The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 10, 1917, Page 4

THE TRIBUNE Entered at the ~-wtoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Secoud Class Matter. iSSUED EVERY DAY EXCE-/ SUNDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily, by mail or carrier, mon three mon’ Daily, by 6 Dakota, one year ... Daily, by mail outside Deltora, three months. Weekly, by mail, per year. G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette’ Bidg.; BOST 8 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresge Bid APOLIS, 810 ‘Lumber _Excha “Member Audit Bureau of Circulation LT STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Se (Established 1872) <=> WEATHER REPORT —— for 24 hours ending at noon Aug. 1 Temperature at 7 a. m. Temperature at noon Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday .. Lowest last night . Precipitation Highest wind velocity . 0: 42 Forecast for North Dakota: Increasing cloudi- ness and warmer tonight followed by showers west portion; Saturday show- ers and cooler. Lowest ‘Temperatures Fargo .. Williston Grand Forks . Pierre St. Paul Winnipeg .. Helena ... Chicago Swift Current Kansas City .. San Francisco .. 5 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorogolist. «= A few lines in The Tribune + ¢ Wednesday ‘brought the respons % needed to make the boys of Co. I % # comfortable. On behalf of the + @ Sammies The Tribune wants to & thank those who su kindly donat- ed blankets, cots and other bed- et THE ALIEN. What has struck the thoughtful American in connection with our war preparations is native and naturalized Americans are being made to bear their full part in fighting the coun- try’s battles, while the alien enjoys all our liberties and privileges and is sub- ject to none of the duties. The draft applies to Americans born here or made citizens, and not to the man who « did not think enough of the blessings he enjoyed here to cease being an alien. | 4 Of course, no one wants alien ene- mies in our armies and we are ready and willing te acknowledge interna- tional law forbids forcing natives of neutral countries to help fight our battles and thus take part in a quar- rel from which their rulers have re-} frained. But the same thing does not apply; to'the hundreds of thousands of aliens who are natives of countries at war with Germany. If they were at home at the present time they would be in the armies of France, England, Rus- gia and Italy. It is, therefore, no more + than right and just that they be com- Pelled to do their part in this fight for democracy. The McCumber resolution adopted by the United States senate looks to that consummation. It provides the * president shall negotiate with the al- lies for consent to draft their nation- als in our armies. The government has already started negotiations and » these should be pushed to a conclu- sion with utmost rapidity. When millions of men of the allied countries are in trenches and we are preparing to send millions of our, own boys to battle, it should not be diffi- cult to reach an agreement with the allies whereby another great source of man-power might ‘be tapped for the common cause. Every able-bodied young Englishman, Frenchman, Rus- sian and Italian in this country, not naturalized, should be available for military purposes. We can't afford to ship them across to their native lands so they can join the home armies, but we can certainly make use of them in our own military bodies. ‘By fighting with us, they will also be fighting for their native lands. They will be fighting the kaiser. They will be doing their bit. They will not be in the position of specially favored slackers, protected in their immunity from service both by America and the j allies. They will not be left here to y take the pick of the jobs, while real Americans are doing the fighting. They will not remain here to do all the prospering, while other men make all the sacrifices. ‘Their place is on the firing line. America wants them there alongside her own sons. And the allies, doubt- less, want them there too. The allies could not hold a rod in pickle for the slacker at home and, at the same * ‘time, encourage and protect the slack- é er abroad. } Seventy-three thousand men have Applied for. places ‘in the second offi- cers’ training camps. ‘We suggest an army of officers, even if we do thereby expose our military ignorance. poeta ee | CREDIT IS DUE. Governor Frazier, Adjutant General Fraser and Senator McCumber de- serve special credit for the energetic manner in which they secured recog- nition of the Second regiment. dier General Mann has admitted his error and absolved local military au- thorities from any blame. But North Dakota might have lost the unit unless the governor and his military aide, assisted by Senator Mc- Cumber, did not step into the breach. Governor Frazier has made an es- pecially fine appointment in Colonel White of Valley City, who is every inch a soldier. He will see that the regiment is 100 per cent efficient. Politics will not enter into regimental administration when once Colonel White is firmly in the saddle. “The” Second” regiment gives fine promise of bringing new glory to the state. But let us give credit where credit is due for protecting this unit and giving North Dakota a second regi- ment of national guard, a fit recogni- tion of the growth and importance of the state in national defense. “War is God's laundry,” says a Chi- cago mother. Yet, after three long years of washing, God has not yet touched the kaiser and his bunch. BENEFIT CONCERT. Every seat of the Auditorium should be filled next Saturday evening, when a benefit concert is given for the mem- bers of Companies A and I, the band and the headquarters company of the Second regiment. The same spirit should be shown which raised more than $32,000 for the Red Cross in Burleigh county. These companies should have a fund now that will assist the boys in secur- ing more than the government rations permit. Seventy-five cents a day in these times of soaring prices means barely enough of plain food without any trimmings. Proceeds from this concert should form the nucleus of a company fund that will be increased from time to time. It will Be nece: home auxiliary to admi for the benefit of the Bismarck boys. That can be worked out later and the plan of securing contributions deter- mined when the pressing emergency arises. But the organizations are without mess or special funds now and this concert will assist materially in tiding things over until some form of per- manent company fund is evolved. The band is meritorious. Bismarck has been delighted with the form it has shown and the caliber of the pro- grams given. It will be a source of delight for the boys in the training camp and later when they are some- where in France preparing to fight the ‘battle that is going to make this world safe for democracy. Everyone pitch in. If you cannot go send your dollar. Should you not know where to send the dollar, The Tribune will be glad to receive any donation and place it in the proper hands. Cabbage crop so big that United States agricultural department urges big making of sauerkraut. All right, ‘but somebody's got tc get up a less German name for it. MAKE SERVICE WORTHY. President Wilson has aptly defined this war on Prussianism as a war to make the world safe for democracy. As the greatest democracy, we have Joined France, Great Britain and their allies, believing that to keep America safe for democracy we must make the world safe for democracy. ‘We have become convinced that to maintain our economic supremacy we must be as strong a military nation as we are strong industrially and eco- nomically. That is our only peace insurance. Our military organization cannot be absolutely democratic. Russia recent- ly tried that with disastrous results. It cannot ibe monarchial or aristo- cratic, since a nation can no more be half democratic and half monarchial than it can be half free and half slave. Our military organization, then, should be. democratic enough to de- velop the largest number of men po- tentially strong as rulers a few men to direct and many blindly to obey the monarchial plan. OUR SOLDIERS, FROM THE LOW- EST RANK TO THE HIGHEST, MUST BE RESPECTABLE AND RE- SPECTED. The common soldier should be so- cially the equal of the men in the s from which he is called to the service. , rather than de must be assured a wage large enough to enable him to ure and enjoy intellectual culturs There should be 1 obliga- tory That is, every young man should be subject to army serv- ice, to begin not earlier than the first of his eighteenth year and not later than the first of his nineteenth. Each year not less thart a half million young men should be'called to the colors. These young men, during thelr legal minority, should be. clothed, lodged unive: sal service. Briga-; wages. When honorably transferred to the reserve, they should receive the resi- Gue in a lump sum. 2 ‘their wages should be larger, rath er than less, than the average indus- trial wage. The two or three army years of the pupil soldier would be years devoted. if he were not in the army, to schoo! or college education, trade apprentice ship, or business training. ‘As he couldn’t advance in trade or business while in the army, his army pay should be larger than trade or ‘busi ness wages men or the country, that the marriage of these young men be too long post- poned. The lump sum at the end of military service would help make it possible and advisable for him to marry early. THREE DOLLARS A DAY, during their active training, should not be considered too much. It should be considered a badge of honor for a young man to be selected by draft to enter the army. Why not? Ie would, naturally, be selected only ‘by reason of examination prov- ing physical, intellectual and moral superiority to others competing with him for the honor. One of the greatest evils, perhaps, of barrack life in peace is the ne¢ sary idleness, mitigated under ordi- nary conditions only by harsh, fre- quently useless, training and disci- pline and labor imposed by officers. The barracks life of these young pupil soldiers should be similar to boarding school life, or industrial life. Only necessary hours should be de- voted to military training. Others should be spent in military study. But still others should be devoted to industrial and business training—nev- er forgetting the boys’ physical, ment- al and moral needs for considerable sport and recreation, Every pupil soldier should be a can- didate for military office, promoted according to merit, so that all army officers should be recruited from the conscripts. No mawkish sentimentality should stand in the way of having the most vigorous and effective men in com- mand, In almost every other business in America today men are promoted for merit, rather than seniority. It should We so in this democratic army. Make America a strong military na- tion, Make the army democratic. Make service universal and obligatory. Make the army a great national col- lege. Pay pupil soldiers three doliars a day during training service. THIS ceive but a portion of their soldiers’ | 0 WILL HELP KEEP AMERICA SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY. marital gents will take warning. Gen. Crowd- er now announces that brides of fel- lows who try to escape the draft by Ladies with designs on marriage can be prosecuted. Love, beautiful love, still remains the good sound reason for diving into matri- mony, FOR TAXI SERVICE PHONE 342. and fed by the government, and re-; ‘yy » Tribune want ad for remults. + + en FER RARER ISIC: ER nearer | =f), | WITH THE EDITORS | o———__—~. WHEN WOMAN WANTS, (Portland Orgonian) The suffragett:; who are silently vicketing the’White House might with some profit consult the registration figures in Oregon, that is if they are capable of reasoning by anulcgy. One-third of, the women voters in Oregon do not dare enough about the franchise privilege to exercise it. The sexes are about-numerically the same, but_ 181,191 me if gion the permanent registration’ ‘b@cxs'-and’ only 121,578 women. It is far from our intention to imply ‘hat two-thirds of. the women should be denied the right to vote because he other third*prefers not to vote. It is not good for either the young The point to be made, rather, is that when two-thirds. of the women want the voting privilege, the men, as Ore- gone hag demonstrated, are quite like- ly to grant it. ie In those st-.tes where equal suffrage has not been conferred it is a pretty safe guess that a majority of the women are indifferent about it. This is known to be true in the south, par- ticularly. The’suffragettes are pro- selyting in the .wrong place. Their best chance is in the benighted states, instructing their sisters in the bless- ings of participation in government. Once woman really wants a thing sha will get it. THAT “RICH MAN’S WAR.” (Independent.) “This is-a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight,” is the stock phrase of the anti-war ‘agitator and few peo- ple have taken the trouble to investi- gate its fallacy., But a moment's re- flection should cpnvince anyone capa- ble of though that a war fought by means of compulsory military service is not only the poor man’s fight. In fact, the proportion of poor men who will be exempted by the selective draft is very much greater than that of the rich. The average son of Croe- sus, aged 22, is, at college or doing nothing in particular or learning the ropes in a busigess. office. The aver- age poor boy at that age is hard at work on the farm’ or in the factory and stands a good chance of being ex- empted. The average. wealthy married man has a wife-with an independent income. The average poor man of fam- ily, has dependents who must loak to him for support, He, too, may be ex- i empted. The average well-to-do man is physicaly fit because of his outdoor sports and hobbies, he stands less ‘chance of exempuon tnan the ten-dol- -a-week, clerk or factory operative 0. tends a machine indoors the whole day long. / How about the first clause of the phrase. In what.sense is this.a rich man’s war? For every wealthy man whom war makes: wealthier it ruins ten. This war is:a conflict between the political system. known:as democ- racy and that which rests on heredi- tary caste, deciding which of the two shall dominate continental Europe to begin with, and afterward the world. Who has the more at stake? The rich man in a feudalistic system can pur- chase honors and dignities; if he finds pol: al conditions oppressive he can ‘buy his way into the ruling class or spend his life in travel. His chief in- terest in free government is altruis- tic. It is the poor man who would be helpless in the grip of kaiserism. It would not be wholly accurate, but it would -be much closer to the truth to say that, “This is a poor man’s war and a rich man’s fight.” THE GERMAN PRESS: (New York Times.) When we come to the German-lan-} guage press we have to wonder whom, in this country, it represents. The president of the German-American Al- liance of Tennessee writes that many of its members have stopped their sub- scriptions to such papers. It -was a natural thing for loyal men’ to do. Much of the German-language press in this country has been and'is steadily pro-German. It has been eager for German victory. It throws cold water on the American cause and the Amer- ican preparations for war. It-abuses ‘and sneers at the allies, especially England. ‘Now that the German plan ‘of world-dominion is hopeless, the Ger man-language press, as a whole, seems to be working for a German peace, for the status quo ante, for the salvage of as much as is possible of the German hopes. A peace victorious for democ- racy and ending the German terror to the world is not to the mind of most of the German-language: papers. By direction and indirection, by suppres- sion of the truth, innuendo, in‘ many ways it seeks to bolster up Germany. In the mjdst of’a ‘war with Germany, this is a carious attitude, an attitude that can hardly continue. Is the German-language press loyal? | What of the Alien? How: Shall He FRIDAY, AUGUBT. 10, 1027. do War Duty? President, State Department and Congress Satrt Work on Most Perplexing War Problem—Bills Would Prevent 1,300,000 Al- iens From Escaping Their Share of War Tasks While Ameri- cans Fight for Them. By MILTON BRONNER. Washington, D. C., Aug. 10.—WHAT OF THE ALIEN? While we are drafting native and naturslized Americans for our armies, are over 1,200,000 aliens of draft age, enjoying all the liberties and privi- leges of this country, to go scot-free of war dutie: This question, among the knottiest of the war, is constantly being fired at the president, the war and state departments und the congress, and is {stil fur from solution. When it. tackles: the subject, the government has to recognize that in- ternational law protects this alien frem walitary duty and also that ther? are three Kinds of aliens: Natives of countries at war with 1. ¢ y. atives of Germany or allied count fe: 3. Natives of neutral couniries. So far only one aflirmative action has been taken. A resolution by Sen- ator McCumber of North Dakota has Leer, adopted directing the president to negotiate with European nations at st the central powers, to try for cur armies. The pre: both favored this resolution, applying to natives of Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, Ruma- nia and Portugal. It ‘would effect the French-Cana-" dians and Portuguese so numerous in New England, and about 400,000 able- bodied Italians It would not apply to Poles, Bohemians, Croats, Jugo- Slavs, etc., numerous in Ohio, Pennsyl- vania and the middle west. They are subjects of Austria-Hungary. If draft- ed in our armies and captured, they might be subjected to the death pen- alty as traitors. Siinilaity the McCumber resolution does not apply to aliens from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Spain and Swiizeriand. The Scandinavians are especiaily numerous in the northwest. Their countries are neutral, and it violates international law to force them out of their neutrality. Senator Chamberlain, military af: fairs chairman, intends to push his own joint resolution, aimed to reach a lar larger class than the MeCamber resolution. Chainberlain proposes te fake citizens of our allies and of the neutrals, and even to use aliens from enemy countries, His reSolition flatly provides that ; all aliens resident in this country more than a year shall be subject to draft provided they. are not subjects SERGE OETEEEOSS TREATY EXEMPTS ° THESE ALIENS These countries have specific treaties exempting their na- tionals from. military service ‘in the United States: Argentina, + Paraguay. Costa Rica, Serbia, ‘Honduras Spain, Italy, Switzerland. Japan, CS a oe a of an enemy country, or unless their native land has a specific treaty ex- empting them,, But if the diplomatic representative of the country waives the exemptior, the alien cannot claine it unless he .eaves the country within 90 days. : To show the difference between thé McCumber: and Chamberlain resolu- tions, Italy has a treaty exempting its natives from compulsory military serv- ice here " Under the McCumber reso- lution the state department is seeking Italy’s consent to draft unnaturalized Italians. Under the Chamberlain reso- bd & ° ° oo ¢ ° e r alien citizens in this coun-| lution these Italians would be exempt unless the Italian ambassador told us out and state department'tto go ahead. Furthermore the Chimberlain mea- sure would affect all the Scandina- vians and Dutch because their coun- tries have no specific exemption treaties. It also provides subjects of any en- emy country shall be classified, and specific classes, not deemed suitable for military service, may, under order of the president, be used for other purposes during the war. This vould open the way, for in- stance, to draft races like the Bohem- ians, Croats, ete., subjects of Austria- Hungary but hating the rulers of thei- native land. Races not thus drafted could be utilized’ in farming,-manufac- turing, ete. Congressman Henry Burnett of ala- bama has introduced a bill providing that any alien, native of a country at war with Germany, who but for his alienage would be subject to draft and claims exemption on- that account, shall forever be denied the right ta become an American citizen and shall be reported to his native country as soon as practicable. ‘It also authorizes the president to draft any alien in this country no matter whet his native land, to per form any kind of labor designated, in farms, factories or elsewhere. -The president may exempt from this aliens he may deem dangerous. ‘That is a matter of, public interest, -Tt is to‘be regretted that the National Se- curity league has put the “Confession of Faith” to which it asks the Ger- man-American papers to subscribe in language which, considering the -per- sons to whom it is addressed, seems superfluously harsh and _ offensive. None the less, there is not an article in it to which any loyal American, of whatever descent, should not ‘be able to say Amen! ‘We shall await the an- swers with interest. Meanwhile ‘a translation into English of the pecu- liar utterances of some of the German- language newspapers may serve, in some cities, as it did in Cincinnati, to check, at least for a time, their dithy- rambic fervor for Germany. HOOPLE'S POTATO WAREHOUSE WILL BE . READY FOR GROP Work Being Rushed on Big Struc- ture to Store 45,000 Bushels of Spuds Hoople, N. D., Aug. i?.—Meberg’ & Brager, who have the general con- tract for the construction of Hoople’s new 45,000-bushel potato warehouse, are rushing the concrete work ond the big structure is expected to bea ready to house this season’s crop. The Tolefson Potato Machinery Co. of Bagley, Minn.,. is equipping the ware house, which will cost $9,000. Tribune want ads bring results. MAJOR SETTLE: RECENES PROMOTION GRATIFYING TO FRENDS IM BISHARK Chief Mustering Officer for North Dakota Advanced to Lientcn- ant Colonelcy ‘Major Douglas W. Settle, who has had charge of the mustering of North Dakota's state troops, was advised to- day of his promotion to be lieutenant colonel of the “4ist infantry, his rank to date from May 15, 1917. Major Settle came to Bismarck several weeks ago to assume charge of the muster, and his courtesy and effici- ency have won him many friends among the capital's military family. It is understood that another federal officer has been appointed by Gen- eral Barry of the central department to finally pass upon the Second regt- ment before the latter’s recognition. Youngster Dragged And Killed; Saddle Turns; Pony Scared Willow City, N. D. Aug. 10.— Jake Cole, aged 12, living west of this city, was kilied--when his saddle turned with him and, with his foot caught in the. stirrap; he was dragged for several miles be- fore the frightened - horse came to a stop. The boy was dying when his father, Jacob Cole, Sr., found him. First Photographs of Oklahoma Dratt Rebellion - SSSUVHSHOS i