The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1917, Page 4

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ROBERTS. ‘Meteorologist. | at \UNCLE WILL’ Lord Northeliffe télls' Lloyd George that, if the.abijes don’t get a move on, Uncle sam jis. likely to take entire management of a large part of the! war, Evidently, Northcliffe studied us’ thoroughly during his recent sojaurn | of months in our midst. History shows that’ in’ alllijs, wars Uncle Sam has been slow: te;;start» but that, once agoing; he’s much Ike one ofthe Brit- ish. “tanks.” Madea s This characteristic is one ‘of .the natural characteristics- of a democ- ey! "TO inobilixe’ public opinion’ is a job. requiring time and persistency. When such opinion is mobilized, there comes the tremendous job of mobil- izing resources. But, with opinion and resources once concentrated, look out for “lank” effects. Lord Northcliffe; is entirely. right in believing that, being mobilized and holding the world’s pocketbook, Uncle Sam is go- ing to reach for the reins and do con- sidcrable of the driving before the cause is ditched. “We all of the same clay,” said Woodrow, at Buffalo. Yep! with a sprinkling of pacifists’ who insist an remaining just cla: THE GREAT DANGER—POLITICS. The allies, notably France, seem to be particularly accursed, at this time, wih a lot of ambitious men who are putting themselves first, before the grcat cause, by playing politics, and the gloomiest news issuing from Eur- ope in many days is to the effect that a schism between the allies’ political and military leaders is generating. Tho French cabinet resigns under fire.’ London is all excited over re- ports that General Haig won't stand for the proposed allied military com- mission. In Russia, a dozen groups are fighting for power. Cadorna threatens to go on strike. On the other side is the kaiser with all his allies and all his allies’ re- sources in the hollow of his iron han Full control as to diplomatic and. governmental management has been the kaiser’s strongest advantage, from the start, and, from the start, the greatest danger to the allies has been the inability, if not the impossibility, to concentrate. Their weakness in this"narticular has already been dem- onstrated by tons of sacrificed blood and billions of wasted munitions, and, to promote this internal weakness, il would seem, at this writing, that the selfish politician, a creature more| contemptible than pacifist, pro-Ger- man or any other internal foe of the cause is coming to the front. Politics and war mix as do gunpow- der and friction matches, and no better. If there ever was a time when the whole pcople of the United States, down to the infant who can knit a sock, should make war their sole busi- ness, as a business, that time is now. We've got-to supply Europe not only *'can ask nothing better than that the with men, money and munitions, but with’ ‘morale; or the present advices from Europe are tremendously decep- tive: And it is a crime against God and all mankind not to help the Amer- ican people understand the matter. HANS TOGETHER—OR SEPAR- ATELY The Chicago editorial idea of pa-| triotism seems to be to light a hick- ory torch, descend into the govern- ment powder magazine and dust it out As a sample of the Chicago brand of pernicious, insidious disloyalty is the Washington correspondence to the Tribune of H. M. Hyde, ex-editor of the ‘Technical ‘World. Mr. Hyde has begun a series of articles in which he proposes ‘{o: show that the adininis- tration has brought the nation to the point of defeat and humiliation. “One of the most prominent and} active men (unnamed) in the war activities of the government” tells Mr. Hyde that the war situation at Wash- ington is most critical in our history. Lack of, organization and team work is paralyzing all efforts. There is waste of time, money and effort and there's little progress. Being convinced of this distinguish- ed back-biter’s sincerity, Mr. Hyde talks with other high-ups equally dis- tinguished and nameless, who agree that the situation is alarming and they admit that “the progress so‘far made in almost every line of wartime ac- tivities has~ been shamelessly slow and bungling.” Read tomorrow's Trib-} une and get, more Washington’ scandal and’ gloont, ete., ete.! At this time when the morale of the allies seems to be in rags, whip- ‘ping about in the whirlwind of Rus- sian and ‘Italian disasters, Germany American morale be beaten to a fraz- ale’ by tho newspapers of the second city: of the “nation. Spies need not spy, the vile alien in our midst need not promote strike, or bomb factory, dock, or elevator, if rattled Europe can only be convinced that our na-; tional morale is cracking, our work of getting into the fight for all that’s in us “shanelessiy slow and bung: ling.” i i The people of this nation want the! truth about the war: management. They will stand. the truth even when it hurts. ‘But they want the authen- ticated truth, A Hyde or any other! war correspondent can find in Wash-' ington “distinguished” men whose greatest war activity consists in an- anymously making out the administra- tion to be rotten. To put their mouth- ing out as truth as to the actual situ- ation is cold-blooded disloyalty to the country and very German. Doubt is’ a close relative’ of Despair and what the cause of human liberty needs, this hour as in no other, is our con-! fidence in*ourselves and imperilied Europe's confidence in us. Standby Uncle Sam unflinchingly! It's ine His ‘natural make-up to do some bungling.“ He ‘surely has got to learn to creep before he can try to jump across the Atlantic. Lut he will get there. Villa, who is proud to be-roferred to as the “Napoleon of Mexico,” is ap- pearing in battle wearing a full beard and, mounted on a white mule. But he'll have to add a linen duster, before we can recognize the ‘Napoleonic ‘tone” of his present appearance. After being kicked out of Russia,! Germany, Switzerland and France, Trotzky found safety in the United States. Sometimes we think that the idea that we are the proper roost for the poor and oppressed of all nations is being overworked. Northcliffe is proposed as British Air Minister. If the British want hot air, a London editor is the party to whom to apply; and, if any editor turns on the sizzling blasts, in this war, Northcliffe sure does. “What shall we do with our German prisoners?” is a Washington conun- drum. Gee whiz! it’s a stumper. We can’t turn 'em loose and let them start breweries, with states like Ohio going so near dry that they smoke. At a fashionable Fifthav wedding in New York, the adventurous couple listened to the strains of Wagner and Mendelssohn. But maybe German var music is the thing for .N. Y. wed- dings, after all. Oh! what's the use? New York gave woman the ballot but won't let her sit on juries. How can women feel herself a “peer,” when denied the blessed privilege of jailing New Yorkers? Villa has captured Ojinaga, a small! town across the border. The name was taken from the dying words of a Mex. drunk, who was run over by a cow in the Sth day of his souse. England has over 600,000 school children engaged in light war work. Could Sherman return, he'd find some almighty additions to hell since his| war times. The real name of Lenine, the Bol- sheviki premier, is Vladmir Hyitch Uulyanoff. Sounds like a barbed-wire fence across an Arizona canyon: | Satur N' BISMARCK DAILY .TXIBUNE - Deeper And Deeper 4 cz A “" sarrenzie(s — By Justice J. This week all the judges have been; may pass an Act providing for the, at work, and it seems we are, doing our best to dispose of, during | this month, all the old cases which! have been argued and submitted. In my book of “Letters, Essays and! Decisions,” I. purpose to give a rating to the prevailing method of writing long-winded and lumbering decisions. It is a fearful nuisance, and it seems the only way to abate it is to expose it to the public and to show its folly and expense. ‘It has prevailed in this State more than in any other State of fhe Union, and it continues to pre- il. 1 wish it were possible; to quote me of the lumbering decisions and to picture them to the people so as to show the downright folly of writing them. We have just received 36 N. D. Reports. It is a book of 650 pages, Containing 65 decisions. 35 N. D. is a book of 650 pages, and it contains 52 decisions. It were easy to re-write and improve those decisions so as to . reduce them to one book of 650 pages. As a;rule, a recision should never ex- ceed thrée or four pages, and the syl- labus or head-note, should never ex- ceed one or two hundred words. The recent case of Ross v. Cooper, was an ‘appeal from a verdict and ‘jddgment \for$3500. The complaint was. against a:father—the owner of.a large farm--for the wanton killing of an employee by his son, a foreman in charge of the farm. The judgment was reversed. 1 wrote a vigorous dissent of two hundred words. There was nothing to be gained by a longer dissent, but our Justice Grace wrote a dissent of 12,000 words. He gives a literal copy of the complaint and answer, 2800 words; a literal copy of the testimony in small print, 3700 words; citations and quotations, 2000 words. No person will care for all that matter. No person will ever read it. Yet, under our laws and constitution, it is-all transcribed and printed in two. books, the North Dakota Reports and the Northwestern Reporter, (164 N. W. 679.) The needless cost of printing is about $2. a page. I wish that every judge who writes an opin- ion of more than five pages had to pay half the cost of booking it. I have i great regard for the opinions of Justice Grace. When he and I were candidates for office, he expressed a decided opinion that I should be a Judge of the U. S. Supreme .Court—/ and you may be sure I fully agreed with him. As a judge of that Court) I should take delight in writing up its antique ways and its lack of prog- ress in my Saturday Evening Letters. If the nine judges were to go off on vacation, to loiter away their time and leave undone the work of one or two years. I should post them from; ocean to ocean. The judges of the U. S. Supreme Court have no possible excuse for permitting the work to lag or to go undone, or for making the cost of an appeal so onerous and cnor- mous as it is. A member of the Legislature writes ‘me concerning a session of the Legis- lature to aid farmers in procuring seed grain and feed to save their stock. It seems ‘the crop failure in a large part of the state presents an emergency. It leaves farmers without seen_grain or feed for their stock. If they get no relief it must result in widespread suffering and general loss to the state. We are outgrowing the old policy of: “Eevery Man for Him-| self and the Devil for the Hindmost.” It is not the part of wisdom for either a state or an individual to submit to, conditions that invite insanity, pov- erty, crime or general disaster. The state and the individual pay dearly for the. consequences of improvidence. ! Wisdom demands the best measures of preventative relief. A stitch in time saves nine. | (Were I the Governor, I would call a’ special session of the Legislative! Assembly on the first Tuesday of Jan-! uary, if not sooner, for the purpose devising and affording prompt measures or relief; and also to pass }an Act providing for a constitutional convention. A bare majority of each House may pass a valid Act providing for the election of members to a con- stitutional convention and the holding of such convention next July. A ma- jority of two-thirds in each House day Evening Letter . E. Robinson election at the time of the nominating eletcoins in June, 1918, and-that would save the cost and trouble of a spe- cial election. By Section 67 of the constitution no Act of the Legislature can toke effect until July 1st, after its passage, unless passed with an emergency clause by two-thirds of the members present in each House, but if such an Act be passed, there is noth- ing to prevent the holding ‘of a con- stitutional convention in’ July'/and: the submission ‘of ‘approved’ airéndinents o a vote of the people“tit'iNoventber, 1918, The sooner we get such progres- sive amendments and laws, ‘the better it will be for all of;us, if it be truae— as J think, is it—that under such amendments the people should reap a jirect benefit to the amount of forty or fifty million dollars a year. Dated, Novembeg 1/1915. ee GIRL STOPS AUTO Man: Seizes Two Flags and Then Kisses the French One. A man’s love for his native flag was exemplified when & stranger ordered Miss’ Blanche © Kruegér, "a ‘popular yeung woman at Reéndalivitte, Md., to stop her aiitomobile, Althoiigh sume- what surprised, she obeyed''the com- mand, and the stranger grabbed two beautiful British and French flags which Miss Krueger carried on her au- tomobile. He admired the British flag and kissed the French colors, and then said: “I love those colors, for they represent my native country.” Then, with bowed head, he walked away in silence. Aged, But Love at Sight. Mrs. Elizabeth Heveley, aged seven- ty-one, and Leonidas L. Fatherren, aged sixty-nine, who met for the first fime recently, were married. Mrs. Naveley lived ‘in Cerro Gordo; Ill, and Featherren in Arlington, Tex. They had. corresponded for more than @ year. War conditions make the study of commercial branches a paying invest- ment these days. For information as to the commercial, courses, write the State School of Agriculture and For- estry, Bottineau, N. Dak. EVEN BUTTERFLIES HAVE THEIR USE IN FOOD CONSERVATION Miss Emily Kutz is a food conserver. Not an eight-hour cook—look at her gown, man—but a stenographer with the food administration. She is a Washington debutante of a couple of seasons ago who got tired of being a social butterfly. Her father, Colonel Charles Kutz, is doing his bit in France. COST OF MAKING & SOLDIER’ VARIES More Expensive in Some Camps Than in Others. RUNS FROM $142 TO $182 Camps Custer and Devens Are Tied at High Mark, While Lowest Figure I: Reached at Camp Lewis—Set Ex- penses Are Identical, but. Others Dif. fer Widely. It costs more to make a soldier in some parts of the United States than it does in others. This may sound queer to the lay. man, who thinks: that because: Uncle Sam buys supplies at uniform ptices’ for all parts of the country, and pays the same salarigs everywhere, soldiers should cost no more in one region than in’ another. , The highest per capita cost in turn- tng out soldiers is $182, You'd never guess where this price obtains. New York, your choice? Guess again. Miche igav. and Massachusetts, with Camps Cisterand Devens respectively in the Natlonal army, are tled at the high mark, It is cheapest at American Lake, Wash., where Uncle Sam's soldiers cost him only $142 each. How the Camps Rank. Here is the way the 16 cantonments tank In fer capita cost for soldiers, from lowest cost to highest: Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash. 142. Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., $146. Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., $146, Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky., $149. Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark., $151, Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan. $158. . Camp Travis, Fort Tex., $156. Camp Jackson, Columbia, 8. C., $157. Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Ia., $158. Camp Meade, Annapolis Junction, Ma., $158. Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, O., $164. Camp Upton, Yaphank, Long Island, $165, Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J., $167. Camp Grant, Rockford, IIL, $170. Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., $182. Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich, $182, . These figures are part of a budget submitted by the war department to the committee on appropriations of the house of representatives, in ask- Ing for money to outfit and train the National army. No specific effort was made to ex- plain the difference in the per capita cost of the new soldiers, but other figures submitted clear the mystery. Many of the set expenses are ident!- cal the country over, but others vary widely. No great difference is seen in regu lar supplies, barracks and quarters, shooting ranges and clothing. But in such items as water and : sewers, wherein the topography of the country about the cantonment is an important factor, there is wide variance. . Again, in the case of roads, wharves, walks and drainage, there is a big range. In the case of hospitals to be con- structed or repaired, there is gteat dl- versity. Camp Funston, at' Fort Riley, found hospitals in good condition and required a very small expenditure, comparatively, Ti same was true of Camp Gordon, at Atlanta. i Sam Houston, BOYD RETURNS HOME— S. J. Boyd’ of Mott, one of the few men from the district to “stick it out” at the second officers’ training camp untii the third month, was in Mo‘e last week en route home, having beer finally weeded out because he was past forty. Mr. Boyd is a veteran o7; wants no Officers in the trenches over the Philippine campaigi. He was au. avplicant for the first camp, but fail- ed to get in. His applica‘ion for tie MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19: 1917. BRITISH WORK OF TRANSPORT IS STAGGERING Problems Almost Beyond Con- ception Had to Be Solved. BUND MILES OF NEW ROADS Scarcity of Shipping and Long Voyages | Vastly Increase the Difficultics— | Amazing Statistics on the Subject | Have Just Become Available—Trat- fic Is Now Tripled. The problem of transportation which | Great Britain has had to solve during the war is almost beyond conception. Not much: has been said about It, be- | cause it has been necessary for rea: | sons of caution to suppress informa: | tion. Only quite recently have any of | the amazing statistics of the subject become available. Britain has been required not only to build and equip its armies since the war began and to transport them to the fighting areas in widely separated parts of the world, but also to provide ocean transportation for mast of the! requirements of its allies; for Italy, for France, for the army of the Orient, for the Mesopotamian expedition, for | Fast and West Africa; to bring troops: from the dominions and crown col- onies; to move supplies from all parts of the world to the fighting areas) where they were needed, and to insure! that the people of the Pritish Isles | and France should have food and the; other necessaries of life. Such data as are now available rep- resent the highest authority on the subject and may be taken as abso- :lutely accurate, but they do not deal) with anything like the entire scope of transportation operations.’ The fig-| ures, however, on the movement of offi- ‘cers, soldiers and strictly military sup- | plies nnd equipment, although they | represent only a part of the trans-| portation task, nre simply astonishing, Transported 2,686,000 in Two Years. It is learned, for example, that down; to the end of 1915, 100,000 officers, 2,- 586,000 men and 42,000 horses had been transported overseas. This in- ;Cludes traffic across the channel to! : France and all the other movements of ; troops, including the.,Medjterranean expeditionary force .and the move- ments of Indian and colonial soldiers, | aggregating several hundreds of thou-| sands and requiring very long voyages. During this same period the move- ment of supplies to feed and equip| these forces naturally required a much | ,@renter tonnage. Thus the supplies ‘sent out to France only Iscluded 388,- 000 tons of food and 533,000 tons of forage. Along with these went 59,000 tons of fuel and 29,000 tons of medical ftores, Likewise there were moved to France 17,338,000 gallons of petrol and | 4,911,000 gallons of oll. Mails consti-| tute one of the big items, no less than! 491,000 mall bags and 14,000 tons, of parcels belng moved. af yay Stores shipped out to the army in-| cluded among the chief {tems 184,000: tons of engineering materials, 131,000, tons of ordnance, 92,000 tons of cloth- ing, 40,000 tons of snndbags, 27,000; tons of entrenching and camp equip- | ment, 18,000 tons of barbed wire, 12,-; 000 tons of tents and as much more of | cantecn stores; also immense quanti- | ties. of saddlery and harness supplies. Traffic Is Now Tripled. | Let it be repeated that these figures: are for the first seventeen months of; the war, that Is, down to the close of | 1915. Since that time the war's opera- | tions have increased vastly, so that to: day the average movement af military | necessaries, including soldiers, is prob- ably three times as much per diem as) it was during the period covered by these figures. The task with whic! | naval’ transport is now required to: deal is the greater not only in propor: | tion as the tonnage has increased, but by reason of the constantly diminish- ing number of ships available. | In a recent period of four months; the tonnage landed at French ports for | the use of the British forces Increased | by more than 70 per cent, all of which | required to be removed -after its ar-; rival at the ports to depots or to the; forces at the front. Not only must all | this material be moved across the} Channel and then taken to the forces! or to @-~ots, but is also required to be | gathe 0 together from all parts of the ; United Kingdom and, indeed, from all | parts of the world before it could be started across the Channel. Several hundred miles of railway have beet laid in the Sinai desert under the’ direction of European engi- neers with the help of native Egyptian labor, For the Mesopotamian nnd East. African railway construction | both supplies and labor have been pro-! cured chiefly from India. The average | tonnage moving weekly over the mili-| tary railways In Mesopotamia alone now reaches far into five figures. In the last six months the traffic over th Sinai line from El Kantari’ eastwa: has been multiplied by three. | French Railways Equipped. I Nowhere have railways been s0, ¢s-| sential ag military auxiliaries as in France. ‘Stupendous stores of all) kinds of provisions have been kept in| France from the beginning. The pre- vision of depots has been in charge of} locomotives, cars, tools, huge repalt shops, have been sent to France ‘anc put into service on the lines of com, munication. Thousands of. miles. of railroad track, hundreds of locomo- tives for use on both brond and nar- row gauge track, tens: of thousands of cars have been pouring in a steady stream into France and the stream still flows. About half of the cars and more than half of the larger locomo- tives now operating in, the sector of British operations in France were taken from British railways. This of course necessitated the imposition of rigorous restrictions upon traffic at home. ‘ After restricting travel in Great Bri- tain to the utmost, 't was still impor sible to spare as many locomotives and cars for servide.in France as were nec- essary, So the Colonials were called upon and immense amounts of rolling stock have been ‘sent from them. Thousands of cars haye been specially constructed for the military work of this country.. Hospital trains and armored ,trains have been built, and | special trucks have had‘ to be con- structed forthe. movement of heavy artillery. Military Rallroads Built. In a recent despatch Sir Douglas — Hiig told’ something about the work of the railways in France. At the end of 1916 the incrense of the armies ‘and the expansion. of material resources. had tasked the roads and railroads to their extreme capacity. The broud and narrow gauge railway lines were un- able to handle the growing volume, and so recourse was had to the high- ways. Thousands. of motor trucks were pressed into the service, and of course the roadbeds suffered fearfully. To relieve these It became necessary to bulld still. more military. railroads, and a new network of these was de- cided upon. Before these lines had been com- pleted, the Germans retired from @ large section which they had occupied from the beginning of the war, de- stroying railways, bridges, highways, every means of communication; and the British army confronted the huge task of gridironing this additional area with means of transportation. The fact that it has been accomplished, and accomplished with unbelievable rapidity and thoroughness, constitutes one of the’ most remarkable achleve- ments—either military or. industrial— of the entire war. No Fuss About It. All this development has been car- ried on so quietly that almost nobody realized it was taking place. Some months ago.M. Briand, who was then the premler, visited an immense rall- road workshop ‘behind ‘the British lines." Every brick, every plece' of 'tim- bér, every, too]/or machine {n It had been transported from England, to” be set up in the most, convenient place. The French statesman went through the establishment, and bis:comment at the conclusion of his inspection was just about what everybody else ‘says | who looks into the Industrial marvels of the last three years: “The great fault T have to find with you English,” he said, “Is that you do such enermous things, but nobody ever gets an idea of what you are doing.” Great Britain declared war on Au- gust 4, and at midnight following the declaratiofi overument/ennounres its assumpht mentite qr 4a control of & gy The raviway ‘ex conststing of; the: general-managers;of the chief comprntes, was: put in charge | of the railway lines for the purpose of insuring that both government and pri- | vate traffic would be as well cared for as possible, This committee was in fact appointed four days before the declaration of war, testifying to the fact that there were some people in the British government who even then realized that tremendous things were afoot. x help win the war DIGS ROOT CELLAR Turns Up a Skull of Someone Dead Who Was Petrified. A petrified human head was une earthed on a farm near Virginia, Minn., by Irvin Freidrichs, who dug a root cellar recently. The stone is whita weighs three and one-half pounds and is perfect in formation. The teeth re distinguishable and the features re plaia. Local archaeologists are of the be Nef that it is the head of an Indian, buried centuries ago. The. specimen has been sent to the University of Minnesota. Presented Actress With Potatoes, After Mme. Seraphine Astafova, the @ stores branch, which is now in the Russian dancer, had finished her act in railroad.and roads division of the war, a London theater recently, two Britich office. All kinds of railroad material,| soldiers presented her with a basket of fails, ties, bridge bullding materiala potatoes and a two-pound bag of suga>. ana gE second camp received favorable at-| for the training I have, anyway,” said tention from Major Steedman, and but Mr. Eoyd, while here. “I'm satisfied for the fact that General Pershing | pais department knows what it is forty years old, his friends believe he | All “kinds of tall i unquestionably would have made the Bevaea. phiee ad sa Grade. “I wouldn’t ‘ake a whole lot | ‘ 11 14 tf all