The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1916, Page 4

There never was a time in history 4 FOUR BISMARCK DAILY: TRIBUNE MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1916 THE TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. | D., as Second Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY GUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily, by carrier, per month. Daily, by mail, per year. THN STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER THE GTATERablished 1873) CoH HH HHH HeoS « The Puritan hated bearbait- + ing, not because it gave pain % @ to the bear, but because it % % gave pleasure to the specta- % ® tors.—Macauley, ° WOOT EEEEEEEOE ST CHRISTMAS, It is a message of cheer, the Trib- une desires to carry to all its read- ers today. when America had so much to be thankful for and at the'same time so much to be sad over. | Joyful we are that family ties are not broken through the scourge of a terrible war, Thankful we are that America has a white Christmas. But out of the depths of our joy; out of the blithesome Yuletide spirit; out of the realization that we are removed from the sorrow, the ruin and the wreck of conflict, a yearn- ing goes forth to the children, to the women and to the men of Europe. Our Christmas joy, tempered then dy the thoughts of suffering else- where, need be none the less genu- ine. For the third Christmas, a world practically is convulsed in war. But out of the bloody shamubles peace will come. When, no one can say, It may be nearer this Yuletide than most of us anticipate. United States, on the threshold of another year, has an important role to play as the mightiest of neutrals. While we celebrate, it is well to pause and dedicate anew our influence to- ward the maintenance and restoration of peace. The ~ instrumentalities through which peace is to be achieved are not ~pparent.as yet. Every thought,“ é¥éfy “aspiration, every ibet- ter influéne ; of: ‘this ‘Christmas sea- son is swungjinto ‘the ‘balance on the sjde of a spe ypeace. A. tep at this time on thé part of our officials can destroy our usefulness as a peace- maker and protong the war... Fully conscious then -of thé great Tespohsibility that rests. upon us as a nation, America celebrates the birti- day-of the ‘Prince of Peace, chasten- @BMewhat in spirit: because of -our Brothers in pain, but buoyantly hope- ful that Ihe sali’ peace we enjoy may be Europe's before another Christ- mas comes. “No man can tell the truth for an hour,” says Willie Collier. ‘Nope; 6Some woman always interrupts. ey CLEAN UP. Attorney General Linde’s state- ments indicate the presence of a “booze ring,’ thoroughly protected and intrenched. The crusade he has Started should not lag. County At- torney-elect McCurdy doubtless will handle most of the cases. He should de given the utmost co-operation. Public sentinientSis behind Attorney General Linde and will also support Mr. Langer when he enters upon the duties of attorney general. The blindpig element must go. If there is any grafting among our po- lice officials, they should be removed without delay and competent men ap- pointed to take their places. Attorney General Linde makes some serious charges touching upon the matter of “protection.” The investi- gation should be thorough. If the Dlindpiggers are shielded by men higher up, the public is entitled to know the facts as soon as the guilty ones are within the power of the Jaw. Let us have a clean city, | It's a wise Tom and Jerry that knows its egg. BOARD OF REGENTS. It is to be hoped that the legista- ture will not tamper with the board of regents law to the detriment of the system itself. After nearly two years of administration there may be Tough’ places that can be smoothed and crooked paths made straight, but the criticisms of the educational elique, dethroned when the bill was | Passed, two years ago, are not sound and should not prevail. The pedagogues who foisted the Present educational system upon the state, which the board of regents through a careful survey is seeking to standardize through the elimina- tion of duplications and the harmon- izing of curricula, are laying plans.to make an early drive upon the board of regents. There are changes in the present law that might make for greater ef- ficiency and reduce administrative ex- pense. The board of control is or- ganized as a purchasing agency for state institutions... - It supervises -the~erection “of ‘new: ties state. | greater efficienc: hierarchy, responsible various penal and charitable institu- tions. There is no reason under the sun why the board of control cannot per- form the same function for the edu- cational institutions, eliminating the administrative offices now maintained by the board of regents. be abolished. Its members should ap- ply themselves solely to the educa- tiona] side. Relieved of purely routine matters, all the energies of the board | could be concentrated upon the de-| velopment of the institutions as edn-j cational units. Minnesota and other states find this arrangement workable. ‘Tt is not nec- essary to have any office assistants or maintain a separate administra- tive force. The regents can meet reg- ularly at the various institutions andj have some of the administrative offi- cers connected with .the two higher institutions of learning handle the | purely ministerial or secretarial du- with no additional cost to the Governor Frazier can bring about 'y in state government by the process of elimination and closer co-ordination, but the board of regents idea should (be retained, elim- inating as much as possible, purely administrative officials, The board of regents doubtless will have many suggestions to make to Governor Frazier and the state legis: | lature. It is best to move slowly. The educational institutions have just been adjusted to the new regime and} it should be tried out thoroughly be-| fore it is swept away for another | innovation. By all means retain the ‘board of regents idea. Improve upon it, to be sure, but to return to the old scheme boards and a_ pedagogical to no one, step backward. of local would be a Is Villa elusive? Or are his pur- suers elusive? ——— ee LET SHARKS BEWARE! The United States Bureau of Fish- eries tries to rescue us from bare- footedness that’s staring us in the face. It discovers that leather from sharks’ skin is a good substitute for leather from beef’s skin. It advises everybody to save the hides of the sharkg “they catch and is furnishing lightships and -beach men with shark fising tiekle, a The enterprise is a blessed one, but it has been given a wrong start. A feminine fad for shark leather should be’ promoted,” first. thing. In” every large city, put on the streets two girls wearing nifty shark skin shoes, and you'll have a.flourishing industry coaxing sharks out of their habitat; and it will make mighty little differ- ence .whether or not a good substi- tute has*been discovered, at that. Wamever too late to do your Christ-; mas: Swapping. There's no end to life so long as you have something to do. The enormity of the “joker” in the Adamson law is just beginning to dawn on employers and employes. “Billy” Sunday may be able to “beat the devil,” but he must try a new style offensive on “demon rum.” MISSOURI VALLEY FINDS BIG DEMAND FOR TIRES. Last year the Missouri Valley Motor Co. shipped into Bismarck the first full carload of Firestone tires brought to North Dakota, and it was consider- ed at that time a record: contract. This year Manager Carl Pederson has just placed his order for two carloads of Firestones for early delivery. HOTELS AND APARTMENTS ARE BEING MURPHEYIZED are gradually being Murpheyized. To be Murpheyized is to ‘be equipped with the beds that “now you see ’em and now pou don't.” A. J. Ostrander, Murphey Disappearing Bed Co., is now completing the installation of 21 Pierson court. These beds both the recess and the closet type. Either model when made up is also made invisible, and the room which had been a bed chamber becomes a room, as the tenant may desire. The addition to the McKenzie hotel which E. G. Patterson is now erecting will be equipped with Murphy beds, making each chamber a_ two-room apartment. It is also probable that the new Lewis & Clark hotel which Governor L. B. Hanna is building in Mandan will be so equipped. A large number of Murphy beds are being built into bungalows on both sides of the river. | TAKE NO CHANCES WITH | FIRE AT THE CAPITOL | No chances with the wiley fire de- mon are taken at the capitol. Chief Custodian William Laist makes cer- in every day that the man on night | Watch has visited every crook and cranny of the big building every hour through the night. The building, while it may appear deserted, is never left alone. |. The present clock system, which ; has proven so efficient as to greatly jreduce the cost of insurance on the building, was inaugurated several a number on each of the four floors and one in the attic, in each_of: which keys’ are chained. The night watch- buildings and repairs and is organized to conduct the-business affairs of the, man is expected to visit each of these stations during every hour of his watch, -and if he -fails~to- visit any CA ETE a a i But the board of regents should not Capital City hotels and apartments central North Dakota agent for the | of these modern couches in the new} are of | drawing room or library or dining | INFLUENCE FOR GOO TELLS OF STORIES THAT By J. HERBERT DUCKWORTH. New York, Dec. 25,—Christmas means far more than a big dinne and presents to the average Ameri- can, after all, Idealism is not dead. Of this I am convinced after a three-hour visit to the home of the donors of the first community Christ- The, Megther Tree’? of all Chri New York. mas tree in the United States.’ I feel now that the world is not ‘bad;*in fact. i that it-is mostly bery good, This. inspiring revelation came -as T heard how: the great idea that lay behind the, tree that was first put up! in Madison Square four years ago ‘by unidentifiga%hands has so grown that, this yeat,‘Ghristmas trees will adorn public squi in more than 2,000 cit- ies, towns and hamlets throughout the land! Let me repeat two true sloriés that illustrate what these trees mean to different people. They were given me by the giver of the “Mother Tree’ in New York, “| was standing in the crowd in Madison Sqquare when a man in an expensive fur coat came up to me— ed: “Does this tree mean anything to you? -I does to me. 1 amas rich»as |} blazes, but darn lonely. This is the first time I have had a Christmas} tree all to myself. I feel that this} tree is just for me!’ The same day I was accosted by, CHRISTMAS TREES FELT IN REMOTEST TOWNS AND HAMLETS OF UNITED STATES ANONYMOUS FOUNDER OF FIRST TREE, IN NEW YORK, WESTERN TOWN CIVILIZED BY ITS TREE, he did not know who I was—and ask-}" WILL OF COMMUNITY HAVE COME TO HIM; A a well-dressed old fellow who said he was from Texas, “‘T'd like to meet the man who started this thing’ he said. ‘He has reformed my’ little burg. Down there the only amusement the cowboys used to have was to shoot up the place. Since they stmas trees, in Madison Square, had their first tree, two years ago, they are ali like a lot of Sunday school teachérs, They don’t drink, they don’t swéar, find they see to really love gie dnother. It’s great!’” eae Poor men, rich’ men, beggar men, thieves, are all stimulated to finer things ‘by these trees. In. Titusville, Pa,, the oil center, which has more millionaires’ for its size than any other city in the world, the local Rockefellers and the most humble toiler dre co-operjting in their tree. In Rosemount, W. 'Va., the miners this year paraded with their mine lamps. The first year in New York an “un- known singer’ craved permission to, sing to the crawd. He made such a hit’ with his homely songs that the people wouldn’t listen to the band. “Give us our pal,” they shouted. This. year the “unknown singer” is back in New York as the leader ane zonductor of his own community cho- rus of 1,000 voices. at a Christmas Eve free recital of “The Messiah” in Madison Square Garden, His name is Harry ‘Barnhart. stitiondhe¥othission ‘ts* dearly shown | on the removable“diat of nis ‘portable clock ‘the. following .morning, The clock can é pinched only by keys located at designated stations; each key registers a number on the re- movable dial, and the record:mist be complete for each of the eleven hours which the watchman spends. on duty. Incidentally, the clock is a great sleep discourager. 2 Wa * MANY PRESENTS. The Christmas Séason is vei jin evidence at the capitol toda: |department having received its 1 jof little remembrances from varivus | business houses, from officials of other states and from well-wishers through- out North Dakota. much ENJOY HALF-HOLIDAY, | The capitol staff enjoyed a half-hol- iday in honor of the Christmas season Saturday. | Sa era | BISMARCK “A Girl of Yesterday” is the story of a prim little miss who has lived a life ;of seclusion with her brother'and her jaunt. She has always dressed several lgenerations behind the rest of the world, but has still been sufficiently at- jtractive to win the love of discerning! So }Hudson, her next door neighbor. |great is the modesty of the little {eluse that she does not realize her resistible attractiveness despite the jfact that these same charms have made her the mortal enemy of anoth-| er girl who loves Stanley. The sudden acquisition of a huge; fortune makes Jane a desideratum in! |circles from which she had been pre-! |viously barred by her poverty and her |conquests are legion, without the as- |sistance of a modern wardrobe. When |Jane suddenly decides to adopt modern apparel and the other girl realizes that la desperate coup is necessary to win |the wavering Stanley, she induces an laviator to kidnap Jane just as they are {about to start on a yachting trip. The |aviator, however, fails to prevent Jane |from reaching the yacht in time to em- jbark, and after a slightly stormy trip, years ago. There are eleven stations, |She and Stanley finally make port in}er county. the harbor of Love, It is a delightful romance played with an abundance of spirit, and intro- duces so many novel elements that it jis sure to have a universal appeal. ‘Matinee and tonight. a Youth “Sailed’” High But Steeples Were Encountered on Way (Special to..The. Tribune) Dickinson, N. D,, Deo. 25.—A “flivver,” a check book, an assum- ed name, several days-of joy-rid- ing and a damaged Studebaker have landed Michael Scherick, son of Mrs. Anna Scherick, who lives south of Richardton, in jail. Michael, who is just over the line of youth, went to Glendive early last week and purchased the “flivver” with a check on a Glen- dive bank drawn under an assum- ed name. Then he. needed gaso- line and the assumed name and book again came in handy. At Belfield he was so jubilant over his new possession that he ran into and damaged a six-cylin- der Studebaker. Again his assum- ed name and check-book came in handy—temporarily. For several days he ‘enjoyed a life of “joy-riding”? to the tune of worthless checks. He was arrest- ed at the farm home and taken to Glendive. ® CURLING SEASON OPENS AT GRAFTON DECEMBER 26 iwafton, N. D., Dee. 25.—The curling season opens here Tuesday evening, December 25 with a draw known as the holiday draw. GLENDIVE PEOPLE. PURCHASE DRUG STORE AT WIBAUX Wibaux, Mont., Dec. 25.—The drug store of the Wibaux company has been } sold, the new owners being B. F. Cons- | ler and Fred J. Erding of Glendive, who purchased the stock and fixtures of George rlett, The new firm will | be known as Consler & Erding. | FORMER HOLD-UP MAN ARRESTED ON THEFT CHARGE | Rolla, N. D., Dec. 24—Charles Fox of Carpenter was arrested last week, charged with stealing a load of oats from a granary, near Porth, in Town- The oats were found in ion He admitted the theft. ed about a year ago in connection with the alleged. complicity in an attempted held-up at Belcourt, in which Ernest. Choinere of that WORLD PEACE IN CHRIST'S (DEAL, SAYS TOLSTOY! Son of Noted Russian in Christ: mas Talk for Tribune Paints Great Religious Revival DESCRIBES CHRISTMAS ON RUSSIAN FRONT (Editor’s Note: In this inter- view Count Hya Toystay not on- ly expounds the Christ spirit as he and his father saw it, but gives first hand word of the re- Ngious awakening in Europe parallel to the revival in Amerieas he also deseribes his Christmas under Grand Duke Michael at the ront.) BY K. W. PAYNE New York, Dec. 25—“All wars are evil! Patriotism produces war, and pratriotism is selfishness, egotism! World ‘peace can come only when we universally accept in act as well as in faith the true Christ teaching of NON- RESISTANCE!” That would be the 1916 Christmas mes- sage to the warring world of Leo Tol- stoy, Russia's great- est novelist, the past century’s most famous _ interpreter of' the Christ ‘spirit, ‘and the nian whose ‘amazing ~ prophecy of the preserit Euro- pean ' confli¢t has won him the name of seer and proph- et. This message which the great Leo Tolstoy would have given to the world this Christmas, were he still alive, was voiced by his famous son, Count llya Tolstoy, who has just arrived in America to begin a nation-wide lec- ture tour in which he will explain his father’s life and doctrines. Count Ilya Tolstoy shares ardently his fa- ther’s striking form of Christianity, and in a Christmas day interview he told how he would apply it to the world crisis of today. “I am an anarchist,” he said, “but not an anarchist as you understand it here. I mean by the. word simply that I am opposed to nationalism. . I be- lieve, further, as did my father, that Christ’s greatest teaching was NON- RESISTANCE, and that we should fol- low that doctrine not onlp ,in.our in- dividual lives, but in international relations as well. ie “T BELIEVE THAT ALREADY THE WORLD IS SWINGING BACK TO- A COUNT TOLSTOY WARD: A MORE, PROFOUND | AC- CEPTANCE OF’ THE GREATEST IDEALS OF CHRISTIANITY! I have seen in Europe unmistakable signs of this new spiritual awakening. “But_even had I, noti'seen these signs, I would know that’ a religious revival must surely follow the war. A few years ago I saw materialism sweeping Europe. Immorality had tainted art, literature, even music and the dance! Phychologically, a_spir- itual reaction was inevitable.” “What is Christmas like at. the front?” I asked. “Christmas as the front is a sad and solemn day!” said Tolstoy. “I was with the ‘Wild Division, under Grand Duke Michael, last Christmas, in the Carpathians, and from vivid recollections of that experience can easily describe how tragically the sol- dier’s Christmas contrasts with your merry Christmas here. “We had no gifts, no merriment. All the day before Christmas we worked with the wounded in the hos- pital. On Christmas eve I and a few of my fellow officers rode through the night to a neighboring village, where Grand Duke Michael held; Christmas, service in a little church. It was a grave ceremony. 0% “Then we returned to our own quarters, and there we actually had a little Christmas tree! But no gifts. THERE WERE. NONE IN THE LAND! Everything had been destroyed, for the Russians and Germans had fought back and forth over that territory. And our Christmas dinner was the dinner of every other day—BLACK BREAD!” INSKLER PLANS FOR NEW BUILDINGS NEXT SPRING Inskter, N. D., Dec. 25.—Plans are already being made here for the erec- tion of buildings to replace the four destroyed by fire last week; curtailing a loss of $25,000. Work will be start- ed in the spring. The conflagration was the fourth {destructive fire here since the town was first begun. The most destructive fire started in the.old N. & H. elevator on (October 8, 1908, when an entire square and half of another were wiped opt. fplace:got a revolver: wound, TODAY ONLY BY J. HERBERT DUCKWORTH Stapleton, N.'Y.,, Dec. 25—What family is having the happiest Christ- mas celebration in the world? I know, for I helped prepare the holiday in what -hitherto has been one of the Joneliest homes” in the land. . For 21 year years, motherly, rosy- cheeked Mrs, Edward Banning of Stapleton, Staten Island, mourned the loss of her son, William Stevenson, whose father she married when she was only 16. 3 She was divorced, her little boy ta- ken: from her,-and:14 years ago her second husband died. Since then Mrs. Banning -has been searching in vain for some. trace of the lost boy who meant more than anything else in the world to her. It seemed that to spend another Christmas without him was too much to bear. What was there to live for, just struggling along with a dressmaking business? And now her son fs restored to her for a Christma: pret: ent! Secretary Daniels of the United States navy Is her Santa Claus. Today the lonely home is gay with Christmas greens, in honor of the great re- unton! : “When my first husband and I sep- arated, years ago, my husband sent Will, our little boy, to a home up the Hudson,” said Mrs, Banning. “I used to visit him there, but a time came MOTHER AND LOST BOY REUNITED IW ~~ WORLD'S HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS HOME when I could not.afford to make the trips. That.was 21 years ago. When next I went to see him, he had been sent to a farm out west. “I never could trace him after he left the farm. Nobody new where he had gone. “A fortune teller finally gave me the inspiration to find him. It was late last summer. For a score of years I had dreamed and worried. about my lost boy. , I was taken to a fortune teller by a friend, and was told that thoug I had had great sorrow, I would soon be made very happy by the re- turn of someone dearer to me than all else. “This person wore a uniform, I was told. That set me thinking. Some- body suggested ‘that I write to the war department and the navy depart- men. “A letter from Secretary Dan- Jels told me about William Stev- enson, a sailor on the San Diego, now in the Pacific. I wrote to him and found he was my lost boy! - “Will must be as glad to find his old mother as I am to find my long missing son. He has written to me every day. “He has learned languages, teaches in the ship’s school, and has won a number of prizes for gunnery. “I am compensated at last for all the long, dreary Christmases of the past on which I longed for my boy and wondered whether he was suf- fering and unhappy.” TERMINALS SHOULD BE LOCATE ON THE RIVER New Salem Man Believes Big Mis- souri-Northern Pacific Cross- ing is Site The proposed terminal elevator and the state-owned packing plant should be located on. the Missouri river, at the Bismarck, and Mandan side, re- spectively, in the opinion of John Bloodgood, who writes the following interesting communication on the sub- ject. “The terminal elevator recently ded- icated by the Society of Equity will be a great help to the city of St. Paul and state of Minnesota. But it is not fair for North Dakota producers to go in with ‘the money they make from North: Dakota farms and buifd'hp St. Paul and ‘Mimiesota. Rat they should build up North Dakotd' afd our own ‘cities. ids “T have dived in’ Morton ¢étnty 33 years. Ty am: 68 years old and I am not looking for ‘anything for myself. But for the good ‘of the state of which I think so much, I ask, ‘Why not build terminal elevators and state packing Plantihere-in our'own state?” Surely no. state -has,a better right to such plants... ‘Phis .state has. everything within her own boundaries to justify the building. of such enterprises. _ And a start should be made this: winter. Question of a Site “An important question is that of a proper site. I will suggest as..the logical location for a state term@hal elevator, the Missouri riveg ite on the Bismarck side, and for if state packing plant,the Missouri river land- ing on theM@ndan side: First ,be- cause these locations are nearly in the center, of the state; second, because the Choice of these sites would locate these important enterprises “upon one of the greatest rivers in the world, a stream which soon must become one of the northwest’s greatest arteries of commerce. This will mean an oppor- tunity for the producers of all the northwest to ship their grain, live- stock, dressed meats, every product of the farm, from Mandan and Bismarck by an all-water route to Europe, via New Orleans, with but one transfer. This of this saving in transportation, would be eliminated! And then con- sider the hundreds of cities this route would bring us as a market for our produce. North Dakota railroads and of all the middlemen’s profits that | 38 here, and we could’do away with our railroad commissioners—the river would be the best: regulator of rates, River Route Feasible “Friends of the railroads will tell you that the river route will never work; that river transportation has been going backward for the last fif- ty years, andthisiip.all true. But they may not tell you the real cause, which is that the legislature of every state in the Union except New York have assisted the railroads in killing the canals and river transportation. But now the order of things has changed, and people are coming once more into their own. “If our government in the last fifty years had stood by its rivers and built canals instead of spending millions in fighting the railroads and pleasing political pork seekers by dumping mil- lions into worthless creeks, we would now be in a position where transpor- tation tariffs would adjust themselves without any tinkering upon the part of the interstate’ commerce commis- sion or local boards. “And I trust velopment of our great river and of furthering the progress of the entire state, our new administration will work for enterprises within the State of North.Dakota to'the complete ‘ex- clusion of anything outside the state. QUININE.” To get the genuine call for full look for signature of E. W. 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