The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 19, 1917, Page 4

San RTT i BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY, APRIL. 19, THE TRIBUNE @antered at the Pestoffice, Bismarch, N. D. as Becond Class Matter. {88UED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY UUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCB fully, by mail or carrier, DOr month ..,.secceeccrseees 9 60 Daily, by mail, one year in North Dakota seevee 4,00 Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, one year ..... Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, three months. Daily, by mail in North Dakotas three months ......... ‘Weekly, by mail, per year . 6.00 1.60 THE ‘Ss iT aT AT Tstabliabed. 1878) WEATHER REPORT April For 24 hours ending at noon 19: Temperature at 7:00 a, m. . Temperature at noon ... (Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night ‘Precipitation Highest wind velocity Forecast. For North Dakota—Generally fair tonight and Friday; cooler in east portion tonight. Lowest ‘Temperatures argo... +++ 38 Williston. . - 8 Grand Forks . 36 Pierre ... 38 St, Paul » 42 Winnipeg at Helena . 30 Chicago ..... 50 Swift Current 26 Kansas City 60 San Francisco - 46 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, ‘Meteorologist. BISMARCK’S TRIBUTE. Bismarck will do her “bit” in the war, No more loyal hearts beat wh in the length and breadth of the land than here. The city glows today with evidences of patriotism. The Slope is solidly behind Presi- dent Wilson in this crisis. i As more than a hundred years ago, the citizens utter: | “A cry of defiance, and not of fear— A voice in the darkness, a knock at any- the door, * And a word that shall echo forever- more.”" These patriotic demonstrations come too seldom. In the materialism of the last decade, too little time has been devoted to inculcating true Americanism in the hearts of those aliens who came to our shores be- cause life: here meant happiness and freedom of thought. This war will banish the hyphen forever. It must weld us into a de- voted, loyal and united nation, The first duty now is to be Americans. America’s tongue, her history, her in Stitutions and her customs must nev- er be subordinated to the tongue, customs or practices of an alien land. An over- indulgent government, raising false standards of democra has permitted aliens to place their racial predilections above — patriotic duty to the land of their adoption. Today finds the nation more united than ever in its history. The stimulus of this day arouses the spirit of the minute men and sends a challenge alike to native born and citizens of alien birth to uphold inviolate the sacred honor of the United States. RSBPICABLE TACTICS, taztics of thé: kaiser's friends in thigy¢gountry’ can mow be seen by anybody ‘that will take the trouble to look. t Their, ‘first play was to keep the United States from declaring a war. To that end they mustered six votes in the senate and 50 in the house. This was not enovgh, of course, to defeat fhe résolution but it was enougtt 'to take some of the punch out of it, delight the Kaiser with the be- Nef that we are disunited, and cause the world to doubt our sincerity and to scorn our efficiency. The next plan of the kaiser con- tingent, now that we are in the war, is to see to it that we play a spine- less part and don’t hurt the German cause the same plan that has worked so successfullly in Russia for more than two years. And so they line up to oppose the only way by which we can get an ef- fective army quickly. This is the real meaning of the op- Position to the administration's army ‘Dill that is developing in the house of representatives. It is quite likely that some of the men opposed to universal military service don't know they are working for the Hohenzollerns. Some unques- tionably know it well enough and are proud of it. for they are built that way, bat some are just simple, cred- ulous come-ons, led by the nose to fight the kafser’s battle. These are times when ignorance is as bad and as inexcusable as vicious- ness. If the simple-minded among the copperhead group don’t know what they are doing they ought to be en- lightened by their constituents. One of the ways in which they are helping their country’s enemy now is by urging that instead of an army ‘formed ‘on the basis of the universal gation. They fight because all rench- the rest of us, only paying our hired substitutes a greater wage for taking the risk we are too cowardly to take. That would men that we should never have an army worthy of the name and never do our share of the world’s war against autocracy and Prussianism. It would mean more of the deadly weakness that has hitherto invited attack and more of the shameful im potence that has made the world wonder and laugh at us. A handful of mercenaries—is that our idea of our solemn duty now? ‘Who are the best soldiers this war has developed? Whose courage, mag: nificent devotion and steadfast spirit have been our chief admiration? The soldiers of France. ‘How much pay do they get? Nothing, you might say. Two cents a day for tobacco, But they do not fight for pay; they are not hired to perform their obli- men have always expected to fight for the defense and the life of France, To put by the side such men an American army composed of men that fight only for dollars would be to disgrace our cause and paralyze our arms. So do ignorant men, unaware of Great ‘Britain's deadly experience wallowing in the same mire. But the; dull men and the ignorant men are! now the handiest possible tools for the kaiser’s agents in and out of con- gress. If they can put over their scheme; it will be worth the equivalent of aj million men to the German,army. — | —— | BEAUTY, Beauty is a human need—as much| a human need as bread and air. | Without beauty, man can exist; but he can scarcely live. } Without beauty, life is dwarfed, twisted, misshapen; humanity be comes crabbed and miserable. The lives into which beauty enters are ennobled by its influence. And there is beauty enough for all You don’t need a fortune to buy it. You couldn't buy it with the great- est fortune in the world. You might buy. pictures, but unless pictures are bought with taste they lose their beauty. You don't need to travel to countries to find beauty. Tt lies all about you. far home, if love rules it—far more than in the marble palace whose atmo- sphere may be false and proud. There is beauty in devotion, in! service, in honesty, and it is unpur- chasable. There is beauty in contentment, if it is not squalid contentment. You can find it'in the workshop, in| the street, as well as in the home, ‘Let beauty influence your life. And to find beauty, look about you ————— ODDS EIGHT TO ONE. Considering wealth, population and territory, more than 90 per cent of the world is at wars Roughly speaking, 80 per cent rep- resents the allies and 10 per cent the ventral powers, The remaining 10 per cent repre sents the neutrals. The total wealth of the world i estimated at $700,000,000,000. Quite a snug sum! About $550,000,000,000 belongs to the allies, $110,000,000,009 to the cen- tral powers, $40,000,000,000 to the neutrals. The wealth of the United States is about $250,000,000,000, nearly one-half of the total wealth of the allies, more than one-third of the total wealth of the whole world. The total population of the world in round numbers is 1,759,000,000. The allied nations have about 1, 410,000,000 people, the central powers 164,000,000, the neutrals 176,000,000. The allies control upwards of 40. 000,000 square miles of territory, the central powers a little less than 3, 900,000 square miles, the neutrals a little less than 10,000,000 square miles. An eastern financial publication! suggests that allied airplanes drop| pamphlets containing these figures | among the German soldiers and the} German people as one very effective way of hastening the end of the war. Certainly unless the Germans have entirely lost the power to think for themselves, a little study of these fig- ures ought to impress them with the hopelessness of their situation. And it ought to impress them with the criminal stupidity of their rulers, whose policies have forced the great: er part of the civilized world to make war against them. In the whole history of the world there has been no tragedy more ter- rible than the betrayal of the German people by the rulers to whom they have given their blind devotion. _ There isn’t going to be as much discussion about “Who ended the war?” as there was about who start- ed it. He who holds a “war bride” is Dull men support such a project. 2 There is beauty in the humblest| , “All Men Are Created Free and Equal’’ garreericie Sa UNCLE SA tT Make Mowe, less telegraphy. (C. C. Lyon, correspondent of The Tribune, has enlisted in the United States navy and, from time to time, will write of his experiences for this newspaper. He has gone through the U. S. naval training station at Nor- folk, Va. and is now under as. signment with the’Atlantic ficet. What has the United States navy to offer in the way of a career for a young man? With a “state of war" existing be- tween the United States and Ger many at present, patriotism is at a high pitch and thousanuds of red- blooded fellows will join the navy without a thought of financial reward or advancement. But we will not always be at war. ‘Hundreds of young men are {1l- ready in the service because they have figured out they'll be as well, if not better off, financially, than they would not be in civil life. Capt. John H, Dayton, commandant of the Norfolk naval trating station, has handled many hundreds of nava: | recruits. He knows boys from A to;chinists by the thousands, engineer “Conditions are becoming constant- ly more advantageous for the enlist- ed man.” Capt. Dayton said. “Any boy who comes to a naval training station has a chance under the present regulations to become eventually the highest commanding officer in the navy!” The 109 early appointments to Ann- proclamation is as follows: that all civic forces co-operate in more beautiful city. “From a sanitary standpoint, receive attention first. All rubbi flies and vermin and a menace to luckier than she who holds a war ‘bridegroom. _————— to the republic, we should con- »_ to, hipe some men to fight. for| sword. ewawecse mee ewes sreeeee* The plow,is mightier than the kind should be removed at once. wecewecoccowens moo ccoooce CAREERS, GOOD INCOMES IN MS WAVY, FINDS REPORTER LYON nl ee - Lyon at a naval wireless station receiving instruction in wire- apolis naval academy from the ranks of the enlisted men are now the big i ambi- prizes spw on the more tious boys. ry boy who ated from Annapolis become: ioned officer and has a ¢ become an admiral if hi service and shows the ne ity. ry abil- a trade he could follow in the serv- ice. At the start he r es $17.60 a month, but he can iner e this by earned promotions, conscientious “{work and reenlistments to $119.92 a month. | J talked with a man In Norfolk who had retired from the navy after 3 years honorable service. He was 48 when he retired. He is drawing $106.92 a month “retirement from the government and will con- tinue to draw that much AS LONG AS HE LIVES.? His pay equals six per cent interest on $21,384. How many men at 48 are as well off? No business on earth requires as many different kinds of skilled men as the navy. The service needs: ma- | boilermakers, expert gunners, rr penters, plumbers, electricians, black- smiths, painters, sailmakers and many otger craftsmen. The “yeo- man” branch offers jobs to bookkeep- ers, stenographars, muscians, pharm- acists, etc, In the commissary branch are jobs for bakers, cooks, etc. ‘Every boy has a right to learn any of these trades in the navy, and the City Health Physician - Issues His Proclamation For a “City Beautiful’ Dr. F. B. Strauss, city health officer, in a proclamation issued this afternoon for “a cleaner and a more beautiful ci sity for a prompt and vigorous clean-up and pai urges the neces- jp campaign. His “In view of the fact that Mayor Lucas has set-apart the week of April 23 to 30 as “Clean-up, Paint-up week,” it is especially desirous this movement for @ cleaner and it is important that the back yards ish, garbage, ashes and refuse of any These are breeding places for the health of the community. “Therefore, as city health officer, I join Mayor Lucas in urging the necessity for a prompt and vigorous clean up andypaint up campaign in order that the Capital City of as the City Beautiful. North Dakota shall retain its title “i twelve.of them s A man between 17 and 25 enlists! ag “apprentice seaman,” if he hasn't} government goes to considerable ex- pense to teach him. At the Norfolk training station, some of the brightest boys joined classes in wireless telegraphy, taught by Instructor G. R. Barker. A paragraph from’ “The Recruit’s Handy Book” seems to summarize the entire navy game. “Recruits should settle down to work and remember that good con- duct and continuous service WILL. ALWAYS BRING PROMOTION, and that life‘in the navy has many bright sides. A’man Who’ts easily discour- aged, or who wit! NOt’ work or ‘learn a trade’ never wilt? ¥utced at any- thing” : eal —_—_—_—X—a——\WwW—))W==N | ‘READERS’ COLUMN } é » Chicago, April 14. Editor Tribune, Bismarck, N. D.: History tells of the bravery of the Spartan mothers; history also ‘tells of the bravery and sacrifices of our own women and mothers in the war of the Revolution, of, 1776,,which gave us our freedom and, made us a free people, and founded;for a, government | on the principles of, the greatest good. for the greatest number, which is de- cidedly in contrast to Germany’s rule of—all things sacrificed that the House of Hohenzollern may rule. From our school days we have known the poem of Barbara Fritchie: “Shoot, if you must, this old gray j head, but spare my country’s flag, she id.” In contrast. with that, .what is North Dakota showmng us today when if wo are to have a country we must stand for it? ‘orly-eight states, in the United ‘States with nincty-six senators, and great and free America for submis- sion to tyranny. To doff the hat to the would-be ruler of the world. To accede to the kind of autocracy that caused our forefathers to leave the old world and come here In primitive times to build to themselves hontes and a life of moral and mental free- dom, and many of them fought, -bled jand died to establish this government consecrated to that idea which we ‘have had the benefit of all our days. Tf a man should spit in our face, should we take off our hat to him and say “Thank you?’® Or should we biff him, no matter how big he is, or ; how consequential he thtnks he is? If we see a robber going into our barn to steal our cattle or our goods, shall we shut ourselves in the ctothes cios- et until he has obtained what he wants and is gone, or shall we rush out and do cur utmost to drive him off the place and protect our, prop- erty? df we wake in the nigh: and find a burglar in our room shall. we crawl under the bed and stay there until he leaves the house, or shall we up and at him? In other -vords, shall we be men or mice? Shall we do our duty, or shall we play the coward be- cause mother does not want her boy to fight? Rather recommend me to Mrs. John J. Mitchell, wife of the president of one of the largest banks in Chi- ' cago, who says: “I have three sons and if it shall seem necessary I am willing to give them all to fight for thetr country.” 1 do not believe in any one starting war unless they have just cause, but jthere are certain principles of ‘right, {certain principles of manhood, cer- |tain. principles of liberty, that some- times cannot be protected and upheld in any other way. The world is now at tne fork of the road phere the question is: ~ “Shall all men be slaves, or shall all men be free?” We have shown to the world. for 140 years the enlightenmént and ben- efits of freedom; France has followed in our footsteps; England, although she has a king, he is a king in name only, as England is ruled by men chosen by the people; China has madé of herself a republic; Russia has declared for freedom, but if Ger- many. should win in this war there is: no show for freedom In any country whith she shall conquer, and in a from our ken;”’ armed men. nor heed— need. a. If ye grudge a year of service oe our trade.’’ is laid? burn? * your eyes. On your On Your Own Heads — By RUDYARD KIPLING (The failure to heed this warnin untold suffering. ig by Kipling bas caused Great Britain Shall we also be blind?) Fenced by your careful fathers, ringed by your leaden seas, Long did ye wake in quiet and long lie down at oH ae Till ye said of Strife, ‘‘ What is it?’’, of the Sword, ‘‘It is far Till ye made a sport of your shrunken hosts and a toy of your Ye stopped your ears to the warning—ye would neither look Ye set your leisure before their toil and your lusts above their * * % But ye say, “It will mar our comfort.”’ Y Given to strong delusion, wholly believing a lie, Ye saw that the land lay fenceless, and ye let the months go by Waiting some easy wonder; hoping some saving sign— Idle—openly idle—in the lee of the fores Idle—except for your boasting—and what is your boasting worth pent Line. to the lordliest life on earth? wee say, ‘‘It will ’minish Do ye wait for the spattered shrapnel ere ye learn how a gun For the low, red glare to southward when the raided coast-towns (Light ye shall have on that lesson, but little time to learn.) 2% eS # No doubt but ye are the People—absolute, strong, and wise; Whatever your heart has desired ye have not withheld from own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving In 1607 at Jamestown, Va., and in 1620 at Plymouth, Mass., the English colonies were founded which nearly two centuries later were to develop the United States of America, There had tbeen a Spanish settle- ment at St. Augustine, Fla. since 1565. In 1587 Englishmen had found- ed a colony on the Carolina coast, but the settlers disappeared, leaving no trace. Spain and Portugal had colonies al- so in Mexico, the West Indies and South America; while the French col- onized Nova ‘Scotia in 1604 and found- ed Quebec in'1608. Dutch colonies at New Amsterdam, now ‘New York, Swedish settlements in Delaware and French settlements in the ‘Carolinas were gradually ab- sorbed, until by 1664 all the ‘coast from Main to Florida was recognized as English territory: : France in’ the meantime ‘was ‘+hold- ing the St. Lawrence and Mississippi valley and’ the Great Lakes. ‘) Virginfa’s -settlers'-were mostly of): the English “cavalier” class. They didn’t understand much about living under pioneer conditions; and suffered many hardships which the Pilgrims and Puritans, in Massacausetts’ more severe climate, escaped. Capt.John Smith, one of the Virg- inia leaders, was captured iby indians, and his life’ was spared at the, re- quest of ‘Chief Powhatan's’ daughter Pocahontas, who thereby became our first indian heroine. % Indians in the north taught colon- ists how to raise grain in the forests, ‘by ringing thé trees so the sap would- n't flow and leaves wouldn't grow. But these colonists also ‘aad dis- astrous indian wars. From Massachusetts, colonists who dissented over religion settled Rhode Island and Connecticut. A company of English Catholics es- tablished Maryland, while Quakers, under William Penn, settled Pennsyl- Tabloid History of United States English Colonies Gradually Grow Together and Form Leagues That Portend Revolution and United Nation ° vania. ‘New. Jersey was part of the early Dutch and Swedish colonies. As the colonies increased in power and population they became inter-con- nected. Massachusette, Plymoutn, Connecticut and New Haven in 1643 combined as the “United Colonies of New England,” for defense against the indians and the Canadian French. Four wars between France and England in the seventeenth. and eighteenth centuries were participat- ed in by the colonies. The last of these ended in 1763 with Canada, and all territory east of the Mississippi except Florida, in vritish hands. Attempts of England to obtain Breater revenues from the colonies were opposed, and the “stamp tax” law, passed in 1765, brought about a congress of the colonies in-New York the same year, which paved the way for the revolution and independence. States, should show themselves to be either pro:‘German or cowards. It is indeed a pleasure under cir- cumstances like these to see our state redeemed from the action of these men by our governor wiring to our president, pledging the support of ‘North:-Dakota in his efforts to pro- tect the nation and uphold the honor of the country he has been elected president of.’ And it is to be hoped as the days pass on that the number of what used to be called Copper- heads, but-who now nominate them- selves Pacifists, shall grow beautifully less day by day as they may be more and more convinced of the error of their ways ‘by letting their souls and ‘brains- be illumined by the light of reason, patriotism, love of everything that has given us our great manhood an@ made us ‘what we are, viz.: lead- ers of the world’s freedom. As North Dakota in the recent el- ection gave ‘a majority of her votes for Mr. Wilson for president, let us all (irrespective of party) give him all the support in our power in his present move to sustain our honor and our independence. > —W. P. TUTTLE. NOTICE OF SALE. Bankable paper will be accepted on same basis as cash at Pat Harvey Estate sale, April 20, 1917. PHILIP HARVEY, Executor, case like this it makes a real man shudder.,to think, in my- Then’ watch Old Old Glory (By O. S. Lamberson of Dickinson, N, 0.) Unfurl that banner to the breeze That it may proudly wave, Just: as it did in years gone by, Over the free and noble brave. : i We love it for the valiant cause -. ¥or which our heroes fell, ‘Tis planted deeper in our hearts Than words of song can tell, > May the Stars and Stripes forever wave, « O'er a people kind and true;” Truth and forebearance be their guide, i Their standard, the red, the. white and blue. When foes invade our sacred. right, «,.. We will fight that right to “e~Sand plant off flag in’ Pictory’: ‘ways SUSPENDED SENTENCE MEN GIVEN PAROLES BY STATE BOARD EXPERTS Reade Petitions for parole from a-half dozen “suspended sentence” men were considered by the state board of experts in regular session at the state penitentiary yesterday. One applicant was discharged, and five others were taken under probation. None of these convicts has served any time in the penitentiary, but they have been un- der the surveillance of ithe board of experts, which will continue to con- trol their destinies until the term of the sentence has expired or they have been paroled. ‘No petitions for par- dons were received from inmates at the penitentiary yesterday, as the weather did not appear propitious to any man who had a sound roof over him and assurance of “three squares Per.” New Corporations.—Articles of in- corporation were filed with the sec- retary of state.today by the Sydness & Olson Co., Fargo, Christ Sydness, Mariana Sydness, Andrew Olsen and Inga Olson, $25,000, and the Hensel Farmers’ Elevator: Co., Hensel, John Conlan and Emma Schering, Hensel, and Emil Busse and P. J. Farr, Cav- alier, $25,000. —_____ The Hotel of Character and Com- fort. Hotel Radisson, Minneapolis. —————_