The Wahpeton times. [volume], November 15, 1917, Image 1

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VOL. XLII
GREATEST ARMY
Y. M. C. A. DRi'/
The strongest and most repre
sentative men in the various com
munities have gotten behind this
campaign. The local workers are
backed up by a well organized
state committee of the strongest
men that ever got behind a canvass
for funds.
Here are their names and the
positions which they occupy in the
present organization
Executive Committee: H- \V.
Gearey, Chairman, Fargo J. A.
Graham, Secretary, Bismarck H.
P. Beck with, Treasurer, Fargo
II. L- Loomis, II- F. Emery, C. A.
Pollock, A. W. Fowler. W. F.
Cushing and W. L. Stockwell.
The men who are actively in the
campaign as directors of various
departments
W. L. Stockwell. Chairman. D.
E. Sonquist, Acting State Secre
tary, Director. E. ('. Ford. Dir
ector of Publicity, G. W. Gustat'
son, lovs' Campaign Director,
Harry Tercel, Student's Campaign
ii.ig Director,
Miss
'J.
&
$35,000,000 to bt Raised -or
War Y. C. A.
Work.
DRIVE TO BE MADE THIS WEEK
National, State, District and Lo
cal Committees Named.
State's Quota Is
$125,000.00.
The biggest drive for a philian
thropic purpose ever known in the
history of the world has been on
this week- It is. the campaign to
raise $35,00,000 in the United
States for the Army Y. M. C. A
work- There have been drives of
various kinds of many objects,
schools, hospitals, colleges, etc. bin
there has never been anything like
this present canvass. Of this vas:
sura North Dakota is asked to eon
tribute $125,000. It is yet too ear
ly in the week to know how the
campaign is coming out, but the re
ports which reach the State Y. M
C- A. office are certainly encourag
ing in the highest degree. Tin
fact is that North Dakto cannot af
ford to do anything else than to
put this campaign across with en
thusiasm, neither can the country
as a whole afford to fail in this
movement in this state in affairs.
Blanche True.
Student Y. W. C. A. Direeto.
M. A. Goldsmith, Office Secretary.
The State has been divided into
thirteen districts with a chairman
in charge of the organization in
each district- The following are
1he District Chairmen.
First District, R. B. Griffith,
Grand Forks Second District. Se
ever Serumgard, Devils Lake
Third District, J. P. Finch. Far
go, Fourth F. E- Smith, Wahpe
ton Fifth, Judge Coffey, James
town Sixth, J. A. Graham, Bis
marck Ninth A. O. Christianson,
Rugby: Tenth. E.J. Lee, Dickin
son Eleventh. E. A. Palmer.
Williston Twelfth, Geo. W. Jan
da, Mandan Thirteenth, H. P.
Jacobson, Mott.
The general nature of the Y.
C. A. work is too well known to
need comment but the question is
often asked, "what is to be done
with this vast sum." The follow
ing is the budget sent out by the
National War Work Council.
For work with U. S. Enlisted
men in this country $11,120,000
For work with U. S. Enlisted
men Overseas, .$11,994,000-
For Y. M. C. A. work with
the Russian Army $3,303,000
For Y. M. C. A. work with
the French Army, $2,649,000.
For Y. M. C. A. work with
the Italian Army. $1,000,000
For Y. M. C. A. work in Pri
son Camps, $1,000,000-
Necessary expense $3,932,000
Grand Total, $35,000,000.
Save Sugar.
By using concentrated fruit
juices and fruit butters as sweet
ness- See farmer's Bulletin No.
900 Home made Butters and year
b»ok Separate 639 Apple Syrup
and Concentrated Cider-
By using corn syrup, molasses
and honey instead of all sugar
For one cup of sugar in a cake
reeeipe susbtitute one cup of syrup
and for every cup of honey useil,
the amount of liquid used
«•. yiie fourth cup. See Fanners'
alletin
g3-
IIo,ui-v
OF
a,ul lts
Us-
«?s the Home
SOP THE SUGAR WASTE
How much sugar is served on
your table in a week?What is the
average amount of sugar or cere
als? Do you add sugar to the
baby's cereal and cup of milk?
What kind of desserts do you serve
most freqeuently. Will you agree
to use fresh fruits, raisins, dates
figs, nuts, popcorn for your holi
day gtherings and cut down on
candies, plum puddings and rich
foods which call for use of sugar
an fats?
If there'five persons in the fam
lv will you agree to limit the sugar
used in all cooking and served on
your table in any form to ou*
pound (two cups) a day for the re
mainder of the year?
This allowance give six table
spoons per pei-son per day.
Will you keep a record of sugar
served in this way
(Extracts from "Sugar Saving
Campaign" by Miss Edith Sal is
bury.)
Adams Leases Wahpeton Hotel
Following the sale of the Annex
hotel to J- I). Harding of Detroit,
Win- I- Admas. who has been man
ager of the Annex for the past 4
years, has leased the Merchants
hotel at Wahpeton. according to
current reports.
Mr. Adams is prominently
known thruout the state, having
been identified with the dining ser
vice department of the Northern
Pacific prior to assuming manage
ment at the Annex. He will leave
the last of the month to take charge
of the Merchants at Wahpeton—
Courier-News.
N. D. Gets Best with Rsgulars.
This is a story from Camp
Greene that appeared in last Sun
day's issue of a Minneapolis pa
per- That the North Dakota boys
are cutting "some swath" in the
east and even attracting the at
tention of the regulars is indicat
ed in this dispatcli:
"Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C.
Nov. 10—When the 47th United
States infantry regulars arrived
here from Syracuse, N. Y-. a weeii
ago, a corporal of that regiment
wrote and had published a long
screed in the local papers- ll was
an appeal for everyone to treat
the regulars as well as they had the
boys
the national guard of tIN-
northwest- However, the writer
went 1 art her and tried to draw a
comparision between the guard
and the regulars, and unburden
ed hi in.sell of questionable remarks
Many of the North Dakota bov
favored answerng it. but Colonel
J. H. Fraine and other officers
dissuaded them
"The regulars were prompt I
given a chance to cover a $5,000
bet that the First North Dakota
could prodne five for every man
the 47th had on the border, and 10
to every man the regulars had in
the Philippines, the same $5,000
bet to stand that North Dakota
men had an average longer service
than the men of the 47th.
"The bet was not taken, but
the writer of the article in ques
tion was reduced to the ranks, fin
ed a month's pay and locked up in
the guard house for two weeks.
"The squeal came yesterday
when some of the regulars, with a
mule, were passing the North Dak
ota camp. The mule shied.
"Look at that," remarked a
regular hitting the mule with his
hand, 'those Dakotans are such
fighters that even a mule is afraid
of them.'
"Just then the mule raised her
hind hoofs in truly Maudian fash
ion and caught the soldier square
ly in the stomach- He was re
moved to a hospital.
"There is much gayety among
the Dakotans-"
Ohio le "Wet."
Cincinnati—With every county
in Ohio having reported offieially.
86 to the secretary of state and the
remaining two by county seat of
ficials which have not. yet been re
ported to the secretary of state,
prohibition in Ohio has been de
feated by a majority of 1.723, on
the face of the returns—Courier
News-
Interesting Business Sssslon of
Organization Held on
Monday Evening.
respond further by such
Military Training Camps
THE WAHPETON TIMES
COMMERCIAL
CLUB MEETS
MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN ON
Committeee Appointed for Wide
Range of Work Planned
and General Bueiness
Discussed.
The directors were authorized,
pursuant to a report of the House
Committee, to have one of the bit
lard tables converted into a pool
table, to purchase all necessary
equipment and have all nccessary
repairs made to put all the tables
in first-class shape-
The President was authorized
pursuant to the report of the Spec
ial Committee appointed to sug
gest how to increase the member
ship of, and to bring about greater
activities in the Club, to appoint
a permanent Membership Commit
tee, such committee to enter into a
campaign to bring new members
into the Club- Pursuant to such
motion, the president appointed F.
II. McMahon. W- Aspinwall, J.
J. AVolle, Jos. 11. Dietz and Math
Braun as such committee
The permanent Membership
Committee were authorized for a
pei'iod of thirty days, from Nov
15th to December 15th, to accept
applications for membership with
out requiring the applicants to pav
the membership fee of $10^00, but
each application to be accompanied
by a check for $10-00, which will
pay the dues of such new members
to October 1, 1918.
The President was authorized, if
he deems it advisable, to instruct
the Secretary to furnish copies of
the proceedings of the cluB to the
^(newspapers for news items
1 ne proposition of joining the
Chamber of Commerce of Un
united States was held in abeyamv
until that organization can
WAHPETON, RICHLAND COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, XOVEMBKU 15, 1!)17-
shun
the club that to join that organiza
tion would result in mutual lien,
fits to and to this club,
and th,•
secretary was instructed to
cor­
associa­
tion
The proposition of solicit ina
funds for the improvement
of the
of
lis..
United States was abandoned
for
the present, it being the genera!
impression that, if the Club en
dorses the selling of Liberty
Loan
Bonds, the soliciting of lied Cross
and War Y. M. C. A. funds
assists in making those proposi
tions successful, it can accomplish
greater benefit for the Government
than to undertake too many diffrc
ent features of raising funds- l!
was decided, however, to hold th,
eotniij.ttee heretofore appoint in
readiness, so that the matter can
be taken up later on if deemed ad
visable.
The President was authorized to
appoint a committee of three,
whose duty it shall be to cooperaie
with any other committees or or
ganizations in raising funds for
the Red Cross, the War Y. M. C.
A., or for the Government in suc
cessfully prostcuting the present
war- The President, pursuant to
such authority, appointed Dan R.
Jones. R. T. Connolly and 1». M
Luriday as such committee-
The application of P. C. Han
son was read, and he was unanim
ously elected to membership in tln
club-
The resignation of R. R. Hans
ken was accepted.
Bootless Tussday.
In an article sent to the North
Dakota Development League at
Grand Porks, by the Pood Admin
istration. it speake of the popul
arity of the
I
4'Beefless
D/y" each
week
As fast as facilities are adjusted
the hotels of the United States are
coming to one beef)ess day a week,
perferably Tuesday, a conservation
plan si^ggested to them .bv the
Hotel section of the United States
Pood Administration-. Bjeefless
Tuesday was tried for the first time
recently in a New York Hotel.
were (ance' ed when the was
explained. At one, seeing the suc
cess in this particular place, the
en: if city of New York adopted
the hcefless Tuesday so far as hot
els we re concerned- Later the idea
spread througout the entire state
of New York and it is now being
adopted jn practically every sec
tion of the United States-
In many sections there was con
siderable explanation needed to se
cure the co-operation of the public
while in other sections it has been
found possible to go even farther.
heat less Wednesday" has also
been adopted in a large number
of places- This is 'for the purpose
ol saving wheat by eating on thai
particular day nothing made of
wheat in any form but to eat corn
bran and other articles to take the
place of the wheat-
Die
movement for the conserva­
tion has
struck North Dakota ami
the people are cooperating in cverv
way Jo make the "Beefless Tues
jda\,, and "Wheatless Wednes
day" a success. The hotels
decided
have
to observe this day and
practically 10 per cent of the
larger hotels have enlered an agre
ement. To be sure that the days
will be
observed by hotels, a travel
mg men's association in the state
had each individual. member sign
a pledge not to patronize a hotel
or restaurant in the state which
does not observe the two days- This
would not have much effect on the
hotels, but. as the greater
part of the trade for the smaller
hotels comes from the traveling
men. tjie small hotels cannot afford
to disregard the two days while
the large ones are observing them.
All Bakere to be Lloensed.
All bakers -in the United States,
including those of hotels, retaur
ants and cubs and excepting only
the small neighborhood maker of
bread, who uses les than 10 barrels
.t flour per month are required to
ome under federal license after
..K'cember 10, by a proclamation
issued tonight by President Wil
son-
All persons, firms, corporations
and assoc.ations, who manufacture
for sale bread in any form. cake,
crackers, bicuits, pastry or other
bakery products," arc dirccttd to
take out licenses, which will sub
ject them to rigid regulations now
being drafted by the food admin
sfration- I hits the great manu
facturers of cakes and crackers
sold thruout the world will be af
fected in company with the bak
eries which sell their products in
Ihe eily of their locationn-
Next Units to Move Dee. 1.
Camp Dodge, Iowa,—General
E. II. Plummet* has notified the
war department that this conton
ment is ready for the final quota of
National army men from Iowa,
Minnesota and North Dakota and
part of Illinois, the commandant
announced
"I expect the final increments
to report before or about Dec. 1,"
Major General Pumrner said- "I
have notified the War department
that we are fully prepared to care
for the division's full quota-
There will be few Minnesota
soldiers left in this cantonment,
within the next ten days or two
weeks, in all probability, if present
plans of the War department are
carried out to transfer at once an
other 8,000 men to (.'amp Pike,
Little Rock. Ark.
An apportionment made at div
ision headquarters and sent in
memorandums to regimental com
manders calls for 1,252 men from
the Three Hundred and Pifty-first
regiment of Minnesota soldiers, 1.
650 from the Three Hundred and
Fifty-second infantry of Minnesota
soliders and 500 from the Three
Hundred and Thirty-seventh Field
artillery, all Mill icsota soldiers.
The Three Hundred and Thirt
eenth engineers, which includes a
large number of St- Paul and Min
neapolis drafted men, also is called
on to supply 800 men for transfer
to be elected irrespective of state.
Remeber the dance at the Bo
hemian Hall, Wednesday, Nov- 21
Good Music. Tickets $1.00.
a A N
Alout 2.000 people eat lurch di:-!an Lutheran church will have a
Iv Sit thitt litis! \l''tl'i'i /ill- 1A nn/I lmr.U r.! 1.. V*
Iv at this hot -1, and
ly three or i-r*
ti:„*re w.'"'-* on-j sale and lunch next Friday, Nov-I
f. be- whi L. 16th, at the church on 8th street.
NEW DRAFT PLAN
IS ANNOUNCED
Second Call on Draft Forces
Will Come in About
Sixty Daye.
DIVIDED INTO FIVE CLASSES
Period of Classification Bsglns
About December 15. Call
Probably Will Come
in February.
Washington, Nov- 10—President
Wilson formally put the new mach
inery for carrying out the selective
draft bill into operation tonight
with the publication of the fore
word he has written to the regula
tions under which the second call
will be made- The regulations
themselves and the questionanes,
which more than 9,000,000 registr
ants will be required to fill out, are
being forwarded to local boards,
but have not yet been made public.
War departments offiicals esti
mate that the whole process \an be
completed within GO days- This
means that no second call will be
made upon the draft forces before
the middle of next February, as
the period of classification will not
begin until December 15-
The president desribes the new
plan of dividing all registered men
not already mobilized, into five
classes, subject to military service
by classes, as being intended to
produce "a more perfect organiza
tion of our man power-"
The president's foreward fol
lows
14
The task of selecting and mob
ilizing the first contingent of the,
national amy is Hearing comple
tion. The expedition and accur
acy of its accomplishment were a
most gratifying demonstration of
the efficiency of our democratic in
stitutions- The swiftness with
which the machinery for its exe
cution had to be assembled, how*
ever, left room for adjustment and
improvement- New regulations
put these improvements into effect
are, therefore, being published to
day- There is no change in Un
essential obligation of men sub
ject to selection. The first draft
must stand unaffected by the pro
visions of the new regulations.
Thev can It.- given no ictroactiv
effect
"The time has come for a n.oiv
perfect organization of our man
power- The selective principle
must be carried to its logical con
clusion. We must make a complete
'inventory of the qualifications ol
all registrants in order to deter
mine as to each man not. selected
for duty with the colors, the place
in the military, industrial or ag
ricultural ranks of the nation in
which his experenee and training
can best be made Jo .serve the com
mon good- This project involves
an inquiry by Ihe selection boards
into the domestic, industrial and
enducational qualifications of near
ly 10,000,000 men
"Members of these boards have
rendered a conspiciuous service.
The work was done without regard
to personal convenience and under
a pressure of immediate necessity
which implied full efficiency in ev
ery branch. Yet the services of
men trained by the experience of
the first draft must of necessity be
retained- The thing they have
done is of scarcely one-tenth the
inagiiitiirc of the thing that re
mains to be done- It is of great
imjKM'tance
1
1
1
both to our military
and to our economic interests that
the classification be carried swiftly
and accurately to a conclusion. An
estimate of the time necessary for
the work leads to the conclusion
that it can be accomplished in 60
days, but only if this great marshal
ling of our resources of men is re
garded by
an
as a national war
undertaking of such significance as
to challenge the attention and com
pel the assistance of every Amer
ican-
"I call upon all citizens, there
fore, to assist local and district
boards by proffering such service
and such material conveniences as
they can offer and by appearing be
fore the boards eithy upon sum
mons or upon their own initiative,
to give such information as will be
useful in classifying registrants- I
"rge men of the legal profession to
offer themselves as associate memb
ers of the lega) advisory boards to
N It. -H
be provided in each community for
the purpose of advising registrants
of their rights and obligations and
of assisting them in the prepara
tion of their answers to the ques
tions which all men subject to tho
draft are required to submit- 1
ask the doctors of the country to
identify themselves with the medi
cal advisory boards which are to be
constituted ill the various districts
thruout Ihe United States for the
purpose of making a systematic
physical examination of the regis
trants.
"It is important also that polico
officers of every grade and class
should be informed of their duty
under the selective service law and
regulations to search for persons
who do not respond promptly and
to serve the summons of local and
district boards. Newspapers can
be of very great assistance in giv
ing wide publicity to the require
ments of the law and regulations
and to the numbers and names of
those who are called to present,
themselves to Ihe'ir local boards
from day to day- Finally. 1 ask
that during the time hereafter to
be specified as marking the G0-day
period of the classification, all cit
izens give attention to the task in
hand in order lliat the process may
proceed and yet -.' 2 890$
proceed to a conclusion with swift
ness and yet with even and consi
derate justice to all
Supplementing the president's
call, Provost Marshal General
Urowder .issued the fl'olklwling
statement:
"The questionarie which is tho
basis of the new system, is a col
lection of questions bringing out
the essential facts, upon which all
clarifications arc made. It is the
only printed form which any regis
trant needs to use either in mak
ing claims or filling proof- At
first sight, it may seem a little form
idable, but a reading of the ques
tions shows that they are simple
enough for any person who can
read and write understandingly to
answer-
44The
president's message lines
up the whole leg .', profession of
the United States as assisantanco
in making out th'is docunvut '"i
counly judge or oilier judicial of
ficer of similiar court is placed at
the head of a committee of lawyers
in each viciirilv and Ibis commit-
tee is charged with the duty of
seeing that there are always plenty
'of lawyers ami oilier volunteers
present to help registrants in fill
ing in the questionarie.
l^uest'ionaries are 1o be mailed
by the local board to five per cent
of the registrants each day- The
principal work of the legal advis-
sorv boards will thus be over in 20
'days by which time all the ques
lionarics should be returned to tho
boards- Kvcry man has seven
days in which to return li ques
tionarie fully made out.- The pro
cess of calssification will begin
about Dec. 15- Kight days later
boards will began the great pro
cess of calssification wh'ich becomes
in the words of the president's, "k
national war undertaking of such
significance as to challenge the at
tention and compel the assistance
of every American."
Not since the war began has
an opportunity been offered for
practically every person to take an
active and vigorous part in so im
portant a war measure as the act
ual raising of our armies. The pre
sident gives a definite place for
the doctors to work in malting trie
phvsicial examination for the firs v.
time it assigns every lawyer to
active duty in building up the na
tional army- In Ihe legal advis
ory boards it gives everyone who
responds to the president's call a
place in the ranks of the army be
hind the army.
"The nation already has a re
markable record of efficiency in ad
justing its political machinery 1
the registration of 10,000.00 men
within 80 days after the enact
ment of the law authorizing regis
tration- It is now proposed to
better this record bv ealssifivinv
10.000,000 men in a period of 60
days"
Weighte per Bushel.
The following are the le^y
weights per bushel for North Dak
ota: Alfalfa seed, 60 barley. 4S
bran, 20 clover seed, 60 corn
shelled, 56-in ear. 70 flax, 56 mil
let, 50 oats, -12 potatoes, 60 rye,
56 timothy seed. 45 and wheat 6U
The weight per bushel for ooal is
usually given as SO pounds-