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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
6
In a wartime appeal, the President and Secretary McAdoo urge every citizen to save and invest in War Savings Stamps. The piece notes 3,000,000 servicemen and 97,000,000 at home, outlining benefits like healthier living, faster production, and funding for victory. It ends with a breakdown of military unit sizes and ranks.
The author lists typical unit sizes from army corps to company, detailing numbers of men: corps 60,000. infantry division 19,000. infantry brigade 7,000. regiment 3,000. battalion 1,000. company 260. The tone is instructional and prescriptive for readers.
The National Security League tallies 176 House members and 42 senators in favor of universal military training. The totals shift from a prior 179 and 45 after three New York representatives retired and three senators died.
The National Security League leads a nationwide effort to restore civic responsibility through school instruction and a traveling National Patriotic Education Faculty. It partners with state and local superintendents to embed wartime citizenship education in daily tuition and aims to awaken citizens to government duties and national duty.
A reflective note on yearning and the inner life. The piece centers on spiritual desire shaping the heart and soul, exploring how longing guides personal meaning and emotional depth.
The column addresses the habit of buying shrift stamps and questions their social and civic role. It notes who endorses or challenges the practice and suggests practical alternatives for readers.
Stanwood Menken argues that nations prove themselves in war and leaders are judged by public policy. He cautions against false gods and corrupt capitalists, urges educated citizenry, and calls for thoughtful reform to ensure fair wages, prosperous industry, and liberty for all residents.
A National Patriotic Education Faculty composed of eminent professors is being organized by Dr. Robert M. McElroy of the National Security League. The roster includes W. T. Hall of Princeton, W. B. Munro and W. H. Schofield of Harvard, Franklin H. Giddings of Columbia, C. H. Van Tyne of Michigan, and others from Stanford, Oregon, Hamilton, Williams, and the Institute. Additional instructors are expected to join.
The next regular teachers' examinations will be held in the courthouse at Linton on Thursday and Friday August 8 and 9, starting at 8:30 a.m. The program lists precursory sessions and subject periods for the second elementary division, including Reading Rules and Arithmetic with specific time blocks.
Bids for a 34 by 36 foot schoolhouse in Highland district were opened Saturday night with DeFoe and Schmidt winning the contract for $1343.00. Common school diplomas were issued to Mabel Gates and Mabel Sites of Burr Oak District. In Winona district No. 3, bids for two new schoolhouses were opened July 29. all bids were deemed too high and rejected to readvertise.
Essay argues a German victory or peace would enforce world rule by Germany through Kultur and force the world to accept German moral order. It labels German leaders and ideology as ruthless, depicting atrocities and a religion of valor that would erase truth and humanity, with consequences for the United States and Christian values.
A fragmented catalog of historical writings and speeches from 1914 to 1916 includes references to the Neue Rundschau issue on Krieg kultur ideals, proclamations from the Army of the East, Kaiser speeches to allied forces, and German authority orders. It cites various authors and dates, with scattered publication venues and notes on military leadership.
Farm and Fireside notes that France relied on a wide macadam road network to move troops and supplies. It states five divisions could be sent to the Marne front instead of three, and recounts constant truck traffic despite road damage.
Arrangements made to supply farmers with labor across Emmons County. H. Q Sauer, County Labor Director based in Linton, appoints local labor secretaries in towns. Farmers should contact the local labor secretary who reports to Mr. Sauer to obtain labor from labor bureau agencies. Seekers of work should also notify the local labor secretary.
County agricultural agent H. O. Sauer announces free Thresher's Record Books for monthly reports to the Bureau of Markets in Washington D C. All threshing machine operators must use them, whether cooperative or independent.
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