The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1918, Page 4

PAGE 4 BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. “s : ISSUED EVERY DAY GEORGE D. NANN i) ete oe: oe Editor G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg,; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, $10 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. AU rights of publication of special dispatches herein ere alan reserved MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Daily, Moming and Sunday by Carrier, per month 7 Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrie | per month ... a Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month Fy Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one ‘ | year ... ci 00 Morning or evening by ma one year ... | Sunday in Cembination w: | 6.00 | mai). one vear ... THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. | (Established 1873) eES> PART OF EACH THE : And though you be done to the death, what then? If you battled the best you could, If you played your part in the world of men, Why the Critic will call it good, : There’s a heap of timely philosophy in this ex- cerpt from one of the early pocins of Edmund Vance Cooke, who has just been udded to the editorial staff of our Newspaper Enterprise association and who will regularly delight our readers with his famous verse and humor, ; : The part which we have to play in this world is simply the doing of our best. The Lord does not} demand success of us but our level best according to our capacity, The great Critic is as likely to pin the Cross of the Legion of Honor upon the breast of the poor widow, who, with hungry and ragged chil- dren about her and made old with multiplied cares and struggles, knits a Sweater for a soldier, as upon the breast of a general who wins with shot and sword. , Not all of us are given the same capacity, save capacity to sacrifice, and this war that aging i matter of sacrifice. The judgment of the great Critic will not be warped by title, position, the blare of trumpets, or the glitter of what men call fame. The widow's mite may be the mightiest of all offer- ings in the presence of Him who knows all things as they are. When it comes that we are “done to the death,” our only question is as to whether we played our part, our level best. That’s our question, too, in this awful issue between barbarism and civilization. We cannot all fight, or even knit, but there is not one among us but ean do his or her‘ level best at} self-denial, and, win or lose, ‘the Critie will call it good.”’ : A STRAW SHOWING THE BLIZZARD’S DIRECTION When a earload of coal, about 40 tons, consigned to J. Pierpont Morgan, arrived at Locust Valley, L. L, yesterday, it was taken by Anton G. HL. Hodenpyl, fuel administrator, and will be diverted to those in need of fuel. If there is any left, it will be delivered to Mr. Morgan. Tn our kindliness of heart, we sometimes publish an item the second time lest those whom it may do the most good may have missed it on its first publi- cation, and the foregoing is such an instance. There are several very distinguished people for whom this little Locust Valley item ought to be good, ; among them Mr. Hohenzollern, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Meatpacker, Mr. Sugar King, and Mr. Private Cinch and all of his relatives. Indeed, the cute little Locust Valley item is big with a strong, stirring lesson that won’t hurt anybody. Doubtless none of the distinguished folk named above ever heard of Locust Valley or ever was intro- duced to Mr. Anton G. If. Hodenpyl. It is a very small community of largely plain folks and Anton G. H. Hodenpy! never stirred up things so you could notice it. But it appears that many Locust Valley folks had no coal, while Mr. Morgan, biggest of all financiers, had 40 tons, and Mr Hodenpyl, having acquired a little brief authority, put into practical operation his conception of that fine old democratic doctrine “One for all; all for one.’ Jerusalem! what a power of social and economic policy in those words, ‘‘If there’s any left, it will be delivered to Mr. Morgan”! It will not be revolution but millen-| ium, when we get to applying this to Mr. Hohenzol- lern, Mr. Rockefeller and the other gents mentioned above. Just think, Anton G. IH. Hodenpy! represents the government of the United States, when he takes Morgan’s coal and lets Morgan have eoal, if there’s ahy left when the needy are supplied! And you ean’t| stop our hundred million people from thinking that, if, it’s a good thing in war, it must be worth trying in peace! We honestly believe that the cinch-holder, domes- tie or foreign, is going to ‘be awfully sick of this war, yet, if not already. THEY GIVE THEIR ALL Pale, exhausted, sobbing, gasping, she returns from the Valley of the Shadow of Death to turn a mother’s first look upon the tiny creature upon the pillow beside her. It is a boy, they tell her, and her heart goes out to God for the glory of it. The agony is forgotten. She has given to the world a man! She puts an arm around the child, an arm that will always be there to guide and protect. Beautiful visions of the future, with her son, her son, in all of them, possess the new world that’s been created in her heart, and, with the heavenly smile of mother hood glowing upon her face, she falls asleep. Time slips along on wings of the lightning. The wee knit shoes, not two inches long, give way to} sturdy shoes of leather and are put away in some sacred hiding place as keepsakes. What mending, brushing, advising, as her boy starts off to school! What nights and days of work, worry, sacrifice for his sake! Mother’s boy must look well, behave well, live well, and God alone can keep record of how much of her hope, soul and life mother puts into it. But it will pay. Some day, she’ll go shopping, or to the theater, or to chureh on the arm of a fine, manly fellow, her boy. Some day, it will always be “Don’t do that, mother; let me do it!’? Some day, it will be the strong arm of her boy about her, to protect and to return the nights and days of care | and ungglfish love. hood, would make all men mere brutes and human happiness the hopeless plaything of greed of power; a beast that says to mothers: “Your sons are but fodder for my guns!’’ to sons, ‘‘Your mothers are but brood sows for my power!’’ Iler man, her boy that was, answers that call. “Tere,” he says, ‘is my all and mother’s all. Jus- tice, happiness, mother’s love shall not perish from the earth, My life for it!’ Tlow handsome and noble he looks in his new uniform! How true and brave he will surely be! But oh! how dear he is! How her heart fills to bursting, as memory piles upon her all the joys, struggles, sacrifices that made him hers, since that day when she turned upon her boy who would, some day, play a man’s part! Today, her boy, her man’, is tossed by the icy waves of foreign seas, a corpse; for, the beast has sneaked up through the spume and blown a ship to hits. The stricken mother is alone. No husband, no friend, no relative, none save Wim who knows all, can know her heart. She goes to her chamber and | puts in her bosom the little knit shoes, while her hungry ey ek his toys, his books, his clothes, any- thing that was part of him; and all is darkness! Over 200 other American mothers are, today, as she is! And the horror of it must multiply a thou- jsand fold! Oh! let us who lose no sons, who feel no loss that wrings the heart and pictures all the future black, let us, too, offer all we have that war may be killed and, all through the coming years, mothers may have their sons! What is a day of meatlessness, or wheat- lessness, or moneylessness beside the life of suffering, struggle, sacrifice of a single American mother? God help us! let us save, sacrifice and give as the mothers must ! it was a year it goes down. high a the le times a higher it ago. Good! There are fewer hogs than ever before in farmers’ smoke-houses, an alert contemp, But as many as ever in the street cars. U. S. has 1,800,000 women succes in agriculture, 1,050,000 of them colored. Maybe the other 750,000 of them wear sun-bonnets. The leader of the ( eld bank robbers at Cleve- land had only 70 cents left when the police caught him. When a man has only that much money these days he might just as weil let the police catch him. As an example of ‘industrial unrest’? there’s that copy of The Vorwae Amsterdam. It contians a declaration for the strik- ers, signed by its compositors, pressmen and other employes, and a declaration against the striker signed by its editors. No sir, we don’t know what had happened. We imagine, however, that one side or the other hanged the proofreader, at whose mercy all declarations of a newspaper really lie. POLITICAL RUMBLING Of all the senators and representatives who w at the recent session of the legislature. The Di son Pr seleets Liederbach of Dunn county as its particular target for abuse. This action by Pompous Pete is prima facie evidence that Liederbach is a particularly worthy representative of the people who elected him, Dunn county and its representative are to be congratulated upon the enemies they hav Say, Pete, just for your information, we beg to ad- vise that Liederbach will never be sent back as a rep- resentative from Dunn county. There are too many of the farmers out this way talking about him our next senator,—Kildeer Herald. A MENACE FROM THE SPRING WHEAT COUNTRY The report in the grain market column of The Herald last evening that some farmers in the spring wheat country thinking of abandoning wheat this year and sowing coarse grains is a menace that demands immediate attention, In part this thought is due to the relatively high- er price of coarse grains, which are not under control as wheat In part it is due to the fact that many wheat growers have had virtual crop failures during tivo successive seasons, As to the first season, we believe that the govern- ment should, through congress, immediately ‘put the 1918 crap: of eo s under control, with prices fixed in their just relationship to the price of wheat. This will do away with the temptation to switeh from wheat. As to the other reason, perhaps of a third crop failure, partial or complete. With the winter wheat crop of more or less dubi- ous outlook, there is grave need that every acre possible be sowed to spring wheat. It is to be hoped that the thought of not sowing wheat, which would be a virtual rejection of the country’s plea to the farmer to do his part, is not widely shared, and that those who have it will think better of Duluth erald, THE LIGNITE SUPPLY A peculiarly anomalous condition in relation to the fuel problems preyails in the northwest. The with its numerous mines containing the finest coal in the earth, has been freezing. North Dakota, somewhat limited’ as to railway mileage, in Atitude popularly supposed to. be the very antithesis of Tophet, has more coal than any state in the Union, and now, right in midwinter, has more already mined and actually awaiting shipment than is required to fill orders. The operators of the lignite mines of North Dakota are apparently unorganized, without a sys- tem of calling to the attention of consumers the high value of lignite coal in such a manner as to create a larger demand. It is not economical wisdom for the government, now controlling the coal mines and also the. railroads, to make long hauls from the east to the northwest, if fuel might be supplied by North Dakota for the entire northwest, leaving the eastern coal for eastern people and relieving the’ railroads of the burden of the long haul. Some of the present excessive demand on the rail- road transportation facilities could be eliminated by the creation of official fuel zones tributary to the natural coal deposits. This would work no hardship on eastern coal miners as the local demand is more than they ean supply. Failure of the lignite operators to advertise their products is largely: responsible for the lack of public ehold! the boy is a man, and throughout cy forall. £1 knowledge of this source of fuel. The North Da- pillow and glorified the Creator who had sent her a/ | _ WITH THE EDITORS.__| it may be found feasible to offer the wheat grower | some sort of guaranty that will free him of his fears} workers have not been able to holi tWo weeks. cast, with its many thousands of miles of railway, | ro | | ssfully engaged | Mitzie, Prima Donna (‘omedienne of the Comic Opera ‘Pom | Pom,” at Auditorium, February | Another craze now threatens the leity, for next Friday, Feb. 15, the most ) pre d= comic opera, “Pom-Pom,” {sweeps into the Auditorium with the; |famous prima donna comedienne. ai, as its star and the largest or; ation s in light opera i jyears, and then will come |hearing of the budbling me’ at | al of Berlin, just reaching | are reported to haunt the mind and |? whistling lips» for long after hearing. Instead of a single niusic theme that } |is oft repeated Hugo Felix has given | | Minct, N. D, Feb. 12—The | | charge of v.olating of the Sunday | {law brought against W. H. Shaw, i | president of the Minot city com- | | | | | | mission, was dismissed Monday, by Justice John Lynch, | Shaw was arrested by orders of Attorney General Langer for | showing war pictures on Sunday, | in alleged violation of the Sunday | | closing law. -The picture was | STILLRED CROSS - MBETING PEB, | Ladies of Busy Auxiliary to Meet | next Week With Mics Signa | Engstrom | The Red Cross auxiliary of Still will ‘meet at the home of John Engstrom | Wednesday afternoon, Fed, 20, when ‘iMiss Signa Engstrom will entertain the Red Cross workers. All who are jinterested in the Red Cross work are | meeting, as Mrs, M. C. Anderson, pre: ident of the auxiliary at Still has something of importance and interes | to bring up at this A small |fee will be charged which go: |fund for purchasing materia |diers’ articles, Owing to inclement § for sol- weather tie their regular meetings this ter |but they have nevertheless ‘been hari j |at. work, and several ready-made ar- | ticles have been turned in to the head- quarters. Col. J. M. Thompson \, had charge of the Red Cross drive in| this vicinity succeeded in getting 73/ . The headquarters re-| out of the $73.60 to Mrs. | jnew mem | turned $36 5 ‘M. C. Anderson for the purchasing! fund for materials. i | The Red Cross Ladies’ were royally | entertained by Mrs. J, R. Dennis on, dan, 24 and by Mrs. J, M. Thompson on’ Feb, 6, WOMEN WELL OFF IN MEN'S PLACES Secretary of Welfare Commission Says Railroad Work Doesn’t Hurt Morals | The recruiting of women to take, the place of men in certain North Da-| kota industries, and particularly in} the railway shops and telegraph of- fices, has the hearty approval of Miss Aldythe Ward, secretary of the North Dakota public welfare commission. | Women are heing accepted on the same plane with men, and aré receiv- ing the same wage,’,said Miss Ward today. “The railway companies have been very fair. The work is not too hard; the hours’ are reasonable, and, so far as the women’s morals are con- cerned, they are less im danger than when engaged in chamber work in our hotels or waiting table'in some of our cafes. § MITZI WILL BE HERE FRIDAY AND POM-POM CRAvE THREATENS CITY -| “Mon Desir,” | LANGER’S EFFORT TO STOP PATRIOTIC PICTURES FAILS; } kan MINOT MAYOR IS RELEASED | of labor and with their earnings.” to the “The women’ are’ éhfaged in tasks. : l | 15th. a wide variety of melody. Besides the number of surprises, “In the Dark,’ sung by Mitzi, and the whimsical /velyn, Quit your Devilin’,” there are} “Ships in the Night,” Me,” “Pom-Pom,” #Zim Zim, others of the eighteen numb h of surprising contrast, and the peculiarly comic song, “I’m Unlucky,” s Wo in the mind of its The s ale for the “Pom- Pom” engagement is now open at Knowles, the jeweler, shown for the benefit of the Red Cross. F. O. Helstrom, special rep- resentative for the United States commission on information, testi- fied that he had directed the pic- tures to be shown as they. were for the benefit of the Red Cross. Langer had ordered. that the films be seized, but the order was not carried out. Judge Lynch de- cided the case constituted an ex- ception and dismissed it. there probably will be more. I find them contented with their conditions ALLIES READY FOR RELEASE OF TEUTON TROOPS (Continued From Page One) word from Russia regarding her with- drawal from the war. 3 TO EXCHANGE PRISONERS Amsterdam, Feb. 12.—German and Russian delegates at Petrograd, ac- cording to a dispatch from Berlin, have signed an agreement calling for the earliest possible repatriation of prisoners of war unfit for military servi Owing to transportation dif- in Russia, considerable delays are expected. W. H. WEBB TAKES BUSINESS TRIP EAST, Mr. W. H. Webb, Jr., of Webb Bros’. left Monday night for Chicago on an extended trip through the east, and hopes to retur nto Bismarck in about | Feb. 12—The tension along the Brit- "| of experts. Prisoners say that leave ‘DOPED MAN IN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY: 12, 1918-, GIANT ARMIES MATCHED FOR DUEL T0 DEATH Two Immense Bodies of Soldiers Stand Poised for Blow on West Front SILENCE IS PROPENTOUS Preparations are Going Forwerd Quietly—Germans Pouring in Men and Guns With the British Army in France, ish-German front is tightening. As the extraordinarily bright mild weather has continued to dry oute the sodden fields, the two great armies have be- come more alert. The inertia of the days’ when the western theatre was held in the grip of snow and impass- able mud has disappeared, and the contending forces are paised, watch- ing each other like duellists, for the first move, which will mean that the most sanguinary period of the war has begun. Something seems bound to happen before another month has passed if the present weather holds. Indeed, even now the ground in some sections is quite fit for fighting. the Great Offensive. The enemy continues to make in- tense preparations for what has been advertised as the “great offensive”. German troops and guns keep pour- ing into the western front, and,there are indications that a few Austrian units are in Flanders. Certain areas bahk of the German front have been hleared for action, and daily bodies of trops have been practicing attacks under the tutelage for the soldiers was stopped January 20. So far as actual fighting is concern- ed, it is still confined to identification raids, air activity and occasional bursts of artillery, Along many miles of the front, which the correspondent visited in the last two days, there is an ominous quiet. One may sit for hours on a vantage point so close to the German lines that the enemy can be working about; yet there are few sounds of strife, Silence Portentous The enemy is playing possum or ig- noring the military mofements behind the British lines, and the British them- selves aré sitting tight, saying little. The silence is uncanny, and it is por-t entous. Naturally, the entente allied prepar- ations cannot be discussed, but it may be said that everywhere there is the spirit of optimism. Every soldier in the long ‘line knows. what-is coming and ‘smiles with assurance, for he knows’ what his supports “are: The al- lies still have a perponderance of men and guns along this front, and they have an inclination to use this ad- vantage. The Germans will find that their opponents have not wasted the winter months. ORDER T0 HAVE WIFE AT MERCY Mrs. Nels Anderson Tells of Shoot- ing Affair at Baldwin Saturday MEXICAN HAS PEN RECORD That Cesario Hermundes drugged her husband with the deliberate intent of ravishing her was the tenor of the testimony of Mrs. Nels Anderson, wife of the Soo line section foreman at Baldwin, in the preliminary hearing of Horace Ward, Baldwin hotel man, charged with shooting the Mexican, who lies in a local hospital with his bowels perforated in three places, and with about one chance in a hundred of recovering, according to Dr. C. E. Stackhouse, the attending surgeon: During her testimony Mrs. Anderson who appears to be little more than a girl, held a baby on her lap, while her husband sat in the court room with another small child in his arms. Mrs. Anderson declared after her hus- band had fallen into a drunken stupor, following a few draughts from a bot- tle which Hermundes brought in with him, the Mexican threw his’ arms around her and demanded that she ac- cept him as a lover. “I have one hus- band,” said Mrs, Anderson. “Well, you will have another tonight,” was Her- mundes’ reply, testified the witness. After struggling. with the intoxi- cated and lust-maddened Mexican for hours, Mrs. Anderson, fearing to leave her husband. and babes alone with Hermundes, finally got word to Hor- ace Ward through Ralph Riley, time- keeper for the Soo at Baldwin, Upon Ward's arrival, the witness testified, Hermundes drew a knife and lunged at the hotel man, who drew an auto- matic and fired. Nels Anderson, on the stand, tes- tified that in his earlier days he had done his share of drinking but that he never had taken anything whose effect was so deadening and so immed- jate as the stuff Hermundes tendered him, Ralph Riley testified as to his part in the tragedy, the evidence of all the witnesses tending to prove that Ward had fired in self-defense. Hermundes spent all of last sum- mer at Baldwin, where he was em- ployed with,a Soo section crew. He left some time ago and returned Sat- urday night, when he proceeded direct to the Anderson home. Last night, in a Bismérck hospital, Hermundes con- fessed that only last spring he com- pleted a three years’ term in Still- water prison for a stabbing fray. - Nearly Bled to Death u Hermundes was at the point of death from internal hemorrhages when Dr. Stackhouse reached him Sunday. morning, He was operated imediately and the hemorrhage stopped, but it was found that the bullet had perfor- ated his bowels in three places, and the nature of his wounds is such as to almost positively produce periotin- itis. ¢ 4 “He has about one chance in a hun- dred of recovering,” said Dr. Stack- house last night. “The next three weeks will tell the tale.” WAR PRISONERS TO SHIELD FROM PLANE. ATTACKS New York, N. Y., Feb. 12.—The German authorities are packing Stutgart, in southwestern Ger, many, with prisoners of war in an avowed attempt, to discourage air raids in reprisal for those made by the Germans on London and other entente cities, ® ° |. . Correspondence. | Pesta ote ane SA j GACKLE... ++. > Miss Mary Dewey of: Hebron,:N. D., who had veen visiting her sister, Mrs, I, N. Lee since Christmas, left for home Thursday last. Isaac France of Fargo, who was vis- iting: friends in this village during the vast week, returned to Fargo Thurs- day. >i 4 Henry,..Whitman made a business trip to. St. Paul on Thursday. Henry .Rush. was, -a. passenger to Grand Forks on Wednesday. John Miller went to Jamestown on Monday to be examined for the mill- tary service. “3 At the debate Wednesday evening given at the Parents’ and Teachers’ meeting the question was: “Resolved that Corn Should Be Raised in North the affirmative and two school teach- ers and one editor on~the negative, which won. John Herrmann of Merricourt, was in Gackle on Thursday visiting his daughter who is teaching here. Jacob Ruff returned Monday from a trip to Fargo. Monday morning about 4:30 the George Deutscher feed’ store was dis- covered to ‘be on fire, been no fire or lights in the building it must have been set on fire by some fire bug. There was about three- fourths of a car load of flour in the bujding. All was consumed with no insurance; total loss on ‘building and stock, $2,500. The next building to go was the Columbia Restaurant, owned by F. Rott of the State bank of Gackle, rented and operated by Henry Whitmeyer, Total loss on buildings and contents, $3,500; insurance $2,200. The Gackle creamery was next to fall a prey to the flames. This building was owned by C, W. Schmidt & Co. The building and contents were prac- tically new. Total loss $6,500. In- sured for $3,500. The feed store own- ed by the Farmers’ Elevator Co. was the next building attacked by the fire. All of the stock had been removed. os son building $300, . No.insurance. 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