The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1917, Page 4

as “assess kcctee i a oe ‘ cent it needs. THE. TRIBUNE 4 Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE 1.25 6.00 1.50 1.50 ‘Weekly, by mail, per year. ti G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Special Foreign Representative | | 9 YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHIC. NETauctts’ Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, ‘Kresge Bidg.; MINNE- APOLIS, 810 ‘Lumber Exchange. Merover Audit Bureau of Circulation ‘ATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ila (Established 1872) <= anes WEATHER REPORT for 24 hours ending at noon June 21: ‘Temperature at 7 a. m.. 44 ‘Temperature at noon » 60 Highest yesterday e Lowest yesterday . 52 Lowest last night 38 Precipitation Highest wind velocity... Forecast. For North Dakota: Partly cloudy and warmer tonight; Friday unsettled with warmer weather in east portion. $ 50)! 4.00] When the French and British com- missions came to America Thompson refused to invite them to ‘Chicago. THE MAYOR WHO “WON'T.” Introducing Mayor ‘William second city. It is no small burg. ‘motto is “I Will” Thompson's motto is “I Won't.” He gave out a grouchy interview about them. Then came the Liberty Thompson didn’t buy a bond. Thompson hasn't done anything to root the slackers out of Chicago, either. Chicago ought to add the three words, “kick him out,” to its motto and apply the whole thing to its “I Loan. LEARN TO SPEAK FRENCH. The Daily Tribune, starting a se ries of lessons in French for men who expect to fight in France, urges upon these men, and upon all its readers, the advisability of French study on the part of those men and women who are to make up our se- lected army and Red Cross contin- gents. The French language, necessary in Lowest some degree to all our soldiers, will ‘Temperatures be doubly necessary to those men (argo .... -. 38 who expect to study or work for Williston .. 36 commissions as officers. As officers Grand Forks ie they are likely to deal with officers EetE® ve a of the French army—and French is OrAReE. ae the language of international inter- Helena 0 course, throughout the world. Chicago . 56 The Daily Tribune's lessons are de- lure : e signed to teach all the French that San Francisco . 54 can be taught, in limited time, ORRIS W. ROBERTS, through the medium of print. But Meteorogolist. ee ° The haughty are always the @ ¢ victims of their own rash con- ¢ > clusions—Le Sage. o SHEESH EEE ODES LOOSEN UP—COME THROUGH! Last week we were winding up the campaign to sell Liberty Bonds. We came through to a magnificent finish. We won, hands down! Now we are in the midst of another great cainpaign to raise money. This time it’s for the Red Cross. This time we are not investing our money where it will bring back in- terest and principal. This time we are giving it. This time we've got to show our real spirit. This time we've got to show how our hearts feel. And just because that is so we ought to come through stronger than ever. Let the dollars jingle throughout America. Let's get ready to take care of the boys we'll soon have at the front. The Red Cross must have every Loosen up, Americans. Come through! BETTER THAN USUAL, “Business as usual?” Impossible. It isn't in the cards. War is now the nation’s business. Will be until kais- erism is licked. And war isn’t usual. It’s unusual. So business will be un- usual. But that doesn't mean busi- ness will be dull. There's no reason for pessimism. Business will boom. You can't spend ten billions a year for clothing, shoes, munitions, ma- chinery, material, food and supplies without an unusual circulation of money. That means business—un- usual business. That's the thing business men must get in their heads. We've got to re- adjust business. There will be plen- ty of money. Business will expand. The demand for labor will be unusual. War will diminish the supply. Rail- roads will have to be organized to do more business than ever. Waste must be cut out everywhere. ‘Non-essen- tials will have to give way to essen- tials, luxuries to necessities. First—let every manufacturer un- derstand that the demand for neces- sities will be unusually large, and the demand for luxuries unusually small. Also, that the nation’s new business —war—is more-important to the na- tion’s life than the individual's old business. Let the individual make} the nation’s business his business. If! his business doesn’t fit the new game let him change his business. Second—After all, this is a defens- ive war on our part. If we fail our business will go to smash. Safety first—that means the nation’s safety first. The individual's will follow. Unless the nation’s business is sucy cessful the individual's can’t be. And the nation’s business is war. Food hogs, coal hogs, material hogs, supply hogs, industrial, commercial and financial hogs—all these, are a menace to the successful prosecution of the nation’s business. There must be co-operation. All business must. have a common purpose. The cost of living must come down. We must conserve the manhood, womanhood and childhood of the nation. No greediness. No exploitation. No hog- gish selfishness. All for each and each for all. That means business as unusual and democracy triumphant. The question is, did Russian vodka leak into China or Chinese opum into Russia?. They’re both on a further instruction will be #equired by those who aim to become really proficient in the French tongue. With a tax of-$60 a hundred pounds on grain used for booze, plain old red-eye will likely take the place of! champagne in popularity among our “gilded fools.” Washington man claims military exemption on account of a dependent! mother-in-law. She probably will make herself dependent from now on. MANDAN NEWS é Manager Here—A. R. Mendez of the Bingenheimer Mercantile com- pany at Price, was in’ Mandan’ today- attending to business matters/. eee District Court Monday—The June term of district court’ will be- dalled in Mandan before Judge J. M. Han- ley, at the county court rooms, at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. There will be no jury called to serve at this term of court. Judge, Hanley states they are filllng too.important a: place where they are. There are, however, 48° civil cases on the calendar and it is expected court will last ten days. Among the civil cases are three damage suits against the Northern Pacific Railway company, aggregat- ing thousands of dollars. s #8 Hania’ Coming“=x-Governor’T. B. Hanna js expected to-arrive in:a few days from his home at Fargo, to in- spect the ;work on--his new hotel, which is now under construction. eee Undergoes Operation — Joseph Schwartzbauer of St. Anthony, who is in a Bismarck hospital, underwent a successful operation for appendicitis yesterday and is recovering nicely. sae Returned Home—Mrs. Arthur Ham- merly of this city returned yesterday afternoon on No. 3 from Minneapo- lis, where she has been spending the past three months visiting with rela- tives. see Attendance Increasing—Conductor C, L. Love of the summer school stated this morning that the attend- ance at the school was increasing} rapidly. Chapel is being held at the school .from 10:15 until 10:45 each morning. eee Pfenning to Golden Valley—H. Pfenning of the Mandan Mercantile company went to Golden Valley this afternoon to attend to business mat- ter in the interest of the local con-| cern, eee From Grand Forks—Attorney S. L | Nuchols returned home today from} Grand Forks, where he had been at- tending to legal business matters. While at the Forks, Judge Nuchols| appeared in district court in the in- terest of a fire insurance company. eee Attorney .Home—Counsel .Ksause returned home today from Wilton, where he had been appearing for a client in district court in a damage suit. see Kelsch to Carson—Attorney C. L. Kelsch- left yesterday afternoon for Carson, where he is today appearing in district court. see The need for rain in the vicinity north of New Salem, Judson and Man- dan is pressing, according to W. A. Lanterman, president of the Mandan State bank, who has just returned from a trip through this district. Schlosser Here —Phitip . Schlosser of Hazen arrived in th city today for a few days’ visit with friends and rel- atives. see Sisters in Bismarck—The Benedict- ine Sisters attended the retreat held at Bismarck last evening. Chairs. There are numerous monuments found in Oriental countries that bear carvings of chairs. Most of these, however, are without backs. The first chairs with backs of which we know are said to have been introduced into Asia Minor by the Persians, who, in spree. turn, got the idea from the Assyrians, Hale .| Thompson of Chicago—some mayor. Thompson is mayor of America’s It's won't” mayor. ; “Paglez-vous Francais?” will be a common greeting when the selected American army arrives in France. The Tribune intends that the sol- diers from Bismarck shall ‘be able to respond: “Oui, oui, Monsieur!” The Tribune has added to its staff a teacher of French. Her first lesson in the, language of our republican allies of Europe will appear. in.these pages tomorrow, The teacher, Mme. Paul Archinard, was selected because she is thorough- ly familiar. with conditions the Amer- {can troops ‘will face on the western front. She has made two trips to the fighting lines in France, and has been ‘engaged in Red Cross and relief work behind the lines. She was the author of ‘eye-witness invaded Sections’ of France, published in the Tribune some two months ago. She is a French instructor of high repute in America. Mme. Archinard’s lessons will take up phrases in common use, their articles ‘on German atrocities in the|s French equivalent and the pronuncia- Parlez-vous Francais? Hires Teacher So Men in Our Army May Speak French . a z chinard tion as near as it can be simulated in English syllables. Her first lessons will cae Br og deal with ay Daily. Tribune’! questions such as soldiers will ask‘in inquiring their way about French towns, or Paris. Later she will give phrases for use in ordering meals in a restaurant. Other lessogs will include French army slaig—for the Amer. ‘ ican soldier will wish to be con- versant with the every day lan‘ guage of His, French fighting. fel: low in, the trenches, ‘No pretense will be made, of course, that The Tribune's printed lessons will | make the' reader a fluent speaker i) French. They will supply a basis,' however, upon, which the language can later be. learned or studied with profit. They will supply the primary needs of our selected‘soldiers. « Red Cross nursés. "Such young wom- en should by all means’ study the lan- guage of the country in which they intend to work. Mme. Archirard’s lessons will | start them. ' (The writer of this article is a mem- ber of the farm loan board. For many lears he has heen a contributor to this newspaper. He is beyond ques- tion one of the best posted and ‘clear- est thinking men in this country on the subject of food production, dis- tribution and conservation. He is not a long-haired theorist, but a practical, hard-headed expert. We consider this article a tremendous argument. for the immediate passage by congress of the food bill which gives to Her- bert C. Hoover authority to do what must be done to meet the food crisis in this country.—EDITOR.) By HERBERT QUICK, Washington, June 21—There is a food crisis in the United States. Any- one who denies this, shuts his eyes to obvious facts. Food scarcity is not the absence of food. In any civilized country food scarcity always shows in the absolute absence of food. The laboring people of the United States, and people with small incomes, are pinched today in the matter of food. What is famine? It is nothing on earth but high prices carried to the point which makes it so hard to buy food that any large body of popula- tion cannot buy enough to properly feed themselves. Food was exported from Ireland during the worst-periods of the great Trish famine. Food has always been exported from India during her worst famines. What is, the basis of our food sup- ply? It is the seed from which crops are grown, and the breeding animals of our flocks and herds, the hens, the geese, the ducks, the turkeys, the sows, the cows, the goats and the ewes. These are the seed of our food crops and our food animals. This country is today being stripped of the basis of its future food supply. The situation calls for rigorous gov- ernmental control of the breeding basis of our flocks and herds, and the seéd basis of our farm crops Milk and eggs contain a substance which all young animals must have or they cannot grow. Take away from our children the fat which is found in milk and the yolk of eggs, and they will die, or they will be stunted. THE TREMENDOUS SUCK’ OF”? A WORLD FAMINE {S TRON BASIS OF AMERICA'S FOOD SUPPLY itself in the. high prices and never} I have seen young animals! vt » which should have been almost full grown kept down almost to their in- fant size by being deprived of this mysterious and wonderful substance which is found dissolved in the tats provided by theimother element in nature. We hear of fatstarvation in Ger- many. This comes from the fact that the dairy cows ,of, Germany were very largely killed off after the first year of the war. An expert in foods told me the other day, at Memphis, Tenn., that he expected milk to be 20 cents a quart hext summer in the south, and I hear predictions of-40°cents*a quart in various parts..of the industrial north. When such prices arrive, the fat- starvation of Germany will be repeat- ed in this country, and when the dairy herds are reduced to the point of such scarcity as this, it will take years to build them up again. Our dairy herds ‘are being depleted in just that manner. Whole regions are being stripped of their breeding cows, because the high price of beef tempts the cattle owner to sell. He things of his $100 or $150 per cow. today rather than of conserving his’ part of the future meat and milk sup- ply of the country. These cows are, going for beef. ‘They are going by| the thousands to slaughter houses to be canned. The heifer calves are being killed for veal. There is already’ a famine in seeds over much of the country. In the) south, the committeés in charge of; increased production. are. searching high and low for # bushel here and a bushel there of soy beans, cow peas, velvet beans, sorghums, Califoritia black-eyed peas, and many other seeds.. They are par- celing them out to. the farmers whom|. they are inducing to plant as thinly as possible, so as to make the seeds! of} cover the maximum amount ground. A project is on foot to sow a million acres of wheat in each of the three states of Tennessee, Mis- sissippi and Arkansas, but the south- ern wheat has been sold’ahead. of the harvest to the millers for food. That wheat is now going to market, and if the farmers of the south are to have the varieties of seed wheat which seeds of the various} Passage in that form. fields. In a trip over’ nine southern states recently, 1 found only two sorts of seed which were ‘not scarce—corn’ and cotton. Go to any country railroad station in the United States, and you will find on every platform crates full of laying hens, ducks and other poultry. If the country were actually starving, there is no.one way in which so much animal food could be produced quick- ly as by multiplying our poultry flocks. I make the claim that if-a census were made today of the poul- try of the country, it would be found that it is decreasing instead of in- creasing. Power must be lodged somewhere in the government to take hold of this matter with a strong hand, otherwis¢ the present scarcity of food~ may reach the point where it will nave to be called by a stronger “name, Someone must have power to seize the seeds. Someone must have pow, er to control the selling and’ slaugh- tering of female animals. We are setting up machinery for the control of a food administration. Untess seeds and female animals are con- served, this food administration will not save us from things which one dislikes to predict. The cows, hens, ewes and sows, and other breeding animals are being turned into meat, in an endless and increasing stream. The seed wheat of the south is al- ready moving to the mills. The tre- mendous suck of a world famine has caught the germinal elements of our food supply, and is sweeping it ‘into the world’s hungry maw.’ The way out is through plain; prompt, etfect- ive, strong and wise administration of the seed elements of our fields, gardens, flocks and herds. There is no time to be lost. | SEMLMONTRLY PAY— ‘North Dakota public gervice cor- Porations are preparing to make an adjustment in bookkeeping which will become necessary with the advent of the semi-monthly pay day, July 1 The bill passed as originally intro ‘'duced. The senate pulled its teeth by restricting its operations to railways, but the house restored all public ser- vice corporations, and procured its It is a measure for which railway: ‘brotherhoods of |the state lobbied valiantly. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY { mee oe FOR RENT—Six-room modern house. Call 691. 6-21-6¢ NOTICE—The party who took bicy- cle from 223 Fourth St. last night, kindly return same. No questions asked. 621-3 FOR SALE—Man’s valuable coonskin coat; a bargain. Phone 457L. 6-21-3t FOR SALE—AIl household furniture. they must have, they must buy it back at starvation prices to seed their Mrs. J. A. Graham, 400 Sixth St. Phone 650. 6-21-3t They will be equally useful to youhe i ‘|women Who intend goitig to ‘France as| in The Tribune tomorrow. Watch for INCREASE IS YOUR BUSINESS SHOWING H rus 4098 migies Is it increasing:-holding al a normal level or is it decreas- ing. You open your store doors each morning. prepared. to. cater to the countless numb- ers” that ‘may. ‘enter—.your: |’ merchandise. is properly ‘al ~yanged showing it to its-best - “advantage: your! clerks doubt have gone over the:last - ifivoicé’ with you": they’ know. why the. “present lot”: ‘is’ as Tas shipinentt- they’ how. too, j practically why-it is so desir- able’ over other ‘similiar lines " of merchandise, but what of the people who live in your city, per haps some may be | . neighbors Do They,Kaow? “NO THEY DO NOT UNLESS YOU ADVERTISE Would you think of. going from street to street, house after house ringing door bells telling people about your stores latest shipment of mer- chandise--we imagine you will make a window display, place a few price cards, which is good as far as it goes--tho not one in twenty who live in Bismarck-and vicinity pass your store daily and not three out of ten who do pass give more than a passing glance at the display. Man, Oh Man! Advertise and let everyone know what you have for them and at what price. The Tribunes Representative would be pleased to call and and assist you in a Business Building Advertising Campaign. IT WILL PAY YOU 10 GET BUSY