The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1918, Page 4

pads" (ae alt Rc a a REID SE EES Mntered ‘at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. . + ISSUED EVERY DAY GEORGE D. MANN Si he a G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, a Special Foreign Representative. 5 NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bidg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use i 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 are also reserved. i MEMBER. AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. { SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Daily, Moming and Sunday by Carrier, per month ..§ .70 Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month .. Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per mon! Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, 0! ing by mail outside of North Editor year ... Morning or even one year .... . 6.00 Sunday in Cembination with Evening or Morning by ie mail, one year. ..... THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) BR-R-R! BUT WE'RE COLD—AND TAME ‘What a lot of trouble our government has had with the coal situation! What a lot of shivering and eating of food in the raw we've done because of lack : of coal! What a domineering, arrogant, merciless & autocrat we’ve made of King Coal, collectively and j individually! And in doing it, we’ve just demon- strated that ‘Tyrants are the creatures of slaves.’” Coal is heat. Electricity is heat, Water horse- power is.clectricity. And we have congress sitting inert, on calloused haunches, upon a bill to give us over 50 millions of water horse-power. The administration’s water power Dill is stalled in congress simply because private interests block action on it, and we'll have to risk going through another winter of awful heat famine, with heat enough to set everybody afire lying dormant and unapplied. We are like some farmers who cussed and shrieked for coal and were too lazy to go out in the back lot. and cut wood. All of this unused heat—electricity—belongs to all of us.. We should develop it for all of us. We should control its production, its application and its cost, for all of us, There’s the rub. It’s what private greed doesn’t want, and we permit private greed to so influence our congress that we don’t get this heat. Why shouldn’t we shiver? WORLD WAR IS COAL WAR ' The world war is a coal war. Coal energy is be- hind the munition industries, behind transportation by land and sea, behind the gun, and behind the man behind the gun. aie? Behind munitions making, transportation and all other military activities, lies the fuel supply. Supe- tiority of coal power will end the war. successfully for those nations most fortunate in its production and its conservation. : : . When, you, here in North Dakota, substitute na- tive lignite.coal;for, which there is no.export, de- mand, for eastern, bituminots ‘and “anthracite coal, which goes into the making of guns and munitions and steam; which supplies motive power for our rail- ways and our transports, you are doing your best bit to help your boy over there win this war. When, you, simply as a matter of convenience, . insist upon having your eastern coal, knowing that it is absolutely essential in the prosecution of this war, and with the knowledge that you have here in your own state an unlimited supply of fuel not essen- tial to your country in this emergency, pause a moment, and ask yourself whether you are not giving aid and comfort to the enemy? VERSE AS IS VERSE If St. Valentine’s week were not the season for taking the blinders, bit and bridle off poetic license, we wouldn’t do it, but, at this period, when about 90 percent of the folks feel some sort of a muse stirring in their inwards, we feel safe in giving some verse from a foreign miss, Elsie, daughter of the fa- mous Marshal Von Hindenburg. Fraeulein Von Hindenburg has sent to a New York organization, whose alleged purpose in life is to aid in giving Ger- many a free government, this: . t Christ Jesus gave his life for me, From every debt I now am free; He has procured His Father’s favor, He has become my gracious Saviour. He to the bayonet thrust gives vigor, The joy to aim, to pull the trigger. My aid is Jesus, that I know— On to the Foe! on to the Foe! ay We never aspired much to fame as a connoiseur of feminine poetry and may be wholly mistaken in the opinion that the gentle little Elsie’s verse is club- footed in most all of its feet. However, poetic virtue depends not altogether upon loyalty to rhyme and métre; there’s also the. thought, or inspiration. Power of imagination must surely. be granted. any maiden, even a Von Hindenburg has given to: con- temporary literature a specimen of the initiative in origination which, in an editorial career of many years, we never saw approached but once. Sam E. Kiser, ‘the well known poet and humorist, early in hig mayonnaise days as a verse-producer, sent us a long, sad poem about somebody’s little Willie who destroyed -himself by ‘celebrating July Fourth with an old army musket that’ le found*ip his father’s garret. Sam’s l’envoi was: ag , a “But the old gun busted at its old touch-hole :Dissipating Willie’s immortal soul,’? ; _ BOTCH OF A JOB iThe literary. editor of London Nation, who, in his Hectual high falutinity is perpetually trying to e;’ re-distill or denature perfectly: good white! language, has tackled the term ‘‘drunk,”’ and otel ¢ f it. It’s a matter of some coneern, Ue sat are frequently at loss for a clear lon editor man offers such d ved-up,”’. “‘nappy,’’ ‘‘muzzy,”’ ‘and others’ dis: ly British, but is ignorant all; a the whole ‘Ameen an vor bcd aa E BISMARCK TRIBUNE sot,’’ ‘‘boozed’’ and ‘‘soaked’”’? Forsooth, if those Londoners want us as real allies, we’ve got to be consulted in the making of the language. Von Hindenburg says he’ll enter Paris April 1. “He picked a good day for it.”’ A London cable says Nick, the ex-ezar, spends his time sawing wood. Ah! No coal and a gas shortage! “By next April’’ says old man Von Hindenburg, “T shall be in Paris.’’ If he’s in Paris next April he’ll be in jail there. Senator Hiteheoek was educated in part at Baden- Baden, Baden, Germany. Scratch most any senator who doesn’t like our war, and you’ll find a streak of Baden, Baden, Baden in him. | __WITH THE EDITORS. | THE RIGHT AND WRONG WAYS There is a right way of putting a quietus upon the un-American activities af the Nonpartisan league leaders. That way is to meet those leaders squarely upon the issues raised and upon the record they have left behind them. If these leaders are not repulsed in their ambjtions to ‘‘capture the government’’ by this character of opposition it is because the voters have laid down on their responsibilities as citizens and guardians of democratic institutions. There is also a wrong way of attacking Townley’s vicious propaganda. This is to bring action in the courts against the leadtrs upon stale and far-fetched charges. If there is anything that could elevate the league and its candidates immediately to power it is opposition of this character. Convictions cannot. be secured, the defendants are acquitted by verdicts which have all the effect of a vindication. From vindication the next step is the martyr’s role, and no candidate for office ever ran on a stronger platform than martyrdom. Why arrest A. C. Townley because of his techni- cal connection with the Gilbert case, as the Lake- field authorities propose to do, when his record is so full of material for legitimate attack and criticism? Are not the methods of the Laketicld opponents of the league better qualified to boost the political for- tunes of the league leaders than to retard them? The history of polities is full of instances which will show the Lakefield people that they are making a mistake. The instances which will interest them most can be found in the history of this self-same Nonpartisan league in our neighbor state of North Dakota—St. Paul Dispatch. . “I AM NOT A S8OCIALIST’’— Mr. Clinton Collins sends in a pamphlet, and says, ‘‘I am not a socialist, because socialism would compel the sacrifice of intellectual independence, forfeiture of charaeter, and abandonment of really laudable ambition.” To this and other gentlemen. we say that you may be a socialist, more or less without knowing it. Do you use a great park, maintained and paid for by taxes on all.the people? ‘That is socialism. Do you belong to some club, that costs much more than you eat possibly afford to pay, as an individual; one thaf-is put within your reach because thousands help you'to pay the bill? That is social- ism. »~ Do you cross the ocean—when you do cross—on your own private yacht; or do you go on a great ship finer than the yacht of any king, and travel at a fair price because so many use it? That is social- ism. ‘ Have you children in public schools, educated at public. expense, books supplied at public expense, medical examinations paid for by the public? Could you think of any more real socialism than that? Do you live in a city that owns its own water supply, and that soon will own its street railroads? Do you live in a nation that has taken control of railroads away from the so-called ‘‘owners’’ of those national veins and arteries? That is socialism, and socialism with a vengeance. In each generation a majority look with horror on socialism, and say, ‘‘We are not socialists.’’ _Yet each generation and each individual is social- istic, compared with those that went before. : A president of the United States, early in the last century, complained bitterly in a public speech be- cause he couldn’t hire a first-class American work- man for less than $100 per year. _ He would look upon this age with its compara- tively high wages, and its labor unions made legal, not as mere socialism, but as rank anarchy, A former governor of Virginia, publicly thanked God that there was not a public school in his state, and prayed that there might not be one for many *| centuries to come. .What would he say about mod- ern schools and socialism? The socialist, when he really is a socialist, and not merely an incompetent, jealous of somebody else’s more fortunate condition, is one who believes that it. is possible to improve human society, and thinks the task should be undertaken systematically. _ He may be wrong as to the immediate possibili- ties—he usually is. Darius Green, of the U. 8. A., was wrong when he thought he could fly. And Daedalus probably broke his neck eventually, after he flew out of the laby- rinth.. But.now people fly and don’t break their necks, : _ Socialists are like, little boys that want to be pirates or have whiskers. They want to do too much too soon. 3 ‘ You cannot be a pirate or have whiskers when you are eight years old. You cannot have an ideal society, with unselfish- ness, generosity for all, while society is made.up of selfish savages, ~ You cannot have the ideal commonwealth today, for today if you gave $5 apiece to every man in the country, ninety-nine men out of-a hundred would do no work. And if you gave $50,000 to each of 100 socialists, there would be perhaps two socialists left. But because you can’t do it today, it is not safe to say that you will never do it. .. Once each savage wanted fifty wives—now one is sometimes more, than he really cares for.. _ Once évery ruler, bishop, and lord of the manor in England demanded the right to have his private and | will come when they won’t gallows and hang criminals, including little thieves, Now nobody would hang another unless compelled to . so by law. — ; : (the “‘great Americans” want to own| hunted of thousands of millions and keep selfishly | for themselves what their brothers need. The day RAIL SHARES MFT DULL DAY New York Market Stimulated by Favorable Reports of Pacific Lines. , New York, Feb, 14.—Railroad shares lifted today’s ‘dull market out of its considerable price: irregularity, not- ably in industrials, equipments and specialties. is The movement in rails was stimulat- ed by the relatively favorable Dec- ember statements of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific roads, both show- ing net gains and the re-establishment of Union Pacific to its former ten per- cent dividend rate. © General news of the day was seem- ingly without effect, suspension of fu- ture heatless Mondays having been discounted. The government’s pro- posals to control all coastwise ship- ping and acquire terminal facilities at Atlantic ports were equally without in- fluence as market factors. Gains One to Four Point. Extreme gains in almost 4 score of transportation issues extended from one to four points, St. Paul common and preferred and other grangers, as well as coalers sharing honors with [Pacifics, Canadian Pacific was the only laggard, though recovering much of its loss at the end. Other features of pronounced strength included Atlantic gulf, Sum- atra Tobacco and General Electric, but these .were neutralized by the heaviness of the motor division, oils, Industrial Alcohol and’ Peoples Gas. United States Steel yielded a point under pressure of the forenoon but closed at a fractional advance with al- lied equipments. Sales’ amounted to 400,000 shares. NEW YORK MONEY New York, N. Y., Feb. 14.—Mer- cantile paper 5%,@ % percent. Bar silver 8554; Mexican dollars 68. Government bonds. irregular; road bonds irregular. Time loans firm; sixty days, ninety days and ‘six months, 5% ‘@ 6. METAL MARKET New, York, N. Y., Feb. 14.—Metal exehange quotes leaygteady; spot 700 @:725; spelter dull? East ‘St. Louis spot offerede at 787. rail- NEW: YORK: STOCK LIST Be 77 American Tel. & -Tely x } Americans Zinc. 3. iy Anaconda Copper ..,.. Atchison Baltimore & Ohio . Butte & Superior .. California Petroleum Canadian Pacific .. Central Leather ..... Chespeake & Ohio . Chicago. Mil. & St. Chino Copper ..... . Colorado Fuel & Iron, Crucible Steel ..... Cuba Cane Sugar Erie Great Northern Ore Ctfs Great Northern Pfd Inspiration Copper . Int. Mer. Marine pfd Kennecott Copper .... Louisville & Nashville . Mexican Petroleum Miami Copper ... Missouri Pacific . Montana Power .. New York Central Northern Pacific . Pennsylvattia BEANS Ray Consolidated Copper .. Reading ....°..- 3 Southern Pagific . Southern way Texas Co .. : Union Pacific a U. S. Industrial Alcohol United States Steel Utah Copper .... SHORTAGE OF EGGS BOOSTING MARKET rane Pe i Indications are That Supplies Will Be Moderate Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 14—The market is short of eggs and values advanced sharply today. Indications are that very moderate supplies will come forward this week. Butter—Creamery extras per pound 48; extra firsts 47c, firsts’ 46; seconds 45; dairy 40; packing stock 38. Egges—Fresh prime firsts, new cases, out per dozen 51; current receipts, rots out 1470; checks and seconds doz- en 32; dirties, candled, dozen’32; quo- tations on eggs include cases. Cheese—Fancy twins pound 26%c; fancy New York round:28¢; fancy dais: jes 28c; fancy young’ Aniericas, pound 29c; fancy brick 30c; fancy limburger pound 33c; fancy Swiss ‘loaf 45c; block 40c; primost 14c; putost 11c, GOPHER BOY DIES More Deaths of Infantrymen in ‘Washington, .. Feb. 15.—Gen- eral Pershing today reported that Pri- vate Harold Ostergaard, ‘infantry, of ‘Tyler, Minn., was slightly wounded in action on february 11. Deaths from natural causes were [TRIBUNE FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT UPWARD TILT'T0 TRADEINCORN Offerings Readily Absorbed on Chicago Market and Prices Close Higher Chicago, Ill, Feb, 14.—Readiness with which offerings were absorbed gave an upward tilt today to the corn market. Prices closed steady, “March 127% and May 125% to 126, with the final range as a whole %c off to % @ %c.up,,compared with 24 hours before. Oats gained 1% to 1%c -net. In provisions the outcome varied from 5c decline to a rise of 17c. It took ‘selling orders on a large scale to check advances’ in, corn. Among the chief reasons assigned for this condition was the. fact ‘that re- ceipts although liberal were not near- ly so large as on the preceding day. The supply of choice grades espec- jally did not equal the demand. ‘Be- sides a further imporvement was’ not- ed in traffic conditions east of Chi- cago, with freight being accepted free- ly on all roads but two. Throughout the session, the view seemed to pre- vail that under present circumstances the accumulation of any large stock here, or at other leading centers could not be. regarded as likely. Highest. prices of the session were made in oats, buying on the part of} big houses with export connections kept prices on the upgrade from the outset. Firmness in the hog market to- gether with liberal meat shipments tended to sustain provisions. Open High Low Closing Corn— March ... 127% 1275 127% 127% Oats .... 12554 126 125% 125% Oats— March .... 84 85% 84 85% May ..... 81% 82% 81% | 82% MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 14.—Flour unchanged, In carload: lots standard flour quoted at 975 a barrel in 98 Ib cotton stacks. Shipments 41,919 bar- rels. Barley 152 @, 188. Rye 214 @ 215. Bran 3250. ‘Wheat receipts 106 cars, compared | with 304 a year, ago... isd Corn, No. 3 Yellow, 170 @ 1 Oats, No.3 White, 86% @ 87 Flax 356 @ 370. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK Chicago, Jl, Feb. 14.—Hogs_ re- ceipts 38,000; unsetled; bulk 1580 @ 1620; light 1550:°@ 1625; mixed 1555 @ 1620; heavy. 1545. @ 1610;. rough 21545 @- 1560; -pige-1250-@-1500,) <j Cattle receipts, 4,000; . steady.;- .na- tive steers 840. @ 1380; stockers and ‘| feeders 725 @ 1030; cows and heifers 640 @ 1160; calves 850 @ 1375. FROM PNEUMONIA | | “Sheep ‘receipts 8,000; weak: weth- fers 1000 @ 1325: ewes 930 @ 1275; lambs 1350 .@. 1700. . 5 OMAHA LIVE STOCK Omaha, ‘Nebr.,. Feb. 14.—Hogs. re- 4-ceipts 13,300; heavy 1550 @ 1585; mix- ed 1560 @ 1580; light 1540 @ 1580; pigs 1000 @ 1500; bulk 1560 @ 1580. Cattle recepits 3,600; steady; na- tive steers 850 @ 1300; cows and heif- ers 700 @ 1025; western steers 800 @ 1160; cows and heifers 700 @ 925; canners 650 @ 750; stockers and feed- ers 650 @ 1040; calves 900 @ 1300; bulls; stags, etc., 700 @ 1000. Sheep receipts 6,600; steady; high- er; yearlings 1200 @ 1500; wethers 1100 @ 1300; ewes 1075 @ 1225; lambs 1565 @ 1665. S80. ST. PAUL LIVE STOCK South St.Paul, Minn., Feb.-14. Hogs receipts 6,000 steady; range 1575 @ 1610; bulk 1590 @ 1600. Catle receipts 1900; killers steady; steers 650 @ 1300; cows and heifers 700 @ 950; veal calves 50c lower, 60 @ 1225; stockers and feeders steady, 600 @ 1100. Sheep recepits 400, steady; lambs. 800 @ 1625; wethers: 700° @ 1200; ewes 500 @ 1150. LIVE WIRE. AT .. HEAD OF NEXT LOAN PUBLICITY free from rots, small dirtiés and check |" ji -SRANK R.WILSON Frank R, Wilson, newspaper: man, is to be the big boss of the publicity for the third and fourth liberty loans when the campaigns get good and hot. ‘Wilson’s regular job here has been FIRST AMERICA! GENERAL INJURED IN BATTLE ZONE oe : an. PRESS As) i GENERAL LEONARD WOOD.): Major General Leonard Wood, wounded in an ‘explosion in France, is the first American general injured in the fighting zone. Reports from a French hcspital indicace that the splendid old warrior is making a rapid recovery STORMY SESSION MARKED PARLEY ON RUSS PEACE Conference Reported to Have End- ed in Violent Rupture Prom- ising War HUNS PREPARING TO FIGHT Zurich, Feb. 15.—The Munich, Bav- azia, correspondent of the Neue Augs- burg Zeitung’ says he-learns that ‘the discussions at Brest-Litovsk last Sun- day between Dr. Von Kuellinann, ‘the German foreign. secretary; Count Czer- nin, the Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, and nn Trotzky, the Bolgheviki foreign minister, were par- ticularly. stormy. and ended in a vio- lent rupture which bore all the seeds of future conflict. “That is why the conference at Ger- man main headquarters is discussing the eventuality of very, energetic mil- ‘itary measures against tl hs,”” says the correspondent. NEGOTIATIONS FOR FREER MEX TRADE American Ambassador to Mexico ~ City to See Carranza Washington, D.'C.,'Feb. 15.—Nego- tiations for a freer interchange of foodstuffs and other products by the United States and Mexico begun here are to be. concluded at Mexico City. Unable to enter into an agreement Rafel Nieto, the Mexican commission- er, will leave this week for Mexico accompanied by Ambassador Fletcher, FRIDAY}. FEBRUARY 86,1’ SAMMIES MAKE FINE SHOWING WITH BIG GUNS: Artillery Work in Support of a French Drive Declared Bril- liant Operation GERMAN POSITION STORMED Grand Headquarters of the French Army in France, Feb. 15.—(By Assocl- ated Press)—The American artillery took a brilliant part !n an important French raid WeKdnesday between Ta- hure and Butte Du Mesnil, in Cham, pagne, participating . in preparatory bombardment and the ensuing barrage fire while the operation was being suc- cessfully executed: The action was extremely interest- | ing and the: result. moat. satisfactory. The assaulting troops. brought back 160 prisoners. and. they established themselves in German positions to a depth of three quarters. of a mile along a front; of nearly a mile. Task Difficult One : : The task of the assaulting forces was to attack and take a German sal- ient dipping.into the French position. It was a difficult operation owing to the nature of the’ground which form- ed a basin-like depréssion into which the Germans could pour the fire of their concentrated guns on the sur- - rounding heights. The artillery. preparation lasted six hours and, with the aid of aviators, it. was ascertained: that the enemy's defensive positions, which. were re- markably strong, had: been broken up to a large extent. At 4:15 in the after- noon the order was given to the in- fantry units to go over the top, Every man had been fnstructed fully regard- ing the objectives ‘to be attained. Just before this, a steady fine rain began to make the chalky earth like a skating rink. The troops, however, advanced with determination, although they were obliged occasionally to ar- rest their progress owing to machine gun positions having escaped the ‘at- tention of the French and American guners. . . * i * Grenadiers Help ‘With the help of the courageous grenadiers these positions were storm- ed and destroyed and their occupants were either killed or captured. By 5:15 o’clock rockets announced that all the objectives had been gained.: °° * The American gunners, with their French ‘comrades, extended: théir range, putting up an effective barrage to prevent counter attacks, which how-- ever did not come, the Germans hav- ling been completely disconcerted, « SAWYER FAMILY | SELLING LANDS Brittons of North Prairie Will Re- turn to Minnesota Sawyer, N. D., Feb. 15.—W. B.. Erit- ton of North Prairie has disposed: of 1,130 acres of the Britton holdings at an average of $43 the acre, bring- ing $53,400. There are. still, three quarters and an eighty. to be sold. When the transaction is completed the family,. consisting of W. B. Brit- ton, A: L. and C.F. Britton and their mother, will leave for Hening, Minn, where they will:-make their home. The Brittons have resided in this sec- tion for a numberof years and have to, permit President Carranza person- ally to participate in the conference. Secretary Lansing professed . satis- faction today at the progress already made, and it is believed at the state department that since Mexico will be the chief beneficiary of any agree- ment, Carranza will interpose any iy- surmountable ‘obstacle in the way ot an adjustment of the problems that have arisen out of the embargo im- posed by the United States on food- stuffs and certain other supplies. With Mr. Fletcher will go George McCarty, a Mexico City banker, who was called to Washington to aid the food admin- istration in handing its. problems. DEMPSEY KNOCKS ~~ QUT JIM FLYNN Heavyweight Scrap in Chicago Laste Two Minutes Chicago, Ill, Feb, 15.—Jack Dempsey knocked out Jim Flynn in less than the first two minutes of what was scheduled as a ten- round ,bout at Fort Sheridan ast ‘night. Both fighters are heavy- weights. , Dempsey forced the fighting from the start with left and right blows to the head, driving his oponent into the ropes. The knockout came exactly one minute and ten seconds after the match started when Dempsey landed a terrific left hook to the jaw which knocked the veteran clear through the ropes and into the crowd. Dempsey, the victor in tonight's bat- tle, was knocked out by Fiynn in the first:round of a bout at Salt Lake a year ago. Jess Willard has announced that he is ready to-meet the winner of a bout between Dempsey and Fred Fulton in been* numbered . among the state’s most progressive farmers. BISMARCK TO STAGE COUNCIL FEB. 25° (Continued From Page One.) of the Uriited: States: public reserve © now engaged in the shipbuilding drive. ‘Capt. E. G. Wanner of the Bismarck . Home Guard: will be asked ‘by: Sécro- tary .Helstrom to assume. ‘direct charge of assembling’: home guard units of«the Slope, at least, and Den- nis Cook, commander of: Bismarck Scout Troop No, 3; will be asked to act in a similar capacity with( regard to the Boy Scouts, Only One In North Dakota. “This: war. conference will: be the only one held by the National’ Council : of Defense in North Dakota,” said Mr. Helstrom in commenting on his’ plans. « “tt is important that. we make -tt a” representative and genéral gathering: « of all the patriotic agencies in ‘North:: Dakota. ‘North Dakota has done splen- didly inthe past; there is much‘for:it: ' to do in the future, and--the. result: of. this. conference, the national, defense '.: council ‘hopes, will be a coordinating of forces in one united effort in which there will: be no overlapping and -no lost: motion. aaile S . _ “We ‘expect ‘this two. days’ confer- é€nce to bring to Bismarck an immense crowd. : It:is important that’. Home Guard units especially ‘advise well in advance if they expect to be here,.in order that accommodations may be provided for them: - It is probable that our hotel facilities will’ be exhausted and that we will-be compelled to ask Bismarck: people to open their homes to our guests. Bismarck never: has failed when its hospitality was asked, and in this patriotic: opportunity ‘we may expect the same loyal coopera- a fight ‘for the world’s championship. CZERNIN TO READ REPLY SATURDAY ter Has Prepared Statement assistant secretary of the federal farm Aime there was Amsterdam, Feb. 15, — Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian for- eign minister, according:to a Vien- na dispatch, hae announced his intention. of ‘delivering a long statement to the. delegations, of ‘two: kit en Saturday> tion from our people which we have had in former occasions.” 4 é hake at Confirmed. ‘ecretary Helstrom received. 5 from Waskinbton last night soutien ing dates originally specified for this state-wide war conference, and urgibg that RAL toa possible be done to ‘i sure a complete representation of al the state's patriotic agencies’ in the prosecution of the war. It is probable that during the’ ee a explain: what..the é ‘North: 1918 AUih, nn ee -_ ‘ < eee obs oa Ld