The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1918, Page 3

ao MONDAY, MARCH-11,~ 1918. THE:-HUNWSH CHARACTER OF TODAY REVEALED BY MAN WHO: SPENT NINE et Cae IN MIDST \ YEARS Cruelty, Deception, Lack of- Humor, Inconsistency, Barbarity Are’ and‘at it harder,” For days vafter-| wardes those heart vending yells fol-| lowed me and ‘I ‘dare not think of; them.or 1 shall go mad. , There. is no} God, there is no morality and no eth-| ies ‘any’ more. ; Thré >: dre ‘no hwniah + deings more, buf only beasts. Down! with=militarism.” This was the experience of a Prus-| sian’ soldier, At’ present wounded; / Berlin, October 22, 1914. | "Ifyou are a truth loving man, please | receive these lines from a* common BISMARCK EV. TRIBUN! FOUR MINUTE. WEN TO WAGE TAXCHNPAIGN NOT GUILIN. _ PUEAS FROM WHOLESALERS: Common Traits of the Creature Created by German Military Policies A dramatic picture of the Hunnish character as it exists today—a mon- strous semiigrbaric creation grown} out of years of uninterrupted sway of German imperialism—was drawn for the hundreds of war workers who/ attended the great patriotic confer-! ence in Bismarck on Frbruary 25 and! 26 by. Dr. Joseph C. Grew, counsellor to United States embassies, | For nine years as secretary to Am bassador Gerard, Dr. Grew lived in Berlin, in the very thick of the Hun intrigue. He learned to know these people from ;public and private con- tact as probably no other American knows them; he brought to the study of German character a mind trained | in research, prepared to retain vivid impressions, and’ this is what he; found: ‘ | Dr. Grew opened his address by leading up to'the present world’s war. “Do you.know why we are in this war? Do you know why we are fight- ing Germany, what kind of an enemy we are fighting against, what will hap- pen if we don’t win? These are pret- ty serious questions nowadays and every man and woman in this coun- try is perfectly justified in asking them and is entitled to get a perfect- ly clear and reasonable answer in re- turn. We are all.of us making sacri- tices on account of this war and we are undoubtedly going to*be called up- on to make. greater sacrifices still, pérhaps even to the extent of the lives of those who are dear to you and me. We can't. expect to make those sacrifices gladly and’ proudly unless we know why'they are’necessary and unless we understand the reason very clearly and are convinced very defin- _ | Prussian ‘soldier, pee | Translation. | Russian Poland, Dec. 1S, | 1914. taught and sing songs of hate in the; In.the name of Christianity I send schools. At Wertheims, the. big de-| You these words. vartment store in Berlin, the show, My conscience forces me as a windows are given over every Christ-; Christian German soldier to inform| constructed with child-, YoU Of these lines. Since the beginning of! . Wounded Russians are killed with; the war, instead of Santa Claus driv-| the bayonet according to orders, ing his tcam of reindeer, or Christmas| And Russians who have. surrender- ‘rees loaded with good things, the two/ed are often shot down in masses ac-| ncipal sceenes have been a toy cording to orders. in spite of their narine sinking a passenger ship,, heart rending pr: and a Zeppelin dropping Sombs on! !n the hope that you, as the repre- London, This is the sort of training | Seatative of a Christian state, will the German child receives- from the , Protest against this, | sign myself. cradle up. They regard hatred of their} | 4 German soldier and Christicn. nemies as a great force to weld the;, | Would give my name and regiment country together, for one must either} but these words could get me cour’ hate or fear. It would be ludicrous|M#rtialed for’ divulging military se: were it not so profoundly sad, for ju! Crets. reveals. the mental make-up. which enabled the Germans to perform such acts as the invasion of Belgium with all its accompanying atrocities; the’ i ‘i ST AN Washington U. S.A. sinking of the LUSITANIA; the ex:) : a ecution of Nurse Cavell and Captain | Englishmen who have surrendered Mryatt: a wae, jare shot down in snfall groups. With aon cate rare tntetiahs ofthe! the French one is more considerate, ; What ‘Happened at Wittenberg. iT ask whethe' en let themselves be “You know what happened at Wit tenberg, for the report of our embassy | has ‘been published, but you can hard. ly imagine the horror of' it all. Typhu: set in and the German doctor and his! staff promptly deserted. leaving a/ handful of English‘doctors, who were | summoned from other camps, to fight | the terrible disease’ alone. The bar-| which can put’an end to these murd-| rens’ Translation , To the i. American Government, and- shot down afterwards? Is that ehivalry in battle? it is no longer a. covet among the people; one hears) everywhere that few prisoners are! taken; they are shot down in small; groups. They say naively,:“We don’t} want any unnecessary mouths to feed.: Js there then no power in the world taken prisoner in ordér to be unarmed | a: public gatherings. Army of 25,000 Patriotic'Speak- ers Starts Out Today on Slacker Drive \PAY YOUR INCOME. BIT Americans Let Off Easy in Com- parison With Citizens of Allied Countries Washington , D.C, March 11.--- Twenty-five thousand. Four Mnute Men will, start out today of:a nation- wide campaign to impress upon the} _American pwhlic their patriotic duty! | promptly to file their income, tax re- rn and pay their taxes. The period tiling ends April 1. Taxpayers have 17 deays, not counting: Sundays, :n Which to’comply with this provision of the law, The penalty for failure is a fine of not less than §2) nor more chan $1,000 and an additional assess- meat of 50 per cent of the amount due. The Four Minute Men will appear in theatres, moving picture houses and pecial meetings! will be held by chambers of commerce doards of trade, rota slubs, lunch: eon Clubs and ‘busin organizations «oO hear the addres: “Bont aclay” is the warning that will be given by the speakers. Taxpayers will be utg ed to protect themselves and aid the government by being promot = It will cost the government money and trou & | Wa S.HART The Silent Man’ © Wm. S. HART in his latest photo dram a feature, “The Silent Man,” has been secured for a two day engageme nt commencing tonight at the, Bis- ;Gamble-Robingon and ‘Stacy-Bis- , matck Companies Deny Restraint! of Tradé Fargo, N. 1), March 11.—Pleas- of not guilty of violating the Sherman anti-trust law were entered’ jn the ; United States district court here’ to- ; day by counsel for Nash brothers ot ; Grand Forks, Stacy-Bismarck of Bis- | marck, Gamble-Robinson Fruit Co. of | Bismarck, C. H, Robinson Brokerage | Co. of Grand Forks, wholesale fruit concerns operating throughout the ‘vorthwest, indicted by the grand jury | in July, 1917, for violating the’ anti- | trust laws and which were reindicted ‘or the same offense by the last grand jury, Which has just finished its de- iberations. iFIFTY-FIFTY RULE marck theater, . | MADE EFFECTIVE ; treops abroad. be used ins of “Mr.” Given names | should be written in full. Return ad. | | dre s should be given and ink should | s be used. It explained that lead pencil writing often becomes il- legeale mn transit TEN RECRUITS FROM BISMARCK TO JEFFERSON, bonnybrook | United States Recruiting Office Northwestern Honors Go to Lit- tle City After Fast Ganie’ Minot, N.D.. Mar. est medical supplies were denied i | i a ee ,ers and receive’ the victims? Where} pie to haunt down the man who dodges! Von the porthwestern distric’ basket | Ne hegs ‘ era Alerter as the owe sige | 35, a en Where is right?! :he income tax, out the word has goue ll championship here turday Here Enlisting Good world, exe 5 f | Might is right. : | forth trom*headquarters that this will) night by defeating ‘Minot high [ in one tet tood was sent! 4 soldier and man who is no bar“! be done. ‘The “slacker” will be'shown! 19 in st game and will rep: Type of Men I believe there were | barian. camp, Russians, Englishmen, French “There you have the German. char-| something like .5,090 prisoners in the) and Servians; the half dozen English | |no leniency, ‘The man whose intentions are good acter painted in all’ its hideousness.| )yt who is-inelined to'put oft unti! to | of the month. the district at the state tournament to be held at Grand Vorks at the end! First Lieut, Wiltam ) Anshelm, re- cruiting officer, United State: | in charge of the recruiting di: rt of Rank and title spould; Grocers Reecive Formal Notice From Food Administrator Hismarck grocers today received a wire from Dr. E. F. Ladd, state food asministrator, officially confirming the press reports of Saturday stating. that che fifty-fifty rule as-applied to the sale of wheat flour and substitutes must be strictly enforced. Dr, Ladd advises: “Beef and pork — products be sold any day except Tuesday. y pounds of substitutes MUST be \ sold with every 50 pounds ‘of flour,” All Bismarck groc ave been ad- vised of the new regulation, which 30es jnto immediate effect. Among the popular wheat substitutes which may be had locally are corn flour, corn meal, corn starch, oat meal, barley neal, rice flour, farina, hominy, corn grits, etc. Graham and whole wheat n doctors had to attend to’ all: those| 22e"@ You have the ‘answer to oar! morrow what should be done’ today ; hy. war are in this wary} wi) b ed not ae. bas METROPOLITAN men, washing the dying and burying | Mestions ‘Ww! ‘ne’ G. will be'urged not to procrastina‘e. bu. , | the dead. In: the ned ehh but pb) why we aré fighting Germany, what! to get bis blank and file his return itely of their. purpose. “The German empire has been brought before the bar of civilization, i North and South Dakota, h the} flour may be sold at the ratio. of fiyé main office at Aberdeen, visited the; to three, five pounds of the wheat. ‘local recruiting station at the Soo! product to every three pounds of sub- SUPPRESSED BY She was not ‘brought before ithe bar} the doctors and‘ the greater part of) #24 Of an enemy’ we are fighting at once , | fecraty . 7S e of barney pois ox would hel te men hn ald, 1 engot apa wih Of, wag wil fapben ie down ovary adres ho Fous wwe" LOCAL DEALER fast i'chimcm ana tet Skea ut eee nag ne f ve i | win: Ov Men’ wi | sasil 1), ana s p,/ istra sts hows ‘ - ea ee Meee Mntentored Buc ‘ane not describe the scenes of that awful tens Ww upon: that:pro | Yesterda Ten of our loyal young} ers to guide themselves accordingly: would not have ‘interfered, But she was brought before the bar of civiliza- tion, justice, righteousness, truth and humanity, and she has” furthermore repeatedly and increasingly interfer- red with the lawful and peaceful pur- suits of our own people. That is our business. It is the business of every single. man and woman in our coun: try. She was charged with many spe cific crimes, but what concerned us| | these things when we consider: what |verman militarist himself fal to per-| ceive the weight, the 1eason, the logic of that ‘answer? camp. This’ was to my mind’ one, if not the greatest, of the many terrible ‘blots oin the war which theGermans a 2 A New Hope: are responsible. That German doctor) i i vi will some ‘day have to answer ‘before! ‘There is a movement gding ont-with-[ + TH : |in Germany ‘today which’ we> are! pe irae crouoal than'we can e8-| watching “as intently ‘as one watches auth here, Dutt letous'< not) forget! the: first streaks of dawn rise from the’ darkness of unwholesome hight, for: in that movement alone lie our hopes for an enduring world peace. Part we are ‘to take in’ the> war. Some German Traits. “And now let me tell you something ;of the common burden. vision of the law which requires a re} Harris & Co. Will Not Handle turn from every unmarried person, whose net income for 1917 was $1,000.! Magazine Containing At- tack on Government men w awaiting the examination | | and orders of Lieut. Anshelm. i The following named young men} were forwarded to Jefferson barracks: St. Louis, Mo., for assignment to or- MINNEAPOLIS MERCHANT HERE? D, E. Bray, formerly of the Atuold | Bray department store at Miles City and now ot Minneapolis, is in the city’ : —— lganizations in the different branches @ suest of George B. Farrell while Bismarck readers of the Metropoli-| of the service: , en youte to Great Falls. tan who purchase their magaziné from; Roscoe W. Baver, Janestown, (140. | —————————————————, ris & Co., will not enjoy the cur- ica corps); Roy H. Gamble, Stanton, ue of this Hearst periodical. | (infantry); Donald J. Froelich, Dick-; or more and from every married per- son “whose ‘net income was $2,000 or | more. They will be" supplied with} facts and figures to show that the rich, man-and the man of modest income} alike are made to ear a just share} Tables will de produced. comparing the 7; Pe ; " ii ff 3 j & Co., finding therein an edi- rv): Edware 4 most was the crime against the Unit-) about the German traits and: charac., /2#t is the movement towards ligerat-| tax ‘in’ the’ United States and at | cS as ane mn, alry); Edward R. Shaw, ANY’ MAN “CAN Wi edjStales, and. ihe great colledtive| todariee ohne eee already | towards constitutional reform,! Britain, Here the married man with | ‘“ from H. J. Whigham, ea Dickinsow, medical corps); Lawrence PLATO YOU CEne crime against that very civilization of which 1 have spoken. The govern- ment and people of the United States; have adjudged her guilty of those spoken, Consider their inconsistency I have told you of their wholly incon+ sistent attitude towards the submar- ine controversy, how when the tables and -panGermanism, It is progress- | ing, if slowly, none the less steadily. For the present we can only watch {towards the downfall of the Junkers} an inconie of $2,500 pay $10. In Great | Of the Hearst company, which A. Carroll, Dickinson, (medical corps) ; , Britain ‘the: man with an income ofj Yshes the magazin ‘ly and Un) Kaward V. Brown, Dickinson, (caval-| 2,500 pays a tax of $225 and $300 if, 8 ng President Wilson and) py); Charles R. Lreeman, Bismarck, his income is not earned but is from | ation, have eee all (medical corps); Edward W. Reel TAINLY WILL WHEN YOU SEE I. GO IN THIS a LOTS OF crimes and haye drawn:the sword, not} were turned, th: S{whd hope. But meanwhile we must! interest on ‘botids or the like. As the CPies of the periodical their! Miltonvale, Ka engineer corps): : to punish but. to restrain—to restrain| 61 also. Take: sgehin tno vazeation| fight and we may thank heaven ndeed| income increasés the difference be-| 7@¢ks, and none can be had at thts) Ralph J. Buckmaire, Bismarck, (quar; Lanpher Hat ‘ y| that we are“able to throw: our weight! tween American and British taxes) Stand “for love nor money. termaster corps); Kalph E. Shuey,| her from developing the potentiality | for crme in future, , What is, this po-} tentiality? Doesn’t.it lie in the char-| acter of the German himself, the Ger-| cruelly and dinliumanity; England: is man who represents the military caste, the cold-hearted, thinlipped, overbear-| ing Prussian officer and Junker; the German who represents the rude, pompous, intolerant ‘middle-class. offi-| cial; the Cerman who represents all that is harsh and brutal and/cruel in that country? ‘British ‘blockade. Ask’ a German what he thinks of it and he will re ply:) ‘It is not only illegal but sheer into the scales of civilization, justice; ahd humanity. The ‘duty lies upon the shoulders of everyone of us in this whole ‘great country: We cannot: all g0 “over there” ourselves, we cannot all send our sons, out we can ‘at least | give the cause our support’ with| might- and ‘main,’ proud that we are ted-blooded Americans and proud ‘that | we are sending our beloved flag for- ward into battle for the right.” i starving our women and children!” Ask the same man ‘five minutes later how Germany is managing to hold out economically-—-I have done it, so { know=-and he will reply: ‘‘Magni- ficently; they. talk about starvation) but Germany cannot be starved; we; ‘secome less and finally when million, !t is understood that the govern-! Cojeharbor, (medical corps). dollar. incomes are reached the, went has denied the mails to the cur-; ——______-—_ i amount paid in this country is greater | Tent issue of the Metropolitan. The TALKING CONSOLIDATION | than in Great Britain. ‘local stationers, however, are acting N. C. Macdonald, state superinten-} The normal rate of tax under the! on their own initiative, declining to be} dent of public instruction, has lee war revenue act of 1917 is 2 per cent; an agent in the distribution of litera-| for Renville and Mountrail count : on the: net income’ of ‘anmarried per-| ttre which they feel must give aid, where he will spend ten days address. | GREAT OPPORTUNITY sons in excess of $2,000. Under: the| and comfort to the firm of Hohenzol-| ing meetings to consider consolidation; Jf you have $1500 to invest I act of September 8, 1916, which re-; lern, Hapsburg & Co, projects which will’be voted on April; can show you where you: can maine in force, the normial rate of 1U. R ob Instead of “ | make four times that amount in is 2 per cent on the net income of} U/se ‘ank nslea of | a atiort time. No wild cat 'schenié: at are as strong today ‘as at the begin-! re Anti-American Sentiment. | ning of ‘the war und each:succeeding | ra | unmarried ‘persons: in excess of $3,000, | «« ” : 5 } s Shoes Shoes ¢ i i ward America, Dr. Grew said: { “And: now 1 come ‘to'that oné trait] pons Inexcess. Of 92,008. | MEN’S BOYS wl" F an x narrate was no nse in trying to com: in the German character which we, TO MAKE EXCESS joipames uner'the 1937 act are sub. Tot Meee acne gicuueges 9 Fi swerthisad. I ant a real roan. at this anti-American sentiment, ex-) cannot possibly forgive and which! eck 10 Sure, wan enees irom Fashi D. S S| Address Box cept-in-so far ‘’s we could show our} must be downed dy force of arms for-| PROFIT RETURN}? per cent on incomes ihetween $5,000 | aican hea servi EA Berge sons z | Bismarck, orth Dakota country's attitude in the course of ever, for it has no place in the march| personal conversation, which always of civilization. I speak of German! Within the next few days blanks for and $7,500 to 50: per ceit on incomes in excess of $1,000,000. The surtax GOOD SHOES | asked the postoffice department to ended ita dead-lock. The German embassy in Washington had ibeen in a -position to conduct a press cam-| paign throughout the United States— with what eventual result is known to you. The American embassy in Berlin was ‘relieved of the necessity of even consilering the advisability of such procedure, for the German press is carefully controlled and muz- zled by the government, and if the government : was ' deliberately’ filling the press with anti-American material, | it’ was ‘unlikely that it would’ permit it at the same time to publish pro- Ainerican copy issuing from the Amer- ican embassy. many jbelieve’ what the, government wants them to believe, no more, no less. ..othing could ,have been more ludicrous than the complete voite- fact of the German press’a year ago last spring, when we delivered our ultimatum after the Sussex ‘disaster and the German government decided to accept our: terms.. One day the German press had been venting all its fury ‘upon us for pufting a spoke ‘in their wheel and handicappn‘s ‘their submarine’ warfare; the most scurril- ous terms were being use: against the president, the government and the making fetirn of excess: profits tax under the 1916 act ranges from 1 per urge relatives of American soldiers to | The people of Ger-| cruelty, There have been so many! | phases of that cruelty that one shud-| ders to think of them—not the recog-; nized cruelty of lawful battle and that; is terrible enough; not the cruelty of} | wounds: and agony and death ‘on the! ‘battlefields and’ bleeding hearts «at! { home, which are all part of the trap-| | pings of war, this terridle war which} ;'Gormany has let loose on the world; | but: the unnetessary cruelty, the wan-| ton cruelty, perpetrated ‘by human! ‘beings capable of. gloating over the! suffering of their: victims, tking joy| j in hearing. their shrieks for mercy, not | content. with mere destruction but de- | siring to add torture ‘to ‘that. destruc: | tion, | “I ‘will not go into the, submarine; cruelty for thet you know’ alreddy| | from: publishéd: accounts, although we} | turn away with horror when we hear {of’submarine commanders taking ‘the; occupants of life boats on the decks; of their submarines, throwing over- board from the life “boats: the ‘Yood,; water, sails and oars; filling’the water | casks with salt water in order to point! the 'hideousness of their joke, and then, after closing the-hatch; sudden-| ly submerging, leaving those. wretched | sailors: floundering in a stormy ‘sea, | will, go forward to all individuals whose. return of income shows that they might be liable to; this tax and to all partnerships: and: corporations whom it is deemed will be liao!2 to ihe excess profits tax. Every. inci- vidual and every partnership was? ret income is shewn'to be $6,59% or ‘hore and every cc rporation who32 net income is shov'1 {7 Ue $3,000 97> more is liable to a return of excess profits tax and if they do not receive blanks within the next few days they should | apply for same: These blanks are due in the office of the collector on or be- fore April 1. - After these blanks have gone for-! ward it is presumed that’ the volume of correspondence in the’ ‘coiiector's | office on excess profits tax will be so large and: the difficulties of «i with all cases of taxpayers: resiting} outside of th so many. t assign a certain number of deputy col- lectors tothe larger towns of the} states of North and» South Dakota} where, it is though; the greatest} aniount of such ‘tax will be due. ‘The fact that the tapayers can deal with thse officers in ycrson-ant haves the ; mation, ‘that all of us’ who pay our} ealing }an: earning $1,000-a year is by no; collector’s ‘city wil! 1@/Or she has something laid by in a! at 41 has been dweided to bond, ‘realestate or a few dollars in) Shoes Shoes Shoes Shoes! cent on incomes between $20,000 and! l $40,000 to 13 per cent on incomes in excess of $2,000,000. The multi-mil! lionaire’ is assessed 67 per cent on his’ income in excess of $2,000,000, while’ the’ man” with a°$2,500 income‘ babs 2 Ber cout on his income in oy TO N I G H T Those and other facts and figures | & Tomorrow ———————— | exercise care in directing mail to the | | BISMARC THEATRE & Tomorrow willbe used to refute the statement of German sympathizers that this is a/ “capitalist” war.” | “We must learn to realize,” says the | bulletin issued to ‘the’ Four Minute! Men ‘by the‘committee on public infor- thite are really capitalists. A capital: | ist is simply a person who has a claim; on-a-bit of the world’s stored up} wealth. The unmarried man and wom-/ means poor’—with rare’exceptions he | |: IN HIS NEW SENSATIONAL GREAT FIVE - ACT FEATURE a savings bank.. An income. of $1,000; “ ‘ is. considerably above the average. | e@ at “ 99: “And after all, what is a $4 tax, your! 66 i 2 : ee 7 share if you are single and make $1,-| mm & 200 and what is.a $10 tax to a married; @. : rs i man, earning $2,500? Surely we, as |i. y Americans, will pay phat much cheer- | i people of the United: States, The} one‘hunired and fifty miles trom land,| j. gvlations expla: ed orally: wil! great-| fully.” i. FIVE WONDERFUL ACTS.———FIVE WONDERFUL. ACTS. next day, when Germany had Riven in, | with''no refuge at hand but that gut-| ly relieve-the burden of ‘cor oxd- “ype 1 i " I the whole -press was sayirg: ‘Well, | ted life boat! This submergence trick! ence in this office and als, serve as|William H. Johns = : ‘“ ini ae { after’ all, we ‘want to ‘play the: game} jis no idle tale, it has been done re-| a public convenience. These officers! Elected’ President | Rs fair. rernene ‘itt peas nolicy | peatedly. | will be stattonéd in these larger towns | ( ecle B residen | ‘i was a le. ro after’ alt. “But I want to readto you one or} My the whole’ monzit of - Batten t “I was speaking about the increas-|two of the kind of letters we used tq, fon mreeteaty of Batten‘ Company if ing- hostility in Germany towards Am-| receive at our emassy in Berlin from! There will be’a deputy collector i The recent death of George Batten, 7 erica and the Americans, ‘During the first-year of-the war my wife offered her services to the German-Red Cross to serve tea and cigarettes to wounded German soldiers at a so-caled after-) noon Kriegsheim. She had heen there ‘but'a short'time when a German wom- an, &lso volunteer, remarked to a group of soldiers, ina voice which was clearly intended to. be overheard, ‘Aren't you ashamed to ‘accept food and drink, from the hands of a hated American?” Naturally: my- wife was unable to continue this humane and neutral service. Shortly before we left Germany, a play was running in| It’ was frightful, heart rending, as consolidated school plants in North when Mi Bal Hee was advertising man-| ; : ti 7 Yerlin’ called” ‘Die Llaue Jungens'—| these masses of human beings: were! Dakota. J [ager for Funk. & Wagnalls, Mr.‘Jonns | M b h d h I ‘The: Boys in Blue.’ In‘ the last’ act| driven to destruction: Above the ter- r Charlotte Vailelly and Julia) ¥@s.@ solicitor in his department. In| ay e purc ase on t e very OW erms (@) a passenger steamer is torpedoed by Misses Charlotte Vallelly i 1$91 Mr. Batten started the company a German stumarine and‘ all the Am- ericans on ‘board: are lost, and ‘every evening-at ‘that point in the play, the audience breaks into enthusiastic ap- plausé. Could anything be more sig- nificant? ‘ - “Hate ‘Campaign Significant, “This hate’ campaign ‘is’ typical’ of Germany? and the’ Gertians:” If’ it’ is noi spontaneous, they’ cultivate it; the*press fs fall of it;-meti’of science dilate’ upon ‘it; ‘clergymen’ preach “it ye German soldiers during the early! Part of the war, before they had come j hardened to: the’ terrible’ tasks to! which ‘they were driven by the Ger.! manfighting machine,- Some. of these} letters have been published, but you | miay not bave seen them and they! should be rought home to every man | | and’ woman in the: country. Translation. i REPORT OF AN EYE WITNESS, OF THE SLAUGHTER OF ° 150,000) RUSSIAN SOLDIDRS IN THE: MAS- ; URIAN LAKES. AND’ SWAMPS. # rible thunder of cannon could be} heard the ‘heart-rending .cries’ of the Russians: ‘Oh Proussians!' Oh’ Prus- sians!” But there was no mercy, j Our captain had ordered: “The whole lot must die; so rapid’ fire!” on’ our side went mad from those! heart rending cries. But most of my! comrades and: the: officers ‘joked ‘as the unarmed” and’ helpless Russians ,shrieked for mercy while they were being! suffocated’ in: the swamps’ and shot down... ‘The order: was “vigse ball | Weber. spent Sunday’ with as 1 MG ‘ have heard, five men and one officer MOTHER'S your city on March 25, who will ree main there until March %1, an@ wil! pe glad to-take up all matte income and excess profits tex. TO REBUILD SCHOOL The state superintendent of public instruction reports that the Hope con- solidated school in Ramsey county recently destroyed by fire, will be/ sipilities Jong held by Mr. Batten as: rebuilt soon and that a teacherage will he added. as a home for the staff} ing agencies now in the field, for the; of ‘instructors: ; This. will give the Hope district one of the most modern relatives and: friends in Mandan, Expectant | was incorporated, in 1904, and had presidént of George Batten company, | Irc., a pioneer of the advertising busi-| ness’ and for many years one of its | midst’ prominent representatives, has | been followed by: the election of Will- | iam H. Johns to the présidency of the | company founded “by Mr. Batten, | There could be no more logical suc-: cessor than Mr. Johns to the respon-/ The Genuine Victrola for $202 chief of one’ of the greatést advertis-| tusiness association of the two men) covers a pefjod of 30 years. In 1888,' which bears his name, and Mr. Johns was one of his first employes, He became a partner when the business | $1.00 per week—let us demonstrate. HOSKINS | been its vice president since that time. | | FRASER OUT AGAIN Attorney. General G. Angus Frazer, ; who ‘has been confined to St. Alexius | hospital for ten days by a severe at-| tack of: la grippe; was able to return| a te his apartments at the McKenzie ton Sunday. | =o pe