The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1917, Page 4

<> evenness THE TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. LABOR AND THE NEGRO. To what extent the race riots in East St. Louis are due to “labor agi- tators”—official or unofficial—will ISSUED BYERY DAY EXCEr! @UBSCRIPTION RATES PAY. ADVANCE Daily, by mail or carrier, per. 0 Daily, by mail, one year in North Dakota ~ 4.00 1.26 t Dakota, one year . 6.00 Daily, by Snail outside of North Dakota, three months .. . 1-63 Weekly, by mail, per _year.. G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Special Foreign See GG EW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; . Neirauctte’ Bldg; BOSTON, 8 Winter 8t.; DETROIT, Kresge Bldg.; MINNE- APOLIS, 810 ‘Lumber Exchange. —Wember Audit Bureau of C! ® STATE'S OLDEST NB = STA‘ istablished 1872) = WEATHER REPORT For 24 hours ending at noun, July 9. ‘Temperature at 7 A. M. 63 Temperature at noon Highest yosiontny Be west yesterday Levent last fight . Precipitation Highest wind velocity . Forecast For North Dakota: Pair tonight and Tuesday, becoming unsettled west portion Tuesday; warmer west portion tonight. Lowest Temperatures Fargo .. é - 56 Williston CS Grand Forks . . 51 Pierre ... 723 St. Paul . 60 Winnipeg en Helena oy Chicago ‘ oC 36 Swift Current, Sash. Kansas City ... San Francisco . teceee ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. Oe oe eee oe oe oy Nothing great was ever % ‘ achieved without enthusiasm. ¢—Emerson. ° COO eo Oe ——— PARTIALLY DRY. Had it not been for the pestiferous prohibition lobby at Washington, com- prised chiefly of men who have left the ministry for politics and the lob- my, the nation might have been bone dry today. - The defeat of the bene dry amend- ‘'metit 18a rébuke to‘the lobbyists who sougit'' td''‘block’ imperative legisla- tion by affixing an. impossible rider upon; the food control bill. ‘People re- sent such subterfuges.. The nation is ready now for a bone dry law, but it will never consent t othe tactics ‘practiced by the lobbyists in Placing in. jeopardy legislation of vital inter- est to. the peace and safety of a na- tian. 'A reverend gentleman, writing to the New York World recently, illus- . trated. the. spirit of the lobby which sought to‘force its will upon the Am- ican people, ‘when’ he said: visit! you are fighting Germany ‘and the kaiser go ahead and don’t bother with us. We are fighting hell and the devil aud have no time for your puny little wars.” : North Dakota has the same brand of foolish zealots in its Watkinses and FPinwalls. These men have done more to delay bone dry legislation than any other agency in the state because of an unyielding intolerance which seeks to inject moral issues into every piece of legislation that arises. ind t President Wilson's attitude:early in the prohibition agitation assured vic- “tory for those who sought to’ wipe out the whiskey traffic. If the pro- hibition lobby had been content with victory a step at a time rather than in one long leap, the nation would be nearer a bone dry law than it is today. The lobby intrusted with national Prohibition has lost ‘its power at Washington for months to come, Probably years, because it endanger- ed a piece of urgent war legislation rather than yield temporarily until congress, with the food legislation off its hands, could take up the prohibi- tion issue on its merits. As the New York World well Says, the prohibition lobby is made up to Some extent of “reverend gentlemen who long ago found politics more con- genial than religion and lobbying more profitable than preaching.” The nation is to be congraulated that the “booze” business is wiped out. May it be not only a war meas- ure, but a permanent one. But the victory is marred by the foolish op- Portunists who, by wiles and threats, have delayed real national prohibi- tion for some time to come. President Wilson and his advisers, together with a few level-headed re- publicans in the House and Senate, are responsible for the kind of na- tional prohibition the bill Passed Sat- urday gives the nation, not the long: haired men and short-haired women deluded with the idea that they are divinely appointed to fight “hell and the devil,” even though their mili- tancy against an invisible foe ham- Pers the nation from tackling the kaiser. If the kaiser really did stic< bis fingers into’ East St. Louis he prob- ably figures by now that he got noth- ing more than another blister out of the mess. probably never be known. But this may be set down as a fact —organized labor, is as ready as any- body else to give the negro a square deal. Every man who becomes a member of the American Federation of La- bor obligates himself “never to dis- criminate against a fellow-worker on account of creed, color or national- ity.” This is as high a standard as one can find anywhere; and, in a general way, it expresses the attitude of or- ganized labor toward the negro .| throughout the entire country. It is true that in some parts of the United States, there is a prejudice against the negro ainong trade union- ists, but whenever this is the case these trade unionists simply reflect the opinion of the so-called better classes of the community. For example, in such communities, it is safe to say, it is easier for a colored man to join a white man’s union than it is for a colored man to join a white man’s church. Ordinarily when there is a preju- dice against the negro, either on the part of a working man or any other kind of a man, it is due to the negro’s character and not to his color. Suffragists will have realized an age old ambition when men wear kilts and women put on overalls. THE SENTIMENTAL SAVAGE, Hecently there was published in some of the newspapers a porsene! narrative by one of the German avi- ators who took part in the murderous game of dropping bombs upon civil- ians in the city of London. He told about his departure with the rest of the aviators, when “the sun seemed to be laughing at the world” and when their commander, addressing a few words to them, end- ed softly, with “God bless you, lads.” Picture it—this sentimental delight in the bright blue sky and the shin- ing sun, and this soft calling of the blessing of God upon the aviators. The ordinary student of human na- turé!would say that here were men about! to ‘depart upon some errand of| meroy,;;80me mission of love and charity. And within a very few kours they were engaged in the hellish work of dropping bombs upon a quiet school house, blowing the tender and inno- cent bodies of little boys and girls into bleeding fragments, catching men and women in the peaceful pursuits of their home lives and mangling and blinding them. All this done’ in the name of Fath- erlang, of glory, of honorable war- farebus, “What is one to make of such a people? How fathom the mental pro- cesses of assassins who mouth aboat sunlight and God before they com- mit their foul murders? It is this that makes them the grave danger to the world. They are war crazy. They must be curbed and restrained and confined just as any other maniacs with murderous tend- encies are. There is no room for such sentimental savages and there can be no peace so long as they have free range. Uncle Sam must be one ot the policemen who will place the Prussian in a straight-jacket and ren- der him impotent to follow the bent to which his mania drives him. Censorship may be cheerfully lyok- ed upon as only another form of our national war on waste—this time in words and their destructive effects. PROTECT THE CHILDREN. This world war into which we have entered to make the world safe for democracy must not be allowed to de- stroy any of the safeguards we have by slow,.painful steps erected for the cause of democracy. Aside from the strain and stress of battle, danger lurks in every war. The unsleeping forces of greed and selfishness are always on watch to regain lost ground. ‘Much has been said, and rightly so, as to how this country can profit from the experiences of those other great democracies—England and France. Our allies can teach us and on the seas. They can also give us much guidance concerning mat- ters at home. And one of the lessons the Allies can teach us is that we must not throw our children into the furnace of war. There must be no wholesale suspension of restrictions of the hours children are permitted to labor. There must be no let-up in child wel- fare work. There must be no paraly- sis of school systems. At the beginning of the war in England and France, in the frantic endeavor to increase the industrial output necessary for carrying on the struggle, children were thrown into the factories as if they were so much fuel for a fire. The cry was chat everyone, even the children, must do their bit. much about warfare in the trenches | bo) ah thea ! ho LESION THIS 1S Witt: te 2 There are many aces among the avators ll ya beaucoup As “parm les amateurs. ° | EN ee & bohkoo dahs parmee lay aveebtuhr What do you cal) an ace? , { Ou: appelez-vous un As io f Ka puhlay voo un8 ahs! ; 4) An aviator that has brought down five planes. Un aviateur qui a abattu aing avions Un8 aveeatuhr kee Abst santk Sveeon. The avnators are the eyes of the army. Les aviateors sont les yeux de l'armee Lay 23veeStuhr son’ lay zev duh larmay. In these lessons the English phrase appears in the first French equivalent in the second line, and the-pronunciation in the third THIRTEENTH line, the 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 Americans may approach py trying to pronounce long U and: long E at the same time. iE Yam Arxhinan Cut out these lessons and paste them in your notebook. confinement in the factories, whether doing day or night work. England and France were fighting to make the liberties of the next generations secure and, while doing so, were denying those very genera- tions the chance to grow up strong in body, educated in mind and clean in spirit. The result was there had to be a speedy return to restriction of child labor, to enforcement of school laws and to all safeguards necessary for child life, The danger England and France faced and speedily took steps to over- come, is facing us now. Already in highly industrialized states, like New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, there have been “defense” proposals to suspend or repeal child labor laws which were put.upon the statute books only after the bitterest fight with special interests. If not prompt- ly checked, this move will spread. There is\no excuse for enslaving the weak bodies of growing chil- dren. It would be nothing less than sui- cide for the United States to risk the flower of her manhood in the trenches of blood-soaked France, while at home we were subjecting our future men and women to a kill- ing blight that would break down their bodies, blunt their? minds and abate their moral: A Massachusetts joy rider, female persuasion, stol@ the star ‘from the cop who halted her. Thus does bu- colic authority suffer another jost at the hands of progress. "(61d Count’ Reéventiow, ular’ little }devil?’ “No. use nothing Worries that, old boy.’ He’ got an explanation right on.the tip of his pen, flo matter what happens. Here we land an army of American fighting men in Europe and get all set to land a smash right in the teeth of the German front line. » Does Reventlow bat an eye? Never a bat. ‘He merely informs Germany there are no Americans in France— that is, no American fighting men. “If there were it would be kept secret,” he says. So the count doesn’t believe our army is in France. Well, the truth is, we don’t care a pink rose whether he believes it or not, But we pass along to the doubt- er the tip that the American army now in France will make suitable announcement of its presence in due time, and whether or not Reventlow believes it, there will be some bat- tered German boys in the trenches who'll be willing to believe it fast enough! What Reventlow thinks,about tne presence of American fighters in France is as important as whether the ladies on Mars are crimping their hair this year. Except that some day maybe the German plain folk will have their own little way of dealing with the kaiser’s official liars. % Mushrooms Go to Waste. Mushrooms are allowed to go to waste in enormous quantities every year, but in part this is on account of the grave risks involved in the selec- tion of edible varieties from among the poisonous kinds that grow in woods and fields. If everyone were able to discriminate with certainty and pre- cision between the safe and unsafe | And then came the aft ath. Young girls and Skips quiekiy! * wed the physical strain.of long hours of mushrooms that nature sows profuse- ly about the country uncounted thou- nds of tons of good food might be ea added. to the supplies: already pos sessed, oat me ’ Is Readers’ Column : me DISAGREES WITH KAHN. ber of the Committee on Military Af- : 9, 1917. s, and was born in Germany. He Editor Ba iah Realy beet thinks it to be unimaginable and ab- t solutely ridiculous to keep the Ameri- Herewith is a translation of a neWS | cans of German birtn or descent away story and comment from the “Staats- f fro mthe firing line. He thinks it Anzeiger” published at Bismarck and signifies the same as to say: ‘They edited by Mr. Brandt, employed fae may make bullets, but someone else federal official in the land office.| 14y5t shoot them.” : There evidently are two kinds of “But there ure many good Ameri- Berman-Americans in this country.| cans of German birtn or descent who Mr. Kahn, represents the, type.who {81 ao not agree with Mr. Kahn, namely, thoroughly american and, wants NO| those who have brothers, orothers-in- exemptions, from military service; law, and other. kin in the, German wants no.one to do his, fighting for . 1 e'3 him. Mr. Kahn evidently agrees with army. Such may. very; [kely :tak i t view fi Mr. Kahn.—Com- President ‘Wilson, that’ this is not a| ‘lferent view from war against.the; German people, but ment: bythe Ebr Stunts! aval ger" rather for their<liberation from .Prus- ‘ does not seem to take. intq; considera- arinaaptans 2 och natn Paiiriae tion the claims of duty;. common: han- Fortunately -foy.the S:ope, the great majority of German-Americans belong in the Kahn 9." Here is a transla- tion of a news item and editorial com- ment on the same published in the “Staats-Anzeiger” of Bismarck, North Dakota: erty bonds. a little in that legiance. ' oe : Yours truly, TRANSLATOR Inconsistency. Do we realize the tremendous neu- tralizing power of even our habitu inconsistency? An inconsistency like the sleeve of a careless schoolboy iho: . Friday, July 6, 1917. “New. York, July (iroduias .Kahn, Congressman from alifornia, who made.a Fourth. of July speech here yesterday hefore,, Tammany Hall, characterize’! as‘an insult the sugges- tion, brough’ forward that Amcri of German descent or German birth should not ibe ‘placed on the battle line in Europe, but should be siven duty which shoyld not bring them in- to direct contact with German troops. Kahn is the léading Republican mem- with his arm what he writes fair with his hand. It is the smeared page that the world looks at and judges us by, Gospel.—Donald Sage Mackay. ment. Unable to Fight, Convict Would Buy Liberty Bonds A letter came to Uncle Sam from a prisoner in the Connecti- cut state penitentiary asking where and how to place a sub- scription for $1,500 worth of Lib- “As I am unable in my present position to be of service to my country’in the manner in which I‘ prefer,” he wrote, “I should very moet like to parehaet {50 Liberty Loan bonds, one 000 and one of $500, ang belp out, On parts. of the Angeles, National esty, honor and goud falth gn@ tbe forest in California .the .packrats ‘sre sacred obligations of an oath.of al-| 39 abundant that many. of: the. young. pines planted by the United States for- est service have been’ killed or injured by the rodents. 'The damage seems to take place chiefly in-the ‘late summer and fall and is‘tHore exted¥ivé in dry at| than’ in wet sea8ons. It'48 thought ig | that the rats tear’ off the-te of the trees to obtain mol at-his copybook; he smears and blots | “mes when water.ts scarce... .,;, Psaltery Ancient Band Instrument. Among the instruments of the band and not the care and pains with which} which played before Nebuchadnezzar’s we may originally have tried to repro-| golden triage on the plains of Dura duce in our lives the precepts of the/ was the psaltery, s atringed instra- 1 POO LUMBER CUT ECCI Estimated Production of Mills in 1916 Is Announced by For- est Service. f 2 eer ici! Far Western, State, Heads iat! With 4,492,997,000,,, Feets-Louisiqna., Is Second ‘and: Mississippi iis: oo Third. s i iu A total computed lumber cut for the United States in 1916 of 39,807,251,000 board feet is, announced by . Uncle Sam’s forest service. This figure is based on reports received from 17,201 sawmills out of the 30,081 believed to have operated last year. It is esti- ‘mated that the actual cut was'slightly in’ excess ‘of''40,000,000000 féet: An earlier estlinate ‘based oi" pattial re- ports, indicatéd’'a totAl, output’ of 41,- 750,000,000 feet. The figures now giv- en are regarded as practically final. The state of Washington was again the largest producer with a lumber cut of 4,492,997,000 feet; Louisiana was second with 4,200,000,000 feet, and Mississippi third with 2,730,000,000 feet. Southern Yellow Pine Leads. Southern yellow pine with a total bark Mie at DOINGS OF THE DUFFS. THE RAGMAN MAY HAVE BEEN A DAY TOO 80ON SAY, CHARLEY, THE WIFE AND FAMILY HAVE Been: our OF Tow FoR A COUPLE oF DAYS AND ARE COoMNG BAcK TOMORRGW AND. 1 WAS WONDERING How A MTTLE PokeER PARTY t i WOULD GO TONIGH'T- PARDON VA ME Just AMINUTE, CHARLEY, THERE |S SOME ioNe AT THE Baa Door. h NY ANY OLD IRON | ‘OR OLD RAGS FoR SALE, Mister? DOING | DON’T KNOW ABOUT THOSE THINGS AND MN WIFE 1S OUT OF “TOWN OW, | See — MABE Some OLD BOTTLES, Nes? HAVE You: ANY OLD NEWSPAPERS LINING ARQUND ? By Allman NOPE , NOTHING of 14,975,000,000 feet forms 87.6 per cent of the entire cut. Douglas fir, its nearst competitor, is cgedited with 5,416,000,000, while oak, with a cut of 3,500,000,000, is third. -. Production in 1916: was, it is stated, ‘hampéred ‘by a‘ general latk ‘of’ ship- ‘| ping’ “factiities and” local’ unfavorable weblttier éonditions: which’ tended to- ward curtailment, Among the'smaller mills the scarcity of labor and the con- sequent higher wages paid resulted in a smaller output than would ordinarily be the case in a year of good demand. The number of mills operating and teporting in 1916 was greater than for the preceding year. These figures, however, as well as the trade condi- tions, were more nearly normal than im any year since 1913. Cut in Various States. The detailed figures are shown by the following tabulation: Computed Quantity Mitt. b. m. United States Washington Louisiana Mississippi Oregon. Texas Arkansas North Curo California and Alabama. Wisconsin Florida. Virginia Michigan *. West Virgil Minnesota Maine Idaho Georgia South Cai Pennsylvania Tennessee Montana Kentucky New York New Hamp: Oklahoma, Ohio .. ae Bei a eoree RSE RR: SESn822= EEE ES} Missouri 4 Indiana Massachui ‘Vermont Arizona New Mexico Maryland . Colorado Connecticut Tiinois . New Jersey South’ Dakota. Towa .... BERERSES ERLEES: 3228 eRe SESSA: 8328328283 Rhode isla: 18 Wyoming Fry tah 9 Delaware py Kansas . NOTICE, Anybody giving credit to Mrs. , «| George, Junghans be doing 20 at their own isk.” Fen te seins, & 76-3t Signed: .GEO. JUNGHANS. 40 BILLION FEET WASHINGTON AGAIN IN LEAD Ee iene tpn PE ese) Cee