The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1918, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, F- GA, BURTON WASPIONEER 27, 1918. 3] OFBISHARCK Late Resident One of Best Known |r Citizens and Largest Prop- erty-Holders’ FORMER FORKS LEGISLATOR Served Term in Lower House and! Was County ‘Superintend- ent ‘of Bohools. Burton, Bismarck eity audi- tor, haa: returned from:; -Longrwnt,: Colo, whither he was called by the! death of his father, the late ©. A. Bur- ton, for thirty years: prominent in| ‘North. Dakota’ business and! political | ciréles, and One of hte capital city's heaviest property-holders.. The de- ceased pagsed away. after’a brief ill- ness‘at hie home in Longmont on Feb- ruary 45, and funeral’ services were! heldix'in the.: First. « Congregational | church of that city February 19. The’ late, C. A. Burton was Dorn in Painesville, O., July 5, 1854. He grew to manhood in the Buckeye state and there’ met and wed 36 years ago Mary, F,, Loomis, who survives. The deceas- ed came to North Dakota thirty years ago, first locating in Grand Forks county, where he became county sup: erintendent of schools, in which cap- acity he served for four years, and where he was elected, to the legisla- ture im 1890, when North Dakota was but a year old; From Grand. Forks,.C. A.’ Burton went to Fort Stephenson as superin- tendent of the United: States Indian school in which capacity he remained for three years, at the end of which time he came to thb capital city, where for thirty years he was actively engaged in’the real estate business, at the same time operating a fuel yard. Mr. Burton always had great faith in the future of the capital city, and he added from time to time to his realty holdings here until, at the itme of his death, he was one of the city’s most extensive. property-owners. There survive the widow, one son, Cecil A. Burton, who will continue to make* Bismarck his home, and two daughters, Miss Helen Burton, who is in papier service at Washington, D. C., and Miss Bertha Burton, a stud- ent at Fort Collins. Mrs Burton will remain at, Longniont, Colo., where the family has made its home since 1914, when Mr. Burton went thither for the benefit of his health. _Few. Bismarck men have had a wid- er .acquaintance or ‘have been more esteemed . and ‘respected by © their friends than was Mr. Burton, and his death is very generally mourned in Bismarck. World Conflagration Broke Upon Us Unexpectedly Seis (Cofit ed From Page One.) parting of the ways and. must decide yather. quickly. which course we are to pursue. As we glance back over the history ofthe last .on hundred. and twenty-five years, and: view it in: the light of present,connitions, we. will be; convinced; 1 think, that one atrisasc, or our ‘national: policies must~be~dis carded. I refer to our historic policy of national isolation. Our Political Isolation, “For more than a century after the beginning of our existence as a na- tion. we: gloried in: our geographical and political isolation. We thankét our lucky stars ,for the’3,000 miles of ocean which .geparated us from the Old World and .gave_us the opportun- ity of developing our national life in a free and {uatrammelled manner. Washington’ ‘warned’ us’ “against the roils and wars and entangling alli- ances of Europe and we accépted that advice without serious question. “Gradually. and’ ‘most ‘Tasensibly, however; there came a marked change in ‘world ‘conditions. ‘Phe globe grew smaller—not absilutely, of course, but relatively.’ Distances: were lessened. Places once rentote are not adjacent: It took the ‘Pilgrim Fathers: 63 days to ‘reach the shores. of, Nortly America. It does not take that long now, The globdé has shrunk, The world has‘be- comé a unit, means of communication have ‘boutid it together. ‘News speeds over the‘bottom of the ocean’ with the rapidity ‘of lightning. The atmos- phere which’ envelopes the globe is a wireless whispering gallery, and the clouds which rest upon it are the habitat of the ‘birdmen. Atiantic Nowa Subway. “pel Atlantic ‘is no* longer’ a-bar- rier; it’ isa Highway—and even a subway. noted military genius once exclaimed: in xultation, ‘There are no Alpsit It*is-certainly true‘that, there is Te ‘Atlantié ocean‘in’ the old‘sense,” “All this, “of course, didnot come about in a single day. © The Clayton- Bulwer treaty, the war) with Spain and.the acquisition of the Philippine is, the annexation of the Hawal: jan‘ islands, the Boxer insurrection and’.the intervention’ of China,” the Portsmouth treaty ad the’ Panama ca- nal*are steps’ in an evolutionary pro- cess. which has transformed an’iso- lated. nation into a world power. “Aithough it- is now easy to see that, little by. little, we were depart- ing from: our traditional policy of fso- latfon** that'’ fact: was ‘not ‘definitely impres: srt upon our minds until the Great'War came on. * -* The War's Outbreak. ‘At the reak’ of the European war’in ‘19147 ‘we were not very greatly concerned: "'Wé--said' that the fight was not ours and that‘ we had no di- rect interest Min it. We-were' thankful for the Atlaritic ocean and, feeling very ‘siug and self-complacent, “we settled back in our easy ‘chair and * assumed thp role of a more or less disinterested: ‘spectator, We were still Hiving in the cénter of our fairy ring of ‘historic’ isolation. For somé months we looked’on aghast but with ortatty: definite ‘attitude toward the great problenis ‘involved in ‘the ‘war. Then gradually it began to dawn upon ug'that tHe war really was some con- cern'to us, that it did inyolve our vital ts, that it affected our com-| ‘Andustries; ‘that ae iy thtouched our finance, and influenced! the..coat at, Mying,. that. it, duterieresd, with our shipping, and interrupted pee mails, that it abridged our rights as & neutral nation ‘and. rendered “Ameri: van lives and property: unsafe yon) the seas, as Secretary Lansing put it,! we were, “upon: the verge of ‘war, ‘al The mighty suction ofthe ‘Huropean' tornado had dragged us from our easy | chair and swept us so close to she European melee that we could almost) feet the hot breath of the combatants | upon our faces. A New Code of Ethics. | “Even/then it did not seem to most of us that the United States would; really enter the war. -With our char-| acteristic optimism we hoped to re-| main at peace and we thought in our | |simplicity that we could: adjust our! difficulties with the imperial German: | government upon the basis: of honest! | dealing and in accordance with the} principles of international law. Grad-| ually however, it began to dawn upon! us that we were contending with a |code of ethics, the like of whigh the} | world ‘has never seen. We had read} the boasts. of the Prussian militarists| and had studied: the philosophy of the! Serman but it had not ocurred to: us | | that any nation, calling itself civilized, } would actually launch in cold blood, a |-program of. world. domination, involv- ing the abandonnient of all’ humani-| tarian’ principles ani. every reatraint | | of cemmon decency... We simply could | not believe it and: we rubbed our eyes.) to make, sure that were not dream-| ing.) We were not.dreaming, however, but» faee to face With a. very stern! reality; and we now know that free} government, the world over, is at )stake and that the very existence ‘of the American republic is in jeopardy. | This is indeed a new and astounding ; sityation and one demanding new: pol- icies; quick thinking, and prompt and | decisive action. Our house is really | on. fire and the Prussian marauder is, in ‘our midst with flaming torch gnd drawn sword’ ready to carry out his work of destruction. New Methods Demanded. “Obviously, new. policies and new methods are demanded by present world conditions.. The need of them to my. mind is imperative, and yet there are those who tell us that they are not necesdary and. that we can continue ‘to live in the old “flintlock age.” They tell us that if, we are good we will be‘unharmed. China has been very good but she has been looted by every brigand that ever ap- peared in oriental waters, Belgium was good ‘and yet she did not escape destruction, Serbia's only offense was that her little territory lay across the German pathway from Hamburg to the Persian Gulf. Norway was. law- abiding and yet her merchant marine now résts peacefully, at the bottom of the sea, My friends, when the most powerful military nation that the world has ever see nsnaps her fingers in contempt at all the conventions of civilized life and boldly declares her intention to force her. much-vaunted kultur upon other: nations, is it not time for us to follow the. president's advice and get into the war with all our power and all our resources? I am not a militarist and I have no pa- tience with the code of: the duellist and yet on the other hand, I have little respect for: the-man who will fight with all the resources at his cpmmanil when the lives:and happi- ness ‘of his family are in jeopardy. and the yery.existence of“his country, is; at stake. The Prussian has de- manded “a place’ in’ thésun”; he has ordéred-ail nations to get off.the seas and is now:trying to'make them “get off the earth.” Jf he succeeds in this modest undertaking all other peoples apparently will have’ to be content with the waters under-‘the earth. All of which impels one to ask, “Upon what does this our Caesar feed that he has. grown so great?” Our Fool’s Paradise. “Some of us did live in a ‘fool's paradise’ for a time prior to 1914. We had~ convinced ourselves that wars had ceased unto. the ends of the earth, that the bow was broken, the spear Snapped asunder. We had it all burned in’ the fire. We had it all figured out to. a mathematical nicety. We said that no great war could ever occur again, because ;“1.—The engines of destruction were so .terible that: whole nations would be speedily annihilated. “2.—That the. commercial interests of the world would not tolerate war. | “3.—That sufficient money could not be obtained to finance a war for any considerable length of time. “4—That. the socialists and labor unions the world over: were opposed to war. i Phat no king or other. ruler would be so wicked and cruel as ‘to pptine such a terrible, calamity upon "his people, and “6—That the people of the world were so. far advanced: in civilization that the barbarism of war was no lon- ger possible. ‘“Now, as abstract reasoaing, all this seemed very plausible, but since the very’ thing’ happened: in 1914, which could not ‘possibly happen, ‘isn't it about time to apply the discount sheet to abstract reasoning? Isn't it about timé for us, and prudent men, to throw some reasonable and practical safeguards around our national inter- ests? “Isn't it ‘about time for us to give some attention to the warnings of ‘our arthy_and: navy leaders and to consult ‘our experts: géntly?* Isn’t ita peculiar and suggestive fact that Rear Admiral Mohan has. taught sea-power td every nation except his. own? The Causes of the War” '“A> great deal of water has. flowed: ‘under.the: bridge since midsummer of 1914; and, lest we forget, I would like to refresh; your memory in regard to 3 few essenticls. Ia the midst of a be- wildering mass’ of information -bear- ing upon the war then on a certain few. vital facts which, should, stand .out like rabbits ears. “Let us not forget that. the murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife by Serbians in Bosnia, in 1914, was not the real cause of this war. ‘It was’ the pretext, merely. If it had not been the Serbian incident it would have been some other inci- dent as it is now, plain that Germany and Austria were ready and were in- tent upon precipitating .war.. After deliberating upon the accident for four weeks Austria sent to Serbia, on July 23, the now famous ten demands] couched in harsh. and dictatorial terms. The despatch was an ultima- tum and demanded compliance...with its provisions within 48. hours. I need not>remind you that the demands | were humiliating and such as no na- tion could grant and_ still retain: its dependence. Furtlermore no. ra: “= Euise Huff, ‘and - Pickford will be seen at the Bismarck Theatre*this evening in the Lasky-Para™ mount picturization of Gene Stratton Porter's famous novel, “Freckles.” JACK, PICKFORD AND LouIse HUFF, FAMOUS. PLAYERS STARS IN: | PARAMOUNT PICTURES. i The happiest days of any man’s life bow low, doff his hat and kiss the hand married the other fellow, but the days decpite that fact. til MORE INTENSIVE ack} ‘DEVELOPMENT OF ~ | / FUEL SUGGESTE Have All Industries Use . Lignite Coal More _ intensi development North Dakota's vast lignite deposits, us a measure of conservation which urged the manufacturers com- mittee ‘of the North Dakota defense council in resolutions adopted on the ‘closing day of the war conference The resolutions, presented by Manutacturers Committee Would extensive use may be encouraged and of) will assist in winning the war was! we private buildings in this and| in the Pacific, destroyed {ngighboring states, ‘and ‘be it further} vessels, ‘was officially: | "Resolved that we invite the atten:| today. Some ofthe 4 tion of the transportation administra-| #talefl, were | loaded Tagleh ition to the freight: rates. applicable| troops, and the’ sinkings’ there! re | to lignite coal, to the end that its more faneee & corresponding, loge of hi a more economical use of the trans-| portation facilities may be afccted) MOTHERS LISTENE and “Be it further resolved that the mil-} j e ‘ lers of the state of North Dakota be| When work exhausts your, urged to imediately provide ‘them-| st¥e when your nerves are le ‘and restless, when am-' and you feel rundown, need: q the selves with the machinery for the burs iprital pose of grinding and preparing for | bition la: food the coarser grains in order to ful- | se products, that the cars | YOU c rh grains to the tich, creamy, maura fi nal back to North Dakota may } be saved for other war work, and that \ | ta abundant lignite coal resources in a state of partial development, ‘are readily capable of more extensive were those of long ago, when he coulé of the girl He loved. In most cases she | of “puppy loye” were best and dearest tional discussion of the ten demands | could possibly take place in 48 hours, The world was shocked and the mid- summer calm broading over Europe was dispelled. England, France, and Russia sought to have the time limit extended, They failed. They then} urged Serbia to make her reply as conciliatory as her self respect would | permit. This she did. She yielded to the majority of the demands and 'of- | fered in case Austria were not satis | fied. with her reply, to refer the whole |. matter to The Hague Tribunal or to a conference of the Great Powers. : This was an eminently fair proposition and} would have been accepted by. any ;hon- est government not. bent upon proyok- ing war., It was ‘rejected,', howevgr, arrogantly and contemptuously, and as we now know at the instigation of che imperial German government. ‘ The Great War. Was On. “Events, in that’ remarkable «week, followed each other-with: bewildering rapidity.’ . Austria: began. way - upon Serbia on. July 28th,: five days. after) the ultimatum..” Russia, mobilized: for the protection of Serbia: and Germany demanded that she. demobilize.: within} twelve hours., Russia ignored the -de-. mand and the great war was on. ° i “We should not, lose sight of the circumstances under which, we en- tered the Great War on the 6th of April, 1917. We did not. enter the| war in a spirit of adventure. We are a peaceful, not a militaristic people. We had no false national pride in the matter. We were not nursing an of: fended honor such as impels a duel- list to offer battle. It was not a quib- ble over international law that’ caus- ed us to take up arms or even the | flagrant and persistent violations of| our rights'as a neutral nation. was not the shameless German _in- trigue, irritating and illegal though it was, that impelled us to war, It was not for commercial or territorial gain or for conquest in any form, Read over carefully the fourteen demands in President Wilson's statement on war aims and you will-see that he asks. nothing for ourselves. It was not because our property had been estroyed and not entirely because the lives. of our ‘citizens were being | sacrificed by an illegal and inhuman} submarine warfare’ Fundamentally, and in the last analysis we went. into this war for three reasons. first place, being chivalrous men: who| love justice and hate iniquity,’ we could not stay our hand when funda- mentak human rights were being bru- tally and ‘systematically outraged,| when women and children’ were dy- ing, and when mercy and justice were being: driven out of Iurope. In the second: place we took up arms: be- cause that political liberty won at} Valley Forge and Yorktown and that democracy established by Washington and preserved by Lincoln were in danger of extinction; and in ‘third! ve might as well frankly ad-! i —we took up arms in: self-de- Let us not delude ourselves The evidence is unmistak- fense. further. able. that Gf the allies in. Europe were: de: féated the American continent. would be the next theater of action for the kaiser and his bloody cohorts. © Free- dom cannot live in America if it dies in Europe.” ! One of the publicity features of the evening’s: program was a flash light picture of the audience seated in the Auditorium and as it was leaving’ the building. Copiesjof these pictures will be sent through /the east as evidence of the great sucess of the conference and the loyalty bf North Dakota. oe Ee Don’t. wait/ until your blood is im: poverished and/you are sick and ait ing; take Hollister’s Rocky Mountain. Tea now; It. will drie out the germs; of Winter, purify the stomach, regu: | late the bowe]s—nature’s. spring tonic. cleanser. | BRESLOW'S: . It} In‘ the|. We .ought to see by this time]. Enemy. Hasn’t Enough | ‘Froops to Crush Russ (Continued F n_ Page One.) ists, they will see the revolution knows how to defend itself.” Army Rugsia’s Worst Foe. Immediately’ the first few German troops appeared, the Russian. soldiers, who being peasants, not industrialists, were interested: in the land question, ‘started eastward in an uncontrollabie | wave, threatening to sack all the} towns on'the way... The’ Russian arnt, was Gerindny’s. strongest weapon, Petrograd,. they | were ‘driving .a: herd’ of ‘stamped | cattle: which: would trample down ‘erything.in it: The;revolution- jary workme: ld haye,putiup a real | fight: against‘-the Germans, / but ‘they ould do nothing against: the. Ru }army,, whi must disappear. before} the revolution: can begin to create any |:real - military <force ; for, himself. Thi | workmen, of the town are eager to” fight. Some correspdndenits, lescribing the| | bulk of population’ as - | in“bewtla- ering, d- apathy,: think: such resi8t-| ance'as'may be offered will amount to: little. “They say no: amount .of tall by the Bolshe the plain ty on Mrs. Kate Hall says: " “I have kept} house years, am the*mother of four children, and I would not keep house without Hollister’s Kocky (Moun- tain Tea” Wise Woman, why? Drives away sickness, brings’ health and hap- piness_ to. the whole family. BRBES- LOW’S. of, the situation, TAKEN UP, One bay mare, weight about 1,200, about 8 -yéa old; one bay mare, blocky built, pigeon toed, white hind feet,’ weight avout’ 1,300 with colt be- side’ her with white hind feet and white spot: on forehead. Owner may | have same: by proving propetty and paying for damage-and this:ad. Wm. Ode, ‘Bismarck, N. D? "2 27. North Dakota Drug- gist’s Experience with Kidney Medicine Yor the past fifteen years Dr. Kil- mer’s Swamp-Root*has heen a steady and sure seller with me‘and in not a single instance has it failed to accom- plish good results, according to the reports. received: from my customers who praisé it ins‘the highest terms. From personal experience I am satis- fied that Swamp-Root is'a good. prep- aration and IT have’ ‘no hesitancy in rec- ommendingy it ‘thers who are af- flictéd: with ‘the: a Inniétits for which it is intended: Aa truly ‘yours, ALJ. “HANCOCK, Druggist. Sept.:10; ‘aig Hettinger, North Dak. Letter to | . ' i ' "Dr, Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N, Y. Prove What: Swamps Root ‘Will Do For ‘ou, Send ten cents to Dr: Kilmer & Co., Binghamtor Y.,{forsa sample size bottle: It 'will convince anyone. You will also recsive a.‘booklet of valu- able information, telling-‘about the kidneys and bladder. When writing, be sure and, mention, the Bismarck Daily: Trione. ‘SPECIAL MEN'S MAD- RAS AND PERCALE SOFT: OuFFS, DETACHED COLLARS $1.50 VALUES $1.00 \-ROBEN'S CLOTHING SHOP MCKENZIE HOTEL BLDG. ONLY ONE STORE | here. | Michael, {war demands of the Amer that they make the fullest use of all | the resou j with practical economy, and plants, | SPECIAL—MEN’S MAD- the people of our state may be saved} this wasteful and unnecessary ex-) pense,” GERMAN RAIDER WOLF DESTROYED 33 GOOD S HIPS. P. O. Thorson, J. W. Hose | Charles Weigel, follow: Whereas the stress and strain of can people SCOTTS' _EHULSTON ‘to check your wasting powers, én- \ liven your bloodand build up nerve force, ‘Storrs is help- ing thousands and will give you the strength you need. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfeld. N. J. 17-85 iepanenetat: of the nation, consistent “Whereas there are in North Dako- which Berlin, he German raid Wolf, w as returned to a he velopment, therefore E hor port, after raiding entente shipping “Be it resolved that we urge the ut-| in the power industrial enterprises, public | SUNOEASUANLOAGEQOEADSDUOLEUEDEAEOUOUUGEUESAOSUREOGOLOSODAGRESOOAHLDURUREHLDEDUUCROROCEOENET The Kupitz Co., owing to Government orders, had to refuse to sell meat to hundreds of customers Tuesday, being Meatless Day. We only wish to state that it was our duty and nothing else that prompted our refusal. ‘‘We are in this war to win.” Saturday is Porkless Day. RAS AND PERCALE SHIRTS SOFT CUFFS, DETACHED COLLARSE.- $1.50 VALUES $1.60 “ROSEN’S CLOTHING SHOP McKENZIE HOTEL BLDG. ONLY ONE STORE SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Coco Butter, per lb Trio Seeded Raisins, 2 pkgs. for Wireless Brand Early June Peas, 6 cans for. . Armour’s No. 3 cans Kraut, 2 cans for Quaker Corn Flakes, 3 pkgs. for. . . _Grocer’s Matches, 20c package, 2 for : HIGH GRADE GROCERIES AND MEATS KUPTIZ CO. Phone. 883——-Will Connect You with All Departments——Phone 3, QUALITY SERVICE. SANITARY Fourth Street Bismarck THE HOUSE WITH ONE PRICE To ALL at WHURUOUOUOEOCUOROGOUERORLGQUULLOSERSUODOUADGAAIOUSUSOOEDROUELONODIT: BASKET BALL MANDAN HIGH vs. BISMARCK HIGH at FRIDAY EVENING. H. S. Gym. March. | 8:30 p. m. Mn TUDSUSEUUD OUDQCGSCDRUAEUEOGURERURCOOURUDEEUGG eOEESEGESOSOROCGCEUDLERUUCERGUEUSUOUGSGAOEOOLECRUSOSGUUSSOGUROD AGES ESOUOUSIONEE: VANSAVADUAOUDUUNUOEUOUGESEONCUEUQUDOUGUSRDOUDEOUOOENOANNRODOSNODOUOESOOSEOOGNOONOONCODOOONON it BISMARCK [Tonight] J nele Pickford in one of the most famous stories of the age 5 ‘Freckles’ Stratton _ Porter __ Presets Te filsating Hawaiian Ro ILIKEA in Hawaiian Spells ‘‘ Skinned ° Princess. Who Tries so Hard to be a Credit to Her 4 White Husband Only to F Mizerably and Ends it All Plunging Into the Crater of Firey Volcano. atti Favorite Drama PRICES 50c,.$1 and $1.50, Plus War Tax Seats on Sale at Knowles, the Jeweler