The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1917, Page 4

, Hi i i BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE. THE TRIBUNE Ente'ei at the Postoffice, Bismarck. N. D., as Second Class Matter. __ T88NED EVERY DAY Guns D. MANN, - - - Editor yucrmv A WEIR, Business Manager ‘u. LULAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHI- CAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresge NNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber lusmisee us ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication ot all news ¢ elited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of spectai dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBI'2 AUT BUR ‘AU OF CIR- Daily, Mo ning and ‘Sunday Le Cattle, per month ....-..++++ -70 Daily, Morning, Evening and Sun- day, by Carrier, per month.. 90 Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month .....-.-.0eee 50 Daily, Evening and Sunday ver month ...--...sseees 10 Morn.ng or Evening by North Daksta, one year . Moimng or s.vening by mail out- side of North Dakota, one year, 6.00 Sun: in Combination with Kiveuing or Morning by mail, WEATHER REPORT. Yor twety-four hours ending at noon, Noy. 12. ‘Temnea ure at 7 a.m... Temperature at noon . ¥ Highest yesterday . 42 Lov yesterday . 32 Low:st lest night . 31 Precipitation .. ‘one Highest wiad veloc . SE-10 Forecast. For North Dakota: enerally fair tonight and Tuesday; not much chaage in temperature. Lowest Temperatures . 30 30 | St. Paul Winnipeg, Helena . Chi Current ares City . San Francisco wales ORRIS,W, ROBERTS, | , t Meteorogayst. SOOT EEE ESE SO TOSS “ We hand folk over to God's # ¢ mercy and show none ourselves. + —Eliot. ° CO SEEEEETE SESE OES, | CHAOS OR WHAT? Is mighty Russia dropping back into} the chaos of small republics and petty | principalities from which she sprang?) Is the world’s largest contiguous) nation in danger of becoming again a group of minor’ states? “” Although news from Russia today is censored and colored: by . many hands Lefore it -rétiches ‘us, -there are many,. familiar. with Russia’s origin, | quered. who believe they see in the near fu- ture a descent into the squabbling maelstrom from which the house of Rurik and later the Romanoffs built the world’s first real “United States.” Finland, with autonomy, is today “practically a self-governing republic. Poland has been promised freedom, lo'h by the departed Romanoffs and the departing duma. Ukrania and Lithuania, each cohe- sive within itself and but loosely tied to the great whole, are visioned as two other units shortly to be spilled out into the world to stand alone. eee ‘With such a disintegration of Rus- sia as any continued laxity of the central ruling power makes probable, Asiatic Russia, including Siberia, em- bracing three-fourths of the empire, but containing only one-sixth of the people, would also, largely go by the ‘boards. ‘Northern Caucasia was conquered from the Georgians and the Persians, end a senarate Georgia and Turkestan would Le a natural cleavage. Also the two main divisions of Cossacks, close- ly allie! with the Tartar race, would hardly then remain part of a nation ty which, even under the strictest inonarchical rule, they have never bee actually digested. And in a breakup of the empire such semi-Asiatic provinces as Astrak- #1 and Kazan, as well as practically the whole of Caucasia, might well drift from the central government. An elght-year immersion in blood and anarchy was a requisite to the baptism of the Russia the world knows today, by the elevation to the throne in 1613-of the first of the Ro- manoffs, Michael Feodorovitch. Will the discarding of the Pomanoffs bring | a similar period of death throes as trying as the birth throes? The history of Russia before the ac cession of the Romanoffs is a jumble ef tritnl feuds. For of the larger ng tions¢in the war, Russia is the young est, with the exception of the United States. Prior to the Russia of the Roman offs, there was the nucleus of Russia, founded by the Scandinavian Rurik ir 8¢%. called in when the traders of Nov- gorod wearied of the warfare of the old Slavic tribes. Over the republic g Novgorod, nursed along under the | and sane Thanksgiving. i | tion, appeals for unity of spirit and | Rurik dynasty, the conquering Mongol invaders under Genghis Kahn, built up the principality of Muscovy, and set Russia back two centuries. oe 8 The virility of the separate units of Russia, rather than of the nation as a whole, is shown by the fact that the first dent -in the Mongol dominion was made by the Lithuanians, who, having thrown off the German yoke, conquered the western provinces of | enslaved Russia in the fourteenth cen- Ivan the Great freed Russ! from jatic domination, but the pe- riod of strife was not ended until the Romanoff line was established over a century and a half later. It was Peter the Great who, at the close of the seventeenth century, com: | pleted the first hundred years of Ro ' manoff rule by cementing Russia to- | gether on western Huropean lines | From the time of his establishment of | i the capital that bears his name the} Russia of today was assured—a power among the powers of western Europe ee 8 From time to time it reached out and made grabs of adjoining land, | such as the seizure of Finland and Bessarabia only a hundred years ago, and of northern Caucasia even more recently. Such squares as these on the gigantic checkerboard of tribal and racial lines, are all the more like ly to tint their part of the map in new national colors because of the} short lapse of time since they’ were swallowed by the empire. Caucasia, for example, was not fully pacified | until the sixties of the last century. In size as well as in government the} old republic of Novgorod, of a thou- sand years ago, may yet serve as aj model for the new F.ussia. ae i SAFE AND SANE THANKSGIVING. | And maybe war will give us a safe | tury. There has been much extraordinary | stufting of ourselves mixed up with | our thanking of God, on Thanksgiving | | day. We will have, on the coming | national day, more than ever to be} genuinely thankful to God for, and| more than ever will it be sinful and; enseless to stuff ourselves. If we ‘ontinue our usual gastronomic policy, i we are likely to waste more in one day than all the campaigning for food | onservation can save in a week. | President Wilson, in his proclama-| purpose’ of service to the world. The! world as a whole is going to be al- mighty hungry on Thanksgiving day, | with frightful shortage of food in very | many parts. There is no better way of arriving at such unity and perform- ing such service to hungry humanity! than by neglecting our usual Thanks: | giving gorging | Thank God and treat your stomach as if it were a sane part of you, on Thanksgiving day! “IDYLLIC BELGIUM.” Djemel. Pasha, one of the highest Turkish officials, has just completed a tour of Germany and of the country on} the west that the Germans have con-; Speaking of Belgium, he said; “Life in Belgium today is idyl- lic. People in the towns go for walks all day long, while in the country happy peasants are gathering in the! harvest with the help of contented | prisoners. The fairy tale of the ill- | treatment of Belgium is really too} | grotesque.” Of course, the precious Turk did not | explain that the reason the Belgian} city dwellers walked all day long w all factories being looted by the Ger-! mans, all stores being practically put| out of business. He also did not ex-| plain that the “happy peasants” were | gathering in harvests which their! Prussian masters would seize for the| benefit of the Prussian armies. But naturally life in Belgium would seem “idyllic” to this Mohammedan governor of Syria. In Belgium the people are only starved and mulcted of all their money. In Belgium the women are only outraged and the men deported into virtual slavery. Com | pared with what Djemel and his pals! did in Syria and in Palestine and in Armenia this is very tame. The good Mohammedan allies of the kaiser butchered Armenian and Syrian Christians by the thousands, sent oth- er thousands to perish miserably in the desert, and turned thousands of girls over to Turkish harems. The kaiser still has a few things to learn | in the way of “screcklichkeit.” i} There has been conservation about meatless, wheatless, sweetless, heat- less, treatless and eatless days. Now comes Uncle Sam with the best of all—Herbert Hoover's cheatless days. Since Sherman’s time Atlantans {have known that war is hell. And| now Billy Sunday is in Atlanta to define hell for them. | The unusually early and heavy fall of snow in so many places convinces us that Santa Claus plans to do his reindeering early. Denmark refuses to intern German sailors. In a way you can’t blame Denmark for being discriminating. Bullets and bread will win this war that they had nothing else to do—| © | who wri Dever have LY A in this m i This, isa wonde: Thrilled with® And we thril \ Neier have women borne sorrows unbearable Na such devotion , tremendous, sublime 4 Never, was life so stupendous and terrible a, And Vihank g grim i that lam rare of it fearts beat higher 5 33 arvelous time. Poe rful age t Te in Time bf a grim romance. When f leMh and blood are so freely given Huns’ advance; VA When the daily press is an epic history * From every country and clime, glony and fight and mystery i _ This i? a marvelous tice a This isva marvelous day to live in Crowded with huge evente! ] to its urge sublime, Saturday Evening Letter By Justice J. E. Robinson This week all our judges have been at work and I think they are well disposed to try to make up for lost time. We have now ‘in the vault of | the clerk some.eighty appeals which have not beer argued and forty ap- ne’ rued and'submitted and ready for > Ifi-we: clean up all the forty cases this month we may dispose of most of the rest during December, but it seems there is little chance ‘of cleaning the slate during the present year. Since July our Court ptogress has been very slow. We have.not shown 100 per cent ef- ficiency, and yet no judge will ad- mit that he is not 100 per cent ef- ficient. Our time record is not good. We spend too much time in hearing mere talk and in conferences on small , matters—in deciding cases and re-con- sidering them to please offended coun- sel and in doing the same work over and over.: Indeed, we deliberately pursue a method which doubles our work. “It is'a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. Were I the sole | judge of the supreme court I would dispose of every case within ten days after the argument. Were I the Chief Justice I would be at my post of duty in the Capitol during the business hours of every day from 9 a. m., till 5 p. m., and if any judge failed to do) the same gnd to keep up with his work 1 would know the reason why. To write an oninion I should assign | to each judge only one case at a time and as he finished one task I should assign to him another. Under our tem one judge may have a dozen es to write up while another has nothing to do. A judge may play “dog in the manger” and hold up the de- cision of several cases for months, | neither writing decisions himself nor permitting others to do it. One cause of delay is the hearing of long arguments on kindersarte mat Our chief justic? in his kind- ters lness is never disposed to shut oft needless talk. He does not want to offend the Jawyers. He says: “Let them talk. ‘ney have a constivutional right to talk.” Another cause of delay is the wilt ing of limbersome whe 4 HONS after the manner 9f o< inde That is i waste of tim? “na it impos: a grevious burden en these ~vho for transcribing antl fee benk- ing the decisions. Sure y there sioul be some tule of law to limit the length of any decision or to charge a part of the cost age‘rst vhe Judge it. If a judg ts to spread himself and to wri or a lumbersome what should do it at his owa exper not at the expense of suitors and tax- payers. Then he wonld learn to count the cost. The writing and hooking of immense, lumbering 4 come a curse to the |; to this generation. It is « great pub- lic nuisance and it 1s loading the people with burdens which are gri2 ous to be borne. We must abare the nuisance not only in this state but in every other state between the two great oceans. However, it is tard to break away from the evil custom. We write and write against it and the American Bar _ associations protest it with no avail. Even now our Mr Justice Grace has written a church decision covering eighteen pages. Here you may see it written on one page and any child who reads it m wonder why there ever was a law: on so simple a matter. ‘My last letter contains some hinis on grammar and composition. he subject is a pleasing one and in ¢ we may write a book on “Grammar Made Easy.” * A thought is well ex- pressed when it cannot be expressed in a better manner. A sentence is well composed only when you can- not better it by replacing or changing any word or phrase. When a judge aud a curse, uit —the bullets we shoot and the bread we save, writes a decision it should run from the beginning to the end like a clear lucid stream with a pebbly bottom so »|for religious purposes; isions has pe-| a person may see*through it at a glance. The decision should commence with a statement of the case so lucid that any person. may.read and under stand it. ‘Then it should give a con- cise statement of the facts and the law of the case so.as' to. appeal to the understanding with tho utmost simplicity and clearness. THE ASHLEY CHURCH CASE. Robinson, J. This is an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint in “a church case. The complaint avers af tt in Ashley, North Dakota, there aP&' ‘two Lutheran churches. The first was organized in 19U8 und the second in)1913; the four | plaintiffs and the thirteen defendants were all members of the first church ' Wise. was ainhated with the Missourl Synod and adopted its confession of faith and church policy; it acquired a tract of land and erected thereon a church building worth $1,200 to which the plaintiffs, contributed; in Jun’ 1913, defendants ;being a major- ity resolved to sever connections with the Missouri Synod and to affiliate with the Iowa Synod; they ‘formed themselves into a second ‘Lutheran church and conveyed to it the said church property for a nominal con- sideration and they are now using the church property for thé purposes of promoting religious worship ac- cording to the Iowa Synod contrary to the protests of the plaintiffs and they prevent the plaintiffs from us- ing the church property for worship according to the ‘Missouri Synod. That the Iowa Synod is not an ortho- dox Lutheran Synod. The plaintiffs demand . judgment that the defendants have no interest in the church property and that they be restrained from using it in accord- ance with the lowa Synod and ad- judged to be secessionists. The com- plaint is based on the theory that a minority of the church members have a right to control the majority, and to impede the march of time and _pro- gress; but that is not law. By unit- ing with a church a person acquires no title to any church property and no right to control or determine the policy of the church as he may do su vy ucting with or influencing the ma- jority. Any three persons may form a re ligious corporation by filing with the secretary of state articles of incor- poration, stating the name of the cor- poration, its location, duration, the number and names and residence of its directors; and that it is formed The articles ot incorporation may not adopt ‘or in- 'clude any religious creed; that is a matter of detail which may be includ- cd in the by laws and the’by-laws may be changed from time to time by a 'vote of the members: The property and policy of a religious corporation is under the control of the majority and not the minority of its members. The by-laws may provide for: 1. ‘The qualification. of members; 2. The fees of admission and dues {to be paid; 3. The expulsion “and suspension of members, and all members have equal rights and privileges. Were it competent for the persons named as plaintiffs to. maintain this action against the majority of the church members it would give’ the minority control of church ‘af: fairs. It would lead to a manifest a9- surdity. The demurrer must be sus- tained and the action dismissed. Nov. 8, 1917- ee WOE tae ee | —_____ CONGRATULATIONS. Congratulations to the new own-. ers of The Bismarck Tridune. The Tribune under the guidance of George D. Mann and Ensley A Weir, the new owners, will branch out into the morning field, and MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1917. IF THE NEW WAR TAXES AND THE FOOD-SAVING CAMPAIGN PEEVE YOU, LET LYON TELL YOU WHAT IT'S LIKE IN FRANCE Special Letter from c. C. LYON, Daily Tribune Reporter with General Pershing’s Army. (Passed as Censored by Major Freder- ick Palmer.) Paris, France.—Said an army offi- cer just arrived in France from Amer- ica: “It seems almost impossible | to arouse our people to a realization that they are in a great war. We'll have to have casualty lists first.” The French people don’t need ca’s- ualty lists to remind them. Every hour of the day war is impressed on them—whenever ‘they eat, sleep, talk, travel or seek amusement. And what goes for the French, also goes for the thousands of Americans now in France. You arrive at a hotel and, natural- ly, the clerk tries to induce you to take a room with a bath, if he has any such luxury to offer. Pretty soon you come down to the office, storming. “There’s no hot water in that bath,” you complain. He shrugs his shouiders and smiles. You want to choke him. “C’est la guerre,” he says. “It is the war. We are permitted to have hot water only on Saturday and Sun- days. We must be economical with our coal, you know.” “C’est la guerre,” he says—“It is the war’—is almost a national motto over here. No matter what the trou- ble is, blame it on the war. You go into the dining room with a ravenous appetite, figuring on a nice, juicy steak with French fried potatoes, etc. (You know the kind war correspondents eat who have lib- eral expense accounts.) But there is no meat. The waiter is grieved because you’ve forgotten it is Monday. “It is prohibited to eat meat on Mondays and Tuesdays, monsievr,” he says. You soon find that Tuesday is the black day for eating. On Tuesdays you can neither eat meat nor pastry. Pastry is also for- bidden on Wednesdays. About 40 per cent of the people in Paris eat their meals in restaurants, and these restrictions on meats and pastries have resulted in enormous} savings of food supplies. - If your room at the hotel is dark, you try to turn on the electric lights! soon after supper. But there’s no light. The very minute each evening when “the lights come on” is fixed by law. Conservation of coal again. If you burn kerosene in lamps or gas in your cook stove your consumption is limited to 65 per cent of what it was before the war. Only the rich can afford to run autos any more, because gasoline in France now retails at $1.29 a gallon. It makes one smile to recall the storms of protest in America about a year. ago when the price of the juice got up to about 25 cents a gallon. You go to the theater, and after the performance you wonder why ev- eryLody rushes away pell-mell for the subway entrances. You follow leisurely, only to discov- er, when you arrive at the subway, that “the last car is gone.” And there are no “owl” cars for late stay- ers. “On account of the war, service is prohibited after il, o'clock,” say the signs. If you’ve missed the last car, the chances are you'll efther walk home or stay in a downtown hotel, for taxis in Paris after 10 o’clock are few and ‘far between. The government allows a taxi driver only so much gasoline every day, so he can run his car only so far, and he’s usually run down by dinner time in the evening. You decide to call a friend over the long distance in another city. “Come to the office and identify yourself,” you are told by the overa- tor, and you have to go many blocks to a telephone substation, and then you are told you cannot talk if your party lives more than 65 miles away. Restrictions also govern the sending of telegrams. Always your identifica- tion papers must be produced and then dispatches can only be sent in French for France, in Italian for Italy, in English for England and the Unit- ed States. For all neutral countries, French only. All shops must be closed at 6:30 in the evening, the idea being to econ- omize light. You can’t buy a gun or a pistol un- der any circumstances during the pe- riod of war. Every line in every newspaper has been censored by the government be- fore publication, and the big blank snaces that so often appear are sure signs that something was cut out that might have given “information or comfort” to the enemy. And as to phdtography—you almost take your life in your hands to ap- pear in public with a camera. C’est le guerre,” the policeman apologizes who nabs you and tells you to get rid of your picture-taker. Otherwise, France is a very fine country. hereafter publish two editions daily, morning ‘and evening. Few communities in the United States the size of Lismarck can boast of a newspaper of the stand- ing and merit of The Tribune. It is no reflection on Bismarck to say that The Tribune is ahead of its field. It is leading, not trail- ing, and the new owners show every disposition to set new and higher standards. The Forum wishes The Tribune the best of good fortune—The Fargo Forum. LAST RITES FOR FLASHER EQITOR HELD HERE TOOAY Last rites over the remains of the late J. K. McLeod, publisher of. the Flasher Hustler, were held in Bis- marck this afternoon. ‘The body ar rived in the capital city yesterday from Shakapee, Minn., where. death occurred ‘Friday. Mrs.;;McLeod companied the remains here, she hav ing been in the Minnesota path aa | her husband when the end_ ca - Scores of friends from Flasher Mandan and other slope points arrived in the city at noon for the funeral. How They Do It. You have doubtless been thrilled by a jungle scene in the movies where a lion closely pursues the fleeting hero- ine. It is a real lion, too, and any- body can see that they are really run- ning. It is all done by means of a treadmill upon which the lion is safely chained, though his bonds are not con- spicuous, He is induced to run, the heroine marks time with all her might and a painted background of tropical scenery is moved past them at high speed on rollers. Making a House a Home. In planning a home it is essential te building satisfaction that the prospec tive house owner decides whether he wants to dwell in his own or some oth er person's home; that he decide just the sort of home he wishes to erec’ and follow those plans, also that he build his house on honest lines that conform to the principles of good ar chitecture, Natural Heating Plant. During severe winter weather range cattle in the Bud Lands of western North Dakota are seen now and then congregated about a great fissure in u red, naked hillside. Investigation shows that a warm current of air rising through the fissure from a burning coal bed underneath has attracted them. Big Market for Peanuts. Marseilles, France, is the great cen tral market for peanuts, more than 120,000 metric tons of peanuts in the shell and 240,000 tons of shelled nuts being crushed there.in a single year. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY ‘FOR RENT—Room in modern house, close in. Inquire 38 Rosser St. 11-12-6t LOST.—Left rubber hip-boot on road to Sterling. Return to 0. W. Roberts, Government Weather Bur- eau, Bismarck. 1-19-2t PIGS ANID TURKEYS FOR SALE—25 Pigs, two to four months old; 20 fine bred big size bronze Turkey gobblers and hens. Address P. O. Box 256, Bismarck. PLOWING AND BREAKING WANT- ED.—500 to 1000 acres of land to break, and crop season 1918, for par- ticulars address, George D. Brown Company, Bismarck, N. D. FOR SALE—Two show cases. confectionery. King’s 11 12 Not Require Mandan, Nov. 12.—The bell that tolled the expulsion of Alexander Ker- ensky as premier of the Russian gov-| ernment today echoes in Mandan. Local railroad men who were to have gone to Russia to fill important rail-' road positions have been instructed 'to wait until further notice. During the past few weeks activi- ties of the Russian war mission in’ railroad circles has been very much heralded here as it effected promi- | nent railroad men who were seen al- most daily in Mandan. Supt. T. H.| Lantry, one of the first to urge war work on the ,Northern: Pacific rai ‘ way, was for years superintendent at! ! the Yellowstone division. Don Colby, who for years as a conductor on the Newest New Russia May Service of American Railway Board Dakota division ran into Mandan from Jamestown; Bob Higgins of Glendive, formerly of this city; L. A. Paxton, a former foremon in the Northern Pa- cific shops, and others in the war rail- road mission, to, Pussia, have been passing through Mandan daily to, and from their,,headquarters in St. Paul, Now they may not go at all with the conditions prevailing in Russia. Ad- vises are received here today to the effect that they will be very much delayed. Supt. Lantry, commissioned with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, pass- ed through Mandan today en route ‘west on an‘important mission. He declined to give out any information (concetning future plans. ‘WELLING PLAY COMPARCD |= ‘WITH OLD CAMP DODGE: (Continued from Page One) hat demands liberal application both of the body and mind. “Noon mess gives a let-up from 12; o 1:15, and from then until retreat it 5 o’clock, there’s physical exercise, savonet fighting, squad and company irill, saluting and verbal messages, manual of arms and some signal york, “After retreat comes mess, and from 6 to 7 there are company mat- ters to 8, French classes for most of us; 8 to 9, officers’ school-—and by that time we are glad to ‘hit’ our beds to prepare ourselves for the next day of strenuous work.” Most of the national army nen, though not selected as carefuli.y as he candidates at Fort Snelling, are standing up in the physican Jine h the officers, the lieutenant said. With not unnatural pride. the lieu tenant referred to the Three Hundred Fiftieth infantry regiment, the purely lowa unit to which he belongs, as one that promised to develop into “‘o the best regiments in the army.” He gave several reasons for this conclusion, not).the least of which was the praise the regiment has elicit- ed from its commanding coloael, and higher officers. aes Products of’ Genius. There is not a bit of routine, how- jever cheap our unthinking mind may count it, that was not started by genius, The fundamental facilities of life, the things we use as carelessly as we trend the pavement—the very fire we light, the tools we handle at our work, the food we ent—each rep- resents some early triumph of man’s splrit—Exchange. SUES GREAT NORTHERN Wolford Man Claims Damages for | Inj jury | to Livestock Wolford, N. D., Nov. 12—John Sorlie and Charles Porter are in St. Paul as witnesses in a damage suit brought by J. M. Palmer against the Great Northern railway for damages which he claims to have sustained last year when the company failed to move two carloads of, stock which were left exposed te the rigors of a severe storm. etc. at home or in an offic in the absolutely fire and In its Safe Deposit Depa: a nominal charge he Bank with the oa How Are Your Va‘ Some people keep their important papers, jewelery, constant danger of fire, burglary or accident. Others keep their valuables in a Safe Deposit Box strong bank, where they know they are constantly protected and always handy when needed. Bank provides the ‘‘absolute’’ form of protection at TheFitst National BISMARCK. N.D. uables Protected? e safe, where they are in burglar proof vault of a rtment the First National