The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1917, Page 4

THE TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Clase Matter. JUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY WUBECRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Pai, by carrier, per month. » by mail, per year. by mail, er Audit Bureau of Circulation 50 #00 i 1.50 \ Meni THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) Sas ca — LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at 12:00, noon, Jan. 8, 1917: Temperature at 7:00 a.m. ... Temperature at 12:00 noon, Lowest last night Highest yesterday Precipitation ..... Highest wind velocity Forecast. For North Dakota: Fair and colder, tonight and Tuesday. \ Calgary ... Chicago . Galveston . Kansas City Moorhead . wWierre .... Prince Albert . ‘St. Paul . Williston Winnipeg - ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. A PURITAN SUNDAY. | Bismarck yesterday felt the full force of North Dakpta’s Sunday clos-} ing laws. (With the short respite, | when Justice Robinson of the supreme | court ordered the lid. tilted so a few} people could get their Sunday pa- pers and a “smoke,” the Capital City never saw a “tighter” Sunday. Probably as never before, the law- makers witnessed the actual operation; of the blue laws. ‘At times it was) hard to get a postage stamp and even taxis were reluctant to serve their) patrons. Groups gathered on the street cor | ners, evidently surprised to Jearn that there were laws on the statute books that man make Bismarck as tight as Plymouth, Mass., was’ in the colonial days, when they executed a cat on (Monday for killing a rat on Sunday and stopped bear baiting, not because it burt the bear, but because it gave | pleasure to’ the spectators. ‘fhe time has come for ‘North Da Fi kota to be honest with herself. These ‘laws are on the statute books. I! - "they were'not' put there tobe enforc: ed the remedy is. at ‘hand. The ‘ma- | Jority of the people through their law ‘ makers must decide how far they de- * sire to go into this business of legis- # lating morality. ; ‘Telimstatile: to enter into. any dis- cusging,on. these so-called moral is- } sued. Ne, two people agree. Some + “would be liberal along certain lines and others with wholly opposite views ‘have their plans for the reformation of mankind. + The individual conscience must de- Cide the moral issues involved in Sun- ‘day observance. Legislation never can induce a state of morality. It is ' for the legislature to decide how far the people want to go in the matter of blue laws. (Most states have laws as severe as North Dakota. As a rule these laws are no better , enforced than here. Spasmodic waves of:;Jaw enforcement come over the communities, it is true. It is very likely that North Dakota, as other ; states, will do the conventional thing, retain the blue laws as a sop , to our consciences and proceed to break them with a frailty that is hu- / man. ‘Twas ever thus! ——_—_ Villa is moving on Chihuahua, which means that Chihuahua is mov- ing elsewere. Every day is moving % day, in Chihuahua. APOE EO mp HER DOUBLE STANDARD. Said Bishop Samuel Fallows to the > Illinois Women’s Legislative con- ) Bress: ". “The women will break the double » Mora] standard for men and women into pieces with iron blows.” ‘And . later he added: “There must be a " greater regeneration of morals on the : part of the man before the double moral standard can be eliminated.” The bishop should know that it is very rarely that women accomplish ¢ ¥ any sort of lasting masculine reform _4 with “iron blows” on the bal- “‘ot.; There's something too mas- ‘culine _ about a woman’s_ beat- ¢ ing a man with iron or other hard substance; and man naturally looks to be cozened rather than mauled by , Woman. But the reverend gentleman "ip absolutely right in ‘believing that ‘there must be regeneration of morals oa the part of man before the double moral standard can be eliminated. It.is probable that man’s morals de- _pend largely upon woman's and that P the power to regenerate morals, gen- erally, rests with woman. The exhi- bition made, by perfectly good women, themselves and their daughters, in skirts and gowns, scant suits and in liquorserving does not “tend to regenera- eo 3 practice for mothers | India are eligible as to means and social po- sition and rankly ineligible as fathers and husbands. ‘Woman can get it out of the heads of young men that they can sow tremendous crops of embrut- ing wild oats until they are 20 and then settle down with any chaste girl who wins their fancy and is willing to put her head into their bridal yoke blind, Since civilization’s earliest da woman has been considered to be the stronger moral influence. How can 3, ; we escape the conclusion that hers is the responsibility for the double standard of morality? It does not kill the case against her to say that every time she has opened the door a little, j man has been ready to stick his nose in. The fact remains that she has dictated what was to be the moral or modest. She had fig leaves on Adam} ’} before he ever heard of a double) standard. | Bue we don't say these things to dis-} parage the purpose of the good bishop and his women's congress. There's as much room for regeneration of | men’s morals as in any field we know of. Only, most men’s morals are im- pervious to “iron blows” and, by mak- | ing herself a less easy victim or sac: | rifice to man’s morals, woman can most readily kill off his precious dou ble standard. The new corrupt practices act pro- posed to limit national campaign| funds to $1,500,000, This will make a politicians awful sour. UNITE DEFFORT. Five hundred renters of flats in the Bronx borough of New York have taken a solemn pledge not to pay any rents until landlords have in writing agreed to these demands: Adequate heat and hot water. No increase of rents this year. Houses to be kept clean and in good repair. {rin 4 Loud applause greets the valorous Bronxites, although they are violating a principle twice laid down by the} supreme court of the United States One hundred thousand shivering fam ilies in 100,000 cold storage flats rise up to call them blessed. What they have done means a lot more than shows on the surface or thar they know themselves. Here, for the first time, the strike principle has spread from the worker to the householder. It will not stop there. After we have joined a strike against cold flats we ought to go easy about denouncing all workingmen that strike against bad conditions in their line, > Then the worm has turned and the cartoonist and jester are deprived of a good old familiar figure. The pa- tient, tenant, terrorized by fandlord and janitor—there was the grand old theme’ Behold him now invoking the spiritlét his ancestors and daring to ‘battle. "Tis thus the son of freedom defies the tyrant. Then there is something else still ‘bigger. The rest of the country has always said it was utterly impossible to get New Yorkers to unite about anything or revolt against any imposition. Men used to say your could walk on New York’s neck and never get anything but thanks. Loo at its frightful subway crushes; look at its nightly sufferings in crowd- ed cars and trains. ‘But now you see the new spirit of the new age working its way even through this thick crust. Get together, united effort; the in- jury of one of us is the concern of all of us. That’s the new idea mani- fested elsewhere in the United States. Give thanks that it is reaching everywhere. Even New Yorkers can unite. Villa’s successes have given rise to talk in Washington recognizing him as a belligerent. The idea of hanging him for that Columbus raid seems to have died out. COMMAND THE AIR! Rear Admiral Peary declares the future safety of this country in time of war depends not upon our army or our navy, but upon our strength in the air—upon our aerial fighting forces! To command the sea or the land, or even both, Peary believes, will not suffice. Command of the air, how- ever, would mean also command of both land and sea, for the aerial squadron of the future will be able, not merely to meet enemies in the air, but to give battle to armies on land and navies on the sea. England recognizes this and already is setting about reorganizing her pol- icy of defense. Although mistress of the seas, she finds her island isolation gives her no security unless she can also command the air around and about her coasts. In our case, the geographical loca- tion of the United States gives us a natural advantage which, if we util- ize now, should relieve us from anxi- ety. _An attack upon us must come by sea. We should be able to meet any attacking fleet with such a cloud of aeroplanes as would not only com- pletely overwhelm and destroy any number of- aeroplanes that could be transpo ‘em the decks’ of the ene- my vessels, thus leaving the enemy blinded, but work great havoc to war vessels and transports, also. 4 ay Bere eaten aintiecoononaeeemeneeae aaa es BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE F, [GETZ OUT, CONSARN ZA LA \ Past ave tl There will be no time to prepare when the attack comes. Once an ene- my secures a base on our shores, every city in the country might be the prey of his air squadrons. A sin- gle squadron of aeroplanes sweeping across New York, Philadelphia, ‘Balti- more or Washington, in a rain of fall- ing bombs, could cause more damage in an hour than our entire air service would cost. One week of war cost could give the United States such a fleet of aer- oplanes and traine daviators as would make invasion literally imp ble. Our future safety rests principally in the field of the air. In that field the United States has the opportunity to take the lead. Our. resources and mechanical go nius make it easily possible. Only $1,5000,000 is as to provide the nucleus for the aerial coast pa- trol Peary recommends. Congress ‘should appropriate this money without delay. For it promises to return dividends in national protection greater, dol- lar for dollar, than any other pre- paredness appropriations Congress can make. NOT MUCH SHOW. Mr. Bryan is of opinion that “re- sponsibility for ¢ontinuance of the war will rest upon the side that makes unreasonable demands.” Responsibility could be fixed all right, were it not certain that both sides would make unreasonable de- mands, at this time. Too much blood has been shed, too much money syent to warrant hope that reasonableness is going to be the spirit of peace ne- gotiations, now or hereafter. SUNDAY CLOSING OUTRAGE, DECLARES JURIST, AS HE COMMANDS STORE TO OPEN _ Continued from page a. an outrage,” declared Judge Robinson, | pounding the arm of his chair. Others Suffering All forenoog; about the Grand Pa- cific Hotel lobby the jurist found other signs of suffering among knights of the grip who, unsuspecting the clamping of the lid, came in late Sat- urday evening and failed to stock up with Sunday smokes or reading mater- ials. And then came the climax. Judge Robinson started for the news stand to claim a copy of his Sunday news- paper. A cold and unresponsive door confronted him. He snorted at the door and marched to the desk. No better results, if a trifle more respon- siveness were garnered there. Then the judge scudded in two bounds to the telephone, almost tearing that unre- sisting. device from its socket, and in three seconds he had on the other end of the line Chief of Police Down- ing, to whom he was laying down the law. Chief Downing demurred. He had orders from the state’s attorney gen- eral and understood that back of the latter stood Attorney General Lan- er, OUTRANKS LANGER “But I am of the supreme court—I outrank both of these men, and I com- mand you to direct these business ; Places to open, as I have instructed.” The Chief was still unmoved, and then Associate Justice Robinson pounced upon a desk and a sheet of hotel stationery and there was indit- ed forthwith a supreme court order which promises to stand historic. Acts As Own Marshal Even when armed with the order, Chief Downing declined to direct the business houses to reopen. Then the Associate Justice sallied forth to serve his own process by word of mouth. Every proprietor of a con- fectionery or cigar store or news stand whom the judge could identify was informed of his perfect right to throwher,. “ede vised that the great supreme a st of the state of North Dakota would stand back of him, Only one business man acted upon authority conveyed by Associate Jus- tice Robinson’s special order. This was N, Nelson, proprietor of the Grand Pacific cigar stand, who threw open the doors after the jurist had in- formed him in the presence of a large number of patrons clamoring for ad- mittance that he “should not feel the slightest hestiancy in opening.” Believes Court Will Uphold “Supposing that one of these men who opens his place of busines at your direction should be arrested, found guilty, and the case appealed— can you guarantee that the supreme court of North Dakota would stand back of your order?” Robinson was asked, “Assuredly,” replied Judge Robin- son. “As a nivtter of courtesy if nothing more thé ‘other members of the court wowd not overrule an or- der issued by an associate.” “Yhe supreme court has power to issue orders at any time,” declared the associate justice in response to another question. “The fact of my order having beer issued on Sunday:.does not affect ts validity. This is not a civil action but one atfecting the peace and safety of the commonwealth.” ‘What is the matter with the law?” he was asked. ‘The law is no good, ridiculous, out- rageous,” replied the jurist. “The attorney general had no right to issue such orders and subject everyone to inconvenience. No supreme court will ever uphold that law.” Justice Robinson denied Attorney General William Langer some several iimes. When a business associate came to Mr. Nelson and urged him to again close his doors Sunday after- noon, the jurist intruded in the dis- cussion with the statement that any orders issued by Mr. Langer or. by State’s Attorney McCurdy must give} precedence to the mandates of the supreme court and he practically in- sisted that Nelson remain open. | McCurdy Will Prosecute Chief Downing, when. he learned that Nelson had opened up, communi- cated with State’s Attorney McCurdy, who,advised the officer to procure the names of all necessary witnesses and any evidence available. “Of course,” said the state's attorney last evening, “there is nothing for me to do but prosecute. So far as I have been able to learn, Mr. Nelson is the only man who opened up this afternoon. I am surprised that he should be the single exception, for he took the lead Sat- urday in inducing Bismarck business men to make the Sunday closing un- animous. No legal responsibility or culpability attaches to Justice Robin- son’s orders so far as I am prepared to state. They were merely void, in- valid orders with no bearing upon the situation whatever.” Senators as Witnesses At least two senators, several rep- resentatives and the names of sev- eral prominent leaguers were procud- ed yesterday by Sheriff French and Chief Downing as witnesses in the state’s case against Nelson. all of whom probably: wil have their day in court when the case against Nel- son is called. ‘The state’s attorney is out of the city today,.and nothing will be done until tomorrow. very general degree, it has by com- mon consent remained a dead letter. Chief Justice Burleigh F. Spaulding in 1911, in his opinion upholding the state in its case against C. W. Temple and Clara Wright, charged with oper ating a Bismarck picture theatre on Sunday, ruled very generally upon the right of a state to prohibit the do- ing of certain things on Sunday. “This is a christian nation,” said Spaulding, “and laws enacted to prevent the dese- cration of the Sabbath are valid for that reason, notwithstanding consti- tutional provisions similar to section 4 of the state constitution. These sta- tutes have been held to apply even to the publication, sale and distribution of newspapers on Sunday.” ts it UNDERGOES OPERATIONS. Peter Zacher of Strasburg, who was operated on in the St. Alexius hos- pital Friday, is recovering nicely. ‘Mr. Zacher is one of the best-known; men of that district. Philip Frank of Dodge also underwent an operation Friday in the St. Alexiug,hosuital. He is also getting along nicely. STACY ADAMS SHOE > for men; a real gentleman’s shoe. Have you tried them? (RICHMOND & WHITNEY. | GRAIN MARKETS Qa eee DULUTH, £19336. May Wheat .. July Wheat .. . 185% No, 1. hard on tr’k. . 197@197%' No. 1. Nor. on trk .... 196%; + 190%@193% No. 3. Nor. . -181140188% No. 1. Nor, to arr. . 19646, No. 2. Mont. hard trk arr.189%4 May Durum .. 197% July Durum .. . 190% No. 1, Durum on trk ...200%'@202% No. 2. Durum ........ 1925¢@197% No. 1, Durum to arr...:. 143° @144 Barley on: trk ....04.,+- 85 @124 Flax an trk and arr .... 237% Choice on trk .. + 288 No. 2, Nor. .. May Flax ... » 29116: July Flax . « 29316 High May » 194% Low May . 191% Closed at p. m. MINNEAPOLIS No. 1. hard sos 201% @ 202% No. 1, Nor. + 1945 @197% Choice arr. 1 193%@195% No. 2. Nor. + 1915 @197% No. 3 Wheat « 1815 @193% No. 2. Mont. + 193% @195% Arrive + 192% @193% No. 1. Durum ~ 201% Choice +» 206% Arrive Choice ... No. 2, Durum No. 3. Yellow corn Other Grades corn No. 4. Yellow corn arr. No. 2 Mont. Wild Oats No. 3. Wild Ooats . Arrive ....... No. 4. Wild Aoas Barley .. Choice Rye Arrive . Flax . Arrive . May .. July .. Closed at 1:42 p. m. + 200%! 205% 192% @199% 99%@ 94 87. @ 93 ++ 91% %@ 61% 55 @ 55% 53 53%@ 54% 92 @124 . 115- @124 144 @145 144 @U5 285 @28 - 285 @299 + 193%@193% + 184% @184% The “Outrageous” Law Here is the law: Sect. 9240, Penal Code of North Da- kota.—All manner for public sale, pub- or offering or exposing for sale, pub- licly, of any commodities upon the first day of the week, is prohibited, except that of meats, fish and milk which may be sold at any time before 9 o’clock in the morning, and except that food may be sold to be eaten up- on the premises where sold; and drugs and medicines and surgical appliances may be sold at any time of the day.” This law has been upon:the statute books since North Dakota became a state. It is a direct descendant of the famous blue laws of the old Massa- chusetts. Bay cdlony, ahd is to be found” in one. form or another, gen- erally somnambulant, upon the statute books of every state in the union. Su‘ again and again have 1 it CATTLE MARKETS ST. PAUL HOGS—Receipts 23,500; Steary; Tange 9.50@10.10; bulk 9.85@9.95 CATTLE—Receipts _ 5,000; . killers steary; steers 4.25@10.25; cows-heif- ers 4.75@7.50; calves steary; 7.50@ 12.00; stock-feeders weak; 3.50@7.75. SHEEP—Receipts 15,200; steady; lambs 7.00@12.75; wethers 6.00@9.50 ewes 5.50@9.00. CHICAGO . HOGS—Receipts 60,000; _ strong; bulk 10.20 @ 10.65; light 9.80: @ 10.50; rough 10.20@10.35; pigs 7.75@9.60. CATTLE—Receipts . 27,000;steary: native ‘beef. steers 7.50@11.80; wes! ern steers -7.35@10.00;. stock- 5.35@8.40; cowheifers 4.30@10.00; calves 9.00@13.25. : ; SHEEP BSMAREXS “SABBATH LD A THT Ove Many People Are Inconvenienced| by Sudden Enforcement of State Blue Laws ‘Bismarck wore its new Sunday bon- net yesterday for the first time under the new state administration. In accordance with the sweeping mandate from the office of the attor- ney general, early Saturday morning, and directed to every states attorney in North Dakota, the “lid” went on tight here. Not Even a Postage Stamp. At the cigar and the news stands in the hotels, where the public is in the practice of buying a postage stamp or two, the clamping down. of the “lid” wag felt. There was not 2 stamp to be obtained at a cigar stand. If the hotel clerk happened to handle a few his supply was soon exhausted. Many a letter—and written on the Sabbath, too—did not go out on Nos. 1 and 2 last night. Taxis Not in Operation. ‘Nat Prentice and family came in at 1:30 o’clock, Sunday morning and looked in vain for a taxi. Failing to find any mode of transportation to their home, several blocks out, they were forced to spend the remainder of the night in a hotel. Coming in on No. 1 Sunday morning, R. D. Hoskins noted a fellow-passenger, a woman with several small children, in sore straits. The efforts of iMr. (Hoskins and the mother failed to secure a con- veyance, and the clerk of the supreme court finally tramped ten blocks through the snow, with a couple of little ones in his arms, while the mother carried or led the others, 700 Sunday ‘Newspapers. The firm of Harris & Co., reported this morning it had 700 Sunday news- papers in the Northern Pacific ex- press office which were not removed until] this morning. The loss on the Sunday gales of these papers, togeth- er with magazines, was a heavy one for the firm. To get a Sunday news- paper if not a subscriber through the ‘mail, one had to go to train ‘No. 3, but the rush for copies exhausted the supply which the brakeman carried. Bismarck for the most part is reading its Sunday newspapers today. Cigars were under the ban at 12 o’clock Saturday night. At) 12:01 o'clock not a cigar was to be obtained over a counter until the opening of the cigar stands this morning. The fellow who didn’t lay in a supply Sat- urday night had to depend upon the generosity of his neighbor for a Sun- day smoke. ‘There was more “bum- ming” of matches yesterday than ever in the history of the city. The cigar, stands ‘coukin't supply ‘them: The White ice cream and confec- tionery palace on ‘Main street, popular with the Sunday afternoon and the evening crowds, was closed all day. The owner stated ‘Saturday night that Sunday is the best business day of the week, g » Drug stores heretofore opened from 8:30 in the morning until 1:80-o'clock in the afternoon and from 7730 to 10 o'clock in the evening, were closed under the sweeping orders from the states attorney. However, fn excep- tion was made, permitting these stores to open from 12 until 1 o'clock and from 7:00 p. m. until 8:00 p. m. The drug stores were not open to the public at these hours, prescrip- tions only being filled. * Roller Rink Was Dark. The roller skating rink, always the scene of large crowds on Sunday nights, was in darkness. Roller rink parties for Sunday night were called off after the order of the states at- torney had been issued. ‘With the pool rooms, cigar and news stands closed for the day, there was a large floating population which ‘took possession of the streets. Closing Topic For Discussion.. The closing order was a topic for discussion among legislators. It was stated by one representative that in his opinion the blue law would ibe threshed out, at this session of the legislature. Only one violation of the Sunday closing was reported. Just what ac- tion would be taken in this particular case could not be learned from States Attorney McCurdy, who is out of the city for the day. i (United Press.) Fargo, N. D., Jan. 8.—At Fargo, business, however progressed norm- ally. Offtcials said that their enforce- ment of the laws as they understood them had been faultless in 1916, and would not: be changed by Langer’s order. At Jamestcwn and Devils Lake all business places were closed, but cigar stands and confecticneries con- tinued to do ‘business. At Minot and Beach there was little effort to en- force the law to the limit that it was enforced at the “seat of government.” M’BRIDE WOULD SETTLE MATTER AT REFERENDUM (Continued from page one) PSI ek rabies sien beevaeh end that the soil will become more fertile and productive.” The bill, which if enacted into law would ,become effective January 1, 1918, makes it unlawful to plant any kind. of -small. grain more than two successive years, and unlawful to plant any of all.the small grains more than six years in succession. without one year’s planting to grasses or sum- mer fallow. Would. Affect Bridge Here. _ Senate bill No. 16, mtroduced by ‘Welford of Pembina, will be watched with interest-locally, as it has a direct bearing on the local. bridge situation. This bill would permit any county lo- cated on a navigable stream to spend not more than $200,000 for the build- ing of a bridge. The bill probably is intended directly for the benefit of JANUARY 8, 1917. some Red River valley town in the northeastern section of the state, but it would also assist Morton and Byr- leigh county should it develop that a bridge across the Missouri at this point will cost more than the $160,000 for each county allowed by acts now on the statute books. MARGUERITE CLARK That is the dilemma which Mar- guerite Clark faces as Peggy in the Famous Players Film company’s adap- tation of Madeleine Lucette Ryley’s celebrated theatrical success, “!Mice and iMen,”, which is the Paramount feature at the Bismarck tonight. The scene of the play is laid in the south, and the producers, with their con- stant zealous regard for the greatest possible accuracy of detail, sent Miss Clark and her. supporting company, under the direction of J. Searle Daw- ley, to Savannah, Ga., where a cem- era man cannot take a picture in any direction without hitting a typically southern scene. Preferring to incur this added expense rather than do the obviously simple thing and photo- graph scenes in New York where it would have been simple to have found a high-pillared house that would have passed for a genuine southern home, the producers decided that there was just one place in which real southern atmosphere could be obtained—the south. This action on the part of the Famous Players is merely consistent with a policy that sent Pauline Fred- erick to Rome for the filming of “The Eternal City.” TUMULTY ENTERS DENIAL TO ALL LEAK CHARGES (Continued from page one) that Dorothy Arnold was at an Or- ange, N. J., hotel.” Representative Campbell asked Mr. Tumulty if he knew that Mr. Wood had asked for an executive session in which to make his statement bring- ing in Mr..Tumujty’s. name. last week. “I wish you wouldn’t’ ask me any- thing about Mr. Wood,” replied Mr. Tumulty, heatedly. “I would be ashamed to be a party to anything that would blemish the reputation of a public man on a mere letter written by a man named Curtis. If I were guilty of such a thing, I would not be fit to hold the smallest public office.” i ‘Lansing Called. ‘Secretary of State Lansing was call- ed next. “Possibly I had better start,” said Secretary Lansing, “by stating that [ assume confidential communications ‘between the president and myself are not a part of the inquiry. I.can give you a physical history of :the. note. The draft was received by me at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. I discuss- ed it with (Mr. Polk, counselor. for the department, and iMr.. Woolsey, law ad- viser attached to my office, and the three forms in which it had to be prepared and set forth. | then handed it to Mr. Woolsey, enjoining him to the. strictest:-secrecy ‘that he. might take it to the three confidential sten- ographers, thete to ‘be prepared and delivered to Mr. Salmon, chief of the index bureau. “The index clerk said that it: would také so long to cipher the three notes that he would have to have an assist- ant.. I directed that he engage his most confidential man:for the work. He did so, was given the copies, and the two meni locked themselves in the room. They were given’ the cop- ies at 8 o'clock and at 2:0 Tuesday morning, December 19, the notes were enciphered, delivered: to the telegraph room, and sent. Discussed It With Wilson. “On Tuesday afternoon 1 discussed with the president the time when the note was to be made public. The reason for secrecy was courtesy due to the nations who were to receive the note that it was not to be published here before they received it. We de- ‘cided it would take two days to reach Austria and Rumania and we decided it should be made public Thursday morning. copy of the noté ‘was handed to Mr. James, chief of the information bu- reau. ‘He at once took it up with the printing office. : It was readby one man and then sent to the printing office, Received Reporters. “I received the newspaper corre: spondents and told. them I would have an important communication for them at 5 o'clock to be released the next morning. I told them it did not con- cern any proposal of peace’ or offer of mediation.” Thomas W. ‘Lawson followed Mr. ‘Lansing. He was told by Chairman Henry that he might “proceed in his own way for the present.” Mr. Law- son asked if he were to be stopped at any point in his talk. (Mr. ‘Henry said that would depend entirely on whether he confined himself to the subject before the committee. “My name is Tomas W. Lawson. ‘My home is in Boston. My occupation, you might say, is that of a farmer.” The crowd : laughed, and Lawson hastened to explain. “I don't say ‘I am a farmer to be facetious, hé'said. “In a way, I also am connected with financial matters.” “I will give testimony,” he said, Te- +] garding the damnable condition which has existed for two years for the pur- pose of finding a remedy for condi- tions which have. causéd hundreds of thousands of persons to be driven to enormous losses. CITIZENS MUST GIVE SAUERKRAUT TO TROOPS The sauerkraut supply also has fall en before Mars, reports the German Tageszeitung. It says: : “At the request of the president of of the food supply department it fs officially enacted that the purchase and sale of saurkraut will be no long- er permitted to individuals, but will be confined to official depots in ex- tremely limited quantities, sa that more of this product may be avail- able for the troops. “Probably the authorities may even confiscate all stores of sauerkraut in the country.” WANT EXPLANATION. (United Press.) (Washington, Jan. 8—The state de- Ameftican _ “Tuesday evening about 6 o'clock a - ej arp he