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The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
CHOLERA INFANTUM TAKES
THREE FROM ONE FAMILY

One Of the most heartrending cases
in the annals of northeastern Mon
tana occurred at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Alvin Chambers, who reside
about four miles north of Thoeny,
when they lost three of their young
children in less than a weeks time
An account of the death of their
five-year-old daughter was given in
these columns last week, and since
that time two more of the little ones
have passed away Allen, six years
old, died Monday night and was bur-
led in the Thoeny cemetery on Tues
day, and Robert, aged about three
years, died Wednesday evening and
was laid to rest in the Thoeny ceme-
terry yesterday afternoon. In each
case death was directly due to an at
tack of cholera infantum. There is
but one child remaining in the fam
lily, an infant.-Hinsdale Tribune.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
REAL PIONEER PASSES
OVER MONTANA TRAIL
Makes Trip Through Treasure State
in Auto; First Trip With Wag-
on Train in 1851.
Shot Guns

Glasgow was honored this week by
visit from one Of the real pioneers
of the old Indian days, when Mrs. A.
Balch of Centralia, Washington, pas
sed through here with her son, H. H.
Balch, Mrs. Balch and George Ed
berg, father of E. A. Edberg of this
city.
They are making the trip over
land by auto and the elder Mrs. Balch,
who is IS years old, informed Cour-
ier reporter that this is the first trip
she has made into Montana since pass
ing over the Great Northern trail with
a wagon train of one hundred and
seventy-five wagons in 1851. The
party was almost entirely made up of
emigrants from Missouri and it took
them nearly two years to make the
trip from the starting point to the
present townsite of Portland, Oregon,
where they camped for some little
time before proceeding to the point
where Centralia, Washington, now
stands.
Mrs. Balch stated that it took them
six months, with OK teams, to make
the trip from the present site Of the
city Of Portland to the Centralia site
and that she afterwards made the trip
in one day by auto.
The trip across the Montana prairies
was long and hazardous one, said
Mrs. Balch, and it was necessary for
the men of the party to arrange the
| wagons in circle around the camp
every evening to guard against ma
rauding bands of Indians.
The fact that this is her first trip
over Montana since 1851 makes it one
of unusual interest and delight for
Mrs. Balch and despite her advanced
age she is enjoying it immensely and
says she "never felt BETTER"
The party will leave this week for
Minot, North Dakota, and will return
to Washington after visiting the Vel
lowstone park and other points of in
terest.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
"THE COMMUNE"

We now have Communist Party
in this America of ours. A group of
aliens, alien either by birth or by
mental attitudes, have had the brazen
effrontery to organize themselves
with the avowed purpose, plainly stat
ed, of overturning the American gov
ernment.
1t is hardly necessary to say that
the gathering was held in Chicago, the
city that has been repudiated as a
meeting place by Il 3 American Legion
until it has cleansed itself of certain
taints upon its loyalty The Com
munist" gathering adds another
blotch to Chicagos shield.
Doubtless the gentry gathered to
overthrow the government would have
averaged much higher than one brain
lesion per delegate
A gigantic cage dropped over the
gathering would have held patients
in plenty to have filled a good many
observation wards and padded cells.
The emblem of maddened Russia
was adopted by these Communists"
who preach blood and fire and the
Red Terror. Some Pickering CLEAN
Of sanity caused them to vote down
a suggestion that flaming torch be
added to their emblem.
A Commune in America! In the
free America of Washington, Jeffer-
son, Of the old sages of the constitu-
tion, Of the America that fought four
years to end human slavery. that freed
Cuba, that has fought an unending
and growingly successful fight against
privilege, that went to Europe's aid
a short two years ago.
Commune" a word that flashes
across the brain the pictures Of red
capped mobs drinking blood in the
shadow of MADAME Guillotine," of
fighting in the streets, cobblestone
barricades, Of the ruin of churches,
schools, works of art, of the triumph
of blood and lust over order and law.
No wonder that one delegate pro-
tested that the word commune" would
strike terror to the American work
man! 1t will if he has the brains with
which he is justly credited.
The American farmer will recall
what the Commune" has done to the
European peasant in the matters of
throats cut across the farmhouse
threshold, of barns burned, fields laid
waste and granaries looted.
Just the same the menace is lurk-
ing in America. There is sort of
hysteria among employees and employ
ers that gives the I. w. w., the
"Communist" and the "One Big Union
list" chance. There are a good many
people with brain LESSONS and neurosis
in America.-From The st. Louis Re-
public.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
RACE DRIVER INJURED
ON POPLAR TRACK

Henry Westra, Poplar's daring mo-
tor car driver, had a narrow escape
about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
at the fair grounds when the steering
device on his little Ford racer broke
and the car turned over twice. Wes-
ira was hurled to one side with ter
rifle force and is badly bruised up,
although he is not seriously injured
and is able to be around.
His right leg is mass of black and
blue marks and his left foot and his
back are also bruised but he says he
will be ready for the. big races next
week when he is to drive the Jensen
speed demon. The accident happened
on the east end of the track at time
when Westra was hitting up a pace
of 55 miles an hour. The track is in
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
THE FARMERS AND THE
RAILROADS.

The Oklahoma Farmers Union is
entirely consistent in it's stand con-
cerning the railroad brotherhoods' plan
for government ownership of the rail
roads. In resolutions adopted at their
meeting at Clinton, the members OF
the farmers union put forward this
proposition:
eff congress in it's wisdom sees
fit to give these railroad men their
demands, we ask that congress
shall also buy all Of the farms in
the United States, with their
equipment, and employ all of the
farmers to operate them, paying
to the farmers a wage equal to
two-thirds Of the hourly wage
that the average railway employe
receives; and then sell all farm
products to the consumer at
cost"
The alternative proposition of the
farmers is just as reasonable as that
advanced by the railroad unions. In
fact, more reasonable, because in the
case Of the government ownership of
farms, the product would be sold to
the consumer at cost; whereas the
railroad unions propose that the rail-
roads be run at profit and that they
be given large share of the profits.
In their proposal, the farmers agree
to give all the profits from the farms
to the public and still be content with
an hourly wage equal to two-thirds
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
A LA VALLEY COUNTY NEWS.

A pioneer newspaper editor had a
reputation for always assuming in
fallibility and superior enterprise. On
one occasion the paper announced the
death of William R. Jones, who, it
turned out, was not dead. Next day
the paper printed the following note:
yesterday we were the first news
paper to publish the death of William
R. Jones. Today we are the first to
deny the report. The Morning Star
is always in the lead"
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
"GREATER THAN THE Gov
ERNMENT.

The cause of the league of nations
is greater than the government" says
the president. We always thought
the league would overshadow the gov
ernment, if it ever got started, so we
are rather anxious to have it's limits
carefully prescribed before it gets 60
ing. And perhaps we'd better take
more time to study it's limitations, and,
in order to do so, eleminate it from
the peace treaty and take it up as 4
separate subject.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

North Dakota's returned war heroes
have been forced to rather unpleasant
reflections. 1t is difficult for the
Townleyites to make them see the re-
lation of the American ideals for
which they fought in "Bloody Bel
GUM" to the strange and weird hal
lucinations of Utopia with which the
minds of the North Dakota radicals
seem affected. The return of these
soldiers, which should be an occasion
of happiness, has been made a pente-
cost Of calamity and gloom. To be
forced into position of "square
peg in a round hole" hardly seems a
fitting reward.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
BIG ANNUAL FAIR AT
POPLAR this WEEK
First Annual Roosevelt Fair and In.
dian Harvest Festival Sept 49,
20.-Splendid Attractions.

The Annual Roosevelt County Fair
and Fourth Annual Fort Peck Indian
Harvest Festival is being held at Pop
lar this week and several Glasgow
people are at the reservation town ta-
king in the event. The show opened
yesterday and will close tomorrow eve
ming, the goth.
Splendid attractions have been book
ed by the management of this popular
fair and three days of real entertain
ment is promised all who attend.
The Poplar fair has always been
we'll worth attending as the manage
ment and the business men of Poplar
have reputation for "always deliv-
ering the goods" when it comes to
entertaining a crowd.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
AND THE GREEN GRASS GREW
ALL 'ROUND.

Because j. R. Waters, drawing
$4,000 per year as manager of the
Bank of North Dakota, thinks he
should have more salary than his first
assistant, F. w. Cathro who receives
only $4,000, there is the making of
a fine little row in the Townley camp.
According to good reports, Waters
wants a salary Of $4,000.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
l. w. W. MENACE GROWS
IN NORTH DAKOTA

The l. w. w. menace is growing
over the state, particularly in the
larger cities, where they practically
defy the city authorities. They have
the consent of the state administra-
tion to hold their meetings wherever
they wish, and it makes them pretty
cocky. Stores and banks have been
burglarized, holdups pulled off and
ladies walking on the sidewalks forced
to take to the street or stay at home.
And the end is not yet.-Westhope
Standard.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
MALTA PIONEER DIES.

E. j. Tunison, one of the pioneer
business men of Malta, died last
Thursday afternoon after brief ILL
ness. Mr.. Tunison settled on home
stead north of Malta in 1910 and short
ly after that opened an implement
store in that city.
Several years ago he was struck
by lightning, which left him lame, and
he has not had good health since. He
had been in the hospital for few
days, but was said to be improving
and had gone to the home of H. S.
Munson, where he died.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
LOST FROM AEROPLANE.

Mrs. M. N. Stevens of Harlowton
has the unique distinction of being
the first lady in the state to adver-
tise in the lost and found columns un-
der the heading show above: Mrs.
Stevens lost fur stole while making
an aeroplane trip from Harlowton
to Billings and carried the lost ad.
in the Billings Gazette.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
of what is paid the average railway

of what is paid the average railway
employe.
OF course. the farmers are really not
so selfish as to insist that the masses
of the people go heavily into debt to
buv the farms and insure the farm
ers a high wage. They simply pro-
posed-and justly-that if the people
bought the railroads for the railway
workers, they also should, as a mat
ter of fairness, buy the farms for
the farmers.
While presenting their alternative
proposition in order to show by COM
parison, the injustice of the railroad
, brotherhoods' plan, the Oklahoma
Farmers Union at the same time went
on record as being opposed to any
form of government ownership of the
railroads.
"Wo view with alarm and op-
pose any government owership
of railroads." says the resolution,
''and we especially oppose the
Plumb plan (the railroad brother
hoods plan) of buying the rail-
roads by the United States gov
ernment at the public expense,
turning them over to the railroad
employees and guaranteeing to the
employees that whatever wage
they demand will be paid"
If the masses of the people are to
pay for buying the railroads for any
class of workers, it would be better
to buy them and donate them to the
farmers. The latter are more inter-
ested than the railroad workers in
guaranteeing to the public an unin-
terrupted operation Of trains and an
efficient service at the lowest cost.
Or, the railroads might be bought
and donated to the carpenters or the
bricklayers or the laborers who are
engaged in manufacturing automo-
biles or other special products. The
railroads might just as we'll be donat-
ed to any of these classes of workers
as to the railroad employees, if the
masses of the people are going to foot
the bill.
1t is significant that while the rail
road workers insist on sharing the
profits of the railroads, they do not
propose to share any deficit that oc-
ours in operating the roads. The rail-
road employees do not intend to stand
any loss, but to make their earnings
as high as possible at the expense Of
the public. One of the brotherhood
leaders objects to the plan of putting
railroad profits back into the rail
roads in the form of Improvements.
If the government-ownership, profit
sharing plan We're put into effect, it
is possible that the railroad union men
would divide the railroad profits
among themselves and their operators.
Then if it was found necessary to
make improvements they would issue
bonds and thus make the public pay
for the improvements.
Although any form Of government
ownership of railroads is unthinkable,
the plan proposed by the railroad
brotherhoods is the worst yet brought
forward. 1t is especially vicious be-
cause it proposes legislation for a
particular class of workers and pro-
vides that these workers shall be Civ
en- special benefits for which the great
majority of other workers will pay.
The railroad employees constitute only
about three per cent Of all employees
in the United States. Yet they insist
that their will shall be supreme over
all.-Oklahoma City Oklahoman.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

1t is with great relief that we well
come the News clearing house for
post dated checks. Now if their sphere
of operations could be made compre-
hensive enough to include few checks
that we have which are more post
poned than post dated, we could, in
measure, overlook few of Wild
Bills sins.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

In recent issue of a metropolitan
newspaper, we noticed an advertise
ment setting forth the information
that at an assembage of the repre-
sentatives of typographical union of
western state, there We're four hun
dred printers in attendance And the
only beverage was Bevo. Boy! Page
Annanias.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

Most all the other beautiful
things in life come by twos and
threes, by dozens and by hun
dreds. Plenty of roses, stars,
sunsets, rainbows, brothers and
sisters, aunts and cousins; but
only one mother in all the wide
world.-kate Douglas Wiggin.
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The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

Chicago washerwomen have gone
on. strike for 81 per day and the noon
meal. Heretofore, they have been re-
ceving So day and carfare. Won
der how many of us will overlook
Fortunes latest alarm at our front
door.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

The United States treasury vaults
have got to have 81, 100000 in repairs
and additions to hold the coin with
which they are now bursting. The
sad fact of it is that if the govern
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

ment's obligations were paid its large
pile of money would be hole IN
the ground.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

Does anyone now recall what it was
that Sherman said about war prohibi-
ton?
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

Wen tell you who gets the great
est amount of fun out OF LlFE-the
man who has the greatest curiosity
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

Seriously now,, shouldn't there be
some sort of income taN legislation for
the post dated check profiteers?
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

Weather reports from Poplar are
"fair."
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

O, SAY CAN YOU SEE?
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palm
er says he can see the high cost of
living dropping.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
A CI\CII BET.

A CINCH BET.
1t is funny world we're in
You're pretty safe to figure
That if you tell a fish tale,
The News has one that's bigger.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19

Business is rushin' with the Rus
slams. 1t consists chiefly of rushin'
from one place to another.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-09-19
with

good shape and Wera declares the
accident solely lar STANDARD
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-01

the facts, figures and experience to
make the state plan the success in
Ohio that it is
Employers and employees alike are
being Victimized under private con-
troll by lawyers fees and insurance
companies profits alike. Mr.. Duffy
said. When the state plan was first
proposed in Ohio insurance men
claimed it was the entering wedge for
socialism. They said that if the plan
were permitted by the state then. that
in two years more the state would take
over the factories, mills and mines.
The insurance men called the plan a.
"beast of socialism,.
"You insurance men," said Mr..
Duffy, lied this beast by uncompen-
stated injuries and deaths. Those who
would prevent progress usually clas-
sify all progressive moves as the
ugly beast Of socialism, But you
can't throttle: the just aspirations Of
humanity. Without paying for it in
revolution"
Mr.. Duffy finished by telling how
the state plan, had saved the people
of Ohio $7,000s000 since inaugurated
He showed that the state plan is OPP
Grated. at an expense of :311a per cent
Of the premiums collected; while .ex-
pense Of the Insurance companies is
admitted to be about 40 per cent. .
Following the talk by: Mr. Duffy
Tuesday evening persistent attempts
were made by the paid representa-
tiVes of the Insurance Federation of
Minnesota to dfscredit the splendid
address he had made. Fred L. Gray
and G. H. Napkampen; both of Min
neapo1is, admitted representing the
Insurance. Federation, the yorganiza-
ton Of insurance companies seeking
to defeat state operation of compen-
sation. State Senator G: r. Fowler, a
reactionary. attorney from Minneap-
oils, sat and counseled with the in
surance agents. ~:: =: -:
During his talk Mr., Duffy had
spiked the argument that state oper-
alton destroys the incentive to greater
effort by stating that seeing mangled
and suffering victims of: industrial &C.
cidents furnished this incentive.
DO11 yOu hllOW, 4ucI1cu Mr.
Vankampen, the paid insurance COM
pany representative, that our inves-
tigators: under private control are
constantly visiting the very homes of
these injured workmen, thus getting
this incentive?"
'Nope," shot back Senator Mike
Boy1an. N.Y. experience has been
that these Investigators are paid to
go to the homes to try to get some
thing or affect some settlement
whereby they can. beat the dependents
of the MANNED workers and thereby
save money for their employers, the
insurance companies"
Mr.. Gray attempted to make capital
out of one case in Ohio where the
claim. Of an injured worker had been
disputed by the state commission.
Il can cite hundreds of cases where
the insurance companies have tried
that in. Minnesota" Senator Boylan
retorted.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-01
MINE: OPERATORS RESORT
-. . TO old time TACTICS

sHAMOKIN, Pa, Feb. 2s:-At a
meeting of organized miners in this
city, representing district No: 9, pro-
tests were made against big: coal COM
panies that are importing; labor into
this region at "a time when hundreds
of experienced mine workers are idle.
1t was stated that many of the old
employees have been suspended to
make room for the new arrivals.
A. resolution favoring federal con-
troll of the mines and appealing to the
government to take over these proper
ties at once was adopted. -.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-01
UNION OFFICER DOUBTS
" YOUNG JOHN DIS ALTRU|SM

NEW YORK, Feb. 72S.-The .altru-
ism Of John D. Rockefeller, jr, is
doubted by Timothy Healy; interna-
tional president Of the Brotherhood Of
Stationary Firemen and Oilers.
Mr.. Rockefeller is given much pub
licity because Of his talk about the
republic of labor but in a local
newspaper President Healy says Mr..
Rockefeller has wiped OUT locals of
the: Stationary Firemen's union in
.Bayonne, N. j.; Point Breeze, Pa;
Greenpo1nt, N. Y; Whiting, Ind; Port
Richmond, Ind, and other places.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-01
CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL.

CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-As a re-
suit of the back-to-schoo1 drive con-
Quoted by the children's bureau Of
the department of labor it has been
found that 1895 Texas children failed
to enroll in any school last year.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-01

AT THE ZELDA FOR FOUR DAYS
BEGINNING SUNDAY, MARCH 2.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-12-15
pROFITEERING.

One of the most fragrant cases OF
prcfiteering is in fuel Gil Since the
coal shortage fuel oil has been boost
ed in price from $1.10 per barrel to
$4.25 and users of this kind of fuel
now find themselves staring ruin in
the face 1t is said that the federal
government has taken cOgniZance of
the matter and will prosecute. High
way robbery has become tame since
the new game of charging all the
traffic will bear became popular
Cedar Falls Record.
And some coal retailers are not en-
tirely free from suspicion. Right here
in Webster City retailers have charged
as high as $3.50 per ton profit on car
load lots. and that, too, when the prlr-
chaser unloaded and delivered the
coal They are simply taking adj
vantage of the needs of the people
The public must have coal regardless
of price. The fuel administration
ought TO protect the consumer in times
like these by limiting the profit any
body handling coal can exact.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-12-15
DESERVED 1T.

Federal Judge Myers is the right
kind of an American and isn't mealy-
mouthed when entertaining anarchists
and other enemies of government.
When old woman Goldman and old
man Berkman appeared before the
judge asking to be allowed to remain
in this country, he talked to them il
this wise:
"The court views these defendants
as enemies of the United States and ,t
the peace of the country. :. AZ the pc
ginning of the war these defendants
tried to prevent carrying out Of the
seiective draft service act. They did
everything they could to destroy the
welfare, the stability and :he integrity
of this government, and the court re-
CARDS their actions rs every hit rs had.
every bit as inimical TO the govern
mept. as were the acts of the common
enemy, the German empire
Judge Myers is right about ii. These
pests ought to be driven out of the
country and kept out. That sort OF
treatment should have been accorded
them years ago. If it had there would
be fewer of the menace left to disseml-
nate the doctrine of bolshevism. anar-
chy and government by force of nobs
and lunaticS.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-12-15

If, as some of his republican critics
have not hesitated to intimate. Presi-
dent Wilson is mentally incapacitated
by his recent illness, and if by single
act he has settled the coal strike. af-
ter all the rest of his official family
both branches of congress. all of the
governors, the courts and the miners
officials had been wrestling with it in
vain for over a month. what does that
indicate as to the mental resources of
the cabinet. the members Of congress,
the governors, the judges, the miners
officials and the operators Mitchell
Republican.
it indicates that the president. if he
could settle the strike by single act,
was certainly in bad physical condi-
ton during the six weeks that he fail
ed to act.