The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 18, 1917, Page 4

t ta me BISMARCK DAILY TRIBU: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1917. THE TRIBUNE Matered at the Pestotdce Dismarch, N. as Becond Class Matter. = {88UED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY i RATES PAYABLE IN| ADVANCE | Datly, by mail or carrier, per month Pee cise seidieieiseicl, © 008: Wally, by mail, one year in | North Dakota ....+6 ssseeeee 4.00) Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, one year .,... 6.00) Daily, by mail outside of { rth 1 1.60' North Dakota, three months Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months ......... ‘Weekly, by mall, per year Member Audit Bureau of Circulation THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER “(Katabliehed 1972) = | WEATHER REPORT For 24 hours ending at noon, April 18: Temperature at 7:00 a, m. Temperature at noon . Highest yesterday .. Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity Forecast. For North ‘Dakota: tonight; Thursday fair; change in temperature. (Partly cloudy no decided ‘Lowest “Temperatures Farga 44 Williston . of Grand Forks . . 88 Pierre 8 St. Paul 56 Winnipeg 34 Helena 20 Chicago mie «3 Chicago ... - 58 Swift Current, 82, Kansas City rive... 64 - San Francisco . ory 46 ORRIS W. ROBHRTS, Meteorologist. 0H OF9 59999800008, “* Man is neither the vile nor the excellent thing which he % sometimes imagines himself % to be.—Disraeli, SPIE PIOSHEEEOE OE 1 QaSESaSS————— | A HISTORIC DATE. | One hundred and forty-two years | ago today, America decided the hour ; had come to.free a liberty loving peo: | ple fromathe autocracy of the Old] World. Brether took up arms against brothes. oKith and kin opposed each other and. through the ordeal of war} a@ new nation dedicated to liberty was | established. Today we are involved in a greater} Struggle, but for the same principles. It, is not a war of national aggrand, izement. But-if it is not fought with! vigor and determination, those prin- ciples for which Paul Revere made his famous ride may perish from the earth. Agpirakgheen a month of national sorrow, as well as joy. More mo- mentous steps have been taken by the United; States, in the fourth month of the year than during any period. Old Glory became the national flag in April. War was declared upon Mexico in April; Abraham Lincoln was shot and died in April and Unit- | ed States declared a state of war! with Spain and Germany in the his-; toric month of April. History surely reveals no more in- teresting coincidence in the chronol- ogy of national events. ‘One hundred and two years ago, in April, the military. autocracy of Na- Poleon was giyen. its first real body ‘low and the: dictator of Europe re- tired to Elba in the same month. On the eve, then, of the celebra- tion of the Eattle of Lexington, a na- tion finds itself committed’ anew to the cause of individual liberty, The United States is entering the war to reduce the possibility of war in the future, Its quarrel is with Prussian autocracy. If victory results, the United ,States, the foremost republic, will take part in the peace confer- ence as the friend of the German peo- ple and the foe of the Hohenzollerns or Prussian autocracy, whatever its label. Women are war's worst victims— even those who marry slackers. CAN’T THE GERMANS SEE IT? In modern warfare, as we are wit- nessing it, one fact sticks out above all others, and that is that results depend, in the highest degree, upon artillery. Cavalry and infantry can make little progress until the artil- lery has pulverized the opp.nent’s trenches and fortifications. It is an enlargement of ‘Napoleon’s policy of concentrating his cannons and blow- ing an opening in the ‘enemy’s front. At the start of the war, Germany unquestionably had the superiority in number, calibre and genera! effect- iveness of artillery. The British and french hold that superiority today- What’s' more, Germany started in with men who knew how to use her guns. The vast majority of these specially skilled men have been kill- ed off, or otherwise incapacitated. and now ‘she is no more ‘than’ equal with her enemies so far as experi- ence of ber gunners goes. Today we must estimate the Cen- tral Powers ag the inferior in artil- Jery, navy, cavalry and- infantry, and, j the superiority in the matter of general- ship. With this view of the fighting forc- jes, all that’s still to be considered is resources, -What the Central Pow- ers have captured in the shape of supplies has gone to the armies, not to the peoples, and the suffering of the millions of non-combatants in- creases daily, and the national mis- ery surely affects the morale of the fighting forces. For nearly three years, Germany's financial opers s been the process of taking hard cash from one pocket and, in licu thereof, getting paper promises pay into the other pocket, ich promises are absolutely worthtess un less Germany gets peace with a vic tory the most stupendous and against greatest odds ever known And now there bas been fore21 into the scale against Germany @ll t2e re sources of the most resourceful no tion on earth! The people of Germany, with a no bility that cannot be denied, hay. sacrificed their lives and possevions loyally and in confidence of victory, at the call of their autocrats, How jun can they possibly longer hope tor vic: | tory? How can they longer blind themselves to the final failure of their autocrats?, With each brutal meas ure resorted ‘to by her desperate war} lords, Germany’s penalty grows, That penalty alfeady threatens absolute financial ruin, It: may be aational annihilation. There is no honor, no sense, no credit in‘ loyalty and cour- age that mean national pauperism or suicide. The hour is late, but the German people can still save Germany, Let the German people give the world peace’ by Russianizing their racy, and ‘théy will find in the peace counci] these United States as their strongest sympathizer friend, these same United States which will demand nothing sav2 inalienable rights, but which are ure pared to put billions of dollars, mil lions of men, unheard of resources, into the balance against Germary for those rights. One of our country's military hopes | is Gen. Economy. ——— Our navy likes U-boats; it's going] to,make them spbmarines forever. The man who orders more thin he can eat; the woman who cooks ‘01 than ‘she can use, are not exactly patriots. Anyhow, if the girls will turn their knitting from sweaters to soldiers’ socks, we'll have an army that can’t put up cold feet as an se for get- ting out of the trenches. President Wilson urges the farmers to “speed up” on production, as a war measure. The farmer is puzzled about speeding up, just now. Doesn't know whether to feed $1.20 corn or bank notes to his $25 pi; Mrs. Geo. B. Rice of condido, Cal., with two young sons just enlist- ed, says: “While we hate to see them go to war, we thank God we have raised no cowards.” It’s Amer- ican public sentiment in a nutshell. o———— 0; | WITH THE EDITORS | 0 NO “SCRAP OF PAPER” PEACE. (Editorial Duluth Herald.) The world’s word is: “Peace any day with the German people—peace never with the Hohenzollern!” Otherwise no peace bargain can be better than a “scrap of paper” all too easily torn up and thrown away. THE ‘CONGRESSIONAL VACANCY. (From Grand Forks Herald.) Within a short time a special elec tion will be held in the First Con- gressional district of this state to fill the place in the North Dakota dele- gation recently made vacant by death, There 2 some things to be borne steadily in mind in this con- nection. Since the last election our nation has become involved in the greatest war ever waged on this planet. Na- tion after nation has entered that conflict, impelled to such action by reasons more or less local, as well as by those of a more general charac- ter. But as the situation develops, the local and incidental disappears, and there stands forth the great fact that the world being shaken to its very foundations by the shock of a titamic struggle between the forces of autocracy, seeking in a last des- perate enterprise to strengthen their grip and to secure to themselves for generations an unlimited and irres- ponsible power, and the forces of de- mocracy, seeking to establish for all time on-this earth the-right of human Deings to enjoy the blessings of free government and to enjoy in peace the product of their own labors and the fruits of their own enterprise. partner with the other great democ- racies of the world in this struggle, and, so far as the establishment of the principles for which we contend is concerned, the partnership is abso- lute and unlimited. We have enlisted for the war, and there can be no sheathing of the sword until conclus- ive victory has been won. The con- duct of America’s share in this war is vested in the hands of the presi- dent and congress.. The president, under the constitution, military power and congress ‘vutoe: | The United States has become aj | i | WAKE YouR COUNTRY | UNCLE PAUL REVERE UP |! | | | | | i Today is the one hundred and forty-second anniversary of the ride of Paul Revere and here is Longfellow’s poem describing that famous event of our early history: Listen, my hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seven- children, and you. shall Hardly a man is now alive {Who remembers that famous and year. He said to his friend—“If the British march ‘By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North church tower, ds a sig- nal light— One if by land, and two if by And I on the opposite shore w ‘Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, |For the country-folk to be up and to arm.” Then he said good-night, and with muffled oar Silently row'd to the shore, | a Just as the moon rosé ‘over the bay Where swinging wide at her moo ings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon, like a prison-bar, And a huge, black hulk, that was) magnified By its own reflection in the tide. Charlestown Meanwhile his fend, through alley and street =! Wanders and watches with eager ears, Till in the silence around him he hears The muster of men at the barrack- door, The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet, And the measured tread of the gren- adiers Marching down to their boats on the shore. day Then he climb’d to the tower of the church, * Up the wooden stairs, with stealthy} tread, ee To the belfry-chamber overhead ‘But mostly he watch’d with eager} search The beltry-tower of the Old church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, { Lonely, and spectral, and sombre, and still | North And, lot as he Jooks, on the belfry's height, A glimmer, and light! He springs to the saddle, the bridle} he turns, Rut lingers and gazes, till full on his; sight A second lamp in the belfry burns! then a gleam of! A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in| the dark, And beneath trom the passing, a spark Struck out by a steed that flies fear- less and fleet; That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light The fate of a nation was riding that night; t And the spark struck out by | steed, in his flight, | Kindled the land into flame with its heat. t pebbles, in that | He heard the bleating of the fiock, | And the twitter of birds among the trees, | And felt the breath of the morning | breeze | Blowing over the meadows brown. ; And one was safe and asleep in his i bed Who at the bridge would be‘ first to i fall, And startled the pigeons from their perch On the sombre rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade; Up the light ladder, slender and tall, To the highest window in the wall, gi | Who that Where he paused to listen and look down, A moment on the roofs of the quiet town, And the moonlight’ flowing ‘over all. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Gooted and spurr'd, with a heavy stride, On the opposife shore walk’d Paul Revere, Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed on the landscape far and n Then, impetuous, stamp’d the earth, And turn’d and tighten'’d his saddle- irl: day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British musket-ball. You know the rest. In the books you < have read How the British regulars fired and fled ; How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each yard wall, Chasing the redcoats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the rond, i And only. pausing to ‘fire and load. fence and farm- So through the night rode Paul Re- vere; And so through the night went his ‘ery of alarm To -every Middlesex farm— A cry of defiance, and not of fear— A voice in the darkness, a knock ‘at the door, And a word thatsghall echo forever- more! * village and For borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last, In the hour of darkness, and peril, and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying foot-beat of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul Revere. —Henry Longfellow. to give his undivided and enthusi- astic support to the president of the United States in all measures which are necessary to bring this war to a speedy and successful conclusion. His state of mind should not be that of mere cold acquiescence in some thing which is forced upon him, but rather a consuming desire for the {success of the cause in which we have embarked, We must send to Washington a man on whom we can | rely implicitly in this crisis. The man who will go to Washing- {ton on this mission will have no di- rect voice in the shaping of state poli cles. His field of activity will be | without the state. But in a very real sense he will be regarded by the peo- Ple of the country at large as the representative of North Dakota sent ment on many phases of state activ- ity. It is important on this account that we select no congressman who will misrepresent the state or who will strengthen the. opinion already has supreme} too generally entertained abroad that Must | North Dakota is a state of visionaries{are fighting in Europe have.been en- [toyaity to his country and its insti- tutions; second/’that he be commit: ted to the handling of state as well as-national government in a manner consistent with law and progress, with safety and sound judgment. THE EXAMPLE OF NEW ULM. (Editorial Minneapolis Journal.) Representing, as 1 do, a German community, 1 desire to make my po- sition clear. Pefore war was declared the. city of New Ulm, by an over- whelming vote, voted against enter- ing the conflict, Now that we are at war, our Citizens are patriotic, and ‘on will find more United States flags | displayed there. than any place its] | size in the Country.—Representative | A. W. Mueller of New Ulm, in. Leg- islative Debate on Alien Registration Biil. New Ulm is fairly typical of Ger- man-American sentiment the Country | over. It is a community founded and | peopied by men of German blood, and} ,its sympathies for race-brethren whoj supply all the means whereby his au-|and impracticals, a state given over | tirely natural. But it is just as iAmer- thority can be exercised effectively. ‘Under these conditions, the first consideration in electing a meniber of congress is that the man elected despite all the past. failures and weak- nesses of the Allies,« present : pro-| alty shall be a man of unquestioned Joy- to American~ fnstitutions ‘and be No hat nee to the exploitation of a socialistic propaganda, the items of whose pro- gram are in most;cases the pure im- aginings of schemers and adventur-, ers, and ‘in other res as dem- onstrated in a timent. hese two = are_of preme impo . jican as any other communi ‘When | iniquitous fal takes up its share of it burden the men of jdm are Americans and nothing elsé. The war for them, as f jtrugele America declares. its ek om... and wa: if us, 4 cracy, between free government and Prussianism. America has enlisted on the only side on whieh she could en- list. As the first and the greatest living Republic the United States fights that the world may be “madé safe for democracy.” : It is not against the German peo- ple that we fight, but against the Prussian absolutism. There is) only one obstacle to the making of peace. That is the Hobenzollerns, Once that fy, which ironshod has overridden human rights, is dethron- ed. once the despotism of privilege and class which it has built up and set over the German people, is top- pled over, peace will come speedily. It is a bitter thing for the German- American to fight against his blood- brethren. So was it a bitter thing for the men of the North to fight against their blood-brethren of the South in the Civil War. But the Union could not endure, half-slave and half-free. So brother took up arms against brother, that the Union might be saved and the blight of slavery removed. So was it a bitter thing for the ‘English-born Colonists to fight against their: blood-brethren of Eng-| anti Jand in the + of the American’ Revolution. %, But it was the tyrant} king, Georgeat, ay his ‘Tory ad- jerucial time it THEY WHO STAY. Bismarck, ‘N. D., April 16. Editor of Tribune: America is facing a crisis in her national development and in this well behooves the women of America to consider well their part in this conflict. ‘With the men gone off to war in great num- bers they will have to be the back- bone of the nation. On their shoul- ders wil fall largely the conduct of affairs at home. They will have to see {o it that the troops abroad are cared for and encouraged. They will have to keep the industries at home alive and efficient. English women have donned the habiliments of men and have gone in- to the munition-plants and factories. French women run the street. cars and drive the busses thru the streets of Paris, Clerical and business of- fices in all the European warring na- tions are filled with women who keep the machinery of the country running while the men sacrifice their lives in the trenches. As the men are dying {for their countries at the front, the women are living for them at home. And it will not be long before the call will come to American women to mobilize for their country’s de- fense. Are you women ready? Will you -willingly leave the shelter of your homes to take the places of your. husbands, your brothers, your fathers in shops, in offices, in stores and in the fields? Jt is needless to ask the question a second time, for from all over our broad land I hear like the rushing of mighty waters, that gather to a wave, the answer— “We are ready.” But how to go about our mobiliza- {tion!-How to order our households {that all may be in readiness when the call comes!, On the street today I heard a young woman say, “Oh, if I could only get into one of those kha- ki uniforms and walk up and down ithe street showing to all the world that I was ready at any time to go and fight for my country.” Patience! Wait but a little longer and every woman of America will have the opportunity to show her pat- riotism to the last limit of her strength. Hand and heart and head are to be called into play and each woman can serve as her talents best {fit her. In homes, the greatest care must be taken to conserve every atom of jthe nation’s food and clothing and | fuel so that not one atom of her strength may be lost. In the business | world, ‘brain and brawn must be tried to their utmost to fill in the places of the fighting’ men so''‘that the j wheels of industry fail not in supply- ing food and money and clothing and transportation and all the myriad other things needed to back the sol- diers at» the front. And, above all, women will have to preserve a'calm heart and unclouded mind, ‘frée' from ‘malice and from hat- red, preserving'‘the high poise of a nation that battles for its principles as God gives it to see the light. —A READER. Readers’ Column LIBERTY OR DESPOTISM. Medora, N. D., Apr. 17. * Editor Tribune, Bismarck, N, D,: Being fairly well acquainted with the history of our world for the past four thousand years, brings to my mind man’s struggles for liberty; his struggle to free himself from the rule of the robber class and tyrants, whose aim has always ‘been, aided by a priestcraft, to. keep the great ma- jority in ignorance. This priesteraft can be plainly traced from ancient Egypt down almost to our own time. This priestcraft was always the will- ing tool of the ruler. Commencing in Egypt we find that a great majority of the land was set aside by the ruler for his priests; this condition has fol- lowed. We find it years ago in Italy, France and ‘England have long cast it aside; but Mexico still suffers with the curse. Wherever we find the priestcraft strong we find the rulers corrupt, and the common people ig- norant, and made believe that kings ruled by divine right. This later be- lief is still prevalent in Germany, where William and his family virtu- aly rule the land. . ‘Why should this family rule millions of people and, they, the people, have no say as to how they shall be -governed? All this family of Hohenzollerns are maintained by the state in luxury, and render no more service to the people at large than a man for much less could be secured for. All the princes and little princes must be provided for by the common people. ‘It does not appear to us a question of what England has done in this war; it’s a question of what the gov- ernment of England stands for today and what France stands for in the matter of the liberty of the individu- al? The next question is: What does Prussia stand for? Do the people of this country desire to take a back- ward step in self government? ‘No king has any iisé‘for a Republican form of go“ernmént, and we fully be- lieve that should’ Germany win this war that this country would be the next to be attacked by Germany. You read much about the intelligence of the German people. This is only true in part. The great majority of the common people are not a well edu- cated people; besides, they have no voice in their government and those who have been kept down for hun- dreds of years are never an educated people in the way of government. The question is: do the people of this country want to live under such a form of government where the ruler has alone the power to declare war and drive his people, to war, like sheep to the shambles. We have read copies of telegrams which. passed be- tween Germany ahd’ Engfithd® just be- fore the breaking out’ of the ‘war. In these telegrams the Hin of Ger- many was spoken of as “Willie,” the Emperor of Russia as “Nicky,” and so on. It was more like baseball man- agers getting up a game than rulers plunging the whole world into war. The time'has come when it’s either liberty or despotism. Take your choice! —JAMES W. FOLEY. war on the English people, but on the English autocracy, Their victory helped their blood-brethren. of . Eng- land to wrest rights of self-govern- ment from the throne and the nobles by a gradual revolution which lasted for many years and which has made Britain a democracy. In the same way today the world- wide struggle between freedom and despostism makes it necessary for German-Americans to take up arms aainst their own brothers. But they fight in a holy cause, and in defense of their own liberty. New Ulm, as ‘Mr. Mueller makes evident, is patriotic at such an hour and in such an emergency. So, we ‘believe, are practically all the people of German blood in this Country. And as they come to understand better the real issues of this conflict, their loyalty will engender an enthusiasm for victory that will be of immeas- urable service. JAMMED FULL. (Hatton ‘Free Press) It is a good thing for the country that patriotism ‘does not depend on how we display the American flag. Although mahy of the _ business places about. town are displaying the flag, we liave failed to notice anyone display in the residence section of the city, But even at that we know that ‘Hatton is just jammed full of patriotism, COMMISSION ERRED "IN TEGHNIGALITES, “URGES ELLSMORTH That the city commission was guilty of technical errors in handling details connected with the awarding of the contracts for paving Bismarck District No. 2 was the only import- ant point which Judge Ellsworth of Jamestown, representing Oscar Will, A. VanHorn and others, sought to |make yesterday in arguing before the supreme court on his clients’ ap- Plication for a.permanent injunction. Judge Ellsworth admitted that his case hinged upon technicalities, and he devoted the greater part of his argument this morning to the import- ance of these technical details in the eyes. of the law.. F. H. Register of Bismarck is of counsel for the plain- tiffs, and C. L. Young, Miller, Zuger & Tillotson and F. E. McCurdy are representing the city. The case was appealed bythe plaintiffs from an unfavorable district court decision. GRAIN EMBARGO RAISED. The Minneapolis embargo on grain shipments is raised, the state rail- way commission was advised this morning. Much wheat which has ac- cumulated in the state awaiting ship- mént’ will now move, the commission anticipates. -Thé apparent ‘cause of thé. éntbarzo has.) gestion; althers mark wer | ing ij MEDIGDS READY TO SERVE UNCLE SAN AT FRONT Prominent Physicians Enlist in Country’s Cause at Rous. ing Meeting Here AUXILIARY MEDICAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE Organization Formed Sixth Dis- trict Sogiety-New Mem. bers Taken In A rousing meeting of the doctors of Bismarck and surrounding cities attended the monthly meeting last evening of the Sixth District Medical society in the Commercial club rooms, Thirty of the most prominent of tials profession attended and extensive plans were made to aid the govern- ment in time of war, Three of the medical reserve men of the United States army were pres- ent, Drs. A. M. Fisher, Hugo Mella and F. B. Straugg of Bismarck, and one of the medical staff of the Na- tional guard, Dr, Hunt of Valley City, Dr. Fisher has been named as the physician to examine all applicants for the medical corps of the United States army. For Immediate Service, Dr. ‘Strauss, who is now in active service and in charge of North and ‘South Dakota, gave an interesting re. port of the work being done at tie present time with the North Dakota troops. The doctors of the Sixth Dis- trict are unanimous in offering their services to their country. Seventeen of the number pledged themselves for immediate service, A committee composed’ of Drs. F. R..Smyth, W. H. Bodenstab, Bis- marck; C. G. Forbes, Washburn; Mar- tin Kranz, Mandan; W. C. Wolverton, Linton, were named as the “Auxiliary Medical Defense Committee.” This\is a subcommittee of the state organi- zation of the same name and both will ibe under the nead of the Na- tional Auxiliary ‘ Medical Defense committee, with headquarters in Washington. This new auxiliary wiil be asked to:find out how many phy- sicians are willing to contribute as- sistance to the country during the war. New Members, Five physicians were taken into the membership of the society. They are: Drs. John Simon, Kintyre; W. F. Plassman, Golden Valley; R. Lipp, Bismarck; H, E. Winchester, Flashet EOC. weinesde anna is SO Une.wis dusiness session the ing doctors:-were nent at s Van Horn gfill. % + a | Vi Orn we oy . ’ « y