The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1918, Page 4

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THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) —=—— ARE GIVING SERVICE. Bismarck is glad to welcome the grain dealers of the state. Theirs is an important place in _the economic world. Efficient distribution of grain is of vital importance to the nation in this crisis. The Allies of the United States need America’s food as badiy as the brave men who are going to their shores in ever increasing numbers. North Dakota is familiar with the abuses once practiced at terminal markets. The hardest prob- lem the farmer has to solve is that of marketing? He as well as the consumers has suffered through slovenly methods, discrimination, improper, dock- age and in other ways. Federal control has cor- rected many of the abuses and the elevator manag- er’s problems are simplified in one respect, but fresh restrictions have probably increased his re- sponsibilities and demand even a higher efficiency than ju the past. An excellent program has been prepared and the discussions should be profitable. North Da- kota elevator managers are alert to render patriot. ic service at this time in assisting the food admin- istration. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. “If you knew that saving the life of anAmeri- can Sammie from being gassed by the Huns de- pended on' your buying 48 thrift stamps at 25c . each, wouldn’t you be willing to make some sac- rifice to prevent such a calamity?” says a circu- lar from ‘the North Dakota War Savings Com- mittee. “Or, if. you realize that some American sol- dier would be deprived of a rifle unless you bought 78 stamps,” continues the circular; “or that he couldn’t be furnished 100 cartridges without your taking 20 stamps; or that he might be mor- tally wounded because of lack of a steel helmet that could be purchased from the proceeds of 12 stamps—wouldn’t you stretch a point to ob- tain this equipment for him? __. “The North Dakota War Savings Committee has just compiled ‘figures to show. how far gener- ous buying of Thrift Stamps will go toward the purchase of equipment for the American soldiers. It costs the United States $156.71 for the equip- ment of each soldier in the campaign abroad; of this, clothing costs 101.62; fighting tools, $47.- 36, and eating utensils $7.73. “The gas mask that might save your Sammy’s life costs the government $12; the rifle $19.50; 100 cartridges $5, and the steel helmet $3. “Direct purpose of the campaign in this state to raise $13,000,000 by sale of United States War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps is to clothe, feed and equip its armies. On this basis is being issued the appeal to people of North Da- kota to ‘save and serve.’ ” There’s a healthy, wholesome tone about the literature distributed by the Farmers’ Grain Deal- ers’ Association of Norh Dakota, which convenes here today in its Seventh annual session. In the association’s printed program we find the following couplet, which, to our mind, contain some mighty good advice, particularly applicable to North Dakota right now: “BE A BOOSTER.” “Do you know there’s a lot of people Settin’ ’round in every town, Growlin’ like some broody chickens Knockin’ every good thing down? ‘Don’t be that kind of fellows, ’Cause they ain’t no use on earth? You just be live booster roosters; Crow and boost for all you’re worth.” The Sammy-boys now in training in our big army cantonments are buying War Savings Stamps. In the Y..M. C. A.’s 68 setvice huts in 20 military centers these “Work, Save, Sacrifice” stickers have been placed on sale, and the boys who are going to do the actual fighting are invest- ing all of their spare pennies in them. Of the 300,000 enlisted men who haye been mobilized in the middle west, even though a large majority of them already have invested in Liberty bonds and government insurance, there is a liberal re- sponse to the government’s. appeal to take their share of war savings stamps. With this example of patriotism from Sammy—the: man behind the gun—can we afford to do less than our very best? Get the thrift habit. You must come to it sooner or later. This war is not won—hardly begun— so far as America is concerned. ‘Work, Save, Sacrifice”—that is what W. S. S. spells, and this message is addressed direct to you. An official of the former German consulate in Honolulu has been fined $1,000 by a San Fran- cisco judge for conspiring to start a revolution in India. If the judge really wished to punish the man, why didn’t he . “Keep him in” after school.| ‘e him write a word 200 times. : Make him stand in a corner for an hour. Make him memorize “The Village Blacksmith” aot el a his dessert, f _ Not give him any. for a sweek.... tie fei fo" he bedpoat? \ 0 | he’ll have to go through with, he wouldn’t be so | erican women, WITH THE EDITORS. DON’T BE A CLACKER. William Slavens McNutt in Collier’s Weekly “IT actually believe my brother’s glad he’s a soldier! He was home on furlough last week, and he was just as enthusiastic as he could be.” “Poor boy! Oh, isn’t it a shame! All carried away by it, too, I suppose?” ; “He's wild to get over to France. I said to him while he was home, I said: You'll get plenty of France, young man. If you could look ahead and see just exactly what you’re going to go through, you wouldn’t be in any hurry to get to France,’ [ said. But there’s no telling him any- thing. He’s just itching to get over and get into it.” “Poor boy! He little knows what’s ahead of hint If some one could just make him see what anxious to get away.” There were two in a roomful of patriotic Am- all knitting for soldiers. The others joined in. “If they don’t die one way they do another. I tell you when a man goes to France these days he doesn’t come back. We’ve never heard half of what those Germans have got up their sleeves. They’ve got ways of killing we’ve never heard of. I tell you when a soldier boy gets on a transport that’s the end of him. There’ll be millions and millions and millions of American boys killed be- fore we ever see the end of this.” “Oh!” “Oh, my!” “Oh, my goodness!” “Oh, isn’t it awful?” “Oh! All our fine young men!” “Oh, my!” “Oh!” Click-clack. Knit-knock. The knitting kneck- ers were at it. The clackers were in session. A roomful of patriotic American women sat there clacking. There they sat making sweaters and trouble for the men who enlisted to fight in their protection. There they sat knitting for the com- fort of American soldiers and releasing the most deadly of all poisonous gasses that the German mind has invented. Click-clack. Knit-knock. Making garments to warm a soldier’s body and sentiment to cool his courage! Americans speaking aloud the things that Germans dare but whisper; loyal American women working the will of the kaiser! Clicking their needles to the glory of Uncle Sam and clack- ing their tongues to the good of von Hindenberg! At worst the slacker withholds aid from Ameri- ca; the clacker does definite enemy work. The clacker is worse than a slacker. I know a woman with two sons in the army. She was found with a relative at a lumber camp deep in the Florida woods. “I had to get away from the friends who wanted to sympathize with me because my boys were in the service,” she explained. “I’m glad my boys are in the army and can bear whatever necessary ; but I could not stand that everlasting groaning and moaning of people who thought they ought to sympathize.with me. Sympathy? I don’f want ‘sympathy. * I want to be let alone to be proud of my boys who are doing men’s work’! in a manly way.” | The clackers had driven her from home. Click- clack. Knit-knock.. Oh, they’re a great help to their country, the clackers. Day by day they re- lease from their silly lips the poison that rots the heart of a nation. Not armies alone go to war to- day, but nations. An army today is no more pow- erful than the nation that backs it. Every civilian man and woman in the United States today is just as much in battle against Germany as any soldier in the front line trenches. The work of the clackers in this country is identical in effect with the work of a traitor in the army. That is absolute fact. Heads up, you American men and women back of the lines! Laugh! A laugh helps and a moan doesn’t. No American man or woman to- day has any right to do anything that does not help. Laugh with a soldier. Laugh with a sol- dier’s mother. If you can’t play, root! Take it up, And whatever you do, don’t be a clacker! A PHARISEE AND A LAWYER. It does seem as if the numbskulls who are opposing the Non-partisan League in Minnesota might get a glimpse of reason and a cue from the article by Irvin S. Cobb entitled “The Thun- ders of Silence” in a current issue of the Satur- day Evening Post. Hitherto they have advertised the League, its principles and its progress in such a manner that no man can escape knowledge of it. They have prevented meetings at which its principles were discussed, arrested speakers and in all ways have conducted themselves much as the orthodox wing of the church prosecuted the heterodox, in times now happily gone by. This might have been successful, even in this age, had not they used the press to show to the public the extent of the inquisitorial tactics they were pur- suing. The natural inclination of the American people is with the “under dog.” Prove to them that any class or body of men are being down- trodden and oppressed, and straightway they sym- | pathize with those men, regardless ot the princi- ples they may be maintaining. If the ancient gang now doddering along in senility, can but catch the lesson of “The Thunders of Silence” it will clap a muzzle.on its press and desist from further attack on a movement that, like the church, “grows by the blood of its martyrs.” _ Indeed there is precedent for this course of inaction, good precedent. It can be found in the fifth chapter of Acts. Gamaliel, a Pharisee as to religious belief and “a doctor of the law, had in honor by all the people” made a speech. We shall not quote that speech here, but it is good reading, especially at the present time. However | we subjoin the conclusion of the argument: “Refrain from these men, and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work be of /Mnen, it will be overthrown; but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply, ye be found even to be fighting against The record further reads: “And they agreed with him.” If, then, a Pharisee, of whom it has been said “Woe unto Ye,” and a lawyer, nearly two thousand years ago, could see as clearly and as wisely as this Gamaliel, might we not expect that some of the lawyers and the Pharisees of this. enlightened age to: have a vision at least in some measure as intelligent? WHITEINSTATE- | MENT OF KILLING | AT HAZELTON (Continued From Page One) his past. He is said to be a southern- er, but is believed to have lived with the Sloans in South Dakota. Charles D. Sloan wa& one of the wealthiest men in the gfazelton dis- trict. Two years ago fie bought the well known Roy Hewétt place four miles ‘southeast of towhy ‘which he | has improved and increased until i has beceme one of the show places of the county In . addition to has large real-estate holdings, he left about $40,000 worth of life insurance. Mrs, Roy Benson, who lives four miles east of- Hazelton, is a.daughter of the deceased. | “Wasn't After Piatt. White, it is claimed here,,endcavor- ed to spare Piatt. When the latter! followed the slayer into the Hazelton Mercantile Co., White is alleged to have said: “Put up your gun, Piatt, I don’t want to hurt you.” Piatt’s re sponse, it is said, was to open fire on White, who then shgt Piatt three times. A coroner’s inquest held over the remains of Sloan last night resulted in a verdict that the deceased came to his death through shooting at the hands of Clarence White. -No witness- es could be discovered ‘who heard all of the conversation between White and Sloan, immediately prior to the shooting. A number of by-standers testified as to fragments of the inter- change of retorts, which did not con- sume mere ‘han a minute, all told. | Ty/B"" Bodies to South Dakota. Relatives ot the dead men are ex- pected to arrive here: tonight from Parker, S. D., whither the bodies will be shipped for burial, after brief fun-| | eral services here. The remains of Pi-| att probably will ‘be ;shipped direct from Bismarck, where Mrs. Piatt was with her husband when the end came | early this morning. Carried Gun For Protection. White today admitted that he had carried a gun from the time he lost his left arm in an ‘ensilage’ cutter last fall. He claims that he regarded the run necessary for his own protec- tion. DEATH OF PIATT. R. S. Piatt died early: this morning, without recovering consciousness. His young wife remained’ at his bedsidg,| through the long vigil following his ar- rival. at the Bismarck hospital. She was taken to the Grand Pacific hotel QUICK RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION Do we hear a answer? If we should, be certain f wll not. be “Thundere of Silence.”—Lidgerwood in a hysterical condition. Clarence White, Hazelton gun fighter, will ‘now be charged with a double s! : Dr. Winchester, who attended, - had, at no time hope for recovery. . Piatt suffered three serious wounds ‘in an attempt to avenge the’ killing of. his half. brother, Charles: D. Sloan, White, in. Hazelton, yesterday. and Piatt exchanged shots, ina run-) ning gun fray, with scores of Hazel- ton residents as ‘spectators, in ‘the ‘bsuiness section of that, village, short- ly after White has shot Sloan dead. One bullet lodged in Piatt's shoulder, another ‘in his abdomen, and a third in his brain. The latter: caused, death, Weakness made impossible: an opera- tion to remove the bullets. - Piatt was agent for the Standard Oil Co., in Hazelton. He was 29 y, old. He. is survived by his » mother. who lives in Parker, S..D. The body -will be taken to Parker today and Funeral services will: be held there Wednesday. BODY OF LATE. LYNDON SMITH LIES IN STATE; Gopher State Honors Official Who Served It Faithfully and Well St. Paul, Minn.; March 5.—The body of Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith, who died at 1 a. m. today, will lie in state in the main rotunda ‘of the state capitol from 9 a.m. until Thursday noon, it was announced to- day by Governor. Burnquist. A mili- tary guard will be detailed by Adju- tant General W. S. Rhinow, and the state departments will be closed for the day. Although the funeral arrangements have not been completed, it is tenta- by} White| atrocities. \ ( Hl tively announced that the funeral will be held at-2 p..m. ‘Thursday. Governor Burnquist paid a high tribute ‘to the late attorney general. REIGN OF TERROR - -IN-FINN.CITIES & DE cererecreaced | Stockholm, Sunday, .March 3.—The | Swedish relief." expedition returned {fram Finland today. One of the steam- ers of the expedition was sunk on the voyage. |, Refugees from Finland report grow- | ing animosity against, Sweden among | the Finns, who are’ unwilling to yield | the Aland islands to Sweden. The sit- uation in Helsingfors is. growing worse. The city is without bread and the red. guards «continue to commit The guard -has been rein- forced by many Russians who fled to Helsingfors: when, the Germans occu- pied Reval. BELGIAN SENATE MEETS IN FRANCE, D..C., Mar. 5.—Mem- Washington, bers of the Belgian senate and cham- ber of representatives, who are re- fugees. in France, Holland’ and Eng- land, will meet this month as a delib- erative body in France acording to an official dispatch received here Monday, King Albert will attend the meeting, which will be the first unified session of parliament since the German oc- ' cupation, TEXAS ASSEMBLY RATIFIES PROHIBITION AMENDMENT Austin, Texas, Mar. 5.—The lower house of the legislature: Monday concurred .in a minor amendment by the senate to the resolution for the ratification of the federal prohibition amendment. The resolution now goes |to the: governor for approval. WAL HT ay LOVETTHEADS NBW RAIL DEPT Former Chairman of the’ Union Pacific Board Appointed One of Chiefs Washington, D. C., Mar. 5.—Robert Sr novell former chairman of. the board of the Union Pacific, and prior- ities director of the war industries board, has been appointed by Director General McAdoo chief of a new di- vision of betterments and additions of the railroad administration, it was an- nounced Monday. He resigned from the Union Pacific, and from the war industries board and has given up all his other corporate interests to take charge of rallroad shipment under vernment operation. Porudge Lovett will hold one. of the most important positions in their ad- ministration, He will supervise the big program of extensions contemp- lated for this year, particularly re: lating to terminal constructions, and will determine what improvements are essential, and what should be post- poned until the close of the. war. NO NEW A. B.C. TOURNEY LEADS 637 and Wins Twenty- Fourth Place. Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar. 5.—Bowling in the doubles and singles at the Am- erican Bowling Congress Tournament here Monday produced no new leaders. T. Burns, of Pittsburgh, obtained high score for the day in the indi- vidual event by rolling 637 and there- by went into a tie for twenty fourth position, while M. Dreyfuss and J. Rus- sell ,of Chicago, by rolling 1,194, went into a tie for twenty ninth, in, the doubles, FEDERAL PROBE OF DISLOYALTY INN. D. TOWN WILL BE HELD Charged That Germans Tore Up and Trampled Flag and Pic- ture of Lincoln.” Fargo, N. D., Mar, 5.—Federal offic-. ials have been asked to investigate an alleged disloyalty demonstration ‘at | Expansion, which occured at ‘a school house on Lincoln's birthday during: a j celebration held’ there in ‘honor of the Emancipator, and which it :is-allegéd, was broken up by boys of German par- entage, who it is charged ‘tore down. and trampled under.foot the American flag, mutilated and destroyed:a picturé contempt for the celebration. The matter was. refered to the Un- ited States district attorney here: by. |S, A: Olivis,.a justice .of the peace, at Hazen, N. D.-A thoroughinvestiga- tion will be made, - federal . officials said. es WISCONSIN LAWMAKERS HAVE TAKEN'NO ACTION | TO RECORD LOYALTY Madison, Wis. Mar. 5.—It was a week ago that the Wisconsin state assembly took up the matter of re- cording its loyalty in terms. which also criticise Senator La Follette; but the recording had not yet been at- tained Monday, A forenoon, an afternoon, and a night session Monday failed to muster the required number of legislators, and the prospect was that the desired attendance would not be on hand until Tuesday night, if then. When the call: for the house was issued Monday morning there were 42 members in their seats. The after- noon session showed fifty eight. and still others arrived on the evening trains. GREB BESTS DILLON ——_ Toledo, 0., Mar. 4.—Jack Dillion, of Indianapolis, took a heavy beating at the hands of Harry. Greb, of’ Pitts- burgh, in their twelve round no decig- ion bout here tonight. Dillon fought on the defensive with Greb showering almost countless blows upon his :op- ponent. The men fought at catch weights. a AINGMORM ON FACE ITCHED AND BURNED Began With Rash... Irritated ‘It. by Scratching, Much Disfgured, Developed Into Sore Eruption, Cuticura Healed Costing $1.00, “Ringworm be; face, and my fa inflamed, gan with arash on my ce ‘was very sore and -A few days later it began to itch and burn and lirritated it by my scratching. [lost sleep, and in a week it de- veloped i large,: sore eruption, ‘Aace wi mucl disfigured. a I tried. remedies but 1 had no relief..:I then tried Cuticura Soap and Oint- ea ment... My face. st itching and buining and within twoweeks itwas completely healed after | used'two cakes of Cuticura Soap and one box of Ointment.” (Signed) Harry L. Kaiff- man, Box 75,Carlisle, Ohio, July 14, 1916, A little care, a little patience, of setae Soap, ad No other, on the skin and. for every: toilet ‘purposes, with touches of Citicuys intent now andthen,toany pimples, rashes, redness, roughness or dandruff ugually in, the use of Lincaln and in other ways displayed . any emia T. Burns, of Pittsburgh, Rolls wo