The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1918, Page 4

BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918: a6 PAGE 4 A eee TANLEY H. ABBOT THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE i ef lr DE Bhtered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY G@BORGE D. MANN Cue SSC ie = @. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. WEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assoctated 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- Mshed herein. f ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein sre also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULA’@)N. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN AD\ NCE. Waily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month ....§ .70 Daily, Morning, Evening and per month ... Vaily, Evening 01 Carrier, per month Daily, Evening and Sunday, per mozth ... Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dako! Editor Sunday by Carrier, one year .... Sunday in Cembination with Evening mall, one year wien - 7HH STATH'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) THEY'RE COMING. MEET THEM A great exodus from chaotic Russia, largely of Jews, has already begun and it creates a domestic proposition of the largest dimensions. The Jew is a wanderer but he demands a stable government, and the uncertainties about the gov- ernments of tnost European countries naturally make our government, established for over a cen- tury, especially attractive to him, and he is un- doubtedly coming over to us, sooner or later, by the scores of thousands. Our proposition—and it is a tremendous one— is to turn this Jewish immigration to agriculture and horticulture. To permit it to pack the lower quarters of the cities means certain danger to our institutions and criminal negligence toward the immigrants. : The Poles as well as the native Russians have rights, right of land ownership and ’most all other privileges promotive of good citizenship. We want to make these incoming people good Americans. The best, quickest way is to make them home- owners, or the beginnings of such. ; We have a big financial machine for the loan- ing of money on easy payments. California, alone, has enough untilled, arable land to supply with farms, ranches and gardens all the immigrants that can get over from Russia in a decade. Our problem is to skillfully apply our resources to those citizens in the raw, and it.is not too early to seriously begin work on it. , ue Cleveland Press has issued a call for 10,000 men and women to work on farms. Weyshould volunteer but for the fact that the farmer: for whom we worked last summer wrote several weeks ago that ‘he would be too busy this yedr-te’be both- ered with us. te he ‘" SEEING THINGS IN. EMPTINESS It certainly does make a fellow warm about the collar to get up in the morning and find that there’s no sugar for his coffee. But the sugar missing from the sugar bowl is enabling some soldier over in Europe to march much further, stand greater hardship in the trenches than he would be able to if he hadn’t that sugar. Sugar is not only a pretty fair fat substitute (heat substitute) but also a stimulant. Hard workers and growing children must have it. That our hard workers, the soldiers, have what sugar they need is as essential as that they have powder, for the war is largely a question of physical endur- ance and stamina. Indirectly, the war is being partly fought in our sugar bowls. You cannot see successful raids across No Man’s Land, or patrols, or battles in your sugar bowl, but they’re there. If some wise man came along and said that you could get along just as well without any sugar in your sugar bowl, at any time, you’d probably laugh at him. But, actually, you eat sugar with your eyes. You enjoy it very largely simply be- cause you can see it. Blind men, as a rule, are not smokers, because they cannot see the smoke. Sugar in the bowl is simply a visible and conveni- ent form of what you like, and yet if you got sugar only in the sugar bowl form, you’d very likely, become thin, scrawny and anaemic. ‘ Billions of men got along very nicely centuries before a sugar refiner} was ever thought of, and every one of them required at least four ounces of sugar per day. They did not demand that they see the sugar in dried dates, figs, raisins, prunes, | currants and other fruits or the sugar in beets, carrots, parsnips and other vegetables. Look into your empty sugar bowl. You don’t see any sugar but you can, if you will, see sacri- fice, patriotism and wisdom and a host of brave boys:marching against barbarism on strong legs. It is’ toj{drink one’s coffee unsweetened and go down to the office or store munching a sweet carrot, if needs be! Postmaster Murphy says it is improbable that women will be used as letter carriers in Cleveland. Say what you will about women doing men’s work, they are not in men’s class asJetter carriers. We know a man whose wife says he carries her letters five and six weeks. ‘ THE QUEEN IS DEAD ~ When a noted personage dies, be he ruler of a nation or champion prizefighter, we recount again the events of his life, his battles, his triumphs, his defeats, his life’s story. We mourn the death of any. man who in.life did something better than __ his fellows could do it. We are sorry that he is + gone; and we are glad that once he lived. * Not long ago Duchess Skylark Ormsby died. be you have not heard of her death, and may- ‘ou did not Rah know that Duchess Skylark milk and butter questions lies in the quality of the]: cows in American dairies and not in mere quantity. Were all American milk cows of the Duchess Sky- lark Ormsby’s standard, the nation’s butter and milk supply would be large enough. to meet every demand. The duchess lived up in Minnesota. It was there she broke the world’s record by producing in a year 27,761 pounds of milk and 1,205.09 pounds of butterfat. You and your children and your children’s children will have more milk to drink and more butter for your bread because this queen of dairy cows once lived and inspired breeders of dairy cattle to strive for the ideal cow. “T am pariotic through and through,” writes C. W. L., who is in the hospital at Camp Sherman on account of a broken leg. “I am so patriotic that even my broken bone is knitting.” Don’t interrupt the Old Inhab, In about 25 years from now you'll be stroking your whiskers and sputtering through your false teeth, ‘‘T remember in February, 1918—the fifth day of the month if my 0|memory’s right—-the thermometer—”’ “Oh, shut up, grandpap.” maa |___WITH THE EDITORS. | euecceceoeeco sewer eo oe nner eonowooess WAS AN INSPIRATION The city of Bismarck and the state of North Dakota certainly demonstrated its patriotism on Monday and Tuesday of this week when the big “war council” was held in the capital city under the direction of the State Council of Defense. Representatives from every part of the state were there and eminent speakers and men who were in close touch with war affairs explained the exact situation to the citizens in a way that would even make an alien enemy turn over to a red-blooded American patriot. r Among other things that was especially sig- nificant of the patriotism of the state was the mobilization of the Home Guards of the state. There were units from all parts, some in uniform and some in civilian dress, but all came to show their patriotism and to extol their willingness ‘to protect the interests at home while our brave boys were defending the cause of democracy, lib- erty and freedom abroad. There were some fine looking bodies of men, and who very plainly gave one the impression that it would not be exactly healthy for any German spies or so-called ‘Wob- blies” to monkey with anything in this state. One of the purposes of the mobilization of the Home Guards at this time was to get the units united into some sort of form so that they could work together and thus more efficiently accom- plish the ends for which the organizations were formed. : A meeting of the Guard men was held Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of talking the matter over, and it is reported that they have ar- rived at plans for the carrying out of the work along a more united line than heretofore.—Hazel- ton Republican. ate MORE ABOUT CHAIN STORES According to the Wells County Free Press a meeting of the subscribers to the new chain-store scheme, held at the county seat last’ Friday, was well attended. The same Wells County Free Press prints a resolution, pushed through this meeting by Wells Brinton, who presided, condemning The Harvey Journal for denouncing and criticising the store scheme. A garbled version of the invitation sent to the editor by Mr. Brinton is printed—but the open letter to Mr. Brinton published in last week’s. Journal is not printed. : The editor is condemned for refusing to at- tend the meeting at Fessenden, and his refusal to attend it is denounced as an insult to the farmers. Yet that samé store crowd extended an invitation to a Minot editor to attend a meeting in Minot the day before the Fessenden session—and when the editor attended he was not allowed to speak. Mr. Brinton condemns the editor of The Har- vey Journal as dishonest and insincere, and says he is working in the interests of large corporations who “are alike oppressing both the farmer and the local business man.” Yet Mr. Brinton took pains to advise himself of the present finances of The Harvey Journal, and in his invitation wrote: “We will put you in a position to get out and boost for this organization.” - Nobody believes that “Big Business” has any strangle hold on The Harvey Journal.» The last three years should have convinced any right- minded person that this paper is being run in the interests of the community at large. The editor is open to conviction—but he can’t be bought; he’ll get out of the game first. As stated last week, the editor wants to scrap —if any scrapping is to be done—out in the open; not behind closed doors. A lot of noise was made about the Fessenden session being an open meet- ing—but the names of dozens of Fessenden people can be given who were refused admission. The editor is open to conviction—but not the conviction of dollars and cents. Not a criticism against the chain-store proposition has been an- swered in the Townley “kept” press of the state— and that is where they should be answered ; not in conferences where the possible rustle of green- backs could not be heard by outsiders. As in every movement of this magnitude, there are, of course, two alignment sin the public press; those for and those against. Those for claim that they are being fought by the tools of “Big Busi- CHARMER AND CHARMED OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FARMERS’ UNION OPPOSES TOWNLEY PLAN AND EXPOSES. KANSAS FIASCO Chain Store Scheme Very Similar to Proposition Worked on Agricultur: Says a SALINA, -KANS. Official Organ Farmi Educational and Cooperatt Union. The ‘latest’ deyelopm@bt\of Townley: is what Mr. Townley ails “The Con- sumers. United) Stores: pany.” is a revival in North Dakota’ of th same scheme that Dr. Ball worked with so much profit to himself among the farmers of Kansas. a few years ago. There are a few ‘improvements: from the promoters’ point of view, on the Ball plan. It is hardly necessary to say that all the modifications that make the ‘Townley scheme. different from the Ball project are‘in the in terest of the organizers and promot- ers, There no changes that throw any additional safeguards about the money or the interests of the sub seribers, the men who put up the casb and are expected to furnish the bus- iness. Dr. Ball did make some slight pretense of permitting his dupes to participate in the management, the promised profit of the Ball facturing Company. Townley bai men who put up the money from :he management or from any share in the profits of the business. A branch of the Consumers Stdres Company is organized by securing tracts for the payment of $100 by es member to the company.’ The von pany agrees to use $10,000. of) the funds subscribed in any community for the ‘establishment of a’ store, and for the period of five years to sell mem< bers merchandise at an advance of ten per cent .over wholesale ‘cost and fre'ght. If more than $10,000 is sub- seribed in ‘any-one community it does not. go into the store fund to build up a bigger busin nd make more prof- its for the members. The contract. ¢s pressly provides that all surplus over $10,000 or whatever-other sum may be specified in the contract shall be by the company, either in estabiishin a central buying agency or ‘“to carry on educational and propeganda work along lines deemed by the Board ef Directors of the United Stores Com- pany to be inthe interest gf or eficial to farmers, and for the ance of farmers organizations such as relate to the economic, educational or political interests of the farmers, or both.’ Before investing $100 in @ member- ship in a Townley store it would bea, mighty good thing for the farmer to; n= investigate the nature of ‘the 0095} p that he is buying. The:member, do not get stock or a stoek ‘certifici, and of course, acquires no yoting in terest in the concern -nor.any voice in its policy or manage: Kg ‘her: no pretense that the member is share in the profits, either from inter- est on his investment: or rebates on his purchas In the contract he i all interest. in all. ‘the: money that he subscribes after the $10,000 for the community store ‘is raised, for: ts of Sunflower State Some Years Ago spaper of THE FARMERS’ UNION | National Circulation 0 - $60,000 for that particular Townley and his dummy di- equired by their contract to use on 10,000 in the business astablished. in that place, which leaves then $50,000 to be used for “education- al. work. and: propaganda.” When the North Dakota Farmers’ Union asked Pownléey. to-describe the nature of the. educational work; that.he proposed td do. with. this great income he told them that it was ‘none , of their damned business, It is evident that the members of the Consumers United Stores Com- pany buys no property when he pur- chases his membership certificate. He has no claim on any profit be made from his busin He gets no interest on his money. He has no agement of the con- f his money and sus- his patronage. He has noth Y about the nature of the “educational work and propaganda” that is to 1 omat his expe for his $100 is ilege’ of buying at the store s at wholesale cost, plus fre’ght charges., As the average farm- er will not buy, as a rule, more thau $200 worth of goods a year at any one store’ the $10 ainually that: he pays for that privilege amounts to 5 per cent on purchases, which added to the ten cent profit that he ag' to pay, gives the store a profit of 15 per cent. on “his. busin The aver age profit on transactio in any grec: ery store is not very large and annaal results depend. on. the number of times pital can be turned. The grocer expects and/plans to turn his capital at least twelve times a year. A farm- er’s. store with several hundred mem- bers‘ will do much better than _ that. The Farmers’ Union store at Belotr, for example, turned its inves nitul about eighteen times dur- ing the year 1916. 1f a Townley store is well patronized by several hundred members it should turn its capital fif- pn times a year, which means that its ten per cent net profit on individ- ual transactions would amount to 150 per cent on the year’s business, from which the only deduction to be made would be overhead expense or the cost of doing business, which would really be taken care of by the annual contri: bution of $10 by the members. At the end df five years fhe mem- bers participation certificate, which gives him the right to share only iv ments to the’ store and in purchascs of merchandise, expires and leaves be- ‘Vhind ft ng claim whatever on any of the property. or business of the corpora tio Since this’ project was launch- ed" fast fall: about: $1,000,000 has beet paid in by members. At the end of five yéars the $10,000 corporation that has Collected this million dollars has that money and whatever profits may have been made in thé) meantime free from all obligations to members who must come across. with another $100 each ness.” Those against claim that this chain-store scheme would be the biggest sort of “Big Busi- ness” ever foisted upon the people. And those for rest under the awful suspicion of having their fin- gers in that found of $960,000 that is retained for “educational and propaganda work, etc.” - The Harvey Journal has not denounced any “legitimate farmers’ organization.” We have yet to be shown that this chain-store scheme is a farmers’ organization in any sense of the word. Answer'the questions asked by The Journal, Mr. Brinton, out in the open, Until you do, 1,600 farmers of Harvey community are likely to fight shy of your proposition. ose 1,600 farmers are substantial, hard-headed business men—most ef them—and they are not likely to bite at a bait like yours. _ Do you. know why ‘this scheme is not being in, Kansas? A number of years ag ape: similar ition was pulled off on the nd “gubserib-. thousand. “sul n't: bite again, and the it is expressly stipulated that any sur- plus. above ‘$10,000 shall be: used» by the Board of Directors for educational and , propaganda. work. It, should. he understood that this Board of’ Direc- tors does not refer to the-men who are selected by the subscribers to manage the local. store, but to ‘the Townley. Board of dummy directors who. have incorporated the Consumers United Stores Company. This, corporatior capitalized for $10,000 divided into one hundred shares of; one, hundred dollars each. ‘At. the ast: - re- fe it. had already collected 160,000 f1 the sale of,membership certificates, ‘or nearly “one, hundred times its authorized capital)stock. This would not be so. bad if all this money should besused as capital for the stores, but in® many -instances ‘Only a small] if they to continue their. privilege of buying of Townley and his little bunch of insiders at; zholesale price, plus freight and ten per cent. During: the past fifty years, many schemes have been hatched out and operated for the purpose of separating - the farmer from his coin, but for pure un- blushing, brazen, shameless effroutery this leads them all. Within less than six months the farmers of North Da- kota haye turned a million dollars over to a"company capitalized for only $10,- 000. and ‘controlled by a Townley ap- pointed board: of directors of three members only, respon: ble not to the men who furnish the money and are expected to furnish the business, but to Townley for their conduct of the af- fairs’ of the company. ~Any $10,000 corporation should be able to do mighty portion is employed f recent court is_ cred! Townley in which rs were Nat for Ua shire bollers and directo! if ‘the; opportunity, to, use/a! mil. lion dollars: of other Baits mone} | and without any re-' it ie co _ ‘J ‘yom another source it is learned that | OF PACKERS’ WORK that may + :}ed, representative to the grand lodge the. she Townley store scheme does nention the directorate by name, but directors: Norbert O'Leary of ‘Fargo; Charles H. Heck of Wilton, and H. 1. Elliot of Minot. yYLeary is Townley’s private secretary ind is well known as a socialist leader in North Dakota. Heck is a young socialist agitator, a coal miner by trade who was never known to have any prop until the Consumers United Stores Company wa ranize HL. Wiliott is a socialist who was once & ‘andidate of his party for mayor of Minot and was’ defeated. Of course, hese men are dummies only and are ‘he mere agents of ‘Townley, who last week testified in court that he organ- tzed, controls and directs the policies of the Consumers United Stores Com- oany. It is reported that agents of his corporation are now in Kansas ind that attempts will be made to or- zanize ‘Townley stores ‘in various sec- tions of this state, These attempts but Kansas farmers that this plan is con principle of co-operative business prhctice. It lodges control in av few, ins 1 of the many; it gives he many no volce in the management, nor any share in the profits. It has not u single co-operative feature and should be exposed by every intelligent Kansas co-operator. HENEY RUNS SCALE here are three rary to eve! IN PRICE CONTROL Rejection by Navy of Ham, and Argentine Labor Agitation | are Discussed. Chicago, Ill, (March 2.—Letters in- troduced Friday in the federal trade commission’s investigation of the packing house industry as read before examiner B. M. Manly of the com- mission by Francis J. Heney, its coun- sel, touched, many subjects and con- cerned such widely separated items as the Argentine labor troubles, leaky cans of corn beef, specifications for army and navy bacon, gift packages of| soap and toilet articles, and the qual- ity of a large consignment of hams rejected by the navy. Adjourn to Monday. The reading consumed more than the usual session and at times was varied by comment from the examiner or Mr. Heney. At its completion ad- journment was taken until next Mon- d lay. No hint of the probable duration of the inquiry. was given. The letters and documents introduced this week are all exclusive of the papers taken from the private vault of Mr. Henry Veeder of Swift. & Co.. by Mr. Heney on.a search warrant. Whether these letters ‘from the vault” will be pre- sented in the investigation depends on the outcome of an appeal to the Un- ited States circuit court of appeals by which Mr, Veeder is seeking to re-| cover possession of the papers. The| appeal is set for argument next Wed- nesday. | THOMPSON HEADS BISMARCK HERD Well Known Lodge Man Hon- ored by Antlered Fraternity —_———* | L\ K. Thompson will head Bismarck | lodge, Fenovelent and Protective Or-! der of Elks for the ensuing year.:The post of exelted ruler was conferred upon ‘Mr. Thompson at the annunal election held last evening. Other of- ficers named. were: ~ Esteemed leading knight—J. J. White. i : Esteemed loyal knight—J, P, Sell. Fsteemed lecturing knight—C. R. Norton. Secretary—Carl (Pederson. Treasurer—I.. C. Davies. iler—C. M. Fadden. Trustees—Dr. C. R. Stackhouse. Secretary Carl Pederson was nam- convention, to be held at Atlantic City in July, with past Exalted Ruler Wil- liam, O’Hare as alternate. ‘There was a large and enthusiastic attendance of the antlered fraternity, and an interesting discussion of im- portant plans for the coming year was indulged in. DISTRICT BOARD HAS BUSY WEEK The district board on appeals from local boards has examined to date 279 registrants for the second draft. Among those down for the week-end were a number of Indians from Berth- old reservation, including George Buf- falo of, Elbowoods, Tora Youngbird, Thomas Hawk, who was accompan- ied by Mrs. Hawk, and John Hunts Alone. All while here took occasion to call on Curator M.'R. Gilmore at the capitol, who is a great* favorite with all of North Dakota’s native Am- ericans. 7 ROSTER OF CO. A NOW ON DISPLAY tnt Ss, A handsomely lithographed roster of Co. A, 164th U. S. Infantry, pre- company. was at Camp Greene, Char- lotte, N..I., has been forwarded by John W. Nelson to his father, N. G. Nelson, who has had the roll-call framed and has given it a prominent place on the walls of the Grand Paci- fic billiard rooms., The document is very convenient for sake of reference, and it is the most complete register of (0. A. now available, including all of the boys who left Bismarck with this unit, as well as’ some who joined after the’ company’ reached Camp Green, Peres t _ Another Boyhood Ambition: Our idea of gn ideal situation would be to ‘be paid’a large salary for sery- ing in a merely advisory. capacity.— Ohio State Journal. WOULD EXPEL LAFOLLETTE Washington, D. €., Mar. 2—Joseph E. Davies of the federal trade com: mfgsfon’and candidate for the demo- re tae nation. ;for, not| S NOW A BENEDICT —_— n received in. Bis- riagé of Stanley H., dairy conan gone North Dakota and Miss Elsie Jo- renin Lundquist, a classmate ¥ hig while attending high school at ious Falls, §, D. The wedding took place Dec. 28th, in the Congregations! church parsonage at Canton, Sa was a quiet affair not even his f ena knowing of his intentions when left the state in December for a ‘lit- tle vacation. The couple will live at No. 224 Second St. north, this city. The bride is a daughter of (Mr. and Mrs. KE. Lundquist of Sioux Falls, S. has been employed as secretary in the Fenn Brothers Candy factory at that city. Her parents are among the early residents of that section of South Dakota. Mr. Abbot completed his high school source at Sioux Falls, After gradua- tion he enrolled at the ‘North Dakota Agricultural college in Fargo, finish- ing the dairy course on Jan. 1, 1917, soon after which he was appointed assistant state dairy commissioner, ‘During the early part of his schooling at the agricultural college, he took a prominent part in athletics and for two seasons—1913 and 1914—played on the college football team, which closed both those seasons with a rec- ord. Mr, Abbot is the son of E. H. Ab- bot, formerly of Fargo, but now lo- cated at Owatonna, Minn., in the jew- elry business. MORE PRAISE FOR NORTH DAKOTANS Further praise for the loyal and° efficient work done by North, Dako- ta in the national shipyards labor, drive comes from George S. . Porter, chief of section of the. Council of National Defense, in the following message to F. O. Hellstrom, secre- tary of the North Dakota state coun- cil of Defense: “I have gone over the reports of the work dode in North Dakota in the drive for ship- yard volunteers: presented to me by \Mr, Reynolds. In these reports he called particular attention to the clippings which came in from your district and correspondence showing the results of your campaign. Through your efforts a great good has been accomplished, and I wisi to take this opportunity of thankin> you personally for the effort which yo uhave put forth and the results which’ you have obtained under ad- verse circumstances.” Notice has bee! marck of the mar Abbot, assistant Coming to Bismarck Dr.Mellenthin SPECIALIST For His Sixth Year in North Da- kota DOES NOT USE SURGERY. Will be at M’KENZIE HOTEL . Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 14, 15, and 16, Office hours 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Three Days Only No Charge for Examination Dr. Mellenthin is a regular gradu- ate in Medicine: and Surgery and is licensed’ by the state of North Da- kota.. He visits Professionally the more important towns and cities and offers to all who call on. this’ trip Consultation ‘and examination free, except the expense of treatment when desired. « According to his method of treat- ment he does not’ operate for chronic’ appendicitis, gall stones, 5 stomach, tonsils or adenoids, He has to his credit many. wonder- ful results in diseases of th stomach, liver, bowels, blood, . skin, “nerves, heart, kidney, bladder,, bed-wetting, catarrh, weak. lungs;:: rheumatism, Sciatica, leg ulcers’ aud’ retal ail: ments. ‘ : It you have been ailing ar length of time and do ai et bid better, do not fafl to call, as { proper Measures rather than disease are very, often the cause of yo reatien of your Jong-standing Remember’ above da ination on this trip ‘wi that his treatment is ‘Address: 336° Boston Ble n Block, Minne: apolis, Minn.—Advertisement iy —————————— SPECIAL—MEN’S RAS AND PERCALE SHIRTS SOFT CUFFS, DETACHED ba 50. VALUES ite, that exam- ill be tree and different, in g de ‘eigpormegs ONLY ONE STORE OL job de ulcers of |. oN