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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23

With a passport one may go somewherc.atthough
the going; may involve the unwinding Of miles Of
red tape and much annoyance. Without a pass
port one may stay where. he happens to find him
self, until the police invite him to move on. Then
he may be hustled to. the border and uncerenoni-
ously dumped into the country he came from,
where, as John D. Wells puts it she was born,
brought up and ought ter stayed" \
But Of late it has become increasingly, difficult
to determine a Europeans nationality. Was he
born a subject.o Of the Gar? Perhaps. Very well,
then he is a Pole. a .Latvian. a Finn, a Siberian or
something else. Who is going to determine? Did
he see the light.o day under the more or less be-
nignant rule of the Hapsburgs? Perhaps then he
is a Czecho-Slovakian or a Hungarian or a Jugo-
Slav or a Pole, or perhaps he is something else
again. 1t is a delicate question to ask a man off
hand and his involved explanations may or may not
throw light on the dark subject.
But to get back to the 1000 Jews informed in
Hungary, their condition is the more serious be-
cause in the territory from which they have come
their RAGE under former regimes has been more or
less restricted, in its movements. Some Of them
left their homes under severe pressure, after seeing
their friends and relatives slaughtered before their
eyes. Naturally they did not go through the for
mality Of obtaining a travel permit.
Now, although some Of them were III Hungary
before the arnistice was signed and some of them
drifted in soon, after, they are still held. They are
housed in temporary wooden barracks of typical
wartime. construction, barracks that were not
meant to stand for years, nor built for family occu-
pancy. The widening cracks in the thin wooden
walls let in plenty Of fresh air, also snow and sleet
and rain. Food is none, too plentiful. Conamun
catioh with the outside world is difficult.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23
BATTLESHIPS.

Some writer, apparently intent on wrecking the
arms conference, remarked the other day that the
decision to scrap battleships was Of little account be-
cause the battleship was already obsolete. He call
ed attention to the care which it is necessary to take
to protect battleships from attacks by submarine,
torpedo and %airplane. and asserted that as d matter
of fact the battlcships in the late war contributed
nothing to the real activities of the war, because for
the most part they remained in the harbor.
1t may be that the battleship as an engine of
iwar is becoming obsolete, but the settled judgment
of the best informed and ablest men who have de-
voted their lives to the study Of naval problems does
not indicate that they are convinced Of anything Of
the sort. Instead. until the Washington conference
brought about some hesitation in the construction
programs Of the various nations. each nation which
relies for its security in a very large measure upon
its naval strength was preparing to increase its sup
ply OF battleships, not only in number but in tonnage
and in weight of armament. The authorities do not
seem to believe that the battleship is yet obsolete.
1t is true that new means have been devised for
attacking battleships and interfering with their
operations. Consequently, new means Of defending
but to say that the battleship is useless because it
may be attacked and conceivably may be destroyed
by a much lighter arm is as nonsensical as it isgto
say that the big cannon is useless because it must
be protected by machine guns, arplanes and men
on foot. The whole program Of warfare is one 81
the coordination OF agencies. No one can be CON
Isidered independent Of the rest. Heavy: artillery
must be protected and a way for its movement must
be prepared by tighter artillery, by cavalry, BY men
in the air. The whole thing is one consistent struc
ture in which every art is dependent upon every
other part, and. in which the security and effective
ness of the. whole depends on the integrity lof, each
part. It will be a long time, if war continues, before
the heavy battleship has become thing of no &C:
count. at will be subjected to new dangers, it will
BE defended bysnew methods, but il will be relied
!, upon to carry death and destruction in greater
measure and at q greater DISTANCE than can be done
!, in any other way sas5s@ss.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23

Investors in the glittering schemes Of Charles
Ponzi, the Boston fraud, have just received 10 per
cent of the amount of their investments, not as a
dividend, but as a partial return of their investment.
They will wait for the rest until more money can
be realized from such property as Ponzl had IN
sight The sums invested, and on which partial pay
Element is thus made, amounted to more than three
million dollars. The man who entrusted Ponzi
with $500 has got ten dollars Of it back. How
much more he will get he does not know, or when.
These deluded persons had credited the asser-
ton of an utter stranger that he would pay them
profits of so per cent in as many days. Among
them were laborers, mattresses and others whose
knowledge Of financial matters may be supposed to
be somewhat nebulous., But the investors were
not all of this class. There were merchants. and
teachers, and persons of many other classes among
whom intelligence is expected, and among whom
it is usually found. Doubtless many of these pco-
pie are intelligent in the management of the bust
ness to which they are accustomed. They have
demonstrated that outside of that particular field
they are as helpless as babes in arms.
The trouble is that too many~people have fail
ed to learn thoroughly two elementary, but highly
important facts:
First, no man can make something out OF
nothing.
Second, the man who, through some fortunate
chance, is able to make a great deal out Of little
and to do it certainly and without risk, usually
keeps it to himself. He is not found making a pub
lie distribution of his good fortune.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23
WHAT DO YOU THINK
OF MAIN STREET?

Is it a truc picture Of life In .
small town in the northwest?
Arc tho people 1t describes real
people?
The Herald wants to know what
It's readers think OF Sinclair Lewis
story and Is going to offer $40 In
prizes to find out.
HOW TO WIN A PRIZE
Read the story "a it appears
from day TO day in the Evening
Herald. When the last installment
appears write q letter to the MAIN
Street Editor" Grand Forks Her
aid, telling whether or not you
think the story gives a true pic
ture of life in Gopher Prairie"
and just why you have formed the
opinions You express.
To the writer who gives the best
reason for whatever opinion he or
she has formed, we will give a
prize of $40. For the second best
letter we will give a prize Of s..
Ind for the next seven best letters
prizes of 81 each. y
No letter should be more than
$50 words in length.
The story Is snch that you can
begin 1t any time, and get a good
idea of the picture it paints.
Here's a chance to win II little
spending money just for writing a
short letter. :.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23
sYnora1a.

Carol Milford. a sofa girl. grad
yates from Blodgett college near Min
neapolis. goes to Chicago for a year, and
After being there three ears she meets
Dr: Wtl Kennicott, of Gopher Prairie,
and they are married.
Carol has ambitions to live in a smaller
Immunity. whore she might spread the
gospel OF culture as she sees it. Gopher
f fpdir'e is ths small she
90 not quite approve of her. nor favor
her ideas for changes in the town.
Caro- quarrels with DR.. Kennicott be-
lowance for the household. He tells her
frankly that she feels herself superior
them ava with her ideas.
village lawyer, with whom she had
thought was different" belongs to the
village and is. satisfied there.
carol forms the Gopher Prairie ORA
Dr.: viii 60 to Minneapolis TO visit.
The play Is a failure. SO far as MAX
3nga any impression on the vii
efforts IN that direction. Miles Bjorn-
STAN and Bea Sorenson. Carols Nor
wesian maid. get married.
A son is born to Carol, and for two
years she devotcs her entire time to
caring for him.
Vida Sherwin, village school teacher,
tells Carol very frankly hat she is a
dreamer, and not able to carry out any
Of her theories for uplifting the village
folk. Carol is in a rebellious frame OF
!! mind. :
Vida n Raymie Wutherspoon marry
Carol continues to find her chief inter.
est in her son. Hugh. and to be disap-
pointed in her life. DR.. Kennicott refus.
es TO Join some of his men friends in q
wild party. but does accept the invi-
tation to visit Maude Dyer, when he,
! husband is away.
Bea- whom Carol has continually be,
~friended, and her son Olaf. die; Of ,ty.
phoid. Carol nurses them during thei,
! illness. .G5
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23
FARM LOAN

Disclosures which have been made regarding
the fast and loose methods of the former manage
ment Of the Bank Of North Dakota in making farm
loans, and the fact that many loans have been made
to persons who are non-residents of the state have
emphasized the need OF careful checking up IF ap-
plications for such loans.
Not only should every care be exercised to pro-
tect the interests Of the state in making such loans,
but itewould seem to be self evident that no loans,
should be made to outsiders when 50 many resi-
5dertsSsof{ our own state are in need of assistance,
new administration of the Banksof NoffllSDa
kota has VI yproperiy declared that all applications
made 10 bona fdc residents 81 the state oniy. This
proper policy. 1900
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23
HE GOT THE MONEY.

In sending a list Of out-of-state borrowers Of
money from the farm loan department of the Bank
OF North Dakota the correspondent mentions cas-
.ally the fact that the loan of 5000. to D.. J. Nc
Manon, of st. Paul. a relative OF former Congress-
man John Raer, had not been completed except as
to Mr.. McMahon's getting the money.
It seems that. when the personal friends of the
late ruling clique We're concerned. while there were
many omissions and oversights, few Of them neg
lected the little forma1ity of getting the money.
There was a good deal Of indifference as. to- meth
DDS. Within that little group Of friends %constitu-
tons. and laws. cut little figure. Papers might be
signed Of not signed, as might happen. Notes
might be paid or go unpaid. But the one form
which was observed scTupulously was that Of get
ting the money.
The partial list Of out-of-statc borrowers from
the land loan fund, with the amounts borrowed,
will be interesting to residents of the state. whose
applications for smaller loans had been declined or
were held in suspense because of lack. o. funds. In
some way or other it was possible to dig up money
fe- = rew favored ones whose political connections
were such as TO give them favored positions. The
fellow who lived on his land and was trying to
make ends meet on it was unable to get help. while
stthsspoiiticials who lived away from the state and
hid other resources than the land was able to dip
in and help himself.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23

drug store.
"Walking?" snapped Mrs. Flicker
baugh.
why, yes"
"Humph. Guess you're the only
female in this town that retains the
use Of her legs. Come home and
have a.:cup o. tea with me-"
Because she had nothing else to do.
Carol went. But she was uncomfor-
table In the presence of the amused
stares which Mrs. Flckerbaugh's raj
ment drew. Today, in reeking early
August, she wore a mans cap, a skin
ny fur like a dead cat, a necklace Of
imitation pearls, a scabrous satin
blouse, and a thick cloth skirt hiked
up In front. y&
Come in. Sit down. Stick the
baby in that rocker. Hope you don't
mind the house looking like a rats
nest. You don't like this town. Meth
er do r., said Mrs. Flickerbaugh.,
why"
Course you :don't!' &
well then. I.don't! But I'm SURE
that <fme day I'll find some solution.
Probably I'm a hexagonal peg. Solu-
ton: find the hexagonal hole" Carol
VAS very brisk.
How do you know you ever will
find it?H
There's Mrs. Westlake. She's nat
urally a big-city woman-she ought
to have q lovely old house in Phila-
delphia or Boston, but she escapes
by being absorbed in reading"
You be satisfied to never do any
thing but read p.
NO. out Heavens one can't go
on hating a4town always"
why not? I can! I've hated n
for thirty years I'll die here-and
+ YpY1H LIT - tkS11tY IAia LT r,vrt~< k~ fn ave
been a business woman. had a good
deal OF talent for tending to figures
All gone now. Some folks think I'm
crazy. Guess I an. Sit and crouch
Go to church and sing hymns. Folks
think I'm. religious. Tut! Trying II
forget washing and ironing and mend
ing socks. Want an office OF my
and sellGthings. julius never hear OF
IT.. Too late.
Carol sat on the gritty couch am
sank into fear. Could this drabnasr
Of life keep up forever. then? Wou,i
she some. day 80 despise herself and
her %neighbors that she too .wouIs
walk Main Street an old skinny &c.
centric woman in a NANCY ecat's-fur 7
AS she crepts home she felt that the
trap had finally closed. She went
Into the house, a frail small woman
still winsonc but hopeless of eye a
she staggered with the weight OF thf
drowsy boy In her arms.
She sat alone o N the porch. that ev-
ening. It seemed that Kennlcett haA
70 make a professional call on Mrs
Dave Dyer.
Under the Silly boughs and thr
black ga,1ze OF dusk the street was
meshed In silence. There was bn,
the hum OF motor tires crnneh!ng TIN
road the creak Of q rocker on the
Howlands' porch, the slap OF q shanf
attacking "a MOSQUITO, heat-weary
conversation starting and dying, the
precise rhythm OF. crfckets, the tilnd
OF moths against the Screen-Ioundi
that were q distilled silence. It was
a street beyond the end of the world,
beyond the Boundaries of hope
Though she should cit hera forever
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23
MINIMUM WAGE.

One trouble with a good many minimum wage
laws is that they place a premium on inexperience
and inefficiency. If wages for the beginner are
placed far beyond his or her real earning power,
that fact constitutes an invitation to the %inexperi-
enced to flock to that industry, to the detriment OF
its service. and to the Encouragement of those who
are willing and able to progress in efficiency and
usefulness. ...'
Abnornal conditions, created by the war op-
Grated in just this direction. The withdrawal Of
great numbers of experienced men from the ranks
OF industry. and the imperative need for keeping
the industries running up to their capacity, created
a sudden and abnormal demand for labor Of any
sort. Common labor was gathered in from the
highways and byways and was used to fill the va
cancies left by skilled work1nen at far higher wages
than the skilled workman had ever received. SHARP
competition boosted the price of common labor tc
'lnheard-of figures. The minimum wages for be
ginners had been hoisted out of sight. But there
was no future, nothing to stimulate, nothing to in
spirc. Service of all kinds deterioratcd, and at thu
time Of the nations greatest need the" output pei
man was the lowest on record.
1t is possible to create by law some such con
dlt1on as arose then out Of peculiar and unavoidable
facts. But no matter how created. such condition:
are detrimental to the public welfare. and decidedly
detrimental to those workers who are earnest ane
ambitious, and who take the trouble to fit them
selves for their tasks.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23

no brave procession, no one who was
interesting, would BE- coming by. 1t
was ~tediousness made tangible, a
street builded Of lassitude and Of flu
tility. .r.@as. .
Myrtle Cass appeared. with Cy Boz
CART. She giggled and bounced when
Cy tickled her ear in village love.
They strolled with the half-dancing
gait of lovers, kicking their feet out
sideways or shuffling a dragging jig
and the concrete walk sounded to
the broken two-four rhythm. Their
voices had q. dusky turbulence. Sud-
denly. to the woman rocking on the
porch Of the doctor s house, the night
came alive. and she felt THAT every
where In the darkness painted an II
dent quest which she was missing as
she sank back to wait for There
must be something. az ! AZ
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23
SAFE CONDUCT.

}Es SAFE CONDUCT.
There isn't n danger in the kindly
things YOU say,
There isn't any sorrow in the fms
t and manlysdecd. MI a..s
No deep regret awaits you at the endr
ing of the day,
There's always JOY in knowing that
you've played the friend in
need.
There isn't any anguish in the cheer.
ful words you speak,,
The happy saiutation never leaves a
bitter sting, a.
No MAJ has met dishonorE being gentle
with the weak :E
And unse fishness has never sscaused
an hour OF sorrowing. y
Its thu petty little failures which dis
turb us most at night.
The little acts Of meanness and thA
trivial things we do,
The conscience never troubles us when
we have one what's right,
It's when we've failed to be our best
that shame begins to brew.
Oh. most of MS are honest In the
larger fields OF life
And most Of us are brave enough in
times5of stress and woe
And most OF us are fine enough In
days Of cruel strife,
But It Is In the little things n
worst begins to show, II
The danger 10 our peace Of mind lies
In our s~elishness,
in cruel little bits OF speech which
thomghtlessiy we say.
In pressing on 80 eager to achiEyc our
SUCCESS I.W
That We neglect the kindly fSlks We
PASS along the way
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23
PEOPLE WITHOUT IA COUNTRY.

Al bulletin Just issued BY the American Jewish
Relief Committee tells Of the deplorablc condition
of one group of Jews, some 1000 in number, who
are interned il Hungary These unfortunate peo-
pie, left after the war Ike driftwood thrown upon
the shore after 4 food, are literally without home
and ithoutscountry They are unable to- settle
awhere2hey are, unable tod n9ve ID AZ they have been
ordered. unable ~ return 10 heatene% from which
they hayr been driven. aud upstble III find new
sabo4ess fof themselves seg ssSs
They lack passports Anyone who has tray.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23
TEN PER CENT AFTERMATH.

FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER %. 1921.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-23
CHAPTER xvii.

A letter from Raymie Wutherspoon,
in France. said that he had been sent
to the front, been slightly wounded,
been made a captain. from Vida's
pride Carol sought 10 draw a simulant
to rouse her from depression.
Miles had, sold his dairy. He had
several thousand dollars, To Carol
he said good-by with a mumbled
word. a harsh hand-shake, Going TO
buy a farm in northern Alberta-far
Off from folks as I can get" He
turned sharply away, but he did not
walk with his former spring. His
shoulders seemed old.
1t was said that before he went he
cursed the town. There was talk OF
arresting him. Of riding him on q rail.
Champ Perry rebuked him, sYou bet.
ter not come back here. We've got
respect fox your dead, but we haven't
got any for a blasphemer and a trait
or that won't do anything for his
country. and only bought one Liberty
Bond"
Some OF the people who had been
at the station declared that Miles
made some dreadful seditious retort:
somethinr about loving German o
n more than American bar kers;
hit others a.serted that he ,couldn,t
find one word With which to answer
the veteran that he merely sneaked
nm On the nlatforra OF the train. He
mus, have feit guilty, everybody
agreed. for as the train left town, q
farmer saw him standing in tine yesi-
bule and looking ~.
he had built our months rEo-was
verv near the track on which his train
.rs.Sad - (
when Carol went there, for the last
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1921-04-08
WESTMINSTER WEST.

Schools began here Monday, after two
weeks vacation.
Charles Nlinard of Boston visited at his
farm here from Friday to Monday.
Mabel Harlow of Bellows Falls came
Friday, returning Monday for visit at
her home here.
Nellie Howard went to Brattleboro last
Thursday to the Mutual Aid association to
train for nurse.
Mrs. J. Hunt Clark is i'll with grill
nnd bronchitis. DR. Osgood of SaXton
River is attending her.
Mrs. w. r. Curtis went to Jersey City
n. j., Monday for two weeks visit will
her daughter, Mrs. Bacon.
Doris Chapman returned to Kimbal
Union academy at Mcrdcn. n. H.. Tues
day after spending the Easter vacation
at her home here.
The sugar season is over: birds are
singing; trees are budded; arbutus is in
blossom in the woods, and every symptom
indicates that spring is with us.
Mrs. Charles L. Robinson visited hen
daughter, Mrs. Alphonse Rate in Brat
tleboro from Monday to Thursday last
week and saw her new grandson, Edward
Balfour Rate.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Harlow Of Bur
lington came Monday for visit with Mr.
Harlow's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Harlow. Mr.. Harlow has been i'll at the
hospital in Burlington, which he left
about a week ago.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1921-04-08
WEST WARDSBORO.

Miss Maude Edwards has been visiting
at her home here.
Graydon White of Ncwfane visited at
Hugh Putnams few days last week.
Sherman Waite and family are moving
to the Kcnnon place at Wardsboro Cen
ter.
Clarence and Mabel Strccter spent
Tuesday in BrattlcborQ, going by auto
mobile
Miss Carrie Roberts rc-opencd her
spring vacation.
new paper and white paint and presents
very bright and cheerful appearance.
Ernest Martin of jamaica. who is
working on the Eddy lumber job in
Stratton is boarding at Hugh Putnam's
Representative and Mrs. Martin III
Gleason and little son of WardSbOro, and
Mrs. b. A. Perry of Pixies Falls called
on friends here Saturday.
The six men who are working for tho
| United States department of agriculture
| looking for gypsy moths went through
here Friday examining the trees.
/. Mrs. s. +. Billings has received wore
that her grandson. Lawrence Archibald
of ClaremOnt, y. H.. won first prize il
BOY Scout contest held in that place
recently.
| n. III. Robinson observed his S7tl
birthday anniversary April 3. lie is still
smart and active. helped his son. Fred
sugar this year. calls on his neighhor
and frequently walks to the home of hi
| son. Albert. Il distance of II mile and
half.