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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-10

Little wonder such a specifically
good case can be made for intrusting
all thinking about affairs of state to
those with the 'know how"-affairs
of state so commonly violate common
sense and common dec eency and these
two things are what the common man
has to depend on.
There is the case Of the coming
French elections, for instance. France
must have nationwide election soon.
Now the common man would naturally
think that the men who fought so
heroically in the great war for democ-
racy would be given an opportunity
to express their views on the subject.
Very foolish. The common man
doesn't know that the French soldiers
are overwhelmingly opposed to the
present French government and that
it would, therefore, be foolish for this
government to allow them to vote.
The soldiers will not be de1nooilized
until after the event, and Clemenceau
is very doubtful if any system Of SOL
der voting is practical.
Paul Scott Mowrer, well known
press writer for the big press, in re-
porting the matter says:
'.In the ears Of few intimate
friends M. Clemenceau whispered:
After all, I am doing the deputies q
favor if I announce the elections be-
fore rehabilitation. The poilus
would vote against them. It is one
million hostile votes less at the polls.
Lloyd George worked the same trick
IN England last fall and thus won q
"great' victory over the Labor party,
The common man simply cannot ap-
preciate this strong-arm democracy
which spits in the faces Of men who
make the great sacrifice. That is why
our controlled press has so many sto-
ries about how naughty the common
people are acting il Europe
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QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

Q. What are some of the birds that It is
desirable to exterminate IN. y. v.
A. The Biological Survey. of the depart
ment Of agriculture, has made a very care
full study of birds to determine which OF
them do more harm than good. 1t makes
out q clear case against the English spar
row, and recommends tts destruction OF
fifty varieties of hawk, three kinds, the
Cooper hawk, the sharp Skinned hawk, and
the goshawk, are outlaws while all others
are helpful. The crow does about as much
good harm, as does the blue Jay. All
other birds are helpful to men.
Q. What branch of the army stood high
est in the psychological tests given during
A. The best ratings were attained by
the engineer corps.
Q. What nation first adopted khaki for
use as army uniforms "A. ].
A. The British forces in India originated
the use OF khaki informs in the eighteenth
century. Tho word khaki Is an East
Indian word meaning "ground-color." The
cannot be readily seen at distance. 1t Is
an early example of camouflaEe.
Q. What was the shortest time in which
a ship ever crossed the Atlantic rs. ]. w.
A. The record is held by the Mauritania,
of the Cunard line. which in September.
1910. made the trip from New York to
Queenstown in four days. ter hours and
forty-one minutes.
@ Are there any communities in the
United States where one may get married
without a license ?-M. ].
license must be secured before a marriage
ceremony may be performed anywhere in
the United States.
tAny reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
journal Information Bureau Frederic j.
full name and address and enclose three
cent stamp for return postage. Re brief.
All inquiries are confidential, the replies
being sent direct to each individually
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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL.

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offe-,.d the unlimited Use Of the largest H.
formation bureau in the world.
This Service Rureau Is located tn the ma
ti,,p.,i capital where II is in immediate
touch with all the great resources OF the
Emitted States government.
II can answer practically any question
you want TO ask, but--it can't give au-
Vice nor make exhaustive research.
The war forced SO many changes 10 the
daily life Of the American people that the
services Of this Information bureau VIII oe
tuva!unble TO a.i who use IL.
Keep N touch with your government al
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Write yuur request briefly. sign your
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feel the God of Right in someone
else?
You will have TO suffer for most of
your decisions. because of the inabil-
ity of others to understand. but as you
become schooled in the business OF
self honor and self dependence. you
shed a fine CLEAN of light into the
world and make people want TO fol-
low your lead.
But Nature Is very exacting. Itself
playing no false notes, it asks you
not to.
There is no more pitia able character
to be found than the one moved by
every within and fear-afraidi TO take
a stand because of the multitude OF
! They Says" which crowd lfe's foot
! path
Thru the heart of every striving
man flashes the light of Vision, like
a saarchlight. to guide him II he will
Nature is stern-hut very kind
Hers is an accumulatin. urge. stay
ing the wrong step here and there. hut
offering her succor in the spirit oil
pure interest and love.
Study AL NatuTe-yeur Nature
and try to make all-that you are and
| feel melt in with the best of all
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIT MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: You ex-
pressed a desire for readers to give
their opinions in regard to soldier
husbands and war brides.
I am married woman but stili
very young. Married life has been a
problem for me, for I married in haste
only to find out soon after that 1t Is
not a love marriage on my part, but
on the other hand L have a model hus-
band, one of whom any woman might
be proud. IEt
1 am most unhappy. I am married
and 1 must abide by the laws of God.
So it is with soldier husbands. The
fact that they are soldiers does not
give them the privilege to marry
whom they please and later discard
her for another. They should be
soldiers in more than one way and
live up to their agreement. Marriage
is a sacrament and should be treated
as such. OF course this applies to
girls also.
II young people would only take adj
vice and learn the difference between
true love and merely infatuation.
how many heartaches would be saved.
ID DAILY READER.
Thank you for your Interesting let
ter. There are many who agree with
you, that altho a mistake has been
it and make the best out of their lives
together rather than break their
vows.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: have a
boy friend whom I like very much,
but my mother does not like to have
me go with him. I told this boy
mother did not like him and he has
never called up and asked me for a
| date since. WheE we meet on the
street we always speak to each other.
Do you think If I were to send him
a birthday card he would think ]
Just sent it because 1 wanted him to
! start going with me again? Or would
he realize that I just sent it to let
him know I thought of him?
PUZZLED BROWN EYES.
Send the card IL you want to-. do
not believe he will think you are run
ming after him.
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because he said so-that the women
ought to be nationalized. Understand
that? Make the property of the men
equally, like the food and the clothes
and the houses and automobiles He
said it was too, early to spring that
idea yet, but it would surely come"
Billy tried to say something. but the
little wife kept on. BILLY, didn't
tell you before, but twice that black
devil has tried to pick me up on the
street. Yesterday. when he got up to
leave the car. he grinned at me and
winked, and he said out of the corner
of his mouth as he passed, Pretty
peach!' Billy Noxon. do you want me
NATURALIZATION Saunderson? Are
you for the Bolsheviks or for me?"
Billy Noxon found Saunderson in
the yard, next day and hammered him
for five minutes. He told him that
he'd lick him every time he saw him.
Wherefore, Saunderson is now agitat-
ing elsewhere. and there hasn't been
any strike in the yard. Maybe every
thing is not exactly as it should be as
between labor and capital, but as be-
tween Billy and Elsie, Bolshevism
hasn't a look-in.
Copyright, 1919. BY the Mcclure News
paper Syndicatc.l
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THE PROMOTERS WIFE
NEIL FORBIDS BARBARA TO GO
TO MRS. ORTON'S PARTIES.
CHAPTER c.


Neil scarcely spoke all the way
home. But I tried to talk to Mr.
Frederick altho 1 felt very little like
able to think he had seen Neil drink
ing too much. I couldn't help won
dering also what he must think of
me for going to Mrs. Orton's. I real
lied perfectly that he knew / had
received no invitation That while
she had made the others, even Neil,
think she had invited me, he knew 1t
was not so.
With his usual kindness, however,
he tried to put me at ease by talk
ing of the latest play and other things
unconnected with what had happened
that evening. I was glad when we
reach home Altho Neil was cross
and rather surly 1 felt happy to think
he was with me, instead Of with those
other women at Blanche Orton's.
What in the devil did you come
over there for?' Neil asked.
And why shouldn't I go where you
do-especially when itehappens to be
to visit a widow?''
well don't do 1t again! 1 won't
have you trailing me-
1 started to deny that I followed
him, then thought better of it and
said nothing.
81 won't have it. do you hear?"
Eyes, Neil"
"See that you don't let It happen
again. Those people aren't the kind
1 want my wife to associate with.
Blanche is all right, but the others
aren't your kind" He yawned pro-
digiously, and I hurried to bed with
out replying. There was no use argu-
ing with him in his present condition.
The next morning he woke with a
headache, but insisted upon getting
inc 70 "a nffino did NJ
urge him to remain at home. He
had acted anxious and disturbed for
days. Perhaps his affairs needed his
attention, and if kept him at home,
he might blame me. Aunt had an
noyed him with questions, until as
l went to the door with him he said
in an exasperated whisper:
''Why doesn't she go home? She's
staid long enough"
Neil acts peevish. He must be Ill
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
The blessing OF Povcrty-2.


And, after all. the great adventure
is the quest that ambition leads man
on, and the most absorbing, and fas-
cinating, and thrilling game in the
world are>the moves by which one
achieves success. This great Joy of
life the poor boy knows, and the rich
boy is cut off from knowing, and it
is not the poor boy who is the loser
in real happiness. Let mother also
consider this,
OF course there is no reason why
the rich boy should not be as ambi-
tious, and achieve as much as the poor
boy. Logically he should go farther
Only in real life he hardly ever does.
You could count up on the fingers OF
your two hands almost all of the men
who are the sons of rich fathers who
have made great names for them>
selves in art, or literature, or music,
or finance. but It takes the whole his
tory of the world to record the names
of the great men in every line who
sprung from the depths of poverty to
a place in the sun.
There is something deadening in
riches. Luxury wraps us in slothful
ease that we have not the courage to
gle and suffer when we don't need to :?
What's the use?
But poverty is a spur in our sides
that makes us speed up. The desire
for the luxuries and comforts that we
can only get by our efforts drives us
on. 1t is necessity that is the mother
, of achievement.
Besides this, poverty teaches some
thing that is not in the books. 1t is
the university of hard knocks in
which a man learns to read the heart
| of his fellow man, to know its noble
| ness and it's meAnnesS, its craft and
guile and its simplicity, and from 1t
| he learns tenderness, sympathy and
understanding.
That is why genius has nearly al
| ways been Graded in poverty instead
| of palaces, and why those who can
| play upon our emotions as upon a
! harp with a. thousand strings, are
almost invariably the men and women
who have known and suffered every
| hardship themselves.
| So let no woman who has talented
child beTnoAn herself that it's genius
| is being blighted by poverty. Pow
erty is the forcing house of genius
| and if her son or daughter really has
| the divine flame she is giving it the
advantage that no rich mother could
| give her child. for wealth may
smother genius. Poverty never can.
The mistake that poor mothers
make is in plying their children for
being poor and teaching them to pity
themselves and to feel they are handi-
| capped. Just the reverse of this is
true. Therefore mothers, stop talking
| to your children about the misfortunes
of povery. Talk to them of the OPP
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MY HUSBAND AND |
BY JANE PHELPS

am sure he is overworl1ing," she re-
marked when I returned to the dining
room where she was drinking her
third cup of coffee. I felt like telling
her it was wine instead of overwork;
wine, and her questions. But / re-
strained the desire, and proposed we
take Robert and go to the park for a
morning walk. 1 felt choked in the
house. I wanted to think, and could
always think better out of doors. 1
had twice tried to do something to
help Neil, rather to put myself in a
position to help him, and had failed
both times. Was there nothing could
do, Was I to make a faux pas of
everything I undertook?
1t was nearly luncheon time when
we returned to the house. To my sur
prise I saw Nefl's hat and coat on the
rack in the hall. I called, then went
to the library. Neil lay on the divan.
his hand shading his eyes He neither
moved nor spoke when I went in. !
laid my hand over his and asked:
What is it. dear? Are you ill?"
mot" shortly.
Can 1 help you. Neil? I wish you
would tell me what is worrying you.
know something isl / added in re-
Spouse to q dissenting gesture.
'No-let me alone"
1 went quietly out and closed the
door. 1 told his aunt he still was suf-
/
not join us at luncheon. The tele-
phone rang two or three times but
would not disturb him, altho his office
asked for him.
Have him call u.s." I recognized
the pert stenographer's voice.
II can't get any peace even al
home" be grumbled when 1 gave him
her message. But he went into the
hall and answered the call, carefully
closing the door so that 1 could not
hear. At least that is what thought
When he returned he again threw
himself down upon the couch. He
looked so worried. so anxious that my
/: heart went out TO him. and I kissed
him softly. telling him how I loved
: him, and that l always should. no
matter what happened. Then 1 told
{ him how sorry 1 was that ever had
! d:spleased him by going to his office
and by taking that letter.
IT was foolishly jealous of Mrs Or
ton, Neil. I am not any longer and
want you to forgive me. and love me
as you used to-"
(Fomorrow-Nei tells Barbara tina,
he wants her to give a smart affair. }
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NATURE AND YOURSELF.

The nearer you get to Nature and
its laws and ideals, the nearer you
get to know yourself.
Nature doesn't hide things First of
all she is truthful.
The reason why the child is the
most honest Breathing thing in the
world is that it has not been infiu-
enced by false standards and ways
it lets its nature out as it is. because
all that it is is part of what the
Mother of all Nature gave it.
The lily has no objections to coming
up and living its life right next to a
swamp. Because every growing flower
is IN accord With its nearest kin and
its own world.
There is only one standard of right
for anybody, and that is the feeling
that what you do is right
Nature tell every honest man what
to do. If he fails he goes against his
own supreme 1aw-which is the great
est in the world for him.
Most people seek the interpretation
of their own desires from others who
know nothing dLcJs their desires. All
that they can q, is to ask in blank
for who is 1t who is wise enough to
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The D6ok and the Pritty Maid
A Play
Scene. Pritty maid milking a cow
on a farm and dock wawking up.
Dock. Its a fine morning, izzent it,
my pritty maid
Pritty maid. It's all rite.
Dock. How would you like to take
wawk with me ana pick flowers on
the hillsides and places?
Pritty maid. Id rather stay rite heer
and milk this COW.
(Which she does.)
Dock. Wy? The COW don't seem to
like it SO mulch. 1 don't heer her
purring or enything.
Pritty maid. A COW amt cat.
Dock. How would you like to give
me kiss?
Pritty maid. Id rather stay rite heer
and milk this COW.
(Which she does)
Dock. o bewtiffll maid. how virtu-
Gus you are, and everything. How
would you like to marry me and be a
dutchess with so meny Jewels you
couldn't hardly stand up strate il you
had them all on?
Pritty maid. Id rather stay rite here
and milk this COW.
(Which she does.)
Dock. please marry me.
Pritty maid. Like nit.
Dock. Alas, watts the use of being 8
dock?
Pritty maid. No use as far as In
concerned.
Dock I wish I was cow. Good by
| Pritty maid. Good by.
The end.
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THE PEOPLE AND THE LEAGUE

The attitude of the American people
toward the League of Nations is set
forth concisely by the Buffalo News,
which says:
The Knox resolution. designed to
give notice of the opposition of the
United States senate to the acceptance
of the league of nations covenant
along with the peace treaty, probably
will be permitted to die in committee,
because now that Germany is about to
accept the treaty terms it has no pur-
pose to serve.
The fight against the league will go
on. but it is doubted that the general
| public will enter at all heartily into
the campaign of opposition. The
American people are for the idea of a
league of nations and they have no
great fear that it will place the United
States in a position where it can be
coerced by the votes of other nations
They do not fear that it will tend
to nullify the authority of congress
nor that 1t will interfere with any ma
| TONS domestic affairs, nor that it will
lessen the force of the Monroe doc
| trine. In the main they consider that
IL will operate to restrain and prevent
| aggression.
The American people may not con-
slider that the league of nations is all
that Viscount Grey says it is-''a
choice between life and death to the
world"-but they do consider that II
offers some assurance of the security
| of peace; and nothing else does. They
| would permit the league to come Il
birth and see what development is pos.
/ sible. They would give it a trial. Il
II does not operate TO secure peace
and justice. we can get out of it.
/ What opposition to the League o.
Nations there is in this country is con
fined almost wholly to congress and Il
based on what is regarded as politica
expectancy. 1t originated in desir'
to make of the league covenant a par
tisan issue. The effort to defeat tn,
league seems destined to fail.
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The Industrial and business outlook
daily Erows more encouraging. The
unexpected is happening in several di-
rections. The Decentralization which
the cancellinG of war contracts was to
bring has rot materialized on any ma
tionnl scale. Unemployment, which
was viewed with grave alarm. has been
Kept remarkably we'll within bounds.
General business. which it was felt
might go to pieces. has Kept up phe-
nomenally. Indeed. the trend already
Is towards boom times. Luxuries as
well as necessities are in keen demand
turnout most sections of the country
More people than ever have surplus
money to spend today, and they are
spending it. Tor has the unexpected
collapse in prices occurred. The be-
lief is gaining ground, says Forbes
Magazine. that there will not be any
radical decline in costs.
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1864 per 100000. and from tubercu-
losis OF the lungs. The death rate
from tuberculosis of all forms de-
clined continuously from 200.7 per 1907
goo in 1904 to 141.6 per 100000 in
1915, the decrease amounting to nearly
80 per cent; but for 1917 an increase
is shown. Until 1912 more deaths
were due to tuberculosis than to any
other single cause, but in that>year and
during the period 1914-1917 the NOR
tally from tuberculosis was less than
that from heart diseases. and in 1917
it fell below that from pneumonia also.
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Is YEARS AGO In. TOPEKA
From fhs columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

June 90. 1904.
There will be a blf bicycle racing event
here on the Fourth of July. 1t wifi be q
handicap road race. tho riders starting
from Tepth and Kansas avenue, riding
south to Pauline, and returning to the
place Of starting. There are eleven prizes
offered BY the merchants Of the city
The fo1l9wihg wheelmen have entered
II. D. Crosby. Phil Eastman, y H. White.
Louis Jones. +. u. Dreisbach. A. F. TsyloF
q. y. Barteil. ). G. Duckworth. Arthur
Rarteil, VIII wikfdal. G.. c. cIaudy, Geo.
T. Lille. Geo. j.. Harrison. walter II.
Vesper. Louis WikldaI, +. NJ. Tipton and
J. 6. Cole.
DIR. Clarence s. MeClintock has gone q
Colorado to spend month.
The rain yesterday afternoon seriously
iptPrefered with the driving party which
Miss May Lange intended giving last even
ing for her guests. Miss Emma and Perry
Barber, Of Lawrence. The guests were en-
tertaiued at Miss Lsnge.s home how
ever. Those present: Misses DHssy Star.
Fanny Sibley. Daisy Gsrretson pe-rf and
Lille Mcfarland. Ida EerreH Grace (oi
Inns. Josephine Dietrich Marrarrt Beaf
and Messrsf Harry. Nichols, Harry ana
Isert White. David Sibley. VIII Reed. Fred
Dennis. Ernest Couccil, Lee Forbes and
John Collins.
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In its pessimism as to the labor sit
uation, the administrationat Washing
ton did not take into consideration the
immense amount of building the coun-
try needs Immediately. 1t is an
nounced that 100 new hotels are need
ed in New York City alone, and that
thousands OF other hotels are needed
turnout the country. And that is only
one branch of American enterprise
Tho principal trouble today is not to
find jobs for the men but to find men
for the Jobs. Washington could not
foTesee such a situation.
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Strenuous efforts are being put forth
IN various quarters to perpetuate the
federal employment bureau. 1t is
about to be forced out OF business by
a lack OF money and congress is being
besieesd for an appropriation. The
bureau primarily is designed 10 find
Jobs for the soldiers. It is reported to
have 10000 persons on its payroll. II
could show its interest in the soldier
IN no better way than by dischargins
these 10. 900 employees and filling their
places with service men. II this were
done perhaps the public would feel a
greater sympathy for the bureaus call
for funds.
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An employe Of the postoffice depart
ment is quoted as saying that govern
ment operation of the telegraph sys-
tenn has cost the taxpayers at least
100000. He was evidently speak
ing only of the cost thru taxation.
There is, no way of estimating the
cost thru impairment of private bust
ness. failure of private business deals
loss thru delay. halting of industry
thru uncertainty. not to mention pro-
family.