The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 24, 1917, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, NOV. 24, 1917. THE TRIBUNE| Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter, = ISSUED EVERY DAY GEORGE D. MA’ Eaitor | LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHI- CAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresg Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSUCIAT! ED “PRESS | The Associated Press is exclusively | eniitled t the use for republication ot all news credited to It or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein, All rights of republication of spectal dispatches herein ure also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIR | CULATION. | StUbscmrinioN KATES PAYABLE IX| ADVANCE Daily, Morning aud Sunday ae Carrier, per muntn .... 10 Daily, Morning, &vening and Sun- | day, by Casle:, per monthy.. 90) Daily, Evening on.y, by Carrier, | per mouth ...... | Daily, E ening aud month Morning or North Dake 4.00 Morning or Evening by mail out- side of North Dakota, one year, 6.00 Sunday, in Comumation with Evening or Aiosming by mail, one year . 5.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ablished 1873) WEATHE RREPORT. | For Uventy tour hours ending at} noon, Nov. & i ‘Temperature at 7 a.m. ........ 34] erature at noon . 37| 404 26 Frecipitauon ... nseoeseeni0ll| Highest wind velocity ....-. 12-E| Forceast. For th Dako Generally fair colder tonight; | Sunday east por- ton: ad ea curda vising temperature uo4 Lowest Temperatures. | . oe. 24 34 oF + 22 2 18. a4 Winnipeg ........ fidlena a) . 24 . oF W. ROE®RTS, ie Metegrologiat. r iTisouns # Amorg the burdens to be borne at! this time is the chronic pessimist,| who, particularly at this time, stands | around promoting gloom. He may be| considerable of a patriot, too, but he} is so constituted that he habitually | nothing save the risks, the chances to criticize, the mistakes and the cbstacles presented, and for the| very reason that there really is pa-! triotism in him, he's a burden, if not a ORR ‘nees . positive danger, to the national cause)! Often there are fleas on the best’ or dogs. We can most easily carry the gloom of the pessimist by using our own stock of cheer. True, Fussia is a war failure, if not worse. The Italian disaster iz big. The danger to Rumania througa re- lease of Germans on the Russian front is great and imminent. There moy be a greater disaster at Saloik!| ‘There are plenty of excuses for :he terror and tears of the confirmed pes- simist. But national cheer, world cheer pre- dominates and dissipates all the super- ficial and artificial gloom, if we keep fast hold of the conviction that this war is not to end until the United States puts its whole power into it, and if we confine our thinking and working ,to mobilizing and applying that power. ‘We must do the big work, and we can! That {s the thought which mast dominate and move us, and in it is nothing, save cheer, It kept alive th: heroes at Valley Forge, with all the mightly British odds against them. It filled the sails of our poor little navy in 1812. Through all the agony of our civil war that thought ruled the national heart. God had laid «ut a plan of work for human freedom, and called upon America for the |ébor. Confident in the might of the truth and the right, America answered that she would and could. And she did. ‘Today that call is clearer and strong- er than any that ever before came to human-ears. America's the sacved duty, the will and the power! Our Russian ally may disintegrate Italy may be shot to pieces. Rumania may become another Belgium. Salon- iki may go into the Teutonic bag. The finality lies behind the Rhine, and America will je there, in another sun- rice of freedom Ours the vision, the mission, the ability, and in our history | “ such word as Fail. there is no How anprorriate, should the Chris- tian world be given Jerusalem as a Christmas present! May~e that D ulles murder trial will settle one sociological question— “When Should a Lady Shoot Her Hus- band?” The Sul'on and his “Christian Dog” brother, Wilhelm, don’t seem to be congratulating and decorating each | Lenine that g| ideas or | ing. | apprehension, he’s trying to “get away | average honesty. Ran QUALITIES OF PREMIERSHIP Feeling all, the aplomb of premier- ship rising in him, Lenine wrote out his personal check for 50 millions and went down to the. Petrograd banks to} get it cashed, which was natural in a gent not very familiar with millions. ‘The banks, however, gave Premier not-identified, and promptly cast-iron, aying-teller stare, banking business. Evidently, nothing prevents Lenine | from ecoming a great Russian pre- as Russian premiers go, save; mier, lack of bread and butter for the other- wise powerful political heading. But even politicians must eat, and the party finally on top in F a will probably be one that can feed as well as fight. ee ee | A QUESTION closed their doors, which was good{ party he's} BACKWARDNESS OF RAILS IS. OUTSTANDING FEATURE Trading Is Accompanied by Fre- quent Intervals of Ex- treme Dullness. STABLE INDUSTRIALS SHOW NERVOUSNESS | New York, Nov. 23.—Backwardness of rails, despite assurances that no | strike will be called by the brother- | hoods, was the outstanding feature of All my life I’ve been told that the! today’s moderate business on the stock average man is honest. And I've ac- cepted the statement. But I've begun to wonder if that statement will stand analysis. I admit that the average man won't teal your money or your automobile or your hat. And he'll return your umbrella if you can prove it’s yours; which, considering the status of um- brella ownership, is fair enough. But I'm being forced to think that the average man’s honesty stop3 there. For in the truest sense it isn’t hon- est to exact more than a fair profit out of your business, yet Hoover and the Ultimate Consumer are having the devil’s own time with wholesalers and retailers and manufacturers and even—in some cases—with laborers who are determined to get theirs no matter how much they stick their neighbors. It isn't honest to steal an inventor's | inventions, yet there is scarcely one modern improvement of; any importance that hasn’t the creator of it secured his profit and | pay. And the infringer of patents or ‘the thief of an inventor's work gen-| erally knows exactly what he is do-| He isn’t under any honest mis- with something.” The whole business world is com- | posed of a few leaders and a host of smaller souls who imitate and assimi- late. Theft’ of ideas and copying of models is almost a trade practice in a | dozen businesses, and every chain of | tores, every widely ‘advertised article ; Or comm ity “finds ,its competitors | aping its insignia, its trademarks, its | advertising. { The average man lives according to, | law—approximately; pays his debts— ordinarily; ang doesn’t ste pennies , from the blind’ man, but When you, consider how you must watch and arily fair deal out of the game of life} it makes you doubt the theory of I'm not denying it, iim. merely; raising the question—is jthe average-man honest? —BERTON BRALEY. the safety of the boys at the front. Another year rolls ‘round, and still the turkey for the Kaiser's Thanks- giving dinner in Paris isn’t cooked. United, we stand; divided, we crawl around and earn an indemnity for Germany. Save for the next bond issue! By the way Russia’s leading patriots issue proclamations we judge that there’s still some vodka on tap over there. Anyhow, you can sleep better on no news from Russia than on the criss- cross stuff that’s been coming out from her. ° The Finns are eating bark mixed with flour. But, they won't be as soon as the kaiser learns that they've got the flour. “Russia,” says Gen. Smuts, “is a woman labouring in childbirth.” . Ger- man autocracy will take especial de- light in beating her up. ~ Villa threatens another revolution, or a re-birth of his old one. The man must have found a belt of cartridges “somewhere ‘in Mexico.” U-boats destroyed one ship of over 1600 in one week. Uncle Sam turned out 20,000 tons of new merchant ship- ping, that week. Your move, Kaiser! “One rancher has 00 turkeys, worth 35 cents the pound,” says a Cal- ifornia item. Birds as valuable as all that ought to be permitted to remain on the bush. || GAME HOGS PAY BIG FINE FOR EXCEEDING BAG LIMIT FOR DAY | Lidgerwood, N. D., Nov. 24.—E. Erummond and Ladislaw Mauer, ar- rested by Deputy Game Warden F. H. Pietz with 62 wild ducks in their pos- session, pleaded guilty before Justice Linehan to exceeding ‘the day's bag limit and paid fiines and costs total- ing $82.45. The examination is alieg- ed to have brought out evidence that railway employes are engaged in ship- ping out wildfowl in wholesale quan- tities. Ladies and gents pressing and clean- other over what's hopping ‘round about, Jerusaleni. ing. Bryant-Tailoring Co,,.Phone.788. 1114 tt meant, costly and continuous litigation before exchange. posed of, after early hesitation, to supplement advances of the mid-week, but encountered occasional opposition. Foreign affairs were less in the fore- ground, although another violent | break in Italian exchange to a dis- count approaching 45 per cent created apprehension respecting the outcome Extreme Dullness. Trading was accompanied by fre- quent intervals of extreme dullness, but the monotony of the session was relieved by intermittent activity of pools in various specialties at gross gains of two to five points. Stable industrials, including equip- ments of the war division, again fluc- tuated within restricted limits, but of- fered more resistance to pressure, | United States Steel, for example, | mounting steadily in the first hour, mounting to 98%, a net gain of 1% | points. Lackawanna steel and Repub- lic iron were unusually active at ex- respectively, | Industrial alcohol, the motors, oils, tobaccos, leathers, shippings and | Western Union participated rather un- evenl, point ut shaded toward the close on reilizing sales in Marine preferred and motor issues. Sales amounted to {515,050 shares, Call Money Low. Call money was at its lowest rate |of the week, declining from 3% to i 2% per cent for loans over the week- end, on forecasts of a favorable bank | statement. | Bonds were firm, but dull, Liberty 4's changed hands at 97.58 to 98, and the $4’s gt 98,88 to, 99.08. Total. sales. (par rales ae esas $4,150,000. United States bonds (old issues) | were unchanged on call. | BRADSTREET’S RE | New Yoge ove eBay Bee 8 £63) | morr 6 ye Vee “Moré chdgrtuj ifegling-Probably born‘of, the repo} cegsses of the allied arms oversea,” parent comple: H tion of stock market liquidation, heavy ' governmental buying, the return of lib- erty {oan money into circulation,.three |; cent cotton, unrestricted ordering by the excellently situated surplus crop | fight and toil merely to get an ordin- | zones, record high bank clearing, and super-animated activityain most indus- trial lines turning. out essentials of war, are factors that easily eclipse any | lagging tendencies’ that; prevails, ) In. a number, of, lines; and more especial- ly in the: east, buying, for civilian ac- count 'pé force reflects .a pause, this being latgety' due“ to the’ fact that' the | governihent’s* want’ recetve’ preference All extravagance is at the cost ofj and partly to the apparent inability of ordinary retail trades to enliven at a time when food stuffs are in ordinately high, when various campaigns to en- courage economy are under way, and when, too, the ordinary man in the street is paying for liberty loan bonds in installments. However, the prodi- gious spendings of the government quicken movements in general and render the observer practically oblivi- ous to the enforced prudence of the ordinary trader. Yet in the face of conservatism normal wants are suf- ficient to make up a relatively large volume and significantly enough parts of the west, southwest and most of the south disclose the best trade move: ments and collections ever experi- enced demand being for immediate as well as for distant delivery. There are no surplus stocks of manufactured goods and as supplies of fuel, labor and railway cars are insufficient, pro- duction cannot very well be speeded up. It is true that the labor situation has improved in spots due to the cut- ting down of non-essentials, but this improvement is not likely to be last- ing or substantial. Weekly bank clearings $6,981,631,000. rflEW YORK STOCKS. American Beet Sugar rae (| American Can ...... ~ 385% American Smelting and Refinng 76% American Tel and Tel.. a+ 108% American iZne . Anaconda Copper . Atchison Baltimore and Ohio . Butte and Superior . ie TK California Petroleum 12 ‘Canadian Pacific .... 136 Central Leather .. 67% Chesapeake and Ohio - 48 Chicago, Mil. and St. Paul.,... 37% Chino Copper a 43% Colorado Fael and Iron. 5 Crucible Steel .. Cuba Cane Sugar... Erie ............ Great Northern Ore ctf: 7 Great Northern pfd.. 1% Inspiration Copper .. 43% Int. Mer. Marine pfd ctfs. Kennecott Copper .... 33 Louisville and Nashville. - 116 Mexican Petroleum Bi | | Miami Copper . - 28% | Missougi’ Pacific oi OF Moatana Power . - 66% New York Central = FAL Northern Pacific . . - 87% Pennsylvania .. - AT% Ray Consolidated Copper. . - 22% Reading ...-.......--- - 12% Republi¢ Iron and Steel 18% Southern Pacific .. - 88% Southern Railway - W% Texas Co. ..... 144% Union Pacific .. - 16 U. S. Industrial Alcohol. - 114 United States Steel. vee 98% Utah Copper 19% All kinds of tailoring solicited. ‘Bryan‘s. Phone 788, treme advances of 3% and 5% points, at gross gains of one to four, [TRIBUNE FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT HEAVY OATS: BUYING GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT ing to an Advance of 35 Cents. | LIBERAL SHIPMENTS Chicago, Nov. 23—Huge purchas- ing of oats for government account, | together with authoritative statements that no maximum price on oats would be established had a strengthening ef- Other shares were dis- fect today on the value of all board| of trade commodities. Corn closed! firm, %c to 1%c net higher; oats up| 1%c to 2c, and provisions varying from unchanged figures to a rise of. For the third day in succession, oats jumped to new high record prices for the season. The broad demand which of impending events in that country. existed, both for immediate delivery; {and for future options as well was ascribed directly to measures taken to supply the needs of the various en- tente governments. Toprmost prices | of the day were reached after positive! announcement had been made that there was no need or prospect of a maximum, price being fixed, Mean- while, country holders seemed afraid to sell. Their chief reason appeared to be scarcity of cars, although the government is shortly expected to in- crease the number of cars in the west to handle cereals, including oats. Corn prices reflected the pronounced car shortage and the fact that unwel- come dampness and mild temperatures prevailed. Strength of grain and hogs lifted, provisions. Besides, the market was bullishly affected by liberal shipments of packing house products. CHICAGO GRAIN. Option. Open. High. Low. Close. Corn— Jan. ..., 120 122% 119& 121% May ... 117% 119% 117% 119% Oats— Dec. ... 68% . 70% 68% 69% May... 67% 69% 67% 69% MINNEAPOLIS: GRAIN. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 23.—Flour —Unchanged. Shipments amounted to 84,852 barrels. “Barley—31.059@1.33. ‘~* a ae Rye—$1.75@1.77. ‘i Bran—$34.00@35.00. Wheat—/Receipts, . 340. cars, pared with 464 cars a year ago. “\Corn—No. 3 yellow; $2.05@2.10. Oats—No. 3 white, 68%C@6%%c. Flax—$3.22@3.25, % OMAHA LIVE ‘OCK. Omaha, Nob., Nov. 233.—Hogs—Re- ceipts, 7,500, steady; heavy, $17.70@ 7.90; mixed, $17.75@17.85; light, 17,.70@17.90; pigs, — $14.00@20.06; bulk, $17. 5@UU. 85. Cattie—Receipts, | 2,800, steady; na- tive steers, $9.00@15.00; cows and heifers, $6.75@10.00; western steers, $8.00@13.00; Texas steers, $7.00@ 10.75; cows and heifers, $6.50@9.25; canners, $5.00@6.25; stockers ‘and ‘feeders, $6.00@12.00; calves, $9.00@ 12.50; bulls,’ stags, etc.,' $5.75 @8.00... - Sheep—Receipts, 3,600, steady, wi -yorrlings, , $12.00@13.25; | wethegs, $11.00@12.50; ewes, $9.20@11.50; and lambs, $16. 0@11. 25. SOUTH ST. PAUL LIVE STOCK. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 23.—Hogs— Receipts, 14,000, steady; range, $17.00 @17.10; bulk, $17.20@17,26. Cattle—Receipts, 3,800, with killers, steady; steers, $5.00@15.50; cows and heifers, $6.00@@8.50; calves, 25c higher at’ $5.00@12.00; stockers and feedsr, slow at $5.00@10.00. Sheep—Receipts, 2,500, steady with lambs at $8.00@16.50; wethers, $7.00 @13.00; ewes, $5.00@10.50. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK. Chicago, Nov. 23.—Hogs—Recelpts, 26,000, firm; bulk, $17.70@18.00; light, $17.15@18.00; mixed, $17.50@18.10; heavy, $17.50@18.05; rough, $17.50@ 17.65; pigs, $14.00@17.25. Cattle—Receipts, 6,000, steady, with native steers $7.40@15.00; western steers, $6.10@13.75; stockers and feed- ers, $6.10@11.25; cows and heifers, $5.00@11.90; calves, $7.00@13.00. Sheep—Receipts, 8,000, steady, with wethers at $8.75@12.90; sh $7.60@ 11.40; lambs, $12. 5 @ 17.38, WOOL MARKETS. Eoston, Mass., Nov. 23.—The Com- mercial Eulletin will say tomorrow: “Trading in the local wool market has been within restricted limits this week, although almost every kind of wool has been in request: Values keep very firm throughout the list. “Manufacturers report a greater per- centage of machinery than ever en- gaged on military contracts. The fall wools are being purchased in the couthwest at prices ranging from 50 to 54.” Scoured basis: Texas fine 12 months, 168@172; fine aight months, 155@160. | © California northern, 170@175; Mid lle county, 150@155; Southern, 135@ 140, Oregon: Eastern number one sta- ple, 180; eastern clothing, 150@160; Valley, No. 1, 160@165. Territory fine staple, 180@185; halt blood combing, 175@180; three-eighths blood combing, 145@150; fine clothing, 160@165; fine: medium clothing, 165 @160. Pulled extra, 180@185; A-A, ae 180; A-supers, Isa tes. com: —GRAIN MARKETS— MINNEAPOLIS. No. 3 yellow corn . No. 3 mixed Other grades corn . No. 2 W.. Mont. ........5 T44@ 73% SW ‘ 69%@ 10% Arrive . 694%4@ 70% No. 3 white oats». Arrive No. 4 white oats . Varley ......- : Choice barley . . 129° @135 Rye .... . 178 @179 Flax 882° @825 Corn Higher and Provisions Vary-, PACKING PRODUCTS, | Oats to arrive . son-in-lay, Count James Minotto, authorities in Chicago. turned to prove his innocence, Louis F. Swift, the Chicago packer, at right, is sustaining his who is under fire before federal The government questions the patriotism of Count Minotto, an Italian, and Swift is leaving no stone un- Flax to arrive . 164% @318%% | Oats, Dec. old . . 66% Oats, new ... 6840 % Vals, may, New . +. 68 Clase 1:40 p. m. DULUTH. Oats on trk .... Nov. ryé: Dec rye :| May rye . . celal Larley o ntrk . -T05: Barley on trk at Flax on track® wltba tlax arr. Nov. « B28Y% Flax, Dec. . 1 319% Flax, Nov. B25" Flax, Dec . B16KA Flax, May .. 15 A ° ae * fi CATTLE MARKETS ( © Se : ST. PAUL. HOGS—Receipts 14,000; steady; range 17.00@17.10; bulk $17.20@17.25. CATTLE —Receipts) 3,800;), steady; steers. $5.00@15.50 $6.00@8.10 5; calve! 12.004 (tockers and)feeders;.$5.00@) 10.00, Have -aniol, at 01 beioag’ SHEEP -Recetphe. 12,000 lambg,i$8,00@ 16.60; ,,. wethers.. $7, 00 ‘resent 13.00}. ewes -$5.00@10.50. CHICAGO. : HOGS—Receipts 26,000; firm; bulk, $17.80@18.00; light $17.20@18. OU; mixed $17.50@18.10; heavy $17.50@ 18.10; rough $15. 70@117. 50; pigs $16.00 @17.W. CATTLE—Receipts, 6,000; steady; native beef steers $7. 40@15. 00; west- ern steers $6.25@13.75; stockers and feeders, $6.10@11.25; cows and heif- ers, $5.00@11.90; ealves $7.00@13.00. SHEEP—Receipts 9,000; steady; Wethers $8.75@12.90; lambs $12.50@ HARRY CLOUGH BGOMES SECOND LIEUTEMAT OF BISMARCK HOME GUARD Veteran Military Man Voted Com- mission—Gilman Becomes First Sergeant. First Sergeant Clough ‘by unani- liemous vote has been elected second lieutenant of the Bismarck Home guard to succeed J. A. Flow, who has been forced to resign hf§ commission because of physical disabilities, bat who remains a loyal mem>er of the guard. In the same manner, Sergeant Gilman, a man of mature military ex- perience, was elected first sergeant to succeed Clough. Booze. Ban Hits Elks And Clubs Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 24—Man agers of the Minneapolis Athletic club and the Elks club were arrested by the Minneapolis police yesterday on charges of keeping unlicensed drink- ing places, folowing the raids on the places at noon yesterday by the police headed by Chief of Police Harthill. The Minneapolis club was also raid- ed, but no arrests were made there. A quantity of liquor was seized at the Athletic and Elks clubs, but none was found at the Minneapolis club. CLEANLINESS. What is more pleasant than cleanli- ness in your home? OUR LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANING will please you. Phone 54 and have our driver call. ROUGH DRY 7 cents per pound. 11 23 24 ; PUP BISMARCK INDIAN SCHOOL SUSPENDS; LS. GO HOME Ingtitution Closed Temporarily is Economy Measure—Chil dren Back to Camps. In view of the excessive costs o: the war and the necessity for econ- omy in every department of the na- tional government, the department o: lue interior has decreed that the Bis- ;marck Indian school be clesed for the remainder of the current school year. The matter has been under consider- ation for some time, and ‘he decision of the department is announced in a teiegram received today by Mayor A. Lucas from Franklyn K. Lane, sary of the interior. Secretary Lane says: gait “Your tele: steady, ;gram of. November. 11—Owing to ‘the; emergency ‘and financfal: ; stress due to war conditions, inability, to maintain the school without an ex- cessive expenditure and the fact that the pupils can be cared for in oiuer schools at much less cost and equally as well, it was deemed a wise policy temporarily to discontinue it now ‘rather than face the certain necessity of closing this and schools in the vi- cinity prior to the expiration of the school year.” As a matter of fact, very few chil- dren from the Bismarck schgol will go to other institutions. Families of students here have been coming in for the last ten days and taking their children back to the reservations, where they will remain. Other schools are regarded by the Indians as too fa. from home, encouraging the homesick- ness to which every Indian young and old is subject and which uas frequent: ly been known to prove fatal. FIFTY PERCENT OF NORTH DAKOTA BOARDS FILED NO “EXPENSES Genuine Patriotism Shown by .Of- in Connection with First Draft With further reference to the low expense shown by North Dakota in handling the first draft, which in this state cost Uncle Sam less than in any other American commonwealth which turned in a bill for its services, it is stated today that more than fifty per cent of the county boards in North Da- kota, including that of Bureligh, turn- ed in no expense account whatever to the attorney general. These board members contributed their own services, and any items of traveling expense or clerk hire incur- red were absorbed by the counties. ficers | The per capita cost of $2.72 therefore represents the amount charged the government by the less than fifty per cent of the North Dakota counties which asked for renumeration, and had not the bills of some of these counties been pared considerably by the atorney general, the average per capita would have been much higher than it is. As has been previously stated, Ad- jutant General Frazier is preparing a list showing the county boards which} contributed their services to Uncle Sam and those who did not, with the amounis crarged by the latter. This tabulation will result in credit being given where credit is due. Will call and deliver your cleaning and pressing. Bryant. Phone 788. Lit |letter today addressed ‘o FARM AS WELL AS THE FACTORY MUST DO PART Agriculture Will be Required to Furnish Quota for New Draft, Says Crowder. BLOW I8 TO BE STRUCK IN BATTLE, NOT TRADE Victory Will Be Wion by Strong Right Arm of Men, Not by Shrewd Tricks of Trader Washingion, D. U.. Nov. 24.—‘The blow that shatters the German line and extinguishes autocracy from the face of the earth will se the blow of man’s right arm, and not the insidious stroke of a shrewd trader,” rayx Pro- vost ‘Marsal General Crowder in’ che 1 sands of members of dist:ict and Io- cal exemption boards who are pra- paring for the second draft. His message is an appeal! for every industry to assume its-share of the ‘burden by contributing its proooriion- ate quota of skilled workers sad mac ing the requisite readjustments Commenting on the success of tae firsi draft, he says: “Moving breathlessly, supported bv the governors of the States and by the members of our selection boards with a patriotism, ‘devotion, and un- selfish zeal tuat remains an inspira- tion io the nation, we have accom- plished our purpose within the time limits at our disposal.” Then he takes up the five classes, one by one. “In Class J we shall have in every community immediate- ly availasle for military service single men and a few married men whose removal will not disturb the reason- adly adequate support of their depend- jents. In the industrial and agricul- | tural aspect, we shall uave segregated into this class men who have not espe- cially fitted thtemselves for industrial or agricultural pursuits, so that our only incursion into the labor supplv will affect but a small percentage of j unskilled labor.” Must Take Farm Laborers. | “In Class JJ we find men who can be taken without disturbing the sup- port of any. dependent and, as I shall presently show you, if the necessitv of: drawirig?onClass II arrives, we must. ‘demand’ even from agriculture and ‘industry an adjustment to replace a small percentage of skilled labor af- fected by the draft—men who, while occupying no pivotal or important po- sition, can serve indusiry or agricul- ture better than unskilled men. “Should the pinch of military neces- sity increase beyond Class II, it would mean that the nation would have to begin to commit itself to hardship and to an a:ljustment in agriculture and industry to meet the paramount ne- cessity. We take in Class III a very small class of persons upon whom others are dependent for support, ba: we do not break up the closest and sec-; Most sacred of ‘the family relation- shins. We also:.invade the field of eezicuituya,.and industry to the ex- tent afataking, in the small percent- wage affected, men,who have special- ized themselves or who occupy rather pivotal positions. “In Class IV we find the men whom we shall take as a last resort. Be- fore that class is reached it is per- fectly safe to say that by the addi- tion of other classes as to age, say jthose who have attained 21 since registration day and perhaps adding the classes of 18 and 19 and 20 years’ old, men, we shall have included two or three million men in our available list, and thus have saved Class IV. “Class V comprises the field of a)- solute exempts. “There is one thought that I muzt impress to eradicate an erroneous view that may be taken of this clasat- fication: “We are dealing in the field of labor supply. Presuming ‘hat the labor sup- ply of industry and agriculture com: prises men between the ages of 13 and 50, and assuming, for the purpose of this exposition, that there are 1,000,000 men of each of these ages, we are dealing with 32 classes, appur- tenaat to agriculture and to the var- fous industries. The draft affects ten- thirty seconds of this supply or only about 31 per cent. Therefore turning to Class II, when we:find skilled farm labor listed there, it does not mean that when Class II is exhausted all skilled farm laborers will have been taken. From these figures, it would seem to mean that 31 per cent of iill skilled farm labor will hav been taken. But even this figure is mis- leading. Without the definite statis- tics that the present draft will event- ually afford I can say, I think, that within this class of skilled laborers at least 62 per cen: of those liable to draft will be found in classes more de- ferred than Class II by reason of de- pendents, alienage, and the like. The result is that when we have exhausted Class Il, we shall have taken only 12 per cent of ihe skilled labor appurte- nant to agriculture. The same figures apply to other industries.” ————— | CITY NEWS i —— Here From Grafton.—J. W. Maxwell of Grafton was among the business visitors in the city Wednesday. Licensed to Wed.—A marriage li- cense was issued Wednesday to Babe A Josephson and Sirri Gylden of Wing. Ashley Visitor.—Attorney George of Ashley, was in the city Wednesday transacting business and ‘calling. on friends. . FOR SALE LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING SERVICES at the same OLD PRICES. The place where hundreds of people are pleased with our laundry and dry cleaning and dyeing. If you-‘are not one of them, just call Phone 54 and try our work...ROUGH DRY 7 cénts per pound. Bismarck Steam Laun- dry. 11 23 24 ey ve 4 > ‘ » ’ ‘ . ‘ “ Ws | ’ . pi a . ’ ele RSs