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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-15

evening it was found, according to a
report from Indianapolis, that seven
coaches and probably more would be
required for the special train that Is
to bring the Murat delegation to
Richmond.
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PLANS COMPLETE FOR
DELTA THETA AFFAIR
TO BE GIVEN HERE

Richmond will entertain the national
convention Of the Delta Theta Tau
sorority Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of next week. Fifty deleg-
ates are expected to come and registra-
ton will be Monday and Tuesday.
Headquarters will be in tho high school
auditorium where the business meet
ings of the convention will be held.
Tuesday at 1 80 p. m. the convention
will open with a business meeting in
the high school auditorium. This will
be followed by open house at the home
Of Mrs. Omar Whelan, North Twelfth
street. Mrs. Whelan will be assisted
by the girls of the Richmond chapter.
At 1880 p. M. Tuesday an elaborate
banquet will be held at the Westcott
Hotel. One hundred and fifty are ex-
pected to attend. A musical program
will be given by Miss La Verne Jones,
pianiste: Miss Mary Jones, violinist,
and Miss Ruth Scott, soprano. Fol-
lowing this there will be various forms
of entertainment given by the social
delegates from each chapter.
Go to Liberty Wednesday,.
The business meeting Wednesday
will be held at $50 a. m. A luncheon
will be given the delegates Wednesday
moon. At 1870 Wednesday the guests
twill be driven about the city later 60
Eng to Liberty where the Iota chapter
fof the sorority will give formal tea
lin the Coliseum.
The elaborate affair of the conven.
ftion will be the formal ball to be given
rat jackson Park, Wednesday evening.
fThe hall at the park will be deliberately
decorated with flowers, the sorority
bcolors, green and white being Used in
"a color scheme.
During the evening novelty feature
idance will be given by 16 girls under
Fthe direction Of Miss Elizabeth kolp,
assisted by two toe dancers.
The music for the evening will be
Furnished by Parker's orchestra from
Columbus. under the personal direction
of Charles Parker, who will sing during
the evening. Cars have been char
hered and will leave Eighth and Main
streets at SIS p. m. Thursday at $3.50
"a. m. there will be a business meeting.
Will Close Thursday.
The convention will close with q
picnic Thursday at noon in Glen Mil
Ter park. Mrs. Ray Wichemeyer Is
chairman of the banquet committee.
Mrs. Russell Alexander is chairman Of
the dance committee.
Others on the committee are Miss
Ruth Wickemeyer, Miss Mildred Town
send, Miss Florence Cummins, Miss
Marie Cornell, Miss Ruby Cavenough,
Miss Agnes Cain. Miss Hazel Mash
meyer and Mrs. AL Mayer. The Delta
Theta Tau sorority has done commend
able work along many lines especially
war work, in the adoption Of French
orphans, etc and social service work.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-19
TRUCK LAW PROVISIONS
UNCONSTlTU RI

Richmond automobile truck owners
are awaiting the results of Judge
James A. Collins decision that the
automobile truck license amendment
passed by the legislature in 1919 is
void and unconstitutional. The court
said the amendment makes provision
for matters that were not embraced in
the title of the original act of 1918.
The amendment provided for increased
license fees for automobile trucks,
The opinion does not mean that the
amendment shall not continue to be
defective. as it was given as the courts
opinion rather than a ruling Of the
court Further legal action will be
necessary before the question Cf the
LEGALITY of the amendment is deter
ahmed
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-19
Chase CONQUER Appointed
Friends Field Secretary

Chase l.. Conover, who has been
taking work in the graduate school at
Haverford college, Pa, has been ap-
nointed field secretary to succeed B.
Willis Beede on the American Friends
board of foreign missions. Mr.. Beede
is on an extended trip around the
world in mission investigation work.
Mr.. Conover will leave Saturday for
New England in the interest of New
England Yearly meeting. His head
quarters will be at the Central offices
of Friends, in Richmond.
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John w. Davis

Endorsement by the New York Times |
one Of the most Influential newspapers
in the east, has advanced John w. |
Davis Of West Virginia, at present am
bassador to Great Britain, as a presi-
dental possibility around whom con-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-19

state department at Washington prior
to his appointment abroad.
Clarksburg, w. Va, was the birth
place of John William Davis, and April
Is, 1873, the date. He was educated
in Washington and Lee university in
Virginia, was assistant professor Of
law there in 1895 and 1897, and later
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went into practice. He was a member
Of the sixty-second and sixty-third con-
crosses, resigning to become solicitor
general of the United States on Aug.
80, 1913. He was named ambassador
to the court of st. James to succeed
the late Walter Hines Page.
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servative D e m O.
Gratis may rally at
San Francisco.
Davis Is not an
a c t I've candidate
for the nomina-
ton. He did not
present himself at
any of the state
pr 1 m arie 8, and
fr a n ly oul d
rather not have the
office than scram-
BILE for it. He was
not seriously re-
garded as a presi-
Dental possibility
until rocontlv fho
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-19

New York Times editorially proposed
his name.
The beneficiary Of that Endorsement
is known as a great solicitor general,
because Of the record he made in the
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13
MISS ANNA BURR NAMED
COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE

Miss Anna Burr, of Bottineau has
been named county representative of
Missionary education for the Inter
church World Movement.
The appointment is announced by
DR.. Ward F. Boyd, state director of
the department., whose headquarters
are at jamestown, N. D.
Institutes for the intensive training
of leaders, to be held in city centers,
and conducted on somewhat the same
plan as that adopted by the Red Cross
for it's volunteer workers., is one of
the methods whereby Miss Burr in
tends to develop the work of her de-
partment.
"Our need is for leaders," she points
out, " returned missionaries and 9TH
.ers can help us to develop them from
the promising raw material to be
found in every denomination and in
every community"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13
PLAY DAY TO BE OBSERVED
IN BOTTINEAU COUNTY

Next week is to be Play Day in
three sections Of the County.
Thursday May 20 five school dis
tricts, Thrums, Oak Valley, Oak
Creek, Mouse River and Whitby will
gather together in Whitby township
about 10 A. M. to spend the day in
having a real good time.
Friday May 81 will see even dis
tricts gathered at Russell and eight
will gather the same day at the Mont
rose Central school.
The Program in all three sections
will be about the same. A parade in
simple form or floats as each district
deems best and in Whitby District the
Eight Grade Graduates will receive
their diplomas in the forenoon.
There will be a dinner hour in the
form Of a picnic dinner. Each family
providing for themselves. After din
ner play begins. Drills, Folk games
and Maypole dance, the Flag drill and
athletic sports. The school receiving
the most points secures the pennant
provided for the district. Ribbons are
to be given for first and second prizes
Much interest is being manifested
Colors are being chosen, yells being
rracticed and boys and girls are look.
ing forward q ! good time.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13

Tha week Of May Oath is examin-
alton week, for that reason no Play
Day set for that week. May 31st
the districts Of Milton, Loon Lake,
Toupin and the rural schools in Bot
tineau district will have their day on
a farm lear the Vinje church. Here
the program. will be partly patriotic
on account Of the following Memorial
Day.
Antler, Souris and Willow City are
centers for district and the first days
in June find Play Day in them.
Patrons and school officers are
most cordially invited to take in the
Day in their respective districts. Join
the teachers and pupils in a day of
good wholesome play.
Whitby May 20. Montrose Friday
May 81. Russell May 81. ....
Owing to, a slight misunderstanding
in the schedule of Montrose and Rus
sell conflict. It changes somewhat the
plan of the County Superintendent but
a representative from her office will
be at each place.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13
"DOINGS OF THE TEN CANCERS

Since the eleventh of May marked
the eleventh birthday of Leon Fergu-
son, a member of the famous "Ten
Gang" of Central School, it was his
home that his worthy colleagues chose
this week for their rendezvous. On
Monday there was much excitement,
mystery and secret whisperings re-
garding the next days escapade, and
many were the hair breadth escapes
we had from Leon's finding it all out.
As it "a however, the "Ten Gang"
took him completely by surprise CD
about eight o'clock on the evening of
his birthday. Only ten out of the fiji
teen members now composing the
"Cang" were able to be present and
we are indeed sorry for those who
missed the hilarious time the rest of
US had. We are most sorry of all for
those who because of their failure to
live up to certain "ten little rules" are
still excluded from this exclusive So
ciety. Back to the party the evening
was spent in games and fun, after
which Mrs. Ferguson served the most
delicious refreshments. During the il
Illumination Of the birthday cake, all
other lights were turned out-eleven
candles representing the number Of
years Leon has shed his bright and
shining light in the world. The party
broke up at 9:30 when the "Ten Gang"
wendell its happy way homeward.
Leon was presented with a book as a
Observation-Disclosures.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13

probably several billion dollars addi-
tional to settle for contracts cancelled
Congress has done nothing to meet
this situation and the profiteers seem
to be in control.
The return of the railroads makes
necessary an increase of freight rates,
f employees are TO be paid a living
wage, Of 40 to so per cent, since the
railroads must have an income of
about $1,750,0O0,O 900 more than last
year. This will result, on the authority
of former Director General of Rail
roads Hines. in an increase in the cost
of living of at least seven to eight
billion dollars. The financial interests
are also making desperate efforts to
grab the peoples ships.
The inflated selling price of city
and farm lands is a most serious cause
of increased cost Of living and a Sc
we're handicap upon the development
of agriculture and industry. Largely
due to this land speculation which has
been going on apace since the war be-
gan, rents in cities take nearly twice
as large a proportion of the city work
ers' incomes or wages, as should be
paid for rent. Wild speculation in
farm lands has seriously increased the
cost of farm production. In rich Sec
tons spectators have turned farms
over rapidly at big increases in prices
and this has been an important fact
or in making farming a hazardous oc-
cupation. In 1917 the average bona
fide land values of four-fifths of the
farms in America did not much ex-
coed $500.
The reports of the Council of Ma
tional Defense show that the plant ca
pacity in many important lines Of in
dustry in this country is clearly in ex-
cess of requirements while scores of
thousands of people are manufacture
ing luxuries which are not only un-
necessary but encourage people to
waste their money.
Freedom of discussion is continuously
| threatened by those who believe that
force is a substitute for argument and
who wish to continue the system of
privilege which is deep rooted in this
country. The insidious propaganda for
universal, compulsory, military train
ing, shows a vicious reputation Of the
principles and purposes for which we
entered the war, and constitutes a
menace to real democracy in America
and abroad.
The foreign situation gives little
hope to those who honestly believe
or want to believe the war has sue
ceeded in it's purpose of crushing mil
itarism. The pickering yer territorial
acquisitions and financial concessions
is most disheartening to those who
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13
WHITTIER ARE WE TENDING?

MIR. George p. Hampton, Managing
Director of the Farmers National
Council, has just made public under
the title, "Whither Are We Tending? ?"
an analysis of present tendencies in
this country to which he asserts the
most careful consideration must be
given and for which remedies must be
promptly adopted.
Mr.. Hampton in his statement says
that 1920 bids fair to be known as
Starvation Year because in our coun-
try the wheat crop will probably be
about 300, 900 900 bushels less than we
ought to expect, and need. The surplus
of wheat, and rye, and barley from
vast years crop was relatively small,
and the surplus has been largely re-
duced during the past year. There is
a threatened heavy reduction in rye,
barley and corr acreage. The worlds
supply Of food stuffs, too, is far be-
low the needs for full consumption.
Wide spread industrial discomfort ex-
lists in our country and the battle be-
tween organized labor and organized
employers is assuming serious signif-
icance.
The country's financial condition
Nh. Hampton says, is most serious
From the best information available,
something like ten billion dollars of
supplies have been contracted for
which appropriation haven't been made
The deficit for the fiscal year ending
June 30th will be at least five billion
dollars, and we have already spent
four billion dollars of next years in
come; so if all these contracts could
be cancelled we should have to raise
next year at least nine billion dollars
in addition to the revenues needed for
the years current expenses which will
be at least six to seven billion dollars.
The Federal government will there
fore have to raise at least fifteen to
sixteen billion dollars next year and
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13
COMMUNICATION

The Grand Forks Herald issue of
May 9th printed a purported COM
m%unication from Bismarck the gist
of which was that / never was official
~ notified of my appointment, as
warden Of the Penitentiary. and that
my appointment was blocked by Mr..
Cathro and later on Mr.. Stair was ap-
pointed, also that I was very bitterly
disappointed. All that is needed to say
is that it is falsehood of whole cloth
and the writer of the Herald article
knew it when he wrote it.
Thos. Hennessy.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13
FORESTRY STATE NORMAL
SCHOOL NOTES

The School expresses its most hear
ty thanks to the Bottineau Military
Band for the fine manner in which
they assisted at the Track Meet last
Saturday. The music was not only
good, but it helped put life into the
meet. Elsewhere in this issue appears
the records made at the meet. It is
expected that each year will see a
lowering of these records, as a result
Of the training to which the contest
ants will submit themselves in prep
aration. The meet this year was most
gratifying to the School and much
credit is due Mr.. Brown, chairman Of
the Committee in charge, and to the
other members of the Committee, the
Misses Sewers and Wieman, for the
splendid way in which the meet went
off. Every detail had been very care
fully pre-arranged.
On Monday this week at Assembly
Exercises, Miss Schmidt gave one of
the Faculty addresses. She discussed
the Olympic Games of the Grecians.
She explained the rules governing
those great ancient contests, the ideals
of perfection held by those people, and
the very high standards set by them.
The program for the Robin Hood
Concert to be given by the DeKoven
Club appears elsewhere in this issue.
The entire program is music of the
most popular type of what is known
as light opera. 1t is the kind of music
that n enjoys upon first hearing,
and it is also the kind, as is not the
case with much light music, that will
bear endless repetition. 1t is hoped
that the Grand will be packed on
Monday night, May II. The curtain
rises at $3.50 p. m. Seats are reserved
and may be had at the F1adeland-.
Williams Drug Store. after Friday
morning. Admission fee, fifty cents
for adults; thirty five cents for chill
dren and students. 1~.s"-s"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13

One of u gentle readers suggests
and it sounds very plausible that the
reason the Hon. Andy Johnston of
Manitoba was present at the recent l.
V. A. convention is that he has about
the same mental qualifications a form
er resident of our city had who is now
dead and gone, and who ~journeyed
over into Canada in the interests of
his candidacy for a county office.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13

was so sweet as its cawing. Every
schoolboy knows the end of the tale
how the fox snatched up the cheese
the moment the vain crow opened its
beak to cav and ran away to escape
the ugly sound.
Do all the former school boys anc
school girls, now freeborn voters oil
the United States, recognize the hon
eyed words of the foxes who speak
to them in campaign years? The
farmers and the city workers of Amer
lea hold in their mouth a very large
and a very appetizing piece of cheese
1t is the presidency of the republic
and in this year of election there are
many cunning foxes who are willing
to flatter the voters in the hope that
they will be so silly as to drop theil
most precious gift into the mouths Of
their enemies.
He is an old man indeed who can re;
member when the agents of big bust.
ness did not hand out some nice words
about protecting the American farm.
er and the American workingman'
campaign years. Breathes there a
youth so callow as to think that any
of these fair promises Yer W full
filled? And yet there remain a num-
Der of the gullible who will hea,
smooth-tongued speakers and read
clever writer's and will be taken in
just as they taken in in 1916
1912 and every other election in which
they were entitled to vote!
But there are thousands of farmers
and labor unionists who "fell" for this
"bunco" in previous campaigns who
are up in arms and who refuse to be
misled by the spokesman of big bust.
ness. The Nohpartisan League and the
Labor Party owe their existance tx
the awakening political conscience Of
men and women in town and country
who are tired of being flattered one
year at the price of exploitation the
next three years. These voters are de-
termined to cast their ballots for mer
who are responsible not to Wall Street
but to the citizens of the nation. This
revolt of the producers is alarming
the captains of finance and industry
They wonder if they can retain theil
hold upon the government. They hest.
tate to talk patronizingly about look
ing after the interests of the farmer.
and workers. They gently chide thu
farmers for their failure to "insist OF
their rights" and suggest that they
take a more active part in public at.
fairs. They express a slight concern
that the farmers lend their ears tt
economic fallacies" and then pro.
pose to help them. Tho the words
are more cunning the flattery is di.
rected to the same end and it is the
same sly fox who is looking for the
identical piece of cheese. How many
voters will drop the cheese?
The April 8 issue of the Manufactu1
ers Record affords a capital illustra-
ton of the 1920 brand of cheese bait
ing. The editor publishes a signed edi.
torial @'The nation needs an agrcultur.
al policy" Parts of the editorial are
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13

valuable not only as an illustration of
what the manufacturers think will
fool the voters but as suggestions for
the voters to mediate upon and use
in their own way. Representative quo
tations follow. ~
"For years the Western mortgage
was a joke in the comic papers but it
was no joke to the mortgagors. They
toiled and sweated in the sun but the
fruits of labor went into other pock-
cts than theirs. It came to be accept
ed in the cities that it was the natural
lot Of the farmer to be a beast of bur-
den, that poverty was his destiny, and
that he ought to be content and thank
Providence that he was permitted to
live. And even unto this day that fall
lacy has persisted, so much so that fat
city jewellers can be found in numbers
now who denounce the wheat-produc-
ers as profiters. The trouble through
out has been the refusal on the part of
the Government to protect it's farm
assets. It has protected industry and
by wise policies has enabled our man
ufacturers to build enduringly."
After recounting how the farmer
has been neglected the editor contin-
ues Zone of the first essentials in put
ting agriculture back where it belongs
in this country is an educational cam
paign to show that the farmer is just
as much entitled to profit as anybody
else. It is time to disabuse the public
mind of it's delusion that every farmer
is a hayseed and that every hayseed
ought to be an economic slave. They
have no need to ask for favors; it
is their duty to demand their rights.
We should like to see Secretary Mere
dith trumpet from one end of the
country to the other the simple truth
that the farmers are not profiteering;
that they r not even getting as yet
a fair return for their toll; that it is
their government as much as it is the
government Of any other set Of labor
ing people, and that they expect to
get a fair deal from now on or know
the reaso why. Hs&& :
I'VE hope no man will be elected
President of the United States whose
heart and mind r not devoted to the
improvement Of the farmers condi-
ton and the protection of him by def
mite national policies, deliberately
formulated and adopted. It is in the
hands of the farmers, whatever their
political convictions. to insist that the
great industry of which they are a
part be given that consideration by
the government which it deserves, and
which it must have of the prosperity
and w~ell-being of the nation are to be
preserved and magnfied." .
Well spoken. The farmers of North
Dakota will agree with the editor of
the Manufacturers Record when he
expresses sentiments like the above.
They will hesitate a long time before
they vote for his candidate for the.
presidency. They want a mar who win
carry out those ideas: Wall Street can
didates forget their promises after
they get the cheese.