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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-27

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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-27

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Jamestown.
Mrs. VIM. Sbhwab returned on
Saturday from visit at Groton
and Aberdeen.
Egbert Complain and Gerrit
Van Vugt were up from West
field Thursday of last week.
Attorney Chas. Coventry spent
acouple of days in Bismarck la t
week consultingan eye specialist.
Miss Hannah Heyerman is Wis
iting relatives and friends in the
Westfeld neighborhood this week
Mrs. Thos. Coon received a tel
egram yesterday announcing the
death of the two-months' old Gal
lentine baby at their home in
Parshall, this state.
MIR. and Mrs. Ludwig Kramer,
of Strasburg, spent Tuesday eve
ming in Linton guests of relatives
on their way home from Bis
marck.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Kramer
went up to Bismarck yesterday,
where they will spend a few
days.
John Krieg arrived home Mon
day from Mclaughlin, South Da-
kota, where he has been en-
ployed.
Charlie Brown returned Tues
day from his visit in Wisconsin.
He was accompanied by Master
Charles.
Miss Helen Keltjen, who teach
es the John Flegel school, spent
the weekend at the Daniel Beck.-
tie home.
J. ]. Kremer is attending the
Implement Dealers convention
in Fargo this week. He left
/ Tuesday.
Frank Swanson, of the Brad
dock country. was a Linton Wis
itor Thursday Of last week on
business.
Emeran Kiefer, of the Hague
neighborhood, came to the local
hospital last Friday for medical
treatment.
Mrs. "A. Obermeier will enter
tain the Priscilla Club members
and their husbands at her home
this evening.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Law
renee M. Roehrich. five miles
southwest Of Linton, a boy, early
Sunday morning.
| Edward Fuhrer, of Braddock,
spent Friday night in Linton on
his way to Iceland to visit rela.
tives and friends.
Mrs. Adam Kraft, of the
Strasburg neighborhood, came tc
the local hospital for medica
treatment, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Schall, Jr.
of Hague, brought their baby tt
the local hospital for medica
treatment Tuesday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Lorens
Klein, of the Hague neighbor.
hood, a girl JAM, Goth, at the
Wolverton hospital.
John Beckman arrived Monday
from Perham, Mimi, to visit his
sisters, Mesdames Alex Walther
Jr., and John Plowman.
NJ Ial D:L,A. - sc.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-27
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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-27
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Reds, Pullets and Hens. 10 Cockrels
and 2 Cocks. Price from S1.5O to
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Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-10
Despotism of the Majority.

The plea of Rear Admiral Sims for free
speech ought not to be confused with his out
break on the Irish question, since what he is
now urging is fuller liberty for men in the mill
tary and naval service to speak and write on
problems of defense and offense. He has mo-
ticed, as have many others, that those whose
opinions differ from those of the majority not
only lose popularity but suffer from criticism
that amounts to disapproval of free speech. 1t
must be confessed that the American public has
allowed itself to get into frame of mind where
it actually approves of suppression of free Speech
and that the laws limiting this right are not as
severe as great many would have them.
Many years ago John Stuart Mill declared
that in no country was there less independence
of thought than in America When public opin-
ion considers a question settled, he observed,
no further discussion takes place. No one dared
say anything disrespectful of the public or
derogatory to its opinions, this British critic
claimed, adding that in the United States the
only recognized authority is that of numbers.
Faith in public opinion becomes in such coun-
tries species of religion and the majority its
prophet" he wrote.
There may be merit in the pleading of Rear
Admiral SIMS but plea for more open dis
cussion of preparedness problems would come
with more force from one who has not in the
past shown his emotions to outrun his good
sense.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-10
When Jazz is Not Jazz. "

Homer Rodeheaver was tearing into "jazz"
before group of Christian Endeavor delegates,
when somebody mentioned Brighten the
Corner" to him. He came up smiling, however,
and insisted that that air is not jazz To be sure,
it isn't, but lot of Omahans will smile as they
recall how Rode" used to make it do tricks,
using his trombone as baton. So with lot Of
other airs. A score of years ago pianist was
making himself quite an attraction on the vaude-
vile circuit by giving an exhibition of syncopa-
ton on the piano One of his stunts was to play
a hymn tune as it should be- and then syncopate
it. That's all there is to most of the so-called
jazz "A basic melody is selected, syncopated,
and then "jazzed" up, the rhythm retained the
double beat and the cow-bell inserted, any SEM
blance to tune knocked out of it. and the re-
suit is jazz. But even Rodeheaver can not make
it fit for purposes OF worship
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-10
Rise Of Community Churches.

In an era of consolidation there is nothing
remarkable in the fact that we'll defined move
ment for the bringing together of divers religious
sects should gain force. For many years the
main effort has been expended on plans for
union of this and that sect on national scale,
but large bodies move slowly and not great
deal has actually been accomplished. Now, how
ever, the idea has been seized on by localized
units and in many small towns union services are
held, one church supplying the place OF several.
There is, then, nothing startlingly new in the
elimination of church rivalry at Mooreheld, Neb,
by the decision of those Of various Christian
faiths to unite in support of single church.
This is a process that is going on all over the
nation, in some places working well and in
others not so well. Moorefeld is said to have
found the cooperation of effort an advantage
Many villages have found the duplication OF
expense and the scattering of effort that results
from numerous congregations to be wasteful In
: some instances four or FIVE CHURCHES struggle
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-10
Where Legislation
FUlIs Down
From the Springfield Union.

One OF the seeming paradoxes OF
life Is that the more strenuous and
comprehensive the efforts of profess
sional reformers, the more pessimis-
tic they become over developing con-
ditions. DR.. Wilbur T. Crafts has
been in the reforming and uplift
business for years. He has reg
ular organization that taps various
worthy sources for financial aid. He
Is constantly at work against vicious
conditions as he finds them, and he
has had considerable success in his
main line of business, which is oper-
ating upon congress.
But after all his efforts, he is be-
coming more and more Of a pessi-
mist apparently. He now finds wom-
en- dropping to the low moral stand
ard Of men and he says that the
wave of vice and crime that is
sweeping the country must be
checked by the breakwall of legisla-
ton and the oil of religion and edu-
cation" But the trouble with the
Crafts method is that too much at
tention is paid to the breakwall and
too little to the oil. The effort is to
make people moral by law when
religion and education is the real
means of success. Emphasize moral
ity by legislation and the life is
taken out Of religion and education
affecting society through the in
dividual. If religion and education
function as they should, there would
be no excuse for morality by rrohi-
bitory law. When dependence is
upon legislation, religion and educa-
ton are weakened as saving moral
forces in society. :.
DR.. Crafts is bound to become
more and more Of a pessimist il he
devotes himself to morality by the
breakwall of legislation. He can
not lobby higher state of morality
into this country through congress;
he can only make matters worse by
such a course. The. future, however,
contains great hope. The time
will come when morality by legisla-
ton will reveal itself as complete
failure and vicious effort, and then
religion and education will again
have a chance as the only. means Of
progressive regeneration in human
society.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-10
The University Of Good Books.

Worse than illiterates are half-taught people,
declared Sherman Williams, chief of the library
division at Albany, in a speech before the Ma
tional Educational association. Zone is not neces
sarily better off or better citizen on account of
being able to read" he reminded his audience
He may be worse for it. That depends upon the
kind of reading he does. This must not be
left to chance. The public school, through its
library, and the public library as well, must see
to it that children learn to read that which is
most worth while. This IS teaching process, and
in most cases will be done at school not at all.
To this advice was added the criticism of a
high school librarian, who expressed the opinion
that the average high school teacher did not
read, and that accordingly the pupils are not
encouraged to avail themselves of the treasures
in books.
In the neglect of good reading may be seen
the thanklessness of human nature. Just as men
fought for the right to vote in past ages and
their descendants now having inherited the right,
often fail to exercise it, so do those recipients OF
the hard-won right to education fail to value their
opportunities as they should. Half-educated is
doubly ignorant, and the person who knows
many things, but has failed to learn to think
clearly and reason we'll is far more dangerous
to democracy than an iterate. For those who
have had to leave school too early to have been
seasoned, reading offers way to fuller knowl-
edge. and the public library is very fountain OF
good citizenship.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-10

I"
In the Yale Review. Mr.. Joseph
Hergesheimer. whose remarkable
contributions to American letters
are lava Head" and "The Three
Black Pennys," publishes, under the
title "The Feminine Nuisance In Our
Literature" a lament on the de-
plorable effect OF the feminine in
fluence on American fiction. His
complaint, II 1t Is here read Alright,
Is rather with the feminine reader
than with the feminine author.
Neither Mr.. Hergesheimer nor any
one else could safely contend that
"virile" novels have not been written
by American women. Several Of
Miss Mary Johnstons. Mrs. wilkins
Freeman's, Miss Alice Browns, and
Miss Ellen Glasgow's novels might
well be included In the "virile" list;
and neither Mrs. Atherton nor Mrs
Wharton is justly chargeable with
a single namhy- -pamby or over
romanticized story. II anything
more truly or vividly real, or. for
that matter, more masculine" than
Ethan Frome" has been produced
by living American author. 1t
Wouiu OC i1io W AetAO ~. 40 cpAeS
of the raw vigor Of '"The Three
Black Pennys," Mr.. Hergesheimer's
masterpiece, or of "Main Street." by
Sinclair Lewis, the latest achieve
ment in realism. 1t is probable that
neither one of these authors could
produce a manlier figure than that
Of Hamilton, in "The Conqueror."
by Mrs. Atherton. Nor Is 1t probable
that either Lewis or Hergesheimer
is capable Of matching the panora-
ma of wars heroisms presented in
Miss Johnston's Long Roll" II in
fiction production these women were
matched with an equal number Of
the best and strongest of living male
authors, what critic could claim
that, in the matter of vigor, their
output would suffer in any degree
in the comparison?
But IL we read the criticism Alright,
the feminine nuisance" as Mr..
Hergesheimer complains of 1t. is not
authorship, but the result upon the
work Of men of the ordinary femi-
nine readers demand for false and
mawkishly melodramatic flavor in
fiction. 1t is assumed that there are
more women readers of fiction than
men. Where the shop-girl reads a
novel on the car, her male relatives
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-10
The Feminine Nuisance

and friends read only the sporting
page. The result of this condition
is that multitudes Of men are writ
ing books for women to read, and.
either advisedly or not. they are
cultiyating the woman's man rather
than the mans man. The result ~
that the hero Of current and popuy
lar fiction Is a man who does wh9
women want him to door, not ~
ing II, is overwhelmed and properly
scorned. In the midst of this masS
uuerade Of false and over-draped
masculinity--this parade of heroic
fioor- r-walkership - the simple and
solid man, possibly erring but hu-
man, is quite lost sight of. And from
one example of this kind OF sub
servience to a milk d-water SEN
timent to another. the cause Of
American fiction Is being lost.
Is the case really so bad as that?
We should have to admit that there
Is an appalling mass OF facile and
foolish stuff being produced. chiefly
by male fictionists writing not espe-
cially for a female audience but Tor
tired business man" audience,
whose sentimental tone Is about the
same thing as that attributed by Mr..
Hergesheimer to the women. Ihis
constituency demands certaIh
amount of sensationalsm, but seq
sationalsm sweetened with barley
sugar and favored with vanilla. Tho
nuisance exists. but 1t is epicehe. In
trying to put the blame all on the
women, Mr.. Hergesheimer Is shall
low. He betrays. throughout the
quality Of a superficial critic. II the
A., Il tnss
herself to rattletrap fiction and moth
ing else on the elevated train. there
are, nevertheless, some millions OF
women readers who are demanding
good iterature-perhaps of a still
hetter and manlier order than we
shall find in 1.-THE Three Black
Pennys" or "Main Street." and con-
tanning much more of manly vigor
than we shall find in "Jurgen."
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-10
Through The Good Old Summertime

Already the days are notceaby shorter, and
the sun is drawing little further towards the
south both with the rising and the going down
thereof. Those happy dwellers, whose lot is cast
along some one of the city's bosky avenues, note
as they take the air in the evening from the front
porch or the lawn that the tree toad's melody is
.punctuatcd now and then with the harsher note
Of the cicada while the first of the crickets swell
the chorus, and the listener looks ahead to the
time when the katydid will lift her contradictory
contribution through the early evening hours
the pioneer eagerly awaited as denoting frost but
six weeks ahead.
Daylight hours are stirring with the noise
and hustle of communal traffic, which needs must
so on, regardless Of season, but the evening and
the morning are boons of rarest blessing With
the sun gone down in blaze of gorgeous splen-
dor, dyeing the heavens from horizon to zenith
with an opulence of color possible only to the
Great Painter, the hour of the afterglow, while
the soft light fades from the sky and the stars
come out one by one in the vault OF deepest blue
gives to the weary toiler of the day such respite
and inspiration as should lift him from his cares
and make him glad to be alive to feel the softness
of the summer night. When morning comes, the
birds, who so noisily sought their shelter in the
long evening, as volubly welcome the false dawn,
and the slowly advancing flood of light that
bathes the world again. He that can also give
himself the joy of this new birth of day finds
in it something that is felt rather than expressed
Nature is big with business just now The
fruits of early summer are ripened and past
but the sturdier are yet to be matured. and to
these the gracious dame is giving her undivided
attention. With fervent sun and tempered wind
and timely rains she nurtures those fair growths
whose ripened riches are for mans consolng
when the earth is wrinkled with cold and the
frost king holds sway. While the season puts
temperate check on the activity of man, pro-
cesses Of which he has but little understanding
are going on increasingly and with such energy
as will in time bring the golden triumph of au-
tumn not so very far ahead.
Midsummer madness? Nonsense. A SOM
nolence, perhaps, because the air itself is drowsy
land provocative of dreaming, but the prospect
has perspective stretching on so far that the
eye does not catch the end, while the senses,
charmed by all outdoors, sway with the gentle
stimulus of the whispering zephyr that touches
so lightly and vanshes almost as it comes 1t
is 'the good old summertime, ,"~>fervid without
fury, and full of the grace of a kindly mother.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-10
Prohibition s Onward
Sweep
(From the Deseret News.)

| (From the Deseret News)
| Those who have imagined that be-
cause of the opposition to prohibit
tion in certain of the larger centers
In the country the 18th amendment
to the United States constitution is
not destined to stand, will do well to
1 look further than our own bound
aries to see how the movement is
spreading over the earth. The merest
glance should suffice to show how
| futile are the efforts Of opponents
of this great reform to nullify it.
Instead of indications Of backward
step anywhere, all signs are that
| the good cause is increasing in
| strength in every direction.
From South America come reports
| that prohibition is taking hold in
way that suggests in some respects
| the progress Of an avalanche. If
| people in this country wonder what
could have started a movement so
unexpected and SO widespread down
there, they can find an explanation
| In the prosperous and peaceable con-
dition Of the canal zone due to the
absence of intoxicants. Undoubtedly
upon the Latin n-American mind the
desirability of establishing on
| wider scale conditions that may be
hoped to produce similar enviable
state of things. AS result, there Is
| hardly nation over the whole of
the continent where the liquor ques-
| tion is not actively to the fore. In
Chile, the new president whose vine
yards were considered the finest in
| South America, has torn up his vines
| and planted the area in grain, and
| laws are proposed which will an
| nua1ly reduce Chilian wine produ-
| ton 20 per cent for the next five
years. A somewhat similar measure
Is before the Argentina national leg
| islature, with prospects of favorable
| treatment. In Uruguay, the presi-
| dents invitation to the world con-
gress on alcohol has been accepted;
and Paraguay is seriously consider
| ing a. statute similar to our Volstead
act. Brazil with her mixture of
| three races is not yet leading out
conspicuously in dry law enactment,
but there is an influential sentiment,
| gradually growing stronger. against
| the unrestricted sale of hard IL
uuor," and the same tendencies are
reported from Peru, Ecuador, Co
lombia, BOLIVIA and Venezuela. Lead
ers of thought in all these countries
realize that intoxicants have held
and are holding their people back
when they should and could be
forging ahead. Before their eyes
they have a vivid example and OBJ
ject lesson in the situation at the
canal zone; and-most significant OF
all-labor itself at recent conven-
ton in Santiago passed a resolution
advocating rigid legislation against
| alcohol.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-10

what can be done with a child
with the following history?" Mrs.
NJ. =. asks, describing him thus:
Boy years old. Taken from an
orphanage when 10 months old. No
information as to intelligence or
character, personality or behavior
OF either parent Child did not eat
solid food until he was s. Potatoes
were mashed and fed through bot
tie. Because nauseated when he nut
solid food in his mouth. Sucked his
thumb and sometimes his fingers.
Wet the bed. He is not extremely
nervous. Likes to play, but soon
tires of one game and changes TO
another. Is well developed physi-
cally. Belches frequently.
Nov as to his care. He is we'll
cared for physically. Is given every
thing he asks for. Goes to picture
shows nearly every night. Stays nm
until IL. Memories poems or songs
easily; can carry message well.
Observes we'll. When it comes to
school work he will not try. Goes
to school one hour a day. viii
not study or try to learn. Has
learned the alphabet, but forgets it
some days. Reads a little. Rec
ognizes a fair number of words.
Says that reading tires him. His
sight may be bad. If it is found all
right, what can do?"
That the boy has a poor mental
and nervous balance Is evident. His
aversion to solid food, nervousness.
thumb sucking, bed wetting, all to-
gether indicate that he was "born
that way" People who adopt un-
known babies without knowing the
inheritable diseases and the inher-
liable mental and behavior qualities
OF their parents run considerable
risk.
A bad inheritance has been made
worse by bad social training or lack
of training. First see if the child is
all right physically, especially as to
vision, tonsils, and adenoids. Next
make a mental test. Charts for this
purpose are obtainable from pub
fishers.
Assuming that he is all right in
both particulars, your problem is
the training of an 8-year-old con-
stitutionally inferior child that so
far has been without training.
You must have the support of the
family to begin with. Your prob
lem will be to, apply discipline In
such a way as to prove effective and
still not excite an lily poised child.
The influence of excitement must
be withdrawn. The plays employed
should be noncompetitive. Since he
has liking for pictures he can see
educational pictures with advantage.
A home protective apparatus could
be used with advantage in his edu-
cation. His environment should
make for calm and poise.
Build Up Your Strength.
Mrss. J. A. w. writes: II am the
mother of two children and am ex-
pecting a third baby in a few
months. am interested in the care
of babies and especially in breast
feeding. have been unable to
breast-feed my two babies and
would like to know If anything could
be done to bring in the milk. I
have had an awful experience with
bottle feeding. I have had my
youngest baby under a doctors care
since he was 6 weeks old and am
still taking him every four to six
weeks. He will be a, year old the
14th of this month"
REPLY.
Two Investigators working with
cows found out few things which