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The Washington times., 1920-04-01
Now is the time to buy a good Used
Car at the right price. Don't lay down
this paper until you have read the used
car ads IN the classified section.
Shortage of experts"
Is Worrying Uncle San,

of the big fruit growers associations
at $4,000 a year.
Five men. the largest OF whose sal
aries was $4,000 a year. have landed
In $4,000 jobs. and nearly all the
others noted have jumped from $4,000
and $4,000 places to positions paying
5000 to $1,000 a year with dairy
corporations, cattle raising COM
panies. agricultural institutes. and
business houses.
The Washington times., 1920-04-01
GIRLS TO GIVE DANCE.

A dance will be given next Monday
night at the National Catholic Com
munity House, COL IL street north
west, under the auspices OF the Glib
bons, Calvert, Maura. and OHern
Girls Clubs.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08
THE TRUTH

Nowadays we hear a lot about the
ability of the people to read between
the lines" Just what the phrase
means nobody has yet defined but the
Interpretation generally accepted IS
the average mans native genius for
wading through reams of falsehoods
as purveyed by the publications rep
resenting the Special Interests, man
aging to extract a few grains of truth.
Too much confidence should not be
placed in the average mans ability
to detect the truth in the space left
vacant by the typesetters. Where the
press is hostile to the public interest
and deliberately camouflages the
truth it generally succeeds in mis-
leading a majority Of the voters.
A study of the election returns
from the recent balloting in Minneso-
to wildly illustrates the fact that
many well-meaning people have not
progressed in sophistication as yet to
the point where they can "read be-
tween the lines" in Polk, Norman,
Mahnomen, Clearwater, Clay, Beck
er, Wadena, Ottertail, Grant, Doug
las, Todd, Millelags, Kanabec, Isanti,
Pope, Meeker, Wright, Chippewa,
Renville, Redwood, Mcleod and Scott
counties there are militant Nonparti-
san League newspapers. Throughout
this section of the state heavy MAORI
ties were rolled up for the Nonparti-
san candidates. Down in the. southern
tier Of counties, however, where the
press is either hostile to the League
program or only passivly interested
the opposition ticket won out.
Don't fool yourself into believing
that everybody is sophisticated eco
nomically speaking. AS a rule the
farmer folk do not begin to shake Off
their legarthy and inertia until the
Nonpartisan papers come along with
their message Of Progress and Truth
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08
"a TRAVELLER FROM ALTRURlA"

Since the recent death of William
Dean Howells, recognized for many
years as the dean of American letters
we have perused ore of artlcles'
reviews and commentaries dealing
with his life and books in popular
magazines and other publications but,
strange to relate, not n has referred
to a Howells masterpiece, "a Travel
err From Altruria." 49,.
This hook could well be classified
as 'one of Mr.. Howells' best but least
advertised works." mainly because 1t
is.a cunning and subtle arrangement
of the System of Organized Privilege.
IN a vein of gentle bonhommie How
ellis throws into striking relief the
many divers elements in our alleged
American democracy, and after clos
ing the book the fairminded reader
cannot help but go away deeply I'M
pressed by the authors devotion TO
truth.
Epitomized, the plot of this master
piece embodies the experiences OF g
stranger who came to America from
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08

take q dip into Vagabondia or play
the role, Of servile syncophants for Or
gained Privilege. We could condone
their conduct in going after the ma
yuma were they honest enough to &C.
knowledge they are working for the
Harlot; further excuse could be found
Tor them, if they would manifest suf-
ficient sense to work as individuals
for the Cooperative Movement, or
ganizing unions and giving other evil
dences that they have not completely
surrendered thir manhood. It's a sad
and lamentable fact, however, that the
majority Of workers in the editorial
end of the "Kept Press" can be listed
under two general categories:
Hypocrits (including editorial writ
ers who write bunk and know they are
writing it) and unfortunates whose
intellectual development has been ar
rested. There is a glimmring ray Of
hope for the cubs and young green
horns many of whom have been incu-
bated on the farms or in high school
during the recent past. AS they grow
older they may develop several more
layers of understanding. The cases
of many elderly journalists, however,
appear hopeless; already in a rut,
their brains have both set and hard
ened and it would take a social earth
quake to waken them up.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08
that his own deluded followers
will forpo nm tho ;pc+op+

that his own deluded followers
will form on the instant.
"Townley, if he tried to do
what some of his opponents in
the recent campaign charged him
with intending to do, would be
run out Of the state by the home
loving Scandinavians> who have
been deluded into following him,
and they wouldn't ask any help
either, though there would be
plenty Of it offered.
Really this "free love" bunk is
amusing, when we probe into condi-
tons as they exist in the world to-
day insofar as the relation between
the sexes is concerned. Just how many
of our leading financiers and society
matrons are monogamists i.e., me
man women and one-woman man?
And how many marriages, particu-
larly among the beneficiaries of Priv
ilege, are celebrated in which the clink
of the coin does not figure largely?
Anybody who knows his or her abc's
realizes that our present plan for
matings is based on the "make-good,"
"be-a-success," "get-the-coin" idea
entirely. Why be a hypocrite, that
most disgusting and loathsome OF hu-
mans, and deny it?
If the Nonpartisan program finally
prevails in America and women are
liberated from their economic depend
ence upon men, the marriage relation
will be stripped of much of the sordid-
ness and appalling hypocrisy that
makes it a colossal joke today. After
the Great Change-an evolutionary
step that is coming as surely as the
sun rises and sets-the phrase free
love" will no doubt be supplanted by a
new one-FREED LOVE meaning
that the song of Cupid will feature
wedding feasts instead of the jingle
of Silver Dollars.
In the late sFifties the defenders OF
the brutal slave power of the South
were won't to cartoon Abraham Lin
coin as a madran bound for the asy-
lum and carving q han""r upon
which was the inscription 'free love-.
Honest Abe went on aNout his bust
ness, however, eventually arriving:
Arthur Townley will find a source OF
consolation in the career Of the Rail
splitter. Whe the force Ct "eactlon
are. backed u in the corner lighting
desperately for their speria' gratis
and the right to maintain n legal
wife as we'll as several "sweethearts"
on the side, it has been the lesson OF
history for these pious ord salnted
naragons of virtue and Chastity to
shrillv scream:
"Free Lcve!' Gree Love!"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08

a small republic in southeastern Eu-
rope called Altruria. In this isolated
country a condition that closely ap-
preached equality prevailed; labor
was exalted and @profiteers" wouldn't
last much longer than the proverbial
SNOWFALL in Hades.
Having heard much about the
United States and particularly its
democratic institutions, the Altrurian
comes over to visit the Western Re-
public and compare it's brand of de-
mocracy, with that prevailing in Al
truria. It so happened that while here
he was the guest of persons belonging
to the upper strata of society. Did the
traveller fit into his environment?
Read the book and glimpse the ridic-
ulous situations that developed when
the Altrurian tried to apply his dem
ocratic ideas here; also the many di-
lemmas and pickles into which he
drove wealthy society matrons when
he began asking questions that were
slightly disconcerting, to say the
least.
One of the funniest incidents in the
book centers around an attempt of the
Altrurian to show his democratic ten
denotes by STOPPING to help a boot
black shine shoes while his hosts
looked on in blank amaze. In Altruria
a bootblack was as much respected
as the highest government official.
Of course, the stranger expected to
find a similar condition in democrat
ic America; the unexpected happened
however, and he was soon gently adj
vised to cut out the "shoe-shine cat
if he expected to get by in the U. S.
A.
Howells' style is a niecly-blended
compound of satire and humor. "A
Traveller From Altruria" is written IN
a gentle. pleasing vein. The author
pictured America as America is. His
language is such that neither a null
ti-millionaire nor the reddest OF
"crimson B~olsheviks" would slap the
book down deeply piqued or insulted.
Millionaires, business men, bankers,
farmers. workingmen, Bolsheviks n
all. 90 to your nearest library n
borrow "a Taveler From Altrur1a'
You'll find it wonderfully edifylng.
Also an ~eye-opener.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08
THE REDS" OF 1891

Next time you hear someone talk
ing about "bolshevists" and other ter
rible radicals" of the year 1920, as
some well-meaning North Dakotans
are inclined to do, remind them Of the
Populists Of thirty years ago.
These Populists were denounced as
everything that was bad, they were
charged with being enemies of the
government and if the word had been
coined at that time they would have
been called 'bolshevists" too.
If you were old enough in 1891 you
may remember how men ridiculed the
Pops as long-whiskered and sock-less
or shook in their boots for fear they
would send America straight to the
demnition bowwows.
They didn't. Neither did they elect
a president, altho at their peak OF
popularity they had 81 electoral votes
a popular vote of more than a million.
five senators at Washington and 43
congressman looking pretty.
But the main point in this:
They didn't capture the govern
ment, but they DID start things
Much of their platform-so crimson
radical and "un-American" in 1881
has become the law Of the land.
Just think what devasting, unholy
things the Pops advocated:
Postal savings bank 1--WE have
it);
2-Parcel Post (for years now;
3-Federal income tax Eyes, in
deedD;
4-Government ownership of rail
roads, t%elegraphs and telephones (not
yet);
5-Initiative and Referendum Gin
many states);
popular election of United
States senators (of %course).
Despite all this, Gods still in his
heaven and the government at Wash
ington continues to reign-more or
less.-Fargo Courier News.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08
THAT GREE LOVE" STUFF!

Well, the "free love" DOGGY is still
to the fore, and divers journalistic re-
tainers of Organized Privilege find
pleasure in falling back upon the old,
~hackneyed phrase when their stock Of
editorial themes begins running low.
Witness this spectre of what may
happen in Minnesota when the voters
of that state finally learn sense,
adopting the Nonaprtisan League
program. 1t is from N editorial in
the Duluth Herald:
eff Townley ever does win in
this state-which he isn't going
to do-and undertakes to make
this a Socialistic commonwealth
and to destroy religion and break
up the home and inaugurate a
general rule of free love, not all
the %airplanes in the world will
save him from the angry mob
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08
NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF PER-
TOD OF REDEMPTION

To Roy Heath and all others inter-
ested.
Take notice that Tax Sale Certifl-
cate No. $50 issued upon the tax sale
December 18th 1915 of the following
described land, viz: Lots numbered ~,
%, and "a Block No. As Comstock's
First Addition to the City Of Bottl-
neau. N. Oak. Bottineau County, n.
D.. for the taxes Of the year 1914 on
said land has been presented at this
office and application made for deed
thereon; that said land was sold on
said sale for 1880 and the amount
required to redeem said land from
said sale at the. date hereof exclus-
i've Of the costs to accrue upon this
notice is the sum Of $143.27 and that
the time for redemption from said
sale will expire ninety days after the
service Of this notice.
Witness my. hand and seal Of office
at Bottineau ~. ID. this 25th day Of
June 1920.
VIM. u. Martin,
County Auditor,
Bottineau County,, n %.
1890 ~
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08

ing do not mean much as far as ed
ucation goes even for those children
who have it, for little can be taught in
that time aside from the Crinese char
acters, the mean of reading and writ
ing.
The policy of this military auto
crazy Of Japan is territorial expan-
sion on the continent of Asia. Japan
doesn't want war with America. It
wants to avoid war with America.
But it feels that America is the
friend Of China and therefore it pays
to keep a popular hatred against
America stirred up so that if a war
should come the people will be ready
to fight with all the earnestness and
enthusiasm of those fighting in a
just cause.
"The big, significant fact u.s." says
the author, ~that the people have to
be continually stirred up and prodded
on to hate America. If left to them
selves and allowed to have the news
Of the world they would SOC be 50
pro-American that the peculiar gen.
ius' charged to aid propagandists' of
America, who are painted as spies Or
agents of capital. These secret
agents are none other than the mis-
sionaries. The militarists are right
that the popular friendliness for
America is the work of the missionar-
les, but just as the police-military
type of mind the world over can see
no unselfish motive in anything, SO
Japan's coercionists also fail to see
what the missionary enterprise is
for"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08

Misses Jonette Raftshol and Irene
Setter were guests at Ole Crogen's
Wednesday ewing.
Mrs. Olaf Hegg underwent IN oper-
alton at the St. Andrews hositpal at
Bottineau, Thursday for gall stones.
Peder Wall returned from Glasgow,
Mont. Wednesday.
Miss Alma Gorder visited at her
home Thursday. Her brother Herman
took her back to Rugby that evening.
Fred Guttu and daughter Alma and
Mis- Jonette Raftshol called at Botti-
neau Thursday.
Miss Dagny Moen is visiting her
sister Bena at the Landa hotel this
week.
Mrs. Jonas Dravland will entertain
the Ladies Aid on July 9th.
Misses Clara and Gusta Glomseth
were guests at Vestre's over Sunday.
Misses Mabel Tolstad and Selma
Haugen visited at their homes over
Sunday.
Young Peoples Society Saturday
evening. ..
Mr.. and Mrs. Walton and Mr.. and
Mrs. Engh took in the ball game at
Bottineau Sunday.
Miss Christine Holt visited up in
the Mountains Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oluf Froseth are
guests at Martin Rothe's this week.
Paul Henning autoed to Bottineau
Sunday evening.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08
THE BOYS

Tn the present battle between the
Common People Of the United States
and the forces of Organized, Preda-
tory Privilege there is n class OF
workers who occupy a position at once
both singular and unenviable. They
are the newspaper boys.
The very nature of their special ap-
titudes and training forces them to
slave away for the Except press"
whether they want to or not. Good
newspapermen are born, not made,
and it is a well-established fact tina
frequently a man who can qualify as
a star reporter or brilliant editorial
writer is worse than worthless In
other occupations.
Top-notch newspapermen, after ALL
are only like other born artists. Inc
love of the game is what lures them
n. They push the pen because TINS
line of work affords them the great
est measure of happiness, and it's a
pretty safe bet a lot of the scribes
would be outright tramps, were they
introduced to a pick-and-shovel gang,
let US say. Even as bright and SHINING
a light in the realm Of letters as Jack
London elected to tramp rather than
toll and spin during the early years
Of struggle when he was knocking at
the doors Of magazine editors for rec
ognition.
Their talents and peculiar nature
give the majority Of newspaper work
ers one of two alternatives; Either 20
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-08
Outside Of his large medical pra'

Outside Of his large medical prac-
tice, Dr.. C. E. Hood Of Souris, has
spent much time in economic research.
His latest discovery is that the
farmer is the greatest profiteer in
the nation. In fact the Doctor has
figured it out that the farmer has
cleaned up 100 per cent profit in the
past years. This discovery upsets all
the dope Of the Governments experts
and will no doubt cause Legislation 70
be enacted to curb this 1 horrible prof.
iteer. sss p&1
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
BASKET BALL
MEN TURN OUT
Call 10 Issued for Meeting Tonight at
Y. M. G. A. for Purpose OF Ar
ranging League Games
and Schedules.

| All Office men, factory men, PROBES
sional men and men employed In
wholesale and retail business houses
who are interested in playing basket
ball, who are either good at the game
or wish to learn the game, are urged
to be present at a meeting to be held
at the Y. M. c. A. this evening at 8
o'clock to discuss plans for the or
Iganization Of basketball league.
A suggestion has been made to the
~. M. G. A. Commercial Athletic
League that an adjustment be made In
the classification of players so that
Iit will be possible for more players to
participate in the games. Heretofore
the players on any commercial ath-
letie team whether it be- indoor base
ball, basketball or outdoor baseball
must be in the employ Of the business
house entering a team, necessarily lin
'iting the players to those In the en-
ploy OF firms employing large num-
Der of men. Believing that different
classification will make it possible for
ia greater number of men to partici-
pate in the games and produce a more
equal basis Of competition 1t has been
suggested that teams be chosen clas-
sified as follows:
Mechanics II Including plumbers,
electrical workers. gas filters, regard
less OF whether employed in large
factory or a place Of business dcNng
strictly that type of work.
Notwithstanding all automo-
bile mechanics and drivers and other
men connected directly with the auto
mobile business.
Wholesale Foods-All men in the
employ OF wholesale houses whose
chief business is that Of marketing
food products.
Wholesale Clothes-Au men in the
employ OF wholesale houses whose
chief business is that of marketing
clothing.
Nanufacturers-All men In the en-
ploy of business houses whose chief
concern is that Of manufacturing;
food. clothing tires or machines.
ONCE Men-All men employed in
offices doing distinctly type of office
work such as clerk or bookkeeper and
not in the employ Of place of bust
ness otherwise classified in this list
U. S. Government Employees
men in the employ of the railroad ad-
postofiice. government
lock, etc.
Observation-Disclosures, statesmen. e.
agents. preachers. undertake
ers. agriculturists. etc.
Independent teams will be consid-
cred as applicants to enter the league
they represent distinct
ly commercial organization.
II Is very desirable that large
number of men may turn out for the
meeting to be held at the "Y" this
evening, to decide whether 1t would
be possible to organize such league !
as suggested above. This meeting
Ii open to every man interested in
playing basketball.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
BREAK RECORD
FOR CLUB ALLEY
c. J. Smith Hangs Up New Mark on
keokuk Club Alleys, Making 279
and Beating Cochrane's
Mark Of 278.

Chas. j. Smith celebrated the New
Year by hanging UP new bowling
record on the Keokuk club alleys. He
started with four strikes, and the
fifth ball knocked down all the pins
but number ten. which waved and
waDbled and finally stood up. thus
making a perfect score impossible.
He made the spare and followed it
with seven successive strikes, clos
ing the game with a total of 279, and
beating the alley record by one pin.
For many years Glenn w. Cox held
the record at 259. In March, 1908 MIR.
Smith made 274 which stood as the
record for nine years, when. on March
Is, 1917. E. R. Cochrane became king
pin with a score OF 278.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
Late Market Quotations

heavy, $142501465: medium, $14.25
! 914-75; light, $13.65014.35.
Sheep 1900 head. Mar
ket 25c higher. Lambs, SIC. 75017.85:
ewes, $10.00011.00; stockers and
feeders, s14.50015.5O.
Chicago Produce.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.--Butter-C Cream
cry extras. CSC; creamery standards,
a9h q Coo; dairy firsts. 555s @6I1zc,l
dairy seconds, 50954c.
Eggs Ordinary firsts. 50@65c:'
firsts, 67@671ac.
Cheese Twins. so7s oslo; Young
Americas, 31@32c.
Potatoes-Receipts, 26 cars. Wis
consin and Minnesota, per cwt., 1880
@3.T5.
Live poultry Fowls. 23@25c;
ducks, soc; geese. 26c; spring chick
ems. 2G1sc; turkeys, 40c.
New York Produce.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.--FlourQ Quiet.
unchanged.
Pork--Dull. Mess. S47.0o847. so.
Lard-Quiet. Middle west spot.
s24.0O@24.10.
Sugar raw-Quiet. Centrifugal test
SIPS.
Refined Quiet. Cut loaf. sI0.5o;
crushed. $10.25; powdered. $9.I5;
granulated, $500.
Coffee Rio No. on spot, 15c.
Santos No. 4. 24k@25c.
Tallow-Strong. City, 16Ac; sp@
cial Tic.
Hay-Firmer. No J.. $3.50; No. 3.
$1.50@1.60; clover, $l.40Q 1.5o.
Dressed poultry-Quiet. Turkeys,
Asa 53c; chickens, 2S@47c: fowls. %
035c; ducks, 30@41c.
Live poultry Weak. Geese. 30@
36c; ducks, 3703sc: fowls. 27@35c:
turkeys. Soc: ROSTERS, 2lc; chickens.
30G32c.
Cheese--Easy. State milk common
to special, 25@33c; skins common to
specials, S@23hc.
Butter-Quiet. Receipts. 6,95S
Creamery extras, roc: dairy tubs, So
Glsgc; imitation creamery irsts. 81
@53c.
Eggs-Irrigular. Receipts. 1884.
Nearby white fancy. S10S2c: nearby
mixed fancy. 70075c; fresh. 70@75c.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
Chicago Live Stock.
SCHOOL LAND
is SOLD CHEAP
Clark County Gets Rid of 591 Acres
Of Hills and Rocks Which
Was Given II Years
Ago.

KAHOKA, Mo-. Jan. &c. w. Wat
son, manager of the Banking Clearing
House association of Kansas City,
spent the holidays with home folks
lin Kahoka
Judgon A. Snyder ct West Liberty,
Iowa, and Edith Artz, of Keokuk,
Iowa, were married In Kahoka, Dec.
I29 Squire S. NJ Perry officiating.
Clark county has sold 591 acres of
south Missouri school land to A. A.
Adams of Ava, Mo. Consideration,
IS1750. The land is chiefly hills and
rocks, with about all the timber OF
any value stolen off. The land was
given to Clark county some quarter
of century ago. The proceeds of
sale will be turned into the county
loan fund and will bring a yearly
revenue to the schools of the county.
Mr.. Ray ]. Meyer of Kahoka, and
Miss Letha l.. Lapsley, of Peoria.
H., were united In marriage on
Christmas day at the home of the
brides parents. The bride is charm
ing young lady and graduate OF
Peoria conservatory of music. The
groom is q son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jos.
w. Meyer of Kahoka, and Is engaged
with his father in the grocery bust
ness. Mr.. and Mrs. Meyer are now
at home In Kahoka. A reception was
rendered the young couple New
Years day by Mrs. j. w. Meyer and
Mrs. Isim Martin. They have the best
wishes OF numerous friends.
Henry Mohr has returned from
military service in Siberia. Otis Gut
ting. who accompanied him to the
states, was detained in San Fran
cisco for few days. Both soldier
boys had the pleasure Of meeting Dr.
w. B. Sisson Of Kahoka, who recent
ly joined the Red Cross corps in
Siberia.
1t took. four stitches to close
wound suffered by Jesse Tollman
when a pry used in the timber be-
came loose and flew back and hit him
in The mouth.
The Masons and Eastern Star
lodges installed officers for the year
1920 on last Saturday evening. The