The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1918, Page 4

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(Established 1873) Cphee Re The Recall—B# ck 's Future Following one of the grewttet foyalty drives in| the history of the state, Bismarck is to be plunged into a bitter factional contest, apparently for no more vital object than the control of the police and fire departments, already efficiently managed by Chris Bertsc , who was elected last spring by a} decisive majority. ; The police and fire department is a mere pawn, a a | mere subterfuge in this demand for a recall at @| tice of America’s cause and hope for our victory. time when the city’s attention should not be diverted | from the great war—from the Red Cross—from the Liberty Loan—in fact from all patriotic enterprises | whose success demand that Bismarck lay aside fac: of party polities, no element of church unity, no tionalism and in a spirit of community brotherhood | put its shoulder to the wheel and HELP WIN THE) ‘WAR. ; Public sentiment, if The Tribune reads the signs aright, is unalterably opposed to any recall whether it affects Commissioners Bertsch, Thompson or Best. Those wlio signed the Bertsch petitions should | chojee—Milwaukee Journal. lose no time in withdrawing their signatures and save | the city the expense and the humiliation of an wn-| dignified and acrimonious scramble for political flesh | pots. neta It is rumored that there is to be a retaliation in kind—a recall of Commissioners Best and Thompson. | Citizens of Bismarck who stand against the ex-| pense of special elections—who desire to purge the| city of factional strife—who stand for fair play— who wish to concentrate the energies of the city to| movements that will weld the community into a harmonious whole that this city may give its best— its all to help winning the war, should sign. ng peti- tions. i If we face a recall at all—and The Tribune is not ‘so sure but that there is a way out even now—let | Bismarck restore Mr. Bertsch to his office by the shortest possible route. Retaliation and recrimina- tion have no place at this time. . : i Commissioner Thompson was elected in a fair square fight a few months ago. It is an insult to the intelligence of the voters of Bismarck to start a} recall upon him. If the administration of Commis- sioner Best has not been satisfactory, the day is not far distant when he can be reached. There is more back of these recalls than appears on the surface. The Tribune feels that it owes its readers a fair and open statement of fact. It pro- poses in their behalf to oppose a political upheaval at this time when the chief consideration is not the pub- lic interest, but purely private and factional motives. The Tribune holds no brief for any public utility, | for any faction or for any private enterprise—it | seeks only in this crisis the best interests of Bismarck | —the welding together of its people into a harmeni-| ous community whose only idea now is to put aside factional bickerings and devote all agencies of the city to the great task that lies before this. nation— this state and this city State and congressional elections are upon uws.| These will give the politicians all the diversion they want without embroiling the city in a foolish recall that can serve no other purpose than to feed the fires of factional strife or serve sordid interests. The Tribune’s advice to its readers is NOT TO! fortable resort SIGN ANY PETITIONS, Don’t pull the politician’s) chestnuts ont of the fire. If finally called upon to| vote, support Chris Bertsch. While there are names of good citizens on the | getting worst of it. petitions, the great bulk are not representative of the city and some of them are notoriously allied with the underworld—with the forces Bismarck does not want to see restored to power. If Commissioner Bertsch has stirred up the ani- moa of these men, he is a good man to keep on the job. : Two wrongs do not make a right. Nothing can be gained by precipitating a general recall. If it is possible to head off this recall, patriotic citizens should assist'in-doing-so.: The magnanimous thing to do would be for signers who complied under a mis- understanding of conditions to withdraw their names within the ten days. i Stirring up factional strife at a time like this is little short of-sedition. If the Bertsch recall must go through—and we hope it can be avoided—let that iniquity rest upon the guilty ones, Don’t pile on the agony by starting other recall petitions. Bismarck’s duty is plain— DON’T SIGN PETITIONS! Somebody suggests that some of the naval ves- sels be named after women. Why not? And if the idea is adopted we suggest that the first one be ealled the Carrie Nation. Petrograd newspaper opinion as to Germany's in- tentions is divided, says a cablegram. There are editors. over there who can’t tell a clean-up from a crap game, Sy Cheer up, fellers! In a big prize knitting contest, conducted by theAkron (0.) Press. E. G. Gohlke won fourth prize. In six hours, he knitted 17 1-2 laffairs refuses to use his pulpit to espouse the humane ’QUILTY, BY CONFESSION Food famine, in 60 days, because cars are not available to move food, says Food Dictator Hoover. Famine, ptrhaps, says Railroad Dictator Me- Adoo; Hoover hasn’t got the food. No senate or house investigation necessary ! The food and transportation managements proclaim, in the public press, that they are at variance and don’t know where they're at, in the matter of starvation of England, France, Italy and parts of the United States. : i Something's wrong, Mr. President, as surely as a gun without ammunition isn’t worth much for bring- ing down things. COWARDS ALL! There is the business man who permits a cus- tomer to make treasonable attacks and utter mali- cious lies directed against the United States in his shop or office without a word of protest—lest he lose that customer's patronage. e There is the clergyman who, hiding behind a traditional aloofness of the church from temporal and Christian eause for which America is fighting in this war—lest he offend a wealthy parishoner occu- pying a front pew. ’ There is the newspaper editor who refrains from contempt on the vital war issues of the day—lest his opinion honestly expressed, may displease an ad- vertiser or lose a subscriber. There is a man in public life who straddles the fence or fails to become an active force in the win- ning of the war—lest he alienate an old time poli- tical friend, put his party at a temporary disadvan- tage or lose votes for himself. F There is the individual in every walk of life who permits friends, neighbors, members of his own fam- ily to utter uncontradicted seditious, anti-American ews and sentiments entirely at variance with his own—lest old and intimate ties may be broken. — These men in their*hearts may believe in the jus- But they are cowards all—moral cowards, a species more despicable even than physical cowards. There is no consideration of business, no interest bond of friendship, no tie of the family even that should prevail over allegiance of our country and active support of her cause in this war. It is to be regretted if business and other interests suffer and intimate ties break. Lut as between theggpconse- |quences and the baseness of cowardice, there is no A FAMOUS VICTORY. The British have won a great battle—behind the lines. It is a German defeat from which Germany sill never recover. Throughout the world, wher- ever people wore clothes, people were, hitherto, at the merey of Germany’s secret pe for making aniline dyes. That secret was worth to Germany $4,700,000,000 worth of export trace per year. Lng: jand alone had a textile industry 1,000,000,000 per year at the mercy of that seeret, and she got busy. If you cannot shoot the enemy, loot him! And so, two years ago, when London texte manufactar- ery were paring two to four thousa: ! pounds sier- ling the ten for dyes that former i to 70 and they hezrd that a chemist in pland had the r organized to get that chemist. They sent sp: agents ints Switzerland, whom the Germans robbed, assaulted and crugged, but thev finally fornd that chemist with 257 recipes of the Badische dye works, as he claimed. Then, F. M. Rowe, of the Manchester School of Technology, was sent to the chemist to test the recipes. Now, the most difficult dye to produce is known as brunt-green, an apple-green color, and Mr. Rowe selected that for first test. 4s soon as he saw the recipe, Mr. Rowe, speaking from a lifelong knowledge of dye-making, declared tliat the recipe was useless and that he was in Switzer land on a blankety-blank fool’s errand. But, the chemist insisted on a test and, to Rowe’s utter aston- ishment, the dye was produced. There are now ‘57 perfectly fine German dye recipes locked up in a London bank. Just think of the thousands of Germans who have been flourishing on those dye secrets! Verily, some of the horrors of war come after war. German diplomats licked the allied in Bulgaria, Greece and Russia, and will now tackle Rumania. Villa is reported to be moving northward. Sum- mer’s coming and perhaps he’s looking for a com- _, Germany has started a propaganda fer both sides to stop using gas. Our guess is that theyre Whale meat, says an old whaler captain down in Connecticut, isn’t what people think it is. And, {for that matter, neither is hash. A London cable says 38,000 petitions for divorce have ‘been filed in Petrograd. Can't any two per- sons in Russia agree on anything? Jf the kaiser cleans up Russia as he did Belgium, he'll be able to collect that 4-billion indemnity pretty soon. He's an 18-karat collector, all right. _ deft Davis, the famous hobo, has joined the ma- rines. He simply couldn’t help it. He saw the ad- vertisements, ‘‘Join the Marines and See the World.”’ We're worrying about what portion of that $4,, 000,060,000 Russian indemnity Germany’s to give Turkey and Bulgaria. But, maybe we're worrying too early. ‘*As yet,’’ says a cablegram, ‘‘there’s no indica- tion from German sources concerning the full inten- tion of the invasion of Russia.’’ Ha! ha! Everybody knows that Germany’s full intention is to get full on Russia. _ New Jersey's governor has signed a bill provid- ing that every man between the age of 18 and 50 spend at least 36 hours a week in some lawful occu- pation or business. We don’t know how this will affect the lawyers, coal dealers, taxi drivers and members of the legislature. They’re trying to tell us now it: wasn’t a cherry inches of perfectly beautiful army sweater. _ he old fashioned carpetbag is coming back into style because of the high “cost of leather, Sars 8 New York paper. We doubt-iti: It may come And that he chopped the tree down and then chopped. tree that George Washington spoiled, but a plum tree, ‘and that he used a saw, not a hatchet. The truth of the matter is that it was neither a plum tree HE THE TOWNLEY ENTERPRISES “Reader” Reasserts Old Bromide That Truth Is ‘Stranger than Fiction. Editor's Note:—The following communication is mitted withot comment for such education and ed- ification as it may afford our readers: ) SIR RUFUS WALINGFORD HAS THROWN UP HIS HANDS. ; TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION. These figures were collated from the testimony of A. C. Townley at his hearing in bankruptcy. Count the “excess baggage” men, and note the amount of “baggage” they are carrying., Some bag- gage. Cooperation. Find the cooperation with the dis- tribution of this good money. 3 Mr. ‘Member, what did you get in this “split? Some cooperation! RECEIPTS. 30,000 Memberships at $6,00 each....$ 180 000 00 5,000 Memberships at $16.00 each.... 880 000 00 9,600 Memberships Consumers United Stores Co., $100.00 each...........- 960 000 00 10 Per Cent on $150,000, League Ex- CHADBO 56025 02 neo sie tie Paje's vie nsie d oote 15 000 00 10 Per Cent investment of $50,000pro- fit of Nonpartfsan Leader........ 5 000 00 10 Per Cent investment of $50,000— profit on ‘publication of Courier- NOWS oo... cece cece cect ese ecteeseeee 5 000 00 Three Banks, (No available data).... 9 000 00 One or more “activities” not uncov- ered 0 000 00 Total North Dakota uncovered re ceipts ..-. OTHE STATES: ; 0,000 memderships @ Ladepigensessesesccesne 64 000 00 All’ other. States—55,000 member- ships @ $16.00.............- nese 880 000 00 PBA by eae soe 1 500 000 00 TOTAL ESTIMATED REVENUE FRCM ALL ACTIVITIES.......... $ 3 565 000 00 Our estimate! cost of this publication as shown —is =$1,000.00 twice the amount we are charging 10 People’s Forum [P| per cent profit on: 20 per’ cent shrinkage on $3,565, EXPENDITURES: (Estimated) 0... .$175 000 00 Nonpartisan Leader . 100 000 09 Courier-News ..... 100 000 00 Salaries—Mr. Townley 19 600 00 Expenses—Mr. Townley 1915 (sworn) . & 00 Bowen, salary and ex., 1916-17-18.... 3 eos ipes cf the great Badische dye works, they] ‘ Mr. Mr, Tomlinson, salary and ex.. 1916-17-18 19 S0@PO0 Mr. Keith, salary and ex., 191617-18...... 19 800 00 Mr. Coates, salary and ex., 1916-17-18. 19 800 00 Mr. Brinton, ‘salary and ex., 19161 19 800 00 Mr. Lempke, salary and ex., 1916: 19 800 00 Mr. Wood, salary and ex., 1916-1718 19 800 00 Mr. Mills at $1,000 per mo., 6 mo: - 6 000 00 Mr Mills, expenses at $200 per mo....... 1 200.00 Mr. King and two others each at $1,000 ar $200 for expenses, per mo. » 2b 690 00 Exnenses Baer campaign ..... 100 000 00 3° organizers ¢for. two campaign: 6 mos, each, $6,000 per year...¥..... 600 000 00 199 Ford autos and expenses $1,000 each 100 000 00 7 cars for principals, each: $5,000. 35 000 00 32 stores, each fully capitalized $10,000 320 000 00 Total cost of all activi ties, est..:..32 237 000 00, Total receipts from all sources... .$3 565 000 00 NAL Total est. cost of all EDUCATI! PROPAGANDA ESTIMATE IT. Are these estimates LOW? be HIGH. a see $1 328 800 00 President Townley refuses an accounting. Let us ‘ We intended them to You "know Who milked the cow! Who holds the cream check? Do you, Mr: Member? Is’ it “None of your damn business?” Has your money been wisely and economically ad- ministered? Is_a refusal to submit cratic or AUTOCRATIC How do you like it? Where is that $1,328,000. to an accounting demo- 007 SOME “educational propaganda!” Think it over, brother! LABOR TROUBLE AT LOW POINT Washington, D. C., Feb. 28.—Not since the department of labor has been organized have there been so few | strikes in progress as at present, Sec- retary Wilson said Wednesday. Places | where cessation of work have occur- red are relatively few and many of the strikes do not affect the war pre-| parations directly, A number of them are the strikes of street car opera- tives. 3 BORDEN TALKS WITH BARUCH ON MATERIALS Canadian Premier in Washington Conferring With Allied Officials.” ’ Washington, D. C., Feb. ‘28.—Sir Robert Borden, the Canadian premier, called on Pres. Wilson Wednesday ana spent many busy hours conferring with American, British and Canadiau officials. ‘ The purchase of war. materials in this country is understood to have! been discussed by Sir Robert with Bernard Baruch of the war industries | board, Tonight the Canadian premier was a guest at a dinner given by Sec- retary Lane in honor of the Earl of Reading, the new British ambassador. AMERICANS DIE. IN REVOLUTION: Colon, Feb. 28—Two American whose names are not known have been killed in the Costa Rican insur- rection, according to @ message re- ceived here today. IN SUPERIOR FIGHT —READER. U. S. OFFERS TO SEND SPAIN ° RAILROAD AID Washington, D. C., Feb. 28.—To as- sist Spain in moving supplies to Gen- eral Pershing’s forces the United States is ready, the war trade board announces, to release for Spain. ish use some of its own badly needed railway materials. The offer is made to induce the Spanish government to lift its em- bargo on the shipment of gods into France, placed, it was claimed, be- cause of a breakdown in Spanish rail- road transportation. A final agreement between the two nations, the board an- nounced is near although not actually signed as yet. Spain has been notified again that all Spanish ships held in American ports are free to sail as soon as they discharge parts of their cargoes for which licenses have been refused or revoked. AMERICAN TANK STEAMER SUNK Crew Rescued From Submarine Victim Torpedoed Off Irish Coast Philadelphia, Pa. Feb. 28.—The tank steamer Santa Maria has been torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast according to a cable received here Wednesday. The crew was saved, The Santa Maria was of 8,300 tons dead weight and was owned by the jun Company, of Philadelphia. DEATH LIST OF GLENART CASTLE « STANDS AT 34 Swansea, Fe). 28.—The British hos- pital ship Glenart Castle, which went down Tuesday in the Bristol chan- nel, was torpedoed, according to sur- vivors, 34 of whom were landed here. nor a cherry, but an oak, and that he used an ax.| Christie, of “use but we never heard of anything coming into it up. And that he did so because there was no coal. Sena sp REP ERNIE BP TORR STN ER ACEO i 4 Lostock iad ‘Nothing so far has been learned of the fate of the others, including Red Cross ‘ orderlies. There} there was an abundance of munitions’ HUNNISH CREW PERIL, BALFOUR British Foreign Secretary Replies to Speech by Von Hertling SAYS AIM IS _ INSIDIOUS No Court Now Exists to Protect Weak States Against Brute Force London, Feb. 28.—Foreign Secretary Balfour, replying Wednesday to the speech of Von Hertling, the German imperial chancellor, regarding the doc- trine of the balance of power, said that until German militarism had be- “| come a thing of the past and there was in existence a hall or court arm- fed with executive powers making the weak as safe as the strong it would never be possible to ignore the princi- ples underlying the struggle for the balance of power. Mr, Balfour told the house of commons, which he was addressing, that he was unable to find {in Von Hertling’s speech any basis |for fruitful conversation or hope of peace. The chancellor's atitude con- | cerning Belgium, said Mr. Balfour, was completely unsatisfactory and his lip service to President Wilson's proposi- tions was not exemplified in German | practice. Hl Peace Yet Far Off | “I am convinced that 1 should be | doing an injury to the cause of peace if I encouraged the idea that there is any use in beginning these verbal neg- otiations until something like a gen- eral agreement is apparent in the dis- ‘tance and until the statesmen of all the countries see their way that broad settlement, which it is my hope, will bring peace to this sorely troubled world.” PUBLICSAFETY COMMISSION -— STANDING PAT Nonpartisan League Members Confer With Minnesota Board on Present Attitude St. Paul, Minn. Feb. 28—Five hours conference of the state public safety commission .,with, representatives «of. the ‘Nonpartisan league behind closed doors at the capitol Wednesday, felt un changed the policy of the commission relating to. the league and its activ- ities. ° a © “The commission never has accum- ed. the prerogatives of the local au- thorities and will not do so now,”: said a member later. “Sheriffs will con- tinue to exercise their best judgment to determing whether. league meetings should be prohibited to maintain peace and order, and abuse of such discre- tion will result,in their removal from offices.” - Understanding Better League, representatives. expressed the belief that a clearer understanding withthe war board resulted from the long conference but declined to go into @etail. Representative Magnus Johnson of Litchfield and Walter Lig- gett, a St. Paul publicity man, appear- ed for the league at the afternoon ses- sion. A larger delegation at the ear- Her session was informed that Gover- nor Burnquist was unable to announce a decision on the recent demand of the league for, removals of four co-offic- ials because the illness of Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith prevented him from passing on the adequacy of the charges of nonfeasance and mis- feasance. DENOUNCES HUN TERMS T0 RUSS Socialist Leader Declares Ho Wants No Dismemberment of of Russia Amsterdam, Feb. 28.—In the debate on Chancellor Von. Hertling’s speech, Phillip _ Scheidemann,. the _ socialist leader, said: ~ e 5 “We fought for the defese of the Fatherland against. barbgrism.. and against the entente’s plans of con- quest. We did not, however, fight for the dismemberment of Russia, or the subjugation of Belgium. The govern- ment’s policy toward Pussia is not our irs. “True, the Bolsheviki played. into the hands of all disintegrating tenden- cies in. Russia, but we do not desire @ peace with the entente like that which‘is Being concluded with Russia. The gov it must remain ready for real peace by understanding. “No Peace by Force” “The indépendence of Belgium must be secured and the Flemings and Wal- Joons must. settle their. differences | among themselves, We do not desire! the humiliation of the enemy or peace by force.” ‘ Discussing the recent strikes, Herr Scheidemann said that they were. to be attributed to food difficulties, un- easiness over the machinations of pol- iticlans and delay in the franchise reform. There were no:traitorous ob- jects, he declared, for, at the time 100 -MILLIQN. Week of May 6 to 13 is Scheduled for Drive to Raise Huge sum ¢ Kansas City, Mo. Feb. .28.—The next Red Cross drive wil take place the week of May 6 to 13 and will be to raise $100,000,000 according to a tele- gram received here late today from the national war council of the organ- ization in Washington, ‘ ™. TWENTY-NINE THOUGHT LOST INTUG WRECK Naval Boat Founders Off Mary- land Coast; Only Ten of Thirty-Nine Safe Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 28—Twenty nine men are believed to. have lost their lives Tuesday morning when the seagoing naval tug Cherokee foun- dered in a severe gale fifteen miles off the Maryland coast. Ten survivors and the bodies of eight other members of the crew of thirty nine were brought here today on two British rescue ships and landed at the Philadelphia navy yard. No trace of the remaining mem- bers of the crew was found. Among those missing is Junior Lieutenant Ed- ward D. Newel, the commander of the tug. Ordinarily’ the Cherokée carried a crew of forty, but one man was not aboard. i Helpless in Storm. ‘ According to the captain of one o! the rescue ships, the primary cause of the disaster was the breaking of tne steering gear. A fifty mile northwest gale was blowing at the time and the little vessel was at the mercy of moun- tainous seas. The tug was thrown broadside to the waves and swallowed in the turbulent sea until her hatches were battered in. In the meantime two rafts were launched and the crew ab- andoned the ship as she was about:to founder. ‘I saw wreckage about six - miles from the scene of :the disaster” said the captain. ‘Later I found an upturn- ed boat and then we. sighted the raft on which there. were twelve men. We took them all aboard and two.died of exposure.” . Survivors Unconscious Virtually all the twelve .men on the raft were unconscious when picked up. There were four men on the second. raft. Two were washed - overboard and the other two died. ? The wireless man aboard Cherokee stuck to his. post to. the end. |" The Cheroke was formerly the tug Edgar :F. Luckenbach; and is said to- have been bound from-an Atlantic: port to Norfolk for repairs. ‘ “EYES OF THE. ARMY” WILL BE MADE STRONG Photographic Force to be. Enlarg. - ed and Kept Up to.the-.. Minute ~~ : Washington, D. C., Feb. 23.—Plans have been completed for the great en- largement of facilities for training and equipping the- aerial photographic force for photographing the: German trenches and keeping up to the last minute the large composite picture of the whole German front. The signal corps announced tonight that future facilities will be three times those at present existing and. will be in full operation in-three weeks. The three schools now operating at Langley field, Fort, Sill and ‘Cornell, N. Y., will be consolidated, into the large school of aerial photography. at Rochester, N. Y., where the primary training wil be done. --* After a month’s course, the men wil be given a:short advanced training and immediately sent overseas for op- eration in the American: sector. 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Bismarck SPECIAL—MEN’S - MAD- SHIRTS - SOFT CUFFS, DETACHED COLLARS— $1.50 VALUES $1.00 ROSEN'S CLOTHING SHOP _ i ONLY ONS STORE PME AG OW J 298 odd wi |