The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1918, Page 4

© tion and conservation in 1918, says the | oly | BISMARCK EVENING TEIBUNE WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16, 1918, - THE BISMARCK T RIBUNE Entered 2 the Vostofiice, Wiemerck, N a Chang Matter IOSULD VVEKY DAY Say; GEORGE D. MANN 2 : vastor G IDGAN PAYSE COMPA Byeclal Foreign Mepresentathy NEW YORK, Vitth Ave. Hidg.; CHICAGO, quetie PAGE; BOBTOS, 4% Winter BL; DETWONT, Kreacge wide; WISNEAVOINS, 614 Lumber Exchange MEMBER OF ABBOCIATED PHY. The Axsociated Prev is exclusive! ji for republication of all news cr tor not wise credited in this paper and aley the local n Mhed herein. AM rights of publicetion of are aleo vA MEMBEH AUDIT URE BUBECEIPTION HATS Dally, Morning z fi Daily, Morning, Evening per inonth Daily, Kvening only, Daily, Kvening and Morning or Kvening + Nal dinpatches herein OF CIBCULATIO. AYABLE IK AD C per mont by Carrier, th nib PEL Mail in Dakota, one year Morning or evening Wy mall outside of Korth Dakota, Onn year GI Bunlay in Combination with Kvening or Morn by ca 5A) mail, one year THE BATHS (for. ‘THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE STATE.”’ high gchools of the solved that the pa is detrimental to Oh North Dakota” We your opinion, is meant by the term: tevents of the state of North Dab you give us your idea of what the town is to the average North Dakot We uphold the affirmative of the qu you could give ws any points or infe ‘The best in Alsen will ue Of the wroall , and if jon on the question, it will b Vhis letter cow public schools, “The best interc kota?’’ Well, The Tritnune that the beat interests of the state of North Dakota are the wel fare of its people, their prosperity, progress and contentment, ‘The Dakota ix not Ko much a political or geographical division as an economic conmaunity, Simmered down, the st North Dakota is just plain folls, The beat int ests of the state are the best interests of the people who make their home within its border What does the small town do for these people? Vor one thing, it offers them a convenient 1 a place where they may dispose of their prod- and where they may buy necessaries whieh the I. offers society and com ly appre from pupils of the Langdon of the state of North Da would nay tate of North eof ucts farm does not produce, panionship. It brings eloser to the farm some of the benefits that civilization has produced, It of fers the farmer a safe place in which to bank his, money, and it serves to accumulate and Jiquify the idle funds of the community which may be loaned the farmer who desires to put it at work, “Service” is the one use for the existence of the small town, And there are very few towns which do not fulfill their destiny, The sinall town! merchant extends credit, when credit, ig needed, not! the big city mail order house or departinent, store. | Jt is he who attends to hurryap demands for pro-| visions, supplies or repair parts. | to tie up his money in things the community MAY | need and that he MAY be able to dispose of at ay profit. | That there is waste and extravagance in small} fown merchandising is due principally to the patrons who control the system, The average customer is careless as to his credits, When his merchant ear-| vies him 380 to 60 days, or even six months, as often is the case, that merchant is not placed in a posi tion where he can pay cash or take advantage of discounts. Therefore, he cannot sell as cheaply as his big city competitors who buy for cash and sell for cash, and have fewer accounts to be charged to profit. and loss, Country merchandising will im- prove just so rapidly as the average country buyer Jearns to place his affairs on a business bas The country town is an absolute ne the farmer, Without its clevators, its stores, its banks, its doctors, its hundred and one accommodations, the farmer would suffer an isolation here in North Da- kota which no one would lika to contemplate. And the greater the growth of the country town and its success and prosperity, the greater the accommoda- tion which it can extend its farmer community; the more money it will have to assist in the financing of his crops and the building of better roads and the extension of telephone lines and rural routes and the improvement of freight and passenger service, Yes, North Dakota needs all the country towns it has, and it can use more of them, He is expected BILY to TAKE THOUGHT OF THE SPRING GARDEN Now. Take thought of the spring garden now, Notwithstanding the large production of vege- tables this year and the great volume put into cans and jars for winter use, there is nothing to indi- cate that there will not be equal need for produc United States department of agriculture, Many gardens failed last year because of poor soil or poor preparation, or both. For the average householder it will be nuffi- cient to prepare ground enough to produce the home supply for cating in the frosh state and for mUnning, drying or brining for une during the’ following winter, Producing vegetables for market should not be jindertaken without full knowledge of horti- culture and sufficient capital and equipment, Marshalltown, Ia., a city of 20,000, has located through its county agent and a special agent of the extension department 75 acres of lots within the depends upon the productive capacity and market) teria 2 lows tend the eulti Tops are adapted to soil cond. 6 showed that #2,000 was paid in cash last year for food for E PWLALOCS COnKL poor. were inported from the may arrang ing to sons dewiris Here for thin to. per- yarder in garden e MANO + 19 & Headact one luxury + THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME. GooD NIGHT- Now Y LET UAT BE Tue G How,DIDYou say Last TME~You ZNOv CAST ON, FLQ? | WITH THE EDITORS. STOCK DIVIDENDS NOT INCOME. The supreme court of Mr. Hug of a stoc that the wis NOt ¢ aged Holmes’ of g A stock dividend rv t the property of the corporation and adds nothing to the interest of the shareholders, [ts property sud their interests are not ine takes nothing from not diminishec holder is no richer t Vhat is import | WAVE OF SORROW AND SYMPATHY SWEEPS OVER CONGRESS AT THE ANNOUNCERENT OF THE DEATH OF MAJOR A. ¢ GARDNER ‘MERE WORDS ARE SUFFICIENT FOR A TREASON CHARGE Philade 16.— . Penn. Jan. . editor in chief of government agents and Dr. Martin ing editor must on a charge of treason sion by Judge “ in the federal court e Tuesday, overruling their de er to an indictment charg- g them with that offense. The charge is based on articles and editorials published in the icising the United States for entering the war. The defendants comtended that “mere did not constitute treason within the definition of the law. “Words may be acts and acts may be words,” said Judge: Dick- has ever ver Of con: 4d after- in th but is amore important in other . Some | howe ° . Gard #1090,000,000 of capital is freed from the tax, but) y’ ange \that concerns nobody with income below $20,000. eae © broader applic ing the jon Views in id the notion held by the minimum po tion of the de making. Tt ought to people aud some aly that printing sh stock gives power of ortion to corporations, body is capable of thinking that because of this! ON BREITNA HEIGHT decision the price of the goods made by the com.) zs a pany is or can be increased, If doubling the shares: coerce? doubled the productive capacity of the plant, there) Malian would be such a superfluity of capacity of produ | inern [yeas Vion that prices could not be maintained. Markets | syonday night azain vould be flooded, and would be bene-| heights just fited, Dut, as the court points ont, increasing the loa t niinber of shares alters nothing except the rate of) priv The sum to be divided is not increased | Austrian Ii The dividend total | other officer: | captured a large " TTALIANS DBLEVER UNEXPECTED BLOW bearing upon pri mar —The Italians ted hamme positions on th of the | CONBIINErS tenant colonel and allans Ii mount of war dividend, because the capital is increased, conditions, Corporations are paid only for the work | OF ROBBER-AXEMAN ing to whether their shares are in dollars or cents, | or whether they are amany or few. A corporation | selling products makes profits by economies of pro-| duction and sales, The profits depend on prices fixed cither by the market or by government, regula- fiom. Mlagrant recapitalization did not alter freight rates at all for Chicago & Alton, any more than thi I* of ihe funds Of the army TS AL OR MICRO ee LON, AN a die * | ban ) Funston shows Captain decision altered the price of hardware, Lewis Whisler stole $62,826.21, when Yet ideas to the contrary persist and color legis ie rophel the DaOKaSE Friday nleht, ren ie eT papa 1a fs «| slaying tou: men with an axe and in- lation to this: day. There was no ¢. r fault, i | suring a fifth. ‘The revulation of railway rates than the notion that n. Jan. Wi--An counting is final; enson in his opinion. ‘Words on the one hand may be ‘mere sound and fury, signifying nothing, or on the other hand may be fraught with the most frightful _ signifi- canse, and be acts followed by the most dreadful consequences.”. n be learned being continu-, i result of the’ Wm. Huttig, of ent of the PRESENT AT BERLIN ney will be replaced by him 7 of the bank. He already has od on deposits of $59,600 he, i Stockholm, Jan. .16—Foo1 condi- i in Berlin kave become so much according to advices reaching hal here, that ihe population is compelle Chairman of Council j to exist nost entirely on the ration- t an. 1§.—Six men and ed quantities of bread, meat and po- amed by Secretary tatoes. Virtually no vegetables or ht to form the advisory fruit are reaching the city and no ist in the admin- game is to be had, owing to the be- ar labor program en-! ginning of the closed season. artment of labor by Some of the greater Berlin munici- John Lind, former gov-' palities, it is stated, have been forced to reduce the potato ration from sev- jen pounds to‘six pounds. a vee} PLACED IN CLASS 4 wed to the [the president | ernor of Minnesota, is chairman of the council, Hollister’s Ro Moun- bowels work reg- a makes th the watering of sha in some way affected the rates fixed by a commission for 30° years without knowledge of what railway facilities cost. In the E physical valuation proceeding somewhere between — eee 50 and a hundred millions are now being spent) upon this delusion, HOOVERIZING AND SPECIAL SESSIONS. It is rumored that we are to have an extra ses sion of the legislature at: Bismarck this winter, Pro hibition, moratorium for soldiers, county bonds for seed graif, discipline for a naughty state officer, and especially to provide funds for a depleted trea sury are on the program, Strange that all these oth- er things should arise a time when we a hort of money to run the affairs of state in the very mid- dle of a biennial period. But then the nation, is at war and North Dakota is preparing to go over the top. There are roads, elevators, flour mills, and packing plants to build and these things take money. An extra session of the legislature at this time in 1918 may be the second act in the drama, A. ses- sion of the legislature and two elections cost money and we are all trying so hard to Hooverize too. Hannah Moon, THE BOMBING OF NEW YORK. Admiral Peary, William Allan White and oth- ers coutinue to predict German air raids on New York and other Atlantic const cities. It ix possible, of course; but it would hardly be worth while, ¢x- cept asa demonstration of futile Teutonic rage. The hombing of New York or Boston, or even of Wash- ington, would serve no essential military purpose city limits which were not cultivated the* past. den- son, They also found that much ground was rit properly plowed and prepared during te pdat to son and that many of these lots ‘ailed (0 produce because of the poor character of the xoil. Crops not w, snea while the reaction would be a flaming anger against, the Huns which would stimulate American aggres. siveness to a degree which the Potsdam council would hardly wish to contemplate, The war will not be brought to our shores, we think, becau ow eeiaaaeetrreieomievamtenes.c. COMEDIES OF CAMP DODGE JRNISH we we] + For the Juvamike, Herb, don’t look around. We just muffed Ccisago, Ill, Jan. 16—Pitcher Gro- ver Cleveland Alexander, who with his battery mate. Catcher Killifer, was purchased by the Chicago Nationals for $50,000 has been placed in class one of the selective draft, Charles H. Weeghman, president of the Chicago club was unofficially advised last night. Wieghman telegraphed Alexander at his home in St. Paul, Nebraska, for confirmation of the report. When Alexander, who is rated as the leading pitcher in the National league was purchased from the Philadelphia club it was agreed that if either he or Catcher Killfer was drafted thirty days before the opening of the 1918 season, the transaction for the player taken into the military service would be cancelled. Famous Texas Ranger __ Passes the Frontier Wichita Falls, Texas, Jan. 16.— Captain “Bill” McDonald, noted Texas Ranger and personal friend and body guard of several presidents, died here tonight. 16 Trains Abandoned by Milwaukee Road St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 16.—Sixteen trains have been temporarily aban- doned in Minnesota by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road, die to shortage of fuel and congestion in Chicago, it was announced vesterday j by W. B. Dixon, assistant general pas- senger agent. The Quinine that Does not Affect Head. Pecause of its tonic and laxative ef- fect, Laxative Bromo Quinine can be taken by anyone without causing OY-ED'S FRIEND INTENT ON ARSON ARRESTEDIN ACT | Berman Spy Apprehended at | Newport News as Enemy Spy | in Baltimore Jail | MILITARY CODE MAY APPLY Sweetheart Believes Him Innocent of Connection With Espionage System. i | | i Baltimore, Mr., Jan. 16.—Lieut. Wal- | ter Sporemann, alleged German spy | arrested last week at Norfolk in the | act of applying a match to a building on the aviation field, was brought here Tuesday and lodged in jail. His bro- ther also was locked up. There are unconfirmed reports that eight other persons are in custody in connection with the Sporemann case. Marius Aisch, employed in a lunch room here, was arrested today. Pa- pers belonging to Lieut. Sporemann, which Aisch said were left in his care y the lieutenant were seized. It was said there was little of anything of an incriminating nature found among them. Interception of mail between Lieut. Sporemann and a woman violinist em- ployed at a Washington hotel was in- strumemal in bringing Sporemann under surveillance several weeks be- fore his arrest. Sporemann was em- ployed by a construction contractor at | the aviation field. Federal records show that an enemy j alien permit was issued to Sporemann several months ago. A statement made | by Sporemann at the time that he and his brother came to America in 1910, so far as could be ascertained, was never verified by federal agents. | Sporemann’s papers, however, indi- ‘cated dealings with Von Bernstorft | and Boy-ed and that he ‘reported for | service” in Germany after the begin- {ning of the war in 1914. It is pointed out that Sporemann could have re- | turned to Germany surreptitiously, re- | Ported for service there, and later re- | entered the United States without de- | tection. } FIANCEE CONFIDENT | Sporemann’s Bride to be Believes Him | Innocent. | | Baltimore, Md., Jan. 16.—Miss May Stoop, the fiancee of Walter Spore- jmann, who is in jail as a sus- | pected spy, believes him innocent, and says she is confident he can prove his innocence. Miss Stoop is an Ameri- can girl and a violinist who has been Playing at Baltimore and Washington hotels. - = ab She said tonight she had ‘known Sporemann three years and had been engaged to him a year. ‘I was dumbfounded, and horrified when I read that ‘Walter had been ar- rested and charged with being a spy,” said Miss Stoop, ‘although on account of him being a German I have been opposed to his being employed around | camps. “I saw the statement that Mr. Spore- mann had landed in this country on a German boat at Newport, about a year ago, the U-53 and that he was a Ger- man naval officer. I knew that he has been in this country six or seven | years. ‘Lam an American girl through and through first, last and all the time, and I would not do a thing against my country, and I would break my engagement with him and never speak to him again if he was a spy. But I know that he is not and I know that he can prove that he is not.” DEATH PENALTY Military Code Inflicts Extreme Limit for Espionage. Washington, Jan. 16.—Much interest was evidenced Tuesday in tne case of Walter Sporemann, the alleged German spy arrested at the aviation depot near Newport News, Va., but. so far as could be learned the official report on the subject was that sont to the naval intelligence bureau by the officer who made the capture, who gave no details either as to the cir- cumstances or the charges preferred. The war department was without of- ficial information, although Spore mann is reported to have heen caught within the limits of the aviation de pots. Official interest turned largely up- on the question of whether Spore: mann would be brought before a civil court, or turned over to @ military trl bunal where the sentence, aipon con. viction of spying would esrry the ox- treme penalty, Cases of this charactor, afficials pointed out, come undbr ono of three distinct legal codes—the es- Pionage act, the articles of war or tho articles for the government of the navy. Both the millftary and naval codes were left Intact in the espionage act, and both carry (he death penalty for spying in a zone of operations, An al- ternative sentence of up to thirty years imprisonment and $10,000 fine, is allowed under the explonage bill. Miner’s Convention ; In Patriotic Fervor Indianapoliz, Ind., Jan. 13.--Whole hearted support of the government in the war against the central powers and criticism of the federal courts for decisions adverse to tho union,’ ex- pressed in the reports of officers, re- ceived the vigorous approval of the fifteen hundred delegates attending the biennial convention of the united mine workers of America, which open- ed here Tuesday. ‘ No New Instructions ' Given German Envoys Berlin, via London, Jan. 16—Faron Von Dem Bussche-Haddenhausen, under secretary for foreign affairs, in- formed the Reichstag main committee yesterday that there has b2en no a‘ter- nervousness or ringing in the head. There is only one “Bromo. Quinine.” BE. pe OURS signature te.on box. (20¢.) ation in the instructions given to for. eign Secretary on Kuehlemann for the Peace negotiations at, Bres| Litovak. * |