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FORKNER HAS BIG PLANS FOR FREE PRESS OF STATE President of North Dakota Asso- ciation Gives Message of Cheer to Craft WOULD HAVE FIELD AGENT Believes Secretary Should Get About the State and Meet With “The Boys” Mandan, N, D., Aug. 11.—That North Dakota is a laboratory in which advertising experiments are being made, and that the editors of the pa- pers should see that the metaphorical test tubes produce the analysis which means a great increase of foreign advertising was one of the features brought out and urged in the annual address and mass of suggestions made by President M. I. Forkner. “We want to use a little backbone stuff in going after foreign advertis- ing. ‘The foreign advertising possibili- ties for county weeklies were never before so great. All we have to do is to go out and get what we can handle and then make room for more. Today we are reaping the benefits of former years’ campa‘gos, and right now we should be making a campaign for future business. W'e can’t expect the advertisers to hand us the con- tracts on a silver platter; they expect us to show our appreciation of the ‘business iby going after it. It looks to me as if the foreign advertisers were experimenting with the country weeklies. Lets hold the test tubes for them.” Other points in his address were: “There is one thing more I would like to see done, and that is the se- curing of an honor roll. I would like to see this convention assign some- one to the task, who will go after it. The time is coming when we will be mighty glad to refer to such a roster; and the boys who left their plants and their families and went across the pond to help pull Willie down from his roost in the sun are entitled to this recognition. And [I wonder what this conven- tion thinks about a field secretary for the press association. The ‘brewers and the W. C. T. U. have one, not in common, but one each. Why not the Press. association? A Trying Year. As I intimated a while ago, the past year has been a very trying one for the association and the printers of (North Dakota, but the farm labor shortage, the war and the flu were not our greatest worries. The first unpleasantness came at Grand Forks & year ago when the in- fluences of the few men who: would Tun everything in North Dakota, caused policies to be injected into this association, where politics had never had a place before, It was one of the landmarks of our association that the printers of every creed and Political belief might mingle and work together for their mutual benefit and the advancement of the art but the association was hit by a dirt storm at Grand Forks last year and the landmark was obliterated. The Press Grab. “I am sure that the members of the association tried to forget it, and would have forgotten it, had not the legislature of North Dakota come out in favor of a political newspaper mo- nopoly for the benefit of a few people and paraded it under the guise of a reform, when those who fathered it were outspoken in their predictions that it would confiscate a half of the printing offices of the state, while enriching others, and knew that it was the dirtiest piece of class legis- lation that was ever foisted on a free people in a civilized community. If politics means the protection of one’s ‘business, his home and his family, then the North Dakota Press Associa- tion has a right to be and should con- tinue to be in politics. The publishers of North Dakota are ‘being called by the subsidized press, monopoly-corporations, but they do not resent this, when they know that the charge comes from an irrespons- ible source and thinking people know ‘better, but they cons‘der a very seri- ous proposition any legislation that is intended to put honorable citizens out of business and legislate their patron- age to others, and I believe they will SERVICE TIRE SHOP Bert Drennen, Mgr. 214 Main St. WILL OPEN AUGUST 1 With a Complete Up-to-the-Minute Vulcanizing and Retreading EQUIPMENT With Expert Workmen to Do Your Work DON’T THROW AWAY YOUR OLD TIRES We will save you at least half the cost of new ones, OUR SPECIALTY WILL BE 6,000,000 Washington—Here are 6,100,009 votes of approval by the common peo- ple of America for the proposal to give each discharged soldier, sailor or marine six months’ pay. Which, considering the fact that Britain is giving its army and navy command- ers in the great war a half million each, isn’t so much to ask. Homer Sheridan is presenting the bales of petitions to George A. Sanderson, sec- retary of the senate, on the steps of the capitol. go the limit to right the wrong that has been perpetrated against a hith- erto free press. The majority of the people are right, but sometimes a majority will make mistakes, and no one can ga‘n- say that it is a mistake, rather than willfulness, when the people of a state turn down home institutions that have stoop shoulder to shoulder with the other pioneers of progress in transforming North Dakota from a front’er state to a great, influential, prosperous commonwealth, and re- place these institutions with a string of patronage controlled, editorially controlled publications that never had to climb the steep incline to business success and cannot feel the sympathe- pulse of humanity. No thinking iti- zen will stick a dagger into the only agency that keeps him in touch with his neighbors, and his community in touch with the outside world, but the dagger was-used in the special elec- tion just the same. Question of Right. I concede that it might be a fine thing for the people of North Dakota to name the medium in which they would like to have their official news appear, but I do not think they have a right to tell individuals where they should go to buy the newspaper space for the ‘printing of any notices that they might desire published. For a printing: commission to tell the peo- ple of North Dakota what papers they have to read in order to get the offic- jal news, is an imposition. Now regarding the newspaper :law. In view of the fact-that the rights of all citizens and municipalities, . as well as the rights of-publishers, under the United States constitution, are ibe- ing encroached upon in the newspa- per law, and-relief would naturally be applied for by all classes of people, I consider that whatever move was made to set aside the action of the last legislature as regards the printing bills, should come from all the peo- ple and not the publishers alone. A Great Mission. ] believe that as a result of the re- cent election, the North Dakota Press association has before it the greatest mission of its history—the rightng of a gross injustice against a majority of its membership and the people of North Dakota, although a majorty of the latter have failed to realize the injustice and will not fully realize it until some of them lose their home papers, and I hope that this body will not fa!l to include in its deliberations something along the line of restoring the newspapers of North Dakta to the place they held before ther liberties and rights were encroached upon by a misguided leg'slature. SIMPSON DENIED ANOTHER CHANCE AT BIG ESTATE Supreme Court Refuses Rehear- ing in Last Swing at Cald- well Thousands Dickinson, N. D., Aug. 11—The su preme court last Friday denied a re- hearing to Attorneys L. A. ‘Simpson and T. D. Casey, who appealed from their finding, reversing the lower court which held the contract made between the attorneys and Mae Mo- ran valid. The contract. stipulated that the attorneys were to receive one-half of all they secured for their client from the Caldwell estate. In reversing the lower court's decision, the supreme court held shat the con- tract was against public. policy be- cause a lawyer is an officer of the court and, as such, cannot make an unconscionablo contract; that the con- tract allowed the lawyers to assume positions contrary to the interests of their client and*that the executore were necessary parties to the suits The executors are R. H. Johnson, W. F, Burnett and F. H. Register. The estate is valued at $60.000. Mae Moran is the daughter of J. H. Caldwell. Tribune Want Ads bring results. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years QUICK SERVICE Mail Orders Filled in 24 Hours » NAVY CIRCUS 10! ARRIVE TUESDAY Jackey Band, Vaudeville and Movies, Baseball, N’Every- thing HERE FOR ONE DAY ONLY The Great Lakes Naval training sta- tion special cars with the 22-piece aavy band, the navy baseball team, che navy vaudeville and mov.e enter- tainment and the navy beans will ar- rive here tomorrow afternoon, After giving the people of the city @n opporiunity to hear a-good con- cert, and witness an’ entertainment full of laughs. and action, the jackies will invite the Bismarck ball team out to the capitol, grounds and stage a nine inning contest just to prove that when it comes to baseball, the navy has ‘em all beat a fathom. Lieut. George A. Treadwell, ad- vance man for the navy's «inland cruise, stated Saturday that hi® team has, met all the best ball nines in the northwest and that Bismarck will have to’ show lots of speed, heavy slugging and air tight pitching if they expect to win, And Platzman’s Colts feel just as confident as the naval officer, so.it should be a good game The navy is sending these 60 blue- jackets:'on a tour through this dis- trict in the interests of recruiting and as an added inducement to “join the navy and see the world through a porthole” it has selected the best talent at the immense naval training station at Chicago. These seadogs are credited with putting on a really sparkling entertainment, interspersed with movies of what the navy did to win the war and what ft offers the young men as a training school afloat. Lieut. Treadwell has 15 years’ serv- ice in the navy to his credit and for three and one-half years has been in charge of the recruiting district: for this section with headquarters at Min- neapolis. He will be relieved from active duty today and his post will be occtpied by Lieut. Commander .G. H. Forte, U.S. .N. The tour of these inland sailors is under the supervision of Lieut., Commander Gates. They. come ‘here from Fargo and from here will go to Jamestown and then Oakes. The men will be here only Tues- day afternoon and evening. Through misinformation, unintentionally’ fur- nished this paper, it was. said they would remain here one week. TOWNLEY ORGANS TO RECEIVE BIG BONUS SELECTED (Continued from Page One.) Pierce—Rugby Farmers’ Press. Ramsey, Journal, Devils Lake. Ransom—Independent, Enderlin. Renville—Renville County Nonparti- san, Mohall. Rolette—Record, Rollette. Sargent—The News, Forman. ‘Sheridan—Gazette, McClusky. ‘Slope—Press, Amidon. a ‘Sioux—Sioux County Pioneer, Fort Yates. : Stark—Recorder-Post, Dickinson. Steele—Farmers’ Press, Finley. Stutsman—Stutsman ‘County Press, Jamestown. Towner—Necord, Cando. Trail—News, Hillsboro. Walsh—Farmers'’ Press, Park River. Ward—Journal, Kenmare, Wells—Wells County Farmer. Willtams—Farmers’ Press, ton. Few County Seat Papers. county seats. lation. uarently, strike, Two eleventh-hour, deals were nec Willis- ‘More than fifty per cent of the counties are by this selection: left, without an official newspaper at their In the great’ majority of instances the leading newspaper was passed up for some league organ of much smaller prestige and” eircu-| Htigiee The only consideration, ..ap- was that the newspaper picked be strongly of the Townley essary {0 put over the league scheme. The Mandan News, formerly owned by W..H. Stutsman, ex-chairman of the SISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNB SAY, GIVE SOLDIER 6 MONTHS PAY came out Friday stalwart as usual. Saturday it was transferred to the league for a consideration said by B. J. Conrad, its former owner, to be $20,000. marck, a league+paper actually owned by 300 Nonpartisan. farmers, who had WITH REAL SHOW lost about ‘$10,000 in the venture, was leigh County Farmers’ Press, wilen the The Public Opinion of Bis- to be.passed.up.in favor of the Bur- farmers ‘awoke to the situation and compelled . the league to. buy. their plant for an amount sefficient to dis- charge "their “debts. paper then was-:named the: official or- gan for Burleigh. The Patterson Langer Opinion Set Aside. The-league»-members of. the “board disposed of Attorney General Langer’s opinion in which he held that county papers*named “by* the, county: commis- stoners last Janyary,.for a term of one year had a Jégal contract which could ‘not»be violated by: presenting, from ,a,source which they would not disclose, a counter opinion holding that any rights ‘which official county or city newspapers,may have held un- der the old statutes are forfeited. The commission, point in a resolution providing. that legal items now in course of publi- cation in an unsubsidized* newspaper may continue to.run their full course in that paper. 4 However, conceded a ANOTHER’ OFFICE BUILDING 10 BE BUILT BY HUGHES Will Be Located Corner Third and Broadway and Be Two Stories. High Another handsome office building willbe erected in Bismarck in a few weeks, The building willbe located on the southwest corner of Third street'and Broadway and’ will ‘be built by Senator BF, A, Hughes... The cost of the new building will be. about. $40,000, ‘according :to Mr. Hughes. _ Contract. for, its .construc- tion will be let next Saturday. Work willbe started immediately’ and it is hoped ..that..the building .will be fin: ished this year. The “structuré willbe’ two “stories ‘high and will occupy, the full lot, 50 feet on Third street and 140 feet on Broadway. "It will “be of ‘brick and fireproof ...throughout: . The, trimming will be in white. There Will be three stores on the Broadway side and one on the ‘Third street. side.. ‘The upper floor will be used exclusively for of- fices. The entrance will be on Broad- way. The Eltinge theatre which Mr. Hughes is ‘building on Third street Opposite the federal. building is now ready for the roof. All of, the walls have been put up and the stage is now (being built. theatre. 4 OFFICERS NAMED nonball Heads Exposition ing Rock Fair association held at Fort Yates“Saturday ‘afternoon the follow- ing rofficers wereeélected* forthe en- _| suing year: sch hay President—Marceli ‘Red Tomahawk Of: Cannonball «+ yam eine: Wakapala. .“Preasurer-—HugeneBear™King of Easm.School....... Auditor—Ralph «» »Secretary.—Basil..'Two- Bear of. Can- nonball. “No“date was set “for the fair ‘at the Saturday~meeting,«but it) is expected -| that the fair will be held along about the middle of September. It is also the huitention*of the>directors to improve the fair grounds.and buildings, A one- the ‘ Poet oes “ gallway. commission, from the begin- ning actively. opposed to Townleyism,’ mile race track is cantemplated. Those” who * represented “the Porcu- This theatre will be ready for occupancy October 1 and will be under the management of Gus Wingreene, proprietor of the Bismarck FOR INDIAN FAIR Sifélas, "ND Aug" Tat a |” meeting- of: the directors: of theStand- |~ eoCice . President—John.;. Whitesell of |. ite of * Little MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1919 2 A HUMEYOQUUORENOULOESEOERUOAROEOLUOUOEOUNEUHREOUEUUROEUEEUEOOGEEOGENOURLUEEOEREUOGEOSUGGOORLUEAOOLOOUAEDAOAOOLOGENOUAAGOOGAGHEOVAVGOASTOTONOUAARONAL aN Dine district at the ‘meeting’ were: chn Tronbolder, Ed | Afraid-of-Hawk, foe Walker ‘and “Mark*,. Aratd-of- lawk. PETROLEUM STOCK COMPANY PLANS TO SELL MANY SHARES New England Corporation Ex- pects to Complete Its Capi- talization This Fall Mott, N. D., Aug. a 11—The New England Petroleum Co. is making ex- tensive preparations to further their cil‘development plans in this vicinity, The company will have another geolo- gist come to New England in the near fature to go over the territory and verify the results obtained’ by , Geolo- gist Coryell, who recently compléted Fis contract here. Mr. Coryell, in his report to-the officers of the company, that test wells be drilled in: to depths of from 2,500 to 4,000 feet. in the: dif- ferent sections surveyed by: him. Test BANK Bismarck,ND.: | The Oldest and Largest Bank inthis sectionof the State Q cheerfully. OU’LL see gle and double figure. “CUSTOM: TAILORING EXPERT. REPAIRING , en AKT wells of this depth should give sat- isfactory evidence of the production that may be expected: This week the compaay. will place several salesmén on the-rdad and* will push the sale of the stock in an ef- fort to dispose of all remaining stock. As soon as the stock is sold they will start drilling a test well on one of their present leases, The company wlil also put under lease several thousand acres more in the near future. THIRD VICTORY LOAN PAYMENT DUE TODAY The third payment on the Vic- tory loan is due today and banks here expect that approximately $100,000 will be paid by patriotic —————__—_————— MOTHER'S FRIEND FOR Expectant Mothers RELIEVES STRAIN Here are some of the features of service which you are entitled to re- ceive from the bank you favor with your patron- age: Absolute safety for your funds. Prompt and courteous attention at all times. Helpful service when- ever you need advice or information. UALITY is the real econ- omy; you want economy. 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