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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-13
Bond to GiUe
Park Concert
Thursday Night

The Grand Forks Municipal Band
will give a midweek concert at Gen.
raj park on Thursday evening Direct
or e. A. Moses announced this o +
ing. -. s
The greater part Of the program
played at Central park last Sunday.
will be repeated, in response to sever
al requests which have been received
Mr.. Moses said. The numbers were
particularly well received. and some
Of the popular encores given on the
program also will. be repeated.
The concert will begin at 8 o'clock.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-13
To Canvass
City Vote Tonight

The official canvass of the votes
cast In the recent city election on the
commission form of government will
be made tonight at an adjourned
meeting Of the city council.
The canvass will follow the presen-
tatton OF the report of the committee
appointed to inspect the vote at the
last meeting Of the council.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-13
Heavy Rain Delays
. Pathfinder Start

On account Of the heavy rain which
swept North Dakota early this morn
ing the pathfinder car was unable to
leave As scheduled to blaze the trail
for the Commercial club Booster trip
through Northwestern Minnesota,
which II to be made next Friday.
1t 10 expected that by Wednesday
morning the condition Of the roads
VIII be such that the start of the
pathfinder will be possible.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-13
A CONSIDERS
BIDS ON ROAD WORK

Bids Of federal aid road project No.
Ala were opened today by the board
Of county commissioners, meeting at
the court house. The bids were being
considered this afternoon, and it was
expected that the contract would be
awarded this afternoon.
Federal aid project Ala considers
a state highway which will extend
between Thompson and Northwood.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-13
SERVICES D
FOR F. W. BIRKHOLZ

Funeral services for r. W. Birkholx,
pioneer resident of Grand Forks
county, who died last Saturday. were
held at 2:30 O'Clock this afternoon at
his late residence two and one-half
miles south of the state university.
Rev. F. W. Buegel Of the German
Lutheran church of1ciated and inter-
ment was IN Memorial Park cemetery.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-13
Important Meeting
OF Legion TONIGHT

An important meeting Of the Grand
Forks Post, American Legion will be
held at the Commercial club rooms
this evening at 8 o'clock, and all mem
bers urged to be present.
# 10 probable that the election of
delegates to the state convention at
Minot, and . number of other imnort-
ant matters will be taken up at the
session, and a full attendance is there
fore desired.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-13

living room with his four year old
child on his lap when struck. A tele-
phone was on the wall at his back.
There vas a. sharp streak of lightning,
a fash from the telephone and Capra
screamed.
He fell to the floor. The noise arous-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-13

Herald Want Ads Bring Results.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
GOOD TIMES

IF THE awful consequences of the new
L traffic in wood alcohol disturbed the
equanmity of radical prohibitionists, the
sights and sounds that greeted the New
Year in Philadelphia, New York and
other cities at midnight must have re-
stored their courage and warmed them
with a new sense of justification.
If you are to imagine the young new
year getting out of train or a taxi and
hesitating tremulously on Broad street
or Broadway with a reverent conscious
ness of the trying job that awaits him,
you will have to imagine him dazed and
despairing for the moment at least. Were
these crowds, bilked by hcadwaiters,
plundered by hatboys, handing out money
in clumps to meet the dazzlingly new item
of "corkage," to be the only instruments
of the high purposes that must be his?
One need not. mourn for the folks who
strove so laborously and at such great
cost to have a good time. A great many
people enjoyed themselves last night
even if they are not enjoying themselves
today.
What must have distressed any calm
observer who wasn't at the center of the
carnival was the green innocence that
masquerades as sophistication in this our
land and the abjectness of a familiar
type of American in the presence of those
whose business it is to impose upon him.
Corkage. 1t is a grand new term of
piquant significance and tingling promise,
but it is only another word for fashion
able graft.
1t is the charge of 81 or SO or So
bottle imposed by the cabarets for open
ing, serving and garnishing the hard
liquor brought by patrons to their tables
for the debut of 1920.
1t is the grandfather of all "gratuities," !"
the supreme penalty visited at last on
that irresponsible element in the popula-
tion that has made life in America Just
one tip after another. The money was
paid without murmur. And the peo-
pie who flocked out to see the New
Year in and who insisted on their right
to see two years where onlv one should
be got what they deserved. There is
no fight left in them.
Somebody ought to tell the little New
Year that America isn't really in the
cabarets. And somebody ought to teach
the Anglo-Saxon how to have good time
without finding himself i'll or broke the
next day The English are sad at their
pleasures. Americans seek enjoyment
with an air of grim determination. There
must be better ways if some one would
lead us TO them.
Real whisky, according to all reports,
cost SIS quart in New York yesterday.
Corkage at restaurant table added 81
to the price of each bottle. seat at a
able cost S5 Walters exDected S5 each
for guarding the stuff. Yet nobody
thought of even whispering a complaint
about the high cost OF high old times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Member, of the Associated Press
land A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

VCUR wishes for happiness cannot
= make new year happy for anybody.
Happiness must be earned. Many people
abandon It in giddy chase after imita-
tions. 1t is more elusive than riches,
harder to attain than virtue. Some peo-
pie go wearily back over the road and
find it where they threw it aside, because
it is thing that often may be discerned
only through tears.
Wish for those you esteem a patient
New Year or wise or tolerant or char
liable or unselfish or kind New Year.
Such are the approaches to happiness.
So we wish for everybody who reads
this page and everybody who doesn't;
for all who agree with our opinions and
all who do mott
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

the printers strike, the steel strike and
the coal strike, to mention only few,
indicate an alarming unrest. 1t is con-
ceivable, none the less, that all these
movements are but preliminary steps
toward an era of readjustment which will
strengthen the social structure along
lines which will make the past efforts
of labor and capital seem unenlightened
and crude.
Venomous and houndering political OBJ
structionism, unexampled prosperity and
uneXampled high prices are also on the
crowded national scroll of 1919. The
verdict that the year was disgraced be-
cause of the treaty deadlock is common
1t is yet too early to say whether it is
fully deserved. Should the agreement
now well in sight, be achieved, December
in retrospect may not seem so doleful
after all
The events of the last year cannot be
logically judged until they are separated
into two classes-those which merely
mark stages in development-wheth
upward or downward it cannot yet be said
and those which are distinct finished
products. Of this latter class nearly all
the high lights are encouraging.
The loose ends trouble the calamity
howlers. 'Tis ever thus. One of the
arguments on behalf of the artificial di-
vision of time which gives us a New
Years Day is the stimulus invested in
a clean slate. AS we are somewhat
humbled now and by no means as unrea-
sonable as we were year ago, when the
expectation that the peacemakers could
also make over mankind was abroad,
there is chance for 1920 to show up
rather well.
For all our follies, we have been think
ing somewhat seriously about the prob
lens to be considered in the new twelve
month. This is an excellent start for a
program of solution.
Should that materialize there is even
a chance that the exaltation at some
future date of 1919 as wonderful year
might be greeted with something else
than 'scorn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
A New Year Romance

The emaciating routine of business caused
US to travel to New York the other day on an
early train, and we impinged upon a little
romance that is to reach its consummatlon
today.
A pleasant young fellow was sitting in the
same seat in the smoker, and as the tram
pulled out of West Philadelphia he asked us
''Do you know anything about New York!
"a little we replied modestly
How do get to the City Hall:" ne said
We told him, wondering just what
stranger in Manhattan might want at the
City Hall. We could think of two or three
possibilities. but presently another question
made the matter plain
"Where is, this what they call the Little
Church Around the Corner"
Again we told him. smiling inwardly. lie
brooded while in silence About the time
the express made its customary unscheduied
stop at Princeton Junction he returned, a
bit bashfully, to the subject
"What do you suppose would be the
chances of getting ceremony performed
there?"
We replied that we understood that this
famous church was always anxious to obige.
We then felt that it was our chance to con
graduate, which we did, and asked if he was
going to meet the lady in New York.
oh, no, ne SalQ, i III just SOlHS oNet
TO get the license. The girls in Phily."
"I'm afraid you may have trouble" we
said, and explained our impression Cgathercd
from personal experience some years ago.
that in New York both contracting parties
have to appear before the license clerk. This
rravelled him somewhat, but then he cheered
up. "There must be a lot of good natured
T lanes in New York" he said, maybe | can
get one of them to go with me and pretend
TO be the lady"
This seemed to us a good idea, If the de-
tails were carefully rehearscd with the
obliging Jane in question.
Now we are very discreet, and it does not
seem fair to us to intimate just why our
friend was seeking the license in New York
nor to which hotel the happy couple are
planning to eope, nor why it is that the
brides parents will not know anything about
it until next spring. 1t makes quite little
romance. as W. w. JaCobs's night watchman
used to say All we intend TO do here is wish
them Happy New Year, for if the plan
works out they are Mr.. and Mrs. by this
time and have their seats for an amusing
! show this evening. We parted from our
| friend at the Hudson Terminal, and he set
| off TO hunt for n good natured stenographer
| who would go to the license bureau with him.
| We even suggested one or two Offices where
VIC thought he night find some one not too
| naughty, some one with a genial heart like
Mr.. Haywards Camille on the comic page.
| We hope he found her.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
PRETTY BABY

DRETTY Baby! Hope begottep,
l. We can think of none but you;
For the old year is forgotten
While we're welcoming the new.
Pretty baby! There is laughter
In your eyes, you little cuss.
We can't dream of sad hereafter
While yod slyly look at us.
Pretty baby You are smiling.
Will you ever learn to scold?
Are you simply hope beguiling?
Will you love us when you're old?
Pretty baby! Bring us plenty!
May your days our ailments cure =
Kiss us noo, dear Nineteen Twenty!
Youths a stuff will not endure ss
GRIF ALEXANDER
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
A Rhine of Highways

MARKET, Arch, Race and Vine,
A'4 I have walked till they are mine,
Where the hundred lands combine
Trcsses sleek and leonine.
Noses snub or aquiline,
And the arc light thrills like wine
Over many blazing sign;
Where the trolleys whizz and whine
And the movies are a shrine
On Market, Arch and Race and Vine
NHESTNUT, Walnut. Spruce and Pine
" Stiff and stark and straight in line
Are mems houses ESQ is mine)
Where / see the cool sun shine
On fair faces proud and fine
And the delicate design
Of the lusters crystalline
In the lalhplight when folk dine
In the counties palatine-
Chestnut Walnut, Spruce and Pine,
ROY HELTON.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
THE COUNCIL CAUCUS

TINE selection of Mr.. Weglein for the
4 presidency and Mr.. Burch for the
finance committee craftsmanship at yes
terday's caucus of the majority in the
new Council indicates that Mr.. Moore's
supporters are working harmoniously for
the purposes represented by the inde-
pendent movement at the recent election.
If the voters were permitted to name
officers of the new Council they probably
would have selected the men chosen
yesterday.
That is more than ever could have been
said of Council caucuses in the past.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
NEW DANGERS FOR OLD

SACCHARIN is derived from coal tar.
~ 1t is cheap sugar substitute which,
taken in minute quantities for limited
time, does no particular harm. Con-
sumed regularly in any considerable
quantity it may have bad effects.
This chemical is now being furtivey
used in sweet beverages vended in the
poorer sections of the city and even at a
few of the more pretentous soft-drink
bars. Prohibition on the one hand and the
sugar shortage on the other have tempted
manufacturers to resort to it, The only
penalty for the general use of saccharin
as a sugar substitute is fine.
The food laws should be immediately
revised to provide jail sentences for those
excepting registered physicians
who feed saccharin to an unsuspecting
public, since some manufacturers have
been finding it more profitable to submit
to fine than to limit their business.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
CooLIDGE UPSETs SOME PLANS

THOSE favorite sons who have been
= planning to tie Calvin Coolidge to the
tail of their kite to give it the necessary
balance will have to make some new
plans.
Coolidge has definitely declined to per-
NIT his name to be put on any primary
ticket as a candidate for the vice presi-
dency.
Massachusetts has already indorsed
him for the presidency. There are men
in other states who look with favor on
his candidacy. They will be gratified to
discover that he has the nerve to insist
that if he is to play in the orchestra at
all it will not be as second fiddle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Social Chat

Herbert johnson, the notably agreeable
cartoonist, smokes the same kind of to-
bacco that we do. Having profited by this
fact, and also by lavish entertainment on
Herbert's part about the lunch hour, we
feel that we ought to do the handsome. We
say that if were cartoonst we would
like to be just the kind that Mr.. Johnson is.
Robert Norwood, the eminently broad
minded dominic, drinks TWO cups of tea at
lunch, just we do Again we feel it nee
eSsary to acknowledge this compliment, and
say with perfect candor that If we were
a parson would like to be just the kind
of parson that Mr.. Norwood Is.
brarian and Frank II. Taylor, the generous
natared artist, both get their telephone
calls through the Woodland exchange, which
we therefore nominate as the best one in
town.
G. 10 and G II, the comfortable seats at a
certain theatre, were satisfactorily filled by
this department at a performance of Dear
Brutus," and we only wish that there might
always be Barrie play running to keep
them so occupied.
Until we borrowed copy of Sir William
Oslers "Counsels and ideals" from library
tllt olhoi udS, IL ndu not Deeh TAKEN out
for six and one-half years, which seems to
us to prove that the aspiring reading public
does not know what is good for it,
The finest book of poems published in this
country in 1919 was written by William
Rose Benet and is called Perpetual Light"
You may have no hesitation in knowing that
it is the finest as it has not been praised
by the professional poetical coteries.
On a restaurant menu card on Chestnut
street we found the following sentiment:
There IS romance of business, and
heroism Of business, that literature tOiH
yet take note of.
70 which we might add that literature
itself also contains some romances and hero
sms that business might do we'll to note.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Portrait of a Lady

(CourteSying 10 Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
uOME they brought her hubby dead
IL Drunk as in the days of yore
Not a single word she said,
Neither bawled him out nor swore.
T1HEN they cussed him, soft and low,
l. Called him an unfeeing brute,
Wicked sinner, cause of woe;
Yet she did not scream nor hoot.
DUT when all had gone away,
- She began to treat him rough;
And the ncghbors heard her say,
"Tell me where you got that stuff -
WILL LOU.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
PEP All PIERRE

TF. 1T is left exclusively to Hiram W..
johnson, California will not have to eX-
perience the agony of going Democratic
next year. Announcement of his candidacy
for the presidency comes from that
fair haven of political knights Grant
Pierre, South Dakota--where the requi-
sit< preliminary papers have been filed.
Should nomination eventually follow,
California may be safely ascribed to the
Republican column. Native sons will be
enabled to rally round native son. The
menace of Japan will be faced with fear
less oratory. Anything so preposterous
IS league of international amity will
shrivel before the tempest.
With thirteen electoral votes solid for
the Sacramentan, the Golden State will
no longer be compelled to bury it's treas
ure, nor to squander it as in 1912 when
the hauteur of Hughes necessitated those
grudging ballots for the migrate of the
White House.
4. If the Republcanism of the nation
II bealizes at last that it was those thirteen
NJ ties which swung the last election to
oodrow Wilson, it will be a simple mat
- n now to follow the lead of California.
AZ IL fact, prizes for anything more simple
-. ny be cheaply offered.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

must submit just as the states that OBJ
jected to the anti-slavery amendments
have submitted. We have majority rule
and what the majority wants it can get
whenever it desires it, provided the ma
jority is big enough and persists in its
desires long enough. The constitution
is the creature of the people instead of
the people being the creature of the
constitution.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Message Accurately Reported

The first lady of the land sets an example
of accurate and verbatim reporting that we,
as a newspaper man, are glad to commend.
For in writing to some children in Washing
ton to express the Presidents thanks for
flowers they had sent, she said MAY not
assure you of the thanks which he would like
SO much to send to you?'
The hand is the-hand of the Mssus, but
the voice is the voice of Woodrow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

The best description of the Carpenter
Beckett fight was written by Bernard Shay.
and the second best by Arnold Bennett This
drives another spike, we hope, in the old and
vicious doctrine that the only meritorious
news writing can be done by trained report
ers with long newspaper experience. For
our own part, II the Carpenter Dempsey
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

- ':ns", fStSME one has challenged the statement
ing her ~ ~ OF ". H. Anderson, of the Anti-Sa-
-----nsoon League that there is no limit to
"a .onhat the American people do with
Starn that doeamsns respecting s equal s repre re,
sentation in the Senate
cesTEstAs sg; believes that amendment over
4 81 <uent would be valid and whether he
thinks a limited monarchy could be set
" uP or the Supreme Court could be
ahtlished.
CT 1nese questions based on a misap-
prehenson of the origin and nature of
4 Srn.e the constitution. Every one who under
piisd stands that document also knows that
4 A@ save for the change in the representation
4 ofan0 of the states in the Senate it can be
Eaone peaceably amended by vote of three
fourths of the states in any way in which
- n that three-fourths pleases
T-sf We abolish the presidency. We
u<vcan Net up in Washington a reigning
4 ofamiE. We can make the Supreme Court
4 X%nlEervient to Congress- We can deprive
W &efngress of its powers interstate
yentunerce. We can authorize the states
d. sesise armies for national defense and
.3A forntain navies. The constitution is not
I NON eore haitjacket in which we are bound
ssnfo,n external force. 1t is the creature
- I.Yv ne people, subject to their control
sys.ls desirable TO keep this fact in mind
PENN META days when men saying that the
,1.b -, aitory amendment is "unconstitu-
pssm Z on the ground that it invades the
- Of the states. The states have
NJ, q sd TO that invasion. all but three
&ess =, and the three objectipg states
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

The President, we are grieved but not
surprised TO learn, overtaxed his strength
on his birthday, There comes n time to
most of us when birthdays become "consid =
erable of strain
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

The fact broke into the news yesterday
that the federal district attorney ''got
move on" (Tip to Doubling Thomases He
was dodging an automobile.)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Desk Notices

l bow not down to any book.
No written page holds me in awe:
For when on one friends face look
read the Prophets and the Law.
ROBERT NORWOOD.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

AS a method of training one s self to write
vivid, harmonized and logical prose, the COM
position of free verse has considerable merit.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

new Chicago daily announces that 1t
will print no crime or scandal news. Fvi-
IDENTIFY going to keep out of politics.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

When the Rotary Club has father
and son luncheon it hews to the line let the
chip of the old block on its shoulders fall
where it may, or words to that effect.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Controversy Deprecated

Dear Socrates: | see that some lady
wrote to you about the question whether
women should be taken along on a walk
ing trip By all means, is my advice, but
merely as scenery.
VETERAN OF THREE CAMPAIGNS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

The prohibitionists will be glad to know
that there is today considerably less liquor in
the United States than there was yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

Battleships of obsolete type are to he
used as targets by the United States navy.
Pity that we can't do something of the sam,
kind with our statesmen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
THE CHAFFZNG DISH

like best of all TO have it covered for the Dish
by Miss Amy Lowell, who writes vigorous
prose and sees what happens with crisp and
admirable sharpness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01

Cynicuss says he doesn't believe in this
leap year stuff. The girls will probably make
the boys propose just as they do other years
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-01
Dove is Emblttered

After all the publishers had turned down
his poems, Dove Dulcet was advised by his
friends to print them at his own expense.
They assured him of large sale.
Doves comment now is that advice is
cheap, but only for the adviser.