The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1917, Page 4

| 4 Serie ~~ 7 BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 21,,1017. THE TRIBUNE ° Matered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. : ISBUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY | SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ‘ADVANCE | Daily, by mail or carrier, the question framed by you. They have not yet reached the point of deg- radation which would make it possible {to accept from any other nation terms on which they may carry on their ful business throughout the world humiliating as those offered by| ; the German government. H per month .. +e $ 50 { Daily, by mail, one y I believe that the effort made by! North Dakota ...... ...+-... 4.00/the unpatriotic pacifists who appar-| Daily, by mail outside of 00 ently fear war more than dishonor North Dakota, one year ..... 6-09) Ji rain, and that a nation which has | Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, three months. Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months ........ . ‘Weekly, by mail, per year ..... Circulation 1.50 (Established 1878) LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at 12 noon, February 21, 1917: Temperature at 7 a.m. . Temperature at 12 noon Highest yesterday Lowest last night - Lowest today .. 10 5 Precipitation At Highest wind velo Fe For North Dakota: Fair tonight, with colder east and central portions; ‘Thursday unsettled and cold; fresh northwest winds. Temperature “ Calgary 7% .. 4 “nb report ans NEWSPAPER | thus far maintained an honorable po-! sition among the nations of the earth | has not yet sunk to the level of China. | I am, very truly yours. | GEORGE W. WICK: Some of these chaps demanding a “referendum” on war with Germany didn’t holler for a referendum when | ; they were trying to get the Washing: | ton government to grab off a slice | of Mexico. GENERAL FUNSTON. General Funston was a great fight-) ‘er, an ardent patriot, and a represent: | ative American. He can illy be spar-} | ed in times like these, when the Unit: | ‘ed States has too few soldiers who| | have actually seen service on a bat-! | tlefield. Like Dewey, he never allow- | ed popularity to turn his head. He | was not an egotist. In spite of his | rapid advancement from a minor com- Chicago 22 Kansas Ci 26 mission to brigadier general, he kept Moorhead - 4 in close touch with the men. Pierre ....- 8 a Prince Albert . -26 The two who shared most the glory St. Paul ... 8 j for the successful outcome of the Winnipeg . id Spanish-American embroglio were St. Louis .. A Dewey and Funston, Their names San Francisco i ' ere Aes Helena .. will be linked in history as represent- El Paso . ative of the pluck and daring which Williston .. a | characterized the nation before we ORRIS W. ROBERTS, reached this flabby and overfed age, Meteorologist. SOSTTESSESISSO SOS ° Honesty is not greater where & @ elegance is less—Johnson. cy SOSSTHHESHSHSOOO OOS LET US KNOW WHY. It is commonly reported that the temperance workers and their paid assistants, the private law enforce- ment officials, are lobbying aginst the bone dry law. Do they think the enactment of the law will’ go purify the state that the refasmers, will loge their fobs ant § Pe,<forcad™to take up less lucrative an Ise} congenial tasks? ~The fiypocrisy of it all must make 1 thegaas weep! These ‘same cohorts were lobbying for a retention of the Sunday blue Jaws, but never a whigper in favor, of the bone dry law, which will give the state prohibition that prohibits. Why, , this unusual and pardoxical 2 V Ai Situation 2, <.. Will_somebody inform us the why -~and~the-wherefore of it all? ¥ fight off wolves. way to'Btop war? |. ANSWER TO PACIFISTS. » During the past week the country Wand ‘Russian soldiers ceage; | when it seems almost criminal to sug- jgest universal military training. Funston has set an excellent ex- ample for the young men of this age and generation, whose education tends to soften and effeminate. The time has arrived when such types as Dewey and Funston should be the exemplars of our youth if there jis to be aroused that virility which j von us our present place among the nations of the world. ON THE RAGGED ‘EDGE. While the country is hanging on the ragged edge of war, President Wilson must be hanging on the ragged edge of a most difficult question. How “overt” must Germany's act be to warrant the President going to Con- gress for a declaration of war, backed by popular approval? Doubtless another Lusitania or Sus- sex affair would force the (President to such: action. But repetitions of those horrors are scarcely possible. The destruction of a few ‘American passengers on ships of belligerent na ‘tions might do it, although there is. jeopardize the peace ‘of’ the country ‘by so traveling should do it at their own risk solely. Then the thing may come through has been flooded with literature from} 4, aggravated case of violation of in- the headquarters of the peace-at-any- pricers urging that the question of| our future relations with Germany be decided by a national referendum. Particularly it is demanded that no matter what Germany does to us, we shall commit no hostile act against Germany, until everybody in the Unit- ed States has voted yes or no. There has not occurred tg#us- nor fhave we seen anywhere a more-com- plete answer to the whole ,peace-at- any-price propaganda than that of George W. Wickersham, who was at- torney general in President Taft's cabinet. We take the liberty of reprinting the Wickersham answer from the New 4 3 Feb. 13, 1917. Miss Crystal Eastman, , Munsey Building, Washington, D. C.: Dear Madam: I am in receipt of a postcard from you inviting an expression of opinion upon an annexed return card to be sent to my congressman. The open- ing note on this answering postcard says: “In modifying her war zone note, Germany has offered safe passage for all American passenger ships which keep to a prescribed course and which our government guarantees free from contraband.” This statement is so misleading, so essentially false, that the answers to} the subsequent question afford no op- portunity for the expression of an in- formed public opinion on the issues between Germany and ourselves. The so-called “safe passage for all American passenger ships” is, as a matter of fact, an offer to permit one ship to pass through the prohibited zone under conditions so offensive to any wholesome national self-respect that I marvel that any person calling himself an American can regard them as worthy of one moment's considera- If our nation has sunk to that state of flabby pacifism wh:cn would make "it possible to consider the offer of Germany as anything but an insult, then it wottld deserve the fate which ternational rights and laws. Make no mistake in believing that when our billions of export trade is throttled, pressure will not be brought to bear upon the President. President Wilson must feel some- what like a hunter standing watch- fully before a big, dark forest that he knows is full of fierce beasts of one sort or another. He doesn’t know what sort of a beast will charge forth, or from what spot it will issue. ‘He can only stand with gun cocked ready for anything. PREPARE AT ALL COSTS. Anyway, whether we get into war or keep out of it, there is no need to show the white feather, to try to side- step the inevitable, or to fool our- selves as to the actual facts around us. To fake up a situation that doesn’t exist and then prepare a policy to fit jthe fake is just to be walking in our sleep. | It is dead sure that Germany will never respect any peaceful palaver, j any suggestion of compromise, or any | philandering stuff about disloyal sen- timent in'the United States, such as Secretary Daniels lately allowed to be sent to a German newspaper. Nothing goes in Berlin but the mafl- ed fist. It is in the interest of real peace, real security and real progress that we show to Germany now that we have the only argument’ she will admit. This Congress ought not to adjourn without taking every necessary step {to dispose of the German hallucina- |tions about Americans as easy marks and good things.— It ought to vote full credits to put the nation into a state of defense and it ought to provide for an army in which all of us shall have our part. It ought to show to the world a coun- try united and determined and a spir- it that if slow to take offense is not afraid. If a billion dollars are required, ap- propriate the billion. But don’t let the world imagine any longer that the true translation of} “too proud to fight” is “too fat.” Your visit to the Twin Cities will be injoyable if you stop at this rcpt Hostelry. Excellent Cilisine. 88+ some strong sentiment in the country! i Hints OF fo the effect,,..that. Americans. who Famous American Defiances JOHN PAUL JONES ‘Surrender? 7 have not yet hegun to tight!” PINCKNEY “Millions tor defense bus not one cent for tribute! ‘UF any man attempts to haul down the ie American flag, shoot on the spot!” Dix fe dim LIEUT, LEARY fF you sire, you must fire through | the ship 1] command: “Tf youre looking? “7 stay Gere until]. hell freezes over!" | GERARD , Washington, ,, Feb. 21-—Ambassa- dor Gerard's,wemark to the German envoy, Count ‘Mohitgelas, when the lat- ter brought! the'tfreat of Gerard's’ de tention unless he sighed a treaty’ de- sired by, the ‘kaiser, bids fair to go down’ in history among famous de- fiances of American statesmen and military commanders. “I'll stay, then, until hell freezes overs: is the remark credited to Ger- ard. John Paul Jones pulled the first of these historic defiances when, during for a fight you can fave 16 now!" was ready to surrender, Jones’ an- swer was: . “Surreider? I have uot yet begun to fight!”-— Ambassador Pinckey, silenced the French prentier Talleyrand’s demand that America pay a sum to insure‘ her ships against attack: “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!?,; Before the. civil, war, when south- ern-sympathizing commanders at New Orleans refused to obey orders to move their revenue cutters, Gen. Dix of President Buchanan’s cabinet or- the, revolution, a British warship that fired on Jones’ vessel inquired if; he dered their arrest, closing his wire: ee — “If anybody attempts to pull down the flag, shoot him on the spot!” Lieut. Leary ran his. vessel, the| Adams, between the,.German cruiser | Adler and the shore, when the Adley appeared to shell the forces ‘of a Sa- mean king friendly,'to »the,., United ‘States. Then he sent the -Gérman commander this word: “If you fire, you must fire through the ship I command.” When Germans landed a boat-load of supplies from their fleet to the be- sieged Spanish garrison at Manilla, Commodore Dewey sent word to the German commander, von Diedrichs: “If you want a fight, you can have it now!” Stanton, 'N. D., Feb. 17, 1917. 'To the Editor Tribune: | Germany is following a predeter- mined course, whatever that govern- ment does is done after a careful |counting of the cost—its present | course may be desperate, but the ac- {tion is not taken hastily. As early in the war as December, 1014, Tirpitz and his followers sounded American sentiment preparatory to the U-boat | campaign, which began in February. | That campaign was given up because the U-boats could not. get,results suffi- cient to offset the "di i enemies of all neutral sary to wait in order hs better prepare—see the Chancellor’s speech, Feb. 1, 191%, He .tells us how deliberately the question was con- sidered from all sides, except the mor- al side. The effect upon neutrals has been carefully weighed and discount. ed—see the German press since set free by the censor. That decision once reached will not be withdrawn. The calculations may be wrong, but right or wrong they have been worked out to the last point and they will stand. Before this, kindly Americans thought that the chancellor was re- sisting the Tirpitz influence in the interests of humanity. We thought there was no more danger after the solemn promises in the Sussex affair, but it all vanishes into thin air when theU-boats are ready to unleash—see the chancellor's speech above referred |to and his previous utterances, “just {for a scrap of paper,” “necessity knows no law,” “we must hack our way through.” Savagery at sea is to continue and be intensified. For all this we must not blame the chancel- Jor and the German government alone, for they have but yielded to a public demand. Once in awhile we get a report that there is some internal dis- sension in Germany in regard to the | distribution of meat and vegetables, but note there is practically unanim- ity in regard to a ruthless conduct of the war. True, a small minority among the Socialists have protested, but they have been quickly silenced. All men would rather blame a govern- ment than a nation, but as time goes eaders’ ‘Column —| They seem to care no more for the lives of neutrals than for the lives of the non-combatants and less possible. killed by the wild, raids of their Zep- pelins. Their sole object seems to be to strike quick and strike hard. It is hard for Americans to understand this attitude of the German people— it is a feeling of enmity we have never known, though we fought one of the great wars of history, the Civil war, there was no such manifestation. It is the curse of militarism. The people have learned it from the mill- tary caste in the school of universal service. It is the way of militarists everywhere and in all ages. The best human nature is not proof against a bad education. They soon come to de- mand more and more savagery. It may awe for a time small nations, but it is doubtful if it can shorten this war between great combinations so evenly matched. History is replete with instances where excessive feroc- ity has but prolonged the war and left cankerous sores that were generations in healing. It is the attitude of the Vierecks and other German propa- gandists in this country and possibly (Mr. Leutz, who wrote in your paper February 12, has in his earlier years absorbed a certain amount of this mil- itary dogma. Certainly, according to him, Lord Northcliffe must be some newspaper owner, but I often*wonder if it is German money or the dogma absorbed by these hyphenates that is responsible for the German propagan- da in the United States. Perhaps it is both. In the case of ‘Mr. Leutz, 1 be- lieve it is the latter. J understand he brought little German money with him. He has made it here, under the protection of our government, and he is even now protected in the peace- able enjoyment ‘thereof. ‘Mr. Leutz intimates that patriotism. depends ups on economics. If that were true, he should be a good patriot, but patri- otism does not depend upon whether or not a man pays taxes—does a child love its mother more because she is tich or beautiful? True, as he says, the aggressions of England has inter- fered with our rights on the seas, as well as the aggressions of Germany. The two have run parallel since ihe war began, but one has far outsrippad on and tragedy after tragedy occurs this kindly distinction becomes less the other. England has injure’ us ii property rights, but Germany has ‘ak- | WhylAm In response to Secretary Keniston's} query, “Why Are You a Member of the Commercial Club? C. L. Young writes: February 10, 1917. Mr, Geo, N. Keniston, Secretary, Bismarck, North Dakota. a a Member future. No other single factor con- tributes so much to the steady prog- ress of the city. It is a clearing house of our common opportunities, advan- tages and needs, and furnishes an or- ganized vehicle for municipal achieve- ment.and publicity. The co-operation it evidences and begets is a prime es sential of community success. I con- sider my membership both a. privi- lege and a duty. ~ Yours very truly, fh". fen life. Property ‘or’ its: equivalent may be restored, ‘but'no morai power van: restore: life -to:the-victims of the savagery of Tirpitz and his follow- ers. No well informed person ever thought the European neutrals would follow the president's lead. They are too near to the seat of troubla ard the lesson meted out 1.» Belgium and Serbia is still fresh in their minds, but their silence is elonuent. Yes, it may be that their “views” at Hebron. are shared by great men; the writer has known Mr. ‘Bryan since 1887. Twenty-five years ago he was: consid- ered by the best minds at the Univer- sity of Nebraska a good man in many ways'.but a dreamer, visionary and impracticadle.. ,This.in the main ac- counts.for (thé fact that he could not carry his ‘home ward, the City of Lin- coln, or Lancaster county, and he now at this time is impractically doing the very thing that will hasten war. A8 to the other mere politicians he’ re- fers to as sharing their “views,” they are not to blame; they think this is the direction in which the wind blows, but I believe they are mistaken. I believe that when the test ecmes the majority of those of German origin will be loyal. Most of them have not absorbed military dogm3, many cf them are descendants of men who helped to establish our government in Revolutionary times and helped pow- erfully to save it under Lincoln and they will not now turn about and ce- stroy what they have he!pei to create{ —that is not the German way. Bypt this is not a time for argument and I do not write this for the ptrpose of entering into a controversy with Mr. Leutz or to criticize Mr. Gronna or Mr. Norton. The German. ambassa- dor was fair enough to say that !1¢9- ident Wilson could not have done oth- erwise than to have severed relations with Germany. It is the American way to back the president, giving him cvedit for cool and calm judgment and acting with wisdom upon information that we do not have. Truly, we du not want war. The constitution ha: given congress the power to declare war and we may rest assured that they. will no do it if it can be avoided—not in our country. That power vested in con gress by the cons.iiution should not be infringed upon. It is not the time for a referendum. ‘it is not a time to follow a weak aal vacillating ccutse. Respectfully yours, - §. R. THOMAS. SHOULD CONSIDER CONSE- QUENCES, Dickinson, N. D., Feb. 20, '17. Editor Bismarck Tribune: Observing the hot temper of J. E. Campbell in “attacking Mr. F. Leutz, I feel like paraphrasing Shakespeare with “Let’s hang a calfskin on their recreant limbs.” I know neither of these gentlemen, but I find that Mr. Leutz has spoken many an excellent word. The attitude of Mr. Campbell is not quite placid, although his pat- tiotism may be adventurous. To call @ man an agent of the kaiser of Ger- ™Many does not prove anything, and The burial place of the German hosts that fell just one year ago at Verdun was actually the birthplace, ten centuries before, of their own Ferman Fatherland! In the year 843 the three quarrel- some grandsons of Charlemagne con- cluded at Verdun a treaty for the di- vision of their grandsire’s vast holy Roman empire. A territory approxi- mately that of Germany today was the portion’ of one of them, called, “Louis the German,” while the second, Lothaire, got what is now called after him, Lorraine, and the third, Charles the Bald, received the country of the Franks, now France. Eut the German people had existed, of course, before this creation of a German nation. The Romans long be- fore Caesar knew the Germans as a savage race living across the Khine. This race had come in hordes from the east, perhaps from Asia. Their new neighbors in Europe called them the Germans, which meant “the Shout- ers,” but they have always known themselves simply as “The People,” which is what Deutschgn originally signified! ‘Always amazing in their efficiency in warfare, they first introduced them- selves to the (Romans, in 113 B. C., by invading Italy over the Alps, sliding down the snow-clad mountain slopes on their great shields! Another of the many wandering confederacies of this German race, the Franks, emigrated from Germany to Gaul, and mingling with the other Celtic aud Latin inhabitants, ceased to be Germans. They became the French, and Gaul, one of the world’s first melting pots, became France. These Franks, emerging from their primitive semi-civilization, were. unit- ed under one rule by Charlemagne, Tabloid History of Germany Empire Established at Verdun in 843 A. D., But People Broke’ Into History as Long Ago as 113 B. C. who later extended his power over the German tribes living across the Rhine, He was made emperor -by the pope, at Rome, in the year 800, and his empire, claiming the contin- uation of the old Roman empire, was the one which was divided by the treaty of Verdun among his grand- sons. If the old Roman empire had been invaded and harassed by many Ger- man tribes, such as the Vandals, Lom- bards and Goths, this new Germanic Roman empire was in turn assailed by another and even more savage race from the east, the Huns. The Huns continually swept over the eastern borders of the growing German nation, pillaging and slay- ing, but were finally crushed by Hen- ry the Saxon. He had been chosen emperor in 919, for the German em- perors were elected to office by their great vassals, or land-owning chief- tains. Otho the Great, the next emperor after Henry, united Italy to his own German realm, and thus the Gerdman king and the Roman emperor became one and the same. From this date, 955, until well into the 12th century, Germany’s history is one of treacher- ous and violent struggles between the successive emperors and the jealous vassals who elected them. For cen- turies to come German soll was divid- ed and drenched with blood because the emperors were’ continually obsess- ed with the old Romat/dredih of world empire, and fought ‘forpéwér abroad, neglecting the mainténance of order at home. Is eee? +’ (NOTE—Another’ short chapter of German history will appear in these columns tomorrow.) we possibly can. If we must lick somebody, let us be “impartial be- tween the provocators, and pitch onto both England and Germany and then history will probably justify our ac- tion. The poet said: “Hitch your wagon to a star.” Aye, what kind of star? The star of predestination ap- pears to move Mr. Campbell. But that star is too dim amidst the pres-! ent immense darkness. It seems to me that we are too late to accomplish anything in the present war, But if any one nation is seriously challeng- ing the sovereignty of the United States, it is Japan, and I would be in favor of a show-down in that quarter. Inasmuch as you have heretofore challenged the attitude . of Senator. Gronna, I cannot omit to say that Mr. Gronna may not, be. pole tq sing as. the most brilliant ‘of statesmen, but his; numerous .services to many indi- viduals of ‘this state have been cheer- fully and ably rendered; he has done a great, deal for the best interests of this state at all times, and disparage- ment is undeserved if he insists, upon remaining sane in the. present, crisis. Perhaps it is violating no con! idence to give some of his views contained in a letter. “T note carefully what you say with reference to our right to declare war. That is undoubtedly true, President ‘Wilson has the right’ under the con- stitution to sever diplomatic relations with Germany. but he has:no right to. declare war. That is left for congress to do, and while it was an act of wis- dom for the:framers: of the constitu- tion to leave the right of. declaring war to congress, it would have been better still if we had a provision pro- viding that it should be left to the people, by a referendum. When 1 think of the countless millions of the best blood of Europe who have been slaughtered during the last two years and a half; and also the destruction of property, and the billions of dol- Jars ’of debts placed upon the people, it makes me think that the people of this country, regardless of how intoxi- cated they may be with their own power.and strength, should consider the consequences of war before they énter into ‘it, “Temples.” LESSON FROM YESTERDAY. Medora, ‘N. D., feb#21, 1917. Editor Tribune, ma Dear Sir: The following, from the writings of the old, philosopher of the Stagmira, may be readable today: “He who proposes to duly manage any branch of economy should be well acquainted with the ‘locality in which he undertakes to labor, and should be naturally clever, and by choice indus- trious and just; for should any of these qualities be wanting. he will make many mistakes inthe business in which he intends to take in hand.” We should like to ask: Have the managers of our legislature the qual- ifications as indicated? Have they ever managed elevators, flour mills and packing plants? Have they ever managed a peanut stand with success, let. alone resources as great as those ofthe state of North Dakota? If these managers have not managed great fin- ancial enterprises, how are we to know that they have sufficient knowl- edge to place their stamp of approval on the laws to be passed by our legis- lature; laws which, if enacted. will take money from the individuals for what may be visionary schemes of their own? We are reminded of the following from the same philosopher: “Cypselus of Corinth made a vow to Zesus, that, if he should gain su- preme power in the state he would dedicate to the god all the property of the Corinthians. So he ordered them to give in a written list of it; and when they had done so. he took a tenth part from each individual, and ordered’ them to earn money with the remainder. And when the year came round again he did the same thing; and so in ten years the result was that he possessed every thing which he} had vowed to dedicate.” JAMES W. FOLEY. ANSWERS LEUTZ. Mandan, Feb. 16, 1917. Editor Bismarck Tribune. Dear Sir: In your issue of the 14th inst. I tead a lengthy statement’ from the, pen of F. Leutz, whose present ad- dress is Hebron. The whole of said epistie fe a tirade against this shows a mind still crude and animat- ed with prejudice. “We should stay out - 4 7 a SRSA TT ‘of this war, itleenete awe vyears-age: ‘America | ernment and her policies. Leuts is the same mas who said-in the Rot.a freeeountry; she {fs a tool, and 1s being ‘dictated to by the English.” Leutz was not returned to the senate, but was repudiated by his own people end his own political party. The peo- ple of Morton are loyal citizens of the United States of America. It comes with very bad grace, for men to be always finding fault with our government and condemning it. This government needs no praise from the pen of anyone. Her history is an open book that the down-trod- den of all countries can read. The man -who comes to your home and partakes of your hospitality and your favors day after day and year after year, all the time planning the ruin and the destruction of you, and. your home, must be ten thousand times more contemptible than the one, who detrayed with a kiss or the, one, who betrayed the Lord, for thirty pieces of silver, I justly found fay}t. ,with the sentiment that Leuts, ts, display- ing everywhere, and he comes back at me with personal abute-tham Ing that “no man ever felt the, halter draw with a good opinion of, the law.” Lineoln didn’t ask Grant in 1861 how much taxes he paid, and yet Grant did more for this country and the world at large than all the kats- ers and “Leutzes.” et eee “Leutz doesn’t care ‘so’ math “About peace. It is the kaiser that he is anx- Jous to save just now. He ks just now about England hofding ‘tip “our mail. T'wonder if he watts ‘to get word to the kalser? I hope nut, but it is quite evident that Leutz has the Kaiser's safety at heart, and why? He wants to know if I will go to war, if we have it? You bet your life, I’ll be right there keeping an eye on Leutz. I wonder if he ever heard of Henry Ford? Ford ts for peace without dis- honor, and {s ready to give all his vast wealth to the country he loves. Of course, we do not court, war, but we cannot accept peace with dishonor —never. But I do wish Leutz would stop throwing verbal bombs at this grand and just nation of ours. If we must have war, I sincerely hope that Uncle ‘Sam ‘will take treason by the throat“and-throttlé ft to death. I know-all the Germans here are loyal and true, but why shouldn't they be? No ‘goyerntyent on earth ever di@ as much for humanity and for everyons who comes.here, as this republic, and in return she only aske loyalty. 1 be- Neve it is the destiny of America to wipe out all kings and kaisers and have the peoples o athe world select their ‘own rulers.’>Yet“it come! 1 hope’ Leut#)?/witl2oebnivtsi again. 1 have behind me 100,000,000 Amert- cans with brave hearts and strong arms, and they are all dead in love with Uncle Sam—and have no use for king.or kaiser. We are still singing the same old song. Yours truly, J. &. CAMPBELL, Mohammedan Law Barred. Mohammedan law does not run ip England was decided by the lord chief Justice recently. Doctor Mir-Auwa- ruddin, a Mohammedan, and a member of the English bar, nfarried tn 1918, an English lady named Ruby Hood. After some time they separated, and the lady lived apart from her husband. The latter then began proceedings and ob- tained an order for‘ restitution of con- Jugal rights, but this was not complied with, and proceedings for divorce were then begun by the wife, but were dis- missed. Now, according to Mohamme- dan law, if the husband gives his wife a.“writing of divorcement,” or as it is called “Talak,” this constitutes a di- vorce. Mir-Auwarudding did this and then applied for a marriage license to enable him to marry again. This was Tefused,.and the lord chief Justice sit- ting with Justices Darling and Bray, upheld the refusal on the ground’that as the applicant was married in Eng- land under the English law, to an Eng- lish lady, the original marriage held good, and must be dissolved in an Eng- lish court of law. The religious law of the applicant was not recognized. ‘Special Holiday ‘Matinee at the Bis- Theatre tomorrow, at 3:00 p. the & Aeros Cae eeeeetnebers