The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1918, Page 4

i spear By seco een ro i f THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY GEORGE D. MANN she Fel Se G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, Sf0 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- Ushed herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein ate also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, vatly, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month ....$ .70 Maily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month ... .. 90 Oaily, Evening only, by Carrier, per m: 50 Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month .. 70 Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one ear... ae ee ae Morning or evening by mail outside of North Dakota, one year ... . 6.00 Sunday in Cembinat mail, one year .. THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) as Second Editor g or Morning by .~- 6.00 PUT ON THE PRESSURE Hoover warns congress if it does not grant power to enforce food conservation, congress must bear the grave responsibility for failure to feed our men abroad and the allies. He adds that, while voluntary conservation shows wonderful results, there is an unpatriotic minority that connot be rea hed save by legislation. According to the censu us 4,662,000 alien enemi congress the obses sion that these millions are saving food in order that the kaiser may be Iciked? WE'RE SOME MATCH-MAKER Roosevelt hadn’t been n Washington an hour before he had seized the leadership of the fight on Wilson, says a dispatch from the capital. Now, according to the rules of all fight games, there must be something like equality in the ecm- batants. A heavyweight is not matched with a ban tam. The line between amateurs and professionals is sharply drawn, in every class of sport. Fven in duelling there must be equality of rank. Roosevelt is a private citizen. Wilson is commander-in-chief of the U S. army and navy, Clearly, these two can- not be farily matched. President against ¢x-presi- dent is not fair, under the game's rules. But, we have in our country a man the equal of Roosevelt. This man has stood for all patriotic effort as loyally as has Wilson, This man has, dur- ing the past few years, given publie utterance, to opinions and purposes that proved him to be a thorough patriot and non-partisan in the govern- ment’s time of emergency. We positively demand that William Howard Taft go to Washington and, in an hour, or less, if he likes, seize leadership of the opposition to Roosevelt. IT IS A BIG VICTORY It was American mechanics against German, and America won It was the spirit of construction against the spirit of destruction, and construetive- ness won. It was a conflict between American and Teuton brains, and the American won. It was a victory not less than that won by force of arms in a great battle. When Uncle Sam seized the great flect of Ger- man vessels found in his harbors, he discovered that their German crews had mutilated or destroyed the machinery. The Germans laughed and said it would be years before the intricate engines and other parts would perform their functions. But American en- gineers and mechanics went to work. They invented new methods of welding by which the damaged en- gines and other heavy parts could be repaired as they lay in the ships. Tests show that the ships are making better time than e before, and every one of these ships is now carrying Amerean fighters to Franicé by the thousands. We are the greatest people on earth, at anything. And we know it. While the medals and honors are being passed out, we should not overlook the brainy Americans who have put 600,000 tons of German shipping to fighting Germany, in spite of Germany's dirtiest. s, we have amongst THE YELL OF THE DOLLAR The English, whom the great Napoleon scorned as ‘‘a nation of traders,’’ thrus showing his lack of appreciation, continue to warmly discuss a trade boycot of the central powers, after the war, and, if they reach this decision, there will undoubtedly be strong pressure to make the United States a party to it. Indeed, such boyeott could not long continue without he American naions as participants. Too big a market would be left open to the boycotted, to say nothng of merit and prices of goods inter- fering with successful boycott in all eases. But it is not remarkable that the Briitsh trades- men are stirred up. If the truth were made konwn, it would, doubtless, appear that the trades people of the central powers, without foreign trade for over three years, are doing some mighty hard thinking and, perhaps, contributing a great deal to the unrest manifested in those countries. While President Wilson’s utterances have all been for trade freedom and equality, the statisties of our pre-war rade with Germany and her allies are interesting. For the year previous to the war, these statistics show: Imports. Ex Austria-Hungary .......$ 19,199,414 Preset 696 Bulgaria. .............. 440.537 "103,749 Germany .............. 188,963,071 331,684,212 Turkey ...........2.... 9,917,890 2.217.073 While the total balance of trade was not against us, the smaller countries, Bulgaria and Turkey, did have balances in their favor. But balances don’t tell the whole story. The total of business with these countries was $575,839,642, and it was a poor trade year throughout the world. if, as a great.many theorists, especially Germans claim, it is a trade war, isn’t it logical to believe that much of the squealing and dissatisfacton re- ported by the cables is the manifestation of the traders? The almighty dollar, bless its sensitive heart! is being biffed and buffed to the limit. Speaking of names, the steamer Cork has sunk. It’s catching. Even the Ohio river is out for a espe dries : pee EES Save, fat;. ¢pies the, government, ,:.And.s0:many ie ard to get rid of it! ga girls are trying OUT OF OUR REACH “German measles’’ has been wiped off the sani- tary records of Camp Dix and ‘Liberty measles’ substituted, Hanged if we can grasp the psychol- ogy of it. If the measles were not ruthless, if there were a single feature of liberty about it, we could see into it, but the opposite is he fac. Such a low-down, con- rary, ferocious malady as the measles is properly named German, And why pollute the term ‘‘Uib- erty’? by such assoriation? Gee! if the Old Boy were called ‘German Devil,’’ we wouldn’t name him ‘Liberty Devil,”’ in order to take a erack at the kaiser, would we? Some Savannah repoyts one heat prostration. fellow must have fallen into his furnace. spondents want to know why Feb, 2 sday. Well, it’s Groundhog day. Several co can’t be a porkle to know who writes Nick yu Longworth’s speeches, his father-in-law or his w We are always cur German labor is hungry, and wants peace and political equality. Enough to keep any kaiser busy. Doggoned cruel in Italy to start an offensive just when old Hindenburg was getting all set for one of his own. Everybody is urging the farmer to buy a tractor so he can produce more food. Ef he buys it, we reward him by increasing his taxes, Nothing that can be placed in a store window in zero weather attracts quite so much attention as ¢lothes than can be worn only in the summer time, We hear that milkmen are going to sell Thrift Stamps. Which will you do, sit up till your milk- man ealls or leave a note asking him to wake up? William, he well known Chri istian kaiser, has help. We're afraid William is sending his thanks in the wrong direction. “Why You Are Not Paying 30¢ for Sugar”’ is the subject of a two-column advertisement of the Amer- ican Sugar Refining, That’s a lot of space to fill when it can be told in one word—Hoover, Speaking of cabinets, do you recall some of the intellectual giants in Roosevelt’ We can name offhand, Will Taft, Jimmy Garfield, Philander C. Knox, Leslie M. Shaw and George Von lL, Meyer. Bolsheviki have declared General Dmitri Grigore- viteh Stcherhatcheff, Russian commander in Ru- mania, an outlaw. Now’s the time for Gen. D. G. 8. to change his name to Robin Hood, Dead-eye Lick or such. Reports from Kurope say Empcror Karl of Austria lets Empress Zita run things. Get ready for the upheaval, boys. You remember what hap- panede to Alexander of Serbia, Czar Nick and Con- stantine of Greece, don’t you? A New York hotel man says the hotels of this country are saving/more food than the homes. We can easily believe it. Every time we eat in a hotel we wonder what they have done with the food. In 1917, the year’s increase in ton miles of U. S. railroads exceeded the combined ton miles handled on all the railroads of England, France, Germany, Austria and Russia. And still we’ve got td speed up. Cleveland theater manager cheerfully announces that his theater will remain heated three days after being heated, due to heat generated by his audiences. You can see how hot those Clevelanders are at Gar- field, can’t you? A man who was among the first ‘Spugs’’— Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving—has been sentenced to serve five years in prison for embezzling $5,000 from his ‘brother. He should or- ganize a Society for the Prevention of Useless Taking. “There are many things about railroads I don’t know,’’ says McAdoo, When he retires from government service he should be made president of some big railroad company—-say the New York Central. He seems to be qualified. But mebby he is only bragging. i Old Hiram Peck! But you should see Him draw a cheek. | __ WITH THE EDITORS. | CONSTRUCTIVE FARM PROGRAM There is a patriotic ring in the constructive cam paign of the Illinois farmers that will readily com- mend itself to the agriculturalists of Minnesota and other northwestern states. One paragraph con tains the message—to ‘‘do the thing on your farm that will enable you to render the greatest service to your country, remembering that you can make no sacrifice equal to that of the boys who have gone to the front to fight.’’ The constructive features of the program will carry an appeal to farmers everywhere. The sug- gestion to grow more wheat and less oats and corn is practical in this section, where the finest wheat in the world is harvested. To produce more beef and pork is essential if the United States is to supply the allies with much needed food products. The sug- gestion to raise more sheep has a double appeal, as the mutton is needed both at home and for the allies, and the wool is an imperative necessity if the soldier boys are to be warmly clad. The advice to plant only such crops as are cer- tain to succeed in various localities is merely com- mon sense in these times when the maximum of pro- duction is so highly desirable. To build more silos is in harmony with the national program to develop the dairying interests. The plan to repair old farm machinery carries an economic suggestion that should require no special urging. It will not only save the farmers money but will permit the govern- ment to use larger quantities of raw materials for other purposes, « ‘ The final advice to pay more attention to soil fer- tility, to consult with the county agents and to fol- low: ey pantie influence the modern farmer ito. adopt. the latest , jentifie ideas and advice fi every authentic ine t, Paul Diabateh. ane written another letter thanking the Almighty for]. BURLEIGH FOUR PER CENT BONDS University end School Land Funds | Absorb 200,000 Seed and | Feed Issue NEXT LOWER BID IS 6 The state of North’ Dakota saved Burleigh county $8,000 in interest on its $200,000 issue of seed and feed bonds Tuesday afterno6n, when it bid them in at four percent, about two per- cent lower than the next lowest bid. The bid came as a surprise to rep-| resentatives of a half-dozen banks) and bond companies who were here ant passage in the speech which Count Czernin, the Austro-Hunganian for- eign minister, delivered before the reichsrath on January 24, which is now caus a storm of anti-Austrian agitation in Germany and Bulgaria, was cleverly disterted so as to com- pletely change ils meaning in the ver- sion which the German Wolff bureau permitted to go to England and Am- erica, The correct text of this section of Count Czernin’s speech as printed in the Viena newspapers follows: “So far as these propositions con- cern her allies, whether in the case of Cerman possessions, Belgium or Tur- with tenders said to have ranged} about six percent . The state’s bid! was the first opened by the county! commissioners, and other prospective | bidders kept their tenders in their) pockets. | To Invest $660,000 \ The money which will be invested from the state university and school | lands fund and will represent about | 33 per cent of the amount which is! expected toy be available by March! Ist, | “If all contracts are paid up as due, and our land sales go well, we will have about a million in this fund by) March 1,” said State Auditor Kositzky a member of the board of university | and school lands. “Under the laws governing this fund, only one-third of} it may be invested in farm loans, and the remainder is to be invested in bonds. We should have by March 1, therefore, $660,000 or more for the purchase of county seed and feed bonds.” , Cannot Purchase All Inasmuch as many other counties will bond as heavily as Burleigh or for an even larger suin, the state’s $660,- 00 wil not go far, if itis compelled to actually invest in| many counties’ oonds, but it is believed that, used as a regulator, the fund will enable all the counties which have bonds to sell to command a much better price than would be possible were it not known that the state is a possible bidder. Burleigh has enjoyed the good fortune of being the first county to sell bonds under the amended seed and fend bonding act, and it was picked by the state as an object lesson to bond buyers. Under the law, the farmers who borrow from the county to purchase seeds pay a premium of but one per cent on their loans, which means that in Burleigh county their money will zost them only five per cent. Transaction Held Legal Burleigh county decided to bond and advertised for bidders under the old seed bonding act. Some question arose yesterday as to the legality of such a procedure under the new act, F. E. Shepard, of the First National Bank of Bismarck procured from Attorney General Langer a written opinion in which he held that section 18 of the new seed and feed bonding act, where- in it states that ‘No bonds issued or proceedings had heretofore under chapter 24 of the political code of the session laws of North Daktota for 1913 shall be invalidated or in any manner made void by this act,” is con- trolling and that the ‘bonds offered for sale by Burleigh county on February 5, 1918, are offered legally and are in every respect valid.” John N. Hagan, commissioner of ag- riculture and labor, held to the same opinion. “There is no conflict between the two acts in this respect,” said Mr. Hagan, except that the old act made seven percent the maximum, while six percent is the limit under the new statute. It is my opinion, however, that counties which haye advertised and sold. bonds under old act must comply with the statute as amended as to the purchase of seed and feed, in the Burleigh county bonds will come |” ey, Austria-Hungary, faithful to her engagements, will go to the extreme in n \ SPEROH IN REICHSTAG BY JUGGLING WORDS AND CHANGING THE SENSE London, Feb. 6.—The most import-| defense of her allies. She will defend| |the pre-war possessions of her allies ‘as she would her own.” | By removing the comma between |“German possessions” and “Belgium” |and by dropping the important adjec- | tive “pre-war”, Count Czernin was | made to say that he would defend Ger- many’s possession of Belgium. This is the very thing he emphatically dis- claimed. He definitely dissociated | Belgium from German possessions and |declared that Austria would defend lonly the pre-war possessions of her | al-tes. It is this declaration obviously op- militarist pro- gram and avowed war aims program which is causing such a stir in Berlin and Sofia, RRR eee complying with the requirements that it be tested at the state seed labor- atory in Fargo by sample, and that all cts be based on such official To Open Seed Bids The Burleigh county comm on will open bids for seed today. It has several tenders from farmers within the county, That the $299,000 worth of seed bonds which the county commission voted several weeks ago will barely suffice to mect the need of Burleigh farmers was indicated when the com- missioners met this morning to find on their table seed applications to the number of 400, with requisitions for seed running “from two bushels to 500 bushels,” as Commissioner S: ressed it : verage has yet been struck, but 1 the 400 applications new on file will call for at least 60,000 bushels of ‘seed wheat and other s, and there are also to be con- sidered numerous applications for feed, of which there is a shortage fully equalling the demand for seed. Much Good Seed One encouraging feature are reports from farmers indicating the presence in Burleigh county of an unusual qual- ity of sced wheat of extraordinary ¢x- cellence. “There never has been a sea- son when better seed wheat was to be hod,” said Chairman Hedstrom this morning. “Last year was noted for the production of sound, hard grains, where any wheat was grown at all.” This will mean that crop will get away in good shape with the first re- quisite for a banner yield—sound seed, free from disease. M’GURRIN INVITED T0 DEBATE EVILS OF VACCINE POINT Challenge Extended Head of State Board of Health by Woman Lecturer Devils Lake, N. D., Feb. 6.—Dr, J. C. McGurrin, superintendent of the state, board of health, is challenged by Mrs. Lora C. Little, lecturer for the Medi-| cal Freedom Education committee, and who is now touring North Dakota, to a joint debate on the subject: “Resolve that vaccination is a benefit to n kind.” Mrs. Little’s preamble indicat that she wishes to take the negative. She writes: “The undersigned is mak- ing a tour of this state with the cbject of arousing the public to what she re- gards as the enormity of the oturage, vaccination: You as its leading up- holder and the~chief advocate of its compulsion, are’ hereby challenged to meet ‘her onthe public platform and participate in’ a joint discussion’ dt-the Every possible concession as place and other details will ie to suit your pleasure and con- to ti be ma | venienc 'WESTBOUND RATES ON ‘SEED AND FEED SAME ASEASTBOUND RATES Saving of Thousands to North | Dakota Farmers by Conces. | sions of N. P. R. TWIN CITY TRAFFIC If GREATLY REDUCED i A concession which will mean a sav- j ing of thousands of dollars to western | | Nerth Dakota farmers who have to rely on Twin City terminals for seed and feed was’won by the railway {commission Tuesday when in a con- ference with the Northern Pacific its representatives agreed to:equalize the company's west bound rates on seed and feed to comply with its east-bound | tariffs. At present there is a wide difference between rates eastbound and west- bound. Killdeer’s eastbound rate is 21 cents the hundred; westbound,” 29; Mott, 18 and 19, respectively; New Salem, 17% and 22, respectively; Dick- inson, 19 and 28, respectively; and Beach, 21 and 32, respectively. Under the agreement made on behalf of the Northern Pacific by J. E, Burnham, as- sistant general freight agent, and W. T. Kraft, general agent, the lower rate in each instance hereafted will apply in évery case from the Twin City ter- minal. It will mean an average saving of three cents the bushel on ‘oats, five cents the bushel on barley and rela- tive amounts on other seed.grains and | feed. Vast quantities of feed must be | shipped out of the Twin Cities to the | Slope country. before good grazing for \ livestock relieves ‘the stringency. Large amounts of sced grain must be imported by certain sections. The saving effected will be considerable. Another important concession won | by the railway commission yesterday was an agreement on the part of the Great ‘Northern and the Northern Pac- ifie to expedite the shipment of seea grain by treating it as a perishable commodity and giving it the same {right of way. A circular will be is- | sued immediately, conveying these in- {structions to all of the companies’ | agents in North Dakota. The difference in eastbound and west-bound rates has not applied on the Great Northern, as to seed and feed. Its rates from terminal to Wil- liston, its most distant shipping point in North Dakota is 19% cents, either east or west. Hs CURSEOF CHURCH HURLED AGAINST THE BOLSHEVIKI De Facto Government Confiscates the Property of Orthodox Russian Church MAY USE IT ON SUFFERENCE Petrograd, Feb. 3.— (Sunday)—The Soviet issued a decree today, signed by Nikolai Lenine and other members of the de facto government, absolutely separating the church and the state, eliminating church income from the state and confiscating all church real- ty, furnishings and paraphernalia. The decree stipulates that religious soci- eties may continue to use the property exclusively for religious services, al- though the title is vested in the state. Religious freedom is guaranteed so long as religious societies do not inter- fere with social order, limit the rights of individuals or hinder the republic. No religious scruples are to exempt persons from their duties as citizens. The religious oath is cancelled and replaced by promise. Marriage ceremonies and birth reg- istrations are to be performed by the civil authorities. Peligious teachings is abolished in state schools and in private colleges with a similar curri- culum. PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW Head of Greek Communion Thunders Excommunication. Petrograd, Saturday, Feb. 2,—Be- cause of the seizure of the Alezander Nevsky monastery in Petrograd by the Bolsheviki and other attacks on church property elsewhere, taken in conjunction with other circumstances attending the latest revolution, the Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon, patriarch of all Russia, and Metropolitan of Moscow, issued today at Moscow an anathema threatening the participants with ex- communication and calling on the faithful to defend the sacredness of the church. In connection with the seizure of Alexander Nevsky monastery which occurrer yesterday by order of Mad- ame Kolontay, minister of social wel- fare, there was a riot and a sharp struggle, in which the monks fought the Red guards. One monk, name1 ‘Sitpetrov, who was wounded, died to- day. Great Demonstration The church authorities are arrang- ing a big demonstration in the Petro- grad streets which the Bolsheviki lead- ers are seeking to prevent on the grounds that it. might bring forth a clash, The church authorities, how- ever, apparently are determined to carry out, their plan, _ The clash of the ‘church with the Bolsheviki government is approaching a most acute stage. The patriarch, whose anathema is couched in the strongest language, also’ has demand- ed from the military commission at Mohilev the release of Arch-Bishop Gommel and other prelates and an ex- planation of their arrest. When patriarch advisers urged him to revise his anthema so that it would be less bitter against the Bolsheviki he is reported to have flatly refused, declaring that he was read yto carry it out to the death. The Anathema The anathema in part is as follows: { “The old Orthodox church is: pass- | ing through a hard time. It is an open secret that its enemies are perpetrat- ing persecutions against Christ’s teach ingsings. They want to kill Christ's cause, excite hatred and bring fratri- cidal war.” After declaring that atrocities and persecutions are increasing in general and that right and law are disregard- ed, the patriarch says it compels him to address “to such outcasts of man- kind our menacing word of condemna- tion.” “Come to reason,” he continues. “Stop your bloody fratricide. This work is the work of Satan. By the Power of God “By the power given to us by God, we forbid you to participate in Christ's communion, We excommunite you, if you still have christian names, if only by birth you belong to the Orthodox church. We pray all the faithful chil- dren of the Orthodox church not to come into contact’ with such outcasts of mankind. Throw the veil from among yourselves.” Of the persecutions of the church the patriarch declares: “The holy communion, which bless- es the birth and mariage of man, has been declared urrecessary. The churches are subjected to destruction from bombardment by guns or to hum- iliation, as in the case of the church of Christ, the Savior, the Holy Alex- ander monastery in Petrograd and. the Bocheyeav monastery at Kiev, which. are being captured by the godless dom- inators of our time.” ‘The anathema closes‘with an appeal by the patriarch through: all church prelates, calling upon all the parishes to fight and suffer for the sanctity of the church. § denotes a weakness and if neglected it leads to bronchitis, pneumonia or consumption. SCOTT’S EMULSION fs the sure and safe remedy for coughs ond colds becausc it relieves the trouble and strengthens the whole system to avoid sickness and loss of time. wy soe, ‘ 4 2 ‘ i Hei (Os kiko 4 -_ ‘ Ni ; { Bi e % Ni y i’ i ceo