The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1917, Page 4

HOSES HOHETOOSO OOS “8 / MONDAY, J THE TRIBUNE eee Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Mattel iy INDAY ISSUED EVERY DAY EXCEz F SUNDA’ BSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN vi ADVANCE il or carrier, Daily, by per pate : North te ly, by oF 4.00 ota .. Daily. by mail in Ni three months .... Dally, bY mail out: a one year “° Daily, by mail outside of North Pakota, three months . ‘Weekly, by mail, per year. G. LOGAN PAYNE Ct Special Foreign Representative CHICAGO, ‘Winter MIN!) IN, 8 LIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. —Meroker Audit Bureau of Circulation HE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPE cee (Established 1872) => WEATHER REPORT for 24 hours ending at noon July 2: Temperature at 7 a. m.. eae 48. Temperature at noon = ‘Highest yesterday . 3B Lowest yesterday at Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity Forecast For (North Dakota: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; warmer tonight. Lowest - ‘Temperatures Fargo vee 42 Williston . Grand Forks . Pierre . ‘St. Paul . Winnipeg Helena .. Chicago ..- Swift Current . Kansas, City, ,, San Francisco’. . 54 ORRIS. W.. ROBERTS, Meteorogolist. SO DMS VRIES OOH 2 * Oterela bel not i “long ¢ if the fault was only on one & side—La Rochefoucauld. ° CELEBRATING JULY 4. It is hard to believe that people i ean be serious when they discuss whether they shall celebrate July 4 ‘quietly and seriously, or whether . there shall be the usual ballyhoo, racket and noise. (. There never was any excuse for simaking of Independence Day an oc- easion for mere sound and fury, and -{there is less reason for this proced- ‘ure this year than ever before in our history. In 1776 when the handful of Amer- :fcan colonists declared their inde- pendence and defied the British king vgnd the British power, they did so “with a full appreciation of. the gravi- pty of the step. they*had taken. There; <Was to. wild’ rioting and. noise-mak- ing. |The patriots knew there was Ystern ‘work in hand and bitter fight- “ing to be faced, -before they would be jable to ‘translate brave words into jechieved deeds. f ah The same soberness, determination ind high purpose should mark every “assembly of Americans this year on July 4. Only a few months ago we once .More declared our independence. Once more we defied a king and a mighty empire: We said to the kais- er that in our vocabulary there ‘is no ,such word as “verboten,” and that we could not subscribe to the insol- ,@nt Prussian doctrine that our ships ‘could travel the salt seas only by per- mission of German minions and when ,barred like zebras. Once more we ‘WBhould realize «that. there :ts.stern work in hand and bitter fighting to be faced, before we are able to: trans- late brave words into achieved deeds. The menace to the Americans of 1917 is just as grave as it was to the Americans of 1776. Had we lost in the earlier day, there would have been no American republic. If we lose now, we lose a very large part of our independence, and sink to the level of a vassal state, forced to do the bidding of the German emperor and his war lords. July 4 should, therefore, once more be a day of prayerful thought. We should assess the job we have in hand We should key our resolves up to the highest pitch. We should realize that it is our duty and privilege to give all we have and are that government of the People by the people for the people May not perish from the earth. hed Cross donations are still ac- ceptable, so long as the war lasts. ROOT IN RUSSIA. Even those who expressed displeas- ure that one with Elihu Root's ante- cedents should be chosen by the pres- fdent to head the American mission to revolutionary Russia, must confess their agreeable surprise over the Manner in which he has so far ac- ‘complished his difficult and delicate dask. » The Slav has a history. a religion, @ literature, and a temper worlds away from anything with which we are familiar in this country. And yet 60 far we have been able to judge at this distance, our. special ambas- sador has gauged Russian public sentiment to a nicety and adjusted his own utterances to fit in most per- fectly. ‘He has delivered a whole-hearted, an old-established democracy to & newW-formed one. He has extended the hand of brotherhood. He has stated how glad our people are to know that another great race has thrown off the shackles of me dievalism, and walked out of the shadows into the sunlight of God’s freedom. He has impressed upon them that America wants nothing for herself and is warring for no selfish purpose. He has shown them that if they want to preserve their liberty, they must continue to fight the}, kaiser, who is the enemy of all lib- erty. He has demonstrated that only by standing together can the free peoples of the earth remain in free- dom. If Russia stands firm, if her people organize a stable government, if her armies once more render effective co-operation with the legions of the| west, we will all have to thank Elihu Root for the large part he played in bringing about the consummation 50 ardently. desired everywhere, save in the Teuton countries. The “ex” stands for exit to kings and such. HARD ON NEUTRALS. All.is ready to put into actual op- eration the first of the big war plans entrusted to the president—control of exports. Under arrangement with the British government, the United States and Great Britain will,. practi- cally, have control of the world’s trade in their hands, which means a bilities in the future, since the world is going to be very hungry for some time after peace comes. Putting it in plain words, we've direetly engaged in ‘the business of starving Germany. The American food supply will be used first to feed Americans, secondly to feed the Al- lies, and what is left wil go to the neutrals under such tight regulations that it cannot reach Germany. This latter fact will spur the U-boats on to making hotter war on neutral ships, which means that neutrality is going to have a real hot time in sticking to its neutrality. Indeed, that neutrals are to get only what's left, over ‘from: Americans. and Allies is a warm proposition in itself. To itorpedg ‘neutral shigiifi, pyle} such conditions, will be up ike blowi both h@pd and :tail:ot noutralty 4 * ‘Men possessed’ of an idea cannot be reasoned, with—Froude. JUST NORMAL BEINGS. A great deal is being said :thede days about: the:necessity ‘of ‘hates guarding’the moral atmosphere of the cities near which. the big army cantonments are tosbe located. This is all, ypry. well, so asthe cities are concerned, but the’ imputation that. stidiers, ard tons morally than alowed to go unchallenged. , After all, our American soldigrs— whether volunteers or conscripted— are drawn from the body of our civil life. And what is more, they are apt to be higher than the general aver- age instead of lower. The man who volunteers to fight for his country is not apt to be of slack moral fiber. The man who is seléctively conscript- ed, by dint of that very selection, is apt to be of good moral repute. What. happens to the American boy after he becomes. part of the army is not conducive to ‘a breakdown in his morals. The discipline to which he is‘ subjected, the drills, the gymnas- tic exercises, the open air life, all tend to give hima healthy mind in a healthy body. He learns self-con- trol and self-respect.. He is taught to make himself strong and a vital part of strength is moral fiber. | This is not to contend that the army is a big Sunday school. It is not. But the temptations of the young soldier are certainly no great- er than those of the young man in the ordinary small city and the op- portunities to indulge in drink and vice are decidedly less. The goings and comings of the ordinary civilian, who is making his own living, are not much regulated. The movements of the soldier are regulated all along the line. The hedged-in life of the soldier boy very largely takes the part of the home-influenced life of the lad in his native city. And the morals of the one are apt to be just about on a par with the morals of the oth- er—neither very much better, nor very much worse. Maybe the kaiser's airmen woulé agree not to bonrb puble schools where the children are taught Ger- man. —— Chang Hsun says he’s dictator of China. Yuan Shi Kai's short-lived empire makes him a bit shy of try- ing it again, at least without warn- ing We pass this along for what it’s worth: A Salt Lake City woman has just got a court order restraining her husband from interfering with house cleaning. | President’s exemption regulations mighty big plan and: mighty big con- ‘Jtrol. It means Mephaps mighty pout the civilian population should not ‘be}" . The Greased Pig! . y ‘Have “youjseen {the gwar, bullstin? 4 Ave2-vous* vu) le communique §, _ am kay ?'} Av ay \voot vi juh” kumunee ' 7 hts the news good ? ‘ ie | Les. nouvelles’ sont elles: bonnes? : Layinoovell son’ bell bun? ! / : j | Where is the aviation field ? - In these: lessons the English phrase appears in ‘the ’ first’) Hye, the ue French equivalent in the second line, and the pronunciation in’ the third mn Ulf ee i" Yul saat ace Is it far? Can lwalk there? Est-ce loin d'ici? Puis-je y marcher? Ess Jovan’ deesee ? Pweeyo ee marchay? WELL GET You YET, OD se’ trouve le champ d'aviation ? v. 4 O64 “Suh troov uh shan* daveeaseeon’? line. In the pronunciation key, straight lines over { the letters, A and U, denote the long. sound, as in *, “hAte” and “dUde"; curved lines over these letters “indicate the short sound, as in “cAt” and “bUt"; =~» two dots over the U indicate a sound ‘somewhat similar..to. the German “ue,’ which Americang'may approach.,by trying to pronotince long U and long EB. at the-same-timesy os leer dek . ’ 2 Archi inal Cutout these lessons and paste them in you a aart agiteory $e jotebook. 4 cot HEIRESS WEDS AN $18 CLERK Connecticut Woman Falled of Happl- member of faith opposed. to war. Chances are there'll be some back- sliders. a nee Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria fears the coming of the|Greeks. The an- not faded... ; Be a jdput; A? war-tim slogan backed Db: Pleasé.” ! (S/P-4H4: | Society “for ’ the Prevention of Useless Telephoning. We have a hunch that the word “Pershing” will soon beconie: a per; the Germagg Swill know. what it Story From: Holland Says Uhlans Were Sent to Shoot Them Down. / BEG FOOD AT DUTCH BORDER Weary of War and Depressed by Hun- ~ger They No Longer Believe in German Victory, but Are Eager'for 3 By.W. J. L. KIEHL. (Special ‘Correspendence of the Chicago ; Daily News.) The Hagué, Holland.—On the south- ern border of Holland desertions from the German army. occur on a large scale nowadays..’ At first it was only.a single soldier here and there, then they came by threes and fives, later in groups of ten and twenty, but now as many as seventy and eighty come in at atime. A few days ago a little army tried to desert—some 500 to 600 men, mostly fusileers, marines and land- sturmers. The Dutch report says that they at- tempted to cross near Cadsand, but the German military. authorities got wind of it, and 200 Uhlans with two machine guns were dispatched from Bruges to head them back. A formal battle raged between the two forces; it was viewcd from Holland. The machine guns got in their deadly work, and almost all the would-be deserters were either killed or captured ; only eight wounded men succeeded in reaching Dutch soil and eafety. Every fresh arrival, deserter or es- caped prisoner, tells the same story of famine conditions in Belgium and Ger- many, and depression among the sol- diers, who dread being sent to the front. They no longer believe in Ger- man victory, but are eager for peace. Only one escaped prisoner had a dif- ferent story to tell, and that man was a Russian general, who arrived in Maastricht accompanied by two Ger- man “flight lieutenants” who had es- caped with him. Russian Gets Through Lines, This general believed the Germans can never be reduced by hunger. “They. will eat grass or the dust from the street rather than surrender on the allies’ terms,” he said. He told how bad the treatment and the food was in the German prison camps; he had been In seven, so he could judge. After ev- ery attempt to escape he had. been transferred to a different camp, but everywhere the prisoners were treated brutally, the officers as well as the are to fix March 15, 1917, as date be- generous and unselfish message from * * BOOS Qe at fore which man must have been a wrttie inne seal Plot en. in getting away wi fond Ne preferred nst td siy—because he feared that: would make escape more difficult for -his comrades still: in captivity.. He; however, say that Avhat made escape very difficult was that it caused great surprise to people in German towns and villages to. see cient reputation of the Heilenes has | three able-bodied men walking about, ‘}.and he and ‘his obliged “to: in . about, by eB ‘anti-waste | now on! to at Mise “Number, ‘sence from “the ‘German soldi on the Dutch go quite as far’ where ‘Germang fectly good verb in Europe and that! congregate and make overtures of cgm: comrades gerye, gay fhey never, ores } coffee id Yoo ah Hg meets his Germay colleagues, it must their methods: of ..discipline toward men. How he had at last succeeded ;, ——————e ders In Holland; by tar’ the greater. number of them at least,strongly dis- approve of the brutal and heartless way in which most German officerr treat their men. ‘The younger officers show this by chaffing the Germans ‘abopt it. Merchant Ranks Over Noble. : How the spirit of caste still rules in the “German ‘ranks: is ‘instanced ‘by a little anecdote ‘told ‘nie’ by a “Dutch office enme op fficer, He id. nt.” © #1 fee” tering wit t @ frankly beg te &., the ail. ideation BOY ee ie unl 1 : jer. The officers dot’! | monacle,; of those “acht euapent, Uberally,,. Her ! ‘ 4 “There ia.a sort| ants” often lampooned in; Geri sf; husband, wag chauffenriifor Mrs, of ‘neutral. “zone® along the. frontier] One day Von S. came to lunch bubbling Converse, The wedding followed d:Hollanders éac| over. with indignation, for :a’ simple {29 elopement on: May 11, 1910. Mr. meots There.the Berbian officers offen | “bourgecis,"a-former Berlin merchant, | Smith did not learn of the affair until im:| had been given the post of captain in’ the‘ following January, when ‘he for- ; ‘he himself. was gave thé'¢ouple ‘and sent ‘them’ South amare! 4 ate carrrviing at fn his car for a tio-months’ bridal: ek ai tleg sy Mra, Woodcock divorced the chauf- a feur on the, ground of, desertion. . It einem Kaufmann aus ‘Berl 2 ; disgraced. But officers a8 sald in Greenwich that. Mrs.. Wood- ness In Experiment With a Neighbor's Chauffeur. Port, Chester, N. Y.—Mrs. Mary Au- gustine . Woodcock of Greenwich, Conn., who divorced Arthur Woodcock about a month, ago, has married Clif- ford R. Wilmot, employed as a clerk at $18 a week in the Westchester Lighting company. “’>'' : “omhe brides" ‘Gaurehter of the late Wil- ‘Met i the death’ Of her fa- anions had been ‘all ‘sorts: of ;: tales Ounded sand; being th fa ount radeship; to; thelr collengues on Me other’ side.) Friendly~ relations ‘exist, and when the luncheon hour comes, }. and the: Netherlagders: see what poor provisions the Germans have, they. ta: ch... A picnic His Cloven Breath. ihe Although a bride-of but-three-short months, she had.her,. troubles--and naturally made. a confidant ,of ber vite the Germans to; I bi $ oO Veet ie ‘Wimet:was,wholly’ mother, 4 ey “i t \ : 1 is-held ‘an consume: to; get, scarce In, SoRk's Martiage ta was, D E ae t crpdibiie, avanettt is, saustmges! serve officers Who, ere | UMaoked ‘for... Several prominent mea, “My dear. child,” we other, ‘or hah “eh ches,“ Udly praise |: selves creditably, have to, }hadiheen payiog tivelnsattention.| “such things will happen in the best of . h| to positions they woukk never Ondcadmtver ieaited iimeelf unt} ‘an-| famtites. But take my advice’ asd have neither eyes nor ears when'yopr husband, comes home from the.club at a late hour, and you'll be happier.” © _ “P-perhaps so,” sobbed: the young wife, “b-but what am I to d-do with my n-nose?” peace. times. ale ge wellAengwn Madtattany at- fone tained in : Fussed le Ir. a Elyria, O.—Katie Fuss, in her di- ‘yorce petition, says Steve Fuss fussed up her hair and/exhibited a bunch of ‘it to friends to prove he was victor in the broll. Although the Dutch officer often] ' Encouraging Hin. “I'm doing my best to get ahead,” asserted Cholly, ‘Well, heaven knows you neéd oné,” asserted Dolly.—Puck. —— not be supposed he always agrees witb their own men. Both officers and sdl- 3 Knew His Catechism. ~“Now, boys,” ‘said the teacher in the Juvenile Sunday school class, “ow lesson today teaches us that if we are good while here on earth, when we die we will go to a place of everlast- ing bliss. But suppose we are bad, then what will become of us?” lace, of, everlasting answered the smal! the’ pedal extrenhity' Gt the By Allman DOINGS OF THE DUFF'S. WILBUR STARTS A CONVERSATION BEN HERE FoR’ Two WEEKS Like MY JoB, AND | DON'T |” THINK TM WO NICE A GIRLE-TO BE MMRIQNG: IN A: RESTMRANT- LDon*y WANT TO Go : NES IT IS AND:So:: WAS. NESTERDAY — MY NAME IS FLOSSIE.- AND | Know T HAVE Turning..of the. Worr Mrs, Bape ta ‘one Of yout . old love letters while cleaning house today. Enpeck—Did it contain anything of a startling nature? . Mrs. Enpeck—Well, you stated in if that 19 Duld rather dwell in endless torment with"me-thad-t6 live ti blist alone! ¢ Enpeck—Huh! My fool dream cer tainly came out, all right, didn’t it? Proof Positive. stella Se you and Tom are really engaged, are you? But are you tive you truly love him? Tee Mabel—Love him! Why, I‘neve: even took one of his presents back ts find out what it cost! —____ HEARD AT THE POST OFFICE, | Won? Go IF You ASK ME - 1 DON'T Live AT. HOME: WITH MN MOTHER . AND PN BROMMER IS COOKIN THIS PLACE AND A FORMER PRIZE FIGHTER~| NOW WHAT WILL You wave? AuTTLe AIR PLEASE, FLOSSIE. | = Stamp Clerk—Is ¢ 1 ati his first-class maf! Stamp Buyer—Not on D your life; i ®@ Present for my mother-inlaw. " Sa eS A Sporting Proposition, - often in a legal fi : Amid the verbal ain” * We pause to ask. not who is nant 2 ici = - s How