The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1917, Page 4

‘Matered at the Pestoffice, Bismarek, N. made of elastic. THURSDAY, MAY, 24) 1017. THE TRIBUNE ‘ Dy ap Seeond Class Matter. {98UED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY AYABLE IN SUBSCRIPTION La P. @aily, by mail or carrier, Daily, by. mail, one year in North Dekota .. . oe 4.00 Daily, by mail outside o! outside of North Dakota, three months. 3.60 Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months - 1.25 Weekly, by mail, 1.50 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation EST NEWSPAPER HE STATES OLDEST NE oe = te ‘WEATHER REPORT. For 24 hours ending at noon May 24: Temperature at 7 a. m. ~ 44 Temperature at noon Highest yesterday .. Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity 6.00 Forecast. For North Dakota: Fair tonight; Friday partly cloudy in east portion; probably showers and cooler in the west portion. T Lowest ‘Temperatures Fargo .... on 8f ‘Williston 42 Grand Forks . 30 Pierre .... 48 St. Paul 40 Winnipeg 30 Helena . 44 Chicago 44 Swift Current 42 Kansas City / 54 San Francisco: . 48 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorogolist. THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE. There's a tip for Everyman in Her- bert C. Hoover's acceptance of the big job given him by President Wil- son. Running the food business of Amer- ica—and perhaps of the whole world —is one of the biggest jobs in the whole war. Yet Hoover takes that job only on condition that he be given no pay. That was his only condition. He didn’t quibble over how much work he would have to do. (He didn’t stickle for mahogany desks. ‘He ask- ed just one thing—no pay. And no pay for most of his staff. That is about the finest spirit a man can show. It’s the spirit of serv- ice—the spirit of How much can 1 give my country and my cause? Thero's.a tip for Everyman and Everywoman in Herbert Hoover's tn- spiring example. . Not all of us can do what Hoover has done, because we have to work for a living, but all of us can have that spirit. Looks as if the Hindenburg line is THE AVERAGE BOY. What would the average boy do if he found $10,000? Is William Diliwiski an exceptional doy? Or is he just an average American lad who believes honesty is the right system and playing the game of life on the square gets you further than playing it like an outlaw? William is a messenger boy in New York, A great many people think a Now YoHe ihesstiiger boy wouldn't be their choice ap a hearer of great wealth. But, of course, that idea should be’ buried along—yes, messen- gers do hustle—with his telegrams, when he stumbled over a fat envel- ope. That envelope contained $10,000 in negotiable express money orders. William marched right back to his office with that big envelope, to the Sreat relief of a much worried ex- press driver. It is fitting that William has been Promised a better job. William could have a bully time on $10,000—and wound up in stripes. ‘Now, we think William did just what the average boy would do. We believe the average boy is about the finest thing there is. What do you = | progress. jal unity of thought. ,and throw a damper uron the enthusi- away from passage, at usual congres- sional speed. In everything that belongs to Con gress the nation moves at a snail's pace—the slowest pace we know any- thing about. Those things that the administra tion can do without Congr ave done quickly. Witness the speed with which the navy went into action. Departments can act quickly ard efficiently. Only Congr2ss dalifes along, helping the kaiser with each wasted moment. It has been said that Congicss is the finest granite quarry in the coun- try—but that is not true. for the gran- ite in Congress is »ot g041 building material. Of course, a pact of congressional | muddling is due to the fact thur cack | congressman is more or less a socal politician, concerned with “ getting/ himself kept in Congress by his local- ity. But America had hoped that this; war would nationalize Congress—that, it would give us a truly national leg- islative body, just as it is giving us| a splendid national spirit and nation- If there is any wisdom at all in Congress, the gentlemen who com- pose it will take a tip from the peo- ple and get busy demonstrating that Congress can, in emergency, really act with despatch and completeness. But Congress will have to get busy quick—and do a lot of things that there is no present indication it will do. We wait and watch, with less Patience each day. In various sections of this country an insidious and underhanded camn- paign is being waged, whose purpose is to cripple the United States in the war and to help Germany Tie fa vorite line of talk may be boiled down to two harmful questions: “Why should we fight ¢or England?” “Why should we lend our money to England?” The object, of course, is to retard the sale of the Liberty Loan bonds asm for this war for che liberty of the world. Now, as a matter of cold, hard fact, we are not going to fight for England, For nearly three years they have been spending their money and their best and bravest blood in a cause which was not only their cause, but; as it has turned out, our cause. When we advance money to our allies we merely enable them to fight a dangerous foe while we slowly make ready. When we finally place our own men in the trenches of Tlanders’ and France we will be fighting for our own safety and freedom, as well as that of our allies. It is impossible longer to make 9 distinction or draw a line. We are all in the same boat. We sink or swim, survive or perish together. If Germany wins this war the Unit- ed States is in the same deadly peril as England and France. If Germany is defeated, then the United States, no less than {ngland and France, has helped to make its future peace secure from barbarous and ruthless aggression. ¥ From what we see in the windows, | father's new straw bonnet will be ‘but Httle less blythe than the festive and wonderfully adorned butterfly. Our attorney general got his name on the first page of the Fargo Non- Partisan Daily only three. times yes- terday. Why such a slump in his batting average? Events of the last few days have done more than anything since the declaration of war to bring home to all America the realization that we not only are at war, but that we are in in a big war involving all of us. co | READERS’ COLUMN | THE PREMIUM LAW. Bismarck, N. D., May 24, 1917. Editor Tribune: think. about. it? We're strong for William—and the average American boy! Berlin has been calculating that if the war ends now Germany would be gainer. Berlin must have some amusement, and this kind is as cheap a8 any. SNAIL’S PROGRESS. Aftor having been goaded and yam- Mered at and pounded over the head for some: weeks, Congress has deliv- ered one of the big war measures— the selective service law. Of course, Congress couldn't be .ex- pected to deliver it quite as the Pres- ident and the war department wanted it, but it delivered it in passable shape. For that much we are duly grateful. Thus we see congress really can be hammered into action, though it takes a mighty lot of persistent pounding. But let not any congressman think he has got to the end of the program. The income tax proposition as a whole is still in the piffle stage, so far as Congress is concerned. Measures dealing with the railroad and food problems are perhaps weeks The Legislature passed an act known as House Bill No. 427, requir- ing local merchants to pay an annual license of $6,000 to use or give trad- ing stamps or coupons as a rebate with merchandise sold for cash, but this act permits manufacturers, job- bers, packers, etc. to attach to, or contain them in their particular goods, in the original package. The Massachusetts Supreme Court on April 23 last, gave an opinion to the Legislature of that State holding unconstitutional a similar bill which was before the Legislature, and which made it legal for local merchants to issue, and use any kind of coupons or rebate ticket so long as they were redeemable directly by the merchants and not through third parties. That act had for its purpose discrimina- tion against trading stamp companies only, while the North Dakota statute discriminates against the local mer- chant, and in favor of the manufact- urer and packer, es slowing them to redeem coupons without paying the $6,000 ‘prohibitive license.” The same constitutional question appears to be involved in both acts. The Mas- sachusetts Supreme Court says: “The proposed act, upon which our opinion is now asked, declared trading stamps redeemable by the vendor alone, to be legal, and those redeemable by any one other than the vendor, to be legal. The. question now asked of us in view of opinion of Justices, 208 Mass. 607, in substance is whether It saeves only to obstruct} ra, The Quickest Way to Finish the Kaiser! THis MAKES HIM SQUIRM! a FSAEREE YD tinction can be made under the Con- stitution.” D. D. Brennan, Assistant Attorney General, gave an opinion to the North Dakota Legislature holding House Bill 427 constitutional. In his opin- ion, he says: “The gist of the bill is that the retailer as such, cannot use his own stamps, or stamps furnished im by any one but the manufacturer, h nor for France, but with them. )).(1\|jdbper,ddstHIWWHOH)!or packer of the! goods in which the trading stamp or other devices are contained, or to which_they-are-attached may be used and redeemed without a license.” Mr. Brennan holds this can be done. That such amexemption does not make the bill unconstitutional. Citing some late United States Court cases as au- thority, the Mass. court reviews these same decisions and says: . “The Supreme Court of the United States has determined in Rast vs. Van Denman and Lewis Co., 240 U. D. 342; Tanner vs. Little, Ibid 369; Pit- ney vs. Washington Ibid 387; that statutes in essence like those referred to in.;the, questions do not conflict ‘with, proyigigng,, of the Fourteenth Amendment to,the; constitution of the United. St ut =the question whether: a3 stataée*is in:conflict with the provisions: of! ‘the constitution of this. Commonwealth is,.a question upon which the decision of the Su- preme Judical Court of this Common- wealth is final.’ By its opinion the Mass. Supreme Court holds the United States Supreme Court cases have no application. A positive statement has been made in writing to Commercial Clubs in this state by those who favor the pas- sage of House Bill 429, in the Legis- lature that more than $4,500.00 was used to pay Attorneys and Lobbyists to pass this bill, and it is understood that if the Referendum which is being invoked against this measure is suc- cessful or not the Bill .will: be, at- tacked in the SuprémeyCourt) as‘ to ‘its constitutionality,and.am investiga- tion will be made to’ see: what ‘At- torneys got the money, and if ‘any Public Officials were secured to-‘as- sist in its passage. Yours truly, CONSTANT READER. NOTICE OF VACATION OF ALLEY To All Whom it May Concern: Notice is hereby given that a duly Verified petition of a majority of the owners of the property on tae line of that certain public alley in tue City of Bismarck, County of Burleigh, and State of North Dakota beginning at the east line of Tenth ‘treet, Soutin, extending east along the line of Lot Thirteen (13), in Block Thirty-three (33), Williams’ Survey in said city, as far as the east end of ,said lot, and being north of. said- lot and. south of Lots Eight (8), Nine (9), Ten (10), Bleven (11), Twelve (12), and part of Seven (7), in said Block and Addition, praying that said alley within the limits hereinabove de- scribed be vacated and discontinued as a public alley, has been filed in the office of the City Auditor of tae City of Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, by order of the Board of City Commissioners of said City; and that said petition will be heard and considered by the said Board of City Commissioners on a date not less than thirty days after tne first pub- lication of this notice, to-wie, on the 28th day of May, A. D. 1917, at 8:00 o'clock p. m. at the City Hall, in said City of Bismarck, and that at said time. and place the matter aforesaid will be investigated and considered and tne evidence and testimony of all persons interested therein will be heard. Dated April 25, 1917. R. H. THISTLETHWAITE, City Auditor. (SBAL) (Apr. 26; May 3-10-17-24) FORMER QUEEN DEAD. Algiers, May 24.—Former Queen Hanavalona of Madagascar is dead at her home here. Queen Hanavalona has been living in exile in Algiers since 1896, when she was deposed by the French. fol- lowing anti-Christian outbreaks in Madagascar. It was during tlie French campaign in Madagascar that such a distinction can be made. We are of the opinion that no such dis- ‘Marshal Joffre made the foundation of his military reputation. —SS OO | MOFFIT NEWS A ————_. | Sid White bought a new runabout Ford last week. Val Benz and-Sam Mauk were capI- 'tal city visitors Thursday. George 'Brittin and family autoed down to South Dakota on Friday. A number from here will attend the Cole Bros:°circus at ‘Bismarck, May | 29. ort " i Miss Edna Meuk, a Moffit girl, will graduate’ ‘from ithe! ‘Bismarck high school, June 8. Mrs. L. M.SFlowers and children Were visiting With relatives at Cen- ter last week. -‘/: Chester Park) has purchased a new motorcycle and will hit the high places now.: 2h... Archie Kendall. is building: a new pool hall and.‘ restaurant on Main street. ° fs | Miss Mabel Benedict of Temvik is ‘a guest at the home of her sister, | Mrs. Charles Chase, south of town. | Miss Helen Wilson “was a week-end ‘guest at ‘the Baker: home, near Ha- zelton. (92) iw" Some: of our iyoung: people attended the dance at Gates’/hall Jast Saturday night. . t ‘Mesdames Dralle, Whittaker, Bunk- er, Johnson and Lewis were shopping in town Friday. Charles Chase andi family were vis- iting at the Mauk home Sunday. Mrs. Eggen and family visited at the Knutson home Sunday: Otto Brown has treated his house to a new coat of paint. Gregg arrived from Ohio Saturday and will spend the summer at the Lane and C. E. Moffit homes. Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Hoover were callers in town Saturday. ANOTHER GECIL. CASE IN: DISTRIGT. GOURT;. FORGED DEED: CLAIN oF Another action to quiet title grow- ing ‘out of the alleged operations of R. M. Cecil, formerly prominent in the real estate business, in Bismarck and Wilson, is. now occupying the at- tention of district court. s John P. Hanson’ and Charles A. Hanson are the plaintiffs. Albert Lar- son, R. M. Cecil, Lydia Cecil,"T. 8. Richworth and Albert Hollister are the defendants. The defense: claim: that the deed held ‘by the plaintiffs and’ which'theydllege “to” have rey" Me’Cecil it wiehagy i ceived from of the’ land 'wiS forged. ‘The! wheré abouts ‘of Cécil ate unknown’ He ff said to have veen charged with mauty: similar acts. : ‘ LIVING MODELS. : Don’t fail to see the living models wearing the latest fashioned and de signed footwear in the center window, of the A. W. Lucas department store this Thursday evening from 7:30 to}. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter and Miss| 9:30 p. m. .& local hotel. NOISY BEER PARTY GETS JACK HUGHES “WN BAD WITH LAW Jack Hughes, a well known Bis- marck resident, is in ‘bad with the law because of a noisy beer party in The amber fluid pro- duced ‘so much conviviality that the Police were called. They seized 16 bottles, some full and others empty, and also obtained information which led them to believe that Hughes sup- plied the beer. He is called upon in Justice Beer’s court at 4 o'clock this afternoon to prove that he is not the guilty party. “Shady” Character. A “shady” character of ebon hue yclept Williams appears in Justice ‘Bleckreid’s court at 4 this afternoon to prove that Jennie Doe, a colored lady whose tints are nature's handi- craft, was mistaken when she. testi- fied this morning that said Williams did “snitch” .a purse containing $6 from the pocket of a Bismarck car- penter as the latter was leaving a capital city restaurant, and that said Williams did then and there proceed to transfer the contents of*said purse to his own pocket without giving said Jennie a casual lookin. Jennie was first arrested for the crime, and she turned state’s evidence. Big Chief Chris Martineson did the sluething in both cases. MINOT ELKS AND PYTHIANS ARRANGE TO CLOSE ROOHS Minot, N. D., May 24.—An agree- ment was reached this afternoon ‘whereby the Elks home will be closed on a temporary injunction for main- taining a liquor nitisance from June 1 to June 30, when upon hearing tae injunction will be vacated and’a room in the basement closed. ‘No prosecu- tions will follow. It is understood that similar stipulations will be en- tered into with the Knights of Pyth- ias. This disposes of all liquor cases against the two lodges. FIRST GUARANTY BANK READY TO DO BUSINESS The state examiner’s office having completed. a .preliminary examination of the First Guaranty bank of Bis- marck, the new capital city institu- tion now is authorized to engage in a general banking business. NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION. ‘(Special District--Annual “Etection.) ‘Notice is hereby ‘given that on’ the first Tuesday in ‘June; being June 5th, A. D. 1917, an annual election will be held ‘at ‘Will ‘school’ in the ‘special school district. of Bismarck ‘No. 1, county of Burleigh, ‘state ‘of North Dakots forthe: purpose of :electing he rarer embers. "bf' the ‘board 'wo members. to serve for a term 20, Years. for. the. city..of Bis- The ‘polls.. will. be opened’ at 9 o’clock.a. m.iand ‘closed at’ 4 o'clock p. m. of that day. Dated at.:;Bismarck this 2ist day of May, A. D. 1917. By order of the board of education. RICHARD. PENWARDEN, Clerk. DOINGS OF “SAN, HELEN, I'VE GoT TO TO HKKSBURG ON BUSINESS, PLL TRY AND GET Home TONIGHT. IF _L.CAN PossiBiN GET A TRAIN OUT OF THERE y SIN, CLERK, WHAT (S TheRE % Do AROUND: HERE AT NiGhT ? THE DUFFS. TAKE A LITTLE TRIP DowN | WU REALLY RAVE 60? TOM, THIS I8 A REGULAR TOWN By Allman LEAVE FoR THE CITY 2 WAL, THERE'S A Movin’ Picture SHow OPEN DOWN HERE PT\LL BIGHT ocLack ITS A GooD °NE Too. IT'S JEST DOWN TWO SQUARES AND OVER. THREE + PAVED, AND A SIDEWALK ALL THE SSS PIONEER BISMARCK Mrs, Julia Myers Roop Passes Away at Home of. Son Mrs. Julia Mrs. Julia Meyers Roop, aged 79, widow of J. N. (Roop, died in the home of her son, J. I. Roop, on Seventh street, at 9 o’clock last even- ing, after a several months’ illness. Mrs. Roop came to Burleigh county in 1888, locating in Bismarck. Shortly afterwards she went to Emmons coun- ty with her husband and lived there until four years ago, when she re- turned to Bismarck. She was a mem- ber of the German Baptist church. The remains will be taken Friday morning to Hazelton, where funeral services will be conducted that after- noon, at 2:30, in the Hazelton union church. Interment will be made in the ‘Hazelton cemetery. The Roop store will be closed until after the funeral. a | ene ' CAPITOL NOTES SUCCESSFUL MEET— P. ‘W. Thomas, assistant state en- gineer, is home from Langdon, where he attended an enthusiastic meeting of the Cavalier county commission, at which highway work for the ensuing season under state and federal aid was discussed. 84 20 (si vi SECOND LIEUTENANT— Governor Frazier today commis- | sioned Earl Hanson of Grand Forks to be second lieutenant of the sec- ond company, filling a vacancy. Pension’ Examine ‘Young ‘of’ 1 PAUL, States’ ‘pension’ exaiiner, city in connection with the investiga- tion of divorce records in the Bur- leigh county district court relating to pension matters. Beware Runaway Bug—The — runa- way bug seems to be in the air. In the last week it has bitten three dif- ferent sets of Bismarck youth. The latest victims are four bellhops *em- ployed in a local hotel, who, without saying a word to anyone, expressed their grips to Glendive, Mont., on Wednesday night and quietly faded away. It is presumed they are beat- ing their way to the Montana city, whither-a friend preceded them. The hotel is running short-handed until a new crew can be broken in. 0440059055580 OO0 > HEBRON. Ps $0 OOO 0FOOS5OOOOO6 The Meinecke . Construction com- pany has a crew of men pitting in the ¢ement work 1” the basement of the new Funk building. The construction of the new lumber shed and office for the ‘Dunham Lum- ber company is progressing rapidly. Last Friday evening the pupils of ‘Miss Wegner’s and: of Miss Dineen’s rooms held class day exercises'in the school gymnasium; a: large‘numebr of the patrons of the school ‘being pres- ent. A fancy work and-candy sale -was conducted’ before the ‘program. The main feature:of the program was the “Stars and. Stripes Jubilee,” giv- en. by pupils impersonating the vari- ous states, Uncle Sam, Columbia, and the soldier boys. ° The entertainment was thoroughly enjoyed and a goodly sum was added to the school piano fund. C. Biffart, a workman ‘inthe He- bron brickyard, was badly injured last. Tuesday forenoon, when a load- ed clay car overturned upon him. Fellow- workmen who rescued him found that he had sustained a broken and He, w; Kes the ome a T Brandes tor wurgteat On Satur the 26th western “North ‘Dakota Buttermakers’ ;4-¢onvention will be held in Hebron. , A... Nyden, accompanied by his ‘wife, went last week to Rochester, ‘Minn. where he will receive treat- ment for a serious attack of pleurisy. A joint committee of the Civic club and of the Commercial club has made arrangements for the proper celebra- tion of Memorial day. A. J.7Gaumaitz, counly. agent of Morton county, visited (Hebron on Tuesday. Through the co-operation of the public school, he has been enroll- ing pupils in various agricultural Projects, such as the growing of an acre of corn ‘or of alfalfa. About 15 pupils of the local school are “engaged in at least one of these projects at the present time. + An important business: meeting of the Congregational church was held. last Wednesday, at which plans wera made for the proper carrying on of the work for the coming year. BEACH MAN DEAD. A. H. Hoverson, aged 21, of Beach, died in one of the local hospitals Wednesday night. He is survived by an uncle, Edward ‘Hoverson, with whom he made his home. The body is at Webb Bros.’ funeral. parlors, awaiting the arrival of the-uncle. BANKERS ORGANIZE. Flaxton, N. D., May 24.—The organ- ization of the Burke County, Bankers’ association has been perfected, with F. A. Keup of Columbus, . president; Bertle Nelson of Flaxton,. vice presi- dent, and M. H. Powers of Bowbells, secretary-treasurer. LIVING MODELS. Don't fail to see the living models wearing the latest fashioned and de- signed footwear in the center window of the A. W. Lucas department store this Thursday evening from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. Diseased Skin at once frem the agony of skin rash of . oc aed Saas LY D-D.Dy WOMAN SUMBONED