The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1917, Page 4

coarse iene Saatchi Reeser sitesi cmln morn. A TgStt elitr CBs eB oe BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1917. THE TRIBUNE|;” have such in times of peace. Gntered at the Postoffice, Bismarch, N. D. os Second Ci Class Matter, {SSUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily, by mail or carrier, DOF MONth .....eeeeeeeereees B50 Dally, by mail, one year in North Dakota ...... - 4.00 Daily, by mail outside North Dakota, one year .,... 6.00 Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, three months. 1.60 Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months: ........++6+ 1.25 Weekly, by mail, per year ..... 1.50 Member Audit Bureau of Circulatioa (HD STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Hatablished 1878) LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at noon, April 6, 1917. Temperature at 7 a. m. Temperature at noon Highest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity - Forecast: For North Dakota colder tonight; Saturday rising temperature. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. OR OSS EST SE TEES OD > The greatest acts of war re- % quire to be undertaken by no- & ¢ ‘ble men.—-Hugo. 2 OH OSTOSHOSOOOOH OS Unsettled and | fair with A NATION AT WAR. Division must end today. Congress has declared for war. | Loyalty and devotion to America is the sole issue now. We are faced by a condition. Theory, policy, in fact any position antagonistic to the ad- ministration has no place now. To persist in it is treason. The West has no war lust. It is not entering the struggle ‘because of any desire for hostilities. For many} German-Americans, loyal to the Unit- ed States, these are trying hours.; There must be control and forbear-| ance on all sides, Past expressions should be forgot- ten. Until today we have not been at war with Germany and such opin- jons, as were hostile to President Wilson’s position were more or less privileged. Considerable inertia must be over- come, before the nation is quickened to a sense of the gravity of the crisis, that confronts it. : The East is more aroused to the situation than the West. It is physi- cally nearer the danger now than the rest of.us, but that should not abate the. loyalty .of those. who may feel some ‘security by virtue of their geo- graphical location. Such thoughts are not worthy of a true American. We must shoulder this load as a nation and, united, go in to win the war of democracy against autocracy. But all of us would be less human if we did net realize the position this declaration of war places millions of our citizens whose mother tongue is that of the Central Powers. Their hearts are wrung more sorely than ours; they are none the less loyal than we a Time will show that they are fighting the battle of prog: they are not fighting against the German people, but against arro- gant autocratic Prussianism. Our cause is the cause and creed of all liberty loving people, even of those of Teutonic blood who came to our shores that they might enjoy more freedom than was possibie in the Fatherland. We enter this war the friend of the German people, but the foe of Pru THEY'RE PART OF US. Setween the years 1840 and 18540, Germany was in a condition of polit- ical chaos. There were radical up- risings, hot clamor for direct repre- sentation of the people in govern- ment and, along about 1848, open rev- olution. Prussia was suspected and hated and the proposition that a man was first and always the war tool of monarchy was combated. From this German maelstrom there came to the United States, some to seek liberty and some in fear of their lives, many thousands of men and women who founded families which have contributed, in the highest de- gree, to the growth and solidity of this republic. These people and their immediate descendants were not clannish, nor radical cither as to their location, or vocation, or participation in affairs. They were assimilated. They became part of the blood, ‘bone and sinew of the nation. They fgught to preserve the Union. They earned honorable iplace in our society, our professions, our trades, and our political life, and it is estimated that today they and their descendants represent approxi- mately one-seventh of our population. We are at war with Germany, their mother country, but it would be crime ‘and dishonor to our nation to look upon or treat these people as other than our loyal fellow-Americans. It is a good time to wipe out that silly *and injurious racial distinction that’s been sailing in the form ‘of the hy- ‘phen. fWe may discover in our midst ugly ‘Germans, with whom we will have to deal promptly and rigorously. It is ‘fikely that ‘we will have attempts to 3 | spend the whole force of the nation dynamite and to assassinate, just as But the only hyphen justiflable is that we use in saying that this paper believes in the firm loyalty and unimpeachable Americanism of this nation’s ex-Ger- mans, be they “ex” by extraction or by naturalization, and we bespeak for them fair and honorable treatment at the hands of everybody They're part of us and there’s nothing more foolish than self-mutilation, North Dakota insists that Senator Gronna be an American henceforth. OUR JUSTIFICATION. From many splendid paragraphs in President Wilson's noble message calling the nation to arms we quote the following as expressing what it seems to u our complete justifica- tion for war and should continue to be the soul and heart of our national purpose: | “We are now about to accept the gage of battle with this natural foe to liberty, and shall, if necessary, | to check and nullify its pretensions and its power. We are glad, now that we see the facts with no veil of false pretense about them, to fight} thus for the ultimate peace of the world, and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples includ- ed, for the rights of nations great and| small and the privilege of men every-! where to choose their way of life and! obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must} be planted upon the trusted founda.| tions of political liberty.” j That this paper approves of the president's war message even to the last sentence and word, hardly need be said to those of our readers who have done us the honor of reading our editorials during the past several months. It seems to us that the President said not a word too much or a word} too little; that to have delayed longer certainly would have been weakness. If there be a citizen of this country so lacking in patriotism, so blind and deat to the duties which this solemn hour imposes upon him, that he hesi- tates to make whatever sacrifice may be called for, he is unworthy to en- joy the liberty so dearly purchased) by the Revolutionary fathers, We are to go to war not only to preserve our own liberties, but to help all the other liberty loving peo- ples ofrthe world gain and preserve theirs, No nation ever went to war with a Jess selfish purpose, for a more noble cause. Our allies are the great European democracies, which for nearly three years have ‘been fighting our fight, just as now we shall fight theirs. We are all at one, and must con- tinue at one, in our determination to crush forever the last remaining military autocracy that menaces the world’s liberti The first war act of the should be to remove “Gumshoe Bill" as chairman of the foreign relations committee. THRICE ARMED. We are at war with Germany, but before the Almighty, to whom alone we are responsible, we plead not guil- ty lo having desired it, or to having done one wrong thing to provoke: it, or to not trying our best to avoid it. We have seen hundreds of ‘Ameri- cans wantonly slaughtered while en- gaged in peaceful travel, and borne it. We have seen American proper- ty ruthless troyed in violation of Jaw, and borne it. ‘We have seen friendly nations wiped out of exist- ence in defiance of international laws and disregard of those common rights of humanity under which alone hu-; manity can exist and progress, andj borne it. We have seen the very life| of the race struck at, and withheld our hand. We have seen an awful blood-red conflagration spread from cottage to cathedral, from the poor man’s field of rye to even the royal garments of kings, sparing nothing that was sa- cred, nothing that was innocent, noth- ing that was defenseless. O Father of all men! Forgive us if in our love of peace, we have weak- ened in our duty to Thy children across the sea! We fight now—not for sordid gain of any sort, but to put down unre- stricted murder on the high seas. “Thrice armed is he who hath his quarrel just,” and for justice alone do we fight. While our nation has aver- aged one war in about every quarter- century of its existence, it never has entered upon war with greater reluct- ance, or under much stronger provo- cation. But, being in this war, we must prove to all nations of men that it will not do to arouse this nation of peace-lovers, because when we fight we fight for lasting peace as our reward. We will fight fair, we will honora- bly live up to all our agreements and we will kill and destroy as mercifully as possible. But the decision must ‘be such that hereafter no nation will dare to resort to unrestricted slaugh- ter upon the world’s seas which the ‘Creator gave to all men in common, that they might rise above the beasts and become brothers. (Not the bloody and fiery fate of Senate |‘ DOINGS OF TELL ME HELEN, Wow Do You Like THE suit ? | TROVGHT HE RAN A GROCERY OR WAS A BUTCHER OR SOMETHING IT Looks ALLRIiGHT, TOM - WHY DON’T. You ASK WILBUR? HE FOLLOWS THE STYLES THE DUFF. TOM SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THAN TO ASK WILBUR @ HE USED “ Be A BUTCHER BUT HE'S A TAILOR Now THE MATERIAL LooKS ALLRIGHT - WHO MADE. IT? By Allman NOURE WRONG- HE'S STILL A BurchER. perpetrated, upon Americans, nor any vision of the tbanquet table of the victors moves us now. We fight for our God-given right to travel and trade. with our brother. nations upon the high seas, in peace and safely. Germaiy,' such is our issue with you, It‘is:not alone our cause, but it is also the cause of all humanity, and woe to those who combat it! God with us? Yes! Being Chris- tians, we must believe that He ‘is. Our God is the God of the poor, hun- gry and cold of all lands, whom our grains feed, whom our cotton and wool clothe. Our God is the God in whose hands the women and children of a Lusitania go to sleep. Our God is the God of good will toward all men, He,calls upon our nation to put down wanton slaughter of innocents s, innocents engaged in s of relieving the suffer- ing of fellow men, women and chil- dren. And, bloody Germany, we are going to answer with every man, dol- lar and other means that ‘He has en- trusted to us for promoting His of human prosperity and progr When Filibuster LaFollette folded his arms and coughed disapproval, President Wilson is reported to have gone right on reading his war mes- Aw, what's the use of being a Pennsylvania Audubon society says the cat and save the bird.” ate legislature gets bill What ho! Pacifists in Washington engage in a fist fight. Stand by the president! Show your colors! Display the flag! CO-OPERATIVE STORE COMPANY AT BELFIELD Thriving Belfield has an important new business entrant in the Belfield Co-operative Mercantile Co., incor- Porated this week for $20,000, with N. J. Boltz, president; T. R. Kelley, vice president; RB. J. Gray, second vice president; B. A. Fritz( secretary and Nerce Dorval, treasurer. The new concern will engage in a gen- eral mercantile business. FARMERS ARE SEEDING.” J. O. Lyngstad, deputy state treas- urer, who returned yesterday from an inspection of his fine farm near Rugby, reports that farmers are in the fields in the northern part of the State this week, and that next week will see seeding generally under way. see OPERATING IN STATE, The Hughey Land Co. of Hundson, Wis., is now operating in North Da- kota, having filed extended articles of incorporation with the secretary of state this week. Paar BEACH IS BOOMING. “Beach is planning a lot of build- ing this spring,” said State Examin- er J. R. Watters on his return from his home-town yesterday. “Old build- ings which have served from pioneer days are being torn down and re- placed with new structures. Beach is progressing in the right way. It has a fine, active commercial club, a good location, a splendid commun- ity to draw on, and it is getting ahead as fast as any city I know of in North Dakota.” WISDOM OF STATE. SYSTEM OF ROADS BEING REGOBNIZED Counties in Northwestern Section of State Will Favor Further Logislation, The fact; thal, any. constructive work Which is done toward the estab- lishment of trunk line highways must be done under the direction of some centra] ‘body provided with funds ad- equate to its needs, and a realization of the impossibility of accomplishing best results when funds are dispersed in small amounts to every county in the state are becoming generally rec- ognized by real road boosters in |. North Dakota. P, W. Thomas, a: nt state engi- neer, is home from a, several days’ stay in the northeastern part of the state, where he looked into the high- way. situation in Wells and Walsh counties, He finds that advocates of. good roads generally, while heartily approving the forward step taken by the Fifteenth assembly in creating a state highway commission, increasing the amount of the automobile regis- tration fee, and paving the way for the state’s participation in the federal highway aid, feel that much work yet remains for the Sixteenth assembly, |to do. It is probable that when the legislators meet two years hence a state highway association independ- ent of the public highway ‘comission will have ‘been organized and that a program of legislation which this as: sociation believes will’ work out, and which will have the approval of all parts of the state, willbe presented. Big Meeting at Fortuna. At Fortuna, in; Walsh, county, where Assistant Jcngincer Thomas address- ed a good roads meeting, 125 boosters turned out. Fortuna wishes to build highways radiating in three direc- tions, and it had ‘been talking of bond- ing the township for $12,000. , The states attorney, who attended the meeting, advised thal it would be im- possible to bond for more than $6,000, but that $2,000 might be. obtained from other sources, giving the town- ship $8,000 with which,,to make a start. The sense of theymeeting was that the county, in co-operation with state and federal highway commissions, should build the:main. arteries and the township the tributary roads. ‘Wells county citizens expressed themselves in favor of a state bond issue or a direct tax for the purpose of building trunk line highways, and declared a determination of building laterals to connect with any such highway which came within hailing distance. CHANGES NAME. The Wachter Dray & Transfer Co. of Bismarck this week filed notice with the secretary of state that it) had dropped the dray from its cor- porate title. WILLIAMS OF MISSISSIPPI HAS WAR PLAN Would Give Ships of Allies Free Access to American Ports, Harbors and Bases ALL INCOMES OVER $100,- | 000 TO U, S. WAR FUND By GILSON GARDNER ” Washington, April 6.—In the crisis ‘produced by war John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, has become the virtual leader of the senate. His influence, he says, will be for carrying out the following program: 1, Give the ships of the allies free access to American ports, arbors and coaling stations. Allow Free Transit 2, Allow free transit through the United States and over our railroads of Canadian and other ally troops. 3. ‘Take possession immediately of a suflicient number of German intern- ed ships to equal the value of Amer- ican shipping destroyed by Germany. 4. Provide for the immediate train- ing of 1,000,000 men to be followed within three months by a call for an- other 1,000,000, 5. Exempt from the provisions of the income tax law all incomes deriv- ed from investments in ‘bonds issued by the allies, { Send Regulars to Europe “6. Send a few thousand regulars to the European battle line with the Belgians, for its psychological effect. 7, Have the big ships of the navy take the offensive in the most effective way possible by joining the fleets of the allies in the scene of naval activi- ties. 8 Go submarine chasing in that same zone from which the German government hag “so insultingly” for- bidden the United States co enter. “Pay-As-You-Enter’ War President Wilson has added his en- dorsement to the idea of a pay-as-you- enter war. Instead of borrowing and handing down a debt to coming gen- erations, the President in his message urges that war revenues be “ ain- ‘ed by the present generation.” Thi can be dono only by taxing wealta, The poor and middle class are already almost desperate over the high cost of living and the only answer is the con- scription of wealth. All incomes over $100,000 should go to the government’s war fund, and all incomes down to , $5,000, or even less, should be taxed. This is the plan put. up to Congress. Work Every Foot of Soil That “every square yard of good soil should be made to work to help feed the nation” is the slogan put out by the Agricultural wepartment. A. vacant lot not cultivated or an‘untilled acre are “slackers.” » They are as ‘bad as.the-»man who fails to answer his country's call.” And now the» depart’ ment is asking—why not put a,tax on unused land? Anyone who owns good land and holds: it out of use ought to, be taxed ‘hard enough to. bring the land into use. The statistics gathered by Secretary Houston show that only half the arable.land in ‘the. United States is under cultivation. Carl V.rooman, assistant secretary of agriculture, has gone south ona speak- ing tour, the purpose .of. which is tq urge southern farmers to raise taeir own foodstuffs. Every year the south with its wonderful soil and salubrious climate imports $600,000,000 worth of corn, potatoes, garden truck, pigs, dairy cows, and things like that he would !be much more independent and prosperous. and the country would be richer as a whole. This year when the world fs threafened with a short- age of everything to eat, including wheat, it is:ef the utmost importance that -the.South, which can raise three crops ‘a year, come to the bat with a bumper crop. ~ A “don't waste” campaign has been UNDER HIS NOSE by ‘the agricultural depar' ment. Good food heedlessly thrown into garbage pails, food allowed to spoil in the household, food ruined by improper cooking, and food destroyed by rats, mice, and insects constitute the heavy items in the $700,000,000 an- nual waste of food in the homes in this country cited recently by the sec- retary of agriculture. Seven hundred million dollars is considered to be & conservative figure. In household waste, of course, are not incluaed the vast losses of food allowed under im- proper handling or inefficient market- ing methods to spoil in transit or in the hands of producers or dealers.” —_——— NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. Notice is Hereby Given, That in pursuance of an order of the County Court of the County of Burleigh, State of North Dakota, made on the 6th day of April, A. D. nineteen hun- dred and seventeen, in the matter of the estate of Celia Harvey, late of the Township of Burnt Creek, Coun- ty of Burleigh, State of North Da- kota, deceased, the undersigned, spe- cial administrator of the estate of said deceased, will sell at Public Auction to. the highest bidder, for cash on Friday, the 20th day of April, A. D., nineteen hundred and seven- teen, at ten o’clock a. m. at the home of said deceased on the Northeast Quarter Section 30, Township 140, Range 80, Burleigh County, North Dakota, the following Personal Prop- erty, towit: One truck wagon. ‘Wagon. Cart. Drill. Mowing machine. Breaking plow. Harrow. Five sets of harness. Fanning mill. Buggy (good). Corn binder. Sixteen bushel flax. Barb wire. Half barrel salt. Thousand bushel ‘oats. Grindstone. Two hundred Cedar fence posts. Seventeen cows. Seven yearlings. Forty-five hogs. One 4-year-old colt. One 2-year-old colt. Sleigh runners. Wagon. Hay rake. Corn planter. Corn cultivator. Mowing machine. Wagon. Lumber. Miscellaneous farm articles. Bugey (old). Disc harrow. Twine. Two cellar window sashes. Twelve bushel barley. Two grain scoops. Two gang plows. Binder. ‘ Thirteen steers. Two spring calves. Five teams of horses. One 3-year-old colt. Two yearlings colts. Miscellaneous lot’ of household fur- niture: PHILIP HARVEY, Special Administrator of the Estate.of Celia Harvey, de- ceased. ‘ 4 Newton, Dullam & Young, Attorneys for. Administrator. Dated April 6, 1917. ¢ ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS. Sealed bids for the construction of a lateral sewer on Sixth Street from Avenue F to the Boulevard in Sewer Improvement District Number Qne, City of Bismarck, North Dakota, will be received by the Board of City Commissioners of said city until 8 o’clock p. m., April 30th, 1917. Cer- tified check for Five Hundred (500) Dollars drawn to the order of A. W. Lucas, president of the City Commis- sion, must accompany each bid. Each bid must also be accompanied by a bidder’s bond in a sum equal to the full amount bid. Plans and specifi- cations are on file with the City Aud- itor. The City Commission reserves the right to reject any or all bids. R. H. THISTLETHWAITE, City Auditor. NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE BY ~ ADVERTISEMENT. Notice Is Hereby Given, “Fhat that certain mortgage, executed and deliv- ered by Lena White and ‘F. 'T. White (wife and husband), Mortgagors, to C. B, Little, Mortgagee, dated the 20th day of July, A. ‘D.. nineteen hun- dred and fourteen, and filed for rec- ord in the office of the Register of Deeds of the County of ‘Burleigh and State of North Dakota, on the 21st day of July, A. D. 1914, and recorded in Book 111 of Mortgages, at page 660, will be foreclosed:'by a sale of the premises in such mortgage and hereinafter described, at the front door of the court house in the City of Bismarck, in the County of Burieigh and State of North Dakota, at ‘the hour of ten o’clock a. m., on the 12th day of May, A. D. 1917, to satisfy the amount due upon sald mortgage on the day of sale. The premises de- scribed in said mortgage and which will be sold to satisfy the same, are situated in the County of Burleigh, and State of North.Dakota, and de- scribed as follows, to-wit: Lot Twenty-four (24), in Block Forty-one (41), of the Original Plat of the City of Bismarck, North Da- kota,,according to the plat thereof ‘on file and of record in the office of the Register of Deeds in and for Bur- leigh County, ‘North Dakota. There will be due on such mort- gage at the date of sale the sum of $1,082.31. Dated at Bismarck, .N. D., this Sth day of April, 1917. C. B, LITTLE, Mortgagee. F. B. WCURDY, Attorney For Mortgagee, Bismarck, ‘North Dakota. (4—6, 13, 20, 27; 5—4, 11) TOO LATE 10 CLASSIFY WANTED—Young man; painting de- partment; good chance for advance- ment. C. L. Burgess, (Missouri Val- ley ‘Motor Co. 46-4 FOR (RENT—Small house and barn, corner of 15th and Broadway. G. Gussner. 46-3t FLAT FOR FENT—Person Court. started Si You will find more of the leading People of North Dakota registered at the Radisson-than in the Twin Gite, 7 er tel x