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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-10-16
Public Heath Work Features
z4 . y Celebration Program Today

Public health work is h subject Of
the program this Afternoon for the
\, ~ Federation r. NWomen's. clubs
Ii, annual session III. the. Presbyterian
church. Miss Eva Andersen, chief Of
divisionsof the RadsCIoss;;tDr. Francis
r .sSr1yth, Of BiSInAnSSk; Dr. Jealnette
Throckmorton HMages :Moines. Iowa,
and Dr.. Ida N: sNexAnder of. Bis
Y1arckNweres gfvenIplAeSA on the pro
grarn,>Ewhich is ore ofIItheF most In
teresting' and contpIetes$ thatSaSts 10,
cha 'acterixe the sessions. .53eiSss
This evening the sEndowmsnt9Fund
program; will BIO given at Woodwork
auditorium. when. a trio of original
plays will e presented by University
students, The curtain ris'at 8: o'clock,
and: because of limited space at the
Woodworth. auditorium, only club
wn:nenswM be, admitted. b.
.4Thrift,"
Friday morning at 10: Is. Miss. Hes
ter. M, Pollock Of Minneapolis, direc-
tor! OF women's activities, Ninth fed
eral district war savings organization.
will give an address on Thrift" At
the present time this ia a subject OF
vital Importance, m Miss Pollock has
a message that will interest all think
ing women
At noon on Friday the visitors and
delegates will be the guests. of honor
at a luncheon in the Commercial club
building. The luncheon will be fol-
lowed by a sightseeing tour about the
city. this having been postponed from
Wednesday afternoon.
Club Reports.
Reports Of the club districts were
given in four-minute talks this morn
ing. The various districts are headed
by Mrs. F.. ". Cunningham, Larinore;
Mrs. James Measher. Mohall; Mrs. H.
p. Hon,nes, Crosby: Mrs. H. J.. Boil
ley. Fargo: Mrs: ". p. Hopes, Car
rington: Mrs. W. M. Hutchinson. La
Moure: Mrs. j.. H. Davidson. Mercer;
Mrs. Mark Jones, Beach. Reports in
Dictated that the various districts have
been doing excellent work, n that
they are nov lending their Efforts to-
ward the promotion of interest in
Americanization and general COM
mun!ty service. Child welfare. work
has been done by clubs in many Of the
districts.
1t is interesting to note that twelve
new clubs have, Joined the North Da-
kota Federation family during the last
year. report Of this being made yes
terday morning.
"Amcricanization.,'
Characterization" around which
the activities Of women's club:
throughout the, country is centered
was given further place on the Fed
Grafton program, this morning. I
was presented as the club problem
and discussions of its phases in the
school and in the home, were giver
by Mis- Minnie Jean Nelson, and Mr.
A. A.. Bruce, respectively. MissfN Mel
son. as superintendent of public in
struction. is urging a broad program
Of work in this direction, through thu
IN which the home women may hell
in the Americanizing of their foreign
born. neighbors. Mrs. Agnes Rex o
this city spoke Of social service in thu
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or INTEREST 70 WOMEN

Pembina; Mrs. M. b. Farmer. Flax
ton: Mrs. Grant Hagar. Grafton; Mrs.
B. Prom. Milton; Mrs. w. II. Boden-
staub, Bismarck; Mrs. u II. .Jardfnes
Fargo; Mrs. George Wheeler, Fargo;
Mrs. III. M. Stroud, Wimbledon; Mrs.
]. =. Featherstone, Valley. City; Mrs.
Shippy, Hope; Mrs. Watson, Hope;
Mrs. J.. D.. Van Fleet. Minot; Mrs. T.
N. Putnam, Darlington; Mrs. r. E.
Walker, Mrs.s.C K. Wing, Darlington;
Mrs. Anna Linwell. Northwood; Mrs.
j. LaMoure, Pembina; Mrs. Erick
Rather. Walhalla; Mrs. Jennie Kelly,
Lakota; Mrs: A. III. Smart, Lakota;
Mrs j.. d: Harvey, Mrs. o. Lesson,
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those receiving the literature pass it
on to any others who may be inter-
ested in the training of little ones
from four and a half to six years Of
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CLUB WOMEN HEAR
GOOD ADDRESSES

In. an address at the Presbyterian
church last night, Fred Clayton But
Ter of Washington, d. c., urged upon
club women and the people of North
Dakota. the need of lending their
best efforts toward the work of Amer
i%canizing the foreign born citizens of
the state.
there are more than 100000 people
in the United States either illiterate
or unable to read and write the Eng
fish language, Mr.. Butler pointed out.
In North Dakota. Mr.. Butler de-
scribed the situation in the terms:
According to this census of 1910,
11.45 per cent Of all h people in
either illiterate or unable to under
stand the English language; 1900. of
your people were entered as illiterate:
35,582 could not read or write the
language Of u land; 1852. of your
! people are semi-blind and semi-deaf.
More than the entire urban popula-
ton of sth state excepting only the
city of Fargo, one-fifth of your terri
tory peopled in effect by illiterates.
This is your part of the national
problem"
Miss Minnie j. Nelson introduced
Mr.. Butler. During the evening Mrs.
]. H. Steele of Bismarck sang, and
Miss Blanche Leigh led community
singing Mrs. George w. Plummer
Of Chicago gave an address on Rec
reation' before h club women on
Wednesday afternoon. emphasizing
the fact that they could be real fac
tors in building up community life.
She urged the need Of community
sings, dances, pageants, n asked
her hearers to devote more of their
time to helping the community
play" Mrs. Plummer was engaged
in recreational work among the SOL
diers and sailors in Chicago.
Mrs. Plummer referred during her
address to the United States training
corps, formed for the promotion and
maintenance of the health Of women
in this country. OF interest ais on
the Wednesday afternoon program
were the informal talks by Mrs.
Frank L. White and Miss Hazel Mel
son of Valley City, the former nav
ing been hostess in New York for the
North Dakota men returning from
overseas, and Miss Nelson having
served as a canteen worker in France
Miss Nelson with Miss Della Linwell
of Northwood. was selected to repre-
sent the North Dakota Federation of
Women's Clubs in the federation unit,
which worked with. the 7. NJ G. A.
E0YerHeaS. ~
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Mrs. H. F. Corrigan and two little
sons. Billy and Ray, arrived in the
city yesterday and are guests at the
home OF. Mr.. and Mrs. ,Thos. Mccoy,
31S North Fourth street. Mrs. Cor
rigan's mother, Mrs. P. j. Hogan, &C
companied them and will visit here
for several days with friends.
+ \ +
Miss Ella F1adeland, who has been
a patient in a local hospital, has re-
covered sufficiently to return to her
home.
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Appendicitis Fatal
to Mrs. Slaughter

Mrs. Elizabeth Slaughter, aged n,
of 315 Wilson street, died yesterday
afternoon at 5:45 O'Clock at Cook hos
pital where she underwent an opera
ton for appendicitis few days ago.
Mrs Slaughter was taken i'll about
ten days ago and removed to the hos
pital for treatment.
She was the widow Of Marion
Slaughter, who died in May, 1889 and
was before her marriage a Miss
Sprout. No children survive her.
She is survived by one brother,
Isaac Sprout, and two sisters, Mrs
Melinda Carter, of Braxton county,
and Mrs. Rebecca Daugherty, OF
Clarksburg. Mrs. Harry Harshbarger
of the East side, is a niece Of the de-
ceased. A relative, Lee Slaughter, OF
Murray, also survives her. The hus-
band Of the deceased was a soldier In
the Civil war.
The funeral will take place on Sun
day afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock from the
Diamond street NJ. E. church of which
the deceased was member, and
burial will be made in Maple Gro-e
cemetery by Undertaken Fred Je1-
kins,
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"a MEXICAN PoLICY NEEDED.

lAYI EXICO has eaten the dish OF crow prepared by
law Secretary Of State Lansing and jenkins is free.
cyices so far received are lacking in details but the
order to tum the American out Of the pentenary seems
b have come from the judge in whose cou the action
against him originated but whose initiative is not APP
parent
Car1anza after the matter turned over to him by
he action Of the Mexican senate, disappeared into the back
round and if he had anything directly 10 do with the
eashshng he is trying TO keep that fact from becoming
generally known This relieves for the time beng the
seness in the relations Of the two republic, but the en-
incident has had reactions in The business life of Mex
10 and this country which will be felt for long time.
The big question is, why do they do t2 hey may
Believe IN Mexico that it strengthens their position in the
void periodically 10 square off and make faces at their big
iehbor But they ought to know that the inevitable crawl
leaves them weaker than ever before Moreover some day
Hey will get into position from which no amount OF
abascment will be able to exncate them.
Meanwhile the government at Washington ought to
ealizeshat it is high time settled policy with regard to
Mexico is fixed upon In this matter at least we should
take leaf out of the books of European governments and
dept settled program based upon sound principles OF
craftsmanship and exact justice which the GIBBS and flows
6f party politics in this Country not disturb.
In other words what is needed above all other things in
Ills Mexican matter is to take it out of our domestic poll
ties h has been kept there for almost century and be-
cause has the Mexcans have out guessed and out man
uyereds In pretty much the humllang fashion that
smooth manpuaors at the court of the Sutans of ur-
KY for many years previous to the breaking out OF the
ereat war Gpessed the situation in Europe 10 their own
advantage.
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but no mater what scme souT-yls aged fanahcs may
ssay 70 lie contrary. Il s. he hut MOVIES may giSs
exaggerated ideas about some thing Wild tanpestis
Gus life Of The cowboy for instance Of the SSies Of the
yrulent vampire but all these things aside Tie MOVIES
have done and are doing immensely more good than they
are doing harm,
Let's look INTO the matter for just moment or Two.
The moIe, We 6nd DO theiE most good among families
Husbands who never used to take their wives anywhere
in the days before screen entertainment now take Friend
Wife regularly once week or more TO the Neighborhood
Playhouse Parents who formerly had very little in COM
mon with their children now enjoy The pictures as much
as their youngsters and frequently take the children to the
heaer with them. Grandmothers who used to think their
days were past vie with their grandchildren in their ad-
miraton for the leading stars.
Never has there been anything which gave families such
wholesome pleasant entertainment and which has brought
families such delightful common interest And if that
isn't having mighty benedcent influence upon American
life. what is1
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IS THRIFT A MATTER OF sAvlWC2

WE'VE ali heard about the little scoms that grow
w into oaks--aso about the acoms that the hogs ate
It's somewhat the same with money. Shall we plant it or
give it to the hogs? If we take fvedollar gold piece.
for instance and spend for spade book-too Of
sone sore Rrs pIar6rg il where will a:ow and null
tply We use the tool or training to produce goods
or money-or both. Its true thrift
IT, however. we spend that FIVE dollar gold piece for
bon bons OF theater tickets or something up without
getting anything productive in return throwing the
seed away.
Five dollars spent for tools may easily bring return
Of 500 with great and lasting satisfaction, doing good
work with tools Five dollars spent for rich foods will
bring indigestion, ineficiency- perhaps the DOCTOR
Thrift not matter of pinchng pennies cutting corners
and going without the joys of life not evena matter
of skimping or saving
Thrift is spending ensibly-gettng dollars worth
for your dollar 1t is buying the things you really need
food and shelter and without extravaganza
1t is taking the surplus that is left and planting it
seed is planted where it will grow and multiply.
1t is looking at dollar and remembering how the acorn
will become the great oak if we'll plant it and give it
chance.
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In deciding yesterday to ask Department heads to
reduce their estimates for next years appropriations
Republican leaders in congress did emnently wise
thing. Under the loose system which prevails in the
national government and until recently prevailed in all
the state governments department estimates pur
posey made high the theory that after the law max
ors had finished their pruning they would be about
what they should be- That would not have been so bad
had it not been for the fact that the law makers almost
inevitably cut down the wrong items and added to
those least entitled to Increases Endless confusion and
rank extravaganza was the inevitable result. Asking
the department heads 10 do their revising is not
of course as good adopting budget system but it
ought to serve to save the taxpayers several hundred
millions. And that is very much worth while,
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RUFF STUFF
Ishkina Is free.

Jenkins is free.
That may have seemed like good
iuck to him but II adds one more to
ne list Of almost great.
IL war had happened between this
ountry and Mexico he would have
been quite as famous for all time as
that earlier Mr. Jenkins who once
ansear.
Down Paw Paw way the folks say
they did not wait for the snow to
hole up for the winter.
They claim they are afraid to trav-
lei on account of that slip at Paw Paw
stop 50 they have decided to stay at
home and study radicalism this win
Santa Claus also has turned profit
Ger Il only. part Of the reports that are
going the rounds are correct.
TO . ~
Speaking of Santa, what has be-
come IL that highly interesting organ
zation Of people who called themselv-
spugs?
They might get new lease Of life
e they were to try it again this year
The French have gone wild over the
success Of their favorite pug in his
fight with the English champ:
And just as soon as he finds out
low many good American dollars he
can get on the head of 1t he too will
grow wild over II.
The vets have started a court &C
ton 70 compel Secretary OF State
Lansing TO cancel his proclamation an
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Two senator's have been to the White house in con-
sultaton with the President upon matter Of great
Importance and they saying that while it is
evident Mr. Wilson has been very sick and is yet
far from recovered from the effects he is mentally alert
and perfectly able to cope with QUESTION with which
he might have to deal Now what will the yellow news
papers who have been printing stories of quite different
import and the spreaders of generally do to
square themselves? Probably nothing.
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like tool nj III al the polio mont b
5ientt md pdrI6 lines aIDnnd
aS6rt; ana then halt exasperz
ated and half amused when tound
that they were utterly helpleg 70 pre-
vent d crank from getting inside atteE
all
P. ST. endorse two original poems
by Nick and Archie. They refer,to a
Dit Of unhappy advice gave them,
because OF which / fell into rlcniy
merited disgrace with mother. Nick
has been spending three days or so
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SOOS9VGE

.JosEpS guckLlS BlsAon

again, instead Of like a temporary
QWelIlng.
Leo is as cunning as ever Pinck-
ney went to see Allan yesterday and
said he found him las busy as a bee
in tar barrel" and evidently owning
all the trainers house. He is not yet
quite fit to come back here.
Today is Quentin's birthday. He
has cold, so he has had his birthday
cake, with the six candles, and his
birthday ice cream, in the nursery,
with Ethel, Archie, mother, Aunt EN-
lily, myself, Name and Georgette as
admiring guests and onlookeTS.
4 Presidents Poor Protection.
WHITE HOUSE,
Nov. Is, 1903,
Dear Kermit:
I It was very sad at Uncle Gracie's
funeral; and yet lovely, too, in way,
for not only all his old frienSs had
turned out, but all OF the people con-
nected with the institutions for which
he had worked during so many years
also came. There were good many
OF the older boys and employees from
the Newsboys' Lodging House and the
Orthopaedic Dlspensary, etc Uncle
jimmy possessed a singularly loving
and affectionate nature and never
knew any one who in doing good was
more careful to do unostentatously. |
had no idea how much he had done.
Mother with her usual thoughtfulness
had kept him steadily in mind while /
have been governor and president;
and | now find that he appreciated
her so much, her constant remem-
bTances in having him on to visit us
on different occasions. 1t was les
son to me, for should probably new
er have thought of it myself; and, OF
course, when one does not do what one
ought to, the excuse that one erred
from thoughtlessness instead OF
wrong purpose Is Of small avail.
The police arrangements at the
church were exasperating to a degree.
There were fully five hundred police
men in the streets round about, just
as If there was danger of an attack
by a ferocious mob;' and yet though
they had throngs of policemen inside,
too, an elderly and harmless crank ac-
tually got inside with them to present
me some foolish memorial about cur
ing the German EN- 6eror from cancer.
Inasmuch as whaf we needed was,
not protection agd inst mob, but a
sharp lookout for franks, the arrange
mept out Ny RICH b to have been for
fifty policemen outside and two or
three good det4 ives inside l felt
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REFLECTIONS
BY ALFRED MEYERS,

1t Is the opinion of Judge Shackel-
ford Of Winchester, KY, that profiteers
would be shipwrecked "if the public
would cease spending money like
drunken sailors
1t is the higher number of divorce
cases which helps keep High Society
In the limelight.
Coal famine may shut theatres in
St. Louis. Curtains may not roll up
because miners have their sleeves
rolled down.
Raise goats and reduce the high
cost Of living, l read in newspaper
So far we have been made the goats
upon whom the high cost Of living
thrives.
City women with their silk stock
ings and flimsy gowns, live longer
than their sisters on the farms, says
Health Commissioner, DR., Copeland
OF New York City. In other words by
raising nothing, cur city women raise
their lease OF life
"A few more such statements by
men like Dr.. Copeland and there will
be inaugurated a with their back to
the farm movement By our COW milk
ing sisters
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nounclng that the prohibition amend
ment has been ratified.
They'd better watch out.
Lansing has been having a tough
time Of it during the last year.
Has been doing a lot of things he
did not want to do.
And he may hand this booze bunch
a good stiff one Just by way Of easing
up on his suffering feelings.
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Dear Kermit:
/ was much pleased at your being
chosen captain of the Seventh. had
not expected It, I rather suspect that
you will be behind in your studies this
month. If so, try to make up next
month, and keep above the middle OF
the class If you can. I am interested
in what you tell me aboutithe Sir CAL
ahads, and 1 shall want tP talk to you
about them when you cofe on.
Mother is back with Aunt Emily,
who looks NSery we'll. 1t | SO nice to
have her. AZ for mother, Of course
she makes tAe 3use feel like a home
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Flying five miles up in the air has become common
place, but philadelphia who went down into the
sea off the coast of Massachusetts $50 feet yesterday is
said to have made new record. 1t gives mental
Jolt TO BIO reminded that little progress relatively
speaking has been made along line that has been un
der investigation since the dawn Of written history.
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Alexander Berkman, who began yesterday the first
lap of his journey out of this country, predicts that
there will be revolution in this country within five
years. If Berkman were bit less preoccupied he would
realize that revolution is going in this country all
the time That is what makes the American form of
government the best EARTH and perhaps the hardest
for people of the Berkman type to get control of.
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MOVIES AND LIFE.

ONE day some wise old man, with chin whiskers and
half the alphabet after his name, will write about ten
Of psychological philosophical stuff 10 prove that
beyond tie shadow Of doubt, the movies have had and
sge having benefcent influence upon American life.
hat sounds perhaps somewhat like broad statement
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Hls Failed

Young Woman (soulfully)-Life is
ono grand sweet song.
Old Bach (do!efully)-Yes, but some
of us have very poor voices. --Boston
Transcript.
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A purchaser Of an old Arab musket
in IN antique shop in Paris discov'
cred In tho barrel Of 1t 24O valuable
turuuoises, all Of beautiful color.
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Dear Kermit:

Dear Kermit:
Didn't tell you about Hector, Brier
and Sailor Boy (dogs) when saw
them on election day They were in
excellent health, lying around the door
of Seamans house, which they had
evidently adopted as their own. Sail
or Boy and Brier were exceedingly az
fectionate; Hector kindly, but unin-
terested.
Mother has gone off for nine days,
and as usual am acting vce-mother.
Archie and Quentin are really too
cunning for anything. Each night l
spend about three-quarters Of an hour
reading to them first Of all read
some book like Algonquin Indian
Tales, or the poetry Of Scott or Ma
caulay. Once read them Jim Blud-
soc, which perfectly entharlled them
and made Quentin ask me at least a
hundred questions, including one as to
whether the colored boy did not find
sitting on the safety valve hot have
also been reading them each evening
/ from the Bible. 1t has been the story
Of Saul, David and Jonathan. They
have been so Interested that seyera.
times l have had to read tuem more
than one chapter. Then each says his
prayers and repeats the hymn he Is
learning, Quentin usually jigginG
solemnly up and down while he re-
peats it. Each finally got one hymn
perfect, whereupon in accordance
with previous instructions from Moth
er l presented each of them with a
fiYe-cent piece. Yesterday (Satur-
day. | took both of them and Ethel,
| together with the three elder Gar
| field boys, for a long scramble dow.
Rock creek. We really had great fun.
Quentin's sixth Birthday.
WHITE HOUSE,
Nov 10 1902
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A niece Of human bone WIN sup
port half as much weight again as
a piece OF the best oak OF the Same
thickness.
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Stranger Than Fiction.

Mrggins-Scrlbbler has abandoned
fiction. Efc is now writing advertise
ments.
Hngg;ns.--WhGt dye mean. a5an-
doned e:ctior?..-Philadelphta Record.
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Joy over a Football Victory.
WHITE HOUSE,
Nov. 4, 1908,
Dear Kermit:

Dear Kermit: No..
Tonight while 1 was preparing TO
dictate message to Congress con-
corning the boiling caldrOnf 0n the
Isthmus of Panama, which has now
begun to bubble over, up came one Of
the ushers with telegram from you
and Ted about the football match. In
SANITY l boIted into the next room
to read it aloud to mother and sister,
and we all cheered in unison when we
came to the Rah. Rah! Rah! part Of
It, 1t was a great score. | wish /
could have seen the game.
Vicc. Mother Of the Children.
WHITE HOUSE,
Nov. ID, 1903.