The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1917, Page 4

r & € 1 € i RT rT ETS 17 BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE DOIN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1917. THE TRIBUNE Batered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N D., as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN thority to the limit and insist upon a ADVANCE Daily, by mail or carrier, per month ...... aeeiins age 500 | Daily, by mail, one year in | North Dakota ...... «+--+» -- 4.00) Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, one year . Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, three months. 1. 50) Daily, by mail in North Dakota | three months .........- ‘Weekly, by mail, per year . Member Audit Bureau of Circulation — THD BTATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) — LOCAL WEA For the 24 hour: noon, Feb. 26, 19 Temperature at Temperature at 12: yesterday . last night Precipitation’ ... Highest wind velo HER BULLETIN. | ending at 12:00,) sal 1 9 nC, . 1N Forecast. Till 7:00 p. m. Tuesday. i For North Dakota: Fair tonight} and Tuesday; slightly warmer in ex- treme west portion tonight. Temperature Calgary » —l4 Chicago 44 \ Kansas City 40 i Moorhead 4 Pierre .. 6 St. Paul Ww Winnipeg —l4 , St. Louis 60 | San Francisco . 46 i Helena . - 10 | Williston . - 12 | ORRIS W. ROBERTS, eteordlogist. | SPISISHSSSSSSCHG OS) oF Happy curcumstances in life | ” are like certain groups of %) trees. Seen from the distance %/ ® they look very well, but go up “) to them and among them, and oF * the beauty vanishes; you | * don't know where it. can be; it is only trees you see. And so it is that we often envy the lot of others.—Schopenhauer. OO ——Ee THE OVERT ACT. President Wilson went before Con- gress today to ask for authority to empower him to use the forces of the United States to protect Americaa tights on the high seas. At this: writing his message is not available, but if the chief executive outlines definitely his policy, Con- gress should back him to the limit. There is no reason now to saspect ‘but that ‘President Wilson will define clearly what this nation intends to do. The Tribune with Senater McCumber that Congr has a right to know the nature of the act that is going to plunge a nation into war, ‘Let there be no repetition of the Villa fiasco. President Wilson must define for Congress the “overt act” before pow- er is placed in his hands to plunge this nation into the world conflict. ‘Relations with Germany have been severed for several weeks and there has been no action on the part of the imperial government that would justi- fy a declaration of war. Destruction of contraband certainly can never pre- cipitate the “overt act’ which Wilson proposes to avenge. ‘Surely the sla ing of Americans who ship on bellig- erent armed merchantment in the ser- vice of the English admiralty is fot the ‘overt: act"? ty The Tribune trusts President Wil- ssoniwill make clear to the nation just what is going to constitute “the overt act,” so that it will be prepared for the worst. His message must be in clearer phrases than such memorable ones as “too proud to fight,” “Villa alive or dead,” and “peace without victory.” Let us have complete non-resist- ance rather than dabble in war. Now is the time to strike a vigorous key- note that will arouse the American people either to advisability of peace or to the extreme necessity of war. We trust President Wilson will cease Procrastination and let us know whether his “overt act” means peace or war. We fervently hope it means peace. We also most emphatically agree with Senator ‘McCumber that the ad- ministration should make it perfectly plain that this nation does not owe protection to American citizens who take passage on armed belligerent merchantmen in the service of the British admiralty. This crisis demands that every true American stand by President Wilson, but Congress must insist that if we; are dragged into war, the casus belli| be actual rather than academic. The United States is neither desir-! ous nor prepared for war. Before President Wilson is made absolute dictator of the situation, Congress should see to it that the “overt act” is one answerable only by war. If President Wilson intends to wage war as he did along the Mexican bor- der, Congress should withhold the au- thority. America has certain fundamental rights, in the defense of which she will be, evep-to the extremity of war. “Wilson must show his and untese ,to the nation and Gonsrone at this, : es a 3 oe SONS agrees DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY | rights, | “overt act” is to be. checks upon the executive in the as. sumption of such a grave responsi-| | bility as a declaration of war or the} |use of armed force to defend national} Congress should exert its au-| clear, concise definition of what the Once Congress realizes that the} and integrity of the nation is} ake it will confer the authority ; ked by Wilson and the American | people will stand by him as they aia! when he severed relations with Ger-| safe! ——— | Pacifism covers a multitude of sins. ! ———— | TRIUMPH IN HOLES. H Let us hope for the best. War may be awful, but it has forced ovr agri-; cultural department to leara how to! make the holes in Swiss ch ! Imported Swiss cheese } been | bringing from 75 cents to $1 the pound | with most of the grocertes and deli-! catessens without any. Swiss cheese has been made in th untry, Dut the makers couldn't create the loles which give the peculiar flavor. Now! Assistant Secretary Vrooman has pre duced the holes, but doggone it! he; doesn't tell how. Is it possible that, we are to have a government censor-, ship on our cheese? 20) | No country in Europe can stump us, | even when it comes to food riots. ! FOOLING WITH DYNAMITE. A grocer’s boy in Brooklyn had a wireless telegraph apparatus and amused himself one night by sending} out the urgent call for help, S. 0. S.| A revenue cutter picked it up ati sea, and shot it into Washington,|! which, relayed it instantly to all the| other revenue cutters and many other | ships. For many days thereafter the; cutters and others went patroling up| and down the coast from Maine to The Moths and the Flame! _ i ty Tt CAN'T BE sworteo f out! Florida, looking for the vessel in dis- tress. Yes. And every time anybody sug: gests that a device of such unlimited | chances for mischief and disaster should not be allowed in any hands but the government's a chorus of simps in Congress sends up the cry that this would never do because it would be a concession to the deadly doctrine of “government control.” The curse of Congress is the cuckoo; ‘bird, perched ona seat and mechan- ically repeating things he knows nothing about. fl To allow anybody to store unlimit- ed explosives anywhere he pleased would be wisdom compared with our present pattice of leaving wireless telegraphy in private hands. But nothing short of a catastrophe will pound that into the timber heads of the cuckoo tribe. —e Missouri woman shot for refusing a-kiss. We'd rather be shot than kiss some people we know. LIMIT TO CENSORSHIP A censorship ‘bill has been drawn by the argy general staff which that) body proposes to rush through Con- gress upon any declaration of war, and we take occasion to declare that bill to be Prussian, autocratic and al- together devilish. Our “war college,” which would pe as undemocratic and autocratic as any similar body on earth, if it dared,; proposes this bill with particular ref-} erence to those newspapers which, in| event of the war, might attempt to) criticize the conduct of the war, those | | newSpapers which “by their editori and presentation of news may sway | {the people against the war and thus by adverse criticism tend to destroy the efficiency of the military agen- | cies.” | | We rather imagine that the newspa-; pers are not to be muzzled in any: war during this century. The navy | and army departments now have com-| plete censorship on purely military information, It may be right and nec-| essary for our “war college” to control ; the giving out of facts. Suppression | of editorial opinion on conduct of; a war is an entirely different mat-/ ter. It is plain rape of constitutional rights and a thing to be combatted | by every publisher who has a kilowatt} of courage and a soul of his own. H No, we guess we'll have no war con- | ducted by a little war college, uncrit!- pears. In six weeks this vine covers the whole place closer than a second mortgage. It will climb over the gar- age and rip up drainage pipes on the other side. It will sneak into your basement window and lay little squashes in the furna¢e. It will creep into flower or vegetable beds and wring the necks of everything there- in. It will climb trees and rob birds’ nests. It loves to cling along wooden fences And rdt’ them down in one sea- son: True, this vine bears a -multitude of little chayotes, and even the roots en by ved greasers when they've consumed all tne grass that’s available. Cut those fittle ashes up fine, add red peppers, wads of gar- lig and something to eat, stew for an hour, and you have a dish to put on the table until you get through. Con- sidering labor, fuel and blasphemy, anybody who goes after chayote as cheap and palatable food is sure headed towards anguish of soul. are A PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE, No man is too great or too humble to escape his hour of trial. To every man comes a time when [his mind, reason and will crumple be- fore the situation, when he echoes j the cry of the Psalmist, “The sor- rows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: f found trouble and sorrow.” Then, if a man is to make a su js of his life, he must have some kind of a philosophy of living. ‘Some just average men live by a ; philosophy and do not know it. Wise v. men grow up on farms, in mines and factories, as well as in libraries. Their fellow workers turn to them in- stinctively in every cris’ And some men have a philosophy of life and do not live by it. A man ‘may observe all the rites of a religion without ever finding a relation be- tween them and the events of his life. Education and culture are often looked on as substitutes for a religion. But these are no more than vaude- ville stunts which will take a man’s mind from his worries without re- lieving them. Not all philosophies of life are good. Some of them get bad men into high places. The grafting politician, the exploiter of the people, the business man who “does” the other fellow, live by a creed, although a bad one, cized, unhonored and unhung. Sec- retary Baker ought to whisper a few | kind words into the ears of his gen-| eral staff. It may save a lot of yell- ing later on. NO, THANK YOU! | In kindly leading us up to the! trough of cheap foods, such as “pov-! erty soup,” dogfish saute, alfalfa and such, Gilson Gardner, our Washington | correspondent, particularly outlines! for us the beauties of the chayote,| and here’s where we have to quarrel! with Gilson. The chayote is not a/ new kind of winter vegetable, cannot | be produced cheaply and it has never yet been cooked to successfully com- pare with ordinary boiled or fricaseed lawn grass, in our experience. To| be sure, as Brother Gardner says, it “can be creamed, pickled or made into salad. It sure can. So can Canadian thistles or the good old-fashioned net- tle bush. The chayote comes into America from ‘Mexico, looking like a squash. You put the whole squash in the and get what they go after, although it may be worthless. Meanwhile the excellent man who drifts without any defined motive gets nowhere. He waits for his big op- portunity to turn up; he expects to meet his great emergency without preparing for it. This has never been done since time began. Psychologists that the hero who wins a Carnegie medal does not become a hero in a moment; he lives daily in that attitude toward life, though his neighbors never suspect it. As we all meet today’s common- place duties, so we will fail or suc- ceed in tomorrow's great adventure, endure its sorrows, or break under its burdens. But we will never succeed or fail vy chance. The human will requires fuel, just as the body needs food, or an engine coal. In a philosophy :or a- religion men find a fuel supply for the will. “His heart is established, he shall not be afraid.” . , say ‘The question of who owns Alsace, France or Germany, which is sure to be one of the great issues of the peace conference at the end of the present European war, was first made acute between France and ( settlement of the Thirty Ye over two and one-half centur It took four years of negotiations before the powers were able to out a peace after the Thirty Y war, and their/Aagreement, called the Peace of Westpahlla, provided that France should possess ‘Mets, Verdun, Toul-and Alsace in p y. In addition, the religious dissen sions of Germany were for the time settled by this peace, and the pri of Germany were made practically in- dependent of the emperor. The map of Germany now like a huge, jumbled. j with 300 petty, pring’ of claiming independence, cach its own laws, ci courts, Moreover, the Peace of Westphali Save theme principalities the right to make independent alliances with oth- er powers, Germany looked now a name only, or at most, a vle confederation. The German soil, moreover, had been utterly devastated by the three decades of war, from 1618 to 1648 during which period huge armies had j lived off the land and fought over it. Moreover, all German trade and in dustry had been ruined, and this gave France an immense advantage in gain- Tabloid History of Germany | Nation Divided ard Blood-Drenched e Sees New Hope in Rise of Prussia! in Seventeenth Century ing complete supremacy in the arts and sciences, in commerce and indus- try, omy, time, one hope s future dawned, This famous ;, [ohenzollern, kk of ‘Nuremberg, . years before ad been given charge of the, north- fern provinca of Brandenburg. in 1411, and his successors, pital was Berlin, had con- od Prussia, their neighbor to the This whole territory, combined Y finally be- , and develop- |ed a fierce, independent national spir- lit, IU became one of the largest. and | most powerful of the states, of Ger- many. Austria, with the Hapsburgs at. its , for a whole. century following devoted its attention chiefly to the Turks and to ambitious in Italy, leaving’Germany in disorder nd at the mercy of foreign aggres- ‘ion. Although the Austrian Hapsburgs were nominally rulers of the whole }empire. which included the, multitud- inous German states, Austria seemed actually to side with France, against these very German states! Fearing that the growing size and power of P: 2 would imperil Aus- trian leadership the Hapsburgs frown- Fed on Pru ‘The following two centuries proved | how well founded were these Austrian fears of the rising Prussian power. OFS ep en | SUPREME COURT i FROM ROLETTE COUNTY. H. F. Strehlow, Plaintiff and Respond- ent, vs. Edward EF. Fee and May Fee, his wife. C..G. Conn Company, a foreign cor- poration, Rockford Silver Plate Company, a foreign corporation, and W. J. Dyer & Bro., a foreign corporation, Defendants and Appel- lants. Syllabus: (1) The trial.court may, on a mo- tion to strike out a demurrer to an amended complaint on the ground that such amended complaint merely restates a former-one to which a de- murrer has been sustained, review the correctness of the adjudication on the former demurrer, and if erroneous, correct his error, if» such demurrer was improperly sustained. (2) Where the purchaser of land and of two prior: mortgages, which are liens upon the same release such mortgages through a mistake of fact and in the belief that there are no judgment liens against said propery, he will afterwards be allowed to can- cel said releases and to reinstate and to foreclose said mortgages on dis- covering subsequent judgment liens, provided that the owners of such liens have not, by his prior action, been in- duced to change their position and have not lost any substantial and ma- terial rights. A (3) Where the owner of land, who, in order to protect his title, “has pur- chased a prior’ mortgage, seeks to set aside a release of such mortgage which he has executed through a mis- take of fact and in ignorance of the existence of other judgment liens, and the owners of such ‘liens’ have not been induced by such action” to. change their position or to lose their material rights, the question is one of mistake and not of negligence, and he will not be precluded from the right to cancel such release and to fore- close the said mortgage by the mere fact that he relied upon an abstract and. did not search the records in or- MME. OLGA Who appears at the Orpheum Theatr Wonderpla: in‘five supreme acts. PETROVA i : e Tonight in “Extravagance,” a Metro World Faces Famine Crops Fail Twice in Two Years | | As Wheat | By BASIL M. MANLY, | Washington, Feb. 26.—Reports from | every part of the world indicate grave | danger of a short wheat crop for the | coming year. On top of the great fail- ure of last year this would bring the! | entire world close to famine. In Russia, next to the United States the greatest wheat growing country, } | cold weather prevails with only a | light snow covering to protect the | seed, Asa result the outlook for win- ter crops there is not good, and at the |same time the stocks on hand are only moderate and the consumption | for food has been unusually heavy. | In France, the fourth largest wheat | producer, the winter is said to be the severest since 1803, with only light snow covering for the crops, as the | present low temperatures followed re- cent rains. The smallest crop in ‘years is therefore expected. | The Balkan states will certainly | Produce no surplus grain this year, ; for not only are these countries rav-; | aged by war and crippled by a scarc- | ity of labor, but the season has been | delayed by wet, cold weather. In Italy the weather has been bad— ;cold and wet, with little snow, and | the national stocks are so small that | foreign buying is very heavy. | In Australia, where the seasons are | the reverse of ours, harvesting is said ito be slow, and it is wet over a very; j large area. As a result the crop esti- mates are being reduced millions of | bushels. ; In the United States extreme cold |has endangered the winter . wheat, | which throughout the .great wheat | belt has had only a very light or no | snow covering, The crop experts are unanimous in predicting the Ameri- can winter wheat crop will be below normal, although a greater area was planted this year than ever before. This situation is rendered perilous because the failure of last year in practically all crops all over the world will bring us and other coun- tries up to the harvest with practi- cally no wheat in storage, while in normal years there is a surplus on hand at the beginning of the harvest of 250,000,000 bushels or more. The United States alone ordinarily comes to the harvest with 75,000,000 bushels in the storage elevators or in the far- mers’ barns, And the danger is being daily in- creased by the submarine campaign. Every grain ship that is sunk, car- ries down with it thousands of tons of wheat, which is lost forever. No one can estimate even how much wheat is being lost in this way, but there is no question that it is great enough to reduce appreciably the meagre supply now on hand. Fortunately there is a way out, if the agricultural population can be aroused to the gravity of the situa- tion. The spring wheat is still to be planted, and if all the available area is planted, there will be enough to save the day. Every farmer that cares anything about his country and incidentally about the chance of big profits which this almost certain failure of the win- ter wheat crops opens to him—will plant in wheat every acre of ground that is tillable. He will plant close to the fences and fn the corners, in or- der that not a foot of ground that can raise’wheat will be idle. !der to ascertain the true condition of affairs. Action to cancel the release of cer- tain mortgages and to foreclose the | same. Appeal from the District Court of Rolette County. C. W. Buttz, J. Judgment for Plaintiff. Defendants lappeal. Affirmed. Opinion of the Court by Bruce, C. | Henry G. Middaugh and Rollo F. ‘Hunt of Devils Lake, N. D., Attorneys for Plaintiff and Respondent. Fred KE. Harris of Rolla, N.,D., At torney for Defendants and Appel- lants, 0 = | WITH THE EDITORS A ——— | THE EXPANDING MANN ACT. (Chicago Tribune) The Mann act, having been approv- ed by the Supreme court as a legiti- mate application of the commerce clause’ of the constitution, seems now about to enter upon a new and broad- er career of usefulness. An Ohio clergyman, having heard that a dancer, imported from Chicago by the local commercial club to en- liven one of its festivities, comported herself in a manner disapproved by him, asks for a prosecution under the Mann act. He declares a the lady was transported interstate for an i moral purpose—namely, the exhi tion of an indecent dance. The clergyman’s demand is strictly according to the celebrated statute, and since the supreme court has held that its broad phraseology is within the scope of the commerce clause we see no reason why public prosecutors should not set to work at once to gath- er in new offenders by the score, For example, Pavlowa wears the conventional ballet dress which, while its revealments may seem innocuous in New York or Chicago, may be to the pious mind of a Kansas commun- ity highly objectionable. If she is transported to Topeka and then danc- es the Dying Swan, although we may think it nobly beautiful, the Kansas conscience may brand ft immoral. In such case a Kansas prosecutor may contend with force that she has been transported across a state (line for an immoral purpose. Re | Card playing is deemed highly im- moral by many worthy individuals. Hence a lady crossing from one state to another to indulge her evil propen- sities at a bridge tournament would be transported for an immoral pur. (pose, and ought to be prosecuted un- der thé’ Mann act. fs Music at divine worship is consid- ered demoralizing to the réligious spirit by some few purists. Import- ing a church soprano or even a basso would seem to be well within the Mann act from this point of view. Thus this statute if consistently and rigidly enforced should soon raise the whole population of the country to the moral standards of the impec- cable few. Undoubtedly this was the far-seeing purpose of the reformers who framed its inclusive language. Enforcing private moralities by this masterful method will bring about the millennium in short order. MME. PETROVA TONIGHT Are you extravagant? Are your ex- penses greater than your income? If they are, what will become of you and your loved ones in the future? All of these questions are strik- ingly answered in the great Metropo- Popular Plays and Players produc- tion, “Extravagance,” with Mme, Pe- trova as the star, which will be seen here at the Orpheum theater tonight only. The play deals with a father and his daughter who fetter themselves by their own extravagance. The father commits forgery. The daughter's suitor, an estimable man, is dragged into the maelstrom of financial ruin. From beginning to end the play is a powerful lesson, and it is filled with dramatic situations, Probably no other star could have thrown into the part of Norma Rus- sell, the daughter, more realism than has Mme. Petrova, who held a high social position in England and there was enabled to observe the extrava- gance of many titled folk, In Amer- ica, too, she encountered extravagance among society people, whose real wealth probably could not be reckon- ed in more than four figures. Yet these social spendthrifts were strug- gling desperately to maintain what they considered “a position of promi- nence’? among multi-millionaires, “Extravagance” is one of the most powerful motion picture dramas of the season. Does the lesson found in it apply to you? See it and give your own answer, 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 Day, 25c. LYNCHING FOR FOOD BUREAU HEADS SUGGESTED. Mass feeding is projected in Berlin, it seems, which rouses the Taegliche Rundschau to violent protest: “What are we to eat? As if exist- ing conditions were not bad enough, signs are now evident that food diffi- culties are about to be further accen- ‘tuated. “Little by little the popular belief is spreading in Berlin that this will be-arranged according to a pre- conceived official plan to mold the population into“ acceptance of the mass feeding proposals. “We respectfully but energetically ask the authorities to spare us from such schoolmaster drill tactics. Let them tell us honestly what they want of us, and we shall yield to the in- evitable as we have already yielded to so many privations. Unreasonable hardships, however, no noble heart will bear, not even the noble and pa- tient heart of the German people. “The conditions in Berlin have be- come utterly unreasonable during the last few days. Unreasonable and intol- erable. Would that we could for once take a lesson from the Americans and lynch a few of the bureaucratic wise- acres who seem to have nothing bet- ter to do than to think out more im- possible ordinances and regulations regarding the requirements of our stomachs. What Is Goingon in Germany As Told by the Newspapers We Receive from the Teutonic Empires Vossische Zeitung, “the war committee has taken active ures. usury meas- , ‘It proved four wholesalers had combined to buy all available sup- plies and stop competition. Three wagons consigned to these Berlin firms were seized, and the geese, val- ued at $40,000 handed over to the au- thorities to be sold in central market. “Similar action has been taken re- garding certain erat supplies.” se WAR: ECONOMY BOARDS. TO FACILITATE FARMING. Vossische’ Zeitung of Berlin an- nounces the creation in each Prus- sian province of a “war economy board,” which will supply labor, hors- es, farming implements and coal to facilitate agricultural production. rae HOHENZOLLERN ARBITRATION DEMANDED IN BAVARIA. A socialist paper published in the German language in neutral Switzer- land—the Zurich Volksrecht—men- tions an organization known as the “Association of Men of South Ger- many” which is circulating, surrepti- ously, a pamphlet calling for the ab- dication of the Hohenzollern house as “We can really. bear-no further ad- ditions to them.” WHOLESALERS ATTEMPT = ‘A.CORNER.IN GEESE! © “In ordet to. stop usdrious practice-, of dealer: ine es Bee emperors of-the empire, The Volksrecht thie’ move- ment is. wi Bay and ‘other South A writer ‘in. the . oot