The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1917, Page 4

one year . mail outside of three months . yy mail, per year. LOGAN PAYNE CO! Foreign Hepresentative a0 ORK, Fifth Ave. Bidg.; CHICAGO, Be ae ar ante Meoris, #0 ‘Lamber Exchange. lember Audit Bureau of Circulation ( BTATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER pace ee — Dio eae Se 8 O} (Established 1872) is! IE ee WEATHER REPORT fot 24 hours ending at noon Aug 11 Temperature at 7a, m- Temperature at noon Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity . 7} Forecast for North Dakota: Showers tonight cocler extreme northwest portion; Sunday probably fair. — Lowest Temperatures Fargo .... ++ AB Williston . Grand Forks . Pierre St. Paul ‘Winnipeg Helena . Chicago... Swift Current Kansas City .. San Francisco . ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorogolist. Pee eeee ee Pe ee ee @ Senator Gronna, when the food @ dill came to a vote, cast his bal- + © lot, as usual, for Kaiser “BIL” Pe a ee ee CLEAR THE AIR. Nothing today is undergoing more of a change than our estimate of the value of human life. We are coming to an entirely new view on that ques- tion. Good economists have told us for years that our views and our actions sré shaped largely by the necessities of our lives—in other words, that our lives, as a whole, are shaped by the conditions that surround us. If we care for self-study we may See ourselves undergoing the most profound changes, in a social way, while the great war rages. {We used to think human life was gacred. Woe used to think, human life ‘was something to be held to at almost any cost. In.one way we were right, but in a more fundamental way we were wrong. We are coming to see it now-—we are being taught by new conditions and new demands. ‘Perhaps a pretty clear definition of the new national view of the sacred- ness of human life is this: A human Ufe ts valuable and sacred only inso- far as it contributes something to the Bood of all. . Life has no individual value. It Bas only social value. Human life is too sacred to be Wasted; but no life is wasted which {e contributed to the advance of hu- Manity. i The civilized world is waging a great war. It is a war for democracy. This war is the most powerful agency for human advancement the wofld has ever known. it may never know Sndther so potent. Human life laid down in this. war is, humnn life devoted to the highest Purpose possible, It is ife given in the supreme service of mankind. ‘That is our ostimate of life today. Those who see broadly know that in the midst of the greatest devastation we have ever known we are making the most rapid progress we have ever known toward a higher type of life, a fines, cleaner social life, a better, truer, eivilization. To lay down life in the service of Bumanity is the highest service to Which life can be given. ‘We seo today, as we could not have Seen without this great new test by fre, what is the true value of human Nite. And that what we see today is Detter than what we saw yesterday {s a clear indication of the progress we have already made, as well as a Signal of the progress we are yet to make. Woe are seeing better than we used to. The smoke of guns is clearing the air. WHAT THE AUTOCRACY 1S, American publications are giving their readers much about the reich- Stag and that body’s demands upon the German autocracy for political re- forms. Through rather prejudiced gources America gets information to the effect that the reichstag, the popu- Jar ‘body of what may be called the German congress, has secured certain of such reforms, or autocracy’s prom- ise of them, and because of this some folks have hope of radical changes in Germany's form of government and, consequently, early efforts for peace. But when we come to study Ger- ™Many’s scheme of government, we find that it was concocted especially to enable her autocracy to defeat such {ate friends, stag has really got anything import- .| ant from that autocracy, changes of. the highest import to the world are incubating. The German congress, as we would’ 68] call it, is composed of the bundesrath, corresponding somewhat to our Uni- ted States senate, and the reichstag, elected by popular vote, as is our house. At the head of the dozen-and-a-half of German’ states are gome kings, princes, grand dukes and dukes, and this royalty chooses the bundesrath. The king of the greatest of these states, Prussia, is also emperor. of Germany, and he and the bundesrath hold power over ‘business and for- eign affairs and nfial decision as to national action in war affairs. Call this the nucleus of German autocracy. The kaiser, his family and immedi- and the heads of the states and their families and friends go into big business. They invest in and control the Krupp concern, steam- | ship lines; railroads, powerful fran- chises, even in institutions right in our own country, and, under German military organization, the banker and manager of big commercial concerns is part of the military organization. So that German autocracy is royalty and big business combined, with abso- Jute power to elect itself, power over legislation and power over war mat- ters—all the legislative, financial and commercial power certain and fixed. It is some autocracy, and, besides, it picks the ministers, all by itself. These ministers are very useful to autocracy. When the popular wolf- pack. gets to snarling and biting too close to the autocratic sleigh, a min- ister can be thrown overboard, to stay the hungry pack, while autocracy con- tinues its journey. There's the reichstag. It Is a mere tribute, or sop to democratic senti- ment. It is elected tby so-called “uni- versal suffrage but such are the franchise limitations upon the man in overalls and such the recent shiftings in population that it at present comes about as near popular and national representation as does our own meth- od of making up a senate, wherein Rhode Island is as powerful as New York state, and sometimes more so. Besides, the reichstag cannot drive a nail in anywhere without consent of the bundesrath. In other words, the German people have nothing to do with picking their president, their senate, their cabinet, their courts, or their commercial, fi- nancial or war policies, either directly or by relegated authority. The only ‘body in, their - government. close to them, 4s, practically, Mmited ‘to offer.’ ing suggestions. ‘Their government is draw the conclusion that if the-reich-; « “divine rights” amalgamated with “big ‘business.” How'd you like to have that forced upon America? That’s what our war is about. ‘USE FOR HUSBANDS, Speaking of the social and economic drift, a distinguished eastern profes- sor says “most important is it that women never had sp little use for hug- bands as they have in France and Ger- many today.” It is one of the horrible aspects of war, and of certain other movements, too, is this apparently growing use- Jessness of husbands. But maybe the thing will balance itself. In France and Germany, at any rate, there isn’t going to be so much material for the making of husbands, and this surely will raise the value of what husbands there are. An increased and fierce demand for husbands means some so- clal change, however such demand arises. The, Americanism of the Bismarck Tribune was too much for the Dickin- son Herold, which, in common with other members of the German-Ameri- can press, has deen ‘belittling our al- lies and casting asperstons upon the intervention of this nation. In today’s mail comes the notice to stop The Tribune instanter, which we willingly do. At the same time our exchange table is rid of the reptilian matter that has befouled the columns of that publication for the last six months, Britain, ruler of the waves. helm, ruler of the depths. Uncle Sam ruler’ of the afr. There being only the earth left, you can’t now help, ad- mirmg Mr. Rockefeller for beginning to save his pennies early in life. Bath house proprietors are raising the rentals of bathing suits 100 pér cent. {t's on account of the war. Water's higher. Seven-foot tides most every day. Wil- Don't forget the benefit concert this evening. It will be well worth the time and money and in aid of an ex- cellent cause. Statesman Here. J. N. Kunkel of Fessenden, one of Wells county's two representatives, and a live wire of the last session, Mrs. Kunkel and son Billy and his brother, L. V. Kunkel, were guests at the Van Horn this week, having como over to visit their brothers, William and George Kunkel, members of Co. K, and F. L. Kunkel, a cousin, an- other member of Co. K, all quarteder at Fort Lincoln. Popular movements, and we must FOR TAXI SERVICE PHONE 342. A GROUP OF BROADWAY SPORT GIRLS IN THE FAMOUS NEW YORK MUSICAL COMEDY HIT, “VERY: GOOD EDDIE.” “Very Good Eddie,” the biggest of all recent musical comedy successes, fresh from a run of a solid year at the Princess theater, New York, six months in Chicago, and which is just now on the return end of a triumph- ant tour of the western cities, will appear at the Auditorium on Monday, Aug. 20. The engagement of “Very Good Ed- die” in this section of the country marks the first visit here of one: of the famous Princess theater successes, produced iby. Elizabeth Marbury and BE. Ray Comstock. season, aad in order to keep the com- These two pro-| pany intact the management decided duce?s have evolved a new style of!te keep the performance going on a musical entertainment that has made the Princese theater the ‘classy’ play- house of New York. The principal castern cities have always. claimed such long runs for. their productions that they have never been able to coyer the entire.country. But “Very Good Eddie” ran so.Jong in New York and Chicago that there ure other large eastern cities yet to be played next summner trip to the coast and hack. “Very Good Eddie’ comes _ here with such Broadway favorites as Den- man Maley, Georgei Mack, Harry My- ers, Florence Earle, Helen Raymond, Theodora Warfield, Harry. Linkey, Jean DeBriae, Elaine Ford; Ralph O’Brien, Gladys Clifton, Bessie Mulli- gan and Irma Chase, and with the swagger fashion chorus which gave. Broadway such a treat for the eye: While the average musical chorus can be dismissed with a word, it would take volumes to describe the youth, freshness ‘and daintiness of the “Ed- die” girls. The show contains a wealth of mel- ody which has already beconie popu- lar from coast te coast, an abundance of laugh making material and an ena- less succession of surprising novelties that distinguish it from all other mu- sical producticns ever seen here. M’Lean County Farmers Leading in Claims for Agricultural Exemption Fact That Shire Is More Largely Rural Than Most; Others Held to Account for Condition—Burleigh Ranks High in Petitions for Relief From Military Service —State Board Begins Its Grind Next Monday Afternoon—Expect Quick Action. The state exemption board already has received 60 claims for exemption on the g-ound. that the registrant is actively engaged in agricultural pur- suits and that his labor js needed in the production of food for fighters, Commissioner John N. Hagen, secre- tary of the. state board, announced tnis afternoon. The board will hold its first meet- ing for actual business at 2 o’clock next Monday afternoon, by which date it is anticipated the number of agri- cultural and occupational. claims will have swelled to at: least 200, . y McLean Leads. is McLean county; leads in the number of claims filed for agricultural exemp- tions to date, partly because ‘the Mc- Lean county local. board was’ among :the first in the state to get, on the job, and largely because McLean county is almost exclusively rural, having a very small percentage of population not engaged in agricultural pursuits. The number of claims for agricultural exemptions from Burleigh county also. is relatively high, and a number of other counties already are repre- sented. Will Work Fast. Secretary Hagan this afternoon pre- dicted that the state board, of which Associate Justice Luther KE. Birdzell is chairman, will work rapidly, and that decisions on claims will be an- nounced by the middle or latter part of next week. It probably will be necessary for the board to remain in constant session until the results of the draft finally are determined. Some counties have not even begun the ex- amination of candidates, and this work probably. will continue all of next week. From: the date of call, regis- trants have seven/days to. file claims and 17 days to file proofs, and the last claim: in North Dakota cannot be expected to reach adjustment ‘before the last week in’ August. Then there will be opportunities for appeal to the district ‘board and from that body to the president, on the part. of 'regis- trants, and similariappeals on behalf of the government!by its special rep- resentative named 4h-each counly. Who Wi.| Be Exempt. The state exgmptton board has an- | nounced no rujés ‘by which tt willbe regulated in passing upon claims for agricultural exemption.. A general basis for! exemptions, however, will be the ownership_and active management of'a farm which cannot: be success- of the owner or manager; or the fact that the regi‘ trant?is a steady hand, employed thé yeat'drownd, and essen- tial to the successful operation of the farm. ie Transient farm hands, harvest help, etc., cannot expect to receive the same consideration as those permanently engaged in the industry. Farmers’ sons, if actually engaged in. farming, will receive ‘consideration, but that fact that a registrant {sa farmer's son need not ‘be expected to help if he merely has returned to the soil with a view to claiming exemption. And if'a temporary farm laborer is fully operated without the attention]. exempted, his exemption ceases the moment he leaves farm labor and em- barks in some other occupation. GERMAN CENSUS LIED 10 FOOL EUROPE: KAISER HAS MORE TROOPS, BUT POORER By L. HARPER LEECH. ‘Washington, D. C., Aug. 11—How many Germans are there? This question has acquired new sig- nificance from various reports of Ger- man reserves far greater than calcu- Jated on the basis of the German cen- Bus. The discussion of Germany's re- serve troops has assumed there aro about 70,000,000 Germans-—but several | weeks ago Switzerland reported. GER- MAINY HAS FALSIFUSD HER CEN- SUSES' SINCE 1875 to catch Europe off its guard. These reports’ placed .the actual number of Germans at 85,000,000 when the war began, A returned ‘Belgian relief commis- sionér, familiar with conditions, in England and Germany before and dur- ing the war, offers some opinions, backed by personal observation. “Gormany has been lying about her population,” he says. “As a matter of fact about 800,000 young men come of age every year, which indicates a population in excess of 80,000,000. “As to her reserves, they are un- doubtedly larger than calculated by the French general staff. When we left Belgium there were many «more German troops on the western front than at any other. period of'the war. “Quantity is not worrying the Ger- man high command—but quality and morale are lacking. The new troops are of poor phy- sique, a large part of them boys with- out sufficient nourishment during ado- lescence. They have had no butter fats and little meat. A boy needs the most intensive feeding from 14 to 18. “The younger Germans are not comparable to the older for phy- sical stamina. Since Germany be- came an industrial nation the phy- sique of the people has been de- clining rapidly. “The much talked of German social conservation measures did some good. Probably ithe German working classes were slightly better fed than the Eng- lish, and better housed, but not much.: “Since ‘the war, ‘the’ condition of: the people has gone downward, while! , the British physiada has improved. | “The war will prove the making of the British working class. It has high- er wages and. better food. The re- verse is true in Germany. he British peoplé also had a great advantage in moral stamina. many was becoming vicious and de- praved* .Immorality and illegitimacy flourished. “The machine-made life under strict regulation caused this,,and the low estate in’ which women are held in Germany, fostered it. “Immoral publications were allowed, and the government seemed to think that the prevalence of vice would keep the people from thinking about poli- tics, and allay, digtontent. The Rus- sian government followed the same | line—adding to it autidewish: agita. tion. : “Degeneracy and perversion were on the increase in Germany and the ‘COUNTRY WAS THE MOST IMMOR- AL IN EUROPE, (There. was little sense of individual responsibility. It was impossible to keep up the older codes of individualist* morality. Re- ligion had lost its hold. ) “While the ‘birth rate among the lower classes continues to be enorm- ous, race-suicide among the wealthier and more sophisticated classes was as prevalent as in‘ France-or America. “All these things are beginning to tell on thé’ strength of the race and can be seen mirrored. in the degener- ate, greedy and underfed® boys now crowded into the German regiments.” . BUY COAL NOW. You won't regret it. We handle the celebrated Wilton Lignite coal and Northern Wyoming Acme Coal. Wash- burn Lignite Coal. Co, Phone 453. ras BISMARCK LOSES ONE OF OLDEST FAMILIES Bismarck lost one of its:oldest: fam- ilies this week, when Mrs.’ Charles Afbertson left for Detroit, Mich., to join her husband and three sons who had preceded her thither. Mr. and ‘Mrs. Charles Albertson located ‘in Bismarck in 1878. Here were ‘born six sons, rank, Charles, Jr., Stanley, William, Earle and George, all of whom but the last named grew .to manhood here. Frank, Charles, Stan- ley and William now. are in: business in Detroit. “Stanley being connected with the Ford automobile works, there and. the others having ,well’ establish- ed interests in the Michigan metrop- Pimples in Sore Spots on Face and ‘Neck. Could not. Rest Healed by Cuticura “My skin was as clear as could be when gradually it hecame red and itchy. When I rubbed it.it began to: burn and little pimples came on my face and neck. The pimples were in biotches and some festcred, and they later developed into ‘They hurt so. 1 could hardly ne nights I could not ixured my face. las 1 Cuticura Soap and, Oint- ment. Inside of a month the pimples be- gan to take their former state, and when Tvused “one box of Cuticura Ointment and two cakes of Soap Iwas’ healed.” (Signed) Miss Margaret Frecke, Boone Grove, Ind,, Oct. 2, 1916, In purity, delicate medication, refresh- ing fragrance, conventénceand economy, Cuticura Soap and Ointment meet with the approval of the most discriminating. Unlike strongly medicated soaps which are coarse and harsh, Cuticura Soap is ideal for every-day use in the toilet, bath and nursery. Sample Each Free by Mall With 32-p.. Skin Book on request. . Ad= dress card: “Cuticura, Dept. R, Boston.’” Sold throughout the world? ‘ pale Teens before | ed about two months || « [olis." The sole representative of this pioneer family remaining in Bismarck is ‘Earle, with the Wachter Transfer Co. EMBARRASSES MEMBER” A confusion in names -has“resulted in serious . embrassment for Mrs. Elisabeth Robideau, widow of the late John’ Robideau, Ninth street south, and a member of one of Bismarck’s oldest and most respected families. The Mrs. John .Robideau mention- ed in recent police court news is an- other person entirely, residing on Eighth street south, but the similar: ity in names has, proven’ confusing. to those not well acquainted with the family, and. has been decidedly un- pleasant for Mrs. Elizabeth Robideau, and her family, none of whom ‘has ever been concerned in any of these cases. 3 STATE HOUSE NOTES DICKINSON DOINGS— 4 Battalion Adjutant: Ernest A. Or- chard is home from Dickinson,’ whith- er he went to represent the adjutant general's office at the big reception and dance tendered the machine gun company. 3 MAY SWEAR WITNESSES— The government. representatives named in each county to.take appeals from exemptions. granted by .local boards to the state board has been au- thorized. in an order transmitted ‘by Adjutant Gpneral raser from: Provost Marshal Crowder to swear, in wit- nesses and administer oaths. BEACH VISITORS— t 4 W. L. Zimmerman, manager, of..the Farmers’ Elevator at, Beach, and J.'M. Still of Beach, a-member of. the state efficiency. commission, were capitol callers. this week, looking in on State Examiner Waters, a. former. fellow citizen.. FOR TAXI SERVICE PHONE 342. “Exclusive Service” Lahr Motor Sales Company : Day Phone 490 of brains and opportunity, ing ‘ready after month, interest. TheF he Bank with the Cloc OPPORTUNITY | ‘Success in life consists largely of a combination therefore, that unless you are ready for your oppor-’- tunity when it comes success is not for you. Business success depends almost entirely on hav- money with which to take advantage of opportunities and the one certain way by which to have ready money is to save it systematically month NOW is the time to begin. This strong. pro- giessive bank welcomes savings deposits’ in any amount from $1.00 up and pays 4 per cent compound irst National Bank BISMARCK, N. D- It is well to remember MARB PRESENT : BISMARCK. | GREAT LOCAL AND OUT-OF-TOWN MAIL ORDERS GIVEN CAREFUL ATTENTION THE MUSIGAL COMEDY TREAT OF MANY YEARS The Real Cast-- The Great Production--The Wonderful Musicaj and Dance Numbers-and thé Same Swagger Fashion Chorus--Just as Presented an Entire Year in New York and 6 Months in Chicago, , THE SMARTEST & BRIGHTEST - 4 MUSICAL COMEDY SUCCESS OF THE Season MONDAY, AUG. 20 Price—50c to $2,00. Seat Sale at Knowles & Haney BEGINNING FRIDAY. ‘tf PIONEER FAMILY