The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1917, Page 4

@UBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE ADVANCE ag ha Daily, by carrier, per month. 50 mail, 1.00 Wrockiyy by most ‘Der ye 130 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation HE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) <=> LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at 12:00, noon, Feb. 19, 1917: Temperature at 7:00 a. m. Temperature at 12:00, noon . Highest yesterday . ‘Lowest last night . Precipitation = Highest wind velocity . Forecast. For Bismarck and Vicinit, ‘Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; much colder tonight, becoming unsettled again Tuesday. Temperature CAISALY oie cks cs estes —6 ‘i 24 Pierre .... 4 Prince Albert —18 St. Paul .. . 0 Winnipeg + 30 St. Louis . » 80 San Fran . 44 Helena . a 2 El Paso » 86 Williston . + —12 OBYRTS, Meteorologist. feoorsrrecsoooooe @ "rhe THOMBES: lieart is the > ¢ child's schoolroom.—Beecher. 00059 00505500000 GRONNA, TOO. The New York Times expresses the sentiments of a majority of North Dakotans in this editorial: “The Hon. Henry T. Helgesen, Rep- resentative in Congress of the First North Dakota dist is reported to have uttered these singular and dis- tressing sentiments: “‘The United States could have waived her legal rights to the free- dom of the seas without losing any of them, and without the loss of dig- nity. Germany should have been in- formed of this attitude long ago. I do not believe the American ‘people want war, and I stand with them.’ “He does not stand with them. He does not stand with the people of his state. The Grand Forks Herald an- swers him sufficiently: “'Mir,, Helgesen says correctly that ‘the American people do not want war, but we are confident the American} people would go through a dozen wars rather, than make the abject and shameful surrender which he declares should be made.’ “That is the true feeling ‘of the Am* erican people. They love peace, but it must be a peace without surrender or shame. A peace so bought would ‘be Wotse' than the worst of war. Like >Bengtdt Works of California, Mr. Hel- ~Besen, | Misjudges the public opinion of his::state.” Alt“of ‘this is true also of Senator ‘Gronna. eee The Atlantic Monthly believes in “writing down” to its readers. It runs an explanatory note, after using the term, fifty-fifty. see THE DEEP TRANCE. Late on January 31, the government of Germany gave notice that it tore up all its agreements with the United States about submarine warfare, tore up international law and all other re- straints and was going out to kill and sink friends and foes alike. It is evident that the Congress ‘of the United States has ‘not ‘heard of this incident and that when President Wilson went before jboth houses to tell them of it the members. slept, or were in a trance, or had been pro- jected into a state of coma. This is proved by the fact that al- though many days have passed since Germany sent u8 what was in effect a declaration’ of) .war, “and while. Con- gress has, devoted; much time to such questions as the dredging of the in- Jet at Hohokus and the new public building at Goss’ (Hollow, it has paid no attention at all to the fact that war is at our doors. Wars are not fought with notes, res- olutions, bouquets or toothpicks, or by hurling copies of the Congressional Record at the heads of our enemies. Members of Congress think that this is the way wars are conducted, but it isn't. Wars are fought with guns, muni. tions and trained men. In all the days that have passed since Germany’s declaration, Congress # has done nothing to provide any of these necessaries. But the House com- mittee on military affairs has been good enough to cut down by $6,000,- 000 the amount required in peace times to keep up with the conditions ‘created by the committee’s own bill of the last session. It has long been plain to all observ- ers that Congress does not. read books, knows nothing of history and never admitted any such thing as human ex- perience. We now learn that it never reads the news dispatches. It has, from time to time, busied itself with many investigations. .We now sug- gest one to determine what, if any- or ees Outside, of course, of pork bills. eft KIPLING—PROPHET. Twenty years ago Rudyard Kipling, | touring the United States, wrote some} letters to a paper in India. In one| of them he discussed our military | strength—or was it weakness? He/| fosta that some morning there would! be several million mad men in the| United States because there would be; occasion for them to fight and be- cause they would want to fight, but) there would be no guns for them. That day may now be at hand. eae If prices rise much higher we won't dare refer to potatoes as anything but pommes de terre. | see A MIGHTY POOR BILL. | Senator Saulsbury’s bill to throw | open American ports to Entente ships | submarine warfare is premature and loaded with folly. We are still a neutral. We are not} yet an ally of England. We have right on our side in our disagreement | with Germany. We should not wan-; tonly e these things. Any special favors to any of the; Entente powers to aid them in war- ring on Germany would justify the lat-| ter in declaring war on us. If we go/ into the bloody business of war, wej want all the justification on our side. We can have it, if we are not foolish. eee The U-boats at least furnish a di- version; ships are the only things that are going down. eee Of course congressmen aren't tor busy on preparedness to send out th annual packets of flower seeds. eee Senator Weeks is out for the Repub- lican nomination for President in 1920. Nothing like starting early. a ee “Red-headed girls are becoming more popular,” remarks a western ed-| itor. Whaddaya mean, becoming? oe & What! ‘Gen. Pershing to marry a; New York widow? Hasn't the man ‘had enough of punitive expeditions? see Isn't it about time we had a navy big enough to enforce our own “free- dom of the seas” against all comers? s 4 * Potatoes the same price as good eating apples, at Denver. But you just wait till onions begin their climb! see , Uncle Sam's army just out of Mex- ico is the finest of its size on earth, according to a foreign expert. But a lion can’t devour a herd of elephants. eo Aztec corn 1,000 years old is being planted in Kansas. Speculators who withheld it weren't satisfied with} prices in the Christian era, we sup- pose. see (Reading about the Youngs’ domes- tic broils, we imagine that Clara Kim- ball Young’s movie expression of cha- grin was got from throwing things at Young and missing him by a mile. eee Friends of Irish freedom send a special delegation to urge Wilson to maintain peace. Oh well! if our Irish fellow citizens don’t want to fight, the war won't amount to anything. eee Those Cubans have been good a long while, for them. A revolution is necessary occasionally, down there, | als who won't work on the sugar or tobacco farms, eee A pro-German paper that is strong for America’s turning the already swatted other cheek, reminds us that Lincoln didn’t go to war with Britain, France and Spain when they invaded (Mexico and enthroned Maximilian. But it seems to us we remember some- thing about these United States hav- ing a little inner discord just about that time. a & The double-headed baseball trust threatens to blacklist pla + who strike. What's become of the good, old-fashioned fan who thought base- ball a pastime? eee Miss M. Jane Newcomb, lecturer, of Pennsylvania State college, declares that the less a girl wears, the more she must eat. ‘We're headed right straight for a famine. see National Assoclation of Merchant Tailors taboos suspenders for season of 1917. Tapes will fasten pants to vest. And fellows who don’t own vests can use safetypins. oon | READERS’ COLUMN’ | o——_—_—___—_—_—_u JOYFUL OBSERVANCE. | Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 17, 1917. Editor Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, N. D. Dear Sir—The petition of the Bis- marck ministers to the members of the senate and house, North Dakota legislature, has some very high sound- ing phrases. It speaks as if the pass- ing of the Senate Bill No. 114 and ‘House Bill No. 170 would be a back- ward step and “would arouse the ‘Christians of a thousand churches of the state and others who want home protection against those who would thus attack the foundations of char- acter and turn over our Sundays to a engaged in putting down Germany's + in order to kill off the crop of gener-| s Libis ae aes uy ATS ere nr erry Bismarck, \N. D., Feb. 16, 1917. niston, Secretary Commercial Clb, ‘Bismarck, N. D. Dear Sir: 1 have your favor of the 9th instant, and in reply to your question, “Why 1 belong to the Commercial Club?” will say: Why I Am a Member “Community and civic pride should prompt any man to belong to, help and promote a commercial o: tion. We would be ashamed if we di not have some organization of the bus- iness interests in our city.” Yours very truly, B. MARKS, Vice President City National Bank. Godless ideal before every home and child in the state.” 1. These good and holy ministers would do well to read the Bible and compare the different passages of the New. Testament, where Jesus Christ has to defend a reasonable, joyful ob- servance of the Sabbath against the ‘Pharisees, and ask themselves wheth- er their standpoint is nearer to the standpoint of Jesus Christ or to that of the Pharisees. 2. They would do well to ask them- selves whether Sunday is less faith- fully observed by the Catholics, who, almost every one of them, go to mass regularly on Sundays. Just compare the ‘Catholic crowds going to mass.at 8:00 a! m.,at 9:15-a, m., and at 10:30 a. m., eVery Sunday, in this:‘town, where the Catholics are a ‘small'num- ber comparéd? with the “Protestants; but nearly everySunday in their one church we find about as*many attend- ing as in all Protestant churches to- gether. Now the fact is, that all Catholics are deeply convinced that pl like baseball, etc., do not de: the Sunday, that buying ci cream, etc. does not desecrate the Sunday that people have a right to the same enjoyments as they have on week These Catholic ideas s much respected by as the ideas of the mini When did the “blue” Sunday Jaws rst come into . existence? It. was when the Puritans ;roybed the people of joy andyghadness: andwhben they spread the#ldea thdt-to:serve God re- quires a ‘sad’ and. severe.face. . Just look at the portraits of the Puritans of England and the American colo i But, at least in our days, when eriff compels us to go to divine the tendency of making men miserable in this world; true religion has the purpose of making men hap- py and glad in this worlu and thus to ness, 4.-Is it really the sentiment. of “thousands. of churches of the state and others who want home protec- Is this sentence not rath- er an exaggeration of full-mouthed preachers? Do baseball, smoking a cigar or drinking a lemonade bought on Sun- day or attending a clean theater on Sunday “attack the foundations of character and turn over our Sunday to a Godless ideal before every home and child in the state’? Well, well, j you holy men and all those who think or feel like you do not need to go to the baseball ground, you do not need to go out to the prairies and hunt for those who hunt on Sunday; you do not need to watch the theatre-goers, etc., and turn holy faces against such a “scandal.” Just mind your own i business and let other people mind |theirs. There are other more golid “foundations of character.” fesns Christ, with His full truth and His liberty, is the One great foundation and the one Ideal for every home and child. Yours truly, A CITIZEN. TAKE THAT. ‘St. Louis, Mo., Feb, 19.—Several St. Louis firms have -received letters from retailers in “dry” Kansas,“ de- claring the merchants never more will buy St. Louis goods, because of the heavy “wet” majority polled here at the recent election. It is expected Kansas City, which voted “dry” but few for personal gain, or to other few for public sport, and set up a not by a sufficient majority to swing the state, will get this trade. prepare them for the eternal happi-|- FARGO. TO. MANUFAGTURE WHEELS, MOTOR. TRUCKS AND AUTO. AOGESSORIS $25,000 Compatty Incorporated— Big Land *Compatty Charter. ered for Belcourt Articles of incorporation filed last week with the secretary of state by the W. 8, Wheel and.iMotor Co. of Fargo would indicate. that the Gate City is to ‘hecome’ a3 of Detroit in the manufacture of) Cles, motor trucks, moto accessories. The compan. incorporated for $25,000, name: sand ich is in its heels, vehi- |, articles H. C. Dauphinais, Lendrecie and.Oliver Denis of Fargo, jand Robert, Decelles of Woonsocket, R. I. Big Land Company. A charter was issued last week to the Charlebois Land company of Bel- court, with Dele Sharlebois, Aimee Choinere and Ernest Charlebois, all jof Eelcourt, incorporators. The com- pany is capitalized for $125,000. Fargo Furniture Company. The Molloy Furniture company of Fargo, capitalized for $25,000, by F. H. Dunn, Maud A. Molloy and J. R. Molloy, also took out a charter last week, Other charters of the week were issued as follows: Ft. Clark Mercantile; Co., Ft. Clark, ©. G. Rickel, Ella /Rickel,and Martin ; Strand, incorporators; $15,000. Pioneer Hardware\:Co.,).Marmarth, Frank Gibbs, P. ..Pirnie and James H. Cramer, $25,000. 3 G.'M. House & Co., Dodge; George M. House, Cora S. House and William M. House, $25,000. ‘German Congregational Friends’ Chu Blue’ Grass; . Fred Oscar Brose, Blue Grass; Jacob Wetzel, Wil-' liam Wetzel and Edward Nagel, Glen Ulin. Hampden Electric Co., Hampden; Edward 2. ‘Swarthout, Alfred B. Brandt, M. A. Knutson, .Dayid Minnis and Otto M. ‘Shipley, all,of Hampden; $10,000, 5 Fi yea y You will find more’ of the leading people of North Dakota registered at the Radisson, than at any other hotel lin the Twin Cities. Singers inG Two Clever Dancers and reat Musical Comedy Success ‘Katinka’ CREW BILL UP. “FOR DECISION Measure Which Tied Senate Sat. urday Up for Final Vote in Body This Afternoon LEARN TOO LATE THAT 71 CONTAINS ‘‘JOKERS” Effort to Recall Distance ‘Tariff Measure Checkmated—New Terminal Proposition The fate of Senator Mostad’s full crew bill will be determined at the hands of the senate today. An effort to kill it in the committee on. rail- roads failed Saturday afternoon, when the lieutenant governor decid- ed by voting aye a tie vote on the question of accepting the minority re- port, that the bill pass. The major- ity report recommended indefinite postponement of consideration of the measure. Terminal Elevators. The state affairs committee has embodied features of the several ter- minal elevator measures which have ‘been introduced during the session in an amendment to Senate Bill 84, in- troduced late Saturday afternoon. The amended bill provides that a ter- minal elevator commission of twelve members, no two of whom shall be members of the same judicial district, and three of whom shall be executive officers in the Equity Co-operative ex- change, shall be appointed ‘hy the gov- ernor, who, with the attorney general and state treasurer shall have ex-offi- cio membership, This commission is empowered to select the location and erect, lease and operate or sell one or more terminal elevators, within or without ‘the state, and is to have full charge ‘of such enterprise, with au- thority to expend from a fund of $300,- 000 appropriated for its use all the moneys required to carry out the pro- visions of the bill. Railroad Lobby? Upon a resolution adopted by the house Saturday afternoon a commit- tee of five was appointed to investi- gate an alleged railroad lobby. Bank Guaranty Bill. The senate passed a bill for the guaranteeing of bank deposits which embodies features of Senators Kirk- eide’s and Drown’s measures, Senate Checkmated. The house checkmated the senate Saturday “afternoon when immediate- ly upon convening at 2 o'clock it sus- pended the rules, took from the cal- endar Senate Bill 77, placed it on third reading, and passed it without a dissenting .vote. Seventy-seven passed the senate the fore part of the week, with apparently. little cohsider- ation, . After its. passage Grand Forks interests discovered some features: in the bill of which ghey,,diq not approve, and a lobby came to Bismarck to pro- cure the recall of the bill from the house, ostensibly. for the purpose of so amending it as. to protect present favorable lignite rates. The house got wind of this plan, and Chairman’ Dupuis of the house railroad commit- tee, who is author of a similar house bill, called. Seventy-seven, from . the calendar and shot it through before anyone could draw a breath. 5 A number of members of the house in voting for Seventy-seven stated that they did so on the strength of as- surances made by Chairman Dupuis that it did not affect existing lignite rates, nor suspend any other favor- able rates now in force, but merely empowered the railroad commission to establish additional favorable rates. A conference of ‘war was held during the afternoon in the senate, and an effort may ‘be made to devise some means of getting another whack at Seventy-seven, which as it stands would place in effect in North Dakota the Cashman distance tariff act plac- eded'on ‘the Minnesota statute books two years ago. we, Reports on Initiative. ©): Two reports came in from: the com- mittee on judiciary on Senator Wens- trom’s Senate Bill 120, greatly simpli- fying the operation of the present ini- The advance sale for the great musical comedy success, “Katin- ka,” which comes to the Auditorium Wednesday evening, February 21, opened at Finney’s drug store thi: is morning with a rush for reserva- tions which equaled “The Blue Paradise” The production, according to and the Duluth newspapers, where it as a clever wheeze with tuneful music. orchestra, consisting of 10 pieces. “RACKETY Press comments from the Twin City the play recently showed, speak of “Katinka” carries its own C00” 18 HIT. One of the chief duties assigned to Miss Margaret Owen as Ka- tinka is to sing the “Rackety Coo” number, The ‘‘Rackety Coo” mo- tif seems to pursue Katinka in a sings strains of it from gardens, truly .Wagneresque manner and she streets and cafes. If the girl in the flat above hasn’t mastered it before the end of the week, Miss Owen's efforts will have been in vain. tiative’ amendment to the constitution. ‘The majority report favored so amending, the bill as to provide that initiative petitions may be circulated only by notaries, who must certify that every ‘signature ig genuine. The minority report, headed by Wenstrom, recommended that the bill pass in its original form, After much debate, in which it became apparent that the majority report would be favored if a vote were taken, Senator. McCarten objected tothe consideration of the committee report, which automatical- ly deferred further action on the Dill until Monday. The same program was-followed in connection with Sen- ate Bill 119, also by Wenstrom, and dealing with making the initiative provisions of the constitution selfcon- structive and operative. The major- ity report was for indefinite postpone- ment, and. the minority for passage. Further consideration was deferred until, Monday when Senator Drown objected to the report. Leaguers lined up behind both bills, and in both cases they were outvoted on every motion. Move .County Seat. The county. seat removal bill, 87, wag made the occasion for another heated forensic battle in which, for once, Senator Jacobsen had the losing side and in the course .of which the gentlemen from Mott. referred to an insidious. lobby which had had some- thing to do with expunging from the original bill an amendment which had been satisfactory. to the county seat- ers who are now here lobbying against the bill in its present form. Senator Jacobsen’s majority voted to accept the report of the plurality —there were three distinct reports on the bill from the committee on coun- ties—providing that when an election fails to budge the county seat, a sec- ond election for. removal may not be MARGUERITE CLARK. f § Famous Players-Paramount Gd 1 At the Bismarck theater tonight. held for four yéars, except that when the county seat_is not located on a railroad or interstate river the re- moval question may go on the ballot at any primary election, the two towns receiving the highest vote at the primary to become candidates at the next general election, and the one receiving the highest number of votes in the general election to be “it.” Then the skids may not be placed un- der the county capital again for four years. This is the bill which will come up for final passage today. BILLS UP. FOR FINAL ACTION ARE IMPORTANT Fate of New County Seat Act to Be Determined—Initiative Propositions HECKLE’S BONE DRY LAW REPORTED FOR PASSAGE Fate of Cole's National Guard Measure to Be Known—Civil Service All Off A great number of bills of unusual importance confronted the, senate when it convened this afternoon. . Fi- nal action is demanded on tha,amend- ed Senate Bill 81, defining the man- ner of holding county seat electigns; on bills 119 and 120, Wenstrom’s ini- tiative measures, greatly amended in committee, and on which a fight is certain; Senator Heckle’s ‘bone dry ill; Senator Gronvold’s. terminak ele- vator bill; Heckle’s “One-Man’ tax commission measure, and - Mostad’s full crew bill. Newspapers Interested. Newspapers will be interested on the action taken by the senate; on, S. B, 113, introduced by Gahill,.,.which defines newspapers and periodicalsas common carriers of intelligence, and requires them to devote as much space to a retraction of any person “ridiculed, criticised, insulted or de- graded” as was devoted to the origin- al article in which offense was given. To Decide Initiative. Action will ‘be had this afternoon on the judiciary committee reports on Wenstrom’s initiative measures, set over one day whef objection was made Saturday to their consideration. The: Wenstrom bills remove practi- cally all restrictions from the circu- lation of initiative petitions, while the amendments written in by the majority of the committee on judi- ciary tend to tighten up the existing laws.: “The: minority, which is sup- ported by deague. members of the sen- ‘ate, will: fight for the passage of the bills in their present form. {Bills Lost. Among bills which fell by the way- side Saturday, indefinitely postponed on the strength of committee reports, were §. B. 90, Gronvold, locating sec- ond hospital for insane at Rugby; S. B. 316, Wenstrom, defining Four- teenth judicial. district; S. B. 303, King, appropriating $10,400 for North Dakota Agricultural association fairs to be held in” BisniarokTh “1917 and 1918; S. B. 226, King, providing for state-wide civil service and the ap- pointment of a civil service commis- sion of three members; S. B. 262, Mc- Grey, appropriating $200,000 for the construction of, a terminal elevator, within or with@it the state; S. B. 124, Martin, providing for a nonpartisan tax commission of three members; S. B. 264, McGrey, for the appointment of a commission to construct a ter- minal elevator; '‘S. B. 68, McGrey, pro- ‘viding for twd-cent passenger fares; H. B. 140, Stinger. requiring commis- sioner of agriculture and labor to fur- nish accurate information to prospec- tive settlers. . Vote on. H. B, 221, Much interest attaches to the sen- ate’s final disposition of House Bill 221, appropriating $60,000 for addi- tional compensation to members: of the North Dakota national guard. The appropriations’ committee that action be indefinitely postponed will come up for consideration today, on motion of Senator Heckle, who asked that nothing be done with the report Sat- urday. Only One “BROMO QUININE.” To get the genuine call for full name, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for signature of E. W. GROVE| Cures a Cold in One Dav, 25c. Your visit to the Twin Cities will be more enjoyable if you stop at: this Famous Hostelry. Excellent Cuisine. Hotel Radisson, Minneapolis, 409 Rooms—275 at $1.50 to $2.50. m « » nw i | a! { ‘ * ” { ] I we | } © % 4 Soa ‘ S| \o offs we deg a