The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1917, Page 3

. lieve the cold ‘wave. “TR THREATEAS RAILROAD POINT Mandan Business District Soene : of $20,000 Blaze—Two Frame Structures Destroyed PEERLESS BAKERY AND RONCO BUILDINGS RAZED| (By a Special rial Corre! pondent.) Mandan, N. D.; Jan. 15.—Fire break- ing out in the Peerless bakery at 116 West Main street of which John Mc- Donald is proprietor, at 5:30 o'clock this morning and spreading to the two-story frame Rice building to the ‘otally destroyed bot structures, causing a loss estimated at approxi- mately $20,000 with two-thirds insur- | (ies ang what laws are wrong and to | ance. The loss on the bakery, a one-story structure known as the Ronco block, is estimated at $5,000 on the stock and $5,000 on the building, The loss on the Rice building, owned by Mrs. M. O. Rice of this city, is placed at $10,- 000. Fixtures for the Rosen Clothing store had been recently placed in the building’ and are a total loss. They were valued at $200. Work of the firemen was, seriously hampered by ‘thecold wave which grips this section of the northwest to- day, thermometers here at 7 o'clock this morning registering 21 below. For a time, shortly after the Rice building took fire, the business district of the Cold Wave Lid Nailed Over State Legislature Can't Raise It Be-| cause Matter Has Not Been Caucused As Yet OUTLOOK IS FOR CONTINUED COLD) Forecaster Orris W. Roberts is pad- | locking the cold wave “lid” on the state. While the Langer “lid” hits Sunday amusements, the Roberts; make is more far-reaching and is crippling outdoor sports in general, such as sleighing, skiing and skating. Under orders Issued from the office of the weather attorney this morn- ing, the outlouk: is. for “generally fair and continued cold. weather tonight and Tuesday.” Except for o moder- ate depression in the extreme south-! west, the pressure is high through- out the country, being highest over Minnesota.. Bismarck stayed indoors last night. Outside it, was. 22 below. That was the lowest for the night. At 7 o'clock this morning the mercury came up @ degree just for breath. At noon the official reading was 10 below. The highest yesterday was —8. Down. Moorhead way, the govern- ment thermometer registered 32. be- low. Winnipeg also reported -the. same reading at 8 o'clock this morning. These two cities were. the coldest points {nthe northwest. St. Paul, the eity Ddoosting for the winter sports carnival, had'‘a presentation of Bis- marck weather, ft ‘being —22 there. Reports this morning say the people of the Minnesota’ ‘capital didn’t like | - the performance. ~ There’s nothing to’ be done to re- Mandan tried it this morning; at’ 5:30 o'clock, by kin- dling a fire which ‘nearly destro;ed the business district of that city. The legislature can't do a thing, be- causé the matter has not as yet been caucused in the Non- Partisan league headquarters.” LEGISLATURE MAY WIPE OUT BLUE SABBATH “(Continued from page one) files a compiaint I will act as in that ally. “I have heard of none contemplat- ing filing any. complaints and I hardly believe it will be done in view of the fact that the present law is likely to be amended by the legislature inthe next few days. I do not anticipate further orders from the office of the attorney general for this reason. I think it would be foolish to attempt to enforce the present | law and do not | ‘intend to do it of own initiative.” | ‘Passage of Bills Assured. | Concensus of opinion among the law makers seems to be that hills of a reasonable and sensible nature to re- place the Sunday blue laws would be passed without little débate on either floor of the chambers. The lawmakers, The § McConkey Com. Co... Are selling on the present, market Snider’s Baked Beans at Jess than they can be bought at wholesale. You know beans are higher than they have ever been known. Our prices are still 10c, 15¢ and 25c per can. i‘ Fresh Eggs, per doz... ... Clover Honey, per cake No. 3 size Can Plums, per can 15¢ Fancy Bananas, per doz ... . . 20c Fancy Celery, per bunch ....15¢ Fancy Head Lettuce, per head. 15¢ Pure Strained Honey, per jar.z5c ‘Oranges, best We can get, 20c, 25e, 30c and S5c per doz: i law abiding citizens.” SMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE it is stated, have seen the follies of some of the law ‘Attorney B.'G. Tenneson, . voting “no” on\ the-O'Connor--bill, known 48 house bill No. 22, explained in his vate in. the “house late: Saturday afternopa that ‘he Knew the measure which would prohibit ball games, horse rac- ing nd other amusements on Memor- ial day could not ‘be enforcéd, and for that reason he registered in the nega- tive. “It it were possible for the enforce- ment of such a meagure, I would vote | yes,” said the Fargo attornéy. Other | legislators “éxpressed themgelves in a Similar vein when registering: their’ | vote on this special law and which in | ‘@ way seems to apply regarding the | Sunday blue law that its impossible to bring about uniform enforcement | tne way they now read oi the statutes, The blue laws are a part of the law as mich 4s any other and as such are entitled to respect and obedience,” de- clared State’s Attorney McCurdy this! afternoon. “The function of a prose- | cuting officer is to determine what | laws are right and what laws are| wrong, and his duty is to enforce laws | ag they are, It is the function of the | legislature to determine what laws are | pass the right laws and repeal the wrong laws. i Chance to Remedy Wrong. “The mere fact that a law has not been enforced in the pagt is not a; good reason why it should not be en- | forced in the future. I believe that some of our so-called blue laws are too stringent and that they work an actual hardship upon many of our cit- izens, but I believe that if all laws are to be enforced that they should be en- forced during the time the legislature is in session as well as at any other time. This is ail the more true when some laws which have been enforced in the past are to be enforced in the future because the enforcement of such laws will serve as a method of {calling the attention of the general |* | public and the legislature to the hard- |ships which are imposed, and if the legislature finds those. laws to be portunity to remedy that wrong. Thanks Business Men. “The business men of the city of Bismarck who have been most affect- ed by the enforcement of the Sunday laws have conducted themselves in a | splendid manner and instead of wan- tonly violating the law they have shown a disposition to co-operate with the. officers in enforcing the law as j¢; Elton Doubts “Blue” Law. State's Attorney Elton of Grand | Forks county, declares in an interview given to the press that the Sunday closing law will not be enforced thru- out Grand Forks county until he has interchanged views with Attorney General William Langer. The Grand | Forks county attorney appears to be |¢ convinced that the existing law is lacking in present form and as a re-; sult Grand Forks will not suffer. Taxi Lines Operated. Taxi lines operated in Bismarck yesterday in violation of the closing jorder, but it was not done to openly interfere with the order {rom Stato3 Atorney McCurdy, it being stated by owners this afternoon, but only ay a matter of accommodation for sick persons brought to the city and taken to the hoopltats.* "Es i HEAVY LOSSES TO SHANG Harbor and 150 of Crew Is Killed, Cause Unknown (Uited Press) New York, Jan. 15—Germany has met the Entente’s reply to President Wilson by a speedy resumption of sub- marine warfare which seems to give promise of reaching even greater pro- portion as the war continues. One of the feats of the German sub- marine was the sinking of the Nor- wegian steamship Vestfold of 1,883 tons gross by a German destroyer. The Danish ship Tyra was also report- ed captured in Swedish territorial wat- A heavily laden Danish steamship was mined in the mouth of the Thames Dec. 17, according to a report reach- ing here today from Capt. Tooker of | the Dutch steamship Merak. ‘Word was received yesterday of an) esplosion in the Japanese battle cruis- er Thunkuba which was destroyed and 150 of the crew killed. The warship was inthe harbor of Yokosuka. There were 157 injured, many seriously. The cause of the explosion has not yet been determined. PASSES BUCK TO CONGRESS | (Continued from from :.page one) question of whether it prohibits i | terstate transportation of women only for commercialized vice or applies to mere personal immoral j having no element of commercialism | or coercion has ‘been disputed ever | since the law's enactment. ‘Interpretation by the supreme court of the disputed point was asked in the celebrated Diggs-Caminetti cases and in the case of L. T. Hays of Alva, | Okla, In all three cases, the govern- ment conceded, there was no element of traffic for gain. Caminetti was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment and fined $1,500; Diggs, to two years and a $2,000 fine. Hays had an 18 months’ prison sentence. All have been at! liderty under bail. Differ on Law. Lower federal courts and different administrations of the department of | justice have differed over. the law's interpretation. Various women’s clabs_ and other organizations have agitated for an interpretation to curb all immorality, whether commercial or not. Two other important questions rais- ed were, whether women were accom- plices and, whether men might be convicted solely upon a woman's un- corroborated testimony..”’ ‘While ‘Diggs and Caminetti. volun- tarily gave’ some testimony, they re- ing with a fifteenth century woman,” Rose Pastor Stokes, wife of W. G Phelps Stokes, millionaire, told a Bal- timore audience a faw days ago. “The cook stove and other feudalistic insti- tutions have kept woman back,” might we not say just as truthfully, remembering the millions of dead men wrong in any way, they have an OP: on urope’s battlefields, that the twen- jtieth century woman is living with a ‘fifteenth century man? | against war munitions and permit man and woman a chronological equality ? cook stove which is a agent of civilization while shrapnel is most valuable as it is most destruc- man ideal, might have without its use. find new cases for discontent. ands are greedy of excuses to shirk responsibilities which are peculiarly feminine. necessaries of life such as tended that violated the constitution- al clause exempting persons from tes-| tifving against themselves. The Ninth federal circuit court, that, ypder various precedents, trial court's: charge was justified, the defendants‘ testifying voluntarily, only in part. | Stassifeation as ; which are states, but’aimed the law against per- sons transporting women victims in} yomance of the sea coast and most of commercialized ‘white slave traffic. convicted separately, August 20, 191 September 5, 1913. consolidated and affirmed March 18, 1916, by the Ninth circuit court. In the.supreme court all were advanced, both sides desiring early settlement of the disputed ques- tions, and argued together in Novem- e185, ber, Wallace representing the government and former Senator Bailev of Texas, Marshall B. Woodworth of San Fran- cisco and Harry 0. Glasser of Enid. jOkla., the defendants. considering the three cases, being dis- qualified in having been attorney gen- eral during prosecution of the thtee defendants. future prosecutions under the Mann act are dependent, persons under indictment and await- ing trial, including Jack Johnson, the IN MANN ACT CABE Fre pugilist, convicted at Chicago | trom justice in Europe. "eRe: 4 POUSEREDPING. seme —s of Women percwle mat © be BY. PUSHING » BUTTON poten as WOMEN COULD PERFORM ALL OF HER, DUTIES. By WINONA WILCOX. *The twentieth century man is liv- she said. The first sentence is clever, but Or why not balance the cook stove | But even this is not quite fair ta the} constructive ive, Democracy, or any any other hu- been attained ; Many women are always waiting to Thous- They devour advice like this: “So- cialize all activities which supply the houses, ENTERTAINYENT ro) PASTOR * STOKES, food and clothing, Freedom from do- mestic cares will enable women to take part in the big social and econ- omic movements hitherto delegated to men.” We have just about completed the socialization of clothing. And all it |has done for women is to create a de- mand for more, cheaper and worse clothing, and to provide her with a chance to parade around in it. The average woman neither mends nor darns. Never were women so waste- ful as in this era of the ready-made, this “age of cloth of gold,” which has freed her from making even the baby’s layette. As she has stored the sewing ma- chine in the attic, she would hasten joyously to banish the cook stove to the cellar. Then by pushing a few buttons at the head of the bed, the wife could order breakfasts for the family from a central kitchen a mile “Old Fashioned” Woman and Her ‘Cookstove More Important Than ““Modern’’ Man.and His Shrapnel So Declares Winona Wilcox, Scorning-Dictum of Rose Pastor Stokes As Aid To Discontentment away, scientifically assorted according to age, sex, height, weight, general health, color of hair, occupation, ete: Add this system to factory-made! clothing, and womdn‘would be relie ed from the necessity of knowing any thing at all. It would permit her to slump comfortably into permanent parasitism, and it would still further enslave man as “a good provider.” Home-making, according to the fin- est modern conception, is a great art. It demands feminine intelligence and training. There is no great and no small, no better and no worse in any seryice which is essential to the well being of the race. And perhaps woman wouldn't be in such haste to upset the cook stove if she realized that it is a detail of the best economic movement, and a part of all social improvement. One of man’s first steps away from savagery was the cooking of food. This step was taken thousands of years ago, but) in all of the centuries since, woman has not learned how to cook to the best advantage, It would seem wo- man’s part in twentieth century wis- dom not to abandon the cook stove, but to bring it up to date. But no wife will try to do this if she is con- vinced that the cook stove keeps her 500 years behind her husband. held the however, but The defendants contended that con- gress’ never intended to include, with felonies, offenses misdemeanors in most Did ‘Not Apply. | Although ‘Attorney General Wicker- back d. sham, in office when the law was 1he sine se passed, ruled that it did not'apply tol{her many admirers plenty of comedy nd ——— . | personal Japanese Warship Blows Up in|administration held (Second, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth |piti in whicn Mack Swain will be seen ‘federal circuit courts of appeal have in’ “Madcap Ambrose”. ; Sustained the broader interpretation. | stone comedies this is a scream from while other federal courts of appeal jstart to finish. ‘have sustained the broader interpreta- | Jaughter her tion, while other federal courts have held. only struction. succeeding The escapades, the otherwise. for the commercial con- Diggs and Caminetti were tried and the former on ; and the latter on Their cases were three cases 1916, ‘Assistant, Attorney General Justice McReynolds took no part in Upon the supreme court's decision including several in 1913, Johnson now is a fugitive MABEL TALIAFERRO. theatre goers will Local find a ar tHe's) plays at the Orpheum theatre tonight headed by that dainty little star, Mabel Talifaerro, in the beay enic pro- duction “The Dawn of Love” produced by the Metro company at a very large expense. This feature was given a sereen review at the Orpheum theatre and Manager er of the popular Main street play house claims this to be one of the most beautiful photo- plays shown at his theatre in many months. “The Dawn of Love” is a the scenes are taken along the rocky coast with natural scenery as most of Mabel Talifaei is just as winning as ever and off throughout the five acts. A two reel Keystone comedy will complete the Like all Key- If you are looking for s the program that con- tains plenty of it and will be shown at the Orpheum theatre tonight. A pepper recep acres |} | Additional Society News | 0 Is Improving. Mrs. Clayton R. Dalrymple of Ros- ser street, who, is a patient in the St. Alexius hospital, is recovering nicely. Mrs. Dalrymple will soon be able to be removed to her home. se Recovering Nicely. (Miss Emma Lou Larson of Sixth street, who is ill from pneumonia in the Bismarck hospital, has recovered sufficiently to be able to sit up a short time Saturday. eee To Live Here. Deputy Commissioner of Agricul- ture and Labor Lloyd Rader and Mrs. (Rader moved their household goods Saturday from Dickinson to 516 Ninth street, where they ‘will make their home. soe * Visiting Sisters Here. Mrs. G. B. Wylie of Cowesmont ar- rived the city Saturday and will be entertained while here by her sis- ters, Mrs. J. G. Moore of Fifth street and Mrs. C. W. Moses of Thayer escapades |SPlendid program of feature Photo | street. “AND TER GEGOHRAAN ae FEATURE, “THE R AND TONIGHT PLAYERS STRIKE «CHIEF TOPIC OF INTEREST (Associated ciated Press) New York, Jan. 15.—While the play- ing schedules constitute the business officially before the meeting of the presidents and owners of the National and American baseball leagues here today, the threatened strikes of the players give real interest. The own- ers predict that the major league play-; ers will soon back down when they | feel the need of money. This is the time, they point out, when players draw advances on next season's sal- aries. It is indicated that the big league owners and officers -will advocate that a time limit be set in which the play- ers must send in signed contracts or face suspension without | pay. FLORENCE DAGMAR ‘The clever and nd beautiful member of the Lasky Company, will be seef in an important role in support of Theo- dore Roberts in the photo-dramatic production of Mark Twain’s famous story “Pudd’nhead Wilson,” which will be the attraction at the Bismarck thea- tre tonight. jed and barred yesterday. In Five Acts of Fascinating Cleo Mad “The Cha “Putt nhead Wism’ Picto-graph and Comedy beginning TAS Feature at 7: 45° Tomorrow Sorrow” aa EEE eH i i ee sw a a sid id Pe r) ." Humor and © a Interest a = io | tC] a : t ison, in 2 lice of i a a a i | foccessscssesees: oeece Hog Skates Across Plank Floor Into Tong of a Fork Bowman, N. D., Jan. 15.—While . | L. D. Pierce of this village, was butchering a beef south of town | last week, a pig, weighing about 60 pounds, ran in the door, skated across the plank floor and landed against a fork, letting out a squeal and landing against the wall. | Pierce examined the animal and immediately proceeded to butcher it. He found one prong of the fork had pierced the animal's heart... MINOT FARMER AND LABORER IS KILLED Minot, N. D., Jan. 15.—Chris Lar son, a farmer living east of this cit) and employed as a snow shoveler on the Great Northern, was killed yester- day by a Great Northern train while at work in the yards. Details of the | accident are not known. JIMTOWN LID CLOSED, (United Press) Jamestown, N. D., Jan. 15.—The Sunday lid was closed, clamped and | padlocked. The only business plac s | in the city that could be entered were | the hotels and restaurants, and the | only thing that could be purchased ! was a meal or a lunch, Taxis refused to run, newspaper and cigar stores were closed, and many doors that hadn't been locked for years were bolt- Considering the coldness of the day, there was a better attendance at the churches than ever before and! a special meet- ing of the Y. M. C. A. drew a packed | Things Actually Happen Out on Slope Country peccccccccscovcoosssssevesssseessooneeee se. CLAMPED AND PADLOCKED| house. 7-Reel Show Tonight. OF METRO PHOTOPLAYS, Inc. PRESENTS Mabel Taliaferro “The Dawn of Love” A ROMANCE OF THE SEA, SCENIC, BEAUTIFUL. A METRO WONDERPLAY OF EX. QUISITE CHARM IN 5 SUPERB ACTS -REEL KEYSTONE COMEDY. = "Madcap Ambrose” IT’S: A SCREAM ooesvonees: Dickinson Farmer Falls From Mill; Breaks Pig's Back Mott, N. Ds Jan. 15.—H: Henry, >a farmer living in: the western part of the state, near Dickingon, fell from a windmill he was. rée- pairing and landed on a pig. breaking its back. Henry sustaid- ed a broken leg. The commotion started his horse which in turn frightened a colt that jumped”a fence and ran into a clothesline fastened to a post. The post was hurled thru the air with such force that it killed a cow. | HELD TO HIGHER COURT; SOLD MORTGAGED CATTLE Minot, N. D., Jan, 15.—Ariton Rot- cluik, charged with selling-six head of mortgaged cattle for $200 without ac- jquainting the purchaser of the fact, jwas bound over to the district court in Judge A. B, Dill’s court last week, RETURNS FROM TRIP. W. R. Peet, of the firm of Grambs and Peet, has returned from a short i trip to the Twin Citi The World's Greatest External Remedy. ’ Backache, Rheumatism, Sta Insist on ‘Having ALLCOCK’S. Adults i5c Children 10c