The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1917, Page 4

BISMARCK, DAILY. ,TRIBUNE THE TRIBUN1 Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, __N. D, as Second Class Matter. ISSUED D | EVERY | DAY, GEORGE D. MANN, ENSLEY A. WEIR, Business Manager G. LOGAN PAYNE “COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg; CHI- CAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresge} Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to’ it or not other- wise credited in this paper and alse the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN VANCE Daily, by car er, per month. $ 50 4.00 Daily, by mail, per year..... Daily, by mail in North Dakota, three months .. Daily, by mail out de of North Dakota, one year 6.00 Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, three months . 1.50 Weekly, by mail, per year 1.50 HE STATE'S OLDEST NE WSPAPE Re (Establiehed 18' WEATHER F REPORT. 5 Be for 24 hours ending. at noon Oct. . 1 ‘Temperature at # a. m. ‘Temperature at noon. Highest yesterday .. Lowest yesterday . 19 Lowest last night. 18 Precipitation . race Highest wind velocity... 14-NW FORECAST. for North Dakota: Generally fair to- night and Thursday, with no decided change in temperature. Lowest Temperatures | Fargo ... - 16 Williston 26 Pierre . 26 St. Paul . 20 Winnipeg 18 Helena 42 Chicago 24 Swift Current 22 Kansas City .. 2 ‘San Francisco ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorogolist. PEOETEETEEEEEE OS * A wise man neither suffers ¢ + himself to be governed, nor at- & tempts to’ govern others—La % cd Briyere. ° SLOSS EES SHES A PUBLIC ENEMY. A.man embarked upon a long voy- age, taking with him food sufficient to last throughout the trip if con- sumed in moderation. But during the first few days he ate it all, fairly gorging himself, and throwing over- board food that no longer tickled his) palate. Then for a day or two he was content to do without food. But that did not last long. Within a few daygithe pangs of hunger became aeafiland in his starvation delirium he fifayed |to the waves to give up the bits of'food he had tossed away as undesirable. A very foolish man, you say. Surely, and so are a people stand- ing in our shoes today who would waste food as many of us are doing. The American farmer has finished his season's toil. 660,000,000 bushels of wheat, 29,000,000 more bushels than he was able to raise last year. He has grown for us 8,211,000,000 bushels of corn, 86,000,- 000,000 more bushels than he harvest- ed in the record making crop year of 1912. He has dug 453,000,000 bushels of potatoes, 168,000,000 more bushels than in 1916, and the bean crop is nearly double that of last year. He did his best. We start.the journey through the coming war-laden winter with enough food to feed this nation and to keep our allies from starvation if the food is not wasted. If we are like the foolish man in the boat and consume our meat and wheat and waste much of it in garbage cans and overloaded stomachs there'll be pangs of hunger felt by millions of human beings— here in America and over the seas in Britain, France and Belgium—before another harvest season arrives. It will be too late to begin conserv- ing food when most of it has “been used or wasted. The waves did not give back to the foolish man _ the crumbs and scraps of food He had thrown away. Clearly it is up to us to conserve those millions of bushels of food the American farmers have grown for us. And we must start now. When Herbert Hoover set apart this week as food conservation week he hoped that every person would com- mence the formation of a food con- servation habit which would extend over all the days of food shortage. He would have us. begin early—now, at the very moment when the:nation’s farms are giving up all this food. Hoover would put an end to every food waster, be that person in the Kitchen, at the dining table, on .the farm or in charge of the transporta- tion and storing of foods. He would stamp as an enemy that person who wastes food. The Kansas city Star has solved the problem of employment for ex-presi- dents, It placed Teddy on the edi- torial staff and now comes the Phila- delphia Ledger and signs up “Bill” Taft for a series of heavy editorials. He has given us, i | | | SOME GOAT. Of course you noticed this nice lit- tle instance of selecting the goat: La Follette, aiming to beat Uncle Sam’s war policies, makes a speech hostile to the liberty loan. He puts his senatorial frank on thousands of; copies of the speech and Uncle Sam's postoffice force delivers them where they'll hurt Uncle without charge to La Follette. Its enough to make the ghost of old Clement Vallandigham chortle with amusement. most, HELP ON! ” reads an HOPE ON! Hope ever! itched bookmark which HOPE ON! “Hope on! ancient cross two sisters discovered the other day in their great-grandmother's hair trunk, “Hope on, hope ever,” repeated the older girl. “Sounds so old fashioned.” “Can't be,” said the other. “Re member ‘hope springs ETERNAL in} the human breast’.” “Maybe so. But we don’t live by| it. Now-a-days we go after what we want, and we go hard, or the other fellow will heat us to it. Just ‘hoping’ seems like expecting things to come our way if we sit still and wait. Lots; of people do that. It’s optimism plus. I'd rather be a hopeless pessimist- and trust to work.” “Why not be a little of both?” sug- gested the younger girl. “For a fair compromise why nol try ‘help on, help ever'?” And why not? Its easy to hope without helping, } and hard to work without hoping, but} ¢ whoever cultivates a cheerful “help; on-help ever” spirit starts out with about the right combination of energy and couray EDITORIAL BY A SOLDIER BOY. Some there be in that European} shamble who stand firm through love: of country or desire for glory, some! are urged on by passions, some kill and die in blindness, and some face) what is to be through faith. Daily} we read of the glory and the hate,; and so here's an editorial on the faith. | It is by Reginald Lavery, a young man! somewhere in the Flanders trenches, | and consists of excerpts of a letter | of his to friends in America. i “After a few months’ experience of! the conditions out here, I think a good many people came to the con-| clusion that there is only one thing | j Worth living for, only one thing worth |! thinking about, and that is God. Of! course they have been forced to this; conclusion, in a way, as a result of the terrible human experiences which} they have been through. | “{ remember during the winter| months in thé trenches toward the! imay find a tall of whom are str | a spe Today’s N. D. E. A. Activities WEDNESDAY, OCT.:31;;1917. STATE SCHOOLS TURN OUT) WELL FOR CONVENTION (Continued from Page One) in the North Dakota public schools, presented an interesting report to the English section this morning, and the work of the committee was found to be of so important a nature that it was continued for another year, Fight on German. A fight oa the question of retaining | g | the teaching of Ger in North Da- kota’s patlic schools is exp i the section on modern language Latin, to be held at 9 o'clock tomor- row morning at the Commercial e¢lub, At the first ion of this group, held this morning, C. Mueller of Lucca, ‘etary of the division, expres: elt very strongly in favor of the ntion of German, and a lively de- hini fi bate with Secretary ‘Mueller in the af- tomorrow. s promised for cipal objection to the dropping of German substiluting of French, a proposed, is‘ that good German teach- ers are plentiful, while instructors in French are rare. Voice Cultivation. Voice cultivation—not of the ing but of the aking voic means of keeping peace in the family tvocated in the English seetion morning by Julia G. McDonough of the Minot Normal. “Arnold Bennett affinhs that 9) per cent of all the daily friction in the house or off (and 1 would add, the school room) caused Ly tone—n tone of voice. bo we use to its greatest extent the power that rests in the human voice? I feel that this particular section, dealing with students representing a score of nationalities in whose homes the English language is secondary, a consideration of vocalized English respousive note in the teachers present, ing to impart to pupils an anpreciation as well as aking acquaintance with the now English. and more voice wili and longer- > teachers firmative The pri educator and the ing- sa minds of some of th their almost unive: “Fewer papel mean happie. lived tuacher —both worthy ambitions,” McLonough in conclading he teresting paper on 3 Teaching of English.” Solves Home Problems. Along somewhat similar lines was the address of Miss Susan McCoy be- like ours, the people themselves must solve their own problems if they are ever solved at all. I can hardly keep up with wour thinking now when I say that the people cannot solve prob- about. They must therefore be taught and the high school is the institution that must do aid Dr. Ross, ney of the state normal school at Val- ley City, addressing the department of his s E of the D. EB. A. this morning. “Unless in the high ool the ing generation of American citizens taught the economic prin ying taxation, immigration, trust legislation, collective barganing, stock watering and a dozen other problems equally vital, they will blunder in their attempts to solve such prob- lem: ‘Social stress, perhaps even social disaster will result.” Dr. Finney sees in the present ation of social unrest dire conse- quences unless movements now gain- ing consid le momentum are prop- erly dealt with. Among such move ments are the struggle of labor against capital; the uneven distribu- tion of wealth; high prices that are not the result of supply and demand, the unrest among the laboring classes, all of which is bringing the social pulse of our body politic a danger- ous and gradually increasing degree of fever. itu OR. ROSS L. FINNEY, Department of ‘Education, State Nor- mal School, Valley City. fore the English section on “How to Solve Some of the More Common! Problems in Spoken jenglish.” “No} | matter how radi the exponents of us educational theories . have Leen, they have all agiced in respect-! § ing the Dosil Jo at teacher English. He has beoa iegarded as ant indispensible aid to educational salva-! tion. We are therefore wiler no ne-! cessity of defending our right to an important place in the school system,” ; said Miss McCoy. “Our work is not| simply. to, impart information, but to! establish habits. Whether or ‘not the! | toc “In the long run,” said Dr. Finney, e are in more danger from the plu- at home than we are from the autocrat abroad, and while others are fighting the one. over the s let us show our far-sighted patr jotism by re- | fasing to be ob: d entirely by the | war and push forward the fundament- jals of peace. Such is our only excuse remaining safe at, home; and be sure that when the war is over we shall need the defense of adequate education as néver héfore.” Wiping Cut. Waste. “Had home economics been properly 36 end of last year, and before we were! student will form these habits depends taught in every school'in our country equipped with the gum boots, we were | days in the front line with the mud and water above our knees, and some- times almost up to our waists; but| amidst all this I was able to keep my mind so filled with thoughts of truth! and love that I was hardly conscious of the material surroundings, and so! was able to keep cheerful not only) myself, but those about me as well. This is a great help to one's comrades, as they have nothing to help them, and they look to you in every trouble. It is a beautiful position to be in,| and you can fairly feel the good you have sent out return unto you ten- fold when you see with what success you have helped them. I think this is the greatest reward a man can} have. “There is a place on a well known road here that leads to the trenches, which is called ‘Hell Fire Corner.’ Well, when we are in .. we| have to pass this corner every night on fatigues and working parties. They | always shell this corner some time during the night, and you do not know what second the shells are coming. | When I get near this place, instead of; thinking of it in this way and expect: | ing shells every second, I always think | of it as ‘Love's Corner,’ as I know love| is there as much as in any other place in the world; and there is no more of God in one place than an-/ other, as He fills all space; therefore; there are no dangerous places for} God's idea. | ““It is beautiful what peace and com- | fort and what a sense of security 1) get if I realize this when passing; such places. The same thing applies} when I am in a listening post out in| ‘no man’s land,’ just a few yards from the enemy’s line. I have been able) to realize some of the most beautiful, thoughts when in these situations. | Surely to be able to call upon a power! like this, which is master of all mate- rial conditions and circumstances, is to have the ‘pearl of great price, for which we may well work, watch and/ pray, no matter what we meet here to go through with in order to attain it; then we shall indeed finish our! course with joy, and receive that glo- rious reward promised in Revelations, ‘He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he} shall be my son’.” f It was to be expected that the Cour- ier-News would give all the credit of the success of the liberty loan in North Dakota to Townley’s league. Nothing like patting its own mana; ing editor on the back. | A feastless Thanksgiving will inake! it a restful day for the : Family doctor. | on himself.” | The Swedish and Norwegian lang- 8, Miss McCoy finds, present the mest pressing problems for North Da- kota teachers of English, This condi- tion presents difficulties of enuncia- tion, accent, articulation and a pecu jiar gramatical construction exceed- ingly hard to master, In conclusion she said: “In no other way is an at- tractive personality so evident as’ in the adility accurately and pleasingly to express oneself in precise English.” Universal Music. “May we not some day hear the music of the spheres, the community music of the universe?” asked Dean Eugene Woodhams of the department of music at the Valley City normal, in his address, “Community Music and Its Influence,” before the music sec- tion of the N. D. E. A. this morning. DEAN EUGENE WOODHAMS, Department of Music, State Noraml School, Valley City. “The procession vances to the sound of music,” said | Dean Weodhams. “Types of 500-year- old instruments are in use today. The march of time has not altered human | nature in any great degree. We sing ‘and play upon instruments of many or few strings. We play upon pipes of different lengths and. shapes, and so, did they in those long, long centuries ago, when the earth was comparative- ly young. ‘Wars rage and subside: continents of the ages nd. i change; people rise and fall, music in its varying forms goes on inspiring | great armies, accompanying hours of ease and soothing those in sorrow. ! | Music, like the kindred arts, literature | and painting, must undergo a revival, a renewing of its integral parts. In} these days we are passing through such a revival. We have community singing, community concerts, commun- | ity bands and other outcroppings of | the community spirit, not forgetting community Christmas trees and com- munity pageants. Where. there was one community center of music ten §ears ago, there are today literally hundreds of cities and towns whera community music in its varied forms not only exists but flourishes.” j Our Social Problems. : for the past generation, . America would not have become the wasteful, extravagant nation that it is. would the food administration have to ask the women of America to pledge themselves to sane, economical meth ods of selecting and preparing food fo the family,” said Miss Nellie W Farnsworth, director of the depart ment of home economics at th estate normal school at Valley ing the domestic science te morning on the — subject, ‘Teaching Methods.” “Home econom: other subject brings the home and 1001 into relationship. It strengthens the home lessons and en courages higher standards of living We must look to this sudject to teach. respect for labor and the laborer, t establish habits of cleanliness, order liness, economy and accuracy, to show the vital relation between food and health. Women must be taught a knowledge of foods, clothing, hygiene and sanitation in order that they may protect not only their own health bu‘ the health of the family and expend the income intelligently both as re gards food and clothing. he girls of today are the women of tomorrow, and if we would prevent the passing of the American home, we must teach through home economies reverence for the home, for the family and the fam- ily life—for the family is still the unit “Generai more than any Winsome Marguerite (Sore iss Marguerite Clark, Famous Playere Star In Paramount Pictures. A hundred and one offers swarmed upon Marguerite Clark, ing her to leave motion pictures and return to the stage. She has spurned them and set them aside, maintaining “I am bringing more joy to many more milhiens of hearts through Paramount Tictures than I could ever do otherwise. Why shouldn't I be happy, when I make so many more people happy? Thata my secret of haprines: lems that they know little or nothing | | iples un- Uf Neither ; NELLIE W. FARNSWORTH, Director of Home Economics, State Normal School, Valley City. of civilization, The importance of the home and its affairs have never been so keenly felt as since we entered this terrible war, It is a patriotic duty to make our pupils familiar with the terms of food conservation, — thrift, economy and the elimination of waste. ‘The call of our president is not) alone for the American housewife, but’ for every teacher of home economics who is shaping the ideals of the future women ot America. ‘Let there be no nC Cree atta meee CONSOLIDATION, FUTURE OF SMALL SCHOOL, STILL MAY BE WORKED 10 DEATH Not a Panacea for all Rural Edu- cational Ills, but the Logical, Ultimate End Even consolidation, which he recog nizes as the logical future develop meat for all of our smaller school sys: tems, has its limits, said Carl Gilbert- son of Lignite, president of the prin- cipals of graded, consolidated and third class high, schools, in address ing his section of the North, Dakota isducation association this morning. Some Exceptions. “There are cases where’ the’ town- tion,” said President Gilbertson. “This is true in some parts of the state where the roads are poor and the country is sparsely settled. There is danger in some districts that the tax- | eS, may become too burdensome. 1 jiMlay be that there is not enough tax able property to allow a sufficient levy. ‘These conditions may make public transportation well nigh im possisle in a large consolidated dis trict; but even then, if the people are willing to cooperate, they can aasily solve the problem aby private transportation. Policy of State. “Do you realize ‘that ‘the ninin pol fey of the state department of eiluca tion is the betterment of rural school conditions so that the country’ child may have the same opportunities as the city child. It makes me feel al pessimistic when some leading citizen of a village comes to me and tells me that we are spending too much money on our schools by trans porting children to the village school for the families who live within a ra dius of five or six miles. Such a person is selfish in that he begrudges he country boy and girl the same ad vantages as his children have. A lit tle heavier tax is a good investment if we can properly educate these coun- try boys and girls thereby. Looking to Future “I am trying to look to the future of our smaller school systems. May | dare to say that all the graded and smaller high schools will become con- solidated schools in the not distant future, at least in the sense that the school is made to serve eighteen con: tiguous sections. The policy should not be to create open-country consolid ated schools as fast as possible, but where a town or village is located there is the most suitable place for a cousolidated school. The town or village forms the best nucleus for such a school district because it ir the natural center.” Open evenings until further notice. S. E. BERGESON & SON. See the wonder }) boy, Charles Roy, in “Sudden Jim” at the Orpheum tonight only. IT HAPPENED {N BISMARCK And Is Happening to Bismarck People Every Week. The case told below is not an un- common thing. The same occurs fre- quently and will continue to happen as long as folks have kidneys and over-tax the kidneys. Mrs. James Alsbury, $11 Sweet St., Bismarck, says: “My back bothered me for several years. At times I was so lame and sore, I could hardly bend, and when I straightened, sharp pains darted through my kidneys. I often cried out, because of the pain. At night my limbs ached so severely, I couldn’t sleep well and I was tired when I got up in the morning. My kidneys didn’t act as they should,| either. I was advised to try Doan’s Kidney Pills and “got a supply at the Lenhart Drug Co. Oné box did me more good than anything I had previ- ously taken and four boxes entirely rid me of kidney complaint and re stored me to good health.” Price 60c at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy— get “Who is going to solve our social Miss Clark can be seen in one of her Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that problems? You anticipate the an-; swer: The People! In a government best features, “The Valentine Girl,” at the Bismarck theater tonight. Mrs. Alsbury had. Foster-Milburn Co., { Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. NEW AMERICAN SCHOOL 10 BE FOR ALL FOLKS Will be Community Institution Serving Every Need and Doing it Efficiently OLD RURAL SYSTEM HIT BY MACDONALD Declares Country Boy and Girl were Robbed of Their Birth— Right by Indifference The American public school is only | in the infancy of its usefulnes: Macdonald, state superintendent of |: public instruction, this afternoon ad- vised ‘North Dakota teach at the first general session of the North Da-' kota ‘Education association, held = at the municipal auditorium. “fhe old American school as we know it has served well its day. It has furnished most of the materials out of which we are rearing a mighty and magnificent temple of learning that shall be for America a crown o! glory to its long list of achievements for centuries to come. ‘But a better and more efficient school is! coming in, and coming rapidly to do better most of the things that it once new and: but more than 60 per cent of the city children are doing work of high school grade, 81 per cent complete the eighth grade, and 32 per cent com- plete the twelfth grade. And when it comes to normal schools and colleges, the cities of course make a much bet- ter showing than the farms, and for major reason that their elementary and high school privileges and oppor- tunities are greater in every way; and what is true in North Dakota is true of at least three-fourths of the sates in the American union, and hat makes it all the more a most seri- ous matter.” The Country" Boy. “Consider, for instance, in our own state the case of the country boy. He is the state’s greatest single asset, be- cause he represents in numbers the largest of any on of the four groups of school children, for there are more country boys than there are country girls, and there are more country boys than there are city girls and city boys com ined, and yet he represents the smallest number and the lowest percent completing the cight grade and enrolling in and com- pleting the high school. On the per- centage basis there are four times a3 marly city girls completing the e‘ghth grade as farm boy: There are six | times as many doing high school work there are farm boys; there are | thirteen times as many of these girls completing the twelfth grade as there are of these hoys. “The per cent of farm boys com- pleting the twelfth grade is just three; for the. farm girls it is six, while that of the city boys is 25 and that of the city girl is 39. What a waste ‘ there is here, and what a tragedy be- hind it all! “There are school. teachers and | school administrators who remain si- j lent, safe and secure in the enjoy- ment of money wrung from country boys, who are kept out of school to help pay the taxes, to help pay their did so well. “Our own temple of learning, repre-! senting the new American school, is one in many of its aspe a magnifi- e nt of 2,500,000 ac worth in the markets of the world ship is too large a unit for cousolida:| N.C. MACDONALD. over $65,900,000, with its 8,090 teach- ers and 200,000. schoo) chijldren, with the $9,000,000 spent annually upon its maintenance, and with the temple now in process of construction costing $14,- 100,000, it represents an achievement of which we may well be proud. Other states of the nation may have done as well, but none has done better.” Rural School Problem. Taking up the rural'school pri oblem, Supt. Macdonald said: i venty-five per cent of our child: in this state live upon the farms. Seveniy-five per cent:of the tax. in-} come comes from the farms, but less than 12 per cent (11.8) of farm chil- dren are doing work of high school grade, only 29 per cent complete tha eighth grade, and the disgracefully low average of 4.6 per cent complete; he 12th grade. The city children make a showing that is bad enough, FARM LANDS INSURANCE CITY PROPERTY EXCHANGES it structure, with its original land: ‘'school.”” hg ; salaries. They remain silent and in- {active when the actual per cent of attendance for country boys in their ‘ schools is less than 50; when the per cent of those completing the eighth grade is less than 25, and the per cent finishing the twelfth grade is only three. State’s Greatest Assets. “The two greatest assets of any j State are moral integrity and trained intelligence. The new American school is to be a school for all the people. It is seen in the country and town in the organization of evening public schools; in the adjustment of the country school calendar to meet the needs of the chief industry of the country; in emphasis that is being placed on vocational training. In oth- er words, and briefly, the new: Ameri- can ‘sehool is to be ‘a commuihity ut If in Doubt ae Call No. 888 a a a a a 2 a oe ’Phone ‘No. 883 reaches N. D. : > E. A. headquarters. When in doubt call “eight-eight- 3 & eight.” > % It will connect with Supt. J. wv Maurice Martins or one of his > + aides of; the local. committee, «4% * ahey are trouble-fixer speaial § ei SeeoeoTeSeeoeHes AUDITORIUM SATURDAY NIGHT, NOVEM. BER 3, 1917 The Musical Treat of the Season THE MUSICAL COMEDY OF YOUTH WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE NEW YORK’S GREATEST SUCCESS Capital City Service Co. E. H. MANN, Manager Room 20, City Nat. Bank Bldg. 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