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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
N. Y. GREETS filters
Naval Officers, Missing a Month
Given Great Ovation.
Farrell and Hinton Apparently Recon
ciIed-Wives, Fiance First to We'll
come Trio.

New York-America's famous bal
loonists, Lieutenants Farrell, Kloor anG
Hinton, were given an ovation by {
crowd estimated at more than 1900
when they arrived at the Pennsylvania
station.
Police were caled to keep back the
.throng that threatened to rush thru
the gates to the platform to give per
sonal greeting to the three Officers
who were completing the last leg o:
an eventful journey, started December
10.
Mrs. Stephen Farrell and her son;
Mrs. Walter Hinton, and Miss Alex
andria Flowerton, fiancee of Lieuten
ant Kloor, met the officers.
Lieutenant Farrell was the "lion" O
the ceremonies. The crowd kept yell
ing: "Where is Farrell? We wan
Farrell
Farrell smiled and lifted his cap il
recognition.
Outside the gates the party had t.
fight their way through the crowd be
hind a squad of police.
Farrell and Hinton, who engaged il
a personal encounter upon their al
rival at Mattice, walked close togethe
and smiled at each other, while photo
graphers cranked their machines.
Lieutenant Farrell told newspaper
men there vas nothing heroic" il
what the balloonists had done. He sail
he did not consider that they had &C
complished anything like a stupen
dous feat"
sit was strenuous duty" he said
"but nothing more than what might b,
expected any time by a man in serv
ice"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
AUSTRIA in COLLAPSE
Places Government in Hands oil
Preparations Commission.
Administration Informs Entente That
Country Is At the End of Its
Resources.

j London-The Austrian government
has announced to the Entente that it is
lat the end of it's resources and nc
longer is in a position to continue, &C.
cording to a report which has reached
official German quarters, says a Lon.
don Times dispatch from Berlin.
The government has declared its
intention to retire January Is and
place the administration of the coun.
try in the hands of the PREPARATIONS
commission, the dispatch adds.
Austria's collapse sets a precedent
in modern times, as it marks the first
occasion on which an Independent
country has voluntarily surrendered
in the face Of economic odds. The
event forecast for months in dis.
patches from Vienna is attributed to
the inability of the people of that
country to produce even a small part
of what they themselves
Drifting for Months.
&. Shorn of glory, power and most OF
main, the country has drifted along
for months, largely on charity, trust
ing that some coed fortune would
bolster the almost vanished value OF
the national money, the kronen, and
that a turn of international affairs
would soon permit the union Of Aus
tria with some one of it's more power
full neighbors, preferably Germany.
The country's inability to feed itself
has been pointed to as it's greatest
difficulty. December II, the Austrian
chancellor notified the Allied govern.
iments that the food supply in his
country would be exhausted by the
end of December. With the value OF
the kronen at about one.twentieth OF
normal, the chancellor explained that
it was impossible to buy abroad and
help would have to be given at least
until the next harvest.
Before the war Hungary and Ger
many produced virtually all the food
consumed in Austria. The treaties oil
st. German and Versailles reduced
Austria from 24O,935 to $4,000 square
miles and left her without coal mines
grain areas or other important re
sources from which a livelihood coulG
be earned.
The forests of the country's hills
and some lesser mines offered the only
possibility for exploitation. In this
situation President Seitz last October
said that the future offered his coun
try only two possibilities of existence
"a Danubian confederation, which III
regarded as impossible because i
would involve Union with some hatec
enemies and a coalition with Germany
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
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Yucca-Frank A. Larson is new local

Yucca-Frank A. Larson is new local
postmaster.
Mandan-J. O. Kunkel heads the
Missouri Slope Poultry association.
Grafton-Peter Nelson, SO, commit
ted suicide by drinking poison.
Bismarck-Over- a million dollars in
1919 hail warrants is being called in
Crosby-Blackleg has been found
among cattle near here recently.
Charlson - The Mckenzie county
farm bureau will, be organized.
KeRmare-Fred Van Week is acting
postmaster here.
Backoo-John D. Petit has been
named postmaster.
Trenton-Yeggs attempted to blow
the safe of the Trenton State bank.
Agricultural College-A moving pic
ture machine has been installed.
Napoleon-The chambers Of the
third district court have been moved
from Glendale to this point.
Hannaford-F. W.. Nolan, special
Great Northern agent, is on trial for
the murder Of Joseph Bagley, I. W. w.
Mott-Stephen Herald died 40 min
utes after drinking, home brew at a
party near here.
Bottineau = Prominent local men
gave addresses at a "school Of applied
Christianity"
Fargo-The North Dakota Medical
association meets here in annual SEES
sion May 1918.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
House Increases Appropriation
For Dry Enforcement From
$6,5OO,OOO to $7,1OO.O00.
CONGRESS is WARNED
Money Will All Come Back to Govern
ment in Fines, He S~ays-GaIli-
vans Request for 500, 100000
Turned Down.

Washington-The House went up
and down the ladder in voting on ap-
preparations for enforcement of the
prohibition law.
First rejecting an amendment to the
pending appropriation measure under
which the Bureau Of Internal Revenue
would be given $500, 900, 900 to break
up the outlaw liquor traffic, the House
adopted, sc to 4S, an amendment by
Representative Volstead, of Minnesota,
father of the law, increasing the total
from $780, 900 to $780, 900. Before
this vote was taken, the House, jump
ing from one extreme to the other, de.
.feated without count an amendment
limiting the amount to 500, 900, 900.
Warns Country Will Speak.
Pleading for a larger sum than had
been fixed by the appropriations COM
mittee in framing the legislative, exc
,cutive and judicial bill, Mr.. Volstead
gave warning that the country would
he heard from if it was the policy
Congress to cut down appropriations
"AU iAoh eAO JOU VI CulO1 Lie d
joke. Mr.. Volstead said he merely
proposed a figure nearer that which
the attorney general had requested.
Representative Gallivan, Democrat
of Massachusetts, proposed to make
the appropriation 500, 100000. Taking
up the statement of Mr.. Volstead that
a good part of the money spent would
come back in fines, he said: why,
this mite? Let's go the limit. Let's
help the new administration by bring
ing back a hundred million"
Bay State Called Driest.
Referring by name to Wayne
Wheeler, general counsel Of the Anti
Saloon league, as 'Mr. Volstead's leg
i~slative advisor" Mr.. Gallivan de-
clared Mr.. Wheeler had said he would
make it SO dry in Massachusetts "its
people would spit cotton"
"They are doing that now" he de-
clared. Il want to say that Massa-
chusetts today is the only state in the
union that is enforcing the prohibition
law. l contend that the sum I suggest
is a drop In the bucket when you con.
slider how much is needed to enforce
the law in the rest of the country"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Officials Say They Can't Compete
With Foreign Boats Unless
They Can Handle Liquor.
PROH|BS OPPOSE MOVE
Shipping Interests Tell Congress That
Death kneII of the Merchant Ma
rine Was Sounded if Present
Conditions Stand.

Washington American passenger
steamship officials, appealing to the
House Judiciary committee for modi.
they would be unable to compete with
ships of foreign registry for the trade
of the world unless permitted to
handle liquor for use by patrons
beyond the three-mile American limit.
Wayne Wheeler, general counsel for
the Anti-Saloon league, in opposing
any let-down in the present law, ".
pressed the opinion that some day the
world would be dry and that the ships
of all nations would sail over the
sever seas without a drop of liquor
aboard.
The shipping interests insisted, how.
ever, that they had to deal with pre-.
sent day problems, that there had been
wholeSale cancellations Of reservations
on American ships to travellers who
found other vessles unaffected by pro.
hibition restrictions, and that the task
of trying to make the American flag
supreme on the seas could not be car.
A1Ou o1 Ill Sol1pCClllOu WILL OCl1Cl 1d'
tions, free of all legislative handicaps.
Means Death of Merchant Marine.
P. A. S. Franklin, president of the
International Mercantile Marine,
warned the committee that the death
knell of the merchant marine was
sounded if the ruling by Attorney Gen,
eral Palmer that American ships could
not sell liquor, we're permitted tc
stand. Speaking, as he said, in all seri
BUSINESS, E. A. Quarles, president OF
the United States Mail Steamship com.
pany, declared owner would be eft
subjects for examination in a psyche
pathic ward" if they invested any vast
sum in the building and conditioning OF
ships without assurances that they
would be allowed to compete on equal
terms with the countries endeavoring
now to dominate ocean commerce.
Representatives of other lines said all
they could hope to obtain was the over
flow of travel.
Construction Held Up.
Harris LivermOre, president of the
United American Line, told the com.
mittee that construction Of many trans
Atlantic vessels had been contemplat
ed, but that with this hanging ove1
us we cannot go ahead until the quesY
ton is determined"
Mr.. Wheeler alone was heard in op.
position to the plea of the steamship
folk, made at a hearing of a bill by
Representative Edmonds of Pennsyl
vania, ranking Republican member OF
the merchant marine committee, to
exempt passenger vessels engaged in
foreign trade from provisions of the
Volstead law. Asserting that many
ships now are "bootlegging' Mr.
Wheeler said the amendment would
multiply the difficulty of the dry law
enforcement, and that it would be a
bad precedent to rush to the relief of
everybody whose business was dam.
aged by prohibition.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20

Wahpeton-The third annual show
of the Richland County Poultry assoc
citation will be held January 24-27.
Pingree-Running down Il coyote,
William May killed the animal with
his bride.
kindred-MrS. E. II. Land was badly
burned when her clothes caught fire
at the kitchen stove.
Grand Forks-D. p. r. Strong, for
mer editor Of the Herald, is dead at
the Minnesota soldiers home.
Noonan-A general store and two
meat markets burned with a loss of
$4,000 when a furnace became too
hot.
killdeer-Charles Pugh was beaten
for the seat on the county board that
he had held for years when Cole Smith
opposed him in Il recall election.
Dickinson = Products valued at
5000 We're raised by members of bows
and girls clubs in this. county last
year.
Mahdan-Peter Cressinger, 50, and
his wife, Mary ]. Cressinger, 70, for
mer local residents, died within an
hour at Tacoma, Wash.
Nome-Miss Emma Il. Dewitt has
resigned as Barnes county home dem
onstration agent to take up similar
work in Illinois.
Fargo-Judge Edward Engerud, for
mer supreme court justice, dropped
dead on Broadway. He was So years
old.
New England Twenty thousand
bushels of grain were burned when
the Regent elevator was destroyed by
fire. The loss was $4,000.
Agricultural College-Thirty bows
and girls who attended the achieve
ment week institute here as represen-
tatives of local clubs, reported a total
wealth in Liberty Bonds. stock, and
so on. of $4,000.
Turtle Lake-AiTidayits have been
filed in the motion of ATTORNEYS repre.
senting Henry Layer TO grant him a
trial on the charge of numbering eight
persons near here April %.
Wilton One hundred eight thou.
sand dollars was paid for 72O acres
OF land near here by the Washburn
Ignite Coal company, 1t is estimated
that up to so million tons of coal nm.
derlie the land.
Wahpeton-Max Morgan, who made
a remarkable record as county agent
in Morton county, has accepted a SINH,
lar position in Richland county at 8
substantial salary increase. He is sue
ceeded in Morton county by G. H. nse
of Brainerd, Minnesota.
Dickins0n--Judge w. C. Crawford
retiring from the district court bench
will be associated with Fulton Bur
nett and his sister, Frances Burnett
the only active woman lawyer in the
state, IN n law firm.
Fargo livestock shippers of til,
State are organizing nj the Grair
Growers convention in this city. Rep
resehlntlves OF nearly 200 local ship
ping i.ssor!ati0nN are present.
Mtlnl- Alleging that the death q
her husband IN mn automobile nccl
t"nl was due IA the reckless drlyln,
Nei' tNersen, bunker, Mis-. Add,
SarHtta was awarded $1,000 ,hmagea
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
LEYGUEs CABINET RESIGNS

Premier Demanding Vote of Confidence
Beaten 463 to 1926.
Paris-The cabinet of Premier Ley.
CUES resigned, following it's defeat on
a vote in the chamber of deputies.
F. The vote was IN the question of post
poning all interpretations until after
the conference of the Allied premiers,
set for Jan. 10, the premier making his
demand for such postponement a ques-
ton of confidence. The governments
proposition was defeated by a vote of
463 to 1875.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Organize to Fight "BIue Laws.n

Misunderstanding the Goodies:
of Liberty" as its emblem, the .&nti
blue Law League OF America ca re in
to being and opened llea ,ql3Gte
here. Plans were annluac 4 t J. IN n
.tensiye campaign to secur tie re .Y1,
of all existing state blue" lat,s Il
to combat agitation fer o.y.
wherever 1t raises its hea l."
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
CROWDER WARNS CUBANS
Island Declared Menaced by Paralysis
of Legislative Power.

Havana-Major General Enoch H
Crowder, special representative OF
President Wilson, investigating condi
lions in Cuba, In a statement giver
out, after referring to the failure OF
the electoral board and courts to func
ton within the prescribed limit, de-
clared: eff these agencies continue
to fail, Cuba, in due course of time
will be confronted with ad interim
provincial and national administra
tions, and after the first Monday il
April next, with a total paralysis Of the
legislative power"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
POPULATION DRIFTS TO CITY
Urban Centers Contain 51.4 Per Cent
of Total in America.

Washington-For the first time in
its history, the United States has more
town and city than country jewellers,
the census board announced.
Inhabitants of places Of $500 or
more persons total ~54,31S,O32, or 51.4
per cent Of the population.
The proportion of urban population
is larger than in 1910 in all but three
states-Colorado, Montana and Wyom-
in-the largest increase being that for
Michigan.
The drift from the country to city
is attributed largely to the World war.
Large salaries in the cities attracted
many from the country while many
soldiers who lived on farms before
joining the army took up life in the
cities after their discharge.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Rembrandt PAINTING Stolen.

MISUNDERSTANDING landscape
after the Thunderstorm" was stoler
from a private owner here January 5
and supposedly was shipped to the
United States on board the steamer
Mongolia which sailed January 6. The
painting, which is on wood, is 65 cent?
meters in length and 40 centimeters
high. 1t is said to be valued at $4,000,
600.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Buffalo Hunt Is St ,ed.

Salt Lake City, Utah a party Of
five men from Ogden, Utah, embarked
on a launch from Saltaig 3cIlas 1re&l
Salt lake as the vanguard OF nEate (
who are expected o siaj bison o.
Antelope island an pay $40 n hest
for the privilege
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
GO Airplanes in Connection.

Woodland, Calif.-Sixty airplanes
from all parts of the United States are
expected eto enter the second annual
air meet OF the Yolo Fliers' club here
May 7. Air service officers will co.
operate and have promised entry of 35
army biplanes,
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Leonard Defeats Richie Mitchell.

New York-In a spectacular bou'
which was stopped by the referee il
the sixth round at Madison Square
Garden, Benny Leonard, world light
weight champion, scored a Technical
knockout over Richie Mitchell of Mil
waukee. who, despite his defeat, proved
himself a worthy challenger. The
bout was the main attraction at {
benefit given devastated France.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Bomb Damaoes RuiIdlno.

Torosa, Spain-Considerable damage
was caused here by the explosion of {
bomb in the chamber of agriculture
Another bomb was found in a mailbo,
at the postoffiee, but the fuse was ex
tracted in time to stop It's explosion
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Vienna Postal Men Strike.

Vienna The postal, telephone anc
telegraph employees struck and 5000
police were sent out to preserve order
during street demonstrations inciden
tai to the RECOMMENDING OF Parliament
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Convicted Murderer to Hana.

Bridgeport, Conn.,. sentence Of
death was imposed on Elwood B..
Wade, convicted OF numbering George
u, Mott in his hor,e ,ere last August.
The court directed that Wade be
hanged before sunrise May 20, 1921,
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
france to shake on shImmy.

Paris French dancing masters have
shaken the shimmy, Its n OF the
~"decadent. savage and exotic dances,
resembling 81, vitus dance" which
they viii refuse to teach hereafter,
they announced,
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
-Four Contractors Are sentence

San francisco -Four building con
tractors. William Healey. Frank Morde
cai,a Frank O'ShGa and n, A. Farrar
were sentenced ~ l20 days IN jain y
20 pay q line OF $1,000. On pleas O
guilty OF violating the trust law.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
YANK ARMY ON RHINE CUT
Reduction of American Forces from
$1,000 to 5000 Ordered.

Observation-Disclosures of the Amer
lean forces of occupation in Germany
from $4,000 to 5000 has been ordered
by the Wa department.
Secretary. Baker wrote to Represen.
tative Byrnes, Democrat, South Caro-
lima, that the reduction already was
under way. He added that the ultimate
withdrawal of the entire force was a
matter for future consideration"
The cost of operating the force Of
$4,000 was approximately $4,000 a
day, Mr.. Baker said. but under the
terms of the armistice, Germany must
pay the maintenance cost.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
MEXICAN REBELS IN REVOLT
Former Carranza Aide Leads Attack
on Obregon Forces.

FL Paso, reinstatement Francisco
Murguia. commander of the Northern
zone of Mexico under the Carranza re-
gime, has taken the field in opposition
to the government of President Obre-
gon. Official dispatches to Consul Gen.
eral Monies de Oca in Ell Paso, re.
ceived, tell of a battle between the
Murguia forces and those of the gov
eminent in the state Of San Luis Po-
tosi.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Bed Troopship sunk.

.cohssantinople French ~degtroyers
have sunk a transport flying the red
nag and carrying soviet troops, pre-
sumably 20 TrebIzond, IL Is said IN 0
dlspatoi received here.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
BALLO0NIsTs FACE INQUIRY
Daniels to Quez All Circumstances of
Expedition.

Expedition.
MISUNDERSTANDING Daniels an.
nounced that a court of inquiry would
be convened at the Rockaway. N. Y,
air station upon the arrival there Of
Li%eutenants Hinton, Farrell and Kloor,
to inquire into all the circumstances
Of the balloon flight which carried the
there officers from Rockaway to the
shores of Hudson's bay.
The court of inquiry, Mr.. Daniels
said, will pay particular attention to
the reported sale to newspapers and
news syndicates of letters from the
three officers.
Another subject of inquiry will be
the physical clash at Mattice, Ontario,
between Lieutenants Farrell and Hin
ton.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
800 ARE ARRESTED IN INDIA
British Police Unable to Halt Riots
Near AIIahabad.

Allahabad, British India--The police
are powerless to quell the rioting il
this region, which has spread to Sui
tanpui, sixty miles to the northeast
where building have been burned
Troops have been summoned from.
Lucknow. Six hundred persons have
been arrested.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-14

Says Salmon p Halle. president Of
the National Retail Drygoods associa-
ton, addressing the members of that or
ganization:
''Business will be normal when we be-
gin to think and act normally That lies
within ourselves. During the past six
years the world has been going through
an era of increasing wastefulness and
iextravagance which has been suddenly
checked. aud it is difficult for the human
mind to adjust itself Immediately. We
have all prided ourselves on our ability
to manage business during this period,
but the test is here and it will be the
survival of the fittest from now on"
| The test is here, indeed. Mr.. Halle
might have made it even stronger.
/ During these boom years it has been
easy to sell almost anything at almost
, any price. Real merchandising, real
craftsmanship, languished. Old-fashioned
mercantile courtesy, though still prac-
ticed by those with whom it was trait
Of character rather than matter of
trade policy, fell into disuse in many cs-
Establishments. There was less and less eff
fort to please customers, and more and
more of the attitude that anybody with
goods to sell was doing the purchaser {
favor by letting him buy them.
That, perhaps, was the natural result
of competition being transferred from
the sellers to the buyers. When there
are two customers bidding for an arti-
Gle, the owner does not have to take
pains. 1t is different now. as Mr.. Halle
suggests. The roles have been reversed
and the old status re-establiShed and
merchants and manufacturers find them
selves once more forced into serious com
petition for trade.
1t will do American business good.
for American business has been growing
soft because trade and profit came
too easy. Only the "fttest" will survive
this new ordeal Of competitive effort. and
only the fittest will deserve survival. As
for the long-suffering consumer, he will
have the compensation of lower prices
and higher quality and moro considerable
treatment than he has enjoyed for some
years