The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1917, Page 4

Pt fy! Bd wy sibs gala SESOE INO raat A SR TL EIR ca alla ot v MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1917. FOUE BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE a THE TRIBUNE Gntered at the Pestoffice, Bismarck, N. D. an Becond Cisse Mater. : Is8UED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Duily, by mail or carrier, per month Waily, by mail, one y North Dakota ...... .esseeee Daily, by mail outside of North Dakotas, one year .,.+« Datly, by mail outside of North Dakots, three months. Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months ........ Weekly, by mail, per year ..... Member Audit Bureau of Circulation — THD STATES OLDEST NEWS) wrar(aetabahed 1818) . 8 .50 4.00 6.00 1.60 eeoe 1, WEATHER REPORT. | fitting the grave crisis which con- For twenty-four hours ending at) fronts the nation. noon April 30: a = ab Temperature at 7 a. m. 3 ay aia ah Temperature at noon. 43} Governor F advisor, Highest yesterday . 42| tr, William Langer, in the board of Lowest yesterday | regents litigation labored like the! Vowenp Jest; night proverbial mountain and brought Precipation Highest: wind y Forecast. For North. Dakota: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; colder east por- tion tonight. Lowest Temperatures Fargo .... 36 Williston 28 Grand ‘For 8 Pierre .. 56 St. Paul 40 Winnipeg . 32 Helena . 26 Chicago 42 Swift Current 24 Kansas City .... 3 San Francisco » 46 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, ‘Meteorogolist. eel ty NEEDED—A LEADER. America needs a Lord Derby to gal- vanize it into action. National devo- tion is present, but the masses are looking for a leader, The time has passed for academic discussion; the time has arrived for action. Roosevelt's Chicago address Satur- day contains the “punch” for a crisis like this, ‘He could do for the United States what Kitchener did and Derby is doing for England in overcoming na- tional lethargy and indifference. Let’s put him re the job! The Khan of ‘Khiva has granted his people a _ khonstitution. He’s a khareless old Khustomer. ‘CONSCRIPTION. With the passage of the measure for selective draft, congress has paved the way for a much needed demon- stration of national stamina and back- bone. The voice of the pacifists throughout this controversy has ‘not ‘been the voice of the nation. It is a wise move for the republic; a vital move; an imperative move. Every man should be ready to de- fend the sacred rights of America, else government ‘will perish from the land and gftfree pegple will xo into bondage. ‘Virility will replace weak- ness; vacillation will give way to de- termined action; a nation found it- self when congress decided in favor of conscription. Now is the time to write perma: nently into our statute books a mili- tary plan so that future generations will realize that the supreme duty i defense of national honor and ideals — And now the royal palace of Swed- en is under guard against revolution- ists. This war certainly means trou- ble to all folks in the kin, ‘Yaetn 888. -— fy BATTLING FOR COAK. The meaning of the terrific strug- gle between the British-and the Ger- mans around the city of Lens is something more than a mere British attempt to push Hindenburg’s famous “line” still further back. It is some- thing more than an effort to force the enemy off French soil. If Gen. Haig's brave Britons and Canadians succeed in capturing Lens, they will have achieved a victory far mor? im portant than the sinking of 100 Ger- man submarines. What France and Italy greatly need, in addition to food, munitions and clothing, is coal. England has been trying to supply the coal her allies so-urgently require and Ger- many with her submarines has en- dangered and cut short the supply. Lens is the key to this situation. It is in the heart of the greatest coal mining region of France. For many months it has been in the hands of the Germans. If they now lose it, only a short time will elapse until French miners once more work the precious coal lodes. And to that ex- tent, the submarine campaign of frightfulness will have been defeated. HAMILTON HOLT. Bismarck has a rare opportunity to hear national issues discussed tonight Dy.one of the most prominent journ- alists and publicists of the nation. Hamilton Holt, editor of the Inde- pendent, who speaks under the au- spices of a local committee at the Auditorium this evening, is in full ac- cord with President Wilson and the administration. He is for universal military service and not a pacifist. the basis of a lasting and permanent | peace, He has been editor of the Independ- ent since 1897. As president of the state (New York initiative and refer- hendum Jeague, he took an ive part in the work of that organization. He is a trustee of the American college for girls at Constantinopl nd is iden- | tified with the Citizens’ union of New York, For his work in connection with the international labor associations he i was decorated by the emperor of Japan. He is author of “Undistin- guished Americans,” “Commercialism, and Journalism,” including contribu- tions to period , which have given him a wide yogue in the United j States, Bismarck should pack the Auditor- ium this evening and hear a message | forth a mous B. L. 'T. has this little gem in hit | Chicago Tribune column: “Submitted without argument: Jen-/ nie Hogg, a blind-pigger from ‘Minot, has been sent to the North Dakota; | pen.” a aromas bY || READERS’ COLUMN SAPETY IN FARMERS’ HANDS | April 26, 1917. Editor The Tribune, | ‘Bismarck, N. D. | {In this great time, when every citi-| {zen must do his part, the President {has made his chief appeal to the men | who live on the land, He is right in: | doing so, for the safety of our country | j just now is in the hands of our farm- | ers, What I mean is not merely our} safety and the safety of our Allies in the matter of food. 1 mean that the safety of the United Sates against j foreign invasion hangs on the decision of the farmers of the forty-eight States. The two at weapons in this war are arms and’ starvation. The war against German arms will be won or! lost in’ France—the against star-/ vation will be won or lost in America. cannot whip the French | h Englund has food. But it; is still possible that the German sub-| mirines may be able to keep — food enough from reachin England to} starve her into subm If the subm: , the first item jin the Kaiser's terms of peace will be jthe EF flee With the English fleet in his: pos ion, the Kaiser will be master of the world. What will happen to us then? Every man who stops to think knows the} answer. We shall have money, food, labor, land—everything that is desir- able in the world except the power to protect what we have. Experts es- timate that it will take us nine months ready to meet a German army 1: 150,000 men, with modern ar- Under such circumstances, | Germans treat us better! have already treated Bel- tillery. would than they gium and France? the Even’ if the armies of our Allies should crush the» German military ‘power this summer, before the short- age of food can; reach the point of want, the world would still need vast quantities of Ame food. But if they do not, only course can make us safe, and tl to grow food | jenough on our farms for ourselves and our Allies, and to put ships enough on the sea to carry the food, in spite of the submarines, to the men who are fighting our fight. Tf the war last will be the American farmer who will win or lose the war, who will over- turn militarism and autocracy, or al- low them to spread and control the} world, plves included. This is no fanciful picture, but sober fact. Many a man will make light of it until he comes to think it over, but I venture to say that few will treat it lightly after careful thought. It is no: more possible than the great War itself appeared to be, only a few days before it began. It is true that we can greatly in- crease the available food supply out of grain now used in making liquors, and} by reducing household waste. But when these two things are done, and done thoroughly, they will not — be enough. The final decision will still rest in the hands of the men who raise ' food in the first place. The clear duty of the Nation is to guarantee the farmers a fair price for their crops when grown, and a reason- able supply of labor at harvest. The clear duty of the farmer is to raise food enough to.win this war for demo- eracy against Kaiserism. No such responsibility has ever rest- ed on any class of men since the world began rests today on the farmers of America. Sincerely yours, GIFFORD PINCHOT. | “PUT AMERICAN FLAG IN” TRENCHES ROOSEVELTS PLEA (Continued trom page one) do not hinder men, who, under con- scription, would be entitled to stay at home, from volunteering to go to the front if they can render good service. Under the bill proposed to Congress by the War Department, many millions of excellent fighting men would be ex- empt' from service, while a long time would elapse before the others are sent to the front. Under these conditions, we ought to use the volunteer system to fill the gap; it opens to us at once a great possibility; let it be used, and used exclusively, to give to those who would otherwise be exempt an oppor- tunity to go to the front without claim- ing exemption. AVOID POLICY OF DELAY “I most earnestly hope that,we shall { Don’t Kiss Me; You Carry Germs! Extracts From Sermons Delivered by Bismarck Pastors From Their Palpits Touches on Baby Week in Sermon From St. George’s Taking for his text St. John xxi, 15, “So when they had dined Jesus saith to Simon Peter, ‘Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?’ He saith; unto Him, ‘Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, ‘Feed my lambs’,” Rev. Buzzelle, rector at St. George's. Bpis- copal church, gave the following thought to his congregation yesterday morning: “The application of the text is ob- vious in the light of the effort being made throughout the land to empha- size the need of greater care of ‘babies, but obvious though it may be, will well repay some careful consid- eration. The conversation between the Master and St. Peter was the attiphon of that scene in the council chamber when, after Peter's denial, the ‘Master looked upon him in sor- rowful reproach. “The words are of the very few recorded as spoken during the great 40 days, and represented the very fun- damental idea of the gospel, the care and the development of every God- given blessing. “We may be thankful indeed for this movement of the Women’s clubs which comes to arouse the church to fulfill the duty committed to her by her Master and yet it is a sad com- mentary on the zeal of the Christian life that any such effort should be necessary. “A million starving Belgian. children cry out for judgment wpamais-in our ease and luxury... Our Lord’s caré.for the little ongg) was always most-no- ticeable, and*@ne’ may neVer forget His gentle enfolding of them with’ lov- ing arms or his awful denunciation of those who would offend one of them.” Church Should Bring Little Ones To Master of All “‘Baby week!’ What a week in the calendar!” said Rev. Postle- thwaite, pastor of the First Presbyte- rian church, in his sermon Sunday morning. “But we must ‘not be unmindful dur- ing the rest of .the 52 if we shall ‘bequeath to thé future gifts more precious than gems of the mines and of infinitely. greater worth, than. the world’s dead ‘niasterpieces that may stare down on the passing scene for a thousand years or more. “For these are thy gems, O God, that may shine as the stars in the firmament of. heaven and these are ‘living pictures’ that neither vandal nor age should destroy. “The church may well set aside a special day for the little ones, She must not shirk her résponsibility for the physical environment of the child, but above all things she must per- form the greater service of bringing the little ones in their tenderest years to Jesus Christ. “Notice the authority, the wisdom and the purpose of this. As to au- thority the Bible is the children’s book; as to wisdom its early training is shown in its fruits, Some hesitate to exercise the mildest discipline lest they prejudice the children against the church, but pursue no such fala- cious plan in the training of the in- tellect, and as to purpose, is that Christ may put his hands on the lit- tie ones in prayer aie blessing. “It is our hixh privilege and obliga~ lion to bring the little cnes under the, Master’s touch that he may bless them as He dil in the days of old. We can leave ne nobler monument. “Then ‘Train up a child in the way. he should go and when he ig old he will not depart from it’.” God Will Bring Nations of World To His Footstool |Xorth Dakota livestock Preaching in the Methodist church Sunday morning from the text, “I saw a throne and round the throne an emerald rainbow,” Dr. Hutcheson, pastor, said that throne “was the em- the rainbow was mercy.” “To preach the sovereignty of God! alone was to produce a stern forbid} ding character,” he said. ‘To preach! produce a spineless character. To! preach the two in proper combination was to produce a character in which the ideas of justice and kindness “were blended.” Dr. Hutcheson said that the rain- bow around the throne “reminds us that the enduring is encircled by the transient,” and that “we are. too often attracted to the transient” which he said was glaring and gaudy. “The throne and the rainbow speak to us today in unmistakable tones of the essentials for the American home, Sometimes we are guilty of beginning at the wrong end. The home is tae ~~ of American safety. And that home to be of the greatest bene- fit must have in it a throne, Someone must rule. The child must be disci- plined to obey. Where the throne ex- thout the rainbow a child looks in vain for a father. Wiiere a home exists without a throne each one does as he or she pleases and miniature anarcay. resuits. “The yainhow{ayound the throne tells, us that hope, is ever in the as- Many, happenings fill us with dismay.’ But;‘God has not abdi- cated.’ Hope ever encircles the seat of majesty and God will, some day, bring the nations to his footstool, “‘God’s in His Heaven. All's well.’ ” fine; but only on condition that we al- so put our men into the fighting line. Half of this great sum is to go to the Allies; that is, it is to be spent by them in getting théir mén up against the German and Austrian and = Turkish shells and bulle Now, we Ameri- cans have always prided ourselves on being able to do our own fighting. It is right to help others to fight in the common cause for which we are engag- ed. But it is even more necessary that we should fight ourselves. “It would be an evil thing, a last- ing calamity to this country, if the war ended, and found us merely preparing an army in safety at home, without having sent a man to the firing line; merely having paid some billions of dollars to other people so that with the bodies of their sons and brothers they might keep us in safety. SEND FIGHTING FORCE “I ask that we send a fighting foree over to the fighting line at the earliest. possible moment, and I ask it.in the name of our children and our children’s children, so that they may hold their heads over the memory of what this nation did in the world’s great crisis. | Baby Week . Baby week starts today. Let fly-swatting start.today. Between swatting flies and- sa’ sible connection. Fewer flies mean better abies. Fly-filled rooms mean baby-fille Ving babies there is the closest pos- d graves. Aveusr Here’s a little diagram that sh It’s the patriotic thing peril of early May will reach by sultry August. é x It_also shows you the relative number of. de: eases Carried by flies, which are diseases taken food. Julia ‘Lathrop, chief of the United States government children’s bu- of| reau, says the babies are our “last line of defense.” = today, then, not oni; ows you what huge proportions the fly of infants from dis- fe to save the baby— S {1 ask it for reasons of national moral- ity, no less than for our material self- interest. I ask itfor the sake of our | self-respect, our , $elf-defense. Our {children will have to read the history of what we have done during. this war. Let us make the chapter that yet remains to be written one that our children shall read with pride; and they will read it only with a feeling of self-abasement unless they read that in the times that tried men’s souls we have shown valor and endurance and proud indifference to life when the honor of the flag and the welfare =jof mankind were at stake. “Al st possible moment send an expeditionary force abroad, show our German foes and our Allied friends that we are in this war in deadly ear- nest, that we have put the flag on the firing line, and that we shall steadily crease the force behind that flag to limit necessary in order to bring the peace of victory in this great con- test for democracy, for civilization and for the rights of free peoples. A REAL WAR “Now that we are at war, Iet us make it a real war, not a make-believe war, not a war of limited liability. We have walked into the ring; and now we must fight. No fight ever was won yet except by hitting. We have gone into the fight; we have determ- ined to hit ;.and we must not hit soft. “We owe our safety at this moment to the British fleet and the French and British armies. I, for one, am not content to rest under that kind of ob- ligation; and I do not believe that my fellow countrymen are content to rest under it. I wish to see us owe our safety to our own strength and our own courage and to the respect we in- spire in our foe. We shall inspire no respect if we merely try to parry that foe’s blows and not to return them. The only way in which we can return. them is by immediately sending an ex- peditionary force to fight in Europe. It would be a scandal and a shame if the war ended now without part in it limited to-having furnished dollars be- hind the shield of other men’s bodies. diet ae fight it blem of the sovereignty of God while f the reminder of, the mercy of God by itself was tom. IN WIN CITIES.— Adjutant General T. H. ‘Tharalson is in the Twin Cities on an official mis- sion. ' VALEEY CITY VISITORS. — Hon. W. H. Pray, Nick Hesh and Henry. Simons of Valley City were Sunday visitors in the Capital City. FEBRUARY TAX COLLECTIONS— February. tax collections, the state auditor reported today, totaled $761,- 430.04, REGENTS’ BILLS ALLOWED.— The state auditing board Saturday allowed current bills of the state board of regents which had been held up pending a decision of the ouster suit. HOME FROM MINOT.— E. A. Thorberg, first deputy bank examiner, is home from Minot, where he made a preliminary examination of Grant S. Youmans’ new Farmers’ State Central bank, which will open for business tomorrow. EXPECTED TOMORROW.— Miss Edna Rupp, for the last six years librarian of the Brooklyn his- torical society, is expected to reach Bismarck tomorrow to assume a sim- ilar position with the North Dakota State Historical societ WON'T EXCHANGE CARS— A protest to the state railway com mission from Gardena advises that the Great Northern declines to fur- nish a car for implements to be load: ed at ‘Westhope for Gardena, a Soo point. “ PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION— M. Sumber Myrich, a ‘Boston barris ter, writes the rail commission that he is organizing a railroad investors’ protective association for the purpose of making certain that purchasers o! | railroad shares get what is coming tu them, and he asks the opinion of the local board as to the merits of the project. HOME FROM INDIANA.— W. D. Austin, deputy commissioner of insurance, returned ye from Fort Wayne, Ind., where he represent- ed North Dakota in a joint examina- tion of the Lincoln Life Insurance Co., which is to absorb the Pioneer Life of Fargo. . APPROVES BOARD’S ACTION.— The current issue of the Breeders’ Gazette approv the action of the nitary board in Jaying down more stringent rules for the moving of livestock in ‘quaran- tine.and predicts that these-rules will be adopted in other state RD’S U RCCEr Teo. The accepted the proposal of the board of control to relay the street car tracks in Paving DistrictNo. 1, and the board now is in communication with Vice President George T. Slade of the orthern Pacific and other railway of- ficials in-an effort to get’ quick action on an order for 550 creosoted ties, Sec- ond hand rails of the type used in ving construction are being sought, and the board hopes to be able to lay the tracks at an early date. The McKenzie hotel corner will continue to be the terminus of the line. COMPLETING WORK.— Dr. E. B, Craighead, commissioner of agriculture, is in his office at the capital for a few days, after complet- ing the work of correlating the course of study at Valley City normal. The commissioner has completed this pre- liminary work in connection with the Uni y, the Agricultural college, the Minot normal, Bottineau school of forestry, Wahpeton school of science and the, Valley City normal, and only the Ellendale industrial normal and the Mayville normal remain to be vis- ited. There will then be another meet- ing of the engineering faculties of the University and the Agricultural col- lege to adjust the curriculums of these two institutions, There is compara- tively little to be done at Mayville, as this institution already has been following to a large extent the course outlined by the recent educational sur- vey. ON HIGHWAY BUSINESS— State Engineer Jay (W. Bliss leaves tomorrow for Traill county where he will spend Wednesday in conference with the county commissioners, as- sisting the board in getting in shape its applications for federal aid and going over the highway situation gen- erally. May 7 the state engineer will meet with the commissioners of Oliver county on a similar mission. P. W. The Day at the State House 4 tors. are: Bismarck city commission nag{ ft Thomas, assistant state engineer, has. been in Eddy county looking over highway and bridge work proposed. VISITING NEPHEW— W. C. Fairbanks of Lakota is in ‘Bismarck, a guest of his nephew, State Engineer Jay \W. Bliss. SUNDAYS HERE— Joseph C. Clemens of Valley City spent Sunday here with Mrs. Clem- ens, who is a guest of her parents, ‘Mr. and Mrs. ‘D. J. McGillis of the Van Horn. JOINS BLISS’ FORCE— J. C, (Estland, formerly of the Min- nesota highway commission, has ar- rived in the city to join the engineer- ing force of State Engineer Jay W. Bliss, secretary of the North Dakota highway commission. SISTER VERY ILL— Secretary of State Thomas Hall was called to Jamestown on Satur: day by the very serious illness of his sister, Mrs. Charles Nicholson, who was not expected to live. NEW BANK— The secretary of state today issued a charter to the Security bank of Oberon, capitalized at $15,000, and with Frank White, J. E. Johnson and 0. A. Olson as directors. (RESUMES DUTIES— ‘Mrs. Marshal H. Jewell has re- sumed her duties at the state histori- cal jibrary after a several weeks’ ill- ness which confined her in one of the local hospitals. WANT GEORGE PEARL— Requisition papers were drawn on the governor of Ohio today for George H. Pearl, alias ‘Parker, wanted in Cass county for obtaining money un- der false pretenses. The papers were delivered today to A. M. Ross, for Cass county. ' ai {GETS VOTING PRECINCTS— {_ In response to a wire from Sam L. Rogers, United States director of of state to- day furnished a complete list of North Dakota's 1,778 voting precincts, which jare to be used in making out drafts for the selective conscription. HERE FROM CARSON— Mrs. S. C. Lans and sister," Miss Olga Johnson of Carson, were Sunday guests of the former’s daughter, Miss {Ida Lane, who is attending Bismarck Business college, and Miss Dorothy Schnecker, formerly of the Grant county auditor's office at Carson. MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL— The Million Dollar aigtel company, whose capital is $1,000,000 and its home offices at Huron, S. D,/incor- porated under the laws of North Da- kota today for tha. purpose of’build- ing a hotel at ‘Minot. The incorpora- Simon Lutsky, John’ Pier- pont McConnell, G. ‘M. Law and:L, (R. Gilbert, i 4 FAVORS. BOOST —: é The state railway commission this ; morning received from the Philadel- phia bourse :copies of resolutions adopted by that body in favor of the fifteen: per cent freight increase for which. the railwa¥a,jhave petitioned the ‘interstate comméfce commission. he North Dakota ra{\@board is oppos+ ing this increase. HE WAS SHORT-CHANGED— A Lostwood man who sold his wheat for eighty cents and later was advised, on sending a sample to the Equity Co-Operative exchange, that his grain was worth $1.39% has writ- ten the state railway commission, ask- ing that it take steps to recover from his local elevator the amount which he believes he has been short- changed. HEARING DATES SET— ‘Dates foy further hearings of the railroad commission have been set as follows: Sanish, May 23; Bismarck, (May 25 and 2%, cleaning up a mass of office’ work; Stanton, May 28, con- ducting a:hearing on an elevator site and hearing petition for telephone ex- change at Sanger; Hazen, May 29, on crossigg petition. GO TO OMAHA— way Commissioner Charles W. Bleick last Saturday evening for Omaha, Neb., to represent ‘North Dakota in the organization of an association of | Northwestern railway commissioners in opposition to the change in car- jload minimums for fiour asked by the southwestern millers, 79 oer ose INCREASE— ‘ailway Commissioner Charle: By ‘Bleick, who with Chairman ‘Anndati is in Omaha today, will proceed thence to Denver, Colo., where he will ‘be joined by Assistant Satte’s Attor- ney H. A. 'Bronson in attendance wr on a meeting of railway commission: ers and attorneys general called for the purpose of forming an organiza- tion to contest the Proposed 15 per cent freight rate increase, through ourselves, with our own strength and courage, to a triumphant conclusion. WANTS TO GO TOO “This is the appeal I make especially to the men and women of the West. I do not merely ask you to go to the front; you men‘ of the West; or. to cheer your men when they go, you women. I also ask you to see that I am given the high privilege of making my words good by my deeds and going to the front with you. I have asked leave to be allowed to raise a division to take to the front in the first expe- ditionary force, under the commander of the force; a division which, after two or three months’ preliminary train- ing here, can be taken for intensive training to France, and then put into the trenches at the earliest possible moment that. the allied generals deem it fit to render service. I ask that I be allowed to join with others who feel as I do in making good the President’s message. “I ask that I and those dearest to me and closest to me by blood shall be given the chance to prove the truth of our endeavor and be sent at the earliest possilde moment under the flag to the firlg line. ~ “I do not ask for men in the classes which would te taken under the Ad- ministration’s plan for an army for men who would not otherwise be allowed to go. The force I Propose to raise would represent an absolute addition to the nation’s military strength, an addition which could be used at once, which would serve t. t the flag and keep the flag on the fring line during the time that the great army was itself being raised, and while our flag would otherwise not be on. the firing line. The favor I ask is the great favor of being allowed to render ja-service which I believe that my record entitles me to say tha pera y that I am abe to MINDS CELEBRATION Special to Tribune) _ Mandan, N.'D., Apri 20 bad thou- sand people participated in the Loy- alty day celebration held here Sun- day. Addresses were given by Rev. Weigle, James Campbeli and Hon. Joseph Devine. “Issues of the Day,” ‘Citizenship,” and “The ‘were the subjects of the respective ad- dresses. Music was furnished by the Mandan symphony orchestra and the ‘Weigle evangelistic corps. lutions of _encourangement. Chairman ‘A. J. Aandahl and Rail- -