The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1917, Page 4

PAGE 4 BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoftice, Bismarek, N. D., as Second Class Matter ISSUED EVERY DAY GEORGE D. MANN G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresge Bldg.; MINNEA- POLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re- publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE vaily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month........ Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month.. Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month. Daily, Evening and’ Sunday, per month ... Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one year .. Morning or Evening by mail outside of North Dakota, one year, Sunday in Combination with Evening or Morning by mail, one year Editor (Established 1873) EDITORIAL BY A SOLDIER. We had intended writing an editorial on what the training ourse at Camp Sherman is doing for our young men. But Ser- zeant E, HW. Taylor of Cincinnati, Company H, 330th Infantry, ‘sus the truoble. Sergeant Taylor v an actor before he went tu Camp Sherman, two months ago. He is of the type of thousands vf young en who make up our national army. We asked him the well known question: the army?”’ And he replied: “These have been the best two months of my life, and of the lives of most of the young men here. “It has been hard, trying work, and some people may eall it dirty work at times, but we are all better men for it. Because we have learned to be thorough, to do the day’s work without com- plaining, to take whatever comes manfully. “Dirty work? There is no such thing. That we are learning, too. Work is clean or dirty according to a man’s spirit. A job is dirty only as a man makes it so. We are learning that one ean peel potatoes, and wash pots and pans, and serub floors, and dig diteh and still have the same kind of pride in the job that a man take singing a song well or writing a good book. “It’s as aman thinks. Personally I, and others I know, have tried to keep in mind the thought that whatever the task, we are work- ers in a great national service, I am trying to fecl always that I public servant. Once I used to think that my duty as a citi- zen was done when I voted. In the army I have learned to see whatevétof good or bad [ do is for the benefit or the injury of the wholé cause. I like to believe that this feeling of responsibility will stick With me after I go back to civil life. “We are learning to do a job completely and conscientiously. We know that when our barracks floor has specks on it, after being serubbed, a complete job has not been done, because our officers do not hesitate to inform us. “hus, doing a job right is becoming second nature with us. Being conscientious is becoming an automatic funetion. “We are learning discipline and order, We must keep our kits and utensils just so, or we hear from the officers. Order is, there- fore, becoming a habit with us. We must wear our clothes neatly, according to regulations. Those of us who are inclined to be sloven- ly are acquiring neatness as second nature. Cleanliness is com- “How do you like pS, in 3 pulsory. Peace will return to ys millions of men with whom san- itaty i Rs is a passion. WIN 2: § ‘ i We pass our evenings in the: clean environment of the Y. M. C. A. buildings with their, books)'and ‘magazines, and music, and clean men. It is true that not all the men now in the eamp passed their evenings just that way in the old days before the war. I be- lieve the habit of clean living and clean thinking surely will stick with most of us after the war.’ Sergeant Taylor has covered the subject more completely than we could have done it- —Cincinnati Post. SET A WATCH AGAINST SENTIMENTALITY. Honest emotion is a strong and natural, expression of human life—sentimentality is a thrice-cursed weakness. Wartimes are periods of intense emotional strain—and of dan- ger that the emotion which properly inspires or relieves us may degenerate into weak sentimentality, harming where it should help. Women especially should guard against uncontrolled emotion. Kr an army officer himself comes the statement that the high re « of onr fighting men depends to a great extent upon the be- havior of the women, the courage and cheerfulness which thy dis- play—the moral backing which they give the men. The Washington Times strikes this key-note: laise economy 48 preached by those that say, ‘Save your pen- nies, put on a long face, fill with gloom the day that should be full of happiness.”” “Those who seek to discourage happiness are acting unwisely ua pernicious way. They will spread a mantle of gloom over the country, and the country cannot afford to be gloomy at this time. “The nation wants cheerfullness, hope, happiness—these are ie mainsprings of successful effort in war as in everything else. eae soldiers that sing as they march into battle, triumph in "The nation that is happy and generous, kind to the children, cheerful in spite of all, as it enters war, is the nation that will go through that war successfully. x EED your children well, do not let anybody persuade you to economize in that- “DRESS your children well, economically, generously. “No sacrificing the future generation because we are at war in this day.” ‘rhere is no time for hysteria of grief—for morbid absorption in the discussion of war horr for faddish frenzies of patriotism that hamper production, * Self-control and cheerfulness is the best possible service to the nation. How much harm is done by thoughtless sentimentality is shown in a letter by the mother of a soldier to a woman writer in which she declares that when she goes out in publie to seek relief from her own worries she is met on all sides by commiseration that is one-third sympathy and two-thirds sentimental, morbid pleasure in the picturesque and romantic sufferings of a war mother. Even a church service she attended was gloomy with lamentations and mournful hymns and she retired gratefully to the quiet of her own home. ; such public revels of-sentimentality are harmful, they are ridiculons—they are un-American. i ‘ American women, like American men are IN the war and they are in to win. The first commandment of a fighter is DON’T WHINE! Jess Willard has made an offer to fight for nothing. He’s beginning to see what, he’s really entitled to. A legless newsboy has climbed Mt. Hood. Some feat, But in climbing that mountain legs are usually in the way. Full of mines and railroads, Ohio is about frozen. Funny situation. MAKING UP HIS MIND vs me === SSS SSS SSS Es ment cf sugar from the western hem-; The allies then produced much of \isphere to Europe, and erts that their own supplies and purchased the ; Without the fixing of prices by agree-| remainder from Germany. Before the) ,ment sugar weuld have been selling} war they took only 309,000 tons annu- | for or 39 cents a pound and more ally from.,,the , western. hemisphere. ! than two hundred million dollars prob-| This year they, uaye, taken, 1,400,090 ably ‘have been profitéered from the) tons. American péopte by this time, “Phat,” says, Uae! food Profitzers Fail. Nig ae © ie ee ee tion: has handled: the situation Oar cle . committee by Pai | with a view to sustaining the morale ckiss, -nresidentyot the dred of France and England, where the su- HOOVER'S RETORT TO SPREGKLES 1S. NOT 100 SUGARY Food Administrator in Reply to * Sugar Men Before Senate ; administra- age; and -nothing:else’) 4 + we _ ining company, that the sugar eee nat ah stigati : 4 * “\ gar ration has been extremely low for fnvestigation: vation ‘was mismannked, and set3| manths, and at the same time provent- 1 sas Ay I 4 f S\ ing a jump in price of 20 or 25 cents REED GIVES HIM NO CHANCE ctiorts to keep | sugar prices dowa here, | while supplying large’ quantities te | Pua anniee Help to Allies. Regu‘ation of Traffic Only Rea-| rhe committee, of which Senator} Since the food administration was 1 is chairman, not only had re- created in August the United States son Prices Reagonable: in | fased to make tho statement a part Bas exported to’the allies 110,356 tons Pelhavfs et lof the congressional record, but has °f refined sugar and in theisame per- fitg ith* bt ‘brain: HMerlinod ths far to permit Hoover (04 Cuba hes shipped to Europe 246. ATCA 7 tand to answer Spreckles | 1M ions of to roid Peaster | Wapl bi oft Wi i" When the hearing is resum:' declared, is just “the ‘amouit of! the igtrator Hoover's statement on the 1 Friday, however, it is nderstood’ Shortage im tue Untted' Stites: gar situation, which he tried un yr. Hoover will be permitted to tell cessfully to get before the senate com- his stcry. mittee investigating the sugar short- age, was made public last night by At the outset the white house. It attributes the sents the world sugar situation as it duced to 24 pounds a year for each shortage here to the heavy move- existed prior to the European war. person and in France to 14 pounds Even with, these 'snipments, Tt fs ‘pointed ott, the supply, in England} Prior to, the War. {and France has been inadequate. Con- tdaak\ t all —_~ NEEDLESS WASTE OF FOOD A thousands of pounds of potatoes and URING October and November slong the tracks D other vegetables were dumped from railroad cars near West Chicago, It is reported that these vegetables spoiled in transit or ia shipment. Wagon loads were carted away by hucksters and others ant an or taken home, but the vegetables saved were but a small portion 0! whole. \ Immense Pile of Potatoes, Squash and Other Vegetables Thrown in Dump. ) There may be a question as to whether any of these vegetables were fit for human food at the time they were thrown away, but it is certain that all! of them were at one time good; and that carelessness of someone caused: them to spoil. It is equally certain that most of this produce could have been utilized as animal food or converted into glycerine, of which there is now a: ‘ithe amount of land necessary the statement pre- sumption in England has been re-| = serious need. tor, “is the cause of. the sugar: short; |,.J8 Hucksters and Others Gatheri officials and steps taken to put,9 stop When we consider the hi i ‘Jab ‘stuffs and the great need of order that we may help win patriotic, criminal—little short of ‘vici their prodiiction,” the high cost of serving every particle of food possible in’ r, wholesale ahd needless waste.js‘un* |, ing Potatoes From the Dump. No matter who-is.to blame for this waste. of food in these days of war “and food scarcity, those responsible should be called to account by the proper to it. rsh or required té*grow these vegetables, all’ foot- ous. agaiast a consumption in America of 55 pounds. = Shortage Continues. The shortage, the food ‘dministra- tor declares, will continue during the next year, as it is the duty of the United States to continue to feed the allies. “Next year,’ he says, “our supplies nnless the allies go to Java for s plies. This amounts to an economy of about ten per cent on our part. If the allies are forced to go to Java it will require an extra amount of shipping, which if used to transport troops, will move 150,000 or 200,000 American soldiers to France. Incalculable Harm.. “If statements that there will_be an abundance of sugar next year are he- lieved by the American public it will do this country’s war efforts incalcul- able harm. The number of troops we can send across is limited. If we in our greed and gluttony force the al- lies eiiuer to reduce their ration or to go to remote markets after sugar, we will have done tremendous damage to our abilities to win the war.” Charges that the food administra- tion has permitted sugar stocks to re- main in parts of the country unmoved are denied, as are statements that su- gar was left in Cuba while an effort was made to beat down Cuban prices. Mar:ma Was In Earnest. Dale's mether was washing him with an extraordinary amount of force one day when Le looked up and said, “Gee, mamma, you act like this was Sun- » Optimistic Thought. ‘To show mercy when punishment ought to be inflicted is not charity, but | infirmity. a All in the Belt. ! An Englishman has perfected a belt- @riven automobile, changes of speed being effected by moving the belt from one set of pullics té another. Finger Marks. Sweet oil will remove finger marks from varnished furniture and kero sene from oiled furniture. It your stomach’s wrong, have in- digestion, don’t relish food, appetite gone, feed heavy, brain dull, bowels not regular, liver torpid, kidneys not acting right, can’t sleep well. out of sorts generally—you need Hollister’s Anna Held and her Powder Puff and Jewelry Girls in the famous French .star’s gorgeous musical comedy, “Fol- low Me,” coming to the Auditorium. Rocky Mountain Tea. That's ail. i BRESLOW’S. will be short 250,000 to 300,000 tons | m -|Major General Sharpe Returns | commanders WAR HEARINGS 10 CONTINUE DURING HOLIDAY INTERVAL for Further Quiz by Sen- ate Investigation. DEATH OF NEWLANDS HALTS RAIL INQUIRY Washington, Dec. 26. — Congres- Sional investigations of war opera- tions and problems resumed full swing today after a short Christmas recess, although congress itself does not reconvene until January 3. In the war inquiry of the senate military committee, Major-General Sharpe, quartermaster-general, re- sumed his testimony regarding cloth- ing and other army supplies, health, sanitation, transportation and canton- ment questions. Three cantonmen: who recently returned from abroad may follow general Sharpe, whose further examination is expected to consume most of this week. Secretary Baker, who may make a definite statement of military policy, is not expected to appear be- fore the committee for some time. Fuel Shortages. Investigation of the fuel shortage was resumed today by the senate man- ufacturers’ committe postponing until Friday its further inquiry into ‘the sugar shortage. Fuel Administrator Garfield will be the first witness and Food Administrator Hoover is prom- ised an opportunity Friday to get in with his statement regarding the sugar situation, which he vainly en- deavored to place before the commit- tee last week, and which was made public last night at the white house. Members of the Shipping Board and officers of the Emergency Fleet cor- poration will be further examined this afternoon in the ship building inquiry of the senate commerce com- mission, which hopes to complete its work before congress reassembles. Railroad Inquiry Stops. Plans for the railroad inquiry of the senate interstate commerce commis- ‘ion are unsettled, owing to the sud- den death of Chairman Newlands and President Wilson’s new conference Thursday with railroad managers and brotherhood chiefs. The committee's meeting planned for today is to be Always something good to eat, steaming hot, served properly and at- tractively, day or night, at the McKen- zie dairy lunch. postponed out of respect to Senator Newlands, and hearings probably will not be held until after the president delivers an address on railroad prob- {lems after the return of congress. K # a