The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1918, Page 4

‘ ; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE —— Yatered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. f ISSUED’ EVERY DAY .2tGB D. MANN wee eS G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, ial 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 tor republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- shed herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. vatly, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month ....§ .70 Nally, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month ... .. SALE Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month ... a Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one 40 uorning mail outside of North Dakota, 3.00 or Morning by é Editor one year Sunday in Cembinatio mail, one year ..... : THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) —<—<——— ee SCS BITS OF INFORMATION. The French soldier is paid $20 a year; German, $38 a year; British, $89 a year, and the American gets $360 a year. ‘ With a continuance of the war, in the next year at least 20,000 nurses will be needed in army hos- pitals at home and abroad. eee A Chase county (Kansas) steer, just in off pas- ture, gained 45 pounds in 24 hours the first day it was put on feed on the farm of Henry Starkey. ‘A wooden soled, zine protected shoe, designed for the use in the truck patch or garden, may be found of service for soldiers in trenches. Thirty-five pounds of ‘brown sugar kept a Jersey City plant with 35,000 workers in operation, the sugar being’ needed in making electric light globes. Each of the 30,000,000 workers in the country loses approximately nine days each year due to sickness. This is a wage loss of more than $500,000,000. ; ses! As part of Mississippi’s drive for a 100 per cent increase in hog production during 1918, efforts are under way to enroll a total of 20,000 boys in corn and pig clubs. F Every household in Italy saves all the odd bits of paper. These are soaked in water and kneaded into bails, then put in the sun to dry. They will serve to give a little heat later on. Tf a man is going to commit’a crime the chances, are that he will do it at’the age of 29. It is a curiv ous fact that statistics have shown that man is more dangerous at this period of his life than at any other. .AND THE EDITOR CHANGES, TOO. Meu, thoughts, things, purposes, even the gods of the arts and sciences, change, continually, often suddenly—here today ;, goné tomprrow; trying to head ereation. this way of a Saturday, the other |’ way of a Monday. Chaos? No; the status quo is death. And death is chaotic. The material of us dissipates into a hundred chemicals and goeth no one knoweth whither; the spiritual of us flies away in accord with some one of a hundred different be- liefs. Change is progress, logicals,purposeful. in- evitable. The editor is cerebrally big with a big idea on the mutability of human affairs, the shelf his well-worn volume of Kant, for inspira- tion to astonish. He reads little Bobbie’s fifth grade A grammar, that he may be correct. He lunches on 10 pages of Noah Webster, that he may command unheard-of wards in which to dress an unheard-of ‘big idea. He sharpens his pencil and sits him down, and then—Poet Edmund Vance Cooke walks in and takes the bread and butter right out of his mouth, thus: TEMPORA MUTANTUR or ‘‘Who’s Loony Now?’’ (By Edmund Vance Cooke.) Do you remember how we laughed defiance At thgse old Farmers and their Freak Alliance? aes How reprehensible! But now the Alliance of those Farmers’ sons Is asked to save the whole world from the Huns, But that’s quite sensible. Do you remember how we swung our fists At those wild nations of the Populists? How reprehensible! And now their plans at which we made such faces Become our governmental commonplaces; t Oh, yes, quite sensible! Do you remember that fool Greenback set Who wanted money easier to get? How reprehensible! And row we have the Federal Banking scheme Whicff helps some people realize that dream, f And think it sensible. 5 Do yon remember Socialists and such Who fried to get this government ‘‘in Dutch’’? ‘ How reprehensible! By making it—and us—assume control Of railroads, manufactures, food-and coal? E * Er—yes, quite sensible! To you remember how some people tried To have the hands of Labor unified? How reprehensible! ‘ And now we try to Unionize democracy gainst the Teuton ‘‘scabs’’ who serve Autocracy : And find it sensible. ell, well, the way such foolish folk recur ows how the human mind is prone to err. : How reprehensible! ir day; they raised their puny row ‘}enough rent to pay to the railroads, He takes from |. TOO, TOO MUCH. Says Director Garfield, speaking on results of the coalless order: ‘The fuel administration, be- lieving in the democratic ideal, asked not that some, but that all, participate in the sacrifice necessary to save us from our own prosperity.’’ Comes also Chairman Hurley, who says that we’ve been over-produeing, even in war essentials, sinee the beginning of the war; that, in our zeal, We have pro- duced almost twice as much stuff as can: possibly be shipped to Europe with the available tonnage. Washington took a nap of 10 months, snoring patriotism uproariously, having about 11 night- mares over lack of rifles and overcoats, and now wakes up. to discover that the people have done too much; what’s really needed is to raise 250,000 ship- builders in a week, Oh, Lord! It is too much, too much! Mrs. E. Greenstein of Cleveland gets a $5 verdict against her parents-in-law for alienating her hus- band, Just think of a husband going through life with that sort of a valuation on him! Marrying gets riskier and riskier every day, or oftener. Ladies Home Journal story heroine is deseribed as wearing ‘‘rose colored tulle skirts short enough to display about 10 inches of the most ravishing pink kne Gosh! she must have been a serub-woman, one time! 160,000,060 a year is It’s plenty and i Uncle Sam has decided § when you consider how bad the plumbing is how the roof leal A man who placed a bomb on a ship so there would be an explosion when the vessel was at sea was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison, Need- less to add that this didn’t happen in Germany. Railway brotherhood heads charge that railway presidents are deliberately messing up the lines. We doubt it. We don’t helieve the yailway presidents are efficient enough to do such a perfect job. Maybe Russia’s war with the central powers is ended, as Trotzky is reported to have declared but Russia’s war with Russia will keep the Bolsheviki busy. i The doctors ordered ‘‘absclute quiet,’? and then Teddy began to improve. There are some things that a man like T. R. won’t stand from the doctors. Hungary’s premier proclaims that she didn’t en- ter the war for conquest. They'll all be confessing that the kaiser made ’em do it, before long. State fuel administration says Ohioans cannot jock up coal for next winter. This makes ’em-go to stocking up cuss words for next winter, Somebody has invented a pumpkin pie without a button crust. - They'll be giving us rye flour dough- nuts one of these days. Now they’re telling us there’s to be a snuff famine. A snuff famine must be almost as serious ps a parsnip, famine,, | Si FY Doesn’t it strike you as strange that we never jhear of a thing being done by the submarines of the allies? | _WITH THE EDITORS. _| EVERY WEEK IS THRIFT WEEK FOR THE NATION. The war savings stamp idea is bigger than any amount of money. This country can raise a hundred billions if neces- sary, and then another HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLIONS of dollars. One single state in the union could pay that bill. The war saving stamps .that you will buy this week—TODA Y—for yourself and for your children is not mere money, but patriotic power. There is not in this nation one human being out of the insane asylum that has any excuse for failure to buy war stamps. Every American, the old, soon to die, children just born to future opportunity, should own at least the beginning of a war stamp collection. Luying war stamps means ‘‘THREE CHEERS ECR THE UNITED STATES.” Cheer for your coun- ry. War stamps are democratic. If you buy only a dollars’ worth, or twenty-five cents’ worth, and can afford no more, you have done your duty. % Nobody ean afford to buy NONE. If you knew that war would end tomorrow you would hurry out to buy some stamps that you might says if only to yourself, ‘‘I had a finger in it. any- how. iM You own your war stamp and say to yourself, That represents a couple of cartridges, or the shar; point of a bayonet, or the good, hot soup that som American soldier is eating in a cold, damp treneh.’’| WAR is a great fire that destroys. If the house next yours, filled with women and children, were burning, you would be ashamed tc say at the end of the excitement, ‘‘I did not carry even one pail\of water to help put it out. I just stood around and looked sympathetic.” The man who does not buy war stamps and TALK war stamps just stands around and looks sympa- thetic. War needs action, not sympathy—be ACTIVE. hee Buy war stamps today and tomorrow and every day this week, if you can buy only one each time. Carry YOUR bucket of water to the fire. There are all kinds of thrift. Buying a good book with your last dollar is thrift. Burning your furniture to make furnace experi- ments, as the great French inventor did, is thrift. Mortgaging your home or your business to send ly the whole world’s, | ie by it penaihl y yy the Newspapér r Associ a jon.) ~~ © The Dakota Freie Presse of Aberdeen, which re- fently had a run in with federal authorities, now American flag at the head of its editorial Pia of thn band of ee ry _|money, little sums if it must, big your children to school is thrift. ~ But the greatest of all thrift is that which invests rama it, ‘can, in the dignity, glory and smlecess of this nation. A healthy hand attached to a. diseased body is not worth much. . ee, f ee The nation is the body, the citizens are the hands, the fingers... gicawiGvy 1 Cure the body | ow side-streets Chesters Find French- About Peace Terms Andre Would Fight Till There's Only One German Left, and Ten Let This German Be Tried and Executed, and the Chesters, Knowing the Story of Anndie’s Sister, Also Want Peace —Andre’s Peace By G§ORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER (Copyright, 191 by the Newspaper Enterprise Association) This is thes famous noyve)isi, PRO, ixth article by George Randolph Chester, His Wise anu Gollaborator, Lillian Chester, , who went to France especially for the Daily Tribune to tell the story of F RANCE,TODAY exe ers. a Paris, Fef. 23.—We have just been! discussing peace with Andre Fuelot and’ we have arrived: at a very satis: factory conclusion. cid Andre is altogether a man of peace,’ although at times one might seem to| detect'a ferocious expression in his} left eye, and a still more rerocious ex-! pression in the place where his right; eye used to be. Andre's plan is very ‘simple, and) does no include haggling over terms. ‘Any kind of a treaty will do, be-| sause the important point lies in when} -he document is signed. He wants to continue the war un-/ ‘il only one German remains, con-} alude a peace with him, then try him} with due decorum, and hang him for che crimes of the Huns, Less Radical. 1 To some this view may seem more or less radical; but if your sister had been in the captured and evacuated district, and had seen-her father and husband and son killed, and if she and her | daughters had been for 18 months the slaves of German beasts, you’d have another reason for fighting this war than your mere duty to humanity. YOU’D HATE! We have all heard these tales of urocities, but reading {hem far away from the scene does not seem to. carry} any reality. it is only when you come actually face to face with despicadle ravage} v to realize what ghastly savages, what srutish ‘barbarians, what intolerable »seasis these Germans are! Beautiful Grapes. Some beautiful grapes Andre. ‘they lay in the tiny show window fa tiny shop in one of the tiny nar- in alump and purple, and so superior in appearance to all their poor neighbors, <notted little apples and the weazen- 2d little sour oranges, that it seemed} only an act of mercy to take them from their inappropriate surround- ings. r $ A clang. of the little bell over the shop door, and from the back room, a! fat little woman came running, young but motherly. bs Ah; the grapes! Y She lifted the solitary ‘bunch from its bed of cotton tenderly, reverently, and explained that they were very ex- quisite, but very expensive, How much? ‘Renee! Renee! Renee came hurrying out of the little back room, a hollow-chested wo- man, with a drawn face and deep lines in her brow, and sparse hair streaked with staring strands of sil- ver, and eyes. which, were widened with something like a permanent ter- ror; but a very pleasant ‘smilefor madame, a very pleasant: smile for monsieur. fi led us to, 4Ah! The price of the grapes! - It was a highly important question, and! vastly ‘exciting, for the price of grapés had seemed to have gone up or, down or something; since, their dar- ing investment in this ‘butich; and while the agin a as on another usively in this city to our read- he Chester frticles are being published daily. tively, then cast down-her eyes and siaried knitting, and did not look up any more. Cold in that little shop, colder even than in the raw, chill, slushy street; forthe scant but neatly kept stock of fruit on the little shelves, and the few tins of salmon and sardines and other precious hors-d’ oeuvre, and lettucc and other green goods, had no refrig- erator for safe keeping but the shop itself. Ah! The feet of madame! She was tapping them alternately on the floor. They were cold, the feet of ma dame! The*two shop women stopped the delicate weighing of the grapes to sympathize with the cold feet of ma- dame. Andre! Andre! Andre came out-of the little rear room, a handsome: young poilu,: if it had not been for the eye-he had-given to France, and a sturdy poilu, in spite] coming into the war that they did so of his grace,-had it: not been for the jarm which was in a sling. A pleasant ‘smile for monseiur and a pleasant smile with‘a’ brightening ot the eye for the petite madame. Andre!, ‘Ah, the feet of madame; they are so sold! Ah! Andre also sympathized with the feet of madame, deeply. He hurried away, and hurried back with a flat box, about a foot and a |half square and four’ inches ‘high, which was filled with sawdust, and ich has been done that you begin | the sawdust covered with dry news: papers. < Into this madame was invited to step, while the precious grapes were, estimated by the plump woman and Renee and Andre. Tremendous Price. Not such a tremendous price, not greater than would have been paid in which -Paris} New York for the same’ bunch of abounds, and they were 80 large, so} grapes, and while monsieur-paid. for the little bundle, which was now: tied with a red string and furnished with a wooden handle, the three smilec pleasantly at..madame, who is_ petite, delighted that she looked more happy standing in the middle of the floor inher’ foot-box. It seemed rather cozy through the glass panel of the door to the little back room. é Four small, cloth-covered tables in there indicated a provable cafe attach- ment to the tiny. shop. Was it possible to secure a cup of hot coffee at this hour? Oh certainly, but no milk with it at this*hour, and nothing to eat with it, at this hour; black coffee, yes, with! pleasure! So behold us in the little back room with the silent young woman out there in the infinitesimal kitchen pre- varing the coffee, and the rest of the spally handy, to smile whenever look- t. at. it was then that we sounded Andre on the matter of the German peace proposals, hey were mentioned in a sort of off-hand manner, because we hod come to have a habit of asking this, and-it had some-to give such.satistac- every las SPA kee coer la A .con As % victory. care to expose their deepest emo- tions to strangers. In this family, however, we inad- vertently touched the spark. There was an instantaneous change in all of them, as, Andre placed the kunckles of his well hand on the table and leaning down a face which was suddenly dark and hard,’ gave.us, in a voice which thrilled with suppressed passion, his views of peace as eX- pressed “above. ‘He means it, because in two weeks his arm will be well and he is going! back {o the war, where HE DOES NOT INTEND TO TAKE ANY PRISONERS. He would feel humiliated and dis- graced if any peace which it would be possible to arrange now should pre- vent him from going back into: the fight in which he has been twice wounded, The face of his plump and mother- ly wife had become set like wax, and her arched evebrows had jumped in- to a straight line. The hollow-chested woman, Renee, stood rigidly, and we have never be- fore seen a tint of actual green spread beneath a clear skin as it did beneath the skin of her face; and her wide eyes widened, and the lines deepened in her forehead, and the tightly compressed lips became color- less. The dull young woman came in with the coffee cups in time to hear. She held the cups motionlessly for a moment, then set them down and went out, dully heavily, without hav, ing looked up. of ‘The’ young woman had been one of the daughters in that 18 months of German occupation, and the hollow- chested Reenee is her mother, the sis- ter of Andre. ae She had not been a heavy woman in the first place, not even what might be called a plump one, but jshe had lost 50 pounds of weight in that year and a half of agonizing slavery. The other daughter died since their release, died of her abuse and her degradation. Tongue Cut Off. It is rather shocking to see a one- Andre has a brother, Germans, and-who escaped after un- told suffering and privation; and (Michel, who might as well have died for all the use he will be in the world from now on ,cannot properly about the hideous permanent inju he received or the unbelieva>!y inhu- man treatment which he endured, e- cause HIS TONGUE WAS CUT OUT. They did this to him because ¥ he asked for a drink of water -n French, in place of German! Useless Pease. There is no willingness in this fam- ily. to conclude a useless peace, and live placidly in a world where. the Prussian may prepare again to do his grastly will. There is no possibility in this fam- ily of a broad and generous charity which can acknowledge a brotherhood of humanity with the Hun after the war. They hate, and they will hate as long as they. live, and they have’a Tight to hate. _. No, more than @ right, a duty. ‘As you look into the faces of these people who have gone through’ such awful horror, as you meet one after the other of them and acquire an act- ual knowledge of what the Boche has meant by his boldly proclaimed inten- tion of Pan-Germanizing the world, something more than a mere. logical knowledge that such things must not! be permitted surges up in you, and grips the heart, and sends the darker blood tingling in the cheeks and into the eyes. Passion comes, as it must come! ary We of ‘America went into this war as a matter of principle: “To make the world safe for democracy,” we said. lt was like following a precept from a copy book such as “Now is the time for all good men,to come to the aid of the party,” ‘or “To the stars through labor,” or “Virtue is its own reward,” or some other high-sounding Spencerian principle. ‘We have met hundreds of fine, good American . soldiers, volunteers, who have .explained as their reason .for “because every man should be willing to. offer ‘his’ life to: preserve liberty. and freedom,” or because Prussian militarism threatened the world.” It is rather miraculous that we have done so much inspired by cold ethics, and it is a tremendous tridute to the high morality of the American charac- ter that this is so. Here is a big and a worthy thing to be accomplished, you have said, and everybody must help; so you at home, almost unamimously, save your food, and buy liberty, bonds, and send your sons far across the sea, to fight for the cause of justice. , There is something . majestic in that, something estatically uplifting in the spectacle of a great nation, far from the scene of this colossal emo- tional tragedy, rising en masse in re- sponse to the sacred call of duty, answering an apneal to the highest pt best promptings of the human | soul. | But by and by, when the facts that you know with your mind become truths burned on your heart, when you Jearn more and more through the loved ones whom you have sent here to struggle between the God of right an‘l: Devil of might, when: they tell yon of the awful things, fhe impos- sihle thines, the atrocities, unhuman, brutish things of which the hell- spawned Hun is capable, you will have something deeper than duty in your more and more passionate sup- port of our boys in France, You will have hatred, and it will be a just hatred! You will understand why the French nation, enduring so much with a calm and steadfast courage which has been the mafvel of the world, keeps its face turned sternly toward the west, and its determination set on but one end to this demoniac struggle; that |end, a permanent peace, the peace which can only be secured iby exhaust- ing the German empire, ‘beating it to its knees, encompassing the complete and entire defeat of the Boche; an end which must be ours, too, if it takes every last dollar in our pockets, unce . of our resources, are absolutely and. unre: ly omitted fo the Views besaaate ae great promise. | OPEN FORUM _ | ‘TUOHY'8 DEATH Seattle, Wash., Feb: 18, 1918. Editor, Bismarck Tribune, .-. ~ Bismarck, North Dakota. Dear Sir: There are many in ‘Bismarck who re- member Wiliam M, Tuohy, Northern Pacific Railway agent at the river landing station for many years after 1882, and then very. well known and popular. the prominent families of Louisville, Ky. For over twenty years they have lived in Butte, Montana. His wife’ was’ from one of Their son, €; Kremer Tuohy, was a graduate from an eastern university and law school and a young man of Last summer he went through the training school at: the Presidio of San Francisco, and was given a commission as lieutenant in the Signal Corps. He has lately been stationed - at Vancouver . Barracke,, Washington. ‘ Late in’ the evening of Feb. 9,.Lieu- tenant Tuohy, while attending a house- boat party on the river front in a suy- urb of Portinad, walked or slipped off. the edge of the boat in the darkness, without anyone knowing what hap- pened. Search was started:as soon as he was missed, but it was not until Sunday morning, Feb. 17, that. the body was found. His ‘superior officers had in the meantime, found all ‘papers ‘and ac- counts to bein the best order, and the conclusion is that by reason of the high water conditions, and the slippery surface of the walks over the river, his fal! was entirely acci- dental. ‘William M. Tuohy spent the week in search and took the remains to Butté for burial. The sympathy of all old friends ‘goes to the afflicted parents. ‘ Respectfully yours, “Harry W. Bringhurst, COUNTY BOOSTS LIGNITE The development of North Dakota lignite as a great ‘state resguce is fav- ored- by the Co-Operators’ Herald, of- Icial state organ of the Society of Equity, which in a current issue makes the following comment: “The coal shortage and the difficul- ty of: getting sufficient cars to trans- port the coal after it is mined has worked a tremendous change in the fuel situation in North Dakota. Lig- nite, the despised fuel, has-come into its own, and thousands of fuel users in this state who have never burned a pound of it prior to the present sea- son-are, compelled by force of neces- sity to use it in such quantity. that hundreds of, mines are. being worked to capacity to supply the demand. “And the best of it is that people have found out that lignite is a per- fectly good fuel, good enough for any- one and good enough for. any use, if one takes the trouble to. learn how to sf handle ft. ojeeas gy lsyad 1 “Out of this.is, bound to come a development of one of our greatest re- sources— the immense beds of lignite underlying a great part of the terri- tory west, of the .Missouri!, with con. sequent saving of: millions of dollars now leaving® the: state: for coal—put- ting ;well:paid labor at:work and sav- ing a large percentage of the trans- portaition usually paid out to: bring coal into:North aDkota. : ': “Necessity is not only the mother of invention—necessity teaches us some valuable lessons and some valuable economics, ‘and to have taught’ our people the value of their coal depos- ‘its is something worth while.” BIDS WANTED. Sealed bids will be received. by the board of county:¢ommissioners of Burleigh county, N. D,, up to tea o'clock on March 1, 1918, for bridges as follows: one 24 ft. span between sections 34 and 35, twp. 137, range 78 and one 12.ft. span between sections 33-142-78 and section 4-141-78; in ac- cordance with plans and specifications of the county surveyor. ach. bid must: be accompanied by a certified check for 5 per cent of the amount bid and addressed to the County Aud- itor at Bismarck, 'N, D., and marked “Bids for bridges.” The board reserves the right to re- ject any or all bids, T. B. FLAHERTY, County Auditor. 2—20 23 26. MORTGAGE SALE. ‘ Notice is hereby given that a cer- tain mortgage executed and delivered by A. P. Anderson'and Mary “B. An- derson, his wife,fi mortgagors to Chris- tian Bertsch, Jr., of Bismarck, ‘N. D. mortgagee. dated the 14th day of Gc- tober, A. iD. 1916, and filed for record in the. office of the register of deeds of the cofinty of Burleigh and state of North Dakota on -the 16th day of October, A. D. 1916, at 5:10 o'clock p. m., and recorded in Book 140 of Mort- gages on page 161, will be ‘foreclosed by-a sale of the premises in such mort- gage and hereinafter described at the front door of the court house in the city of Bismarck, in the county of Burleigh and state of North Dakota, at the hour of 2 o'clock p. m. on the 23rd day of March A. D. 1918, to satis- fy the amount due on said mortgage on the date of sale. The premises described in said mort- gage and which will be sold to satisfy the ‘same are those certain premises situated in the county of Burleigh, and state of North Dakota, and de- scribed as follows, to-wit: ‘Lots numbered Seven (7) and Eight (8), of Blk. numbered Ninety-elght (98) of McKenzie and Cofin's addition to the city of Bismarck, according to the met theres bor on file in the of- ice of the Register of Deeds of But leigh county, North Dakota. That there will be due on said mort: wage at the date of sale the sum of Nine ‘Hundred’ Ninety-five’ and 15-100 ($995.15), Dollars, together with tHe statutory attorney's fees and the costs of this ‘sale'and foreclosure, * Dated at Bismarck, North Dakota, this 1st day of February, A: D. 1918 ‘CHRISTIAN BERTSCH, JR. HF