The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1918, Page 4

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Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month ear “arning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one Editor wulng by mail outside of North Dakota, A one year nuag ty tn Cor mail, one year ....... THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) h Evening or Morning by rr In those four congressional elections in New} York, 78,192 votes were cast, and women ¢ st! 31,858 of them. There were practically no party issues, nothing in particular to stir up the women, yet they “turned out.” They received their ballots without asking “foolish questions” and cast them quietly, evidently with minds well made up. Was it because it was their first vote? Was it because they thought that President Wilson ought to have a majority of his own party in the house of representatives? They certainly put a squelcher on the argu- ment that woman doesn’t want the ballot. An- other certainty is that the president gets that} majority. | GREAT, BUT FAILED _ | In the passing of John Redmond, Great Bri- tain loses one of her great characters, a man, who, | for nearly 40 years, has fought every form of| British government presented, for the sake of Ireland and, yet, who didn’t have united Ireland | behind him, by a good deal. ; ‘As a Nationalist leader in the house of com- mons since the early 80’s, England found him} radical enough and persistent enough for Trish | home rule, but his sort of home rule was a govern-| ment fashioned after that of Canada, and a good part of Ireland held him to be no radical: at all. As a statesman, he failed in his life work. The war government failed to pass the home rule bill and, when he refused to join the Sinn Fein but declared for the war government, right or wrong, his consituents started a movement to retire him. In his way, Redmond was a great man. He is not the first great man to pass away without solv- ing the Irish question, after devoting his life, study and labor to it. There is no question but he was decidedly at odds with his old constituents of New Ross, Wexford and Waterford, and, politic- ally speaking only, it was not a bad time for him to go. JAPAN’S UNEASINESS Japan may yet do what the allies haven’t dared—support a strong anti-German, fighting | element in Russia and make it powerful enough to bring order out of chaos. The Cossack general, Semenoff, frankly appeals to Japan for aid, Japan| dubs his forces “the loyal Russians” and gets very busy about Siberia. Latest cablegrams from | Tokio state that the Japanese government is seri-| ously investigating the size and quality of Semen-| off’s forces. It cannot be denied that there’s some reason for Japan’s getting bu In the Russo-Jap war, the Trans-Siberian railway was a single track. It was only used in one direction. Russia rushed enormous supplies and forces into the east and| then burnt the rolling stock of the railway. The railway is now double-tracked, and what Germany could do with it is enough to arouse the Japs, and some others. German Zeps and battle-planes are already buzzing about Petrograd. To rush num- bers of these and the parts of a school of subma- rines over the double-tracked Trans-Siberian to a Pacific port would be mighty easy, and mighty German. Incidentally, it would mightily increase the interest of our brothers of the Philippines and our Pacific coast cities in this war. WITH THE RED CROSS Six months or so ago, you contributed to a hundred million dollar Red Cross fund. Some six weeks or more hence, you will have a chance to contribute to a similar Red Cross fund. To give without knowing where your money goes and how it helps is not helpful and it may even be harmful. and so we are publishing a series of articles by Idah McGlone Gibson, who has followed your} money to stricken Europe and, with her own eyes, seen what it has done. _ Most of our readers are somewhat familiar with the eyes of Idah McGlone Gibson. To such those eyes have reported the results of great voy- ages through the countries of the world, inter- views with big dignitaries, foreign and domestic, philosophies, the new in invention, progress and novelties in all sorts of human undertakings. Re- liable, deep, attractive, those eyes! But in her present series you are going to see with the eyes of Idah McGlone Gibson, the woman—skilled cor- respondent, brilliant writer, entertaining artist, maybe, but after all, woman, feeling, sympathiz- ing, knowing, your fireside friend, and lovable. I opened my fur coat and snuggled that baby close, she writes of a poor Frénch orphan turned back, with hundreds of others, by the Huns, to Evian. Do you see what we mean? It is now Tdah McGlone Gibson, with all suffering humanity mieaied close,” who is writing. Moreover, you are going to get a better con- ception of the Red Cross and its Sark by following Mrs. Gibson “Everywhere in France With the Red Cross.” _. The Red.Cross is not a mere chari i aos harity organiza- | have looked meager and lifeless. Freely subscribed 0|sympathy. France, Italy, Poland see it not as a loped full sets of teeth in both jaws. schemes. Also when a local subsidiary organiza- tion, even if most of its members are farmers, use such farmers organization as a club to further their own pecuniary gain, such methods are merely prostituting the farmers organization, is not fair business methods and certainly is not ad- vancing the general sociological or industrial wel- fare of the farmer. few farmers who are grafters and who have taken advantage of local organization to further their own personal profit the editor does ‘not intimate that all farmers are grafters. “A” claim that the statement published by him as coming from one of the members of the legisla- ture of 1915 represented the sentiment of all mem- bers of the same legislature. That legislature had more farmers in it than any other class. But only one member made the statement. are its services to the wounded and non-combat victims of the Hun, it has other functions of high- est importance. Saturday Evening Post well says: “The Red Cross can work in a way that would be fairly impossible for a government. For exam- ple, every officer and agent of the French govern- ment will gladly assist the Red Cross to find and help a mutilated French soldier or a destitute French family. The French government might have some qualms about accepting charity from the American government. No question of na- tional pride or of politics comes up when the Red Cross is concerned., Everywhere it is received without reservation as a friend. The American public subscribed $100,000,000 to the Red Cross last summer. Our government might easily have appropriated that ‘sum for the work. It would have been lost in the mass of war appropriations and meant nothing in particular to anybody. It would have been merely so much impersonal, cold- storage money. As one-half of one per cent of the government’s total war appropriations it would by the people the money is warm with human bookkeeping entry made by a machine called the government of the United States but as the gener- osity of fellow creatures. It palpably means that to use also. The Red Cross can do it much better than the government could.” A Dallas, Texas, child four weeks old has devel- They have to quit milk and go onto alfalfa so early, in Texas. Some veterans in that Toronto audience put on their gas-masks, when Bryan started up to speak. Insulting, but somewhat complimentary to Bill’s intrinsic powers | WITH THE EDITORS. | nme THIRTY-FOUR YEARS YOUNG The Republican has passed another milestone | in its career, and with this issue we start out with No. 1 of Volume 34, which means that the sheet has weathered 33 year's of the ups and downs of the development of this great state of North) Dakota. Under the present ownership, it has seen but a few years, but as we take down the musty yellow files from the shelf and look them over, one by one, we see great changes, not only in the paper, but in the development of the country. Taking the files way back in 1885 we see that this is the country of the pioneer. The rancher has free range for a stretch of miles and miles for his herds to roam over and there is practically no thought of farming in Emmons county. And as we go on through the files we see the idea of agriculture gradually creeping in, and somewhat to the disgust of the cattle men. Looking over the present day files, we would find that the old idea of cattle raising exclusively has long since been discarded and diversified farming has made this one of the richest counties in this great agricultural state. Other developments, too, are in keeping with the agricultural industry, making our country a pros- perous one for businessman and farmer alike. In the early days this paper was gotten before the public by means of the old “army” press, a few fonts of type and a darned lot of hard work. Its subscribers were few in number and the mat- ter of picking up news was one of great concern to the publishers. Today the paper is issued from one of the most up-to-date offices of any country newspapers in the state. The type is set on a modern linotype machine, and the paper is run on a large power press, the job printing department strictly up-to-date, and the whole plant is one that a town the size of Hazelton can well be proud of—even if we do say it ourselves. It is our wish and desire that each succeeding year will see the great changes for the better development of the county, and we are going to do our utmost to help it along. Our policies will be to keep the paper right up to the times, and with the cooperation of the people of the community we know we can do it—Emmons County Republican. A COMMUNICATION AND ANSWER The following communication was received by the editor and we publish it as well as our answer to same: _ “Why should the editor of this publica- tion be after the Nonpartisan league goat. Like most reforms of real merit it was born of necessity, and it is an answer to the member of the legislature who told the farmers’ delegates, when they made an appeal to have a much needed measure put through, to “Go home and slop the pigs.” We need the warnings and advices all right in many things but it sets us right imme- diately on this issue by just seeing who is fighting the league—A.” In answer to the above communication the edi- tor takes the liberty of reminding the wr:ter that he was the first and only newspaperman of Walsh county who took the part of the farmers’ organi- zation two years ago when they were attacked by certain other newspapers. We did not then, more than now, defend the grafter, but we stood up for the farmer and for his right to organize. The editor was raised on a farm, is at present a farmer, and realizes the necessities of a good farmers organization. What we are opposed to is to have such organization run by a grafter who uses its political power as well as its industrial organization to further his own mercenary But just because there are a Neither can Mr. The marcelled ‘girl was working w ith her hands folded in her lap, and a look of ineffasle content on her face, and an occasional touch of a well- manicured fingertip to the marcelling When lathe ber one was through tapering down the shell-casing to a h igh polish and a fine taper, it stopped of its own accordyand tossed the thing into an automatic runway, through which it went somewhere else to have something ¢.se done to itxby some’ oth er woman; w. lady pulled a lever which raised an other casing into place; she deli reately dustec, and ’sta k the ma cninery. wtarting the machinery is the spec- ialty of these mechanics; no one lifts or carries anything to amount to any- thing. In about five br seven minutes lathe number two finished its task, and wanted more, and the lathe young} lady accomodated. She gets 12 francs a day for that, and is having the time of her gwcet, young lite,’as’ well she may, considering the attention she attracts; for she is the new- est thing in France; the laboring woman! The young machinist next to her wears her hair in the latest knot, which is a near-psyche, and she isn’t vi lant about her up for it in pub- Lc interest dy looking around more. The adjoining mile or so of factory hands blended into a sort of general perspective, for there were too many endless rows and cross rows of them under that maze ot whirring pulleys to notice individually, i Old statistics go the exact number, three or six thousand or something, and he is welcome; ‘but for us it was sufficient that they were so’ vast that they dwindled away into, the dim dis- tance in every di ion.” When any- thing fills the entire limits of human comprehension, what's the use of} figures? | Clang! Clang! Clang! . A girl on a tiny motor truck came whizzing out of Trench 11 and turned down Alley 1, twirled in a dexterous curve, poked the nose of the truck under a rack of shells, twisted, a lever which lifted: the rack from the floor, backed, circled, and a she sailed, She was a mighty pretty girl, with a fiower in her blouse,-and a bright eye, and a smile for the obvious ad miration we gave her; and if ever a face expressed solid content, with one bs in life, that girl’s face expressed We had a thoroughly enjoyable day, We saw thousands and thousands of women--and men, where absolutely necessary—taking the raw material and transforming it into’ the most wonderful perfected death-lealing de- vic at the rate of so many a second and a fraction over. We saw them working with the molten iron in great, dim rooms which flared like an inferno; we saw them handling the ponderous machines which draw the iron onto thick ‘bars, which ‘break the bars into suitable lengths, which stamp the ‘red-hot lengths into hollow casings; during an entire eternity or so we saw wom- en handling the enormous presses which force cold lead ‘into ‘tods, ‘and which stamp rods into bullets and \.hich measure bullets into shells; ‘put before we could see any more, thank heaven, the machinery suddenly stop- ped, and we all went to lunch. We've had some remarkable ban- quets and some remarkable luncheons but this was the most remarkable of all, and positively the rst time we were ever fed. by motor trucks... It’s quite the largest ‘building on the grounds, that enormous dining salon, and we were served in style with ex- tremely square meals, each meal pip- ing hot, — eupon the lathe young | is The only difference between the A farmer mus bed er ply, * t Perhi st Great Cor ig calls it “The Fit Et ie fan active, caps virile Nites 2 ‘in i in war. lo ry: things fair to all other wi Bt se bf ‘ciently than pid 98 ty thr tose otimeaialens It has ten million workers, all vol- clase peers i gen should be done aw: ) cliteses taki | wageearners and the If Wi WOMAN MUNITION WORKER STILL STARTLES THE FRENCHMAN: SHE CRACKED TRADITION T0 PIECES BY GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER and Lillian Chester zach course, each course brought on swift little motor trucks from the kitchen to the long rows of warming ovens, from whence they are carried to the long rows of tables by neat waitresses, and served out of big towlsand platters, One helps -one’s self; helping if desired. The little bottle of wine which stands at each place costs 5 cents, if wanted, and is the only thing which ricted to a single helping. Old statistics annoyed us very much. He disccvered that the factory is los- ing: money. on his. luncheon; he:knews exactly. how many centimes per per- son. But they don't expect to lose any money after the war, when prices resume the normal.aspect. There comes a, Strange note from down below. . Instead of the clatter of knives and forks and plates ‘there rises the hum of pleasant conserva- tion. An inspection from the — ‘bal- cony Tail down those long rows. of .ables is a profound study in content- ment, The dejeuner is timed to be through at a certain instant, so that there shall be 30 minutes for recreation. a secona Fully half of the diners still sit at the; tables with their coqee, the men smok- ing, the: women sewing, and loiterers visiting trom group to group. There’s a comfortable home atmosphere about the whole thing! From the high steel rafters, on this day, hung a myriad of gay paper lanterns, left over from the last fete; for they hold frequent entertainments in this big hall, all, free, of course, and mostly provid- ed by the talent which any such large gathering of people is bound to produce, ‘Back of the ‘balcony is a ¢lub room for the bosses and the oflice employes —billiard. tables, checkers, chess, back, gammon, dominoes, rest. chairs nd, tete-a-tete corners. everywhere. They are now building a club room for wageearners, which is to e as large as the immense dining hall, and they will have the same advantages as the bosses and office employes. ‘No one need worry about 'the health wealth and happiness oi this particu- lar working girl. She is doing very nicely, thank you! ; After luncheon the testing laborat- ories, where women have. found an- other new field and the draughting rooms, and the dispensary, and the hospital, AND |THE 'MANICURING PARLURS where the members of the culinary and certain other depart- ments were manicured regularly, and the spic and span dental offices where any may be treated, and prospective mothers must be, and the wonderful poupenniere, ‘where « factory babies sleep in snow-white cribs, and receive nourishing visits from their: mothers every three hours while still new and are raised scientifically ‘by trained nurses until they are three years old, and are the pinkest and plumpest and prettiest and happiest ‘babies imagin- able, which is a remarkable tribute to science, After that, more factory. We plod- ded through interminable streets and alleys and ‘backyards of it, into and out of one building after another, like determined visitors to a world’s fair; but it suddenly dawned on us that we Weren't ‘seeing anything we hadn’t seen ‘before; not a single new face! Anyhow we were ivecoming a trifle homesick, for this was exactly like calling on Cousin Bill or Uncle Joe at his place of business. It’s so Am- erican. American hustle in. France! woman machinists in France! conditions are startling; they,are still startling to the average Frenchman, for these things are totally against his idea of a desirable life. A é itbas been. the traditional, habit.in France to keep women in the home But va athens WMA Wy i lf Both | and start treatment at once. I Yi making a million things a minute, and all alike? He infinitely preferred to make each thing by itself, for the pleasure of doing it well. and as a r2- sult he gained recognition for excel- lence of manufacture. If you sought a French automobile, you had ‘an engine which was built like a watch; ‘and it would last. The Frenchman was very happy in that re- putation. When France was plunged: into what is now the sole ‘business of the world, killing as many Huns as pos- sible in the shortest possible time— she’ was confronted by two stern needs: men to fire ammunition, and ammunition for men to fire. The men had only to ‘be called, and it fs one of the already written pages of glorious history how swiftly they responded to the need of La Patric. ; Ammunition, however, has no pa- triotism. It has'to be made, and shells cannot 2e made with individual care, a shell at a time when they are to be shot off iby the ton. Not the least courageous thing France did was to so promptly pull | up by the roots two of her most cher: courage to break life-long habits. France went into a million a minute specialty, paying America the compli- ment of copying wholesale our meth? ods of manufacturing and organiza- tion; and, since her men were gone to the war, she called her women out of feminine surroundings—she had only..to call—and set them at man’s labor. ; Great ‘Scott, how France has organ- ized! ‘Radiating throughout the land, from huge factories such as this, are countless ramifications of effort, each interlocked with the other; agricul- ture, manufacture, science, art, every- thing has combined, and is com¥ining | more efficiently every day to deliver men and supplies to the fighting front over the shortest routes, and with the least waste. Not one resource has deen neglected, and not the least of her unsuspecte wealth “has been these strong, capable, adaptable wom- en! t We met Old Statictics again when we were leaving, and he was indulging his mad passion for figures by finding out. the exact height of a fiag pole. We revealed to that man the inmost worries of our minds; thus— — What might be the economic outcome of the successful em- ployment, of all these women; of the payment of them of more money, in the aggregate, than they could ever have hoped to earn; of the social topsy-turvydom which must ensue when this race of mateless women has pass- ed away, and there comes the nor- mal readjustment of almost an equal number of men and women? ‘Old Statistics—he’s a typical Amer- ican, and adout 30, and a hard hustler at the job—tapped the loose tobacco out of the en of a much-needed cig- arette and studied the question pro- foundly. “L-aon’t know,” he decided. “But first machine, to the right as you turned into the cénter aisle?” Oh, yes, we had. Why, it was the girl with the marcelled haiv! What about her?. “She's a pippin!” he sail, il gpl DEED Women, whiskers and automatics is what you will see in “Flirting with Fate,” with Douglas Fairbanks at the Orpheum tonight only . RELIABLE PRESCRIPTION FOR THE KIDNEYS For many. years druggists have watched’ with ‘much interest the re- markale record maintained by Dr. ney, liver and ‘bladder medicine. It is a physician’s prescription. ‘Swamp-Root is a strenzthening med- icine. It helps the kidneys, liver and bladder do the work’ nattire intended they. should do. - Swamp-Root. has stood the test of years, It is.sold by all druggiets cn its merit and it should help you. No. other kidney medicine has so many friends. Bé sure to get Swamp-Root and . However, if you wish: first to test Great préparation send ten cents Dr. Hod mer £ S. hamton, N, for a san le.) When’ writing Iresmags EAGER ished national traditions, for it takes}, did you observe ‘that blonde on the}. Kilmer’s Swamp-Koot, the great kid- dass TUESDAY, MARCH;?12; ) 1918: / Ce err” | PEOPLE’S FORUM | oP ECONOMIC QUESTIONS Garrison, N. D., March 11, 1918. Readers of The Tribune: It is the duty rather than the plea- sure of the writer to read a lot of so-called literature about . economic questions. If twaddle can be called lit- eratiire, then there is a whole lot of it floating around; and the channels of the Nonpartisan league seem to be an excellent conductor for all and any matter creating distrust and class dis- tinction. Seems to be their stock in trade. We all know, now is the great- est time of our existence for the use ol good sober thought and the great question is, “In what way is it possi- ole for each of us to assist our boys at the front, that are fighting our bat- tles for world’s liberty and freedom from tyranny.” Apparently nearly ev. eryone thinks he is competent to dis- cuss economic questions and each one with a confidence in the conclusive- ness of his own opinions which. is sub- lime, You see, it is comparatively easy to put that sort of thing across: The reason is that there are a certain few fundamental facts upon which all can agree, and with those for a back- ground, it is easy to wander off the straight and narrow path into personal speculations of all kinds, and no mat- ter where these vagaries of the fancy may lead some, we can assert ‘that they are tentative and characteristic of tendencies in the economic field... It happens that about these things one man’s speculations are about as good as anothers, but it is sometimes over- looked that they are speculations only. And before we contribute our efforts and much money is invested in. any speculation each one not only owes it to himself but to his neighbor that he investigate, especially as to security given for money collected and the use that all and any part of the money collected is put. Only fair to all that such should be known. Speaking of tendencies in the Nonpartisan field, one of the most marked tendencies is to put these half-baked theories out as established facts and as having been proven by experience: As the etore design; if it were true that this were the case, then would it be a good thing. But the fact is that it isn’t. But it will prove a mighty fac- tor in the way of cementing members together in a political coherent: way, whereby some fictitious advantages may appear to loom, up. ‘And Mr. Townley’s testimony in his bankruptcy proceedings ar the best of reasons that I could assign to you as a reason to step along very cautiously and in- vestigate before you invest. And to. those who have not as yet joined I would suggest that you read the agree- ment carefully, and then pay some lawyer. to advise you in this as in other matters where contracts are drawn and you: are interested. Not only fair to yourself and not asking you to do too much for yourself either. Don’t let some roving ‘boomer: con- tinue to get your money and your name on a contract, a :copy.of which they. will not allow you to keep, From your friend, DON'T BE GRABBED. “AMERICAN PROTESTS Bismarck, N. D. ‘March 9, 1918. Dear Editor: : B .As.an American citizen I must raise my voice in protest against. the Ger- man school that is to bé started at Zap, N..D. There is surely, a queer class of Americans if they allow such a thing to exist at Zap. Such a thing is a direct slap at our government. At the same time newspaper reports state that Germans refuse to sign the new farm survey in Emmons: county be- cause they could not read the ques- tionnaires. Why, then, don’t they learn our language? The German peo. ple are the only class of foreigners in this country who do not become Amer- icanized and is ‘because that they do not care to learn the good old Eng- lish language. Our government should stop. the teaching of German and also stop the publication of every German paper ‘in this country. If it does not, the Amer- ican people will rise up and destroy every such plant in the country, and it would be the ambition of the writ- er’s life to help destroy such plants, to the end that every vestige of. Ger- manism be wiped out in our beloved ccuntry. “The stars and stripes forever.” C. R. WELLS, » Don't fair to see Fairbangs fa “Flirting with Fate” at the Orpheum tonight only. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR RENT—Two sJeautiful furnished rooms,. upstairs and down. . Call at 208 Thayer. 3:12 It Make Your Own Cough Syrup and Save Money Letter than the ready-made klad. Eaclly prepared at heme, + The finest cough syrup that moncy can buy, costing only about one-fifth ai much as ready-made preparations, car casily be made up at home. The way it takes hold and conquers distressin; coughs, throat and chest colds wit really make you enthusiastic about it L Any druggist can supply you with 2% ounces of Pinex, (60 cents worth), Pour this into a bottle and. fill the bottle with plain granulated sugas ly fo .,The total cost 65 cents and gives you @ full shout family. supply—of ‘a°’most leasant tasting remedy. iv. It's truly astonishing h acts, penetration” hr og quietly il passage of the throat and fongess joosens and.raises the phlegm, es and heale t e inflamed or evolee ‘oat mem, ranes, ‘a a ing throat tick! aed iy fh ly. anno’ le ded Better Yor bronchitis, “epeentsaia eeu cough or Pronchial asthma, : ial an x - trated. Sompos ‘of genul ine” Nora bret for ls prompt healing eft of Ui throat membranes. KO eae Avoid disa) ist for PB jintment by ash ob F ere OF PHIEE E; yard don’t oer any- ae i ee J Man) - + et i t ae