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LIVE LOCAL and NATIONALTOPiCS DISCUSSED by the EulTOR
FRIDAY, FEB. 13, 1914
(•d ai the posrothcc. in vjoitU'n ViMtj
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"CHRONICLE PRINTING COT raid
1 Incorporated^
W. HRINTON. Editor
Sui»—iption pr:u! *l."»0 pcryrar :u mivancc.
Tetnaintr One to len mch«. pr-r inch
ten to ihirtv inchei. 20c per inch M' inches and *p.
fSe pet inch. S :«ial rales on standing advertise.
Ki^nta an'i yrarly contracts-
O. Zollinger Beach, N. Dak.
.P.
C. Erickson Beach, N. Dak.
Albert Schouboe Beach, N. Dale,
H. W. Peek Los Angeles, Cal.
fchn H- Haigh Pickett, Wis.
STOCKHOLDERS AND OWNERS.
H. W. Brinton Beach, N. Dak. confident of this regeneration as
J. W. Brinton Beach, N. Dak. he
was- This recurrence over and
J. R. Smith Beach, N. Dak.
a conspirator against President
1r.dero, could have happened
even
as
far back in American his­
tory as the colohial wars.
1 he proceedings in Mexico aft
Going b$ck two or three cen
turies in Eurppe, the refusal to ex
tend quarter in the more desper
ate fighting was seriously defend
ed. When men declined to sur
render to superior force, it was
held they prplonged slaughter.
The sooner such last ditch men
were cleaned out, the fewer wid
ows and orphans would be cre
ated.
condition. The New York Nation,
icmavicing on the improvement,
at
that time:
0
can
a br.ttle sound very much like doing it, but the St- Valentine do
si butcher'? shop. Still* if the pri
-Tiers were -paroled, according to
xrodern fashion, they would soon
br.ck with a stolen gun popping
away again for the same old
cause-
The formal codes of war and
the daily practice of soldier life
have lost much of personal vindic
tiveness- Outposts swap coffee
and tobacco, and strict rules have
to be made to prevent their eat
ing driiiking and playing cards
together. Prisoners of war must
be treated as well as your own
troops. They can be made to
work, but their wages must be
computed at the rates that would
be paid home soldiers. When re
leased, such prisoners must re
ceive these wages, minus fair
charge for maintenance.
But many horrible barbarities,
quite equal to the offhand slaugh
ter of Mexico, still persist- Japan
incurred criticisms in the war with
Russia, because high explosives
were used in grenades, which
caused the most hideous injuries,
blowing off wholesale men's
limbs, parts of the body or face.
Today the English army has prac
tically adopted the same equip
ment.
THE REPRESSION OF GRAFT.
The state of New York is at
present engaged in one of its
smelling campaigns that come
around as regularly as presidential
elections. Hie results are physi
cally nauseating and mentally de
pressing.
In the year 1910 there was a
general clean-up of graft inanum
ber of cities and states. The re
sults were widely accepted as
.rather permanent. The house of
politics, after abundant ablutions
of disinfectants,-purifiers, seem
ed in fairly wholesome and sweet
-we Steuce:
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life.
.Beach, N. Dak.
.Beach, N. Dak.
.Beach, N. Dak.
.Beach, N. Dak.
Wester-gard
frank D. Haigh
Beach, N. Dak.
.Carlyle, N. Dak.
Woodsend.. .William*, N. Dak.
Ri'."g°ffman. .'.*.'.'.' .'Beach.eN. D°ank:i Srace
A. Rising
M. K. Bowen
.George Schweigert
ft. R. Offley ....
I. J. Corliss\.
N.D.RA.
CIVILIZED WARFARE.
The dispatches from- Mexico
have a very good sound, as the
execution, pf prisoners proceeds.
They read much like warfare in
Europe 300,. years agq- Nothing
like the summary execution of
Francisco Guzman, just killed
without arty, hearing by Gen. Villa.
will be long
before things can get as bad at
•\!bany, Columbus, and at Ritts
ourg, as they were before this
work of houseclenning was under
taken.
Perhaps the editorial prophet
who wrote that forecast is not as
g-jn
a
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Vince W.eka ReaCj/ KI' Hale through public departments, legis
lofcn Blomstroirt Beacn, N. Dak. .1 .1
5till Beach, N. Dak.! latures and city councils, is the
.Beach, N. Dak.
most, depresing feature of Ameri
.Beach, N. Dak.
j|,e black trail of graft,
Even if it were possible to put
a lot of the grafters in jail, the
temperamental gobd nature of the
American people would come to
their relief. The opinion would be
entertained
of
.Carlyle, Mont.
.Burkey, N. Dak.
.Williams, N, Dak.
.Beach, N .Dak.
that the dis-
the thing had "punished
them enough.
Hie shock of separation from
comfortable or even refined
homes would awaken widespread
sympathy. The distress of their
families would create pity- The
plucky way in which they accept
ed the inevitable would give rise
almost to admiration. Petitions
for their release would bo freely
singned in almost any business
community.
Graft will go on and o.» in pol
itics, until the grafters are p-.i
ST. VALENTINE.
What has become of the young
fellows and giris who used to
post each other those lacey,
mushy, lovey-dovey valentines on
Feb. 14? Perhaps they are still
ings of the present time seem to
be more of a kidlet affair.
With what anxious heart the
youth of 12 to 18 years of age
used to welcome the coming of
this anniversary! With what dis
criminating care he selected a gor
geous display of Cupid emblems
to please his lady love! With
what beating heart he dropped it
into the post office!
There is always more or less
calf love among the young folks
at this romantic age. One get?
the impression, though, that to
day more of their interest goes in
to wholesale athletics. The boy
who has passed the age of I 2
should be engrossed with basket
or baseball, not playing the pre
cocious courtier to sentimental
misses. Meanwhile St. Valentine
still remains a jolly old saint, who
furnishes the smaller youngsters a
chance for an exchange of favors-
HOW ABOUT THE FAIR.
Time is fast slipping by and
no move has been commenced to
organize for the 1914 Golden
Valley County Fair. Is Beach go
ing to let the fair proposition go
by default this year? Or are we
going to wait until the time for
a fair is upon us and then attempt
to pull onife off in a month's no
tice.
We should have a fair this year
above all years and it should be
made a big success. If we are to
have a fair and intend to make it
a success, now is the time to get
busy and start the ball rolling
Let's get busy.
A great deal is being said now
about the advertising Beach is
getting from the starting of a daily
paper here. True- But did you
ever stop to thing of the advertis
ing Beach will get when the daily
quits- Reports will be published
in all the papers of the state, then,
to the effect that Beach couldn't
support a daily the Beach mer
chants were not loyal enough to
their home institution the town
was too small, too dead, etc. Will
this be good advertising for
Beach?
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the same plane as burglars, a"d
are sentenced accordingly ant! he
sentence executed. Legal involu
tions need to be abbreviated, sc
that final justice can be meted ov
while the memory of such acts is
still fresh-
The Daily Progress had an arti
cle in that paper last week sug
gesting that the commerical club
pay for its Associated Press serv
ice for a couple of years. Good
heavens! If the paper is to run
two years, we suggest they bond
the city.
There is a general feeling
among our unemployed politi
cians, that the reason why a lot
of income tax collectorship jobs
were created is not fully under
stood.
Plain living and self-denial
still exist, and there are still a
good many families in this coun
try who do not have strawberries
in February.
As they are killing off Mexicans
at the rate of 100 per day, the
arithmetic editor figures out that
stable government will be restor
ed in Mexico in precisely 372
years, 9 months and 22 days-
Not merely does the groundhog
make some weather observations
Feb. 2, but no doubt he secures
information about the probable
location of the garden patch next
summer-
The Suffragists went away dis
satisfied from the White house,
though the President would have
frankly given them his ideas about
the best way to make bread.
Contrary to the impression pre
vailing among some of the girls,
a long purply yellow hat feather
does not taste good when the end
of it is stuck into your mouth.
TOP
OH
The railroads of Pennsylvania
are laying off employes who use
liquor, in spite of the fact that
drinking makes the men so much
more sociable.
Sorne people are still kicking
about the income tax, in spite of
the fact that paying one is the
MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS
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cheapest method of acquiring so
cial standing.
Strange that the authors of the
currency law didn't see that about
7500 instead of 1 2 regional banks
would be needed to satisfy all lo
calities.
By some unexpected hitch in
the proceedings, none of., the
loop-the-loop aviators has yet
been turned into a human pan
cake.
This newspaper cheerfully ad
mits that George Goethals can
get a job all. right without spend
ing a quarter for a want ad in the
newspapers.
You can always get a bill
through Congress for a marble
post office in Jayville, by attach
ing it as a rider to the navy appro
priation bill-
Now thaFIKe Wisconsin eugen
ics law is called unconstitutional,
a fellow can again go courting
without his clinical thermometer.
One reason why winter is the
most popular season with the chil
dren is that it furnishes such excel
lent facilities for getting wet feet.
The vegetables you raise next
summer can be made to look like
the cuts in the seed catalog by
using a strong magnifying glass.
It is still possible for a senator
to get re-elected in this country,
even if he doesn't vote to pull the
nose of all the leadings foreigners.
Under the crcumstances, Mr.
Bryan might: as. well give up ex
pecting any valentine Feb- 14
from Champ Clark.
As is invariably the case, trade
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tell him
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hurry back
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is a good deal restricted by un
seasonable weather.
Press Comment
The Declaration Law.
There appears to be ground in cer
tain quarters for the belief that the
voters of North Dakota are going to
be considerably confused this spring
when making their declarations of par
ty affiliations to the assessor, to be used
in the balloting at the June primaries.
There will be four separate ballots
this year containing respectively the re
publican, democratic, progressive and
socialist candidates, and when the as
sessors start out soon, the voters will
have to tell them what party they de
sire to be identified with.
There will be no trouble for the reg
ular republicans, democrats and social
ists to make these distinctions, but it is
thought that there might be some con
fusion in construting the meaning of
"progressive." For instance, there are
many republicans who call themselves
"progressives," but who in doing so
mean they favor progressive republi
cans, supposedly represented by Con
gressman Norton and Helgeson, Sena
tor Gronna and others. At the June
primaries, however, the progressive
ticket ballot will not contain the names
of these gentlemen unless they are en
dorsed by the progressive party but
will contain- the names of the candi
dates of men who profess to be full
fledged progressives, or in other words,
"Bull Moosers." Thus when a voter
tells the assessor that he is a "pro
gressive" the assessor will be taken at
its full face value and will mean that
he intends to vote for "Bull Moose
candidates.
The supreme court has held that
a voter must vote at the primaries ac
cording to his declaration, and that aft
er once recording his preference he
cannot change.—Minot Optic.
As Others See Us.
The little city of Beach, on our east,
is surely having its troubles. Last
week they organized another commer-
VOOFC WATC»4
I
cial club, making two in al.l and now
if they will only do the same tKing
over again, there will be one club for
e^cH f.ditor. It's a bad practice to let
the contcmptable contemporaries meet
in one club room, or the fur is suro to
Weil, we are looking for the next
move to be that the good people dawn
there will have two Beach's.—Wibaux
Pioneer.
The Mail is in receipt of the first
two copies of the Beach Daily Progress,
ar.d they are very creditable numbers,
although they bear the appearance that
the publishers have gone at this matter
of publishing a daily without having
consulted the merchants of that thriv
ing village, without whose assistance
and support a daily will be found to
be an exceedingly hard graft. The
Mail has never been of the opinion that
the Progress Publishing Company or
any other company can make a daily
newspaper "go" in a town the size of
Beach but a daily can hardly be a
poorer investment than the "third"
weekly would be, and if there are a
sufficient number of "gangs" and Com
mercial Clubs in Beach to support a
third weekly, perhaps they may organ
ize a daily commercial club up at that
city and give sufficient support to make
a success of the new daily. However,
the Mail would advise that they get at
it soon, if there is any desire to show
a profit on the daily enterprise.
Conviction of Schmidt.
No other verdict than that of mur
der in the first degree was possible
in the case of Hans Schmidt, the de
praved and degraded priest who kill
ed a young woman with whom he as
sociated in New York. His confession
of the crime left no doubt on the mind
of the court, although it was neces
sary to establish Schmidt's guilt by in
dependent testimony.
Utter public disgust prevails at the
amazing contradictions of experts in
insanity. In the Schmidt case as in
others that preceded it there was a
sharp line of division among the alien
ists called on to testify. It would
seem, notwithstanding that they are
bored by opposing interests, there
should be a reasonably basis of agree
ment as to the sanity of the prisoner
among medical experts called on to
testify in cases such as that of Schmidt.
If the questioned to be determined
were as to whether or not the prisoner
was suffering from pneumonia or'
Bright's disease, all the experts called
on both sides would agree in their
diagnosis. But when the disease is
that of the mind it is always found
that the alienists called for the prose
cution find the prisoner sane, 'while
the experts for the defense invariably
class him a lunatic.
The scandal of expert testimony has
gone so far that at the latest meeting
of the New York State Bar association
a sweeping change in the law con
cerning murderers whose sanity is
questioned by an inportant committee
of that body.—Fargo Forum.
"Let It
Humor and Comment
CONTRIBUTED, CLIPPED or STOLEN by aid of PASTE and SHEARS
Bon."
Many papers are remarking that the
political pot is boiling. Well, let it
boil. There is nothing like boiling to
bring out the dirt and impurities from
things in the wash, and it is very likely
that the same rule will hold good in
the political wash. The boiling process
at the last election boiled out several
things and brought to the front and into
office a lot of good men as state offi
cials. The state has had much praise
from other states on account of the
good work done by the last legislature
and the executive in making good laws.
It will be interesting to every one to
know that North Dakota is credited
with having better work done by its
legislature and governor than any
other state. If this is the kind of boil,
ing and it will bring the same fellows
back again with increased ability by
the fresh boiling, let it get hoter than
hot in the political pot.—Oakes Jour
nal.
Our Sentiment*.
The Independent claims to be just as
Progressive" as any paper in the
state. We believe in reform whenever
it will prove, of benefit to the greatest
number, of our people but we dislike
very much the idea of a handful of
"Progressive" republicans gathering at
Fargo and making a slate for the thou
sands of other progressives to sup
pojt. .We understand that the thou
sands of "Progressive" convention'was
attended by just twenty-seven by-actual -f
count. We have no particular fault
to find with the candidates chosen, but
what is the use of our primaries if a
few self appointed leaders cook up a
mess of political porridge to suit their
own taste?—Minot Independent.
An Unamiable Phase of Government 'i
Ownership of Telegraph.
The post office department has pow
er to hold up mail matter until some
one higher
up
able. Any clerk can delay mail mat
ter thus far. If this were telegraph
matter, such delay would usually bc^
fatal to the object. We use the wire
to secure immediacy.
If we are to have government own
ership or even government control that
power to cause delay must be restrain
ed, else political interference with busi
ness may become unbearable. You
would hardly want to have a telegraph
operator hold up your messages until
he had advice from some wire chief to
let it go, would you) l,
This is one of the minor difficulties
there are many of them to be consid
ered. The government ought to oper
ate the wires, but not till the plan is
well matured and civil service so thor
oughly established that it cannot be
set aside when parties change.—Fargo
Courier-News.
Protestants and Catholics and Tlw
Menace.
The Courier-News is a newspaper. It
is a fair newspaper and does not mean
to be the tool of any clique nor the
instrument for unnecessarily wounding
any man or woman.
The Courier-News stands for the
square deal.
In publishing a Sunday newspaper,
the Courier-News is trying to give
something different from the mess of
scandals, divorces, narratives of crime
and the slush served up by some peri
odicals. The paper must contain news
of course, and news is the record of
what occurs. But it also contains on
the Christian days of worship some
things reminding people of invisible
forces and the values usually associated
with religion. These articles are appre
ciated by many readers. Those who
do not care for them, of course, will
pass them over.
On this particular day it seems well
to give especial attention to churches
and colleges, because we have more
room, in the larger paper, and because^
of the appropriateness of such matter
for that day.
Always the Protestant churches
have large representation in our Sun
day paper, and we are glad to publish
their news that everybody may know
what is going on. We publish all
church notices without charge, for they
are excellent news and we consider the
support of religion a public duty for
a newspaper interested in good govern
ment. We publish Catholic church no
tices and are glad also to publish a col
umn of well selected news on Sunday
of interest to our Catholic readers. It
is from reliable sources.
Protestants do not need to read the
Catholic notices and news, nor do the
Catholics need to r.ead the Protestant,
if they don't want to, but possibly it,
wouldn't hurt either to read both.
Now comes a clipped section of the
Menace directed to the editor with the
penciled suggestion that it is suitable
for the Sunday Courier-News. The clip-,
ping is a fiery attack upon the Roman
Catholic church and uses some verjr
caustic epithets.
No, it does not fit our columns, and
it is not fit for our columns. And
our humble judgment the publication of
that kind of material will injure the
cause represented by whoever issues it.
This is not the day for such attacks.
This thing of stirring up sectarian
strife and attacking each other's reli
gious opinions or organizations ia
mighty poor business. We are here on
earth to live together, to exercise pa
tience and kindliness, to practice the
golden rule toward each other. What
is the use of aggravating the differ
ences we may have in religion) The
Jew and the Roman Catholic and the
Protestant live here side by side we
love our common country we do busi
ness together we greet each other on
the street we meet at social gather
ings. It is our pride that we do not
carry the mode .of worship or our re-
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