The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1917, Page 4

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Member Audit Bureau of Circulation HE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) WEATHER REPORT for 24 hours ending at noon Sept. 8: Temperature at 7 a. m. 5 Temperature at noon . Highest yesterday . Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Frecipitation Highest wind velocity . Forecast for ‘North Dakota: Partly cloudy to- night and Sunday; cooler tonight with probably frost in northeast portion. Lowest Temperatures Fargo ... 52 Williston Grand Forks .. Pierre St. Paul . Winnipeg Helena . Chicago . . Swift Current .. Kansas City . San Francisco . ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorogolist. A bad man’s credit is as shifty as himself—Pliny. It’s unpatriotic to call a village citizen a burgher—now that we're at war with Germany. PRAISES MURDERERS. Among the legends pretty well spread over this country and genera’ ly believed is that murderous U-boat warfare was decided upon much against the wishes of the kaiser. (We are given a picture of a war council in which the kaiser and his former charicellor,’ Béthmann-Holweg; held out to''the last againsi ihe sub: marine assassinations. But we are told the ruthless war lords and sea lords practically forced the kaiser to sanction the policy which so far has not effected its purpose and has given the German cause a snortal blow by. bringing America into the war. There is reason to believe all this ig mere cock and bull stuff, The kai- ser wants to win the war. Reventlow, one of the most jingo of all German military critics, practically says the kaiser has to win if he Is to hold his power and his thrown. The head of the house of Hohenzol- lern probably knows this as well as anyone. To win he is willing to try any game and any policy. When his experts convinced him England could be brought to her kness within a few months in intense submarine war, be- fore America could bring her great forces into play, the ‘kaiser quickly gave his consent. It is time we Americans stop de- luding ourselves into believing that Wilhelm Hohenzellern is any better than the men who surround him. He is just as ruthless, just as cruel, just as callous to human suffering. He is playing for high stakes and ‘fs just as desperate as any other gambler in like position. He has even keyed himself up to the point where he ® willing to write doggerel verse in celebration of the U-boat. It seems that not long, ago the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung had a special submarine edition and these lines attributed to the kaiser appear- ed therein, according to the Boston Transcript: ‘Borne aloft on the nation’s trust. “Escorted by its wishes most ardent. “Conducted by the best in the land. “Served by crews that know no fear. ‘Hated and feared by the foe. “For boldest exploits ever ready. “Our U-boat makes the German flag “Respected as the ultima ratio regis.’ Ultima ratio regis can best be liber- ally translated as “the last argument of a king.” The cause of the German emperor has indeed fallen low when Ahis last argument is one that seeks to _ elevate murderous piracy to the dig- ‘ity of legitimate warfare. “The last argument of a king” -\ eomes very near being the very last argument against a king—something ‘that even the German people may come to see. They're wearing fur-trimmed bath- ing suits at Atlantic City now. ‘Well, that’s better than the bear skins for- -merly in vogue. “RIGA’S OCCUPATION. “The moral effect of the fall of Riga Aprobably will be more beneficial to the ‘Pussians than to the Germans. Ad- versity on the very threshold ot the} sarah Bernhardt. in “Mothers of -<$-6-7-8}-the form. of taxatio ernment to greater activity and a more stubborn resistance. Riga was settled largely by German merchants in the twelfth century and when the war broke out, 50 per cent of the population was Teutonic. In fact a major portion of the Baltic coast was settled .by Germans and it is here that the German plots were hatched and the Kaiser's propaganda and its chief stimulus. If this triumph of German machina- tions will only force the Rus: realize their duty, then the o tion of Riga was a blessing in disguise. The late Diamond Jim Brady's gems show he kuew where to put his money while the income and other taxes threatened him. OVERWORKING CHILDREN The Keating-Owen federal child la- por law prohibits employing any child under 14 in any factory whose pro ducts are to be shipped in interstate commerce. It also forbids children 14 to15 to work longer than eight hours. It-is a good law. Its purpose is per- fectly. plain. It is intended to throw the mantle .of protection about little ones not<-safeguarded by their own states, It was fought inthe senate by re- actioyaries from Pennsylvania and the cotton-spinning states of the South. The first formal court attack upon its validity took place in North Carolina, where children over 12 have a per- fect right-to work 11 hours a day. The: case came before Wederal Judge Boyd of the western district of North Carolina, one of the crustacean survivals of an older day. He is 72 and his thinking belongs to a past, a dark, and an unprogressive age. He is apparently convinced that parents have a full right to say when and where a child shall work; that a child has an inalienable right to work; and that when we try by law to improve mankind, we should not invade family rights. Boyd, insofar.as he was able, has knocked out the federal child labor law. He has called it unconstitution- al and énjoined its enforcement in the western district of North Carolina. He held congress could regulate among the states, but not the internal condition of labor. This will bring great rejoicing to the North Carolina mill owners, where so many men called for the draft, were rejected because of physical de- fects sown in their youth in their slavery in the mills. ‘Cotton spinning is the great indus- try in? westein North Carolia, large- ly butlt up, thanks to the barbarous laws of the state, on the frail bodies of little children. AS ‘a result of his decision Judge Boyd ‘will have the satisfaction of knowing that in the Greesboro region | when the morning whistle blows no child betwen 12 and 14 will be com- pelled to: lie abed ‘when the factory is just over the way waiting for his labor. The federal law will bave heen made a nullity until the suyren:e court passes upon it. , Of course, the little boys and girls may think it would be better to sleep a little longer. They may think it better to go to school 2 few years more during the winter season3. They may. even, preternaturally wise, think they would have a better chance of being strong men and women, and not tubercular folk, if they could just have a playtime instead of a prema- ture worktime. The thoughts of the liitle white slaves ‘will.probably be long and bit- ter, bitter thoughts. are only children. They dent know what is good for them. But Judge Boyd knows what is good for them. He has shown it by his wise decision. Probably: for the first time in state- hood, ‘North Dakota did not issue a Labor Day proclamation. One or two patriotic and sympathetic mayors, however, extended formal greetings to the vast army of workers who are co-operating to win this war of democ- racy. WILTON TO HOLD BI LY OR SOLDER Ba Monday will be a gala day in Wil- ton. The whole day is to be given over to a big patriotic celebration for the boys in khaki. In the afternoon a monster parade will be staged head- ed by the Second Infantry band of Harvey and the evening a rally will be held in the Grand theatre when ‘Dr. E. P. Quain of Bismarck, Hon. James T. McCulloch, vi the McLean county Red Cross Chapter and Mrs. W. P. Macomber, chairman of the Wilton auxiliary, will make ad- dresses, Wilton musicians will pre- sent a musical program in connection with the talks. Wilton’s boys now stationed at Fort Lincoln will be ify the parade as will the various fratertal and religious or- ganizations. The soldiers wil be presented with comfort kits and other appropriate gifts by the Ped Cross auxiliary un- der whose auspices the celebration is held. DRY CORN COBS for sale, $1.00 per load at brewery buildings near riv- er, $2.00 per load delivered in city. Bismarck Elevator & Investment Co., Bismarck Bank Bldg" 4 trade! But. then they | > e chairman of! ™ a ZAP BARE] e By C. C. LYON. Paris, Sept. 8—Here is a picture of; Paris as 1 saw it during a German air raid. AYout 11 o'clock the fire department motors pounded through the streets | blowing siren whistles that aroused | everybody from bed.. Now that the} raid is a matter of history 1 recall} that one of its most terrifying fea- tures was the amount of noise the tire department made. T was stopping at a hotel whose chief patronage comes from Ameri-; vans and British. At the first warn- ing blasts, the French hailman, hired because of his proficiency in English, bounded on one door after another, calling out: “Darken your lights! Darken your lights!” Soon the hotel was in pitch dark- ness. The night itself was inky black and the entire city was canopied with thick, low-hanging clouds. There was hardly a star to be seen. The four sides of the hotel-enclose a spacious court. From the amount of the guests were at their windows watching for the German machines. Across the court, a woman was be- coming. hysterical. | “Oh, George, what shall we do if they hit this hotel,” she implored her husband. A large audience awaited George's solution. George was quick wit re- partee. of gabbling, it was evident that most |nd chatting about subjects far re- “What do we care, Mabel?” he said, | aM REPORIER LYON LIVES THROUGH A GERMAN AIR RAID ON PARIS fecscvssovcercorsceocecoessoererees AMERICANS JOKE, ENHMEN CHAT, IN convincingly, “we don’t own™it, do we?” Pa This venerable joke; cracked for the first time on the Ark, octal ex- cruciatingly funny thege “in the dark- ness as we waited for the German bombs ‘to fall on us, and George got a round of applause from every op- ened window. Anyway, it broke the tenseness. “Why stay here and be killed? Lets all go down intofthe: street and die,” another humorist a feW°floors down suggested, ae? It carried unanimousfy;) >> In adout 10 minutes ‘We Were in the street. The fire mofors were stili rushing! by blowing «thy Tul We all went across togthe ‘Tuileries gardens and sat on thé’stoné stéps. - tut the real situation proved entire- ly different from’ the .story-book de- seriptions of air raids). Paris was positively ‘yetising to get up a perspiration over such a thing asa German air raid. The few Frenchmen out, at’ that hour passed us swinging their canes moved from: bombs, ya About this time a number of stars peared in the sky to the east of ay 1 “It will get, lighter and then it will be easier (o see em,” said'a Britisher, noting the stars. Put soon the “stars” began to move, and then we discovered that they wel really French airplanes, each ing electric lights, that had ‘tak- %, BRD } coccerevccccrecooccsccoooocooeceoes TCH BLACKNESS en to the air to defend Paris against the invaders. At times: is seemed as if the entire eastern sky was in motion as the French machines darted from side to side, up and down and criss-cross. There seemed to be hundreds ‘of them. I personally counted 70. There appeared to be a certain well defined system that they followed. Electric signals flashed every few mt} ments from a machine that remained in the center of the group, and each signal -was followed ‘by a new mah euver.”” * .It soon became clear to us why res- idents of Paris no longer pay serious attention to enemy air raids: Hundreds of trained aviators, on Juty. constantly at the Paris stations, take to the air in their, swift’ ma- chines the moment they receive tele- giaphic warnings that German ma- chines have been seen passing in the direction of Paris. Tle French airmen virtually “fenca off” the air east and northeast of the city, and tt would be only through pure luck that any German machine gould get through their lines. On this particular night we watched the French machines maneuver until the fire motors came back again, sound- ing signals that the danger was past. A German official statement the. next day said their airmen had drop- ped bom>s on Paris the night be- fore. * A french official statement declared the French machines had driven off the raiders before they reached the city limits. ——————____—________,,' | WITH THE EDITORS | —____.__ ———+ CHAMPIONS OF THE “PEEPUL” (Chicago Tribune). It is a notable thing that many ot} the men who have done their utmost to hinder and embarr: the govern. ment in prosecuting the war ane the very men who are seeking to impose that wages could not have been rais- ed, that many factories ‘etther, would have been built or would have had to close down, and that thousands of men would have. been out of employ: ment? Yet “the champions” of the “peepul” propose to produce precisely that condition by their “conscription of wealth.” There is: another . factor which execessive taxation on the country, The agitation for paying forthe war! as we go along was begun last April! by a group of pacifists and German sympathizers. Its principal exponent in congress at. the present time is Senator La Follette, who has fought practically every war measure pro- posed by the government. | These things should be remembered because LaFollette and his followers are now posing as champions of the “peepul.” It is his great desire for the national welfare and his great! sympathy for the people at large, La Follette would have us believe, that impel him to plead for the “conscrip-' tion” of the nation’s wealth. He loves’ the “peepul” so much that he want to, tax them to the extent of $3,500,000,-; These self-appointed spokesmen for the common people assure us that | their taxation scheme will let us all) off scot-free, with the exception of the very wealthy. It is very simple; they} will take the money from the pockets} of the rich, thus relieving the rest of: us of the necessity of paying a cent. It sounds like the millennium of taxation. But in the nature of things it cannot work out except to produce ‘isaster. In the first place, the money not in the pockets of the rich. It is invested in business. enterprises; the profits of one year become thi capital of the next. : The year 1916 was a year of large Profits for business corporations, and it was likew a period of great in- dustrial expansion. Wages were high and labor was at a premium. The money that was earned was not seg-| regarted or isolated from the common fund; it was devoted to building new enternris Bnd -it produced general prospefity,, ~-~ A ‘Put suppose. those profits had been commandeered b ythe government p’t it. would tend to-bring about even -great- er depression. Even “if congress should pass a revenue bill amounting to $5,000,000,000, it would still, be ne- cessary to raise enormous sums’ through bond issues. ‘These loans will have to be made on terms at least as favorable as. the, Liberty bonds. It is obyious, therefore, that a capitalist would find it to his advan-| tage to take his money out of business and put it into the bonds, if the La Follette program is adopted. A heavy taxation of war profits -is necessary, but_it should not be so heavy as‘ to remove the jncentive for continuing in business. tis éspecial-; ly important that Jt beso graded as! to allow the poorer classes and the} small concerns t9.make sufficient prof-| its to invest yguy,Jargely in Liberty, bonds. i The plan of the champions of the! “peepul” would produce exactly the opposity result. That tragedy that is war and the glory that is courage are the domin- ant notes of “Mothers of Fragége”.the master picture shown at the. theatre soon. It is a stirri Most of it you see throughia 1 2} tears. because it reaches down. to. the simple emotions stirred-up by human ~—_______, GRAIN MARKETS ‘MINNEAPOLIS, No. 3 yellow corn . 214 @215 Mixed .. . + 213) @215 Corn other grades + 200 @213 No. 2 white Montana ... 63 @ 64% Spring wheat . 5S @59 Yo arrive ..... 58 @59% No. 3 white oats 57% @58% To arrive ...... . BTA~@ 58% No. 4 white oats . - 55%@ 58}. Barley .. - 109 ous Chaice . . 126 @131 Rye .... 184 @185 Rye arrive . . 183 @184 Flax .. +. 822 @327 Flax art . + 322) @327. Old Sept. Oats 56 New Sept. oats *. 56% ¥ Olde Dee. oats ... eng : New Dec. oats . 56%. New May oats 59% » QULUTH, G Oats o ntrack.... 58%@ 59. Oats to arrive’ 58% Rye on track . + 185 Rye arrive ..... - 185 Barley on tratk - 107) @132 Flax on track - 330 Flax arrive .. . 330 Sept. flax 330 Oct. flax . 329%4B Nov. flax ... 328%S Dec. flax ... 325, que — 2 ee é CATTLE MARKETS | Se Rai Hira 9 ST. PAUL. HOGS—Receipts, 3»; Range, @17.50; bulk, $16.85@17.00. CATTLE—Receipts, -1,550; _ killers, suffering and up to the greater*emo- slow and weak; steers, $5.00@13.00; tions which are the heritage of a courageous people. rah Bernhardt so wonderfully typifies the indomit- able courage of her country-women, that there could not conceivably be another chofée for the “role. “PATLOR-MADE SUITS Klem—Tailot and /Oteaner $20.09 to $40.00. Pi | “ READY-MADB BEC RS ee ne ee og iata: heey, 2 | $10:45@ 18.45; 8) pigs; $11.75@ CAs cows and heifers, $6.00@14.00; calves, stockers and feeders, 09 @9.50. “ SHEEP —Receipts, 350; steady; lambs, $8.00@16 59; wethers, $7.00@ 9.00; ewes, $5.50@8.50- - CHICAGO. HOGS — Receipts, 2,000; strong; $16.55; ea vy, 16.95. <8 ‘We are looking for the return of our Chief. Justice from a session of the American Baf' association at New xork. 1t:was well for him-to be there as’ that great ‘ody of wise lawyers passed a resolution charging. all the judges to cease writing these long decisions against which .we haye.so often argued-and protested; »Indee they commended to the ju@ges the principles of judicial reform, advocai- ed in these letters. A prophet is not without hgnor save’ in, his.own Coun- try. I hope we have seep the last of the long-winded decisions’ (20 or 40 pages) imposing needless*burdens up- on the suitors and tax payers. ..We still have hope that from now on during the présent year'each judge of our court will take some pride in devoting all his time to his. duties at the capitol so that by Christmas we may be right up with the work. Dur- ing the past five weeks we have made little progress. We have not had a ‘quorum of the judges, .. We have still on, hand awaiting a decision sonie 25 cases that were argued and submitted and should have been decided: months ago: . Of course that speaks ill.for the public service. We must confess to the people, do penance and pledge our vows to the future. There can be no civic reform without greater efficiency in’ the public service: And it seems vain. to hope for greater efficiency until the people and the press demand it and make'the demand manifest ana emphatic. ~ General Townley and his press have the means of making the de- mand for efficiency urgent and insist- ent and of pointing the finger of pub- licity to all those who fail in doing their duty. Why don’t they do it? | Do they hope to achieve civic reforms by simply changing the public ser- vants and not doing a thing to secure efficiency in the service? Why should any one vote for public con- trol or ownership or any increase in public service without a. fair showing that public servants are as faithful and ‘efficient as private servants? We must confess that, in this state such a | showing has never been made. In Bismarck the Ford Paving Com- pany is showing an. example of won- drous efficiency. :Their powerful ma- chiftery is kept in good condition and 'is ‘works to perfection. Every man is an time to a minute and responds to his task. . There is no shirking. Oi course there is a proper and skillful supervision. | wish the same were true of every public service. Then woul@ every judge be on time to a minute and they would ‘all work to- gether faithfully, courteously and har- moniously with the regard and esteem for one another. They would easilv keep up with their work, do it well and set an example to the courts oi other states 5 . ‘No man lighteth a candle and put- teth it under a bushel) The command is ta,let your light shine before men. Hefiée we yall on our geod; governor and; on all/public: servantssto let their light shine and to show ‘faithful and efficient service. We do not forget the Honorable Railroad: Commission- ers. They receive a ‘good salary, $2,000 a year and expenses. Do they show efficiency in any way similar to the railroad commissioners of ‘Wis- consin' and’ Minnesota? . Why is it that in this state ghe railroad passen- ger rate'is two and one-half cents a mile: while in Minnesota, Wisconsin Why is it that the rate from Fargo to St. Paul is 95 cents more than from Moorhead to St. Paul?) Why pay 95 cents for half a mile the distance from Fargo to Moorhead? It is such petty meannesses that makes it difficult for railroad companies to get justice in court. So far:as we know the rail- road commissioners of this state have never shown any efficiency except in drawing their salary. It may be that they put their light under a bushel. The last legislature -made for the travelling expenses of railroad com- missioners ‘an apprepriation of $1,500 with an emergency clause declaring it necessary for the public peace, health of $75 was made for expenses on a bust of Abraham. Lin ‘oly and it was lic peace, health'and safety. Strange that it is not beneath the dignity of a legislative body to make a statement so ridiculous and obviously untrue. Of course it does npt fh any way de- feat a referendum or serve any pur- pose whatever. i} 4 Under. a recent amendment to the constitution an act of the legislature takes effect immediately and is not subject ‘to’ a referendum when by a rday Evening Letter By Justice J. E. Robinson and other states the rate is:two cents? , and safety, And so an appropriation! declared-to be necessary for the pub-;} two-thirds vote the act is passed with an emergency. clause stating facts. . showing that it is necessary for the public peace, health and safety. / Of course there is, often a good reason: why an act should take immediate ef: fect when it is not in any way neces- sary for the public peace, health and safety, and in such a case the emer- gency ¢lause should conform to Sec- tion 67 of the Constitution. | All that is really necessary is that the act de- clare an emergency and receive @ two-thirds majority vote in each house. It is never’ necessary for a body of men to certify to a matter that is obviously untrue and nothing is gained by it. * Reichert & Ray vs. Northern -Pacifio The complaint avers that on July 28th, 1914, the plaintiffs were in pos-. session of certain hotel property in ‘Dickinson. The basement was’ used as sample and store rooms and as & pool and billiard hall. That upen, tts right of way through the city the de- fendant maintained ‘a high grade em- bankment ‘and crossed a natural watet course, the natural drainage for thé surface and storm waters of a. larg area. The hotel is in the basin drat edsby the water course and that ip constructing its road and embauil meat defendant filled up and obstruct ed the water course, leaving only, small open ditch anda small fron cuk, vert to carry off the water; that on July 28th storm waters dammed against the embankment and flooded the basement of the hotel and dam- aged them to the amount of $3,000. Defendants appeals from an order de- nying a new trial and from a verdict and judgment for $3,200. The jury gave a special verdict. In ; answer to the material question: Was the storm and flood of July 28th an unusual or extraordinary one, the an- swer was, No. The answer. was clear- ly and obviously untrue. There is no claim that there ever was another such a flogd.in Dickinson. If the. flood were of ordinary. occurance, then it was an act of folly and neglect for the plaintiffs to put their goods in an unproteeted basement : liable to be flooded by an ordinary storm. It must be presumed they knew of the em-. bankment and the culvert and the water course and the drainage of the city, and with that knowledge they did not,fear a flood and they took no precaution to protect their hotel base- ment by cement walls or otherwise. The hotel is on a rather level basis at the foot of a long and rapid descent on a street which had been curbed and paved, so that when the rain fell in torrents the water rushed down the rapid incline and piled up on the level of the hotel. Had there been no em- bankment the water would ‘have piled up just the same and it would have run over the curbing and into the un- protected basement. segue Dickinson isin a semi-arid country where the average annual. railfall..is about 22 1-7. inches. One inch -in.24, hours would be a normal: or rather ‘excessive. rainfall... For ten. years, prior to July 28th, 1914, the average precipitation on days-of snow and rain was less than a quarter of an. inch. It was about 1-5 of an inch. Except on July 28th, 1914, the largest rain- fall shown on the record of the wea- That ther bureau. was 2.6 inches. {was in May, 1903 In the year 1914 ‘the total precipitation was 15.39 inches, and yet in July, 1914, there was over four inches in a few hoars. That is, the rainfall in a few hours. of that day was one-fourth of all that fell jduring the year—and the jury says that was not extraordinary. . Now that is perfectly absurd and manifest- ly untrue, and every juror knew .it Every juror knew the rainfall was extraordinary and very extraordinary. But railroad companies do so “mean things and make overchakaiee and pile up so much wealth that: jag- ors and judges do like to get even with them once in a while; and while. ‘that may be some excuse, we must not turn the law into a mockery of justice. . ae The Dickinson storm of July 28th was such a storm as never ocurred before and may, never. occur again. No party was bound to look for and { to guard against any such an extraor- dinary occurrence. Hence, the judg- ment should be reserv CHICHESTER S PILLS THE DIAMOND BI Ladies! t Ask your Pilla is Red tad Geld metallic’ bowes, sealed. with Blue Ritbos: ore Moc CHIMES TER ® wat DIAMOND KRAND Pi 4 years known as Best, Satest, Always Reti SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWAFRE : A ing rooms, with their com: serving-you. he Bank with the loc Attractive Quarters |. 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