The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1918, Page 2

NORTH DAKOTA'S FIRST WAR COUNCIL = ~~ SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED WITH GREAT OVERFLOW MERTINGS AT CITY THEATERS DOWN WITH SEDITION ' , t ‘ FINE QUALITY OF PATRIOTISM IS DISPLAYED Charles Edward Russell-De» clares It Privilege to See State Refute Charges of Disloyalty i phe Editor’s Note—!Charles Edward‘Russell handled Stone, R. M. La Follette and Gronna without gloves last eve: ning in his loyalty address. He ‘méntioned La Follette, Hitchcock and Stone by name and Gronna by inference. When he urged sending petitions ere for the removal of senators who were playing the game of Wilhelmstrasse it took no interpreter to tell whom he meant. sls ‘i “Bill Stone of Potsdam,’ ‘Hitchcock, of Heidleberg and ‘‘La Follette of Wilhelmstrasze’’ were the designations he used. ae Then followed this arraignment of the slimy jackels who are today going up and down this and ther states, some under the pretense of patriotism, others under the camouflage of pseudo-patriotism—demagogues—who' praise the Bolshe- viki and Wilson in the same breath.-who seek to stir up strife—who would arraign class against class and who | serve the Kaiser better than.their President. Let all of them read these words of Russell’s and place patriotism above sor- - did, selfish propaganda. ; P DEEP EARNESTNESS IS, FEATURE OF SESSIONS “Tt is incumbent upen us to be united-sabsolutely united, We ted. If ineumbent | Address Ringing With Genuine! Amorican Spirit Heard by | i should cast out from among us the half-witted and half, Hundreds of People is afraid, tell him to get out and show it. it j any main | upon us to see that any man who is afraid sout. We Ameri- North Dakota's first war. council! cans, are not to be deceived. Here we stand facing a very critical was Successfully launched yesterday | situation, and we look upon it with ealin eyes, And we are prepared ending in one mass meeting at the! to go through to the eud, beeause it is out of difficulty upon difficulty auditorium and an overflow demon. | and problem after problem that this nation has been built. And I stration at the Grand theater, Patri-| appeal to the old American spirit, and [ appeal to it not in vain. Every otic enthusiasm, a determination to; American stands for the right and stands ready to make whatever sacrifice that America can win and | acy Hed upon to me 4 e democracy triumph, characterized | i cumbent upon us that we stand united. Put a stop to ever¥ adaatbn atid brought home to ‘the| : . Tknow how diff t that know how a nee. Now, we must people of this state the enormity ofj © the task that lies before the nation. |" » Deep Realization of Task Henry Coe Culbertson, a food ad- ministrator under , Herbert Hoover, ver 5 » the great faet that war is ife, you can not stop for prejudices. We cannot endure to have natter who ponld deal ugress oF and 1 eco! | for | la man running around this country talking sedition—no hey should be dealt with a sev hand. W and Charles Edward Russell deliver men that talk sedition, whether in the halls of ¢ addresses that produced life, it makes no difference. We should have a list Pesionvoy oyna the p the Unite! at a i Lo whe eed, whe is fl ie os il Y Se Xo matter how t ] he comes up for reelection, you will remember and flabby, wee yation of democra | One hour before the meeting was} scheduled to begin the auditorium was | “Cross him o i. ee ent secoue sere diced no memories. They after this war is over, they will not remember Stic films were shown.and Mr. easatt| even “Old Bill Stone There would not be a better demcnstration spoke to be relieved by other war con-| for Amerivan politics than to show that the Americans have memories. In this great crisis, we have set down the names of traitors, actual or te life, they say Americans have ference orators. fap “Bin! t HURLEY COMPLIMENTS SECRETARY __ HELESTROM ON SHIPYARDS DRIVE “fdward Hurley, chairman of the United States shipping board, expresses’ high. approval-fer the exceltent work done. by. Seerctary F. QO. Hellstrom of the,North Dakota council of defense in connection with the great shipbuilding drive. Ina wire received by Mr. Hellstrom today, Chairman Muley ho Says: “Mr! Reynolds has outlined to me the wark whieh you are doing in North Dakota. : ‘ ‘Permit me in thanking you personally forthe truly remark- able results obtained to point out to you that the great war ,le- pends tipdn these ship§ and these ships dspend upon the sp which you have created—a spirit thruout this nation which more than any one thing will give to our armics in France the nécessary support, which they not only must have, but must have on time. “'Thankiig you for what you have done and will continue to do, I #emain, yours sincerely, A ARAN TOLER “EDWARD HURLEY, - “Chairman U. 8. Shipping Board.” \ LIEUTENANT AND FOUR CADETS DIE RRR Ree |rible grip of hunger took hold upon | the land, these packages grew smaller and smaller. The women, of France never complained; they never will complain; they send what they are able to send, that is all. “This idea of the food administra- tion has been called “an adventure in democracy.” The kaiser by the iron | hand of despotism can compel ‘the General Pershing Announces Death of American Fliers rit |} I elearer v | people to do this voluntary sacrificial people of his empire to eat according to his bidding. In our country we are appealing to the patriotism of the Washington, Feb. 26.—The deaths of a lieutenant and four cadets result- ing from airplane accidents were re- ported to the avar department today ++-presentation of the two, patriotic. pum- Bismarck has never witnessed an} event in which deeper earnestness potential, and those names we shall never forget as long as they live on this great earth; never in this country, when a man waivers in his service. Have we public spirit enough to make this possible? Are we worthy of democracy? Jf we are not able to | do voluntarily, out of love for our country and love for humanity what the kalser’s subjects are compelled to do by Jaw, then, the kaiser's govern- ment is the better government. and will survive while ours must perish.” Following Cu!bertson’s address, there ‘was shown a reel of pictures sent here | by the federal department of informa- by General Pershing. The dead are: Lieutenant Leland J, Headorn, 01 leans, N. Y.; Cadets Clark B. Nichol: Philadelphia; J. F. Stillman, New York City; Donald Carlton; Provi- dence, R. and Arthur H. Wilson, Philadelphia. ‘i The message gave no.detafls of the accidents, c . Private Charles A. Johnson of More- ly, Colo, was reported accidentally drowned. : * tion and showed .Gen. Pershing’s ar- { rival, in Fran Be. aches | Lieytenant Gavernor Kreabel , pro- sided ovét a portion of the’ evening meeting in place of Governor Frazier. He presented Mrs. HI. H. Stott, who sang “The Long, Long Trail” and ré-} | sponded to, an encore. The excellent | pers merited the hearty applause she received. Sen i Mr. Russell as the last speaker on the evening’s. program gaye, an ,ad- dress which is reported in ‘another ; column. His fine Americanism,” his defense of the admfnistration were masterly... Practcally the same ad- dress was delivered at the Grand the- ater with the exception of his reier- ence to ‘seditionists—‘men who talk patriotically one day and covertly deal gees! Aq Charles. Bdward-Rus- ly lagt night, Noyth Dakota's response to Sedye- tary Hellstrom’s ea I for. this ,conferertee..is the! best answer to critics of North Dakota’s loyalty. There never has been any question | here at home as to the loyalty of the mass of the peoplé, “They have been unfortunate in some instances in the choice of leaders, bit in’ their ngs patriotic these leader's have been misrepresen- When they havé’gone is provi neutral stand on thin tatives of the people in ‘the most vital Sense h \ : out over the cotintry purporting to speak! for the people of North Dakota, some have taken ‘thém at thei’ word and have b nded the whole state with a Bolshevikism entirely undeserved. Charles Kdward | Russell announces that it will be his pleasure to disabuse the minds of | these friends on the outside, that they may see North ‘Dakota with a sion, This is one good-that has come from thé war eénference, and, for North Dakota, it is a great good. ‘The greater and more universal benefit is a welding together of all our people inva cohesive patriotism which will ctiable this state henceforth to do its better bit in the ser- vice of the nation, North’Dakota never-yet has been found lacking. Its biggest tasks lie before it, and the inspiration found in this great loyalty rally will arm North Dakota for the supreme endeavors whith will come before this great struggle shall have ended and vietory and peace be insured. 1 3 No the North Dakota defense couneil in general, and to Secretary F. O. Hellstrom in particular, the gratitude of North Dakota is due. They have given North Dakota an opportunity once again to demon- strate that in point of patriotism it yields preeedenee to no state in the union. marked every deliberation. From the time the conference started with the} noon luncheons until the last speaker had finished his appeal for a patriot-| in sedition on another.” North Dako- ta knows the type. It has been scourged by faint-hearted patriots. The memory of the St. Paul sedition meeting at which several North Da- kotans participated has not died down. duty, can such a man hold any office, I don’t care if it is only dog catcher. “It is ineumbent upon us that we east aside these weak-kneed ism that is willing to sacrifice—to| men and deal with things exactly as they are. There is no time for give the last full measure of devotion | the talk of treason. It is no time to be considering these slimy crea- that government by the people may not perish from the earth. Interest Never Ceased The evening session was given a, beautiful setting in the opening num- ber by the junior boy scouts assisted | by a group of girls. Arranged around; the colors they sang the “Star Span-j * gled Banner” while the audience stood up. Then followed a characteristic; scout drill’and a selection “Pack Up} Your Troubles.” Young America gave the proper prelude for the evening. Rev, Buzzelle, Four Minute Man and Red Cross worker, spoke the invoca-, tion. Dorr H. Carroll of Minot, chair- man ‘of the state council of defense; presided. In introducing Mr. Culbert- son, he spoke briefly of the state’s loy-| alty and significance of America’s en- tranée into the struggle. Necessity of cutting down food con- sumption in the United States was graphically pictured by Mr. Culbert: | son, His revelations clearly threw | the insignificance of America’s sacri- fice into comparison with the supreme | unselfishness of France in the matter | tures running around this coustry burning terminal elevators at the docks, and grain in the local elevators of the country, fomenting} strikes, ete., and when we eateh some of those fellows, they will be dealt with as they were in Great Britain. You all remember how they were dealt with in that nation. ‘ “Exaetly so, we have got to deal with these fellows in this coun- try. There is no other way. J want the government to do it. 1 do not want it done in any other way but by the government. “T know where persons went around week after week talking sedition, and when brought before a judge, they would be fined $1.00 because the judge was afraid of some political feelings later. One} tellow, they took out and hung to a trestle, and the judge also saw a/ new light. I can go into that place now and I know there is no more | loyal citizen in the United States than that judge. THe came to his senses, And fellow-citizens, howver disagreeable it may, be, you have got to deal with it in a ruthless w It cannot go on with this ele- ment preaching sedition. We have got to put a silencer on these too-ready tongues that preach sedition in one way or another, “We have got to understand that the German propaganda never ests. [t is always at work. And it works through Congress. And hen some well-incaning senator, though half-witted. géts up in the enate and says things detrimental to the war department, you have | got to realize that the real beginning of that talk is Germanism, Yr ‘Russell’s classification of..La Fol- Jette, Gronna and their North Dakota admirers was received by thunderous applause, ; DOWN WITH FINE REPRESENTATION Killdeer, Dunn: county, arrived Mon-| ‘day with a goodly representation of their patriotic business. men to attend the war council. They were repre- senting the different organizations as| follows: Col. C,.R.Mededith, chair- man United States Public Reserve as- sociation; Kobt. L, Wilcox, chairman National Training Camps association; A. B. Curry, chairman Liberty Loan committee; C. E. Peterson, chairman War Savings committee; Thomas G. Johnson, chairman Y, iM. C. A. andj fuel administrator; H. H. Ellsworth, chairman Four ‘Minute Men and_repre- sentative of the Kildeer. Home Guard. Alf 0, Nelson of Dunn Center, chair- great. war inspires some soldier, goodbye song And if ‘Sweet Litthe Buttéfcup”’ continues to groW jin ipopularity at the present rate, . it is likely to be remembered for generations as the favorite war.song of 1918. Words no less than melody are of genuine.beauty, and. an exquisite violin obbli- gato is. woven into the chorus. ~ A2477=75¢ of food conservation that her defen-| “‘Tlook beyond these clouds. Beyond this war I see a new world | man of the Four Minute Men, accom- ders may be. sustained on the. battle front. He said-in part: “There has never been any great achevement in the world except by sacrifice, blood and tears. The Pil- grim fathers who fled from England to Holland, from Holland to the bleak sSavage:shores of the new world, sacri- ficed: for the ideals of liberty and truth! Of our three million Americans dwelling in this country at the time of the Revolutionary War, only three thousand heroes stayed with Wash- ington at Valley Forge during that dark winter of discouragement, suf- fering with cold and hunger, and wounds in order that you and I might have @ countrv:and a flag. Why We Fight “Today we are called upon to make sacrifices for the winning of a war in which the whole world is engaged. ‘We are fighting not only because American ships have been sunk and American’ citizens drowned by the ruthléss warfare of the submarine, but we are fighting because the conscience of our people had been stirred by the brutal attack of Austria upon Serbia, the unscrupulous assault of Germany upon Belginm, and the horrible 1 sacre of eight hundred thousand y-loving Armenians by the Turk: and their German officers. Almost ome. I look in serene confidence upon that spirit." 1 see the old | fishness dropping from her as a garment. I sce the freedom of all | , children on earth, and we, the United States of, Atherica, summoned | ' by the Father Almighty to fight, the instruments to brine on that unlimited good—thanks to Heaven, that He has chosen us ‘to be His agent.”” Seeit RRA AR AAA perhaps the deciding factor in this] is delicious when served hot, but can war, is the question of food, you imagine’ any one wishing to go to ‘In times of Peace Germany pro-| the baker's-and buy ¢orn bread that ducéd four-fifths of her own food sup-| 18 several hours old, or would you plies, while England produced only | Send to the Frenchmen who are fight- one-fifth, France one-half Belgium | ing in the trenches, corn bread that is | one-tenth and Italy two-thirds of the | Several. days old? There ig anather ‘amount necessary for their people.|eason which is psychological. | It. is | The seas. are.sown with German sub-| impossible to make a radical, change | marines,.and it is easier. for Germany | in the diet of people who are in great | to starve our allies and our own sol-| Mental distress, yr ehh | diers at the front, it is for us to Plight of France ; ; Starve Germany, Germany may be] “You know, that when there is a fun. | hungry but she will not starve. Un-] eral in’ your home there are some | der normal conditions, before the war, | members of: your: family; who in their , the allied nations were compelled to} sorrow find themscives unable to eat | import an average of forty per cent of | even the food to which they are accus- their food supply. ‘Since the war com- I Now .consider this;. Every }menced their production of food has France has one.or more men very greatly decreased. The farms of |-from:that home either at the front in France are producing barely half a8| :hé trenches, or else incapacitated by; much today as they were producing | vounds or disease, or else dead. There | in the vear 1913. . is no exception to. this, Some mem- veh an enormous corn crop in| ders of every. family in France is ountry, the largest that we have | elther fighting at the front, or incapa- had. Otten thei question is asked ated by wounds or. diséase, or déad. | | {or Alten and his part: the whole Armenian nation has been! Why. we do not send Europe corn, of blotted out because they stood in the| Whicn we have an abundant supply, way of the kaiser’s dream of an em-; instead of wheat, since we have only pire stretching from Berlin. to Bag- dad. | “We are fighting because no nation has a right to trample upon weaker | peoples nor. wantonly to attack ‘its; neighbor states. ‘We are fighting to, make the world not only safe for de- mocracy but safe for humanity. We) are fighting in order that all nations may jhavé, the right to freedom and self-expression: We are fighting to put: down international _ lawlessness and to win international disarmament, arbitration and: lasting peace. +) Situation Serious . . “The war situation at. present is a serious one.; Germany has conquered nearly. the whole of Belgium, some of. (the. best slands -in France, has con- quered Serbia, Roumania and Monte- jegro, has put Russia out of the war by her spies and ‘gold and unscrupu- : ie, and has made-a terrific ‘Italy. If she ‘can break ie lines of ‘heroes on the’ irried: wheat enough for’ the average con- sumption of our own people in nor- mal times. The answer to this ques- tion {8 that corn meal is not a stable meal; it will not stay good more than a few days and will not stand ship- ping across the sea. . If we were. to ship corn we should have to ship it in the grain and there are no mills on the other side suitable for grinding corn. Even if mills should be built) for this purpose, there is the further | difficulty that the women of Europe have neither the knowledge to make corn bread nor the equipment in their kitchens with which to cook it. The ‘women. of America, in colonfal days, made all of their soap and wove the; cloth for the garments of the men, but we have fourid is this country that it is more économical to have soap There is even a more sad’ feature in the situation. During the five years | before the war began twenty-three per | cent of all the men who came-up for | enrollment for military service in| France, were rejected as unfit because | of tubercnlos Nine hundred thou-| sand of these men were rejected in| the five years before the war com: menced. When the war came and the iron heel of the invader was upon French soil, these men were called to the colors, and without any exception | they responded to the call. Do you} know what trench warfare means to) a.man suffering from tuberculosis? It| ig murder. | “Many of these men were captured | by the Germans. The food of a Ger-| man prison camp is not sufficient to sustain life in a healthy man, let alone} to support a man suffering from tu-; berculosis and needing the most nour-' ishing food. In’ the’ eatly days 'of the war the French women ‘put up pack-' agencies to their hushands or sons or ages of food to send through neutral |} panied them, as did W. N, Alverson, captain of the \Verner Home Guard. STALWARTS HERE; CAUBUS, BUT HAVE ‘NOTHING -TO SAY Among, the . statesmen _ assembled here, for the war conference are, Sen- ators Rowe of Casselton, Heckle of Lisbon, Ployhar of Valley City, Allen of Braddock. ‘and, of. course, Lieut. Goy, A. T. Kraabel’ of Clifford. A number, of informal;caucuses have. been held, but the stalwart warhorses’ have had “nothing ‘to teport.” Senat- »Feached Bis- tharck on Monday through a streak of; ggod Inck. They set out from Brad- dock in. an automobile,..were. stopped sung this famous war Mea Curl.” ‘Bismarck, and were fore to McKenzie, where thestation agent sighted the stragglers fust in {ime to stop No. 3 for them. § McKENZIE, pila et Hundreds of visitors-to the War, Conference.will take,advantage of the special: musical -programoffered.by.the Hotel’ McKenzie during thé. dinner hour, from 6-to 8 o'clock this evening. Mr, Patterson the. proprietor,, is ways figuring of, some, way .to offer. the ‘guests of the McKenzie some feature that is up to the standard. of hosteleries in larger cities. “I want to give the guests of this’ hotel. the best that the market affords.in food and the best that any hotel can give) in service. hatte 'SPECIAL—MEN’S “MAD: RAS AND PERCALE i SHIRTS SOFT CUFFS, DETACHED COLLARE—§1.50 VALUES ~$1.00- BOSEN’S CLOTHING SHOP — McKENZIE HOTEL ae If Cleopatra could lear this fantastical fox-trot melody she! d hep.right out ‘of her mummys:* case and ‘When There is Peace oni Earth A Here’s a record that sets the pace for ‘‘Over There.” Arthur Fields, the soldier baritone, has song with the snap and dash of a bayonet charge. On the back, “Send A2470—75¢' id get into ‘the ‘gale.’ ‘It’s’ a tilisiédl ~ d, played by Prince's Band and intro- ‘Sily Sonnets,’ “‘You.Stingy Baby,’ in. », AGNI7—$125 Maw Columbia Racers on Sale the 10th and 20th of Expey. 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