The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1918, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE GEORGE D. MANN. __ G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bidg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. t 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- lished herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein } -e alan reserved MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. ‘ vaily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month ....$ .70 Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month ... ... ee 9 Vaily, Evening only, by Catrier, per month 50 Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month aie 10 Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one year .. a . 23 t Morning or evening by m North Dakota, 1 one year ........... beac eeersemroeesieee 1 Sunday in Combination with Evening or Morning by mail. one year ... .-- 5.00 : THE STATH'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. ‘ (Established 1873) i z , = t TRUTH COMING OUT. : % The admission of L. lL. Stair of Bottineau that 2 the failure of the first liberty loan was. due to oppo- ‘ sition from such Nonpartisan league leaders as him- 1 self—a confession tacitly made on the floor of the 4 house of representatives Saturday evening—1s In- : vetted that a verbatim 1 teresting. It is to be 1 t remarks cannot be fur- copy of the big league nished the department of justice. There had always existed a general impression that following President Townley’s campaign against the first liberty loan other measures were resorted to to discourage the sale of these bonds in North Dakota. Until Rep. Stair revealed the facts, however, there was little tangible to hang this suspicion on. North Dakota is under obligation to Mr. Stair for his candor, He says that the first liberty loan campaign was a fizzle because some of the men interested in it could not refrain from criticism of Governor Frazier and President Townley and others who had shown a disposition to discourage coopera tion in this state with the plan adopted by Uncle Sam for financing our allies. j Perhaps, if this ion lasts long enough, and the men who are really responsible for the things the league has done are sufficiently provoked, the whole truth will come out. We are indebted to Mr. Peterson of ‘Towner for his Red Cross-War Y. M. G. A. resolution. It has separated the league goat: from the sheep, and has shown North Dakota just ~ee< Where 28 league leaders stand. x. 4 WHAT ON MONDAY? f We know what we can do on meatless Tuesday. We can eat fish, ete. We know what we can do on wheatless Wednesday. We can cat corn, ete. But, what can we do on eoalless-workless Monday? Let us consider it seriously. We can do war work, for one thing: More sweat- ers, helmets and stockings can be knit, and more per- sonal interest can be taken in Red Cross work. A good many of us can, as never before, concern our- selves in how the poor are getting along. This last is war work. The nation’s ability to endure depends upon the average of such ability amongst all the peo- ple. If we help some poor family to a sack or a ton of coal, we contribute to the average of national en- duranee, and, in the final analysis, this war is pretty much a matter of endurance. Some of us will miss our usual amusements. We ean slide down hill or go skating with our kiddies and fal we'll find, or furnish, more amusement in-either of fot these healthful sports than in 18 theatres. pat We can read and visit neglected friends, and j write letters long overdue. We can, in a business way, make plans for meeting more—less days than those we've already got, for, more such days are likely to come, The administration may be forced to r prescribe schoolless days, railroad-travelless days, gasoline-less days, and such, and, if we are, mentally systematically, prepared to mect them, they won’t hurt so much. Verily, the fellow who works hard six days and cannot do much on Sunday can make himself very busy on coalless Monday, if he tries. As doing his t bit in the war, he ought to try. SOME MORE SPLITS. There is likely much truth in the recent cable- grams reporting strong indications of a general upheaval in Russia and a split between Trotzky and Lenine. : The masses of the Bolsheviki haven’t got the promised peace, bread and land, and Trotzky has been handiing matters regardless of Premier Lenine, after a manner ungentlemangy in a mere foreign imin- ister. Jt is natural for Bolsheviki to want bread and land. It is natural for Trotzky and Lenine to be jealous of each other. Of course the condition pleases Germany. All that Germany needs of Rus- Hd sia is that the latter keep right on being unorganized, 4 ununited for anything. HOW ODD! The assistant seeretary of the United States de- partment of agriculture iti an official bulletin list- ing ‘“‘farm help specialists,’’ credits the agent for North Dakota—Mr. John C. Brown—to the agricul- tural college. The assistant secretary’s attention should be called to his error. Mr. Brown chances to have had-no con- nection with the agricultural college at any time. During the very few months he has been in North Dakota he has loyally served and:is still loyally serving, for a pecuniary reward. a newspaper of which Mr. A. C. Townley is managing editor and dictator. Having opposed the league’s new grain grading bill, Rep. J. F. T. O’Connor now is in line for a ‘‘reso- lution’; £rom.some source. “ Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second - Clasg_Matter. —___ ENEMY WITHIN OUR GATES | ISSUED EVERY DAY And still we go on with our characteristic na- 5 - : Editor oj of polyglot, the plaything and sport of the foreign 0} to assimilate? | WITH THE EDITORS. tional laissez-faire, continuing to warm the serpents in our bosoms and extending the bitten hand to the fangs that have repeatedly lacerated it. When will the people of the United States awake | to the reality that Americanism is at stake—that | the scum in the Melting Pot is poisoning the in- tegrity of the country’s well-being and afety ? When will they appreciate the fact that this is precisely the circumstances upon whieh the great enemy has| relied to pa ze the efforts of our government in| its precautions of a just war? The supreme test of Americanism is being made. Are we to come out of it a united nation or a jumbled element we have admitted to all privileges of our country, but which we have not been at the pains It behooves the true blue loyal now, to be doubly loyal. The time has long since passed for any pan- dering with those who do not put the war aims of the government before all minor considerations. That man or woman who is not heart-whole for us is against us. Put to them the point blank question whether they wish to see America and her allies | win the war or see Germany win it, and if they evade | the answer, know them for enemies. Knowing them as such, they should be treated as such. Already death is taking its grim toll of our sol-j| diers and sailors abroad. It is but the beginning. Steadily, silently, the stream of young lives is cros- sing ‘tover there.’’ Are we who remain behind to; give them a luke warm loyalty, to see them stabbed | in the back by those whose hearts are false and whose souls are souls of cowards? For be it remem- | bered that the man who fights for Germany with | his tongue now is the man who could have fought | for her with his body had he the stuff in him to fight | with his body to fight for anything, Of such refe | are traitors made—Robert Adger Bowen of the Vig- ilantes. | | | | | MORE MISREPEESENTATION | J.B. Platzer, who enroute Saturday from Fortuna | to his home near Tolley, N. D., with a carload of) horses, four of which were his and the others owned | by his neighbors, was a caller at the Times office | on Saturday last between trains. Mar. Platzer, as | well as many other farmers in the vicinity of Tolley, | were induced by A. L Darling of Fortuna and ©. E. Gordon, a famous Nonpartisan league organizer, to | turn over their horses to the former to winter, rep-| resenting that he (Darling) had ample ¢hed room, | hay, water, and an abundance of grass range. A few days before Christmas one of the farmers, who had placed his horses with Darling for the winter, went to Fortuna and found his horses in a starving | condition and without feed, shelter or care. One} bunch of 23 horses which had strayed away were all found dead. One party is unable to locate five head, and many other parties have lost one or more head. Mr. Platzer was fortunate in locating all of his hors Flaxton | 5 JUST SUPPOSIN’. We will suppose that one of our Westhope busi- ness men were to go to the farmers and others, in this vicinity, with the following proposition: ‘I am going to start a store and want you to sign an agrec- ment to put in $100, What I don’t need of this amount will go for educational purposes . You can buy your goods from me for 10 or 15 per cent above cost, with freight added, You don’t get any dividends from your money invested, and neither do you get the same amount back you have put in, us I will take off $10 cach year till it is all gone. Should I go bankrupt in the meantime, you will get back whatever there might be for you, a deduction of $10 per year for the time I have been in busi- ness."? What would your answer be, You would be erazy to get into it, wouldn’t you? What, wouldn't care for it? Well, that’s the way the Townley stores are being organized at different places, and it ought to be all right —Westhope Stand- | ard. THE BEAST UNMASKS. llistory never beheld a blacker 1b Germany, talking to distracted Russ annexations, no indemuities and the tion of peoples.’’ Now that the attempt to rob Russia by diplomatic hocus-poeus apparently has failed, the German bur- | glar stands forth in the open. What Germany proposes is to steal from Rus beeause it has the power to take and Russia lacks the power to resist, a vast area of territory peopled | by millions, and hundreds of miles of Russia’s smali | coastline, Germany wants the Baltie provinces and Lithua- nia. It already has Poland. The Baltic provinces, Lithuania and Poland include about 230,000 square miles—about the size of Minnesota, North Dakota, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland combined— and are the homes of 40,000,000 people. From this America and the world may learn, if they do not already know, what mercy to expect of a victorious Germany. From this America and the world may learn what their fate will be if they do not résolve, cost what it may, to smash forever this brigand among nations. What Germany is to do to Russia is what Germany did to Austria when it took Silesia. It is what Ger- many did to Penmark when it took Schleswig-Ilc stein. It is what Germany did to Franee when it took Alsace-Lorraine. It is what Germany, Aus- tria and the ezar-dominated Russia did when they dismembered Poland and divided her territory among themselves. It is what Germany did to Bel- gium, Luxemburg and northern France in its first great drive in 1914. ‘ If the community of Duluth had running wild in its midst a desperado who did such deeds as these, it would seek no peace nor rest nor surcease of sac- rifice until it had run him to earth and ‘hung him by the neck until he was dead. America and the civilized world, in self-protec- tion and for the sake of their children, can do no less with the brigand Germany.—Duluth Herald. pocrite than about ‘‘no 1f-determina- SS CUitr NN ai mately ‘orth 2, will, as_ it ac-| erve ,do much QUARTER OF A | MILLION TAGS | Dakota, hon FOR SHOVELS (0 ect this (Continued From Bage One) | NEW POWER FOR which last year produced only 509,000) ADMINISTRATOR , this . will have produced | 009, The reserve sup-) yon hand in > ae st and'the mest equ-| ory of the) - (Continued From Page One.) It has*been dificult, however, for akota, with its © nd yards filled, to appreciate ‘tiie sit- nation in less favored portions of the | ountry, or to appreciate the necessity ably distri) state, But no one time North Dakota will to share this reserve with and Wis ell at what |, led upon UN tration. succeedéd in creating was short-lived, | and with very rare exceptions it has been strictly obeyed. Some necessary | modifications have been made, and the) east is fast adjusting itself to the new! situation. tric signs yo made effective for two nights.in the OF STATE FUEL week, if strictly served throughout tween $150,000 and 200,000 tons of coal estimates Capt. Baker. organized in wooded states as a means of reducing the consumption of coal. The opposition which they, ‘Tne order for the limitation of elec- and all outdoor lighting, ke United States should save be-{ Wood-cutting campaigns. have. ‘been wane Norch Lakota is ‘classed as a MONDAY, JANUARY. 28, 1918, NEED BIG HERDS = Europe’s Meat Supply Must Come From America. Warring Nations Have Depleted Live Stock at Enormous Rate, Eve. Killing Dairy Cattle For Food, American stock breeders are being asked to conserve’ their flocks and herds. in order to meet Europe's tre- mendous demands for meats during the war and probably for many years afterward, “The United States food adminis- tration reports that American stock raisers have shown a disposition to’ co-operate with the government in in- creasing the nation’s supply of live stock, ‘ Germany today !s probably better supplied with live stock than any oth- er European nation, When the Ger- man armies made their big advance into France and then retreated vir- tually all the cattle in the invaded territory — approximately» 1,800,000 hend—were driven behind’ the German Jines. ae But in England—where 2,400,000 acres of pasture Jands. have been turn- ed into grain fields—the cattle herds are decreasing rapidly. One of the reasons apparently is the declining maximum price scale adopted by the ‘English as follows: For September, ‘$17.76 per 100 pounds ; October, $17.: November and December, $16.08; Jan- lary, $14.40. The effect of these prices wus to drive beef animals on the mar- két as soon as possible, : Jn France the namber of cattle as well as the quality have shown an erormous decline during the war. Where France had 14,807,000 head of cattle In 1913, she now has only 12,- $41,900, a decrease of 16.0 per cent. And France {s today producing only ore gallon of milk compared to two aitd one-half gallons before the war. Denmark and Holland have been forced to sacrifice dairy herds for beet because of the lack of necessary feed. Close study of the European meat situation has convinced the Food: Ad- | ministration that the future problem of America Hes largely in the produc- tion of meat producing animals and dairy products rather than {n the pro- duction of cereals for export when the war will have ceased, * Decidedly Unusiial. A Wisconsin man's dyfense against his wife's divorce: suit’ was on the ground that she refused to speak to y him and compelled him to buy a phono- s graph for company. ,” = / od MEMBER OF MEDICAL CORPS IS WOUNDED. | Washington, Jan. 28.—General Per- shing today reported First Lieutenant A, ‘H:: Brown, /medical..reserve, corps, of Cincinnnati, attached to British ex- peditionary force, slightly wounded in action December 31. ‘No details were or net wae a are notareesoriunately for {uel saving here at home as welll treeless state, it has some fine for- given. font situa Letter ane Me Pei Dakota sippi. lests in its river bottoms, where hun-| - at 6 o'clock this evening Jazz or- ‘ en at oe ara Tatage capniy| -egsity does exist every dreds of cords or firewood are waster | chestra will give a:concert for the din- wt fer hele "agtatties anaetiei: domes:| . A. Garfield’s or-| annually through failure .to conserve| erg at the McKenzie hotel.—Adver- - ' tie neads, Creat ag Hgathe ‘present | ‘ ady, if sometimes un-| trees which are broken down’ by | tisement. roduction SE Gak lig te maine’, mwicn | wil of eastern indus-| wind or lightning, or which’ succumb peER ES acute 4 os patriotically straining ‘every en. Li Mondays and other| to age. Capt. Baker suggests that ter- KLEIN—Tailor and cleaner says: 7 orgy 10 es only turn ‘out. coal “sufti-! g ti enforced ‘by Dr.| ritory adjacent to the ‘Missouri river,| Order your spring suit early. Get cient for the needs of the state but Garfield all have been essential, Capt.| especially could ‘save much coal ‘by | first selection. We call for and de- to accumulate a good surplus, the pr . P. Baker, federal fuel administra-| utilizing this firewood during the| liver cleaning and pressing. s badd Cn Ree Us ee tor for North Dakota, declares, to milder months. 1 22 Gt sent facilities of North Dakota's lig-| America’s su in the great con-| nite producers would be taxed to the) ict in which it has eni aa | F limit to meet the demands yea eee ee aes eee roo. cone| {tH NNNUniuHntrniagnttgnetencugseventcvscaaneseasaneuasiy IL would come should the supply of east-! ,,... Tih’ Feaiohts cal feabsevenaeee = ern coal be shut ofi from our sister Besied Ae, au = = states soniitely: 1 industries, which had | 3 = ‘May Supply Other States. no immediate market for their pro-|3 ‘ = It is altogether probable that when} ducts and which could not have ship- = = coal distri nre again zoned by the| ped them had there been a market, in-} 3 e e United States fuel administration that ted upon demanding their normal |= t portions at least of Minnesota andj fucl supply and upon operating at full = South Dakota will be assigned the pacity. Either they did not under- ‘orth ‘Dakota territory as a means of nd the scriousness of the situation, is i relieving the drain on eastern andj or, understanding, they persisted in middle western coal fields, and the | their course for unpatriotic reasons “shovel-a-day” of coal which may be) whic tigated at a later: saved through “Tag Your Shovel) date, the federal fuel adminis KING GEORGE PRINTS FIRST NEW WAR BOND ITT TTT UES ‘When Great Britain started its new issue of five-pound national war bonds, King George started the machine which printed the|: first bond. The.p otora shows King George and Que | Englan here the bonds were: printed.’ : sth es Mase eta of Fargo buys Bergeson’s Tailoring Department There is a scarcity of high grade and full standard weight woolens and the purchasing of this large stock was an advantage not to be overlooked by Mr. Lasson, Mr. Lasson knows the critical situation that’s why he bought this entire stock of yoolens WILL 'YOU TAKE THE WARNING AND ORDER YOUR SUIT NOW FROM THE BEST STOCK OF ‘WOOLENS IN BISMARCK. Mr. Lasson will be at Bergeson’s Store Today-and to- -| morrow to take your meacure. t ‘ ‘ 4 Tanaka tain