The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1917, Page 4

‘as is this Russian revolution in its FOUE' BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE | TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1917. © THE TRIBUNE @ntered at. the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Becond Clase Matter. (88UED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY | GUBSCRIPTION RATHS PAYABLE IN| ADVANCE Daily, by mail or carrier, DOr month ..,.......eeeeeer. $ 60 Daily, by mail, one year in North Dakota 4.00 Daily, by mail o North Dakota, one year .,... 6.00 Melly, by mail outside of i North Dakota, three months. 1.60 Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months ......... « 1,25 ‘Weekly, by mail, per year . 1.50 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation — HQ STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Sad LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at noon, March 20 1917: Temperature at 7 a. m. . Temperature at noon Highest yesterday . Lowest last night - Precipitation Highest wind velocity 22 Forecast. | For North Dakota: Generally fair} tonight and Wednesday; not much; change in temperature. { Calgary .- Chicago Kansas City - Pierre St. Paul Moorehead . Winnipeg - St. Louis . San Francisco . Helena ... Williston .-. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. PHOSPHO SSS SH HOOD To live is not merely to & breathe, it is to act—Rous- & sean, * OY ee —E : STRIKE SETTLED. Goneral relief is felt throughout the nation over the settlement of the strike. The increased wage burden doubless will be absorbed in time by; an increase in freight rates. As usual the ‘people in the final analysis will pay;the price of victory. At present writing the features of the supreme court decision upholding the validity of the Adamson eight-hour Jaw are not available. The decision ‘wag very close. It is fortunate that the wage con- troversy has heen settled before the internaional crisis becomes graver and \-acual hostilities’ are upon us. Time only will demonstrate the val- ue of the Adamson law. The conces- sion, of course, was made by the rail- roads before. the decision was an- nounced .and the settlement would have been effective whether the court upheld the Jaw or not. These decisions will be read with great interest throughout the nation. The legalizing of the eight-hour prin- ciple and the wage regulations surely marks an epoch in our economic evo- lution. Future developments under this ruling are awaited with more than ordinary intere: Last wooden sleeping cars are hound for the junk pile. But it’s just as hard to sleep in the steel ones. WHAY IT MEANS. The Russian revolution is fraught with such tremendous possibilities not only for the ‘Russian people, but} for the world, that one hesitates to at- tempt to interpret its significance with such meager information as we have at this writing. It seems to be certain that the peo- ple in the great centers of population driven to desperation by hunger, start- ed the revolutionary fires which spread to the duma and the army. Within the brief space of a few days, with a minimum of fighting and blood- shed, the czar and his autocratic gov- ernment were driven from power and a provisional government was estab- lished by the co-operation of the peo- ple’s representatives in the duma and the army. All the news indicates that the rev- olution was complete; that there is little chance of a counter-revolution by the autocracy; that the most cruel despotism in the world has crumbled into dust. A week ago the czar’s power was absolute over nearly 200,000,000 hu- man beings, a power inherited from a long line of ancestors. He wielded this power through cor- rupt and unscrupulous nobles and_bu- Teaucrats, without consulting the in- terests or the ‘wishes of the people. Today the czar has no more power than the humblest Russian _ citizen; many of the nobles and bureaucrats are either dead, in prison or fugitives. Isn't it wonderful? And: yet wonderful and significant od ‘relation to the future of the great Rus- sian people, its chief .importarice, as we interpret it, is the effect it will have on the world war. While the proximate cause of the revolution was the people’s hunger, the real cause was the knowledge which had ‘come to them that their \a separate peace despotic rulers were in a conspiracy to betray them by making a separate The poleon of German intrigue ha@|on frogs. We suppose New Jersey every governmental and industrial ac- tivity, including the high command of the army and navy and the de- partments upon which devolved the responsibility of furnishing arms, munitions and supplies. The Russian people, as brave, as self-sacrificing as any péople in the world, were being crucified upon the crosses of Russian absolutism, They were mere pawns in the game of kings by divine right—the ‘Russian czar, It looks as thongh the conspiracy had been given its death blow and that under the leadership of thelr representatives in the duma the Rus-| sian people are now free to give to} their allies the full weight and) | strength of their support. | It is Impossible to overestimate the} importance of this from the stand-| point of Great Britain and ‘France. Ever since the beginning of the war} the western allies have had to base their strategy upon the possibility of n treachery, | sar that at a critical moment | ssia would betray them and make! wih Germany has! haunted every British and French statesman. : | It has been a situation full of peril,} not only for the Allies, but for the rest of the non-German world. If the revolution in Russia is as} complete as the early reports indi-| cate, it is without doubt the most | important single event since the war.) began, As a victory for the people over! kings and nobles it may well take its! place in history with the American revolution and the French revolution In many of its aspects it is a great er victory than either of them. A sixth of the land surface of the earth with a population of nearly 200,000,000, is involved. And not the least important possi- bility which this revolution opens up} for speculation is its effect on the Ger-; man people. i When the people of France had tc decide between food and kings the French revolution was the answer. Hunger finally drove the people of Russia to desperation and the Rus- sian revolution was the wer. | i | Well, here's one real preparedness measure. They're calling on New York police to guard the harbor forts. ENGLAND AND FREE TRADE. ‘The war-has opened England's eyes to the evila of ffee trade. Lloyd George’s land policy’ will lay a new foundation forrural, England. Great Britain had enjoyed for years a sort of cushioned delusion that peace would last forever. Practically no at- tempt was made to encourage intensi- fied farming. Free trade made the tillage of the soil an uncertain and precarious business. Under the paralyzing economic po?- icies, the farm lands of the British Isles have deteriorated to the stage of grass pasture and even lower. Rural population dwindled away and cities became crowded with the result that the standard of living de- creased and poverty and squalor in- creased. Since 1842, agricultural production f. in the United Kingdom began to de crease steadily under free trade, Eng land during these years ignored the food problem, depending almost en j tirely upon her ship bottoms to feed/| her millions. The war has revealed to Englan: | the necessity of utilizing every ava able acre in the production of food | In 1842 the island of England was nearly self-sufficing. In bountiful| years nine-tenths of the wheat requir: | ed was raised on English soil. These figures are significant: Wheat Consumption of the U. K. | Year Home Produce Imported 1842 22,000,000 Qrs., 2,970,000 Qrs. | 1914 7,300,000 Qrs. 29,220,000 Qrs. | In commenting on this situation, the London Observer says: “It is not in this generation, but only in the next, that the soil, the population and the country can reap the full benefit. We are laying the | foundations for a new structure of so- | ciety on the land. Wide regions in the counties have long since been} drained of the very best of their hu- man obreed.. Low wages, dullness, serfdom in almost everything but name, drove the stronger natures to the towns or overseas. Those who remained are in many parts so de- pressed, enfeebled, bullied, so broken in spirit that it will take time to nourish and hearten them until they become again the men and workers they ought to be. But the minimum wage and its consequences will do it For our part, we see in all this more social compensation for the strang: evil of the war than in anything that has yet happened.” Many food stuffs are cheaper in “blockaded” England than in our country. Our policy is to club the rioters. —_—— Tammany unanimously declares it- self ready to fight. It is enough. On} with the war, with Tammany in the front trenches! DOINGS OF THE DUFFS. IT LOOKS AS THOUGH DANIEL DUFF WOULD BE HEAD O F THE HOUSE. N SAY, HELEN, 1D NY LIKE To HAVE SOME You WI OF THE BOYS over |-To SLE AND PLAY A UTTLE DokER TONIGHT (E SHOWN THE FIR. SLEEP ag F NOW AND THS CHILD HASN'T ; ST SIGN OF | PLL AGREE To Tir Li, ROCK, DANIEL EP FIRST=<, i Y Uy Ver! MM YH WY Up By Allman Rock -A-BYE - BABY IN THE ‘TREE TOP A TWIN BOARDS OF REGENTS GATHER Continued from page 1. Crawford of the old board. “So far as we know only routine matters will come up. We are, of course prepared for eventualities,” : About Ladd’s Job. All of the members of the old board present at the capitol this morning strenuously denied reports which have been published in the State € ter at New Rockford and els to the effect that the regents hi been on a still hunt*for a suitable add, as presi- college, kind have been to time for the id former Gover- City. “Their only purpose seems to have been the stir- ring up of trouble. | think it is safe that any institution head who who attends to busi- s the present t of the agri “Reports of this published from time last. two yea nor White of V Silent. for the new While commiss board imember, } filed with the secrelary. of state last evening, they were not nm out until this aft noon.” ‘This morning the governor's secretary denied any knowledge of the fact that’ the commissions had been made out and filed. The board apparent, however, was confident its Blanche Duffield Sings Prima Donna Role in “The Princess Pat’’ Production MISS BLANCHE DUFFIELD AND “HER FRIEND.” Miss Blanche Duffield, who is winning success in the’ prima donna role of the new Herbert-Blossom comic opera, “The Prin- cess Pat,” has won her way from a New England farm to her pres- ent high position on the stage, following serious study and concen- tration from childhood. Her parents sent her to Boston when she was nothing more than a slip of a girl, and placed her under the tutelage of Miss Rose Stewart, the well known vocal instractor of that city. Her first professional venture was as soloist with John Phillip Sousa, which covered a period of two years. She was next engaged for a tour with Victor Herbert and his orches- tra. Then followed a season with the Whitney Opera company’s New York has proposals for a cat tax; and one legislator wants a tax wilt tax mostuitoes, now, and San Francisco place a on fleets. _ production of “Baron Trench,” in the leading role. She was next engaged for the season of grand opera at the Centary theater, New York. She was then engaged by sing the sig donna role with val - 1 Manager William A. Brady to De Wolfe Hopper-in the all-star the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Under the Aborn gang the principal roles in “The Pirates of Pen- re manage! it she zanee, ““Pinalere, “The Mikado,” and “The Beggar Stadent.” commissions would be issued this af- ternoon, PREPAREDNESS IN FULL SHING TO MEET (Continued from page one) cient officers for training of seamen. To Outline Policy, President Wilson. is expected to out- line the real status of the relations between: the United States and Ger- many within 24 hours, as his first im- mediate step in preparing for possible and even probable hostilities between this country and Germany. A state of war now exists between the two countries, it is generally believed. Complete truth of the Germon govern* ment’s latest broad affront is before the government. The toll of the Ger- man ruthlessness in, two weeks is four American ships and more than a score of American lives sacrificed in utter disregard of this country’s flag. Telegrams are pouring into the White House demanding war. Pacifists throughout the country for the first time are now conspicuously silent. Your visit to the Twin Cities will be more enjoyable if you stop at this Famous Hostelry. Excellent Cuisine. Hotei Radisson, Minneapolis; 409 Rooms—$2.75 at $1.50 to $2.50, 5T4@ 58% No. 3 White Oats to arr .. BT%@ 59% No. 4 White Oats Barley ..... 96 @i16 Barley Choice 116 @124 Rye .... 158 @159 Rye to arr - 158 @159 Flax .... 287% @295%% Flax to arm 287%4@294% a 187% y 181% @181% September + 149%: ST. PAUL. $14.25@14.60; bulk $14.40@14.50;. CATTLE—Receipts 800; __ killers, strong; steers $5.50@11.50; cows and heifers $6.00@9.00; calves, steady, $5.00@12.50; stockers and feeders, slow to weak, $4.00@8.50. SHEEP—Steady; lambs $8.00@ $14.25; wethers $6.00@11.00; ewes $5.50@11.25. CHICAGO, HOGS—Receipts 7,000; firm; bulk $14.80@15.10; light $14.20@ 15.00; mixed $14.55@15.15; heavy $14.55@ 15.20; rough $14.55@14.70; pigs $10.60 @13.50. - CATTLE—Receipts 2,000; strong; native beef steers $9.25@12.65; stock- ers and feeders $6.70@9.80; cows and heifers $5.75@10.85; calves $10.25@. 14.50. SHEEP—Receipts _ 10,000; . wethers $11.20@12.70; lambs: $ @15.10. at oO | - GRAIN MARKETS 4 0. MINNEAPOLIS No. 1 Hard .. ++ 208% @204% No. 1 Northern .. - 193% @197% No. 1 Northern Choice .. 20194@203% Regular to arr .. - 191% Choice to arr .. - 199% No. 2 Northern + 189% @199% No. 3 Wheat .- » 183% @193% No. 2 Mont. Hard ...... 195%1@97% No. 2 Mont. Hard to arr 193% @195% . 1 Durum ...- . 196 No. 1 Durum Choice ~ 204 @206 No. 1 Durum to arr «196 Choice to arr + 206 No. 2 Durum 191 @201 No. 3 ellow Corn 111 @112 No. 3 ellow Corn to arr. 110 @112_ | Other Grades Corn 104 @111% No. 4 Yellow Corn .-... 109 @111 . 2 White Mont. 64%4@ 65% . 3 White Oats .. 58%@ 59% HOGS—Rec 5 ste ; Receipts 950; steady; ee magisttate of the city of Bismarck at Capitol News RAIL COMMISSION WILL HANDICAPPED THROUGH LACK OF RATE EXPERT Important Hearings Planned Can Accomplish Little Without | Technical Aid The real “inside dope” on the Non- partisan. league's persistent effort | during the recent legislative session {to place on North Dakota’s statute books laws which would have thrown | the rail tariff situation in the state in- to a chaotic condition, with its subse- ‘quent campaign for the nullification lof the state railway commission j would, it is believed, furnish the big story of the decade if it could be un- {earthed and handed the public. | The state railway commission, de- |prived of Secretary Cushing and | Rate Expert James A. Little, retained ; but one employe who has had any pre- vious experience with rail matters, Harry Clough, chief clerk. Governor Frazier lets Little out on the very eve | of a series of important rate hearings announced by the commission for larger shipping centers in the state. {It is true that Mr, Little’s job holds | good until July 1, but it will be a | physical impossibility for him to dis- | pose of all the work planned in three | months’ time. of vital importance to livestock ship- | pers, involving every live stock rate announced for mid-summer will find North Dakota without a rate. expert to represent the state; an investiga- | tion of the distribution of cars to ele- | vator companies. involving important | changes in present interstate com- !merce commission rulings, and other {extremely important problems which | the commission has had under con- sideration must be handled without expert technical Bavice, NEW TUTTLE CHURCH, A charter was issued yesterday to the Scandinavian Lutheran church of Tuttle, incorporated by O. J. Oftedahl, John Riskedah! and Andrew G. Olson, | BIG CASE ARGUED. Arguments were made in supreme court yesterday in the Patterson {Land Co.—George W. Lynn ca: in which Emmons county property val- ued at more than $100,000 is involved. The case comes to supreme court once more on an appeal by Lynn for a-re- hearing. se 8 VELVET FOR STATE, Almost $4,000 in back taxes from private car line companies reached the office of State Auditor Kositzky yesterday.. One check was for $2,900, the largest amount received to date from a single private car company, and another-item was for’ $800. Taxes. due from this source extend over a period of five years. * ee IN GRAND FORKS. First Assistant Attorney General.H. A. Bronson and Insurance Commis- sioner A. S. Olsness left today for Grand Forks, where they will appear in behalf of the state insurance com- mission tomorrow in the hearing on the petition for the dissolution of.the Northern Fire & Marine Insurance company. *_ * NEW INSURANCE €0, The Northern States Fire Insurance Co., which, it is understood, is to take over the business of the defunct Nor- thern Fire & Marine Insurance Co. of Grand Forks, received a charter from the secretary of state yesterday upon paying the usual incorporation fee. The company is capitalized for $100,000, and the incorporators are As a result, a hearing | ‘existing in the northwest, which the; |interstate commerce commission has! Grant Robinson Harvey, T. Daniels and Harold Johnson of Minneapolis, and Eugene Fretz, Jr. William H. Brown, F. W. Schlaberg and Tracy R. Bangs of Grand, Forks. 80,058 ACRES OF NEW LANDS PLACED ON ROLLS IN M’KENZIE IN 1916 pay North Dakota’s wild lands are fast being settled. A complete list of the new taxable Innds_ placed on_ the state’s rolls in 1916 which has been prepared by State Auditor Kositzky, shows that 80,058 acres were added in McKenzie county alone last year. Mor- ton, with 40,237 came second in amount of new taxable acreage; Wil- liams, with 35,241, ranked third, while Billings, with 31,475; Dunn, with 31,- 818; Mountrail, with 30,496, and Di vide, with 23,241, were other heavy contributors. The smallest amount of new acreage added by any county in the state was 38 in Barnes. In all 405,913 acres of new taxable lands may be credited to 1916—a year which was not particularly notable for im- migration or for a brisk realty mar- ket either. . * DENTISTS WHO ARE NOT GOOD MAY HAVE LICENSE REVOKED, SAYS LANGER ° Dentists, surgeons, medical men, chiropractors, osteopaths, opticians, obstetricians, optometrists and others who make a business of curing or patching up bodily ills and defects are held to be in the same class ethically with an attorney at law in an import- {ant opinion handed down yesterday y Attorney General Langer, in that ny one of these practitioners may be deharred from further practice in North Dakota on conviction of un- professional conduct. The opinion written by Langer re- fers espécially to dentists who may be guilty of any conduct unbecoming a gentleman, but it is held to apply with equal force to all other profes- sional men, any of whom may suffer the revocation of their license upon becoming guilty of unprofessional conduct. ees GRECIAN DAME LOSES HER HEAD—GOVERNOR ASKED TO LOCATE IT North Dakota is not the only com- monwealth in which heads are fall- jing. In far-away Athens a very fam- ous and self-contained young woman has recently lost a head which she has been using with good effect since the fourth century before Christ, and the entire Grecian nation is interest- ed in recovering: for her her capital adornment. Z Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote Governor. Fraziet».about the tragedy yesterday, Enclosed with Lansing’s letter was.a Jong and very courteous . communication from A. Vourds, Grecian charge d'affaires at the American capital. The head, it seems, -wag a marble dome belonging, to the Goddess of Health, who was ruthlessly decapi- tated as she stood in the museum of Tegea. Said head, as well as the god- dess herself, “was the work of a great artist. of the fourth. century B. C. found in the excavation: of 1901 near the temple of’ Athena,” Mr. Vouros states, and his government would very much appreciate the apprehen- sion of any stony-hearted individual who offers for sale a marble head. DRYDEN IN TOWN, ‘Ray Dryden of Grand Forks, clerk to the senate railway committee dur- ing the recent session, is in the city. ae * NEW CHURCH. A charter was issued by the secre- tary of state today to the Bethlehem Evangelical ‘Lutheran church of Gar- rison, incorporated by A. Barth, ©, Wacker and A. Wilde. HOWARD WOOD WILL MAKE FARGO HIS HOME Howard Wood, speaker of, the house of representatives for the Fifteeuth Assembly, has purchased a residence in Fargo and will make his home there. He has been appointed state manager of the Nonpartisan league and will have charge the headquarters. in that city. PETERSON IS NAMED IN PLACE OF LAMBERT Fred Peterson was named last night in place of S. F. Lambert as one of the judges in the Second ward for the municipal! election, Tuesday, April 3. The action was taken by the city commission, in view of information being filed that Lambert was unquali- fied to sit. He is a relative of one of the candidates seeking election. LEST YOU FORGET Just a reminder that Easter is on 19 days off. Order your Easter aut or coat within the next week. We are saving money for every man who wears our clothes. Tailored suits at $20.00 to $49.00. Order today.—Adv. KLEIN, TAILOR AND CLEANER, PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT, _The undersigned hereby announces his candidacy for the office of police the ensuing city election to be neld in April, 1917. W. S. CASSELMAN, —Adv. TOO LATE TO CLASSI & Coy 3-20-3t ie PPS ge Aap a \ 4. Se. 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