The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1917, Page 1

f The Weather Generally Fair, WHIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 197 BISMARCK, NORTH DAR TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, FAR ERS PROTES AT PRICE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW RUSSIANS SHS RUSSELL Revolution Different From Any Other Upheaval Ever Ex- Pperienced in World SLAVS CREED OF SOCIETY EMBRACED THE UNIVERSE New Regime at First Flush Re- garded War as Made by Old Masters of Autocracy f Charles Edward Russell, mem- “ber of the staff of the Daily Trib- une, spent three months in. Russia with the United States commis- sion headed by Elihu Root, to which Mr. Russell was appointed by President Wilson. He has just returned to this country and is now writing for this newspaper and its associates in the News- paper Enterprise association the real facts about GREAT RUSSIA TODAY as-he found them in his dual capacity as official investiga- tor and observant reporter. -This is his third article; watch for others.—Editor Tribune. By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL. (Copyright, 1917, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) If you want to get Russia straight in your mind you must begin with the first foundation fact, which is this: The revolution there was differ- ent from any other revolution. All the rest have been political. This was about one-fifth political and about four-fifths something else. Revolution had been taught many years in Russia. Taught secretly, of course, underground, in cellars, stealthily and in whispered speech, but taught. Those that taught it taught a great deal more than merely the notion that the rule of the czar must be over- thrown. Here ts. the’ first, place where: we-itr America get Off on nthe wrong foot. Abiding. Conception. ‘We have one ‘fixed, abiding, persist- ent conception of the Russian revolu- tionist as a man with a deadly hatred of the czag. We don't ‘understand that he planned an entirely new sys- tem of society, that he had a whole vast creed of social betterment in which the overthrow of the czar was nothing but an incident. There never was a broader creed. It embraced the whole world. The Russian revolutionist dreamed of a free Russia only as part of a free world. Free not alone from czars and political des- potism, but free also from pov- erty, injustice, hatred, competition —and war. All mankind in one great fant ily; all races in one great nation. Happiness, joy, sufficiency for all; and universal peace. In that dream he cared little more for Russia than for any other corner of the world federation. Perhaps he cared not at all, for it, or made him- self believe that he didn’t. Anyway, all the ordinary appeals of patriotism that so much move other men came to seem to him not praiseworthy, as we think them, but hateful. World patriotism was his creed. Uni- versal brotherhood, universal good will, no more national barriers, no more national prejudices, made up its first article. And universal peace. ‘Put Into Practice. To tell the truth it was a creed that in his time he did not expect to see put into practice. He knew that some day it would come true, but for his own lifetime he looked forward to nothing but covert agitation, secret meetings, perilous escapes from the ever watchful police, and either Si- beria or the gallows as the boundary of his life. The bloody story of the futile revo- lution of 1905 taught him the terrible lesson. The czar and his power were fast rooted in the very foundations of things, not to be torn out except with long, painful, toilsome efforts stretched over years. I HAVE! TALKED WITH MANY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION- ISTS. I HAVE FOUND NONE THAT CIN MARCH 11 HAD ANY HOPE THAT THE CURSE HANGING OVER THEIR CQUINNTRY 300 YEARS WOULD IN THEIR TIME BE LIFTED. And then, on March 12, the whole thing, without a moment's warning, began to crack and bend. On March 14 the revolution that no man had planned was complete, the old order had vanished, the wonder of a dazzling New Day burst upon Russia. Then the Russian revolutionist ‘soared to the skies in an uncontrol- able burst of enthusiasm. The thing had come after all! All the old foundations had been swept away over night. The dreams of so many years were not idle. Behold, they were about to be realities before his very eyes! THE CZAR WAS GONE AND MEN WERE FPEE, not alone from czars and political despotism, but free also from poverty, injustice, hatred, compe- tition—AND ‘WAR? Ah!—well, there was the trou- ble. This terrible War was on. He had not made it, the citizen of New Russia; was none of his affair. It had been made by the czar and the czar’s government, (Continued on page 4.) GIRL ARTIST WORKS SI STORIES IN AIR LUCILE PATTERSON On a 20-foot ‘billboard on top of a six-story building at Fifth avenue and 42nd St., Miss Lucile Patterson, a New York girl artist of 23 is painting the “service” ‘poster of the National league for Women’s Service. TRAINING IS... AT STAGE OF SHAM ATTACKS American Forces in France Are Progressing Rapidly Toward Finished Soldiers FRANCE CHALEURS PITTED AGAINST THE SAMMIES Washington, D. C., Aug. 21.— The extensive scope of prepara- tion for the health, comfort and recreation of American soldiers in France is indicated by reports of Majors Grayson iurphy, head of the Red Cross commission to “France, made public today. Thir- teen thousand selective, trained nurses have enlisted for duty in fully equipped base hospitals in France, and great quantities of supplies are already in France or awaiting orders of Major Murphy. American Training Camp in France, Aug. 21.—Training in some of the American battalions has progressed to such a point that sham. attacks on the trench system are being carried out with a degree akin to actual war- fare. Thus far, artillery fire has been only theoretical, but before long the t-sons expect to have the experience of watching the effect of real artillery + che trenches. The marines are having some espe- cially lively engagements this week with their French inspectors. French ~~ Continued “6 on page our.) GERMANS LOSE BOLLEY l IN COUNTER 10 , NEW OFFENSIVE Total Prisoners Taken by French Reported at More Than , 5,000 HEAVY FIGHTING IN PROGRESS IN RUMANIA Teutons Submit Riga-Mitau Rail- way to Heavy Artillery Bombardment (By Associated Press.) The German reaction to the success- ful French stroke at Verdun came last night and the'new lines stood firm in the face of counter attacks of extreme violence. On the front north of Ver- dun, especially at Avocourt wood, and north of Caurieres the fighting was particularly bitter, the French war of- fice reports. The Germans were beat- en back with heavy losses. The total prisoners now taken by the French exceeds 5,000. The Germans also re- turned the attack on the Aisne front, striking at Cerny and Hurtebise, Paris reports the repulse of these as- saults. The British made their third attempt to recapture the positions re- cently wrested from them near Epehy, northwest of ‘St. Quentin. Determined Attack. A determined attack was made, in which the Germans employed flame throwers, but they were repulsed com- pletely by the British, who held all their positions. A ‘Heavy fighting continues on the southern Rumanian front. The Rus- sians and Rumanians are offering stiff resistance, but Petrograd reports offi- cially that the Germans have been forced back. further at.several polnte: ~“Réach’ Outskirts. © \Austro-German troops reached the southwestern outskirts of the import- ant Moldavian town of Ocna, 75 miles southwest of .the provisional Ruma- nian capital of Gassy. Ir the direc- tion of Fokshani, the Germans took the offensive along the railroad, ad- yancing on both sides of it. A counter attack west of the railway resulted in the restoration of the Russian-Ruma- nian positions. _ Northern Russian Front. On the northern Russian front, in- creasing activity is reported. The Germans are bombarding heavily the Russian trenches west of the Riga- Mitau railway. The new Russian offensive on the Caucassian front has resujted in fur- ther victories. Capture of a series of villages south of the Pelmes is re- ported ‘by the Russian official report british aviators who have been at- tacking in Belgium carried out anoth- er successful bombing expedition Sun- day night. They dropped many tons (Continued on Page Four) SENATORS ARRIVE AT WASHINGTON FOR FINAL DEBATES ‘Washington, D. C., Aug. 21.—Sena- tors who have been absent from the capitol were arriving today in re- sponse to telegraphic notices from party leaders to be on the war tax bill's chief features in dispute, the war profits, and income taxes, though this may not be reached before the latter Part ot the week LA FOLLETTE SAYS 85 PER GENT OF WEN DRAFTED OPPOSED 10 WAR; HIT AT WAR TAX OF ADMINISTRATION Washington, D. C., Aug. 21.—Con- scription of wealth to pay for the war was urged in the senate today by Sen- ator LaFollette, in presenting the min- ority plans of the finance committee for high rates in the war tax bill on profits and incomes. He suggested ii creasing the $2,006,000,000 bill to $: 500,000,000 by such increases with elimination of consumption taxes. He also urged that less bonds and more taxes be authorized. Demanding War. The Wisconsin senator declared gov- ernments were demanding war while their peoples were asking for peace, and contended that 85 per cent of t! men drafted are protesting. The Lib- erty Joan, he said, was made possible by an “iron hand” within kid gloves, and persistent advertising methods. The pending bill, he stated, pro- vides by taxes but 17 per cent of this year’s war expenses, while Great Bri, tain imposes 26 per cent. Next year’s expenses, he predicted, may reach he urged more taxes on surtaxes and incomes to care for the burden of the war. Cites the Cost. “Too many people for the comfort of the ruling classes in the warring countries of Europe are asking today why they should give their all to the government from which they have re- ceived so little, while the favored classes pass through the furnace of war unscathed,” said the Wisconsin senator. “If the billions of our people's money which we are now smilingly tossing into the furnace of the Euro- pean war were all we had to consider, the question would not be so seri- ous. “But, if this war should last another year, or two years, think what it will mean to the financial resources of this country. Remember, that we have not yet. burned up a single dollar's worth of powder. We have not yet exploded a single shell, thé’ cost of some of which exceed the annual income of. $30,000,000,000 or $40,000,000,0v0 and|the average man.” [fS FARMERS TO HOLD SECU State Commissioner Deplores Tendency to Rush Into Mark. et at This Uncertain Time WRITE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOR’ ASSISTANCE Critical Time When Preparations for Years 1918-1919 Must Be-Made By H. L. BOLLEY. Western farmers <should hold the wheat which they: have grown, for seed purposes. oe As state seed commfssioner, 1 have been studying the ‘prépent wheat sit- uation and thinking {particularly of the future crops of 418 and 1919, when, according: to all} evidences, the world will need wheat’ worse than it has ever needed it before. According to my. observa and the best information which comes to me, while the farmers of the state west of a line running north by south through Jamestown, are commonly harvesting sufficient seed wheat and other cereals to furnish « good sup- ply for the seeding of the 1918 \rop. I deem it my duty to call attention to the fact that many. farm in this region will have practically ‘none all. I wish also to impress the fact that, insofar as the farmers have . ed any wheat on their land, unless they allow ‘it to spoil, as il now stands it is the best quality of wheat that I have ever seen grown, when consid ered for use as seed for sowing pu:- poses. Free From Parasites. The reason that. this wheat which is now being harvested is of such high quality for seed purposes rests in the fact that it has grown upon mother plants which have, op ount of the hot, dry. .weather conditions. and.dry «| Soil conditions, been wholly-free from the attack of: parasite fungus and other ‘insect. pests ‘wh: usually in wet years injure the seed and are transmitted’ by the seed to other lands. ’ I know that many of you have what seemed to you to be important or even necessary reasons for marketing this seed now. Some of you think you have no place to store it. I an- swer, “Stack it!” Some:of you think you have mortgages which must be paid. 1 answer, “Forget it!” tiold this seed unmixed with other poorer qualitics until the proper authorities, emergency boards of the siate, or na- tional. authorities — may be in a pust- tion to afd you. If you need help in this matter of holding. put yourself in touch with your nurest local ati- thorities or friends, who may he able to help you find the means of holding this seed grain. Have in mind, thal ‘by “holding” I do not mean that you haul the grain to the local shipping elevator and take tickets for it, but that you prevent it from going there until those elevators are under such proper national, state or local super- vision that grains, and particularly wheat which is fit for use on the land for sowing purposes may be binned separately as to varicties and kept free from admixtures, injured seed, disease infected seed and weed con- taminated ‘seeds. Sit Tight. May we not hope that each of you who think you are In hard circum- stances will just now, during the time when the governmental) stata and local committees for the care of such matters are adjusting themselves, sit tight, with good courage? In this mat- ter of good seed for your own farm you cannot for any reason afford to fail to save every hit ‘of the grain which you have grown and if possible save it dry—and keep it for your own use or for sale to your neigh- bors. Remember what always hap- pens in this country; our farmers usu- ally sell everything they have in the fall, not uncommonly the very best of it is the first to go in the elevators They take tickets for it, if they think of holding for a better price, but the grain itself does not stay in the local elevator. It is immediately mixed with the worst stuff in the neighbor: hood as it goes into the elevator. In further transit to the terminals it be- comes more mixed and jumbled with all varieties of its kind and all the diseases and pests to which the crop is heir—then what happens? In the spring you or your neigivors find that you must have seed. As in the caso of last spring you are called upon, either through your own necessity or by emergency conditions of our gov. ernment as they now exist, to buy other seed, and it comes to you from where you know. not and is of such quality often as to he for use as séed for vi your neighbors pay the price of shi ping for all the distances that have | intervened since it left its home town until it gets back to you. with a good margin to those who jumbled it, hon- estly or otherwise. Hold our Sced. This much [ have said about the seed question. It must be apparent to vou that many of your neighbors need feed grains and feed stuffs to keep the cattle that are in your neign- borhood and the horses that are nec- essary to work your farms, ete Is it wise to lose your courage just now "(Continued on Page Eight.) FA ) | System's Failure Proves Brutal Punishment Is No Way to Handle Boys Chicago, Ill, Aug. Anton Pacut originated an extraordinary way for punishing runaway sons, according to admissions which police say he made. He built in his cellar, at 2440 Cly- bourn avenue, a permanent cell, four feet long, three feet wide and five feet high, of solid board, with a tight-tit- ting door. Then, the police declare, he forged handcuffs for ankles and wrists, and staples to chain the boy to the wall. While poice were taking Anton to jail following the discovery in the cell of Frank Pacut, his 11-year-old son, who had stood ten hours in his chains, without food or water, Anton told the officers the system did not work. “He is still a bum and a thief,” he said. The boy was hardly walk. steal,” he so weak he could have to beg and , ‘to get enough to eat. My father rved ine. i have hunted in neighbors’ garbage cans. “He has chained [mil in the cell, too. Mmil are 9 and 7, respectively. “And he has beaten ‘Baby Fred, who is 2, with the nine-tongued whip ‘he made to beat me.” . Frank’s last imprisonment in the cell followed an absence of two week: to get away from the cruellies at home. All the air he got in the cell came through the cracks between the ‘boards. “Of course Pacu system didn't work,” said Miss Ora Edmonds, head of the Christopher settlement house, who informed police. “It is enough in itself to prove that brutal punish- ment isnot the way to handle boys.” Frank Pacut told police he had been imprisoned in the cell 50 times. WILSON FEELS COAL PRICES. ARE TOO lt ‘Washington, D. C., Aug. 21.—Presi- dent Wilson canceled the usual cab- inet meeting to attend to the coal situ- ation today. and Anton and Anton say the president feels ion that the price of , and he is anxious to remedy that condition as soon as pos- sible. REFUSE 10 ACCEPT EXEMPTION GRANTED ‘Chicago, Aug. 21.—A Chicago ex emption board has refused to accept the exemption granted to Milton J Stock, third baseman of the Philadel- phia National league team, on the grounds that he did not have the per- mission to! be examined in Philadel- phia. The local ‘board has notified Stock that he will have to take the examination h Elements Conspire With Yeggs to Rob Underwood Merchant -During Underwood, IN. D., Aug. the electrical storm which destroyed the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller, a mile and a half from town, and while a majority of Under ‘wood’s adult males were bus ing fire, John G. Sayler’: ywas broken into and goods to the value of $200 wer ae IN DISSENTING North Dakota’s new grain grading act long, ill-constructed, un grammatical, multifarious hodgepodge document,” declares Associate .iustice J, K. Robinson, nting from the opinion of the supreme court in the test suit decided yesterday in fa- vor of the ate. While the other feur neur in the opinion tten by Chief Justice Justice Robinson, in nis — ind | opinion, filed this mornin most vigorously. “Without any consideration,” the big leaguer, “the bill was rm through toward the cluse of the last sé n of the legislature. It wi3 no read at length required by the con- stitution. Obviously, the subject. of the act is not expr doin its: tine, and it does contain more than one subject “If we may amend the title by a ret ence to the body of the act, con- ary to the decision of this court in . D. 514, we may as well is “a in di 50 luai ;|Suarantecing ev say it” HAGKLES. STARVING AD IN GELLAR AND BEATS. IM! led in his cel- tongued whip father Frank Pacut, shi lar cell, and nin used to beat him. POPE'S PEACE OFFER MEETS WITH FAVOR Michaelis to Declare for Them at Special Mceting of Com. mittee IN ACCORD WITH OFFER MADE BY GERMANY IN 1916 Copenhagen, Aug.'21—At-a meeting of main committee of the reich- stag called for today, Chancellor Mi- chaelis was to det e the pope's peace note in acord ith the German peace proposals of 1916, and the re- cent reichstag resolution on the same . and therefore to be sympa- thetically sived in German ¢ y, cannot, however, discuss and. particularly, under no cir- can it enter into discus- status of Alsa as a part of the German emp chancellor, according to this for will say that as Germany has e indicated its desire to make peace, the first word must come fromthe other side. PROTEST MAY FOLLOW CAME IN CHICAGO Chicago, Aug, —There may be a protest over the second game of yes- terday doubleheader between the Boston and Chicago teams of the American league. President Comiskey als will decide this after a with Manager Rolland. t game, won by Chicago, s interrupted by rain. The of the loc conferenc The fi 7 to 0, w eccond game did not} until 4:51 o'clock. The sun 41. League rules a nid to set forth th: hall begin two hours before ent eight inn » 1 in favor of conte: stisel, Boston. JUSTIGE ROBSON DECLARES THAT LEAGUE GRADING ACT {S VOI TO BRUCE'S DECISION be entitled thus: ‘Ar act to create a huge grafting system ard 1 farmers the right to sell their without paying to some inspect- should deny Brains jor an unknown and unlimited graft on each and every load.” | Denial of Rights. The denial of the right to purchase is a denial of the right fo sell, says Judge Robinson, and is contrary to jthat provision of our constitution citizen the right ot property. squire or raft, to “The a sum y be fixed iy: “th inspector do ohis deputies consulting y seller of ¢ “in marketing a load of grain, the farmer has no time to ist the graft. He must pay whatever is de |manded, though it be a gross impos'- ition. The rates are io be fixed by those who profit: by the graft. The farmer who hauls his grain to market y ve to haul it home again, as CASS. COUNTY FARMERS LEAVE THEIR MACHINES Attend Mass Meeting Addressed by Former Governor L. B. Hanna THREE DOLLARS PER BUSHEL FAIR PRICE Telegrams Rushed to Hoover Pro- testing Against Low Mini- mum Fixed NOTIFY DR. LADD. Farmers of the Slope, the Tribune urges you to communl- cate to Dr. Ladd, Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. G., what you think is a fair price for wheat. Ascer- tain your cost of production and add to it what would be a fair profit. Do it now.—éditor of Tribune. Fargo, N. D., Aug. 21.—"ormer Gov- ernor L. B. Hanna of Fargo declared that wheat at $2 a bushel or under will spell ruin for thousands of farm- ers in the Northwest, before a large audience of representatives of Cass county, N. D., and Clay county, Minn., who assembled here today to devise w: and means of impressing the price fixing board at Washingrva with the importance of fixing a fair price for wheat. bkarmers within a radius of 40 miles -or more stopped their threshing machines and attend: ed the meeting. Won't Get $4 an Acre. “Thousands of farmers in North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana will not get an average of four. bushels from their wheat,” the former gover- mor said. “Seed alone cost them $4 per acre last spring, labor was high-’ er than ever before, machine parts never were higher, and twine hit.the high water mark, at 19¢ a pound., How anyone can expect those farmers to break even at less than $3. per bushel tor wheat .js- more: than ‘any. iutelligent man can understand... “Last spring, the farmers. were. promised that if they would put their. lands into wheat they would realize a price that would be commensurate with their efforts. It doesn’t look as if that promise were to be kept, when a price of $1.65 ts being advocated.” Telegrams protesting against fixing the price under $3 per bushel were sent by most of the farmers at the meeting. Hagan on the Job. “[ have notified the national price fixing committee of conditions ow existing in North Dakota with regard to the grain market,” said Commis- sioner of Agriculture and Labor Ha- gan this morning. “I have endeavored to impress upon them the fact if North Dakota farm- ers and grain growers of the north generally do not get a square deal now, it will result in the abandon- ment of wheat raising by a very large D ntage of them. he southern grain-grawer. whose crop was harvested early, has been allowed to profit from $2.50 and $3 wheat. Now the government purposes to step in and tell the northern farm- er that he must accept less than $2. The condition is decidedty unwhole- some. At Dickinson, I am advised, only $1.39 war offered last Saturday fo: Se i Northern. ‘Tne same day the Kussell-Miller company here was baying 32. “The man who has established a gced credit can, of cour torrow something on his wheat and hold it, but even then it is ‘with little cer- tainty that a fair price ‘vill be offered later on. The man who has no cred- it and who is hard up must sell now and take what he can get, and that man isn't going to raise wheat an- other no matter how great an appeal may be made to nis patriotism. “IL isn’t grasping shuess, it’s, the spirit of unfairness of the whole thing that hurts, and for the sake of an adequate food supply next year 1 sincerely hope the price fixing com- mittee will take into considvration the unfavorable condition; under which the northern farmer has labor- ed this season and fix a price which will the cost of producing the grain and allow a fair profit.” ‘EDDIE. KETTLE'S WIFE ALMOST GOT LEFT AGAIN Kettle’s wife almost got left Eddie in real life this morning, when Miss Hel len Raymond, the queenly young evening played the Georgina Kettle in “Very Good declined to pay a 50-cent charge for tray service at her hotel, and was arrested on a warrant issued. by Justice Bleckreid, just as she was about to board No. 4 In real life Georgina proved just as masterful as she did last night on the stage. She didn’t approve of | that 50-cent item and declined to pay it. Chiet n met her at the door leaving the hotel and on with her. Georg- ing n threw the offending half on the sidewalk sonte distance from the protesting cl The latter declined strieve the half, and Georgina re- fused to produce another, whereupon a warrant was issued in short order. Georgina’s manfulness’ cost her $6.95, which she paid over just as the conductor called “All Aboard.”