The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1918, Page 4

q _ should have laws to deport aliens who are with us Rutered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second : Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY. Editor GEORGE D. NANN ake Wek Suis G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 8 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the for republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- Mshed herein. ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. EMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVAN Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month Daily, Morning, Evening nd Sunday by Carr! per month ... .. sa Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per mon! Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month ... Morning or Byening by Mail in North Dakot warning or evening by mail outside of North Dakota, one year. a gunday in Cembination with Evening or Morning by mail, one year .. wa 6.01 “(A CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND IT.”’ Senator Jimmie Wadsworth of New York, who is one of those who want to repeal the Constitution of the United States and set aside the results of the last presidential election by placing the presidential pow- he hands of a committee of ‘‘three distinguish- zens??—satisfactory to Roosevelt and the Steel Trust—has revealed the real purpose of the War Cabinet bill so that even a child ean understand it. Wadsworth placed in the Congressional Record a series of strange and wonderful diagrams to dem- onstrate his idea of how the War Department is at present organized. The draftsmen who designed these puzzles perpetrated a geometrical nightmare intended to denote hopeless confusion, Then Senator Jimmie introduced‘a diagram to show what Roosevelt and Gary propose to do about it. Ilere it is—simplicity itself: THD STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) E> ‘WHY, DOCTOR! :. Say, is Dr. Garfield trying to ‘‘pass the buek”’ to McAdoo? In suspending the fuelless order, the former announces that ‘‘the co-operation of the gen- | eral director of railways has had the effect of mect- ing the necessities which prompted the order of Jan- uary 17.” If McAddo’s co-operation was what was needed, why didn’t he co-operate before January 17? How Garfield was roasted for not having cars, when that fuelless order was issued! Forsooth, even a college professor worm may turn. GOES AGAINST THE GRAIN. In all the large manufacturing cities hundreds of German enemy aliens are being arrested for non-reg- istration, and the majority of them state that they were working in factories at twice the wages they could get in Germany, besides being safe from comp: | ulsory military service. It is one of the disgusting necessities of war that | we must take perfectly good American workmen and set them at war work at $30 a month, while enemy alfens remain in safety and hold the good jobs. But, a somewhat similar condition exists in peace times, too. . We are always loaded up with aliens who are here for the wages only, who send their savings abroad and who would be decidedly enemy aliens | should war with their country break out. Maybe we long enongh to become citizens and don’t. Mean- while, in; war times, we will be short of labor and, at the same time, have to suport thousands of enemy alien workmen in idleness, unless we can devise some way of making them work for the government, which means making them work against their fatherland. : THE WHOLE CAUSE AT STAKE There are serious delays in shipbuilding, according to Washington. When you say this, you might as well say that we’re helping the kaiser lick England, France and Italy, for this is what such delay amounts 0. Practically. all ship construction in the country is for the government, but the yards themselves are op- erated as private enterprises. There has been no uniform scale of wages in the yards, and strikes have been frequent. It has been the practice of one yard to hire away the men from another yard. * It has not been posible to shift men from one yard to another as it became necessary in order to maintain top speed. Strikers tied up two of the big yards because they coiildn’t get double pay for working on Lin- coln’s birthday. Riveters are not driving all the rivets they could, beeause held down to a maximum by union rules. In short, our most important proposition—SHIPS8, IN TIME--is held up by just the conditions that ut- terly demoralized our greatest industry, the rail- roads. The cure for ship construction paralysis is that which we applied to the railroads, after their management became so rotten that we couldn’t get food, coal or anything else and our heroes in Europe were likely to starve. To cure is to comandeer. And the time to apply that cure is not when the pa- tient is ready for the undertaker. We have got to launch all the ships we possibly | can, in the shortest time possiblefl Private opera- tion or interest should not be permitted to interfere with this for an hour. If there is any interference by union wage or work regulations, the government, and the government only, should adjust matters, Congress should give President Wilson full power and the’president should exercise that power, fully. If we delay, quibble and fuss and don’t get plenty of ships, in plenty of time, we’ll pay for it wit hthe life blood of tens of thounsands, and, probably, finally get a good licking to boot. i " Billy Sunday is a frost in Washington. He should eye taneseen it. Why-carry hot air to a blast fur- nace? i Germany’s offer to Rumania of a chunk of Rus- aly jot peace, must tickle the Bolsheviki ‘most to leath. Berlin folks had a great celebration over the Uk- pine peace pact. It made ’em feel bully to learn at there’s: still one people on earth that has any faith in 4 German treaty, A deserter from Camip Dix has been sentenced to 15 years'at hard‘labor:. It’s a pointer for deserters from camp. But the’death penalty for. desertion from the fighting ranks stands. Let the Germain workmen know who are placin them in-battle, says Trotzky.. They know—same fel Jows who place them up against.a wall ‘and shoot them when they don’t want to-work, Hata ght 0: % Proposed Organization of War-Making Machinery. ‘An examination of the diagram will show that the “three distinguished citizens,”’ like the ‘‘three well known gentlemen”’ who are the hosts of the Mardi ir New Orleans, are to be the whole works. Everybody else will be their office boys, reporting to them alone. Pershing, Daniels, Baker, Hoover, Garfield and all the others would have to wait until they pushed the bell buttons on their mahogany desks. Nothing and nobody could get to the president ex- cept through these ‘‘three distinguished citizens.”’ They would be the whole show in the big tent, and the president would be under the canvas cur tains of the side show along with the freaks, He would be immured in the white house like the late Dalai Lama of Thibet or the old ‘‘do-noth- ing kings”’ of France, who remained in their palaces knitting with the women folks while the ‘mayors | of the palace’”’ ran the country. The president would be a mummy, not a man. Payment of his salary would be entirely unjusti- fied, as he would do nothing to earn it, It would} be better to fire him altogether, send him back to| a college class room, and turn the whole thing over to the ‘“‘three distinguished citizens.’’? True, the people did not elect the distinguished three. But if | they suit Roosevelt and the steel trust why should the people worry? Or at least so says Senator Jimmy. EQUITY ELEVATOR ENTERING COUNTY POLITICS. as Just as we go to press we reccive a card from Thos. Bailey informing us that the Foard of direc- tors of the Dunn Center Equity Elevator company | of Dunn Center have called a mass meeting of the farmers to be held at } unn Center on next. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at one o’clock p. m., for the purpose of rec-| ommending candidates for nomination at the Non- partisan league legislative convention—one candi-| date for representative and one for senator. |. Did the promoter’s. political articlé last tweek start something? Will Alex Liederbach and Theo. G. Nelson, two! strong Townley supporters, be récommended for these offices? > wit Rah for Teddy! He’s going to cheat the surgeons out of another operation. i United Press ‘is ‘dead tight in’ annoweing’ that we'll make peace with Austria if she breaks ‘with Germany. Ah! There’s the rub. And it’s a large rub, | WITH THE EDITORS. | AS IT SHOULD BE. The Flasher Hustler is flashing up. as bright as ever under the management of Editor Stearns, who is giving his citizens. a real live paper. He is giving the former editor the proper credit for the untiring labor he put on it, by placing at the head of the editorial column the following: ‘‘The paper made famous by little Mae.’”’—Carson Press. THE REASON WHY. It took the legislature in special session | con- vened but a few minutes to ratify the federal pro- hibition measure. Why? Because we are all invest- ing so hea’ in mills, ereameries, packing plants and other industries that it is going to take every red cent we can serape up this year to meet our notes. We have no money to spare for the flesh- pots of Egypt.—Forman Independent-News. MONSTERS OF YESTER-YEAR Dear old monstters of yester-yéar' were dragged out again at the hearing of the railroad wage com- mission in Washington. We mean the railway offi-| cials who crunch the bones and drink the blood of | the people and call to each other, Aha! We mean the bankers who order the railway heads to worry and harry and starve the public in order to prove that the eight-hour law was a blunder and govern- ment control during the war a flat failure; and who rub their hands with glee’ as they see the railroads falling into a gigantic ruin. These pasteboard and ochre figures of terror were held up yesterday by the chiefs of two railway-workers’ organizations as ex- amples of labor union realistic art. It was a little too much, however, for that connoisseur, Secretary Lane. He asked Mr. Lee, of the trainmen, if it was really so ‘‘natural’’ as the labor men alleged for railroad presidents and bankers to set deliberately to work not only to cause general suffering and to impede the war, but to wreck their own property. “*Yes,’’ affirmed Mr. Lee, ‘‘that was natural.”’ Sec- retary Lane rejoined that he himself could not adopt so ‘‘eynical’’ a view of human nature. But cynical is not the word. Fantastic or gullible or hysterical would be nearer. And one point ought to be made clear to the labor leaders who expect the public to swallow their nonsense. It is that their wild exag- ‘eiviliration doesn’t recognize her; gerations will prevent them from getting a fair hear- Ang for any reasonable complaints that they may have to present. Well-founded churges against the ing the past four or five years NGQh2 A NEW JAZZ BAND RECORD other state ther has prevailed a habit of making lumbering caqurt decisions. Most of the decisons might be reduced one-half by revising them into clear and concise language. true of the head notes which are usu- ally called the syllabus. the leading points of the decision. Hence: it should consist of not more than three or four simple sentences. simple. decision covers 12 pages; Three head | the word i times, Here is a copy of*the shortest; cific and set forth’ fully; matter of the contractf ten contract covers the- of. the ‘contract fully so. tion of the written contract.” What think you of. that? it means only that when ajwritten co tract.is full and complete?it_may not be varied by .a. prior oral‘agrement. The, two long sentences I dare not; copy or attempt to translate, but I) guess the meaning is just the same as | that of thé short sentence.” As you | will observe from the opinion’ given | ‘below the above long winded decision |, of 4,809 words: was given ‘on an appeal ; in a petty case of no merit.-The ap-| peal was from a, verdict and. judgment for only $107.00. The writing and booking of the long decision must cost the state at least $300. “To me it seems perfectly absurd and ridiculous to make so much cost and spend so much time on sucha ‘petty. matter. Such:a thing is never done only when the state pays the cost. ‘In state af- fairs-it seems there is no ¢are for bus- jiness efficiency and economy, Gilbert Mfg. Co. vs. Bryan. Robinson, J.: (Concurring special- | ly.) On Dec, 4, 1914, defendant made | to plaintiff a promissory note for $218 with interest at 10 per ceft. Payment of $130 was made Oct. 1,.1915. For the balance, with interest, amounting to $107.35, the jury found a verdict against the defendant and he appeals. The defense is that defendant ar-: ranged with the plaintiff to receive and set up certain of its galvanized grain bins, and as evidence of good faith he gave the note without any consideration. As the evidence shows, the plaintiff is a manufacturer of grain bins at Aberdeen, S. D. The retail price of a grain bin is $135. Defend- ant gave the plaintiff a written order for three grain bins to be shipped to him from Aberdeen at $105 ‘a bin, f. o. b. The bins were duly, shipped and received by the cfendant and each bin was sold by him with the aid of one McKenzie, an agent of the com- nony, One bin was sold to Christian- son, and he paid $130, which is en- dorsed on the note. One, bin was sold Mr. Andahl, and defendant re-/ ceived the price, $125, One bin was sold to Lundeen, and he paid $130,-and defendant received the money. Thus, according to the testimony. of the de- fendant himself, he has received the pricé of the three bing, $130 from Christianson, $130 from.Lundeen, and $125 from Andahl. The note for $218 was given for the wholesale price of two bins at $105 each, making’ $210 and some irons amounting) to $8.- The defense has no. merit. !!Judg- ment affirmed. 2 Neer. vg,; State Live Stock Board. Robinson, J.: This is a suit or rath- er two suits to enjoin, the killing of two valuable mares on the ground that they are infected” with the disease of dourine. The disease is not really in- fectionsi:<. y communicated by one animal to another only in the act of » Iothink | ean undoubtedly be framed; but to say at thé start oe they are a set of be poor is no fected. THE TIME 1S FASTER THAN lr ye seam DAD BRovenr home Hl Saturday Evening Letter | By Justice J. E. Robinson $250. So far as can be discerned by an examination of a veterinary she is| out sale, denial or delay. entirely sound and free from disease. This has been her condition at all The same is| times since she was ordered to be de- stroyed in the spring of 1915, The purpose | never been bred to a diseased stal of a.head note is to show at a glance | lion. the winter of 1917.” “The owner is a farmer and keeps the mares under farm conditions and note sentences contain 350 words and| mares in question shall not be de- “contract” ‘is*repeated 24 | stroyed.” | ; _ The court, finds that it is sentence: “Where a written contract | doubtful whether either mare is or is full and complete as fo all’ of the’ ever had been infected with dourine. terms of the contract, and the terms, The conclusion of the trial court ‘is of such contract are plain and spe-) that the courts are powerless to inter-| fést necessity. Clearly if i e-fubject|fere with the discretion which ‘the| in question were owned such: writ: ;.Jégislature has ‘given the ct matter | board. According to the decision,-the| destroy it. Sto .be a| board may go right on and destroy} complete contract, oral testimony is' sound, healthy horses.and the courts! board attempted to destr inadmissable to show a "prior * oral, have no right to stop it. agreement entered into between the caanot be given to any board and parties prior to the time of the execu-| such a limitation cannot be put on | the jurisdiction of the courts. Under our constitution every man n-; has a right to acquire, protect and de- fend property. The courts are open and for all wrongs done or threatened to any man in his person or property he has a right to a proper remedy by COMING SOON, CONSCRIPTION. - a FOR BRITISHERS IN THE U.S. A. That the alien draft convention be- tween Great Britain and the United/comes muc! States «will intensify, rather than re- tard British ‘and- Canadian: recrui' cing -in this T d work |: <5 WHEE, SEE TIGHT! Youre warrzing I PAPA Danciia! AND THE NEW DANCES ARE MORE OF A . Sa Hl ih due process of law. ‘No cess of law is meant the She has!course of judicial proced She appeared entirely sound in} men may be vested with power to destroy the pro} very | for the protection of his p: sanitary |tary board they. would. Three years. have elaps Such a power! and valuable animals. and ‘ime they have been hale WAWHITE, 6.00 aarpre? OO! Canarian © RECRUITING 4 071: cannot do his full duty by w icing to be drafted. ie agreed upon is very useful in bringing home to him that if fit he must either enlist or be drafted. But I consider it impor point out to him that hi: needed now,” said General W. A. White, head “of British. Recruiting Mission in America. more liable erican. than the “i this case extends from it ‘compels n! place-himself on poracticall it- footing as his fe home. and surel, int point is that British jects in’ this: cou cone eit ence fee not: possibly, be deprived of life, liberty. or prop- erty without due: process of law, The courts must be open and every man for any injury done him.in his person 3 or property must have a remedy by In North Dakota more than in any|a valuable work animal worth about} dye: process of law.. He, must have right and justice administered with- tion of’ justice either preventative or remdial by the courts in the ordinary our constitution no board or body of other and no person may be ‘denied an L appeal .to the.courts ‘when necessary Yet in many cases the head note sen-| does not permit them’ to run with/ for the protection‘ of life or property. tences are anything but short and | other horses. - ‘The plaintiff offers to} These Pr In a recent case-theUeading | observe quarantine regulations and to furnish a satisfactory bond; that the} or authority. are fundamental which need no support from argument In such a case as here presented it should not be necessary for any one to appeal to the courts board should have.a desire to destroy good valuable property or any prop- erty except in case of clear and mani- without the least sign of any disease. They are in no wise dangerous.’ They are doing good work for the allies. We need those. good. work horses and it were a mortal ‘sin to destroy them. Indeed the plaintiff, should: not have been put to the expense of this action. The order and judgment is reversed. “It is quite clear that the Britisher in this country of military age convention ‘to fight is ‘duty; is still to enliet rather than wait for the draft. He can join either the Canadian or British forces by going to the nearest office of the British-Canadian Recruiting Mission. There is a branch in-every big center in the United States.: Every fan ia e rT ‘conscription of any sort, he now. be- " | “The age limit for conscription in io} years, This wa perfectly fair ar- expressed by General W. A.’ White; rangement for in wostatement made public at the! who claims British citizenship to untrymen at ‘Citizenship should with it’ obligations as well as person may By due pro- administra- ure. Under an arbitrary perty of an- principles roperty. No the property by. the: sani- not care.to ed since the ‘oy .the good during that and hearty, rtant to to service | 20 to 40 every man ly the same PLIGHT OF TROUSERLESS | est Wind Blowing Door Shut Leaves Him) In’ Predicament, Causing Hasty Re treat to Garage In Rear. A certain North. side man, the In;| dlanapolis News had. a patriotic gar- den and it was bis habit to get up with the sun, don khaki trousers, drink q cupful of coffee and work ‘dntil his wife culled him to brehkfast, about) two hours later. He rose about five o'clock one m ing and dressed ‘completely—all but} the khaki. trousers, which he kept’in) the Basement. He descended the statrg) and|was on the way to the basement, when he gaw outside a bottle of cream left by the milkman, Thinking of the! effect of sunlight on cream and of his} cupful of coffee, he peered up. and down the street, openéd the: door,| stepped out grabbed the bottle hurried-| ly. Just as he turned to go in he heard a slam—the wind had blown the door: shut. He found himself out on the front porch, fully dressed, with the ex- zeption of a pair of trousers.. The door lown the street, vaulted the low ce ment railing and made 9 bee-line for the garage, the only available place of refuge and seclusion. He ‘remained: in. the garage until his, wife learned of his predicament, about two:hours la- ter, and came to his.rescue. © The story would have remained a fark secret had not’ a. neighbor—a woman, too—seen the whole affair and witnessed, the mad scramble for the sarage, VOMEN AS GREAT ORGANIZERS Matrons Conduct Large National Gatherings With a Zest and Order, and Not a Man is to Be Seen. In the Inst 20 or 25 years particu- arly the women of this country have vecome past masters in developing intion-wide organizations. The groups vhich they have formed. sometimes iumber as many asa million women. Chey take great delight in the perfec- ion of their machinery. Much of the social awakening .among women, the iesire to Improve their surroundings, ‘omes from the stimulus and the edu- ‘ation they get from their organiza- ctons. But these organizations, it should be ioted, are voluntary, writes Ida M. Larbell in, Harper’s Magazine. . They ire directed to Some purpose which appeals particularly to the group. Each stands on ‘its own feet—that .{s, they are. not co-operative organiza- tions; and again, they have nothing to do with: men. Go. to one of thelr national gatherings. ,You will. see meetings conducted with a zest, an or der,-a directness which throws inthe shade almost any men’s convention I ever saw, and not a man to be seen anywhere, | 1 : 1 i High Cost.of Courting. All. the world may love:a.lover, but the framers of the new war tax bill adopted a roundabout way of showing their affection, asserts T. F.: Logan ip Leslie’s. ‘The ‘congressional »measute to ralse additional revenue makes a particularly affectionate assault on the bankroll of the young man who wishes to demonstrate bis devotion to a maid. If the object of the youth's. passion, lives reasonably near him,he may escape.the new tax on telegrams and telephone mes- sages that cost less than 15 cents. Every love letter he writes will cost him an additional. penny, however, even if he-incloses only a single burn: ing poem. If a trip to the theater is planned, commuting lovers who live more than 80 miles from the play- house must. give financial assistance to the war on the Hohenzollerns. Ac tual admission to the theater.demande an additional ten per cent on the’ cost of the tickets, Naturally, the dear girl ‘will wish to make herself” par- ticularly alluring to her ardent swatn. To do so, she must pay a two per cent. tax on the perfume. essep¢e, tollet wa- ter, lip. rouge.or.face powder that .to her seems the most effective device, i) Howa Woman Got a Pumpkin. She isa dainty little madam, relates the Indianapolis News, and does not look as if she could lift more than ten or fifteen pounds. Whea she ac companied her:‘husband to the country recently. and saw a field. dotted with ‘pumpkins she said: a “Let’s stop here and buy a pum) for pies.” Pumpkins seemed to be.a drug with madam: ‘i . “If you climb that. fence,” pointing to the field, “you can have the biggest pumpkin you can carry.” “Pll accept ‘that offer,” she replied with alacrity, with visions of Thanks- giving ples galore. = * Ten minutes later she returned with @ pumpkin that weighed 35 pounds and put it down triumphantly in front of the farmer. Ba 3 need more thorough treatment was locked. He looked wildly up and” the farmer, and he told.the little . oe