The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1918, Page 4

! Ly i } ‘ , ) 1 i 3 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE d at the Postpftice, Bismarck, N. D., as 8 id * Cla G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. WEW YORK, Fiftis Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOs’ 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg. MINNWAIPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. EMBEK\ OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assd\ tated 1 tres is exclusively entitled to the use for republicathon of All news credited to it or not other- wise credited f, this yaper and also the local news pub- Usxied herein. All rights of publicgtion of special dispatches herein are also reserved. mee Mice si: MEMBEX AUDIT if: EAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPYION RAI]2S PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Datly, Morning and Ue ay by Carrier, per month ...$ .70 Daily, Morning, Evenfug) and Sunday by Carrier, per month . son 90 Dally, Evening omy, vas rrier, per month 60 Daily, Evening and Sun\t y, per month .... . 70 one North Dakota, Ne Morning or Evening py Yall in Morning or evening by ma | outside o Bunday in Combination wit) mail, one yeur .. - i THE STATE'S OLPEs Evening or Morning by JHE HUNGER PERIL next 12 months! : ae That is the statement of the president of Cor- nell university made recently at the university’s farmers’ week program. Ae “Of all the great problems of this colos- sal world war,” President Schurman added, “the food problam is now the most impor- Man power can be raised by con- tion up to the point of exhaustion, The allied lines from the North Sea to Switze land are piled high with munitions whi I the output of French, British and Ameri- can factories is constantly’ augmenting. But everywhere the supply of food is lim- ited, and beyond a very narrow margin you see the edge of an inferno of! starving na- tions. : “Yet no problem of the wir is so much misunderstood. The simple question is this: Can we keep our own aad our allied soldiers and civii population from starv- ing? It is not alta question of price: It is solely a question of supply.” And this is what Herbert Hoover, United States food administrator, says: “Phe food situation of the world must steadily degencrate as long as the war lasts. It is therefore of prime importince to add every item to the total production. Fur- thermore, our overtaxed railways, which must continue to be greatly relieved if we have a larger area of gardens planted than | last season.” ae There are just two ways in which we can drive | this wolf of hunger from this nation’s doorstep, | from the trenches of our soldiers and from the, homes and camps of our allies. | They are: Conservation of food in taurant, a more careful and than we have been practicing. Increased production of food on every farm and in every garden. Every foot of ground which can produce food must be cultivated, and no bit of food should be wasted, in distribution, in the kitchen or at the table. Sufficient farm labor must be supplied, even if all. non-essential employments be discontinued. Recruiting for farm labor must be taken as seri- ously as recruiting for army or navy. But it must not stop there. Men, women and children must enlist as gar-| den volunteers. By growing a large percentage of | ry home and res- went conservation is in danger of starvation in the! | permit. | ; LFXCONDEMNED™ If Townley and his aides, such as Gilbert and others, were really honestly loyal Americans |would they be engaged at this time in sowing) ceds of dissension and disturbance in such whole- sale manner? We believe the verdict of the dis-| | passionate reader and observer will be that men! | who take this time to pursue such a course are not ‘heart and soul for the United States and its suc- ‘cess in this greatest of struggles for human lib- erty. Their entire attitude condemns them.— teele Ozone. | SUGGESTIVE NAMES The latest issue of Mr. Townley’s official organ of the Nonpartisan league of Minnesota contains a number of letters endorsing the course of Mr. | Townley and his league. The vary names of sign- oo ers of these letters must make every pro-German ishudder. They are: Aaron J. Weispfenning, J. H. |/Meurer, Chas. Beiden, Will Keivel, F. C. Klatt, | Will Krohn, Christ Fuhman, Theo. G. Winkjer, An- ton Strom, C. S. Boe, L. W. Schuenemann, Wm. \Trimm, C. A. Dansar, C. J. Berg, Charles Kuhn, V. W. Shoemaker, C. P. Naplin and C. Roehrdanz. —Minneapolis Tribune. ‘OLE NORBY, 100 PER CENT AMERICAN Ole Norby is a re-immigrant from Norway. |He is not the only one in our farming states, but just now his experience teaches a valuable lesson. | | Ole got into the “melting pot” and did not melt be- leause a refractory alloy was present. He has ‘been through the mill. The alloy is finally re-| |moved. He will assay high when the testing time ;comes, | \ Ole Norby was a Dakota farmer whose eyes’ land thoughts turned back to “the old country.” | |“The old country” was the alloy that prevented his Hfull appreciation of America and American citi- jzenship. Finally his dream came true. He realized |his ambition. He sold his farm and went back to| |the old country which he had always so fondly; | remembered. | Ole Norby’s ideal did not materialize. He dis-/ covered two sides to the picture and he had been; looking at only one. lica. jold farm—at an advance of only $10 an acre. ‘lost this difference, two years’ time and the ex-! ‘pense of the trip, but balancing up the account, | ‘Ole wins. Now he knows where he is going and, |why. He knows the value of American citizen-| ship as few natives do. He realizes that, “the, United States is the best country in the world.” | ‘There has been considerable talk of deporting junnaturalized aliens. Ole Norby’s case suggests jthat an enforced vacation or provisional exile might be more efficacious. Ole Norby will be a 100 per cent American as soon as the courts will St. Paul News. THE JAMESTOWN MEETING The meeting held in Jamestown Saturday, at-| tended principally by residents of North Dakota} ‘of German birth or ancestry, has attracted a great deal of attention thruout the country. The object |of, and to put on record the fact that American citizens of German descent are loyal to the United |States of America. It was clearly seen in the | proceedings of the meeting that this is no time for hyphenated Americanism ; that no matter what tender sentiments or family ties and past tradi- tions may attach to the Fatherland in the minds of men and women of German ancestry, the time has come to efface such feelings, if they conflict \for a single in ant with the duty and loyalty of a citizen of this country, to this government. The meeting emphasized this position by re- pudiating the work of the German propagandists in the United States; by calling attention to the our food near our kitchen doors we release other acres for livestock, wheat, corn. Not only that, | but we relieve the railroads of a heavy load of | vegetable hauling. | Last, but not least, when considered from the} family’s viewpoint, the cost of living is lowered if there’s a garden in the backyard—and a poultry support by Germans, of the principles of democ- y and cause of freedo min the war of rebellion; y pledging wholehearted support for the Red Cross, Liberty Loan and other war purposes. * The German citizens of North Dakota at the Jamestown meeting have set the pace for all their friends of a similar nationality thru the country, as well as for those of other nationalities, and have house! WORTH WHILE TO (TLE The legislature of the Empire State refuses to} ratify the national prohibition amendment but, | instead, proposes to submit the matter to popular! referendum, next fall, the main argument for such! action being that the amendment was submitted | after the present legislature was elected. | Referendum on such an important matter is al-| ways good democratic doctrine, and it is likely that | New York's example will be followed by a number! of state legislatures before which the amendment} will be submitted at an early date. This amendment matter is the most important of the purely domestic matters that the nation} has got to handle. In such states as New York,! Ohio and California, for instance, wherein ratifi- cation by the necessary number of states means a decided readjustment of business and labor inter- ests, the people should have an opportunity to ex- press themselves directly, decidedly and without the slightest doubt as to their desires. We mean that in this amendment is opportun-} ity to settle the liquor question for good and all, without equivocation, and it is weil worth the while of any commonwealth to make it the special and only issue in a campaign for selection of state assemblymen, rather than leave it. to legislators elected on good roads, canal improvements, “pork” and the other ordinary issues. To be sure, a “liquor campaign” has come to be locked upon by a great many of the people as one of the horrors of American politics. But a decision on this amendment will be a decision that. will] stick, and there should be not the slightest doubt as to where the people stand, if we love our democ- racy as we profess The end of the world, says a Cleveland preach- er, is far away. Thus is removed the last hope of the man who hoped he might get out of making an income tax return. The fellows who are getting the $6,000,000 velvet for building the Hog Island ship yard told senate investigators they are getting it because they “know how.” We believe ’em, Well, if those Canadians can’t get along with |North Dakota any good. citizen. The fight for the principles of free govern- ment is not alone against the Kaiser, as a -repre- sentative of German autocracy backed up by mili- tary power, but wherever such despotic power is exercised, in whate form or on whatever pre- text, in what nation in the world—this, as well as any other.—Jamestown Alert. MAKE NORTH DAKOTA SAFE There are certain undercurrents of thought and feeling and action among the people of our neighboring states and the east that are not doing r There are vague whis- perings about our state’s credit, and remarks made in an undertone about sinking land values, and now and then a veiled suggestion about “ways that are queer” in the political and legislative ac- tivity of the state. It may be that we who are citizens of the state and know her strength and her weakness do not share these sentiments about our state, but it is enough for us to know that the outside world harbors them. And it matters not whether these complaints that are thus made are imaginary ills, or real ones, the harm is equally great. Many a man has weakened his constitution by imaginary ills and made it difficult to resist the attacks of real illness when it comes on. A state is not less sensitive to the corroding influence of persistent discrediting talk than physical health will suffer from pessimistic fear of illness. And so will a state suffer from anything that has a tendency to create unfavorable talk or repel im- migration or investment... We know that in every- thing that is required for the building up of a great industrial state North Dakota has the re- sources in fertility, climate, natural deposits, and in youthful strength and vigor, but it takes more than those things to make prosperity and happi- ness. It takes sound political and industrial’ de- velopment. Let us wake up to this fact and make North Dakota safe for democracy, industry, and prosperity. Let us join hands and heads and hearts, everyone from the ranks of every business and industry and occupation, in making North Dakota great in industry and occupation, in mak- ing North Dakota great in industry, great in pros- Billy Bryan, the ‘d him bae “Ve like’im.” y can send him back home to us. AMEND EEE Ee eecdbHE Ete ort perity, and great in happiness.—Divi ad ppi vide County ‘4 He has come back to Amer-} He was fortunate enough to buy back ns WIDOW OF FRENCH SOLDIER of the meeting was to make a public demonstration | placed themselves in a position to receive the re-| spect and credit of every other loyal American) BE TELLS OF STRUGGLES FOR A BARE EXISTENCE OVER THERE The following is a translation of a, letter written by a war France to a resident of Bis sumed my life altogether; yet, ZZ Zz SCORCHED TO AFRAZLE! I send you this little clipping from @ newspaper on the subject of the death of an American who has died in a neighboring city: Saint-Maixent—Dead for France. Last Thursday at 10:30 there was if; celebrated at Saint-Maixent the obse- dow in| France be saved and Germany be put quies of a young cadet of the Amer- arck who! out of condition to recommence ‘her! ican aviation, Richard Walter Blair, a contrisutor to the fund for the| bloody work, I shall resign myself.| quite recently arrived from the Unit- fatherless children of France: The “katherless Children France” is an organization which j gives aid to the widows of deceased | Soldiers, thus enabling them to keep their children with them at home, | avoiding the necessity of breaking up| | the family and sending the little or- phans away to an institution in their tender ye: s quarterly from the cen- tral committee in Paris. | The writer of this letter is a farmer woman in Brittany. Her husband was} killed in battle in September, 1915. She is left with two little children, ja little girl born in July, 1969, and a | little boy born in March, 191%. A let- ter from the little gfrt is also given | herewith. The reciptent of the let- | ters thought that readers of The Trib- une would be pleased and interested |to see the fine spirit displayed by jour friends, the people of France, so |he has translated them for us and |hereby shares the letters with our j readers. This French woman also sent a | clipping from a local French newspa- | per, giving an account of the fun | eral of an American soldier who died | in a hospital in a city in that region of France. The recipient of the let- I ters gives us also his translation of | the clipping. , France, February 3, 1918. Monsieur: How can I thank you for the boun- {ties and delicate attentions which you have for my children and me? In Ocfober another sum of 45 francs was sent me by the American com- mittee, At Christmas my little Goor- ges received a pair of trousers and a little horse. And you sent to my address at the same time as vour friendly letter of Dec. 6, your portrait, a flag of the United States and a bank note. J am profoundly touched by all | your kindness, and express to you my very lively gratitude. I am happy to have the photograph of my benefac- tor, and before it I shall teach my children to pray for him and for his generous nation. You ask me where and in what cir- cumstances my poor husband was killed. Alas! In war these sorrow- ful things occur so quickly there are not many details. But here is what one of his comrades reported to me. The 29th of September, 1915, in the neighborhood of Cahure in the-depart. ment of the Marne, the 137th regi- ment of infantry, in which Alcide Malecot was a soldicr, was in process ircling a wood occupied by the ermans, A shell fell very near to my husband and tore open his abdo- men. The unfortunate man suc: cumbed immediately. His brother, Emile, a soldier in the 93rd infantry of La Roche sur Yon, the chief place of Vendee, perished in marching to the attack of the sugar. factory of Serigne. He was cvfi down by a shell, of which the fragments covered him with wounds; he survived only a few moments., This information we have had furnished by their comrades in arms, because the adifinistration of the ministry of war gives none. They give information only of the date and place of decease, One finds this note upon the register of the gov- ernment certificate; ‘there is placed on the margim: “Dead: for France.” Sometimes the officer commanding the battalion or the company writes a few words to the family for the purpose of consolation. But what- ever the circumstances. they are cruel and painful, and always so. We understand that war is war; we know that it must be that to save the coun- try some soldiers,shall die; but when the fatal notice. comes, I assure you that it is a terrible blow, For each one holds to the hope that his own shall escape and return. safe and sound. My own sacrifice has con- ‘One should resign oneself—I have had|ed States, and suddenly taken off bya of something.of the sympathy by which malady contracted in the service. The money is paid to, | the widows of the war are surround- }ed, and particularly the evidence | |many times renewed of your bounty | to me. i Perhaps you would like to have my! photograph. 1! enclose it with this let- ter, a photograph of my two little children and myself, The: photograph- er made me wait for a month, which explains my tardiness in answering! you. Anne Marie has written you a few lines also. She is not very learned; |please pardon her inexperience. Be j assured, monsieur, that I am very ‘grateful to you personally for your benevolence toward me, and to your | great nation for the help which “it, brings to my country. in this moment) of grave danger. We all appreciate. the aid of the United States at its true value, and not one French heart will ever forget what has been done for us. In closing, although New Year day is already past, permit me to offer my wish of a good year for 1918. I hope that in the war you may not lose anyone whom you hold dear And I pray you to accept the expres- sion of my most profound gratitude. MADAME VEUVE MALECOT. P. §. I had prepared this letter when the postman brought me this | quarter's money order of 45 francs, a | thing which is very serviceable to me, because I have nothing to bring up my two poor little children, and life is hard with us because of the dear- ness of everything. I thank you once more, monsieur, inthe name of my dear little ones, as well as my own, I learn to write:English.I’m goin’ !squad. j ‘ The honors were rendered by a de- tachment of American troops. A guard in’ arms escorted the bier, which was covered by the starry flag. The automobile gun carriage which served as a funeral car, wds spread with fresh flowers. The ‘certege de- parted from the temporary hospital, turned toward. the cemetery, receiving upon its passage the marks of pro- found respect and. kindly feeling of the civil population. The funeral was conducted by Lt.- Col, Rubatton, commandant of the American center of instruction, and by Lt.-Col. Rousson,:commandant of the center of instruction: of- cadets of our. military school of infantry, who attended under command of. Captains Fleischman and Juge; the represen- tetives of the municipality, Messrs. Boutin, mayor;’ Proust, assistant; Gaston Deschamps, advocate-general of Deux-Sevres; ‘Brocas, principal of the college, ete., etc. After a military chaplain had said the last prayers at the graveside, and had given an address vibrant of patri- otism and of faith, the guard of honor fired the regulation three salvos, a trumpet sounded taps, and the assem- bly retired, moved to the depths of the heart by the premature death of the young soldier who had come from his fair country to fight with us for the liberties of the world, and who will repose henceforth in the ground of France, in a tomb guarded by our faithful and grateful ;remembrance. Following {sa letter from a little. rennet se tees ie Zee ~“ PUTTING THE GRIN INTO THE FIGHT” eee cen, e3) 14 U, Foreign born officer to his foreign born squad: “An’ when to put cha down in ‘the awquard ages see aen je liberty, our Mberty as well as that his own cougiry: @ EC TLOT like to have a letter froiw me. have not remembered tue occasion te do it and can not write you very nuch. But you have been: so «getd 'e us that IT have pleasure in thank- ing you. My iittlé brother an 1 pray to the good God for you. Although we are only children we understand ‘that: the great .\werica is coming ‘o the aid of dur country, and we have towards her much gra- titude for it. From our whole heart, monsieur, we wish you a happy year, and from far away we send you our best kisses. And we cry, “Long live France! Long live the United States ‘ANNE MARIE MALECOT. ‘PEOPLE'S FORUM [ °. ABOUT COAL SAVERS Bismarck, N. D., March 18, 1918. Editor Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, N. D. Dear Sir: yi In your Sunday issue of the Daily Tribune my attention was brought to an ad on page eight, relative to sav- ing coal. ; An old saying is that something new springs up every day, but this coal saving stunt is as old as the hills, I can see no reason why the people of Bismarck ‘and of the surrounding territory within the scope of The Tribune, should be lead to believe that they can save one-half their coal bills by sprinkling some of this ‘“coal- saver” over their coal pilos. According to my opinion, it is a bait to catch suckers; for instance, it says, “A 25-cent package of “coal- saver” makes 16 buckets or scuttles of coal do the work of two buckets of coal.” Then again, a dollar. pack- age will make a ton of coal do the work of two tons. How ridiculous, any person with some knowledge of the burning of coal can see the folly of such a statement. If we buy a half ton of coal and then add “coalsaver” equivalent to treating such an amount of coal, we are supposed to believe that we have a ton of coal. All that would be necessary for us to do would be to sprinkle the “coalsaver’ over the half ton of coal and we then have a ton. It is a money making proposition to be sure, for the company manu- facturing it. But, the people should not be led to believe that they can make a great saving ‘by investing 25 cents or a dollar, for a compound to sprinkle over the coal. Usually, such compounds are com- *)osed of common salt and oxalic acid. Referring to an issue of “Power” (an engineering magazine) of April 7. 1908, it speaks of another “kol-saver” for sale at that time. In part “Pow- er” says: The sample of “kolsaver” received March 14, 1907, tests as follows: Reddish brown powder, not entirely soluble in water, composed of: Per Cent Moisture determined at 212. de- grees Fahrenheit Water extract (65.8 per cent) “_ containing: Sodium Chloride Sodium sulphate . Potassium nitrate . Acid solution, substan not soluble in water (8.7-per cent) oxides. of iron and aluminum Fe 0 and Al 0..'...0.622 0005 8.79 Mineral matter not soluble in water or acids (clay, etc.).. 5.31 Wood pulp 14.59 Undetermnied organic matter.. 1.23 Total.....-esserereeeces ++ -100.00 There is absolutely nothing in’ the above analysis which will produce’ as much heat. either alone or in com- bination with the other ingredients, or with coal or ashes, as would be pro- duced by an amount of coal which could be bought with the same money. The country is being flooded with nostrums of this sort under various names. We have directed the atten- tion of the postmaster general to them, with the ‘suggestion that ‘the use of the mails be denied for the advertisment: of such obvious frauds. I is ridiculous that intelligent people should need to be protected against this: kind of a thing, but there are evidently enough biters to keep a lot of fishermen: busy. The following is a communication sent to “Power” and published Fe. 11, 1908. ' Le Salle, Ill. I have read with mingled amuse- ment and disgust the articles which have ay‘eared .recently in different papers concerning, the use of chem- icals for increasing. the heat value of coal cinders. A number of years ago a man came into the .boiler-room of the plant where I was employed and endeavored to sell a similar mixture. with plenty of guarantees as to results. 1 told him we were not especially interested in using enough to - rejuvenate . one ton of coal and make {t equal to two, but. that we might arrange to take twice as much and do away with the coal entirely, i A..G. Knight. (Signed) This easily demonstrable action, re- mains, therefore, to ‘be demonstrated to our satisfaction. and if the suc- cess of this new effort to put North ‘Dakota lignite coal on the market with a higher B. T. U. basis..e clean: er coal, a sootless and. clinkerless coal than what we have now, it. will have to go some. I should have to see the virtue of such treatment: proved more positive- ly than it has yet been to my knowl- edge. before advising one to interest himself in it. Yours very truly. CLARENCE C. LARSEN. GLYCERINE MIXTURE FOR APPENDICITIS Bismarck people can prevent appen- dicitis with simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka. ONE SPOONFUL flushes the BN- TIRB bowel tract so completely it re- lieves ANY CASE sour stomach, gas citic. The INSTANT, pleasant action of Adler-i-ka surprises both docwrs and patients, Leaves stomach clean and strong. Jos. Breslow. ‘ would: im { or constipation and prevents appendi- °