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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-04

Industries have been interrupted prices fayeafluc-
tuatcd in such a manner that the great producing
classes have been most seriously affected; crops in
many sectionsfhave been much below the average;
sal, the people of North Dakota have suffered from
unwise, wasteful and extravagant political admins
%tration.
What has been achieved at the recent election
is, a change il, the political administration Of the
state, ~achange which is to take place within a short
time, but which has not yet gone into effect. The
crop yields are the same, commodity prices arc the.
same, and all the general conditions Of living9are
the same as before the election but these will re-
quire the operation of elements entirely apart from
politics. Our political change will remove one pf
the elements which has aggravated the situation,
sufficiently trying in itself; and the fact that the
people Of the state have decided on this change; de-
Itermined to do the best they can under the circun-
stances, to retire from office men whose administers
ton has proved sadly detective, and to place in po-
%sitions of authority those who are committed to
sane and wise policies, has brought from not a few
people in the east, even within the past week. ex-
pressions of qualification, confidence, and assurance
of cooperation in the rebuilding of the fortunrsof
North Dakota.
One Of the great needs of North Dakota is cap
ital with which to carry on it's necessary operations.
lt'will be a long time before we reach a point where
we will not need the assistance of outside money.
That money can be obtained only when those who
have charge of its disposition are confident that it
will. be safely and wisely used, and that the political
management Of the state will not d~issipate il BY
loading up the people with unnecessary expenses
in the way of taxation and of assessments for enter
prises of questionable merit. Those who have ex-
pressed themselves on this subject thus far are sat
isfied that the state is on the road to recovery, and
the expressions received are indeed gratifying to
those who have hoped for material benefit within
a short time from the wise decision Of the people
of the state at the polls.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-04
The Story Of Carol Kennicott
By Sinclair Lewis

lead COW She thought Of the COM
ing of the Northern winter. When the
unprotected houses would crouch to-
gethcr IN terror of storms galloplng
out of that wild waste. They We're
so small and weak, the little brown
houses. They were shelters for spar
rows. not homes for warm laughing
people.
She told herself that down the
street the leaves were a %splendor. The
NAPLES were orange, the oaks a solid
been nurseI with love. But the
thought would not hold. At best the
trees resembled a lhlnned Woodlot.
There was no park to rest the eye.'.
And since not Conner Prairie but
Wakamin was the county-seat, there
Vas no court house with it's grounds.
She glanced through the ~IlNrspeck-
ed windows of the most pretentious
building in sight, the one place which
we. coined strangers and determined
their, on Mon of the charm and luxury
OF Gopher Prairie-the Minniemashie
iloust. 1t IA a. tall lean shabby
structure. three stories Of yellow
streaked wood. the orner covered
with sianded pine slabs p%urporting to
Symbolic stone. In the hotel office
she could see a stretch of bare un-
! clean floor, a linz Of. rickety chairs
with brass cuspidors between, a writ
ing desk with advertisements in
mother-ef-pearl letters upon the
~glass-covered back. The dining room
beyond was a Jungle of stained table
cloths and catsup bottles.
She looked 10 more at the Minnie
mashie House.
"A man in cuffless shirt-sleeves with
pink arm-garters, wearing a linen
collar but no tic. yawned his way
from Overs Drug Store across to the
hotel. He leaned against the wall
scratched a while. sighed, INC in a
bored way gossiped with a man tilted
back in a chair. A lumber-wagon
its long green box filled with large
spools of ~Garbed-wirc fencing, creak.
ed down the block. A Ford, in re.
verse, sounded as though 1t were
shaking to pieces, then recovered an,
ratified away. In the GreC~.. CANDY.
store was the whine Of a peanut
roaster, and the oily smell OF nuts.
There was, no other sound nor sigr
of life. - "
She wanted to run, fleeing from
the e~ncroaching prairie. demanding
the security OF a great city. Hell
dreams Of creating a beautiful towr
were ludicrous. Oozing out from eH,e,,
drab wall. she felt a forbid ding sniri,
which she could never conquer.
She trailed down the street on on.
side. back on the other. glancing int
n cross streets. 1t was a privat,
Seeing Main street tour. She wa,
within ten minutes bcholding not on1,
the heart of a place called CopheI
Prairie, but ten thousand towns from
Albany to San Diego:
Overs Drug Store. a corner build
ing OF regular and unreal blocks q
artlilclal stone. Inside the store.
greasy marble so~la-tountain with a,
electrlc lamp OF red and green an.
"uro'eo-3eiioW mosaic shade. Paved
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-04
WHY THE INJUNCTION?

IN connection with the strike of the milk de-
livery men in Cleveland. there has been issued an
injunction prohibiting all persons concerned from
interfering with the delivery Of milk by any who
choose to deliver it. Some of the milk wagons have
been manned by persons other than strikers,S and
these men, so-caled strike-breakers, have in some
cases been attacked and occasionally very roughly
handled. The injunction prohibits this, and all who
violate the order will be subject to whatever penal
ties may be provided for defiance of the regularly
issued order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
There is Very pronounced opposition to the is
suance Of injunctiops of this kind in labor cases. 1t
is held by the objectors that the issuance Of this in
junction places labor at a disadvantage and allies
the court on the side Of capital. The fact is that
the injunction merely requires those against whom
it is issued to obey the laws Of the land, and the in
junction cannot affect them in anyway unless they
wish to violate the laws. IT they do, they ought to
be prevented, and they ought to be punished if they
succeed in carrying their purpose into effect.
1t seems, however, that there is something lack
ing in our system if the issuance of an injunction
against crimes of violence in such cases is necessary.
AN attack on the driver of a delivery wagon may
in itself range %anywhcfe between plain assault and
battery and assault with intent to kill. In any case
it is a criminal act and is punishable under the or
binary criminal laws but if the commission of such
an act for the purpose of d~epriying a community OF
one of its necessaries of life is not placed BY the
statutes in a separate Classification, it seems that
the logic of the situation demands that it should be
SO. 1t ought to be made as criminal an act to use
violent means to stop the supply of milk or coal, or
anything else that a community needs, as it is to
violate the order of a court, and it seems that this
feature ought to be covered by statutes witt, suffi-
cient clearness to avoid the necessity Of a special
appeal to a court in such cases against acts which
are totorious1y contrary to the public interest, and
in defiance of all the rules of right and reason.
The right of individuals to strike is not involv-
cd in this feature of the case at all, and in fact those
who usually speak for organized labor declare them
selves absolutely opposed to violence Of every kind.
They ought, therefore, to lend their support to the
enactment of legislation which will make the vio-
lence they deplore SO criminal and attended with
srch severe penalties that none will dare to offend
in this manner. This. it seems, would dispose OF
the injunction feature pretty effectively by making
an injunction against violence unnecessary.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-04

e Is not to be expected that the confidence in
sRorth Dakota and the ecqnomic conditions in North
Dakota which have been 50 deplorably interrupted
during the recent past are TO be. restored within a
rev days after an election,xand merely because Of
that election. The complete recovery Of the state
from those Of its ills which are attributable tospo-
Atical causes will require some time. Nevertheless,
within a week Litter the recall election there are ev.
licences Of returning}c onfidence among those whose
confidence means a great deal to the people OF this
state
sS q would be absurd to maintain that ali the ,n-
sfaxorsbIe conditions III North Dasota are attribut..
able ~ tlle trend of its politics. w know no re-
PEOPLE III This state have shared with tie people q
every state III the Union. and, for that matter, with
tstepffd ~ large 81 an experience such as ii rare.
es1{dstgons and which has been ali exceedingly
5f4 1nE one World conditions have been disturbed
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-04
ALCOHOL AS MEDICINE.

One of the peculiarities of the developments in
connection with prohibition legislation is the effort
which has been made by the ultra-dry leaders to
stretch the eighteenth amendment over a field
which no reasonable construction of its language
can bring within its jurisdiction, and another is the
tameness with which a large share of our popula-
ton, including most of our lawmakers, and, appar-
entity, most of our jurists, have acquiesced in this
attempted extension.
z The eighteenth amendment prohibits the man
ufacture, sale, and so forth, of Intoxicating liquors
for beverage purposes" 1t says nothing about
liquor for medicinal purposes, and the utmost limit
that amendment over medicinal alcohol is that Of
regulating its use in such a manner as to provide
reasonable protection against the perversion of the
medicinal right into a violation OF the beverage pro-
hibition. Yet We" find the dry leaders working as
industriously against medicinal as against beverage
alcohol. And they seem to have been getting away
with it. :.
Another curiosity is in connection with "medi-
cinal' beer. Ordinary beer, we are informed, con-
tains something like 4 or 5 per cent of alcohol. A
beverage is a drink. And just how one is to get
enough alcohol in a medicinal dose of beer to do
him either good or harm without taking a drink is
one of the mysteries which the courts have not
solved.
As to the virtues of alcohol as a medicine, All
infinite lot, of tonrnyrot has been written. In a
book just published the author charges the whole
medical profession with d gigantic conspiracy to
prohibit the moderate use of liquor so that, by de-
privlng humanity OF a valuable and easily obtained
therapeutic agent the suffcrings 81 the sick may be
prolonged, and SO much more work may be made
Tor the DOCTORS. Such a statemen is too senscless
to dignity with denial. The doctors are atleast as
decent as the rest OF It's, and there is no considerable
group of people of reputation and standing against
which such an infamous charge would stand.
One statement made by the author of this pc
cuhar book expresses a conviction which is of rath-
er wide acceptance, namely, that the habitual use
not abuse-of alcohol as a beverage tends to rem
der the individual immune to many diseases, and to
increase his powers of resistance against many 9th
CT diseases. Aside from the verdict of the learned,
who have made exhaustive investigations, and
whose conclusions are almost universally in the
negative, the theory is disproved by the ordinary
observation OF the layman. All of US number
among our acquaintances men who have been
known-and properly so-as moderate users of al
cohol; and if we will. cast our prejudices aside we
must admit that, taking them one with another,
they do not live longer or enjoy better health than
others. "
This latter feature, of course. is entirely apart
from the use Of liquor for specific medicinal pur-
Eoses i'll specific cases. It is also entirely apart
from the question of whether alcohol may or nav
not be used as a beverage without injury.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-04
NOTHING OF THE SORT HERE.

LII countries governed under the parliamentary
system, such as France and Great Britain and its
dominions, the administration against which there
is recorded a vote of want of confidence either re-
signs Immediately and turns the affairs of the coun-
Try over to its opponents. or calls a general election
AID submits its case to the people at the polls. If
defeated at the polls it resigns, and its opponents
step into office Immediately. In the interim it at
tends to the necessary routine of public business,
but does not seek to install new policies of i'm
portance or to perform important acts unnecessarily
with reference to policies which are at issue.
Our procedure is different. The terms OF our
elective officials is fixed, and when, as in this state,
certain of them arc recalled, they do not retire until
a designated time. Messrs. Frazier, Lenke and
Hagan will be officials Of North Dakota until about
November %. Their resignation at this time would
be in good taste, but it would accomplish little. of
importance. The newly elected officials could not
take possession until the constitutional period has
expired, and the affairs Of the state would be con
Quoted by a governor pro tenn who would not be
warranted in inaugurating any particular policies
of his own.
a reasonable sense Of the fitness of things,
however, would lead the outgoing officials to main
tain the conditions in the state government as
nearly as possible in statu quo during their remain
ing weeks of office. But the officials show no in
~ciination Of proceeding in this manner. They pro
pose to continue in the same old way until the last
moment of their power.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-04

IE6H8 (
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E23drlGne5t
WHAT THE REPORTER FOUND.

WHAT THE REPORTER FOUND.
He hadn't boarded up a sum Of bright
and yellow. gold.
He hadn't made a fortune out. of
products bought and sold,
He wasn't rich in dollars, but the day
they buried him
The eye of all the multitude With
tears OF grief yer dim.
We sent a smart reporter out to
chronicle his days.
10 write about the things he'd done
and shower him with praise;
But when the scribe came back again
he shook his head in doubt
And said he couldn't find a thing that
he could write about.
He hadn't held an office and he wasn't
known to fame,
There wasn't n title he could add
He hadn't built a college or a hospital
or such !"
And all he knew about him was that
people loved him much.
GO out and ask the newsboys. why
they mourn for him today"
Inc editor commanded:s task the
nrone along the way %
why their heads are bowed in sorrow,
get the people now to tell
what there was of worth about him
hat they loved this man 30 well
And the people gladly told him that
tho reason that they wept
was because the man had given OF
1he riches others kept:
n that brief obituary had a golden
line like this:-
His life was spent in friendship and
hes one the town will miss.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-04
CHAPTER ".

1.-THE Elarks have invited some folks
to their house to meet US. tonight
said Kennicott. as he unpacked his
suitcase.
"oh, that is nine OF them!"
You bet. 4 told You you'd like
'em. Squarest people on earth. Uh,
Carrie--W Would you mind It /
sneaked down to the Office for an
hour, just to see how things ares
why, no, OF course not. 1 know
you're keen to get back to work.
Sure you don't mind ?"
Not q bit. Out OF my way. Let
me unpack.@
But the advocate OF freedom in mar
rage was as much disappointed as q
dropping Bride at the alacrity with
which he took that freedom and es-
capped to the world Of mems affairs.
She gazed about their bedroom, and
Its full dismalness crawied over her:
the awkward knuckty L-shape OF it;
the black walnut bed with apples and
spotty pears carved on the headboard;
the imitation maple bureau, with
pink-dAaJbei scert-hotties and a pet
ticoated pin cushion on a marble slab
uncomfortsbIy like q gravestone; the
plain pine w~ashstand and the gar
landed water-pftcher and bowl. The
scent WAS Of horsehair and plush and
Florida water
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-04
aYMoPsIs.

EFT college near minneapolis, goes to
Chicago for a year, and returns to WORK
in a library in St. Paul. Through col
Carol harbors a desire TO go 10 a small
er community, where she might do a
little uplift work, and spread tne goss
pei of "cuiture' as, she sees IT.. Then,
she meets DR.. Will kennicott Of Gopher
Prairie. :.
Carol and DR.. kennicott are married,
and when they reach Gopher Prairie,
Carol finds it the usual small own, and
tries not to be disappointed.
CHAPTER lu.-Continued.
kepnicctt had told her that. with
his widowed mother as housekeeper,
he had occupied an old house, but
nice and roomy, and well-heated. best
furnace l could ind on the market"
His mother had left Carol her love,
and gone back to Lac-qui-M eurt.
1t, would be wonderful, she cxulted,
not to have to live in Other Peoples
Houses, but to make her own shrine.
She he.d his hand lightly and stared
ahead as the car swung round a Q r
e and stopped in the street before
a prosaic frame house in a small
parched lawn. ~
a concrete sidewalk with a park
ing OF grass and mud. a square
Snug brown house, rather damp. a
narrow concrete walk up to it. Sickly
yellow leaves in a. windrow with dried
wings Of box-elder seeds and snags
of wool from the c~ottonwoods. A
screened porch with pillars OF thin
painted pine surnounted by scrolls
and brackets and bumps of jigsawed
wood. NO s~hrubbery to shut off the
public gaze. A lusubrious bay-win-
dow to the right OF the porch. Win
dow curtains Of stlrched cheap lace
revealing a pink marble table with a
! conch shell and a Family Bible.
You'll find it oli-fashioned-what
do you call it ?-Mid- Victorian. 1 left
it as is, SO you could make any
changes you felt were necessary
kennicott sounded doubtful for the
first time since he had come back to
his own.
Its a real home:' She was moved
by his humility. She gaily mouoned
good-by to the Clarks. He unlocked
the door-he was leaving the choice
of a; maid to her, and there was no
n in the house.. She jiggled while
/. he turned the key, and scampered in.
4. 1t was next day before either
Of them remembered that4in their
honeymoon camp they had planned
that he should carry her over the sill
in hallway and front parlor h was
conscious OF dinginess and lugubrious-
ness and airlessness, but she insisted
III make it all jolly" As she fol-
lowed Kennicott and the bags up to
their bedroom she %4uavcred to her.
self the song of the fat little gods OF
the hearth:
I have my own home
To do what please with.
To do what ! please with,
My den for me and my mate and my
cubs,
Ny own!
She was close in her husbands
arms; she chung to him; whatever o.
strangeness and slowness and insular,
ity she might find in him, mono OF
that mattered SO long as she coult
slip her hands beneath, his coat, run
her fingers over the warm smooth
ness of the satin back of hia waist,
coat, seem almost to creep into hi
body, find in him strength. findI il
the courage and kindness OF her maI
a shelter from the ~perplexing word
Sweet, 80 sweet" she whispered.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-10-18
Notice.

The woman's Benefit Association Of
the Maccabees will given a card part
""7eda" evening, Oct Is, at the Mac
cabee hall at s o'clock. Admission.
rs cents
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-10-18
localities

Hubert Amendt and wife were pas
songers for Chicago this morning.
Mrs, George M Trlmble is spending
the day in Chicago.
James b. Herring made Il business
trip to Chicago this morning.
Frank Belrose was morning pas
songer for Chicago,
Frank d. LEX Of Graham a. LEX
is spending the day in Chicago on
business.
+. J. Carter is transacted business
in Chicago today.
H. +. Walking, the West Side gro.
cor, was a passenger for Chicago this
morning.
Mr., and Mrs. William d. Duncan of
Illinois avenue were Chicago visitors
yesterday.
Mrs. Ward Condo of West Main
street, Mrs. Vera Walking of Grand
Ridge and Mrs. Christmann of Grand
Ridge left yesterday for Springfield
where they are attending the stete
Rebekah convention.
George Schingler a former Ottawa
resident, of Spokane. Wash, after
visiting with his sisters, Mrs. John
Schlageter and Mrs. Hoffman, left
for his home yesterday. He had at.
tended the reunion of the Civil War
veterans at indianapolis, and stopped
off in Ottawa on his return trip to
visit his relatives and old friends.
John Pettngale of Chicago is
spending several days visiting in this
city.
Mrs j II Bauman of Kelley's Isl
and o., Is visiting at the home of
Mrs. Thomas Carr IN this city
Mr., and Mrs. George Martin. 1903
West Main street, are the parents Of
a baby daughter born at their home
last night
Mrs Joseph Allison has returned to
her home after visiting her daughter,
Mrs c. C. Connell in st. Paul, Mimi
While in Minnesota, Mrs. Allison visit
ed the state fair which was in session.
the new Iowa State prison Fort Smell
ing, the Soldiers Home and the Old
Ladies' Home at Minnehaha Falls
Mrs. Louis Chrlstianson Of East
Joliet St, visited friends in Chicago
Mr.. and Mrs John Watnem of Cen
.er Ottawa. who have been spending
he past several weeks in Somonauk,
will leave tonight for California to
spend the winter,
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Johnson OF Nor.
way were visitors yesterday
Henry Benchendorf of Streator was
IN Ottawa visitor yesterday
Louis Christensen Of De Pue spent
he weekend visiting at his home on
oliet st.
Mrs. Anna Anderson Of Somonauk
vas an ottawa visitor yesterday.
w. A. Gross went TO Aurora today
N a business trip.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-10-18
ELECTRIC AND GAS
CARS IN COLLISION

An electric automobile driven by
Mrs. James Graham, West Ottawa
and REQ touring car driven by AL
bert A. Aretz. 722 Columbus street,
figured in a collision yesterday after
noon about 4:30, in front Of the Pear.
son hardware store on Madison street.
According to witnesses of the acct.
dent Aret2 had his car parked in
front Of the hardware store and Mrs.
Graham was driving east on Madison
street Just as the latter was about
to pass the store, Aretz, unaware of
the fact that she was approaching.
put his car into reverse and started
to back ont into the middle of the
street As he did the rear end of
his auto bumped into the right side
OF Mrs Graham's electric. throwing
it back and to one side for several
foot Luckily neither of the drivers
was injured The electric was dam
aged most, the running board being
torn from its fastenings and the front
wheel was slightly mashed. The
rear fendsA Of Mr.. Aretz's car was
slightly bent
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-10-18
BODY OF MAN FOUND
HANGING FROM TREE

Suspended from the limb Of tree
by short rope, the unidentified body
Of man about 40 years Of age was
found south of the Illinois river and
iu.,t east of the Burlington bridge,
south OF La Sale late Monday after.
noon. The gruesome find was made
by John klimenic, a former police.
man.
How long the body had remained
hanging from the tree is II question.
Death had been caused by strangula-
ton.
The man appeared to be about 40
years OF age and was poorly clad.
When the case was reported to the
authorities the body was cut down
and removed to a La Sale morgue.
Coroner Donoghue was out OF the
city, but II Is probable that an in
quest will be held some time today.
II is said that there was nothing
found on the mans cothing which
would aid the officers in efforts to
establish his identity,
This afternoon identification of the
dead man was made as Albert Erie,
aged 49, of Terre Haute, md, thru
letters which were found in his peck.
cts.