The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1918, Page 12

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Untered at the Pout ISSUED EVERY DAY, NEW YORK, bifth Ave. BOSTON, 3 Winter S MIN WMPAPOLIS, 410 Lumoer d i sublication of all news ere 1 to il or not fia on his paper and a puls . Al! rig pecial 2 heroin are also > @served. 5 N RATES PAY id Jaily, Moriing and Sunday by ¢ per if 3.70 Jaily, Moraing, Evening and Sunday by Cus 90 Jaily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month 50 Daily, Evening «ud Sunday, per month ae oO: Morning or Evening by Mail in North Da! ne year...... 4,00 forning cr Evening by mail outside of North Dakota, one ai see an Sunday in Combination with one year ....... ie. THE RETIRING DEFENSE COUNCIL lefense council. Created by executive proclamation, with no statutory prerogatives, because it came into being after the legis- ature had adjourned in 1917 without anticipating the possibility of \merica’s entering the great war; engaging upon its duties with no specific appropriation, and with only a vague general idea of th +hings to be done, and with no precedent as to the manner of their tccomplishment, the North Dakota State Council of Defense. dur- ng the troublous ten months of its existance made itself a living ind vital influence for good and became the greatest factor in the itate in the promulgation of loyalty doctrines and the development of patriotic thought. tommission’ ids had sufte py The emergency ns before rent. she State of Defense rn \ a. It became evident shat finan port ranst eo. other sou In this yyal director reseue by voluntarily ite toan wing their personal eredi pris HL And they were men whore personal responsibility counted fo; jomething. No member or offieer of dhe defense couaecn rer or his services Hor ever soupeht Ternuneration rom, the executive seeretiat ! of Nery He made the initner t ic oli 1 riot Defense felt in every town and hanilel in North Dal Hig selection for t important post of secretary proved most oppor- une. He threw his heart and soul into the work; he promoted darmony among wary ielions, meryred every interest in {he one No man could have “d half so supreme enlerprise would have evan aller lone more than he: much, fl gratifying to know that patriotism is not to be lost to North Dakota, bub that - ‘strom of the North Dakota Ou to Vielory te list leader has even 08 for service greater opporlun RAISE MORE WHAT “Raise wheat” is the plea of President W “Raise wheat” was the cry of Chis Rdward Russell, Di mry Coe Culbertson of tt rited States Moad Adininistratio { Defense and . Joseph C. Moran of the other distinguished represent: ment who addressed the North 1: war rally. “Raise wheat’ urgyrod 1. W tional Council of tanner the United States Grain Cor; Dakota Farmer Grain Deale here, Wheat will win the war. This is a fact clearly es riled Les govern wil of Defense ecretary of the Na live Sociel and a momber of ion, when he spoke to the North couvention association in aint ablished. a of Russia; has overrun human rights and violated all the rules of equity and decency that it might invade the rich Odessa granar- ies and relieve its desparate need for wheat. Our fighting men and their allies are depending upon the American farmer for wheat. Will the farmer fail them? We think not. The price which the government has fixed for wheat may not be wholly just and proper. It was fixed, as Secretary Shorthill advised the farmer grain dealers of the state, not with a view to exact equity or justice, but as a war measure. It, must be re- garded as a war measure, just as we regard other regulations which interfere with our income or with our convenience. The farmer may have a legitimate case against the govern- ment in the matter of wheat, but now is not the time te press it. When our house is on fire we do not pause to adjust little squabbles within the family. We first put out the fire, The world is afire today. To America most of all nations falls the task of extin- guishing the conflagration, and of all Americans involved in this grea effor the most important duty, that of feeding the men actually on the.firing line, falls upon the shoulders of the farmer. : It is a heavy responsibility, but the farmers’ shoulders are broad and accustomed to. carry burdens. The American farmer never yet has been found lacking when an appeal was made to his triotism. He ever has been first to leap from the plough handles arms when his country was in danger. He will be ready now, aven tho a financial sacrifice is involved, to leap to his plough hand- les that. the men who have been chosen by the selective service sys- em for the defense of his country may be fed while they fight. lustice would demand that the farmer who sows an acre to heat be assurred that the product of that acre will purchase the uivalent of an acre’s oats or rye or barley or corn for his stock. hile feeding the nation, he should have a guarantee that the na- ion will not permit his cattle and his horses to starve. When the administration asks the farmer to sell his wheat for $2, he hould not : rmcr to pay an equal price for the lesser grains, of which he could himself produce a much greater quantity racre. ‘(he wheat farmer should have the same protection or he same latitude that is allowed the cotton farmer of the south’ eoThe administration is just and fair. These facts have been impressed upon the official consciousness of Washington. We are| e confident that President Wilson will not permit the northwest- wheat-grower, whom he is asking for a material demonstration | loyalty, to suffer an injustice. | _ And, as Mr. Shorthiil so aptly pointed out, there is this to; msider: The farmer is guaranteed a specific price for his wheat; matter if peace should come tomorrow or the next day; no mat- | ter if Argentine should flood the markets next: winter; no matter | hat may chance, the North Dakota wheat farmer will receive! mething more than $2 for every bushel of wheat he grows and | kets before June, i fe j The farmer, ho EAS batley shee or rye or fl fice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. Editor| North Dakota owes a great debt of gratitude to the retiring} “Germany has set aside all pledges to the People’s Delegates | r the corn turmer of the middle west. \; lax | potential BISMARCK’ DAILY TRIBUNE «~~ ee | _ JHE MAN BEHIND THE GUN | | war council, consisting. of | Poyntz Tyler, chairman; J. Fargo; Minnie J. Sen. H. W. Allen, Braddoc |N. Hagan, commissioner ‘onference the follow! whose adoption ath, | Whereas, the issues cf | depend largely upon the co: | tion facilities. therefore be | annually consumed, | that each soldjer cf our c | it | cooperation of the peopl and whilst in civil life, and | F. 0, HELLSTROM | | therefore, be it | Man Who as Secretary of Defense Council Made War Conference} Great Success | state health authorities to a : ~~ | and enact such rules and regulations ring wheat and whose winter wheat for the reporting and control of ve z | nereal diseases as are recommended by the federal and military health au- dle west who cannot grow 8 | has been killed will plant th |kota farmer knows from expe | when the market is glutted. He hig bumper crop of 159,000,000 bushels of w age of 79 cents the bushel. : So, it is not all sacrifice: the glo: ; of consciousness of duty well done when the farmer at last sees his every available seeded to wh There is, furthermore, the satisfaction of | public health nurse. thet ver cl of wheat that land produces will be; The committee presented, fall. next winter, next spring—whenever, recommendation, the follow 4 Incle S Me 7 i lution: He has Uncle Sam’s word for it, and foawaach. o Hasina: Wa chised her women as a war and inasmuch as a federa coarser grains, and the North Da- nce what happens to h rned as recently as 19157 wh thorities; and be it further RESOLVED, that there ;use of every means at its fore BE IT RESOLVED, that our North Dakota senators rles Edward Rus-, for #8 passage, AR RALLY gs. AsC North Dakota’s response to’ I fe e is the best answer to STAND B er has been any ques- ople. They ; of leaders, eee : these leaders have;/Rate Expert Tells How THE BIG W proved a ally while but du they been iaisrepr Visense.| _ May Check Speculation in Whea they © ge g to: speak | Food Grains for the of North I ken them at. their, ood Grains e with a Bolshevikism en-| }] announces that it will; ed tk and have brag Wore en By James A. Little tirely andes Edward Ru youn Charle: u 101 Lo the farmers of this state realize be his plon {4 disabuse the minds of these friends on the out-| that t are food dictators wielding ide, tf see North Dakota with a clearer vision. |a more important power. than that is one wood thet has come Leom the war conference, and, for | exercised by Hoover, Doctor Ladd and : ane Ghar. i ake eth svaren| | @il the other food administrators, Nor ! Dake i is at good. The Breaien and more universal great and gmail, who merely regulate by ding toyether of all our peopl cohesive patriotism | the consumption, distribution and ate henceforth to do its better bit in the ser-| price of foodstoofs? 1) Dakota never yet has been found lacking. wre if, and the inspiration found in this great will arm North Dakota for the supreme endeavors which there were no food produce Ladd and all their satelites peas be insured, nothing to do. teche North Dakota defense council in general, and to Secretary Natvom in particular, the gratitude of North Dakota is due. given North Dakota an opportunity once again to demon- | alty and patri strate that in point of patriotism it yields preeedence to no state if} ship in a democracy. Let the union, farmers to show the individu: a movement to insure a maxi duction of wheat this yea DOWN WITH SEDITION Editor’s Note—Charles Edward Russell handled ‘Bill’ Stone, R. M. La Follette and Gronna without gloves in his loyalty address. He mentioned La_ Follette, Hitchcock and Stone by name and Gronna by inference. When he urged sending petitions asking for the removel of senators who were playing the game of Wilhelmstrasse it took no interpreter to tell whom he meant. “Bill Stone of Potsdam,” “Hitchcock of Heildleberg” and “La Follette of Wilhelmstrasse” were the designa- tions he used, Then followed this arraign are today going up and down this and other states, some under the pretense of patriotism, others under the camou- flage of pseudo-patriotism—demagogues—who praise the. Bolsheviki and Wilson in the same breath—who seek to stir up strife—who would arraign class against class and who serve the Kaiser better than their President. Let all of them read these words of Russell’s and place patriotis above sordid, selfish propaganda, a calamity if our production were materially reduced by 8 cessive acreages of coarse gr only way to prevent such a to seed every acre, of land fit for wheat with wheat onl, conditions governing the pric harley, rye and corn there an increased acreage of such Assuming that there is no ent of slimy jackals who volved let us see, if sound principles support any plan te should t out from among us the half-witted and half-hearted. If any man is afraid, tell him to get out and show it. It is incumbent upon us to see that any man who is afraid gets out. We, as Ameri- cans, are not to be deceived. Here we stand facing a very tuation, and we lopk upon it with calm eyes, And we are prepared io go through to the end, because it is out of difficulty upon diffieulty and problem after problem that this nation has been built. And I appeal to the old American spirit, and L appeal to it not in vain. Every A jean stands for the right and stands ready to make whatever sae s celled upon to make. mbent upon us that we sedition in this country, 1 know how ¢ even we are cand tolerance, recounive the great faet that war is w: than it is at present and may Is AN McLean county has an war conference. In addition already named there are Mr, and united. ieult that Now, as Americans, we must | '¥ chairman of, the public that when you are fighting with thes' in the private life, it mak put down on that list eve of the defense council. sno difference. We should have a list and y man who is'weak-kneed, wha is flabby, and pul it away so that you will not lose it. that man may be, when he comes up for reelection, you will remember | Adelbert Tymeson, presiden' Ys) ty loan, all of Washburn; No matter how trivial | Mrs. , and flabhy, In priva hey say Americans have this war is over, they will not remember he was weak-knee F. MeGray, mayor of Garri: HO meniorte and those names we shall jever forget as long as they live Mo such assitrance. The bottom may drop out of his marke ny day. The lewsciti opts inne dderiaaneeqntnseentte tries product: eT McGulloch’ of Washburn. i] Le gpg ag a nea REET TET “TREPORT ON ||. RESOLUTIONS | The committee on resolutions of the | council of defense urge the fullest | state wiff the American Bible society | in its work of furnishing through the | | Y. M.C. A. a testament for each sol- dier in the Americar army. | Whereas, the statistices of sanitary cantonments show that many, of our soldiers are infected with venereal | diseases before reaching the camps Whereas, because of the grave con- ditions from this cause confronting the nation {it is incumbent upon us | ap @ state to give every protection to e. defenders of our lives and liberty; RESOLVED, that the committee of | the state council of defense urge the t sold for an aver-/ upon the state health authorities the | for the enforcement of the,vital sta- | tistics law; and it is further urged | great need for the employment of a before the United States senate, there- ACK OF | UNCLE SAM AND WHACK GAMBLER This is so because the farmer {6 the dictator of food production and if before this great struggle shall have ended and victory and | oat of a Jo> because they would have Right here is the chance for our th of character and the kind of loy- ism fuspired ‘by citizen- the initiative principle and inaugurate true that we need some oats, barley and rye this year tie same as any average crop period but it would be It is true that under present market temptation for the farmer to. put in of patriotism. and good. citizenship: in- increase the acreage and production of such grains instead of wheat. good old philosophy that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The government of the United «ates back- ed by the greatest natural resources and accumulated wealth ever seen in . all history has guaranteeed to you “Tt is incumhent upon us to be united—absolutely united, We that, the price of wheat when it” is marketed next fall shall not be less This.is your bird in the hand, itical | McLEAN COUNTY GROUP IMPOSING ONE group of fihst citizens here for the Put a stop to} Joseph Mann, Mr. and Mrs, J. J. Sch- I know how | Oberg, 0. M. Bowman, McLean coun- reserve; Shediff W. G. Hendricks, County Auditor E. C. Stocker, M. E. for life, you ean not stop for prejudices, We cannot endure to have} McCurdy, county superintendent. of a rrumming around this country talking sedition—-no matter who | schools, Miss L. L. Sattedlund, news- he iss They should be dealt with a sc mand. We should deal | duper’ publisher and chairman of the men that talk sedition, whether in the halls of Congress or | MeLean county women’s committee 1 and Karl Klein, county chairman for the Liber- Andrew Sutton of Garrison, First. National. Bank of Garrison; 0. Major George L. Robinson and Attor- ney G. E. Nelson, of the same place; even “Old Lill Sto ‘ There would not be a beticr demonstration | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Jahv of Wilton, | for Am es than to show that the Americans have memories, | A. R, Hitt, L. E. Nugent, C. G, Mathys, | In this ¢ ‘set down the names of traitors, actual or} C. H. Rittenhouse, H. A. Thomason and Walter: ‘Michel, of Wilton; Art | on this great earth; never in this country, when a wan Waivers in his oes aed Seward Babette ‘ AOstessjseheetys; rane sMedrennabotdany offiee idan iteare Ut is Gnly dog aon Speen the. by. high prices, tens of: thousands of farmers in the mid-| catcher. ‘ ; ‘ Otto oO ee | Bishop J. P. Hardy, felgon, Valley City; } Defense, whose services have been and Jobn f agricul- d labor, presented to the gen- ng resolu- committee this war nservation | of food stuffs, fuel and transporta-| and other places it RESOLVED that we urge imme-| an auditorium capable of seating a diate release of the grains now being | _. | used in the manufacture of spirituous | | and malt liquors and for the release | ; ; | of the immense quantities of coal | + ) | Whereas, the one thing most need- ed by the defenders of our country) | is clean, pure minds and bodies, and | | because nothing we can do to fur-| | ther that end is better than to see/| country be | furnished with a Bidle, therefore be} | | RESOLVED, that the North Dakota | je of the formulate be urged’ disposal , without ing reso- 8 enfran- measure, | 1 amend- | | we urge) to work Farmer! d Hoover would be jal streng- us apply mum pro- vr. it it of wheat owing ex- ‘ains. The result is which is 'y. 6 of oats, is some grains. question ‘busienss o largely be more, imposing to those and. Mrs, service Mr. and it of. the ison, and Movies Big bt Selig Up Patriotic Spirit : too George V. Halliday, manager of the pandren. Laie ae ae es _ department of Sie ad. of, puOIey which the State Council of Defense {of the North Dakota State Counc)l of | has invested $14,000. ns ager Halliday'’s publiety, ine | retained vy the new executive com- ods have beet commended Bie sional | mittee, has made the great administra- by the deparcment ol tmoat of films. tion war movies an important factor council of defense jepart tetas cards in the building of a solid and univers- ae adverts a ee sesieibuted 3 | riotic spirit in North Dakota. | and readers he 1 3 fal Manager Halliday now has the an) Qe states, and orth ng estal movie shows running daily, covering een given th ent wd ct a.circull 254 8, public halls. Hshed a more general 3! 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