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tose vy “224834 dmpoanoae. 2 THE.BISMARCK.TRIBUNE Mt, the, Roatoffice,: Bismarck); Ni 'D,,| as: feeand Class Matter. ‘ ISSUED EVERY DAY MANN elie vie ys G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg. ; BOSTON, 38 Winter St.; DETRO Kresege Bldg. MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Associated Press is éxclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- Ushed herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ; MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. | Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month a $ .70 Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, Battor | mail, one year .. THH STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. | per month ... .. 96 | a P s | Datly, Evening only, by Carrier, per mont ace i |There’s no intelligent American pul knows) Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month .... i what this condition presages — lamp-posts| Meese or. Broning: by Mall in: North Deno oe 4.o0}adorned through the frenzy of prejudiced, irre-! Morning or evening by mi jo of North Dakota, _|sponsible mobs. How long will the government | one year .... 6.00 | risk such horrors? i Sunday in Combination with | ae? | - 6.00 | i (Established 1873) “J will smash the German line |; in France if you will smash that | damnable Hun propaganda at | home.” | GENERAL PERSHING | ” BETWEEN THE FARMER AND MRS. JONES, The story of Mrs. Jones’ 24-Ib. sack of flour,’ by L. Harper Leech, our Washington correspond- ent, is big with interest because, if the govern- | mental policy in respect of flour is good, it must be good in respect of all other necessaries. Mrs. | Jones paid $1.51 for the sack, of which the farmer | got $1.10. Between Mrs. Jones and the farmer! were elevator costs, commissions, freight rates, millers’ profits, etc., but all these things were con- | trolled by the government, and so practically, Mrs. | Jones bought of the farmer. Nor does it appear) that the parties between the producer and con- sumer of this flour received less than a fair return | for handling it in its different stages. | Under the old order of things, this flour would | have started from the farmer at, perhaps, 50 cents | on the farm, but let it stay on the little home the, and reached Mrs. Jones worth $2.50. On its way it! workman builds on a city lot. For perhaps the) would have paid fancy elevator charges, fancy commissions, fancy dividends on watered transpor- | not notice the inconsistency. tation stock, etc., and Mrs. Jones would put it into | ce ¥ rolls, pies and doughnuts while kicking over the | diose platform of alluring, but impracticable social- high cost of living, with justification. THE FIGHTING AMERICAN The Germans on the western front are face to face with a different type of fighting man from) any they have ever encountered or even dreamed of. The American soldier who has been stalking their patrols on No Man’s Land is an unknown quantity in the German scheme of things. Your German makes a good fighting machine. With all the cogs oiled and geared and the engi- neer on the job, the machine works smoothly enough. But smash any part of the machine, throw out the gears or disable the engineer and the machine stops, On the other hand, the American is a born fighting man, an instinctive soldier. He is a thinker and a doer; he has initiative, he has pluck, he has things the German lacks, things the Ger- man could never have, because of his environment, his system, his whole outlook upon life. The Germans will learn many things from the men with whom they are fighting. They have already learned many things from the French, | and from the English, from the Italians, but in|in politics! the American they are going to find the dash of, the Frenchman, the bull-dog tenacity of the Brit-| ish, the high courage of the Italian, the endurance and capacity for sacrifice of all three, and in addi- tion the initiative, the personal element that will take great risks to gain great ends, and a sense ensibility that will make the American soldic> the equal of the troops that are fighting on their own soil to defend their homes. The-Ameri- can realizes that he is on the battlefront to save the world. GROCERYSTORE WAR NEWS California sardines, in oil or tomato sauce, 11 cents a can. ' Seeded raisins, fancy California muscatels, 15-) oz. package, 12 cents. California tuna, in pure olive oil, large can, 32 cents. California asparagus, No. 2.can,.23 cents. » California ripe olives, tall can, 20 cents. , De Luxe sardines, finest California fish, large oval cans, 20 cents. The foregoing sound like extracts from a gro-! They are! cery store advertisement. They are. from the adv. of a big grocery located as far east | as Cleveland, O. But we don’t herein offer. them as advertising matter. They are war news of very high importance. Before the war, not ten in a million of the peo- ple ae east of the Rockies had ever heard of tuna. e California sardine was good for peli- cans only; because it wasn’t imported. The same was largely true of olives, raisins and other far- western products. They didn’t bear the label of importation and, hence, were held to be inferior to the foreign article and brought lower prices. The society hostess couldn’t be recherche and: serve anything save imported delicacies, and the obses- sion that importation meant social eclat and su- perior quality spread to consumers in general. The war cut off importations. The American consumer. finds that the home products are the superior, as to quality, purity and price, and’ He will not go back to paying fancy prices for the for- eign label that’s on the box, can or bottle.’-The war has pounded considerable of sense inte;t#e/Ameri- can consumer. f JUSTICE BLINDFOLDED, INDEED _ Hun agents are inoculating horses in Argentina with baccilli of glanders. ok Covington, Le set Sunday, the bodies of orses, poisoned on their way east to war. service, were buried. a pales Premier. Clemenceau of Frante Waié-ordeted ; modated. | WITH THE EDITORS jits self-appointed task of arraying class against | idonkey stick out from the skin of the lion. It is} t dirty work in France avout {low en Ambassadar: Gerard! was:ha ving! his:fa:! mous pre-war interview ‘with ‘thé ‘Kaiser’, ug: gested that the U-boat ruthlessness might drive the United States into war with Germany, The kaiser sneered and remarked that there were 100,-| 000 German army reservists in the United States. | Whereupon, Mr. Gerard stated that there were at least 110,000 lamp-posts in the United States which would accommodate all the German reserv- ists who should become ugly. ; We have no desire to start the blood-letting in| this country, but those lamp-posts are still avail- | able and the time has come when the pro-German poisoners, bombers and fire-bugs should be accom- | iquowd) With all the bombings, incendiarisms, poison- ings and spreadings of disease germs, there hasn’t | been a conviction that was met with penalty severer than a slap on the wrist, comparatively. bea tr a ar PC ECE “| | Sarena NONPARTISAN BOSSES AT WORK i Loudly proclaiming its new-found patriotism, , the Nonpartisan league in St. Paul pushes on with| class in Minnesota. } Protesting its newly conceived support of the; republic’s war policies, it names for governor a) confirmed pacifist who has published a book to demonstrate that American participation in the| war is a criminal mistake. ral What is the precious plot the bosses of this; secret political conspiracy have hatched out?) Very simple. Let us organize the farmers in the| country, they have said to each other, and let us; capture the organized workers in the cities. Then j let us join the two classes together, and march | them to a Bolshevist victory. | In other words, they seek to combine the capi-, talists of the country with the workers of the| cities, by a program that will in its halves appeal | to each. They promise the urban workers the} eight-hour day ; but reassure the farmers by deny-| ing the eight-hour day to their hired men. For} the men who work on the farms are not entitled) to the consideration due those who work in fac- tories and shops—for they are less numerous, and they are not organized. F ‘As for taxation, take it off the improvements workman, accustomed to paying urban taxes, will| As for the rest, the conspirators make a gran- ist planks—government-owned railroads, govern- ‘ment-owned factories, government distribution of necessaries by parcel post, state-owned elevators, | ‘warehouses, flour mills, stock yards, packing | |houses, creameries, cold storage plants and paper mills. | ‘These are but the beginnings of a socialist pro-| gram such as has wrecked Russia. But the Bol- ‘shevists at least have been consistent. They have |demanded a government of the proletariat, from| iwhich the bourgeoisie must be rigorously excluded. | Wrong idealists as they are, they have never at- |tempted such a class combination as the Nonpar- itisan league is trying to put over in Minnesota— \that of the capitalist farmer and the industrial i worker. It was beyond their ingenuity to construct ‘a platform on which both could stand. | But logic and common sense do not at all bother |the choice little junta that has come from North| ‘Dakota to reconstruct things for us in Minnesota. ‘Their crowning inconsistency is the holding of a, ‘boss-controlled convention—they being the bosses, ithereof—in order to make the direct primary dis-| |charge its vaunted function of preventing bossism The plot will fail. The ears of the pro-German |true the Nonpartisan league leaders profess to be} loyalists at last. But they were disloyalists and seditionists, until they learned that the people of |Minnesota wouldn’t stand for it. Their present’ ‘loud shouts of support for the president do not nceal the real character and purpose of their) plans of wreckage. ; The farmer who follows Townley is simply | deceived; he will reject him later—Minneapolis Journal. | NOTHING TO IT | It is safe to say that no one in North Dakota jread with greater surprise and less enthusiasm than did the person referred to the following com- ment in the Fargo Forum of last Saturday: ' Walter Taylor, former insurance com- missioner, resigned the presidency of a life insurance company the other day; recently declared himself more or less favorable to | the re-election of the present state officials, and now folks are talking about the possi- . bility of his endorsement for the insurance commissionership to succeed S. A. Olsness. The writer would. “view with alarm” his en- dorsement for any office by the Nonpartisan league or any other political organization. Five ,consecutive campaigns for state office—of which jthree were successful—proved quite enough.; There is far more fun and excitement in running a country newspaper than in holding office—and the financial returns are about 50-50. The best you can hope to do is to break even, in either case. No “strings” were attached to the editorial to jwhich the Forum refers. We look to see the league jwin with ease in the coming campaign in this state. | We believe the farmers have a just cause, however doubtful their proposed remedies may prove to be. The farmers are in the majority, and they have \both a constitutional and moral right to test the merit and workability of their economic program. What’s the use of “kicking against the pricks.” —LaMoure Chronicle-Echo. | A NEW RECRUIT And now comes the Co-Operators’ Herald, the latest weekly to join in the ranks of the real “kept press.” Farmer members of the Society of Equity can rest assured from now on that they will read in that paper’s news and advertisement columns just what. Townley and his socialistic followers want them to read, and nothing more. So it comes ne stig" As a mesage from the dead came to Mrs. Anna Gradin this morning the last letter trom her son, Loyd Spetz, | written in an army Y. M. C. A. hut on the west front February 20, ten days before the. Bismarck, soldier lost his life in repulsing a German attack on the. Toul sector. The letter, which came this morn-| ing, after veing more than a month on the way, follows: Arnerican Forces’ in France February 20, 1918. “Dear Mother: “1 rece:ved your letters the oth- er day and was-sure glad to get them. | got the Christmas. pres- ent, the check you sent me, and I thank you very much for it. The money sure came in handy, be- cause we have not been paid for four months. Have not missed the money very much because there is not much to buy, Have not received the package of cake and cigarettes, but | ’spose will get it, for it takes awfully long to get mail here. | bet.it is aw- fully cold in North Dakota, now, but it has not got much on France. TO TELL WHAT Hints of stupendous deeds, doings that a master of fiction could weave into an entrancing tale; deeds that Jules Verne, are suggested i na letter, from Will Parsons just received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L, M. Pars-| ons: France, Fe. 1918. Dear Mother: Well [ am gcing to write this letter this time even if they declare peace. This is the fourth time I have started.; We have again changed locations and! are at the place where they are put- ting the U.'S. in the air. If censorship would permit me toj tell what is going on here you would think I was putting out hot air. When this war is over it will not take aj dry historian to tell what the U. S, is; doing over here; but a master of; fiction. For these parts’ the Yanks! are putting over just a¥out the biggest; big things that men like Jules Verne} ever thought of. Now I notice a letter’ in the Bis- marck papef from some fellow who is| in the A. S. in the states, he says) chey will..work at their “trades in! France. He is right, but when you, are there are dull times insyour trate your are busy just the same. You) may be a steno in the morning, and; unloading ‘steel rails én the afternoon. | There is no getting out of it you are ‘busy, You may get. out of work if are sick. And that is impossible. It is just the opposite from civilian life. | You rise and shine at six bells and/ you are thru with the day when the! sun goes down. Sometimes there is aj ‘Sunday, but generally speaking - you! cannot tell any-differerice in the days.| Now your little Willie has done a little work. Last week (we had a Sunday) I was out'on a job where; there were too many Chinamen—about | ninety. When I went out.I was told} they had an interpreter. But I found that he could, only talk Chinese and French. So I told him he did, not need to bother me any more and I| went ahead with the sign language. Now those Chinks are not the little fellows that we 46 around the states! but big ones, I did not know that any} of their size was cver provided. Lut! Tam thru there now. Around here we do nyt have very much of this infantry ceremony as things move fast. When the..major sends his ‘complements down the line it compares favora!y with Dad sen‘ ing his grint in the rear’ eho had tangled up a<coil of wire. All of the to pass that another weekly is added to the long list of the real “kept press” of'the state—Fargo American. : offieers are technical men, Now the Yanks at'the front have es- tablished themselves and .are real “Rip snorters.” At one place there eae exceed in fact the wildest dreams of| or ‘received yesterday. you can convince the doctor that you), MOTHER OF MARTYRED SOLDIER RECEIVES SON’ Ss LAST LETTER ‘you all think the same way about it as “Lam in the best of health, and | nope you and the rest of the folks are the same. 1! took out ten thousand dollars’ insurance, so if | kick the bucket you will get $57 a month for 20 years. 1 think | will send some money home as soon as we.get paid. Have been in.the trenches. Would like it if it were not so cold. Send me a box ‘of home-made candy some time, if you have time. 1 was transferred to; the 18th infan- try. Like it fine.. About ali | can think of, so will close. for this time, Tell Esthet. Hello. Your Son, “LOYD.” Private Loyd ‘Spetz, a member of Co, A, Bismarck’s pioneer unit in the First. North Dakota, ‘enlisted at Bis- marck on April 6, 1917, and was killed in action on the west front in France March 1, 1918, his death being re- ported to’ Mrs. Gradin, his mother, in an official communication from Ad- jutant General McCain on March 5. Public memorial services for Bis- marck’s hero were held at the Au- ditorium on Sunday, March iv. MASTER OF FICTION NEEDED OUR BOYS ARE DOING ON WESTERN. FRONT was a big tower with « clock in it op the German side, The French “and Dutch would fight by the block in half hour artillery. duals. The Yanks moved in and the ‘first shot blew the clock to —~. Then ‘sav2 the Dutch a 48 hour bombardmeit. Thére are many German prisoners here working and are mor2 contente? than some of the Americans And they do a days work tov and perfectly willing. The German officers are watched very closely more to keep them alive. Your letter of Jan, 5th and S2ed was Was sorry to hear about the accident that Jim and Kathleen had but hope they come out O. K. I was also giad to hear that Mr, Hall came out on top as I could not believe there was anything wrong up there. Tne world is just in a turmoil and they seem to be trying to settle it over here. And I think they will very soon. I think that after thie war is over that every one will be in their right senses and the U. S. in particu- lar will’ be still better than it ever was. I joined the army for experience and I am getting it, I have come in con- tact with people from every part of the globe. that Carpenter and Stoddard forgot to mention. And I am afraid I will come out of the army a world wide travel- er, experienced in any line of busi- ness and a past master at the sign language and a swivel in my tongue. Love to all, WILL. Ist Lt. R. B. Pruitt, A. S.5, C. U.S. RK. LETTERS FROM FRANCE. From Sergt. Bressler, 161 Amb, Co. 115 San. Tran..A. E. F. Written to Mrs. C. A. Musner, 420 Sweet St. Bis- marck. March 6th, 1918. Dear Mother: ' Just a.line or two to let you know that Iam still fine and dandy and ev- erything is going just as good as a fellow could expect enywhere in the wide world. The weather could be a good deal better as it has been snowing for two days or more so it is pre!ty darn mi dy bat I suppose the weather hi is fine compared to what you folks have at home this time of year. This-isn c such a bad war after all— ‘three good meals a day, a good place to sleep and plenty of places of amuse- ment so longias a fellow has good health and keeps it he should be sat- isfied and I'am, but is would be a good deal better to have all these things in the states as I'm not in love with France's people or its country. I know have seen many things ¢ ‘one place in the world that is a better place to live. It seems funny that 1 don’t hear from you people but I suppose ‘that 1 suppose a good deal of the mail must be lost on the way over and when it gets here. |" Have you ever seen or heard any- thing of my insurance policy and if you have write and tell me so I will know but I suppose they have so many jto make out that it will take a long while to make them all out, I wish you would send me some Am- erican chewing tobacco and when you send it senda little at a time— about one pound a month because I think a good deal of the tobacco is stolen on the way over so by spreading it out some of it will reach here alright. That is ail that you can send that we | don’t’ get plenty of over here. I will close, with love to all, and hoping to be back soon, From your son, EMIL. I have been. doing hospital work for ‘about six weeks away from the comp- any’ so haven't seen them but think they are all, in good’ health. Tell Johnny’s: mother F saw him about a month ago and. he is fine and in good health. FROM CECIL’ F. COOKE, The following letter was received by Mrs. R. 'N. Thistlethwaite who has adopted Mr Canke: Medical Dept. 18th Inf. A. E. F. France. Dear Mother: . "7 1 hope this finds you in the best of health as it leaves me. .The weath= er here is a little cold once in a while but nothing like you have’ in _ Bis- marck. I am looking forward to a letter from-you as’ I have not hada letter from the states: yet but it takes a long time to make the round trip. Well we are having some lively times here—lots of noise and dirt fly- ing. . The Boche are on the jo alright but the time is coming. when they will be sorry for all the sorrow they have brought to the world and I do not think it is far away. Well we are getting plenty to eat and I have slept warmer in France than I did the last few weeks I was in the U.S. Well how is Mr. Thistlewaite? Did you get my letter alright that I wrote about @ month ago? Well, I often wish-I was back in dear old Bismarck and I hope it will not be long before I am ‘back. Will you send me ithe address of that painter’s daughter? 1 even forgot their name and I wish, if you don’t mind, that you would send me a Bis- marck Tribune, as I feel lost without that paper. Well, I shall have to close as it is time I was going to bed. With love from Your adopted son, CECIL F. COOKE i 4 |: . Correspondence. [ SANGER Rev. George Buzzelle of Bismarck, gave a patriotic address in the Sanger fit of the Red Cross. He also spoke in Hensler that evening and in Fort Clark Wednesday morning. The ‘farmers in this vicinity have statred their spring work and in a few days seeding ‘will be ‘general throughout the county. The acreage will be greately increased this year over last summer. “ ‘The new firm of Johnston & Digby, successors to Digby Bros. are enjoy- noticeable improvements have been made to their already up-to-date store. Under the leadership of Miss Brock- ington, principal of the Sanger school, the scholars in the lower grades have organized a Junior Red Cross and are jusing all their spare moments to work for this, great cause. | John Anderson, one of the leading |farmers of Fort Clark. was in Sanger i Wednesday on business, | All Sangerites are planning on tak- ing in the big Easter dance at Price, fit of the Red Cross, D. A. Ogden and Charlie Dunahey, the two local road contractors, are getting. their outfits in readiness to start road building near Sanger. Special services will be held in the :|that may very well ‘be’ hall Tuesday afternoon for the bene-} ing ® splendid trade and some very} coy, Monday, April 1st, gven for the bene-| anq Sanger hall Tuesday evening, Arpil 2. On account of the local pastor, “Rev. Conrad, being engaged elsewhere, the services are held on this date instead of the regular day. i. poring ‘the past week the families of Mr. Tl 8 Mel in ic taster Thane NEB an fadags, where they spent pigter, back to their farms near Sanger. The Sanger hotel, under the man- agement of the new host, R. F. Smith, is enjoying a nice patronage and is very popular with ithe commercial travellers. Considerable farm machinery aas al- ready been sold by the local machine dealers. f *"POETSCORNER | + DO YOUR ALL TODAY. On the sands of eternity we are marching today, Precious moments of time that are passing away. How: solemn the thought’ they will never return, Those who brook of delay will a dear lesson learn. Are there any today who in idleness sit? , Not een in a hurry to be doing their bit, Little noting how fast the moments do fiy, Just dreaming of what they will do ‘bye and bye. HL. Say Dreamer! Take heed there are breakers ahead, That can never ‘be ‘crossed by ‘the lives you have led. Awake! then this instant, and forth to the fray . That your country is waging for freedom baits ’ It’s not enough your bit to do in this gigantic fight; It is your all, that you must do if right shall vanquish might. When at the front mortal wounds our brave boy they do fall,’ All must confess that by doing this, they surely do their all, Vv. : We must present a solid front be- lore our common foe, Unless we fight” with all our ‘might our cause may come to woe. ‘So let's show ail kaiser lovers and seditionists, too That we're heartily in the-struggle that we're patriots thru and thru. OW, The great Teutonic Caesars have mighty legions yet, . And hosts ‘of ‘secret agents whose plottings must be met. $ So if vou'd have this menace ban- ished forever and -for aye, You will surely have to hustle-and do your all today. ¥ --ARTHUR’ SHELTON. WAR GARDEN A PLEDGE. Any. Family Which Can Grow. One Doesn’t, Will Fall Short. Each family that_can grow a gard- en this year; and doesn’t, will fall short in the most-urgent sérvices de- manded by the nation. Zi Garden products © are © consumed wheré they.are grown, thus transpor- tation is conserved: Gardening is the extra war work of those who do It, so no added strain is put upon the labor ‘supply ‘of the country, A°%so ev- erything grown in war gardens is in addition to the normal food produc- tion, hence it releases, pound,-that much more: food’ for Am- erica’s allies. At the same time it re- duces, dollar's worth’ for dollar's worth, the living expenses of ' each and all who grow gardens—money invested in thrift stamps or liverty bonds.* ©“ ‘Secretary Thomas Allan Box of the State Council of Defense has called upon all ‘town and city dwellers throughout, the state to take up gard- ening. The chairman of each county ‘Executive Committee has‘ beeh asked to take the lead in his county. Such county chairmen have been urged to call. meetings, organize clubs and not only arouse the people to the need for gardens, but to show thent how easily gardens may be grown. In general, however, gardening is a task for the family or the individual, and each individual, and family real- ize that the time for talking about gardening has past, that the time for planting is at hand. And each should remember that a war: garden will be a sort of growing badge of patriotism a pledge of loyalty to the nation. ADJUTANT GENERAL WILL BE CANDIDATE IN CASS Angus Fraser, adjutant general of North Dakota, will -be a candidate for register of; deeds of Cass county to succeed himself. Adjutant General Fraser spent last Sunday in Fargo.and communicated the information to his deputy who would have ‘been a candidate hal ae raser not decided to enter the eld. ——== A_ Stubborn . 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