The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 12, 1917, Page 4

wae amen — — sa SRI SUES 5 werner Abeibibedanor our mothers today s BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1917. {ISSUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY RATES PAYABLE IN ANCE ~ Bally, by mail or carrier, Dally, by mail, one year in North Dakota ...... -s-s-ove 4.00 Daily, by mail outside of North Lae one ie cones 6.00 Dally, by mail outside North Dakots, three months, 1.60 Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months .... fWeekly, by mail, per year . 1.50 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation DEST NEWSPAPAR rHB erares, op pmet ewer, WEATHER REPORT For 24 hours ending at noon May 12: Temperature at 7:00 a. m. . ‘Temperature at noon . Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation ..... Highest wind velocity 2 3s 143 .. None Pye le. Forecast. A For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature. ‘Lowest “ Temperatures Fargo ... + 36 Williston . vee 42 Grand Forks . oT Pierre .. - 46 St. Paul - 40 Winnipeg ... . 32 Helena . 42 Chicago . » 42 * Swift Current ae Kansas City tk . San Francisco ORRIS ‘W. ROBERTS, inn Meteorologist. SOOT EEEDEEEEOO OSD % Where there is a mother in & % the house, matters speed well. + ~ —A. B. Alcott. om SHOSHSOSOSOGEOO OS MOTHER! . is Mothers’ Day—in Tomorrow Mother's Year. Now, as never before, motherhood 4s meeting its supreme test of love, “of sacrifice, and of evotion. sve (Mothgaarithis. year. are giving the gong’ they16Ve for the service of their te country, ‘toHowing with aching hearts the datgers that their sons endure in our great crusade for the freedom of the world. H Mother-love acquires a new mean- ing by this unselfish gift. ‘As mothers singly will sacrifice anything for the benefit of their chil- dren, so mothers collectively are sac- rificing all for the benefit of the world at large. ‘As“mother-love embraces each son and daughter, so motherhood-love en- ‘velopsamt—protects the nation. and tomorrow, and let us honor our mothers ang all mothers from now into the future. For this is Mothers’ Year. TO RESIST ARREST. If Langer’s own statement can be Delieved, Governor Frazier called out the national guard to assist the attor- ney general in his attempt to evade and, if necessary, resist arrest. 1.25; with potatoes nine for a quarter. | hour Mr. Langer resists service of the warrant only weakens his case and puts the governor in anyti:ing but an enviable position. Is it to be inferred that ia future if any state official is wanted on a charge of vivlating a statuts, ‘iover- nor Frazier will call out the nationat guard to protect him agains: arrest? Whither are we drifting? The way of a wife with a home is a dare-devil proposition these days, | ——_ SECRET DIPLOMACY. Secretary of State Lansing has an- nounced that any employe of the .| State department who gives out infor-} mation that can be made thé basis of criticism of the department's poli- cies will be summarily dismissed. Under a strict interpretation of this order Lansing himself would be the first to be fired. For it would be difticult to imagine a departmental polscy inviting more wholesale criticism than the announce- ment by the secretary himself that the United States is to make secret diplomacy the basis for our wartime activities. It’s getting to be the regular thing for sons of cabinet members to enlist. Good boys! WATCH RUSSIA! The following from the grain letter of C. A. King & Co. of Toledo is interesting because it expresses a big idea in remarkably terse and under- standable language: “Watch Russia. Kaiser is trying to make a separate peace with them. He may offer the Dardanelles. Russia has dreamed for centuries of a real seaport. Kaiser could regain the Straits later, after defeating the oth- er allies. Fill hungry Germans with Russian grain and they will follow the kaiser anywhere. If he can starve England, he wil] be the absolute dic- tator of Europe. With the English navy added to his own, he could dom- inate the seas completely. A big in- demnity from Uncle Sam's fat purse would certainly look tempting. Would Japan and Mexico join the kaiser? These are later possibilities. This is no wrist watch war.” Patriots might remember that there is no bar preventing them from se- lecting themselves for Uncle Sam's service, _— NOT TO BLAME. No criticism can attach to Adjutant General Tharaldson, Major Wright or the troopers who have ‘been forced to carry out the orders of Governor Fra- zier, commander-in-chief of the na- tional guard. It may be uncomfortable for them to he’ placed in this predicament, but they are soldiers and it is their sworn duty to obey and not to question or to reason why. No federal troops have been em- ployed to assist the attorney general in evading arrest, which, of course, is a significant fact. ‘Of course, the civil laws are still in force and Langer’s military subter- fuge is not tenable. The ‘Minot authorities are not so The Tribune is not concerned with the merits of the case against him in Minot for shutting off the telephone ervice. It ap qves, heartily, of the raid which is arbrta "to havé given the Magic City a thorough and much needed housecleaning, but the method of procedure can hardly be condoned. It is the sworn duty of the attorney general and of every states attorney to purge communities of law break- ers. There is no occasion for deifica- tion or martyrdom for doing a pais duty. ; All praise to the states attorney of ‘Ward county. But’ what was “Limelight Bill's” part in the raid? He headed an arm- ‘ed guard and descended upon a room full of telephone girls, busy at their ‘work speeding messages, many of them doubtless urgent and concerned vitally with the peace, hedlth and safety of the community. Reports state that these girls were driven away from the switchboard anc the exchange was “dead” for a period of fifty-three minutes. There was a d'aplay of firearms, threats to shoot, while several girls cowered in fear, If the raid had been properly. plan ned, telephone assistance would have availed little. Mr. Langer’s action in heading the telephone raid looks mighty like a cheap effort at the -spectacular hardly befitting the dig-! nity which is supposed to clothe the Office of attorney general. None of these facts, however, miti- @ates the use of national guardsmen ‘by Governor Frazier to assist Mr. ‘Langer in resisting arrest. Surely ‘Mr. ‘Langer is in no danger of bodily ‘injury in Bismarck. This is a com ‘munity of law and order and the (presence of an armed guard savors} ‘of the ridiculous. +. But Mr. Langer admits tha the ‘guard is to prevent his arres'. Is he {afraid to go back to Minot ani face! ithe aftermath of a righteous raid on ithe forces of evil? If the wariant is; ‘the result of pique over the raid, it} hwill fall of jts own weight. memruereess ag ingee anxious to arrest him as to tear him ‘bodily from his armed guard. Doubt- less this is the kind of martyrdom that Mr. Langer wants and is invit- ing. Of what importance are the forces of law when you can call out the national guard. If there are any more warrants issued for members of the Non-partisan league we can ex- pect Governor Frazier to declare a state of martial law. FIFTY.THREE YEARS. John D. Cameron of Pawling, N. Y., —this is all about him, and we never saw him and he never saw us and maybe never read this newspaper but that doesn’t matter. John Cameron has just retired from active life. It’s a long road that has led to the retirement of this man for miles, At least, that is the best esti- mate obtainable. Cameron has been a railroad conductor. It is too bad that mor informa- tion is not to be had about this man. It would be interesting to know lots of things about a man who has done useful work for 53 years. For a life such as this is just about as inspiring as a life can be, when you get right down to real cases. Fifty-three years of doing honest work, work that has helped make the world a good place ¢o live in—think of that, young men, when you are thinking about your future. It isn’t the easy life that is the fullest, best life. The life that produces some- thing, that helps move humanity for- ward, that does something—that is the real life. : And remember that every bit of honest labor is right in that class. John Cameron, with 53 years of work back of him, ought to have a mighty fine feeling of satisfaction within him as he looks down the stretch of life’s real sunny side. Will ‘American slang prod an equivalent for “doing his bit??} How : 3: ZZ VlOTIACIAS ‘OF CUR BOYS SELECTED FOR CERNVICE, MOTHERS OF AMERICA — Women of this great land of liberty and idealism, You who have taught us all that we know of Love and Devotion and Sacrifice, You who have led us through our greatest trials to our greatest victories; MOTHERS OF AME Taday , as you glad RICA ,— ly and proudly wend farth your sons. to the service of your country for the freedom of the world, in jyoy,and pride and devotion ,we saluteé'you: MOTHERS «OF AMERICA — Because of these things , and because you are what you are, we are glad and proud that you are THE MOTHERS" OP AMERICA Santen: Saaeeni TRAVELERS MAY MAKE OWATONNA MEET “JOYLESS” Proposal That Entertainment Features Be Eliminated: Ser- iously Considered NECESSITY FOR ECONOMY REASON FOR SUGGESTION Council Which Is to Play . Host Would Be Reimbursed for Preliminary Costs Bismarck Council Inited Commercial Travelers is ad- vised that the grand executive committee of, the fY organization, jur- % 0 isdiction of Min- nesota and North Dakota, is consider- ing abondoning all entertainment at the grand council ineeting in Owaton- na, next month, : Becuuge 4 (isi facing th tion, tle, Peer te: Saterni*y, large extent, feel ihatthe tine i appropriate for |sdcial' celebrations. Red Wing Council ‘Acts. Attention has been focused on the subject by the passage of, resolutions ‘by the Red Wing council, advocating the abolishment of entertainment be- cause of “the utmost economy neces- sary during the war.” The Red Wing council proposed that money spent by Owatonna in pre- liminary advertising be repaid from the general fund and that the meet- ing confine itself strictly to business. Peterson Urges Action. George M. Peterson of Duluth, grand counselor, urges that “unless the war situation changes very soon, a business session should be the only consideration.” J. M. Dresser, grand secretary, ha: written to members of the executive committee, asking opinions on the ad- visability of calling off the entertain- ment. t Blow to Owatonna. The abandonment of the amuse- ment features would be a blow to the great plans for the entertainment of the commercial travelers. F. W. (Heuer, chairman of, the hotel committee, has made arrangements for housing the greatest throng of travelingmen in the history of the jurisdiction. Mrs. George C. Darby, chairman of the women’s committee, recently issued hundreds of invita- tions to wives of travelers. BIG NIGHT FOR KNIGHTS TONIGHT-ALL TRAVELERS WELOOME ATU.C. FEE Tonight will be a big night for Bis- mark knights of the grip and: their guests. A general invitation has gone forth for a feed, whose preparation and serving will be superintended by ladies of Bismarck council. There fellowship, and a number of can- will ride the Angi i@\ festivities ‘begin at $80. Bis- patel v a epijoyed @ 80- citizens of Owatonna, who have laid} will be talks and toasts and general) SCHOOL OFFICERS MEET— The school gers of Towner coun- ty met at Candg}yesterday, when they were addressed by State Superintend- ent of Public Instruction N. C. Mac- donald. I OBJECT TO INSPECTION— The board of;control this morning was advised, titat the parties from whom: there is:¢ontemplated the pur- ‘chaser of someé:secondhand street car rails at Chattnooga, Tenn., object to the inspectidh ofthis steel by the man whom the board had designated. It is probable, therefore, that State ‘Architect’ Sam Crabbe will be sent on this’ mission. { CEMETERY ASSOCIATION— The Mercer Hillside. Cemetery as- sociation, organized and financed, controlled and operated by the wom- en of Mercer, was incorporated with the secretary of state yesterday. The directors whose names appear in the articles are Anetta Z. Gertrude M, Rice and Lillian C. Plow- iman, 40,000 TAGS ISSUED— Forty thousand. license tags have been issued to date, yielding the state $120,000, of which all except a small proportion deducted for the cost of tags and office expenses, will go into the state and county highway funds. A very ardent desire for tags devel- oped locally the latter part of tie week when it became known that the secretary of \state had spotters McFadden, | The Day at the State House abroad. May 1, 33,800 tags had been issued. In the ten working days which have since elapsed the average output of tags daily has been 620. AT EGELAND TONIGHT— State ‘Superintendent of Public In- | struction N. C, Macdonald will be in| | Egeland tonight officiating at the dedication of a fine new consolidated school. TO MEET AT FORKS— W. E. Parsons, secretary of the North Dakota Educational associa- tion, has called a meeting of the ex- tion to be held at the Hotel Dakotah, Grand Forks, at 9 a. m., May 19. Plans for the annual conyention to be held in Bismarck next fall will be discussed, | KILLING MANY WOLVES— During the month of April wolf ; bounty warrants calling for $1,672.50 were registered with the state audi- tor, Eaciy warrant {s worth $2.50, in- dicating that 669 wolves were slaug’- tered during the month. The audi- tor anticipates that at least double that number will be killed this month and as many more in June. All of these warrants must be placed in cold storage until the next legisla- tive session, when it is hoped that the law makers will make an appro- | Priation for the payment of the wolf hunters... No.appropriation .was:made at the: recent .sessiomand the.fund is now exhausted, cial session for,many weeks, and the travelers tonight anticipate a genu- ine old-fashioned turn-out and a real feast of soul and flow of wit. Vis ing U. C. T. men are cordially urged to attend. \KENISTON ENJOYS HEART ‘TO HEART TALK WITH ONE | WHO DIDN'T LIKE TALK George \N. Keniston, secretary of the Bismarck Commercial club, has two complete changes of clothes. One of them is a-dress suit, and he chanced to wear it a few days ago, when he addressed the Washburn get- together banquet, at the ‘Hotel Wash- burn. : ' Now, George N, Keniston all deck- ed out in evening things and George N. Keniston in rough and ready busi- ness attire are two quite different in- dividuals, in appearance at least, and it was in the latter costume that he joined two early diners at the break- fast table the following morning. It chanced that one of Keniston’s table companions had sat in the lobby the night before and heard his ad- dress. The other had turned in early. ‘Both were travelingmen, and the talk rather naturally turned to the big do- ings. “Well, how did you enjoy the big talk?” asked Mr. Early-to-Bed. | “Aw, it was rotten,” said the other. “That fellow may think he can talk, but he is Eryan’s cla: i | What by a long shot. cial club. | “Without batting an eye, Keniston ‘replied: “It struck me just as it did you. of times. line.” the night before. rolled around and, as the critical Keniston stuck out a paw, and said: “My name's ‘Ken:sion, I'm sorry I didn’t do better last night. to the pilot of the Bismarck Commer-) tail travelers upon the jdid you think of it partner?” turning knight of the, grip arose to leave, brother. Come to hear me some time. when you're in Bismarck and I'll try to im- prove.” But the critical knight already was it-| through the door, and he never stop- ped going. NATIONAL LEADERS PRAISE. TRAVELERS FOR THEIR LOVALTY Theodore Roosevelt, Newton D. Baker, secretary of war; William J. | Mayo, the great sungeon; Senator Porter J} McCumber, Frank B. Kel- logg, Senator Knute Nelson and Will- iam H. Taft are among America’s great men who have written to Sec- retary Evebach of the Commercial Travelers’ National Patriotic league, praising North Dakota knights of the grip for their initiative, their loyalty and their energetic, aggressive pa- triotism. ‘Letters have come from Governor | Phillips of Wisconsin, former Gover- nor Stewart of Montana, Governor Louden of Illinois, Nevill of Nebras: ; ka, Sleeper of Michigan, from George W. Perkins, Henry L. Stimson, J. Og- ‘t in William Gingerale; den Armour—even from Henry Ford of Detroit, commending the Flicker- movement which they have inaugurated, BUYS FIFTH BUICK— Jack Oberg, veteran among Bis- I've heard that fellow talk lots) marck travelers, has just purchased | I don’t think much of his| from the Corwin Motor Co., his fifth | | ; | Buick, The new car is a six, and And then Secretary Keniston andi yacK says its ah Sate a regular road hog his critic proceeded to thoroughly dis-| “4 thd ‘ rf ness attire are two quite dierffent in- when it comes: to,eating up mileage. |sect and dismember the address of| Then train time; CALLS FOR WARRANTS. County Treasurer Richard Penwar- den has made a call for outstanding | registered road warrants up to No. ! 352, and. all’ outstanding :bridge yrants. The total amount:ef the | rants ig approximately: $50,000... | ecutive committee of that organiza-|, nor Hanna of North Dakota, Gover-| “et ats AR ASTM REP REI EE Saturday Evening Letter By Justice J. E. Robinson SOLDIERS'’S TELEGRAM Robinson, vs. Senator Joe T. Washington, D. C. Please move Heaven and earth to amend military bill so as to give the soldiers fifty dollars a month. The soldier is no dog; he isa man, Give him man’s pay and a man’s respect. Please see Senator James and McCumber and push with all your might. Next week we have twenty cases set for argument and we hope to decide them promptly. I think it were better for the other judges who hear the ar- guments to keep me writing up the de- cisions in accordance with their gen- eral directions and in that way to dis- pose of two cases a day. At the close of each argument they might say: Robinson, in this case write up in favor of the plaintiff, or, the defendant, one of your conclusive two page decisions, This week all judges have all been present and at work. Last week there was a general absence of from two to six days. I do wish it were law that no state officer should receive this monthly pay without filing an affidavit showing his daily and monthly service. Then judges would uot retire from of- fice leaving a good part of a year's work undone. My last letter gave a copy of my own decision in a case which has been in court for seven years. The last appeal was filed in our Court a year ago last January, and there it has been ever since. The appeal should have been decided and remanded on the same day it was filed. It was a suit on an attachment bond and there was no sha- dow of a defe! In other words, the defense was a plain obvious sham, as any lawyer could see In ten minutes ob- servation of the record. Yet that case rrrtegeorererert ee ae n on our court calendar for the ast. teen months, with the chances JUSTICE ROBINSON, of being there another month or two. Under proper court rules every appeal should. be heard and decided within thirty days after it is filed, and when an appeal is.a mere insult to the Court, it should he disposed of in a vei summary manner without waiting for any argument, It is time to consider and discuss the causes of the great wrongs which infest our judicial procedure. There must be a change for the better or in time the lawyers and the judges will, have to go the Way of the saloons. The burden of the law is too great. A dispute of.$30. may cost the taxpayers ten times as much. It is nearly twenty,,centuries.ginge the Good Master de- nomiced woe unto those who laden men, with burdens grievous to be borne ;-~ and we will continue to do it. But in one way or another the end must soon come, If those who live on their Jegal wits do not amend their ways, the people will put them out of business. The saloon was not necessarily an evil. It had some redeeming social features, but it was conducted in such a manner as to ma it a burden and a menace to the people, and so it had to go. Indeed there is no reason why any class of men should go through life on the back of another class. Every person should learn to earn his own bread and butter and to make un honest living by the use of his own two hands. P . STATE V. NELSON ROBINSON, J. (Concurring Specially.) This case presents a put-up-job to squeeze some loot from a thrifty miser. It is another case of killing the hen that laid the golden egg, and the result is the same. We have a court drama in four acts. As the story goes, at three o’clock one Sunday in July a young lassie, nearing her teens, went into the store of a miser, gave him five cents for candy, went into.the back room where she saw some apples and he wert, there too, set her standing onpan,-o}d, rickety chair, and fondled her.’\'hey spoke not a word during the.ten minutes she was in the store?" There was ho kissing or capessing, She. was not given even a peanut! She went out and ate her, ca te" hen called on a playmate and told her. story in four words, aiid jen night came, told her mother, a widow who did work for the wife of the miser. In this drama: the. lassie is the hero, the miser is the villian, the mamma is the widow in the background. The playmate and the mamma say she told’ the same story to them. The miser. swears the story is wholly untrue; that it is a coiplete fabrication; that in. July on Sunday afternoons his store was crowded with ‘customers; ‘that there were no apples in July.:-Of course he was found guilty and his senten¢ge: was nine months and five hundred dollars. He pays probably a thousand dollars for defense, rather than to pay a few hundred dollars where it would have done the most good. In such a case the desire of the jurors to be on the laughing side and to show a-mock horror of things scandalous and incregible,, hasaleag to the conviction and ruin of, many an innocent person: There ge wit desire in man or in.any of the lower animals today any such fic! . onviction was on the mere word of; the girl, against the oath of the defendant. ; I say it was on her word, because, she was too young t av: nate bt an oath or to incur, any penalty. for, false swearing, «an! Sghi vas *proliably well enough pleased to make the hero in a theatrical court performance, with the State’s Attorney and the judge in turn leading her, prompting her and ‘putting words in her mouth and addressing her with the greatest familiarity. On such evidence no jury would have thought of convicting a man of an ordinary theft, but because the charge was incredible, ridiculous and scan- dalous, the defendant was convicted and sentenced to 9 months in jail and a fine of $500. The girl confessed she was told what to say, and she said it under manifest pressure and reluctance. The cross examination of defendant was highly improper and it merits 2 severe rebuke. After defendant had been sworn and denied the charge in the most positive and circumstantial manner, the State’s Attorney asked him; . Did you not do the same thing with this one and that one and several others? He asked some fourteen accusing questions for the manifest purpose of poisoning the mind of the jury and by each: accusing question the State’s Attorney, did in effect affirm that ft¢was "trad! It's high time for this Court to make known that such a procédtire will fyOt''be tolerated and that it is cause for disbarment. In the condudt of lise no attorney has a right to make himsel by putting ‘accusing“or vexatious questions, Under such a procedure a man nocence is no protection. The veriest Saint may be subject to, blackmail by any party or parties who can safely use a little girl as the hero or scapegoat. Indeed, if the accused had been as pure as the angels above, it would have been better for him to have paid $1,000 than to have taken the chance of such an ordeal and the expense of such a trial. The prosecution is under this statute: Sec. 10250: “Every person who wilfully and wrongfully commits any act which grossly injures the person or property of another, or which grossly disturbs the public peace or health, or which openly outrages public decency and is injurious to public morals, is guilty of a misdemeanor.” The complaint is for an act which grossly injures the person of another and not an act injurious to: property or public peace, or public health, public decency, or anything public. There is no averment or claim that the act in question was public. It is needless to review the manifest errors appearing of record. In a prosecution for an act which is grossly injurious to the some material physical injury to the person and not merely a mental or moral injury, such as may result from vile or abusive language. The statute plainly refers to a willful act which does a great injury to the physical person of another. Neither in the complaint nor in the evidence is there any statement of facts showing a gross injury or any injury to the physical person of another, J. E. ROBINSON, Judge. All World Sets Aside Day To Pay Honor to Mothers The whole world will combine to- morrow in celebrating ‘Mother's day.” . This day, cn which the best mother that ever lived—YOUR MOTHER— is-honored by all sons and daughters jnot only in the United States, but in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada and leven Africa. Custom has chosen the white car- nation to be worn tomorrow. | “Mother’s day” was originated by \the Inte Miss Anna Jarvis of Phila- , delphia, in 1907. She invited friends \to spend the second Sunday in May with her, to commemorate her moth- jer’s death, and announced her plan for the observance of “Mother's day.” fluential men and women in favor of the idea. The next year “Mother's day” was celebrated in several of the largest cities in the United States. The year later the idea had spread through Europe and now it has been taken up by large organizations of all import- ant countries in the world. The G. A. R., Confederate veterans, Sons of Veterans, secret and fratern- al organizations all over this country and in Europe have adopted the plan and are working to make the observ- ance more popular. The day is for eretyone: regardless of religious be- lief. ae, Jarvis chose the white carna- tion as the memory flower because : She spread the.cantpaign By ‘writ-| “its whit®dttss symbolizes the purity ing letters to newspapers throug*iout | of a mother’s love, its endurance, her {the country and by winning,ever; in- | fidelity.” ry : A ST ORE tO person of another the informaton and the evidence must state facts showing | ( i}