The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 25, 1917, Page 4

} | Sr SSeS ACRE TRIES THE TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY EXCEE 7 SUNDAY -@UBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Baily, by mail or carrier, bale 50 4.00 1.25 6.00 chinery is also true of our organized efforts to increase the food produc- tion. Now is the time to systemat- ically organize for the planting of next year, regardless of what this season's harvest turns out to be. Now is the time to locate and Ist vacant arable lands and put them at the command of the producers of 1918. War or no war, 1918 is going to see There's all OAD osetia atesstes ee Daly by Small outside of North a frightfully hungry world. Dakota, three months 1.50] “Get Ready” is the watchword. Weekly, by mail, per_year ae 1.50 saat ae Bae ~~ G, LOGAN PAYNE C Special Foreign Represen tayo es Let's do our best, not in the spirit Fifth Ave. Bidg.; CHICAGO, ‘ i Nearauette’ Bldg.; BOSTON, 8 Winter of sacrifice, but of service. TROIT, Kresge Bldg.; MINNE-|a difference. 8t.; DE’ AP han} ‘Meroker Audit Bureau of Cli Ly TATH'S OLDES' HE STATHstablished 1872) > = eee — WEATHER REPORT = for 24 hours ending at non June 25: Temperature at 7:00 a. m. . 60 ‘Temperature at noon ‘Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity . Forecast. For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; cooler tonight; ‘Wednesday probably fair. pore ae Lowest Temperatures Fargo . 60 Williston Grand Forks . Pierre ... St. Paul . Winnipeg Helena ». Chicago Swift Current Kansas City . ‘San Francisco . ORRIS W. SSSSTOSSSSGSEOO OS o The heart has eyes that the © brain knows nothing of.—Parit @ © = hurst. * SPSHIAPOSSOSE HOOD FOR “MORAL EFFECT.” A great deal has been printed about the “moral effect” of having American forces in France, regardless of their ability to serve at the front. ‘We have never quite grasped the necessity of spurring on, morally or any other way, a country so immor- ally shot up, burned over and rav- ished as France has been, but the need of Germany for moral impres- sion has long been strong and appar- ent. Of all the foreign peoples at war, Germany alone has, practically, es: caped ‘the immediate horrors of war: fare. .If anybody needs “moral ef- fects” .it’s the people of Germany, whose morale: has been living on headquarters reports of “the splen- did achievements of my armies.” For over forty ‘years, the German people have been working, saving, building on lies. They have been deceitfully educated to conviction in the invulnerability and invincibility of their country. Their armies have been fighting on the other fellows’ territory. Their U-boats are sinking the other fellows’ ships. Their Zep- pelins are bombing the other fellows’ towns, churches, school houses, etc. True, Germans in Germany have en- dured great hardship. That's what war always means. Preparation for just that has been going on in <Ger- man homes for decades. But the great horrors of war, under which life is a gamble, night and day, under which you actually see your home blasted to pieces and your loved ones torn limb from limb, have been re- moved from Germans. ‘For “moral effect,” carry the war to Germany! It sounds’ impossible It is, only difficult, much less difficult than than breaking a Hindenburk line and other lines to come. Fill the Ger- man ‘skies with hostile aviators! It would at once alter the morale of Germany, autocracy and all. Not a ‘bomb need be dropped, perhaps. The horrors of bombing have been con. scientiously reported by von Tirpitz. ‘Mere knowledge that thousands of en- emies up there in the air above could drop bombs would make a different Germany and perhaps mercifully put an end to the war. And, awful as it is to say it, there had better be a ‘bom»> on every building in Germany than that ruination of civilization should continue to the end. That Petrograd “council” allows Nick Komanoff right to vote, as a cit- izen in good standing. Cheer up, Nick! You're lucky to have any standing at all. GET READY! Pleased with the response to the Liberty Loan, Secretary McAdoo has wired banks and other organizations to maintain their “splendid machin- ery’ for use when the next appeal is made. Of course, Mr. McAdoo is right. The “splendid machinery” should be kept well greased and improved upon, if possible, for it is evident that our war bill will total five, maybe eight Dillions in addition to what has just been subscribed. Just when they next appeal will be made is ‘not known, but it will be made after congress has fixed war taxes, which means that the subscriptions will be made under conditions decidedly more favorable than these ‘under which the people have just responded. What is true of our financial ma- THE MADNESS OF WILHELM. If there exists anwhere in the world a reasonable human being who doubts that the great war is a struggle be- tween democracy and autocracy, all he has to do is to follow the utter- ances of the kaiser of Germany. The monarch who plunged the whole world into horror and butchery is also just about 1,000 years behind — his time. His thinking along some lines goes back to the dark ages. He still really and truly believes there is such a thing as the divine right of kings Nations, according to him, do not se- lect the kind of government they are to have. This is done for them by men up above, under the guidance and sanction of God. Wiring to the deposed King Con- stantine, of Greece, Wilhelm used these words: “The mailed fist of Germany, with further aid from Al- mighty God, will restore you to your throne, of which no man by right can rob you.” In that one sentence there is a per- fect picture of ‘the menace this pow- er-mad monarch; is to a world that would dwell in peace, “The mailed fist’—German adora- ruthless war on its neighbors. “With further aid from Almighty God"—Wilhelm’s belief that the Al-| mighty is in league with the Prus- sian powers of oppression. “Your throne, of which no man by right can rob you”—here you have the autocrat closing his eyes to the fact that the Greek nation gave the throne to “Tino’s” ancestor and that the giver can also take away. We Americans must put our. backs into this war and wage it until we have eliminated the,danger of the mailed fist, and conviticed evén Wil- helm that the voice of the free peo- ple alone rules, not the outworn creed ofthe divinevorigin of the right of;an inbred family ‘to hold sway over millions. General Goethals announces the awarding contracts’ for ten new steel cargo carriers. The first ,of these ships cannot be completed be- fore June, 1918. Any transportation enterprise based upon a whole year of U-boat warfare sure has its risks. WELCOME BELGIANS, ‘Before the war is' very much older, there will have appeared in this coun- try missions from. nearly every one of the nations that are allies in the war against Germany. To none of them will it be possible to extend a more sincere and heartfelt welcome than we are now according to the official representatives of ‘Belgium. This little nation stands in a class all by itself, both in the role of hero and of martyr. In all the wide range of human history there is no small country which ever covered itself with more glory in the defense of its inalienable rights, and none whose men, women and children were ever forced to pay a more bitter penaity for their bravery and hardihood in' opposing the will of a ruthless foe. When Germany tempted the Hel- gians to take the easy path of the weak and acquiesce in the march of Prussian armies through Flemish fields, it was Belgium that proudly said her treaties and her rights were not written on scraps of paper. When the enormous gray masses of the German army started on the move for Paris, it was the little Belgian army that held up the hordes until France and England could make ready. Town after town in Belgium was made,immortal by a defense as desperate and as valorous as that of the Greeks at Thermopylae. And just because they rendered this unforgettable service to civilization, the Belgians have been made to pay. They have been under the tiger's claaw. They have been torn and _| mauled by the tiger. All his vicious passion, all his barbarous hatred, all his malignant venom has been felt by the devoted victims. ; So it is with a very genuine emo- tion that we see the Belgian commis- sion and think of the country for which they stand. We seem to see, as in a vision, 4 low, flat land whose dreamy old towns have been shot to pieces or burned, whose exquisite churches and town halls have been deliberately destroy- ed, whose men have been deported into slavery, and whose women and children have often been starved. We see a land where the factories | have been dismantled and every piece ;of usable machinery has been stolen. We behold a people who have been drained of the last ounce of their gold and almost the last drop of their blood. And yet, with all that Germany has tion of armed. power which may make}. “VM WITH Goob HUNCH EH, WHAT 2) Sa iy | Ni ™ ALREADY A MEMBER UNCLE, BUT You. done to them, the Belgian women and | old men still cling to their blackened | acres, waiting for the day of free-) dom; and the remnants of the Bel-; gian army stand indomitably in the trenches on the extreme fringe of, their country, faces and guns toward the foe. America’s heart is with this little nation. Everything we can do will be done to free it, to restore it, to! bind its wounds, :to make it as nearly as possible the wonderful, busy, hap- py’ little country it’ was before the kaiser beheld something that was fair | and turned it into the semblance of, hell. At Kobe, the Japs have launched, a 10,300-ton freighter in four: months; after her keel was laid. Maybe the U-boat trouble had better be turned over to the Japs. ART.IN OVERALLS, “The: Man in the Overalls” has' al- ways been: a: solidly. built, sturdy. cit- izen.and ‘his artist’ sense was limit- ed. to'a few ‘standard colors and com- binations. «Overalls were’ purely util- itarlan—not «even slightly decora- tive. ‘ ‘Now women have invaded man’s field—and also his overalls: A fash- ion note informs us that “they come in solid colors and in most attractive stripes” and “are full enough to sug- gest that they will be donned by -a very feminine young person.” ‘The great question is, “Will artistic overally remain overalls or will they degenerate into. mere bifurcated skirts? Economical young women may be able to remodel the hubdble skirts of old, using one for each—ah —division of the new garment! Mr. Hoover, 72. carloads of pota- toes have already been shipped out of San Diego, this season. None last season. Just a little straw showing the way the bigger crops wind blows. “Too late!” said German autocrats, when Uncle Sam declared war. We can get an army of aviators over to Europe quicker than «any other. Doubtless, the Germans don't believe that we'll do it. Over in Imperial Valley, the Southern ‘Pacific has installed con- crete bathtubs for hogs that are be- ing shipped east. But no reputable Pacific coast hog will feel that he’s traveling de luxe without toothbrush and manicuring. Better Than Foreign Product. Zinc powder is required for precipi- tating gold and silver in the cyanide Process, and since the cutting off of the supply from Germany and Belgi- um, attempts have been made to meet the demand by electrolytic methods, H. J. Morgan and 0. C. Ralston of the United States bureau of mines, re- port that the best product has been obtained by electrolyzing at five volts a solution of sodium zincate, prepared by saturating with zinc oxide a 30 per cent solution of sodium hyroxide. The supply of zinc in the bath is main- tained by adding zinc oxide or using | zinc anodes, and the material obtained is spongy zinc that crumbles to dust when dried. The yield is a pound of dust from about three kilowatt hours of efectric current, while the product. is claimed to have proven nearly twice Comments on Universal Military Training By HOWARD H. GROSS Self-preservationi ‘is the first law of nature’ aiid’ the ‘first’ duty of -a°govern-, ment.’ ' Uiiléss life, liberty: and prop-' erty are madé secure by'a ‘government, it is @ fiildfe’ and its flag’ is a sham. History shows that nations must be able and ready. to-defend their rights’ or they soon will ‘Have none to’ defend. In a democra¢y’all owe an equal ob-, Ngation to the ‘country—to dovall and whatever is necessary. to defend the’ flag in war’: *Thidsineatis. preparation’ in time of peacese? : Modern warfare:is a:highly special- ized game; trainéd’men;.chemicals and, machinery are the principal factors. There is no place for untrained men, and to put.them ipto the ranks. means awful and unnecessary slaughter. War is sttious:! businiéss,: the most destructivg,jagency :in jan expert pein ‘are belng a into war. We have done everything honorable and possible to keep out of it. We, must now meet the issue. This is no time to experiment. The volunteer system has always been a failure ‘and always will be. That sys tem is unjust, undemocratic; it puts a penalty upon patriotism and offers a premium to cowards and slackers; tt sacrifices the best and most patriotic and leaves the less worthy to become the fathers of the future. There is only one way that is perma- nent and dependable: Train all young men physically fit, impose upon all an obligation to serve in case of war. This is the only, “square deal,” the HOWARD H. GROSS, | President Universal: Military Training League. only plan that will fairly distribute the service and the only plan that can succeed under present-day conditions. Experience shows that only one-half of our young men can meet the physi- cal requirements; so out of 1,000,000 young men who are now passing {through their nineteenth year, not more than 500,000 will be chosen for training. Those less perfect will be rfeeded in the industries and on the farm as producers. The fundamental necessity in war is an ample food supply, hence the gov- ernment must see to it that the farms are not depleted of “workers, or, if some are taken, that others take their as efficient as the average grade of European zinc dus’ tured, clothing ads and tion handled. ~The writer has séei an estimate which says that it requires five men and women in the industries, agriculture and transportation to maintain one man at the front. War will mean the correlation and: mobili- zation of our industries wherein ev- eryone may serve his country and achieve a victory that will save lib- erty and civilization. The best steel is put on the cutting edge of the ax, but, to be effecttve, it must have weight and power behind It to drive it home. ‘The trained army on the firing line is the cutting edge and this must be’ mate’ effective “by united and organized support back’ of In the crisis before us the best help that can be-given at this moment |s to urge upon the United States sena- '\ ‘tors and congressmen at once to enact a law for universal’ military training that shall apply’ to everyone—the ‘rich | and the poor, the high and ‘the“fow, the boy from town and country—bring them all together and train them for ' service. Universal military training is the | melting pot for making real men and real Americans. A FABLE FOR PACIFISTS By SAMUEL -HOPKINS ADAMS| OF THE VIGILANTES, In time of General War among the Insect’ Tribes, the Bees remained at Peace. That they might conduct their Pursuits unhampered, the Honey Bees chose as their leaders certain Sting- Bees of Courage and Prowess to guard their Interests, their Lives and their Honor. To these Guardians came Slayers from among the Tribe of Ruth-' less Spiders, saying: “Henceforth the Air is forbidden to your Wings. For there are Spread our Webs for our Enemies.” ae “But the Air is our proper Pro- vince,” protested the Chosen Leaders’ of the Bees, “Shut out from it how shall we continue to exist in Prosper- ity and Honor?” i: “That is nothing to Us,” replied the Ruthless Spiders. “Whoso disobeys our. Orders we will destroy. Be warned.” Now, though the Ruthless Spiders were terrible in War and had de-| stroyed many Victims, yet the Bees were unafraid, being a Great and a Free People. “This thing we will not Endure,” said their Chosen Leaders, and they set about spreading their Wings and sharpening their Stings for Combat. But as they prepared to fight, there Arose from among the Mass of Honey- Bees a Clamor of Pacifist Buzzers, crying out in many Voices (some of which Echoed the Spider Accent). “It is not the Will of the Tribe that we go to War. Make no movement until opportunity is Given for all to Vote upon the Question.” When, in the Course of Tribal Events, the Vote had been Registered, the Pacifist Buzzers were overthrown by the Resentment of an angered Tribe and the word went out to the Chosen Leaders: “Our Honor has been assailed. Our will is for War. Go forth and Fight.” But the Chosen Leaders did not fight. They could not. They were dead. The Ruthless Spiders had killed them. And when the Bee Tribe, late and Teaderless, took the Air, they were Entangled in the webs of the Ruthless Spiders and utterly destroyed. Moral—When Honor is assailed, the Initiative is Mightier than the Refer endum, Automatic. “De man dat talks de loudest,” said places. Munitions «must be manufac-| Uncle Eben, “generally lets his voice -transportg-| keep workin’ while his mind rests.” -| Somewhat on the Australian system— ' perceive it. || by voting? ' behind each ballot they cast there is ‘ Universal Service and ~ the American — School History By / Jultan Street of the Vigilantes A group of poets, writers and ar- tists, many of them well-known men, recently met in New York and formed a new society to work in the prepared- ness movement, this one to be called the Vigilantes, The object of the new organization is to go behind the move- ment for a large and fully manned and equipped navy, for adequate coast dé- fences, for universal military service and for equipment for an army of a million or more men to be raised un- der the universal service plan favored by Gen. Leonard Wood and modeled to go behind this movement and work for what may be termed “mental pre- paredness,” The Vigilantes believe that universal service will be a great democratizer of American youth, that it will tend to level classes, raise American physical standards, give American boys the taste of discipline so sorely needed by many of them, and achieve other very desirable results. But most of all, it; is belleved by the men who formed this | ,bew society that universal service— service for every man—is the only really democratic system for national defense. Not until each citizen un- derstands that he must “do his bit” along with the other fellow, will he appreciate the fact, so often lost sight of, that with the privilege of citizen: ship, there go depéndent duties. It Is especially desirable that immi- grants from abroad perceive this fact. Large numbers of them do not now Large humbers of immi- grants are becoming American voters, but what else are they doing? What. good do they do the country merely None whatever, unless, |. @ sense of the individual’s absolute duty to the government. By native citizens and by those from other lands much as a right, and not enough as a privilege. It is the idea of the Vigilantes that even if we get our navy, our army, our equipment and our trained citizen sol- diery, we will not have obtained the most essential thing until we have quickened the senses of our people to the need of a more devout and more cohesive nationalism. To do this we must begin with the | child; effectively to reach the child we mitst stithulaté’an interest in history— particulafly the history of the ‘United States; and tb'reach the child through history we must, of course, get at the historian and the teachers. : What schoolbook tells the full un- varnished ‘truth about American mill- tary: history?’ What ‘school’ history pointe frankly to the'fact that:in'the Revolutionary -war and in succeeding wars this country failed dismally be- cause it has depended upon a volun- teer militia? What history points fhahkly to the record of our military shame along with that of our mollitary glory?,, And what history draws the inevitable deductions? Alas, qne might suppose,that many an American school historian had;never heard of General Upton’s “The. Military Policy of the United States,” which is perhaps the most important single military-histori- cal work produced by an American, Were less space given in school his- tories to deeds of glory, and more to a discussion of military failures, I be- lieve that our people would under- stand far better than they do, the dan- gers which -beset them at the present time, and the way to overcome those dangers. There would then be no talk of “a million farmers with shot- guns” as a means of defense against a highly trained army of invaders, be- ‘cause our people would understand, first, that the million farmers would not materialize, and second,’ that, should they materialize, they would be mere cannon fodder under the condl- tions of modern warfare. Teach the child, as you do, that we are a peace-loving people, but teach him also that there have been times when we have carried our love of peace to excess. Teach him what Washington said, and what every great American general since Wash- Ington' has sald, about the defects of the militia system and the invariable lack of trained American troops. Teach him thatthe lack: of trained troops means’ unnecessary humilia- tions, unnecessary wars, unnecessary defeats, unnecessary losses. Teach him that the:voice of a nation carries but little: weight unless, behind that voice, there {s potency. Teach him that It fs:not-enough to be right; that it is meeessary also to be courageous, and to’be-strong. Above all, teach him that, with’ universal service the people and the army are the same thing, and that therefore, under such a sys tem, there \is.:no danger to be appre: hended from the development of a mil- itary caste. ‘This will help him to see the ‘folly of the professional pacifist, who takes the. ground that strength invites aggression, and, that -to obtain security it is only necessary to sign infumerable treaties (‘scraps of pa- per”), to take the money of an angry warring world with one .hand, and throw sweet kisses to it with the other Aside:from giving the nlen.and wom- en ‘of the future some intelligent ground. to’ work upon when interna: tional problems are perplexing us, hon the ballot hus come to be regarded too | * est truthful fearless history, taught ir]: il American achools, would, I bellgor it sess MBAR AG De BOR IONE ELS A PARRA AMAA IRA RUE NN A MONDAY; JUNR-28,:1017. igo a8 far as any other single agency ‘toward the elimination of gectionalism. ' North-and South alike‘have sinned jagainst each other, aud against full truth, in ‘their school histories, I do ‘hot mean’ necessarily that they have jdeliberately Hed about each other, but that each section has had a habit of ‘glossing over certain things. They sin as much sometimes in what they don’t ,| Say as in what they do. Each demands’ ithis or that-of the historian and the publisher, and too often the historian, jand the publisher, poor men! are ‘forced to think of thetr markets rath; ‘er than of their facts and their duty to the young—and thus to the country. I have heard it charged that South- erners sometimes make finicky de imands upon -historians who wish a ‘market in the South, but I know the Southerner, and I have as much faith in him as I have In any other Ameri- can, and it is my deep conviction that if, the Northern historian will deal fairly ‘with the South, and will frankly place ‘upon the North the blame for, let us ‘say, the outrages of reconstruction— dealing honestly and openly with the subject as it should be dealt with— thén the Southerner will meet him half way, and will not quibble over equally, frank, academic statements concerning the evils of slavery.’ If the Northern historian will give a true picture of the noble spirit of the South in the Civil war, of the greatness of Lee, Davis and other Southern leaders, of the out: rages of reconstruction, etc. and will, further, do justice to all great men of the South (giving, for instance, to Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Soath’s great scientist, the mention he de- serves, along with Eli Whitney and Robert Fulton and Cyrus Field and S. F. B. Morse and others of the regu- lar historic “stock”), then I think he will find the South, as open-minded as can be. For the. sensitiveness of the South ts a perfectly natura] sensitive- ness, which comes of having been ham- mered altogether too much. It 4s time that stopped. ‘ : For my part, J have a dream of a national board composed of, prominent men of both sections, organized for the purpose of impreving, American, school histories and of demanding that; they be intelligent, fair, and free. from maudlin appeals to national vanity. A few foolish people may, perhaps, take the attitude that to present facts discreditable to the nation is “unpatri- otic.” If a historian were to write a really frank history today, the sales- man for rival books would doubtless stoop to such an argument. In this connection, however, I am reminded of Lord Roberts’ campaign for truth and preparedness in England. He was called “unpatriotic.” But the history which has been-made since has proved him right, and there is perhaps no fig- ure of the past century whose memory 1s today revered by the British people as is the memory of “Bobs.” pours In. this. country General Wood, han- dicapped by a war department, muzzle, :] has’ been, like Roberts, a-voice crying in the wilderness. iit hin Had history been rightly written for our people, there would bé no need ‘for preparedness campaigns, for the ne- cessity of preparedness would be fully understood. Those who have.talked preparedness for the Inst three years have been de- rided by the pacifists and their press as-“hysterical.” Or again we-have been told that those who believe the countty ought to be ready to defend itself wish to sell munitions. Such statements are nothing less than victous les—ltes none the less vicious because, in many instances, those who utter them rye sumably believe them. The pacifist argument is tantamount to that of the man who refuses to carry an umbrella lest it bring. on rain. That such an argument can be serl- ously considered by our people is large. ly the fault of historians and teachers of history who, if they have not delib- erately. misled the nation, have given it-half-truths. So here we are again, as I write, on the verge of war, yet as unready for it as we have always been when wars have ¢ome. " ap Truly; in this, at least, we are'a thor. oughly consistent people! Panes sir Sean SEES i “TO THE COLORS” 7 By KENNETH MAC DOUGALL. It 1s almost. dawn and I cannot sleep, From my window I see khaki-clad men Hurrying down the shadowy streets, Rushing to join the colors‘again. Other men in the garb of peace, Somber as sparrow or wren, Straighten out kinks in their toil worn backs, For the colors are calling again. Through the chill spring mists there floats a sound, + A bugle blares out—and then’ My vision is blurred by tears of joy, For the colors are calling again, My soul is torn with a mad desire. Enlist? Or stick to my pen? My service stained uniform peers from my trunk, The colors are calling again, Memories haunt me—the days that are past, When riding the mesa and plain; And my heart's nearly broken to be with my troop, Back with the colors again. A discharge drops out of my old-olf drab, & An accident barred me; but when The surgeons get tired, I'll sneak my _ _Way through, ad be back with the colors agalm SINK SUBMARINE. An Atlantic Port, June 25.—Officers of a British steamer arriving here to- day report having sunk a German sub- marine about 400 miles off the Irish coast. The steamer sent a torpedo jnto the submersible’s magazine. Each end sank separately. The British steamer was uninjured. Sunshine. “Those who bring sunshine to the lives. of others cannot keep it from themselves."—J. “M. Barrie. << --- > eel eee. C.- t