The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 7, 1918, Page 4

©) uc Yeti lie LS BOR 88 Sede Salt 2-1 «ing their profits in new coal lands throughout the 801 _ or in sufficient. quantities. 1917. ~ ing wi BISMARCK EVE “HE BISMARCK TRIBUN Mtered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. oo ISSUED EVERY DAY ada D. MANN = + G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; , 8 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresoge Bldg.; POLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. | MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS | The A ated Press is exclusively entitled to the use| for republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- ished herein. ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. | MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULA’@Q)N. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN AD\®.NC! Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month ....§ .70) Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month Z Editor NW YORK, Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month 50) Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month .... . - 10) Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one ‘ool mail, one year THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Ratablished 1873) | CUTTING RED TAPE. | The Tribune is very glad to learn that the | Farmers’ union of North Dakota has succeeded | so promptly in convincing the federal farm loan | board at Washington that a discrimination against Flickertail farmers in the matter of farm loan based on the sheerest of technicalities would be | unfair, unjust, and, from a production standpoint, | most unwise. 2 vite The probability that a first lien as provided | by the North Dakota seed and feed bonding act | ever will attach to the soil is most remote. Such a lien cannot apply until after October 15 of the) year in which the farmer obtains the specified | aid. In only the rarest instances will the farmer by that date have failed to harvest suff ient crops, upon which the law levies an original lien, | to satisfy the amount of his obligation under the | bonding act. ‘ : H In any event as the Farmers’ union pointed out, the infringement on the federal farm loan | bank’s first mortgage security would have been of the most technical nature. The amount to be| secured by the state’s first lien on the seed and feed bonds would be so trivial in comparison that it really would not jeopardize the federal land bank’s security in any real sense. Farmers of North Dakota are indebted to the | Farmers’ Educational & Cooperative union for a/ prompt adjustment of this misunderstanding. They are to be: congratulated upofi”having such un organization sincerely active in their inter- ests. The Farmers’ union owns no string of news- papers and employs no press agents to blazon its praises to the world. Honestly, modestly, but always efficiently, it is forging ahead, ever on the alert to improve the condition of the farmer, and it is giving genuine service which the’ dgri- culturist of North Dakota is beginning to appre- ‘ciate. March’s lamb-like entry did not remain for many curtain calls. A cold wave is now on the way. \ COOPERATIVE DEMOCRACY. o/n’t have got the deadly documentary evidence on 00|ous prostration make choice morsels for Ger- | with Ford car who has mechanical turn and under- | representatives.. We haven’t enjoyed the honor of carrying facilities of the railroads. Also to oper- ate the coal producing and distributing industry under the direction ‘of the government. The re- port stated that unless this was done at once there would be cold homes and that the serious business of war industries would be interrupted. This report by Commissioners Colver and! Davies was as prophetic as the Book of Prophets. It was prophetic in the same way that the mathe- matician may prophesy that two lines which are net parallel are sure to meet if indefinitely con- tinued. The answer is not as Senator Lodge suggests, to surrender the coal and its profits to the Pea- bodys and other operators. The answer is for Uncle Sam to step in and handle the thing in time. Bolo Pasha ought to have taken a few lessons from those Chicago packers and then they would- him. “Berlin to war on prostrate Russia,” says a newspaper head. Why, cert! Parties with nerv- many. Fresno Republican Advertiser wants—“Man stands cows.” Now, what in thunder should a man who understands a cow be doing with a Ford? An Evanston, Ill., church asks donations of “tablecloths, towels, handkerchiefs and clothing for a man 6 feet tall, 42 bust measure.” Gee! put him on exhibition and take towels, ete., for admission. We are a strange people. Y. M. C. A. workers in France who are’of draft age are coming back to the United States to be drafted for the army and will then be sent hack to France. The law so provides. Gus Wog has been endorsed by the Nonpar- tisans of Fryburg for a member of the house of My. Wog’s acquaintance, but we know his daughter Polly well. “Most business men forget that they should conserve time as well as materials and money,”! writes T. C. D. “I recently turned my attention of the conservation of time. I found, after a month of careful investigation, that my two stencgraphers wasted 50 per cent of their time, oth when taking dictation and when transcrib- ing their notes, by stopping their work to fix their hair. I have employed an expert hair dresser who fixes the girls’ hair while they are working and find that my saving is equal to four times the hair dresser’s pay.” THE OTHER SIDE. With the approaching election the interest in the Non-partisan league is increasing, if that were possible. We have carefully read the papers for some information that would be of vital in- terest to those opposed to this organization, but we have seen nothing with the exception of a per- | sonal attack upon the leaders and more especially | “f come to you and ask you to solve your prob- lems today along economic lines and to be might careful that you don’t line up politically as neigh- bors against each other and divide your influence. Attend to the growing and the marketing of your crops, and then you will be able to get what is right, no matter who is elected to office.” Millard R. Myers, the speaker at the Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ association meeting in the Audi. torium last night, is not a paid agent of “big busi- ness.” He represents and is in the employ of the largest agricultural organization in the world. He is himself one of the most thorough students of cooperation as applied to agricultural problems that we have in America. His researches have not been confined to the western continent. He only recently has returned from Europe, where he carefully went into the records as written by three generations of successful cooperative effort. He cannot see in politics a cure for the farm- ers’ ills. He can see no advantage in going off at | half cock, nor in following after wild-eyed agita- tors who have no definite destination. He likens many of the farmers’ reform movements to a ship floundering about a trackless sea, without rudder, pilot or compass. Mr. Myers’ sanity and his logic should have a wholesome effect in North Dakota at this time when every quack who advertises some new poli- tical panaeca as a cure-all for political ills seems to find it so easy to enlist a following. Mr. Myers is not talking theory but fact. He knows the cooperative game; he knows the problems of farming and marketing, and what he says should bear weight with the thinking, practical farmer. Comrade Jim Manahan continues to find the air and altitude of North Dakota most favorable to his health and peace of mind. LET UNCLE DO IT! ‘Whatever criticism may be deserved by the fuel administration, the remedy proposed by Sen- ator Lodge is not the one to be adopted. He would turn over coal'regulation to Secretary Lane and Chairman Frank Peabody of the coal com- mittee of the council of national defense. Lane.is popular with the owners of coal mines because he advocated a $8 price at the mouth, of the mine, when President Wilson’s experts had reported that $2 gave a handsome profit. Frank Peabody is head of one of the biggest coal min- ing and retailing companies in the middle west. He and his company recently have heen inv-ct- 4 nu ny ¢ s, . : Lodge is quite right in his statement that the _public"did“notget coal, either at a cheap price; t To that extent the fuel admi ration failed. The answer, however, is contained in an official document which was filed with the senate and brought to the attention of Senator Lodge in the hot days of last ‘Aubust, tthe federal: trade. ‘Then: it ‘was coal cio ig situation, reported that the one way to avoid a coal famine during the com- ter. was to pool all coal-as. it-came:from. son gets nothing for the opposition and this is rue in any other business. So far nothing has , are concerned, when boiled down, except that they | ‘are dupes for the leaders. This has antagonized | {them and they consider that they have a right | to spend their money as they see fit. This paper jhas taken little stand in the foolish controversy jthat has been going on. We have watched it row and out of what has been written the League \has a long way the best of it. The editor of this paper is not a member of the League’s propaganda. | | We cannot say we are in sympathy with it all, how-| ever, and therefore, now that the league has be- come established and in view of the fact that it will endeavor to control the next election, it will be our aim to support such of their measures as appeal to us as worthy and we will condemn those that we think are unworthy.—Stanley Sun. | | | | RUSSELL HAS “CHANGED” Just before the coming of Charles Edward Russell to this city last fall the Nonpartisan league, through its local manager, was invited to assist in making the Russell meeting a suc- cess by helping get a capacity house for the |speaker. The committee extending the invita- jtion on the part of the Commercial club and Labor’s Loyal Legion was informed that the leaguers would*be “glad to hear what Mr. Rus- sell had to say about conditions in Russia,” but | as to anything else that he had to say they would | not “give a damn to hear him;” that Mr. Rus- sell had “changed” and was not the Russell the league knew when he was a counsellor in its for- mation. “changed,” and is “not the same Russell.” But how has he changed? An ardent ‘socialist of the higher order, Mr. Russell is still a socialist, and was glad to go to Russia at the request of the president, as he thought that in the revolution there he would find the dawning of the day when all men would be given equal opportunity to enjoy life as he believed the creator intended. But when the socialists objected to his journey, and he persisted, he was read out of the party, not so much because he was going to Russia, but because his words and actions showed HE PLACED COUNTRY ABOVE SOCIALISM. From that day Mr. Russell has been one of the greatest exponents of Americanism. He is a patriot to,the core and is devoting his time and great talents to preaching loyalty to the govern- ment. He still hopes for the fulfillment of his theories, but, as he said in Fargo: “There is no use of wasting time on reform movements and other matters until we know we will have a free country in which to effect them, for there will be no reforms if the kaiser rules.” ' Mr. Russell, in Bismarck the other day, was even more emphatic on the need of America de- voting herself: to winning the war, than he was here, and he even went so far as to advocate the |___WITH THE EDITORS. i Townley. In politics personal attacks upon a per-! : een said about the league so far as the farmers| , It is true Charles Edward Russell has |'| Nothing to Eat but an Abundan Wednesd: pa MOST SUCCSSFUL CONVENTION EVER TO CLOSE TONIGHT | & The seventh annual con- vention of the North Da- kota Farmer Grain Dealers’ association, very unani- mously declared by the 500 delegates who have been in attendance, the most suc- cessful in the history of the organization, will come to a close this evening, when the grainmen will be guests of the Minneapolis and Duluth | city’s two leading hotels. The final day’s program will include an address by J. W. Shorthill, secretary of the Nebraska Farmers’ Ele- | vator companies and mem- | ber of the national council, | on “The Organized Farmer | at Washington.” Mr. Short- | hill is a member\of the fed- | eral price fixing committee, and he has served on all of the important agricultural lobbies of recent years at the national capital. He was un- able to arrive in time to de- liver his address Wednesda | as scheduled. : The farmer grain dealers | Wednesday afternoon Jis- | tened to an interesting pa- ; per from James A. Little, | rate expert with the North | Dakota railway commission; | who told what that board j has done in the regulation | of grain warehouses and ‘in | enforcing a uniform storage | | | ‘ | ticket provision. _ The annual business ses- sion will be held this after- | noon. Officers for the com- ing year will be elected, a | program for the year will be mapped out, and’ the place for the next meeting will be selected. ing that they are taken care of.” | swept over the big ‘building, unt: ropé-and the rifle. for those.who betrayed their t hes ‘thing for th for the state: an from Bismarck \to Berlig.- It was. a wonderful iting of patriotism” “whic! ht from: the heart.:=1 | commission houses in annual | banquets to be staged at the | ee “I want every one of you fellows; to clap—not in applause for me, but| tails of women’s work in war. She a8 @ guarantee that when you get/ described some of the things the Red home you are going out and hit the ball—that you are going’ to do the; Which ‘girls gave the farmers in their things you have cheered here tonight | fields last fall, when, afd first looked —that You're going to put! punch and’ pep into our boys over there by see- So H. P. Goddard wound up a rapid- fire, high-powered, gatling-gun.jtalk to the farmers Grain Dealer's associa- tion at the Auditorium last night, and when wave upon wave of ‘applause every man and woman in the. theatre was clapping with their whole “heart and soul in it, this great co-operative organization placed itself on record more sincerely than if it had adopted, Food and: food ‘conservation consti- a resolution extending all (the wa: {TRIBUNE > . THE VULTURE’S BROOD OUTPOURING OF PATRIOTISM MARKS “HOOVERIZED” BANQUET OF DAKOTA FARMER GRAINMEN ce of Food for Thought Furnished in Stirring Addresses at Municipal Auditorium lay Evening passing of time. Not an individual Fall left his seat during the course of the long evening. In no single instance did !a speaker fail to enjoy the closest at- tention from beginning to end. Thrift Stamps. ; George F. Dullam, chairman of the ‘Bismarck district War Savings Stamp campaign commitee, led off with an eloquent plea for the purchase of thrift stamps, not only as a means of | enlisting our dollars in the cause of | democracy, but for the inculcation of saving habits in a. people to whom much of the thrift of their forefathers j has been lost. He urged every dele- ; Sate present to go home and ‘set his ; community an example; to make the purchase of thrift stamps a. systematic saving habit; to set a standard of daily or weekly or monthly purchases | and to stiek to it, Capt, E. G. Wanner, chairman of the | | governing board ‘of the North Dakota | | Home Guard, told of the ‘conditions | | that had brought this organization in- ; | to being. “For the first time in our, | | lives we have been left without the ! | | | protection cf our famous First regi- ment,” said Capt. Wanner. “We have in our midst the same | classes who were here before the Nat- j ional Guard was called away. To one of these classes law must be inter- preted in terms of force. The neces- | | Sity for a far-reaching and armed po- lice power spontancously brought about the organization of home guard j Units. We now have 400 of them in North Dakota, Every man on this plat- form with the exception of Secretary Hellstrom, who has not been able to spare time from his duties with the | North Dakota Council of Defense, is a member of the Bismarck home guard. We have had difficulties to overcome. There are no state or nat- ional laws for the regulation of the home guards. The only license we have for existence is our respectabil- fty.. And. the Home Guard is respec- table: It is composed of the best citi- zens of every community. The Home Guard stands for every- thing that the government stands for. In approrimately 400 home guard un- its we have 20,000 earnest men, back of the government, back of the lib- erty loan, back of the ‘War Savings Stamps, back of the Y. M. C. A., back of the Ped Cross, back of the Knights of Columbus war camps—above all, back of the boys over there in the trenches.” | Women’s Work in War. | Ina brief, witty and effective talk, | Mrs, F. L. Conklin, chairman of the | North Dakota's executive board of the women’s committee of the National Council of Defense ,told of some de- | I | 7 ' Cross is doing. She spoke of the aid upon as a last resort at last came to ‘be Jooked upon as a valuable first re- | sort when available, “Women can help on the farms in North Dakota. We may not be able to do much in the fields, We can make the’farm. wife’s lot easier. Make it as fashionable for our women and girls to go into the kitchen and Help the farmers’: wives ‘during the busy se7son serving meals to:farm hands, as it has been to ‘serve coffee to soldiers and much will have been acomplishe’. il tute" woman's oldest job, ach t of feminism and» no WEDNESDAY, MARCH6, 1918 2+!" with well-known folk songs and other appropriate selections. She concluded her talk by leading the audience in the singing of national airs, and she was recalled time and again. The Loyalty Drive. The ‘On to Victory” loyalty‘ drive which the North Dakota Council of Defense has undertaken was Secre- tary F, O. Hellstrom’s topic. “The blood of North Dakota’s sons already has been shed on the fields ‘of France, consecrating them to the cause of Liberty. Minot, Wilton, Cros- by and Bismarckeach have lost a boy on the field of honor, If our army of soldiers. has as much fortitude, as much faith and as ‘much self-sacrific- ing loyalty as the mother of that Bis- marck boy who said: ‘I don’t know of | died,” not all the Huns and the van- jdals in christendom could make a single blotch on our escutcheon. “We must awake. Unless we do, there’ will be a barbarian brute knock- ing at your door, and he will not only wrest from you your property and your family’s honor, but he will load you with chains which you rust hand down to your children and your chil- drer’s children to. the end of time. Bread is the weapon which can now be used with most telling effect against the enemy, and we can raise the bread.” Arguments as to the profits in rais- ing rye or barley or oats or corn or flax in preference to wheat, which Sec- retary Helstrom declared had appear- ed in certain newspapers and other publications he branded as rank pro- to sbow our patriotism is to show the ; World Aow much Wheat we can raise,” said the speaker. “Our people can well afford to raise wheat at the price fixed by tne government—we can afford to raise wheat and take chances of never gerting ¢ dollar out-of it.” Of the loyalty drive, Mr. Hellstrom declared: ils -purpose. is to ask every male resident of North Dakota over the age of 16 to sign a reaffirmation of the oath of allegiance, pledging in | addition his life and everythng he | possesses in support of the govern- ment “We are gong to prove that every mar. js with us, or we are go- jing to give him an opportunity to prove that he is against us,. If he is against us, ‘f he cannot sympathize wiil’ us in this struggle, we will see that he gets his wish, and has an op- portunity to go over there to Berlin among those be worships.” The Liberty Loan. J 1., Bell, Bismarck district chair- man for the third Liberty Loan cam- paign, spoke of wars as Avon with sil- ver cuilets, acording to Lloyd George, or, to Atericanize it, “that victory goes to the nation with the longest pohtics ‘his war will be won,” he de- clared, net by Bryan’s “one million enkattleu ‘farmers of the northwest svriuging .to their muskets, but by | these same farmers springing to their plow-handles.” He teld of the spring’ campaign of North Itakota’ subscribed only. $3,600,- 000; and he told of the glorious cam- Vaigt. ct the fall of 1917,-when. North Lakota, organized and ready, exceeded by 75 per cent, its $6,700,000 quota. ‘Contagious enthusiasm helped; men savel who had never saved before, not through a sorlid spirit of accumula- tion, but through high patriotic mo- tives. They took their bonls home— the first government bonds many of them had ever owned—anl they car- that they were a part of the govern- ment—co-operators, or partners with the government. In the next campaign we intende to ask people to buy bonds who can buy bonds. People who last fall could not or would not. buy bonds will be given the opportunity to show | where they stand.” , Our. Boys Over There H. P. Goddard’s Red Cross talk open- ed with a prayer for “Our Boys, Over There.” z “There's .a million and a half of them: gone away from home. We're ny here tonight, with bright. lights, and Bod cheer; we will go, home to a com: able: bed and a peacefil, night’: ¢ will.rise tomorrow morning. 0 about our bust ., Tonight, there in France, are a half-mil- any better way for my boy to have; German propaganda. ‘One way for us} 191°, when, for: lack of organization, | © ried home with these bonds a feeling | ¥' lion of our boys, Spme of-.them are on the firing line, standing Rnee deep in cold water and slimey mud. And Kaiser Bill is raining poison gas and bombs and shells on’ them; _ killing them: tearing them to pieces, when hé can! Those boys, wounded, lie .on the battlefield, twelve, twenty-four, forty- eight hours, perhaps. Those back of | the lines are sick—homesick mostly, | many of them, boys of 21 to 25 who never before have been away from the parental roof a single night, now three thousand or four thousand miles away from home. “That's where the Red Cross comes in. Think of it, fellows, what it means to those boys of ours, who hayen’t seen a woman’s face for years, to have a Red Cross nurse from home to fuss over them tnd talk to them and soothe their homesickness away! Thats just one of the things the Red Cross is do- ing. You fellows are not pikers; you stand for something in your ‘home town; you're business men; key-men in your communities. Go home sand prove it! We're going to need more money soon to send ‘more medicines and nurses and bandages and doctors over there to our boys. We're going to need more money to buy yarn for the soxs and sweaters and. other’ things that these patriotic women Mrs, | Conklin speaks of are knitting their j hearts and their souls and their tears and their prayers into. The next time | someone asks you to head.a com- mittee, don’t soy ‘I can’t do it” | say if you do you're cowards, and if you don’t like that I’m ready to take my, coat off and meet you out here in the street after this meeting adjourns.” President Goddard told how Bis- marck and Burleigh county have gone over the top again and again. Organiz- ation did it, he declared, and he ex- plained the plan of organization, Be. fore he, had closed he had’ extracted. from every man in ‘the audience a pledge to go home and do his very best, do it willingly and efficiently. - Judge A. M. Christianson. ° Associate Justice A. M. Christianson signed “Co-operation,” The subject, he declared too big to be’ dealt with in the time allowed, He gave, however, two splendid examples of co-operation and the lack of it: in-the successful co-ordination of: effort which Ameri- ca is applying to this war and of the chaos which is wrecking Russia. In his experience as a lawyer and. jurist he ddclared he had known much of co-operative organizations. He had seen some of them fail, but it was al- ways for the lack of co-operation and not because of co-operation. He sloced by reading an excerpt from a Lincoln debate with Douglas, in which the Great Emancipator affirmed the demo- cratic principles for which America is fighting today. BIG EMBEZZLEMENT IN FRENCH SUPPLIES PURCHASERS. CLAIM Retired French Soldier Beli¢ved Guilty of. Stealing Several Million. > Washington, D. C., March 7.—Charg- ed with the embezzlement of several million dollars from. the, French gov- ernment in dealings with American motor truck manufacturers, Frank J. Goldsoll, wealthy retired French sol- ider, is -held in jail here awaiting extradition proceedings, which wHl begin March 20, Goldsoll is accused by the French embassy of having apropriated to his own use huge commissions on .war contracts: which he was sent to the United States to execute for his gov- ernment and papers for his release jin the custody of a marshal were held | up by order of Unitel States Commis- sioner Hit, and Goldsoll was remand- ed to jail,’ P Goldsoll, who is about: 45 year old, was born of Russian Jewish: parent- age in Cleveland, Ohio, but went to France about twenty years ago and was naturalized there in 1911, When war was declared in 1914 he answered the call to the colors and served for a year as chauffeur for a staff of office before being retired for physical dis- ability. He came to America in. 1916 to place war orders for motor trucks. His counsel admits that he made large profits on the deliveries,’ but claims this was permitted, and deny any criminal -culpability.. Neither’ the embassy nor Goldsoll’s: attorney would divulge details of the transactions. To Cure a Cold in One: Day. Take ‘LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE (Tablets.) It stops the Cough and Headache and works: off the Cold. B, W. GROVE’S signature on each ‘box, 30c. ‘That's tho usual etperience Bo this home-made remedy. Gores K O OOO OOOO Anyone who tries,thic pleasant taste ing home-made cough Trae will quickly understand why it is used in more homes in tho United’ States and Canada than any. other cough remedy. The way it-takes hold of an obstinate cough, giving immediate relief, will make u regres that you never tried it be- fore, It is a truly dependable cou; remedy that should be Trent handy in every home, to use at the first sign of a cough during the night or day time. . Any d ist can, supply you with of Pinex (é¢ cents worth’ into a P pate and fill the @ranulat sugar Syrup. The total cost is about 65 ccuts and you have a full pint. of the most effective remedy you ever usd. The quick, jasting relist you this excellent cough syrup will really Surprise you. -It promptly heals tho inflamed membranes that line the thrdaS and air, passes, 8 the: annoyin, throat tickle, loogens the phlenm, and itis, croup, Wl 01 and bronchial ‘ asthma,” rant Pinex is a highly concentrated ‘com- famous the world bree Gat ies eatin @' World: over ‘for. D, effect on the membranes. mi t from To avoid disappointment ask for “21, omess of Pine Smale was the last speaker. He had been as+ ' as