The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1918, Page 4

PAGE 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY_ GEORGH D. MANN Cie ies Pa fs G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresego Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- shed herein. Al) rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. EMBER 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 ... .. Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month ... Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, ear ... eee S Morning or evening by outside of North Dakota, OMA YEBT eeveeveeee ees 6. Sunday in Combination with mail, one year THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) one Morning by e It’s REAL TOUGH The layman finds mich difficuity in seeing any particle of sense or reason in the Emerson alien slacker bill, to which congress about ready 10 devote its jaw-work, Congressman Emerson insists that all aliens living in the United Stat a8 long enough to be citizens should either be subject to mili- vice or be deported, certain that an alien who has lived among us long enough to bea zen and hasn”, become such is the most undesirable, if not, indeed, the most dangerous of aliens. We don’t want such in our military serviec, And to what part of the world would we deport the thousands of such aliens that we, undoubtedly, have? We eannot make Canada or Mexieo the dumping ground of our slacker gar- bage. Neither country would stand for it. We cannot deport across the sea, for we need every ton of shipping for transportation and supplying of our loyal fighters. . It would seem that the hest we can do is to make all possible use of such aliens in our midst. And there’s risk in that. The proposition is tough, any- Ww yu look at it, but there isn’t much sunshine in Emerson’s solution. KEEP THIS AWAY FROM HER We just cannot hold in the following: but the gentle reader will appreciate the w keeping them away from the lady of the house. The International Custom Cutters’ association of America (tailors, for short) in convention at Cleve- land, is trying to get away from the idea of well dressed men alway vearing as if in their ‘Sunday clothes’? and i ing to give ’em an effect of “studied negligent We hereby begin to root for the 1. ¢. G. A., though all the negligence in dress we've got was acquired without a bit of uly. Listen! You set out forthe office with yester- ys dust gleaming in your necktie, your suspenders relying upon four safety-pins, your pants bagged to beat the band, only one shbe shined, and your hat looking as if the cat had been traveling in it as an upper berth. Do you get called back to dress all over again? You do not. You simply present a ecard showing that the LC. C. A. of A. dictum is ‘studied negligence’’; you're in style up to your eyes! There’s only one thorn that threatens through the cireumambient fragrance of this splendid r There are some he fol infernally given to over- doing the styles, whate they are, that they may study the negligence to the extent of appearing in shoes and hat only. Then we'll all have to go back to our ‘‘Sunday clothes”’ effect. GRAB THOSE BONDS The concensus of opinions of economists and financiers seems to be that it is a poor time to engage in new enterprises but that the fellow who saves now will have unprecedented opportunity to make big money, during the first year or two of peace; and we pause to add that the best sort of saving is sub- seription to Liberty Bonds. » War prosperity is ephemeral, and there is no question but a very high percentage of whatever of prosperity we now enjoy is due to our foreign trade. d The showed $2,484,311,176 exports’ and $1,79: mports, or a balance in foreign trade of $692,127,53. For the f year of the the , 3 figures were, $2,113,624,050 exports, $1,787, imports, balance of $324,348,049, Our imports were, thus, about the same but our exports dropped back to about the figures of 1911. But we got busy. We changed factories and methods, to meet foreign demands, as never before in our industrial history. and the following are the figures for the year ending Dee. 31, 1917 Exports, 26,000,000; imports, $2,952,000,- 000; excess of exports, $3,274,000,000. ‘These enormous sums represent, in very large de- gree, war products—bullets, bread and such. But one thing is certain and that is that, when peace eames, Europe must rebuild herself, cities, villages, farms and all, and, in this conneetion; it must be re- membered that during 1917 we had no business what- ever with Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria, countries against which, in ordinary times, we held a trade balance of approximately a half-billion dollars. If in peace times, such as the year 1913, we have a trade balance of over $692,000,000 against the foreign world, how can that world’s necessity to rebuild can who has saved? eyes open! . THERE’S POLITICS, ALSO TRADE The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is taking a refer- Be on a proposition to formally notify the busi- men of Germany that American business men will not re-establish trade relations with them, after the war, unless Germany has a government that’s onsible to the people. The U. S. chamber an- ces that, in this proposition, there is no thought punishment or revenge but it is ‘‘based upon the ic that only through industrial intercourse with ¢ United States can Germany get the sinews for a nd: world war.”? | y 4 = This proposition may be fine polities but it has at léast two large and visible holes in it. First, Ger- mony ne able y ag Mae without any sinews ndent upon industrial relations. with, the UzS, fhatever. “Secondly, in normal times, ce aes men have a trade balance in their favor, against Germany, of some 150,000,000 per e Editor | ‘| cost the state an unexpected amount in subsidies — itself mean anything save opportunity to the Ameri-| © Buy Liberty Bonds, sit on them, and keep your}. that, when peace comes, there'll be quite a Yankee reaching out for that trade balanee, pretty regard- less of the U.S. chamber’s present ‘basis of logic.’’ We are going to muss up Germany’s sinews for a md war, awfully, but not much through our radesmen’s disinclination to do business with any- body who has the legal tender, National Automobile Chamber of Commerce has asked all the newspapers of the country not to use the phrase ‘‘pleasure car’? but to say ‘passenger ear.’ It should be easy not to say “pleasure car.”” So many aré not. [__ WITH THE EDITORS. | A RICH MAN'S WAR? To conserve fuel, a Canadian order closes all golf clubs during February and March. This is 10 below zero in deprivation.—Chicago Tribune, MR. BAKER’S FIGURES | It would be premature to comment in any detail Fon the account of his stewardship whieh Secretary’ Baker gave yesterday. Only one thing must strike the readers of the recent ne s somewhat disap- pointing: The statement that 500,000 men will be in France in the spring and 1,500,G00 before the end of the year certainly discounts the hopes of the Ameri- can people and the expectation of our allies. We wonder if a war cabinet and a minister of munitions by their combined efforts would not be able—in collaboration with Mr. Baker—to expedite | our real entry into the yele ew York Sun. ADVENTURES IN STATE SOCIALISM Australia is writing new chapters in the history of her adventures in State Socialism. The Sydney Telegraph gives a verdict unfavorable to the new departures. ‘Neither the wheat, the wool, nor the metal export. busi heen eondueted by the government V or less muddle, waste, and dissatisfaction to all concerned.’ Before the war the telegraph and railway serviee was bad enough. ‘Since the war it has become a constant source of public irritation, ‘The most serious indus- trial disturbances we ever had have Leen in connec- tion with government-cuntrolled industries.’’ Yet labor journals are gen iy favorable to the experi ments, while it can hardly be denied that war condi- tions made some form ef government intervention uneseapable, The special enterprises of Queensland, } which has been operating state butcher, fish, and bakery shops, state bee!-sugar and butter factories, abattoirs, and cold storage plants, have been a topic} of heated controversy. lmpartial observers state that, on the one hand, they have been useful in keep- ing prices down, and on the other that they have New York Post. ONE OF OUR MOST DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS iy and think what we will akout prize-fighting, annot deny its persistent hold on the Anglo- axon imagination, It still is able to make and un- make popular heroes. The late John L, Sullivan was long the inost secure title to fame of the city of Boston. He freshened the fading laurels of men like j Oliver Wendell Holmes. During his unbeaten prime, Sullivan could point to nearly every test-and proof! of a national reputation. No one could draw a big- ger crowd or evoke wilder cheering. .The exploits; and the way of life of no citizen were more eagerly pored over by newspaper readers. ‘John L.’” was a national figure in a special and petted sense that was never true of ‘John D.’? Even after Sullivan | lost the championship and passed from the pr ing. somehow remained enshrined in the affections of his countrymen. ‘fhe tradition of him was cherished. Other prize-fighters eame and went, but none was ever able to wear the peculiar aureole of John L. Sullivan. None ever will be. The son of his unique doubt, in his personal qualitie as captivat-| ingly Irish. But the period of his great repute was i ant. It was the time when the profe fighter was beginning to go out. Legi gan to frown upon him, His eceupation was more and more outlawed. Social reformers worked | inst him. The brutality and the venality of the The movement to abol- yement against per- nicious forms of gambling. Sullivan lived to lament the tender grace of the prize-ring in a day that was dead. Ife was, in a way, a survivor of the dimmed glory. He was the last of the giants. fortune to flour fighting had beg cars ago, aj literary artist like Thackera e of Heenan ers with no scruple of fastidiousness. Thack- generation had left off the zest of going to see criminals hanged, but still went to see the Yorkshire Pet pummel the Middle-sex Baniam. The joy in cruel spectacles slowly died. As we say, John L. Sullivan | was fortunate in ‘that his life fell early in the transi-| tion stage. Washington Irving said that he and| Willis and Halleck and the others. were lucky in; being born so early in the history of American litera- | ture. Sullivan had a similar luck. fame Jay partly, no} , feel a kind of | s ng of Jchn L.! Sullivan. Why should they as an outstand- | ing social phenomenon of his time. Like any other | big fact, he is to be studied—and explained, if pos sible. There is no questior at all that, in his time, he was one of the most distinguished citizens of the United States. Even at his death, an ex-president of the United States is asked, as an admirer and a kin- dred spirit, to be one of Sullivan’s pallbearers. It cannot be maintained that a man of such note is beneath the attention of the student of politics and the social philosopher. In-his rise and eclipse a whole moral epoch gets a sort of summing up. In the long English tradition of fighting with fists there were two strands. One was that of the paid professional. But he has become more and more brutalized and suspected. The other strand was that of the gentleman expert in self-defence. In fic- tion he is the quiet stranger who beats the burly ruffian at his own game, and leaves him knocked down in a pool of his own blood. Bulwer gave us elegantly this kind of fistic hero; Eggleston gave him to us with pioneer roughness in the ‘‘Hoosier Schoolmaster.’’ And our point is that the gentle- manly strain bids fair to survive long after the pro- Sper an ded has fallen under the legal and social buh. The: prize-ring is disappearing, but the boxing-school flourishes. Exercise, the hardening of the muscles, the development of Stoic ability to “‘take punishment’’—even a valuable physical re- source in an emergency—for these benefits and others the gloved combat will doubtless long have shame in betra ; between the centralpowers and Uk-! | the evacuation of the occupied ter- | imperial ambitions in Asia; that they -|says the Temps, referring to the ar- BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, FEB, 13, 1918 . ren eaeean ae THE SOCIAL, OR UNSOCIAL DEMOCRAT——IF "THE KAISER WINS PEACE TREATY WiTH UKRAINE MEANS LITTLE Paris, Fe). .12.—The peace treaty | raine is not taken seriously in French | official or semi-official circles, first, | because no one knows whether it will; ever become effective, and second, be-| cause whether effective, or not, the/ people of Ukraine have not been able, i under the present circumstances to | have their say. What German-Peace Means | The treaty, however, is regarded as very instructive as‘to what a German peace may mean, and in this connec-| tion -it is pointed out that the people of neither contracting party have been | consulted; that the damages result-| ing from the war are not to be in- demnified; that the Germans have carefully avoided fixing the date for ritory; that the central powers have; reserved means for furthering their | have virtually suppressed liberty or exchange, and that, by excluding the republic of the Ukraine from the ad- vantages of the Austrian guarantees to Germany, the treaty suppresses the idea of the equality of nations. “It is the beginning of an attempt- ed feudalization of middle-Europe” | ticle in which Ukraine. is excluded from the advantages guaranteed by any one of the coalition of the central empires to another. SOR ser NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE BY TENNESSEEANS Estill Springs, Tenn., Feb. 13.— Jim Mcllherron, a negro, who shot and killed two white men here last Friday, was burned at the stake here last night after a con- ., fession had been forced from him by application of red hot irons. The man was brought here to- night by a posse which captured him ‘after wounding him: in’a. bat- tle near McMinville early today. THREE ARMY AIRMEN DIE IN TRAINING Memphis, Tenn., Feb, 13.—T..C. ‘rogers, Prairie Grove, Ark., and P B, Cooley, San Jose, Calif. flying cadets, were killed at Park field the army aviation camp near Memphis, in the:collision in mid- air yesterday of the machines in | . which they were making practice flights. height of About 250 feet. Another in Louisiana Lake Charles, La., Feb. 13.— Lieutenant L. F. Plummer, of New Rochelle, N. Y., was, killed at Gerstner field, near here late to- day in the fall of an airplane he was piloting. 5 Cae, Son of Major Gen. March. Falls Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. “13 —Sgc- ond Lieutenant Peyton C. March &., son of Major General Peyton C. March | f the skull yes- terday afternoon when “his airplane fvogue. But bi fighting tor Money ‘is’ going. In this sense, the leman 18 getting the better of the brniser.—New. York Post. - fell at Taliaferro fiel Barer il seencee Ol cper dyer y They were flying at a / He is said “| i\\ | \ MOTHERS WITH — BABIES IN ARMS | PROTEST WAGE Wenten and Girls Witnesses in the Packing House Labor Inquiry at Chicago THEY FARED BETTER IN 1886| | Chicago, IL, Feb. 13—Mothers with] babies in their arms, as well as girl workers and men came from the stock | yards yesterday to testify in the wage | controversy between the packers and their employes before Federal Judge Alschuler, recentlly appointed as ar- biter by Secretary of Labor Wilson. The women had been called by the} ° labor unions to give evidence of the long hours which the unions claim pre- vail at the stock yards, Silentlly they sat during the day waiting until the; men workers had told their stories for their chance to take the witness stand. Wages Are Cut. W. J. Barrett, an official, of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, testified that electricians at. the pack- ing plants, although organized, receiv- ed only 44 cents an hour, while the scale called for 78 cents an hour. In reply to a question as to why he work- ed in the yards for 44 cents when he could get 78 cents outside, a few blocks away, he said that he would | have had to join another local of the j union which would have cost him $200. S. GC. Frasee, superintendent of the Wilson & Co. plant, the next witness, said that the average wage paid the men in his plant was 27 cents an hour and that similar wage was paid in other plants. He explained that sev- eral years ago agreements had been made by the packers to standardize the wages paid for various types of work. Jacob Mauer, a cooper and“veteran employe of the stock yards, testified that thé packing houses were organ- ized by ‘the Knights of Labor more than thirty years ago, and that dur- ing 1886 the.men worked eight hours a day and were happy, He said that the coopers received $2.75 to $3 a day then, and now received 35% cents an hour and work ten hours. He repres- ented wages and working conditions as much better in small, independent packing plants where the unions were recognized. *— OPEN FORUM | AES SAR ig ne COLEHARBOR HAS PROTEST February 12, 1918. Editor Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, N. D. Dear Sir:—The Tribune’s account of the basketball game between the Washburn boys and the Coleharbor team has been deeply and justly re- sented by the citizens of our little village because it is unfair, partial, misstated, without fact, and the echo of a few disgrunted’ players vho have) a bad case of sore head. Your correspondent was not here but accepted the account of their so-} called captain, without investigating the mix-up. It is charged —(1) that the time played was 4% minutes over the regu- iar,20 minute half due to the crooked work of a cheating time keeper; They torgot to appoint a time keeper iN ‘ hy {Use Wt ‘| \ WN of their own for the bays game. Sec- ond, they accepted the statement of a Washburn rooter that there was bur two minutes left when there was 6% The aforesaid rooters with auto horns under their overcoats and the smell of “white mule” in their vicinity were not official: or unofficial timekeepers. Third, that we did not change time- keepers the second half, but used the same official throughout the game. The time played was exactly 20 minutes after deducting for time out when called for by the referee. The game was 17 and 17 for two minutes before the game closed and the winning bas- ket was tossed by A. Miller, of Cole- harbor in the last 10 seconds of play. Again, the referee-was charged with lack of knowledge of the game and in rendering unfair’ decisions. The referee’in question is a grad- uate of the University: of North Da- kota, has played basket ball eight years, four. years being on a college team, has refereed some of the biggest basketball games in this state, has refereed more than a dozen games be- fore for Washburn, was selected by ashburn once before and again the other night to referee for them al- though a resident of Coleharbor. Sec- ond it charged that we made seven points off of fouls. Correct. And Wash- burn made seven points on free throws out of the same number, of} chances. Washburn protested when called for running with the ball four times. Their captain (?) showed his ignorance of, the game when he wished to speak to; the referee. Instead of calling “time” and discussing the matter he butted in and promptly got fouled for his inter- ference as the rules provide, ‘We, deeply regret the malicious at-| tack and knowing that the Tribune] likes to state the facts we ask you to! give us a chance to be heard for wel cannot allow the attack to go un- answered. We are Yours respectfully, $e hho CATTLE MARKETS ! o— a $0. ST. PAUL LIVE STOCK South St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 12.— Hogs receipts, 7,800; 50¢ lowdr; range 1525 @ 1575; bulk 1550 @ 1560, Cattle receipts 2,000; killers 10 to 15e lower; steers 650 @ 1300; cows and heifers 700 @ 950; veal calves 50c lower, 600 @ 1275; stockers and feeders steady, 600 @ 1000. Sheep receipts 500; lambs 25¢ lower sheep 25 @ 0c lower; lambs 800 @ 1625; wethers 700 @ 1300; ewes 500 @ 1150. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK Chicago, Feb. 12.—Hogs _ receipts 64,000; strong; bulk 1560 @ 1590; light 1 @ 1600; mixed 1545, @ 1600; heavy 1530 @ 0; rough 1530 @ 1545; pigs 1200 @ 1460. Cattle receipts 23,000; weak; na- tive steers 830 @ 13 stockers and feeders 815 @ 1025 ws and heifers 620 @ 1150; calves 85Q @ 1400. Sheep receipts 19,000; lower; weth- ers 975 @ 1320; ewes 950 @ 1275; lambs 1375 @ 1700. i OMAHA LIVE STOCK Omaha, Neb., Feb 12.-—Hog receipts 17,000; lower; heavy 0 @ 1870; mixed 1525 @ 1550; light 15 b pigs 1000 @_1500;. bulk 1525 @ 155 ipts 6,500; steady; na- tive steers 825 @ 1275; cows and helf- ers 700 @ 1050; western, steers “950 @ 1150; cows and heifers 650 @ 975; canners 625 @ 725; stockers'and feed- ers 650 @ 1050; calves 900 @ 1300; bulls, stags, ete, 750 @ 1000. MINNEAPOLIS DAIRY MARKET Minneapolis, Minn., Feb, 12.—But- ter—Creamery evtras per pound 48c¢; extra firsts 47c; firsts 46c; seconds 450; sauy 40c; packing stock 38c. Eggs—fresh prime firsts new cases, free from. rots, small. dirties and checks out, pér dozen, 4814c; current receipts rots out 1890; checks,and sec- onds dozen 32c; dirties, candled doz- en 32c; Quotations on eggs include cases. : Cheese—Twins or flats, new 26%; New. York’s 8; daesies 28c; young America’s fancy in quality and regu- lar in style 29c; brick fancy 30c; fancy loaf 45c; choice 16 @ 17; pri- most 14c; pultost 11c. Mothers Here Interested in New Treatment Relieves Colds Over Night and Croup in Fifteen Minutes —Applied Externally. NOTHING TO SWALLOW, ; _ YOU JUST RUB IT ON. Local Druggists Have Arranged ta Sell 25c, 50c, or $1.00 Packaves on 30 Days’ Trial. 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