The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1918, Page 4

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Had he stuck to that notion he would) still be wearing a brow covered with bear’s hair pnd a jaw fit onlv for cracking nuts. But, he didn’t. Millions of years ‘ago, perhaps, he got a glimmer of the advantages in community life and interests, the preservation and progression of others, as well as of himself. } Germany is the primordial among nations, rela- tive to other nations, but she goes to the limit. With her, it is not only herself first but herself al- together. She is the cave-man nation, insisting that all other nations live in her sort of cave, eat her sort of nuts, travel on all-fours in her sort of prievantes of the farmers_-and then curing these fashion. Thanks be to heaven, America will sit down at the peace table with little thought of No. lor self- advantage save that which must come naturally to her, through advancement of the whole race. All that President Wilson has said about the merciful, civilized treatment of the German people, after es war madness is at an end, was mighty well said. ALL SCRAMBLED UP. On one page of last Saturday’s daily newspaper we read that Brig. Gen. Cruse is under charges of taking money for passing upon army contracts: On another page, we read this letter from Armour & Co.’s Des Moines agent: “We have been granted the exclusive right to build a sub-branch close to Camp Dodge. l imagine a little package of toilet articles and a few bars of soap will be highly pleasing to General Plummer. He is a particular old codger and is said to be very fussy about such things.” On another page, we read about American sen- tries who went to sleep in the trenches in France and who are under court-martial sentence to be shot. Then, all mixed up about war management, we fold up the paper and give it up. Be overcome by long hours in a trench and sleep, and you’re shot. Keep wide-awake for soap, tooth-paste and con- tracts, and you’re a brigadier, or some other sort | of a general. What’s the blooming use trying to follow the game, anyhow? ' NEVER SAY DIE, JOHN! When that item about Rockefeller’s giving up 50 tons of coal came roaring over the wires from | the east, that time during the fuel shortage, it fairly knocked us out of our chair and we broke a perfectly good No. 2 lead pencil scratching our head with it for the idea. When a man like Uncle John D. spends a good part of a century saving the pennies, as a success policy, he doesn’t suddenly cough up 50 tons of coal, unless he’s boiling with a big idea, internally. | It now appears that John claims that he gave up the coal with the understanding that he be paid $8.75 per ton for it, while the local fuel adminis- Pie declares that the price agreed upon was Fifty times $1.32 makes $66. Hang on to ’em, John, till the last dog’s hung! And now the food administrator is going to put a limit on near-beer. Down with autocracy! England saves France from Germany and Japan proposes to save Russia from Germany. War certainly can beat politics at making strange bed-fellows. | WITH THE EDITORS. | THE MENACE OF TOWNLEYISM (The Duluth Herald) As to Townleyism—represented by the Non- partisan league under the leadership of the little junta of which Townley is the head—The Herald has said that it is a serious menace to be fought and destroyed. But it has also said that it cannot be successfully fought by Toryism; that it cannot be overthrown by mere senseless abuse of the league, or by mere stupid denial that the farmers have grievances and that they have the right to organize to redress them. The Herald has said a right to organize to redress them, that’ they SHOULD organize to redress them, and that th rest of us should help them to do it.‘ But the farmers should do their own organiz- ing, make their own plans, and carry them out themselves. They are making a fearful mistake when they intrust their campaign to the hands of. a litf"2 coterie of red socialists—a mistake on their an unt and on the'cduntry’s account. They i people to fight them who would -be ~*~» them if they. came in their own name Bate 22 ig ;|control as well as control of the granger states, is that the farmers have grievances, that they have |. against letting the state get into the hands of rash experimenters like the Townley junta more vital than in Minnesota, which has a vast school fund of thirty millions of dollars that would be very handy for the carrying out of experiments in state social- ism if the watchful care with which the state al- ways has guarded this fund should ever be relaxed. The Townley league, which is seeking national busy in Nebraska. The Omaha World-Herald, after an independent study of the league and its plans and its leadership, seems to have come to precisely the same conclusion as The Herald. In a recent issue the World-Herald published a letter from a practical farmer, active in the affairs of the Farmers’ Union—NOT a Townley organization—in which these sensible things were said: You point out the dangers involved in | the program of the league without offering a constructive program in its place. There is danger in state socialism. And I believe that the majority of the farmers who are members of the league are willing to elimi- nate the socialistic features from the pro- gram. As a substitute for a program of state socialism, I believe that farmers should espouse measures to “keep the ways to business open,” as President Wilson has expressed it, so that the injustices which now abound in our marketing system may be overcome by voluntary cooperation, by both producers and consumers. We should break down all monopolies and destroy all special privileges; then every enterprise would have to win on its merits, measured by the service performed. Extortionate margins between producers and consumers could then be eliminated by cooperative buying and selling. In establishing cooper- ative marketing the farmers should be met half way. Now whether this proposal is definite enough or sound enough it would be wrong to judge off- hand. The point is that the league, under the Townley leadership, comes offering a most elabor- ate program of state socialism ; and that it must be met not by abuse, but by a constructive, practical program that will meet the need and meet it bet- ter. The right way to fight the Townley organiza- tion is not by abuse, but by finding out what is wrong in the marketing system of this country— by finding out what substance there is to the evils. Cooperating marketing has met the need in Denmark; it has fully met the need of the Cali- fornia growers of citrus fruits, of the west coast growers of apples, of the grape-growers of Michi- gan, and elsewhere. If the farmers want to try it —and they might far better do that than follow the hare-brained schemes of the Townley crowd— all legal obstacles ought to be cleared out of the way and every possible assistance given by law and otherwise. c * Abuses DO exist. On the whole, our marketing system is atrocious; it robs both producer and consumer and feeds a horde of needless profiteers. Shutting our eyes to that fact while we throw bricks at the Nonpartisan league will get us no- where and will merely fatten the league. ‘ The World-Herald is entirely right when it says: There is grave danger in the Nonparti- san league. The danger is that of state socialism. It would give us not merely | state-owned public utilities but — state- | financed businesses of many kinds, includ- ing elevators, mills, stockyards, packing plants and wholesale and retail general { stores. Such a system, growing by what ® it fed on, would give us a colossus to be- stride the country. It would wipe out pri- vate initiative, destroy individualism, and give us, in the end, just such a goosestep- ping Prussianism as has brought Germany economic efficiency at the cost of nearly everything else that humanity holds dear. | The farmers themselves would eventually | be the worse sufferers. They are today | the most economically independent class of our population. But they are also a minor- | ity at the ballot box, taking the country as a whole. And the day would come when the movement the farmers had started for. | their own class advantage would pass from ir control, and instead of being its bene- 3 they would become its victims. | It will not do to denounce the Nonpar- tisan league program without offering a constructive program in its place. There | are in existence grave evils from which the farmers as well as the consumers suffer greatly. If sane and helpful remedies are not presented Bolshevikism will come forward .« with remedies of its own. Denunciatory eloquence directed against the Nonpartisan league may feed our self-conceit and charm our ears with its music, but it will get us nowhere. We must have a constructive remedial program that is sound, workable and just, or we are likely to see our whole social and industrial organization thrown into confusion by unsound and un-American programs that will bring disaster. * * * It can only be by the inconceivable folly of men who should be progressive leaders that the farmers can be driven to socialism’s lethal embrace. Every word cf that is sound sense. If the fight against Townleyism is left to those who deny that the farmers have grievances and that the farmers have a right to organize to re- dress them, and whose only tactics are abuse of! the organization and politicial agitation to defeat it, not only will these manifest evils go uncured, ; but inevitably the state will be thrown into the hands of Townleyism to play with as its eccentric fancy may dictate. The man who is working best for the interests of Minnesota and everybody in it is not wasting breath in abusing the Nonpartisan league. ie is trying to find-out just what is wrong that it should be possible for so unappealing a:bunch as the Townley junta to herd the farmers of the northwest, and just how to cure that wrong with- out. adapting the methods of Bolshevikism or the| I. W. W. ‘Such a Pane there is such a man in Minnesota—is the deadliest enemy of Townleyism. Those whose efforts are confined to abuse and a 2 ea CANDIDATE FOR TRIB! “WHITHER ARE WE GOING?” Mandan News Bureau MANDAN CHARGE. | HERE TOMORROW | Because the candidates for the Pres- byterian pastorate whp have ‘been heard in Mandan up to the present! time have not met -with the general! approval of the congregation it was} unanimously decided at’.the-congrega-| tional meeting to defe¥ the selection | of a pastor until moréjapplicants for the position ‘have bee, regeived and | the candidates heard, Rev. H. C. Postlethwaite, moderator of the Bismarck presbytery, preside. | at the congregational meeting. Aj large representation of the Presbyter-| ian congregation were present and much interest was manifested in the; meeting. It is impossidle at time to say when the next congrega-| tional meeting, will ‘be held. Rev. Owen of Chippewa Falls, Min., is a canlidate ‘for the osition and will preside at the services here on Sunday and possibly a.week from Sunday. INSPECTING HOTEL. Former Governor ‘Hanna of Fargo was in Mandan Wednesday and yes- terday making a-.thorough inspection of his new hotel,.the Lewis & Clark, | which will be formally opened to the pudlic on April 1. Eesides Mr, Han- na, Messrs. Doyd and Keller, the par-} ties who have.leased the hotel, Con- tractor B. F. Meinecke and Architect W. J. Gage, Decorator W. A. Turner of aFrgo, and krank G. Grambs of Bismarck, were in the city going over- the hotel with ‘Mr. Hanna, each ex- plaining their particular part of the work and the success that was met with it. DINE IN WASHINGTON While Attorney General William Langer was in Washington, D. C., re- cently Congressman Norton, William ‘over and anger dined together, and spent the evening talking over things “back in Mandan.” ‘Friends of; Billy” Rober will be pleased to learn; that he is getting along very success- fully with his work at Washington. | He is connected wjth the treasury de-| nartme’ having taken a position there about two years ago and now has one of the responsible positions in the clerks’ department. Mr. Kober was stenographer for IMr. Langer while he was state’s attorney for Mor- ‘on county. He has had several pro- motions since entering the employ of} the government. WAR MEETINGS SCHEDULED There will ‘be a series of patriotic meetings to ‘bring the war closer to home commeneing ‘March 18 and last-/ ing one week. The meetings will be held at the following places: Monday, ‘March 18, Solen, Tuesday, March 19, Flasher, - p. m.,/ and 7:30 p, m. i Wednesday, March 20, St. Anthony, ip. m. and 7:30, p. m. Thursday, ‘March 21, Hebron, 1 p.; m, and 7:30. p. m, Friday, March 22, Glen Ullin, 1 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. Saturday, March 23, ‘New Salem, p m. and 7:30 p, m. ' 1 Among the speakers available to address the meeting will be ExGov- ernor Devine, F. 0. Helstrom, Miss Katherine Jensen of Fargo, Judge A,' A. Bruce of Bismarck, Prof. E. F. Ladd of Fargo and Father Baker of Valley City. MARCH SCHOOL MEETING. At the March meeting of the city board of education held at the office of the city superintendent of schools, ‘Monday evening’ the teachers’ election for the ensuing year took place, the Easter vacation period ‘was determin- ed and it was also decided to observe a holiday Friday pursuant to the gov- , ernor’s <proclamation. |+ \. ‘At the meeting last month the grade teachers in the central school were] d c ER hs frien; amd:are bing te turn the watever to a and at the meeting Monday the need of taking precautions’ agrarian Bolshevikism: es Behe at Bourse ned et city scl 1 be considered exception of Mrs, G. W. Janda, who was not a candidate. Mrs. Janda is teacher of music and art. No appli, cants for the position are on file with the school board but endeavor will be made to secure a teacher for the va- cancy in the near future. It i8 possible that some of the teachers will be shifted to other grades: from the ones they are now teaching, says Supt. Love. It was decided ‘by the board mem- bers to hold the annual Easter vaca- tion from March 25 to 31, the week ‘before Easter. As is the custom only one week will be allowed for the spring. vacation. os GETS JUDGMENT FOR $100; GIVES | RED CROSS $65 After securing judgment for dam- ages amounting to $100, Charles Whit- mer, business man and farmer at Yuc- ca, donated $65 of the amount to the Red Cross society. | A hearing was held before Judge Pennett at Center at which time. Vic- tor Koch was arraigned to answer to a complaint brought against him ‘vy. Mr. Whitmer for cutting trees on his land. Many witnesses were examined and after the lence was given Judge Bennett assessed Koch $100 {damages and-costs of the. action. Mr. Whitmer, who is a thorough pa- triot, decided that the best place to put the money, now that the damages was already done to his timber land and money would not replace the! trees, was in the Red Cross. PETERSON SUCCEEDS JANDA | A. H. Peterson, cashier of the State bank, has been named secretary of the Missouri Slope Bankers’ group to suc- ceed Lieut, G.. W. Janda. The an- nouncement was maie yesterday after- noon. EX-GOVERNORS DINE. At the state reform school last evening two of North Dakota’s former chief executives dined together and talked over “old times,” to use the expression of Former Governor J.-M: ‘Devine. He is now superintendent of the state training school and enter- tained ‘at: dinner last evening Former Governor L. ‘B. ‘Hanna-of Fargo, who. is now in private life and who was in ‘Mandan on personal ‘business |. mat- ters. COUNTY SEED BONDS, At a meeting of the county dads of Oliver county held the fore part of this week it was decided. to bond the county for $35,000 to ‘finance the pur- chase of seed grain for needy farmers in that county. ¥ In Morton county the commission- ers will not bond the district but a few days ago passed a resolution auth- orizing the count” yauditor to issue warrants to ‘applicants for seed grain who furnish evidence of their ausolute need of county assistance. It was de- cided to place a limit for the amount of seed to be given to any individual at 50° bushels of any one kind of grain. Only first class security will ‘y the Morton county commissioners to guarantee the pay- ‘ment. of the money ‘orrowed for seed grain. Wilbur Frewerd, relief: manager of the Western Union Telegraph com: pany_ of Minneapolis, arrived in the city the latter part of last week and is substituting as manager of the Wes- tern Union office here during the ab- sence of Miss E. M. Johnson, the local manager. \Miss Johnson and her sister, Miss Ruth, are enjoying a two weeks’ vacation with relatives and friends in -Minneapol’s aad Battle; Lake, (Minn. - ‘Miss Gertrude Kennelly was taken on Wed- her critical illness. After his arrival he learned that his sister was suffer- ing from a general breakdown and ap- pendicitis, Chris. Koch, Oliver county farmer, was arraigned recently before Judge ‘Bennett at Center, to answer to the complaint of cutting trees on the prop- erty of Charles Whitmer of Yucca. He was assessed $100 and costs. Mr. Whit- mer took the money and gave 65 per cent.of it to the Red Cross. ‘Mr, and IMrs. Charles Seaman re- turned home yesterday morning on No. 4 from Everett, Wash., where they had been visiting. Mrs, Seaman has been in Everett for the past sev- era]-months and Mr. Seaman went to Everett a few days ago to accompany (Mrs. Seaman home. , “(Morris -Kluck,. who for. several {months was. employed asa tailor at the A, S. Brazda tailor shop*has re- A Revelation of ; “ We have long known that the Ger- mans, alarmed ‘by the mortality amongst their manhood, were consid- ering seriously whether the normal needs, but we have sometimes been doubtful whether the steps which the government had in contemplation to supply this need, echoes of which have reached other countries, have been truly reported or merely hutorously invented by their enémies. ’ But now we have the genuine thing—a pam: phlet by Herr Carl Hermann Torges, published by Oskar Muller of Cologne and entitled “The Secondary Marriage as Only Means for the Rapid Creation of a. New and Powerful Army and the Purification of Morality.” It is a title worthy of its theme, and the theme is worth examining as a revelation of the German mind. The pamphlet, its author tells us, is based upon the future needs of the German.army, the military strength of a people depending upon the number of.men able to bear arms, and “bach- elordom is a cancer which must be ex- tirpated.” ‘But even so there are diffi- culties. Many married men cannot af- ford to have children, and even if all men:wére tharried there would still be womelt left-over. This is when Herr .Torges ‘supplies the remedy. His ‘| scheme is ‘as follows: “Women in all classes of society who have reached a certain age are, in the interests of the Fatherland, to be called upon to ‘enter into a sec- ondary marriage, which is supported by nersonal inclination. Only a mar- raid man may be the object of this in- clination, and he must have the con- sent of his married wife.” Good docile creatures we know the German women to be, looking obedi- ently to their lords and masters, but it is surely going far to ask even them to give their consent to. their hus- bands’ “secondary marriage” with a woman who has a “personal inclina- tion” toward him. However, “the sec- ondary marriage. can be dissolved as soon as its object has been obtained.” If.a girl is born the secondary mar- riage, one must suppose, continues The mother then “wears a narrow wédding ring’as’a sign.of her patriot- fem.” And what of the baby? Ah, here we have Germany at her truest! “The offspring bear the name of their mother and are handed over to the care of the stat What for? Herr ‘Torges has already told us—to be fat- tened for the guns. The only reason they are born is “for the rapid crea- tion of a new and powerful army.” From babyhood they are destined for cannon fodder. ‘The state will provide for.them.. . . . Until she and they are ready—ready for the next. war. “They are to be regarded,” says Herr. es, “as fully equal mentee of : q a AN ety, in Bt) but “hey seleHs! joe , p4 deep upon “their brows--at} birth rate would provide for their) signed his position and yesterday. left for Ut. Paul, where he has enitsted in a Jewish corps ‘of the U. S. army. — Dr. and Mrs. W. U. Aylen are. the proud parents of a son born at the \viandan hospital this morning. Friends. of Dr. and Mrs. Aylen will be delight ed to learn that both ‘Mrs. Aylen and son are doing nicely, Thomas Terry, popular road. con- tractor, who has been in Minneapolis. looking after business matters for a tew weeks, has returned to Mandan to look after somé road work contracts he has for this summer. pasiir ate Mrs, Lee Salter of Sanger, who had been in Jamestown visiting with rel: atives for a few days, arrived in ‘Man- dan yesterday afternoon and will spend until Monday in ‘Mandan ‘visit- ing with friends and relatives. Morris Smith, the Avery man, re- turned home yesterday afternoon from Center, where he, with William Camp- ‘bell, conducted a tractor school for a few days. ' Mrs. Lawrence Schope of ‘New Sa- lem arrived in the city yesterday af- ternoon and will spend a few days in Mandan visiting with relatives and friends. ° ing yesterday afternoon at which the officers for the ensuing year. were re-elected. , ‘ Rev. Father Clement returned home today from St.: Joseph, ‘Minn., where he had been to-attend the funeral of an old friend. Basil Schantz, who was injured sev- eral days ago when a var ran over his arm, was taken to the N, P. hospital for further treatment. Miss Hildegard Ussellman. spent yes- terday afternoon in Bismarck the guest of riends. The W. 0. W. will hold an Important | meeting at'the imoose hall’ this: even- Fapys emer tenes ; Mrs. Fritz Voss spent. yesterday af- ternoon in Bismarck with friends. Texas Rangers Kill Five. ‘Mex: Border Bandits Corpus Christi, Tex., Mar. 9.—Five of thirty Mexican bandits who raided the East ranch, south of Hebronville Friday night, have been killed. by posses headed: by Texas Rangers and thirteen others of the band have been located and will be.“accounted for -be- fore daylight,” according to a message received -here tonight from Hebron- ville. None of the possemen was: in- jured. a REGENTS. IN SESSION The state board of regents is in-ses- sion today in’ Valley. City.’ Monday it goes to Minot there; Tuesday to Bottineau: to visit the state, school. of forestry; Thurs- day to ‘Gratid Forks, to meet” at the university, and ‘Friday it concludes its: ‘tour’ at ‘the agricultural college in Fargo. 4 . ‘ THE STAMP OF MORALITY - True Germanism; Ee g ‘A, A.M.” . i L (Copyrighted, 19118, American Defense Society) birth, 2... nice wee All this you will say is-contrary, to | all Christian ethics. How little: you Know. Germany! . If-German teaching seems to clash with Christian teach- jing it is Christian teaching which ts wrong: Listen to Herr Torges, than whom a more completely representa- tive German never wrote: “The conception of immorality is | relative. Good morals are only what the upper classes of society approve. The facts give Germany the. justifica-. tion in case of necessity to’ put the stamp of morality upon what..today seems immoral.” f “In case.of necessity’’—the good old German plea again that necessity knows no law. “Germany” has the right to “put.the stamp of morality” upon whatever. may be necessary for her success—Germany over all, in: cluding God. Is it any wonder that ‘the allies refuse a. peace by negotia- tion founded optimistically on a hope time? Already she is thinking about the next war. “If her preparations for a new and powerful army” seen. con: ttary to “what today seems immoral” she can’ put, the stamp of morality upon It. And if 20 years hence, when the new army with this German stamp upon its brow is ready, German ne- cessity demands ‘another war she can put the stamp of morality equally: well upon that. The world cannot. be'safe for democracy, it cannot: be safe ‘for Christianity, it cannot be safe for com- mon decency, until Germany {fs taught’ that necessity, even German’ necessity is subject to the law. ‘ Remarriage of war widows ‘has also been urged, according to the American Defense. Society, which recently ré- published a statement. from .the Cre- feld General Anzieger. The statement. said: . “There are more than a million war widows in Germany. They cannot be allowed to: remain ‘widows for two rea- sons. In‘ the first place, the empire looks to them to provide an army for Germanys -futare- defense, and, in the next place,’many of them are attend- ing to the business of their late hus- bands without possessing. the neces: sary knowledge. Ii the widows must therefore gét ried at once, and preferably {0 wounded or otherwise unfit soldiers. They, may rest, assured that the Na- tional Committee for the ‘Remar of War Widows Will handle the bust- ness with the requisite discretion. The committee will pay special attention to the men in the hospitals and will insert anonymous ‘advertisements in the papers generally read by the war ‘widows. u 5 ihe The P, B. 0, Sisterhood held.a meet: | to visit the “normal: that Germany will be different next: “It may. be,,added: thatthe, utiliza: , tion of crippled: soldiers,;;and war, , stricken, wamen iin she!interests of, the shaajthe cordial 207% y SATURDAY) MARGHB 1918 Aci HOWAE Seti ne Bit 1g) —~e- =