The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1918, Page 4

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Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month $70 Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month ... ... Daily, Evening only, by Ca , pe Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month .... Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, on JOLT anarensenn nserver eo -» 4.00 Worning or evening by mail outside of North Dakota, one year ...... .- 6.0 Sunday in Combination with Evening or Morning by mail, one year .. see 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) Editor ‘50 | Idah McGlone Gibson in her Red Cross uniform| and in the “feminine” garments which she declares | | peace. to hold themselves aloof from politics and permit those who make politics a trade to fight their battles according to their own rules. This is a time, however, when common conditions do not prevail; when the best interests of the city, state and nation are adversely affected by playing poli- tics even in the slightest degree, and it was,a very worthy and a very sensible stand which the busi- nessmen of Bismarck took in mass meeting there in the old city hall. Let us hope that this marks the dawn of a day when all of the businessmen of Bismarck will all of the time take a more active interest in all mat- ters concerned with the government of their city and when they will insist that pettifogging and log-rolling be eliminated from city politics and that Bismarck be governed not by cliques nor fac- tions but by all the people, with no other object than -the best ‘interests of the city. TO SELL OUT THE HYPHEN The proposed trade boycott of Germany, after 0) the war, may be an unsound, an impossible propo- sition, but the Palmer bill, just unanimously passed by the senate, is an entirely different mat- 0! ter, both as to prospects and effectiveness. This Palmer bill, authorizing the sale of all ‘enemy property in this country, is the first great \step toward uprooting German influence and in- terests in America. It fits into the general cru- isade for elimination of the German language, products and social and political organizations. We have not yet got to hating Germany, but we have got to calmly deciding that her influence jis bad and are deliberately taking steps to cut it out. It is one of the penalties that Germany has fully earned by her war policies and it is a penalty which she must pay through the long years of The Palmer measure does not interfere with the property of Germans or Austrians living in this country. Property holding is one means of causing such to become good American citizens, but it is going to be a cold day for the hyphen. The German-American this, that or the other thing is going to be made disreputable, by public opinion and by law. HERO) ND HEROES Pershing isn’t going to give us the names of} his slain heroes. It might give valuable informa- tion to the enemy. But we notice that the names of the heroes who pulled through are coming all men prefer all women to wear. | This distinguished and delightful lady of our) Newspaper Enterprise association has started al discussion which certainly is full of fierce possi-| bilities. Thousands of manly men will surely a | gue over the above caption and such things as the) following, from Mrs. Gibson’s article on her wear-} ing of this Red C uniform: | “TI could, with fashion’s full consent and | the approval of the world, take off or put on anything in the way of clothes, if by so doing I plainly showed that I was asking the admiration of men purely becauseI was | a woman.” “Tt is only when I come home that I find how my countrymen—the boasted, chival- rous American men—look upon a woman who is supposedly dressing for something beside alluring their fickle fancy.” “I have found, however, that when a woman puts on a dress that is perfectly suitable for her work there will be men who will resent it because it silently tells them that the women who wear it are on business and not on them intent.” It’s a warm indictment of men based upon the} folly and weakness of some men, and we have to, resent the impeachment of the chivalry of Ameri- can men, at least. Moreover, it is not men but women who intro- duce and fix feminine fashions of attire. Mr. Gibson knows, as does every other woman, that) should she establish the Red Cross or any other: uniform, as “the thing,” there aren’t men enough | between New York and Frisco, Duluth and Key West to stop it, by any means short of bloodshed. Is it wholly fact, too, that women dress for men, that they can put on or take off anything, if by so doing they plainly show that they are ask- ing the admiration of men? We certainly ha i | | Strawberries, says a man just back from! | {not change his distinctive spots. right. Maybe there’s a difference in heroes. The dead are dead, and the living get the fame and decora- tions. : Newspapers are not to be given lists of the American casualties in Europe. Might give valu- able information to the enemy. But newspapers may get such news from next friends of the vic- tims, valuable information or not. Wouldn’t it jarj jyou? Secieavere ny nee | Speaking of Russia’s peace, the kaiser says| \“it’s a moment when we may admire the hand of; God.” At other moments, Bill is probably dis-| pleased with God. * Will Hays, the new g. o. p. chairman, says the! election of the four democrats to congress from New York city means nothing. He seems to be a first-class chairman. they do in the north. But think what,a fine sub-| stitute they are for wheat. You have to credit the Petrograd Bolsheviki) with some wisdom. Upon the signing of peace with Germany, they began removing their valu- }ables*and the women and children prepared to leave. WITH THE EDITORS. | THE SAME OLD PRUSSIAN | The genus homo known popularly as the Prus-; sian war lord is like the leopard in that he does; He is of the; met thousands of women who dressed simply with} same stuff that entered into his moral and mental regard to what other women wore, and several; hundreds solely in order to go the other women one better. We'recall no instance whatever where; the women were talking about dressing to the} taste of men. And look at the pictures of the lady, above given! The one is of the lady in her supposedly | most captivating attire, the other is of her in her| Red Cross uniform, alleged to be provocative of the non-chivalry of American men. Really, Solo- mon himself could not decide which is the more captivating to men of the general run, but when | it comes to men of intelligence and discernment, there’s no room for question—the uniformed lady | at once puts the other in shadow, not to say ob- livion. All over the picture of the lady in social function attire is written “Captivation,”’ which, throughout the female world, means lure, pre- tense, camouflage, an offering of charms and qual- ities which are not, for a purpose at which the male of the species has got to guess. The laces, the fair neck, the smooth powdered (?) cheeks, the inviting eyes all say “I’m after you,” and men wno think vetore choosing turn to the lady in uni- form, the woman all wool and a yard wide, the worker happy in her work, the whole souled good fellow whose picture proclaims, “I’m genuine. I’m doing a noble work. I’m dressing to help it along and I don’t care a cuss what the men open to cap- ture by laces, short skirts, low necks, ‘Janes’ and such think!” MOVE IN: RIGHT. DIRECTION The citizens’ mass meeting held Wednesday for consideration of the proposed recall election was a move in the right direction. Meetings of this kind are more common in the smaller villages than in cities of the size of Bismarck. There is no reason, however, why large towns should not have them, and frequently. An informal, get-together, talk- it-over, get-it-out-of-your-system sort ofa pow- wow of this nature is a good thing for the town and for all concerned. : ; Wednesday, for instance, this meeting revealed the fact that sentiment in Bismarck is overwhelm- ingly against a recall election at this time. With- out regard to politics or affiliations of other kinds, the substantial, thinking business men of the-city. to a g be- openly went gg record. ‘ tim the RASA IRSA AP REE AE | : . jrorism. makeup some 47 years ago—has the same lust for conquest, plunder, destructiveness and ter-} As witness to this fact the Wall Street Journal summons a quotation from an article in the Fo nightly Review of February, 1871, by Frederi Harrison, who discussed conditions of the Franco- Prussian war shortly before the surrender of Paris to the German invaders. Mr. Harrison thus wrote: One third of France has been given up to fire and sword. For 300 or 400 miles vast armies have poured on. Every village | they have passed through has been the vic- tim of what is only organized pillage. Every city has been practically sacked, ran- sacked on system; its citizens plundered, its civil officials terrorized, imprisoned, | outraged or killed. The civil population has | been, contrary to the usage of modern war- fare, forced to serve the invading armies, | brutally put to death, reduced to wholesale | starvation and desolation. Vast tracts of the richest and most industrious districts of Europe have been deliberately stripped and plunged into famine, solely in order that the invaders might make war cheaply. Irregu- lar troops, contrary to all the practices of war, have been systematically murdered, and civil populations indiscriminately mas- sacred, solely to spread terror. A regular system of ingenious terrorism has been directed against civilians, as horrible as anything in the history of civil or religious wars. Large and populous cities have been, not once but twenty, thirty, forty times, bombarded and burnt, and the women and children in them wantonly slaughtered, with the sole object of inflicting suffering. All this has been done not in license or pas- sion, but by the calculating ferocity of scientific soldiers. Save for the “300 or 400 miles,” how many words in this extract would have to be changed to fit absolutely the facts of today? In forty-seven years the ian militarist: has not needed to have.a new picture of himself taken. Forty-seven years hence he will be the same old genus with the : old lusts if he is not taken now into the Florida, cost more in the resorts down there than ‘ | not trod here. | Yo bi POE Ce = POOL | (Copyright, 1918, by the News Paris, aMrch ‘There creeps a Why? sort of desolation. The firm from farm and field fi ague, indefinable something which strikes the eye uneasily, and presently | the answer comes—monotony! From horizon to horizon it is all one| color, gue texture; from the hills over there, lacing their bare trees against the morning sky like: a sort of glori- fied. Vallenciennes, to the brook way yonder, its banks lined with tender-| sprouted willows, it is all the same; unvarying green. It is as if the foot of man had) What is wrong? Again the vague,! uneasy puzzling. In this field the cattle had been} used to graze the grass to brown-) rooted shortness; in that, where the brook runs through, to trample the! ground into a yellow morass. Over| there, at this season, the vivid color of the coming grain had already made/ its contrasting checker, .and, still ‘be- yond, the plough had turned the mat |of nature under fresh black loam! A score of hues the lavor and the enterprise of man had made on the crust of earth by now; but today there is only one—the emerald of moist outdoors. The fields are slip- ping back to the monotony of. desola- tion, and the shadow which creeps ov- er the land is desolation itself. It is the war. To enter the barnyard of a well-to- do French farm is like entering a village ;for all the ‘buildings, the! des: ce, the sheds for. grain and hay, te workshops, the barns and the implement shelters, are ‘built around a big courtyard, the entrance to which is by way of a heavily barred gate through a thick wall ;relic of medieval days, when ‘wars were local, and every man’s house was his fort. Industry and frugality made this place prosperous, and erected this pincturesque sky-line__ of tiled roofs, but the teeming life of the spacious court is gone, and the great barns have less in them with each passing year of the war. In this big stone barn, long rows of beautiful, thicknecked. Perch- eron draught horses once filled the now empty stalls. The war took them. There are only three where scores had ieen’ before. ‘A fourth one stands in the courtyard, a great, white, sleek, heavy-rumped fellow, his pond- erous foot between the legs of a Poche blacksmith, and his bridle held ‘by another lazy, contented-looking Eoche: The most fortunate men in Europe, these fellows, and they know it, men in the prime of sturdiness, who have no cares, who are certain of good food and lodging and who do not need to risk their lives, Safe from the war are these German prisoners. There are 14 of them-employed on this farm,’ and they are locked up each night as a matter of formality. + lat there is more than mere neatness , {ing, and in THERE'S DESOLATION IN THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE; NO Courage Never Falters BY GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER paper Enterprise Association) shadow over the land. The fields lie broad and clean and thick, with turf, but even in their richness there is a Come with us for a day in the country, and see what war can do, even when ‘waris many miles away, | t impression of the country stumps and stones were all removed centuries ago, and-walls and hedges is that of cleanness. for the rom field with profoundly orderly ac- in all this; there is a munched their hay in enviable sereni- ty...But those velvety-coated aristo their places stand a crats of the dairy are fast disappear- scrawnier breed; beef: cows, which eat a coarser food, and graze in’ con- stantly decreasing acreage of pasture, for ‘these ‘beeves are being eaten fast- er than they can be raised. Down in the implement shed, great two-wheeled wagons, built like enor: mous boats, stand empty, and enor- mously wide rakes and harrows and seeders and reapers stand rusting. Across the well stretch those broad reaches of monotonous green which the ploughs will not turn this year, nor the harrows rake, nor the seed- ers seed, nor the reapers reap, A. particularly thick wall, that, and at intervals holes at half the heighth, ago. by the military, for the defense against the possible coming of the “PUTTING THE GRI it was built more than three years} ’ Boche, and the holes are for the ma- chine guns. ‘ The war dispatches have ‘been full of important engagements fought on just such farms as this. It is the same in the adjoining farm, where a few milk cows are still kept, water, another is wheeling a barrow toward the cow barn; refugee’s from the devastated districts, these and they do most of the work on this farm. Over there, in front of the clean stucco cottages, stands .a red-cheeked toddler, grinning shyly at the visit- ors!; a refugee baby, born here since the war. Life goes on just the same, 80 far as it knows, and is normal, and as life should be. Out there the soup garden, its tall ‘stalks of Brussels sprouts as brightly green as if this were mid-summer, but only one-fourth of. the once spa- cious vegetable garden is under culti- vation, for only .a fourth of the la- bor is here to. feed. On the small individual farm it is the same. ‘Chickens and rabbits have become a. more important crop each year, since they multiply rapidly, and earn a living without much assistance. Here, ‘behind its, paneled wall of grouting and Stucco, a gentleman's country place, its dignifiied columned and porticoed court, and surrounded by countless. sugar-loaf trees. Fruit is the industry of this place, and the orchard is a garden where peaches grow against the walls, and pear trees are hand-trained to stay low and spread their. few branches straight, out like a board fence, and the apple trees are. criss-crossed in hip-high trellises which line the gar- den walks. No flamboyant luxuriance, of branch and leaf and wasteful blossom here, for only half a dozen branches are allowed to each tree, and those ‘bran- ches are devoted strictly to the bus! ness of growing large, luscious ap- plas, the sale of which now goes to the support of warring sTance. At one end of the garden where the peach brancles are trained against the wall as rigidly vertical as a row of holly-hocks, works a pink-cheeked ‘boy, trimming and -pruning and fas: tening, his white teeth flashing as he meets a smile of comprehension, for the tending of peach trees ‘is the thing he was born to do, and does best. But he is only a boy, and one boy! At the other end of the garden, where the old pear trees are thick as an arm and have thrust out their six branches, three each way, like the arms of a telegraph ‘pole, works a plump-cheeked and white-bearded . old man, his eyes sparkling and his skin criss-crossed by the countless little bright red veins which outdoor life brings to the skin. ‘ ‘But he is only an old man, and only one old man. These, and the German pris- oners, and the women, are the answer to the monotony of green turf which covers the once-check- ered landscape, are the answer to the dwindling agricultural out- put of France. ... ... ... Labor, that is the difficulty. The millions of men in the best years of their life who have been tak- en out of the heart of France and massed on her borders, have not been adequately replaced by the old men and women and oys and German prisoners and refugees. In spite of all the efforts which both official and individual rance have made to supply-the deficiency, there is not enough labor. to. till all the soil, to plant and raise and reap all the crops which used to be grown. out of this fertility, and which now so urgently needs to be grown; so more and more of the fields. have been. left for nature to do with as. she will, ‘Bravely France ‘struggles on; with. desperate courage she has attempted to keep alive her heroic people; and while she strives to help herself, she looks acress the seas to us with grate- ful eyes, for her need, was impera- tive, and.we heard her call!, It-is our great, good fortune to be able to give of the fruits of that fer- tility in which America has been so blessed, and with that mightiest of. fight side by side with the soldiers of this greatest alliance of the world, we shall the sooner conquer the most dangerous foe which civilization has ever known, and whey the victory is achieved, and humafity may once more turn ‘back to peace, the ‘golden grain will again wave upon this beau- tiful land, and lowing kine will ‘dot the broad pastures and the shadow will be lifted from the green fields of France! : CRUMWILLNOT ATTEND TRIAL Friends Declare He Has Gone to Home in Oklahoma for Visit Helena, Mont., “March 15.—When the impeachment trial of Judge C. L. Crum of the Fifteenth district is be- gun -next Wednesday before the sen- ate, the defendant will not be pres- ent, according to reports brought to the senate committee on the trial and the board of managers of the house who met here today and perfected rules of procedure and practice and for the subpoenaeing of witnesses. Judge Crum last Sunday night left Forsyth and his friends assert he has gone to Oklahoma, his former home, and will not return to the state for some time. The address of the jurist is unknown to the committees, it was announced, adh | The trial will proceed even if the defendant is not present, for service has been made upon him by a ‘ser- geant of arms of the senate, notify- ing him of the impeachment proceed- ings instituted by the house after tes- timony ,had been taken of a number of witnesses testifying to alleged ex- pressions of disloyalty and efforts made to obstruct the selective serv-- ice laws. Resignation Turned Down The resignation of Judge Crum was filed with Governor Stewart several days ago and the conference of the senate committee and the board of managers of the house who will prose- cute the jurist was held to consider whether the resignation should be ac- cepted or rejected. Members of ‘the committees, nearly all of whom. are lawyers, declared that the resigna- tion need not be accepted, to make it © effective and the law was quoted to show that the office ‘is vacant.’ The indictment had been returned by the house ‘and the senate committee only had to concern itself on the rules of practice and procedure, which are formed: after the rules of the United States senate in impeachment trials. The rules were adopted by the ‘sen- ate committee, Parker, Annin, ‘Mor- ris, Jones and Hogan at a meeting held last night. i The board of‘ managers of ‘the house, after hearing the report of Representative Higgins, who has in- terviewed witnesses in Rosebud coun. ty, instructed Secretary Frank Cone of the senate and the sergeant at arms to subpoenaé from 12 to 15 witnesses who will be here Wednesday morn- ing to give testimony. Whether Judge Crum will be represented: by attor- neys is not known. INDIANS READY TO DO BEST FOR UNCLE 8AM IN BIG CROPS Rev. H. H. 'Welch, a full-blooded Te- ton Dakota who. is in charge of the Episcopal Indian missionary work in North Dakota, was in today from Can- nonball, a guest of Rev. George. Buz- zelle, rector of St. George's. Rev. Welch reports that the Indians in the Cannonball district are preparing to do their best for Uncle Sam ‘by rais- ing bumper crops. this Spring, and that everyone is patriotically interest ied in the war. The missionary’s firdt 8 ‘| wife, who died: some FO ERE, was a neice of Sitting Bu . Well rep ‘heen a leader andae Ma De ek thereare few who possess 918; ) isnt fluence with the Dakotas, ° oe