The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 16, 1917, Page 4

: MONDAY. APRIL 16,.1917. -. THE TRIBUNE Ratered at the Postoffion Bismarch, N. D., as Second Clase Matter. (S8UED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDA’ SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYABLE IN fully, by mail or carrier, i per month ...,.....seeeevene 8 60) Waily, by mail, one year in North Dakota .....0 esserese 4.00) Daily, by mail outside of 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 .. 1.25 ‘Weekly, by mail, per year .... jember Audit Bureau of Circulation | THD STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER THE OTAT Susie WEATHER REPORT for 24 hours ending at noon, April 14: Temperature at 7:00 a. m, Temperature at noon ..- Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation oe Highest wind velocity . Forecast. | For North Dakota: (Partly cloudy | tonight and Sunday; probably unset- tled in the west portion; not much change in temperature. Temperatures Fargo... + 22 Williston Grand Forks Pierre St. Paul Winnipeg Melena Chicago Swift Curent Kansas City . San Francisco ORRIS W, Meteorologist. SPHPP SSP HSSSSSOS OS ° Ha ywho, tells a lie is not & sensitfle ‘how great a task he @ undertakes; for‘ he must be © forced ‘to invent 20 more to ¢ maintain that one.-Pope. SHOOTS OSHESESIOOS FORWARD, STILL FORWARD. “Rus provisional — governors frankly give up Constantinople as| part of the peace price and publish w Russia's foreign policy thus: “Phe government deems it a duty that free Russia does not aim at dom- ination of other nations, nor the oc- cupation by ‘force of foreign terri- tories. “Russia does not lust for strength- ening of her power abroad at the ex- pense of other nations. “The government does not aim to subjugate or humiliate anyone.” This is 2 most momentous declara- tion. It is peace talk, in the first place, Turkey is sick of the war and her great dread has been that Rus- sia would get control of Constanti- nopie and the Dardanelles, the age- old dream of Russian autocra Secondly, the denial of ambition for strengthening her power abroad, taken in connection with what has already been granted the Finns, the Poles and the Jews, indicates that Russia is going to rely upon peace: time home growth, exclusively. What} this means can only be realized, par- tially at that, when we consider her enormous undeveloped resources and the fact that she already is the great- est producer in the world of all the cereals—man and ‘beast foot corn. Given peace, popular govern- ment, industrial organization and a strong national policy of self-develop- ment, and Russia will have a place in world affairs such as all possible war strength could not give her. Russia’ provisional government moves with the power and certainty of the elements. From out that vast eastern conglomeration of races, creeds, colors and tongues are com: ing demonstrations of human reform and progress which may well aston- ish the western world. ‘Ss It is” proposed to have a govern- ment :f6od controller, who will ‘top waste’ and gambling in food. Any fellow who does that knocks Her- cules’ 12 litte test jobs off the perch of fame, all right, all right. LET TEDDY GO. President Wilson has under consid- eration Roosevelt's earnest request that he be permitted to raise a vol- untary division of troops for service in France. Roosevelt urged the matter on the President in a personal interview at the White House, Tuesday. We hope the President grants the request and gives the Colonel his commission at once. It would not only be a graceful thing to do, but it would be an effect- ive thing, as well. Roosevelt is one of the greatest driving forces in America. « (He is without question the most popular private citizen in the United States and has the largest personal following. Nothing that the President could do at this time would so challenge the imagination of the nation as this. It wouldzenthuse the Middle West and the Far West and bring home to the people of these sections the fact that this is to be a real war. ‘Roosevelt raising a division would be more eff in arousing the pa- triotism of the nation than a thous- and recruiting sergeants. . Ressevelt and his division.on the Ce ae z % {those young Chicagoans and | during the past few months are some- firing line in France* would be the best guarantee that we could give our allies of the earnestness of our purpose to go through with them to the finish. Three cheers and a tiger for Teddy and his division. Everybody has overlooked recruit- ing a regiment of Daring Movie He Toes. ! a | AMERICA NURSES. | Mr, Labouchere bas this comment} on American nurses in the London} Chronicle: 1 “IT have a great weakness for the} American girl; she puts her heart} into what she is about. When she}| flirts she does it conscientiously, and when she nurses the most uninvit-| ing looking Zouave or Franc-tireur! she does it equally conscientiously, | and when there is nothing more to do for them sits patiently reading to| them or playing cards with them.” | A pig weighing about 165 Ibs is] worth $2). It now stumps us wheth- er to eat our corn or feed it to piggy. —— THEY'LL COME TO. | Hold not too cruel thoughts toward those Chicago and ‘New York young men who are plunging into matri- mony in order to avoid the draft. Any young fellow who rushes into} matrimony through cowardice will be almighty glad to en ‘before this war is over. Marriage for any other reason than love has more hell in it than any war ever gotten up, ac-j} cording to those who have been through both matrimony and war, A! bride can, ordinarily, stand most any discovery about her man better than | that he has a yellow streak, and we wouldn't be at all surprised to hear} New Yorkers roaring for gun and knap sack within two months. Chile declares she'll remain neutral “until her rights are ignored.” If any of her rights are traveling abroad, she might as well get off the; fence now. BRYAN’S DUTY. There can be no doubt that the pacifist activities of William J. Bryan) what yesponsible for the attitude of many congressmen who are now op- posing the President's war plans. This especially applies to the op- position to the raising of an army ‘based on the basis of universal liabil- ity to service, The day after Congress declared war Bryan wired the President that he was at his country’s call; he of- fered to enlist as a private. If Bryan is sincere in what he now says, why doesn’t he take the first train for Washington and tell every member of Congress with whom he has any influence that his paramount duty in this hour is*to “stand by the President,” irrespective of what his own personal opinions may be? He could render his country noj greater service than by undoing, so far as he can, the harm that he has} done by preaching non-resistant paci-! fism. Teddy and Taft are on the job, do- ing their bit. | Can Bryan do less and expect pe | ple to believe in the sincerity of his patriotic protestations? | | er General Sharpe esti- mates that he could get enough socks and underwear for our million-man army in the trenches, in six months, but it would take 12 months to get uniforms. That settles it. Count us out of the trenches for one year! | We're not going to tackle those steel-| clad Prussions in mere socts and un-| derwear. cester, Mass., man advertised that he would pay $5 for the finest potato given him. Specimens poured in un- til he now has six barrels of them. A sucker is born every minute, some of ‘em with potatoes Polish-American societies are ready with a regiment. We are going to discover much red, white and blue in! the hyphen, before this war is over. Government war bonds at 3 1-2 per cent won't hurt private banks much,; but may result in putting the postal banks on the blink. after historic American naval ves. sels, why not honor the Bon Homme Richard? Russia is placing orders tor cotton goods, soap and candles with Chinese factories. Queer stunts in this war. the Germans are “retiring on orders” to the rear of the British lines. If you can't get into army or navy, get into your back yard and raise Potatoes! old. Add nine times 21 are 189. This war emergency has leap year beaten a mile. While we're naming battle cruisers | According to late reports, some of| Kansas boasts a cat that’s 21 years! DOINGS OF THE DUFF'S. | HELEN, | enuistep! HOW Do | Look ? | Look onwis, PVE ENLISTED You Look FINE, WILBUR AND I'M PRovD oF You THEARD THAT You WAD WILBUR AND I'VE BEEN WORKING ALL DAY ON A LITTLE. SURPRISE FOR YOU i} BOLD - By Allman ISN’T OLIVIA THE THOUGHTFLU LITTLE GIRL? WILBUR You HAVE JOINED ANOBLE CAUSE AND rl Nou must GE BRAVE AND NICE BANDAGES FoR You THAT You CAN CAIRN, IN NOUR ovrFIT- I'LL MAKE You SOME MORE TomoRROW FIRST CHAPTER You, as an American, call this the “New World.” Why? It's as old ws the old world; people lived here, and had wars and _pesti- Jences and conquests and a real civil- ization, before the Northmen or Co- lumbus ever touched its shores. Indians descended probably from jAsiatics who had crossed from Siberia to Alaska or been cast on the west- ern coast by storms at sea, roamed our plains and forests, sailed lakes. and streams in swift canoes, built cities of brick and stone in the baked lands of the sowtawest, wor- shipped gplden idols, traded with sil- ver money, wove clothing of goat-hair and raised crops of peas and beans. There were many kinds of indians, from the ‘skin-clad huntsmen of the eastern lands to the civilized farmers of the desert and the miserable “dig- gers” of California. Extensive cities in Arizona and New Mexico were laid waste by war- riors from the north and east, and the whole land was devastated now and then by tribal wars, just as Eu- rope and Asia in those days were BARN BURKS; SAYS FOE THREATENED 10 BURN HS BUILDING “My barn was set on fire. A fel- low told me he would do it, and he did,” said George Weible of Fifteenth cussing the last night destroyed his fire which barn, consuming with it four horses, jone heifer and three calves; two sets of harness; two wagon boxes and he- tween 60 and 70 chickens. “Absolutely nothing to it,” said State Fire Marshal A. .H. Runge, who our © SAW THESE SHORES Vy le b al TF WN @ this forenoon investigated charges. ‘But Mr. Weible is by no means sat- istied. The fire department responded to a call between 10 and 11 o'clock last evening, but the Diaze had gained such headway that the fire laddies could do nothing more than protect neighboring property. ‘Mr. Weible’s loss in building and contents will run around $2,000, CUTS NO ICE; ASKS SUPREME COURT FOR MONEY HE HAS LOST ll-Miller Milling Co. -be- gan zing sewage from their mill into the Heart river at Dickin- son, Iceman ‘McDonough has cut no ice in the Stark county seat. Conse quently his attorneys are asking the supreme court to award him in dam- ages against the Russell-Miller peo- Madison, Wis., April 16.—Bulletins are being posted throughout Wiscon- ; Sin urging farmers to do their “bit”! ers are urged to plant the most they |for their country by growing morej| can this season, Some suggestions crops and maintaining higher effi- This “spring drive” may be a “drive home.” It’s never too early to enlist. ciency on their farms. “Food Production is Farm Patriot- ism” is the catch phrase of the post- ers. They are prepared by Dean H. L. Russell of the state university and distributed from the school’s agricul- tural experiment station. FOOD PRODUCTION 1S FARK PATIOTSN POSTERS ARE TELLING. FARMERS fila Srna Potato $3 heemteretit Hl Bs ctor Since even farm laborers may be called upon for military duty, farm- are: plant cereals, plant less tobacco in favorable corn districts, sharing contracts between land own- Weible’s | Tabloid History of the United States! CONQUESTS, ALLIANCES AND A MEASURE OF CIVILIZATION BEFORE THE FIRST EUR- OPA weecww es masccosw own n eno eweeee= torn by strife among peoples not muci further advanced in civilization than some American indians. Indians formed leagues and allianc- es, just as European nations did. Two principal alliances in the Alleg- heny mountain and lower great lake country were Iroquois, which jnclud- cd several large tribes, M owere the Mayas of Mexico, who made bronze, worked in gold and copper, had a national literature pre- served on parchment books, main- tained public schools for boys and girts, studied history and religion, vooked elaborate meals, ‘and dressed in brightly dyed cotton, garments. The Cherokees \ére''the only ind- | ians living in what is now the Unit- ed States who tad literature written in their own alpl abet. Most tribes made slaves of captive warriors unless they were immediat- put to death, Polygamy ‘was ced by mest indians, but the cf the desert were monogam- These were the conditions in Am- erica when the first Europeans visit- ed the shores in the fifteenth cen- tury. ple a sum equivalent to that which he might have derived from the sale of congealed aqua. Mr. ‘McDonough claims the discharge from the mill pollutes the waters of the Heart to such an extent that commercial ice- cutting has gone by the hoards, SUMMONS. State of North Dakota, County of Burleigh, ss. In District Court, Sixth Judicial Dis- trict. Henry Tatley, Plaintiff, vs. W. P. Smith, Defendant. The State of North Dakota to the Above Named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to an- swer the complaiat in this action, which will be filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court: of the Sixth Judicial District, in and for the County of Burleigh -and State of North Dakota, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the subscriber within thirty days after the service of this Summons upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and in case of your failure to appear or an- swer, judgment will be-taken against you by default for the relief demand- ed in the complaint: Dated Jan. 11, 1917. THEODORE KOFFEL, Plaintiff's Attorney. Bismarck, North Dakota, (3—9, 12, 19, 26; 4—2, 9, 16) HIGH GOST OF LIVING HITS BISWARCK BAKED GOONS WITH BIG BOOST Bismarck bakeries have at last stic- cumbed to the ‘advancing cost of everything that goes into pastry, not- ably flour, and this morning Hughes Bros., Runge & Evarts the Sanitary Bakery announced a flat increase in prices for all baked goods. Ten-cent loaves of bread advanced to 16 and profit} 5-cent loaves to 7; doughnuts go from Mrs. Hugo A. Mella and Miss Leilia ers and hired help, return to the soil] from 15 to 20, and cookies from 12 by all able-bodied “retired farmers,”|to 15. The bakers announce that the and withdrawal of labor from clubjold prices could no longer be main- grounds, estates atid parks to the] tained with even a minimum margin farms. +cns of profit. A Close. Shave It lacked five minutes of the time for the departure of the 6:80 express, and the carriage was rapidly filling up. Jared Stone, a well-dressed, meeklook- {ng little gentleman, had just settled down in a corner of a first-class com partment, when he heard a familiar voice addressing him. “Why, hello, Stone; how are yout | I'm right in luck today. I was just looking for someone to take charge of Aunt Martha’s bundles and assist her out of the train with them when she reaches Manchester. You're going through, of course?” “y—yes,” answered Stone, faintly, as he glanced up and recognized his friend Raemond, with his arms full of bundles of all shapes and sizes and “Aunt Martha” grimly looking up be- hind him like one of Napoleon’s grena- diers, Now. Jared Stone was of a decidedly shy and retiring disposition, besides being a fossil of an old bachelor (Stone was fifty, still single, and not only will- ing, but anxious to remain so), and {f he could have had his choice he would sooner lead a bayonet charge, face a gang of mutineers or a midnight burglar, or encounter almost any other trifle in that line rather than take charge of a woman and her luggage during a railway journey. Therefore the reader will kindly imagine the re- ‘marks (they will hardly do for print) that Stone made. under his breath as he got up and, with forced politeness, bowed. the waiting female to the scat next to the window. “Thank you,” sald Raemond,-as he began piling bundles on Stone's feet and into his lap, whichever came the handiest; “I knew you'd just as soon do me the favor to take charge of Aunt Martha as not, and I'm glad I hap- pened to run across you. She is a trifle hard of hearing and—er—a little eccentric in some respects, but you'll find her first-rate company when you get acquainted with her, By the way, I came near forgetting to introduce you to ench other. Mr. Stone, this 1s my aunt, Miss Martha Eakins.” Then, raising his voice, he shouted: “Aunt Martha, allow me to present my bach- elor friend, Mr. Stone, who will look after you and see you safely off the train with your luggage when you reach Manchester.” “So good of him, I’m sure. Happy to meet you, Mr. Stone,” responded Miss Eakins, with what was meant to be a whimsical smile in Stone’s direc- tion. At this moment the starter’s bell tang, the train began slowly moving Out of the station, and with a hurried “good-by,” Raemond dashed out of the (compartment, Jeaving Stone alone to face the responsibility. of. delivering Miss Eakins and her collection of lug- gage safely at Manchester station—a responsibility which even the bravest of Stone’s sex might well have hesi- tated to face. Now Stone, as I have previously intt- mated, was not cast in a heroic mold. He was a timid little gentleman, meas- uring probably five feet two in his pat- ent leathers, and his great aim in life, so far as the so-called gentler sex was concerned, was to leave them severe- ly alone and quletly flock by himself, as Lord Dundreary used to express It. Miss Martha Exkins, on the con- trary, though she had chiefly flocked by herself through five-and-forty sim- mering summers and the same num- ber of dreary winters, had done so un- willingly and under protest, as it were. For a full quarter of a century the tall and stately Miss Eakins (who loomed nearly a foot above Stone, and looked every inch a grenadier, as I be- lieve I have before hinted) had been on the matrimonial bargain counter— she had a snug little fortune in her own right—waiting patiently for some enterprising and appreciative gentle- man to appenr on the scene and take possession of her willing heart and other personal property. But, alas! Thus far her waiting had been in vain. Among her list of acquaintances other maidens, young and old, attractive or otherwise, some with fortunes and some without, had been taken, and she ‘A clammy perspiration broke out ot Stone. “Excuse me,° hg: interupted hastily, “I sald a fine day§ hot gay, bat day; d-a-y!” uid “Say? Let them say what they've 8 mind to. I fancy Martha Eakins hat got money enough, so she doesn’t ask any odds of anybody—present com- pany excepted. Of course it is differ- ent with you. The minute my nephew introduced us to each other I felt that we were going to be friends—t{ntimute friends, as I may say.” Stone’s face was now the color of an Itallan sunset, and he was earnest- ly longing for the bottom to drop out of the carriage and let him through, or for some other catastrophe to come to his rescue, but as usual in such eases his longings were in vain. “Yes, Mr. Scone, the very instant I set my eyes on you I said to myself, here is a congental soul, a man that I can trust; and I hope we shall have no secrets from each other. I am rich, but wealth {s not all that {s worth liv- ing for. You may be poor, Mr. Scone—” “My name is Stone, madam, not Scone,” shouted the embarrassed bach- elor, “and if you will change the sub- ject to something less personal I shall be greatly obliged to you.” “Obliged to me? Not at all, Mr. Spone. No obligation whatever. I am only too happy—” “Great heavens!” groaned Stone; “what on earth is the old lady driving at, I wonder?” . And then raising his voice, he fairly howled: “Madam, your nephew expects me to see you safely out of the train at Manchester, and I'll do it, but in the meantime I pro- pose—” “To read my paper in quiet until we reach your station,” Stone was about to say, but Miss Eakins was too quick for him. Her ear caught the word propose, and that was enough for her. The supreme moment of her life had arrived and’ last—or ‘at least she thought it had—and with a cry of joy she flopped over on. Stone’s, shoulder, knocking his hat off and sending it spinning on the floor, and nearly smashing in his ribs against the side of the car. “Oh, you dear, good man,I felt sure right from the start that you were go- ing to propose! I knew the symptoms well, and— What's the matter, lovey? Haven't been taken ill all of a sudden, have you?” But Stone had wriggled out of her embrace, leaped to the other side of the compartment, and, fortunately for him, the train was just slowing up at the first stop. He tore open the door, and slammed it to. Then dashed down the platform to the conductor’s com- partment. The stop was brief, and the conductor signaled the driver to go ahead and turned to enter the train, he noticed. Stone for the first time, There was no time for explana- tions, and both leaped into the car. “Great Scott! cried Stone, puffing hard to get his breath. “That was a narrow escape. If I hadn't got away when I did I should have found my- self a married man before we arrived at our destination. Do you want to earn a ten-dollar bill?” The conductor was not quite sure of the man’s sanity, but keeping a sharp eye on him, he intimated that a bank- note of that denomination had its charms, Then Stone told his story. “Tf you'll go to about the fifth car when we make another stop, you'll find in one of the compartments a six-foot female, all alone. You might tell her that I am dead, and that the remains would like their hat.” “Yes, sir.” “And then, when you have done that, {f you will see that she doesn’t find me, and help her out at Manchester with all her goods and chattels, and get ber away from the station so that I may go on my Way in safety, I'll put another bill on top of the first one.” “All right,.sir; leave it to me,” re- sponde@ the conductor with a smile. And all the rest of that journey Jared Stone rode in the conductor's zompartment. And fearfully he peered trom the window and watched every movement of the dangerous“and gi- gantic female when at last-the station was reached and the passengers poured out upon the platform. alone had been left'to mourn over the perverseness of mankind, i ‘Much brooding on the subject, coupled with her infirmity of hearing, had at last resulted in the harmless delusion :that eyery man who treated her at all politely was desperately in love with her, and as Stone had not been warned of this fact, it can read- fly be surmised that his present pos!- tion was:one of extreme peril—that is, so far’as his peace of mind was con- cerned, at least. After several tunnels had been passed and the train had emerged once more into daylight, Stone transferred most of the bundles from his Jap to the rack overhead, and presently ven- tured upon the remark that it was a fine day. > “Beg. pardon, sir!” said the female Grenadier, suddenly straightened. up and glancing inquiringly at Stone. “I said it’s a fine day,” explained Stone, raising his voice to a shout. “Gay? Oh, well I try to be, but it’s rather hard sometimes for a lonely fe wale to keep her spir—” Not until he saw the cab into which she had been deposited with all her baggage disappear out of the station, did he emerge from the train, and then only to leap {nto -a closed carriage, which ‘the conductor had secured for him, He vowed to himself that that $20 was the best investment he had ever made in his life, ' Ethical: Editor. Dr. Talcott Williams said in one of his lectures before the Columbia School of Jousnalism: “If a paper copies from.dnother pe- per, It should always give the other paper credit. That is journalistic zthics. The editor of the Cinnaminson é Scimitar has a firm grip on-journalistic ethics. He copied the other day a poem beginning ‘A thing of beauty is a Joy forever,’ and at the poem's end he gave credit like this; we, —John Keats, in the Los Angeles STENOS ARE ELEVATED. The corps of able stenographers who serve as private secretaries to the justices of the supreme court ave, received an important elevation. A “géw room has ‘been constructed inthe “law reference library mezzan- ine floor, which gives the supreme court secretaries a higher position than that enjoyed by any other de- partment at the capitol except the tax commission, Chief Custodian Wil- liam ae and his handy crew are re- sponsible for the good). work’ the new apartment. - Se See eee Dy Ig II att