 23S and
940 for Dempsey.
There has been talk. lots of it, that
Willard wasn't right, that he was big
and fat. He is big-a whale of a
man-but he stands 6 feet 81 inches
and his weight Isn't too much.
He boxed four lightning rounds
with Jack Hemple. Hemple weighs
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-15
BASCBALL
STORIES

Marty Kavanaugh al q college coach
seems to have made good.
Eddie Collins has been appointed
captain Of the Chicago White sox.
i begins to look as II the Braves are
going to be much better than an Or
binary team.
The Little Rock club Of the South
syn has purchased Outfslder John
Frisrson from Houston Of the Texas.
go
Pitcher Urban shocker Of the st.
Louis Browns, now back from over.
seas, IL held In service at Camp Up.
ton.
Gus Getz, sold by Pittsburgh to To-
ledo. has decided. he says, to stick at
bis home In Newark and work In a
shipyard.
Mike McNaliy threatens to GUST both
Jack Barry and Dave shean from that
second base berth with the worlds
Champions
In exchange for Pete Compton the
Seattle club is supposed to send Pitch.
NcMoran and In1elder Brown to
New Orleans
The Pirates are trying out a big
semipro pitcher named William Mat
tng1S who halls from Buffalo. he 10
right-handen
Memphis thinks 0 lot Of Its contin.
gent Of st, Louis ball players. which
Includes Joe Hlattery, Vincent Walsh
and Andy Hirh,
Art Kores, Milwaukee boy with the
Louisville club, mar not be able to
PLAY this season due to an Injury 70
BIS throwing sfr.
Duty Lewis Ia now q race horse
.pagnst9 Hs u reported as having
bought I poly Called Veteran, said to
be a conner on tas track
They are going to put Harry sallss
Ia Z bhling machine n q Cincinnati
hospital 10 zee II his strained back
'musSlss can't bs cooked into shape.
TIE veteran Jake Boultss, on the
veteran Galveston team, now seems 10
be making good at third base and Ii
likely to 20 sven better rs the season
advances
The big ace Of the Dos Molnss pitch.
Ing ssaf. Paul Musser, has ,ust been
released from the army, and there 10
~ easier feeling now In Den Molnss
baseball circles
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-15
PERTH AMBOYS
VS.. WOODBRIDGE
Newly Organized Nine to 0per
Season Here Sunday
Afternoon

The Perth Amboys are scheduled to
play the Woodbridge Field Club this
sunday afternoon on the Copper
Works Field here, this making the
fist appearance Of the w. L. G. nine
on the diamond this season. The Am
boys will have their usual lineup
manager Joe Mullen announces, with
the twirling in The hands of either
Applegate or 500. As both of these
pitchers are on the Raritan Copper
Works their selection will depend up
on which is used in the copper works
game Saturday.
The Woodbridge combination Is
composed of some of the fastest men
obteiEable in this section so that tho
Amboys will be forced to go the limit.
Owing 20 the weather conditio1s being
unfavorable for a game last Sunday,
the game with the Waterman Foun-
tain Pen team of New York had to be
called off.