The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1918, Page 4

i } i EE or RDO enews Water wesetT Ae MN EMSTAR NL BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. Lees ISSUED EVERY DAY GEORGE D. MANN eM g F a eae ee ee os 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, 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 credited 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 Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month..........$ .70 Editor Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month.. .90 Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month...........+..0+6+ 50 Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month Sianire « 10: Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one year . . 4.00 Morning or Evening by mail outside of North Dakota, one year, 6.00 Sunday in Combination with Evening or Morning by mail, one JOBE obs woe es es tae eat en tan eeevarswrers ony O00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) GED ALONG THE RIGHT LINE. It is reported from Washington that a senate committee has been appointed to inquire into the practicalities of a back-to-the-land movement. A bill has already been offered along this line, aimed at the problem particularly as it affects soldiers and their depend- ents. This sort of agitaton is along the right line. However, we predict that one of the first ‘‘practicalities” that that senate com mittee is going to run up against will be a question of cold cash. There is still considerable unused land in the United States, but for the most part it is unimproved, Every farmer knows that in the improvement of land a prime requisite is, if not a great deal, then a certain amount of working capital. From what we under- stand of the present army pay bill, even with savings at a maximun, the returned soldier will hardly be fitted for a flying start at the @arming business. + : The army pay schedule as it now stands, while still the most liberal in the world, is in many ways a relic of our past years of unpreparedes It does not match up with the chanees that the same man who goes into the army would have in ordinary industrial life. The government, in seeking recruits or drafting men into the service, is at present placed in the position of counting on these men’s war-inspired patriotism. In peace times, the government has nothing to offer to the industrially efficient man or ambitious youth. For while men are willing and eager to make any*kind of personal sacrifice, even to the sacrifice of life itself, feeling that their coun- ‘try needs them, when that need is not so dramatically apparent they will, conceivably, not be so willing to give their time or forego their other opportunities for the sake of $33 a month. This war will teach us many things. It has already taught most of us one thing: that this country, representing democracy, ean never again afford to be found unprepared for any and all even- tualities. We have got to be strong always—for our own sake, and for the sake of the rest of the world. This is going to mean that we will have to have and maintain fa well-equipped and well-trained large army, even in peace times, so that we will be ready for war tmes when war times come. Although just on account of our adequate preparedness, the next ‘war will probably be a long time in coming. 3 To do all this—to maintain as big and efficient a peace times and war times army as we could easily afford to—our military service of the future will have to be a democratic and a popular service. To be democratic it has got to be popular, and it has got te be popular not only with the Hun at our gates, but with the Hun very much in the background. It is not fighting alone that eur young men will have to go in for, but drilling and getting ready to fight. If our young men of the future are going to spend a year or two of their lives in training, some system has got to be evolved whereby they will not be forced to count, that year or two years as time lost to them in their civilian capacities. It will be to our interests as a nation to see to it that every young man who goes ino the army is a better man, a more comfortably situated citizen, and a more efficient industrial unit when he comes out than he was when he went in, or than he would have been if he had not gone in. There are a dozen ways of dealing with this situation. The back-to-the-land people have suggested one way. Others have sug- gested an out and out raise in the soldier’s pay, so that on his dis- eharge he might live upon his savings while learning a trade or “finding himself”’ in a trade already learned. Sceretary Daniels, in what he has done for the navy, has pointed a possible step toward making our army—our new democratic army--at one and the same time an effective military organization and a vast indus- trial school whose graduates would reecive bonuses, not in ¢: but in increased industrial knowledge and hence earning capacity A military organization such as it is going to be nece sary for us to maintain presents many new things for all of us to think about. There are problems that every patriotic American may well begin now to consider, and keep on considering. In time they are going to require answers, for there is no way of escaping our responsibility of preparedness in the future, Nay x, They’ve got you beat at every turn. The grocer has no sugar to sell and when a Cleveland druggist gave away pound packages of it the police stopped him. A Mitchell, §. D., woman has turned over to a bank 20,000 pennies she has saved since babyhood. What a kind, conse papa that child must have had! ientious # That Brest-Litovsk peace conference seems to have run up against the hard fact, that nobody is proposing peace with the Prussian autocracy, save the Bolsheviki. Bolsheviki complain that the Germans are already breaking Promises given in thé preliminary peace negotiations. Seems to us that, somewhere, sometime, we have heard that song before. ‘ Meanwhile, good old Teddy Roosevelt is out in Kansas City just laying and laying eges for his next presidential boom. Be dareful not to lay so many that you can’t. cover them all, Colonel! The bombing of Mannheim, a German commercial city, by e allied aviators, marks another stage in the warfare, since the British frankly acknowledge that it was particularly in reprisal for Hun murdery in England. It is a policy that will give the German people a taste of war which they have not hitherto had, for there are many commercial cities in Germany that ean be reached as easily as Mannheim, | TRIBUNE FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT MANY REVERSALS CONFUSE STOCKS STREN (TH TO STAPLES | DEADLY DISEASE SHOWS UP AMONG MONTANA CATTLE Probably Planted Among Stock SCANTY RECEIPTS ADD Unsettlement Started with the Market Cioses Firm and Quarter President’s Message as Cent Higher—Much Soft to Rails. Corn Arrives. OATS TOUCHES HIGHEST IN DAY’S neuen POINT OF THE SEASON; New York, Jan, 4.—Trading in' Chicago, Ills, Jan. 4.— Fresh| stocks today was characterized by a strength developed in the corn market | succession of confusing reversals the today owing largely io scantiness of list recording no less than half a doz- receipts. The market closed firm, en advances and deciines. Lower quo- quarter to half cent “net higher at! tations prevailed at the close, import- - issues showing a preponderance 127% January and 1.25% @%e May. U. S. STEEL HEAVY of losses, for the most part nominal. | Oats finished unchanged to %@%c Un: suance of the president's message Cline of 12%c. dealing with federal control of the Almost from the outset corn-prices railroads. Although his recommenda- displayed a tendency to advance. Not- tions on, this important question were Withstanding that traffic conditions on in line with popular expectations, rails the railroads were said to have im- immediately declined 1 to 3 points, proved to some extent, the fact re- wipings out most gains in that quart- mained that no substantial increase of er. {arrivals here had yet taken place, and Pallies, probably resulting from that country offerings were not large short covering, effected partial im- On the other hand big quantities of pro’ ent, as much as two points in soft corn appeared to be still awaiting a few instances, but this advantage disposal on the,part of rural holders, Wi in lost in the final hour on and there were predictions current | that supplies available here next week | again contribut- would be more liberal, especially ‘if} *s fai large temperatures were favorable for rail- 4 and road operation, Advances kept, there-| i- fore, within moderate limit | ed heavily to the day's turnover, fluctuated betwee of Ranches by Persons of Malicious Intent. ‘Disease of Virulent Character and Other Stock Subject as Well as Cows. Bozeman, Mont., Jan, 5—With all the earmarks of having been planted 'among stock by persons with malic- ious intent, anthrax, a most dreaded and highly virulent and contagious dis- ttlement started with the is- up, and provisions unchanged to a de-| ease was discovered among ‘the cattle of a rancher west of the city Friday afternoon by Deputy State Veterina- rian Dr. Howard Welch. Ten of the herd died last night and several more jof the cattle are sick at the present me. It is feared half the herd of 175 will succumb to the disease be- fore the malady can be stopped. The disease is not confined to cat- jtle but frequently is found among hogs, sheep and horses and once in a while among human beings. Especial- ly are wool sorters subject to it and many cases have been found where men have contracted the disease through the use of a shaving brush made from the bristles of a hog which was infected with the d v4, closing a frac mum and a net | {| Oat bed to the highest point} Coalers and the yet thi son, and finished at the; strongest features porta- topmost level reached. Demand from! and tion division, but ext to 4 points were m: entirely forfeited Pools were me gains of 2 sho: persistent, receipts | rially reduced or W meagre. The readiness with} the B which the market responded to buying | clive in special- discouraged the bears. | | in the ties, no , but failed to en- Despite higher pric: hog list out rt. Util were Market, upturns in provisions were} heavy American Tele- more than wiped out. Slown of phone losing a six points, pre-, cash demand was a bearish factor. sumably ia connectign with the new} —— note issue. Total sales amounted to} CHICAGO GRAIN. ") shares. Option Open High Low Close were irregular, with weak- Corn— in some junior rails. Liberty 4's s at Me sold at 97 to 96.90 and the 3 98.80 to 98.70, Total sales (par value) aggregated 0,009, United States bonds (old issues) unchanged on call. 4 VERY QUIET WEEK. ST. PAUL LIVE STOCK, St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 4—Hogs—Re- s 19,000; 10 to 15¢ lower; range} of 1918, : bulk 16.00@16.10. 4.—Bradstreet’s to-; Receipts 4,300; '40¢ lower for week; ste 12.50; cows and heifers veal calves, steady, 6.00@14 ers and feeders, slow and w @10.00, Sheep—Iteceipts 500, steady, lambs 8.00@16.00; wethers 7.00@13.00; ewes 5.00@ 19.75. Various Influences Affect First Period ce New York, J morrow will Post holi inventory- ing, intensely coid er east and south, and heavy snows at the we have made for a quiet week in or ary distributive trade, and weather plus coal and car shortage have cur- tailed manufacture and industry. This latter condition appears most acute in —_— the north Atlan ates, the coldest | CHICAGO LIVE STOCK. weather ever recorded having special! Chicago, lls, Jan. 4.—Hogs—Re- effect in and near New York, where ceipts 28,000, unsettle: bulk 16.20@} the coal shortage caused the closing 16. light 0@16.35; mixed 15.90 of many office buildings on several @16.50; heavy 15.85@ ; rough; days, the suspension of many indus- 15.85@16.05; pigs 12.00@ i s, the crippling of educational and —_ Cattle—Recei 5,000, steady; na- charitable institutions and the shut- tive steer 50; stockers and; ting down even of war industries not- feeders 66.60@10.50; cows and heifers ably shipyards. Similar conditions are calves 8.50@ reported east of the metropolis, some eceipts 7)000; firm; weth- munition centers in New England be- @13.20 ewes 8.40@12.10; ing badly cripplied. This slowing down of industry and trade has allowed a good deal of re- trospection and a fair amount of pre- diction as to the future. The annual reports to Bradstreets from over 100 cities are almost a unit in reporting an increase in the value of both wholesale and retail trade in 1917 over 1916, the gains reported in these lines being outstripped, however, by the in- creases in output of manufacture and industry, which was, of course, stim- ulated by war work and a very full volume of domestic demand. Weekly bank clearings $: 218,000. 10. OMAHA LIVE STOCK, | Omaha, Nebr Jan. 4—Hogs—Re- ceipts 12,000; higher; heavy 16.20@ 16.50; mixed 16.25@16.40; light 16.20 @16.45; pigs 10.00@16.00; bulk 166.25 @16.40. Cattle—Receipts 2,800; steady; na- tive steers 8.50@13.00; cows and heif- rs 7.00@10 western steers 7.50@ s and heifers 7.50@11.50; 6.50; stockers and feed- ers 6.50@11.00; calves 7.00@13.00; bulls, stags, ete., 7.00@10.00. eep — Receipts 7,000; steady; as yearlings 11.75@13.75; wethers 11.00 TREATS TRACHOMA @12.50; ewes 10.00@11.50; lambs 5. @16.75. \ MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 4.—Flour unchanged. Shipments 78,254 barrels. Barley, 1.27@1: Rye, 1.86@1.87. Bran, 32.50. Wheat—Receipts, 234 cars, compar- ed with 140 a year ago. Corn, No. 3, yellow, 1.70@1.75, Oats, No. 3, white, .79% @.80%. Flax, 3.61% @3.65 1%. La Moure, aub has whither she took five LaMoure nty children to be placed in the eral hospital there to be treated for; choma. The itution, she ad-) accommodates about 25 patients and is curing 95 per cent of all cases it receives. mg. Bryant Tailoring Co Phone 788. | President Wilson is shown here r oceiving@ lesson in. cariiouflage from | Hardy of the Fargo Commercial clu! ; {feature the eleventh annual conven- .j tion of the county commissioners of ; North Dakota in Fargo on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, January 15, } This is the second outbreak on rec- ord in Montana, the first one being in Culbertson in 1917. HIGHWAY MATTERS 0 BE PROMINENT IN STATE SESSION Former Governor Hanna and State Engineer Bliss on Program, Fargo, N. D,, Jan. 5—Addresses by former Gov. L. B. ‘Hanna of North Dakota, H. Treadwell Twitchell, Jay W. Bliss, state engineer, and J. P. 16 and 17. Details in connection with the con- vention which is expected to bring about 100 county commissioners were completed this afternoon by Thomas C. Hockridge, president of the state association, and R. B. Boyd, commis- sioner ‘of Cass county. The sessions will probably be held in the Cass coun- ty courthouse. Fireworks Expected. Friction between the county com- missioners and the’ state highway commission is expected 'to be given a thorough . airing..at the convention. Charges have recently been made that the state highway commissions has on its payroll thirty people, draw- ing nearly $3,000 per month in sal- aries and traveling expenses, and that these members are not doing what-is expected by the county commissioner in the state relative to the matter of building roads. A common undersanding is expected to be reached by the members of the commission and the commissioners on road work in general, in which federal aid is playing an important part. Bliss to Speak. Jay W. Bliss, state engineer, and who has been called into conference with the Cass county commissioners very frequently relative to road mat- ters and the fund due the county from the state for highway purposes, is scheduled to deliver an address. State Engineer Bliss will speak ‘on the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 15. No topic has been assigned, but it is certain to deal with road matters. Treadwell Twitchell of Mapleton, will speak on the morning of Wednesday, Jan, 16, on the subject of Good Roads. Former Gov. L. B. Hanna will speak Wednesday afternoon. BIGHT HOUR DAY AND WAGE INCREASE OF 15 PER CENT ON THE NP Minimum of Demands of Railway . Carmen Averages $3.50 to $5.00 Per Day. DEMANDS READY TO SUBMIT IN 3 WEEKS \ Spokane, Wash., Jan. 5.—Demands for an eight-hour day and an average wage increase of 15 per cent, with wages and conditions of labor uniform over the system, will be formulated by the joint protective board of the Railway Carmen of America for the Northern Pacific railway in session here, according to a statement last night by F. W. Fish of Dickinson, N. D., president of the board. The board, consisting of a represen- tative ofeach division of the ‘system, convened -here today, and will con- tinue in session probably until Mon- day. Frank Paquin of Chicago, repre- senting the grand lodge of railway car- men, is in attendance. U. 8. army Camoufleurs. He is just been told that a man is concealed within 10 feet of him. You can tell ly his “quit spoofing” expression that he is incredulous. A minute after { he picture was snapped the ‘stone’ in the foreground rolls back and a soldier salutes the president. A pit had been dug for his body and the “rock” had peepholesiin the sides. ah } ane eb: Ta Sah S Mr. Fish said the nine-hour day. for carmen now was effective on: the sys-|, tem, with a minimum wage ranging from 27% to 41 cents an hour. The minimum wage to be’ demanded will RETURN OF SEASONAL WEATHER SUNDAY IN ALL SECTIONS OF MIDDLE WEST AND BAST PREDICTED BY THE WEATHER MAN Washington, Jan, 5—Slightly high- the country Thursday, found some re- er temperatures were noted over the Hef Friday with a rise of 12 to 8 enstern part of the country Friday, above. At nine the mercury went up the weather bureau announced tonight | ten degrees to 14 above, at Washing- and the mercury will continue to rise, ton it rose 18, to nine degrees above until there is a return to nearly sea- ‘that of Thursday and in Boston a rise sonal normal Sunday. In the middlewest Friday the temper- | ature was nearly at the normal level but in the east generally it still was from 15 to 20 degrees below the sea- sonal average. | Albany, N. Y., the coldest city’ in of four degrees to 12 above was noted. It was six degrees warmer at Chicago with the temperature at 266 above. Northwest gales continued Friday on the New England and north New Jer- sey coasts and there was some snow in Maine and upper Michigan. —————————————————————— range from $3.50 to $5'a day, he de- clared. The demands of the board are expected to be ready for submis- sion to the membership of the organ- ization on the Northern Pacific in ONLY GREATEST OF CAUSES CAN JUSTIFY THE ALLIES (Continued From Page One.) about three weeks. GERMAN OFFICER HELD AT BILLINGS WELL KNOWN HERE Rev. F. X. Holmberger Often Vis- ited State Capital Whlie at Belfield. Rev. Francis Xavier Holmberger, who was private lidrarian to Arch- duke Ferdinand of Austria when there was thrown the bomb which precipi- tated the world into the present catac- lysm, and who, stating that he antici- pated events that immediately de-| veloped, at once procured permission! to leave his post and come to Ameri- ca, where he served until a few months ago as pastor of the Catholic parish at Belfield, is under arrest at Killings, Mont., charged with carrying weapons in violation of the alien gun law. ‘ather Holmberger is well known in Bismarck, where he was a frequent visitor. While at the capital he re- lated his experiences in the old world, advising acquaintances here that he was originally trained as an officer for the German army, with which he still held a command when he was granted leave to study for priestly orders. In the course of these studies, he enter- ed the service of the Grand Duke Fer-| dinand as private librarian, and was closely in touch withr the intricate po- litical machinations which led up to the war. i He registered as an alien enemy at Belfield on June 5, but claims that he has always intended to become an American citizen; that he purchased | a Liberty bond and subscribed liberal- ly to the Red Cross and that he has been loyal to America from the day he set foot on American soil. Shortly before his arrest at Billings, Holm- berger wrote a newspaper protesting against the elimination of German from the curriculum, and signing him- self “former librarian for Archduke Ferdinand of Austria.” BISMARCK PUBLIC j rest the catastrophe. Russia can only be saved by her own people.” ” “We mean to stand by the French democracy to the death,” the premier continued, “in the demand that the French make. for a_ reconsideration of. the great wrong of 1871 when Al- sace Loraine was torn away from them. This sore has poisoned the peace of Europe for half a century and until it is cured healthy conditions cannot be restored.” *Reparation and Recognition.” “Reparation means recognition,” the premier said, “unless internationat right is recognized by insistence on ayment for injury done in defiance cannons, it can never be a real- it Next comes tue restoration of Serbia, Montenegro, and the occupied parts of France, Italy and Roumania. The complete withdrawal of alien arn ies and reparation for injustice is the fundamental condition of a perman- ent peace.” Regents’ Case.—It is expected that President Lewis F. Crawford's tem- porary injunction restraining the state board of regents from reorganizing, with the avowed intention of ousting him from the presidency, will be ar- gued before Judge Cooley in the Grand Forks county district court Saturday. Assistant Attorneys General H. A. Bronson and Daniel V. Prennan, who will represent the regents, now are in Grand Forks, in connection with liquor cases set for trial at this term, and Aubrey J.awrence of Fargo, who rep- resents President Crawford, has re- turned from a trip cutside the state. Tribune want ads bring results. JUST OUT (Big New) WEST BELT OIL MAP SHOWS ALL THE OIL FIELDS OF WYOMING, COLORADO OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS, ‘Most Complete Map Published. Send for One It's Free J. M. GLADSTONE 623 Central Savings Bank Bldg., Denver, Colo. LIBRARY MOVING INTO NEW HOME The Bismarck public library, main- tained in the Commercial club rooms since its dedication by that organiz- ation February 22, 1916, was moveu today into the basement of the cap- ital city’s handsome new $25,000 li- brary building at the corner of Thay- er and Sixth. Mrs. Florence H. Da the librarian, announces that she will utilize the basement rooms until the treatment of the library proper is completed. A large consignment of reference works already has been or- dered, together with a supply of maga- zines, which are now on the way. A liberal investment will: also be mad2 in current fiction before the date of the formal opening of the new livrary. About 2,000 volumes, everyone, of which was dedicated by Gismarck citi- zens, are being moved from the Cxm- mercial cluy rooms today. Furniture for the new library is beginning to ar- rive and is being installed. Complete, the institution will be one of the most attractive and modern in the rorth- west. Architecturally it is particular- ly pleasing, replacing tne monotonous Greek desien, so common to public i Last Chance 300 Boxes APPLES Rome Beauties, Deli- cious Jonathan, Ben Da- vis, Stayman Winesap $1.65 BOX and Up SAMPSON PEARS, very delicious, only $1.65 box braries, with a derivation of the co- FIN CHE S lonial. | MOTT HERDS FOUND FREE FROM DISEASE Mott, N. D., Jan. 7,—Dr. J. H. O'- Donnell of the United States bureau of animal industry has completed the testing of several dairy herds in this vicinity for tuberculosis and has an- nounced that all were found immune from any bovine infection. He com- plimented the city of Mott upon hav- ing an excellent pure milk supply. Fruit Stand First Door West of Bis- marck Theatre Insurance Inventory | Is as necessary as we wish to warn th valuable property any other.line and e public that much is at present ser- iously under-insured. There has been a tremendous increase in the insurable property, but many owners give ‘no thought to the necessity of,increasing their insurance. We suggest that all property be in- ventoried and don’t let a loss find you with insufficient insurance. J. B. Halloran & Company Room 210 Bismarck Bank Building, Phone 96 e + { ae { ee be" 4 ee , 4 |