The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1917, Page 4

BISMARCK ‘DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1917. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily, by mail or carrier, Der month ..,,......00000%. 8 60 Daily, by mail, one year in North Dakota ....56 ssseceen 4.001 Daily, by mail outside of | North Dakota, one year « 6.00 1.50 Dally, by mail outside of North Dakota, three months. Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months ........ ‘Weekly, by mail, per year . 1.60 Member Audit Bureau of Circulatioa LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at noon, April 9, 1917: ‘Temperature at 7 a.m. - Temperature at noon - 33, 54 Highest yesterday - 50] Lowest las tnight - 33 Precipitation .. - None Highest wind velocity . 28-8 Forecast. For North Dakota: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; cooler Tuesday. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. HYMN BEFORE ACTION. The earth is full of anger The seas are dark with wrath, The Nations im their harnéss Go up against our path; Ere yet we loose the legions— ire yet we draw the blade, Jehovah of the Thunders, Lord God of Battles, aid! E’en now their vanguard gathers, Ren now we face the fray— As Thou didst help our fathers, Help Thou our host today! Pulfilled of signs and wond In life, in death made clear— Jehovah of the Thunders, Lord God of Battles, hear! | —Rudyard Kipling. A SCHOOL NURSE. Petitions are ‘being circulated for the employment of a school nurse for Bismarck, It is understood that the matter will be put before the school board at its meeting this evening. Whether immediate action will be taken is not. known, but before tax \. payersudiivpetitions or are requested to..de-se,.some formal statement should be made so the public may “know Just what it is signing for. There may ibe a serious question as to the necessity for a school nurse devoting all her time to an fnspection of the children, F ‘ .. To whom is the’ nurse tp report? Isherwork ‘to be cfined: over by} a competent physician? Will she’ work in co-operation “with ‘the cit? health authoritiegsor:ds..there to be i some gn, designated ad“school physi- fo cingtiggs : % § ‘§ entire proposition , involves: ¥ addit| expense with the grobabik ity ¥ery doubtful benefits, the schot rd should explain thorough: | publi¢ the expense involved, advantages to be derived and under whose supervision the proposed train-| ed nurse is:to make her inspections. Preliminary steps have been taken for a medical inspection of. the schools-under. the city health officer. Why not ‘try, out the plan tentatively arranged? There are some 1,500 chil- dren in Bismarck’s schools, A very i large proportion of them are sound, healthy specimens. Bismarck has no child labor to speak of, no slums, no congested district’ “and comparative: ly little poverty. “To hire a nurse and incur consider: able expense seems unnecessary at { this time, when we have a city health ¥ official who, with a small contingent. 5 fund at his command, can make nec- ' essary inspections to safeguard the * health of the children. If there is a necessity for a medical } examination of the children, let it be made under the supervision of the i health officer, Probably, the board should make an appropriation each year for an inspection of children be- lieved to be defective. An alert $ teacher, however, can detect cases that call for attention, and report them to the superintendent. It would seem we have machinery enough now to provide adequate medical inspec- tion, without securing the services of @ nurse. Just what necessity there is for a school nurse in a city the size of Bis- marck is not apparent. Let us have medical inspection of the schoo} children if it is necessary and a sanitary survey of our school plant, but just how we are going to achieve this by the employment of a nurse needs some elucidation. If the board is seriously consider- ing such a move, the public should be well informed before any definite ac- tion is taken. It might ‘be well to call in the city Ps health officer and see if he cannot de- Ke vise a way that will meet all de- = ° mands. ¢ In any event, let the matter be thor- - oughly discussed from all angles be- Fi fore action is taken. Count Czernin, Austria’s foreign minister, talks peace. That Russian revolution set royalty to considering. peace, all over the world. _—_——S—— : : Lrectly or indirectly, some part in it, AN EASTER TRAGEDY. 47) Many hearts are bowed down with grief today as the first shock of Sun- day's tragedy passes away. News of five deaths cast a gloom over Easter- tide plans and the city settled down to mourn the loss of her citizens, widely known and dearly loved. The Tribune conveys the deepest sympathy of the community to the widows and children bereft of their beloved ones. Thousands who knew; these men, share the grief of the va- rious families. High tribute must be paid to the manner in which the members of the United Commercial’ ‘Travelers’ han- dled a dificult situation, Early this morning «ll equipment to recover the bodies had heen assembled amd more than enough members volunteered to go in quest of the bodies. Hessrs, Prentice, Barwind, Vale and Von Hagen were progr ve citizens of Bismarck. The city sustains a deep loss in their death and a wide circle of friends have Jost the companion ship of loyal associates. Mr. Massey was highly respected in Mandan. WE'RE ALL IN IT. Wars are not fought nowadays as in the past. ‘More than ever before does prosecution of war depend upon a: nation’s resources as represented ‘thy ils non-combatants. - The expenditure of powder shot to produce given results is much higher. The importance of sanitation and care of the wounded is more fully appreciated, and, owing to the devel- opment of new engines of war, rapid transportation of men and munitions has becdme of greater effect. Decis: ive battles, or battles giving a de- cisive advantage are fewer, and dead: | locks, such ag we have seen in north-| ern France, Belgium and western Rus- sia, mean a test of endurance of the folk at home, as well as those in the; trenches. Industrial organization for! purely war purposes has become of the highest cot n. and A WE’RE READY! ws The martial resources of a nation are nowadays dependent upon all the individuals of the nation. Now is the time for every Ameri- can to study himself or herself and see of how mueh war value he or she; is to the country, War means sac-| rifice and it.is not necessary that onc | shall be where the blood runs in order | to be in’ the fight.“"When the whole people is engaged with a common en- emy, those who enjoy the luxuries should: snérifice_them that the’ les fortunate shall have the necéssaries, ‘For the reason-that al! must, take, dit roi m tw sumption,” says the distinguished economist, Theo. 'H, Price. The question, finally, is not as to what those who must do, because those who must simply must, nor as to what the rich do, because the rich] yj can get along. But between the poor and the rich is the vast majority of the American people. How much will these people curtail to meet war con- ditions? Call these last mentioned the mid- dle class—~and we do hate that word, “class,” properly—and’ it can be said that by as much as they deny them-j selves luxuries .and .near-luxuries by so nich will they help the people who “must.” In the cost of one lux- ury“is the price of maybe a half-dozen necessaries, and modern war is waged with and upon the necessaries, Like those who must, the average’ patriot must somehow learn to do with less. What will you curtail? KEEP AN EYE ON HIM! It will be wise to keep an eye on Mexico, Carranza’s attitude toward the United ‘States has always been that of a fellow who would like to do something ugly, if it were at all safe. He has not yet expressed himself on Zimmermann’s proposition to stab Uncle Sam in the back as an ally of Germany. It should not be forgotten that he prevented our combined regular and militia forces from getting his chief enemy, Villa, upon pain of a union of all Mexico against us. We still hold to our recent sug- gestion that there should be strong home-guard organization in our bor- der states, New Mexico, Arizona, Tex- as and California. ‘We should not be in shape to have a Carranza jump on our backs and find the riding good. RAISE THE LIMIT. Six Germans have ‘been convicted of conspiring to blow up ships at sea. The maximum penalty is two years’ imprisonment. The limit is too low. Conspiracy to bomb ships at sea is premedita-| tion of murder. The maximum pen alty( should be at once raised to life sentence. In truth, all the statutes Dearing on such and similar crimes should be revised. | ge ‘We are going to learn something exact as to our ability to raise armies. Lipase What’s become of the good, old- fashioned czar of all the Russias? HEARING TO BE HELD AT JOBBING POINTS ON bing centers in the state in the near future to consider a proposed Fschedule*sef freight straight mil £0. jobbers, announced. todgy ‘There was @ hearing | 5. in Fargo last week, when both joblers| WILD RICE SCHOOL TAX COMMISSIONER portant ta wee volves, taxes are due erty in NEW FREIGHT TARIEFS Hearings will be held by the rail- ad commission at all important job- te which. new the rates, based son », proposed by the Far- etary J. H. Calderhead st affected had been given in oppor Jobbers from Man- hity to be heard. AWAITS VERDICT IN IMPORTA\T CASES Commi: which from Cream of Wheat compar Grand Forks: corporation, contested on the ground that it has owned no proy-|FARMERS ARE SEEDING; | during fo move the school buildi by a church socie j immediate proemimity to church and | Burl mer Wallace is an-} parochial school of this society ing the verdict in two im-| member of the school board declined to cases Which he tried last} turn over the school propert tuxes on mor Wheat case, tried 0,000 covering six years the commi: is company: riginally a th period covered by the a Tn Minot Commission: the commission's case against the In-] tional Harvester comps nto t Grand jon jon 1 Wallace tried s transacted in North Dakota. from Cask cougty,) whith involve good many tic@ist poimis concerning | folk are Phe WA Rice district clectors voted hool from the public The first, the famous Cream of! effort Was made to make the transfer, | the great commonwealth its nickname. and the two other members appealed to! the courts. The supreme court decided | the school contd not be moved, and it} now declines to again consider the liti- | gation. { wi] ack alleges The ‘heiBURNT CREEK COMMUNITY| MAKING GOOD PROGRESS pioneer of the Burnt hood who was in Sat-| st states alleges’ a clain staic Hi a s | jing to matters in con-} $5,000 resulting from busi-|2@ction with the settlement of the es-| ted ih 4 |tute of his brother's widow, the late ;Mrs. Ps Jlarvey, seeding is reports var s Id be a leveler in our coun-|!n | war sion ld ; Z ore widespread | carricrs presented briefs, but the | CASE CANNOT AGAIN Sean ona try vagal result, dno more eet railroad commission announced — that ' GET.AAINTO COURTS | and George Mj honorable charity and a closer broth-| ihe petition would he given no definite \ } | nt George, Me) erhood. consideration until) all the shippers} — ype Wild RikeNehoal aistr \ 1 of the Burnt Creek ; ing in strong for corn, both! B CONG WIT Cee: dan,” Bismarck, Valley. City, James: | sectarian coutrol or inthlences in pub- {for gi nd for fodder for their | “Those who must are, somehow, ee and Ming! were press nt at ta lie Schools. and other waters, is dead | stock. than which there is none finer i vith less and the re-|S0 for the hear! It is probable! so farcasithe supreme conrt is concern-|in the good state of North Dakota. ae a a etcinadt of con.| that further hearings will be’ held'not! eq, <4 snlon for rehearing was denied — ‘don a saa later than June. Saturday, APRIL 19 TO BE TRAGIC DATE IN LIFE OF GOPHER TRIBE OF BURLEIGH CO. April 19 th » owned —— uted int will long be remeinbe opherdom as the date pu of all treat be- te of North Dakota and ¥ Jittle flickertail which gave red by One when an | DOINGS OF THE DUFF'S. DANNY COMES TO THE RESCUE THAT CLOCK - TWELVE. octock AND Nou Just NOW WAIT A MINUTE AND LET Me EXPLAIN GETTING IN! THAT'S . A FINE TIME FoR You To BE t COMING HOME OW THE PooR- bine pear! By Allman CHAIR, | WANT TO Terr YoU WHAT) THINK OF Nov- THAT BON IS ALL> RIGHT + HE HELPED HIS. DAD OvT OF A NICE FIX THAT TIME ‘| news, On that day there will appear in Bis- marck an offigal poisouer from the ite agricultural college, and from that date forth it will be war to the kilt between Burleigh county farmers und the varmints which long’ have oc- | cupied their fields and “docked” their growing grain. Farmers from townships adjoining Bismarek are expected to gather at the court house April 19 to see the offi- cial dope-mixer made medicine, Each township is required ‘to’ furnish | 36 ishels of oats dnd the dope with which the ots are mixed.' ‘The ‘poisoned grain | is then put up in small sacks, labeled “Poison” and handed out to the ‘farm- who -are experted to see that it distributed swhere it will do Breer the Gopher and his most harm, The eost. of this wholes: ment in flickertail -polsoning assesesed against the Jand vin each township, and» the propertyof non- residents will bear the same. as nent as that of residents who their land under cultivation, GRAFTON MAN MADE COUNTY EXAMINER; KNOWS THE GAME Charles #. Carpenter of Grafton, for the last four years county treasurer of Walsh, and for 14 years engaged in the service of his county in one position or another, today was com- missioned county examiner by State Examiner J. R. Waters. Probably few men in North Dakota are so well versed with county affairs as is ‘Mr. Carpenter, and he is expected to prove a most efficient officer. progency i WITH THE EDITORS THE BIGGEST OF ALL JOKES. (Boston Herald.) Although the 2d and 9th regiments of the state’s infantry forces were ordered mobilized by the war department last Sunday night, they were no nearer being mustered into the federal ser- vice yesterday than they were then. Tentative orders governing the possi-. ble mobilization of the state national guard wére issued several months ago, with the understanding that specific and detailed, instructions for mobiliza- tion would soon be received. Those instructions have not been received either by regular army officers detailed with the Massachusetts forces or the commanding officers of unity ¢alled into the federal service—Yesterday’s An eminent and elderly gentleman called at the Herald office a few days ago to say that if war came we should all urge the government to take over the railroads and the telegraphs and the telephones—in the interest of effi- ciency! Heaven help us!—and yet this man is wholly unknown as a hu- morist. If you were driving a spirited horse, whith suddenly became unman- ageable, you might as well pass the reins over to the village idiot as to pro- pose that a government—which man- ages everything badly in all times and in all administrations—should _také over anything new because of the acuteness of the national emergency. Of all the. delusions that. possess the human mind, the one that our government does things better than private enterprise is the most amazing. You mail a letter'during the evening to a place sixty miles away. Not get- ting the expected response at 3 o’clock the next afternoon, you telephone and ‘find ‘that the letter has not yet ar- rived. This is an ordinary occurrence. Which service has real efficiency, that of the government-run mails’ or the privately-managed telephones? Which would you rather have operate the wires in a great emergency like war, the politician$ in the Congress of the United States or the directors of a pri- e | nes vately-owned company? We hesitate to harp on this topic. We realize that We may become bore- somhe. But the need of a message to the American people was never greater than today. Ever since the Josephus Daniels administration came in we H have been opposing his construction of battleships in the navy yards, partieu- larly at Mare Island, a mudhole near San Francisco, which will have suit- able access to the ocean only when Uncle Sam wakes further large and continuing appropriations for dredging. We wonder if there is anybody iu the country today, with any real per- ception that war is nears, who does not wish that the battleships build- ing at Mare Island wer¢, in the yard of «private company? The principle is the same all along the Jine. If we want éfficlency, if'we want prepared- ness, if we want the dollar which we pay in taxation used for results, rather than for padding pay rolls, we shall keep business in the hands of private and ‘competitive concerns, instead of turning it ¢ to that inert mass of politics and red tape, atrophied by the conflicting interests of the represen- tatives of 435 districts, Known as the governinent, osaded How many of the ‘mén"in the regi- ments now assembling, who, have wit- Pd “the spectacle” of"! tape and inefficiency of the last few days would in’ their ‘voting bootlis’ see the con- nection between that and the current proposals for the government manage- ment of everything? We realize that the government must perform the dut- ies of sovereignty, ‘lo these we should restrict it. We realize that war-mak- ing is one of the duties of sovereignty, and that if we have a war the United States government must make it. But Wwe ought to limit, even more in war than in peace, the government to the functions of governing, and strive by every means at our command to in- ject into it some measure of efficiency. MINERAL RESERVE | i] 2° RRATURE OF LAWS “IS CONSTITUTIONAL Sections 5518 and 5519 of the com- piled laws of North Dakota, which au- thorize the state to reserve coal and other mineral rights in making sales of institutional-lands are held to be constitutional in an opinion which ‘Attorney General Langer today fur- nished State Engineer Jay W. Bliss. ‘Section 5518 provides that coal and other minerals underlying state lands may ‘be reserved’ ‘if specifically de- scribed in the reservation made at the time lands are sold; ‘Section 5519 holds ‘that unless such specific de- scription is made, the reservation shall be ineffectual. GOVERNOR A SPHYNX. When it comes to the subject of ap- pointments,° Governor Frazier con- tinues to give a correct imitation of the sphynx. Interviewed Saturday he an- nounced he had absolutely nothing to say on the subject of.a successor to J. P. Reeve, chairman of the North Da- kota game and fish commission; that he didn’t-care to announce whom the woman member: of the ‘state-.welfare commission wonld be, and that there was nothing for publication on the ap- pointment of two members ‘of the state highway commission, NO ADVANCE COPIES. Governor Frazier seems badly in need of a press agent. From his*first in‘ duction: into office he has been sus- Dicious of newspapers. He was prob- ably North Dakota’s first governor to deny ..the press advance copies of his inaugural address, Occasionally he has warmed to the extent of trusting the fourth sestate with advance notice of some official utterance, but more often he has not. Frida: d the Peoples’ Institute” aC toe Union, New York, and he seems dis- posed to miss another opportunity for wide publicity by holding out on the press, ——_ sae ge CHANGERS NAME. ne Stacy Fruit company of Bi: marck has filed notice with the few retary of state of the change of its name to the DeCamp Fruit company. ———____ Your visit to the Twin Cities wilt more enjoyable if you stop at this Famous Hostelry. Excelient Cuisine. Hote! Radison, Minneapolis; 409 Rooms—-$2.75 at $1.50 to $2.60, Re gt