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Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
NOT ALL DEAD.

Mexico City. Dec. 14.-Pirates,
buccaneers and marine freebooters,
story-book men in high. leatl,er boots
who swear terrible oaths and carry
huge swords. are not all dead. A
number of them have bcon found On
small islands off the west coast of
Mexico and President Carranza has
dispatched from Mazatlaa naval
expedition equipped for :wo months
service with the object of routing the
outlaws.
Travellers on the Pacific have told
of late of seeing numerous bands of
these pirates who have prcyed upon
tramp vessels when occasion afford
ed and at other times engaged in
smuggling. Their headquarters are
in the almost inaccessible caves on
lonely islands where, it is said, they
have stored much valuable booty
which at opportune moments they
carry to United States or South
American ports. Most of their plum
der is obtained from Mexico.
The Mexican government is de-
termined to rid it's islands of the
freebooters and it's present expedition
after driving out the pirates will set
up military posts to guard against
their return.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
GOOD BUSINESS.

Figures compiled by a New York
credit clearing house ON the mer-
chandising activities Of the country
during the past week as compared
with similar weeks in other years. re-
veal Il business condition throughout
the county which must be regarded
Us highly satisfactory.
Throughout tho country at large
and in each Of tho separate districts
rided. tho volume OF purchases has
been greater than the corresponding
weeks ono and two years ago, respec.
lively, the Indebtedness has either
shown an absolute decrease as com
pared with those two weeks: or hi
increased, relatively much less thar
purchases. and in nearly all cases pay
,nents have been greater than for the
corresponding. earlier weeks.
For the United States the figures
show that as compared with tho week
a. year ago purchases this season in.
creased So per cent, Indebtedness in.
creased only IL per cent, and pay.
ments showed an increase Of 7.3 pei
cent. AS compared with two yeart
ago tho increases are respectively At
20 and "A per cent.
In the northern agricultural divi.
sion the comparisons with last veal
show that purchases have increased
2 per cent, Indebtedness has decreased
rs per cent. and payments have in.
creased Ss per cent AS compared
with two years ago there have beer
increases In purchases OF 5.3 per cent
decreased Indebtedness of II pei
cent. and increased payments Of 81
per cent.
Tho merchants Of tho country have
made unusually large purchases, but
they have been paying accounts still
more literally.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
larry out his idea. The forms seem

carry out his idea. The forms seem
excellent but the precise form is a
matter of detail, and without question
Judge colo will be ready to approve
any form which best gives effect to
the principle that American citizen
ship is a prize to be sought, to be
merited, and to be valued.
The church society in admitting a
person to fellowship follows certain
impressive forms which are intended
to emphasize the solemn nature of
tho act. The fraternal society re-
quires candidates for admission to
familiarize themselves with the nature
and to give evidence OF an UNDER
standing of the nature of the obliga
tions which are being assumed. But
the nation itself has been content. un-
til within a very recent period, to ad-
nit to full fellowship importations
ual inquiry into their character and
antecedents, and with no more for
mality than accompanies the purchase
of cigar.
Citizenship ought to be considered
something worth while. The apostle
Paul esteemed it a great privilege to
have been born a. free citizen of the
Roman empire. His acquaintance, not
SO born, had obtained that freedom
at a great price. Both possessed
something which they priced. which
meant something to them, and which
was not to be lightly regarded
Our naturalization practices have
undergone some improvement. They
will stand further Improvement. To
make the process a. little more diff
cult will do no harm. The man who
possesses the right material for citi-
zenship will be all the more dilisent
in fitting himself to use rightly the
privilege to which he aspires, and the
man who is not willing to put forth
the necessary effort is not needed
among our citizens.
Moreover, to throw around the
process of naturalization enough of
ceremony to make it properly impress
sive will have a salutary effect on
those who have been born to citizen
ship, and who. having acquired it
without effort, may be inclined to un-
dervalue it.
Judge Coles idea is sound. Let
it be carried into practice.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
WOOD ALCOHOL.

It was to be expected that persons
who found it impossible to celebrate
a. holiday without artificial sttmu1a-
ton would seek some means to pro-
duce the results to which they have
become accustomed. One of the re-
suits we find in the list of deaths from
| the use of beverages containing wood
alcohol sold by itinerant dealers at
various places throughout the coun-
try.
Wood alcohol has been used for this
purpose OH a good many former occa-
sions where the customary beverage
was difficult to obtain, but there has
not formerly existed The incentive to
its use which has been present on this
| occasion. Wood alcohol, taken in the
quantity which regular drinker of
ordinary spirits might regard as mod
. crate, is not only poison, but it is a
| poison almost certain to produce high
| ly injurious results, and quite likely
TO produce death. The wholesale
poisoning that accompanied the
Christmas celebration is likely to put
! a. damper on the whole industry of
peddling liquor.
! The purchase OF liquor from the
bootlegger has always been attended
with a certain amount of risk. There
was no way of telling what the SELL
er might have done to the stuff before
he sold it. Yet there was at least a
margin Of safety. Liquor containing
nothing that liquor is not supposed
to contain could be obtained by those
who were disposed to take the risks
attending the operation Of vending.
There was nothing illegal about the
manufacture or original sale, and a
great deal of liquor whose purity was
! beyond question was sold by illicit dis
tillers in forbidden territory. But now
that tho manufacture itself is prohib-
tied, anything that is sold as an intox-
! fcant is open to suspicion. The pre-
sumption is that the stuff is poison,
and a good many people who have in
the past availed themselves of the op-
portunity to buy an occasional flask
from peddler will have little enthu-
siasm for the sort of stuff that is now
available.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
war bill is presented for payment.

war bill is presented for payment.
The first thing to be done is-as a
prominent British financier put it
Ito deflate our IDEAS" The world
lives in q fools paradise based upon
fictitious wealth. rash promises and
mad illusions. The disease is world
wide, it is spread too far to enable us
to deal with it as q whole. We may
agree on the principles 0n which 1t
must be fought, but each country will
have to be treated in accordance with
its own particular conditions. The
first step, however. is TO prick the
bubbles Of false premises and to be-
gin by clearing the world balance
sheet OF fictitious assets as far and
as fast as we can.--Paul M. Warburg
in The Nations Business for Janu-
airy.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
DEFEATING OUR IDEAS.

To prevent a further rising OF
prices it is necessary that production
be increased and consumption be de.
creased. In Europe and in the Unit
ed States there never was greater
recklessness in spending money than
there has been prevailing since the
conclusion Of the armistice. The
ease with which a large amount OF
deprecated money can be earned has
diminished the respect for money and
the easerness to save. A Willingness
to subordinate or sacrifice ones
wishes and pleasures to the greater
advantage Of the country, splendidly
manifested during the years Of the
war. has ended in the present reac-
tion-of an orgy of brazen self-indul-
gence at the very moment when the
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
Political Science
Students To Meet

Cleveland. o.. Dec. 29:--Approxi-
mately one thousand students of po-
litical science will meet here today for
a three days conference Ito discuss
questions of national AND international
import.
The meeting is the annual conven-
tion of the National Municipal league.
1t is held in connection with the an
nual convention of the American Po-
litical Science association, the Ameri-
can Historical association, the confer
ence Of Governmental Research and
the American Association Of Univer-
sity Professors.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
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FRIENDS.

AANAAIANASEs y
We can boast of gold and silver, that's
a human thing to do,
And we talk lot of riches in. a
thoughtless sort Of way,
But the friends we always cling to
and the friends We know are
true,
Aren't measured by their money or
the Jewels they display;
We pick them for their courage or
their kindly words of cheer.
Not the fortune they have gathered
or their bit of earthly fame;
II we look our true friends, over, those
We'd like them il they never had
dollar to their name. ~.
Take the pal that shares your plea
sures and Is always at your side,
And ask yourself exactly why it is
YOU like him so,
why you want him near you always
when your soul is being tried,
And why you're clinging to him as
tne finest man you know;
IL IS something he possesses that in
words cannot be told,
Something deeper far than glory or
the place that he may claim;
It's the man he is that grips you, not
his stock Of yellow gold. >.
You'd like him if he never had a
. dollar to his name.
The things that count are common
and not given to display,
We hear the clinl of money, but a
kindly natures still;
While pomp and fame and glory
travel proudly on their way
=. We choose our friends regardless
of their fortunes or their skill;
They've stood by us in sorrow and
they've shared our pleasures,
too,
On our rainy days or sunny we
have found them just the same;
They're not chosen for their fortune
or the deeds that they can do.
Wed like them if they, never had a
dollar to their name.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
HAVE QUEER CUSTOMS.

= st. Thomas,' Virgin Islands, Dec.
12.-United States marines garrison
ing these new possessions of Uncle
Sam cannot understand the fashions
or Cha.Cha III indian % Should % wear s an n
overcoat when the thermometer
stands at 100 in the shade mystitles
them.
For some strange reason, the native
Virgin Islander believes in wearing
every article of clothing he can lay
hands on. All American holidays are
now celebrated by the natives, who
spend the day parading about the
streets, some Of them wearing over
coats, capes. two or more pairs of
trousers and a red bandanna hand
kerchief about the neck. Also they
frequently adorn themselves with the
horns of cows or oxen attached to the
head just in front Of the ears.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
FAyoRABLY COMNENTED ON.

! Buenos Aires, Dec. 3.-The pre-
cedent established by DR.. Pedro Gle
] Toledo, the new Brazilian minister. to
Argentina, in wearing civilian
clothes when he presented his Gre
dentials to President Irigoyen has
evoked favorable comment. The
newspaper La Razon says: "Diplom-
acy is at last approaching democ-
racy; these are not times for uni
forms with palms, swords and
plumes."
Heretofore Brazirs ENJOYS, in fact
! those Of all other countries except the
: United States, had always worn am
bassadorial uniforms on the day Of
their first formal meeting with the
nations chief executive.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
DIGNHYNG CITIZENSHIP.

The Herald desires to go on record
us endorsing most cmphatically the
suggestion Just made by Judge Cole,
Of Fargo, for the adoption OF a nat
throw around the process Of admit
ting all alien to citizenship an atmos-
phere Of dignity and solemnity in
keeping with the Importance of the
act being performed. Judge Cole
submits certain forms intended to
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
Prominent among the speakers


Prominent among the speakers
Ray Stannard Baker of the American
peace mission; Baron S. A. Korn,
Russia; Alexander F. whyte, member
Of the British parliament; Paul s.
Reinsch, former U. S. minister of
China; Representative James w.
Goode, author of the national budget
measure; Jerome Landfield Of the
Russian Economic league. and Henry
Bruere, authority on Mexican affairs.
The Mexican situation, Russian
soviet government, peace conference,
German republic and the proposed
national budget system will come be-
fore the conference.
vladivostok-The United States
transport Logan sailed for San Fran
cisco December IL. with s42 soldierA
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
WoMEN's COUNCIL TO MEET.

Christiania, Dec. 11.-A convention
of the International Council Of Won1-
en-. of which Lady Aberdeen is presi-
dent, will be held in Christiania next
September. Three hundred dele
gates, representing twenty nations,
are expected to attend. A committee
composed Of presiding officers of va
rious women's organizations will
meet in Geneva in March to arrange
the program for the convention.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
ORGANIZE ROTARY CLUB.

tive business and professional men of
Buenos Aires have organized a
Rotary club, which will be a member
of the International Association Of
Rotary clubs whose headquarters are
in Chicago. The initial membership
includes Americans and Argentines.
Or. Jorge Mitre, publisher of La
Nacion, was chosen president.
Representatives of the Rotary club
recently formed in Montevideo,
Uruguay. and explained the purposes
Of the organization of the new club.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29

Rome-1talian and Jugo-Slav dele
gates at Laibach have reached an
agreement concerning posts, tele-
! graph and customs, according to a
Trieste dispatch.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
AIRpLANE SERVICE IS SAFE.

london, Dec. 12.-The report Of
Major General F. N. Sykes, controller
Of aviation shows that out Of $4,000
passengers carried in 21.0OO airplane
trips approximately 100000 miles,
only two deaths have been recorded
through accidents
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
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TO ANALYZE SOUND WAVES.

Chicago, Dec. 29.-Demonstration
of a device for photographing and
analyzing sound waves will be one of
the features at the convention of the
National Association of Teachers of
Speech, December 20, 30 and 81.
Professor Dayton C. Miller, professor
Of physics in Case school of applied
science of Cleveland, Ohio, is the
inventor.
The convention program also in
cludes papers on various phases of
speech education, such as argumen-
tation and debate, community = drama
and pageantry, correction Of speech
defects, and extemporancous speak
ing.
Some 50 Of the larger colleges and
universities and about 80 high schools
will be represented.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-29
FORM MANY COMPANIES.

Toxic, Dec. Company promot-
ing Is the~fashion Of the day in
Japan. There is capital without linn
! 1t available, apparently. and the
newspapers. every day display large
| advertisements Of new capital issues,
some Of which are equivalent to
about $5,o00,000 each.
New capital issues up to the end Of
September this year, amount to the
equivalent of $1,000, 100000. In the
same period in 1915, it was 1885,
100000.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-12-14

Times-Recorder Want Ads pay.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-12-14
QUARTER MILLION
SALE OF COTTON
Eleven Hundred Bales In
One Lot Sold At
MOnteZuTna

MONTEZUMA, Dec. 13.-One of
the largest sales of cotton ever known
in this section was consummated dur
ing the week when a round lot of
LOO bales were disposed of by one
seller.
w. R. Kicks was the seller, and
the Montezuma agency of B. B.
Fords & Co., represented by Frank
Campbell, was the buyer.
In round figures this lot of cot
ton brought the sum of 100000.
This cotton had been stored at
Montezuma, Ideal, Lilly and Ogle-
thorpe, the major portion of it being
in Montezuma.
The price paid per pound for this
lot of cotton was 81 5-8 cents all
round, which was considerably more
than was being paid for cotton any
where in this territory at the time
the sale was made.
Financial details attendant upon
this big financial transaction were
handled by the First National bank
and the Lewis Banking Co., of Mon
tezuma, fact which speaks much for
Montezuma's unusually strong bank
ing facilities.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-12-14
Cotton Exports For
November Very Heavy

WASHINGTON; Dec. 13.-Ex-
ports of cotton, amounting to 924,-
751 bales, according to the Census
Bureaus monthly report today,
which also showed that domestic con-
sumption was larger than year ago
Exports during the month equalled
the aggregate of the previous three
months and were approximately what
they were before the war.
Domestic consumption showed an
increase of $4,000 bales over No
vember year ago. More than go
per cent of the increase was in cot
ton growing states where mills have
been extremely active and spindles
show an increase of more than half
million over November year ago.
Holdings in consuming establish
ments, public storage and at COM
presses at the end of November ag-
gregated 5,630,551 bales of lint cot
ton. That is Ali ,065 bales less than
held year ago. Cotton states hold
ings aggregated 4,875,291 bales. a
decrease of 104,267 from November
30, year ago.
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1919, there will be sold on the first
Tuesday in January, 1920, before the
courthouse door in said county be-
tween the legal hours of sale 4 tract
If land in said county belonging to
Tic estate of Mrs. Minnie f. Loper,
deceased, containing twenty-nine and
three. tenths acres, more or less il
northwest corner of Lot. No. Two
Hundred and Forty-two in 28th dis
tEiet said county, bounded north by
lands of Ida Ellen and Steve Roach
ari Mrs Braswell south by lands of
c Z. Doster, on west by public road,
or east by lands of Jesse Roach.
FERNS of sale cash.
THOMAS L. SUMMERS.
Administrator of Estate of Mrs. Min
ME E. Loper, Deceased.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-12-14

prepared by the United States Depart
nuent of Agriculure)
Washington.-When the census emu
nsT8tOr comes around to the farm
1hoT1ly after January l n cXt year, he
viii ask some questions that may
Eound like prying into the purely per-
E9zA affairs of the farmer. Now, the
farmer, like every other self-respect-
ing sRan, dislikes having his private
REFnirs peeped into and, unless he
thinks about this thing in advance,
mGy have disposition to be unrespon-
ave II not actually resistant.
In actual fact, every question that
the enumerator will ask is an essential
question and has a direct bearing on
the personal welfare and prosperity
gT the individual farmer as well as
upOn the advancement of the agricul-
ture of the nation as whole.
When the bureau of the census de-
eEded to take the farm census in Jan
aary instead of in April, it did so
npon the advice Of the United States
department of agriculture, The farm
er is less likely to be very busy in
January than at the spring planting
and breeding season, and his products
and live stock are in better shape for
statistical treatment. Also, every new
zuestion-and there are a number of
Ghezu-inserted in the agricultural
schedule was placed there after con-
aultation with the department of
agriculture and for the purpose of
clearing up some specific situation in
which the department of agriculture
Is trying to aid the farmer.
Here are some questions that will
be asked: 'Do you own all of this
faIInT' do you rent from others
parr but not all of this far1n?" do
you rent from others all Of this
FARM 'If you rent all Of this farm,
what do you pay as rent?" "If you
own all or part of this farm, was
Americus times-recorder., 1919-12-14
ANSWERING CENSUS QUESTIONS
WILL HELP OUT FARM PROFITS

of helping the young farmer to get
the money that he needs to borrow. 1t
is necessary, therefore, to know what
proportion of farmers who advance
from tenants to owners have to Dor
row money to make the change, and
how much, in proportion to total
value of the farms bought, they have
to borrow.
The road toward ownership does
not necessarily start with tenancy. A
great many farm owners were first
farm hands, then tenants, then owners
with mortgage, then owners debt
free. The census will show, if the
questions are answered fairly, how
many years, if any, every farmer
worked for wages; how many years
he was a tenant; and how many years
he has been an owner. The depart
ment of agriculture will have the
basic information it needs to help
men to success in farm ownership.
Other important Queries.
Here are some other questions that
will be asked HAS this farm tele
phone?" 'Ts water piped into the
operators house?" HAS the opera.
tors house gas or electric Hght?'
Now that looks like an effort to
find out whether or not the farm fam
lily has the modern comforts-and it
is just that, but it means something
more than mere inquisitiveness. Sev.
eral months ago, when the bureau
of farm management was in process
or reorganization, the secretary of
agriculture called a conference Of
heads of schools social workers and
others from all over the country
When the people were assembled in
Washington, he asked their opinion
as to the most useful thing that could
be done by the Office of farm manage
ment. For a whole day those people
discussed the matter. Just before
night, with a score Of items on the
Americus times-recorder., 1919-12-14

ballot, they took vote. The work
Of promoting the comfort and con.
venience of the farm home received
an overwhelming majority of the
votes.
That, then, is one of the things that
the department Of agriculture is try
ing to do in aid of the farm popuIa-
tion of this country. In order to do
the work intelligently, the depart
ment needs as full information as
possible as to how the farm homes
OF the country are equipped for com
fort and convenience.
Another Way to Help.
Every farmer will be asked how
many acres of drained land he has
and how many other acres of land
there are on his farm that could be
made suitable for cultivation if they
were tile-drained or ditch-drained.
When these questions are asked you,
remember that they are asked every
one of your neighbors. Possibly you
have tract of land that would be
the most productive field on your
farm if you could get the surplus wa
ter out of it, but you can not do it
because, to be effective, the drainage
ditch would have to go far beyond
the borders of your own farm, would
have to be a county enterprise, and
the county has not seen fit to do any
thing about it. If that be true, several
Of your neighbOrs have land that
should he drained If all of you tell
the census enumerator how many
acres you have that need drainage,
the department of agriculture will
have the facts to show what is needed
in your community. When the oppor-
tunity offers, it will be in position
to do what it may to secure for you
what you need.
Those things are fairly typical of
The questions that will be asked in
taking the agricultural census. In
order to answer all of the questions
intelligently, the farmer will have to
think about the matter a little before
the enumerator calls on him. He ought
70 give the enumerator the most accur-
ate information he can. What the indi.
vidual farmer tells the enumerator is
likely to benefit any number of other
farmers 1t is not too early now to
get the facts straight in your mind
Dried orange and lemon peel nr5
good substitutes for kindJiny wood.