The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1918, Page 4

BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE Pear’ ence —==SMARCK TRIBUNE THE Postoftice, Bismarck, Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY —?D. MANN - - ct G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, rd Special Foreign Representative. JIRK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, rquette Bld STON, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; tNNEAPOLIS, $10 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use republication of all news credited to it or not other- se credited in this paper and also the local news pub- shed herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month ....$ .70 Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, = per month onset Daily, Evening only, by ( Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month ...... Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one VCADN 2 sssceartcestiacecenesy sae Morning or evening by mail ou one year ...... cd dieares ceechcsctessbiaces sseirossseiet Sunéay in Combination with Evening or Morning by mail, one year ee eee eee sed THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (®stablished 1873) N. D., as Second patere ide of North Dakota, 5.00 THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE. The governor’s message was hastily written; it covered with much brevity a broad field, and it is not destined to go down in history as a great state paper. It pledged the support of the state adimin- istration to the prosccution of the war as heartily as could be expected in the light of his St. Paul per- formance, Knowing, as North Dakota does, the type of men with whom the governor has trained during the last two years, perhaps it is asking: too much to expeet more at this time. Happily, these sow- ers of discord aud disciples of destruction are not. present in this session, in which the league shows its good sense. The re honest, earnest, patri- otic North Dakota farmer is fairly well fed up with the Kate Richards O'Hare type of propaganda. The most definite declaration of principles whieh is contained in Governor Frazier’s message i “Tne ternational law and treaties must be kept sacred.” He also concedes that ‘The United States is in this war for principle, justice and democracy These adinissions do not measure up with Town- ley’s preachments in the state tour which commenced at Devils Lake on Registration day, last June, and which the governor announced at Mandan he was proud to share, There was nothing in the gover- nor’s message about ‘‘capitalism’’ and ‘‘profiteer- ing,’ and “rich men’s w None of the trite phrases which have rippled so smoothly from the tongues of Townley and Bowen and Thomason and Kate Richards O'Hare and others of their school. i this, the governor’s message was a distinct improve- ment—as much, perhaps, or more than we have a right. to expect from our chief executive in view of the influences with which he is surrounded, It gives cause to hope that some day, standing on his own bottom, Governor Frazier may come out and prove himself the man his friends have always claimed him to be. The absence of Townley and Bowen and Thoma- son and co-socialists is a favorable Its effects may’ be seen in closer co-operation and greater har- mony among the lawmakers. They, are neighbors, assembled here to attend to their own business, with, seemingly, little interference from those direful inthi- enees which invaded the deliberations of the regu- lar session a year ago. The leaguers are more ap- proachable, more inclined to reasen and to place some confidence in their fellowmen. There are legislators in the league as well as out side of it who are inclined to distrust the motives behind the calling of the special session, but they are open to conviction, They can best be convinced through a prompt adoption by the league majority in the house today of Senator Lleckle’s sensible joint resolution confining legislation to those mat- ters recommended by Governor Frazier in his mes- sage, There undoubtedly will be some debate over the | trained men to shield us from the fate of going un- form in which these measures are to be enacted into | law.’ With expenditures already tens of thousands | in excess of those of the Manna administration, | there are some who doubt the wisdom of giving the commissioner of agriculture $4,000 more for the ad- ministration of the ‘‘seed and feed’? bonding ac | and ‘another $2,000 to the state seed commi The home guard units of the state are opposed to any administration measures affecting their status. They: cannot give Governor Frazier credit for such a change of heart as his sudden espousal of the home guard movement would indicate, following the attack which he made on these domestic soldiers in an interview at Minot. The Minot interview has never been denied or contradicted. Tt still stands as an expression of the governor’s views on this sub- still quoted as having said that the home guard was unnecessary. sioner. The state’s insane wards must be cared for; if|¢ the bank guaranty act is worth anything, it should | ingly agree to conditions whieh the Allies proclaim merit a small initial appropriation to give it effect, | as necessary beeause they are fundamentally right The proposed amendments to the grain grading aet| and just. perhaps further concentrate political power in the hands of the league, but the wisdom of this step is| they could not be tr a matter for the legislators to thresh out. | ly were the echoes of the concerted voice of the Ger- If the league proceeds to prove its sincerity by.|man people delivering a mandate. adjourning when it has accomplished that for which the special session presumably was called; if it re-| pac frains from stringing out the session and piling up| under the heaven to save democracy and all it stands for ex more debt upon the people of this state, merely that it may manufacture political ammunition to be used | « in the primaries, there will be comparatively little complaint, although there will always be a large element which can never be satisfied that this spe- cial session was necessary—except, perhaps, to the program of the league. ~ A Galesburg (Ill.) Mail wedding notice says: ‘“Phe guests were marched to the coal room to the strains ‘of Lohengrin’s wedding march.’’ In the middle west, nowadays, you don’t size up.a bride by her wedding gifts, but by what’s in her dad’s coal bin. \ * ees Cheer up! Big snow means big winter wheat, and you can spauk.the:children to Keep warm, « 9) Catastrophe, this year, ifrecent conditions as to fuel 0 | politically, for all time. shall win and that the world shall fall under the rule of an armored autocracy and be battered forever after by a ‘‘mailed fist’’ and a “‘shining sword,”’ as Kaiser Wilhelm puts it?—Minneapolis Tribune. -of American interests, but—.’’ i WE'RE ALL FIGHTING NOW. Determination, courage and confidence—we have got to have all these, and upon confidence largely depend the othér two. The administration assumes a heavy responsibil- ity in decreeing that many thousands of workmen shall not work for any stated period. We have got to have confidence that the administration would not do this unless there were hard necessity for it. The administration knows how much coal is on hand, how much can be mined, how much can be got to the consumer, It simply refuses to let present conditions meet the usually severe winter weeks of late January and February, when the weather re- quires the highest consumption of fuel in the homes and in institutions that must ‘be heated at all costs. Such weather as February always gives the regions cast of the Mississippi would produce a positive production and its transportation prevailed. We ought, at least, to have confidence that the administration has not, without fully justifiable rea- son, taken a step that would, otherwise, damn it, And it is highly probable that there’s more to come, War necessities will increase. The war will get closer and closer to every one of us. If the country does not volunt to save wheat, meats, fats and suger, it will very likely, be con scripted 4o do it. If we do not more generally ra- tionally voluntarily curtail our demand for our man- ufacture and purchase of the non-essentials, war needs will, very likely, force us to it. If we do not want lone continuance of this war agony in all our vocations, if we do not want a repe- tition of it ina few years, more or less, we must hold fast to our determination to fight for permanent peace; we must courageously hit as hard and often as we possibly can; and we must have confidence in our commanders, laa word, we must save and sacrifice our level best. ~The t fighting foree on earth is America behind the lines, Every one of us is part of that force. We are called upon for hard sacrifice. That’s hard fighting. Let’s put ‘Determination, Courage, | Confidence’? on our flag, aid shoot the traitor who tries to haul it down! The boys in the exntomment have eoined slang to fit the da A girl who knits for herself is called a “pig knitter’? and the officers who hang around the hommes of the Big Noises who have eligible daugh- fers are called “parlor snakes.”’ Count Luxburg has been pronouneed insane. Ife should be sent to Germany where it will not mat- ter much. Everybody else is as mad as he. (If you remember your ‘‘ Hamlet’? you will recall the orig- inal form of this whee WITH THE EDITORS. | “GO CN OR GO UNDER.” Tn one of those inspired moments which enables him to pack volumes of meaning inte a single sen- tence, Premier Lloyd Ceorge got at the very heart of the war situation when he told representatives of trades unions in London that ‘the people must either go on or go under.”? The admonishment was not merely to the wage carners of Great Britain, but lo all that part of the world which is resolved and pledged to preserve the boon of democracy. Mr. Lloyd George reminds the people of America in this speech, although not specifically and in so many words, that there is supreme danger in any sense of security growing out of the thought that jthe fighting is ‘3,000 miles away,’ as Mr, Baker put it. ‘The very alternative of going on or going under that applies to Great Britain applies also to this country. Who shall say what dire things would or would not have happened to us before this if the British had not gone on as they have up to this time? The pacifists of the United States have made this and other kindred questions fair ones. Could we have had the guns, the ships, the equipment and the der? Could the between-sunrise-and-sunset-spring- ers have saved us so that we eould go on? We have becn springing for nine months, and still have wocden guns, insufficient clothing, men quite unused to shooting, only a few airplanes and a transporta- tion system so muddled that we have to stop the wheels of trade and industry in a frantie effort to straighten things out. Given these conditions, what | would be our plight if the barrier which Great Brit- ain, Belgium, France and Italy has kept between us and Germany were toppled. It is our first duty—the duty of ¢ man, woman and child in this broad land—to help see that the Allies are kept tuned up so that they ean go on and not go under, Lloyd George points out that, while} his own government and ours have stated frankly | and in much detail their aims and peace terms, the German war lords have made no move to state their se other than to make it plain they will not will- Even if they agreed, observes Mr. Lloyd George, sted unless their voices plain- The Premier would be glad if any man on carth— t or militarist—can point out any other way pt by going on. Who is there to accept his challenge unless it be those who desire that Germany A TOO FREE PRESS The Milwaukee Free Press, pro-German starts out a sneaking sort of an attack upon the government with these words: ‘‘The Free Press is always open to conviction and it, likes to be convinced in a way The Milwaukee Free Press lets hardly a day go-by without proving that statement is false on both DAY OF ATHLESS DRIFT IN STOCKS Firm Opening Succeeded by Ir- regular Declines Followed by Rallies McADOO’S STATEMENT | GIVES FINAL SETBACK New York, Jan. 23. ket drifted aimlessly ;today, a fina opening |: declines, th a general rally with yet another set- back toward the close. The final reversal came on the heels of Secretary McAdoo’s state- ment before a congressional commit- action on legisla- | tion. Railroad legislation, with direct reference to its bearing upon further government loans to be floated by the end of the fiscal year. Other Washington developments which served to unsettle the market included the extension of the freight embargo and maintenance of the ex- isting price schedules on copper met- al by the war board.‘ Specialties again comprised a very large part of the day’s limited deal- ings, pools containing their activity in speculative issues while rails and pending railroad nored or bounds. Industrial conditions “especially the production of finished iron and steel moved within narrow were further aggravated by the freight ‘ades. according to trade author: United States steel was again the most active issue of the day losing a point on persistent pres. wowereeeenen= Union Pacific i 111%) 4 U. S. Industrial Alcohol .. ....118% United States Steel .... .. 89% Utah Copper .... t 80% he stock mar- sg succeedal by irregular ; in turn-giving way to; tee in which he again urged prompt! California Petroleum >; Cuba Cane Sugar many other standard stocks were ig) BUSY AS BEES \ : Bareeepe(e Southern Railwa: Texas Co. +. 22 147% ,sure. Sales amounted to Money on time was unchanged, but {with local i i change. v | light trading. bond ay titutions foreign ex- unaltered on extremely Close Firm With Leader Cent and Fraction Advance—Oats Follows , PROVISIONS FINISH AT 10 CENT ADVANCE Chicago, Ill, Jan. 23.—Corn rose in Beet Sugar . 76 | value today’s influenced more or less Gan aussie: . 36 fi hat receipts although Smelting © Refiining 81% by fe ea oe oe M ‘ Ha Tel. & Tel .... ‘104 | fair, were not as liberal as a majority of traders had expected. Zine Copper . The market closed firm, quarter to; market was irregular. sold at 98.28 to 98.18, 97.16 to 96.99 and .second to 96.24. Total sales (par value) $4 5,000, United States old s and registered 4’s advanced % ;and coupon 4’s 4 ! Atchison 4 118 @ 1%c net higher, with March | Paltimore 125% and May 124% @ %. Oats gain- ed 1 1-2 to 1 8-4. Provisions finished at a range varying from 5c decline to an 4; advance of 10c. Owing to disappointment over the comparative smallness of arrivals and to fresh complaints of car scarcity, the January delivery of corn brought the highest price yet this season. Meanwhile, elevators and industries were free uyers of cash corn here, and forecasts pointed to colder wea- “| ther with snow in many sections. Al- H % ; Putte & Superior .. !Canadian Pacific Central Leather ake & Ohio . : St. Paul | Chicago, Mi& | Chino Copper | Colorado Fuel | Crucible Steel Tron | Erie thern Ore Ctts 1Gr Gr Northern pfd together, tue outlook did not seem {1 tion Copper .... promising fore any accumulation of Tnt. er. Marine pfd c supplies, notwithstanding that as a result of traffic congention and the ordering of new embargoes, corn ship- ments out of Chicago to the east were very small. Rumors of large sales of oats to , | the seaboard had much to do with the strength of the oats market. Export- ers at Baltimore were bidding at the aighest basis thus far on the crop. Provisions made only transient up- turns in response to a falling off in {arrivals of hogs. The temporary 4,| bulge led to realizing. = CHICAGO GRAIN Konnecott Copper Louisville s& Nashville Ray ( Reading . Repudlic Iron & Southern Pacific counts, and that the only true word in it is the}: ““but.”’—Duluth Herald, COMEDIES OF CAM. Corn March .... 125 125% 125 12534 ‘May .... 128% 124% 123% 124% Oats March ... 78% 79% 78% 179% May ....76 77% 76 17% MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 22.—Flour unchanged. In carload lots standard flour quoted at 975 a barrel in 98.1b ‘cotton sacks. Shipments 71 178 bar- rels. Barley 136 @ 159. Rye 196 @ 198. Bran 3250, GE Wheat receipts 92° cars, compared fi with 89 a year ago. Corn No. 3 Yellow 155 @ 160. oh Oats No. 3 White 80% @ 81%. } Flax 356 @ 559. OMAHA LIVE STOCK Omaha, Nebr., Jan. 23.—Hogs,: re- ;ceipts 12,000; 10c higher; heavy 1580 {@_ 1625; mixed 1590 @ 1615; light 11575 @@ 1620; pigs 1000 1550; bulk 1590 @ 1615. Cattle receipts 4,700; steady; na- j tive steers 900 @ 1300; cows and hei- jfers 700 @ 1000; western steers 850 @ 1150; cows and heifers 700 @' 900; canners 625 @ 725; stockers and feed- fers 690 @_1125; calves 975 @ 1325; ; bulls, stags, etc 670 @ 775. Sheep receipts 8,200; ‘steady; year- lings 1200 @ 1500; wethers 1100 @ 1300; ewes 1075 @ 1200; lambs 1600 @ 10: ST..PAUL LIVE STOCK St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 23.—Hogs, re- j ceipts, 13,500; steady; range 1550: @ 1610; bulk 1585 @ 1595. Cattle, receipts 3,500; killers steady steers 650 @ 1300; cows and heifers ! 700. @ 900; veal calves 50c higher 600 ! @ 1450; stockers and feeders slow ! and steady 600 @ 1000: y ‘Sheep, receipts 500 steddy; lambs £00 @ 1675; wethers 700 @ 1300; ewes 500 @ 1175. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK Chicago, Il, Jan. 23.—Hogs, re: er: a conti elax he, jcall loans continued to relax on t UNDER EXPECTATIONS the var ones re-depor gs of government funds | " Irene test eactidins house of commons Wednesday that THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1918 @ 1680; heavy 16109 @ 1685; rough 1610 @ 1625; pigs 1275 @ 1525. Cattle, receipts 9,000 firm; native steers 850 @ 1390; stockers and feed- ers 710 @ 1090; cows. and reifers 610 @ 1185; calves 955 @ 1650 x Sheep, receipts 12,000 tomorrow 15 009 firm; ewes 90 1280; lambs 1450 @ 1775; wethers 970 @ 1325. FARM PRODUCTS NOT GLASSED AS NON-BSSBNTIALS Director General McAdoo A:sures Department Foods Have Right-of-Way. Washington, D. C., Jan, 2!.—Director General McAdoo yesterday advised the department of agriculture that rail- road administration had no intention of issuing any list of non-essentia!s from farm products, and that, to the contrary, plans now being made would provide transportation facilities for all farm produ of the country. GRAND BALL AT MANDAN TONIGHT: MANY ARE GOING Many Bismarck folk are planning to cross the river tonight for the ball which will serve as an opening func- Uon for the new Elk’s temple. O’Con- “s orchestra will play for the event is expected to be one of the most brilliant of the mid-winter sea- son in the Morton couuty t Through an error, The Mandan department yes at. Tribune's day noted j this function as scheduled for Wed- nesday evening. ‘Tonight’s the night.” GENERAL LAWRENCE CHIEF OF STAFF OF BRITISH IN FRANCE London, Jan. 24.—James Ian ‘Mac- Pherson, parliarmentary secretary to announced in the Lieut.Gen. Herbert Alevander Law- rence had been appointed chief of the general staff in France, Col. E. W. Cox to be‘a brigadeer general on the staff of the intelligence department and Genral Travrs E. Clark quartermas- ter general. These changes Mr. Mac- Pherson, added had nothing to do with the report to the war council oa the recent operations at Cambrai. UNCLE J08 CANNON BOBS UP SERENELY AFTER AN INURY Washington, Jan. 24.—“Uncle Joe” Cannon reappeared at the capitol yes- terday in a wheel chair, with a knee disabled and an arm fractured at the shoulder from his recent fall. Doctors and nurses succeeded in restraining the veteran in his room only a week. Now he is back at the capitol attending committee meetings and says he will go on the floor of the house if necessary. SIX BIG SHIPS SACRIFICED TO SUBSEA MENACE London, Wan. 24.—Again the sinking of British merchantmen by mine or submarine have been held at a low point. Only six vessels of 1,600 tons or over and two under that tonnage were destroyed in the past week, ac- cording to the admiralty report fast night. The sinkings of British mer- chantmen for the past week dup- licates the sinkings of the prev- ious week—six large ships and two small ones. In the previous week two fishing vessels also were sunk; in the past week the fishing craft escaped entirely. The admiralty reports of Janu- ary 2 and Jan. 9 gave the sink- ings as twenty one merchantmen, of which eighteen were over 1,600 tons in eich case. BOLSHEVIKI RIFLE BANKS AND STEAL RUMANIAN GEMS Amsterdam, Jan. 24.—According to 9 Petrograd dispatch to German news- naners, which was received by an indirect route, the Bolsheviki has seized a portion of the funds of the Rumanian treasury deposited in Mos- cow banks, and also taken the Ru- manian crown jewels at Kishiney. According to the dispatch Queen Marie of Rumania has fled from Kis- hinev to Jassy, the Kumanian capitol. Labor Disturbances Afflict Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Jan. 24.—There are More or less serious labor disturb- ances: throughout the country. The shippings in the port has nearly been paralyzed as the result of a strike. A general strike on the central Cordoba, railway is threatened. Bands of the workmen who have already gone out burned 45 carloads of’ wood which it was intended to use as fuel. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets).. It stops. the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. B. +} ceipts 17,000 unsettled; bulk 1640 @| W. GROVE'S signature on ea ‘ 1680; light 1680 @ 167;. mixed 1610| 30c, hte ~~~ ee fi ' t , \ j é { \