The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1917, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE TRIBUNE Deas Beoned Cass Mater (S6UED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVAN Bred dik mail or carrie? pay, OY mail, one year North Dakota ...... ssseceng 4.00 bat, by mail outside of North Dakota, one year seen 6.00 Dally, mail outside of North Dakota, three months, 1.60 Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months Weekly, by mail, per year Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Ly: | OLDEST NEWSPAPER STAT TEotabtabes 1878) WEATHER REPORT For 24 hours ending at noon, M Temperature at 7:00 a. m. . Temperature at noon Highest yesterday ‘Lowest yesterday ‘Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity . Forecast. For North Dakota: Partly cloudy tonight; probably frost in northeast and‘central portions; Sumday fair and warmer. Lowest. 2 ‘Temperatures Fargo... oe. 46 » ‘Wliston . 36 Grand Forks . BS Pierre oO St. Paul . 50 Winnipeg ‘Helena Chicago .. Swift Current Kansas City . San sea, eteorologist. TAMAR TAX. | There is much glib talk about pay- ing for the war “as you go,” as though it meant little in the way of disturbing economic conditions to meet, war expenditures by such a method. , The present generation must pay heavily in blood as well as in money, that future generations yet unborn may enjoy that liberty to which the Republic was dedicated nearly 150 years ago. Our fiscal policy is as important as our military plans. The economic fibre cannot be submitted to such a strain that it will not respond effl- ciently to the pressing demands of a state of war. All of us, it is true, mus: give in blood and dollars, but posterity, which will benefit, should share the: tax burden, too. Any scheme which _ contemplates paying for. the ‘war as you go’; is ial lacious:and fraught with serious per- il. Taxation that handicaps the pro- ductive power of a nation only places another weapon in the hands of the enemy. ": Bleeding a nation to death by tax- ation is as. possible as sapping an army’s strength on the field of battle dy poor leadership. Surely posterity should demand no more than that this generation spend its blood and its share of money for the preservation of the Republic. The cost of the war should be spread; over thirty or more years. Each period must bear its proportion. Probably the present should bear more than others, but there is a just and equitable distribution of the war tax load and it is the patriotic duty of Congress to find it. aking about, a a arate peace. vhaliarraag. Abnging fora absointe-decree: ot weparation from Potedem:- PENNY CANDY DOOMED.» Penny candy soon may be only a memory. The National Confectioners’ associ- ation has asked the government to resume the coinage of the two cent pieces, so that the youth of the land may ull. gratify their’ craving for sweets under a jitney. Thus does Mars’ hand bear down heavily on the children with copper: t je ee Senator Gronna, unlike Congress- man Kitchin, does not shut his eyes when he votes, but the result is the same, however. NEWSPAPER CENSORSHIP, President Wilson seems determined the greatest news-gathering agency in the world, has co-operated heartily with the war departments in the mat- ter of news affecting America’s par- ticipation in the world war. Other press associations have shown the same patriotic disposition. One instance suffices to show the operation of a censorship guided by patriotism rather than law. Recently the French war mission left for home. Not a word of their movements, known to hundreds of newspapers and their correspondents. Each was on his honor not to divulge any information that might be flashed to a submarine lurking near Amert- can waters. The world never knew that Joffre had left the United States until he had landed safely in France. It is doubtful whether Congres: can improve on such a censorship. Anyway, you cannot accuse our at- torney general of Olympian aloof- ness. EVERYBODY'S DOING IT. When an editor carries water night and morning to start life in a few dried-up, wrinkled, sad-eyed, home: sick peas, beans and radishes, which gulp it down as lustily as a social wreck with a chocolate colored taste in. his mouth the morning after, the recruiting station loses its look o horror.—New Rockford Transcript. If Congress would only enact a na tional prohibition law, many men who are now fighting booze might be usec against the enemy. “THE STYMIE. The New York Post philosophizes upon the recent golf rule abolishing the stymie. We commend it to ou golf fans: 3 “In its new rule abolishing the sty- mie, the Western Golf association has abolished, or revolutionized, a part of the psychology of golf. For it provides that always, on the put- ting greens, the ball nearest the hole shall be played first, wholly irrespect- ive of a possible stymie. This plain- ly alters the mental attitude of the contestants. The man nearest the hole can no longer wait complacently to see how his opponent will ‘come off with the longer shot. He himself must nerve himself up to take’ the initiative and hole his ball without fail, not knowing what luck his com- petitor may have when his turn comes. On the other hand, the play- er furthest away’ will not have the supreme appeal to his steadiness and care which now comes from his feel- ing that if he can make a long put successfully it will upset his rival and lead to his missing a shorter one Golfers may in time adjust their minds to.this change, but its first. ef- fects can only be to make them feel that a fundamental, though imponder- able, feature of the game has been eliminated.” : Even if the food supplies are low ir Germany, there is still an abundance of kultur at Potsdam: It appears now that England, tired of the Irish question, is going to do the sensible thing and let Ireland settle the matter herself. Governor Frazier does not scem t: be in any hurry to extradite the pres ident of the Soo railway. Probably he has not recovered from Big Eill’: Camp Frazier joke yet. There need bé no worry about the number of experts ‘in our midst brought here by the 'Non-partisan regime. It is the first and vital duty of reformers to find fresh sources to tap the public till. Wilson through a press censorship, he should see to it that the members of Con- Bress are as discreet in their utter- ances as he fears the newspapers will not be. When President forces EEE Claude Kitchin, * majority leader, said he would vote for the adminis- tration war tax with his eyes shut. Judging from the progress Congress is making, he is not the only: one to impose some kind of censorship upon the American press. Probably military exigencies necessitate a mild form of press muzzling, but the need is, not glaringly apparent as yet. The dictates of patriotism have guided every editor in the United States more skillfully in the elimina- tion of harmful news than any stupid ‘bureaucrat could who usually strains at a gnat and swallows a camel. United States has had sufficient Proot of government press censorship in England. ‘Lord Northcliffe, the most influential publisher of the Em- Dire, broke through the bonds and told his readers the true conditions. He brought about the downfall of the Asquith ministry, forced the Lloyd George regime and precipitated a thorough reorganization in the cor duct of the’ war along efficient lines. He defied censorship when he felt that his duty toward the people out- weighed the mandates of a stultify- pee censorship. ‘chere isa self-imposed censorship upon the American press: today as rigid and inflexible as any Congress could’ ‘ekact. “The? Associated Press, wets aes waren ye name groping in the dark. ‘ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE. AUTHORIZING THE INORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL. WAY COMPANY TO CONSTRUCT AND MAINTAIN A LINE OR RAILROAD TRACK UPON AND CROSS FRONT STREET, IN THE ele yeOF BISMARCK, NORTH DA- iT Be it-ordained by the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Bis- marck, North Dakota: Sec. 1 ‘Permission is hereby grant- ed to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and its successors and as- signs to construct, maintain and op- erate a line of railway track over, upon and across Front Street, in the said City of Bismarck, North Dakota, such spur starting from a point of connection with the main line of said railway company and running in a southwesterly and southerly direction crossing gaid Front street between Tenth and Twelfth streets and term- inating ‘at or near the lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, in block 33, Wil- liams Survey to the City of Bismarck, North Dakota. The line of said spur track is shown'upon the attached blue print thereof, which is attached to and made a part of this ordinance. The purpose of this grant is to allow the (Northern. Pacific Railway Com- Pany to connect its. main line by DOINGS OF WELL! I GUESS WILBUR MUST HAVE GOT A LEAVE OF ABSENCE ITS THe REAL. Tune! - How DD You GET IT WILBUR? THE DUFF'S. WILBUR LOOKS, AS, THOUGH HE EARNED IT. By Allman THIS CARNEGIE MEDAL On YouR CoAT | Took IT AWAY FRom A FELLOW THAT WAS TWICE MY SIZE Memorial Day, I wish thy name were Day Progressive, 1 wish the same of Labor Day, of Mother’s Day, And Father’s Day, and every other Holiday. Then should we talk and ‘sing of Human Happiness, The Brotherhood of Man, Fatherhood of God, Then should 1 wed thee to fair angttege 3 paint thy Consort blind; oH +puf, Boast of human the ah | Hap! No ied be an empty Sound. state and national, civit’teform is the great question before the American people. It is a question that merits special and business-like considera- tion on every legal holiday. In our Constitutions it is written that all men are by nature free and equal and have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the right to acquire, possess and dispose of prop- erty. And in the great memorial speech at Gettysburg there was a re- solve that the dead should not have died in vain,—that this Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of free- dom and that government of the peo- ple and for the peo; ple, shall not Maas igh ‘from the earth! Pi see Beauteous and THgtdHleMY’ ‘is\ the word-painting, but ‘the ‘picture isan illusion. A Government by and. for the people is still a thing unknown. As the United States Supreme Court declared, under our Constitution, as it existed prior to the civil war, the black man had no rights that a white man was bound to respect. And the Court might well have. gone further | and have held that the poor man had no rights which the rich were bound to respect. Even in our day and gen- eration, poor white soldiers were tied to posts and flogged on the bare back well-paid officers. And it would not be far amiss to say that they were flogged because of being poor and ill- paid. If the soldiers had received a would have been no flogging and no Bull’s Run. % By long and persistent effort it seems we have just secured from Con- gress the passage of an Act giving the soldiers an additional pay of $15., amonth. In my letters to the Pre- sident, Members of Congress, and to: the people, I have shown that a man’s time is his private property, and that under the letter of the Constitution, private property may not be taken for public use without just compensation. Hence, to conscript a man and take his time without just compensation is a mere hold-up. It is passing strange that our Congressmen do not learn thgt_war service and civil service aturday Evening'Letter ’ By Justice J. E. Paes 2 ‘in'everh aéparttiént'6t Government, | with a rawhide by order of snobbish, | man’s pay of $100 a month, then there} should put on the same business prin- ciples. ‘Therg* is no more reason for conscription in? ‘one case than in the other. And, 1s every one know, if Congress will pay for war service the same as for''civil service, there will be plenty of volynteers. Conscription “were commendable if it were necessary, either for civil ser+ vice or for war service; but when the Government can, get war service for the same galary as civil service and for, the salary paid by all the corporations and business houses, then conscription, is'a mare hold-up. It is a,national sera: It leads to poverty and crime. An ‘th here is NO; reason, for making a loan to pay the soldier or to pay any person. Even during the civil war, green-backs or treasury notes were al- ways as good as gold when made a legal tender for duties on imports and for all debts, public and private with- out any exception.. Surely Congress should be given to understand that in dealing with the soldier our Govern- ment cannot afford to be dishonest or to act the part of a bully or a bull- dozer in violation of our Constitutivn. In the war business it scems there is always a false economy. What! was the cost of our recent expedition against Mexico, including railroad charges for transportation from all the distant points of the country? You may rest) assured it was twice the cost of hiring at $100 a month, a proper number of Texas Rangers,| sharpshooters and. cowboys. There were plenty of them where they were needed in the, border States. The! cost was doubled by the failure of Congress to act on the matter prompt- ,ly and wisely, and the same is true of | the present war. Congress is a mountain that cannot be moved by either faith or reason. It seems that in due time our Townley must undertake the task of re-organizing Congress and the whole political ma- chinery of the country. Townley is the great Icader. and organizer of Am- erica. I am a thinking, constitutional law- yer and | do offer my services to draft all proper laws and amendments to the Constitution. | From such amend- ments and laws the yearly benefits sure to accrue are far away up in the millions. There is a way to re- duce immensely the burdens of taxa- tion; to reduce idleness, poverty and crime; to assure general prosperity and happiness. There is a way to secure fidelity, and efficiency in pub- lic service. There is & way to use the strength and credit of the State to build up and not to pull down, and to benefit every citizen. And still we grope for the wall like the blind, we grope as if we had no eyes, and stumble at noonday as in the night. An echo answers, why? 1 May 26, 1917. means of a spur track with the prop- erty of the Bismarck Gas Company, in block 383 of Williams Survey of the City of Bismarck, North Dakota. Sec. 2. Said line of track shall cross said street at the existing es- tablished grade, and in case of change of grade being made by the city the grade of said line of track shall be changed to said new street grade without expense to the city... Sec. 3. “Said tract shall be planked ‘between the rails, also outside of the rails for the space of 12 inches on either side of the rails of said track, for the space of forty-eight feet and so as to afford a suitable crossing over the same. Provided, however, the Board of City Commissioners of said City of Bismarck, North Dakota, reserves the right in case the neces- sity thereof -shall hereafter arise by reason of the incrpaged; use.of said street to require fhe said railway company to extend the planking to cover a greater width and so as to accommodate the needs of the public jin crossing such track. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the said Northern Pacific Railway Com- pany to repair any and all damages done to the streets, paving, curbs, gutters or sidewalks or other public or private property caused by the construction or repair_of the railway track as herein provided and-the said Northern Pacific Railway Company shall defend and save harmless the said City of Bismarck, ‘N. D., from any and all damages, judgments, de- crees and costs connected therewith which may pe rendered against the city by reason of the grant of the |Company of the rights and privileges contained. See. 6s” This ordinance::shall’ take’ effect.and be tpifarceifront and after: its passage, appreivalbandaiéceptance. Approved..this.7th day of ‘May, A. D. 1917. (Seal) ; LUCAS, Ae; President of the Board ‘ot City Com-|' missioners. Attest: C. L. BURTON, City, puditor. ia MANY TRAVELERS EARLY Half Hundred fives: Have Pro- REGISTER cured Cards From County Auditor Flaherty A half hundred Bismarck travelers who expected to be out of the city \ June 5, or whose ree legal residence is in some other county or ‘state, already have pro- cured registration cards from Coun- ty Auditor Fla- herty at the county. | building. The ist began early yesterday morn- ing, ‘and’ with the return ‘of the boys late last night and this morning a real drive on the auditor's office be- gan. Registration. cards procuvéa from the auditor may be filled out and mail- ed to Sheriff French, if the traveler has established a legal residence in Burleigh county. If the legal resi- dence is in some other county or state the card should he mailed to the sher- iff in the traveler’s home county, or; if a resident of a city of 30,000 or more, to the city auditor. In every instance postage should be enclosed for the return of a certi- ficate of registration, and the traveler will save himself embarrassment by keeping this certificate on his person at all times. The cards must be mailed so as to reach the home des- tination not later than June 5. Every male, whether citizen or aten, who has reached his 21st birthday and has not passed his 31st must register, no. matter whether. he. considers himself exempt from service or not. The re- gistration is entirely distinct from the draft. The board of registration in each county will consider eligibility. and determine exemptions, and no, one, under heavy penalties, may re- \frain from registration. ee @ C. A. Jay, the Coca Cola man, is here over Sunday. E ore ef H. L. Michelson, the Fargo candy. man, is a capital city guest over Sun- day. vee H. W. Raedzman, who sells paper out of Minneapolis, is Sundaying in a good town. ste ‘C.. R. Norton of the Stacy Fruit company is home from his Dickinson trip. eee Mrs. Oswald Miller of Chicago, who sells corsets, has finished her ‘Bismarck cafls and is now at Man- dan. eee E. Beltz, field agent of the Mc- Call-Dinsmore ‘Grain company of Min- neapolis, will be here over Sunday. eee L. A. Hughes of the Auto Supply company, Fargo, is a’ week-end Fis- rights and privileges herein contain- ed or which in;any Taner accrue, arise. and grow.out.of the exercise. by: the said Northers: ‘Pacific | way: Marck stopover. eee Art Collar, the Underwood is back from his Fargo ,| those giving, transmitting or answer- _{ rudders rigged out? _ ing Uncle Sam as Member C. ©. Lyon, staff corresppndent of The Tribune, is the first news- paper writer to serve as a mem- ber .of'a submarine crew for Un- cle’Sam:. Lyon enlisted in the navy, served aboard the super- dreadnaught Texas and now is serving aboard the submarine G-4. This is the second of several stories telling his éxperiences.— Editor. By Cc. C. LYON. On my first dive in a submarine I was so interested watching the offi- cers and crew I even forgot to be scared, Capt. Foster’s first command to me, as a member of the ‘boat’s crew, was: “Go aft, -Lyon, sit down, and DON’T TALK.” © Three other members’ of the crew were sitting:in the rear of the boat, silent as statues. I sat where I could keep an eye on Capt.: Foster, Lieut. Callaway and Chief Petty Officer Bennett, all in the contral room, in the center of the boat. Capt. Foster had his” eye glued to the periscope, Lieut. Vallaway bent over charts, while Bennett operated a wheel that controlled diving. rud- ders. Capt. Foster gave most of his or- ders without taking his eye from the periscope.. ‘He spoke them to Ben- nett, who transmitted them, through speaking tubes, to the crew at differ- ent stations throughout the boat. Tt takes’about 25 men to handle a U-boat. work todo ‘and while the. boat is in motion, either on the surface or submerged, he stands at his station, as though chained to the spot. : AND NOBODY TALKS, except ing commands. .. Here are some of the commands and. replies I caught: Captain: Secure the hatches and the ventilator valves. Bennett (through the speaking tube to Nichols in the forward torpedo room): Secure the forward hatches and ventilator valves. ‘Nichols (after a* minute's: ‘wait): The forward: hatch, and ventilator Valves are secure. Captain. (reiterated by Bennett): What's the condition of the gasoline line. and the coffer dam? Nichols:' The gasoline line and. the coffer dam are secured. ‘Captain: ‘Are the forward diving Nichols: ‘ The forward -aiving rud- ders’ are’ rigged out. Then they talked to “Wow” Callen, chief electrician, and put him through his paces: “Davy Rockett, chief machinist’s Ly on, in First Submarine ‘Dive, Is Used As ‘Ballast’ Daily." Tribune Reporter Tells What He What He Saw and Heard Sarvs: ieast feblihg Every man has his own specific i | ; of Crew Under the Sea mate, in charge of the engine room, reported everything in his department ready for the “dive.” Captain Foster: Air on the main line, Bennett. Bennett: sir. ‘Other orders were passéd. Finally the captain said, “Go ahead on the motors.” 1 heard the big gas engines stop and in a moment the only sound on the whole ship was the low hum of electric motors. Captain: Fifteen feet, Bennett. For fully 15 minutes I sat as still as a mouse in the rear of the boat, with my three companions doing like- wise. I began to worfer when we ever were going to dive. Finally, my curiosity got the best of me. I whispered to one’ of the three: “When are we going to. dive? What are they waiting for?” - All three snickered out loud. “Why, you-gob (slang for, sailor) we've been under the surface for 15 minutes already,” he whispered back. About that time I overhead the cap- tain say to Bennett: “Forty feet now)’ Bennett: “He’s ordering Bennett to’ dive to that*depth,” one of my companions volunteered. AID the ‘time we had been under water there hadn't been the least vibration that I could detect. The bo | was: being driven by electricity the ‘whole structure was so deli- oy balahiced there aps not the loti ipa aie F¢ andtiier r order wee eo the att! Corpbitd room Air. is on the main. line, ou -| over the speaking tube: “Lyon and Lunnin go forward and sit down.” “What's the idea in going from one end of the boat to the other?” I asked in a whisper, “You're ballast,” one of them re- plied. ‘When the captain needs only a few hundred pounds to keep the ‘boat absolutely level he sends some of us fellows from one, end to the other.” The explanation made me feel more comfortable. I'd begun to think I wasn't doing anything to earn my pay, but being ballast on a submarine was better than loafing. ‘We cruised around under ‘the sur- face for nearly three hours that day. At last 1 heard a bell ringing. It sounded as if it was Just outside the G-4. “We must be on the surface again,” I suggested to one of the crew. “Hear that ‘bell ringing?” He. had another. good laugh at my expense. “That,” he said, “is the wireless from another submerged Usboat two miles away. 000 worth of school bonds from vari- ous cities in.the state and approved applications for $100,000 worth of farm loans. SECRETARY BREWER HOME— Secretary Brewer of the state board of Regents is home from Fargo, where the board ‘concluded a week's tour of state edudational institutions yester- day, when it opened bids for the con-, struction’ of' a’ $50,000 dormitory at Mayville normat. CROPS NEVER BETTER— “I never saw more land in crop nor crops looking better at this season. a of.the year,” today stated J. H. Cal- derhead,esecretary of the state rail board, who is home from a ten days’ jaunt which carried him over the en- tire horthwestern quarter of the state. “Nothing has suffered as yet’ from lack of rain. Farmers generally: hope for rain, but rather because of possible future necessity than pre- sent needs. Tractors are busy plow- ing no matter where you‘look. A big. crop this year will work wonders for North Dakota, ang it looks as though we are bound to’have a good crop.” [PARDON BOARD MEI MEETS— The state pardon board meets here June:2.in statutory session. Among is one of the first Bismarck travelers to register for the selective draft. eee Ted Manning, the Firestone tire man, .is in. from a successfal. trip. se . W.,Kraft of St. Pal is here, rep- resenting the. Northern Insulating company. MEET PEN TEAM— ‘The Capitol baseball team journey- ed to the pen this afternoon for a postponed game with the Prison om suMMER. SESSION OF THE PUB- tic SCHOOLS. For the sole purpose of’ assisting those pupils who for Various causes fail to meet the requirements for the year, and da jot make a passing mark th one: oF ‘more studies, a summer term of six weeks will be operated’ in the Will school, beginning prompt- ly at 8 o'clock Monday morning; June 11,'and ‘continuing thereafter each school day between 8 a. m. and 12:15 p.m. This work will be open only to pupils who are now in grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, and who have failed in one or more studies for the year. Pupils who pass in their work to the next gradé will not be admitted, and tripe Pr ingle 36_meeks_work_in| pupils in these grades will not be per- “skip” a year by. attempt- “The Day at the State House IN GRAND FORKS— Assistant Attorney General H. A. Bronson isin Grand Forks: today. BUYS BONDS— The state board of university and school lands’ yesterday accepted $150,- the applicants for a pardon is D. M. Noah, sentenced to nang for first degree murder from Ward county; _ reprived by Governor Burke fourteen minutes before the trap in: the local penitentiary was to be sprung; then granted a new trial by the supreme court, and on his second arraignment drawing life imprisonment. ‘Noah's case has been confused with that of Milo, who was in the death cell at the state penitentiary when the legislature saved his life by passing under an emergency:‘clause: am act abolishing capital punishment. Asoivie+ OLD“ FRIEND-HERE— 2 Another certain bi ger of sum- mer da: Ewho ha? ene at the capital is Chief Chase Walking, a full- blood Sioux from the Standing Rock reservation, who ‘for six years has camped every spring just west of the capital, while he has prepared his season’s meat. © Said: meat, procured from local. slaughterhouses, takes the form of tripe and oth delicacies, ‘which sthtiy be aeed the capital car waving: in thé-breeze as it hangs suspended from a clothesline under- going the ancient “jerking” process. |The meat, sun-dried and cured, is stored away and is said tobe most delectable. Chase Walking visits the capital grounds at least“twice an- annually, in the spring and again in the fall. During the summer months he makes a round of the county fairs, racing some fast running horses of which he boasts. a brief summer session, or by priv- ate work in the summer. The nature of this work, and the fact that it is | free, make .it necessary _that every pupil be prompt and punctual in at- tendance. ‘New pupils cannot be re- ceived after the end of the first week. Parents intending to take advantage of this school will please see that children enter promptly on the open- ing day. We offer this opportunity to children who need this help so that they may make up the work, if possibje, and enter the next grade in the fall. .We.do not guarantee the promotion of any child, but will do all in our power to bring it about by hard and careful work. We hope this work will be the means of raising the standard of the school and of reduc- ing the number of failures. Mrs. Cas- selman will be in charge of this school, with probably one assistant. J. M. MARTIN, 1t City Superintendent.