The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1917, Page 4

FOUR BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck. N._D., as Second Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY GEORGE D. MANN, Editor | G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. | 7 YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHI- | CAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOS'TON, | 3 Winter St.; DEROIT, Kresge, Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Fexchange. 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Highest wind velocity Forecast. | for North Dakota: Probably light snow tonight and Wednesday; colder tonight and east and ceniral portions Wednesday. Lowest Temperatures Fargo ... 4 Williston . —8 Pierre . 16 St. Paul . 20 ‘Winnipeg —12 Helena .... 30 Chicago . 3 SwiftcG on Kansas 30 San ‘Hvangisco .....+ FY ORRIS W. ROBERTS Meteorolog! HER TERRIBLE LOSS. The kaiser’s man, Chancellor Hert- ling, wants this kind of a peace: “Not a self-denial peace, not a peace of conquest but a peace which con- tains the guarantee of permanence end of a competition between the Eu- ropean nations in the service of kul- tur and humanity, on the basis of mu- tual’ respect and mutual confidence.” That, any part of Germany ‘atito racy,can. even think such a peace pos: sible shows:that Germany does not yet understand the war and its ir- remediable effects. . Mutual respect and confidence are not matters over which nations can sit down and make bargains. The human brains do not exist which can restore Germany's loss in respect and confidence of the nations, for respect and confidence ¢an neither be forced nor secured by bargain. Germany is iu w class with the notoriously bad hotel, bad woman, bad dog, bad actor, and all the sacrifice she might be willing to make at the peace table cannot lift her out of it. Alas! at the height of her power, culture, prog: ress and influence for good, Germany has branded herself with the barbar ism, treachery, ferocity and vileness of the Hun, and Hun she will remain long after peace dawns upon a civi lization that she has brutally ravished and betrayed. 2eace may give Germany much. will not be able to give her the re spect and confidence of other peoples HAVE TO HAVE THEIR POLITICS. Our Canadian neighbors are the greatest players of politics on earth. Canadians may give up such things as work, love, religion and schooling. but they will hang on to politics to their last kick. Travel in Canada and you'll not only be surprised at the general absorption in politics but also at the skill and intelligence with which even the barnyard hands dis- cuss it. So, it is not surprising that Mar- quis Lansdowne, who had long experi- ence in Canadian politics, should at this time, or any other, spring peace propositions that rattle Lloyd George's government. To do it when the allies are trying to settle down to unity of action was good politics. That mischief may result doesn’t count. Lansdowne leaps out of obscurity into prominence, Lloyd George has got to reply, the political pot is boiling, and the British and Canadian politicians are happy. Cablegrams report that President Wilson is expected to say something that will restore the political unity -mongst the British. Maybe he will. Mayoe, also, he will have to say some- thing to again put down our own paci- fists who have gone to chortling over Lansdowne's “break.” A fellow might stand his butcher and grocer off, raise a corking Christ- mas, dinner, and then go into bank- got even, the cost of that raised so ‘h that it wouldn’t pay. What's the Saivation army going to serve up? DOOM OF THE DOUGHNUT. And among the youths of a great land there shall be wailing and gnash- ing of teeth, and strong men standing in the eating places shall mourn loud- ly and shall call down maledictions upon the curse of conservation ;“they shall revile even their handmaidens, their cooks and their waiting ladies and condemn them for denying the food of the hasty. And those that are given to the drinking of coffee shall turn away unsatisfied, for what is the drink of the gods, yea, even the amber liquid if it be not accom- panied by the doughnut delectable, by the nut that has nourished the hurried of the nations! For lo, it is written that the dough- nut shall vanish from among us. On the scrolls of the cooks it is written, and on the tablets of the food con- servers. And though ‘the voice of the people shall be lifted in anguish and the heavens be rent with the shouts of the protestors, yet shall the law be fulfilled and that which was beloved among viands shall be abol- ished utterly. And behold punishment is visited upon the doughnut for its transgres- sions, for its temptations of the peo- ple unto the sin of gluttony. For it is made of fine wheaten flour of great price and mixed with sweetness and with the fruit of fowls, also af great price, and handmaidens prepare it for ‘the table, broiling it in fats, yea, the priceless fat of swine, so that it is puffed up with richness and of flavor exceeding fine. And men do look up- on it pleasantly, rejoicing in its excess of fatness and devouring it with glad ness, So hath it fallen into ill repute among the elders, and taking council with the handmaidens of the tribe they have conspired against it that it shall cease. And the handmaidens rejoice, ying, “Verily, this which hath flourished among us, consuming the stores of our nation, called among men the ‘sinker,’ shall pass and be destroyed forever lest it be ‘sinker’ indeed and founder the ship of state.” Norway gives convicted German bombers seven months’ imprisonment. It’s simply diigerous to slap the kai- ser’s wrist that way. SS Germany's reported peace terms to Russia show that the kaiser still clings to his idea that he'll keep what he’s got of the other fellows and ask for more. New Russia’s first donation to the cause of world-wide democracy may be the release of about a million of German, prisoners, whom Cerman au- jtocracy can use in beating up democ- racy, | vg Garo Z ‘Von Rethmann-lollweg, with a big staff of ‘assistant diplomats, is going to Switzerland “on a political mission t great importance.” Now is the time for the Swiss to lock up their hams and che Daughter of a Seattle judge marries a. Jap, because, she says, ‘they are “mental plane mates.” Everything goes, these days! If they can’t marry for love's sake they go to it because they both wear No. 6 shoes! CRAWFORD. ANG BREWER CARRY FGHT TO FUE Grand Forks D., Dec. 4.—Lewis | F. Crawford, president, and Charles Brewer, secretary, of the North Da- kota board of regents today through Attorney Aubrey .Lawrence of Fargo} procured from District Judge C. M. Cooley temporary writs of prohibi- tion and injunction against Robert Muir, George Totten and C. E. Ver- milya, restraining them from in any manner interfering with the official position of the petitioners. The injunction is returnable in dis- trict court here Dec. 15. Immediately afler the opening of the meeting this morning the board went into executive session. This aft- ernoon the board met with the uni- versity faculty committee to consider | the selection of a president for the} university. BENEFIT DANCE FOR LADIES’ AUXILIARY The treasury of the Ladies’ Auxil-| jary to Co: A has been drained by | recent demands made on it, and the mothers, sisters, wives and sweet-; hearts of members of Bismarck’s pio-| neer infantry company composing the auxiliary find Christmas approaching with no funds with which to meet it. To remedy this condition a benefit dance will be given Saturday evening at Patterson’s hall, M. J. O’Connor donating the hall and his orchestra. The public is invited to turn out and| assist the boys who will be in France | |before Christmas, to enjoy a real holiday season. NEW DEPUTY Edgar J. Olson of Grand Forks has | succeeded as deputy commissioner of | agriculture Lloyd Rader, who resign- ed some time ago to return to Dick- inson and resume the dairy business. Olson is a graduate of the state agri- PRESIDENT WILSON URGED DECLARATION OF WAR (Continued from Page One) when this thing and its power are indeed defeated and the time comes ‘that we can d German people ha word we can believe and when those spokesmen are ready in the name of their people to accept the common judgment of the nation as to what shall henceforth be the basis of law and of covenant for the life of the world—we shall he willing and glad to pay the full price for peace and pay it ungrudgingly. We know what ‘that price will be. It will be full, impa justice-——justice done at ev- ery point and to every nation, the final settlement must affect our ene- mies as well as our friends. Voices of Humanity. “You catch, with me, the voices of humanity that are in the air. grow daily more audible, more articu- late, more per: ve, and they come from the hearts of men everywhere. They insist that the war shall not end in vindictive action of any kind; that no nation or people shall be robbed or punished because the irre- sponsible rulers of a single country have themselves done deep and abom- inable wrong. It is this thought that has been expressed in the formula, “No annexations, no contributions, no punitive indemnities,” just because this crude formula expresses the in- stinctive judgment as to right of plain men everywhere it has been made diligent use of by the masters of Ger- man intrigue to’ lead the people o! Russia astray and people of every other country, their agents . could reach in order that a premature peace might be brought about before autoc- racy has been taught its final and con- vincing lesson, and the people of the world put in control of their own des- tinie: Wrong Use of Just Idea. “But the fact that a wrong use has been made of a just idea is no reason why a right use should not be made of it. It ought to ke brought under the patronage of its real friends. Let it be said again that autocracy must first be shown the utter futility of its claims to power or leadership in the modern world. It is impossible to ap- ply any standard of justice so long as such forces. are unchecked and un- defeated as the present masters of Germany command. Not until that has been done can right be set up as arbiter and peace makers among the nations, But when that: has been done—as God willing, it-assuredly will be—we, shal] at last be free to do an unprécetented thing an V thid' id the time to, avow_ our, purpose to do it, generosity, and, justice, tg ‘the, exclu- sion of all selfish’ claim$“to advantage, even on the part of victors. “Let there be no misunderstanding. Our present and immediate task is to win: the war. And nothing shall turn us aside from it until it is accomp- lished. Every power and resource we possess, whether of men, of money, or of materials, is being devoted and will continue to be devoted to that purpose until it is achieved, Those who desire to ‘bring -peace about be-| fore that: purpose is achieved, I coun-| sel to carry:their advice elsewhere; |, We will not entertain it. We shall regard the war as, won only when..the; German. people say, to, us,, through nroverly. accerdited,:.representatives, that they are ready to agree to a set- tlement, based upon justice and the reparation of the wrongs their rulers have done. They have done a wrong to Belgium, which must be repaired. They have established a power over the great empire of Austria-Hungary, over. hitherto free Balkan states, over Turkey, and within Asia—which must be relinquished. Germany’s success by skill, by industry, by knowledge, by enterprise we did not grudge or op- nose, but admired rather. built up for herself a real empire of trade and jnfluence, assured by the peace of the world. We were con- tent to abide the rivalries of manu- facture, scierce and commerce, that were involved for us in her success, and stand or fall as we had or did not have the brains and the initiative to surpass her. Threw Away Triumphs. “But at the moment when she had conspicuously won her triumphs of peace, she threw them away to estab- lish in their stead what the world will no longer permit to be established, military and political domination by arms, by which to oust where she could not excel the rivals she most feared and hated. The peace we make must remedy that wrong. It must deliver the once fair lands and hap- py peoples of Belgium and northern France from the Prussian conquest, and the Prussian menace, but it must also deliver the peoples of Austria- Hungary, the peoples of the Balkans, and the peoples of Turkey, alike in Europe and in ‘Asia, from the impud ent and alien domination of the Prus- sian military and commercial autoc- racy. No Conquest Desired. “We owe it, however, to ourselves to say that we do not wish in any way to impair or to rearrange the Austro-Hungarian empire. It is no affair of ours what they do with their own life, either industrially or poli- tically. We do not purpose or desire to dictate to them in any way. We only desire to see that their affairs are left in their own hands, in all matters, great or small. We shall hope to secure for the peoples of the Balkan peninsula and for the people of the Turkish empire the right and opportunity to make their own lives safe, their own fortunes secure against oppression or injustice and from the dictation of foreign courts or parties.” No Wrong Against Germany. “And our atiitude and purpose with regafd to Germany herself are of a little kind. We intend no wrong against the German empire, no inter- ference with her internal affairs. We should deem either the one or the other absolutely unjustifiable, abso- lutely contrary to the principles we have professed to live by and to hold most sacred, throughout our life as a nation. “The people of Germany are being told by the men whom they now per- mit to deceive them and to act as cultural college who has been engaged ruptey Bur“ ewUnTeration? —Trey-re their masters that they are fighting as)Grand Forks, agricultural, gqunty,| for the very life and existence of their}: Sas ; 5 peace—when the! spokesmen whose! They | We shafl Le’trée%to ‘base™'peace Sir] She had! fense against deliberate aggression. Nothing could be more grossly or) wantonly false, and we must seek by| the utmost opefness and candor as to our real aims to convince them of its falseness. We are, in fact, fighting for their emancipation from fear, along with our own, from the fear as| | by neighbors or rivals or schemers; | after world empire. -No‘one is threat- ening the existence of the independ- ence or the peaceful enterprise of the German empire. For Their Emancipation. e worst fhat can happen to the detriment of the German people is this, that if they should still, after | the war is over, continue to be obliged to live under ambitious and intrigu- | ing masters, interested to disturb the peace of the world, men or classes of| }men, whom the other peoples of the! world could not trust, it might be impossible to admit them to the part- nership of nations, which must hence- forth guarantee the world peace. “That partnefsnip must be a part- ‘ship of peoples, not a mere part- | nership of governments. It might be imp ble, also, in such untoward cir- | cumstances, to admit Germany to the} free economic intercourse, which must | inevitably spring out of the other part- nerships of areal péace. But there would be no dggression in that, and such a situation, inevitably because of | distrust, would in the very nature of | things, sooner or later, cure itself by| ; Processes which would assuredly; j set in. “The wrongs, the very deep wrongs, , committed in this war, will have to be| j Tighted. That of course. But they| | cannot aud must not be righted by the! | commission of similar wrongs against! | Germany and her allies. Peopie Isolated. “The world will not permit the com- | mission of similar wrongs as a means | | ot reparation and settlement. The thought of the plain people here and everywhere throughout the world, the people who enjoy no privilege and have very simple and unsophisticated | standards of right and wrong is the air all the governments must hence-; {forth breathe if they would live. It) is in the full disclosing light of that ‘though that all the policies must be! conceived and executed in this midday | hour of the world’s life. German rul- ers have been able to upset the peace of the world only because the Ger- man people were not suffered under their tutelage to share the comrade- ship of the other people of the world,! either in thought or in purpose. They were allowed to have no opinion of their own which might bet set up as; a rule of conduct, for those who exer- cise authority over them. But the congress that concludes this war will feel ‘the full strength of the tides that) run now’ in the hearts and consciences | of free men everywhere. Its conclu- sions will run with those tides.” Giving a plain warning, however, that he would not hesitate to ask for a declaration of war on Turkey andj Bulgaria when he considered it neces-+ sary, the president said: “We wnall go wherever the neces-' sities of this war carry us, but it} seems to me that we’ should go only where immediate and practical con-| ; Sideration lead us and not heed any} others.” % { Peace, the president: told congress, ; can come only when the Prussian au- tocracy is beaten down; when the German people make peacé with the "world through rulers the world can “trust; when: they make’ reparation for the wrongs their present ‘rulers have ‘doné,' arid ‘when'the. éhslaved people’ of Belgium, northern France and: the Balkans have been set’ free, The World Awake. “Statesmen must by this time have learned that the opinion of the world is everywhere wideawake and fully comprehends the issues involved. No representatives of any self-governed nations will dare disregard it by at- ‘tempting any such covenants of self- ‘ishness and compromise as were en- | tered into at the congress of Vienna. All these things have been true from the very beginning of this stu- | pendous war, and\I cannot help thinv- ing that if they had been made plain at the very outset the sympathy and enthusiasm of the Russian people might have been once for all enlisted jon the ‘side of, the allies, suspicion and distrust swept away and a real and lasting union of purpose effected. | lad they believed. these things at the very moment of their revolution and had they been confined in ‘that beliet since, the sad reverses ‘which have! come,” said the president, in con:! 1. recently marked the progress of their | affairs toward an ordered and stable government of free men might have| heen avoided. “The Russian people have been poi-! soned by the very same falsehoods | that have kept the German people in| ! the dark, and the poison has been ad- ‘ministered by the very same hands. The only possible antidote is the truth. It cannot be uttered too plain- ly or too often. Speaks for All Nations. “From every point of view, there-| ‘fore, it has seemed to be my duty to; speak these declarations of purpose, to add these specific interpretations |of what I took the liberty of saying | to the senate in January. Our en- trance into the war has not altered our attitude toward the settlement ‘that must come when it is over. When I said in January that the nations of the world were entitled not only. to! | free pathways upon the sea, but also to assured and unmolested access to i these pathways, I was thinking, and I ; am thinking now, not of the smaller | and weaker nations alone, which need our countenance and support, but also of the great and powerful nations, and of -our present enemies as. well as our present associates in thé:war. was thinking, and am thinking now, of Austria herself, among the - rest, ‘as well as of Serbia, and of Poland. | Justice and equality of rights can be had only at a great price. We are | seeking permanent, not temporary, | foundations for the peace of the , world, and must seek them candidly ‘and’ fearlessly. As always, the right will prove to be the expedient. | | «what shall we do then, to push this great war of freedom and jus- tice to its righteous conclusion? We) must clear away with a thorough hand all impediments to success and we | must make every adjustment of law | that will facilitate the full and free juse of our whole capacity, and force as a fighting unit. s Must War on Austria. “One of the very obstacles | Sind _in_nve_maw ta ihe well as from the fact of unjust attack / war with Germany, but not with her, allies. I therefore very earnestly rec-{ ommend that the congress immediate- ly declare that the United States is in a state of war with Austria-Hungary. Does it seem strange to you that this should be the conclusion of the argu- ment I have just addressed to you? It is not. It is, in fact, the inevitable logic of what I have said. Austria- Hungary is for the time being not her own mistress, but simply the vassal of the German government. We must face the facts as they are, and act upon them without sentiment in this| stern business. The government of Austria-Hungary is not acting upon its own initiative or in response to the wishes and feelings of its own peoples, but as the instrument of an- other nation. We must meet its force with our own, and regard: the cen- tral powers as but one. The war can be successfully conducted in no other way. The same logic would lead also to a declaration of war against Turkey and Bulgaria. They also are the tools of Germany. ‘But they are meré tools and do not yet stand in the direct path of our necessary action. We shall go} wherever the necessities of this war carry us, but it seems to me that we should go only where immediate and practical considerations lead us, and not heed any others. Measures Necessary. “The financial and military meas- ures, which must be adopted will sug- gest themselves as the war and its undertakings develop, but I will. take the liberty of proposing to you cer- tain other acts of legislation which seem to me to be needed for the sup- port of the war and for the release of our whole force and energy. It will) be necessary to extend in certain par- ‘ticulars the legislation of the last ses- sion with regard to alien enemies; and also necessary, I believe, to cre- ate a very definite and particular con- trol over the entrance and departure of all persons into and from the Unit- ed States.” Germany's declaration that she is fighting a war of self-defense against deliberate aggression the president declared “wantonly” false, and he re- iterated anew that no one is threat- ening the independence of the peace- ful enterprise of Germany. Of those who speak of peace without the over- throw of the German autocracy, the president declared: The Strutting Pacifist. “I hear men debate peace who un- derstand neither its nature nor the) way in which we may attain it. h uplifted eyes and unbroken spirit, they may safely be left to strut their uneasy hour and ‘be forgotten.” Declaring anew that the United) States has no war on Germany's skill, | enterprise or commercial achievement, | | the president! dédlaréd that'the United ; States became Germany’s enemy only, when she’ started’ out'to ‘dominate the! world’’by force of arms; '? cebed The Russian’ Situation.) 4 The developments’ in’ Russia’ the! president dismissed it'd‘ few words: “The Russian people’ have been poi- soned by the very same dark false- hoods,” he said, “that have kept the German people in the dark, and the poison has been adminfstered by the very same hands. ’ The only possible antidote is the truth. It cannot be ut- tered too plainly or tooo: often.” Defense of Home Country. | Accompanying his. recommendations | “for a declaration of war on Austria, told congréss' it must take adequate provisions to. ~ prétect, | the’ ‘nation against the alien enemies. He de- ‘and’ particular control” over all per- sons entering or leaving the United States. tion covering enemy alien activity should be punished by penitentiary sentences for women as well as men. Would Control Profiteers. Among recommendations for legis- lation connected with the war, the president included more laws to con- trol profiteering. The law of supply and demand, the president declared, had been replaced by the “law of un- restrained selfishness.” To congress, itself, the president made a plea for economy in government expenditures. The president closed with an ap- peal to congress to devote its entire energies to legislation for winning the war and reiterated the disinter- ested war policy of the United States, seeking only for the preservation of liberty and democracy. Hand of God on the Nation. “A supreme moment of history has clusion. “The eyes of the people have been opened and they see. of God is laid upon the nation. He lieve, only if they rise to the clearer heights of His own justice and mercy. Our Alien Enemies. .“Legislation should be enacted de- fining as a criminal offense every wil- ful violation of the presidential proc- lamations relating to alien enemies promulgated under section 4067 of the revised statutes and providing appro- priate punishment; and women as well } as men should be included under the terms of the act placing restraint up- on alien enemies. Would Pen Them Up. “It is likely that as time goes on, many alien enemies will be willing to be fed and housed at the expense of the government in the detention of the legislation I have suggested to confine offenders among them in peni- tentiaries and other similar institu- tions, where they could be made to work as well as criminals do. Must Fix Prices. “Recent experience has convinced me that the congress must go further in authorizing ihe government to set the limits to prices. The law of sup- ply and demand, I am sorry to say, has been replaced by the law of un- restrained selfishness. While we have eliminated profiteering in several branches of industry it still runs im- pudently rampant in others. The farmers, for example, complain with a great deal of justice, that while the regulation of food prices restricts their incomes, no restraints are placed upon the prices of most of the things they must themselves purchase; and similar inequalities obtain on all sides. Must Use Water Power. “It is imperatively necessary that the consideration of the full use of the water power of the country and nantes nn nen otitl windatr ohatiahs Fearliest possible moment. the president in-no- uncertain terms, | clared it should create a “very definite’, Violations of the proclama-| The hand; will show them favor, I devoutly be- | camps and it would be the purpose | also. the consideration of the system-| 39. atic and yet economical developments of such of-the natura! resources of Get. your lunch, at. Patterson’s cafe. of the federal government should ve! immediately resumed, and affirmative: | ly and constructively dealt with at the The press- ing need of such legislation is daily growing more obvious. Regulation of Combines. “The legislation proposed at the last session with regard to regulated com- binations among our exporters, in or- der to provide for our foreign trade, | a more effective organization and | method of co-operation, ought by all) means to be completed at this ses- sion. “And I beg that the members of! the house of representatives will per- mit me to express the opinion that it will be impossible to deal in any way but a very wasteful and extravagant fashion with the enormous appropri- ations of the public moneys, which must continue to be made, if the war is to be properly sustained, unless the house will consent to return to its for- mer practice of initiating and prepar- ing all appropriation bills, through a single committee, in order that re-| sponsibility may be centered, expen- ditures standardized, and made unt- form and waste and duplication us much as possible avoided. The Railway Problem. “Additional legislation may also be- come necessary before the present congress adjourns, in order to effect the most efficient co-ordination and operation of the railway and other transportation systems of the coun try; but to that, [ shall, if circum- stances shall demand, call the atten- tion of congress upon another occa- sion.” “The purposes of the central pow ers are to strike straight at the very heart of everything we believe in; their methods of warfare outrage ev- ery principle of humanity and knight- ly honor; their intrigue corrupted the yery thought and spirit of many of} our people; their sinister and secret} diplomacy in the south is to take our; very territory away from us and to disrupt the union of states. “Our safety would be at an end, our, honor forever sullied and brought into, contempt were we to permit their triumph. They are striking at the very existence of democracy and lib- erty. It is because it is for us a war) of high, distinterested purpose, in which all the free peoples of the) world are banded together for the vin- dication of right, a war for the pres- ervation of our nation and of all that is held dear of principle and of pur- pose, that we feel ourselves doubly, constrained to propose for its out- come only that which is righteous and of irreproachable intention for our foes as well as our friends. “For this cause we entered the war and for this cause will we battle un- til the last gun is fired. I have spok- en plainly because this is a time when it is most necessary to speak, plain- ly, for a supreme moment of history has come.” [PROTESTS FILED AGHINST SEWERS COST FINDINGS Property-Holders Contend Ex- pense is not Equitably Dis- tributed as Per Benefits TWO OPPOSED TO PAYING | FOR PAVING DISTRICT: | Frank B. Allen, Frank E. Hedden, the Newark Home Builders Co., the Bismarck Home Builders Co., W. A. Falconer, F. H. Register, John F. forte, Anna Slattery, R. H. Johnson, Helen ‘J. Register, Margaret Christo- pher and H. C. Rhud, through Attor- “ney Ed S. Allen, last evening filed | with the city commission protests | against storm sewer assessments Nos. !1 and 2, complaining that the special assessment commission has not equit- | ably pro-rated the costs according to TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1917 REMEMBER CASEY? HE'S WHOLE BOARD OF CONTROL NOW Governor Pays League Debt to Candidate for Treasurer who Fell by Wayside PRESIDENT OF EQUITY COOPERATIVE PACKERS Governor Lynn J. Frazier has “re: membered Casey.” A certificate cf the appointment of Patrick M. Casey of Cass county to be a member of che state board of con- trol was filed with Assistant Secre- tary of State Wilder late ‘Monday evening by Governor Frazier. Casey succeeds R. S. Lewis, former caair- man of the board, whose resignation took effect December 1. The new member’s term of office dates from December 1. Patrick M. Casey was the only league candidate for state office who fell by the wayside in the Townley landslide one year ago. John Steen ‘bumped Patrick by some several hua- dred votes. Pat ran on the demo- cratic ticket, and, though the league prinied up a lot of literature showing voters just how to scratch Steea in the repudlican column and jump over into the democratic division and vote for Casey, not a sufficient number of leaguers “remembered Casey.” The governor, however, has. not for- gotten Casey. Casey announced in Fargo yesterday that he would be the new member of the board, and the governor apparently reached tie sama conclusion at about the same time. Although the commission was filed in the secretary of state’s office last evening, the board of control had not been taken into the governor’s con- fidence up to noon today, and its members knew only what Fargo news- papers reports gave them. Casey has been president of the Equity Cooperative Packing Plant Co. since its organization and has been prominent in league organization work, Gives Gaston a Job The governor yesterday also ap- pointed Herbert G. Gaston, editor of the Fargo Courier-News, a/member of the state council of defense and ap- pointed L. J. Wehe of Ramsey coun- ty chairman of the military advisory ‘board. - Mr. Wehe thus becomes cus- todian of the military reservation at Devils, Lake. i DANGE TO OPEN HALL TONIGHT A vig dance at the new Fifth street hall tonight will open the season’s-so- cial activities. A big attendance is SIGN OF THE TIMES: NORTHERN EXPRESS CO. NEEDS MORE OFFICES Another evidence that Bismarck is growing is found in the necessity for lincreased office facilities which the Northern Express Co. has met by es- taplishing a city office in the North- west hotel building. All of the com- |pany’s business wil be transacted from jthis point. The partition dividing off business quarters for the express company in the Northern Pacific sta- tion building have been removed, giv- jing the company ample capacity for ; benefits derived, but has, they con-'the storage of ten loaded trucks where | tend, adopted a flat-rate basis, charg- ing every lot the same amount. | The protests were received and re- ‘ferred to the city attorney, and the special assessments were approved by the city commission. The same course cial assessment on paving district No. | The protestants, who were repre- | sented by Attorney Allen, alleged that j the paving has not been built accord- j ing to specifications and that the cost has not been equitably assessed. | Attorney Allen, representing Bis- marck motion picture men, persuaded ordinance adopted last June assess-| ing picture theaters an annual license fee of $180 and to reduce this tax to $75 per year. , that what with war taxes, high cost of | films and other expenses, movie men | now have a deuce of a time to make | a bare living. Over the objection of Commissioner ; Bertsch, who objected to the city's fencing a public highway which he claims has been in use for more than 40 years, the commission resolved to restore a fence which J. J. Jackman last summer raised across the old j road to the river. The Ford Paving company’s final H ‘estimate on work done this year in district No. 2, calling for $47,253, was approved and ordered paid. On motion of Commissioner Best an additional 500 feet of Johnson “Quality” dogble jacketed fire hose was purchased. ¢ o | MANDAN NEWS | ¢ Play at Judson—The Mandan or- chestra furnished music for a dance at Judson on Saturday night. Cleared $20--The Red Cross play “A Poor Married Man,” staged at Flasher several nights ago, was one o the most successful home talent plays ever staged at Flasher. About $80 was cleared from the event. To Cure a Cold in Gne Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUI- NINE Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. tOVE’S signature is one each box. Mr. Allen stated! izing befort it could handle but six. Kob- ert L. Walton, the Northern agent here, is much pleased with the im- provement, which he believes will make ior much greater etficiency. | was adopted by the commission with regard to protests from E. G. Patter- MASONIC son and Anna Slattery against the spe-! CHARGE OF LAST RITES ___ (Continued trom Page ‘re) Steele, and for many years he had ‘een head of the Dakota‘Montana di- vishion of the United States depart- the city commission to amend an!ment of animal husbandry. Ouly re- cently his headquarters were trans- ferred to St. Paul’ in order that he might devote all of his time te special- in bovine tuberculosis, upon which he was one of the department’s foremast specialists, and he was re- Neved of general detail work here. His government work has extended over the entire northwest. Not many years ago he was assigned the most interesting task of innoculating the buffalo, bear and other wild animals of Yellowstone national park against an infection which threatened their destruction. As the head of a large Party of experts, Dr. Treasy super- vised the coralling and roping of but- falo, grizzlies and other patients and carried out the work without the loss of an animal. More recently he was detailed on work of a similar nature in Glacier national park. In the hoof and mouth disease epidemic which swept over a large part of the cattle country a year ago, Dr. Treacy ren- dered distinguished service, and his opinions were sought and respected by men high in-his profession every- where. During his residence of 30 years or more in, Bismarck Dr. Treacy had proven himself a valuable citizen. He had acquired considerable property holdings here, and was active in pro- moting municipal progress, although never prominent in local politics. He was an eranest supporter of the 'Boy Scout movement. There survive the widow, a daugh- ter of the well known Steele pioneer Patterson family and a sister of Mrs. August Johnson of Washdurn, and three children—Lieut. R. H. Treacy, U. S. A.; Miss Dorothy Treacy and Master Kenneth Treacy. WANTED—Girl for general house- work. Good wages. Telephone NEW STH STREET expected ‘by'the management.’ 1). . ~ ae ON gee ¢ iv