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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1918.
FEDERATED CLUBS
TOMEETSOON
"Loyalty and Simplicity," the slo
SsnJn fhl® y.ear'8 meeting of the
North Dakota Federation of Women's
clubs, which is to be held in October
at Grand Forks, is to be emphasized
the program that is being prepared.
Patriotism as exemplified by loyal
service, and a keen desire to do the
very best toward helping to win the
war, will form the keynote to each
day's program.
Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, national
president of the Federation of Woro
ens' clubs has written to the state
president, Mrs. H. G. Vick, that she
hopes to attend the meeting, apd there
are to be a number of other db
guished guests. Mrs. Ross Can field is
to bring a message from the biennial
meeting held at Hot Springs, Ark.,
last May, and Miss Minnie Jean Niol
son, a former president of the federa
tion and at the present time chairman
of the Woman's Liberty Loan work in
North Dakota is to be one of the im
portant speakers. Her subject is to
be "Education for Patriotic Citizen
ship."
Dr. Thomas F. Kane, president of
the University of North Dakota, and
Dean J. E. Babcock, of the school of
mines, University of North Dakota,
and several others are to have places
on the program.
Of particular interest and sounding
very clear the note of patriotism, is
a series of four minute speeches which
will be included in each session. These
will be on timely topics—the topics
that are absorbing the attention ofj
the women of the country because of
the war time conditions—and these,
subjects are to be handled by per
sons of authority in this state, on the!
various forms of war work. Judge
N. C. Young, of Fargo, director of the
North Dakota Red Cross has promised
to attend, in person, or to send a rep-'
resentative to tell of the Red Cross'
work in this state. Dr. E. F. Ladd,
federal food agent in North Dakota,
or a representative will talk of food
conservation, and Miss Julia Newton
of the State Agricultural college will
have as her subject "States Relation
Service." Miss Nielson will tell of the
Liberty Loan, and other subjects to
be covered will be Junior Red Cross,
and Red Cross, Nursing.
Mrs. F. L. Conklin of Bismarck, the
capable little woman who is chairman
of the Woman's Committee, Council
of National Defense, North Dakota
division, will talk of the womans' com
mittee and its important work.
Though simplicity is to be observed,
the meeting will have its informal so
cal side, and there are to be enter
taining as well as instructive features.
The club women of the country have
been encouraged to keep up their club
life, and as organized until they may
accomplish very worth while results
in war work. For this reason club
women of this state wished to con
tinue their meetings as normally as
possible, and the Federation-meeting
will provide an opportunity for these
women to exchange ideas, and to help
towards reaching the best results in
the patriotic work that is being done,
and that is needed to be done.
FOUR MINUTE MEN
WILL (XT ACTION
Mr. Herman Stern, of this city, has
been appointed chairman of the Four
Minute Men of Barnes county and the
first meeting will be held tonight at
the Grand Theater where several four
minute men will be on hand to talk to
those present. In the appointment of
Mr. Stern to this most important po
sition the Times-Record knows that
the work falls in excellent hands. He
is a hard worker in whatever he un
dertakes and he will work to the best
Keeping
scorn
he knows how to keep "not only the
home fires burning," but these four
minute men going also. Give him
hearty cooperation in this important
branch of war work. The following
items will give you a better idea of
the work than we can personally.
On the evening of Saturday, Sep
tember. 28, it is estimated that nearly
one hundred and fifty thousand allied
speakers will go into action in all
parts of the United States, all speak
ing on the Fourth Liberty Loan, and
all basing their speeches upon infor
mation contained in the latest bulle
tin published by the Four Minute Men
of the Committee on Public Informa
tion.
A great many of these speakers will
be ministers of all creeds, who have
recently become affiliated with this
organization of official spokesmen for
the government.
Between forty and' fifty thousand
of the total will be commissioned Four
Minute Men who have already "car
ried the message" through at least
three campaigns.
The bulletin of information for the
use of Four Minute Men during the
Fourth Loan drive is the product
of more than a month's careful com
pilation of material from official
sources, all of which has been check
ed over by responsible government of
ficials.
The material is arranged in logical
order, opening with a comparison of
the new loan with great loans of the
past, demonstrating that this will
break all previous world efforts.
A complete history of the Liberty
Loans to date follows, after which
come the details of subscriptions to
each loan by states, the quotas and
percentage of the Third Loan being
added.
A summary of U. S. war finance
follows, appropriations and expendi
tures being balanced against income
and estimated receipts. This section
concludes with a comparison of Amer
ican with German finance which may
go far to cheer the faint-hearted.
Where the money goes is the subject
of the next section interesting figures
being brought out in relation to the
comparative cost of the first draft and
of former recruiting.
The cost of constructing canton
ments is covered in this section, as
also is the great mass of material in
cluded under the supervision of the
Quartermaster's Corps.
This latter part sustains the state
ment that the American Army is the
best clothed, best fed, best paid, and
healthiest army in the world.
The artillery and general ordnance
program is then gone into very
thoroughly, the necessity for vast ex
penditures in this branch of the bus
iness of war being explained.
Then, having raised the army, call
ed it to its cantonments, supplied,
equipped and armed it, the question of
the bridge of boats is answered very
thoroughly and conscisely.
Guarding this bridge—the work of
the navy—well deserves the attention
it receives at this point and so the
bulletin brings the finished product to
our LibertyLoan dollars "over there."
Anx extremely interesting study in
the costs of a general action along a
ten-mile front follows, in which the
need for adequate financial support is
made very evident.
A suggestion to "hold your bonds"
concludes this phase of the bulletin.
It is followed by several pages of
ideas for speakers, outlines, opening
phrases, little stories of service and
sacrifice, illustrative speeches and
sermons, etc.
The whole is thoroughly cross-in
dexed alphabetically by topics, so that
any described point of information
may be turned to readily.
The bulletin is published only for
accredited speakers, but all the valu
able and interesting information con
tained in it will eventually find its
way to the general public during the
course of the campaign.
Our Soldiers Strong
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AMERICAN TROOPS MAKE SUCCESSFUL RAIDS
With the American Army on*the Metz Front, Sept. 23.
American troops made three successful raids on this front
early yesterday taking more than thirty prisoners and in
flicting considerable losses on the Germans. The principal
raids were in the region of Haucourt-les-Lachaussee. The
American artillery threw a barrage about the village cut
ting off the enemy's communications. Our infantry dash
ed in. They encountered a number of the Boches and kill
ed and wounded more than fifty. They brought back 20
who surrendered after severe hand to hand fighting. Sim
ultaneously another American unit southeast of Charey
raided the German outpost trenches bringing back six sur
prised Germans. Early in the morning east of Haucourt
American troops raided the enemy trenches and encoun
tered stiff fighting. Braving the heavy German barrage
they captured five Huns and inflicted a number of casu
alties. The patrols reported that the Germans are busily
digging in. The artillery is intermittently active along the
•whole Metz front. The enemy is using gas and incendiary
shells. Despite the unfavorable weather the American
0viators have dropped bombs on airodromes and eighteen
tc ns of boms on the railroad junctions causing explosions
and fires.
MEN FORCED FROM NON-ESSENTIAL CLASS
Washington, Sept. 23.—Machinery designed to force
the men out of the non-essential employment and muster
the women of the nation otake their place was put in mo
tion today by one thousand labor boards reaching into
every section of the country. The boards are acting under
detailed instructions of the government, working through
the United States employment service. Each board will
soon put a list of industries in its locality in which men
should be replaced by women. Lists will be the basis for a
survey of all industrial plants in each board's district. The
survey will be minute. Each job will be studied to see
whether women can fill it. The pyblication of the lists is
expected to cause employers to comply and substitute
women as a result of moral pressure to be exerted. Where
the moral pressure is of no avail stronger measures will be
taken. The employment service will work through the
war industries board with power to shut off supplies of
raw materials from any plant.v This move is the result of
the enlarged army program under which four million men
will be sent to France next June.
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SHALL GERMAN PRISONERS BE BROUGHT HERE
Washington, Sept. 23.—Whether German prisoners
taken by the Americans in France shall be brought to this
country for farm and other labor will be among the prob
lems settled at the American-German prisoners confer
ence convention today at Berne. This conference will be
followed by similar sessions with alternate delegates if
present plans carry. The question of bringing German
prisoners to the United States has long been under dis
cussion. It is pointed out that it takes no tonnage to sup
ply them if they come here while they can be doing needed
labor. Other matters to be considered are: The general
treatment of prisoners, payment of officers, exchange of
ill and wounded captives, and the supply of food,to the
American prisoners in Germany. American conferees are
headed by Minister Garrett, of the Netherlands, and in
cluded on the board is John W. Davis, newly appointed em
bassador to Great Britain.
W&S|.
HOUSE AGREES ON BILL
Washington, Sept. 23.—The house today agreed on
the conference report on the McAdoo bond bill after Ma
jority leader Kitchin had declared that the passage of the
bill was essential for the plans of the next liberty loan
drive. The bill as passed the house originally gave the
president power to regulate or prohibit transaction in lib
erty bonds. The senate had struck this out but complied in
giving the president power to regulate fraud transactions
but not prohibiting bona fide sales was agreed to by the
conference. Other provisions of the bill remain as origin
ally passed.
WSS1-
MANY VILLAGES TAKEN
Rome, Sept. 23.—The capture of 16 villages and a new
advance of seven and one-half miles was repored in the
Macedonian communipue today. "Overcoming the resist
ance of the Quivering patres and the difficulty of the ter
rain we continued our pursuit of the enemy," the state
ment said. "After an average advance of about twelve
kilometers and the capture of sixteen villages our left
wing and central wing reached thq line of Carle Dobrosovo
Musa and Oba. We carried the strong positions of Mont
Bobiste With our right. We have taken a number of pris
oners."
SPANISH INFLUENZA GRIPS JACKIES
Great Lakes, 111., Sept. 23—About 4,500 sailors at the
Great lakes training station are suffering from Spanish
influenza according to a statement made public today by
Capt. Moffett, commandant. The death rate will be about
me and a half per cent, he said. The malady has been con
quered he declared and the cases are decreasing at the
rate of 10 per cent daily.
—isssa—
ARRIVAL OF JAPANESE ANXIOUSLY AWAITED
Harbin, Manchuria, Sept. 24.—Six thousand Germans
and Austro-Hungarians are threatening the Areitsk dis
trict. The population of the Baikal region is anxiously
awaiting the arrival of the Japanese troops.
RAILROAD TO CONSTANTINOPLE
Washington, Sept. 23.—The development of a Bor
deaux-Belgrade railroad to give the allies a land route tc
Constantinople is being urged by entente diplomats as
step to block any Berl"" scheme. Such a rail
road would dominate tno baiKai*s and give the allies mili
tary and commercial advantages the allies say.
MR. M'DOWELL
MAKES STATEMENT
September 19, 1918.
To the presidents of Barnes County:
Under date of September 17th State
Chairman Wesley C. McDowell issued
the following statement, "Our share
in the Fourth Liberty Loan will be
larger than the sum total of what we
were asked to raise in the first, second
and third Liberty Loans. It is the
biggest task the people of our state
have ever been called upon to per
form. It is important and necessary
that each county take its full allot
ment. Each county must do its full
share and every citizen is urged to
help make a record for North Dako
ta that will be highly creditable to
our state."
In the Third loan Barnes county, was
called upon for three hundred twenty
five thousand dollars. In the Fourth
Loan we are allotted the amount of
eight hundred thousand dollars. It
means that each of us must more than
double our subscription.
We are going to do it. We will not
disappoint the state organization, but
it will require the united effort of ev
ery resident.
Let us unanimously resolve that the
full amount shall be raised and the
campaign closed on the grst day of
the drive, Saturday, September 28,
before six o'clock in the evening.
A. P. HANSON,
Barnes ounty Chairman
Fourth Liberty Loan.
DON'T BURN
YOUR STRAW
Bismarck, N. D., Sept. 19.—"Don't
burn your straw. Every straw stack
seen burning this fall means that.a
part of the food necessary to win the
war is being destroyed."
This appeal is made to the farmers
of North Dakota by Commissioner of
Agriculture and Labor, John N. Ha
gan, after a careful study of the feed
situation throughout the entire state
of North Dakota. Commissioner Ha
gan finds that there are large areas
of the state absolutely without feed
of any kind, and he says that it is go
ing to be absolutely necessary to feed
straw during the winter months.
Commenting further on the feed situ
ation, Mr. Hagan says:
"While the feed situation is not as
serious as last fall, it is such that not
a single stack should be destroyed.
This applies especially to the stacks
of oat, wheat, and barley straw.
"Owing to the improved pastures,
stock that were due to be sent to the
slaughter houses are still in the state
and unless they will make a dressed
carcass that will weigh in the neigh
borhood of 450 pounds or more they
should stay until they acquire that
size. This is due to the fact that the
government which is purchasing large
amounts of beef for the consumption
of our soldiers and of our allies is not
buying any beef that does not dress
out a carcass of 450 pounds which re
quires a live weight of around 1,000
pounds.
"A steer or heifer that goes into
the winter in fair flesh will winter on
practically nothing but straw, al
though other feed is desirable if ob
tainable.
"Hoover plans on building up a re
serve supply of wheat and it is up
to the farmers of North Dakota to
have a reserve supply of feed. The
early spring in 1918 was the only
thing that saved hundreds of heads of
live stock, the little straw produced in
1917 giving out early and the stock
being saved only by the open winter
and the few stacks that remained
over from the previous years.
PATRIOTIC WOMEN
GATHERING TODAY
Miss Minnie Nielson, state chair
man of the women's department of
the Fourth Liberty Loan, has a large
meeting in the city today of the wom
en chairmen of the various counties
of the state who have this gteat work
in hand. The ladies are coming in
from all over he state and a great
meeting is in progress. We under
stand that A. R. Rogers, chairman of
the Ninth Federal District is to be
here to address the gathering. This
is one of the most important gather
ings we have had in the city because
it is for a most important cause. The
\yomen of the state have done a large
part in putting over past loan drives
and in this fourth drive they will not
be found wanting.
Pottery the O'dert Art.
rotlT\ is the oldest, 1 li longest and
Uiost: widely diffused of all human arts.
Its history, if recorded, would lie as
old as the history man: its record
ed history begins with tlie building of
the tower of Babel. The oldest pot
tery known is Egyptian, but every peo
ple, civilized or barbarian, has prac
ticed the art in one or another form
All study in every department of art
begins at a period not long after the
Mosaic deluge, but lottery is tlie
earliest of all forms of art.
"Self."
If your house looks so and so, it Is
because you are so and so. There is
ao way of separating yourself from the
envelope of appurtenances that you've
chosen to surround yourself with,
y0lir "self" is simply the cluster of
circumstances that you have culled
from the rich welter of the world to
put into tfie make-up of your life,
Exchange.
Electrics..
I\ew York is estimated to have 2,500
commercial electric vehicles, Chicago
1.0r0, and Philadelphia 150.
PROVE YOUR
PATRIOTISM
Now, that the end of the growing
season is here, an effort is being made
to find the result of the "Win the
War Food Campaign." Neither the
government or any one else will take
any of your home canned food, but we
know that Barnes county went "over
the top" in the preservation of perish
able foods. Let's prove it. Report
blanks may be had at the Right Price
Mercantile Co. and The People's Co
operative store or you may make oni
your own report and send to State
Home Demonstration Leader, Fargo,
N. D. How many quarts of fruit and
vegetables did you can or dry?
NORTH DAKOTA
IN WORLD WAR
Mandan, N. D., Sept. 20.—Every
member of the former North Dakota
National Guard, now on the firing line
in France, marched past on the screen
at the Palace theater in Mandan last
Wednesday night when the North Da
kota Council of Defense opened its
state show, "North Dakota in World
War."
The boys were seen as they were
before they entered the world conflict
and the more than 2,000 persons, who
saw them, cheered the boys they
knev.- in the days when they were
learning the arts of warfare that was
to enable them to aid in suppressing
the ambitions of the kaiser.
"North Dakota in World War" is a
five-reel picture that is going to be
shown in every city, town and village
in North Dakota. The pictures are
wonderfully clear and atr this time
have an unusual drawing power for
North Dakotans. The first and sec
ond regiments, bands, staffs and other
war officers are shown. The boys are
seen as they passed in review of the
governor before entraining for the
east, and the camera man was busy
at many unsuspecting moments and
many a prank of the boys in camp
was reproduced on the sci'een.
The North Dakota Council of De
fense has perpetuated the likeness of
the war boys so that posterity may
again see them althouAi they are sev
eral thousand mild(r from home.
North Dakota is the only state in the
union that has made this possible. In
addition to the former National Guard
pictures, the fielm also includes view?
of the home guard mobilization during
Loyalty Week at Bismarck, thr
Steele cavalry, Indian celebration at
Elbowwoods, and scenes from th
North Dakota state fair at arFgo.
"North Dakota in World War" ii
strictly a state show and was made
by the Holmboe Studio of Bismarck
under the direction of the North Da
kota Council of Defnse."
THE YANK WHO GOT A COLONEL
I wish I could have seen him trudging
rearward with his prize,
Seen the grin upon his visage and
the twinkle in his eyes.
Iwish I could have heard him in
that din of war infernal
Shouting: "See the bird I captured!
Take a look! I got a colonel!"
Oh, I fancied when I read it I could
almost hear him chuckle
As he grabbed that haughty Prussian
and then calmly made him
knuckle
And I'd like to see his picture print
ed here in every journal,
Proudly coming in from battle shout
ing: "Hey- I got a colonel!"
I don't know where he hails from, and
I didn't get his name,
But I hold that Yank's entitled to a
goodly share of fame
It would be an inspiration to our boys
through time eternal
Just to read about that dough boy
who went out and bagged a
colonel.
—Edgar A. Guest.
"O-K-E-H'
Somebody once asked President
Wilson why he always writes "Okeh''
in approving memorandums and doc
uments instead of the more common
"O. K."
"Because 0. K. is wron^," replied
the president. "O-k-e-h is correct."
The White house attaches scurried
for dictionaries, but the best thej
could find under "0. K." was that
Andrew Jackson started it by spell
ing "all correct" "Oil Korrect."
"Look it up in the latest dictionary,"
suggested the president. They did,
and this is what they found: "O. K.—
A humorous or ignorant spelling of
what should be 'okeh,' from the Choc
taw language, meaning, 'It is so an
article pronoun having a distinctive
final use all right correct."
So "Okeh Woodrow Wilson." or
more commonly, "Okeh W. W." bids
fair to become as famous as Roose
velt's
"Dee-lighted."—St.
Paul News-
THOUGHT HE HAD
BEEN TORPEDOED
Mart Mason Friday morning early
thought he had been torpedoed or els«
bombed, he was not quite sore whictl
for a short time. He was "backing hisi
car out into the street up at Sim
Mason's and some fellow who thought
speed was what was mostly required
of him coupled with the fact that it
was everybody else's business to get
off the earth, came flying down Fourth
street at a lively clip, and bing, lie
struck Mart Mason's car on the JBar
end which slewed that car around
rather suddenly and scared Mart into
losing at least a month's growth.
The other fellow's car got the worst
of it and Mr. Mason got out of it with
but very little damage.