The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1918, Page 4

iq THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, 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, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise 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 CIRCULATI! SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month ....§ .70 Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, Editor per month ... 2 scenes Bl Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month 50 Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month ..... 70 Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one on year we 4A Morning or evening by mail outside of North Dakota, one year .. i 6.00 Sun¢ay in Combinati 4 . 5.00 mail, one year . co THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) <> DRESS RANKS! FORWARD! What about the three hundred thousand young Americans whom we have put within reach of the Hun guns or gases in Europe? They are the sons and daughters of storekeepers and factory owners who are asked to close their places of business for five continuous days and ten Mondays. They are the sons and daughters of work- ingmen who are asked to sacrifice some two week 's wages. To say nothing about curtailing the misery of thousands of poor whom we have about us—What about the hundreds of thousands of our dear boys and girls whom WE’VE PUT AT THE VERY FOOT OF THE ALTAR OF BLOODY SACRIFICE? WE'VE got to feed them, clothe them, doctor and nurse them, supply them in every way; we, nobody else. To fail is like marooning them on a barren island, helpless and at the merey of barbarie head- hunters. If we do not patriotically SACRIFICE A PART OF OUR PROFITS and our wages, we will surely SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES. Only a littel while ago, we saw them marching off on their dreadful mission. We waved flags and we cheered; mothers and sisters.and wives wept a little; fathers and brothers swallowed hard at the lumps in their throats. It was a sad ‘but glorious parting that left chairs empty in many, many homes, The cause was God’s. The boys in khaki were His. Remem- ber how their faces glowed with the inspiration of | patriotie duty and determination to do their bit? And in the heart of every one of them, even in the heart of the poor fellow who had no wife, mother or sweetheart to cling to him and kiss him, was this; “T AM YOURS. 1 will fight and die for you and your children. I have confidence. Behind me are you thousands of people who pack the streets to see me oft. I will not suffer for food and clothes. YOU WILL SACRIFICE FOR ME, as I sacrifice for you!” Merciful God! Shall we hesitate and make wry faces over sacrifices of five days’ profits when these young heroes and heroines too, gladly offer sacrifice of their whole lives, their youth, their hopes, their careers, their bodies? Or, shall we coal the hundreds of paralyzed ships that are waiting to take food and} clothes and medicines—our backing—over to them? Let the territory east of the Mississippi, THE RICHEST, BEST PAID, MOST ABLE REGION ON EARTH, answer. The Hun eats sawdust for the foul cause of world- enslavement. Our friends, the Frenchmen, the Eng- lishman, and the Italian, tighten their belts over three or four thin slices of bread per day, that their boys at the front may eat. Millions of men, women and children, in Poland, Rumania, Armenia and the Holy Land starve to death, because the food goes to the fighters. SHALL WE SACRIFICE TO FEED OUR BOY It is a question written in blood across'your pro- fits and loss statement, Mr. Businessman. It is en interrogation mark of fire that blazes upon your pay envelope, Mr. Workingman. Let’s give the answer, “WE WILL!’”’ so loudly that it will cram the hearts of our fighters and crack the eardrums of our enemies. We’re behind you boys! We sacrifice for you! WE’RE COMING to you with food, clothes, all the help we have, our brave boys of the trenches, our brave girls of the Red Cross! We are they who cheered you off on your God-given mission. We glory in you. In this dark hour of trial and sacrifice, WE FAIL YOU NOT! Giving C. P. Peterson, of Towner, the league leader on the floor of the house, credit for average intelli- gence, he must have known, atid The Tribune be- lieves he did know, when he introduced his notor- ious resolution attacking Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. workers indiscriminately, and classing them as “‘ pro- Germans”’ that it could be interpreted as nothing less than an open assault on these splendid patriotic organizations; that it indicated hostility on the part of the league to these organizations, and that it would be so construed by league members the state over, who would henceforth regard these organiza- tions and their agents as enemies of the league and who would be hostile to them. The resolution will die in committee. It is to be regretted that it can- not be brought up on the floor of the house for dis- cussion in order that Mr. Peterson and league mem- bers generally may know what patriotic citizens think of this form of propaganda. The league so well knows that its leaders are on the defensive whenever patriotism is made an issue that it is desperately endeavoring to convince the public that attacks on Townley and others who have richly merited criticism are attacks on the people of North Dakota. The rank and file of the league are becoming thoroughly sick of such trickery; they know as well as anyone in the state that attacks on ass of Americans, and sooner or later they will rise up in their wrath and put an end to “whitewash resolutions’? which seck to give Townley and his as- sociates an immunity both by assailing the entire citizenship of North Dakota. LET EM MAKE THE MOST OF IT Comes now Governor Edge, of N Jersey, a rel- ative of Garfield the Goat, and deposeth as follows: “Nothing could provide more encouragement to the enemy than the mere announcement of this (coal- less) order,”’ Something depends upon how the enemy looks at the order. The enemy knows that we cannot put troops in Europe without coaling ships. The enemy knows, that, for weeks past, hundreds of ships load- ed with food, fuel and munitions for the allies, have been stuek in Atlantic ports because they hadn't !eoal. Uncle Sam is so eager to fight the enemy where it will do him the most harm, and as that will do him the most harm, he suspends all save the coaling busi- ness, for atime, It coat, vest and shirt and tied his suspenders around his waist, in order to make the dangest best fight he knows how. Encouragement? If we were the enemy we'd begin to believe that Uncle Sam meant bloody business aimed straight at us. The administration's military bi of the home guard. It is a league measure, approved in the league's secret eaucus. It imposes a standard of service which no home guard unit in North Da- kota can meet, and it places these 317 loyalty or- ganizations beyond the pale—just where President Townley will want them when I. W. W. demonstra-} s are renewed in this state during the coming t season. The home guardsmen may be power- | ful enough to stop this bill in the legislature. Their} turn will eome in the primaries next June, and} Townley’s day of reckoning in North Dakota will} have dawned. | Rep. Peterson, of Towner, says no one in North} Dakota has done more for the Red Cross and the | Y.M.C. A. than he. The more shame that he should | undoe it all by an ill-considered or ill-advised (give) him credit for acting ot oa his ewn initiative) at-| tempt to induce the lezislature of the great state of | orth Dakota to endorse a veiled, and for that rea- son the more cowardly, attack on these organiza- tions, We are informed that Rep. Peterson has sons at the front. We wonder what they would say to that resolution. Born Jan. 17, 1706, Ben Franklin, at 42, was). the first American editor and retired with a for- tune, But you didn't have to carry a society re- porteress, in their hallowed times. Now, you retire | without a fortune and with nobody noticing it par-} | tieular. League leaders deny responsibility for that in- famous Red Cross-Y. M. C. A. resolution. Denials have become a standard stock with the Townleyites. Patriots are hest known by the company they keep and the deeds they do rather than the things they} say. Those ten ‘‘wet’’ members of the house must feel ‘ : mighty lonesome. ghty Secretary Baker's opposition to universal mili- tary training is based on fear lest it make our nat- ional temper militaris It is likely, as well, that the secretary harbors the ancient prejudice of our race against a standing army, lest it be used by un-! scrupulous ambition to subvert our liberties. Fears | like these, if justified in the past, now are mere sup- erstitions. | WITH THE EDITORS. NO DANGER IN MILITARY TRAINING The standing army that our forefathers in the ; Cololies knew, was the small professional army in the pay of the crown. With such armies the wars, commonly dynastic, of the Seventeenth and Eigh- teenth Centuries were waged. i The monarehies were built on the ruins of the feu-| dal system. The professional army was the instru-| ment of the king, first to reduce his great nobles to subservience, and then to reduce the people. The English people early secured their liberties by gett: | ing rid of the Crown’s professional army, and our} Colonists inherited the English prejudice. But the national army is not a standing profession- al army. Its soldiers are citizens serving a period. | comparatively brief, and they are never set apart as| a class, and they are not at the command of design- ing politicians. Besides the designing politician who aspires to become military dictator never did thrive in Anglo-Saxon lands and is extinet even in France. | Power today is political and doesn’t wield the sword. The militaristic spirit may be fostered by a nat. | ional army on the German model. But the pecul- iarity of the German national army is that it re- mains as much-the instrument of the Throne as was once the professional army of the Prussian King. The army of Germany is still the monarch’s servant. It is officered by members of a caste, its oath of al- legiance is a personal one made to the Kaiser. Whereas the French national ‘army is merely the people mobilized and in arms. If some years ago it seemed possibie to use the army for revolution, nei- ther Marshal MaeMahon nor Beneral Boulanger was able so to use the army. To ascribe militaristic spirit to the French people today on account of their uni- versal military training is preposterous. The French national army is devised to defend France, and | events have proved that France sorely needed de-| fending. England is finding that her new national army for- wards democratization. Great land owners like Lord Londowne dread the continuance of that army. When that army returns home, the liberties of the people} will not be imperiled, but the privileges of the aris- tocraey will. * Military training for every youth in the land would certainly have a vast educative effect. It would the loyalty and patriotism of their leaders have been justified ; they no. more‘ approve of the course taken by Townley and Governor Frazier in the St. Paul convention than do any other loyal and _ patriotic increase the National consciousness as, perhaps, noth- ing else can. Each generation would realize that the Nation is a reality to which is the first duty.— Minneapolis Journal. as if Uncle had taken off his | sounds the doom | | umes vehement. | | | This nice “feas' tine. But Tommy didn’t “bite.” TURKS LEFT TOMMY N ICE FEED, too. The Tommies didn't stop to find out. BUT TOMMY DECLINED 10 ACI ARRIVAL OF NONPAR' CHIEF SIGNAL FOR THE ITE OPENING OF BIG POW-WO0W B (Continued from page one) pres Wr) ET | taking this power away from the rail | way commission, where it should be, and concentrating it in the hands of one man, an appointive official, who has already stated that he is'too busy to give the business any personal at- tention.” 6 is Quick Work. Asked how much time elapsed be- tween the filing of charges against elevator men accused of misgrading grain, and their hearing vefore the railway commission, Commissioner Johnson replied that it was about a week. He also stated that no grain- growers appeared at that hearing to prosecute, and that Deputy Inspector (McGovern was the only man present to press charges against the elevator. men. He stated it was not necessary for farmers ‘to appear in person ‘be- fore the commission, but that they could file their protests and submit their evidence by letter. “If there has ever been any desire for a change in the rules governing th grain grading department, it has not been called to our attention,” said 25.—In a dra- eech to the senate | Chamberlain, plied to President Wilson's statement | that he had distorted the facts in| harging that he had broken down in its war preparations. He declared the pr ent grossly maligned him,, and not defended, but emphati-| cally reiterated, his assertions made in a recent address at New Y said the president did not kn truth, and that he did. No Personal Rancor The senator disclaimed any person- al rancor ag t either the president or Secreta aker, saying his only | motives were patriotic, tor country and io the y| wiping out i In of his posi t cidents of allezed inefficienc: nection with supplies and during the mili and the galleries were tor Chamberlain spoke. etly, declaring it was with a feeling of sadness that he ‘ound it necessary to rise to a ques- tion of personal privilege to defend ‘is veracity and integrity, heretofore} unassailed, but as he launched into the speech he grew emphatic and at Senator Kirby Reéplied. When the Oregon sepator conclud- ed Senator y, a member of the military ittee ,replied on scxalf of the administration, flatly contradic- ‘ing the chairman’s assertion that facts brovght out in the investigation proved the war department inefficient. Then the senate adjourned until Mon- day to cut off further discussion. No White House Comment, There was no comment at the white house on the Chamberlain speech. It is known, however, that administra-| tion replies are to made soon by} Senater James in the senate and Rev resentative Dent of Alabama, chair- man of the military committee, and| Tepresentative Glas of Virginia, inj the house. Secretary Baker probably will make his own answer Saturday when he apnears before the house committee. Representative Dent call- ed at the department late today and invited him to make a statement toj the committee. Bill Referred. The senate committee’s hill for a var cabinet, about which the contro- versy centers, was referred without chjection today to the committee. The understanding is that it also will be referred to the naval commitee late Senator Chamberlain detailed in his! speech what he declared was proof of {clothing shortages ex CHAMBERLAIN LAUNCHES BOLT | man of the military committee, re-} that Secretary Baker also was mis-' sume its inquiry tomorrow by calling Surgeon General Gorgas to testify re-| garding health conditions. Clothing Shortages A chart blazed on reports from all} army camps and show only minor | ting Jan. 19,! was sent by Secretary Baker to the senate military committee today soon after Chairman Chamberlain made his} speech in the senate replying to} President Wilso: denunciation of his criticism of the war department. In his speech Senator Chamberlain referred to a chart of conditions on Jan. 1, recording many deficiencies which the later reports show no long- er exist. Baker Responds. Baker said no statement; would be issued in answer to Senator | Chamberlain's charg remarking, | “the war department is in the unfort-| unate position cf being unable to! speak about certain things.” He did comment, however, on sereral feat- ures of the speech. In connection with a letter read by Senator Chamberlain telling of the death of a soldier under harrowing circumstances at one of the camps, he said several similar isolated cases had been called to his attention, and that every precaution posible to prevent recurrence had been taken. Camp Site Selection. As to the assertion that the Sur geor-General was not consulted in the selection of camp sites, Mr. Baker said every site had been selected by a’ board isting of one medical of- ficer, one ineer officer and one line officer, anpointed by the depart- mental commanders. 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