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

He pripbuine Hatered at the #-atoffice, , Bismarck, Stk g wecoat Clans Matton JUED EVERY DAY EXCHrd SUNDAY Baily, ‘by mail: or’ carrier, month Daily, by ‘mail’ outsta y m outside Kota, three months . Weekly, by mail, per year. peer a of’ North G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Spectal Foreign Representative Ww YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, uette Bldg.; BOSTON, 8 Winter i; DETROIT, Kresge Bldg.; MINNE- APOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. RIPTION RATES PAYABLH IN ADVANCE Member Audit Bureau of Circulation (Established 1872) HE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ee Temperature at 7:00 a. m. « Temperature at noon . Highest yesterday ‘Lowest yesterday . Lowest last night . Precipitation .. : Highest wind velocity . Pt Sa AS On ann SAA Forecast. For North Dakota: WEATHER REPORT For 24 hours ending at noon Aug. a . 25—-NW Fair tonight and Friday; warmer Friday and in the west and,central portions tonight. —_ Lowest. Fargo .... Williston . Grand Forks Pierre .. St. Paul Winnipeg . Helena . Chicago Swift Cur Kansas City . San Francisco . Temperatures ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. Ye ee eee « There is always room for a « man of force and he makes room > for many eee eee DEPENDENTS OF THE DEAD. Provost Marshal General Crowder tries to hearten the drafted men by announcing that if a soldier is killed, his dependents will get from $180 up, according to rank. A private at $30 monthly leaves his dependents six months’ pay, or $180, a captain at $150 monthly, say, leaves $900, and so on up. Put our democracy and equity into a box, shake well, cast the contents on the table of actual operation, and what a curious thing we sometimes show up! To the dependents of the man whom we pay the least we grant the least. Yet there aro 10 men to whom we'll pay $30 to one to whom we'll pay $150, or more. Do the dependents of the $30 man need less than those of the $150 man? No, but more. Is it better to have the families of 10 men reduced, perhaps to necessity of public support, than to have the family of one man so reduced? Certain it is that the wives and children of dead privates will have to eat, wear clothes and pay rent just } like the dependents of slain officers. But maybe this view is out of pro- portion. ‘Selective service is going to make no discrimination in favor of the rich man and the rich man’s son. The ranks will thus have many thou- sands of young men in whose cases it will make no difference whether the death bonus is $180, or any other amount. ’ War has sent the value of a well fed goose up to $19 in Germany. Fellow citizens, let us feed our geese! DANGEROUS. The Nonpartisan league, which re- cently elected its congressman, as t against ‘both republican and democra- tic nominees, has this in its platform: “We demand that our government make immediate public declaration of the terms on which it will make peace, without annexation of territory, indemnities, contributions or interfer- ence with the right of any nation to live and manage its own internal af- fairs.” Our government might waste its time and strength in making such dec- pipe. laration and, with equal wisdom, it might waste its time and strength in blowing soap bubbles from an old clay We have a standing declaration that y we don’t want indemnities or terri- tory. internal affairs. We don’t want to interfere by force of arms with the right of any nation to live and manage its own Such right is what may be called a national “unalien- able” right. the rights of others. But “unalienable” rights cease when their exercise destroys It is clearly the purpose and effort of German autoc- B| ; racy to destroy all nations’ rights to democracy, our own included. So long ago as 1905, in laying the cornerstone of a monument at Saalsburg, the kai- that occasion. empire to arouse the world. Furthermore, ee a nn ser glorified a German world empire, openly, in his address to the tens of ; thousands of Germans congregated on iE The world slept on, \§ and it has taken three years of slaugh- { ; ter in promotion of that German world a for over two years j President Wilson stretched patience brags aD [-Sartercie Diva ah Bing } SHEREE PURVINE APDECUTY. Dy — OKLAROMA snver watrerriela SRet y er * es Scenes 4 THEY'RE USING FLIVVERS 2 AM HON TING — Oe 7 The Daily Tribune's commissioned ‘Bob’ Satterfield, its well known cartoonist, to do some on-the-spot sketches of the country and the first strip of Satterfield’s work. He shows a typical sheriff of the old indian country; a few of the negro rioters night silhouette of flivvers commandeered by the sheriff for the chase; and 2 drawing indicating the kind of rough hill country in which the slackers are intrenched. ‘There'll be more sketches to- if Satterfield doesn't meet the a incidents in southeast Oklahoma’s ‘‘draft rebellion.’ who are seeking to evade army service, with armed possemen guarding them; @ oF D DODGERS, | Here's of the innocent bystand: arrange terms of peace. He met with contempt, and deceit, only. Every agreement that Germany made she| ruthlessly broke. Her scrapping ot| the treaty ‘with Belgium was repeated, The burnt child who persists in put- ting its hand-into the fire ought to be shut up in an asylum for idiots. For| us to offer peace terms to the present | rulers of Germany, confessed viola- tors of peace agreements, would be both idiotic and dishonorable, regard- less of what might be the effect upon the rest of humanity. We endured much, lost much, for the purpdse of avoiding this very dilemma, in which there is neither honor nor; safety in talking peace ternis with the unprincipled, unscru- pulous rulers with whom the German people seem to be content. Violators of all international rights and viola- tors of all agreements with us are not the crowd with whom we will engage in friendly parley at this stage. Get while the getting’s good, but be good while you're getting. “UNCLE SAM CAN HAVE IT.” “The government can have Armour & Co.” “The government can have J. Ogden Armour.” These {wo quotations are from re- visit to: Washington. These are different sentiments from those we have come to expect from the meat kings of the nation. We hope Armour meant what he said and we have.no reason to doubt him until he proves he didn’t mean it. ‘Weare Jooking for devotion to coun- try, for loyalty to country, for a new kind of ynselfishness—in these days of trial. . And it is gratifying to see how largely our expectations are being met with; solid realization. Perhaps Germany would accept Gen. Castro, the modern man without a country, yHow to get there is the problem. ; f THE BOY PROBLEM. One of the most vexatious problems confronting fathers and mothers of healthy sons ig the BOY PROBLEM. That problem begins when the boy is big enbugh to'move around, asso- ciate with other boys and pick up in- formation. But when, the boy, 18, is on the threshold of:manhood, the prob- lem becomes serious and often alarm- ing. ?¢ The fafier is generally too busy making, the family living to give his boy the cpmpanionship he needs. And at that age of boyhood there is little a mother can-do. With; gbligatory universal military service—a big democratic army which is a great national college as well— the government can step in and help solve this problem, Most bpys choose their careers by chance. ‘Their eitire future is often determined by the first job they get. Not many! can go to college. _ Too many have to grab the first available job, when they leave the ward school, to help the family make both ends meet. If the army were made a great na- tional édllege, where boys could be Prepared vfor a trade, a profession or a business career while getting mili- tary training, most parents would be anxious for their boys to get a chance at that training. They would know the best scientific knowledge would be applied’ to the physical health of their boys, and that the governmént awas’ paying for an education pafents couldn't afford. They woul know their boys would be subject to: a wholesome discipline few parents are capable of directing or enforcing. and honor to the limit in trying to They ‘would knéw the physical, | versal marks of J. Ogden Armour after a mental and moral health of their boys was receiving careful, expert atten- tion. And if these pupil soldiers were paid by the government three dollars time and again, in respect of America.| a day parents would know the boys were sure of a fair start when their} service ended. And the government could well af- ford this. It would know that uni- training means this country will always be prepared for any na- tional eme7scney—prepared with a trained c.tizen soldiery fit to defend our country from any danger. The government would know our military strength would be as great as our economic strength, and that we could enjoy peace because we would be so strong and so well prepared that no other nation or combination of} nations would dare attack us. Our great and powerful navy, backed up by a national democratic army always fit to fight, would be good insurance against war. And that is insurance those who would have to do the paying could well afford to pay for. This nation cannot escape the re- sponsibility that goes with its vast resources and wealth. It can prepare to meet the dangers that will always threaten. It must tbe a strong mili- tary nation. But we must be strong in a democratic American strength. Make military service universal and obligatory. Make the army a great national college. Pay pupil soldiers three dollars, a day during their term of service. KEEP AMERICA SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY. The Pittsburgh dancers barred from Uncle Sam's citizen army for tango toes will remember the adage about paying the fiddler. ,IF THE TRADERS KICK. C. W. Barron, a Boston publisher of. good repute, at least of good Boston repute, declares that he has “inside” information from Germany to the ef- fect that “the men who are respon- sible for industrial Germany and who must be looked to to rehabilitate the country after the war are now clam- oring for peace.” If this is true, it‘is.a truth almost without an equal:in importance. For three years Germany ‘has. been’ practically without: foreign trade, and, while due credit must be granted the German people ‘for their endurance and self-sacrifice, it is very, very re- markable that German trade has stood the pressure. Germany sacrificed her trade balance of $200,000,000 against Great Britain, first thing, and during the succeeding three years her trade with her allies must have been bur- densome, or at least questionably profitable. The trade demands of Aus- tria, Turkey and Bulgaria upon Ger- many may have been great, but the value of the money in which balances have been paid or are to be paid has been and is fluctuating and dubious. The bundle of oats tied before the German trade mule to make him go has been that “place in the sun,” the great German empire extending from the Baltic to Persia. German forces have occupied this sunny territory for some time past, but, owing to circum- stances which Germany cannot con- trol, there’s no foreign trade for Ger- mans at either terminal of that em- pire. It must be remembered that Ger- many is as autocratic industrially as it is politically, so that, if the men re- sponsible for industrial Germany are kicking, as reported, it is beyond doubt some kick. United States steel corporation ex- pects to turn over to Uncle Sam $200,000,000 excess war profits this year, and still have enough left for “the usual dividends.” How's that for “pusiness as usual?” BILLION BUSHELS OF WHEAT BY FALL PLANTING IS AIM OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Washington, D. C., Aug. 9.—The pro- duction of over one billion bushels of wheat and over eighty-three million bushels of rye, through the planting of 47,337,000 acres to winter wheat: and of 5,131,000 acres to rye this fall, is the immediate war agricultural pro- gram for the nation announced today by David F’. Houston, secretary of ag- riculture. This record winter wheat acreage, an increase of 18 per cent over last year, would yield 672,000,000 bushels if the average yield for the past 10 years is equaled, or under a repetition of the favorable conditions of 1914 would give 880,000,000 bushels. In either case with a spring wheat crop next year equal to that of 1915, the nation will have more than one billion bushels of wheat, for domestic use and export. Is Essential. This vastly increased production of wheat, needed in any esr, will be absolutely esse tial to prevent x seri- ous shortage o. breadstuffs next sum- mer should the growing corn, now be- hind the season, be much damaged by early frosts. be The program approved by the sec: retary of agriculture represents the best thought of the Ungy States de- partment of. agriculture and of state agricultural officials and state councils of defense. bs The study of this question has in- volved many factors arid the special- ists have been aware from the first that the demands for wheat may ex- ceed the supply next year. © Effort, therefore, has been made to recom- mend in each state about as large an acreage in wheat and rye as ¢an be}! sown without upsetting proper farm practice, which must be maintained in the interest of wheat and rye crops/ ia this and succeeding years, as well as in the interest of other necessary spring-planted crops which are not discussed in detail at’ this time, as they are not food crops in which a marked shortage exists. The estimates, the department states, are made with the knowledge that there is some shortage of the fertilizer supply, but with the under- standing that there will be no general shortage in the supply of seed or of farm machinery which is necessary in the production of the wheat crop. rt| is understood also that ample trans- portation facilities will be provided and a fair price of wheat will be es- tablished. These factors have ‘been assumed as fixed and satisfactory. If any one or more fail to be adjusted in good time, no person can tell how serious will be the effect on the total crop. Assistance Pledged. The planting and cultivation of these increased acreages of fall-sown grains calls for unusual effort on the part of the farmers. Plans to place at the disposal of farmers all assist- ance possible, are being perfected in the United States department of agri- culture, the state colleges of agricul- ture, and other state and local agen- cies which co-operate in farming mat- t The assistance of successful growers of wheat and rye in a cam- paign to turn out bumper crops in 1918 is assured. The state officials will do their ut- most to get the acreages expected of their’ states into the ground. The pro- gram as originally worked out by the federal department of agriculture called for somewhat more than 44,- 000,000 acres to be sown this fall. When this proposal was presented to the officials of the several states a further increase was considered pos- sible and desirable by them, As a consequence the recommendation for the sowing of 47,337,000 acres is made. Following is a summary of the de- partment’s recommendations regard- ing winter wheat and rye: Wheat. The planting of approximately 47,- 337,000 acres to winter wheat, on the basis of*the average yield for the past 10 years indicates a total production of 672 million bushels, which exceeds all previous winter wheat crops har- vested in the United States with the exception of the crops of 1914 and 1915, when the acreages harvested and yields per acre were both above normal. -If the extremely favorable conditions under which the winter wheat crop of 1914 was grown are again experienced, the yield of winter wheat next year will be 880,000,000 bushels or by far the largest winter wheat crop ever produced and even larger than the total of both winter and spring wheat crops for all past years, except two. -——— | WITH THE EDITORS x o——__—. A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE (Chicago Tribune.) The howls of Industrial Workers of the World over the lynching of Little will find, ,we ‘believe, no.echo in any reasonable American's heart. The wonder is that more of these.agitators in the west have not been: treated. in the same way by outraged communi-; ties which have listened to their vici- ous threats. Some of these men have; gone so far as to threaten the burn- ing of standing crops if their windy | warnings were not heeded. Now that one of them has-been treated to his own medicine, who can complain? When men of this variety, who take cover. behind a law and a respect for the law which they are trying to destroy, are-handled illegally they can hardly expect sympathy. The north- west and west must be heartily sick of them and certainly the time for; their punishment is long overdue. It| is a pity that punishment in the case; of Little was administered\by lynch- ers. It should have been given form- ally by constituted authority. And this brings us to the iesson of; this episode. If the authorities will not act when the safety of society is concerned citizens will take it upon! themselves. That is the paramount law of self-preservation and the best ordered community in the world will and must enforce that law. Of course, in the case,of, Little his associates say he is a martyr to capitalism. He is nothing but a. victin: 6f his own game, which was to couhsel violence against the order which plain citizens respect. If mine owners hired his! lynchers they only anticipated what | the community would eventually be compelled to do if the law did not act. And the law must act with more power and yromptness against such men. We have had too much of vague sentimentality and fuddled. reasoning. The right of free speech does not cover license. It does not protect the man whe sows ideas of murder and devastation abroad and is sworn to tear-down the structure upon which all human progress is built, the struc- ture of law and order. The people of the United States are having in Russia today a demonstra- tion of the ruin which can be worked by dogmatic fanatics.. The irony of the situation is made more pointed by the fact that Russian extremists who fled to this country for asylum and received it have now returned to Rus- sia to revile America and to use their Vililication in attacks upon the only influences which can save new born kussian freedom from the return of despotism. ‘We are having our demonstration, and since we are in the world war and Russia’s aid is needed, we shall pay directly for it in the blood of our own soldiers. We ought at least to determine that the weakness of our course shall end, and that in this day of sore trial the loud mouthed dema- gogue, the harebrained fanatic, and the enemy of American peace and American institutions shall stand ac- countable for their words and their acts and feel the heavy hand of the law swiftly and certainly. If the I. W. W. do not like America and essen- tial American conditions let them un- derstand that something like 100,000,- 000 other men do and let them get out or take the consequences. The I. W. W. are not for persuasion. They are for force. Let them have a taste of it, but let it be the force of American law. NO WONDER GEO. M. COULON’T WORK In the midst of a busy scene for George M. Cohan’s initial Artcraft picture, “Broadway Jones,” which is shown on the screen at the Auditori- face of the famous comedian. “Some- thing wrong, George?” asked Kauf- man. “Yes, replied George M., “there's something wrong.” Just then one of the musicians engaged for the hall- room jscene announced that he knew what was the trouble, whereupon he vigorously commenced to fiddle “45 (Minutes From Broadway.” “That's what it is, we haven’t had a Cohan song played for our ballroom scene all day,” cried the director, whereup- on George M. cracked his heels in the air and announced that the problem was solved. f GRAIN MARKETS MINNEAPOLIS, No. 1 dark nor’n spring. 305 ‘No. 1 northern spring..- 300 ‘No. 1 red spring........ 295 @300 (No. 2 dark nor'n spring. 300 @305 No. 2 northern spring... 300 @305 No. 3 red spring. No. 2 dark . No. 3 northern spring. No. 3 red spring.... No. 4 dark nor’n spring. No. 4 northern spring... 285 No. 4 red spring. pee (7 No. 2 dk hd Mont winter 290 No. 2 hard Mont winter 279 ‘Winter No. 2 yw hd Mont winter 280 No. 3 dark hard Mont... 280 @285 No.3 hard Mont winter 275 @280 No. 3 durum ........... 225 ‘No. 3 yellow corn oe No. 3 yellow corn to arr 220 Red Corn .......... os Corn, other grades. Standard white oats.... 69 @ 70 Standard white oats arr 59% ‘No. 3 white oats........ 68 @ 69 | No. 3 white oats to arr ‘No. 4 white oats. Barley, choice Barley ‘No. 2 rye INo. 2 rye to arr. Flax seed + Flax seed to arr in eSpt., Oct. and Nov. .... September wheat . September oats old ‘September oats new December oats, old December oats new. Close 2 p. m. DULUTH. No. 1 northern.. ‘No. 2 northern on trk. Oats. to arr new... Rye on trk.... 285 5TH%@ 58% 185 Rye to arr new 175 @180 Barley on trk ... 100° @145 Flax in store .., 345 Flax on trk and to arr.. 345 Flax to arr in Sept., Oct. ly noticed a worried look upon the} @: and November wees 845 September ...... 330 October ... 330 ‘November . - 330 Close 2 p. m. ? “carrie MARKETS | ST. PAUL. HOGS—Receipts, 1,850. steady, at 10c higher. Range, $15.00 to $16.20; bulk, $15.40 to $15.65. CATTLE—Receipts, 2200. Killers, strong. Steers, $5.00 to $12.50; cows and heifers, $6.00 to $9.00; calves, $5.00 to $11.50; stockers and feeders, $5.00 to $8.50. SHEEP—Receipts, steady, at 25c higher. 310. Lambs, Lambs, $6.00 to $14.00; wethers, $7.00 to $9.50; ewes, $5.00 to $8.50. CHICAGO. HOGS—Receipts, 17,000. Market, active, at 15 to 20c above yesterday's average. Bulk, $15.80 to $16.70; light, $15.10 to $16.70; mixed, $15.35 to $16.75; heavy, $15.00 to $1.68—a new high price recorded; rough, $15.10 to $15.35; pigs, $11.35 to $14.30. CATTLE—Receipts, 14,000. Market, weak. Native beef steers, $7.90 to $14.35; western steers, $7.00 to $12.25; cows and heifers, $4.40 calves, $8.50 to $13.00. SHEPP—Receipts, 8,000. Market, firm. Wethers, $7.50 to $10.80; lambs, $9.25 to $14.70. .- COFFINS OF CARDBOARD FOR GERMAN DEA Amsterdam, Aug. 9.—Coffins of wa- terproof cardboard are now being made in Germany, according to a Ber- lin newspaper. The lids are glued on um tonight, Director Kaufman recent-; instead of being nailed down. —— ee | STATE HOUSE NOTES o—. M’GOVERN HERE— J. A. McGovern of Fargo, chief dep- uty inspector under North Dakota’s new grain grading act, was at the cap- itol yesterday, checking over records in the railway commission’s office and attending the hearing on the grain grading law, ** @ CAPTAIN HENRY HERE— Capt. T. S. Henry of Valley City, regimental adjutant of the First, call- ed on General Fraser yesterday. Uap- tain Henry advises the boys at Val- ley City are awaiting orders to mobil- ize, but have had no inkling as to the date of call or their ultimate destina- tion. Not all of the boys have seen equipped, and the company is expect- ing additional equipment from day to day. se 6 : WABEK WAKING— Wabek is a growing town. A short time ago it didn’t have a siding. It petitioned the railway commission for one and got it. Then it asked fora station, and it got that. Now it asks the commission for a station agent, and it probably will make good on that request. A requirement is that the town show a business of at least $12,000 for the last year, and it is be- lieved Wabek can deliver the goods. ** 8 ‘ MORE MACHINE GUNS— Two infantry companies of both the First and Second regiments will be transformed into machine gun compa- nies, and each regiment when it: goes to the front will have three machine gun companies, instead of one as here- tofore, advisés Major Frank 8. Henry, © who returned this week from Fort Sill, Okla., where he had been wising up on artillery practice. The ma- chine gun company is generally fa- vored by guardsmen, and there prob- ably will be a scramble among the companies of the two regiments for the much coveted honors. oe TO FORT SILL— Captain John W. Rock received or- ders this week from Heistand, udju- tant general of the Central depart- ment, to report to Fort Sill, Okla. as assistant construction quartermaster. Until the end of last week aCptain Rock was a member of North Dakota’s quartermaster corps. Then he ex- changed positions with Captain Earle R. Sarles of Hillsboro and became commander of the supply company of the Second. Captain Rock has so ad- vised djutant General Heistand, and it is probable that Captain Sarles of Hillsboro will be called to Fort Stil in his stead. ee NEW HEATING PLANT— Trustees Brown and Nagel of the : board of control have returned from a survey of the penal and charitable in- stitutions of the state: They have found everything in good condition ex- cept institution gardens ,which nave suffered from drought and heat, and whose loss will increase the high cost of eating at these establishments. A central heating plant is being in- stalled at Dunseith, from which heat Market,| will be piped t othe several cottages of the tuberculosis sanitarium, and a new story is being added to the girls’ dormitory at the state industri- al school in Mandan. CORN AND OATS GROP LESS THAN FOR LAST (Continued from page oaey year (December estimate), 15,459,000 ‘bushels. i Potatoes. State: Aug. 1 forecast, 7,220,000 bushels; production last year (Decem- ber estimate), 6,975,000 bushels. United States: Aug. 1 forecast, 467,000,000 bushels; production - last year (December estimate), 285,437,000 bushels. All Hay. State: Aug. 1 forecast, 2,430,000 tons; production last year (December estimate), 3,554,000 tons. United States: Aug. 1 forecast, 100,000,000 tons; production last year (December estimate), 109,786,000 tons. Prices. The first price given below is the average on Aug. 1 this year, and the second the average on Aug. 1 last year. State: ‘Wheat, 213 and 111 cents per bushel. Corn, 130 and 74. Oats, 64 and 32. Potatoes, 180 and 73. Hay, $8.60 and $6.00 per ton. Eggs, 26 and 16 cents per dozen.