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The Cass County Bar Association has perfected its organization for the handling of the annual meeting of the State Association, which will be held in the City of Fargo this year. The Chairmen of the various committees are as follows:
 * Finance—E. Sgutt.


 * Publicity—H. G. Nilles.


 * Reception—V. R. Lovell.


 * Program—W. F. Burnett.


 * Entertainment—M. W. Murphy.


 * Banquet—H. G. Nilles.


 * Registration—J. P. Conmy.

These Committees are already at work, under the general direction of the Executive Committee of the Cass County Bar Association, consisting of the following local officers: V. R. Lovell, President; H. G. Nilles, Vice-President; Emanuel Sgutt, Secretary. This committee, again, is co-operating with the President of the State Association, Hon. A. W. Cupler, of Fargo.

The lips of many speak the name of Abraham Lincoln these days with reverential pride and mingled feelings of civic kinship and national possession. There are some, however, who paint glowing word-pictures of the Great Emancipator upon every conceivable occasion, and generally for the purpose of justifying their own positions on some particular subject. A comparison of the picture with the original it is supposed to represent frequently finds one in the position where he is constrained to say that the two have very little in common. The following, for instance, from the pen of Abraham Lincoln, certainly does not appeal to us as being in accord with the views of some of those who today claim to be the direct heirs of the Lincoln economic and political philosophy:

"“The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors for himself another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just, and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.”"

Speaking to the members of the Government’s business organization on the 26th of last month, President Coolidge said, among other things:

“As I am pledged to economy in my requests for funds, so you are pledged to economy in the expenditure of the funds which may be granted by Congress. No longer are the funds appropriated by Congress regarded as the minimum amount which is to be expended. Every dollar that is saved by careful administration adds to the amount by which