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Mee«d«cls*a matter.
WHERE THE PARALLEL FAILS
The Minneapolis Journal draws a parallel between
the Bolshevik movement in Europe and the progress of
the French revolution, which, like the modern anarchis
tic® movement, was marked by many outrages and ex
cesses. Then, as now, hunger played no small part in
development*. Starving people, who believed that
any change would be a change for the better, were easily
persuaded to abandon all restraint and engage in a car
nilil of riot and. loot. Before them, even in their most
desperate condition, arose the prospect of better things
Jitar on,, when the"riches of Italy, or of any of the other
-neighboring countries should be within their grasp. And,
under the genius of Napoleon, inspired by the desire for
conquest,1 the revolutionary armies did sweep over Eu
rope, and came near to establishing the world dominion
which has tysen the dream of many an ambitious man.
There is discussed the possibility of the appearance
now of some other great leader who, placing himself
at the head of the rabble of discontented and deluded,
May weld them into a military machine which will sweep
the earth. There the parallel fails, for, as the Journal
points out, warfare today is vastly different from what
it Was in the days of the French revolution. War a
cfntury ago was very largely a matter of the effective
Handling of men, and only very slightly a matter of the
application of civil science. Eliminate the use of gun
powder and the campaigns of Napoleon would have dif
fered not one whit from those of Caesar. The only mili
tary appliances which were used by Napoleon, and which
differed in principle from those of Caesar were the can
non and the musket, and these were crude, inaccurate
and ineffective.
Warfare today, in addition to the equipment which
Nipoleon and Caesar knew, involves the use of the rail
road the steamboat, the telegraph and telephone, wired
aoi4. wireless, the airplane, the submarine, explosives of
enormous force, guns of tremendous range, and a multi
tude of other things of which our predecessors knew
nothing. The success of a campaign depends very largely
on the effective use of these newer instrumentalities, and
to provide them and use them require the develoiftnent
of the highest technical skill on the part of entire popu
lations and the maintenance of those populations in a
of order and
dV,c'Pline
spirit of Bolshevism holds sway.
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SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL «, 1919.
GASOLINE TAX
'The users of gasoline in North Dakota will be pay
In* a cent a gallon more for that fuel this year because
of the tax levied on it under the direction, of the state
$5.00
8.60
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legislature.
The Idea may have been in the minds of some of
the legislators that when they were levying a tax of a
cent a gallon that they were taxing the oil companies,
and as is well known, the oil companies are game for
Which there is no closed season. To tax their product
though, at the point of sale is not a sure way to tax the
company. In fact, it is certain that this will not be the
effect of the tax. It was quite certain the day that the
gasoline tax bill was passed that the amount of the tax
would b« added to the price of gasoline charged North
Dakota consumers. This is the actual result. So long
as this tax remains not only the person driving the J5.000
pleasure car, but the driver of the humble jitney and
the farm tractor will be obliged to pay a cent a gallon
more for gasoline than would be necessary without the
tax.
It will be said that this tax ought to be borne by
the companies, and taken out of their profits. There
Is no way in which this can be assured. It could not be
done even if the prices of gasoline were regulated di
rectly by the government, and based on the cost of pro
duction and distribution. In that case the government
would necessarily allow the oil companies a price suffi
cient to cover the entire cost of operation and to yield
a reasonable profit on their investment. The tax in
creases the cost of operation by just a cent a gallon, and
Were the government fixing prices it would be necessary
to allow the company a cent a gallon more. The con
tainer pays the freight.
impossible wherever the
WHEAT HOARDING
'i there has been an investigation in McLeod county,
Minnesota, into the method of treatment adopted by rep
resentatives^ of the food administration toward a num
ber of farmers in that community charged with hoard
jSV,, iBff Wheat. Several of these termers were required to
gander threat of criminal prosecution were forced
t* contribute various sums to the Red Crow. At a
moetlnf of these termers held at Glencoe the other day
a representative of the food administration admitted
tkat-tMs procedure was without warrant jn law, and
to the farmers repayment of the sums which
4WftUr exacted from them. Arthur LeSueur,
'|NW ksMil io .1- W. W. and Nonpartisan league circles,
•ttNieefc. as one of the spokesmen for the farmers
•f Whom are "of German origin, have German
upoalc the German language. One of these
4aaf» tiWd a goyernment offlcial that he was holding his
l(«!*•
half of It to the kaiser. This
•"V****? meeting
to fa lovestteation will be to return to
hundreds of dollars which they
to tta* Red Crow,x and to place
I^Ct 4hat they ^ad been guilty of no crim
the food laws. At this there tfill
III the Circles whers such re
ffoVialeM la such casM. WhUs thf re-
It wttt w*rth while to iH«nire
a I a
^rlth desire
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ot Uo. «9nsnunent as a praisewor-
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thy act. At a time when food was needed urgently
for the proqpcutlon of the war, when the United States
was the only available source. Of wWt in the world,
and when patriotic citisens all over the country were
voluntarily denying, themselves the white flour, the but
ter fat, the sugar, the raeata and the other foods to which
they were accustomed and for which they were abun
dantly able to pay, a community of people, very many
of whom seem to have been more. German than Ameri
can, persistently and defiantly refused to market their
surplus stocks of wheat. Their act it seems was not a
crime, but what contemptuous epithet could properly
be applied to it is difficult to say.
About these luxury taxes, we are for them. We find
that they don't touch a tjiing that we are In the habit
of buying.
The St, Taut Dispatch thinks that the human race,
generally speaking, is overworked. -Maybe so. But the
thing that gets a good many oS us is not the worfc that
we do, but the fool way in which we spend our spane
time.
A QUESTION OF HOME RULE.
Within a few weeks after the passage of the bill
transferring from' the municipalities of the state to the
state government the power to license and regulate
places of public amusement together with other enter
prises, which have ordinarily been licensed by the
municipalities the city of Grand Forks is being given an
object lesson in the effect of this change.
This object lesson is given in connection with the
efforts which have been made to find a site within the
city for a public dance pavilion. Under the old system
a matter of this kind would have been entirely within
the jurisdiction of the city government. The city had
no right according to the opinion of the city attorney
to lay down definite rules as to where places of publii^
amusement should or should not be located but its pos
session of the license power would in effect give it prac
tically complete control over this subject. The city
council had it within its power to license or refuse to
license any place of this kind and while it could not
say directly that an individual might not build upon his
property any structure that- he desired it could refuse
to issue a license for any enterpris« which it deemed
undesirable in that particular place.
The new law deprives the city entirely of all of this
control. Licenses for such enterprises are granted now
by the state authorities who are necessarily unfamiliar
in many cases with local conditions and with the de
sirability or undesirability of installing places of amuse
ment in particular localities. The questions which have
formerly been decided by local people for themselves
must now be decided at a distance of 300 miles and by
persons who can not be conversant with the facts unless
steps are taken by local people to carry the infor
mation to them, a matter Involving considerable time
and expense.
The merit of the present controversy has nothing
to-do with the principle at .stake., We believe the only
sound principle to be that in all questions affecting only
the rights, convenience and comfort of local people, the
local community should have exclusive jurisdiction. We
have yet to see a sound argument in favor of the with
drawal of this ri^ht from our municipalities and we
believe that the operation of the present law will be
found thoroughly unsatisfactory.
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE.
The presentation of the urgent appeal for Philippine
independence is likely to revive a discussion which has
subsided under the pressure of matters of more immedi
ate and vital importance to the world. The discussion
started with the acquisition of the islands. In fact, it
started before the archipelago was formally acquired,
for, long before the terms of peace bet\yeen the United
States and Spain were agreed on,- many American
speakers declared with emphasis that the United States
should never be permitted to hold the islands. When
the contrary decision was reached at the peace confer
ence loud and long were the denunciations of the spirit
of militarism which, it was charged, had animated those
who favored the retention of the islands ev^n for a
limited time. The act having been committed, and the
United (States being actually in charge, the opponents of
that policy devoted their energies to the presentation
of arguments in favor of immeityte declaration on the
part of the United States of its purpose to provide for
the independent political existence of the territory.
Efforts to commit the country to a definite statement
of its .future policy failed until a few.shears ago. While
the wisdom of the declaration made is open to question,
there are very many who were opposed to Philippine
independence twenty years ago, who, with perfect con
sistency, will favor it now. At the time when the terri
tory pamed from the control of Spain to that, of the
United States independence was out of ihe question.
Aside from the inability of the people to defend them
selves against foreign aggression, for which provision
could have been made by our 8wn nation, and possibly
others, guaranteeing protection, there was no party,
group or faction in the islands which could have organ
ized a government which could have maintained even
a reasonable degree of order among the native popu
lation Itself.
Two decades of American supervision have worked
wonders. A well planned and capably conducted edu
cational system has spread its beneficent inuence to the
most distant of the islands. Robber bands which held
large populations In terror have been rooted out and
destroyed. The people have grown into a sense 9l
•security in the* possession of their property, in their
homes, and In their industrial and family life. The
title to the finest lands in the archipelago, vested for
generations in certain Of the religious orders, were ex
tinguished by purchase by the United Statoe, and natives
who had been mere chattels occupying the soil of other
men, became the possessors of their own farms, and were
given a new interest in.life.' The largest possible powers!
of self government arere placed in the hands of the
people, "the territorial council, established by direction!
of the American government, and operating under its
supervision, has been, given constantly increased j'utis
dictioQ, Even in the remote districts where the natives
Ipad no conception of self government in its broader
aspects, local communities were aided in tho formation
of local self governing bodleaJ'
The Filipinos have made gratifying progress. The
representatives whom they have dent to Washington
seem to appreciate^ what the government-of the United
States has done for them. And it is only just to ttcog*
nise" the faetHhat very much of their progress is duo
directly to the tireless industry, the unselfish devotion
^id the broad vtslon of William H.. Taft, wlw. created
for himself in those distant islands a monumenT more
wMlKrtng tbwi anything that oan be cafved ouf of aton*
-7
GRAND FORKS HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1918.
fcfc
snrovsxs.
SMrley Hollister, a stenographer, an A
her brother George, a cash boy, are the
J»*e earners where there tn three
K*i.wChWrf
The
the
THE ENCHANTED BARN"
A SPIRITED kbMANCB
I BY GRACE L. H. LUTZ AutW
widowed mother
Is ill. The little house where they live
nas oeen sold and must be' vacated,
lu unexpected halMjoliday,
Shrirley. takes a street car ride in the
tne hope of
"eeins a house1
within their means to rent. She passes
a nne stone barn and overhears a man
HL A"
Property of a rich man
learned uraham. On the return 'trip she
•J^P^to^look at the barn, then,goes to
the
... —goes
raham office to see whether she
coxfld rent the barn-as a homa for the
summer,' anyhow, so as to give^her sick
tpother country air. She sees 8ldne?
Graham, the junior partner of the- firm,
who agrees to give her an answer the
next day. in the meantime Sidney
if.1?, to have the barn as
hla inheritance and rents it to
bhlrley, at a very moderate rate. Gra
ham[ takes a great liking to Shlrley and
arranges a trip out to.the barn With.his
sister-and Shirley's brother and sister
to sen What fixing the barn needs. Gra
£Sn,to!!,1"Jer '5.
B'so
favorably Impressed
lias the barn fixed
up/In fine shape. Puts in new panel wln
_WiS,i "rc Place, electric lights, put
on .the steps leading to the
2S?L,,on
an1
Installs a telephone. When
Shirley sees the ham again she thinks
a fairy god-mother has touched It with
her magic wand. Shirley tells her moth
er about the summe* home she has rent-
but
h*r
mother Is rather
skeptical about a placc for which she
is to pay only $10 a month, but agrees
to rely on her daughter's judgment.
Moving day arrived and the Holllstera
are installed in their summer home.
Mrs. Holllster is well pleased wltH ev
erything, but is a little skeptical about
getting such a place at so reasonable a
price. In spite of her invalid condition
she Is not ready to be a subject of
charity.
CHAPTER XIII (Continued)..
And so she rattled on, and the
mother sighed for her little girl who
was being tempted by a new and beau
tiful wbrld, and had not the Where
withal to enter it, even if it were pos
sible for her to do so.
Out in, the sunset the car was
speeding back again with the seats
full, Doris chirping gleefully at the
ride, for her fat legs had grown very
weary with the long walk'through the
meadow and Shirley had been almost
sorry she had tAken her along.
The boys were shouting all sorts of
questions about dogs and chickens
and cars and a garden, and Graham
was answering them all good-humor
edly, now and then turning around to
throw back a pleasant sentenco and a
smile at the quiet girl with the happy
eyes sitting in the back sesit with her
arm around her little sister.
There was nothing notable about
the ride to remember. It was Just one
of those beautiful bits of pleasantness
that fit into the mosaic of any growing
friendship, a bit of color without
which the whole is not perfect.
Shirley's part in it was email. She
had settled it with her heart that
morning that she and the young man
AN
iroTsnro too goob
roa obahs roui
Monday & Tuesday
Select pteturcs Resents
Alice Brady
"THE WORLD TO
LIVE IN"
Wednesday & Thursday
Adolph Snker Presents
Billle Burke
Xn
"The Make
Believe Wife"
Friday & Saturday
Tfees. xnoe Corp. presents
Charles
Xn
STRING BEANS
ii
Tilt UrTWeikCun.
lift Hit I
MOB.
Apr.
In
"THE SHE DEVIL"
Pathe Weekly
WEDNESDAY AND 'THURSDAY
TOM M00RE
In
"A MAN AND HIS MONEY"
Font Weekly
Lyons ft Morsn Comedy
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
George Walsh
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IP
fwt CctflMdr
iT'UV'
"SON OF A HUN"
of mHm
on that, front seat Had nothing lit fu
ture to do with each other but it was
pleasant to see him sitting there talk
ing with her brothers. Tfiei-e was no
reason why she should not be glad for
that, and glad he was not a snob. For
every time she looked on his clean,
frank face, and saw his nice gray
eyes upon her, she was surer that he
was not a snob.
1
The guests stayed a little while after
they all got back, and accepted quite
as a matter of course the dainty little
lunch that Carol and Elizabeth,
slipping away unobserved, prepared
and -brought in on trays—some of the
salad left from dinner,' some round
rollf that Shirley had brought out
with her Saturday, cut in two and
crisply toasted, cups of delipious cocoa
and little cakes. That was all, but it
tasted line, and the two 'self-invited
all ranged themselves around the
piano and sang hymns, -and it. is safe
to say that the guests at least had not
spent as "Sabbathy" a Sabbath in all
their lives. Elizabeth' was- quite
astonished when she suggested that
they sing a popular' song to have
Carol answer in a polite but gently
reproving tone, "Oh, not today, 'you
know."
"Why not? Doesn't your mother
like it?" whispered Elizabeth.
"Why, we don't any of us usually
sing things like that on Sunday, you
know. It doesn't seem like, Sunday.
It doesn't seem quite respectful to
God." Carol was terribly embarrassed
and was struggling to make her idea
plain.
"Oh!" Elizabeth said, and stood
looking wistfully, wonderingly at her
friend, and finally stole out a soft
hand and slipped it into Carol's,
pressing her fingers rfs if to make her
know she understood. Then they
lifted up their voices again over the
same hymn-book:
"Thine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we
love,
But there's a nobler rest above
To that our longing souls aspire.
With cheerful hopo and strong de
sire."
greatest drama,
ofhercare&r
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marvel dyamaCOccLdai
AdaMMbylmeJhiius
ofuCdiyected by
^Albert 6a£e(Lm£ on
Seven gorgeous ads
A days commencing "9
Monday, April I
1
Cm
OCm
Admission
I Plus War Tax
ROYAL
The Little Theatre
7
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
THEDA BARA
With
the Viz Shows
FOTO
PLAY
TOES. WED. TNURS.
Clark
Graham looked about on
they sang. ^jmn
kept in this
Best Mm"
pealed to him ^uite li
the
in the words, his )}r^jSter as sb*
earnest face girl,
stood arm in am wtjM" „.ith tho
•with
and was suddenlj might be.
thought of what a S*M
Sabbath-keeping had now
thankless task for a fe*.
£,neW„rt ^Veorlo
his mind. He
like this could reallj m«M
bath something to lovp. rbH 11
to loll through and
^When they
had disappeared, and, sU tlw
seething with sweet men
odors, the dampness of
.» .i« ihnr
odors, me ,ls the
striking coolly in thru- faces as
car sped along.
"Sidney," said
EliMb^'1feel
long time, "did yot
h%id
utaiea nne, ana ine two 'seu-invuea tnai. wuiu
h.H?elS'-
after
as
"v
God were real?" j..^
"Why, how do
lv,e9"'
asked the brother, rather
"V.',"*-
to Him? Because they do.
said they didn't sing Tipperary
Sunday because it didn seem quit
Danny Boy, Old Irish Air
Mollle Darling, Hays
LC
'piaStte®
EVENING EDITION.
-rsneetful to God. and I could see she
reallv meant it. It.wasn't just be
cause her mother saltt she had to or
anything like that. She thought s0
hC^t'ni"' said
newr ap.
tj,at
before,
iiamm
in
thP
Sab-
mK
ou'nd
that could see and hear jou and ,n old nt e^
Then they 1™»w what you «u1 and
wj
No. 82555—Price, $2.75
Lafmey and Pearson
"Just for Fun"
La calunnia (Slander)—II Barbicre dl Siviglia, Rossini Vlrgillo Laxzarl
Basso, in Italian
Inno dl Garibaldi (Garibaldi's Hymn)
Tenor, in Italian
No. 82558—Price, $2.75
A tanto amor (Thou Flow'r Beloved)
Coming Home, Willeby
Soprano
Contralto
No. 82153—Price, $2.85
Bnt the Lord is Mindful of His Own—Saint Paul, Mendelssohn
Christine Miller
Contralto
Just as I Am! Bradbury
Bass-Baritone
No. 5050*1—Price, $1.15
Bring Back the Rose, Fisher will Oakland
Counter-Tenor
Gentle Spring, Belmont BUI Murray and Joe Belmont
Sabre and Spurs M!arch, Sousa
Stone Piano Co.
GRAND FORKS, N. D.
Fargo, N. B. Minneapolis, Minn.
At the
ORPHEU
This Week
A Strong Line-up of Popular Priced Vaudeville
25c MATINEE E^ERY DAY AT 2:30
Monday to Thursday^""
A .Overture
Latest News Events
Comedy.
"Two Weeks' Notice"
A One-Act Play
E ,/i Clarence Wilbur
Comedian' 'tM
Johnson—Dean Revue
Johnson—Dean Revue
The Graatett CMoredl Act |r
Vaudeville. Slnslnit, Dancins
and cakewaiidnc
The Graatett CMoredl Act |r
Vaudeville. Slnslnit, Dancins
and cakewaiidnc
Graham thoughtfully.
••Well, they're rather remarkable peo-
pl%Velh'I^ihink
it-e ahout
a
jry.
so, too, and I think
time you taed It Up with
a to let Carol ctfme and visit
"I'm going to get mother to go out
there and call this week If I can,"
said Graham after another longer
ivtucc and then added: .1 thin
1c she
Wilt'CO and I thinft she will like them.
Vftor that we'll see, kid. Don't you
ou
Th.vVc nice, all right." He
«virr\- They're nice, all right."
S tilinWng of the look on Shirley's
she sat at the piano playing
wa*
waV
face a*
for them all to sing.
CHAPTER 30V.
The first few days in the new home
were filled with wonder and delight
for them all. They Just could not get
used to having plenty of room in
doors with all outdoors for a play-
Doris's cheeks tooK on a
and
sed." These subjects S She and Harley spent- all
cussed at all the t.raham hou.c .par
you ever fee! as ifthere really a brden. ha^any «.
was a God somewhere, like a per.m penen
lT
Caro,,i
Carol with these Harley
on
NEW
DIAMOND DISCS
FOR APRIL
COME IN! HEAR tHEM!
No. 80441—Price, $1.70
Bells of Joy—Easter Carol, Shepherd
Mixed \oices
Victory—Easter Carol, Neal
Mixed Voices
No. 80442—Price, $1.70
Easter Chimes—Intermezzo, Kunkel
Easter Fantasia, Descriptive, Lake
her eyes began to
of_doorS-
They were-making
broken spade down
of
managed to 're-,
Continued on Page 7.)
Carol Singers
Carol Singers
Creatore and His Band
Peerless Orchestra
Eduardo Ferrari-Fontana
'La Favorita, Donizetti
Mario Laurenti
Baritone, in Italian
Credo (Iago's Creed)—Otello, Verdi
Baritone, in Italian
Xo. 82559—Price, $2.7
Singing and Whistling "cuuoim.
No. 80444—Price, $1.70
Tenor and Male Chorus
Mother-rand Me, Cavanagh George Wilton Ballard
Tenor
No. 30507—Pricc, $1.15
SambPe"et'Mensc
(Frcnch
No. 50508—Price, $1.15
Clover Club (A "Fox-Trot" Classic), Arndt
Nona Waltz, Varfdersloot
Mail Orders, With Check, Giving First and Second
Choice Will Have Prompt Attention
Thurs., Fri,, Sat.
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A Overture
Motion Pictures
Two Astellas
"Comedy Bumps**
'/•'. "^rnu(le\llic Notclty"
E
Jimmy Lyonns
Tlie Hebrew United
-V'
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Mario Laurent!
Anna Case
Merle Alcock
Arthur Mlddlcton.
Charles Hart
National Defile March),
New York Military Band
New York Military Band
Imperial Marimba Band
Imperial Marimba Band
'yfc'
'tz"--
Kline and Klifton p|
4
1
Jimmy Lyonns
E
SMm Mm
Tlie Hebrew United
SMm Mm
The Ragtime Court5*
Comic Muateal Fantasy
Nine People.'
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